The shooting background of Daji and her father.

Danian, the first director of the former Emei Film Studio, recalled da ji and her father: The second film made by Emei Film Studio was da ji and her father. Gao Ying's novel of the same name was published in New Observation magazine, which has influence all over the country. It is a good novel and the provincial party committee attaches great importance to it. I have a director named Jaco who really wants to see this play. I just came back from abroad and I haven't finished writing Jialing River. What we are discussing here is how to adapt da ji and Her Father. The novel is very good, but I'm afraid that the directors and photographers in the E-film factory can't reach their due standards, and they're afraid they'll screw it up. Not a good director or photographer, no matter how good the story is. At that time, there were few color films, and the script had to be examined and approved by the Ministry of Culture before it could be decided whether color films could be used. This story is tasteless without making color films, so my goal is to make color films. However, the creative concept and artistic strength of E studio can't keep up. So I thought of cooperating with Chang Ying factory. At that time, "Five Golden Flowers" had been released, shot at 1958 and shown at 1959, and the shooting had already started. My goal is not less than five golden flowers, and the provincial party Committee agrees with me. 1960 held the third meeting of literary and art representatives, and I attended it. I am familiar with the leaders of Chang Ying factory. I told their director Flex that he agreed. The director I want to see by name is Wang Jiayi, who is my old comrade-in-arms in the liberated areas. Their director agreed, and so did Wang Jiayi. I made an agreement with Liu Lianchi, president of Sichuan Art College, that he would be an actor. The two of us flew back to Chengdu during the break of the meeting and reported the negotiation to the provincial party Committee. Unexpectedly, Wang Jiayi asked me to be the director in front of the provincial party secretary. I have one condition: let Zhu Dannan play Mach and Liu Lianchi play Ren Bingqing. I am very talented. The secretary of the provincial party Committee said that you made a terrible move. One is the factory director and the other is the dean. What should these two units do? The provincial party Committee agreed. The Wangs said afterwards that his plan was to tie three grasshoppers together with a rope. He could neither let you fly nor let you escape from him.

After filming this movie, I also wrote a poem:

In order to reflect Liangshan on the screen, the poet hastily wrote a new article.

Invite a famous director and tie three grasshoppers together.

After the film was finished, it happened that the Ministry of Culture held a film creation meeting in Beijing Xinqiao Hotel. Prior to this, the national symposium on literature and art was also held in Xinqiao Hotel, and the two meetings were connected. I took a sample of a feature film to the meeting and sent it to the Ministry of Culture for review. At first, the Ministry of Culture passed the examination. It will be displayed at the meeting after it is passed. This screening caused a lot of discussion. At that time, there were mainly two schools, one was "film school" and the other was "novel school". Because the revision from novel to film is relatively large. The novel is Fighting for My Daughter. As soon as Mach heard that someone was coming to da ji, he pulled out a knife from his leg. "Whoever wants to take da ji away, I will fight with him!" I told Gao Ying that this plot should be changed. Now we should talk about national unity and let it go. Ren Bingqing's identity should also be improved. He is an old stonemason who supports the construction of Liangshan and an earthwork engineer. Mach made him president, and he has been born in party member, and he has been born in party member. The school of fiction is headed by Li Xifan, who is an authority and expert in Redology. He was transferred to the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China and served as the director of the literary and art department and editor-in-chief of the literary and art edition of People's Daily. The title of his article published in "Literature and Art News" is "Improve or Promote?" ",think that the change of the film is to raise the image of the characters, at that time, it seems that Zhao Dan is also inclined to fiction. We felt a lot of pressure, so we proposed to send both novels and movies to Premier Zhou and arrange for him to speak at two meetings to see what Premier Zhou thought. The film was scheduled to be released in July 1, and as a July 1 gift film, it was not released to the public at that time. After reading it, Premier Zhou delivered a speech on June 20th, which liberated us. First of all, he said that he had read all the novels and movies. He thinks novels are rougher and movies are more detailed. However, movies also have shortcomings, and they are not released emotionally and are restricted. Directors and actors have restrictions (this is because they often criticized the bourgeois theory of human nature and human feelings at that time). He said that some places seemed to want to cry, but they couldn't cry because the director restrained people. This shortcoming does exist. Premier Zhou's evaluation of this film is basically positive, and his speech is very convincing. The publishing house once published a thick collection of comments on da ji and her father. At that time, there was a great debate. The viewpoint in the collection was that novels were good and movies were good. Premier Zhou didn't kill him with a stick, but said that novels and movies have their own merits.

After the national symposium on literature and art and the film creation conference, on June 29th or 30th, Premier Zhou invited some famous actors and film factory directors, and more than 20 people to his home for dinner and discussion. Premier Zhou greeted the guests at the gate of the West Flower Hall, shook hands with them and introduced them. When it was my turn, Xia Yan introduced that this is Zhu Dannan. Premier Zhou said that I know him. He's father Maher. Xia Yan also said that he was the director of E Film Factory. Premier Zhou said, well, we just want to lead cadres to participate in production and lead production. At dinner, Premier Zhou raised his glass to our table, toasted me and said, I hope to see you again on the screen. I replied that it would not be a problem to shoot another three or five films. Unfortunately, due to the Cultural Revolution, this wish did not come true.

When the factory was built, the Ministry of Culture assigned three factories in Yunnan, Guichuan in the southwest, to Bayi Factory. They provided artistic guidance and brought in some people, such as photographers and workshop directors. They also help choose venues. Several provinces in North China were allocated to the North Film Factory, several provinces in Northeast China to Changying Factory, and several provinces in East China to two factories in Shanghai. So we asked the director of Bayi Factory to direct the first film for us. We didn't have a director at that time. Jialing River was completed in Bayi Factory. In da ji and Her Father, Liangshan has only a few empty shots, and most of the locations of Qionghai and Liangshan were shot in the northeast. The story took place in Nicola Dutton, the resident of the commune, and was filmed in Sidaogou, Jilin Province. Daji picks flowers, there are no flowers on the mountain, they are all plastic flowers. A bigger part was shot on the set. For example, I played Mach to save a small fortune. At that time, it snowed, and the snow was all plastic snow, all rockery Woods. If you don't cheat, the film cost is too high.

Jialing River was shot with the help of Bayi Factory, and Daji and her father was shot with the help of Changying Factory. We also have a whole class, with Wang Jiayi as the director and Jaco and Zhang Qi as the deputy directors. The construction here is always impossible, because the provincial party Committee attaches great importance to the construction of Jinjiang Auditorium and Jinjiang Hotel and expands the airport, so we can't get on the plane, and the materials are very scarce. The workers in the factory suggested that we make a film alone. The industrial theme script "Twelve Old Miners" was selected; I chose the novel Dongshan Nvpao published in Sichuan Literature as the rural theme, but I still feel that the conditions are not good. Finally, I chose the choice. I said that Jialing River can be regarded as an industrial theme, and da ji and her father can also be regarded as a rural theme. Can we have an opera movie? Because I am the director of Sichuan Opera, I always think of Sichuan Opera. When I was a director of Sichuan Opera, I made a collection of Sichuan Opera, including Qiu Jiang, Five Brothers and Snow Review. Not bad, but I didn't finish the whole play. Finally, I chose Yuanyang Pu, which is a comedy with ready-made actors and low technical requirements. Black and white movies. At that time, the studio was not built yet, and there was a big canteen, so the canteen was used as a studio; There is no recording workshop, because there is no noise in the middle of the night, I will record in the middle of the night; Printing is also temporary to find a house to print. There is no air conditioning. Pull ice from the slaughterhouse to develop film. Finally, it was filmed, and the name was changed to Joe's misfits. The original crew of Chengdu Sichuan Theatre was used, and the effect was good. The results of the contributions are also very good, and they are distributed to places with more Chinese in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia.

Before the film was finished, I went to the Ministry of Culture with the request of the factory. It was 1962. The provincial people's art performance "Catch the Boys" was very effective. We are going to shoot hide-and-seek with the original team. In the film bureau, the director of the film bureau at that time was Chen Huangmei. He said, Zhu, you have ambition. It's a pity that the State Council has determined that E membrane factory will be dismounted, and all provincial factories will be dismounted. And this theme has been decided by Bayi factory. You said you acted well. Bayi Factory set the original team in Yan 'an and called you "Pan hunchback". Wu Xue plays Li Laoshuan and Chen Ge plays Wang Baochang. Can you beat them? As a result, I got off the horse after watching Mandarin Duck.