Introduction and detailed information of opera films

Opera film is a combination of China national opera and film art.

Category opera film recorded a complete opera repertoire, as well as performances and highlights of famous opera actors. Such as Hero and Gai Jiaotian's Stage Art.. Others break through the stage framework, adopt scenery or real scenes, and combine artistic expression with film artistic expression, so as to have both, such as Wild Pig Forest (Beijing Opera) and Dream of Red Mansions (Yue Opera).

Opera film is a unique film type, and it is the only film type named after an artistic element in the film except music film. In other words, the traditional Chinese opera film is the only film type with distinctive national characteristics. Based on the duality of film images, the functional orientation of traditional Chinese opera movies has not been well solved since its birth-except for the contradictory unity of market (studio aesthetics) and narrative (stage aesthetics), the preservation and inheritance of traditional Chinese opera stage has always been an insurmountable "gap" that puzzles the existence and development of traditional Chinese opera movies. The two basic forms of traditional Chinese opera movies are the results of two different methods and approaches to solve the internal contradiction of traditional Chinese opera movies-procedural contradiction.

In terms of art design and other artistic treatments, drama films pay attention to maintaining the characteristics of traditional operas and the style of original operas, so as to meet the audience's appreciation habits and needs for traditional operas.

After China's first film "Dingjun Mountain" was filmed, Ren Qingtai shot Changbanpo, Qingshishan, Xiangyang Building and Leopard in Beijing Fengtai Photo Studio, all of which were short films of Peking Opera.

During the1920s, Master Mei Lanfang also starred in some Beijing operas, such as Flowers Scattered in the Sky, Flowers Buried by Daiyu, Mulan Joining the Army, Xi Stone, Feather Dance, Farewell My Concubine, Sword Dance, Lady Shang Yuan, Dust Dance, and Kunqu Opera.

By 1930, after the first talking film appeared, the Chinese opera film was talking. There are mainly Peking Opera "Shiro Visiting Mother", Zhou Yu's Death, Farewell My Concubine, Lin Chong's Night Running and San Niang's Godson, as well as Peking Opera films directed by Fei Mu, including Drive Seven Armies, Zhuxian Town and Wang Baochuan, and the famous Peking Opera film "Life and Death Hate" starring Fei Mu director Mei Lanfang.

The Peking Opera movie Life and Death Hate 1948, the first prize in China and the first prize in China * * *-Life and Death Hate-Life and Death Hate is a Peking Opera stage movie.

After the early days of the founding of New China 1949, Mei Lanfang, Zhou, Cheng, and other masters have made stage art films, but the idea is clear, that is, to leave precious audio-visual materials while they are still alive. Strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as an information film, not an independent "movie".

It is the Huangmei opera film "The Fairy Couple" that breaks through the stage restriction, combines the virtual and the real, and uses special effects, which has had a wide influence in society. This film made Huangmei Opera, a local opera, popular all over China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and made Yan Fengying a household name. Yan Fengying's simple and sweet image is deeply rooted in people's hearts. Like a fresh wind in Shan Ye, she wrinkled a pool of spring water, and opera movies began to attract people's attention.

The first color film of New China came out, which is also an opera film: butterfly lovers starring Yuan Xuefen and Fan Ruijuan once swept the country. This film was brought to Geneva by Premier Zhou, which gave the best publicity to the new China. Known as "one drama saves one drama", the fifteen passes of Zhejiang and Kunming were made into a movie, which was greatly appreciated by * * *. Mulan, Liu Qiaoer, Pingju and other local operas of Henan Opera also appeared one after another, which had a great social impact. Many local operas that were not elegant in the past have been made into films, which have been accepted and loved by the people of the whole country. This is the result of the artistic policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and attaching importance to national folk art after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Another peak of traditional Chinese opera movies is the Yue opera movie A Dream of Red Mansions. It is a difficult problem to shoot a masterpiece with a capacity of more than three hours. Fortunately, Xu Jin, the screenwriter of the play, has a profound skill, closely follows Baodai's main line of love, and the lyrics are elegant and fresh, which is quite vivid. The director almost seamlessly connected the true and false scenes (most of the exterior scenes of the play were shot in Yu Garden), and the rhythm was also well grasped. Better performance. Wang's Lin Daiyu is called live Daiyu. Until today, in all art forms, no one can surpass her role.

In 1950s and 1960s before the Cultural Revolution, China shot a large number of traditional Chinese opera films, which were almost comparable to feature films in quantity. Such as Cowherd and Weaver Girl (Huangmei Opera), Flower as Media (Pingju Opera), Yuan (Chu Opera), Mei (Han Opera), Life and Death Card (xiang opera), Luohanqian (Shanghai Opera), Chasing Fish, etc. Although these films have different artistic levels, they all retain the wonderful singing and acting skills of the original drama and have made great contributions to the excavation and rescue of traditional Chinese opera. Shao's play "Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon" even aroused a lot of poetic sentiment, and even wrote a poem specially for it. Of course, the moral of political struggle has little to do with the film itself. The popularity of traditional operas and movies in China was also related to the audience at that time. The audience in the fifties and sixties were still interested in traditional national culture.

With the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Peking Opera model operas monopolized the literary stage in China.

During the period of 1969~ 1972, in order to solve the problem of "difficulty in going to the theatre", model operas were popularized, including Beijing Film Studio, Bayi Film Studio and changchun film studio. Directed by Xie Tieli and others, it was made into a stage play, which was released and shown nationwide. More than 300 kinds of local operas have also transplanted model operas; And record it into various records for sale. Because the model operas are deified, they are strictly required to be filmed, recorded and transplanted into local operas.

In the late Cultural Revolution, because * * * wanted to see traditional Peking Opera, but was limited by conditions and eye diseases, he mobilized Beijing Film Studio and Shanghai Film Studio to shoot stage documentaries such as Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera for him. This filming mission has been filmed as a secret mission. During this period, because * * * likes high school, he mainly filmed the Peking Opera high school plays performed by Li Heceng and Li Zongyi. For example, cutting the yellow robe, cutting Ma Su, cutting Yuanmenzi, xiaoyaojin, Lian Yingzhai (Crying Spirit Card 0), visiting Shiro (going through customs), clinking glasses, etc.

Lian Yingzhai, a Peking Opera film, was revived during the period of reform and opening up after the Cultural Revolution. People who have been imprisoned for a long time are hungry for spiritual food, and the status of the film is unprecedented. Opera films have also returned to normal track. In the golden age of films in the 1980s, five traditional Chinese opera films attracted much attention, namely "Iron Bow Edge" starring Yan Guan, a Beijing opera genius; "The Legend of the White Snake" starring Li Bingshu, and the original model drama "Long Yin"; Li Huiniang performed by Suzhou Peking Opera Troupe; Yue Opera "Birthday Celebration of Five Women", performed by Hua Xiaobai Theatre Company; And Qipin, starring Niu, a famous clown actor in Henan Opera. 50-year-old Guan Gu should be a virgin, Wu Dan, Wu Sheng, and she is still absolutely beautiful and comfortable on the screen. Such wizards are hard to find now. Li Bingshu was originally a painter of the Mei School in Tsing Yi, and Tian Han's book performed The Legend of the White Snake. According to Mr. Mei's way, this film won the box office champion in China that year. The "May" drama produced stars such as Mao and Cai Feihe.

At the beginning of the new century, the famous director Bird filmed the opera film Jiang Jie, and the director Guo Baochang filmed the opera film Spring Dream. Nowadays, traditional Chinese opera movies have moved from movies to TV and online videos. Traditional Chinese opera movies are not only traditional Chinese opera movies, but also the birth of new technologies, especially the birth of different video modes. The spread of online video has given traditional Chinese opera movies a new spreading space and recording form.

Today, drama films play a new role in the inheritance, development and dissemination of traditional operas in China.

Historical Position Traditional Chinese Opera Film is an important film type in China history of film in the past hundred years. There should be a market for middle-aged and elderly audiences in China and Chinese audiences around the world. It is a unique special type of China film in the world, and it is the perfect combination of China's long-standing traditional opera art and modern film art ... It not only retains the characteristics of traditional opera art, but also gives full play to the film's specialty, which has a wide influence and lasting artistic charm in the history of China film. As China's films enter another new century, it is necessary and significant for our film artists to study and review the laws and achievements of China's traditional opera films in the last century.

Memorabilia 1905, Dingjun Mountain, the first silent film produced by China, is actually a piece of Peking Opera with the same name starring Tan Xinpei, an old Peking Opera student.

1948, the first prize in China and the first prize in China * * *-"Life and Death Hate" is a Peking Opera stage movie.

1954 The first color film "Butterfly Lovers" produced by New China was also opera film.