Movie Memories

Movie Memories

Introduction: During this year's Spring Festival, the wife's nephew moved to a new house, and the whole family was invited to the new home to eat a tuanyuan meal, and also made a lively scene for the nephew's new home. The new house is decorated with a simple and generous sense of modernity. The living room is spacious and very stylish. The household appliances that are often matched by the general family should be complete, but the only TV set necessary for the family is not seen, and the snow-white TV wall is empty. Whether there is a gap in funds or is being selected, people are puzzled, this big New Year's Day, it is not convenient to inquire about the reason.

In addition to the people who cook, everyone is eating New Year goods in the living room, there are talk and laughter, enjoying the New Year's reunion garden and relaxation, in the blink of an eye it is the evening, several grandchildren and children also play with toys over and over again, and now they are arguing to watch cartoons. Where is the TV? I'm a bit sweaty for my nephew. But the nephew happily promised the children: "Don't worry, the children are seated, I will let go immediately", I wondered.

Just listen to the sound of "brushing", the cartoon has been played on the TV wall. Oh, I suddenly realized, the original nephew put a TV projector, the projected image shot into the snow white wall, two meters wide, one meter five high, the image is very clear, just like watching a movie, this is a ''home theater'', the projector is placed on the coffee table next to the sofa, the volume is not large, it is easy to be ignored.

At this moment, I can't help but think of the 70s of the last century, when watching movies was still a very enjoyable and luxurious thing.

The times have developed rapidly, and large-screen movies have entered thousands of households with old strangers, which was unimaginable at that time. Suddenly, the scene of people's fanaticism about movies in those years appeared in front of their eyes...

In jinchengjiang in the 1970s, there were two regular cinemas, namely the Workers' and Peasants' And soldiers' cinema located near the square and the People's Cinema near Baima Street, the People's Cinema was old, with a long backrest chair for four people, and the Workers' and Peasants' Cinema was newer, with a stacked chair per person, which was the first time in the market to see a compound (five-in-five) wrench. In addition, there are two places where movies are often played, one is the regional auditorium and the other. It is the auditorium of the military sub-district. Sometimes film companies try to show movies, and occasionally send out some free tickets, most of which are new films that have not yet been played in the social arena. In addition, large state-owned enterprises such as the People's Factory, cement factory, and smelter occasionally play movies in the factory.

Although there are many homemade toys and games for the students, it is no exaggeration to say that watching movies is still the most attractive cultural entertainment activity of the year. Every semester the school has two or three movies, and that's our happiest moment. Most of the school's charter films are in the regional auditorium and the workers' and peasants' cinemas. The two screening venues are relatively close to the school and the conditions are better, especially the regional auditorium, which is a modern film theater built in the 1970s with a large-scale, luxurious decoration and nearly 2,000 seats. The auditorium of the military sub-district also often plays movies, one is to enrich the cultural life of the soldiers of the troops, the other is to fulfill the obligation of propaganda and education to the broad masses of the people, and the other is to reflect the feelings of the troops supporting the army and loving the people, so the movies are basically played every Saturday night. In front of the military sub-district film auditorium is an open field, where the soldiers play, exercise, play on the court, and also an open-air movie theater. If there is a screening task in this open-air cinema, the screen will be hung up at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, at this time, there are always passing students who pass by and pass on the news of the movie, and a happy weekend will come, and the students will all be overjoyed.

When movies are released in the auditorium of the military sub-district, some free tickets are often distributed to the outside world, which are given free of charge to government organs and institutions in order to seek harmony with local governments. Occasionally, it is also open to the public, selling movie tickets, and the price is slightly lower than the market price. As a result, the students benefited from it and had more opportunities to go to the military sub-district to watch movies. Movie tickets in the auditorium of the military sub-district are sometimes not marked with date and time, and sometimes they do not tear up tickets and are more ''secondary tickets'', and the students will leave the tickets more, and even collect the old tickets, so that the next time they have the opportunity to enter the hall with false and real, and mixed in; sometimes when the ticket inspectors do not pay attention, three tickets enter four people; sometimes let the students who enter the scene secretly pass the tickets to the outside; what is more, from the yang ditch of the theater, in order to watch the movie, they have gone through unscrupulous means, even if they are embarrassed. Such incidents will be much less common in the Workers' Cinema and the People's Cinema, where the management is relatively strict, and most of them are detected and expelled from the cinema. Because it is only for the sake of watching movies, there is no bad motive, so the staff sometimes turn a blind eye, if the movie is wonderful, when the ticket is tight, the management is strengthened, once it is found to be evasion, it will undoubtedly drive you out of the cinema. Even if you are driven out of the movie theater, the movie is not seen, and it is still tossed for a night, but the charm of the movie is still worth taking this risk, some students are often proud of rubbing into a movie, and some are frustrated by being driven out of the theater.

During that period, most of the films watched were domestic films, and occasionally foreign films, all of which were socialist countries at that time. Such as Vietnam, North Korea, the former Soviet Union, Albania, Romeia. After watching the movie, people often hang on to one of the lines, such as: "High, really high"; "Sell sugar, sell sugar, sell chocolate candy"; "Captain, will you leave tomorrow?" Ucommune! ''''You can earn six hundred jobs a year!'' ''''Don't see the devils and don't hang up the strings';'''''I ate a little white noodles, and lived like a god''";'' People relished it and slowly became widely circulated.

In the school's reserved movie, students often shout and scream in the field, especially the plot is slightly stimulated or developed to a certain climax, some students will borrow the topic to play, blow fingers or shout loudly, knock on the bench, as long as it can make a sound, release emotions, students are happy than tired, lest the world is not chaotic, but seek lively and hidden. Sometimes there are occasional students fighting in the theater, will attract the attention of the students, serious will cause a riot in the field, at this time, the homeroom teacher who follows it is particularly important, after the movie is over, there are many students who will say: Today's movie is not good, but the extra performance (referring to the fight between the students in the field) is still wonderful.

When encountering movies that do not sell sitting, some classmates will take the opportunity to escape and go away by themselves. When the movie ends, the floor of the movie theater is full of melon seed shells, candy and fruit peels, and a mess.

At that time, the films of various countries had their own characteristics. People summed up the characteristics very well in a smooth way, which can be called vivid: North Korean movies cry and laugh; Albanian movies are inexplicable; Vietnamese movies are aircraft cannons; Chinese film news bulletins; Romanian movies cuddling and cuddling.

The movies of that year were about one and a half to two hours per show, and the ticket price was one corner per adult show and five corners of widescreen movies. Student tickets are generally five points. If it is two episodes of the movie, which takes two or three hours, then the ticket price reaches two corners. This should be the most expensive movie ticket price of the year.

For a while, revolutionary model plays were all the rage, and those model plays came and went. At that time, everyone was very boring to watch, over and over again, repeating those few model plays. When watching the model play, the students liked the hand-to-hand combat scene at the end of the film where the enemy and us decided to win or lose, front flip, back flip, in situ flip, endless, let the students clap their hands and applaud, cheer a wave higher than a wave, not to enjoy the dance of the field, but to cheer for the martial arts kung fu of the martial arts actors. Let the aggressive boy with the martial arts complex be relieved. On the contrary, the most unpopular thing for students is the romance film, which at that time absolutely did not involve love, nor did it have the color and interest of life, boring and boring, and had no color of life. Most of the people in the stadium dozed off.

There were very few copies of the film at that time, one copy was played in several theaters in turn, sometimes the arrangement was not right, there would be a roll of film finished, the second film had not yet arrived, so it could only wait there, as little as five minutes, more than half an hour, very helpless.

Watch open-air movies, basically are free, everyone should bring their own chairs, enter the movie field in advance, sit there patiently and wait early, the conditions are worse, the summer is indispensable to mosquito bites, if you go late, the movie field is full of people, you can only sit on the grass and roadside on the back of the screen to see, at this time, the movie image is inverse, at the beginning there will be some unaccustomed, look at it can be used to it. Watching the movie in reverse, it has a different taste. Watching open-air movies, the most troublesome thing is that it rains in the middle of the film, and the light rain can persist for a while, and in the face of heavy rain, the film is forced to be suspended, which is very disappointing. The saddest thing is that the good end of the movie is in vain, and people are poured into the soup chicken by the rain, and they are miserable!

Looking back now, I was really touched by the people who gave up to watch the movie! Touched by myself at that time!

Liao Xiangui in Liuzhou