Author: Nanfeng Editor: Li Jin
Publisher: Marriage and Family Magazine
id：hunyinyujiating99
In April, in the eyes of the talented woman Lin Huiyin, it is the blossom of a tree, and the swallow whispers between the beams, containing love and hope.
In the poet Kitajima's pen, it is a flower with frost, accompanied by tears, and endless mourning.
On April 21, the famous director Huang Shuqin died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 83.
As soon as the news came out, the whole network lamented it.
Actor Hu Bing used 3 exclamation points to express his shock and reluctance.
He once played the male lead in Huang Shuqin's "Laughing Karma", in the play, Huang Daozhi was a good teacher for his non-professional actor, and outside the play, Huang Dao gave him endless care, like a loving mother.
Host Cao Kefan tearfully recalled that he had the honor of shooting a TV series with Director Huang and personally felt her demeanor, which is still unforgettable.
Although the actor Yao Chen has not cooperated with Director Huang, her remembrance just speaks to the common voice of thousands of viewers.
Yes, in those years, the TV series "Siege of the City" and "Evil Debt", which deeply touched the heartstrings of countless audiences, were classic works left by Director Huang.
From the beginning of the 41-year-old to the 68-year-old, although director Huang Shuqin started quite late, she calmly took one step at a time, showing a distinct artistic personality in the joys and sorrows of mortals.
Although her output is not high, she is a masterpiece, using small themes to express big feelings and leave her works with warm and unforgettable marks of the times.
Looking back at director Huang Shuqin's abundant and free life trajectory, we can understand a truth.
A person's greatest success is to live this life well at his own pace.
01
When the times are good, know how to choose and choose the right track
In the autumn of 1939, Huang Shuqin was born in the home of the theater master Huang Zuolin and the performance artist Danny.
Because she is the eldest daughter in the family, her father Huang Zuolin poured his love into her unreservedly.
Although born in an artistic family, Huang Shuqin's personality is not lively, on the contrary, when she was a child, she was very quiet, shy and did not like to talk, and only liked to secretly hide in the crack of the door to spy on the uncles and aunts who worked with her father to create together.
In her opinion, it was an interesting game that was different from real life.
(Young Huang Shuqin (left) and father Huang Zuolin and sister)
In the face of such an introverted daughter, the father with an open heart only tolerated a smile and never forced her to show a lively and enthusiastic personality.
When Huang Shuqin was 8 years old, the cultural company to which Huang Zuolin belonged was preparing to shoot "No Love", the screenwriter was Zhang Ailing, who was famous, and the director was Sang Arc, a young director with great spirits.
The main actors are in place, but the role of a 7-year-old girl has been delayed.
Huang Zuolin, who has a funny personality, looked around and found that only the daughter of the parents best met the requirements of the role in terms of age and appearance, so he brought his daughter into the crew.
Huang Shuqin, who had just arrived and felt novel everywhere, happily ran around in the studio.
But as soon as she arrived at the camera, she involuntarily stretched her face and mouth, and refused to show a smile no matter how much the director coaxed her.
(Stills from "No Love")
Although the experience of "first electrocution" was not pleasant, and the introverted and sensitive Huang Shuqin even said that she would never act again, the charm of light and shadow had already quietly settled in her heart, making her fascinated.
After entering middle school, every weekend, Huang Shuqin did not go shopping with friends to pass the time, but rode a bicycle to the Hengshan Cinema, watched movies one after another, and returned home without forgetting to write down the movie notes carefully.
Because of her introverted personality, Huang Shuqin rarely revealed her thoughts, so that when she proposed to apply for film school, her father was surprised.
He has directed hundreds of plays and many films, and is well aware of the hardships and bumps of this road, but after seeing his daughter's firm attitude of wanting to be a director, he still chose to support it.
Unfortunately, in the year of the examination, the Beijing Film Academy did not enroll students.
Huang Shuqin was disappointed to shed tears, but she already had an iron heart to become a director, and if she didn't succeed this year, she would fight again next year, and if she didn't work next year, she wouldn't have the year after that.
In this way, after two years of suffering, 20-year-old Huang Shuqin walked into the door of the film school as she wished.
However, because she was too introverted, Huang Shuqin, who had just entered the school, was once afraid of taking acting classes.
However, the really powerful people dare to be anti-instinctual.
For the sake of her beloved directing career, Huang Shuqin forced herself to change her personality, and she took the initiative to learn sketch performance at the academy opened by her mother, and strived to cultivate communication skills with others in daily communication.
Therefore, when some students asked, who in the future class has the ability to be a big director?
The class teacher said without hesitation: "Huang Shuqin." ”
I agree with the same sentence: those who think of themselves, out of a broad road of life; those who follow others, embark on a boundless and confused earthly journey.
In the face of favorable circumstances, too many people blindly follow the current without thinking, and eventually lose their way.
And a person who dares to face what his heart really wants, knows how to make trade-offs, is good at choosing, can be responsible for himself, and can firmly hold the key to fate in his hands.
02
In times of adversity, be at peace with the situation, do not argue or grab
After 4 years of hard study, Huang Shuqin was included in the Shanghai Film Studio with her excellent graduation works.
But just as she was about to make a big show, a turbulent storm of wind and snow struck relentlessly.
Since reality cannot be shaken, it is better to accept it happily.
Being arranged to grow vegetables on the outskirts of Shanghai, Huang Shuqin went happily and happily, and she did not have the strength to squat on her legs, so she knelt on the ground and planted.
With no drama to film, she takes care of her own business and enjoys life.
In 1967, Huang Shuqin and Zheng Changfu, an artist at the Shanghai Film Studio, formed a small family.
The following year, she gave birth to a son, and interestingly named him Zheng Dasheng.
It was not until 1979 that the 40-year-old Huang Shuqin was invited by director Xie Jin to serve as an assistant director for the feature film "Ah, Cradle".
After 15 years in the studio, she did not even touch the side of the movie, and once described the excitement at that time, "As long as I participate in the filming of the film, as long as I can see the camera, I can listen to the sound of it turning next to me, I am willing to do anything." ”
Even if she, the assistant director, needs to manage the important props of the crew- donkeys, to grind buttons with stones, and even to be kicked by horses, Huang Shuqin has no regrets, she just learns to accumulate every second.
A play followed, director Xie Jin was particularly satisfied with her efforts, and proudly announced that "Huang Shuqin has graduated and can make independent films."
Sure enough, two years later, Huang Shuqin ushered in her film debut "Contemporary Man".
Although she laughed afterwards that this was a propositional work, other directors did not take it, and the factory arranged for her to shoot it.
But Huang Shuqin has a skill that others do not have.
Although she shoots unfamiliar subjects, she can do it without doing it, and she can do it to the extreme.
But almost every work that passes through her hand has a reputation.
In the feature film "Long Live Youth", Huang Shuqin integrated her unique feelings about youth into the film, restoring the youthful vitality of middle school students in the 1950s, and won the Tashkent International Film Festival Outstanding Film Memorial Award.
Her children's film "Childhood Friends" was the first attempt to truly show the natural environment of northern Shaanxi, won the Ministry of Culture Outstanding Children's Feature Film Award, and participated in the film festival in France.
She is neither familiar with nor good at commercial films, and she made the best box office film "Operation Beyond borders" for the Shanghai Film Studio.
People only picked up the guide tube in middle age, but they won awards one after another, and Huang Shuqin's road to directing was both fast and steady.
But she is introverted and calm, more than once frankly, "her personality is not in contention, others arch forward, but she shrinks back." ”
Therefore, she has been pushed to make many types of films along the way, and has gone a long way.
However, as the old saying goes, "Do not fight with others for gains and losses, but seek your own knowledge." ”
Indisputable, it is precisely the unique great wisdom of Huang Shuqin.
In the face of adversity, instead of arguing why fate treats her unfairly, it is better to focus on the present moment and devote time and energy to the accumulation of strength.
No quarrel, no quarrel, no impetuousness, dormant accumulation, he will surely soar to the sky every day.
03
A good life, live at your own pace
Huang Shuqin, who is meticulous in her work, is like a confused child in life.
The first time she went out to buy vegetables, her wallet was stolen, so she had to carry an empty basket home to withdraw money, and she also went out to buy rice but put things in front of other people's homes, making her husband cry and laugh.
However, Huang Shuqin has never been troubled by her personality, because she has always been cared for and tolerated by her family.
When she is distressed by the inappropriate actor she is looking for and the camera processing is not good, her son who is studying in the play will seriously give her advice.
Once, when she talked about her newly prepared scene, her son blurted out a sentence of "you women's movies...", which made her suddenly clarify the direction of filming.
And her husband, Zheng Changfu, is both an artist and a theater lover, who can provide a steady stream of artistic support for Huang Shuqin's film creation.
Following her husband's advice, Huang Shuqin ingeniously covered the studio with black velvet, trying to create a freehand and ethereal background effect.
In this way, in 1987, with the help of her son and husband, Huang Shuqin filmed China's first feminist film "Man, Ghost, Love" based on the life experience of Pei Yanling, a famous woman in Hebei Province, with a metaphorical expression of the fate of modern women.
(Stills from "Man, Ghost, Love")
Whether from the height of aesthetics or the awakening of female consciousness, this film can be called the pinnacle of Huang Dao.com.
Plain and reticent, she rarely praises her father Huang Zuolin, after watching the movie, he specially wrote a congratulatory message - not like a play, too much like not an art; enlightened and reasonable, is it a play or an art.
(Huang Shuqin (right) on the shooting scene of "Man, Ghost, Love")
At that moment, Huang Shuqin's eyes, which rarely shed tears, were red.
What makes her happier than her own award is that her husband was nominated for best art at the 8th Golden Rooster Awards for his outstanding contributions in the film, which was deeply recognized by the industry.
After winning a number of awards at home and abroad, Huang Shuqin did not stop the pace of creation.
In 1990, feeling grateful for her father's generation to study abroad and returning to her hometown, she had walked the same life trajectory as Fang Hongwei, and Huang Shuqin accepted the script of "Siege of the City" without hesitation.
However, she suffered a crushing fracture of her right leg at the time. Unable to get out of bed, she woke up at three or four o'clock in the morning and lay on the bed wondering how to shoot the camera.
When her leg injury improved, she sat in a wheelchair and asked her husband to push herself onto the set.
(Huang Shuqin in a wheelchair to guide "Siege of the City")
She used the slow pace of 10 days and episodes to meticulously complete the shooting of more than 370 scenes and more than 120 scenes.
Since then, the 72 famous and surnamed characters in "The Siege" have a vivid and vivid screen image.
Mr. Qian Zhongshu wrote back happily after watching the video tape, saying, "A family of three wasted midnight and half a day, all in one breath." ”
Mr. Yang Dai even revealed: "There is a person in our courtyard sitting on the table and laughing and falling down. ”
Now, many years later, this "Siege of the City", which shows the city and the outside of the city, the world is still praised as a classic of contemporary Chinese TELEVISION dramas.
Powerful people create miracles, and more powerful people repeatedly break the miracles they have created.
In 1994, Huang Shuqin left behind a work of the times, "Debt of Iniquity", which is called "a work that truly belongs to popular culture".
(The shooting scene of "Debt of Iniquity")
Director Huang Shuqin once analyzed his heart, "I don't like to be self-congratulatory, I am willing to make films for every level of audience." ”
Whether it is intellectuals or ordinary people, whether they are experienced people or young audiences, Huang Shuqin hopes that they can find reflection on the times and profound insights into human nature from their works.
She does not seek fame and profit, does not see and lose, but tirelessly in her own rhythm, do what she wants to do most, and take her own path.
Just like her creative creed: as long as it can produce value in social significance and artistic creation, she must go all out.
04
She takes the eyes of interpreting the world to find the light and shadow of the world
In 2004, his beloved Zheng Changfu left.
Huang Shuqin, who has always been reclusive, although she is self-sustaining on the surface, silently bears heavy pressure in her heart.
Her son, Zheng Dasheng, slowly took over his mother's guide and continued to walk firmly on the road of the "freehand drama concept" advocated by her.
(Huang Shuqin, father Huang Zuolin, son Zheng Dasheng)
In 2009, when the host Luo Xin interviewed Huang Shuqin, he expressed his desire for her to return to the set.
Director Huang calmly refused, "I feel very lucky to be able to externalize all my feelings into movies, and people who make movies, even once, are enough." ”
Yes, fate did not give Huang Shuqin a long time to really create.
But Huang Shuqin has never been upset by this, she has always been self-sufficient and happy, because she has left a soft and gorgeous feminine brilliance for Chinese films.
Remember that a few years ago, when Huang Dao filmed "Long Live Youth", he set a shooting principle:
"We don't need skill, we just need to present sincerely, plainly and sincerely."
Yes, life is in the sea, where there are so many calculations and standards, as long as you express them with a sincere heart, you can move people who want to move.
Similarly, the world does not need a standard life template.
As long as you live happily in the exclusive customized rhythm of life, it is the greatest success.
On the cover of Huang Dao's autobiography, there is a passage like this, "The film gives her the eyes to interpret the world, and she uses the lens to sincerely look for the light and shadow that belongs to the world." ”
Once, she had spent her whole life walking towards herself, and this time, she must have gone to find the colorful world of light and shadow.
So, please go all the way!
Source:
1. The Paper: In Honor of | Huang Shuqin: A touch of soft and gorgeous feminine brilliance in Chinese cinema
2. Shangguan News: Directing "Siege of the City" and "Evil Debts", the famous director Huang Shuqin died in Shanghai at the age of 83
3. Xinmin Evening News: The famous director Huang Shuqin passed away in Shanghai last night, and has directed "Siege of the City", "Evil Debt", "Man, Ghost, Love"
4. Xinmin Evening News: Huang Shuqin: A Golden Decade in a Hurry
5. China Art News: Remembering huang Shuqin, the "mysterious giant Buddha" of |
6. Shanghai Film Museum: The famous director Huang Shuqin passed away last night, which was her last interview before her death