The Life of Film Artist Xie Jin

The life of film artist Xie Jin is as follows:

Xie Jin has a strong interest in China opera since he was a child. He spent his childhood in his hometown and attended primary school for one year. In 1930s, he moved to Shanghai with his parents to continue his primary school. During his stay in Shanghai, his obsession with opera turned to movies. 1938, Xie Jin went to Hong Kong to study in a middle school. From 65438 to 0939, Xie Jin returned to Shanghai and went to the First Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University and Jishan Middle School. In his spare time, he went to Huaguang Theatre Academy and Venus Film Training Class.

194 1 When he graduated from high school, he firmly applied for drama school. Despite the resolute opposition of his parents, Xie Jin went to Sichuan without hesitation and was admitted to Jiang 'an National Theatre Academy in Sichuan, where he was taught and edified by teachers such as Cao Yu, Jiao Juyin and Ma. 1943, Xie Jin voluntarily dropped out of school, followed Ma, Hong Shen and Jiao Juyin to work in Chongqing China Youth Drama Club, and worked as an audience, reporter and actor in plays such as Journey to Youth.

65438-0947 Re-studied as a director at Nanjing National Theatre Academy. 1948, graduated from the director department of Nanjing National Theatre Academy; In the same year, he joined Datong Film Company as deputy director. 1950, served as the deputy director in the romantic movie "The Mute Wife"; In the same year, he served as assistant director of the drama film Legend of Fans; In addition, he also served as the assistant director of the feature film Women's Representative. 65438-0954, as the assistant director of the drama film "Chicken Hair Letter".

From 65438 to 0955, he directed the drama film Spring in the Water Village starring Menshi Qi and Sun Jinglu. From 65438 to 0957, he directed the color sports film "Women's Basketball No.5" and won the silver award at the 6th World Youth and Student Festival International Film Festival and the silver hat award at the Mexico International Film Festival. 1958, directed the biopic "Huang"; In the same year, the drama film "Short Story in the Storm" directed by him was released.

1960 directed the war film Red Female Soldier adapted from Liang Xin's novel Qiongdao Hero Flower, and won the 1 Volkswagen Hundred Flowers Award Best Feature Film Award, and won the 1 Volkswagen Hundred Flowers Award Best Director Award for this film. 1962, directed the comedy film Yamato Lao Li starring Yao Debing and Liu Xiasheng.

From 65438 to 0975, he co-directed the drama film Spring Seedlings with Yan and Yan. 1977, the youth film "Youth" directed by him was released. 1979, the war children's film "Ah! "Cradle" was released, adapted from a real event, and won the excellent film award of China Ministry of Culture. 198 1 year, he directed the drama film "The Legend of Tianyunshan" starring Shi Weijian, Wang Fuli and Jianlan Shi.

From 65438 to 0984, he directed the drama film Garland under the Mountain, which was adapted from Li Cunbao's novel of the same name. With this film, he won the Best Screenplay Award in the 5th China Golden Rooster Award, the Best Feature Film Award in the 8th Volkswagen Hundred Flowers Award, and the first prize of excellent film in the Ministry of Culture of China. From 65438 to 0986, he directed furong town, a drama film starring Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen, which was adapted from a novel of the same name in ancient China and won the Best Feature Film Award in the 7th China Film Golden Rooster Award.

65438-0998 Xie Jin was awarded the Golden Dragon Award of "Contemporary movie master" by Hong Kong (Overseas) Literary Artists Association, and won the Outstanding Contribution Award of Shanghai Literature and Art. In 2005, Xie Jin won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 25th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award. In 2007, Xie Jin won the China Film Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award at the 10 Shanghai International Film Festival. On June 5438+1October 65438+August, 2008, Xie Jin died at the age of 85 in the hotel where he stayed in Shangyu County, Zhejiang Province.

Xie Jin's evaluation

Xie Jin's early works always show optimistic and bright emotional color, which is consistent with the atmosphere of the times when the film was produced. At this stage, the characters in his films are also warm and simple, with a light and smooth narrative style and romantic atmosphere. Moreover, he is good at expressing his feelings about the times and social needs in film language, and expressing the mainstream feelings of most people about social life.

Xie Jin's films conform to the psychological habit of China audiences who like to watch movies with happy endings: good people go through hardships and bad people do evil; Good people are strong and unyielding, and bad people will die. It is always consistent with the mainstream political ideology of the era in which he lived. Under the grand historical or political background, he dealt with the relationship between characters with strong dramatic techniques, which made the characterization have a strong political color. This is the distinctive feature of Xie Jin's films.