In the office of Pujiang Translation Studio, thin smoke curled up and conversations continued.
At this moment, several leaders who had become more interested were chatting and dancing around a table.
Originally, several voice actors who were sitting in several corners also brought stools to move closer to the organization.
Don't worry about the Spring Festival Gala, they are having a great time chatting anyway.
"The director of the movie "Road Angel" is Yuan Muzhi,"
Xie Jin, who never left his cigarette, knocked the cigarette in his hand:
"He was the first director to join the Left-wing Film Alliance. The film "Road Angel" made two actors, Zhao Dan and Zhou Xuan, famous in one fell swoop."
"Well," Director Shi nodded: "Zhou Xuan was not 18 years old when she made this movie, right?"
"17 years old," Xie Jin said, "Zhao Dan was only 22 at that time."
"Speaking of movie inserts,"
Director Shi thought of another thing at this moment: "There is also a very good song in the later "Spring in a Small Town"."
""In That Distant Place"," Hu Xiao also liked this song very much: "I still have a record at home!"
Jiang Shan: "How do you sing this?"
Liu Guangning, who voiced Vivien Leigh in "The Blue Bridge", has just been selected as one of the hosts of this Spring Festival Gala.
Seeing Jiang Shan asking over there, she started singing:
"There is a good girl in that far away place. When people pass by her tent, they always look back with nostalgia..."
"It sounds really nice,"
Jiang Shan must praise Liu Guangning's good voice: "It would be better if there is an accompaniment."
"Just wait,"
Qiu Yuefeng stood up and walked out: "I'll call Teacher Li."
"Just in time, I also want to invite a comrade,"
Gutai Chang stood up and spoke beside him:
"In the past two days, the National Juvenile and Children's Literary Creation Selection Conference has been held in Pujiang. You must meet one of the award-winning representatives."
After saying that, he went out to greet the driver.
"Who is Lao Gu talking about?" Director Shi looked at Hu Xiao.
"I don't know," Hu Xiao shrugged: "Didn't he say that we will meet in a while. But Xiao Jiang,"
He turned to look at Jiang Shan: "Have you never heard of this song by Wang Luobin?"
"I do know the song," Jiang Shan said, "I just didn't know it was for this movie."
Jiang Shan's impression of "Spring in a Small Town" is limited to the line "He said he had lung disease, I think he is mentally ill!"
"Spring in a Small Town", a literary and artistic film known as "the first of China's 100 films in a century", is definitely a wonder.
This film, which depicts a wife's cheating and her husband's willingness to take drugs and give up her position, was condemned and criticized by most voices in the country when it was released in 1948.
After only being released for more than 10 days, it was hastily taken off the shelves.
The whole movie was decadent and a failure, but decades later it was suddenly regarded as a masterpiece by European audiences.
Immediately afterwards, it was awarded the title of "The Top 100 Chinese Films in a Century" by the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Later, after watching "Spring in a Small Town" over and over again, Wong Kar-wai made a movie called "In the Mood for Love", which also involved four people entangled together.
If Hu Xiao hadn't mentioned it at this point, Jiang Shan would have never known that "In That Far Far Away" was actually an episode of this movie.
"If you ask me, I would say that the movie interludes after liberation are the best,"
Xie Jin looked at everyone and reminded: "Just like "Railway Guerrilla" filmed in our factory."
"Yeah,"
Director Shi smiled even more when he mentioned this movie: ""Play My Beloved Tu Pipa"."
At this time, the music editor Mr. Li, who had already sat down with an accordion in his arms, started playing with a pull of his hands.
"The sun is about to set in the west, and Weishan Lake is quiet.
Play my beloved Tu Pipa and sing that moving song..."
After a group of people knocked on the table and sang a few words, Jiang Shan quickly opened his notebook and wrote down a line:
"Director Shi, which year was this movie produced by your factory?"
"Let me think about it,"
Director Shi looked up at the ceiling, as if there were words on it:
"If I remember correctly, it was either 1955 or 1956."
"Can we invite all these actors by then?"
"Why are you invited?"
"Sing!"
"Sing?"
Director Shi was not shocked yet, but Xie Jin was shocked first: "Let them sing?"
"Yes," Jiang Shan said, "It's best to put on the costumes from back then and sing together."
Just then, Director Gu, who had gone out to shake people, came back:
"Xiao Jiang, according to what you just said, you want to plan an interlude party for old movies?"
"I dare not say that. At best, it will just add a few programs to the whole party. It is up to you to decide the general direction."
"Then you need to put more thought into these programs!"
"Of course," Jiang Shan said, "I can't hold the microphone and just sing. I have to play some tricks."
"How to play?" Gu Zhengzheng wanted to know this.
"First of all, I have to confirm something with you," Jiang Shan: "Is our party a recorded broadcast or a live broadcast?"
In this day and age, there is no such experience.
Last year, Xiangjiang Wireless came with everyone to organize the Spring Festival Gala with Guangdong and Guangdong, which was a live broadcast.
But during this year's Lantern Festival, the "Rising Star Concert" broadcast on Pujiang Channel was actually a live recording shot at the stadium.
"Personally, I am more in favor of recording and broadcasting," Gu Zhengzheng weighed it:
"First, it can be adapted to the performers' time, and second, it can be modified in a timely manner."
"There is a third one: editing," Jiang Shan felt that the most important thing was the third one:
"As long as you agree to the recording and broadcasting, the song review of this old movie will be very interesting."
"Let me give you an example," Hu Xiao turned to look at Jiang Shan.
"Just like the song we sang "Play My Beloved Tu Pipa" just now," Jiang Shan:
"We can first cut more than 10 seconds of the original film, where the guerrillas are sitting by the lake, playing the pipa and singing.
Then the camera turned to focus on the stage.
There, several leading actors from the movie stood together and sang together."
"Oh~" Gu Zhengzheng understood: "Let the character come out of the screen."
"That sounds pretty interesting,"
Xie Jin looked at Factory Director Shi, who nodded:
"Then I'll invite them here and I'll contact them personally when I get back."
"in addition,"
Jiang Shan looked at Hu Xiao again: "Our factory also has a lot of special skills that we can bring to the table."
Hu Xiao: "Our factory has many special skills. Which one are you talking about?"
"For example, our Teacher Qiu,"
Jiang Shan smiled and said: "This gala must be taken care of by both adults and children. Teacher Qiu?"
Qiu Yuefeng: "Here."
"You dubbed the Monkey King in "Havoc in Heaven", right?"
"All the monkeys in the Meiying Studio were allocated by Lao Qiu,"
Before Qiu Yuefeng could speak, Bi Ke said for him:
"In "Havoc in the Sky", he is the Monkey King, and I am King Li Tianwang.
In the puppet show "Afanti", one of us is Master Bai and the other is Avanti."
"When you two arrive, dress up as Master Bai and Afanti,"
Jiang Shan thought it was just right: "Then he went on stage and sang "My Little Donkey" for the children."
"This is good,"
Hu Xiao's eyes lit up and he greeted Teacher Li: "Give them a head start."
Accompanied by an accordion, Bike and Qiu Yuefeng sang a song "My Little Donkey" in a naive manner.
At first it was a bit overwhelming, but later on I couldn’t sing enough.
"Okay, okay, you two are really good at talking and singing," Hu Xiao's thug paused:
"Xiao Jiang, if this is the case, many animation film inserts can be done like this!"
"Jiangshan's proposal is a good one," Director Gu said, "We really need to take good care of the children."
"If the key is to do this, it will also bring the American Film Studio into action."
Hu Xiao thought of his old friends: "They are also a major feature of our city!"
"Then it's settled,"
Gu Zhengzheng agreed: "The movie "Snow Child" that was just released this year by their factory was dubbed by your factory Ding Jianhua, right?"
"You mean, let Xiao Ding also sing a song?"
"I think it's totally fine..."
Gradually, the leaders also began to make things right.
At this stall, the driver of the TV station led a gay man wearing glasses in.
"Old Liu?"
When he saw the visitor, Xie Jin was surprised: "It turns out that the person Gutai was talking about is you!"
"I didn't expect that,"
Gu Zhengzheng introduced to the others: "Comrade Liu Chi is a very outstanding composer in our country. For me, he is ranked number one."
"You can't say that, you can't say that,"
Composer Liu Chi, who has just recovered his relationship, looks extremely thin and says he is about to retire:
"Are you...in a meeting?"
"Sit down, sit down, let's sit down and talk," Gu Zhengzheng said, "Besides me, the few people here today also have Pujiang Film Studio..."
"Isn't our city going to hold a Spring Festival Gala?"
Xie Jin seemed to have a close relationship with Liu Chi: "Several units are discussing this matter."
"Xiao Jiang," Gu Zhengzheng said with a smile: "Do you know the masterpiece of this teacher Liu Chi?"
Oh my god! He doesn't know about other people, but this master Jiangshan knows it too well.
Ever since "Comrade Liu Chi" was called out in Gutai, Jiangshan was already excited.
"How could you not know this?"
Jiang Shanxin said that if he didn't show up, he would still have to come to invite him:
"Our Oriental Metropolis Daily also reported news about Teacher Liu Chi today!"
"Is it?"
"What news?"
"How come we didn't hear about it?"
At this moment, Gu Zhengzheng was the only one who wasn't curious, and the others all looked like gossips.
"Didn't Gutai just say that?"
Jiang Shan has not forgotten that he is a reporter:
"The National Children's Literary and Art Creation Conference was held in our city, and Teacher Liu Chi was among the winners."
"Children's literary creation?"
For a moment, Xie Jin really didn't think about it: "Old Liu, have you ever written children's songs?"
"Tsk," Gu Zhengzheng said, "Isn't it just "Let's Swing the Oars"!"
"Oh, yes," Xie Jin said, "This song really deserves an award."
Liu Chi, who was already seated, felt very surprised: "I think this song was written more than 20 years ago. I didn't expect everyone still remembers it!"
In 1955, Changchun Film Studio prepared the film "Flowers of the Motherland".
For the interlude in the film, the director successively brought Qiao Yu and Liu Chi into Beihai Park.
After that, there was the song "Let's Swing the Oars" that everyone knows.
"According to Jiangshan's words, it is called," Gu Zhengzheng said: "The classics will be passed down forever."
"Lao Liu has more than just this classic, "My Motherland", "Hymn to Heroes", "White-Haired Girl", and "Our XJ Good Place".
Including the well-known "Sorrow" and the third and sixth sets of radio gymnastics...
As Xie Jin talked, he handed a cigarette to Liu Chi, who was proficient in playing cards, smoking, dancing, and playing musical instruments.
"Absolute musical talent," Gu Zhengzheng said, "otherwise, I wouldn't have sent a driver to hire him."
"You can't say that," Liu Chi said, "The key is that my opportunities are good."
"Yeah?"
"It's convenient for you to tell us."
"Who did you meet?"
"Let me first talk about my adventures as a child,"
Liu Chi, who was always carefree, got along well with his comrades in just two sentences:
“When I was young, my family was poor and I was very good at eating.
So when I had nothing to do, I ran to the temple in front of my house to do odd jobs.
Every time I finish my work, I can have two bites of food.
After I went there more often, I discovered that there was actually an ancient band in this temple.
Moreover, the instruments used were all from the Tang Dynasty. They sounded good to me at the time, so I started to learn from them..."
"There is also a band in the monk temple?" Bike heard it with surprise.
Jiang Shan was also curious: "What kind of ancient musical instruments have you learned?"
"I didn't know who to choose at the time, so I just learned one by one," Liu Chi said:
"What about gongs, shengs, wooden flutes, guqins, pipas..."
The more Jiang Shan listened, the more his eyes widened: "Have you learned everything?"
"I have learned all the instruments of the ancient band," Liu Chi said proudly:
"Not only that, I also learned to read ancient records in the temple. With this unique skill, when I arrived in Yan'an, it was very smooth."
"Did you really go to a monk temple?" Hu Xiao thought more and more bizarrely: "It's not a music school?"
"Isn't it incredible?" Liu Chi felt funny when he thought about it: "Don't say it's you, even my mother can't believe it."
"and after?"
"You're going to Yan'an?"
"After I learned all the instruments, the host noticed that I had a good voice and asked me to be the lead singer of Buddhist music."
Hu Xiao finally understood: "You are really destined to be a Buddha!"
"In the year of the Xi'an Incident, I met a Red Army team nearby,"
Liu Chi continued: "Then he went north to Yan'an.
After arriving in Yan'an, I sang "March of the Volunteers" and was successfully admitted to the Lu Xun Academy of Arts and Letters.
At that time, Xian Xinghai happened to be rehearsing the "Yellow River Cantata".
From that time on, I was honored to become Xian Xinghai’s student.”
"So you are Comrade Xian Xinghai's student,"
Gu Zhengzheng heard this for the first time: "That's no wonder!"
"Now..." Xie Jin carefully inquired at this moment: "Have you resumed work?"
"After returning to Yanjing the year before last," Liu Chi said, "I was assigned to join the coal mine art troupe. Now... I mainly serve as the deputy leader."
"You're already the deputy captain? That's okay."
"I'm still worried about you."
"We kept it secret."
"Old Liu, I'm telling you," Gu Zhengzheng said, "You must help with this Spring Festival Gala in our Taiwan."
"This is not just a matter of words,"
Liu Chi agreed without saying a word:
"I'll invite Qiao Yu to you then. He just recently composed a song "Peony Song" for a movie. It sounds very good to me..."
Hearing this, Jiang Shan silently plotted a big plan in his notebook:
A big river with wide waves and the wind blowing the fragrance of rice and flowers on both sides...
