It was he who designed China's first Chairman Mao medallion, it was he who filmed the first internationally award-winning film in New China, he made some red classics with the spirit of "Desperate Sanlang", and created many impressive masterpieces in the ancient years. Out of love for Mr. Ling Zifeng and his works of art, after writing a love story between Ling Zifeng and Shi Lianxing, two predecessors in the film industry (for details, please poke "As long as you really love each other, all difficulties are "not called"!). "), decided to write about something that happened to Ling Zifeng as a third-generation Chinese director.
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Filming "Chinese Daughter", it was named "Desperate Sanlang"
Mr. Ling is recognized as a well-known "Desperate Sanlang" in the art world, and this is not a waste of time. Originally, this was called by Tang Yuanzhi, an assistant director who filmed "Daughter of China" with him. In 1949, Ling Zifeng directed his debut film "Daughter of China" at the Northeast Film Studio, and Tang Yuanzhi personally witnessed the process of Ling Zifeng finishing the film in only three months, and was shocked by the spirit of the three more lights and five more chickens, and the admiration came out of nowhere, and he could not help but sigh "Desperate Sanlang". With the fame of this film, Ling Zifeng's elegant trumpet of "Desperate Sanlang" spread.
▲ Stills from "Chinese Daughter"
In order to find the actor of "Camel Shoko", the newspaper posted "Search Notice"
In his essay "Walking in the Heart", Ling Zifeng said: "I am a person who has very few times of depression, and I will live well no matter what, I often say: 'There are no difficult words in my dictionary.' 'Why do I frown all the time?' ”
▲ The Lingzi wind of the pulling foreign car
To shoot "Camel Shoko", who plays Shoko? Ling Zifeng has his own ideas, he has considered all the young actors one by one, and he feels that they are not ideal, what to do? So he used the method of propaganda at that time to create a "search notice" in the Beijing Evening News, and attached a photo of an old Beijing coachman in the 1930s provided to him, with the title of "Camel Xiangzi, Where Are You?" " for the title of the public selection of actors. For a time, the Beijing Film Studio was full of "Xiangzi" who came to be selected, and the crew was caught off guard, and finally the deputy director Li Tang made a long table and set up a large banner sign of "Xiangzi Reception and Registration Office" at the entrance of the North Film Studio to register the situation of the applicants.
▲ Zhang Fengyi stills
After more than three months, nothing was found. Someone like Ling Zifeng recommended Zhang Fengyi, who is in the third year of the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy, saying that this person is very much in line with Xiangzi in the "Search Notice". Zhang Fengyi came to the crew as promised, and the makeup artist immediately shaved his head. After Ling Zifeng saw it, he decided on the candidate for the role of Xiangzi, gave him a foreign car, and asked him to pull a foreign car at the gate of the North Film Factory to "pick up customers". Zhang Fengyi pulled the foreign car for a month, in order to test his pulling kung fu, Ling Zifeng personally sat on his car, constantly correcting the movements in the pulling car, as well as the look of running when pulling the car.
Forcefully defying the public opinion, the role of "Tiger Girl" was approved
The same role also has Schenkova, who plays the role of "Tiger Girl", and the crew has also gone through difficulties in finding this role. In the past, although Ling Zifeng had seen "Returning to the Heart Like An Arrow" starring Sichen gaowa, she also admitted that she was a good actress with understanding. But after all, she is Mongolian and is not familiar with the life of old Beijing, especially the Jingluo and Jingyun that Tiger Lady opened her mouth to come, which is definitely a test for Sichen gaowa. To this end, Ling Zifeng specially introduced a drum book artist from old Beijing, who lived with Sichengova every day, taught her the Beijing dialect, and talked about the folk customs and living habits of old Beijing. In addition to overcoming the language barrier, Szchenkova also has another obstacle is psychology. Before taking over the role of Tiger Girl, she had been hesitant, that is, in Lao She's pen, Tiger Girl was an extremely ugly looking old girl.
▲ Portrait of Szczegova
Szczygova said: "It's so ugly, when it comes to makeup... Oops, I really don't dare to watch it at all, and I can't imagine what it would be like to perform. At the beginning, I retreated more than once, but director Ling Zifeng kept encouraging me. ”
▲ Stills from "Shoko the Camel"
Ling Zifeng later said of Sichenkova: "She studied hard, practiced hard, and in her there was an amazing talent, intelligence, and good at catching what the character needed... The Character of the Mongolian, which makes her open and sincere in creating characters, is a very valuable factor for a performing artist. ”
At the press conference of the book "Wind - Ling Zifeng's Self-Description" directed by Ling Zifeng, Sichen Gaowa was very emotional, "Ling Zifeng is a very grounded artist, when we filmed "Camel Xiangzi" for a whole year, everyone poured their minds on the movie. At that time, he tried to let me act, he did not go blind, through this play, I grew up, also matured, in the Study of North Film Studio can also graduate. ”
This film adaptation of Mr. Lao She's novel of the same name, "Camel Xiangzi", once made the Chinese people who had just come out of the forbidden era shine. The movie "Camel Xiangzi" is not only a monument to the performing arts for male and female actors, but also a monument in the history of personal creation for director Ling Zifeng. The Chinese film industry has given the film "Camel Xiangzi" the highest honor - the Best Feature Film Award, the Best Actress Award and the Best Prop Award at the Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Film in 1983.