New work of explosive directors!Gathering 5 Chinese legend superstars

Yesterday, "Chasing Light" was released.

The documentary uses Lu Yan as the perspective,

Go through 6 cities,

Tell the history of the movie

The life of 5 legendary Chinese figures.

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Five legendary characters in the film

They have:

The first Chinese actress who is famous for Hollywood, Huang Liushuang;

The box office champion of the Republic of China, Cai Chusheng;

Father of Chinese Films, Li Minwei;

One generation of kung fu superstars, Bruce Lee;

And after three photos,

Lu Yan, the first Chinese judge in the Oscar Award.

It can be said that without them, there is no current Chinese movie.

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An interview director Zhang Tongdao

We interviewed director Zhang Tong in Beijing,

Earlier, the explosive documentary "Zero",

"Hometown of Literature",

We interviewed him in Beijing:

"From the 1920s to the 1970s,

I have built a half -film history.

You can see the thing behind the movie,

It is also paid tribute to the early pioneers of Chinese films. "

Self -description: Zhang Tongdao

Edit: Chen Xing

Responsible editor: Ni Chujiao

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When Lu Yan was young

What did the Chinese do in the development of the world in the world?

I chose 5 people, including actors, directors, producers ... I used the opportunity to shoot "Chasing Light" to talk about our Chinese people to the movie. All of them are legendary here.

You see Bruce Lee, Huang Liushuang, Li Minwei, and Cai Chusheng, all of which are gone. I must find a healthy person to string all it.

I can no longer find the second person who can replace Teacher Lu Yan. Unexpectedly, Mr. Lu agreed because she liked movies too much.

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The filming team followed Lu Yan and visited 6 cities around the world

Teacher Lu took a shot with us for more than 40 days. We walked in 6 cities, and there were some villages, Los Angeles, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Taishan.

Getting along with Lu Yan, I can describe it in such a sentence: I have returned to the Republic of China for more than 40 days. She is a typical lady in the Republic of China.

You can feel that this old man is like a warm ancient jade, and she will never hold you to hold you, making you uncomfortable. She has the humility of the older generation of Chinese people to things and people.

At any time, as long as it is agreed, she will make all the preparations in advance, wait for you quietly, and be full of devotion to the work she wants to do. Every time the old lady asked, do you want to come again?

Teacher Lu's appetite is particularly good. She has a special hobby for Shanghai food. She also taught us how to eat Shanghai cuisine, which one is delicious, and what delicious this one is. This is also a very cute place for the elderly.

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Lu Yan, who was in his early 30s, was transferred from accounting to actor from accounting

Teacher Lu Yan took us to visit the legend, but in fact she was a legend.

She was born in Beijing and went to Shanghai about four or five years old. Lu Yan's mother is the famous Peking Opera old student. She does not want her children to learn these things again, so she encourages Lu Yan to learn accounting.

Lu Yan has done a good job in accounting. He is already in the United States about 30 years old. He has achieved a hospital accounting department and his income is quite high. Occasionally, she once saw the crew filming and said she asked her to be a mass actor. This time, she hooked her emotions back.

When did her acting talent start?

In his teens, Lu Yan lived in Meifu, and Mei Lanfang secretly taught her to play. Later, I studied at the Shanghai Jiaotong University. Although she was a professional accountant, she always went to the Da Guangming Theater for translation. Looking at what she said on the picture, she translated that word. Essence

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Lu Yan and the eldest daughter, the second daughter

So in the United States, once she had this opportunity, she wanted to continue to perform. At that time, she had three children, but her husband specially supported it. She went to the Passati Academy of Drama for two years and followed the film.

She has a lot of great directors and actors, such as Malan Bailong. Her real achievement in performing arts is in Hong Kong and Taiwan, China, three times, and three Golden Horse Awards. She should have been hired as a lifelong judge by the Oscar Commission.

Bai Xianyong said that Lu Yan is an actor among the actors. Lu Yan filmed "Mrs. Dong" in Taiwan, and for the first time, she showed her talents. In her own, "I found the roots, my world."

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At the age of 31, Hollywood movie "Chinese Doll"

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At the age of 41, he performed the movie "Mrs. Dong"

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At the age of 82, he performed the drama "De Ling and Cixi"

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At the age of 93, he performed the drama "The Dream of Dreams"

In 2019, the first scene of our "Chasing Light Miles" was a interval of Teacher Lu's "Dream of Dreams". Teacher Lu was at the rehearsal scene. The 7 -hour drama remembered that the lines were good at all.

That day was the coldest day since the winter of Beijing, approximately 20 degrees below zero. We found her hometown in Beijing and stepped into the courtyard. She saw that the house was gone.

When he was about to leave, Lu Yan suddenly stood up and said, "Let me look back again." It is a look at her life nearly 90 years ago. Then we went to Shichahai again. It was where she was often gone when she was a child. The old lady was happy in her heart and started dancing when she walked with two hands. She was imitating the flying of the swallow, "I am a swallow, I flew back from the United States, and I flew back to my hometown."

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Lu Yan's eyes are all presented by her performance skills

In the camera, this kind of performance is inadvertent, looking back, a small movement, and a look of the design of her eyes reveal her artistic experience. As a director, I feel that our skill is too much.

When filming "Chasing Light Miles", Lu Yan's age was 93 and was active on the stage. At the age of 96, because of this film, he won the Best Actress Award and Lifetime Achievement Award for the China -Canada International Film Festival. Recently, she took another film and went to Canada next month.

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Lu Yan visited Li Minwei's six son Li Xi in Hong Kong

Speaking of the history of Chinese film, Li Minwei couldn't get around, and he was called the father of Chinese film.

He has 8 children, and Li Zi in Hong Kong is his granddaughter. He died very early and died in his fifty. In order to restore his story, Teacher Lu and I visited his six son Li Xi and saw his diary.

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Li Minwei's handwriting diary has become a precious historical information

It was a small 32 -opened little book, written in classical Chinese, and wrote it until his death. In front of each diary, three words are used to conclude, for example, the Prime Minister, see Huang Liushuang. The font is neatly neat, and you can see that this person's personality is very calm and thick.

Li Xi took us to the former site of the first film producer company that Li Minwei opened in Hong Kong that year, Minxin Film Company. In order to commemorate Li Minwei, the Hong Kong government deliberately named it here.

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"Zhuangzi Test Wife" filmed by Li Minwei is the first plot of China.

We have two earliest Chinese films that are checked, one of which is "Zhuangzi Test Wife" made by Li Minwei, about 10 minutes. The movie itself is gone, but the shooting process is clearly recorded.

What stays staying today is a still: Li Minwei personally entered the battlefield, dressed as a woman. His wife also participated in and became the first actress in the history of Chinese film. The film was released in a place similar to a playground in Hong Kong and was very successful.

Li Minwei not only contributed very much in the story film, but also a master figure in the documentary.

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Sun Yat -sen's image shot by Li Minwei

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Li Minwei carried the "Songhu Council Documentary" shot on the battlefield on the battlefield (1937)

The image of Sun Yat -sen we saw today was all taken by him. In the Northern Expedition, the Japanese attacked Shanghai twice, and the Kuomintang did not give him a penny, and Li Minwei almost photographed the whole process. In the 1920s, he even tied himself to the plane and took a aerial air from the plane.

One of them was called "The History of the 19th Army Anti -Japanese War". At that time, it was very sensational in the movie theater. The Japanese forced this film to withdraw from Shanghai. As a result, many countries in Nanyang came to buy this copy. The real records he recorded for China was an extremely important historical document for China at that time.

At that time, the Shanghai film market was open and completely equal. In the case of almost casual Hollywood blockbusters, Chinese films still achieved such a large box office success and art success.

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Lu Yan visited the Shanghai Film Museum in Shanghai in Shanghai. This is the former site of Lianhua Film Company

The earliest film factory that he was established was called Minxin Company. Later, the Hong Kong major strike could not go on, so he moved to Shanghai and founded Lianhua. Today's Shanghai Film Museum is the former site of Lianhua Pictures. The bronze statue at the door of the museum is Li Minwei.

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The classic films starring Ruan Lingyu all come from Lianhua

The famous "Goddess", "Grand Road", "Yu Guang Qu", and "New Women" all come from Lianhua. Ruan Lingyu was also cultivated by him. The first film of Li Minwei was called "The Dream of Spring", which had a great influence at the time. These movies are not only called seats, but also great art works.

But in his diary, he described his life as a loser.

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In order to make a movie, Li Minwei was almost out of home. His film factory had encountered a traitor and occupied

He is a businessman family and is very rich, because the filming is out of his family. In a war era, the Japanese immediately sealed his factory, and the traitor took the factory to him. He often encountered accidents. When he was the poorest, the family had only one dollar left in the New Year, but he never regretted it.

I call Li Minwei the camel of Chinese movies because of the bearing bears and the mission. Sun Yat -sen wrote 4 words for him: the world is the public. Gao Jianfu, the leader of the Lingnan Painting School, wrote a pair of words for him: the movie saves the country.

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Cai Chusheng

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"Yu Guangqu" directed by Cai Chusheng was released in the Golden City Grand Theater for 83 days.

Then Cai Chusheng, he is the box office champion of the Republic of China.

Before 1949, there were two movies in Chinese movies, 2 of the four of them ("Yu Guangqu" and "One River Spring Water to the East") from his hands. "Yu Guangqu", at the Golden City Theater, was 83 days in a row, the audience was like a tide, creating the peak of the box office. Jincheng Grand Theater, which is today's Huangpu Theater.

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In "Chasing Light" interviewed Cai Chusheng's son Cai Ming

Cai Chusheng's son Cai Ming, he told us about his father's past experience: Cai Chusheng was a guy in a grocery store, and he never learned a movie at all. Occasionally, a pair of movies came to Shanghai. Go to see, go here for help, this gang helped himself a big director.

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"Yu Guangqu" was filmed in real scenes at that time ▲

In "Chasing Light Miles", Zhang Tongdao tried to reproduce the shooting scene of the year at the beach

As early as 1933, Cai Chusheng insisted on shooting in the real scene. He spent three or four years in Xiangshan, Zhejiang. Europe later commented that "Yu Guangqu" was a movie like Italy's new realism. Italian new realism began to move the camera to the street to make it after the war.

In order to reproduce this history, we also ran to the seaside. To make a plot, it depends on the weather, setting up the scene, props, and in the era of Cai Chusheng, the difficulty can be imagined.

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The grand occasion of "Yijiang Chunshui to the East"

No one, like Cai Chusheng, can take the pulse of Chinese audiences so accurately.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, when the mainland retreated, Cai Chusheng fled alone, had pneumonia, and his luggage was also snatched away. He is with the refugees every day to know how the at the bottom of the people live.

He wrote in his diary: "I am now like an ant, and there is no dignity like a bug." He decided to shoot "One River Spring Water to the East". Some elderly women can only pick up waste products in the ruins. Children who are discussing can be seen everywhere that many people do not even eat bark or tree roots, and millions of people are homeless. He combined what he saw behind the big rear into the movie.

"Yijiang Chunshui to the East" represents the height of Chinese movies. Today, the movie is still a great movie.

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Huangliushuang

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The sculpture of the Hollywood Starway Avenue, the far left in the picture is Huang Liushuang

If you go to the Avenue of Starlight in Hollywood, you can see a sculpture, four representative women in the world, of which the on behalf of Asia is Huang Liushuang. The active Chinese actors in Hollywood, such as Liu Yuling and Michelle Yeoh, will definitely mention Huang Liushuang once they mention Chinese actors.

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More than 40 pro -book letters I found this time are the first time

We found this time, Huang Liushuang's biography author and her more than 40 pro -book letters, these are the first public.

Huang Liushuang is a third -generation Chinese. He was born in Los Angeles. He opened a laundry in Chinatown in his family. The family conditions have not been very good since childhood. But she made a good debut early. At the age of 17, she began to be the protagonist in the movie "The Dead of the Sea". In her 20s, Huang Liushuang was spread all over the world.

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Most of the characters starring Huang Liushuang are snake scorpions

At that time, the China exclusion bill was still effective, and the Chinese had no status in society.

Huang Liushuang played some roles in some movies. Dragon girls, snake scorpion beauty, often killed, had conspiracy behind them, and was killed by just white people ... domestic people said that she lost Chinese and performed these movies.

Huang Liushuang also slowly discovered, why do I play these are bad guys? Later, she began to refuse to play such a film.

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Huang Liushuang was selected as the performance of "The Earth", and the heroine was finally starred by a European

There was one thing that could be turned into Huang Liushuang.

The novel "Earth" written by Sai Pearl is prepared to be adapted into a movie, which is the first movie that expresses the Chinese on the front. Many people think that "Earth" will definitely find Huang Liushuang. Huang Liushuang's age, acting skills, and fame are here. Huang Liushuang also thinks it is her. But in the end, this role gave a European.

The election was particularly stimulated to her. Huang Liushuang decided to leave Hollywood and return to China.

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The process of Huang Liushuang returned to China, the whole process was photographed by the photographer

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She met the famous actress Hu Die in Shanghai

She has lived in China for about 10 months, and the whole process of returning to China was filmed by photographers. We found the place where Huang Liushuang took the boat ashore. At the sixteen shop pier in Shanghai, we can see the buildings at the time, such as the Shanghai Building, which is still there. She stayed at the Heping Hotel, and we also found the room she lived.

She was welcomed the most in Shanghai. Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng invited her to dinner. Li Minwei also invited her to dinner. Hu Die asked her to visit the New Company, and Mei Lanfang also taught her to write calligraphy.

The domestic faction welcomed her very well, and she was very good to her, and she scolded her. When the local Taishan fellow he heard that Huang Liushuang returned, they set up a temporary institution. They were not allowed to return to their hometown, and Liu Shuang was sad.

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Huang Li Shuang returned to Taishan hometown

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Teacher Lu Yan also came to the old house of her hometown along the footprint of Huang Liushuang

This time, we asked Teacher Lu Yan to return to her hometown in Taishan and see her relatives. The high -speed railway is being repaired next to it. It turned out that the old house was still there, and the village was half demolished.

This trip was shocked to Huang Liushuang, which made her emotions changes in the nation. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, she participated in a aid agency in the United States. She went to work every day. She kept speaking every day, sent American medicines back to China, and took her own jewelry and clothes to auction.

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The Chinese actress who was active in Holly

She wrote in the letter: "I was just a Chinese daughter who fostered in Los Angeles before. From today, I know that I am a Chinese."

But unfortunately, after the age of 31, she had no role to perform. In her old age, she had a good alcohol and died of heart disease in her 50s. Huang Liushuang was low and his talent was extremely high, but under such a very difficult and difficult situation, he promoted the Chinese to obtain more rights in the United States through personal efforts. This is amazing. ▲

Bruce Lee in "Death Game"

In Bruce Lee, the Chinese already had a high status, and he defeated Westerners on the screen.

This time, a huge shock was that I found Bruce Lee as a poet. His poems are written very well, all in English. English characters are also very beautiful, very feminine, and they are not flying at all. In the film, I used two poems, one of which was Bruce Lee's true portrayal:

"Many of us are eager to succeed in looking down at the heroes of Cangsheng, but fear of failure. Although we have the ability, only those who cultivate natural intuition can build our own views and are effective ..."

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Bruce Lee's disciple Yishan Du

We interviewed his disciple Yishan Du. Yinuo Mountain was older than Bruce Lee, and even the nunchakus taught Bruce Lee, but Bruce Lee finally played better than him. Bruce Lee's personality charm and philosophy attracted a large number of people who followed him.

Bruce Lee's success is just based on Chinese culture, compatible with all excellent cultures in the world, the wind comes from all sides, collects all the strengths of the world, and everything is used by me. This ability to absorb the world will eventually turn him into the most powerful whirlwind and conquer the world.

But unfortunately, from Huang Liushuang to Bruce Lee, none of the Chinese actors with global influence. Bruce Lee's legacy is accurate.

This documentary, we have been preparing since 2018, filmed in 2019, and finally launched in 2022.

The most difficult thing is the copyright, which is expensive and not to mention. The complication of its communication is beyond imagination, and the negotiation has been negotiated for a whole year. Bruce Lee's film is 100,000 yuan a minute. For example, Huang Liushuang wore a color picture of cheongsam. For various reasons, he did not get the copyright.

Teacher Lu Yan is very old and busy. We can only shoot her with the time of the gap, causing a lot of winter in the film, and the spring and summer are not available.

When we were looking for Bruce Lee's interview object, we spent a lot of effort to find his wife, but his wife said that he was no longer related. We turned around and contacted Bruce Lee's daughter, but his daughter did not reply to the message and did not answer the phone. In the end, we could only find his disciple Yishan Du.

Although there are regrets, it has been done after all.

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From the 1970s, Teacher Lu Yan took us back to the history of the half film

The documentary is named "Chasing Light Miles", which is the light of chasing movies. From the 1970s in the 1970s, I set up a half -film history.

I want to provide a dense door to those who love Chinese movies. You can see the things behind the movie, how to see how the Chinese people show another image in the world, another Planting talents can also be regarded as paying tribute to the early pioneers of Chinese films.

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