Bai Jingrui

Bai Jingrui

Bai Jingrui, born in Haicheng, Liaoning Province on June 10, 1931, is a film director and producer in Taiwan, China.

On December 11, 1997, Bai Jingrui died of myocardial infarction.

Early experience

Bai Jingrui was born in Yingkou, Liaoning Province in 1931. His native place is Haicheng. His real birthday is unknown. The date of birth on his ID card is June 10. During the September 18th Incident, he fled with his parents and moved to Peiping. In 1936, his father Bai Peilin became the director of Wuhu Business Tax Bureau in Anhui Province, and his family moved to Wuhu. Bai Jingrui entered the church kindergarten.

In 1937, Bai Jingrui entered the fourth elementary school in Hankou, and began to go to the cinema with adults to watch silent films, such as "great Xia of Guandong", "burning Honglian Temple" and so on. After the July 7th incident broke out, his family fled again, and in 1938 they fled to Fuling, Sichuan.

In 1939, Bai Jingrui studied in Chongqing Daxigou primary school. He was elected class representative and took part in the speech contest. In 1943, he entered Chongqing Private Bashu middle school. He participated in debates and performed drama in school, and won the first place in composition and painting. He also read many translated works, especially the works of Gorky and Turgenev, and often watched movies and operas.

He graduated from junior high school in 1945. In 1946, Bai Jingrui retired with his second brother Bai Jingxin and went to Nanjing to study in high school. Because his father was demobilized to the northeast and lost contact with his family, he went to senior high school with the reward of free tuition and other fees for the best student in morality, intelligence, sports and qunmei selected every semester. In 1947, because of the unstable situation of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Bai Jingrui moved to yanxidu, Taihe, Jiangxi Province with the school, and began to write poems at this time.

In 1948, due to Jiangxi's emergency, Lizhi middle school moved again. However, because the government was unable to take care of it, Bai Jingrui became an exiled student. Six months later, he was formally admitted to the Shanghai military academy. However, because he was not ideal, he went to Taipei as an exile student at the age of 18. By chance, he met his father, Yuan Teng, and was introduced as an assistant to the youth times. He also organized the student bimonthly to write poems, comment and draw pictures under his pen name Painting to earn living expenses.

In 1949, he was admitted to the Administrative College and participated in the performance of the art team and stage drama. During the day, he worked in the headquarters of the leisure corps and participated in the cartoon competition of the junior college group and won the championship. At the end of the year, he was admitted to the Foreign Language Department of the Provincial Normal University (now the National Normal University).

In 1950, with the consent of Liang Shiqiu, director of the Department of foreign languages, and Huang Junbi, director of the Department of art, he transferred to the Department of art and became a public student of the normal university. He was keen on drama performance, so he got to know Li Zida (Li Xing), who presided over the drama club. He directed the play "no urination" and performed the play "careful with the candle" directed by Li Xing.

In 1951, he directed the campus drama "Liang Shangjun" (Drama Club of Teachers College) and "shengguantu" (Tanshui English College), and was active in the school drama movement in the name of Bai Danfu. In 1952, he participated in the new dream of Red Mansions, which was performed by college students in Zhongshan Hall, and directed the campus drama beautiful man and wild rose.

In 1953, he acted in the Pingju opera Ganlu temple and directed the three act comedy Tianya ruobin. In 1954, he graduated from the division college and joined the army to serve as an officer for one year. In 1955, he retired from military training and worked as an art teacher in Wenshan middle school. In 1956, he became a teacher in Huwei women's middle school.

Acting experience

He retired from the army in 1957 and was introduced by Li Xing to the independent evening news as a film and drama reporter. In addition, he wrote painting reviews and film reviews under his pseudonym Bai Danfu in the art and culture world of the United Daily. He began to have the idea of studying in Italy because of watching the Italian films Rome, an undefended city and bicycle theft.

In 1958, he starred in the love movie "on the mountain of Hehuan" directed by Pan Lei, and also served as a field record. Member of the national dance Promotion Committee. In June 1960, Bai Jingrui paid half a year's advance for China times as his travel expenses. As a special correspondent of China Times and a reporter of Zili evening news in Italy, he went to Italy and began his study abroad trip.

In 1961, he was led by his friend Wang Yu to study Italian in the Oriental Academy of Rome, to study painting and stage design in the Royal Academy of art of Rome, to study literature in beruga, and to study TV courses in the International University.

In 1962, he entered the Italian film experimental center to study film and became the first Chinese to pay attention to film. He was the assistant director of country. He took advantage of his summer vacation to work in Munich, Germany, to earn his living expenses, and on behalf of Italian foreign students, he transferred to Switzerland for a meeting and stopped by to visit Spain.

In 1963, he served as the artistic director of the film Marco Polo's journey to the East and participated in the performance. In the same year, he filmed a short film "the madness of the lover", which was also a director, screenwriter and editor. In the same year, he graduated from the Italian film experimental center and gave up his job in foreign countries. On the eve of his return to China, he was ordered by Bishop Yu Bin to study film education in various countries and collect information about mass communication As a reference for the Department of mass communication in Fu Jen University, he served as the private secretary of cardinal Yu Bin in New York for one month.

In 1964, after returning to China, Yu Jizhong recommended Gong Hong, the general manager of China Film Corporation ("China Central Film Corporation"), as a member of the editorial board. He was also employed as a professor in the Department of drama by China Cultural University. In the same year, he served as Chiang Kai Shek's Italian translator and was called by Chiang Ching Kuo.

In 1965, he was the editor of the feature film she nu. In 1964, Bai Jingrui actually participated in the planning and script discussion. In 1966, he planned "dumb girl love", "Wanjun cousin" and other films, and purchased the latest desktop computer editing machine and adhesive tape splicing machine from Italy, becoming the first place to use in Asia.

In 1967, he directed the feature film lonely seventeen, which was his first independent director. This work was selected as the representative of Taiwan and participated in the Asian society. He planned to shoot "my daughter Ruolan" and "LeiBao Fengyun" and directed "return to me". Bride and me, home in Taipei.

In 1968, he won the best director award of the 6th Golden Horse Award for lonely seventeen, the golden spike Award for the most contribution to youth issues and the special commemorative Award for Mrs. Dylan of the Philippines in the 13th Asian Film Festival.

In 1969, the sixth dream, an adaptation of Qiong Yao's novel, was invested and shot by several film and drama reporters in Taipei, breaking through the old style of literature and art film. Directing "don't go home today", the film set a record at the box office. At that time, the total revenue exceeded 2 million in four days. "Bride and me" won the best feature film award and the best director award of the 7th Golden Horse Award. Bai Jingrui donated all the prize money to the refugees after the August 7 flood. Director of "joy" in "joy, anger, sorrow and joy", Li Xing director of "sorrow". In the same year, he quit China Film and joined with Li Xing to form a popular film company.

In 1970, he won the best film of the 8th Golden Horse Award for directing "home in Taipei" and the film director award of the 11th literary and art Medal of China literary and Art Association. In 1971, he directed goodbye to Alan. In 1972, after the "Master Hotel", "two ugly men" Bai Jingrui fell into the low tide of creation.

In 1973, he directed "love in the White House", starring Deng Guangrong; in the same year, he co directed "Da San Yuan" with Li Xing and Li Jia, in which Bai Jingrui shot "quiet afternoon"; in the same year, he began to shoot Bai's first film "southeast and Northwest wind", which is a collection film.

In 1973, he founded Bai's film company in Hong Kong. Later, he founded Jinlun enterprise company and Baishi enterprise company. In 1974, he directed "cloudy and occasional shower on sunny days". In 1975, he worked with Huang Ren on "girlfriend".

In 1976, he went to Korea to shoot a dream. In the same year, he founded the Asian American art company in the United States and the White's international development company, both of which were the chairman of the board. In 1977, Bai Jingrui led his staff to Europe to shoot "people in the end of the world", "a dream in a foreign land", "don't kiss me in the street", among which "people in the end of the world" won the 14th Golden Horse Award and the Golden Torch award of China branch of the International Catholic film and Television Association.

In 1979, his name was listed in the list of celebrities of the Republic of China and the list of entrepreneurs of the Republic of China. In 1980, he went to South Korea again to shoot "heaven and earth", which was supported by James Soong, director of the KMT cultural union. This film broke through many taboos in KMT Communist movies at that time.

In 1982, he went to Switzerland and Africa to shoot twilight in Geneva. In 1983, he co directed "great reincarnation" with Li Xing and Hu Jinquan, and Bai Jingrui directed the part of "Modern Century". Invest in restaurants. In 1984, he shot Bai Xianyong's novel the last night of Jin Daban.

In 1985, due to the failure of investment, she made the commercial popular film "He Yi's twelve beauties". In 1988, he served as the Secretary General of the 25th Golden Horse Awards Committee and reformed many systems. In 1989, he was invited by Milo sforman, director of the Department of film and drama at Columbia University, to give a three-day speech at the University, and to show "heaven and earth" and "goodbye, Alan". In the same year, he was the executive director of Taiwan Film Directors Association.

In 1991, he filmed the first film "the man married to the palace" in Beijing, which gathered the actors from both sides of the Taiwan Straits and three places, but failed at the box office. In 1995, he served as the Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Golden Horse Award for the second time. His wife Zhang Hua was allowed to settle in Taiwan.

In 1996, he worked in the economic magazine "instigate the world"

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