On this exciting day, we will jointly recall a classic old movie of the 1960s, "Eternal Life in the Fire", to pay tribute to the martyrs who have struggled and sacrificed their lives for the cause of the party for more than a hundred years.
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"Eternal Life in the Fire" is adapted from the novel "Red Rock" written by Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan, which mainly tells the heroic story of underground party member Jiang Zhujun who was arrested and imprisoned after being betrayed by traitor Fu Zhigao, and together with Xu Yunfeng, another important leader of the Chongqing underground party, who was arrested, launched a tenacious struggle against the enemy, strictly guarded the party's secrets, and finally sacrificed heroically.
The reason why this movie was made was that several people were the key characters.
In the early 1960s, the novel "Red Rock" began to be serialized in China Youth Daily, and Yu Lan, a famous film actor who was hospitalized due to illness, fell in love with it and was very moved, and had the idea of adapting it into a movie.
Just at this time, the famous director Shui Hua called and proposed the same idea, and invited Yu Lan to star, and Yu Lan happily agreed.
Teacher Yu Lan's old age photo
For more than a year after that, Yu Lan and Shuihua and screenwriter Ouyang Hongying went to various places to collect materials, interviewed the novel's authors Luo Guangbin, Yang Yiyan and the archetypal characters, and wrote three drafts of the script before and after.
But how to see are not satisfied, always feel that there is something missing, so they went to Xia Yan to help, Xia Yan is worthy of being a master screenwriter, took a look at the manuscript and found the problem, so he put forward corrective suggestions, let the character of Jiang Jie as the protagonist to run through the whole play, and only four days to come up with the film literary script of "Red Rock".
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Whether it is now or in the 1960s, Xia Yan, Yu Lan and Shui Hua are well-known figures in the Chinese film industry, such as Xia Yan, who has become one of the pioneers and major leaders of the left-wing theater movement since the 1930s, and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, the director of the Propaganda Department, and the president of the Shanghai People's Art Theatre at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Yu Lan arrived in Yan'an on October 24, 1938, studied at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the Women's University in Yan'an, and was elected as one of the "22 Great Film Stars of New China" elected by the Chinese Ministry of Culture in 1962.
Shui Hua devoted himself to left-wing drama activities in 1931, and in 1950 co-directed the feature film "The White-Haired Girl" with Wang Bin, which not only won the first prize of the Chinese Ministry of Culture's Excellent Film Award, but also won a special honorary award at the International Film Festival, and the film "Lin JiaPuzi" directed by him in 1959 is also a classic in the history of New Chinese cinema.
Therefore, from any point of view, at that time, these three people had a deep influence on the Chinese film industry and even the entire cultural circle, and the movie "Eternal Life in the Fire" can be said to be a strong combination from the beginning of its birth.
This is not to mention, in addition to Yu Lan, there were four actors from the "Twelve Stars of New China" at that time, namely Zhao Dan, Zhang Ping, Wang Xingang and Pang Xueqin, and the actor who played the number one villain Xu Pengfei was Xiang Kun, who won the Special Honorary Award of the 3rd Golden Phoenix Awards in 1991 and was awarded the honorary title of "National Film Artist with Outstanding Contribution" by the Ministry of Personnel and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television in 2005.
Zhao Dan plays Xu Yunfeng
Obviously, this "Eternal Life in the Fire" can be described as a big coffee gathering, and even Fang Shu, who was only 6 years old at the time and played the little radish head, grew into a famous movie star in the 1980s.
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"Eternal Life in the Fire" The movie was not called this name at the beginning, but the same name as the original book, called "Red Rock", After Premier Zhou saw the sample film, according to the story clues and character relationships in the film, it was suggested to change the name to "Sister Jiang".
Yu Lan, who plays Sister Jiang, may feel that such words are too prominent for him, so he proposed to the prime minister that Sister Jiang is not the only protagonist in this movie, and Xu Yunfeng, played by Zhao Dan, is also the protagonist in the film.
The premier thought that Yu Lan's words were reasonable, and after thinking about it again and again, he suddenly remembered that there was a sentence in the poem "Prisoner Song" composed by General Ye Ting, "I should get eternal life in the fire and hot blood", so he proposed to change the name to "Eternal Life in the Fire", which was unanimously approved by everyone.
In the end, the title of the film was set as "Eternal Life in the Fire", and Mr. Guo Moruo inscribed the title of the film.
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As mentioned earlier, the movie "Eternal Life in the Fire" gathers five actors from the "Twenty-two Movie Stars of New China", but after the film was released, people found that there was no shot of Wang Xingang in it.
Originally, the character Wang Xingang played in the film was named Liu Siyang, and "Eternal Life in the Fire" was originally designed with three lines, one of which was to describe him.
It is a very good line, but when reviewing the film, some people suggested that Liu Siyang was released with the help of his brother after he was imprisoned, and such a role could not be praised, so the role of Liu Siyang played by Wang Xingang was deleted.
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Yu Lan plays Jiang Zhujun, that is, Sister Jiang, in the film she once said a sentence that is very touching and very tough, that is, when facing the enemy's severe torture, she said the sentence "I know the name of the superior, I also know the name of the subordinate, this is the secret of our party, can not tell the enemy", for this reason, the head of the secret service Xu Peng was so angry that he was going crazy.
Teacher Yu Lan died of illness on June 27, 2020 at the age of 99, and his son Tian Zhuangzhuang is the representative figure of the fifth generation of directors in China.
Zhao Dan, played by Xu Yunfeng, is a leading figure in the underground party in Chongqing, who was arrested for the betrayal of Fu Zhigao, who also withstood severe torture, and together with Sister Jiang, led the victims to carry out a heroic and unyielding struggle against the enemy, and finally died heroically.
Xu Yunfeng (played by Zhao Dan) and the head of the secret service, Xu Pengfei (played by Xiang Kun), are in a confrontation.
Hu Peng plays the two-gun old woman of the commander of the Huaying Mountain guerrilla group, which is a collection of real characters in history, based on Deng Huizhong, Liu Longhua, and Chen Lianshi.
Cai Songling plays Hua Ziliang, ostensibly a crazy old man who works as a handyman in prison, but is actually an underground party member, whose prototype is named Han Zidong, joined the organization in 1932, was arrested for betrayal by traitors in 1934, and then was imprisoned in the secret Kuomintang prisons of Beiping, Nanjing, Wuhan, Yiyang, Xifeng, Chongqing and other places for 14 years.
On May 19, 1992, the legendary old man died of illness in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, at the age of 84.
Today, 56 years have passed since the release of this film, but its far-reaching influence and educational significance have been remembered and praised by the audience, and sometimes, as soon as they see this title, they think of bamboo sticks, and poor little turnip heads, which is simply chilling, and then think of Jiang Jie, Xu Yunfeng and others who rely on firm faith to support the spirit and will to stubbornly defeat the enemy, and the admiration and admiration in their hearts will arise spontaneously.
This is also the original intention of the author to review this article today.