Unfortunately, after we went to college, the campus and classmates in front of us were not as good as the figures in the movie. Maybe we can only see the best universities in that movie.
This film is "Dormitory for Female College Students" released on 1983.
First, prose poetry film
The Dormitory for Female College Students is adapted from the short story of the same name by Yu Shan of Wuhan University, and the film was handed over to the fledgling director Shi Shujun by Shanghai Film Studio.
Shi Shujun took novels and scripts to university campuses in Beijing, Wuhan and other places to discuss with college students. However, college students' views on novels are relatively indifferent, which may be because novels pay too much attention to stories, and the main style belongs to the popular scar literature of that year, which seems to have little ideological appeal to college students.
Therefore, Shu Junshi revised the script on a large scale, embedding the story between Kuang Yalan, Xin Gan and Xin Gan's mother, and breaking all the scraps such as Kuang Yalan's scholarship and Xin Gan's first love into the film. The connection between stories adopts the scenery and trivia of university campus, so that the whole film forms the style of prose poetry, which also affects the shooting of some youth campus film and television dramas.
Second, the university of that year
The main shooting location of "Dormitory for Female College Students" is Wuhan University, and other shooting locations include Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Huazhong Normal University at that time. For the students of these universities, it is also an attraction to find the scenery of their alma mater in the film.
For example, on the long steps of Wu Da University, the director sent someone to each dormitory to inform him that he hoped to close the window to make the camera more concise when shooting the scene of Kuang Yalan and Yu Xia climbing the steps, but one dormitory classmate disagreed and opened the window when shooting.
The name of the university in the film is Southeast University, which may seem incredible now. It was obviously taken in Wuhan University. Why is Nanjing called Southeast University?
In fact, at the time of shooting, the name of Southeast University had not been restored. At that time, it was also called Nanjing Institute of Technology, so the film borrowed the name of Southeast University and did not exist. Unexpectedly, the original name was restored a few years later.
I have to say that the university scenery shown in this film really made the author look forward to it for a long time.
Third, the actors at that time.
There are five core characters in The Dormitory for Female College Students, namely, Song Ge, the supervisor, Luo Xuemei from the countryside, Yu Xia, a lovely girl, Xin Gan, Princess of Gao Qian, and Kuang Yalan, an orphan. Among them, the heroine is Kuang Yalan, and the two women should be Xin Gan.
Kuang Yalan had a bleak life experience. Her mother exposed her father with a letter from her father during the exercise, and then left. His father was forced to work in a quarry, and Kuang Yalan lived alone with his father, who later died in an accident. The orphan Kuang Yalan was admitted to the university with the help of odd jobs and good people.
Xin Gan's mother is Kuang Yalan's mother. Singan comes from a family in Gao Qian. She is straightforward and eccentric. Although she is bold and doesn't forgive anyone, she has a kind soul like her half-sister.
Luo Xuemei is a good man with no distinct personality, but a warm heart.
Yu Xia is the apple of her parents' eye and loved by her family. She is a girl full of romantic feelings. The author thinks that Guan Juer in Ode to Joy is simply a high imitation of Xia Yu.
Song Ge is an activist, but he seems to be too dogmatic and straightforward when dealing with problems.
These five girls with different personalities and backgrounds are sure to be full of stories in a dormitory. I always feel that the five girls in Ode to Joy have borrowed something from the dormitory of female college students to a greater or lesser extent.
Kuang Yalan, played by Luo Yan, was born in a senior intellectual family in Shanghai from 65438 to 0957. It is accidental and inevitable that she was chosen to play Kuang Yalan.
It must be that she and Kuang Yalan have similar fate. In the movement, her family suffered a blow and was forced to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the family from an early age. She can feel the scar in Kuang Yalan's heart.
Occasionally, at first, director Shu Junshi didn't go to Luo Yan immediately. When Luo Yan left the director's room, Shi Shujun looked at her heavy and melancholy figure upstairs and was immediately moved. That's Kuang Yalan.
Luo Yan's personality seems to be highly similar to that of Kuang Yalan in the film. Both of them have strong cognitive ability and execution ability for their future career and life.
After appearing in the film, Luo Yan became famous, and then she played Enron's sister Wenjing in The Girl in Red. However, when the future was promising, Luo Yan chose to go abroad for work-study programs, finished her postgraduate courses by washing dishes, and then began to work as a producer in Hollywood, taking the top spot as the chief producer, becoming a rare strong woman in Hollywood film production.
From 65438 to 0999, Luo Yan invested in The Woman in the Courtyard, a film adapted from Pearl Buck's novel. To be honest, I think Luo Yan seems to be more suitable as an actor.
Of course, there is another person behind Luo Yan's career who has to be mentioned, and that is Xiong Xiaoge who went to study in the United States with her in the same year. They met, fell in love and got married in the United States, and now Xiong Xiaoge has become a big shot in the investment field.
Xin Gan is played by Xu Ya. 1960 was born in Hunan and graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy. She made a guest appearance in a movie, and a scene in which she jumped from the top bunk attracted Shu Junshi, so she was chosen to play Xin Gan.
Xu Ya's personality is not the same as that of Xin Gan, nor is it as big and ugly as Xin Gan said in the film. On the contrary, Xu Ya is getting more and more beautiful and charming. She also won the praise of Ba Jin for her role as Rui Yu in Family Spring and Autumn.
When filming the list of gods in Shanghai, the crew asked Xu Ya to play da ji, but Xu Ya felt that he could not play a glamorous role, so he played his wife Shang, who looked completely different from Xin Gan.
After filming the list of gods, Xu Ya may be tired of the impetuous entertainment circle and choose to go abroad. Now she is engaged in art and painting in Australia.
Luo Xuemei was played by Li Xia, who later appeared in many movies and TV series. For example, she played a doctor in "Acacia Minefield" and was rated as a national first-class actress while working in Xi 'an Theatre.
Song Ge was played by Chen Hongmei. Since then, she has taken root in the film and television circle and played many roles, but none of them were very successful. I am sorry about this, but I believe readers who often watch TV dramas must be familiar with her.
Jiang plays. Instead of continuing to be an actress, she became a director at Beijing TV Station. She is a little reluctant to continue acting, but she has nothing to regret.
Fourth, college students at that time.
The most attractive place of "Dormitory for Female College Students" is really not a scarred story. In addition to the campus scenery and campus life, the state displayed by the college students in the film is even more unforgettable for people now. The representative figure is Wei Lan, a senior student who has a crush on the new job.
At that time, college students liked reading Pushkin and petofi, and all they could think about was how to change the future, find their own position and direction in society, and strive for the destiny of the country and the future of mankind.
Universities like that and college students like that are hard to find now.
When we are short of material, we are full of spirit; when we are full of material, we seem to be short of spirit.
So, at that time, sometimes I really can't bear to look closely.
Still want to see it.