The 1905 Film Network News spanned more than half a century and "New China's Twenty-two Film Stars" once again gathered on the big screen, bringing this unique documentary film of the cross-era "stars" in the performing arts industry.
Since October 18, "Actor" has launched a roadshow of the New China Film Studio tour with the theme of "Far Away and Walker" in ten cities across the country. We take the historical memories of the "Twenty-two Congresses" selected by major film studios and return to the starting point of the story one by one.
At the first stop in Beijing and the national premiere of the film, Xie Fang, Jin Di and Zhang Liang, three veteran artists in their 80s, appeared after the screening.
Teacher Xie Fang could not hide her excitement and "confessed three times" to the audience:
"The person we actors love the most is the audience!"
"What actors need most is the audience! Without you, there would be no actors. ”
"The only thing I'm proud of is when I shoot my back, and my heart is full. I don't deceive the audience, the audience, I love you guys! ”
Jindi, the 88-year-old star of the classic movie "The Young Man in Our Village", lamented that the lead actor of "The Young Man in Our Village" was "only left with me", but she turned to say, "I don't think I have lived in vain in my life." She sent a message to contemporary young actors, "Don't always think of personal limelight, but be loyal to the role, loyal to the movie, loyal to the script." ”
These once-popular "twenty-two movie stars" have faded out of the audience's sight for a long time. Now, in their old age, they have the opportunity to face the audience up close as the protagonist of the movie, which is precisely the original intention of director Pan Yilin:
"One day I suddenly wondered if I could make them on the big screen again today. I just want to leave images of their predecessors — whether they're in their 80s or even in their 90s — on our big screen. ”
At the Shanghai station of the roadshow, Tong Ruixin, the head of the Shanghai Film Actor Troupe, who was gathered in Qin Yi's ear and talked cordially with the old lady in the movie, also came to the movie scene.
Director Pan Yilin shared with the audience the tortuous process behind this shooting, waiting for the filming of Teacher Qin Yi, she has been nursing in the hospital, and doctors and nurses are not allowed to shoot in the ward frame machine. When the director was almost about to give up, he finally took the opportunity of Tong Ruixin's regular visits to enter the ward and "secretly filmed" the precious shots in the film with his mobile phone.
As the backbone of the show business, Tong Ruixin, director of the troupe, described the significance of the "Twenty-two" shown by "Actors" today, "Any industry has a role model and a beacon, and they are our beacons." ”
Young theater students said they had gained a lot, "The 90-minute film is like giving us two epic acting lessons." ”
Everywhere "Actor" goes, it evokes more vivid memories of the "Twenty-Two" and classic movies.
In Beijing, director Pang Hao, the son of Pang Xueqin, one of the "Twenty-second National Congresses", was "cordial and very touched" when he watched the film, and emotionally spoke, "Fathers and mothers, you have carried all the glory, all the suffering, to us, can we continue your glory, your spirit?" ”
In Shanghai, Yu Hui, an actor who worked with Qin Yi on the sequel to "Women's Basketball Team No. 5", "A Thousand Miles to Find a Dream", mentioned what Qin Yi, the star at the time, said about her "lifelong impact":
"To make a play, you have to experience life for half a year, there is no honorarium, you have to carry your own luggage, carry a warm pot, a washbasin, but as an actor, any role must experience life, so that the soul of the character can walk into your soul, to be worthy of the audience." 」
In Nanjing, actor Ma Junqin recalled his experience of being discovered and recommended to star in China's first science fiction feature film "Dead Light on the Coral Island", one of the "Twenty-Two"; actor Hui Juanyan has cooperated with many of the "Twenty-two", she said that "Actor" is a tribute, "Tribute to Chinese cinema, tribute to these twenty-two artists, tribute to all audiences, it is you who have accompanied the Chinese film industry to this day." ”
In addition to "tribute", the audience also frequently mentioned another word - nostalgia, and many viewers with classic film feelings came to "realize their dreams".
At the premiere ceremony in Guilin, many young audiences brought their mothers to watch the movie, and even those with limited mobility had to come on crutches, "The old mother was also very emotional, as if she was brought back to the girlhood and youth when she first watched these movies." ”
The aunts met together in cheongsam to watch the film, creating the most elegant sense of ceremony for this covenant of light and shadow.
After participating in the screening, veteran film fans turned out their personal collections at home, and one of the "Twenty-two" Teacher Chen Qiang's inscription in 88 gave the words "I act in movies for the audience".
The audience who "accompanied their parents to chase the stars" lamented that watching "Actor" was really a special activity, "in order to get the custom account of the grand prize, I encouraged my mother to speak in the interactive session, and I heard my mother, who rarely took the initiative to express her love and nostalgia for old movies from her youth to the present."
"Finally, there is a movie that can take three generations of grandparents and parents into the movie theater and help them get a movie ticket."
"Actor", a tribute to Chinese cinema and a "love letter" to the old film era in memory, spans time, connects the past and the present, and also opens up the memories of two generations.
For the audience who grew old with the "Twenty-two" on the screen, "Actor" is looking back and commemorating:
"The old actors we liked back then were old, and some were not alive, the movies were old, and we were old, to the memories of our youth."
"Pull my mind back to my childhood, when I was in the open-air cinema, watching old movies, good movies, classic movies on the big screen, so nostalgic!"
"When I was a child, I saw Sister Jiang, Sister Fang Lin, Wu Qionghua and the white-haired girls on a 21-inch Yellow River brand TV at home, and now I see the old artists Yu Lan, Qin Yi, Zhu Xijuan and Tian Hua in the IMAX hall."
"It's a movie that I take my family to see, and their generation will be deeply touched to see the young faces that were once familiar and precipitated over the years and become what they are today."
And the young and light audience who was unfamiliar with the name of the "Twenty-two" before watching the movie watched "Actor", and what they saw was timeless, and they were moved by the wear and tear of time:
"Watching the IMAX premiere, bringing together the wonderful pictures of dozens of old movies, and can fully withstand the IMAX big screen, a piece of return." Why they can be called the "twenty-two movie stars" of New China, after watching the movie, I finally understand that the real stars will not be worn down by the years. ”
"Simple and romantic, tears several times."
"The relaxed editing and the most sincere expression of the actor from the heart, delicate and affectionate enough to move people."
"It's great to have the opportunity to sink my heart and listen to the mental journey they were shooting in the past." Involuntarily followed by excitement, this is the power of true feelings. ”
And the significance of a work like "Actor" in the present, in the times, and for all people:
"Launch stories about people's actors in an era of traffic stars, who are mobile Chinese film history and artists worth remembering."
"The images of history have the meaning of the present, and they are not obsolete at all. The significance of this film to link the present with the characters in historical images and realize the dialogue between ancient and modern is really great. ”
"A condensed history of the early films of New China, and the deep memories of these former movie stars for their lives in their later years are enough to record." (It's worth learning now for the little fresh meats)"
In the eyes of industry insiders, "Actor" cuts from the perspective of actors and stars, which is a response to various phenomena in the current show business circle. At the expert seminar of "Actor", Hu Zhifeng, vice president of the Beijing Film Academy, believed that the film was inked on the spirit of Chinese actors, "What is the spirit of actors? The spirit of the actor is that the drama is bigger than the sky, and he dedicates himself to the art, which is the spirit of the actor. ”
Various agencies and actor studios have also begun to organize film private learning, listen to the older generation of artists from the art of half a life on the big screen, and feel the power of exemplary words and deeds.
Like the English title "Once upon a time in films", "Actors" is undoubtedly a "nostalgic" film. Those names that have gradually been forgotten by people, those old faces, they are either passionate or eloquent under the lens, recreating a period of Chinese film history in the film era.
"Actor" is also a film that illuminates the present, retreating to the era of no stars, traffic, and even the glory of the "Twenty-two" has faded, and there is a group of people who have lived their lives so simply:
They treat acting as an art and actors as just a profession; when they think of acting, they must also mention "life."
As one viewer brilliantly summed it up:
"Only with sincerity in heart and abundance of spirit can we present such a calm attitude in the twilight of our lives." This is a film that is needed in the present era and a film that will make sense for the future. Its significance is not only for filmmakers, but also for all people, and it makes us more aware of what kind of attitude we should take to face the impetuousness of the outside world. ”
In the play, play a good role; in life, play yourself well.
Look forward to you walking into the theater and watching the drama and life of an era of actors.