For many post-70s and post-80s, the vision of the college campus may have come from a movie at the earliest, in that movie, the college campus is so beautiful, the university life is so fulfilling, in short, you will find the best friends and like-minded partners there, and you may have the most innocent friendship and the most lofty ideals from now on.
Unfortunately, after we go to college, the campus and classmates in front of us do not match the number in the movie, and maybe we can only see the most beautiful university in that movie.
The film was "Female College Dormitory", released in 1983.
1. Prose poetry films
"Female College Dormitory" is adapted from the short story of the same name by Yu Shan of Wuhan University, and the studio handed the film over to the fledgling director Shi Shujun.
Shi Shujun took the novel and the script to the university campuses in Beijing, Wuhan and other places to discuss with college students, and the college students' views on the novel were relatively indifferent, probably because the novel was too focused on the story, and the style of the main line belonged to the popular scar literature of the year, which did not seem to have much appeal to college students ideologically.
Therefore, Shi Shujun made large-scale revisions to the script, embedding the story between Kuang Yalan, Xin Gan and Xin Gan's mother, and scattering all the side stories such as Kuang Yalan's bursary and Xin Gan's first love into the film's section, and the connection between the stories adopted the scenery of the university campus and trivial things, so that the whole film formed a prose poetry style that was scattered and scattered, and also affected the shooting of some youth campus film and television dramas.
2. The university of the year
"Female College Dormitory" was mainly filmed in Wuhan University, and other filming locations included Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and central China Normal University at that time, for students of these universities, looking for the scenery of their alma mater in the film is also an attraction point.
For example, this long staircase of Wuhan University, when filming the scene of Kuang Yalan and Xia Yu competing to climb the steps, the director sent someone to each dormitory to notify, hoping to close the window to make the lens more concise when shooting, but there was a dormitory classmate who did not agree, and still opened the window when shooting.
The name of the university in the film is Southeast University, which may seem a little incredible now, obviously filmed in Wuhan University, why should it be called Southeast University in Nanjing?
In fact, at the time of filming, the name of Southeast University had not yet been restored, and it was still called Nanjing Institute of Technology at that time, so the film borrowed the name of Southeast University that did not exist, and I did not expect that it would be a few years before people restored their original name.
I have to say that the university scenery shown in the film really made the author look forward to it for a long time at that time, I didn't know which university it was, and then I learned that the main scenery was filmed at Wuhan University, and since then everyone who has come out of Wuhan University will say, Hey, I have seen your school's "Female College Dormitory". The film almost became a propaganda film for Wuhan University in a certain period of time.
Third, the actors at that time
The core roles of "Female College Dormitory" are five, Song Ge, Luo Xuemei from the countryside, the well-behaved female Xia Yu, the high-ranking cadre's son Xin Gan and the orphan Kuang Yalan, of which the heroine is Kuang Yalan, and the female number two should be Xin Gan.
Kuang Yalan has a bleak background, and her mother exposes her father in the movement with a letter from her father to her, and then leaves. His father was forced to work in the quarry, and Kuang Yalan and his father depended on each other for their lives, and then his father died in an accident. Orphaned, Kuang Yalan was admitted to college thanks to odd jobs and the help of well-wishers.
Xin gan's mother is Kuang Yalan's mother, Xin Gan comes from a high-ranking family, has a straightforward and eccentric personality, although she is very presumptuous and unforgiving, but she has a kind soul like her half-sister.
Luo Xuemei is an old and good person, without a distinct personality, but with a warm heart.
Xia Yu is the pearl in the palm of her parents, quite loved by the family, and is a young girl with romantic feelings. The author feels that Guan Juer in "Ode to Joy" is simply a high imitation of summer rain.
Song Ge is an activist, but seems to be a little too dogmatic and blunt in dealing with problems.
These five girls with different personalities and backgrounds are in a dormitory, of course, will be full of stories, the author always feels that the five girls in "Ode to Joy" more or less borrowed some "Female College Dormitory" in terms of human settings.
Playing Kuang Yalan is Luo Yan, born in Shanghai in 1957 to a family of high-ranking intellectuals. Her selection to play Kuang Yalan is both accidental and inevitable.
It must be that she has a similar fate to Kuang Yalan, in the movement her family was affected, forced to take on the responsibility of the family from an early age, she can feel the scars in Kuang Yalan's heart.
It happened that at the beginning, director Shi Shujun did not immediately look at Luo Yan, when Luo Yan left the director's house, Shi Shujun was upstairs looking at her somewhat heavy and somewhat melancholy back and was immediately moved, that is, Kuang Yalan.
Luo Yan's personality also seems to have a high degree of similarity with Kuang Yalan in the movie, and both have strong cognitive ability and execution ability for their future career and life.
After starring in the film, Luo Yan became famous, and then played Enron's sister Quiet in "The Girl in Red". But at the time of great prospects, Luo Yan chose to go abroad to work and study, finished graduate school by brushing dishes, and then began to work as a producer in Hollywood, sitting until the high position of the chief producer, becoming a rare strong woman in the field of Hollywood film production.
In 1999, Luo Yan invested in the film "The Woman in the Courtyard", which was adapted from Pearl Buck's novel, which was not successful, and to be honest, I think Luo Yan seems to be more suitable for being an actor.
Playing Xin Gan is Xu Ya, born in Hunan in 1960 and graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy. She once made a cameo appearance in a certain film, and a shot of jumping from the top bunk attracted Shi Shujun, so she was selected to play Xingan.
Xu Ya's personality is not too similar to Xin Gan, and she is not as big and ugly as Xin Gan said in the film, on the contrary, Xu Ya is more and more beautiful and more and more feminine. Rui Yu, who she played in "Family Spring and Autumn", has also been praised by Ba Jin.
When Filming "Fengshen List" in Shanghai, the crew had asked Xu Ya to play Daji, but Xu Ya thought that she could not play the role of a demon, so she played Ji Fa's wife Shang Qingjun, a role that seemed to be completely two people with Xin Gan.
After filming "Fengshen List", Xu Ya may be tired of the impetuous showbiz circle and choose to go abroad, and now she is immersed in the work of art painting in Australia.
Playing Luo Xuemei is Li Xia, who later appeared in many film and television dramas, such as "Thunderfield Acacia Tree", where she played a doctor, and she was rated as a national first-class actor when she worked at the Xi'an Drama Theatre.
Playing Song Ge is Chen Hongmei, she has been rooted in the film and television circle since then, starred in many roles, but did not be too successful, she herself has some regrets, but I believe that readers who often watch TV series must be familiar with her.
Playing Xia Yu is Jiang Yiping, who did not continue to be an actor after that, but became a choreographer in Beijing TELEVISION, and she was a little reluctant not to continue acting, but there was nothing to regret.
Fourth, the university students at that time
The most attractive part of "Female College Dormitory" is really not the scarred story, in addition to the campus scenery and campus life, the state shown by the college students in the film is even more nostalgic for the current people, and the representative figure is The Elder Lan Wei, who is secretly in love with Xin Gan.
At that time, college students liked to read books such as Pushkin and Pei Duofei, and what they thought about was how to change the future, find their own positioning and direction of efforts in society, be angry and strong for the fate of the country, and worry hard for the future of mankind.
Such a university and that kind of college student are now difficult to find.
When materials are scarce, we are spiritually enriched, and when materials are abundant, we seem to be mentally deprived again.
Therefore, at that time, the movies, sometimes really can't bear to watch carefully.
Still want to see.
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