More than 100 Shanghai cinemas are simultaneously released! Suzhou, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other cities in the Yangtze River Delta region are released simultaneously! The opera movie is a bit big this time!
What makes such a big move is the sound of Shanghai and the classic sound - the Shanghai opera movie "Thunderstorm". After nearly two years of preparation and concoction, the Shanghai opera movie "Thunderstorm" officially landed on the big screen today.
The reporter inquired on the ticketing platform and found that in the theaters in the city center such as the Shanghai Daguang Cinema and the Shanghai Paragon Cinema, some of the shows in the two days of this day and tomorrow have been bought 80% or even full. This situation also continued to sell on Saturday and Sunday, and the afternoon shows of many theaters such as Shanghai Cinema and UA Meilong Town were nearly sold out. Although it is not the largest screening hall in a theater, it is also exciting to achieve such results in the face of the city center and commercial films. In the WeChat public account message of the Shanghai Theater, there have long been fans of Chongming in the suburbs of Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region such as Changzhou, who are eagerly awaiting it, worried about being "forgotten" by the screening theater.
As early as a few days ago, when the pre-sale was opened, Mao Shanyu learned of this good news for the first time. "At the beginning, the theater still felt bottomless, the queue was 10 o'clock in the morning non-gold field, see the situation of the later pre-sale is good, slowly the afternoon session, even the evening gold field also opened out!"
As a project of the "China Drama Plum Blossom Award Digital Film Project" of the China Dramatists Association and a special funding project to promote the development of Shanghai films, in terms of main creators, the film specially invited the national first-class director Teng Junjie to supervise the production, and the famous director Liang Hansen directed. In terms of actors, the film almost adopts the entire lineup of the current stage version: Mao Shanyu, president of shanghai shanghai theater and representative inheritor of Shanghai opera of the national intangible cultural heritage project, plays FanYi, Chen Yu, the representative inheritor of Shanghai opera of the national intangible cultural heritage project, plays Lu Ma, and the famous Shanghai opera actors Zhu Jian, Wang Mingda, Hong Doudou, Qian Sijian, Ling Yuegang and Jin Shijie participate together.
Since the publication of the drama "Thunderstorm" more than 80 years ago, this stage classic has been adapted and staged many times. As early as 1938, the Shanghai opera "Thunderstorm" was put on the stage in the form of a curtain play through Shi Chunxuan, a former artist of Shenqu Opera, and others. As soon as the work came out, it aroused a strong response from the audience in Shanghai. Since then, Shanghai opera has gradually evolved into one of the best deductive genres of "Thunderstorm".
In 1959, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Shanghai opera circle gathered the most influential stars on the Shanghai opera stage at that time in the form of a conference string in the form of a ceremony string, and the Shanghai opera "Thunderstorm" adapted by Zong Hua was staged on the people's stage. Ding Shi'e, Xie Hongyuan, Wang Pansheng and other veteran artists all appeared, achieving a version of the classic "Thunderstorm" with a strong lineup, genre competition, and tacit cooperation, which is known in history as "the famous masters conference series version of the Shanghai opera "Thunderstorm".
Through several generations of inheritance, Mao Shanyu won the "Second Degree Plum" in 2013 with his wonderful interpretation of the prosperity in the play. In recent years, "Thunderstorm" has entered the campus of Tsinghua Peking University and has exerted influence among young students in the north. This year coincides with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the 60th anniversary of the performance of "Famous Artists Conference Serial Edition of Shanghai Opera "Thunderstorm"", Shanghai Shanghai Theater and Shanghai New Culture Film Industry launched the live Shanghai opera film "Thunderstorm", which is also a creative transformation and innovative development of traditional culture, in this way to commemorate the classic scene in the history of Shanghai opera, pay tribute to the predecessors of Shanghai opera, and pay tribute to the birthday of the motherland.
Mao Shanyu sighed: "It can be said that in the time of a jiazi, as long as "Thunderstorm" is staged, no matter where it is, no matter when, it is full. This is the charm of the classic text, and this is the charm of the Shanghai opera interpretation. ”
Turning the "milestone" works on the Stage of Shanghai Opera into movies, the leading actors who are familiar with stage performances usher in a major challenge in their careers. In order to help the actors "enter the play" in front of the camera, director Liang Hansen has a unique ingenuity, combining virtual and real film expression techniques, focusing on shaping the inner world of the character of "Prosperous", revealing the love-hate entanglement of the two generations of the Zhou family from the perspective of "Prosperity".
Liang Hansen said: The drama "Thunderstorm" created by Master Cao Yu is a milestone in the process of Chinese theater history, which shows the world the torment of personality by the residual poison of feudal society with strong dramatic conflicts, and awakens people's spirit of resistance to the old society and the yearning for the new era. The film not only retains the classic singing sections such as "Pan Feng", "Taking Medicine", "Garden Meeting", "Tearing Check", "Four Phoenix Solo Sigh" and "Quintet" in the stage version, but also reproduces a real Zhou Mansion through live shooting, but also shows many classic scenes in the original work that are not fully displayed on the stage, such as the scene of translating the rainy night following Zhou Ping, si feng and Zhou Chong both electrocuted and died. Mao Shanyu and a number of outstanding Shanghai opera actors all gave a rare and wonderful performance on the stage in the film. The film conveys the essence of the original work through the transmission of pictures and sounds, infiltrates the audience's vision and hearing in many ways, and brings an unprecedented "new experience" of Shanghai opera.
Shanghai opera, the "rural rhyme" of Shanghai, has been sung in Jiangnan for a hundred years, and the live-action Shanghai opera film "Thunderstorm" brought by shanghai Shanghai Theater is a breakthrough attempt by Shanghai opera art to tell the drama classics with Shenqu style rhyme through the art carrier of the theater film, which is popularized by the whole people. This film is not only a breakthrough in the innovative practice of Shanghai opera art, but also a step forward for the populism of opera to respond to the call of the times, showing the determination of Shanghai opera as a local drama genre to strive to cultivate potential audiences and actively participate in cultural exchanges.
Author: Huang Qizhe
Editor: Huang Qizhe
Photo: Courtesy of Shanghai Shanghai Theatre