The first anniversary of Wu Tianming's death Chen Zhongzhong Zhang Yimou and others donated 530,000 yuan to build a statue

"This year, I missed him very much, and seeing so many things that everyone did for him, I felt that he had always been in my heart and always around everyone." In front of the 3.5-meter-high statue of Wu Tianming, Wu Yanyan, the only daughter of Wu Tianming, who has now become a filmmaker, choked up and bowed deeply to her father's statue.

At 9:30 a.m. on April 9, the ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Wu Tianming, a famous Chinese Shaanxi director, began on time in the digital base building of Western Film Group. Under the auspices of well-known actor Xu Huanshan, director Xie Fei, film critic Dai Jinhua, Professor Chen Shan of the Department of Film and Literature of Beijing Film Academy, Xiao Yunru, vice chairman of Shaanxi Federation of Literature and other former friends of Wu Tianming witnessed the unveiling of the statue and discussed the development of Wu Tianming's artwork and western films.

At the end of the seminar, Zhang Hongliang, chairman of Western Film Group, roared out the classic episode "Dionysian Song" of "Red Sorghum", "September 9 brews new wine... Good wine, good wine..." For a time, the whole audience sang a chorus, and the crowd was excited, and I hope that the Western film will reappear with a mighty momentum.

Celebrities spontaneously donated money to erect a statue of Wu Tianming

Yesterday was one year and 40 days after Wu Tianming's death, film scholars and media people in Beijing and Xi'an, Wu Tianming's daughter and grandson, and relatives from his hometown of Sanyuan, surrounded the first and second floors of the digital base building of Xiying Group, reminisced about the deceased, and participated in the unveiling ceremony of the statue.

In the glass storage cabinet in the digital base building of the Western Film Group, the reporter of the Huashang Daily saw that the films directed by Wu Tianming won one after another at home and abroad, which are still shining brightly; a huge announcement was posted on the other wall, writing the list of people who donated money for the statue: Zhang Yimou, Zhang Yibai, Ge You, Gao Qunshu, and Zhao Jiping were impressively listed. The reporter learned that the idea of creating a bronze statue for Wu Tianming originated from several old filmmakers who had fought alongside him, who decided not to apply to the government for a project, without any social group initiative, without any corporate sponsorship, nor was it a unilateral measure by the relatives of the Wu family. "It was he who brought a small factory in Xiying to the world, and before we went abroad to participate in activities, people would be in awe when they heard about Xiying Studio." In the past 60 years, the Western Film Studio has laid a solid step for Chinese films to go out, and our statue of Wu Tianming this time is not for individuals, but for Western Film and for Chinese films. ”

Xu Huanshan said in an interview that for this pure non-governmental activity, they strictly managed the funds, "do a pure, clean, sincere thing, and show respect for Wu Tianming from the heart." It is reported that after the release of the fundraising on January 16 this year, about 332 people participated in just 86 days, with a total donation of 536,000 yuan.

It is reported that at the beginning of the fundraising, the screenwriter Reed rushed to donate, and soon the majority of members of the China Directors Association enthusiastically supported, Huang Jianxin, Huang Jianzhong, Liu Yiwei, Gu Changwei, Li Shaohong... Despite his advanced age, Chen Zhongzhong personally ran to the donation office to find the financial and accounting personnel of the preparatory group to hand over the money, and asked: "What else can I do?" ”

The statue also needs to be erected in the Western Film Factory after the completion of the bronze casting

When a piece of red cloth was pulled apart by everyone, the 3.5-meter-high figure sculpture came into view, and Wu Tianming, who stepped forward, dragged a hat with one hand and a coat on the other arm, staring forward, with a calm expression, but also a posture of step, as if he could shout the word "start shooting" in the next second. "This statue is not static, it is very much in line with Teacher Wu's frank and frank personality." Young actor Wang Sheng took Wu Tianming's professional class, and when he heard about the unveiling of the statue, he also rushed to the scene, "His help to young people is generous, my classmate had a movie to shoot last year, he called for advice, he immediately let him take the book to him." ”

Professor of the Sculpture Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, member of the National Urban Sculpture Art Committee, and doctoral supervisor Ishimura undertook all the creation of the statue, "Ishimura has never seen Wu Tianming, but with a bunch of photos, he took out the first draft of the design plan in three days, and immediately got the approval of all the participants." "According to the staff of The Western Film Group, the unveiling of the statue was originally scheduled for March 4 this year, which is the day of the anniversary of Wu Dao's death, but this period coincided with the two sessions of the National People's Congress, and many of Wu Dao's friends could not attend." And now the unveiled statue material is fiberglass, and then it will be sent to Shanxi Yuncheng for professional copper casting, this process alone will take two or three months, plus round-trip transportation, at least half a year later, the bronze casting portrait can finally be completed. However, in the future, the portrait will definitely be placed in the West Film Studio. After the completion of the statue work, the Wu Tianming statue donation preparatory team will audit all expenditure accounts and disclose them within a certain range, and Zhang Qing, a young female writer in Beijing, also rushed to the scene yesterday, and within a year, the remembrance manuscripts collected from more than 80 well-known people from the film and all walks of life will be collected into a commemorative collection of "Forever Wu Tianming".

The spirit of remembering Wu Tianming has internationalized Western cinema

Xie Fei, who is also a fourth-generation Director of China, said that seeing such a good statue located on the land of Xiying and becoming the mark of Xi'an, he couldn't help but remind him of the song "Remembering Comrades-in-Arms", "When I never bid farewell to my comrades-in-arms, it was like the avalanche was rushing..." And said that when I saw "The Vibrato of Life" and "River Without Navigation", I immediately found that Wu Tianming's works had the style of "keeping up step by step, focusing on the present", "I personally think that many works of the fourth generation of directors are good, but niche, Only Wu Tianming's films are widely known, and he is good at expressing the style of reality, leading the directional style of the next generation of filmmakers like a commander. ”

Xie Fei also recalled the scene of meeting Wu Tianming in California, "Although we did not make a movie for a while, we still talked about the script when we met, he said that he wanted to shoot Chinese workers to repair the railway, and in the end I watched the rough cut of "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix", I was very conservative at the time, I felt that it was not necessarily better than in the past, but now it seems that he is the real 'warrior'. "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix" is not to express the love and thoughts of the times, to express their current confusion, and to miss the spiritual wealth brought to us by comrades of the same age as me. ”

Western film formed a genre, went abroad, represented Chinese films, cast a legendary film era, Wu Tianming is indispensable, Xiao Yunru believes: "We miss his temperament, art, personality today, but also remember that he turned his profession into a way of existence of life, borrowing the concept of the Silk Road and the Great West, which is not only political economy, but also cultural film and television environment, why don't we look out, with the help of historical opportunities to develop western films, so that western films can be internationalized." ”

Huashang Daily reporter Ren Yijie