No matter which era, anti-special films will always be the most popular category of film and television works in China. Whether it is "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City" or the current "Pretender" and "Latent", it is a work that can trigger heated discussion.
Today we are going to talk about a powerful anti-special movie - "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel". Many elders say that the film was a movie they watched hundreds of times when they were children carrying a small bench and under the open curtain. Whenever I saw That Wang Lian was taking advantage of the gap between Bagu and Liu Mama to go out, rummaging around in the house, suddenly the music began to rush, and when Liu Mama folded back, the palms of his hands were all sweating. In the words of the current "rice circle", everyone watched the movie and saw a very real feeling!
It can be said that the witty and brave "Wang Lian", the charming "Eight Gu", the mysterious "Aunt Mei", these vivid characters performed this thrilling and gripping story, which satisfies all our reverie of "anti-special movie". This film not only swept the country, but also rushed out of the country, becoming the first Chinese film to be translated into 5 Chinese Yan to be screened abroad. When there are still film critics who say that this is the pinnacle of anti-special films, "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel".
The film's birth began in the summer of 1957, when the Ministry of Public Security designated the Shanghai Haiyan Film Studio to shoot the anti-special film "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel". The script that can make the Ministry of Public Security designate the shooting of anti-special films must be not small, and indeed the script of "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel" took 5 years to polish and complete, and the story material is also from real events.
In the summer of 1952, two mysterious anonymous letters received from the Guangzhou Dadong Public Security Bureau told the story. At that time, they received two letters like this, the envelope did not indicate the address of the sender, only the words "original address", the letter reported that "a group of people in Guangzhou intend to board the ship from the Huangsha Wharf, hold a passenger and cargo ship from Guangzhou to Hainan Island, go to the United Nations to accuse New China, and then defect to Taiwan's plan." ”
The Dadong Public Security Sub-Bureau did not dare to be careless in the slightest, and immediately reported the case to the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, set up a special case group, and according to the contents of the letter, the public security cadres and policemen followed the vine and touched the melon, and after 7 days of hard work, they swept away the 38 "counter-revolutionaries" headed by the main criminal, Lü Bobing.
At that time, the new China was only founded, everything was in ruins, the society was not very stable, and the people's greatest fear was to lose the hard-won peaceful life, so their greatest wish was that the country could seize all the bad people who would destroy the peaceful life. In order to encourage the people and make everyone have confidence in their new life, Luo Ruiqing, then minister of public security, decided to adapt and shoot an anti-special film based on this case, that is, "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel".
Shen Fu, who was the director of Haiyan Film Studio at the time, received the task and after several considerations, decided to hand over to Lu Jue the guide of such a film that took 5 years to carefully polish the script and the Ministry of Public Security attached great importance to it, which surprised many people in the studio.
The name Lu Jue sounded unfamiliar at first glance. However, when it comes to "South Island Storm", "Li Shizhen", "Tracking and Chasing", everyone should know. He was also the fourth director of the China Film Association, but Lu Jue is now a well-known director, but when he made "Yangcheng Dark Whistle", he was only an assistant director, and he did not even have a work that really signed his name.
Shen Fu's picking of Lu Jue was not unfounded. In 1940, Lu Jue was recommended by a friend to do a scene note because he had read some good handwriting, and a year later, Lu Jue joined the China Drama Art Society in Chongqing, lived in the backstage of the Cathay Grand Theatre, and worked as a drama crew for the crew. At first, he entered the China Drama Art Society just to make money and survive, but later he stayed in the theater for a long time, and he watched movies in the theater during the day, and he also participated in the drama at night, so Lu Jue began to study film.
How do you learn movies? Lu Jue recalled that when he saw the good and liked it, he memorized it, and when he came back, he couldn't recite it, and the next day he went to see it and back it.
Back to the movie? Sounds mysterious. In fact, Lu Jue's learning method is very advanced, and such a method of "memorizing movies" also coincides with the compulsory course of film school students now - "pulling films".
Because of watching more, decades later, Lu Jue can still memorize the shots in "Soul Breaking Blue Bridge", including how to start, how to connect, how to render the plot, and how to match the music, so Lu Jue has a very solid film foundation. What kind of interesting story is there during the filming process of "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel"? For more exciting content, please pay attention to the headline number of "Hubei Satellite TV Big Reveal"!