After the song "Songhua River" set the atmosphere for the charity party, the Americans in the stands burst into warm applause.
Then, a passionate tune sounded.
If the same time traveler as Yu Sheng appeared here, they would be surprised to find that the melody of this song is extremely familiar.
It is the only song that Chinese people can sing in later generations.
It's just that the rhythm of this song seems to be much faster than that of later generations, as if it is a passionate roar.
This song is the March of the Volunteers.
However, the singer is not Chinese, but a black man.
Most of the Hollywood stars here know this black man.
This person's name is Paul Robeson, and he is considered a rare black talent in this era when black people generally have low culture.
Not only is he considered by future generations to be one of the greatest bass singers of the 20th century, he is also highly accomplished in singing black folk songs and spiritual songs.
Moreover, he is also proficient in multiple languages.
Because his father was a black pastor, Robertson was treated more fairly than other black people.
In middle school, he was one of only two black students in the school.
Apart from not being able to fight back when being beaten, and having a lot of rules on weekdays, there are not many differences between the other students.
After entering college, Robertson's musical talent was already well known.
In 1925, Robertson's arranger and collector of black hymns, Lawrence Brown, invited Robertson to collaborate.
A concert between the two was scheduled for April 19 at the Greenwich Theatre.
Tickets for the concert were sold out the same night they were sold, and the concert itself was a huge success.
So much so that after several curtain calls, the enthusiastic audience gradually calmed down.
In addition to his sympathy for black people, Robertson also has a favorable impression of China.
He has repeatedly opposed Japan's war of aggression against China in public.
Moreover, he actually learned to sing the March of the Volunteers in Chinese and even made a record.
Even part of the income from the records was divided and sent to Tian Han and Nie Er.
In 1940.
When Robertson held a concert at the New York Open Air Concert Hall, at the end of the concert, thousands of Americans sang the March of the Volunteers in English and Chinese.
At this time, Americans had not yet experienced the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, so they ignored the incident and ignored it.
Therefore, the impact of this singing was not big.
Although, for Americans, this kind of passionate, sonorous and powerful songs has a completely different style from the popular music in the American music scene.
Many in the audience asked Robert to sing it again.
But it’s just a love for the song itself.
As a descendant who grew up listening to this song for the rest of his life, he naturally knows the ins and outs of the song.
Although this March of the Volunteers became famous in the movie "The Young and the Restless".
As the theme song of a movie, it can be regarded as the most sung, played and most successful movie theme song in history.
But in essence, there is still a mother parent.
Before Yu Sheng traveled through time, more than 40 experts, scholars and descendants of the anti-Japanese martyrs unanimously identified it.
The parent version of this March of the Volunteers is the Blood Alliance Salvation Song composed on October 16, 1931.
The authors are brothers Sun Mingwu and Sun Mingchen, who were anti-Japanese strategists at that time.
After the Japanese occupied the three northeastern provinces, within a year, anti-Japanese wars broke out everywhere in Northeast China.
Just one year.
The total number of anti-Japanese volunteers in the Northeast was 300,000.
Some of these anti-Japanese volunteers were the predecessors of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.
Among these volunteer armies, one is the "Blood Alliance Rescue" born in Fushun.
Sun Mingwu and Sun Mingchen were members of the Blood Alliance.
He wrote the blood alliance's song of salvation.
The lyrics are: "Get up, people who don't want to be slaves to the country, use our flesh and blood to arouse the people of the country.
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We can't sit still and wait for death, we must rise up to kill the enemy.
The Chinese nation has reached its most dangerous time, rise up, and the people of the whole country are united to fight, fight, fight."
Although its lyrics are not the same as those of later volunteer marches, it is.
What is immediately apparent is that the lyrical structure is generally consistent.
After Tian Han heard this song over and over again, he adapted it so that the lyrics were finally mature and powerful, and fit the plot of the movie "The Sons and Daughters of the Storm".
But the tune was entirely composed by Nie Er alone.
But this March of the Volunteers is basically Nie Er’s masterpiece.
On April 18, 1935, after Nie Er sent the final score of the March of the Volunteers back to China, he mysteriously drowned in Fujisawa, Japan, on July 17.
The power of a song does not lie in the world's comments, but in the song itself.
In this era of China, the power of advertising is not very strong.
Even newspapers dedicated to movies and entertainment will not have much impact on ordinary people.
Because the general public will not buy this kind of newspaper that is purely for entertainment.
The final fate of a movie and the music that accompanies the movie almost entirely depends on the quality of the work.
In this case, a song can spread among people and spread overseas.
It has to be said that the power contained therein is so huge that it can pierce people's hearts.
As the Second World War came to an end, the March of the Volunteers was naturally among the songs of the Allied victory and triumph.
Robert sang the March of the Minutemen twice at the Hollywood Bowl, in both English and Chinese.
At this time, for the rest of his life, he had already prepared a huge movie screen.
When he was in Shanghai, he collected various images from China about the Japanese invasion of China, the massacre of Chinese people and the Chinese people's resistance to the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese people.
The images of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in the United States were cleverly intertwined, making the Americans in the audience sit on pins and needles.
They really can't imagine how much damage these locust-like Japanese would cause to the United States if they set foot in the United States.
The sonorous and powerful tune of the March of the Volunteers aroused the fighting spirit of all Americans who were on pins and needles.
And recognize the fact that the Chinese are now their allies.
When the image on the big screen showed the Chinese people desperately resisting the Japanese invaders, the Americans in the audience cheered for the Chinese actions.
The feeling of sharing the same hatred with the enemy has been formed since then.
After this song, there is no need for the rest of my life to urge or hint.
Many Americans got up from their seats, lined up in front of the donation box, took out their checkbooks, and wrote down a line of numbers.
Then drop the check into the donation box.
It seems that they are not small numbers.
After Robert finished singing.
Yu Sheng invited him to sit down and rest.
People from the Los Angeles Philharmonic stepped off the stage and took a break.
On the movie screen that was set up, images rotated.
After playing some current news about China's Anti-Japanese War, a lion suddenly appeared.
Everyone here knows that this is the opening of an MGM movie After MGM's Lion Roared, the title of the movie was revealed.
Everyone in Hollywood in the audience was surprised: "Don't MGM's Dragon Seed have to wait two months to be released?
How come it was produced so quickly?"
This charity gala is actually the premiere of Seed of the Dragon.
With such a slow video pace, it definitely cannot be a trailer. ygod Katharine Hepburn actually spoke in Chinese just now."
Everyone's expressions of surprise.
It made Yu Sheng and Meyer very happy.
The success of a movie depends not only on its quality, but also on its ability to surprise people and seize the opportunity.
Meyer had already fully examined the market when he chose Dragon Seed for filming.
In this era, there is no movie in the United States that positively reflects the outlook of the Chinese people and the war of resistance in this era.
China is still mysterious and unfamiliar to most Americans.
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So when Pearl Buck's book Dragon Seed was published.
It immediately became a best-seller among Americans.
Pearl Buck was one of the Americans in the first half of the 20th century who was friendly to China and had rare sincere feelings.
Four months after he was born, he came to China.
He has lived in Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Nanjing, Lushan and other places for nearly forty years.
Needless to say, he has level 10 Chinese.
He also has a very good understanding of Chinese folk culture.
It is said that Pearl Buck and Xu Zhimo still have an unclear relationship.
In 1931, Pearl Buck's The Good Earth was published.
It became one of the best-selling books in the United States in 1931 and 1932.
There are translations in various languages.
This book won the Nobel Prize in 1938.
In 1942.
Pearl Buck returned to China for the last time.
At this time, China had fallen into a confrontation with the Japanese.
Because of the war.
Pearl Buck failed to return to Nanjing.
However, due to her identity as an American, Pearl Buck still saw a lot of information that ordinary Chinese people could not see.
The Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese against the Chinese made Pearl Buck, who once lived here, extremely angry.
At this point, I started collecting materials to create the book Dragon Seed.
In March 1942, at the invitation of the British BBC and radio stations, Pearl Buck began to introduce to the Chinese people in Chinese the attitude of Americans in supporting China's war of resistance and the measures that had been taken.
Subsequently, Dragon Seed was published.
This book uses the Nanjing Massacre as the background to describe the survival and resistance of the people in the western suburbs of Nanjing under the Japanese invasion.
This book became the world's first novel to record and reflect the Nanjing Massacre.
The book contains a large number of storylines based on real events, which moved Americans.
At this time, due to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States, Americans hated the Japanese extremely.
Under this circumstance, Meyer, the head of MGM, decided to invest in Dragon Seed.
For the rest of my life, I naturally watched this movie, which is known as "the most amazing anti-Japanese drama".
To be honest, although MGM made this movie with a lot of laughs in the eyes of future generations, it was still trying its best.
Not only are the sets, props and costumes extremely exquisite, but even the details of the hairstyle and face shape have been noticed.
Even Katharine Hepburn actually wore the famous Sister Jiang hair style during the anti-Japanese plot.
With this kind of attention to detail, Dadi is really much stronger.
Moreover, this movie does not have Americans' inherent prejudice against Chinese people, but is extremely real.
There is neither braid nor soot.
Just simple farm details, driving cattle to plow the fields.
The slogan is in pure Chinese characters, and the background music is the March of the Volunteers.
Even in the eating scenes, the actors were holding bowls and chopsticks.
The only obviously untrue detail was that when the crew couldn't find a Chinese garden dog in the United States, they used a Schrena instead.
If it followed the original historical trend and achieved this, it would already be MGM or even Hollywood.
However, this world already has the rest of its life, which will naturally make this "divine drama" more magical.
After some negotiations with Meyer, an old fox, Yu Sheng not only paid for half of the filming cost of the film, but also received a 40% dividend ratio.
Moreover, he also joined the cast of Seed of the Dragon to teach Katherine Hepburn and speak Chinese with some important actors.
Also, turn some long sentences into short sentences.
In this way, the movie no longer has the hilarious part where the actors speak English lines with strong British, Australian or American accents.
For Yu Sheng, who grew up in Nanjing since childhood, the scenery, props and costumes have become more realistic after some changes.
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Halfway through the movie, the audience was filled with exclamations from various Hollywood stars.
Katharine Hepburn is worthy of being the number one acting talent among the twenty-five greatest actresses of the 20th century named by the American Film Institute.
After Yu Sheng put forward suggestions for improving the details of her performance, her every move, expression and body became more and more natural.
Even Yu Sheng's overseas Chinese would think he was a pure Chinese with blond hair and blue eyes.
Being able to express the character to such an extent, I have to say that Katherine Hepburn's acting skills are already perfect.
Of course, the improvement of this movie does not stop at being more real.
While Yu Sheng retained the March of the Volunteers as background music, he also added a theme song to the movie.
This theme song, which most people in later generations have heard, is exactly the same song from Leehom Wang's Descendants of the Dragon.
Of course, the lyrics have been changed.
However, since the title of the song "Descendant of the Dragon" and "Dragon Species" show that they have basically the same theme, there is no need to change the lyrics too much.
When Xiaoyu, played by Katherine Hepburn, begins to fight against Japan, the theme song of the movie plays "There is a river in the far east, and its name is the Yangtze River.
There is a river in the far east, and its name is the Yellow River."
"There is a dragon in the ancient East, and its name is China.
There is a group of people in the ancient East, and they are all descendants of the dragon."
"I grew up under the feet of the dragon.
When I grow up, I will be the descendant of the dragon.
I will have black eyes, black hair, and yellow skin.
I will always be the descendant of the dragon
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