The opera movie “Qiao Pi” started shooting in Jinjiang, Quanzhou on January 1 this year, and is currently filming intensively. This is Xiamen’s first opera film. The crew is filming in the Daimei ancient residential complex in Zhangzhou. It will also move to Xiamen. It is expected to finish later this month for post-production editing and special effects synthesis.
Qiaopi refers to the letters and remittances sent by overseas Chinese to their relatives in China. In 2013, “Qiao Pi Archives” was selected to UNESCO’s “World Heritage Memory List”. In 2018, the Xiamen Gezi Opera Research Center created and staged the Gezi Opera “Qiao Pi” This is my country’s first opera stage artwork with the theme of Chinese overseas. Through a letter of Chinese overseas sealing and the story behind it, it’ n tells the story of the blood and tears of overseas Chinese who traveled across the ocean, and a difficult entrepreneurial story, showing the deep feelings of overseas Chinese towards their family and country and their tenacious fighting spirit. The drama won the Outstanding Work Award of the 16th “Five One Project” for Building a Spiritual Civilization. Last year, the Gezi Opera “Qiao Pi” toured Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other provinces, attracting attention at home and abroad.
It is understood that in order to maintain the expression of the opera to the greatest extent, the film version of “Qiao Pi” invited the original creators of the stage version to reproduce the classic performance, and the Xiamen Gezi Opera Research Center produced it all. group to take part in the filming of the film. In order to make the script and the performance fit better with the characteristics of the film stage, the actors have made many efforts. The group also established a temporary party branch to work hard to create a masterpiece of literature and art with Xiamen characteristics that integrate ideological, artistic and decorative qualities, and promote Xiamen stories and Chinese batch culture abroad to the world through the big screen.
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Gezai’s opera heroine appears on the big screen this time
Winner of Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and Wenhua Performance Award, Su Yanrong, leading actress of Xiamen Gezi Opera Research Center, is the heroine of the Gezi Opera “Qiao Pi”. This time she still plays the heroine Ruyi in the film version of “Qiao Pi” The girl played the role of a woman in her 30s, with an age span of 15 years.
“I have always felt very happy and excited from the time I started filming until now.” Su Yanrong said that movies are different from stage plays. For example, after the death of the character Yaxiang in the drama, Nikko and Yaxiang appeared on stage at the same time to communicate emotions in different time and space, but there were some compromises in the movie scenes. For another example, Ruyi’s role was relatively limited in terms of characterization due to time constraints on the stage, but this time the image of the character in the film is more fleshy. Ruyi was repeatedly persuaded by her family to sacrifice personal love for the sake of her family. When she married Boss Wang, her inner struggle was shown through close-ups of her face. When they get married, there are only noisy scenes of gongs and drums on stage, but in the film, Nikko appears directly in the wedding scene. The male and female protagonists are relatively speechless and more contagious
Su Yanrong said that there are also differences between stage performances and film performances. On stage, when actors express sadness from afar, they often have to expand the details to make the audience feel the emotions. When making a film, you need to be restrained. The more natural the better. Turning your head slightly or looking back are very delicate things. However, such a change is not difficult for the main actors of the Gezi opera “Qiao Pi”. “We have performed nearly a hundred performances on stage before, and we are very familiar with “Qiao Pi”. It can be said that we have a thorough understanding of the tricks and characters. Now when we perform in front of the camera, we could meet the director’s requirements quickly. I would also participate in the creation and present my own ideas. The director was very happy to work with us, and the filming was much faster than the originally expected.”
Su Yanrong said it was her first time starring in an opera film and she won a lot. Although filming is very hard, I start putting on make-up at five or six in the morning every day, and the filming lasts all day, but everyone is working hard, tired and happy.
(Xiamen Evening News reporter Gong Xiaoguan)
Original title: Gezi’s opera “Qiao Pi” will come to the big screen and is expected to be completed later this month
Editor in charge: Fang Di
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