Lee Qiankuan
"Every time he creates, whether it's a big production or a small production, he does his best to make the characters flesh and blood, and tell the story vividly." Even if it is a trivial matter for mortals, we must strive for light and strive to make it a wave on the long river of human development history. ”
According to media reports, Li Qiankuan, a well-known director who directed films such as "The Founding Ceremony" and "Chongqing Negotiations", died of illness at the age of 80.
Born in 1941 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, Li Qiankuan graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Beijing Film Academy. After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy, Li Qiankuan was assigned to changchun film studio and started his film career.
But it is not too much to use the four words of "big instrument late success" to describe Li Qiankuan. He worked hard at Changchun Film Studio for more than ten years, until 1977, when he officially entered his directing career, serving as an assistant director in the suspense film "Bear Trace". This story about the capture of Soviet agents is directed by Zhao Xinshui and starring Shi Weijian and Li Moran. Two years later, Li Qiankuan continued to serve as an assistant director for the film "Instant".
Until 1982, Li Qiankuan began to work closely with his wife Xiao Guiyun, and the two of them successively directed the feature films "General Sabre", "Sweet Girl", "Yellow River Coast", "Fugitive" and other works.
The turning point of Li Qiankuan's directorial career was in 1989, when he co-directed the historical film "The Founding Ceremony" with Xiao Guiyun, which focused on the world-famous three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin, and was told until the founding ceremony on October 1, 1949. At that time, China's film industry was not very perfect, and it was not easy to shoot this level. After the film was released, it caused a great sensation, and won five awards at the 10th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Editor, Best Screenwriter, and Best Supporting Actor, and Gu Yue was nominated for Best Actor but unfortunately could not win.
A gentleman's journey
Ku Peiyuan/Wen
Surprised to learn that Mr. Li Qiankuan passed away due to illness, he felt very sudden. What a great director who is enthusiastic and vigorous and has extraordinary vitality, how to say that he will leave. I had been waiting for my husband's phone call to meet, and I had specially prepared a good tea. "Pei yuan, when you have time, please come to my house for tea, and by the way, take a look at the filming tidbits of "Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.""
Drink tea and watch the drama together, this is the last sentence left to me by Mr. Qian Kuan, his magnetic Northeast accent is pleasant and moving, and I still remember it in my ears. When I said this, it was in august 2020 in the courtyard of a hotel in Pinggu Mountain. At that time, the counselors organized our counselors to take a vacation together, and after lunch we walked in the sun and talked under the umbrella in the courtyard, which was a conversation that we were very engaged with each other.
Lee in front of the desk is wide
Stills from "The Founding Ceremony"
He said that when he was filming in Yan'an, everyone was not satisfied with the theme song that had been written. One day, he suddenly had the inspiration to boldly choose the northern Shaanxi folk song Xintianyou tune, and personally filled in the lyrics and auditioned. The plot is that when Chairman Mao's plane flew overhead, the old man who stopped the sheep on the mountain with a sheep belly and a hand towel on the mountain ridge sang a song to the vast mountains, deeply and poignantly, shocking the mountains. The song vividly embodied the deep affection of the people of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region for the great leader. He spoke and sang it again to a beat. I could hear the heat in my heart, and I couldn't help but burst into tears. At that moment, Li Dao completely became an obsessive child, and the rich expression on his face was cute and cute.
I have not known Li Dao for a long time, but I have been friends for a long time. After reading the films he directed, I understood Mr. Wang's artistic courage and literary heart. Chinese films, groundbreaking realist revolutionary historical blockbusters, masterpieces with epic style, he can be called a pioneer, and his creative achievements are well known. Like many viewers, I first saw a lot of works and then got to know mr. In successive in-depth conversations, I learned that Mr. Li originally studied not directing, but film art. After graduating from the Fine Arts Department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1964, he was assigned to changchun film studio to engage in film art creation, but he was extremely talented, and he especially liked the art of directing, paying special attention to learning directing creation, and soon began his directing career.
In 1990, at the Wuhan Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, Li Qiankuan and Xiao Guiyun co-directed the "Founding Ceremony" and won eight awards, including the "Best Director Award"
Since 1981, he has cooperated with his wife Xiao Guiyun to complete a series of landmark main theme masterpieces in the development of Chinese cinema in the new era, such as "General Sabre", "Founding Ceremony", "After the Decisive Battle", "Chongqing Negotiations", and "July 7 Incident". "The Founding Ceremony" won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Feature Film and the Best Feature Film Award of the Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Films, and "Chongqing Negotiation" won the "Huabiao Cup" Government Excellent Film Award and the Hundred Flowers Award for Excellent Film. He gradually forged a path of his own in the field of major revolutionary historical themes.
The picture is synthesized from the Newspaper of Literature, 1905 Film Network, Savannahkaka
Edit: Jiang Fang