At that time, Du Ban and Shaoxing Taiban often came to perform in Cixi, and Xu Jin often secretly went to the stage in the temple to watch the play. Because of his poor family, he didn't finish high school, so he went to Shanghai to make a living, worked as an apprentice in a western pharmacy, later became a clerk, and finally settled down. In his spare time, he also likes reading and watching plays, especially the Yue Opera in his hometown, and he also learns to compose and write.
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1955, Xu Jin began to adapt A Dream of Red Mansions. He collected a lot of materials and studied various versions of A Dream of Red Mansions, A Dream of Red Mansions, Legend of a Dream of Red Mansions, Encouragement, Tears, Peking Opera, Drama, Sichuan Opera, Tin Opera and Pingtan. Cao Xueqin's novel A Dream of Red Mansions is a masterpiece, with more than 400 characters alone. The plot is very rich and complicated, and it is extremely difficult to adapt it into a script.
No wonder some people think he is a little divorced from reality. It is difficult to condense a masterpiece with more than 1 10,000 words in three hours. Besides, who can perform your script after it is written? When Wang, a famous actor who was less than 30 years old at that time, heard this, he stood up and said, "I will play Lin Daiyu. If I can't play well, I'll cut my head off for you! "
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Of course, these words did not shake Xu Jin's determination. He decided to write seriously, and he really succeeded. The success of Yue Opera A Dream of Red Mansions lies in its proper tailoring. After repeated consideration, Xu Jin decided to take the love tragedy of Baoyu and Daiyu as the main line of the whole play, and combined the love tragedy with the anti-feudal spirit. Choose the plot of the original work according to this main line, and reflect the spirit of the original work.
Secondly, in the structural layout, Xu Jin pays attention to the ups and downs of the plot, and carefully handles the foreshadowing, comparison and * * *. The play takes "Daiyu enters the house" as the main line and has a unique style. Observing Jia's house and characters with Daiyu's eyes, this "subjective lens" helps to highlight the main line of the script and Daiyu's portrayal. In the second book, Knowing the Golden Lock, Xue Baochai intervened to pave the way for contradictions and conflicts. In the third scene "Reading the West Chamber", Baodai's feelings and hearts are connected and blended through typical details. The fifth scene of Yu Bao and the switching plan behind it are the conflicts between feudal parents and rebellious children. "Closing the Door" and "Burying Flowers" describe the subtle relationship among Bao, Dai and Chai. The tenth act of "Burning Books" and the twelfth act of Baoyu's departure respectively wrote the endings of the two protagonists: death and parting.
Thirdly, Xu Jin condensed and refined the characters in A Dream of Red Mansions. Of the original 400 characters, only 17 characters with names were selected, and the main characters were described with meticulous brushwork, especially some details, such as Reading the West Chamber and Closing the Door, which successfully shaped Baoyu's passionate and frank feudal villain image and Daiyu's arrogant image. In addition, Baochai's image has been strengthened, and Jia Zheng is a general outline.
Fourthly, the lyrics of A Dream of Red Mansions are well written, both literary and eloquent. And catchy, elegant and vulgar * * * reward. For example, when Baoyu and Daiyu met for the first time, they sang, "A sister Lin fell from the sky like a light cloud just coming out of a hole. (Dai) only said that his belly was unruly and frivolous, and his original bones were weird and unconventional. Idleness is like flowers shining on the water, and action is like the wind blowing willow. (Dai) has a hidden eyebrow and a gentle smile. I can clearly see foreigners in front of me, but my heart is like an old friend. " The author wrote their feelings of "however, I feel the harmonious heartbeat of the sacred unicorn" in poetic language. In "Burying Flowers", "Don't accept beautiful bones, a piece of pure land hides the wind, quality comes and goes, and it doesn't sink into ditches", "Cry away" and "There is a little girl in the sky whose heart is hard to mend. You are a flawless white jade. How can I lead an honest and clean life and do as the Romans do? " Others such as "I thought my sister was a newcomer to the south of the Yangtze River", "I have been a best friend of a book of poetry all my life" and "I was cheated by a good marriage" have also become popular arias.
The Yue Opera Dream of Red Mansions premiered on the Shanghai stage in February 1958, and then went to Guangzhou to perform. Xu Yulan and Wang performed this masterpiece on the stage with superb acting and touching singing. Once performed, it was warmly welcomed by the audience. 1959 went to Beijing to participate in the performance of the 10th anniversary of the National Day, 1960 went to Hong Kong to perform, and196/kloc-0 went to North Korea, all of which received rave reviews. 1962 A color film directed by Cenfan and jointly produced by Shanghai Film Studio and Hong Kong Jinsheng Film Company. In June of the same year 165438+ 10, the film premiered in Hong Kong, with more than 400 consecutive screenings in 38 days, with an audience of nearly 400,000. Then it became popular all over the country and became a popular version of the literary classic A Dream of Red Mansions, a household name.
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After the severe cold, it is spring. The film A Dream of Red Mansions (1978) was shown again in China, which caused a great sensation. Audiences queue up all night to buy tickets, and the cinema shows movies 24 hours a day. Some viewers have watched it for more than ten times in a row, but they still can't stop. "Sister Lin fell from the sky" became a buzzword for a time. This shows the popularity of the Yue Opera Dream of Red Mansions and its great artistic charm. In the new era, the Yue Opera Dream of Red Mansions entered the Shanghai Grand Theatre, filmed a new version of the Yue Opera film Dream of Red Mansions, and adapted it into 30 episodes of Yue Opera TV series, which had a deeper and wider influence.
There are many works by Xu Jin. The famous film stage sisters, co-produced with Gu Lin and Xie Jin, is a feature film describing the life of Shaoxing opera artists in old Shanghai.
After the downfall of the Gang of Four, literature and art were liberated. At this time, Xu Jin was over 60 years old, but he was still in his prime and was busy with the cause of Yue Opera. He used to be the vice president of Shanghai Yue Theatre, and created Wan Li Sky Dance, which reflected Premier Zhou Enlai's fighting life, and Spring Tide in March, which described three armed uprisings of Shanghai workers in Zhou Enlai. This is the first time that the great image of Zhou Enlai appeared on the opera stage. Later, Xu Jin cooperated with young and middle-aged screenwriters in TV series such as Gentleman in Flowers, Ruiyun, Wind and Rain Grand View Garden and People are Thinner than Yellow Flowers. Xu Jin's works have made great contributions to the cause of Yue Opera, especially to the construction of its repertoire.