Not long ago, Fanying Jun saw a sad news on social media:
, a famous Chinese animation director and father of "Black Cat Sheriff", died of illness at the age of 89.
As a childhood memory of countless generations born in the 70s, 80s and 90s, Dai Tielang and his animation works have accompanied the growth of several generations.
, especially the animated "Black Cat Sheriff", directed and written by him, has long become a classic in the history of Chinese animation.
Even though more than thirty years have passed, this animation is still rebroadcasted repeatedly on the anime channel. The plots and vivid animated characters in it are even more popular today.
It’s a pity that such a classic has only been broadcast for 5 episodes, so it stopped.
looks back on Dai Lao’s life, just like this aborted animation, full of legends and twists and turns.
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Time goes back to 1984, the first episode of "Black Cat Sheriff" premiered. Once the
animation was broadcast, it quickly became popular across the country and became one of the phenomenal animation works of the year.
However, the most special thing about this animation is that the style and story of
are very different from the animation works of the time, and it can even be said to be quite adult.
In the story, there are the main theme values of justice police fighting evil, there are also tragic plots such as death and sacrifice, and there are even many horrible scenes of cases.
For example: the
villain was shot through the ear by the black cat sheriff, resulting in a blood-stained scene. In the second episode of
, the huge monkey eagle swept the ground and grabbed the animals and swallowed them alive;
In the fifth episode of the wedding night, the female cockroach ate her husband, leaving only a piece of scum...
These weird and bizarre plots and pictures, now recalled quite a feeling of childhood shadows.
But it is precisely the excitement brought by this breakthrough. The imaginative sci-fi style of and the suspenseful plot of police and criminal detectives made people unable to help but keep chasing.
Although creative, the animation production of "Black Cat Sheriff" was not smooth from the beginning.
was still in the era of "planned production" at the Shanghai Film Studio, where most of the projects were distributed to the director. Director Dai Tielang made "Black Cat Sheriff" entirely with his own enthusiasm.
After reporting his idea, he didn't get support from the factory, so he adapted the script and designed the scene.
So Teacher Dai Tielang used many young people who had just entered the factory, and it took them 10 months to make two cartoons.
can be stopped after the internal screening, the reason is: the fighting in
does not conform to traditional aesthetics, and the scientific principles in it are not artistic.
Until a year and a half later, a film bureau leader watched it and thought it was good; after some children tried it, the response was also very enthusiastic.
So, without any publicity, "Black Cat Sheriff" was finally able to be aired in theaters.
had a strong response after the broadcast, so director Dai Tielang led the team and stepped up the production of three episodes, which were broadcast in 1987. After
, this series of films landed on CCTV from the big screen, and continued to influence the childhood of more 80 generations through television.
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27zEven if I watch the animation of "Black Cat Sheriff" today, many of the settings are still very advanced. The film
is adapted from the novel of the same name by the fairy tale writer Zhu Zhixiang and . The artists of the Beauty Studio have adapted this cat and mouse fairy tale into an animated series with elements of police and criminal genre.
At that time, the emergence of this set of animation-
not only broke through the subject limits of domestic animation, but also carried a special metaphor of the times.
The 1980s was at the beginning of reform and opening up. After ten years of ideological confinement, the entire society began to fall into a great confusion about the future in a kind of extreme freedom.
"Black Cat Sheriff" was produced in 1984. The reason for choosing the genre of police and criminals was to cooperate with the social crackdown in 1983.
so many people have put forward a saying: behind the animation of
, it is actually a metaphor for the Nazi dictatorship during World War II.
cite some simple examples, such as:
in the black cat sheriff's character design.
is wearing a black uniform, riding boots, and a big cap. The pistol in his hand looks like the "Ruger gun" favorite of Nazi officers.
is more like a Nazi SS than a policeman. Another example is
: the attitude of the cat police towards mice in the film. When handling the case,
all presume to be guilty and adopt an absolutely terrifying genocide policy.
In one episode, he rushed to the mouse community, shooting and beating regardless of men, women, children, and children, and arrested all the remaining rats into concentration camps.
In addition, there is another example: when the black cat sheriff in the
movie ordered the walkie-talkie, his right hand clenched his fist and kept rising, the more he talked, the more he tried . The action scene of
is almost like the image of Hitler played by Chaplin in "The Great Dictator".
Maybe these are just over-interpretations of future generations, but they are equally scary. In addition to political metaphors, the advancement of "Black Cat Sheriff" lies in the science fiction elements involved in
.
Prior to this, domestic animation mostly relied on Eastern style mythology and fantasy elements, and there were few real-world themes, let alone such western science fiction elements.
"Heat Tracking Missile", "Jet Motorcycle" and other new weapons that appeared in "Black Cat Sheriff". For the children at that time,
was nothing more than an imaginative setting.
These sci-fi weapons are mostly inspired by foreign science and technology publications subscribed to by Mr. Dai himself, and he draws and designs them stroke by stroke.
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The success of "Black Cat Sheriff" is inseparable from the persistence and hard work of director Dai Tielang after the opening. In order to make this cartoon,
led the production team all the year round and often crowded into a z8182z-square-meter studio. Overtime was only 20 cents for overtime, and the benefits were only free mung bean soup. The conditions were not difficult.
Moreover, besides him, the entire creative team is young people who have just entered the factory, and they have been questioned because of this.
But director Dai Tielang responded:
Young people don’t do things, how do they learn production experience.
Beauty Film Animation Group @空藏动漫资料馆
As Director Dai said, every young person who joined the Beauty Film Studio at that time started from scratch and brought Chinese animation to the world.
It was a complete accident that even Dai Tielang himself entered the field of animation art.
19z8182z, Dai Tielang was born in a red family in Singapore. His parents were both early Communist Party members. His father Dai Yinglang later served as an executive member of the Malayan Communist Party.
In 1940, because of the betrayal of the traitors, the British government expelled Dai Yinglang from Singapore, which was then a British colony.
So, 10-year-old Dai Tielang followed his father and returned to China as a cover.
because both parentsThe identity of a woodcut painter has been fascinated by Dai Tielang since he was a child, and this has also become a stepping stone for him to engage in animation art in the future.
The early Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio
was officially established in 1957 from the Northeast Film Studio's fine arts group.
It is the oldest animation studio in China, and in the following half a century, it has witnessed the birth of countless Chinese animations for the first time.
includes: , known as the “peak of Chinese animation,” , the first paper-cut animation , “Pig Bajie Eating Watermelon” , the first ink and wash animation , “Little Tadpoles Find Mother” , the first part Origami animation "Clever Duck" , the first shadow puppet animation "Mr. Dong Guo and the wolf" ...
The beauty studios of the 1950s and 1960s can be described as a gathering of masters. These artists whose brains are bigger than the sky can almost Any kind of art form used to make animation.
After being introduced by Sheng Tewei, the director of the beauty studio at the time, Dai Tielang, who had just graduated, was recruited into the beauty studio under the name of "helping out".
Before creating "Black Cat Sheriff", Dai Tielang had already participated in the creation of many classic works in the US Film Studio.
He has served as an animator for classic art films such as "Little Tadpoles Looking for Mother", "Crossing the Monkey Mountain", "Proud General", and "Shepherd Flute".
In addition, he has also directed the animated short film " nine-color deer ".
Speaking of this short 25-minute animated short film, it can be said to be-
a well-deserved masterpiece in the history of Chinese animation. The
short film is inspired by Dunhuang murals, and the style also refers to the classical mural style in Mogao Grottoes, bringing the mysterious oriental aesthetics into it.
In order to complete the art design of the scene in this film, the production team even personally went to the Thousand Buddha Caves in Dunhuang for 23 days.
In that era when there was no computer graphics and pure hand-painting, the production team drew nearly 20,000 animations, of which more than 200 were drawn just for the background of the animations.
Dai Tielang's work photo @空藏动漫资料馆
In the 1980s, the cinema market gradually changed, and the beauty studio was facing transformation, so it turned to the development of animation series.
It was against this creative background that Dai Tielang got the opportunity to prepare for the filming of "Black Cat Sheriff".
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27zIn 1987, the fifth episode of "Black Cat Sheriff" was broadcast. At the end of the film, the Black Cat Sheriff raised his gun and typed the words "please see the next episode".
was originally a serialization mode inherent in this series, but no one thought of it-we never waited for the "next episode" of
.
There are various opinions on the reasons for the suspension of "Black Cat Sheriff". According to director Dai Tielang's interview many years later, after the broadcast of the fifth episode of
, director Dai Tielang was suddenly notified to retire by the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio.
I was called to the personnel office that day, and they handed me a retirement certificate, saying that when I reached my age, I should return. At that moment, I was stunned. After waking up, I didn't say a word, turned around and left after taking my retirement card.
But there is another way of saying that it is caused by the copyright dispute between the director of
Dai Tielang and the original author of the fairy tale "Black Cat Sheriff" Zhu Zhixiang.
At that time, although the US Film Studio was adapting the original work into an animated film, it obtained authorization from the author Zhu Zhixiang and paid a fee for the draft. After
became available, Director Dai Tielang, with the consent of the US Film Studio, once adapted the cartoon into a fine art comic and published it in the publication, and co-edited it into a booklet for publication.
This part of the comic book does not state the name of the author Zhu Zhixiang, and has not paid copyright fees. The
case occurred in an era when Chinese people’s knowledge and copyright awareness was extremely weak. Although the two reconciled in court, they have never cooperated since then.
In addition, there is another saying that the broadcast has been discontinued:
, although "Black Cat Sheriff" was popular after it was broadcast, but because of subject matter restrictions, it was rarely selected to be sent abroad to participate in awards.
In that year, this well-known excellent cartoon hardly won any awards at home and abroad, because:
was stuck when it was submitted every year.
led to the frustration of Dai Lao who could not get the honor he deserved. When the fifth episode was filmed, he even planned to "kill" one ear and completely end the series, but finally gave up because the producer discouraged him. The
factory originally did not support it, and was unable to participate in the awards. After adding to , it encountered a copyright lawsuit.
Under heavy pressure, Dai Tielang's creation has been greatly affected. He tried to continue painting, but he felt that the painting was broken.
In the following years, after Dai Tielang only became the director of a few cartoons, he retired from the US Film Studio and his retirement salary was 209.5 yuan. In order to subsidize his family, he rides to the suburbs every day to help others modify the original paintings.
In 2010, "Black Cat Sheriff" was re-screened, and the media interviewed Dai Lao, who was already 80 years old.
He sat alone by the window, staring at the model of the black cat sheriff he pinched. After more than 20 years of weathering, the black cat was full of cracks and lost a cat ear.
He smoked cigarettes one by one and said:
This is a good time, so good that I often regret it. If only I were younger.
In 2015, thirty years after the image of the Black Cat Sheriff was born, Shanghai Film Studio released another movie version of "The Black Cat Sheriff: The Emerald Star".
Although the film’s named consultant is still directed by Dai Tielang, the 84 version of the character painting style is continued, and the main role is retained.
But no matter the storyline or the animation production level, it is destined to not satisfy today's audiences.
Now that the man has died, the sixth episode of "Black Cat Sheriff" failed to be broadcast, and finally became an eternal regret.
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