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Director Wu Yigong died in the early morning of September 14 at the age of 80.
This fourth-generation Chinese director, former vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and chairman of the China Filmmakers Association has dedicated his life to film and left too much beauty for Chinese films.
In 1980, his film "Bashan Night Rain" won the Best Feature Film Award at the first Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema, and in 1983, he won the Best Director Award at the 3rd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema for "The Old Story of Chengnan". In 1993, he led the establishment of the Shanghai International Film Festival, the only international A-category film festival in China. In 2012, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Film at the 15th Shanghai Film Festival.
In particular, Wu Yigong's "Old Things in Seongnam", this film is based on the female writer Lin Haiyin, who has lived in Taiwan for many years, based on her childhood memories, and wrote "Old Things in Seongnam" from the first perspective of the heroine Yingzi, depicting the true style of old Beijing in the past, leaving a deep impression and remembrance in the hearts of countless people.
Through the clear eyes of the little girl Xiao Yingzi, the film tells the story between her and the madman, the thief, the nanny, etc., presenting the fate of the little people in the big era and the inevitable farewell experienced in growing up. The film is indifferent and delicate, full of sad poetry.
The film has a Douban rating of 8.8, which is the highest rated film directed by Wu Yigong.
The theme song "Farewell" in "Seongnam Old Things" was written by Li Shutong and sung to this day.
Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is green. The evening wind blows the willow flute, and the sunset is outside the mountain. The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the knowledge of the half-scattered. A pot of turbid wine is all over the place, don't dream cold tonight.
To this day, many people still miss Xiao Yingzi in the movie "Seongnam Old Things".
This girl with big eyes left a beautiful impression in the movie and firmly entered the hearts of countless audiences. Those big eyes as clear as the lake, written innocent, simple, but also written ignorance, wounded death.
Playing Xiao Yingzi is a Shanghai girl Shen Jie, born in 1972, who is 47 years old this year.
Over the years, this "girl with the clearest eyes in Chinese movies" has long been away from the big screen, where has she gone and what kind of life has she chosen?
Coincidentally, just two days ago, someone posted her latest photo.
On September 12, "xuuxoo Ganpeng", a reporter and columnist certified as "Shanghai TV", posted a recent photo of Shen Jie online: In the photo, Shen Jie, dressed in a black dress and wearing a black shade fisherman's hat, appeared in a garden in Tokyo, Japan, Bafang Garden.
In the photo, Shen Jie smiled lightly, a gentle face, the shadow of Xiao Yingzi was faintly between the eyebrows, and when he reached middle age, his eyes were still clear, and he was a woman who was warm as jade.
Time is like a dream, the big-eyed child star of the past, the low-key woman of today, the beauty is still the same, and the people are as light as a chrysanthemum.
On September 14, hearing the news of the death of director Wu Yigong, Gan Peng also left a message sighing, "I just met Shen Jie in Tokyo the day before, and on this morning when I suddenly came to a chill, I actually saw the news of Director Wu Yigong's death in the circle of friends. If you have watched "The Old Story of Seongnam", you will not forget Xiao Yingzi's eyes, and you will not forget director Wu's indifference and poetry. ”
According to Gan Peng's article, Shen Jie, a mother of two, has settled in Tokyo, Japan, and in recent years worked as an artist director at a Chinese film and television company, and has spent a lot of time in Shanghai.
In 1983, the release of the movie "Old Things in Seongnam" made Shen Jie a well-known child star, and she was selected by director Wu Yigong, which was only an accidental "encounter".
Speaking of which, 10-year-old Shen Jie was selected by director Wu Yigong from hundreds of children, but at that time, she was interviewed with other children for another movie, and as a result, she was photographed by Wu Yigong and became the little Yingzi of "Old Things in Seongnam".
(Directed by Shen Jie and Wu Yigong)
Fate is sometimes so magical, it is said that before Wu Yigong selected actors in the country, he did not find the little Yingzi in his heart, but accidentally met Shen Jie, and he saw it at a glance. Yin and yang mistakes, the achievement of a classic role, but also the achievement of a classic movie.
Shen Jie has participated in the Small Screen Star Art Troupe of Shanghai Television Since she was a child, and has starred in many film and television works, in addition to "Old Things in Seongnam", as well as "Love, What is Your Last Name?" "Model Husband", "Blood Red Rhododendron", "This is not a misunderstanding", "Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling", "Under the Eaves of Shanghai", etc., but the most memorable is Xiao Yingzi.
Shen Jie, who is very young, can act, and the emotions conveyed by a pair of big eyes are also very full, all from her wisdom and efforts.
According to a report written by fumin, a director who worked with Shen Jie at that time (also the director of the youth drama "Sixteen-year-old Flower Season"), Shen Jie "can endure hardships and learn well, and her success is not accidental."
She revealed that Shen Jie began her "artistic career" when she was 8 years old, starring in the performance of the Shanghai opera "The Second Handshake", playing the daughter of Su Guanlan in the play, when the director of Shanghai Tv recommended Shen Jie to her, "I did not expect that after a few days, I received a letter of 'Mao Sui Self-Recommendation' written in pencil, looking at Xiao Shen Jie's respectful and crooked words, as if to see her pair of eyes that conveyed god and longed... We broke the mold and absorbed her into the children's studio team... No matter the wind and rain, the heat and cold, she pestered her parents and sent her to the TV station on time to learn acting, practice lines, and participate in tv broadcasts. ”
Director Fu Min revealed that when Shen Jie acted in the children's TV series "Flower", Wen Jing was weaker, but she met a cat that was temporarily found, and after a scene was filmed, several blood marks were scratched on the small arm, "The uncles and aunts present were all distressed when they saw it, and she plucked her small mouth and blew on the arm, saying, 'You look very deep, in fact, there is only a little pain.'" Director, do you want to do it again? It is said that director Hu Zhifang took her in his arms and kissed her again. ”
Speaking of Xiao Yingzi in "Seongnam Old Things", director Fu Min also praised that because Xiao Shen Jie played a precocious child Xiao Ling in the 1979 TV series "The Passing Years", "I have long learned that acting is not to play myself, but to shape the role." "When filming in those years, I also took care of my homework, and after filming, I went back to make up for the class, kept my homework excellent, and worked hard and studied.
What is even more rare is that even if she later became a small star because of "Seongnam Old Things", appeared on the cover of "Popular Movies" (below, it was not simple to be on the cover of that year), was recognized on the road, and was praised by others, she did not show arrogance. In the eyes of the director, she is still a good student of the school, a good partner of her classmates, a member of the TV studio group, or the disciplined team.
She acted in many plays since she was a child, but because of the cooperation with Japan's nhk TELEVISION, she opened a window. After graduating from high school, Shen Jie did not stay in China to study acting, and chose to go to Japan to study, just like many international students, while working and studying.
But she still likes film and television, filming with a video camera during college, and later joined NHK TV as a Chinese-speaking program. Later, Shen Jie opened her own cultural communication company to set up cultural exchanges between China and Japan.
It is worth mentioning that in 2000, Shen Jie returned to China to establish her own company communication co., LTD., filmed a TV series "Marriage Story", and she herself starred again as an actress, which depicted the marriage of mother-in-law, aunt, "I" and concubines and friends for generations, showing deep nostalgia.
"The Story of Marriage" is another work of Lin Haiyin, the author of "Old Things in Seongnam", and Shen Jie and Lin Haiyin are also related to the drama. Because of "Old Things in Seongnam", many years later, Lin Haiyin, the "prototype of Xiao Yingzi" in Taiwan, finally returned to the mainland and set foot on his homeland, and Shen Jie also went to Taiwan to visit Lin Haiyin many years later. The elderly Lin Haiyin died in 2001.
(Shen Jie and Lin Haiyin)
People's lives are always full of unknown adventures.
If director Wu Yigong hadn't seen Lin Haiyin's novel "Old Things in Seongnam" that year, would it have been made into a movie? If it were not for the fact that on that day, Wu Yigong appeared in the selection of small actors in other films, would Shen Jie have been selected to star in "Old Things in Seongnam"? If it were not for Shen Jie starring in "Old Things in Seongnam", would other small actors achieve her kind of agility?
Everything is the arrangement of fate in the dark, just like the little people that Xiao Yingzi met in the movie "Seongnam Old Things", along with growing up, always meeting and parting.
(Zhang Min, who plays "crazy woman" Xiuzhen, also disappeared for a long time)
(Zhang Fengyi plays the thief)
Director Wu Yigong left today (September 14), and his film and Shen Jie's Xiao Yingzi have forever been frozen in the history of Chinese cinema.
Our collective remembrance, for the good that has passed, for the time that cannot be kept, and for those who have gone away.
A song "Farewell", still singing and remembering.
(Part of the picture according to "xuuxoo Ganpeng")
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