On April 21, 2022, Huang Shuqin, the famous fourth-generation director, passed away in Shanghai. Due to the epidemic, people have not had time to say goodbye to her.

On the first anniversary of her death, Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Shanghai Film (Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Film Association and Shanghai Film Critics Society hosted the "Freehand Lighting and Shadow-Commemorative Symposium for Director Huang Shuqin, a famous film artist" at the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Held in the Art Hall, the participants remembered director Huang Shuqin together during the discussion, recalled and studied her artistic achievements, professionalism, personality charm and noble demeanor.

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Director Huang Shuqin was born in Shanghai in September 1939. After graduating from the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy in 1964, he entered the Shanghai Film Studio. Following Xie Jin in "Ah! The Cradle (1979) and The Legend of Tianyun Mountain (1980) as an assistant director. Started to make films independently in 1981, and has directed 8 films such as "Contemporary People", "Long Live Youth", "Childhood Friends", "Transnational Action", "Human Ghost Love", "Painting Soul", "I Have a Dad Too", "Hi, Frank" and so on. TV series "Fortress Besieged", "Debt", "Promise", "Shanghai Vicissitudes", "Cause of Laughter", etc.; TV movies "Husband" and "Red Pink", Kunqu Opera "Pipa Xing", drama "Golden Lock". As the fourth generation of outstanding directors in China, her works have won many important art awards at home and abroad, such as the "Golden Rooster Award" for Chinese films, and her works have a wide range of influence.

The little bits and pieces in the discussion evoked the participants' deep nostalgia for Director Huang Shuqin. She was determined when she was young, unswervingly determined, diligently pursued, and eventually became a master. This kind of character of not forgetting her original intention and dedicating herself to artistic ideals is admirable; she has the courage to pioneer, practice her own practice, and constantly pursue, so she is unique and unique. This spirit of continuous exploration and courage to climb is worth learning and inheriting.

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Her camera burst into the human world

Huang Shuqin once compared the perspective of filming to the orientation of the house-if the south-facing window is compared to the male perspective, then the female perspective is the east window. The sun shines in from there first, and the garden and road seen from the east window are from the side, which is another angle, but it has a specific sensitivity, charm, femininity, and special strength and toughness.

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"Chinese films used to have no gender awareness. A strong political and social awareness is the common creative symbol of Chinese male directors and female directors. Even in the 1980s, Chinese female directors appeared in groups, and the mainstream of their creation was still social life. Change is still an ideal image of society. Social consciousness overwhelms female consciousness. The emergence of "Human Ghost Emotion" means that a new genre of creation has emerged on Chinese screens: expressing the value of female subjects and awakening female consciousness. At that time, Zhang Nuanxin "Youth Sacrifice", Shi Shujun's "Missing Female Middle School Student", Lu Xiaoya's "Girl in Red" and so on. In terms of artistic achievements, "Human Ghost Love" is the highest." Ren Zhonglun, chairman of the Shanghai Film Association Director Huang Shuqin gave a very high evaluation of his contribution to the Chinese movie screen.

"Human Ghost Love" won the Golden Rooster Award

Although a large number of films have been shot from the perspective of women, Mao Jian, vice president of the Shanghai Film Critics Association and a professor at East China Normal University, believes that feminist films are by no means enough to summarize the achievements of this outstanding director. Mao Jian mentioned that Huang Shuqin is the most important director in the history of New China. Involved in almost all film and television genres. "In my opinion, feminist films are not enough to cover Huang Shuqin. Her camera breaks through the human world and acquires a unique 'ghost eye' vision in art history. This kind of ghost eye is only obtained by Mr. Lu Xun in Chinese literature and art. Yes. Huang Shuqin has a truly free soul. This freedom comes from her absolute Chicheng. She is a director who cannot be commensurate with generations. The enthusiasm in "Long Live Youth" is unique in scar and reflection films. She chooses The passion of the subject matter, the naive feeling of life, is the best state to enter the film."

Mao Jian also mentioned that "Fortress Besieged" and "Negative Debt" opened up the horizons of TV dramas, and they still have methodological demonstrations today. "The adaptation of classics, the introduction of dialects into dramas, and the construction of emotional dramas, all of these constitute the creative horizon of today's film and television dramas. I think we have not yet completed the vernacular movement of the May Fourth Movement. I also hope that this meeting can promote the development of film and television dramas." Vernacular realism', Huang Shuqin's text is the teaching material."

Xi Meijuan, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said, "Her works have influenced many people. It has reached a crucial height. Director Huang Shuqin’s sensitivity to social life and his sensitivity and ability to refine the perspectives in life that are ignored by most people into works of art are what I will always learn.”

Gather a group of people to create the golden moment of Shanghai film

In addition to admiring and praising director Huang Shuqin's artistic achievements, many old colleagues who worked together with director Huang Shuqin also shared their time with director Huang.

Actor Wang Zhihua recalled the first time he and Director Huang collaborated on the TV series "Fortress Besieged". "I was deeply impressed by Director Huang's words: whoever has more details, I will give the lens to him. Under such encouragement, the actors' creative state is particularly good, and the creative atmosphere is particularly harmonious." On the "South Lake" passenger ship During the three days of shooting day and night, in addition to the large number of day scenes inside and outside the cabin, bars, restaurants, decks, etc., we also had to snap shots of sunrise and sunset. "Only sleeping for six hours in the past three days, the tired Director Huang is like everyone else, and he is still enduring the huge pain of breaking his calf bone in a car accident. I am not only moved by her, but also moved by her The rigorous and meticulous creative style and persistent artistic pursuit are deeply inspiring and inspiring. I also demand the same from myself in my future work, and even if I feel a little bit dissatisfied, I will overturn it and start over."

When actor Xue Jianing was a freshman, she was selected by director Huang Shuqin from hundreds of applicants to make her first film "I Have a Dad, Too". "At that time, I was ignorant. I was the first to get in touch with the camera, understand the scene, and learn how to perform. It was Director Huang who taught me. I think Director Huang Shuqin is a powerful person. He established three views for me and taught me how to act. Rigorous, how to be an actor, how to focus. Every era has its light and shadow, and the light and shadow of director Huang Shuqin can illuminate future generations, and can make us look up forever."

Huang Shuqin filming the scene of "Fortress Besieged"

Shanghai Film Producer Zhang Xuecun said that director Huang is very wise. "When filming "Fortress Besieged", she told me to do the four words 'both elegant and popular'." At that time, Huang Shuqin was recuperating at home due to a car accident and spent three months working A storyboard script of more than 3,000 shots. "Director Huang is very creative. If she wants to make something, she must do it well. Shanghai Film Studio is the first unit in the country to shoot TV dramas, and it can make good movies like Fortress Besieged." It is also the eternal glory of Shanghai Film Studio."

Xu Pengle, the former vice president of Shanghai Film Group, recalled that Director Huang was usually quiet and introverted, and never boasted. "But watching her filming on the set is a completely different feeling. You will feel that she is so calm and calm, directs properly, and has clear goals and ideas. , Shot scheduling, scene arrangement, prop display, every link and subtlety, are well thought out and have strict requirements. She looks ordinary and calm, but in fact she is very connotative and full of emotions. She is used to using movies It can be expressed in words. My evaluation of Director Huang is firstly that he is a lady, second is that he is a general, and third is that he is a master.”

Whether it is the metaphor of the historical destiny of modern women in "Human·Ghost·Love", or the depiction of the spiritual picture of female artists in the world in "Painting Soul"; "Debt" set an unparalleled record of 42.62% in the Shanghai area... Huang Shuqin's outstanding artistic achievements are inseparable from her artistic attitude of excellence and her pattern and aesthetics beyond the times.

On the day of the commemorative event, Zheng Dasheng, the son of Huang Shuqin, vice chairman of the Shanghai Film Association, and director Zheng Dasheng said with emotion, "I don't know most of the short stories about director Huang Shuqin that everyone said, because these only happen in the film crew, and they happen in very vivid scenes. During the creative process." Zheng Dasheng said humbly on behalf of his mother, "It is because of your contribution of ingenuity, because of your hard work, at the golden moment of your career, at the golden moment of your vitality and imagination, you have jointly created the world. A golden moment for Shanghai film and Shanghai film film. Because of film, we can create some moments that will last forever. This must be, and must be, the goal and role model that Shanghai film should catch up with and strive to surpass.” Zheng Dasheng explain.

From April 19th to 21st, the multi-functional hall of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles held a film screening event directed by Huang Shuqin, showing restored versions of "Painting Soul", "Children's Friends", "Transboundary Action", "Long Live Youth", "Human Ghost Ghost" Love" and other representative works of director Huang Shuqin, nearly a thousand people recalled the artistic life of director Huang Shuqin through watching the film. At the same time, a graphic exhibition of director Huang Shuqin's artistic life was also held, which will be moved to Shanghai Film Plaza after being displayed by the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles.