Did the story of seventy-two tenants attract you?

There is a saying in Guangdong: "The salted fish turns over." It means that some things in life have become a foregone conclusion, or even a dead end, which is irreparable, just like raw fish has been preserved and cannot be turned into live fish. Unless things take an unexpected turn for the better, people will be surprised to say, "What a salted fish!" " "This kind of thing is really once in a blue moon! Unexpectedly, when I came to Guangzhou, I met the miracle of "salted fish turning over". However, people marinated my raw fish for six or seven years before they could turn over. It's so sad to say!

This incident is also a bizarre and bittersweet thing in our Guangdong film industry. Please allow me to take my time.

1963, it was half a century ago. At that time, Hong Kong had not returned to China. I was filming the first episode of "South China Sea Tide" with my teacher Cai Chusheng, and Cai Lao was recalled to Beijing for an important study. I made all kinds of preparations for shooting the next episode in the factory.

One day, Liao Yiyuan, who led the underground party film work in Hong Kong, came to our factory and said that he had made several traditional Chaozhou dramas for overseas Chinese in Chaozhou in our Zhu Ying factory, which was very popular. Now he wants to make a Cantonese movie with a modern theme for all overseas Chinese to watch. The main question is whether the theme of the film can adapt to the overseas political environment. Do I have such a script? If so, please direct the film.

I thank him for his kindness. I think we should do more work for overseas Chinese, but the theme of the film we are making now should be about class struggle. We don't have the script you want. I had a brainwave and said, yes! At present, the Shanghai farce "Seventy-two Tenants" is being staged in Guangzhou.

Liao asked, "What kind of farce is it?"

I said, "burlesque is mainly to make the audience laugh." Its form is similar to drama, and its ideological content is low. Just make a movie and improve the ideological content of the script. "

Liao said: "Another problem is that all the actors in this farce speak Shanghainese. Most overseas Chinese are Cantonese, and they don't understand Shanghai dialect. We must make it into a Cantonese movie. This drama is performed by Cantonese opera actors to ensure its great popularity. "