"Red Sorghum" stills
When the movie "Red Sorghum" became popular in China; when and Gong Li's stills were all over the streets, people said it was Zhang Yimou used sorghum wine from abroad in exchange for a trophy that symbolized Chinese films breaking into the country and going to the world.
However, among the Chinese films that entered the US commercial distribution network, such an excellent "Red Sorghum" only ranked second. The leader is the New Yorker Film Company, which specializes in distributing art films in the United States, and purchased " xiang girl Xiaoxiao " from China.
"Hunan Girl Xiaoxiao" stills
The company’s president Daniel Tarbert once said: "I did not buy it because it is a Chinese movie, but the movie itself is very beautiful and moving. , Expressing a very new theme, the development of the characters is also very profound, has the essential elements of a good film ."
In addition, at the 1988 France Montpellier film festival , "Xiang Girl Xiaoxiao" won the "Golden Panda" award for its in-depth exploration of human nature and unique understanding value.
Stills of "Xiang Girl Xiaoxiao"
In the same year, he won the "Don Quixote" award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain. Years later, in 1993, he won the first "Sheng" "Li Cup" Humanitarian Film Award of "Humanitarian Spirit Excellent Film" Award.
The success of the film "Xiang Girl Xiaoxiao" is naturally inseparable from the director. So who is this person holding the "Golden Panda"? And why can he win the "Golden Panda"?
The birth of Xiaoyanhe,Create an extraordinary future
Every descendant of Yan and Huang Dynasty cannot forget the special era of "China 1941-1942".
Japanese imperialism and Chiang Kai-shek forces imposed a brutal military and economic blockade on the Shaan-Gan-Ning Revolutionary Base, putting the flames of the revolution at a precarious juncture.
However, the anti-Japanese revolutionary soldiers and civilians who stood up in blood and fire bowed their heads before such a hardship. So they launched the world-famous mass production movement in northern Shaanxi.
Every heart is beating and fighting fiercely; every hand is struggling to tear the darkness and create light.
large-scale production movement
In these difficult years, in this desolate land, Xie Lao and this mother not only sowed the seeds of revolution, also sowed a life The "seed" . With the spark of the revolution, the little life gradually grew up in this warmth.
At that time, Xie Juezai and his wife Wang Dingguo, who served as the vice-chairman of the Senate Council of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, were active propagandists and laborers in the mass production movement.
Wang Dingguo is a hard-working mother, pioneering wasteland, weaving, and feeding pigs. Chairman Mao once wrote for her a banner of " , keep on " and called on everyone to learn from her.
Left: Wang Dingguo
One night in August 1942, Wang Dingguo, who had just returned to the cave dwelling from the wasteland, had a fever.When people saw her, they hurriedly carried her to the hospital, , but before people entered the hospital, a little life cried to the world for the first time on the bank of Yanhe.
And this cry like a rooster before dawn greets the coming of light, seems to herald the dawn of the victory of the revolution, and also declares the extraordinary of this little life.
Xie Fei
The weak mother looked at her own flesh and blood, and the tiredness on her face melted into a smile. To commemorate this unusual birth, gave this little life a nickname "Yanhe".
And this "Xiao Yanhe" is the person who held the "Golden Panda" in 1988-Xie Fei.
That night in 1942, Xie Fei was born. However, the wind, sand, snow and snow of northern Shaanxi Plateau , poverty and war in the revolutionary base always threatened the weak but weak life of Xiao Xie Fei, Fortunately, a hardworking and kind mother and a tall and affectionate father are protecting him.
When wind and frost hit Xiao Xiefei, his mother would dig out sand and soil salt, fry it, put it in a cloth bag, and put it next to him to keep Xiao Xiefei's normal body temperature.
Every time Xiao Xie Fei gets sick, his father will always take care of him. In this way, Xiao Xiefei slowly grew up drinking Yan'an's millet soup in the warmth of his mother and father.
But even with the love of his parents, in those hard and hard times, Xiao Xiefei still had little nutrition.
He is thin and quiet,I often sit silently and watch my mother spinning , or go to the Yanhe River alone to play with stones and draw on the ground with a small straw stick. Parents have been worried about his body, but is helpless to find even a little nutritious thing .
Once, after General Chen Geng returned from a victory, he did not know where to get the baby milk powder . He personally brought some people to give to Xiao Xiefei, and greeted his hard-working mother. He left with someone again.
With these milk powders, Xiao Xie Fei has a little precious food.
However, Xie Fei, a young child, not only suffers from nutrient shortage in life, but also moves to the north and the south with his parents. Once, was holding him on a train to avoid the enemy's attack.
At that time, the enemy plane was bombing, and the train had to hide in a tunnel that had just been completed. Although the tunnel withstood the enemy's attack, the tunnel was filled with smoke and extremely hot. Xie Fei, who had just contracted lung disease, almost suffocated on the train .
Xiao Xie Fei’s growth is difficult. He was on the verge of life several times, but was rescued by his parents and other people who cared about Xiao Xie Fei. It is precisely because of these warmth and care that Xie Fei can grow up safely. As time slowly goes by, victory is near, and a good life is not far away.
During a troop transfer, Xie Fei and his parents lived in a farmer’s house. The farmer’s wife gave birth to three children in one birth, but she had no milk, no food, and no nutrients.When Xie Jue saw the situation, he told his wife that gave some of Xie Fei's milk powder to the farmer's child.
The behavior of parents was silently seen by Xiao Xie Fei. Later, when they were about to leave the farmer's house, the farmer's wife made a pair of shoes overnight and gave it to Xiao Xiefei in tears.
Later, Xiao Xie Fei wore those new shoes and walked to Beijing with his parents. But he will never forget the Yanhe River that nurtured his life, and the simple feelings of the people in northern Shaanxi.
Xie Fei, who was warmed by everyone, also contained a mass of enthusiasm in his heart, He wanted to reciprocate, wanted to be grateful, and wanted to vent the enthusiasm in his heart .
After arriving in Beijing, Xie Fei entered Bayi Primary School. Every Sunday, he organizes other children, sings "Brothers and Sisters Open Wasteland" and other programs.
Sometimes, Mr. Xie was sincerely happy to see the children's innocent and lively appearance, and warmly applauded the children's performance. When they finished the performance, Mr. Xie called the children together, asked them to report on their studies for a week, and then told the children some stories about patriotism and the people, as well as the principles of how to learn knowledge and how to be a noble person.
The children sat around Xie silently and listened.
The light of art flew into Xie Fei's mind
In 1963, Xie Lao's collection of essays "Do Not Confused" came out. At this time, Xie Fei was 20 years old, and he could taste his father's article: It was a true portrayal of the spiritual world of an old revolutionary.
Xie Fei respects and admires his father. To this day, he still cherishes the "Buddha Collection" that his father gave him back then.
Open the title page of this book, it says:
"Small, round!"
Pick up this, throw that, and finally a piece of feldspar. What does
do?
He (referring to Xie Fei-the author's note) said: "You can write and eat walnuts!
The negation of negation, it is not as useful as it is.
is written today to encourage Feifei.
Father
October 1962
Although the language is plain, there is a great father in the lines. The ardent love and hope for my son.
Thirty years of ups and downs have passed, and people can still read an extremely ordinary note in Xie Fei’s spiritual treasure house!
Dingding, Feifei, Lielie, Qiqi, Peixin:
1. When you go home, help your mother-in-law cook rice, stir-fry, feed chickens and rabbits, clean up the house, and don’t sit still.
2. Practice writing as usual on Sundays For two hours, respect Mrs. Fan and leave her for lunch.
3. Cherish the brush and wash it with water after writing. Gao Gaolai asks him to buy a pen holder for each of you.
4. Take care of Yaxia
5. Check the house once a week (the heating leaks upstairs have been repaired today).
6. Keep quiet and clean.
Father stay
December 26th
Here, the lofty spiritual character of a senior and respected old revolutionary is on paper. Although he is in a high position and manages every day, he never forgets to teach his children to love work, study hard, respect teachers, be simple and simple, care for others, and pursue beauty.
This had a profound impact on the formation of Xie Fei's good moral cultivation.
After graduating from junior high school, Xie Fei was admitted to Beijing Fourth Middle School . In the three years of high school life, he not only achieved excellent academic results, but also read a large number of classics of literature both at home and abroad. In the lively extracurricular activities, gradually became more cheerful, and his love and pursuit of art became stronger.
When the May Fourth Youth Day came, Xie Fei and other students wrote, directed and performed the large-scale drama "Burning Zhaojialou", which won the first place in the school's performance.
Xie Fei plays a major under Chiang Kai-shek in the play. Since then, Xie Fei has developed a keen interest in the art of drama , and he goes to listen to art lectures every Sunday, and he never misses watching every drama rehearsed by Renyi and Qingyi.
Later, they also rehearsed in Renyi's new play "Cai Wenji". With the quiet temperament of Xie Fei, played the protagonist Cai Wenji in the play. Soon, they rehearsed "Guan Hanqing", Xie Fei played the playwright Wang Shifu .
How much wind and rain, how much pursuit, the light of art shines on Xie Fei's soul.
Everything is for a good script
When many of Xie Fei’s classmates were admitted to Peking University, Tsinghua and other prestigious universities, Xie Fei walked into Beijing without hesitation. Film Academy The classroom of the director department.
Xie Lao respects his son's choice, Xie Fei appreciates his father's understanding. He began to comprehensively and systematically learn the professional knowledge and skills of literary theory and director, which laid a solid foundation for him to hold the "Golden Panda" in the future.
In 1965, Xie Fei graduated. He didn't have much extravagant hopes of fame and fortune, and he was not among the enviable directors, but he was staying in school to serve as a teaching and director.
Great parental love can raise half of a son's life, and for an artist, art is the other half of his life.
Just as Xie Fei was driving the ship of art to the sea of art, the raging wind, the turbid waves, and the red storm swept every corner of the land of China. Xie Fei and his art boat were put on hold On the historic beach .
Xie Fei never expected that his boat of art would last ten years.
Ten years, ten years devouring youth! Ten years, ten years to destroy the life of art!
When Xie Fei was startled and swooned, it was late autumn in 1975.
wake up from a nightmare,He looked up to the sky and screamed, full of strength and fierceness.
Woke up from a nightmare, he wants to find his own artistic life boat.
Xie Fei, who is slender and thin, knocked on the door of an editorial department in Shanghai, where he was looking for a work that could be turned into a movie script.
He found "High Miaoling".
Although he was not able to put this work on the screen immediately, made an extraordinary person see the dawn of hope from despair.
Originally, the author of "The High Miaoling Mountains" was a young intellectual who jumped in from Shanghai to Guizhou, called Ye Xin . Xie Fei is very unfamiliar with this name, but he remembers it deeply.
After Xie Fei spent two full days copying the manuscript of "High Miaoling", he came to the Shaguo Village where Ye Xin lived and decided to change the manuscript into a literary script.
Ye Xin, who was in adversity, came to Xie Fei, , like a traveler in the vast desert, suddenly saw an oasis .
Ye Xin had a bad background and could not publish his hard-writting manuscripts. He jumped in the line for six years. He worked hard and earnestly. Although he was praised by the poor, lower and middle peasants, the number of places he returned to the city was always missed by him. When Xie Fei came to Shaguo Village, Ye Xin was staying alone in a hut that hadn't fallen apart.
The joy of sending charcoal in the snow made Ye Xin quickly write a script of tens of thousands of words.
When the two are celebrating,Xie Fei never expected that a Beijing urgent telegram urged him to return quickly. Because the documents with the big red official seal were already on the desk of the Beijing Film Academy's Organization Committee, accused Xie Fei of losing his class position and collected "ghosts and snakes" .
The flowers have just sprouted, and there is a bitter wind and rain.
Hope had just flashed, and was chopped by a knife.
Ye Xin, at a loss, tried to commit suicide in despair. On the other hand, Xie Fei, he was also at a loss, but he was very calm and composed.
Because Xie Fei knows that is an ugly performance of the decadent "blood theory" in China , but this performance will not be too long. He loves Ye Xin's spirit of fighting hard in adversity, and he is full of confidence in Ye Xin's talent. Xie Fei talked thoroughly with Ye Xin with his brother-like innocence, and made Ye Xin's dying artistic flower gradually resurrect Su Sheng.
Two years later, the movie script "Fire Frog" changed from "High Miaoling" was finally staged in the first spring of the new life of the Republic. Ye Xin has since stepped into the literary world, became a well-known writer across the country, and served as the vice chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Writers Association.
History has gone through a painful course. The young artist is learning from it.
In 1979, Xie Fei participated in a performance meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement held in the Great Hall of the People.
At the meeting, he listened to the "Old Student Choir" composed of hundreds of old comrades who had participated in the May Fourth Movement, the 12th and 9th Movement, the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War. Songs such as "Graduation Song", "What's Falling Down", "Unlocking Flowers in May" and so on. This caused Xie Fei's memories of his youthful years and inspired him to retake the wasted life.
At this moment, he saw that he was staying in Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps and worked for 7 years in the script "Our Field" written by the educated youth Pan Yuanliang.
The play expresses a generation of young people's pursuit of beautiful ideals and a happy life, as well as their persistent belief in ideals after a catastrophe. This makes Xie Fei resonate strongly. He took part in the screenwriting work with passion, then went to the Great Northern Wilderness to experience life three times, and completed the independent directing of this film in three years.
After the screening of the film, it immediately aroused the thoughts and warm welcome of a generation of young people. A large number of letters flew to his side, making the artist feel the powerful charm of art.
After 1979, the Chinese film scene was full of vitality. With various academic viewpoints, various exploratory films being staged, and the influx of excellent foreign films, has injected fresh blood into Chinese films .
Xie Fei is not selfish because he upholds his father’s excellent qualities. He taught his students the results of his hard work without reservation, , a well-known young and middle-aged film and television director Tian Zhuangzhuang, Lu Xiaoya, Huang Jianxin, You Xiaogang, etc. have all been carefully instructed by Xie Fei.
at the "Contemporary Soviet Film and Soviet Literature " seminar held at the end of 1983 by the Chinese Film Association ,Xie Fei puts forward: "A good film artist must be a serious thinker at the same time" .
He appealed to the young and middle-aged colleagues to "make up their minds to follow the path of film writers, and use film language freely and express their deep insights into social life like a writer using a fountain pen."
is precisely in this pioneer Under the guidance of the theory of sex, he completed the "Xiang Girl Xiaoxiao" and took home the "Golden Panda".
At the beginning of the horse year, he took the film " natal year " to participate in the 40th West Berlin Film Festival, and won a silver bear trophy in recognition of his "outstanding personal achievement".
This "Borning Year" is considered by critics to be "a manifestation of the maturity of a film full of exploration spirit in the new era".
Ignores the high-ranking officials’ loyalty and concentrates on the film
However, Xie Fei, who is a director, teacher, and official, hates showing off the past. He values self-renewal and values art from young people. Resolute.
He loves students, youths, and his film school . During his lectures in the United States, he used the foreign exchange subsidies he saved to purchase more than 200 foreign film materials of different periods and genres for the college to enrich the teaching content of the college.
He also inspected the state of university film education in 19 cities in the United States. After returning to China, he proposed a complete set of reform plans including film education, teaching, film production, censorship, and the establishment of a film star system.
may be favored by the god of art, pushed this Xie Fei who grew up drinking Yan'an millet soup to a lofty state.
may be favored by the gods of movies. Xie Fei, who wore cloth shoes sent by farmers in northern Shaanxi and moved to New China, pushed Xie Fei to the pinnacle of art.
The descendant of this revolutionary, who should have had high-ranking officials, but he resigned from the position of deputy dean of the Film Academy and stood in the sacred lecture hall as an ordinary teacher.
No wonder the famous writer Liu Heng wrote in a short article:
Gentleness and elegance are noble qualities, which are rarely seen in the eyes of officials and citizens... , Scholars are gentle and elegant figures. Xie Fei is exactly this kind of person.
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