Wu Zuguang (1965438+April 2, 20071Sunday-April 9, 2003), also known as Wu and Wu Shao, is one of the most influential, well-known and legendary cultural elderly people in contemporary China, a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, a famous scholar, dramatist, calligrapher and social activist. The main representative works are the drama Phoenix, Return on a Snowy Night, The Wandering Son, Pingju, Peking Opera Three Springs and Three Strings, the director film Mei Lanfang's Stage Art, Cheng's Stage Art and the six-volume Selected Works of Wu Zuguang.
Born in Yixing, Jiangsu, Wujin, Jiangsu,1965438+April 2 1, born in the big house of Xiaocao factory in Dongcheng, Beijing in 2007. His family provided a literary environment for Wu Zuguang. His father, Wu Ying, participated in the establishment of the Palace Museum and was good at poetry, calligraphy, seal cutting and appreciation of ancient cultural relics, which had a far-reaching influence on Wu Zuguang's literary career. In the same year, Wu Zuguang graduated from Beijing Comte School. After studying in the Literature Department of China-France University for one year, I want to hire the secretary of the president's office of Nanjing Theatre Academy.
2. Life events
1934 published the novel "Gong E Complain", which is his first novel.
1936 graduated from the liberal arts department of China-France University.
From 65438 to 0937, Wu Zuguang served as the secretary of the president's office of Nanjing National Theatre Academy. In the same year, he created the anti-Japanese drama Phoenix, which became a powerful weapon for the national theater to fight against Japanese invaders.
1945, the supplement of Xinmin Evening News edited by him was the first to publish * * * "Qinyuanchun? It's snowing.
/kloc-founded the supplement of Luminous Cup and Qingming Magazine of Xinmin Evening News in Shanghai in 0/946, and also created Ghost Hunting and a new drama the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, denouncing the reactionary rule of * * *, and then fled to Hong Kong under the persecution of * * * reactionaries.
From 65438 to 0947, he directed and directed films such as Soul of China, Don't Ignore Youth, Tears of Mountains and Rivers, Spring Breeze and Autumn Rain, Return on a Snowy Night, etc. After the founding of New China, Wu Zuguang created the film "Red Flag Song" and the children's drama "Apart from the Four Seas" which reflected the spinning women workers.
After 1954, Wu Zuguang directed films such as Mei Lanfang's Stage Art, Luoshen, and Tears in the Barren Mountains, which left extremely precious materials for Mei Lanfang and Cheng, two Peking Opera masters.
1963 cooperated with his wife Xin to adapt the Pingju "Flower as Media", which became a successful masterpiece on the Pingju stage.
After 1949, Wu Zuguang successively served as director of the Central Film Bureau and Beijing Film Studio, head of Mudanjiang Art Troupe, screenwriter of China Opera Academy, China Opera Research Institute and Beijing Peking Opera Theatre, professional creator of the Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, executive director and vice chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association, and honorary chairman of Friendship Publishing Company.
1957 was wrongly classified as the Rightists, and the labor in the Great Northern Wilderness was decentralized.
1960 returned to Beijing, and worked as a screenwriter in the Experimental Peking Opera Troupe and Beijing Peking Opera Troupe successively, creating plays such as Wu Zetian, Feng Qiu Huang, Three Taos and Three Springs.
65438-0979 The Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture is engaged in professional creation.
From 65438 to 0960, he returned to Beijing Experimental Peking Opera Troupe and China Opera Research Institute as screenwriters, and created Peking Opera scripts such as Three Taos and Three Springs and Three Popular Banquets. The screenplay adapted from Pingju "Taking Flowers as Media" can be regarded as a model of opera innovation.
Step 3: Death
On April 9, 2003, he died of coronary heart disease in Beijing at the age of 86.
Wu Zuguang's four favorite words in his later years were "born at the right time", although his life was bumpy.
* * * Inscription for the exhibition of the Three Dynasties of Wu.
Wu Zuguang's film career.
In some people's eyes, Mr. Wu is a giant who writes plays, Peking Opera and Pingju, a master of poetry and prose, and a journalist who has been a chief writer, but little is known about his film career. In fact, he is a veteran filmmaker, and film activities are an important part of his artistic life and should not be forgotten.
Mr. Wang's film career began at 1947.
That year, under the brutal rule of * * * reactionaries, he wrote full-length play's the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon with extraordinary courage. The sharp edge of this play is the reactionary rule of * * *. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek was attacking the liberated areas on a large scale and implementing the "General Mobilization Counter-insurgency Order" in the Kuomintang-controlled areas. Can the authorities leave Wu Zuguang alone? Shortly after the play was staged, he was warned and threatened many times, and his personal safety was in extreme danger. In order to accumulate talents and strength for new China, the Party moved Mr. Wu Zuguang to Hongkong in autumn of 2008. There, he entered the Greater China Film Company as a director and set foot on the film industry.
In Greater China, he wrote and directed two films, Return on a Snowy Night and Don't Lose Youth. Return on a Snowy Night is based on his play of the same name, with Sun Jinglu and Yukun Lu as the leading roles respectively. "Never Deny Youth" was led by Zhou Xuan, and the film episode was a sensation.
Subsequently, Wu Zuguang joined Yonghua Film Co., Ltd. as the director and director committee member of Wu Zuguang profile. The editorial board is headed by, and its members include, Zhu Shilin,, and Cheng. Under Yonghua, Wu Zuguang directed two films. One is Tears of Mountains and Rivers, written by Tang Mo and starring Bai Yang and Tao Jin. The other is Spring Breeze and Autumn Rain, which is based on Huang Guliu's novel and Wu Zuguang's brief introduction, starring Ye and Tao Jin. At the same time, his two plays, Chinese Soul and The Fall of Childe, also started shooting. The Chinese Soul is directed by, Liu Qiong plays Wen Tianxiang, Tao Jin plays, Wang Xichun plays Miss Wen and Jia Sidao. The films Tears of Mountains and Rivers and Spring Breeze and Autumn Rain are the representative works of Yonghua.
During Wu Zuguang's three years in Hongkong, he left behind six films, which was fruitful. This is his initial passion for China films.
* * * On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China,1July, 949, Wu Zuguang returned to Beijing by boat from Hongkong via Qingdao, and later directed the film The Red Capital-Northeast Film Studio. In September of the following year, the filming of the first film "Red Flag Song" written and directed by New China was completed. In this work, he enthusiastically eulogized the master of his new life and made people feel his intense heartbeat to meet the new era.
Later, he was transferred from Dongying to Beiying as a director and began to explore opera art films. His first eyes turned to the quintessence of Peking Opera and Mei Lanfang, the master of Mei School. /kloc-filmed the first episode of Mei Lanfang's stage art in 0/955, finished the next episode the following year, and put Mei Lanfang's masterpiece Luoshen on the screen. Later, he filmed the famous drama Tears in the Barren Mountains. His exploration of traditional Chinese opera films is remarkable, especially his earliest recording of Mei and Qiu's stage art with images, which is precious, unique and indispensable. 1957, he went to Kunming and filmed the poetic autumn of Spring City, which was his valuable exploration of scenery films.
Just when this high-spirited genius wanted to show his talents, he was wrongly classified as a "Rightist" and sent to a farm in the Great Northern Wilderness for labor reform. 1960, when he returned to Beijing from the Great Northern Wilderness, he was transferred from the film industry and placed in the Experimental Peking Opera Troupe of China Theatre Academy and China Theatre Research Institute.
However, his fascination with movies has not changed. Wearing a "Rightist" hat, he never changed his infatuation and created a drama art film (Pingju) film literary script "Flowers as Media". 1in August, 963, the play was directed by the loving wife and the founder of the new Pingju School, and is now being put on the screen. Twenty years later, he wrote the book "Tao San Pai San Chun", an artistic film of China Opera (Peking Opera), and still made a long film to shoot. It should be said that among Chang Ying's outstanding contributions to traditional Chinese opera and movies, there is Wu Zuguang's painstaking efforts.
1984 Wu Zuguang's Wandering Rivers and Lakes is directed by Cenfan and Fang Shen, starring Li Baotian, and jointly produced by Tianjin Film Studio and Tianjin People's Art Theatre. This is Wu Zuguang's curtain call in the film industry.
Wu Zuguang left 15 films to the world, and also left his diligent pursuit of film art.