The old film ‖ Li Xiuming starred in the Hundred Flowers Award film "Sweet Career" (1979) "Sweet Career" is a comedy film produced by Beijing Film Studio and directed by Xie Tian, starring Ma Lin, Ling Yuan, Li Xiuming and Li Liansheng, released in 1979. The film tells the story of tang er aunt, a rural woman, with the help of Aunt Tian, abandoning backward traditional concepts and establishing a new socialist trend of family planning and equality between men and women. Synopsis: Behind the scenes This column is produced by The Old Sycamore Studio, do you like this film? What else do you know about the story in front of and behind the scenes of this film, welcome to leave a message in the comment area, thank you for your attention and support!

Movie poster for the film Sweet Cause

Tian Wubao, a driver at a sugar factory in Guangdong, has been in love with Tang Zhaodi, a member of the Guangming Brigade, for three years, but Zhaodi wants to help his father, Second Uncle Tang, succeed in the sugarcane sprout seedling experiment before getting married. Although Zhao Di's mother, Second Aunt Tang, was already the mother of five daughters, she soon gave birth to a sixth daughter. Wubao's mother, Aunt Tian, a member of the Sugar Factory Family Planning Committee, rushed to the hospital to persuade the second aunt to undergo sterilization, but the second aunt said that she would never give up until she had a son. Zhao Di was very upset about this, quarreled with his second aunt, and said that he would not marry again in the future and would always stay with his mother. Tian Dabo asked his daughter Sixiu to persuade Zhao Brother, but Si Xiu proposed that the man go to the woman's house and the marriage be new, so that Zhao Brother Mao Sai would open up and persuade the second aunt to go for sterilization. After some ideological struggle, Aunt Tian agreed to let Wubao go to the Tang family to settle down. However, the second aunt saw that the Tian family was arranging a new house, and mistakenly thought that the Tian family was remorseful, and was very angry. At this time, Second Uncle Tang's sugarcane experiment was successful, and the commune sent a certificate; the production captain and members mistakenly thought that the second aunt had undergone sterilization and specially sent nutritious food; Aunt Tian also sent the five treasures to the house. When Tang Er Aunt witnessed this, she was ashamed and embarrassed. When Aunt Tian returned home with a sense of loss, she was pleasantly surprised to find that Yang Aigan, the lover of her daughter Sixiu and a technician at the Agricultural Science Station, had also settled in the Tian family.

1. Second Uncle Tang (Liu Zhao) is a famous local "Dr. Tu". He wanted to make achievements in scientific breeding of cane seedlings and contribute to the "four modernizations", but due to the large number of children and heavy housework, he often lacked energy, and the ongoing scientific research work was also delayed.

2. Second Aunt Tang (Ma Lin) is a hard-working, kind rural woman with a straight heart and a knife mouth. Deeply affected by the idea of "preferring sons to daughters", He was eager to give birth to six daughters in a row, and he wanted to have a son, which made the whole family uneasy. It wasn't that she dreamed of having a son, fantasizing that his son was already sleeping in the cradle.

3. Tang Zhaodi (Li Xiuming) is beautiful and pure, full of ideals. She and Wubao sincerely love each other, but because of the young age of her sisters, the large burden of the family, and the mother still wants to continue to have children, she cannot get married soon, so she is very distressed.

4. Si Xiu (Rao Lan) persuades his brother to implement a new business and welcomes Wu Bao to the woman's house to settle down.

5. Wu bao (played by Li Liansheng) and Zhao Di talk about their ideals and look forward to a better future.

6. Aunt Tian (Ling Yuan) is overjoyed to learn that Wubao and Zhao Di are getting married.

7. Second Aunt Tang was happy to learn that Wubao was going to come to the door and cared about Second Uncle Tang, so he gave the clothes to the second uncle who was going out.

Aunt 8 Tian solemnly agreed to let her son settle down at Zhao Di's house. Second Aunt Tang was touched by Aunt Tian's sacrifice to fulfill other people's high wind and bright festivals; she was even more infected by Aunt Tian's feelings of caring for the collective and loving the country. She excitedly said to Aunt Tian: "It seems that this theory really has to be adjusted: there is no country, where there is everyone; without everyone, where is the small family!" ”

9. Lao Mo (Li Tang), a sugar factory union cadre, is a "daughter fan", he already has two sons, but he still persuades his wife Ah Fang (Qin Zhiyu) to have another girl, and Ah Fang tells Aunt Tian to go to the hospital for surgery.

10. In order to publicize family planning, Lao Mo created and arranged a literary and artistic program in which Liu Sanjie criticized the superiority of men and women, and personally starred in the main role, which was well received by the masses. But after hearing that his wife went to the hospital for sterilization, she immediately rushed to the hospital. When he broke into the ward and saw his wife who had completed the operation, he knew that his dream of having a daughter was completely shattered, and he collapsed to the ground.

11. Second Aunt Tang came to visit her mother and saw that Uncle Tian was also decorating a new house, thinking that the Tian family had repented and left very angrily. Si Xiu saw Tang Er Aunt warmly greeting her on the road, but Tang Er Aunt glanced at her and ignored her. Si Xiu returned home to see that his father was decorating a new house, and quickly told his father about his brother's settlement in the woman's house. Si Xiu's words surprised Tian Dabo and Tian Dama, complaining about their daughter and son, such a big thing was not discussed with their parents and made decisions without authorization, and they did not tell the family afterwards. After fierce and repeated ideological struggles, Tian Dabo and Tian Dama finally untangled their ideological knots and agreed to let Wubao go to Zhao Di's house as a son-in-law.

12. Uncle Tang's sugarcane experiment was finally successful and promoted throughout the commune. The commune beat gongs and drums to bring them awards; the women's captain and members thought that the second aunt had been sterilized, and also brought nutritional products to the Tang family to comfort the second aunt. Second Aunt Tang was happy for her husband's achievements, but she was also ashamed that she had to give birth to a son to drag her husband down, and she was even more embarrassed that she did not perform sterilization. She told the captain that she would go for sterilization immediately and would never drag her feet again.

In 1978, the issue of family planning attracted widespread attention throughout China. Xie Tian and other film creators hope to reflect this major theme related to the construction of the "four modernizations" and the national economy and people's livelihood through the artistic means of film. In view of the feudal ideas that prevail in the lives of chinese urban and rural people, such as "male superiority and female inferiority", "early children and early blessings", "many children and many grandchildren are in the same house", they chose the theme of family planning, and jointly brewed the script of "Sweet Cause" with screenwriter Zhou Minzhen. Since this was the first time he had tried this kind of subject, Xie Tian continued to conduct investigations and visits on family planning in preparation for filming and filming. During the visit, he found that there were indeed various feudal consciousnesses in the minds of some of the masses; some people did not give up on giving birth to seven or eight or even a dozen girls in a row in order to get boys; some people connived at their children to conceal their age and early marriage in order to get their children and grandchildren early; and in some places there was still the phenomenon of arranged or disguised marriages. Seeing this, Xie Tian felt even more that as a filmmaker, publicizing family planning is an unshirkable and urgent task.