In the east of xi'an big wild goose pagoda, there is a road called Xiying Road, after all, Xi'an Film Studio was born in this place. At that time, Xi Film Studio was the benchmark of Chinese films, and it had launched "Wild Mountain", "Black Cannon Incident", "Lao Jing", "Red Sorghum", "Farewell to the Overlord", "Alive", and "Tuya's Wedding" and won film awards at home and abroad.
However, in the new century of the rise of film companies such as Bona, Guangguang, Bona, China Film, Shanghai Film, lianrui and so on, the Western Film Studio has been silent for a long time, let's take a look at how they have declined.
In August 1958, Xi'an Film Studio was born, and the films produced in the early days of the factory were highly acclaimed, such as "Grassland Storm", "Blue Sky Honeysuckle", "Peach Blossom Fan" and "Red Flower of Tianshan Mountain" (co-produced with Beijing Film Studio), which were generally well received.
After 1976, the factory attracted attention in the creation of feature films, and 7 films, such as "The Vibrato of Life", "The Tenth Bullet Hole", "Xi'an Incident", "River Without Navigation", "Silent Xiaoli River", "Life" and "Wild Mountain", won various awards 16 times at home and abroad.
The rise of the West Film Studio, the name Wu Tianming can not be bypassed, it is said that Wu Tianming's later memories, he was deeply fascinated by the movie "Song of the Sea" at that time, and watched it a total of 14 times before and after.
After watching it, the following year (1960), he applied for the Xi'an Film Studio Actor Training Class, and was admitted to the exam. Since then, this "Wu Tou'er", who will leave a strong mark on the history of Chinese cinema in the future, began his 54-year film dream-seeking career.
In 1980, Wu Tianming, who returned to Western Film after returning from his studies, waited for his first opportunity to become a director - "Kinship".
However, this work, which Wu Tianming believes can make himself able to get a director's name, is due to Wu Tianming's lack of understanding of Taiwan life and overseas Chinese compatriots, making this film a false fabrication and a failure.
In 1981, Wu Tianming was deeply moved by Ye Weilin's novel "A River Without Navigation". Wu Tianming learned the lesson of "Kinship", in "River Without Navigation", he used a lot of live-action shooting, abandoning the contrived scheduling method in the old movie, making the rhythm and mood of the film very natural.
In the end, the film won the 1983 Ministry of Culture Outstanding Film Award and the 4th Hawaii International Film Festival Western Center Film Award, and Wu Tianming played a beautiful turnaround battle.
In 1983, Wu Tianming was touched by the story of the loess land in Lu Yao's novel "Life", and he felt unprecedented kindness and touch.
He persuaded Lu Yao to personally make "Life" after the release of the movie, which caused a sensation in the country and won the "Hundred Flowers Award".
Later, when Wu Tianming was the director of the Western Film Factory, he vigorously cultivated new talents while vigorously cultivating new talents and providing a stage for talented people to show off.
At that time, just in time for the end of going to the mountains and going to the countryside, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others who had recently graduated from Beiying had also come to Xiying for various reasons.
When Wu Tianming was preparing "Old Well", he wanted to find a male protagonist Sun Wangquan who was "like a terracotta warrior", looked for a circle, but did not find anyone. Finally, he looked at zhang Yimou, a photographer who was also looking for someone to find a breathless person, and he patted his brain: "You come to play for us!" ”
As a result, after the release of "Old Well", it won 7 awards such as Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, and Zhang Yimou also became the film emperor of the Tokyo International Film Festival, and has since become a blockbuster.
A year later, "Red Sorghum" was about to start, and Wu Tianming authorized Zhang Yimou to take the helm, directly giving him 40,000 yuan to grow red sorghum in Gaomi.
"Red Sorghum" became Zhang Yimou's directorial debut, won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, and the golden combination of Jiang Wen, Gong Li and Zhang Yimou has since become famous in the international film world.
When Chen Kaige went to northern Shaanxi with He Qun and Zhang Yimou to collect scenery for "Yellow Land", the group stopped and went, always worried about what car to sit on and under their feet. After Wu Tianming, the boss of the Western Film Studio, knew about it, he immediately prepared food for them, sent them money, and got a jeep for them to use for a whole week.
Chen Kaige's other film, "The Child King", was also personally helped by Wu Tianming, who begged his grandfather and grandmother everywhere to carry out international operations, and finally sold the copy to 14 countries, becoming the best-selling film in Western Film.
In the two years since Wu Tianming took office, the copy of the Western Film Studio has counterattacked from the penultimate first in the country to the first in the country, and the profit has quadrupled, which has made the people of the time issue the praise of "looking at Chang'an in the northwest".
During his 6 years as the director of the factory, he discovered a large number of famous directors of the "fifth generation" such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Huang Jianxin, He Ping, Zhou Xiaowen, etc., and made a large number of famous works such as "Red Sorghum", "Child King", "Black Cannon Incident", "Double Flag Town KnifeMan" and so on.
Among them, the script of "The Price of Madness" was revised by an artist of Western Film, and it was changed quite well. Wu Tianming called this artist to the office and asked him to change a script for 500 yuan, and since then the other party has become a screenwriter, and he is the screenwriter Reed of "Alive" and "Overlord Farewell".
Zhang Yimou in Reed's eyes is a fifth-generation director who is very good at adjusting actors. Zhang Yimou is a person who works acting, he has been an actor, and he thinks that our actors generally can't perform well.
After winning the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for "The Red Lantern Hanging High", Zhang Yimou pulled him aside and spent the night in the hotel discussing the film's mistakes. "The two of us combined could sum up more than thirty shortcomings, and we could sit down and seriously count our own strengths and weaknesses, and at that time, my feeling was that this person had a bright future."
Among them, "Alive", which won the Best Actor and Humanitarian Awards in Cannes, is close to the lives of small people and reflects the chinese people's "better to die than to live" outlook on life for decades.
The ban was made because of the laughter and anger criticism of the absurdity of the political movement on the mainland, which may also be the most regrettable thing for the Western Film Studio.
Tian Zhuangzhuang's film "Blue Kite" won the Golden Kirin Award for Best Film at the 6th Tokyo International Film Festival in 1993, best actress (Lu Liping) at the 6th Tokyo International Film Festival, and
This classic masterpiece of reflection on the Cultural Revolution was also invested by the Western Film Studio. However, "Alive" and "Blue Kite" have all been banned from being released in the mainland, and there are many problems in them, which may also be the most helpless thing for The Western Film Studio.
In Reed's view, Chen Kaige is a "very poetic person, very sensitive to many things", and the reason why the "Overlord Farewell" cooperated by the two people can be successful is precisely because they complement each other's strengths and complement each other's flaws.
He revealed that participating in the cooperation of "Overlord Farewell" is very pleasant, but also full of excitement, like athletes, the more you meet your own fierce opponents, the more you can stimulate your own skills. The classic Hollywood screenplay theory is about character conflict. "Farewell to the Overlord" has the most conflicts in all of Reed's scripts.
In the end, "Farewell to the King" won the Palme d'Or for Best Film at the 46th Cannes International Film Festival in 1993, the Best Actor nomination at the 46th Cannes International Film Festival in 1993, the 1993 International Film Critics League Awards (Fabisi Award), the 51st American Film and Television Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994, and was also known as the best Chinese film after the reform and opening up.
Huang Jianxin and Yang Yaya's "Back to Back, Face to Face" is adapted from Liu Xinglong's novel "Autumn Wind Drunk", which tells the story of Wang, deputy director of a city cultural center, who has been dutifully duty for many years and has served as "acting curator" many times, but he has never been allowed to turn right, and he has successively fought with two new curators sent abroad to fight wits and fighting methods, and his work attitude has changed from personally doing everything to being indifferent.
The film has won three awards at the 1994 Zhuhai Film Festival for Best Feature Film, Best Actor and Best Screenwriter, Best Film and Best Actor at the University Student Film Festival, Best Actor Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and Taipei Film Critics Award.
For example, in 1986, Huang Jianxin made "Dislocation" in the Western Film Studio that wanted to replace its creator and set off a revolutionary rebellion.
In 1992, the environmentalist science fiction film "Poison Kiss", a highly toxic boy born from the harm of human pollution, was made, which was trendy in thought and open in pattern, and it is definitely not outdated now.
Including the classic comedy masterpiece "Journey to the West" starring Stephen Chow, Zhu Yin and Karen Mok, it was also invested by the Western Film Studio.
It is said that at that time, three interior studios of the Western Film Studio were used for filming, and the interior scenes such as the Pansi Cave, Huaguo Mountain, supreme treasure and the "internal organs" of the Bull Devil King were all filmed here.
Among the Chinese mainland film award-winning works, there are three films that have won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival so far, three from the Western Film Studio; Chinese mainland films have won a total of three Golden Lion Awards at the Venice International Film Festival in Italy, two of which are from Western Films; a total of four Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm Awards, three are Western Film films...
There is also director Wang Quan'an, who was also produced by Xiyingli, who was previously an actor of Xiying Studio and later transformed into a director, from "Lunar Eclipse" to "Sting" have won numerous awards in the world. This is not enough, in 2007, Wang Quanan brought a new work "Tuya's Marriage", and actually won the Golden Bear Award.
There is also director Li Yang's film "Blind Well" is also the West Film Studio, the film won the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival in Germany Best Artistic Contribution Silver Bear Award, the 5th French Deuver Asian Film Festival Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Film Critic, Most Popular Audience and other five awards.
Among the top ten films in the world in 2003 by the French magazine "Film", "Blind Well" ranked second, but it has never had the opportunity to be released in the mainland.
However, with an investment of more than 100 million yuan by Western Film, Wang Quan'an's epic literary and art film blockbuster "White Deer Plain" was originally the masterpiece of the Western Film Studio's impact on the Golden Bear Award, but the film went through many years from preparation to review, and finally cut intermittently, only won the Golden Bear Award for Best Cinematography, which was jokingly called "The Biography of Tian Xiao'e".
In 2009, taking advantage of Zhang Yuqi's going abroad, the 48-year-old Wang Quan'an "found inspiration" at home, resolutely chose to prostitute to find his former self, the result was too tight, was arrested, the police investigation found that Wang Quanan actually prostituted for three consecutive days, each woman gave 800 yuan.
As soon as the news came out, netizens fried the pan, there is such a beautiful wife at home, how can it not meet the needs? Since then, the last director supported by the Western Film Studio has been banned, and since then the international award has not had the name of the Western Film Studio!
In addition, the decline of the Western Film Studio has long originated from the 90s of the last century, probably after the "Alive" and "Blue Kite" were banned, the director Wu Tianming went to the United States to give lectures, the boom of "the fifth generation of Juyi" dissipated, and the new director of the Western Film Studio faced a harsh censorship system and did not dare to cross the thunder pool, so this state-owned film company sunset in the West Mountain.
When director Wang Quan'an had an accident, the Western Film Studio was no longer the Western Film Studio of the year, but the Western Film Group, occasionally participating in some blockbusters, and there was no major work to grasp the main investment. Just like Wu Tianming's posthumous work "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix" is not invested by the Western Film Studio, the leaders of the Western Film Studio are afraid of losing money for niche films after all, and they do not have the courage to invest.
In front of the Honor Exhibition Hall of the Digital Base of Today's Western Film Group, there is also a statue of Wu Tianming, which is even more marked by the unforgettable legendary years of the Western Film Studio, which is unforgettable!