A brief analysis of February data

Early Spring in February is a China color feature film.

1963 Produced by Beijing Film Studio. Xie Tieli is adapted from Rou Shi's novel February. Directed by Xie Tieli, filmed by Li Wenhua, starring Sun Daolin, Xie Fang, Shang Guanyunzhu and Gao Bo. The film depicts the anguish and hesitation of petty-bourgeois intellectuals in China around 1926, but at the end of the film it implicitly implies that the protagonist is looking for a new ideal and road, which improves the ideological realm of the original work. The film is full of lyrical poetry, with the scene as the style and integrated with the scene.

Director Xie Tieli served as the chairman of the Chinese Film Association, and also directed dozens of films such as Unknown Island, Storm and Overtaking Tiger Mountain. He experienced the whole development process of new China movies. Due to the war, the director who has been in the cinema for more than 40 years has only a fifth-grade education. Xie Lao clearly remembers that the first time he saw a movie was that of Yin Xiucen and Langen Han, who were called "Laura and Hatay" by China people. However, the open-air movie was "on strike" after only 20 minutes because of the projector failure. He didn't expect to leave the army and enter the film industry, and then he embarked on a long and bumpy road of film directing.

Oral images: the torrent of the times

Watch February by the sea

Early Spring and February is my third work. After being Lin Jiapu's deputy director, I had the opportunity to direct my first film "Unknown Island", followed by "Storm". At that time, the film was shown at 196 1 New Overseas Chinese Conference, and everyone responded well. At this time, the North Film Factory seemed to reward me and let me take my family to Beidaihe for recuperation. I had never been ill before and had no time to settle down and read, so I went to Beidaihe with a large stack of books, mostly works since the May 4th Movement. I have read many works, and I like Rou Shi's February very much. I think it can be made into a movie. I was deeply impressed by the words in the introduction of February, especially the sentence "He was just a stone from outside, so he rolled a few times and made a few noises, and was pushed to the female Foshan-Shanghai." Fortunately, he is still hard and has not become the oil that moistens the gear. "

In Rou Shi's February, the protagonist's emotional communication and development are all expressed by letters, which is actually a difficult problem for movies to express with images and actions. But I know little Qiu Jian. Although I haven't experienced the revolutionary era of the protagonist's life, this character has the shadow of my eldest brother, so Qiu Jian Jr.' s thoughts and feelings can move me very much. I can also feel the image of Lan Tao in the novel from a distant relative of mine. There is another reason for choosing this novel, that is, the customs of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River often remind me of my hometown Huaiyin and many childhood days, so I have a strong desire to make this film.

It is no longer "low" early spring.

For furong town in the film, Xiao is obviously an alien "uninvited guest". He wanted to avoid the trend of the times and society and come to furong town. He is tired of the noisy and changeable world outside. He is like a homesick wanderer, hoping to find a paradise as safe as home in furong town. But he found that entering the "Xanadu" is actually entering the whirlpool of right and wrong. Some people say that early spring in February looks a bit like spring in a small town. But, after all, times are different. In the film, I intentionally weakened the negative and gloomy elements in the original work and added positive and bright colors. At the end of the film, George W. Qiu Jian "escaped" from furong town in order to get rid of contradictions, which is regarded as the present ending: he lost his unrealistic fantasy of escaping from reality and rejoined the torrent of society.

In addition, I added Wang Fusheng, a poor student, to the film, taking his relationship with George W. Qiu Jian as another line. After Wensao committed suicide, Wang Fusheng dropped out of school because of poverty. This double blow pushed the pain to the extreme and prompted him to wake up. At this point, I also hope that the film can give the audience a positive feeling and herald a bright future. You can feel that it should be the early spring of "fright", which makes people awake.

The approved petty bourgeoisie is too strong.

Xia Yan, then Vice Minister of Culture, devoted a lot of energy to this film. He revised the literary version and the shot version of the film by more than 100, which was very detailed, including insightful opinions. The title of the film was finally changed from February to early spring February.

After the film is finished, it is finally reviewed by the higher cultural department. This review was not only led by factory leaders, Xia Yan, Mao Dun and other comrades, but also led by the Ministry of Culture and the Propaganda Department of the CPC. At that time, many people thought the film was not bad. At this time, I was secretly happy. Finally, Comrade Zhou Yang, who was in charge of film literature and art, didn't approve of the film, and I was cheated immediately. He believes that it is a kind of moral self-improvement to publicize the humanitarianism and humanity of the petty bourgeoisie.

The opening shot of the film Early February is particularly unique and exquisite. The striped planking of ancient tung color, the weak window poked out from the audience's subjective angle, the clear water and blue sky in the distance, and the warm sunny birds nearby. The subtitles on the movie screen are slowly handed in, the characters in February slowly enter, and the music of the movie is laid out leisurely. "Early spring in February" is like a pair of ink painting hanging on the curtain, and it is also like a few lines of Song Lingxiao's poems. In his February quatrain, Rou Shi recited a poem Ode to Snow by Huang Tingjian through the mouth of Xiao Qiu Jian: "Some people in poor lanes are naked, and the north window surprises me ..."

In this long summer vacation, I went from Shanghai to Ninghai Town, Zhejiang Province, and visited the former residence of Rou Shi, a modern literary writer, via Hangzhou. On the local train, I looked back and forth at this quiet little ancient city, with white walls and tiles, mountains and seas, simple folk customs and humid air. When I entered Ninghai, I went straight to the city to find Fang Xiaoru Ancestral Temple, because Rou Shi's former residence was near this ancestral temple. In the real street, someone gently let out a cry of magnolia. I turned to my face. That's my mother's voice calling her daughter. I saw a clean girl of five or six years old running towards her mother. This situation clearly reminds me that Rou Shi's mother's name is also called Yulan. What a coincidence.

Walking through a flat cobblestone path in the ancient city, I saw a small stone bridge. The shape of the bridge is very similar to the Shidong Bridge where the hero and heroine walk side by side in the film Early February directed by Xie Tieli. A good movie is always so close to life. The novel February is the literary work of Rou Shi, one of the five martyrs of the Left League. Young Rou Shi lived only thirty years in his life. Although his life was short, he left too many brilliant and personable words for China's modern literary world. As a symbol of intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s, Rou Shi also had personal anguish and hesitation. Rou Shi's novel February, written on 1929 1 1 month, is a wonderful work in the history of modern literature in China. Rou Shi is only 28 years old this year. Talent often has nothing to do with age?

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I always remember Rou Shi's in-depth description of the little image of furong town's teacher in February: "I saw a young man coming from outside the school gate. He is of medium height, with a square face, a little haggard and pale, his eyes shining and a kind smile floating on his cheeks. You can see from his hair that he has walked a long way, which is long and dusty. Wearing a thick serge navy student costume, the posture is straight. " Rou Shi's first words to Qiu Jian Jr. were: "I am breathing beautiful and natural fresh air. The countryside is really lovely. I haven't seen such sweet early spring weather for a long time. " What a heartfelt life.

The hero's name in the movie Early February Spring is unforgettable. His name is Qiu Jian Jr. According to Rou Shi's old friends in the modern literary world, Rou Shi's earlier name was Zhao Pingfu. Later, when I became a teacher, I felt that this name was somewhat insecure, so I changed my name to Zhao Pingfu. Rou Shi was Zhao's pen name when he wrote. It's not easy to make February into a movie. First of all, the choice of hero and heroine, Sun Daolin's acting skills should be backward. This is another enterprising work after Sun Daolin performed Home. Sun Daolin is a rare intellectual image on the screen. In the early spring of February, the piano performance of Xiao's solo "Wandering Songs" was Sun Daolin's personal improvisation.

Perhaps, Xie Fang's role as Lin Daojing in "The Name Card Song of Youth" is still burning, and it is a little difficult to immediately transform the enthusiastic image into the image of Lan Tao in early spring and February. Some professional critics in the film industry pointed out that if there was a chance to remake February, Wang, Wang, Wang, Wang and even Yuan Meiyun would have been better candidates for the role. Because we know from Rou Shi's original February that Lan Tao is not only a scholarly family, but also a talented and warm-hearted young man.

Compared with the ending of the film Early Spring in February, I still admire the ending in Rou Shi's original February. There, although Miss Lan Tao is full of blood, she belongs to a family after all. Her family style is responsible and her heart is kind. The girl written by Mr Rou Shi is very China. It should also be very traditional. Rou Shi's February should be read as a pure classic. Rou Shi's literary achievement lies not only in the truthfulness of his writing style, but also in Rou Shi's realism, as well as his inner true blood progress.

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As early as 1925, Rou Shi, who was only 25 years old, raised funds to establish Ninghai Middle School in his hometown. Rou Shi is willing to regard his enthusiastic dedication to the motherland's schools as a lifelong achievement. In order to help the poor and educate orphans, Rou Shi expressed too many feelings in his February talk. Lu Xun also recalled in Biography of Rou Shi that Rou Shi's efforts in education even involved hemoptysis. For Rou Shi, Lu Xun also said in "In Memory of Forgetting": "I feel with a heavy heart that I lost a good friend and China lost a good friend." There is also a public opinion that the loss of young Rou Shi in China's literary world is almost equivalent to the loss of a cornerstone of the literary world.

However, some stingy literati are so cynical about such a standard-bearer who devoted himself to education and the left-wing revolutionary cultural movement. Rou Shi in his original work "February", director Xie Tieli in his film "Early Spring in February", all told his own vision and views, and the film also specifically quoted Mr. Rou Shi's song "Furong Furong opens in February":

Hibiscus blooms in February

A teacher came from other places.

Eyes as bright as an eagle

There is a kind incision in it.

Holding a little widow in his left hand.

You want to break my plum with your right hand.

If this person is not deported,

My hometown is weather-beaten and safe.

I don't know if people who can invent such boring poems belong to the inner indigestion of literati and poets. Or a heart attack? On the whole, Mr Rou Shi is open-minded. He not only pointed out that hibiscus bloomed in February, but also showed that there were others under the hibiscus tree. In addition, ghosts are abrupt and gossip is broken. In fact, today, in this poem "Lotus Blossoms in February", we observe Mr. Rou Shi's love and humanity. At the same time, we can see that Rou Shi often writes some poetic vernacular in his original novels. On the one hand, it expresses Rou Shi's traditional creative way, on the other hand, it also conveys the subjective strategy of Mr. Rou Shi's literary works. Action art Shang Guanyunzhu plays a widowed wife in Early February. In the debugging, it should be this quiet gnashing of teeth, "hibiscus blooming in February" that killed her, right?

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At the end of Rou Shi's original novel February, Qiu Jian Jr. left a long love letter or a letter from home. In this letter, Rou Shi's small follow-up and expectation to the protagonist is generally branded. Let's try to read a few lines: "At five o'clock this afternoon, there is a direct ship from here to Shanghai. I want to take this ship to Shanghai. After that, I'm not sure whether it will be south or north. People say that the light is in the south, and I want to see the land of light. I also think that philosophy is still in the north, and I am willing to go to the north to cultivate beautiful flowers. Times can dominate me, young people like me. "

After reading Rou Shi's letter, I remember it clearly. The last sentence of the original "February" is: "Honest Tao Mukan turned from anger to laughter, looked at his sister and said, Sister, you'd better go to Shanghai with me." We know that the ending of the film Early February is different from that of Rou Shi's February. At the end of the film, Lan Tao, the heroine, shouts and runs away freely. Her heart went to little Qiu Jian. In fact, today, progress is inevitable. However, progress belongs to progress, and progress should also keep pace with the times. Our movie audience can almost feel that Lan Tao, the heroine of Early February, is so wanton and bold, which is probably the most perfect ending. Especially in an era when humanistic traditions are eager to return.

Small bridges and flowing water. We live in a country with traditional civilization. The sun tilted in the afternoon. When I was about to leave Ninghai Town, I secretly thought of the poetic style of Rou Shi's speech: "People say that the light is in the south, and I would like to see the light." Can I think that Rou Shi's original work "February" and Xie Tieli's film "Early Spring in February" are really places where we can see the light? Rou Shi wrote in February that the sky in the south is always clear. At least people's mood is yearning for sunny days.

Hibiscus blooms in February

A teacher came from other places. ...

As a movie audience, I'm still a little confused. When the teacher of the film "Early Spring in February" came to furong town as a child, what was his purpose in going back and forth to Furong Water Town? In any case, Qiu Jian Jr. acted like a teacher. At least he didn't mislead the people in Jiangnan town. I still hope that Rou Shi's mood at the moment when he wrote February was sunny. People say that the light is in the south, and I want to see the land of light. I also think that philosophy is still in the north, and I am willing to go to the north to cultivate beautiful flowers. Times can dominate me, young people like me.

Before Rou Shi wrote February, his people still lived in a traditional country that looked forward to civilization and longed for progress. Moreover, he was still a young man who enthusiastically called for light until his death. Regardless of Rou Shi's original February or the film Early Spring February, Xiao Qiu Jian came in a hurry and walked in a hurry, but he walked so clearly. He walked in a direction a bit like a small window that was far open when the film was released in February 1 Sunday.