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"Eight Hundred" was released today, and Uncle Feng I also opened once today.
In fact, Uncle Feng has some micro-words for the soundtrack and song of "Eight Hundred" - the soundtrack has no sense of existence, and "Londonderry Minor" is changed to "Suzhou Creek", find out the girlfriends and international superstars to sing, there is a magnificent international style? The response to this song has been mediocre and has said it all.
OK, about "Eight Hundred", that's all there is to it, and it only represents a personal opinion.
Today's article, according to the madman Uncle Feng, to write a song that is very important in the history of Chinese music and the history of film.
"Song of Eight Hundred Heroes"
The battle for the Sihang Warehouse ended on November 1, 1937, and everyone saw it in the movie, and snowflakes fluttered in the sky. A month later, in December 1937, Gui Taosheng, a Hui poet born in Wuhan and born in Yunnan, felt the feats of the eight hundred heroes and wrote the words of "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes".
The word goes like this—
China will not die, China will not die,
Look at that national hero Xie Regiment Leader;
Look at the eight hundred brave men who fought alone on the eastern battlefield.
There are artillery fire on all four sides, jackals on all four sides,
I'd rather die than give in, and I'd rather die than surrender.
Our flag flutters in the siege, flutters...
Eight hundred strong men have one heart, and one hundred thousand strong enemies dare not be pawns.
Our actions are great, our integrity is heroic.
Compatriots, get up, compatriots, get up!
Hurry up and go to the battlefield and take the example of eight hundred brave men.
China will not die, China will not die...
Will not die, will not die, will not die...
After the lyrics were written, Gui Taosheng quickly handed them to the composer Xia Hanxing.
Xia Hanxing graduated from the composition department of the Shanghai National Conservatory of Music (the predecessor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music), and because of the fall of Shanghai in 813, he had to return to his hometown of Wuhan and continue the war with music.
Seeing the lyrics, Xia Hanxing's blood boiled and he wrote the song overnight.
The first song of "Song Eight Hundred Heroes" was Zhou Xiaoyan, a 20-year-old Wuhan girl at that time, who did not even come out with a piano score, Xia Hanxing played the piano, Zhou Xiaoyan sang at the same time, and everyone applauded after singing.
Earlier that year, Zhou Xiaoyan's first singing of the "Ballad of the Great Wall" had spread throughout the Great Wall and beyond.
Zhou Xiaoyan during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Mr. Zhou Xiaoyan passed away in 2016 at the age of 99.
The premiere of "Song eight hundred heroes" was very successful, and soon there was a mixed four-part chorus version of the Wuhan Choir. Xia Hanxing changed his pen name to Xia Zhiqiu and published the song for the first time in WarSong magazine.
In 1938, the China Film Studio in Wuhan (i.e., Hankou Photography Studio) quickly produced the movie "Eight Hundred Heroes", written by Yang Hansheng, directed by Ying Yunwei, played by Yuan Muzhi as Xie Jinyuan, and Chen Bo'er as Yang Huimin.
In order to promote the movie that year, actors and real people were invited to share the frame.
At the beginning of Yang Hansheng's script, the first sentence was about the song "Eight Hundred Heroes", which shows the popularity of this song.
Unfortunately, because of its age, this movie now only has 53 minutes of fragments, and the part where Yang Huimin sends the flag is gone.
How sensational was the 1938 version of the "Eight Hundred Heroes" movie? Let's look at the newspaper advertisement of the Cathay Pacific Theater in September of that year, which reads "All walks of life enthusiastically requested re-screening" and "The film was released in Hong Kong, Guangdong, Xianghan and January, more than 10,000 people were always full of empty alleys" and other advertising words.
It is rumored that the song "Eight Hundred Heroes" appeared at the end of the 1938 edition of "Eight Hundred Heroes". In March 2013, the China Film Archive once released a 53-minute fragment, with only pictures and subtitles, no sound, and a singing section of "Songhua On the River" in the middle. Because the film after 53 minutes is currently not found, there is no way to consider whether "Song Eight Hundred Heroes" is an ending song.
But if you look closely at the advertisement of the Cathay Theatre, a documentary is added to the end of "Eight Hundred Heroes", and two anti-war songs "Protecting Hometown" and "Song eight hundred heroes". It is likely that when it was screened that year, many theaters added this song to the end of the film, so that some people thought that the song was the ending song of the movie.
The "China Film Studio", referred to as "China Film Studio", which produced the 1938 version of "Eight Hundred Heroes", moved from Wuhan to Nanjing in 1946, and moved to Taiwan in 1948, where it made classic films such as "Yangtze River Storm", "Diary of a Female Soldier", "Chenggong Lingshang", "Guningtou Battle", "Ti Qian" and other classic films, which were reorganized and withdrawn from the historical stage in 1995, and then all copies were transferred to the Taiwan Film Archive (now the Taiwan Film Center), and in recent years, the Taiwan Film Center has restored several films of the Middle Studio. But I don't know if the 1938 version of "Eight Hundred Heroes" copied his home? (If there were any, it would have been big news)
In 2015, the anti-Japanese blockbuster "Yangtze River Storm" restored by the Taiwan Film Center was screened at the Shanghai Film Festival, and when the "Chinese-made" LOGO appeared on the big screen of the second hall of the Shanghai Cinema, Uncle Feng was full of emotions.
Then he said "Song eight hundred heroes", the lyricist of this song Gui Taosheng, after writing this song, threw himself into the upsurge of anti-Japanese resistance. Six months later, in July 1938, he collaborated with Xian Xinghai to create "On the Taihang Mountain" and premiered it in Wuhan.
How classic the anti-war golden song "On the Taihang Mountain" is, I don't need to introduce it more.
Gui Taosheng went to work for the Shanghai Music Association after liberation and died in December 1982 at the age of 81.
CCTV's "National Memory" column once made a feature film for Gui Taosheng.
Xia Zhiqiu, the composer of "Song Eight Hundred Heroes", is not only a composer, but also known as "the first trumpet person in China", who served as a professor of the Orchestra Department of the Central Conservatory of Music after liberation and retired in 1986. His "Trumpet Blowing Method" is still an introductory textbook for trumpet playing in China, and he has trained performers throughout all the top orchestras in China.
In May 1993, Xia Zhiqiu died in Beijing at the age of 81. At his memorial service, he used two of his famous songs, one was "Song Eight Hundred Heroes" and the other was "Homesick Song". Of course, "Homesick Song" is the most famous for Ma Sicong's music, but Dai Tiandao's "Homesick Song" of Xia Zhiqiu Is also extremely famous.
Photograph of Mr. Xia Zhiqiu in his later years.
In 2012, Beijing held a symposium to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Xia and Autumn, and his daughter Xia Sanduo spoke.
In the photo above, why is the first organizer the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office?
It turned out that in the autumn of summer, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he led the Wuhan Choir to tour overseas, and songs such as "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes" made overseas Chinese very moved, and everyone generously donated money and materials, and even overseas Chinese were inspired by songs and returned to China to join the anti-Japanese team. So far, several generations of overseas Chinese, many will sing "Song eight hundred heroes", which shows the influence of this song among overseas Chinese.
In 1975, Taiwan's "Central Film Company" filmed the movie "Eight Hundred Heroes", directed by the big director Ding Shanxi.
Taiwan's "China Film" and "China Factory" do not belong to the same departmental system, it was moved from Nanjing in 1954 by the "Agricultural Education Film Company" (Agricultural Education) and "Taiwan Film Industry Co., Ltd." (Taiwan Film) merger, the full name is "Central Film Industry Co., Ltd.", and in the Taiwan film industry for more than forty years as the leading big brother. In 2005, "China Film" was privatized, and in 2010, it was renamed "China Film Co., Ltd.", which has become an ordinary film company, but his family still holds a huge and rich resource of "China Film" film copyright.
Nowadays, the new label of "China Film" can be seen at the beginning of many movies introduced to the mainland.
In recent years, the 1975 edition of "Eight Hundred Heroes" has also been restored by Taiwan's "China Film" figure.
In this version of "Eight Hundred Heroes", the actors are really luxurious.
Because Ke Junxiong played a positive image of a series of military teaching films, including Xie Jinyuan, his prestige among the ordinary people in Taiwan was extremely high, which was also the reason why he later entered politics.
Lin Qingxia won the Asia-Pacific film with the role of Yang Huimin, although this award really has no gold content.
There will definitely be people comparing Tang Yixin and Lin Qingxia in "Eight Hundred", but Tang Yixin is still very good.
When the camera was turned on, Yang Huimin also came to the scene and Lin Qingxia was in the same frame, that is to say, after nearly 40 years, Yang Huimin and the two actresses who played her were in the same frame. The real-life Yang Huimin died in Taipei in 1992 at the age of 78, and Lin Qingxia personally went to mourn.
Qin Han (real name Sun Xiangzhong) was too young to play his controversial father, Sun Yuanliang.
So it is Yang Qun who is looking for a film emperor to play Sun Yuanliang.
Zhang Aijia plays Girl Scout member Ci Ni.
"Song of Eight Hundred Heroes" as the theme song of the 1975 edition of "Eight Hundred Heroes", appeared in two important passages.
The first paragraph is the raising of the flag on the roof of the Sihang Warehouse, the Japanese planes come to disturb, and at this moment the song of "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes" sounds.
However, the lyrics of "China cannot die" became "China must be strong", and this change was required to be changed after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, with certain historical traces. Therefore, "Song Eight Hundred Heroes" has another name called "China Must Be Strong".
The second time the song appears is when the eight hundred heroes evacuate at the end of the film, and the song starts again.
And gave a long shot of Captain Xie's wife and children.
Although Xu Feng, the heroine who plays the wife of The leader of the Xie regiment, has few scenes, in the end, in the passionate singing, it is very highlighted.
Ah, when you see Ms. Xu Feng, there must be a story!
In 1987, Taiwan's "China Film", as well as Mr. Zou Wenhuai's Hong Kong Jiahe, and Xu Feng's Tomson, founded in Hong Kong, jointly produced a movie called "QiZheng Fluttering", which now seems to be a rather "ridiculous" spy war film, telling the story of three heroine-like characters played by Lin Qingxia, Xia Wenxi, and Lu Xiuling, who are spy wars in the chaotic world of Shanghai. The director is still Ding Shanxi.
It is conceivable how much director Ding Da likes "Eight Hundred Heroes of Song".
In the film, he set up a patriotic musician Wei Sheng (played by Lin Weisheng), who was inspired to see the heroes on the other side of the river killing enemies.
So he wrote "China Will Not Die", which was seen by Qin Feng, a strange woman played by Lin Qingxia, and felt very good.
So Qin Feng found a choir to record the sound, and on the night of the evacuation of the eight hundred heroes, it was broadcast on the radio (is the plot very ridiculous?). ）
The musician was surprised to hear it, and the heroine said that this song was written by you, and you should write more patriotic songs!
Whether it was in 1975 or 1987, the two sides of the strait were still closed, so there was no copyright protection, and the original author most likely did not receive royalties.
Just imagine, if 2020's "Eight Hundred" uses this song as the theme song, in a way, it is a kind of consummation (although it knows that it is impossible)
The song has also appeared several times in Hong Kong films.
Moreover, it is also a Lin Qingxia movie.
In 1983, Lin Qingxia decided to develop in Hong Kong and filmed Teddy Robin's "I Love the Night" in New Art City (including the participation and coordination of Zhang Aijia, a high-level executive of New Art City). This is a comedy about the spy war in Hong Kong during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, very entertaining, with a box office of 13.78 million, but it only ranked seventh that year, which shows how powerful the Hong Kong film market was at that time.
In this movie, when people in the hotel hear that Guangzhou has fallen, they sing in unison "China will not die." Then the background of the film is October 1938, when "Song eight hundred heroes" is popular throughout the country, and the timing is also correct.
Counting down, this is the third movie starring Lin Qingxia, and there is "Eight Hundred Heroes of Song".
Every look of Lin Qingxia in this movie is also extremely beautiful.
"I Love the Night" is one of Lin Qingxia's test works in Hong Kong, proving her strength and appeal, after which she briefly went to the United States to study performances, and officially moved to Hong Kong to take over the role of "Police Story", beginning a decade-long glory in the Hong Kong film industry.
The most recent appearance of Qingxia's sister was with her girlfriend Miss Shi Nansheng at the funeral of the gambling king He Hongshen. The 66-year-old Lin Qingxia is simply the Tianshan Tong's grandmother.
Speaking of "Song Eight Hundred Heroes" in hong Kong films.
In 1989, Andy Lau himself invested in the movie "Rich Andy Corps" and invited Director Hong Jinbao. The film has many stars, telling the story of the benevolent people in the prisoner of war camp during the War of Resistance, finding the codenamed God of Wealth who holds the code of anti-Japanese funds.
Prisoners of war often used the song "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes" to fight against the Japanese army, and even became a kind of code.
In addition, "Eight Hundred Heroes of Song" has been covered and published in Taiwan.
As early as 1968, Taiwanese singer Wu Jingxian sang this song in her "Wu Jingxian Mini Record Collection", using the lyrics of "China must be strong".
Wu Jingxian is Gu Qiuxia of "Stars Know My Heart", which was popular all over the country, and she also has a niece who has recently become very popular, named Yuan Yonglin.
This song has also been circulated in Southeast Asia for many years, and the Malaysian singer Zhuang Xuezhong has sung it.
For a long time, "Song Eight Hundred Heroes" was not officially sung and audio-visual products appeared in the mainland. Until 2005, in order to commemorate the centenary of Chinese films, China Records Corporation published a set of records of "Symbols of Memory - A Collection of Chinese Films in a Hundred Years of Sound", in which "Song Eight Hundred Heroes" appeared, and it was clearly written that it was the theme song of the movie "Eight Hundred Heroes".
In 2015, the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Pacific Media released a six-album album of "Melody of Justice", and "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes" was included in the second album.
It is worth mentioning that the 2005 and 2015 versions are the versions of China's top choir, the Beijing Military Region Comrades-in-Arms Song and Dance Troupe, which is now called the Army Political Work Department Cultural and Labor Troupe Choir.
In 2012, the Central Conservatory of Music published a copy of "Summer Autumn and His Anti-War Songs", which also included a CD, "Song eight hundred heroes", which is a version of the Choir of the China Symphony Orchestra (National Team Oh), and the conductor is the master Yan Liangkun.
In 2015, China Singing Shanghai published a double-CD "Soul of The Song of War", which contained 49 popular anti-war songs, including "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes".
In 2015, the Central Conservatory of Music and other units released a piano song collection called "We Are All United - Seventy Anti-War Songs", "Song Eight Hundred Heroes" is among them, and it is also a rare piano accompaniment version.
The song first appeared in a high-profile TV evening in 2005, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, "For Justice and Peace", Liao Changyong sang "China Cannot Die" ("Song Eight Hundred Heroes") sung by his mentor Zhou Xiaoyan. Uncle Feng was shocked when he watched TV! Isn't this the song in "Eight Hundred Heroes"? (I have seen the 1975 version of "Eight Hundred Heroes" with poor picture quality video tape to VCD version)
In August 2015, the Sihang Warehouse Memorial Site was newly opened after the renovation, and the scene was sung again, that is, "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes". Interestingly, Ms. Hu Die, who reported this news, is the wife of director Lu Chuan, in fact, the director who should make "Eight Hundred" in Uncle Feng's mind is Lu Chuan, the crying ghost.
Errors that may exist in the text are welcome to correct.
I would also like to say that "Eight Hundred" may have such and such problems, but it is really worth watching once.
The last sentence I want to write is
China must be strong!
Text/Falling Wind
Image from the web.
Thank you To Dr. Juan Yu for your help with this article.
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