In 1981, the rural comedy "Xiyingmen" alone received 570 million viewers. The movie box office continued to remain at a high level.
And these days, people's enthusiasm for movies does not stop at watching movies in the cinema. Movies outside the cinema are still the hottest topic among people.
Following the resumption of voting for the third Hundred Flowers Awards last year and the circulation of each issue of Popular Cinema magazine exceeding 9 million, on May 23, 1981, the fourth Hundred Flowers Awards and the newly established first Golden Rooster Awards were announced at the same time.
The selection results were announced in Hangzhou.
Not surprisingly, the number of voters and social impact this year hit new highs.
From then on, not only did our country have two major film awards with equal emphasis, but it also marked that since the "movement", domestic films, as the pioneers of the Renaissance, have completely entered a golden period of development where "a hundred flowers bloom" and "all the stars shine".
But it is a pity that the most glorious days of domestic films did not last long. Since 1981, the film distribution and screening indicators have begun to decline year by year. Starting from 1984, the number of movie audiences will gradually decrease, and the film market has begun to decline.
landslide.
And the negative factors that caused it to gradually decline began to emerge this year. It was just that it was completely hidden under the flowers and no one could realize it.
As for the reasons, there are nothing more than two points in detail.
First of all, as the "little brother" of movies, the television industry has been catching up and developing rapidly.
As early as 1979, due to the rapid popularity of television, the problem of competing with movies and stage plays for audiences soon arose.
So the film department decided not to provide copies of new movies to TV stations. This regulation also set a special "threshold". Newly produced feature films must be provided to TV stations six months after their release.
Soon, stage plays were reluctant to be recorded by television stations for fear of affecting attendance, let alone simultaneous broadcasts.
In this way, for TV workers, when the drama "In the Silent Place" was broadcast, the wonderful scenes of "The Heart of the Heart" have completely become memories of yesterday.
At the same time, the growing number of new TV users feel cheated because they cannot watch the latest movies.
Because at the beginning of the era of television consumption, people regarded the television as a miniature home theater and a theater box with images. If the TV station did not play feature films, wouldn't it be a great loss of entertainment and a harm to consumers?
As a result, all this has become a huge pressure, forcing our country's television workers to regard the development of TV series as their unshirkable priority.
However, because they are in the pioneering stage, domestic TV dramas must go through the exploratory stage, and neither quantity nor quality can meet the needs of the audience.
In order to solve the "food and grass crisis", for a long time, TV dramas have relied on imports to fill the broadcast time. They have relied on "foreign aid" to maintain stable audiences and expand their audience groups.
It is precisely for this reason that Yugoslavia's "Behind Enemy Lines" and "The Blacklist", as well as the United States' "Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" and "The Garrison Suicide Squad" have the chance to enter the people's field of vision. Let ordinary people
The common people had a romantic imagination about war and appreciated the exotic customs.
Only "The Red and the Black", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Anna Karenina", "David Copperfield" and "The Mayor of Casterbridge" from Britain and France can bring the distant humanistic feelings to the audience.
Entering our ancient capital has awakened the literary consciousness of a large number of people.
Even in 1981, the Japanese TV series "Zi Sanshiro" also appeared on our TV screens, thus setting off the first round of "Japanese drama craze".
It should be said that the popularity of this drama is unmatched by any imported drama today.
In the context of frequent power outages that year, the power department in Beijing was publicly reprimanded and dissatisfied by the general public in newspapers just because it happened to have a power outage during the broadcasting time of the TV series.
Therefore, in response to the strong request of the audience, the power department made a study and decided to postpone the power outage to the broadcast time of the drama. This calmed the anger from the public.
It can be seen from this that this drama has attracted many people to the TV.
Another phenomenon that is equally illustrative is that during the screening of this drama, the wood and bricks used as building materials are not very safe if they are placed in the open air as before. They often disappear.
Appear.
This is not because thieves actually commit crimes, but children often use these things to imitate the plots in TV series and practice chopping wood and bricks with their palms.
Even Hong Jun is no exception to this. He is also intoxicated in the inspirational stories composed of weird Eastern Japanese songs, kimonos, clogs, and bushido. He has become a "fan" of Zisanshiro.
Needless to say, Hong Yanwu was definitely furious after discovering this incident.
He regretted very much that he had neglected to educate the next generation. His nephew was going to "evil ways", and I was afraid that the spirit of Lord Yu would have to come to his door at night to scold him.
Fortunately, facts can speak for themselves when it comes to kung fu. After practicing the unique skill of "breaking five bricks with one palm", Hong Yanwu, who had gradually abandoned kung fu, finally paid the price of a week of pain in his palm, which made Hong Jun regret it in time.
After realizing the truth that "judo is nothing", I became interested in the wrestling technique that could knock the shit out of "Zi Sanshiro".
So from then on, Hong Jun learned to wrestle while watching TV.
Hong Yanwu doesn't insist on this. Understanding is understanding, entertainment is entertainment, as long as you can distinguish clearly.
What's more, he also understands Hong Jun quite well. There is also a beautiful Japanese girl named Saeomi in the TV series. Children in the 1970s understood this much better than they did.
Of course, while translated films are booming and popular, domestic TV dramas have also gained time to start developing. They have even learned many skills under the stimulation of translated films.
In less than two years, domestic television has completed the creation process from single dramas to TV series. The focus of creation has also rapidly changed from pure political awareness, publicity and education to entertainment and drama.
Also in this year, the National Outstanding TV Drama Awards, the predecessor of the famous TV series "Feitian Award", also held its second award ceremony. "New Shore", "The Love of the Earth", "White Handkerchief" and other outstanding TV series won
award.
So, on the one hand, there is the sensational introduction of TV dramas that are like cluster bombs in every home, causing shock waves again and again in the streets.
On the other hand, domestic TV dramas have begun to show their prominence, and their quality and quantity have begun to increase at an alarming rate. Their styles have become more diversified, and their appeal to the people has become stronger and stronger.
And the relationship between the two is not competition and opposition, but actually a relationship of cooperation.
It is these two together that constitute the popular trend of television culture and form a powerful force for popular culture. This will inevitably lead to the rapid expansion of the number of television audiences and the foreseeable market.
This is just the prelude to the curtain opening.
Because at the end of this year, although the number of TV sets in our country had reached 10 million, and the number of viewers was estimated to be about 100 million, compared with the national population, the market to be developed is obviously larger.
Secondly, in addition to competition from the television industry, the film industry itself also has a big problem. The industry has expanded too much.
Because those handsome men and beautiful women who have outstanding performances on the screen will quickly become people's favorite stars. Many young actors have just made their first movie and can quickly become household names.
So while they easily enjoyed the reputation and status that others could only achieve after a lifetime of hard work, many people forgot about it.
It seems that the world is in one's hands, and one can do whatever one wants, whether it is blind arrogance or desire, it is blown up like a balloon.
This leads to two situations.
One is that individuals have higher pursuit goals, are not satisfied with resting on their existing merits, and are eager for a new world, eager for new challenges, eager to seek knowledge, and develop themselves, so as to achieve higher achievements in life.
Although I have some misunderstandings about the world, thinking that there are flowers and green grass everywhere, and the door to any treasure will be opened for me by just saying "open sesame". But the starting point of this pursuit is still benign and progressive after all.
Its representative figure is Cen Chong. In June of this year, 20-year-old Cen Chong had just received his graduation certificate from Shanghai International Studies University and had acted in his last movie "Meet in Beijing". Just as his acting career was booming.
Study abroad.
It was from her that the famous Chinese film actors began to study abroad.
The other type is those who have looser demands on themselves and have no ability to resist the erosion of fame and fortune. These people enjoy themselves in peace and have no higher pursuits in life. They have a squandering mentality like a lucky person about the achievements they have already achieved.
Especially under the deliberate wooing of some "young men" and "eldest ladies", they lost their bottom line as "actors" and became "actors" before liberation. They were drunk and dreaming every day, and their private lives were extremely chaotic.
The representative figure is Chi Zhiqiang, the popular "Changying Studio" actor. If the original historical trajectory is followed, he will soon have to pay four years of freedom for his indiscretion, and his career will be completely destroyed.
But to be honest, northern actors are actually quite good. The real "hardest hit areas" are in the "heart cities" of national films.
Because just a few years later, a scandal broke out, which was a major earthquake in the film industry and almost wiped out half of the elite power in the Shanghai and Shanghai film industry.
At that time, countless female movie stars who have become famous will suddenly disappear, and many of them will even avoid going abroad in the name of studying abroad. As a result, most of the people in the country who are kept in the dark are confused about how a movie star can become famous once she becomes famous.
They are all going abroad? And why are they all getting together?
Coupled with the fact that it was the first to achieve success, at the same time, the only "Xie Jin Model" recognized by the market and loved by the public will be harshly accused and unfairly criticized.
And those bosses who stood up and talked without pain in their backs only focused on scolding and criticizing, but did not care about solving actual problems. As a result, subsequent domestic films completely lost their creative direction.
For a period of time, we could only rely on lining up some films that reflected the country's backwardness to appeal to foreigners, or making some "artistic experimental films" that no one could understand to fool the audience.
Just imagine, in this context of great loss of vitality, there is a lack of well-known actors and domestic films with stories. Compared with the TV industry at that time, when good dramas were doubled, advertising revenue was mature, and the audience reached 600 million people. Then
It was inevitable that he would fall from the heights of the altar to the mortal world and be unable to recover.
So in the final analysis, to sum up, 1981 was the year when the two forms of visual entertainment in our country waxed and waned, which can be called a dividing line.
What is particularly worth mentioning is that the incident of Cen Chong going abroad had an additional impact, which was a serious blow to Chen Liquan.
Since watching "Heroes of Tongbai", he has become the most staunch fan of "Little Flower". He has watched "Awakening", "Overseas Innocence" and all Cen Chong's movies at least four or five times.
Magazines, pictorials, calendars, as long as there are photos and reports of Cen Chong, I have to buy one. My love for her is absolutely from the bottom of my heart.
Therefore, he especially did not understand Cen Chong's choice, and he felt disappointed and sad that he would not be able to see Cen Chong's movies in the future. For a long time, he looked depressed and was listless in doing anything.
Hong Yanwu didn't expect that Chen Liquan would be so obsessed with Cen Chong in this life, so he teased him about being lovesick and said that if you can learn English, I might as well send you abroad to find Cen Chong.
Unexpectedly, the speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. It was just a joke, but Chen Liquan actually took it seriously.
This silly boy suddenly remembered Smith's words, and simply thought that if he passed the "TOEFL" test, he could go to the United States to study, and he would really be classmates with Cen Chong.
So he went ahead and asked Hong Yanru to take away all the English textbooks from junior high school, and began the arduous road of "self-taught".
For this reason, Hong Yanwu certainly felt that something was wrong, but when he was about to explain it to Quanzi, he suddenly thought about it. In fact, it would be better to let him learn English, at least it would be useful for business.
Besides, isn't it just young people chasing stars? What else can I explain? He might give up after studying for a few days. If he really succeeds in learning, even if he can't study abroad, it's not a big deal to send him out for a walk.
In this way, he just let it go.
Another thing is that because of Hong Yanwu, Hong Yanru can go to the cinema and watch movies as he pleases in this life, probably because of his influence.
Facing the college entrance examination this year, this girl actually participated in the Beijing Film Academy's art exam selection, and actually passed it, becoming qualified to apply for the Beijing Film Academy's acting department.
This means that once she passes the cultural exam, she is very likely to become a big name in the film and television industry in the future.
But before Hong Yanwu had time to react and consider the pros and cons of this matter, the girl couldn't wait to announce it to the whole family.
Of course, the parents categorically rejected the decision. The old couple were completely unanimous in their opinions and categorically said that the children of the Hong family could do anything but not be "actors."
Hong Yanru's temperament doesn't dare to go against her will. Needless to say, she doesn't even have a son, her film and television dream is completely shattered, and she has to make another choice for her future.
In the end, it was Hong Yanwu who helped to provide advice. Based on his sister's interests, he helped her choose the fashion design major of the "Beijing Fashion Institute" and described the beauty of the foreign fashion industry to her. This stabilized the girl's mood and did not let her down.
She was too sad.
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