JamesWongHowe's Life Experience

1926, filming "Curse" starring clara bow at Paramount Film Company. Exquisite and magnificent image style makes a generation of stunners become three-dimensional sexy goddesses on the flat screen, captivating all beings, and the effect is wonderful. When other Hollywood studios saw this scene, they hurriedly invited JamesWongHowe to be the photography director of this new film. 1928, MGM produced Laugh, Joker, Laugh, which made JamesWongHowe reach the peak. After shooting some of Hollywood's most beautiful sexy goddesses, he had the opportunity to capture john gilbert, the superstar of the first student in the silent film period.

At the same time, JamesWongHowe returned to his birthplace, China, and picked up the camera, trying to keep some local customs and cultural fragments with the lens. Although the film he originally planned to direct failed to start shooting, the footage he shot during his trip was edited by German director JosephvonSternberg into his film Shanghai Express at 1932.

Returning from China to Hollywood, where he has lived for many years, JamesWongHowe is faced with a film industry that has fallen into a full-scale panic because of emerging recording technology and audio movies; JamesWongHowe soon found his new position, got used to the changes that "sound" brought to photography, and immediately devoted himself to new jobs and new films.

1930 was the heyday of JamesWongHowe, who earned himself the nickname "LowKeyHowe" in the industry. "Low key" refers to a special photography style. In the heyday of black-and-white movies, the contrast of light between black and white is the most important key to determine the dramatic tension and focus of the whole picture. Gao Fancha called it "low-key" and low contrast called it "high-key". JamesWongHowe's studio interior photography style is based on the contrast between light and shade in Gao Fancha, which subtly highlights the drama. 1934, he completed the classic comedy business card TheThinMan in 18 working days, and completed another classic romantic film Manhattan Melody in 28 working days. His high work efficiency makes him considered as one of the most ideal studio workers. He is already busy, and the movie is more like. At about the same time, the film company decided to add his real name "Huang" (Cantonese transliteration is Wong) to the original "JamesHowe" to increase the exoticism. Since then, "JamesWongHowe" has become an important name in Hollywood.

Compared with other photographers who are famous for their steadiness, JamesWongHowe's photography technique has always maintained a high degree of flexibility, in order to obey the different techniques of different directors and different psychological states of different scripts and roles. 1938, he starred in the movie Algiers starring sexy actress hedy lamarr, and was nominated for the best photography in his life. 1947, when shooting the boxing scene in the movie "BodyandSoul", he let the photographer with the camera put on roller skates for the first time and walked around the boxing ring, which directly brought the audience into the core of the intense action scene. 195 1 year, there was a bullfight in another movie "Bullfighting", and JamesWongHowe was there.

/kloc-JamesWongHowe was the leading big-name photographer in Hollywood in the 1930s. He bought a luxury car and drove it around. A China man drives a famous car around Hollywood? Are you kidding? His conspicuous behavior did cause some criticism in white society. For example, once, because he had a magnificent China restaurant, the local print media came to interview him. In order to take a panoramic view of the restaurant, newspaper photographers keep approaching the expressway behind them. JamesWongHowe kindly reminded the photographer that "just put on a wide-angle lens". The little photographer actually replied in front of the master: "What are you making a fuss about? Just mind your face! "

In the 1940s, because of the war, there was an anti-Asian ripple in American society. JamesWongHowe is often mistaken for a "Japanese devil" and humiliated. In a rage, he hung the seal "I'm from China" on his skirt. Although the situation has improved slightly, it has not improved much. His close friend JamesCagney actually studied to support his friends.

JamesWongHowe's wife SanoraBabb and his marriage are also full of twists and turns because of JamesWongHowe's racial problems; Because California didn't abolish the law prohibiting intermarriage until 1949, the couple who got married in Paris, France three days after the law was abolished in 1937 finally found a judge willing to marry them. The judge's reason is really interesting: "It seems that this little white girl is old enough to make her own decisions;" If so, then she will marry this yellow race, and it is none of my business to be a cow and a horse in the future. " So the judge agreed to witness the wedding, and their marriage relationship was truly recognized by law in the United States. /kloc-in the 1950s, JamesWongHowe almost fell victim to McCarthyism's "white terror", and was repeatedly investigated by the House of Representatives' Investigation Committee on Non-American Activities, and was almost blacklisted; After many twists and turns, he finally stood up again. 1955 finally won the first Oscar for best black-and-white photography with Rose Totem 40 years later, and 1963 won the second prize with Iron Man in the Wilderness. 1959 photography director AnatomyofaMurder was praised as a textbook masterpiece of black and white film photography by his peers. In the same year, another famous work, TheOldManandtheSea, which was filmed for many years, came out and won him another Oscar nomination.

In the late1950s, JamesWongHowe once had an intersection with China's film industry. At that time, Li Lihua, a movie star with the reputation of "King of Heaven and Superstar", applied to immigrate to the United States as a "refugee". In Hollywood, through the introduction of JamesWongHowe and others, she successfully contacted the great director Xixi B. Demir, and JamesWongHowe also took a series of beautiful photos of stars for Li Lihua, hoping that she could successfully enter the Hollywood film industry. Unfortunately, Demir's production plan was put on hold for some reason; In addition, there is a transnational production plan with Italy-the opera film Princess Turandot, which was suspended for some reason. In the end, Li Lihua only co-starred with the actor Victor Machu in a B-class black-and-white movie "chinese baby", even if it was finished.

JamesWongHowe's work rhythm gradually slowed down after1960s and1970s due to his health. 1974, because of his reputation as a classic actress in his early years, the film producer specially hired him as the photography director of the musical "FunnyLady", with the task of putting the heroine BarbraStreisand (Barb).