Chen Jianyu (1938-2008), director of Fujian Film Studio from 1988 to 1990, is a famous film art theorist, critic and playwright. In 1975, he became the editor of People's Film and Film Art Magazine. In 1981, he served as the deputy director of the Art Research Department of the China Film Association and the secretary general of the China Film Critics Society, and continued to engage in script research after returning to the Film Association in 1991.
Chen Jianyu is a native of Quanzhou, attending the Zhenxing Primary School in the urban area, the middle school in Quanzhou No. 5 Middle School, and from 1955 to 1959, he studied in the Chinese Department of Xiamen University. Chen Jianyu has loved watching movies since he was a child, and when he was in college, he wrote a lot of movie reviews. During his time at university, the student union of the Chinese Department of Xiamen University set up a literary creation club, and Chen Jianyu was elected as the president, restoring the two publications that Mr. Lu Xun ran when he was teaching at Xiamen University in 1926: "Drum Wave" and "Wave Boat". In 1955 and 1958, xiamen two artillery battles caused some losses to Xiamen University, during which Time Chen Jianyu was studying at Xiamen University.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > came to Beijing to study</h1>
Chen Jianyu (right) and Zhang Yimou
After graduation, Chen Jianyu was assigned to work in the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and in 1975 he went to the People's Film to review, and later served as the director of the Film Art Research Department of the China Filmmakers Association, and was a well-known film critic in China.
Chen Jianyu was very late in screenwriting, but he had early contact with fifth-generation directors such as Zhang Junzhao, Wu Ziniu, and Zhang Yimou. When these later "big names" studied at the Beijing Film Academy, because Chen Jianyu and their teachers were friends, they had contact with them, which was a kind of relationship between teachers and friends, and they could "say some more thorough words and have good exchanges."
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Many people know that Zhang Yimou originally studied photography, but few people know that Chen Jianyu played a very big role in Zhang Yimou's "transformation". Zhang's idea of becoming a director was first to seek Chen Jianyu's opinion. After receiving Chen Jianyu's support, Zhang Yimou was very happy: "Can you recommend something to me?" At that time, Chen Jianyu was recuperating at home, read a lot of novels, and said: "'Red Sorghum' is very good, the difficulty is bigger, but it can be done." Zhang Yimou was sitting on the ground at the time, and when he heard this, he rolled around happily, "How did I not expect it?" I have also seen "Red Sorghum", and asked Chen Jianyu to help him adapt. Chen Jianyu agreed, and this was his first official act as a screenwriter.
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Chen Jianyu (first from right) at fujian film studio
From 1988 to 1990, Chen Jianyu was seconded to the Fujian Film Studio. Previously, fuying factory had serious losses, and the loss of more than 200 people was as high as 4.46 million yuan. When Chen Jianyu left Fuying Factory in 1990, he left 2.46 million yuan for the new director and earned some foreign exchange. During this period, Chen Jianyu updated some equipment for Fuying Studio, built two buildings, and added some daily expenses, "earning more than 10 million yuan in three years."
Fuying Studio produced some good works in Chen Jianyu's hands, such as "Happy Hero" and "Yin and Yang Realm". The two films in this upper and lower episodes are based on "Wind and Rain Tongjiang", which write about the underground party in Quanzhou. He won many awards at the Golden Rooster Award that year.
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Chen Jianyu likes the job of screenwriter very much. In 1990, he was transferred back to the Film Association, and he wrote at least one script a year, and has written eleven or twelve. Some of the influences are also quite large, such as "Cradle with a Rudder". In 1999, he also wrote a script for his hometown, that is, the TV series "Thorny Flower Red" that many Quanzhou people have seen.
Retired Chen Jianyu not only judges for many activities related to movies and filmmakers, but also specially planned some topics related to filmmakers for the "Art Life" column of CCTV. And there are still several film appointments in hand that cannot be carried out as scheduled due to the lack of time schedule.
"I love this line, do this line, and have a constant relationship with movies all my life."