1. The performance photo of Chen Chong, the heroine of "Overseas Naked Son", on the stage of the Literary troupe.
2. "Overseas Naked" is Zheng Hua's first time in the crew.
3. Group photo of all the members of "Overseas Naked Son" at Xiuying Wharf in Haikou.
Directed by Zheng Hua
Cover of the villain book "Overseas Naked".
"Add some sugar to coffee" creator group photo, left second Sun Zhou, left third Zheng Hua.
Movie poster for "Sugar on Coffee".
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The old photograph of the film is a slice of an era, which freezes time and solidifies history. After the "On Time" platform launched the "My Story with the Movie" old photo collection activity to readers across the country, many movie fans sent us precious old movie photos. Zheng Hua, director of "Lao Guang", sent several old photos about the movies "Overseas Naked" and "Add Some Sugar to Coffee", and told the memories of his past with these two movies behind the old photos. In addition, folk film lovers have also enthusiastically submitted articles, a group photo behind a romantic love story, behind a photo of the Eighth Route Army reveals the author's infinite love for the movie. Let's start the wonderful journey of the movie from the old photos...
Featured Writing:
Nandu reporter Cai Liyi Zhong Xin
Intern Rena Wang
Filmmakers
The theme song of "Overseas Naked Son" "I Love You, China" is "Chen Chong sang at the beginning"
The old movie "Overseas Naked Son", which gathers two movie goddesses Qin Yi and Chen Chong, is Zheng Hua's first time to enter the film crew, as a "movie white", he feels that everything is so fresh and strange; "Add Some Sugar to Coffee" is his real debut and masterpiece, which shows us the development of Chinese films and the changes of the times through the perspective of small people.
Old photo of "Overseas Naked"
The film "Overseas Naked" was filmed in 1979. At that time, Zheng Hua worked as a camera mechanic at the Pearl River Film Studio, and "Overseas Naked Son" was his first time in the crew.
These three old photos are all working photos of the crew of "Overseas Naked". In the past, Zhuying had a photo studio, in addition to the crew each hand will send a group photo of this, many old photos are stored in an art archive, a movie a file, the original photo of "Overseas Naked Son" is in this art archive.
In the photo, I was 23 years old at the time, just demobilized to Zhuying, I wanted to learn photography to do photography, so I became a "photography mechanic". "Overseas Naked" was my first time in the crew. After the reform and opening up in 1978, Zhuying made a number of films reflecting how to treat overseas Chinese correctly, and "Overseas Naked Son" tells the story of How Huang Sihua, a descendant of overseas Chinese in Nanyang and a young farm girl played by Chen Chong, successfully applied for the military cultural and labor troupe. The play itself has the nature of a musical film, in which five or six songs are sung, and the theme song "I Love You, China" was sung by Chen Chong at the beginning, and later became very influential, almost described as the "second national anthem".
At that time, our crew lived in Xinglong Farm on Hainan Island, where the story takes place. The first photo was taken when we were filming Chen Chong singing "Lark" on the top of the mountain. It was a very interesting day, we carried the machine up the mountain, and suddenly it rained, only the sky above our heads was clear, and the rain was all around. Luckily, neither we nor the machine got wet, and everyone was still wearing straw hats and excitedly took a picture. The photography team is full of young people, and everyone's spirited feeling seems to flow out of the photos.
The second photo is the performance of the heroine Chen Chong on the stage of the cultural troupe. She was a sophomore at the time and had not yet graduated from the School of Foreign Languages. She just finished filming "Little Flower" and came to the Pearl Shadow Crew, and before we saw "Little Flower", we saw a meaty, short, chubby but cute little girl. In our eyes, she is not a big star, she is practicing lip sync and singing every day. At that time, the big star in my eyes was Teacher Qin Yi. In the crew, I felt the style of an old artist like Qin Yi for the first time. The end of Chen Chong's scene is Qin Yi, who plays Chen Chong's mother. When the mother saw that her daughter had finally succeeded in performing in the literary troupe, she was excited to leave tears in her eyes. For the first time in my life, I saw how actors mobilize tears, and Teacher Qin Yi did not need eye drops. Because the film is expensive and can't be filmed all the time, the director let everyone be quiet on the spot, Qin Yi sat there brewing for two or three minutes, tears began to gush out, and the director shouted at the cameraman on the side. The old actors are awesome!
Later, our "Overseas Naked" crew went to Beijing to shoot a scene of the Great Wall, I watched "Little Flower" in Beijing, I think "Little Flower" is much stronger than our movie, that kind of war scenes, the use of cameras, the language of symbolism... They all improved a lot more than our Zhuying, and only then did we sigh: "We didn't shoot Chen Chong well, it's a pity!" ”
The third photo is that our crew was preparing to leave Hainan Island after a few months of shooting, and we continued to shoot the scene on the boat while taking the boat back to Guangzhou. We borrowed the Red Guard ship that used to travel between Hainan Island and Guangzhou, and took a group photo of the crew at Xiuying Wharf in Haikou.
In retrospect, it all happened when I was a "movie white". Just entering the industry, I don't know the feeling of understanding movies. Because of this "first time", I opened my path of light and shadow. At that time, I had a small dream buried in my heart - "I want to become a photographer in 10 years". This dream came true three years before I planned, and in 1986, I really became a photographer.
"Add Some Sugar to Coffee"
In 1986, Zheng Hua returned to Guangzhou after completing his studies at the Beijing Film Academy and created the script "Add Some Sugar to Coffee", which was favored by sun Zhou, a well-known director at the time, and Zheng Hua had the opportunity to become the main photographer of the film. In 1987, the film was nominated for "Best Cinematography" at the 8th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema, which is Zheng Hua's true debut.
In the past, the film industry was senior, and if you wanted to become a director or a film creator, you had to stay up until you were at least 50 years old. I never dreamed that in 1986, when I was just in my early 30s, as soon as I graduated from the "Cadre Training Class" of the Beijing Film Academy, I would have the opportunity to become a screenwriter and a main photographer. Thinking back to the first time I was photographed, I was really trembling. The first shot of "Add Sugar to Coffee" is shot up and down nine times, filming a group of college students chatting about the day to get ready to hitchach at the station. Director Sun Zhou shouted in a loud voice: "Prepare- Start- Click! "After stopping, I suddenly thought that it didn't seem to start, I was so excited, the first shot actually forgot to turn on."
My fate with director Sun Zhou is more coincidental, we are classmates in film school. At that time, Sun Zhou's "Garland Under the Mountain" and "Tonight there is a blizzard" had won awards, and we had a feeling of reverence for him. In the past two years of study, Sun Zhou and I and several photography classmates have formed a joint homework group, and basically shoot homework together. The group photo of the creator of "Add Some Sugar to Coffee" is a group photo of us shooting the last scene on the roof of the old trade fair. The last scene tells that the little brother in the play wants to celebrate his birthday and invites a group of classmates to play, but the male protagonist Gangzai feels very lost because he just lost love. This actually reflects the anxiety and uneasiness of our generation at that time, on the contrary, the younger brothers are full of unlimited imagination for the future, and after the reform and opening up, they have the courage to express their personality and ideas. In the last scene, we made an open-ended ending. This play is known as one of the pioneering works of "China's New Urban Cinema".
Holding these old photos again and recalling my youth, I can't help but sigh that I was very persistent in doing something and had the courage to shoulder heavy responsibilities. It's an overall upward rush. At present, we must find this kind of original intention of making movies, young people who are determined to make movies, we must have enough accumulation and preparation, do creation, write scripts, understand publicity, and cultivate more excellent producers. I believe that the future of Guangdong films and Greater Bay Area films will live up to our imagination.
Movie fandom
Since the call for money began, we have received a lot of valuable old photographs related to the film from enthusiastic readers. (The collection of old photos is still continuing, please submit: [email protected].) ）
Among the many submissions, there are two protagonists who have formed a relationship with the film when they are young.
If a movie is a dream, then one of them is a dreamer and the other is a dreamer.
But in the end, because of the changes in their personal work and life, they gradually drifted away from the film.
From the old photos and narrations they provide, we can see the turn of the tide of the times.
I was a film projectionist and the film made me fall in love Old Photo Provided and Narrated by: Mr. Wu Zengfan Narrated: April 21, 2021
The photo was taken around 1977 in Fujiahu Village, Lingbei Commune, Zhuji County, Zhejiang Province.
At that time, each commune set up a film screening team, and I returned from the army and became a film projectionist, going to different villages every day to show movies. This show has been on the run for more than a decade, and hundreds of movies have been shown by my hand to the villagers.
The photo was taken by a friend photographer before a movie started.
The projector in the photo is an 8.75 mm type produced in Gansu, and in the 1970s, rural projections basically used this model, because this equipment is lightweight, easy to transport, and more suitable for outdoor screening in rural areas. It was not until the 1980s that it was gradually improved to a 16 mm projector.
At that time, there was no entertainment in the countryside, and everyone had a longing for watching movies. However, a film can only stay in each commune for about ten days before it is transferred to the next commune.
In ten days, so many villages could not be screened. So at the request of the villagers, we began to "run the film" - one night, relaying the screenings from different villages, sometimes even until dawn the next day.
My relationship with movies doesn't stop there. My wife is also a projectionist, and we met in film screening work, and it can be said that movies have contributed to our love.
Later, the township government set up a movie theater, and I was the person in charge. But by the late 1980s, television sets began to move into homes, fewer people watched movies, and my movie theaters became sluggish, and I switched careers, and I rarely watched movies since then.
The love of young people for movies Blooms a small flower in old age Old photo courtesy of the narrator: Mr. Hou Manyu Narration time: April 21, 2021
When I was a child, I loved watching movies, and once I heard about a village showing movies, even if the road was long and bumpy, I would go with me for dinner.
Especially the battle feature films, such as "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel", "Battle Shanghai", "Tunnel Warfare", etc., so far I still remember some fragments or scenes of these films.
But when I grew up, I didn't often go to the cinema to watch movies, and more often watched old movies through TV at home.
Unexpectedly, in my later years, by chance, I could get acquainted with the movie in another way.
Nearly ten years ago, I was invited by the film crew to participate in the film shooting base of the Bayi Film Studio of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and I was a mass actor in a war movie, playing three roles: a combat staff officer of a Kuomintang unit, a master who sold steamed buns and buns on the streets of the town, and a veteran soldier of a company of a certain unit of the Eighth Route Army.
It was a very novel experience for me, and it made me "addicted".
My favorite is, of course, the third character, the Eighth Route Army veteran. Amid the rumbling of artillery fire, our Eighth Route Army was about to engage in a fierce battle with the Kuomintang reactionary army. But unfortunately, after we were shouted "out of line" by the director, we were arranged to roast the fire by the campfire and did not participate in the "battle" behind...
Later, I also went to the shooting base of the classic red movie "Tunnel War" - Hebei Ranzhuang to visit and study. I think I have played the "Eighth Route Army soldier" and have a deep Eighth Route Army complex. So I asked for a set of Eighth Route Army costumes to put on, and I still had a pistol pinned to my waist--it was not mighty!
I stood under the big tree where Gao Laozhong rang the bell in "Tunnel Warfare" and stepped on the three-wheeled "electric donkey" captured by the Japanese army during the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese period, I took out the pistol in my waist, held it high above my head, and once again passed the "drama addiction" - the photographer moved the shutter, and I had these two frames of "movie stills".