As the picture suggests, this is a scene of the film museum using sculptures to restore the work of former Shanghai filmmakers. It's just that I and other audiences don't know, when will today's Shanghai film practitioners be able to restore the film creation grandeur that Shanghai once had?
Took the winter vacation gap to go to the Shanghai Film and TELEVISION City on the pier. After the opening of the school, the school's teaching and staff cultural society organized the Shanghai Film Museum, which was built on the site of the former Shanghai Film Studio. Look at the glory of Shanghai movies in the past, and feel the slump of local original films even more strongly.
Before the liberation of Shanghai films, from filming and creation to theater audiences, they had become a considerable scale, and by the late 1940s, the huge feature film "A River of Spring Water Flowing East" shot in Shanghai sensationalized the country. The work is full of emotion, the story touches people's hearts, and profoundly exposes the corruption during the Kuomintang regime. This film also truly reflects the deep hatred and strong dissatisfaction of the literary and art circles and other circles in society in Shanghai at that time against the corrupt regime. In society at that time, except for the old regime and the military and political system, almost all of society was a left-wing force. The unpopular Kuomintang government can not fall! This film, which is an excellent masterpiece in the history of Chinese cinema, was both an art film and a far-reaching political film at that time.
In addition to films, Shanghai's literary creation, news and periodicals, publishing, drama and other cultural industries were first-class in the country. After the founding of New China, Shanghai film continued to compose a glorious and splendid history: feature films, science and education films, animation films, translation and production are all first-class in China, and they also have their own unique position in the history of world cinema. And all kinds of movies have excellent works: the war film "Southern Expedition and Northern War" with big scenes, the light comedy style "Crow Will Sparrow", the color music song and dance film "Ashima", the traditional drama film "Dream of the Red Chamber Yue Opera", the translated film "Jane Eyre"... Looking back today is still a heartfelt surprise!
Due to Shanghai's strong cultural and creative ability, the Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain" and "Harbor" ballet "White Haired Girl" in the eight model plays in the middle of the eight model plays in 1966-1976 were created and performed by the Shanghai Literary and Art Group, and were filmed into films. Although "Red Lantern" and "Sha Jiabang" were performed by the Beijing Literary and Art Unit, their original works were also from Shanghai (Note: its original screenwriter was from the Shanghai Shanghai Opera Troupe. The original title of the play is "Self-Descendants" and "Ludang Tinder").
After 1976, Shanghai Film produced a number of artistic and ideological masterpieces such as "Furong Town" and "Legend of Tianyun Mountain". Due to the vitality of Shanghai film creation, in 1982, Qin Peichun (screenwriter) in Shanghai single-handedly shot three films: "Village in the City", "Happy Bachelor", and "Backlight". Therefore, it was called "The Spring Year of The Film Qin Pei" in the industry at that time. Qin Peichun's creations mostly involve workers' groups and urban life, which are very in line with the cultural characteristics of the region, and are both positive and progressive, and have the depth of thought. This is also a record in the history of Chinese cinema in the new era. (Note: Qin is a professional literary screenwriter of "Shanghai Children's Art".) "Shanghai Children's Art" is unfamiliar or unknown to many Shanghai citizens today. This is a children's drama group under the China Welfare Association. The full name is "Shanghai Children's Art Theatre". Over the years, Shanghai Children's Arts has made great achievements in film and television, performing arts, literary creation, fine arts, etc.)
Wang Shuo, who is still active in the literary world today, was Wang Shuo's year in 1989. During this year, various film studios successively shot four films with his literary works as the content of "The Stubborn Lord" and "Half sea water and half flame".
It can be seen that the flourishing situation of artistic creation such as literature, film and television in Shanghai in that year. At that time, in addition to such excellent directors as Xie Jin and Tang Xiaodan, there were still many outstanding talents. For example, there was also a Qing history opera expert Yang Cunbin in Shanghai. The famous drama "The Secret History of the Qing Palace" came from his hand. The play was adapted to the screen in its early years. In the early 1980s, Hong Kong film director Li Hanxiang filmed a series of Qing Palace films in Beijing, such as "Listening to the Government with The Curtain Down" and "Burning the Yuanmingyuan", and his literary script creation had his important contribution.
But today, when I look back on the past, the current situation of Shanghai films is lamentable. The old spectacle is gone. A few years ago, the TV series that filmed the legendary story of the Shanghai Great World Amusement Park turned out to be a full set of northern entertainers. Such works are naturally less Shanghai flavor. This makes many people in Shanghai very emotional: Greater Shanghai is like this...
Although Shanghai has invested a lot of money in setting up a cultural and creative fund in recent years, the results have not been satisfactory, and there are still some who have tried to deceive the cultural and creative fund. There are also people who have already applied for talent immigration to Hong Kong, but they are still benefiting from the Shanghai Cultural and Creative Fund.
Speaking of this Shanghai Film Museum, there are many regrets. As a film museum that reviews history, many pieces of the past are not presented, such as "The Legend of Martial Arts" filmed in Shanghai shortly after the founding of New China; Li Yunhe on the screen in the early years, etc., but these are not involved.
Moreover, looking at this museum on the original site of the Shanghai Film Factory, people naturally care about the economic scale of the Shanghai film industry in the past. What is the input-output ratio? What was the record for the highest number of viewers when a good film was released that year? What were the most profitable works at the box office that year? None of this is disclosed in the museum. Perhaps, the people who organized this film museum did not think about this at all.
Today, shanghai's film originality and industry have less impact in the country than in the past, for many reasons. And one of them, there is definitely a problem of management ability. I will explain one of the things I encountered when I went to the Shanghai Film Museum with my friends. The author went to the Film Museum on a Saturday off day afternoon, and since it was a car to go, it was natural to park in the parking lot of the museum. The tour takes about 1 and a half hours out. I was told that I had to pay the fee myself on the electronic toll collection server. The electronic toll display shows that it is going to charge 12 yuan. Payment slots are acceptable for transit cards or banknotes or coins. The author first paid with a transportation card, but it was unsuccessful. The fee is paid later in paper money. I paid 15 yuan, but I couldn't get 3 yuan. And the printed parking fee list shows that it is charged 9 yuan! Just such a small thing, 3 completely different numbers came out. Moreover, during the period, the parking electronic toll collection server was constantly malfunctioning, and it took half an hour to complete the payment of the parking fee under the repeated operations of the parking field service personnel! But there is still no change refund. Finally, the Shanghai Film Museum owed me 3 yuan, and the apology of the parking lot service staff, the author drove away. Because you can't always get 3 yuan of change for this, wait any longer, right? I'm embarrassed.
The service management level of such a cultural and creative industry unit makes people speechless.
Photo caption When the author was playing in the Shanghai Film and Television City in Chedun, he saw a film crew shooting on the spot. Listening to the accents of the crew, it was all northerners. Looking at its photographic equipment, it should be a TV series, not a movie. Therefore, the organization of the shooting scene is also more casual.
Photo caption This is a domestically produced Shanghai-brand film camera in the Shanghai Film Museum. It is also a witness to the history of Shanghai film culture.
Now think about it, workers and technicians in all walks of life in our country at that time were ambitious, and almost all high-end products dared to manufacture. This film camera was also involved in film shooting...
In today's Shanghai, no one seems to dare to try such high-end professional manufacturing. Now, not to mention this high-end professional camera, that is, consumer-grade digital photography equipment, few domestic production enterprises dare to set foot in this field.
Photo caption This is a working photograph of the interior of the studio of the 1940s movie "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward". I think that in those years, the film creators in Shanghai filmed such a long masterpiece (the length of the upper and lower episodes is about 3 hours or more) under the condition that the material conditions such as funds and equipment were very embarrassing. This is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. You know, this is the work of a private film company. And shooting such a movie in those years will definitely have many troubles other than art and technology.
The predecessors of Shanghai's film and cultural circles in the past, you are truly amazing!