Poster of the movie "1921" "Group to Russia"
The film "1921", which will be released on July 1, produced and directed by Huang Jianxin and co-directed by Zheng Dasheng, has previously released a special edition of "We Workers Have Strength", recreating the scene of the workers' movement led by the Communist Party a hundred years ago. A hundred years ago, they ran to the front line of the revolution and shouted hard, and they were the people who "sacrificed their lives to seek the law" in Mr. Lu Xun's mouth. However, there is still such a group of progressive workers who are "immersed in hard work" and are silently accumulating strength as a reserve force on the revolutionary road, they are the aspiring young people in the Shanghai Overseas Chinese Society, who strive to learn foreign languages in order to seek the road to national salvation in Russia, and at the same time accept revolutionary theoretical knowledge and carry out revolutionary practice.
A few days ago, "1921" released posters of members of the Foreign Chinese Society, and officially announced the actors in this progressive group. Among them, Zhang Ruoyun, Zhang Youhao, and Zhao Yiqin played the young Liu Shaoqi, Ren Bishi and Xiao Jinguang respectively; Cao Jun, Gao Rongfang, Liu Enjia, Liu Zheer, Luo Zekai, and Xu Xiaolu played the progressive workers in the society (all sorted by name pinyin). As the "red cradle" for cultivating revolutionary cadres at that time, the Foreign Chinese Society was rarely presented in the past film and television works of the same type. This time, in order to truly reproduce this history, the screenwriter and director painstakingly excavated many precious historical materials, not only party history materials, but also materials on the urban culture of Shanghai in the 20s, and the fine arts also spent a lot of effort to vividly restore this "red school" where the early Communists gathered on the big screen. In order to vividly interpret the "young age" of the ancestors, several actors have taken pains, in addition to reading the biography in advance, they will seize the director and screenwriter on the set to exchange understanding of the character. Because the Foreign Chinese Society is an institution that teaches foreign languages, learning languages has become a compulsory course for actors. Zhang Ruoyun, who has shown his talent for language in many works, also practiced to challenge the Russian language privately this time because of the needs of the plot and characters. During the official shooting, the Russian lines were completed in one go, which made the Russian teachers present look at them with astonishment. The young actors did their best to show the audience this little-known revolutionary past, so that everyone could see that people of different classes and ages were making their own efforts to save the people under the guidance of Marxism.
Zhang Ruoyun as Liu Shaoqi
Unveiling the "Red Cradle" of Revolutionary Cadres in the Early 1920s
Recreate The friendship of Xiao Jinguang's revolutionary window when Liu Shaoqi renbi
In the 1920s, the Chinese revolutionary process was in full swing, and there was a little-known community organization that silently cultivated the reserve force for the Chinese Communist Party, which was the Shanghai Overseas Chinese Society. It is a foreign language education institution founded by the Shanghai Communist Group and the Shanghai Socialist Youth League, which mainly provides an environment for young people to learn revolutionary theoretical knowledge and foreign languages, and carries out revolutionary practice under the leadership of the Shanghai Communist Group. Some of the important characters in the film have taught at this school, With Lee Da teaching Japanese and Lee Han-joon teaching French. In the movie, a scene of Professor Li Da, played by Huang Xuan, is reproduced where the progressive workers learn Japanese, although the Japanese language is very short in order to facilitate the audience's understanding, but Huang Xuan, who has always devoted himself to the role, also grasps the Japanese executive producer and Japanese actor Ikematsu Zhuangliang in the crew to practice pronunciation for a long time, and when the actual shooting is made, it looks like a young teacher who returned from Japan.
As a place for early Chinese communists to explore the way to save the country and save the people, the Foreign Chinese Society, where in addition to learning foreign languages, students also disseminate advanced Marxist theoretical ideas to students, Li Hanjun's translation of "Introduction to Marx's "Capital" and Chen Wangdao's translation of "The Communist Manifesto" are required books for students. In his youth, Liu Shaoqi, Ren Bishi, Xiao Jinguang and others all studied here and were sent to Soviet Russia as outstanding elements to further study Marxist theory. Since the early organization of the Shanghai Communist Party was in a state of secrecy and needed a place to carry out revolutionary activities, the Foreign Chinese Society openly ran schools in the open, essentially covering the revolution and providing an important venue for revolutionary work.
Zhang Youhao as Ren Bishi and Zhao Yiqin as Xiao Jinguang
The Foreign Chinese Society witnessed the journey of liu shaoqi, Ren Bishi, Xiao Jinguang and others in the early stages of their revolutionary careers. As comrades-in-arms with similar intentions, the three of them went to Russia together after the same window of the foreign Chinese society, and entered the Moscow Oriental University to systematically study Marxist theory and seek theoretical guidance for saving the country. Liu Shaoqi, the founding father of New China, returned from Moscow at the age of 24 and participated in the leadership of the Anyuan Road miners' strike, which was also a feat in the history of the Chinese workers' movement. Since then, he has been active in the front line of china's workers' movement, participating in the "May Thirtieth Movement" and "Provincial and Hong Kong Strikes" and other movements, and has made immortal contributions to the cause of the liberation of the working class. Ren Bi, who worked hard all his life and was evaluated as a "camel of the party" and a "camel of the people", when he first came to Soviet Russia for further study, he could only receive 200 grams of black bread as a ration a day. He endured hunger and assiduously studied Marxist-Leninist theory, only to be able to contribute his part to the salvation of the nation. When he was 24 years old, when he was inspecting Anhui, he was unfortunately arrested by the enemy and subjected to all kinds of torture, but he still gritted his teeth, did not leak a trace of the party's secrets, and proved the indomitable spirit of the Communists with his own actions. Xiao Jinguang, the "father of the people's navy," went to Soviet Russia twice to study, and after returning to China, he used the theoretical knowledge he learned to build a strong red army with strict discipline, bravery, and good war, which made great contributions to the cause of people's liberation.
Zhang Ruoyun once again unlocks a new language to challenge the character with Russian lines
Yue fence water ski pipe Zhang Youhao Zhao Yiqin and other training into "parkour masters"
For participating in such a film of great historical significance, making sufficient preparations is already the "only way" for each actor before shooting. On the basis of reading historical materials in advance, in order to more vividly present the youth of the great man, Zhang Ruoyun went to the director and screenwriter to communicate with the director and screenwriter as soon as he had free time on the set. Previously, in the works in which Zhang Ruoyun participated, because the role needed to learn to master foreign languages, English, Japanese, German, French, etc., both modern dramas and costume dramas showed a deep line skill. In the filming of "1921", Liu Shaoqi's lines contained a large section of Russian, and Zhang Ruoyun privately tried to practice again challenging the new language. Russian pronunciation is known to be difficult for Chinese to grasp, so during the shooting interval, he often hid in the corner alone and talked to himself. When the filming was official, the lines were fluently pronounced to a standard standard, and even the Russian teachers present were amazed by his language talent and effort.
Professor Li Da's progressive workers learn Japanese
There is also a scene of Liu Shaoqi, Ren Bishi, Xiao Jinguang and Li Qihan "parkour" on the rooftop in the movie, and there is a small story about the creation of this scene. At that time, in order to strive to make the plot of the script more realistic and vivid, the screenwriter and director visited the former site of the old Yuyang Liwai Chinese Society many times, and in the museum, he heard experts tell that in the early 20s, the foreign Chinese society was in the case of secretly disseminating communist theory, and often encountered crises. During a French patrol to inspect the school, Liu Shaoqi and other young students were evacuated through the roof, which became a beautiful talk in the neighborhood that has been passed down to this day. Based on this legendary story, the screenwriter and director inquired about the historical materials and enriched it, creating the plot of the four young people in the film "flying over the wall" and successfully evacuating, which added drama and watchability to the film. However, this plot tested the coordination and physical strength of several actors when performing. During the filming of the scene where the patrol broke into the Outer Chinese Society, Ou Hao, Zhang Ruoyun, Zhang Youhao, and Zhao Yiqin not only quickly ran up the steep steps to avoid the patrol, but also climbed over the fence on the roof. Zhang Ruoyun even slid down the water pipe when he was cornered, and fled in a hurry, the scene was very thrilling. This series of action scenes is quite challenging for these actors who usually shoot literary dramas, and in order to show the best state, they practice over and over again. By the end of the shooting, each one of them had practiced to be a "parkour master". In order to restore the state of hasty escape, the actors will inevitably have bumps and bruises on their bodies, but no one on the shooting scene proposed to stop or rest because of injuries, and everyone was immersed in the sense of belief after entering the role. All the creators of "1921" uphold a sincere and fiery creative heart, look forward to showing the most vivid appearance of their predecessors, and look forward to contributing their strength to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party.