A Dream Of Red Mansions On The Screen: Actors Once Wore Modern Clothes To Provoke Controversy.

N "dream of Red Mansions" on screen

The dream of Red Mansions has been moved onto the screen many times, and the dream of Red Mansion directed by Bo Wan in 1944 is the last one before liberation.

The first to put the dream of red mansion on the screen is the drama short film "Daiyu burial flower" produced by "Min Xin" company in 1926 according to Mei Lanfang's stage performance.

It was shown for a very short time, and Mr. Mei himself could not see it before he died.

The second one to put the dream of Red Mansions on the screen is a dream of Red Mansions taken by Fudan company in July 1927. It is divided into two episodes. It runs through the corner of grandma Liu. It explains the story of a dream of Red Mansions in a more complete way, and expounds the nothingness thought of "rich and precious things in Han Dynasty".

As the characters in this film are all dressed in fashion, they were severely rebued at the time and later.

And the creator of this film thinks: "a dream of Red Mansions" has never shown the age. It is OK to wear fashionable clothes.

It is also specifically stated in the advertisement: "this film is a modern costume, an old costume style."

The third to put the dream of Red Mansions on the screen is a dream of Red Mansions taken by the peacock company in February 1928. When it appeared, it had advertised an advertisement in a tit for tat: "this film is an ancient costumes, but not a fashion."

And had some influence at that time.

The fourth to put the dream of Red Mansions on the screen is the April 1936 "Dahua" company launched a costume song music record "Daiyu burial flower", from "North Mei Lang, south snow Fang" Li Xuefang starring, but after the release of the impact is not big.

The fifth one to put the dream of Red Mansions on the screen is the "Wang Xifeng's great disturbance of Ning Guo Fu" captured by Xinhua company in 1939.

The starring role of the film is Bu Wancang's Red Star Gu Lanjun, who was presented in 1937.

In the film, she portrayed beautiful, pungent and acrid Feng sister with exquisite performance, and attracted a lot of praise.

The sixth one to put the dream of Red Mansions on the screen is the movie "dream of Red Mansions" (upper and lower set), which was directed by Hua Ying in June 1944 in "Hua Ying" company. It is not only the last film taken before liberation, but also a mature one in art.

In order to make this work well, Bu Wancang personally took the sword and spent months trying to "reflect the ugly character of a big family and expose the evil of the feudal system" in the film.

He once wrote, "this great work of the monarch" has been studied again and again.

In terms of clothing and props, "cost a lot of time, over many books and reference to many styles before deciding".

In addition, his cast for the film organization is also quite spectacular: "golden voice" Zhou Xuan, "classical beauty" Yuan Meiyun, "little Zhou Xuan" Wang Danfeng...

All of them were "shining stars" at that time.

In the "Lilac Garden" scene shooting, Bu Wancang made a very elaborate scene design, carefully designed for each play, and finally spent more than four months to finish it, which was quite long at that time.

After the launch of the film, it caused a great sensation, and was praised as "fine temper and exquisite performance" by the press.

Bu Wancang's several interludes arranged in the film also spread like wildfire.

Later, the film was taken to Japan to become the first Chinese movie introduced to Japan.

After liberation, the dream of Red Mansions moved to the screen. There are more influential "Cathay Pacific" two dreams of Red Mansions, "dream of Red Mansions" of the Great Wall, "dream of Red Mansions" by "Haiyan" and "three sisters of the sun", "dream of Red Mansions" and "northern shadow" of a dream of Red Mansions. In addition, there are more than ten pieces of "Chun Lou Chun Chun", "a dream of Red Mansions" and "wind moon Bao Jian" and so on. Among them, the most influential is the 1962 "Haiyan" Shaoxing opera "dream of the Red Chamber".

After the rise of TV art, the dream of Red Mansions was also made into a serial play, which was built by CCTV in the 80s of the last century. The 36 episode has reached a new height, whether in editing, guiding, acting level or music, costume and scene making. It has been played back for more than 20 years.