Li Tianji

Li Tianji

Li Tianji, Chinese film writer and actor (1921-1995), was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province.

He graduated from Sichuan Provincial drama and music experimental school in 1940, and published a long reportage "Xuzhou breakthrough", which was published in Guiyang's "Jingzhong" magazine for one year. In 1942, he was an actor and performance director of the Central Youth Drama Society and the Chinese drama society. He rehearsed the patriotic theme of "motherland" by Sadou, France, and served as a screenwriter and director. In 1947, with the encouragement of Wu Zuguang and others,

Personal experience

Li Tianji wrote the screenplay spring in a small city, directed by Fei Mu. After that, he wrote the comedy "turning the bad into the good". After liberation, he continued to explore the creative road of comedy film, wrote "today I rest", and successfully created the artistic image of the people's police Ma Tianmin. Because of his special appearance, he has also been invited to make many films, such as the adventures of the magician, crow and sparrow, true story of Ah Q, etc. In addition, he directed the village that never sleeps and catch the strong men.

According to the wonderful segment of the TV play Fortress Besieged adapted from the novel of writer Qian Zhongshu, the actor of the old scholar "brother, when I was in England" is the famous performing artist Li Tianji, who is also the screenwriter of the classic film "spring in a small city" in the history of Chinese film.

Before the founding of the people's Republic of China

Li Tianji (1921-1995), a famous Chinese playwright and actor, was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province in May 1921. Li Tianji has been fond of literature since he was a child. He has read a lot of novels and laid a solid foundation in literature.

In September 1938, Li Tianji came to Chengdu and was admitted to Sichuan drama and music school. In school, he wrote a long reportage "Xuzhou breakthrough", which was serialized in the newspaper for nearly a year. Since 1941, he has been an actor, director of drama affairs, section chief of drama affairs and director of performance department in Chongqing Central Youth Drama Society, people's drama society and China drama society. This laid a solid foundation for his later creative career.

In 1947, Li Tianji returned to Shanghai and once served as the Secretary of Shanghai Dramatist Welfare Association. In the same year, he worked hard to create the screenplay spring in a small city. With his unique perspective and expressive structure, through the emotional entanglement of the characters in the prescribed scenes, he reflected the society, dialyzed life, and explored the characteristics of the film with the spirit of the newborn, which caused great repercussions in the film world Sound, and then filmed by director Fei Mu. In 1942, he was an actor and performance director of the Central Youth Drama Society and the Chinese drama society. In 1947, he wrote the screenplay spring in a small town. In 1949, he took part in the film crow and sparrow. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively worked as a screenwriter in the screenplay Creation Institute of the film Bureau, Shanghai screenplay Creation Institute and Haiyan film studio.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Li Tianji successively worked as a screenwriter in the film script creation Institute of the central film administration, Shanghai Film Script Creation Institute and Shanghai Film Studio. He can consciously go deep into the reality of life, and is good at absorbing the hot spots concerned by the masses from ordinary daily life. After summarizing and refining, he forms creative themes and enthusiastically eulogizes the common people and things in the new society and new life. For example, in his elaborately created "I rest today", the image of Ma Tianmin, the leading policeman in the play, is full of flesh and blood and shining, which is still widely recited. After that, he successively wrote such screenplays as love, what's your last name, girl this year's twenty-eight, and turning evil into good fortune. With more vivid plots, he paid attention to the visual modeling of film art, and endowed them with comic conflicts, thus producing humorous and silent comic effects.

For a long time, Mr. Li Tianji has devoted himself to performing arts. In 1949, he played Hou Yibo, an officer of the Kuomintang, in the film crow and sparrow, and won the first prize in the excellent film award of the Ministry of culture from 1949 to 1955. Later, he played roles in films such as the adventures of the magician, the true story of Ah Q, the legend of eight immortals, and the end of the world. With his exaggerated performance and inherent facial features, he was good at playing all kinds of villains and had a great influence in the audience.

Main works

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Survival in a desperate situation (1994)

Two demons in Qixing Town (1991)

The mystery of the national treasury of China (1990)

Turn ill luck into good luck (1989)

The legend of the Eight Immortals

Song at midnight (1985)

Girlat28 (1984)

Love, what's your last name? WHATISLOVE？ （1980）

The first gift (1980)

This is what I should do (1965)

Magician's Adventure (1962)

Taijiquan (October 1959)

I'm off today (1959)

Falling into the water (1956)

Crow and sparrow (1949)

Good couple (1948)

Spring in a small town (1948)

Diary of returning home (1947)

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