After the founding of New China, under the call of the times, many classic films with revolutionary historical themes have emerged.
From "White Haired Girl" and "Dong Cunrui" in the 50s to "Eternal Life in the Fire" and "Sha Jiabang" in the 60s, these familiar "red classics" are still often broadcast on TV.
Among them, the 1974 movie "Shining Red Star" undoubtedly has a very high popularity, the film theater was crowded when the film premiered, and a movie boom was set off across the country.
To this day, the "Red Star Song", "Red Star Illuminate Me to Fight", and "Yingshan Red" in the film are still continuously sung, and the film will always remain in the memory of the audience.
01, the legend of the young Pan Dongzi
In 1961, when the writer Li Xintian was collecting writing materials, he listened to his students tell such a story.
The student's father was a Red Army soldier who lost contact with his family during the Long March, leaving only a military hat with his name written on it, until after the founding of New China, the student found his father with this hat.
Deeply moved, Li Xintian spent three years writing the novel "Fighting Childhood", which is the original novel of the movie "Shining Red Star".
The novel was not published until 1972, and after its publication, it was loved by children and teenagers, became a must-read book for many children at that time, and was later translated into many languages and distributed around the world.
Also in this year, the creation of feature films that had been suspended for many years for various reasons was also revived, among which Zhang Dongliang, a photographer at Bayi Factory, happened to hear the novel broadcast by the Central Radio Station because he was looking for materials for children's films.
After looking for the novel, Zhang Dongliang was still unsatisfied, and felt that it was particularly suitable for making a movie, so he recommended the novel to bayi Factory and obtained shooting approval the following year.
In 1973, the creative team of "Shining Red Star" was officially established, and the original author Li Xintian also participated in it, and Bayi Factory found an experienced director Li Jun to direct the film.
As the ace director of Bayi Factory, Li Jun has made films such as "Huimin Detachment" and "Serf", and the "Armageddon" series in the 90s is the classic of the main theme movie.
After some discussion, the crew chose to shoot in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, and in the serious revolutionary story, the green mountains and green waters of Jiangnan Water Town created a different kind of poetic feeling.
For this story we are not strangers, the film takes the teenager Pan Dongzi as the protagonist, telling the story of Pan Dongzi in the process of fighting wits and courage with the bully landlord Hu Hansan, and finally captured Hu Hansan to avenge his mother.
The most important reason why the film has been loved by so many audiences is that the story is handled realistically and delicately, and many of the plots are based on the real events of the year.
For example, the landlord Hu Hansan in the film sealed the villagers in the mountains and was not allowed to deliver chai rice, oil, salt and other materials to the mountains in an attempt to starve people to death.
The resourceful Pan Dongzi used the bamboo tube as a cover, and put the soaked salt in his clothes to avoid the enemy's search.
There is also the prototype story of Dongzi's mother being killed by the enemy shortly after joining the party, which is also a reference to the archetypal story of a 17-year-old female party member who was burned by the enemy on the second day of joining the party, and the addition of these true stories makes the whole film also have a higher documentary color.
In addition, each piece of music in the film was sung in the "red song" of all parts of the country in that year, and it still has a high degree of singing.
At the beginning of the film, people beat gongs and drums to welcome the arrival of the Red Army, and a "Red Star Song" renders a cheerful and festive atmosphere, expressing people's joyful mood; when Dongzi Mama was burned to death by Hu Hansan and others in order to cover the villagers, the music of "Yingshan Hong" under the raging fire sounded, "If you want the Red Army to come, the mountains are full of Yingshan Red" Shows the tragic and magnificent feelings, pushing the atmosphere to a climax.
02, for the selection of Pan Dongzi hurt the brain
The reason why "Shining Red Star" is deeply liked in the north and south of the river is largely inseparable from the character shaping of the little male protagonist Pan Dongzi.
As the soul role of the whole film, Pan Dongzi's selection is crucial, so at the beginning, the crew members were all brainbroken.
After selecting more than a hundred children, the director still did not find the right person, until the Labor Day schools performed, and two children received the attention of the film crew.
One was Zhu Xinyun, who was in the third grade at the time, and the other was Hong Jiantao, who was in the second grade, the two children had a lively personality and looked particularly energetic, and finally under the clap of director Li Jun, Zhu Xinyun, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes, stayed.
Facts have proved that the director's choice is not wrong, Pan Dongzi's big eyes and round little face are particularly popular with the audience, and Zhu Xinyun, who is only 12 years old, has become a small star who is popular all over the country overnight, which can be called a national idol.
After that, Zhu Xinyun also studied while acting, and later was admitted to the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts, and after graduation, he returned to bayi Factory and successively filmed works such as "Lightning Action" and "Ballistic Traceless", and is still active in the show business circle.
It is worth mentioning that Hong Jiantao, another who lost the election of Pan Dongzi, did not give up his dream of being an actor, and later became a popular comedian with dramas such as "The Story of the Cooking Class" and "The Legend of Wulin".
03, Hu Hansan made a villain classic, and now he has passed away
In addition to Pan Dongzi, the villain Hu Hansan also left a particularly deep impression on the audience.
At the beginning, Hu Hansan hung Pan Dongzi from a tree and beat him severely, and then burned Dongzi's mother to death, trapping the villagers in the mountains, and all kinds of evil deeds made the audience at that time grit their teeth.
Cruel, tyrannical and cunning, Liu Jiang, who plays Hu Hansan, has put the character in place, especially the classic line "I Hu Hansan is back", which has long become the image symbol of this role.
Liu Jiang is a drama actor, who starred in the drama "White Haired Girl" in huang Shiren in his early years, and was almost shot by the soldiers watching the show offstage because he acted too realistically.
In 1958, Liu Jiang was transferred from the Guangzhou Military Region Repertory Theatre to the Bayi Factory, and made a cameo appearance as a bandit in the movie "Hero Tiger Courage", thus beginning his career as a villain on the big screen, becoming a villain professional with the same name as Ge Cunzhuang and Chen Qiang.
Captain Li of "SeaHawk", the director of "The Eternal Radio Wave", especially Commander Tang in "Tunnel Warfare", the sentence "High, really high!" "It's still impressive.
In addition, Liu Jiang has also starred in many works, such as Yan Wangye in the 86th edition of "Journey to the West", which is another classic masterpiece of Liu Jiang in his later years.
In May 2020, liu Jiang, 95 years old, passed away, and the Si people have gone, but his image has remained in the image forever.
As a phenomenon-level film of the year, "Shining Red Star" has a special and important position in the history of cinema.
Although it seems that this film is not very good now, and many techniques have become obsolete, the sincere and simple emotional expression of the film, as well as the performance of the actors and the use of music, are destined to be forever remembered by generations of audiences. (Author: Pippi Shrimp)