At the Beijing Film Festival in August this year, " Women's Basketball No. 5 " released in 1957 appeared in the "Carnival-Beijing International Sports Film Week" list, using this first color sports feature film in New China to awaken the memory of old movies in my heart.
htmlMost of the 150s were about workers, peasants and soldiers. This "Women's Basketball No. 5" broadcast in the same era naturally seems particularly alternative. The movie contains a love story that is rare in film and television works at that time. After the filming was approved, the preliminary review was almost killed.
Fortunately, Shanghai Film Studio was one of the three major brands at that time. When submitting this film, it was also to participate in the World Youth Gala International Film Festival that year. The film was handed over to Premier Zhou, and he gave him quite affirmation. Then the straightforward Marshal He Long directly said: "This film is very educational." Then he joined forces to "protect" the movie.
"Women's Basketball No. 5" is the first work of Xie Jin . Before this movie, although he was a junior college graduate of drama, he had only done some auxiliary work of business and deputy directors in the circle. Compared with the famous directors at that time, he was still transparent.
born romanticism personality makes him dislike stereotyped content and always want to shoot a movie story with bright colors and emotions.
At the same time, he is a sports fan and pays special attention to various sports news. In 1956, the , which broke the world weightlifting record nine times, appeared.
In the Sino-Soviet weightlifting friendly match in Shanghai, he broke the 56kg clean and world record held by American athletes with a score of 133 kg, becoming the first athlete in China to break the sports world record.
After seeing this news, Xie Jin came up with the idea of making a sports movie. At that time, the first thing he wanted to do was not the women's basketball team, but the men's football team.
I also went to the football team for a while, but the team was full of manly people. The football field could not meet his needs for the emotional drama of the story, so he finally tried to watch the women's basketball team.
When it comes to the women's basketball team in New China, she definitely can't avoid Yang Jie. She was a very famous center in the Chinese women's basketball team back then. She is good at supporting, shooting and rebounding, and her skills are very comprehensive in the women's basketball team.
She has played for the national team and the Beijing team since the 1950s and has made great contributions to the basketball career of New China.
So on October 5 this year, in the 2022 Chinese Basketball Hall of Fame released by Chinese Basketball Association , Yang Jie was missing, and many people were worried about her.
Topic Back to Xie Jin, he admires Yang Jie's skills very much, and Yang Jie himself has a lot of story experience, so he immediately realized that Yang Jie was the heroine of the story he was going to shoot, and he quickly constructed the entire story of "Basketball No. 5".
Compared with most contemporary movies at that time, the story of "Basketball No. 5" has a tense ups and downs, and the whole atmosphere is relaxed and lively. It is completely free from that era. It is not only Xie Jin's famous work, but also an indispensable chapter in New China's films.
story directly constructs the emotions of two generations. The previous generation was a tortuous story between Director Tian and Xiaojie's mother, and the next generation was Lin Xiaojie's emotions, No. 5, New China Women's Basketball Team, and the history of basketball growth.
Anyone who has watched this movie should be able to feel it. In fact, what Xie Jin really wanted to film a romantic drama at that time, so half of the content of the story is recalling the story of Director Tian and his former lover Lin Jie.
This pair of miserable lovers before the founding of the People's Republic of China loves the basketball career, but because Coach Tian did not agree to the boss, Lin Jie's father's request for counterfeiting, he beat the foreign team, and was eventually rejected by the boss and even designed him to leave with his daughter.
This is why Lin Jie kept asking Tian with grudge after meeting again: "Why did you leave without saying anything?"
Only after watching this movie can you understand that Xie Jin could film the story so ups and downs at that time. I have to say that he is indeed an artist who pursues change.
Since his first independently directed movie, he has a clear Xie Jin style. The movie conducts multiple flashbacks, digs deep into the characters' hearts, is very good at shaping women and telling emotional stories.
Especially the actor who plays Yang Jie in the story Qin Yi . Although she was in her 30s at the time, she was still at the peak of her appearance. Yang Jie, she played when she was young and elegant when she was mature, and now she is very popular.
Tian Director is Liu Qiong . He has a tall figure and a well-known male actor in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the early days, he was brought out by the former actor Jin Yan . He has acted in 73 films in his life and has a wide range of acting careers.
When Liu Qiong was filming "Basketball No. 5", he conducted sealed training at the Beijing Cultural Palace. His task at that time was to be the basketball coach for these girls.
Although the character of the director Tian still has obvious characteristics of the times, he is very vivid and is also one of Liu Qiong's representative works.
This movie that integrates family, friendship, love, patriotism and not only won praise from the audience in China that year, but also won the "Silver Award of the International Film Festival held by the World Youth Festival" and the "Silver Award of the Mexican International Film Festival" abroad.
also made Xie Jin a well-known director. Only then did he have the ability to follow another movie familiar to the audience, " Red Detachment of Women ".
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