Yang Xiaozhong

Yang Xiaozhong

Yang Xiaozhong, formerly known as Yang Baotai, was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province in December 1899. He is one of the earliest film directors and film artists in China.

Yang Xiaozhong has been a filmmaker for more than 40 years. He has experienced various development periods of silent, sound and color films. He directed nearly 100 films in his life. He is one of the most filmmakers in the history of Chinese film, so he has the reputation of "100 directors". He was the director of China film workers association and vice chairman of Shanghai Branch of China film workers association.

Early experience

Yang Xiaozhong was born on December 11, 1899. Due to his father's early death and his family's distress, Yang Xiaozhong left school after only a few years. In 1916, Yang Xiaozhong was admitted to the cram school of Shanghai Commercial Press, where he worked part-time. Two years later, he transferred to the confidential Department of the library. This year, the museum set up an active film department and began to shoot films. Yang Xiaozhong benefited from his mother's cultural education and was influenced by her mother's love of literature. He was very interested in film shooting. He often went to the scene to watch American films and often went to the cinema to see American films. He gradually realized some basic characteristics of films and was eager to try film creation.

Director experience

In 1920, he adapted the script for China Film and drama research society, and in the following year, Yan Ruisheng, a film produced by the Commercial Press's active film department, was the earliest feature film in China. Since then, he has also stepped into the film world, renamed Yang Xiaozhong, and specially wrote scripts for "business". In 1922, he wrote two screenplays, good brother and fate of pine and cypress. Since 1925, he has filmed independently. The first film he directed was "drunken regret". In the film, he boldly selected some teachers and students to play the roles, and got rid of the dependence of the film industry on civilized actors at that time. At the same time, he uses models instead of real scenes, uses natural scenery to set off the characters' thoughts and feelings, and uses special effects to shoot scenes such as fires and storms. These measures have certain innovative significance for Chinese films in the initial stage. In 1926, the film department of the commercial press was reorganized into Guoguang film company, and Yang Xiaozhong was appointed as the director of the play to preside over the work of director. He made three films in one year, including "mother's heart", "it's better to go home" and "horse's wild". After 1927, he worked as a director in five or six film companies, shooting more than 30 films. Among them, Liang Xiao (1934), which accuses feudal ethics, snake and scorpion beauty (1935) and little sister (1935), which expose social darkness, and biography of red sheep hero (1935), which describes the uprising in Jintian village of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and praises peasants' resistance and struggle, are his better works in this period. After the July 7 Incident, he went to Suiyuan to shoot a documentary on the front line of Anti Japanese war. From November 1937 to 1949, he was employed as a film merchant and his thoughts degenerated. Although he made 40 or 50 films, most of them were mediocre. Only a few films, such as "home" adapted from Ba Jin's novel of the same name and satirical comedy "crazy men and women", should be appropriately affirmed. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he was rejuvenated. Because he has accumulated rich experience and is familiar with film making skills, he has made remarkable achievements in shooting children's films and drama films. His children's films include "Lan Lan and Dong Dong" (1958), "good child" (1959), "the secret of baohulu" (1963); drama films include "an Tang recognizes his mother" (1956), "Chen San Wu Niang" (1957), "Zhou Xinfang's stage art" (1961), and Shaoxing drama film "the Monkey King three hits the white bone essence" co directed by him and Yu Zhongying, giving full play to the characteristics of film art Long, the use of lens switching and scene editing and other directing techniques, so that the film is superb performance of the human demon changes, the myth of the ghost fighting plot, shaping a resourceful and brave, good at distinguishing the true and false, tenacious and optimistic myth hero image of Monkey King. After the film was released, it was warmly welcomed by the audience and praised by Premier Zhou Enlai.

Main works

Before 1930

Yan Ruisheng (screenwriter) 1921 good brother (screenwriter) 1922 fate of pines and cypresses (screenwriter) 1923 sorrow of drunken hometown (screenwriter / Director) heart of mother (director) Ma langdang (Director / screenwriter) it's better to return (director) Shi xiusha sister-in-law (director) one arrow Revenge (director) Wu Song blood splashes on Yuanyang building (set master / Director) great Xia Gan Fengchi (director) 1928 Flaming Mountain (Director / screenwriter) "demon light chivalrous shadow" (screenwriter / Director) "son hero" (director) "secret treasure cave" (director) "Feixia Lu Sanniang" (Director / screenwriter) "burning Pingyang City Episode 1" (screenwriter / Director)

1930-1939

1930 burning Pingyang City Episode 4 (Director / screenwriter) burning Pingyang City episode 3 (Director / screenwriter) burning Pingyang City Episode 2 (Director / screenwriter) Jiangnan heroine (writer / Director) chivalrous hero biography (screenwriter) burning Pingyang City Episode 5 and 6 (screenwriter / Director) two Heavenly Kings (director) Heartache (Director / screenwriter) Yao mountain romance (director) 1933《 Liangxiao (director) 1934 1935 snake and scorpion beauty (Director / screenwriter) legend of red sheep (director) four sisters (screenwriter / Director) 1936 peach spring dream (Director / screenwriter) little orphan (Director / screenwriter) 1937 Fuchunjiang (screenwriter) feilaifu (Director / screenwriter) 1938 hell exploration of beauty (screenwriter / Director) sixty years later Shanghai Beach (screenwriter / Director) Performance) 1939 ape (screenwriter / Director) Pipa (director) white snake (Director / screenwriter)

1940-1949

1940 Sanniang Godson (director) female ghost (screenwriter / Director) Sui palace spring (screenwriter / Director) bright moon reunion night (screenwriter / Director) new sister flower (screenwriter / Director) Yao mountain romance (director) Shuangzhu Phoenix II (screenwriter / Director) Shuangzhu Phoenix I (screenwriter / Director) Revenge of gorgeous corpse (Director / screenwriter) Shanghai Gold Rush (Director / screenwriter) Zhuo Wenjun (screenwriter / Director) happy year (Director / screenwriter) spring (Director / screenwriter) fraternity (director) autumn (screenwriter / Director) three flowers (screenwriter / Director) beauty pass (screenwriter / Director) don't lose youth head (screenwriter / Director) Kaifeng (screenwriter / Director) marriage Symphony (screenwriter / Director)《 Twenty years of love (screenwriter / Director) 1945 sparks of the nation (screenwriter / Director) 1946 tide of desire (screenwriter / Director) hairpin Phoenix (Director / screenwriter) Qing He Bo Ming (screenwriter / Director) 1948 ten steps of grass (Director / screenwriter) shadow of the ancient house (screenwriter) 626 spy network (director) crazy men and women (director) Cliff (Director / screenwriter) 49 years the end of winter (director)

1951

1951 women's spring and Autumn period (director) two you in Red Mansions (Director / screenwriter) everyone is happy (Director / screenwriter) an Tang recognizes his mother (director) 1956 Chen San Wu Niang (director) 1957 LAN LAN and Dong Dong (director) 1958 good boy (director) 1959 Sun Wukong three dozen Baigujing (director) 1960 Zhou Xinfang's stage art (director) 1961 the secret of baohulu (screenwriter)/ Director (1963)

representative work

Basic information

Monkey subdues the white bonedemon directed by Yang Xiaozhong and Yu Zhongying Starring: Liu Lingtong, the sixth child Sun Wukong Xiao Changshun Xiao Tang Seng Qi Lingtong, the seventh child Zhu Bajie Xiao Yanqiu Bai Gujing film type: Drama

plot

Tang Monk and his disciples went to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures and trudged to Wanzi mountain. In the cave of wave moon in the mountain, there is a thousand year old corpse demon Baigujing. She is cruel and cunning. She is good at using tricks and scheming to eat Tang Monk's flesh to keep her old. In order to succeed, she turned into a village girl, but was seen through by the monkey king. Later, she became an old woman and was seen through by the monkey king. The monkey king killed the monster twice, but the Tang Monk didn't know the monster. Instead, he blamed the monkey king for hurting his mother and daughter. The white bone spirit incarnates as an old man for the third time. When he comes to Tang Monk again, the monkey king recognizes the monster. In order to protect the master's safety, he resists the pain of the curse and drives the monster away again. Baigujing failed three times, and then gave birth to a poisonous plan. He pretended to be the Buddha and blamed Tang Seng for his improper behavior. As expected, Monk Tang fell into the trap and demoted the monkey king. If the monkey king could not plead, he had to go back to Huaguo Mountain alone. Later, Tang Seng and Sha Seng were captured,

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