A few years before his death, Xie Yan focused his work on Taiwan Province Province. He filmed the touching story "Holding Hands for Life" about Ma Wenzhong. It is reported that Xie Yan's good friends Bai Xianyong and Li Xing are loyal audiences of the play. The last night of Jin Daban, a stage play directed by Xie Jin and starring Liu Xiaoqing, was also supported by Xie Yan. A few years ago, Xie Yan bought the film rights of the gay novel The Tale of the Savage, but the filming failed. It's a pity now.
Xie Yan graduated from the Film Department of new york University and is an alumnus of internationally renowned directors such as Ang Lee and oliver stone. He has always been low-key and calm, and never shows off his father's title as a director. He fully demonstrated his directorial talent in two films, Daughter Red and Glory of Huaqiao. Daughter Red was shot on 1994, with Zhou Xun and Gui Yalei as the heroines of youth and middle-aged people. As a result, Zhou Xun, who was only 17 years old at that time, became popular because of her wonderful performance in this film, and Gui Yalei, who was 50 years old, also won the title of the best actress in Karlovy Farley International Film Festival. Zhou Xun and Zheng Yuling also starred in The Story of Huaqiao, which was adapted from Bai Xianyong's novel The Story of Huaqiao by Xie Yan himself. Therefore, he was shortlisted for the best adapted script in the 35th Golden Horse Award, and his talent was highly affirmed.
After taking care of her elderly parents and sick siblings in Xie Yan, she faded out of her creative stage. But in some important works directed by Xie Jin, he worked silently. The last night of Jin Daban, a stage play directed by Xie Jin and starring Liu Xiaoqing, was staged in China. During the creation and arrangement of the play, Xie Yan became his father's right-hand man.
Xie Jinyu has three sons and one daughter, and two younger sons are born with mental retardation. Xie Yan, the eldest son, shouldered the burden of the family when he was young. In the most difficult days, he has to take care of the elderly at home, protect his younger brothers and sisters who are not sensible, and worry about his parents who are locked in the "bullpen". Since he embarked on the road of directing, he has not only been reluctant to borrow his father's light, but has always focused on his father's career and devoted more energy to taking care of his parents and his mentally retarded brother.
After his illness, Xie Yan was still rehearsing the drama The Last Night of Jin Daban, silently helping his father to fulfill a big wish. In the last few days of his life, he never talked about his illness. After arranging everything at home, he went to the hospital by himself and never came home again. Celebrities said that Xie died on August 23, 2008, and the film industry was deeply saddened. Master Xie Jin, directed by the famous director Professor Ishikawa, is recognized as the person who knows Xie Yan and Xie Yan's father Xie Jin best. After Xie Yan's death, he wanted to let the outside world know some details and let the outside world know a real Xie Yan. The following is from Professor Ishikawa, media records, editing income here, and some of them have been deleted. The first person such as "I" in this article refers to Professor Ishikawa.
Take the ancestral gold watch to study in the United States
In the early 1980s, Xie Yan planned to study in the United States at his own expense. With the help of the famous movie star Lisa Lu, Xie Yan finally got a visa to the United States, but the high tuition fees made him feel difficult to walk with a monthly salary of only 39.5 yuan. He had to ask his father for help. Father and son pieced together and finally saved enough money to go to America. Before leaving, Xie Jin solemnly gave Xie Yan a gift, which was a gold watch handed down by his grandfather. Xie Jin reluctantly gave it to Xie Yan and told him that he could sell it if he didn't have enough money. With this heavy fatherly love, Xie Yan embarked on a long journey to study in the United States. But no matter how hard life was, Xie Yan never wanted to sell this priceless family heirloom. When he first arrived in new york, Xie Yan's economic situation was very poor, but he not only supported himself with a pair of hard-working hands, but also miraculously paid tuition fees as high as 40,000 to 50,000 dollars a year.
Strong and optimistic personality to overcome difficulties
Xie Yan's tenacity and optimism also come from his father. A poor life means nothing to him. Just think about what happened to his family during the Cultural Revolution, and new york's life will immediately become a paradise. At that time, my father lived in a "cowshed" with a monthly allowance of only 50 cents, which could not support the living expenses of a family of six or seven people for three generations. Mother Xu Dawen had to look at passers-by with disdain and go to the vegetable market to pick vegetables in order to increase nutrition for her two sickly children. Xie Yan clearly remembers that even at this point, his father's optimistic and calm nature has not changed at all. When he is allowed to go home, he often cooks vegetable skins picked by his mother with pig blood, just like middle school students do chemical experiments. Once praised by his family, he will proudly show off his inventions everywhere.
Overseas Chinese Rongji won two generations of relay.
Xie Yan is a modest and low-key person. He never wanted to share his father's honor, and rarely appeared in public with his father. However, my father is still everywhere. He is like a huge magnetic field, radiating Xie Yan's career and life all the time. People may know that The Flower Bridge is Xie Yan's masterpiece, but few people know that Bai Xianyong's novel was first taken a fancy to by Xie Jin and intended to be adapted into a movie. That was 1987 when Bai Xianyong first came to Shanghai. In Xingguo Hotel, Xie Jin met the famous writer and expressed his hope to adapt Flower Bridge. However, due to the cross-strait relations at that time, the film could not be filmed in Taiwan Province Province, so Xie Jin had to give up The Legend of the Flower Bridge and chose to adapt another novel by Bai Xianyong into the film The Last Noble. Perhaps no one thought at that time that the regret left by his father ten years ago was fulfilled in Xie Yan's hands ten years later.
However, in the later period of Flower Bridge, the Asian financial turmoil came unexpectedly, and Korean filmmakers stopped investing in the film, which made Xie Yan, a local producer, in a desperate situation. At this time, it was his father who extended a strong helping hand to him. With the help of his father, Xie Yan brought all the materials back to Shanghai and resumed editing in Shanghai Film Studio. In order to let his son concentrate on his creation, Xie Jin also sent his long-term partners to Xie Yan for post-production to help him manage his daily affairs, especially those creditors who came to ask for money. Therefore, when Flower Bridge finally won the honor at the Hawaiian Film Festival, Xie Yan dedicated his first heartfelt thanks to his dear father.
Finally, drinking at dinner is an exception.
At 5pm on August 23rd, 2008, Xie Yan, director Xie Jin's beloved son, died of liver cancer. When the bad news came, my heart was like a heavy punch, and I could hardly breathe in pain. I tried to calm myself down, but I couldn't stop the chaotic thoughts coming like a storm. I looked up and thought about it, only to remember the last time I saw Xie Yan. That was June 12, 2008. On this day, the famous Hong Kong film director Xu Anhua came to Shanghai. Xie Jin and Xie Yan made an appointment to have dinner with her, and I was lucky enough to accompany her to the last seat. At the dinner table, Xie Yan is not only a strong man in Tan Xing, but also a teetotaler. He even made an exception and had a glass of Shaoxing carving with Director Xu. Looking at his red face, I never thought of it. At this point, he is already a seriously ill and hopeless person.
Suffer alone and hide your illness.
More than a year ago, Xie Jin Company prepared to start shooting a large-scale TV documentary describing Xie Jin's film creation life. The original plan was that Xie Yan would be the director himself and I would be the screenwriter. However, at the beginning of 2007, there was a sudden news that Xie Yan, who was far away in the United States, was unwell and needed a period of rest. But the TV series is about to start shooting, so it can't be postponed, so I'm going to take over from Xie Yan, who is in charge of directing and importing TV series. In late spring and early summer of 2007, Xie Yan returned to Shanghai after recovering from a serious illness. When I met him, I found that he looked worried. He is thinner than before and his hair is much whiter. At that time, I thought, is it because he was introverted in the Opium War poster and was burdened with unnecessary thoughts because of illness? In retrospect, it dawned on me. It is estimated that Xie Yan knew that he had an incurable disease at that time. But he didn't want to add mental burden to his elderly parents, and he didn't want to cause trouble to his relatives and friends around him, so he kept silent and kept his mouth shut. Xie Yan is such a person, only good things will be shared with others, and he is used to suffering all the pains and hardships alone.
Father and son have different temperaments, and there is little difference.
Xie Yan's face looks like Xu Dawen's mother. She is kind and calm. But his figure is like his father Xie Jin, tall and strong, imposing. But beyond that, father and son have little in common in temperament. Xie Jin's personality is flamboyant, her voice is like Hong Zhong's, and she works vigorously. She likes smoking and drinking, and dressing and eating is always casual and spontaneous. Xie Yan, who is unmarried for life, is just the opposite. He is gentle and introverted, speaks softly, works carefully, never drinks, never has bad habits, and is good at keeping his life in order. After learning that he was terminally ill, he sold all his property in the United States without even knowing his parents. Finally, he became a Buddhist. Because of these differences in personality, it is inevitable that father and son will have minor differences on some issues. Xie Yan doesn't talk much in Qiao Huarong Ji, and he doesn't argue with his father, but his heart is full of tricks to "deal with" his father. Once Xie Jin went to his hometown Shangyu for the New Year, and brought many local products when he returned to Shanghai. Xie Yan complained that there were too many things to eat and use, so he might as well give them to his colleagues at home. Then quietly "stole" everything and took it to the company for distribution.
Work does not interfere with each other, they are all busy.
Personality differences also allow father and son to perform their respective duties in their careers, just like two parallel lines that do not intersect with each other. 1996, Xie Jin was busy preparing the historical blockbuster The Opium War, and Xie Yan was busy silently for his second film The Glory of the Flower Bridge. In July of 1997, The Opium War was grandly shown in the Mainland and Hongkong, and Glory of Huaqiao was also shown to the audience in the Mainland and Taiwan Province Province at the end of the year. Subsequently, the efforts of the father and son were rewarded respectively-The Opium War won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Film in Chinese mainland, and The Legend of Huaqiao was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in Taiwan Province Province.
In terms of specific working methods, father and son also have different interests everywhere. Xie Yan, who received film training in the United States, is used to strictly observing the production schedule and budget, and never dawdles on the scene for the perfection of a shot like his father. Xie Jin likes to dig dramas. Every time an actor is asked to rehearse a sketch on the spot, he will not turn it on if he is not satisfied. Xie Yan, on the other hand, believes in "inspiration", pays little attention to prior arrangement and design, and never brings actors to rehearse on the spot. Xie Jin's work and rest are reversed day and night, and the more late at night, the more energetic he is. Xie Yan always goes to bed early and gets up early, and never delays working hours. Xie Jin is a trivial matter, good at seeing the needle, and falls asleep as soon as he has time; On the other hand, Xie Yan does everything himself, thinking nervously at work, and often can't sleep at night.
Art changes life and inherits his father's footsteps.
However, even if the father and son are completely different in style, as two "parallel lines" that go their separate ways, they sometimes intersect or even overlap. For example, people talk about inheriting their father's business. Xie Yan was deeply influenced by his father since childhood and loved literature and sports. With this talent, he can change his destiny and open up a new life world for himself. During the "Cultural Revolution", Xie Yan jumped the queue in Suixi, Anhui Province, and was transferred to the county cultural and art troupe to do propaganda work because of his literary talent. Soon after, he was transferred to Hangzhou Repertory Theatre and Zhejiang Film Studio as an assistant director, and began to follow his parents' artistic path and become an excellent film director.
The love between father and son is strong and mellow.
Xie Jin and Xie Yan are both affectionate people. They seldom talk about each other's love, so that we can hardly hear their voices talking about each other at ordinary times. However, with the growth of age and the passage of time, the love between father and son becomes stronger and stronger. In recent years, Xie Yan put aside his film creation and shifted his focus to collecting, sorting out and publishing historical materials about his father's artistic creation. In the summer of 2007, Xie Yan co-edited and published six volumes of Xie Jin's Film and Drama Works, and we co-produced 20 episodes of TV documentary Xie Jin, and post-production is also in full swing. We also agree that one day in autumn, we should get together to discuss the next plan to set up the "Xie Jin Film Museum" ... We are like a group of climbing partners. Just when the peak is in sight, we look around and suddenly find that there is no guide. 1994 Director Daughter Red
1998 "Qiao Huarong Ji/Guilin Rong Ji" director
1995 director of "Qiao Huarong Ji"