1905 Film Network Special Article Dragon Boat Festival, mid-summer, the time is clear and long. June 14 is the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is also the fifth day of the 2021 "Direct Hit on the Film Festival" movie channel to integrate the media live broadcast. In the live broadcast on the 13th, the camera came to Zhang Leping's former residence and reviewed the classic film "Sanmao Wandering" and the creative story behind the image of Sanmao; in the live broadcast on the 14th, we followed the footsteps of the camera to roam the light and shadow Suzhou River, presenting a different Shanghai film story for everyone, and also found the shooting scene of "The Crow and the Sparrow" in the Shanghai Film Museum, and also relived "A River of Spring Water Flows East" at the 16th Pier.
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Light and shadow Suzhou Creek, Shanghai film dream
First there is Suzhou Creek, and then there is Shanghai Beach. If you understand Suzhou Creek, you can understand the past and present lives of Shanghai. Strolling along the banks of the Suzhou River, what you see in front of you is the beauty of Shanghai, and walking under your feet is the evolution of the city. In today's "Film Old Place" location section, we relive The First Chinese Film along the beautiful Suzhou River, searching for the footprints of Chinese cinema under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and showing the "night" Shanghai.
In 1937, "Cross Street", filmed on the banks of the Suzhou River, "reflects the confusion of the young people of that era about the city, about the world, and how to find the right direction after the confusion." "During the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, the Suzhou Creek became the border of sovereignty, even the border of life and death, and the 800 heroes who stubbornly defended the Sihang Warehouse were a feat that occurred on the banks of the Suzhou River. In the 1970s, Taiwanese director Ding Shanxi made "Eight Hundred Heroes", and in 2020, the movie "Eight Hundred" was also filmed on the banks of the Suzhou River.
Today's first stop is waibaidu bridge. Waibaidu Bridge is China's first all-steel structure riveting bridge, is the grandmother bridge in the hearts of many citizens, "Road Angel", "Ruan Lingyu", "Nie Er" and other movies have been filmed here; the second stop is the China Securities Museum, formerly known as the Regal Hotel, which is the first place to screen movies in China; the third stop is the Shanghai Tower, formerly known as broadway building, which was once the tallest building in Asia, and is the scene that appeared in the movie "Battle shanghai" in 1959; the fourth stop is the four-line warehouse on the other side of the Suzhou Creek, which was the first box office champion in China and even the world last year. "Eight Hundred" tells the story of the "Eight Hundred Heroes" who stubbornly held the Sihang Warehouse on the banks of the Suzhou River and blocked the Japanese army, and every bullet hole in the warehouse is a symbol of the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation;
The fifth stop is the Shanghai Postal Museum, which is one of the birthplaces of modern Postal Service in China, which was listed as one of the top ten buildings in Shanghai at that time, and the movie "The Magician's Adventure" and "The Sentinel under the Neon Lights" were filmed here; the last stop was the Sichuan Road Bridge, the 1959 movie "Battle Shanghai" reproduced the fierce battle on the Sichuan Road Bridge in 1949, "only guns can be fired, no cannons are allowed", and finally the Shanghai Post Building is almost intact back to the hands of the people, and the 1999 "Great March - The Great War of Shanghai, Ningbo and Hangzhou" I have also filmed here.
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Shanghai Film Museum Searching for "The Crow and the Sparrow"
Another "old movie place" today is the 1:1 scene restoration scene of "The Crow and the Sparrow" in the Shanghai Film Museum. Directed by Zheng Junli and starring Zhao Dan, Sun Daolin and others, "The Crow and the Sparrow" is the first film released after the founding of New China, which was filmed before liberation and completed after the founding of New China, and is a truly "cross-era" film.
After the film was released, it had a very strong impact at the time. The whole film has a distinct comedic color, with a small view, almost all the shooting is done in a small building, but the class struggle and social contradictions at that time are vividly displayed. More importantly, "The Crow and the Sparrow" was created for us by filmmakers at the risk of their lives.
The film and the "Sanmao Wandering" that appeared on the live broadcast yesterday are both from Kunlun Pictures, which can be described as the base camp of progressive films, and also filmed works such as "Eight Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons", "Ten Thousand Lights", "Hope in the World" and so on. The significance of the emergence of these progressive films at that time was undoubtedly enormous, and while they awakened the people's awakening, they also expressed the desire of film workers to oppose oppression and shout for the working people at the bottom. In the small building in Shanghai more than 70 years ago, we saw the darkness before dawn, but also saw the revolution in the darkness, and even saw the awakening of a city and a nation.
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Sixteen Shop Pier recreates "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward"
How much sorrow can you have? It is precisely a river of spring water flowing eastward. The last stop at today's old movie place is the Sixteen Shops Pier, which is also a must-punch place in Shanghai that we are very familiar with - the Bund. There was a movie that was released in Shanghai for more than three months, setting a record for the highest attendance of domestic films before liberation, and it was "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward". And the old place we explored in the movie is the Sixteen Shop Pier, one of the film's filming locations.
It is difficult to link the filming location of "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward" with the current Sixteen Shop Piers, because it has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes. "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward" is also called by critics as an epic masterpiece showing the social turmoil during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, because this film condenses the history of more than ten years before and after the War of Resistance Against Japan into an ordinary civilian family, and through the joys and sorrows of this family, delicately portrays the social scene at that time.
In fact, in addition to "A River of Spring Water Flows East", "Sanmao Student Intention", "No. 51 Soldier Station", "Stock Madness", "Countess" and other movies, all filmed here, it can be said that it has witnessed the development of Shanghai and is also the epitome of China's development. Shanghai has witnessed the development and changes of international trade from scratch, from the cargo terminal to today's creative park, which can be said to carry the development and changes of Shanghai.
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Bad Monkey Pictures held a brand launch
On June 14, Bad Monkey Pictures held the "S+" 2021 annual brand launch conference in Shanghai, at which the "S+" annual film list plan was announced. The film list includes Ning Hao's new works "All Stars" and "Dahan Shuangxiong", as well as 8 new films produced by Ning Hao and signed by the "Bad Monkey 72 Change Film Project".
It is reported that 3 of the 8 new films have entered production. "Miracle", directed by Wen Muye and starring Yi Qianxi, is being filmed in Shenzhen. "Fishing Action", directed by Shen Olympic and starring Zhang Yixing and Jin Chen, also announced the lineup for the first time. "Second-hand Masterpieces" directed by Wang Zizhao and starring Yu Hewei, Guo Qilin, Ni Hongjie and Zhou are also entering filming. The other 5 films "Support god", "Crazy Alien 2", "Criminal Police 803", "Heart Blossom", "Learning Dad and Learning Mom" are in the process of preparation.
In addition to the film list, Yu Xiaofeng, managing director of Bad Monkey Pictures, also announced two strategic cooperation plans for the "Star Network Plan" and the "Bilibili × Bad Monkey 73 Young Director Plan" joint Internet platform. The "Star Network Project" focuses on online movies and cooperates with iQiyi. In announcing the plan, Yu Xiaofeng said that it was Bad Monkey Pictures that "considered the needs of the film industry in the new era, facing the changes in the film industry, and preparing for the needs of future films." "In the next three years, Bad Monkey Pictures will provide 5 high-quality online movies for iQIYI Cloud Cinema.
"Bilibili × Bad Monkey 73 Young Director Project" focuses on original short film collaboration. Yu Xiaofeng announced that Bad Monkey Pictures will create 25-30 short films per year to screen at Station B in the future. He also said that the Bad Monkey Pictures short film connects the resources of major film schools at home and abroad, with 17 external cooperation and 14 fixed cooperative screenwriters, and has completed the filing of two batches of online film short films, and 7 will soon start shooting through the filing.
At the same time, the company has a reserve of 27 new directors and their creative projects, as well as 16 film projects with 14 screenwriters. According to the film list, the short film works jointly created by Station B and Bad Monkey Pictures include short films with different theme styles such as "Champion", "No Dogs in the South", "Hello, Jonny", "Psychological Clinic", "You Look Scary", "After the Rain", "One Night" and "Ten Thousand Hours".
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"Fury Serious Case" empty C seat to commemorate Chen Musheng
On the evening of June 13, the first press conference of the movie "Anger and Serious Case" was held during the Shanghai International Film Festival, and Zhen Zidan, Xie Tingfeng and other main creators appeared. Unlike in the past, this is an activity that the director is doomed to be "absent" - as Chen Musheng's last work before his death, "Fury Serious Case" poured a lot of effort into him. At the press conference, the two male protagonists who have worked with the director for many years emotionally remembered their old friends.
Zhen Zidan's impression of Chen Musheng always maintains a strong creative enthusiasm: "He once called me at 2 a.m. and said that he had just finished cutting a scene, and asked me to see if there were any ideas that could be added and make it better." For Nicholas Tse, director Chen Musheng is even more "a teacher and a friend" - on a chandelier in his home, there has always been a note written by director Chen Musheng to encourage him to continue to work hard.
Despite suffering from cancer when he created the film, "Fury Case" under The Helm of Chen Musheng still has the absolute hardcore of a Hong Kong-style action movie. At the scene, Zhen Zidan and Xie Tingfeng revealed the details of many action scenes, including gun battles, drag racing, explosions, and fist-to-flesh knife and stick fighting.
At the end of the day's press conference, there was an extremely tear-jerking scene: in the big group photo session, in order to express their infinite nostalgia for the director, the creators put the director's chair and plate maker that the director had been using on the set in the center C position of the stage. The emotions suppressed by the two old friends were also released at this moment, and Zhen Zidan and Xie Tingfeng both cried in tears.
Zhen Zidan still clearly remembers that he received a notice from Chen Musheng to be admitted to the hospital that day, and was rushing to the hospital, when he saw the bad news of his death in the news feed. Xie Tingfeng choked up and said that because he was a director, he was willing to fight for his life again and again to complete the shot in the shooting, which is the trust established over many years, and it is an irreplaceable emotion. Now that the director is gone, it makes him even feel a little confused, not knowing where the next director who makes me want to give my life for him will be. Nicholas Tse hopes and believes that "Fury Case" will be loved by everyone: "When the movie is released, everyone will see in those pictures all the essence of director Chen Musheng's decades of action films. ”