Zhou Chuanji, a senior film professor, died, and Zhang Yimou Chen Kaige, a student, was afraid of him.

Zhou Chuanji, a professor and veteran film critic, died at the age of 92 in the early hours of April 4th, US time. He is an iconic figure of the Beijing Film Academy. He was a teacher of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others. Chen Kaige expressed his condolences over his death. Zhou Chuanji was a professor at the Beijing Film Academy before his death and was called the first film coach in China.

Zhou Chuanji, who is known as the leader of China film industry, once taught at the Beijing Film Academy for many years, and later founded the Zhou Chuanji Film Academy named after himself. He has always been famous for daring to tell the truth. He once commented that Zhang Yimou as a student "may not be suitable as a director, but he may be more suitable as a photographer", and Chen Kaige "Don't watch any of his films after Farewell My Concubine". As a teacher of Beijing Film Academy, Zhou Chuanji once said bluntly, "I don't believe that our current training methods can train talents. We are lucky not to destroy them. " After retirement, Zhou Chuanji opened online video courses and forums in the United States, which not only explained the professional problems of movies to students, but also taught many life philosophies. Over 90 years old, chatting with classmates on QQ has no obstacles, and typing is even faster than young people.

After his death, Zhou Chuanji Film School announced the suspension of all teaching activities. As for his funeral, the person in charge of the school revealed: "It will take a few days to make specific arrangements."

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Used to be the librarian of Nortel Library.

Zhou Chuanji was born in Beijing on 1925. In others' eyes, he is not tall, but handsome, imposing, in a suit and tie, and distinguished, which has something to do with his life experience-he worked as an officer in his early years and obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature after graduating from the Foreign Literature Department of Shandong University.

After that, I worked as a translator in the editing room of film art translation series of the Art Committee of the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Culture. From 65438 to 0976, Zhou Chuanji was transferred to the library of Beijing Film Academy as a librarian-it was here that his fate with Beijing Film Academy and China film industry began.

From 198 1, Zhou Chuanji taught in the recording department, literature department, postgraduate class and various advanced classes of Beijing Film Academy, and was promoted to professor of Beijing Film Academy from 1987. Many film students of Nortel in the 1980s and 1990s have listened to his classes. Documentary director Ye Lang recalled: "Twenty years ago, he taught us about 70 lessons. He always wears a pale white suit, his hair is not messy, he wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and he smokes at the front door without a mouth. When talking about this film, the angry speech shocked people's hearts. He is the most dignified and stylish professor I have ever seen. "

After retirement, Zhou Chuanji started some film training classes and was invited to give lectures in many schools. In the 2 1 century, people spread their ideas more through the Internet. Students of Beijing Film Academy are familiar with his ideas and concepts even if they have never met him in person.

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Publicly criticize Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

Zhou Chuanji's maverick is also famous in the film industry. He once commented on his two students-Zhang Yimou "may not be suitable as a director, but he may be more suitable as a photographer" and "Don't watch any of his (Chen Kaige's) films after Farewell My Concubine". He also said that "Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige were not trained by the Film Academy, but both worked hard for their own strength, but happened to meet the right times". "I don't believe that our current training methods can cultivate talented people, and we are lucky not to destroy them."

Because Zhou Chuanji discovered from years of educational experience: "There is only one-on-one teaching. Some students have to revise an assignment more than 20 times. So I can teach more than a dozen students a year. " Suo Yabin, a professor at the School of Film and Television Art of China Communication University, recalled: "When I read Movie Reading, I found that many things that Teacher Zhou said in class could not be expressed in words." This is why Zhou Chuanji still insisted on video teaching after moving to the United States.

Nowadays, many people who are engaged in film academic work or film directors have established a basic understanding of film audio-visual language by listening to Zhou Chuanji's lectures. Suoyabin said: "So Mr. Zhou always said that he was just a primary school teacher."

Chen Kaige mourns

Teacher Zhou Chuanji is personable and speaks fluent English, which is an anomaly among teachers in the college and has a great influence on me at school. This is the first time that Teacher Zhou asked me to translate English articles. I remember it was about the movie Citizen Kane. I translated it word for word. He helped me correct it for a long time and said with a smile, now it looks like this. Later, Mr. Zhou traveled around and saw less. Hearing the news of his death, the past came to mind. I will always miss this senior gentleman who is full of childlike innocence and is a teacher.

-Chen Kaige delivered a eulogy through the official blog of The Legend of the Demon Cat.

Zhao mourns

When I became a director, the concepts of editing and sound were mostly influenced by Zhou Chuanji. I remember when I was a graduate student in the director department, I taught us the course of film sound, writing a script word by word, filming one by one, and the director had to control the script one by one, thanks to Teacher Zhou to a great extent.

-Zhao

(Actor, Director)

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Mr. Zhou is proficient in five foreign languages and has his own film ideas. He is the first teacher of many film school students. It can be said that the establishment of several generations of students' film values and film pride is directly related to Mr. Zhou's great introductory influence. Mr. Zhou is lofty and arrogant, cynical, arrogant and powerful. He is old and strong, and he is often wronged by the foul language of bad movies. Zhang Yimou and many other big names are afraid to look at this old coach who doesn't rub sand in his eyes.

-Ye Lang (documentary director)