Jinyang.com reporter Hu Guangxin
“Let us roar up the boat, pushing the waves away…” The classic nursery rhyme “Let us roar up the oars” nourishes the hearts of generations of Chinese people. This song is the theme song of the first campus children’s feature film in New China, “The Flowers of the Motherland”. “The Flowers of the Motherland” was filmed in 1955. It is the first film in New China that reflects campus life. Since then, the student group of New China has officially appeared on the big screen.
From the wandering child who never continued to eat for three meals in the old society to the successor of socialism in the early days of the founding of New China, from college students full of idealism in the 1980s to boys and girls with a flamboyance and comprehensive development in the new century, in the 70 years since the founding of New China, the vast number of literary and artistic workers have used their lens to record the growth of every generation of Chinese students.
“Sanmao Wandering”
“Flowers of the Motherland”
A. From “Sanmao Wandering” to “Flowers of the Motherland”:
We are the successors of socialism
At the beginning of the founding of New China, director Yan Gong directed two children’s films: “Sanmao Wandering” in 1949 and “Flowers of the Motherland” in 1955. These two films just reflect the huge changes in the situation of children in the old and new China.
“Sanmao” was barefoot, thin, uncovered, and had a poor Sanmaohai on her big head. Although he is a fictional character, he is also a microcosm of millions of wandering children in the old society: he was supposed to study and go to school, but he was left on the streets and could not continue his life. Yan Gong recalled in his autobiography that he and screenwriter Yang Hansheng disguised themselves and searched for information in Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, and saw with his own eyes that the frozen child was thrown into the car by the “corpse collection team”. When casting, Yan Gong insisted on choosing a child actor with similar life experiences to the role. Therefore, except for Wang Longji, who plays the protagonist “Sanmao”, the other three young actors are really wandering children.
The Wandering of Sanmao was planned to start filming before the founding of New China. At the end of May 1949, Shanghai was liberated. Yan Gong and Zhao Ming continued to complete the video shooting of Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, and added an ending: the People’s Liberation Army entered the city, and Sanmao and his wandering children joined the celebration parade.The yangko dance team, the Babaylan 1990 cloth draw movie ended on their Babaylan 1990 cloth draw smile. Yan Gong commented on this ending: “This ending is real and in the situation of just liberating and the whole country is jubilant.”
“Sanmao Wandering” is the first children’s film officially released in New China, written on the homepage of the Republic: At the end of September 1949, on the eve of the “Foundering Ceremony”, “Sanmao Wandering” was first released in several theaters in Shanghai and was released nationwide in October, causing a great sensation. Six years later, Yan Gong directed “The Flowers of the Motherland” created a child’s image that was different from Sanmao’s Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw. The protagonist of the movie is a student from Class 3, Class 5, Beijing Primary School. They study on a clean campus, with kind teachers and friendly classmates. The most memorable scene in the film is the scene where children row and sing in Beihai Park: the lake is sparkling and the scenery is beautiful around them; the children are energetic, the red scarf on their chests flutters in the wind, and the children bathed in the sunshine of New China, and their vitality and innocence overflowed from the screen.
The Flowers of the Motherland is a groundbreaking movie. Since then, “the flower of the motherland” has become synonymous with young people and teenagers, and laid the tone of campus-themed works in the next twenty years. This metaphor also aptly reflects the relationship between the collective and the individual: the motherland is the “soil”, and children are the “flowers”, and no flower can leave the soil. Just like in “The Flowers of the Motherland”, Jiang Lin (played by Li Xixiang) is naughty and Yang Yongli (played by Zhang Yunying) is willful and willful. With the help of squadron leader Liang Huiming (played by Zhao Weiqin), they finally correct their character shortcomings and become qualified socialist successors.
The campus films of this period are full of collectivism, as Yan Gong said: “The film reflects the yearning and praise of ordinary people for beauty, harmony and friendship… This is exactly the mentality, ideals and aspirations of the society at that time.”
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Long Live Youth
B. From “Long Live Youth” to “Female College Dormitory”:The light of idealism will never die
With the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, the door to higher education has once again been opened to the whole society. Among the “New Three” (Note: After the resumption of the college entrance examination, there are many people who have been changed by the college entrance examination: Zhang Yimou, an employee of Xianyang Cotton Textile Factory, was admitted to the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy; his classmate Gu Changwei, who was an unemployed vagrant for two years before the college entrance examination; Yi Zhongtian, who had been on the “Rich Chinese Writers List”, was just an ordinary middle school teacher before being admitted to Wuhan University in 1978…
The 1980s was an era of reconstruction. Everything revived, intellectuals were full of hope for the future, and idealism became one of the themes repeatedly expressed by campus films at that time.
In 1983, Wang Meng’s novel “Long Live Youth” was brought to the screen, causing a nostalgia craze. The novel was written in the 1950s and tells the story of progressive students in a high school for girls at that time helping students with poor backgrounds to correctly understand themselves and return to the collective embrace. The idealistic temperament revealed by the story resonates with the times, just as the December 1983 issue of Literary Review commented: “When young people in the 1980s reflected on history and explored life, they came from the 1950s in the 1990s clothes drawn in similar history. DrawIn the life path and spiritual journey under historical conditions, obtaining valuable inspiration and useful reference is really due to the times and life, and is a great thing dominated by the internal laws of historical development. “
Also in 1983, the movie “Female College Student Dormitory”, which describes university life in the 1980s, was released. The film is set at Wuhan University and Zhejiang University, and tells the story of five girls with different personalities and backgrounds in the university dormitory. Director Shi Shujun lived in Wuhan University for more than a month. Every time the script was revised, he handed over to students and teachers at Wuhan University to discuss and revise it. Because of this, she successfully condensed the spirit of college students of the times in “Female College Students’ Dormitory”: “I rewrote the script based on the passion of Wuhan University students for the new era, their own responsibilities, their criticism of old educational ideas, and all aspects of their campus life, and 80% of the plays were rewritten.” The campus life described in the movie still seems to be very friendly today: welcome to the new school, visit the library, New Year’s Day party… In these seemingly sparse and ordinary daily life, the light of idealism shines. Shi Shujun filmed “Female College Student Dormitory” as a youth film. She has been trying to capture the true state of young people in the era: they and teachersThe relationship between parents, the friendship and contradictions between them, their own ideals and pursuits…
In her opinion, the energy that intellectuals had been suppressed for a long time was released in the 1980s. “They talked about national affairs with their ideals and felt that the responsibility was very great… This kind of thing is very precious, and I have to be immersed in the entire work.” In the film, Shi Shujun expressed his expectations for the college student group through a scene of a university club discussion with the help of the male protagonist Lan Wei: “Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw Some people say Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, contemporary college students are a question mark; and we contemporary college students say that we should look at society with question marks and think with our own minds. Not only should we think, but we should also strive and create.”
“Female College Student Dormitory”
“Missing Female College Student”
“Don’t Cry at the age of Seventeen”
C. From “Missing Female Middle School Student” to “Ten Thousands of Seventeen”:
Love is the only way to grow up
In the 1980s and 1990s, female directors with fresh and delicate directing style became the main force in the creation of campus film and television works. Female directors such as Shi Shujun, Huang Shuqin, Peng Xiaolian, and Lu Xiaoya tell stories from a unique female perspective. The once secretive topic of “love” also surfaced in campus film and television works at this time.
Shi Shujun’s “The Missing Female Middle School Student” is one of the best. The movie tells the story of Wang Jia, a female middle school student who was in adolescence, who had a crush on Lan Bo, a college student at the Conservatory of Music. Shi Shujun delicately expresses the freshness, anxiety and pleasure of a girl when she first met love, and the slight deviance of her behavior. She still seems avant-garde.
From this movie, we can clearly see the contradictory attitudes of people towards early love in that era: secret love caused Wang Jia’s grades to drop significantly. When the mother learned that her daughter was thinking, she was furious, which led to Wang Jia running away from home. But this relationship is just a small episode in life: a passionate secret love comes Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw and goes quickly. After a summer vacation, Wang Jia has already put Rambo behind her and returned to her life.rail.
Although there are various limitations of the times, the valuable thing about “The Missing Female Middle School Student” is to face the emotions of teenagers and regard love as a part of growth. As Liu Yu, the actor who plays Wang Jia, said in an interview: “Middle school students should understand love and should also withstand the challenge of early love. Don’t you want to be a strong person? Strongness in this aspect is also very important.” With the openness and confidence of social atmosphere, the image of students in campus movies is no longer stereotyped. The girls in “The Missing Female Middle School Student” are lively and lively: playing by the beach in swimsuits, using their mother’s cosmetics and high heels, and starting to think about the future and life and death…
From then on, a group of campus youth group dramas came into being: 1989 Komiks 1960 witch clothes Draw‘s TV series “Flower Season at the Sixteen Years”, the 1997 film “Flower Season: Rainy Season” and the TV series “Don’t Cry at the Seventeen Years”, the 2002 TV series “Sky at the Eighteen Years”… At this time, campus film and television works abandoned the perspective of adults and began to restore the original appearance of youth. “Early love” naturally became an indispensable part of these works. The 1989 TV series “Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw” seemed quite bold at the time: “The Missing Female Middle School Student” only showed a one-way secret love that ended without success; the class cadres in “The Sixteen-Year Flower Season” Babaylan 1990 clothes draw Bai Xue and the top student Ouyang Yanyan, the “young boy killer” Chen Feier and Xinjiang boy Yuanye have each other’s affection. The show became very popular after it was broadcast, and the letters from fans received by the crew were calculated in sacks.
In 1997, “Don’t Cry at the Age of Seventeen” became the youth enlightenment of many post-80s generations. At that time, Hao Lei had not made art films, and Li Chen was not “big black bulls”. They were just the innocent Jian Ning and Yang Yuling in “Seventeen-year-old Don’t Cry”. The two “school masters” appreciate each other and gradually developed feelings for each other; but for the sake of the future, they chose to restrain themselves. This fresh and natural TV series is not just love, the diligent and self-encouraging Jian Ning, the smart and capable Yang Yuling, the unruly Raymond, and the quiet and introverted Xiaodan… The audience and this group of high school students with different personalities experience the ups and downs of their studies, feelings, and the future, and grow up through injuries..
“The Missing Female Middle School Student”
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“To Our Youth”
“Youth”
D. From “To Youth” to “The Best Us”: The campus complex that touched generations
The film and television market in the new century is booming, and the forms of campus-themed film and television works are more diverse. In 2001, the whirlwind of Taiwanese idol drama “Meteor Garden” swept across Asia, subverting the audience’s inherent impression of campus film and television works: the characters in the play are fashionable, prosperous, and the unique personality is exaggerated, and the landscape of the adult world is transplanted to students. Commercial youth idol dramas such as “Red Apple Paradise” and “Looking at Meteor Shower Together” have also begun to appear in mainland China, becoming an important part of popular culture in the new century.
These works have strong imitation traces, but it is precisely because of the exploration of the first decade of the new century that the prosperity of the second decade of youth films has been created. The commercial era of mainland youth films began in 20Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw13 years. This year, films such as “To Us The Youth That Will Die”, “Chinese Partners”, “Tiny Times”, “Youth”, and “City College Entrance Examination”. The number of youth films has exploded, and the box office has been even greater. Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw achieved a bumper harvest: “To Us Youth That Will Farewell”, “Chinese Partners” and “Tiny Times” squeezed into the top ten of the annual box office list; “To Us That Will Farewell” even had a box office of 719 million yuan, surpassing high-cost blockbusters such as “Pacific Rim” and “Die Renjie’s God Capital Dragon King” and ranked third, setting an example of “making big with small profits”.
After 2013, mainland youth films gradually formed their own unique style. Movies such as “To Youth”, “Chinese Partners”, and “Soon of the Year” have a “nostalgic style”. These works can be regarded as a response to former campus movies: most of the stories start from campus in the 1980s and 1990s, telling the changes that young people have experienced from campus to society. The world outside the “ivory tower” is far more complicated than imagined. The realization of ideals and the perfection of love are not easy to obtain. In these works, the once energetic students experience disillusionment, cheering up, and starting again, and Komiks 1960 witch clothes DrawThe youthful self waves goodbye. This narrative full of youthful sentimental touches the hearts of the “post-70s” and “post-80s”. After 2015, campus works targeting the audience of “post-90s” and “post-00s” began to appear. Unlike previous youth films, most of these works take a fresh and natural route, without the exaggeration of idol dramas at the beginning of the century, nor the cruelty of nostalgic movies. This batch of works is like an evolutionary version of campus group dramas: a large number of newcomers in the film and television industry with similar ages to their roles to restore campus life.
The difference is that The vague love elements that were once hidden in the past have now become the main plot. Geng Geng and Yu Huai of “The Best of Us”, Chen Xiaoxi and Jiang Chen of “To Our Simple Little Beauty”, Yu Zhouzhou and Lin Yang of “Hello, Old Times”… These works have spent a lot of writing to describe the youthful and sweetness of campus romance, leading the audience back to a beautiful youth.
According to statistics from the China Film Distribution and Screening Association, the average age of movie audiences has dropped from 25.7 in 2009 to 21.5 in 2012. The youthfulness of the film and television audience and the youthful themes are comparable. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan 1990 cloth drawThe relaxation and other reasons have jointly caused the popularity of youth Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw films. In an interview in the overseas edition of the People’s Daily in 2013, Yin Hong, professor at Tsinghua University and director of the China Film Association, predicted: “Youth films will definitely become an important type of creation in movies. ”
This year, the movie version of “The Best Us” achieved a box office record of over 400 million yuan. The series “To Us Warm Hour” scored as high as 8.0 on Douban. Campus youth works are in full swing. What surprises will it bring in the future? Let’s wait and see.
“The Best Us”
[The Seal of the Times]
Students in each period have their own “password of the times”. Which of the following objects will evoke your youth memory?
●Red Scarf
Red Scarf and Young Pioneers are on the Common symbols of campus movies in the 1950s and 1960s, which are symbols of progress, representing that the protagonist of the film is already a qualified successor of socialism: Xiaohua, the protagonist in “Flower Duoduo”, wits his red scarf to avoid major traffic accidents; in “Blessings for Children”, the poor child Zhang Huaguo became cheerful and brave due to the infection of the Young Pioneers; the ending of “Flower Duoduo of the Motherland” is that primary school students complete the enlistment ceremony in Beihai Park…
“Flower Duoduo”
●Guitar Singing
A “folk ballad” appeared on campus in the 1980s and 1990s”Wind, holding a guitar and swiping chords, has become the most representative scenery of this era. Many film and television works describing the lives of students back then have guitar singing scenes: In “The Missing Babaylan 1990 clothes draw“, Wang Jia’s father met a group of college students singing on the train; in “Soon of the Year”, Chen Xun, played by Peng Yuyan, held a guitar singing at a campus party, fascinating a group of girls; in the comedy “Charlotte’s Troubles”, Shen Teng played the high school student Charlotte in the 1990s, became Babaylan 1990 clothes drawCampus celebrity…
“You, the deskmate”
●Chinese school uniforms
Lose and fat, single styles, magical color matching, smoothing the difference between men and women… Chinese school uniforms have been criticized for being “too ugly”, and some even say that “school uniforms ruin the youth of Chinese people.” However, Chinese school uniforms have now become the youthful memory of “post-80s” and “post-90s”. Campus film and television works such as “Soon of the Year”, “Best Us”, “Hello, Old Times”, “You, Deskmate” and other campus film and television works have made actors wear school uniforms. Netizens who once despised the school uniforms were too ugly finally discovered: the ugly ones may not be the school uniforms, but us.