[1] The cast includes Zhu Xijuan, Wang Xingang, Xiang Mei, Jin Naihua, Chen Qiang, and Niu Ben.
The Red Detachment of Women became famous after winning the PRC's best script, best director, and best actress awards in November 1961.
[2] The film characters of Qiong Hua, Hong Changqing, and Nan Batian became quite well-known and following the success of the Red Detachment of Women ballet in 1964 by the end of 1966 was elevated to one of the eight "revolutionary model theatrical works" (geming yangbanxi, or yangbanxi for short), which formed the official canon.
In September 1930, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set up a division in Hainan Island, which contained a company of female soldiers called the Red Detachment of Women.
Guiding by Hong Changqing, Qionghua makes her way to the encampment with another young woman, Fu Honglian, who refuses her life as a widow.
Afterward in another mission, Hong Changqing and Wu Qionghua disguise as a businessman and his maidservant the same as before to enter Nan Batian's fort as spies.
In the following peasant movements, Qionghua takes an active part and she applies to join the Chinese Communist Party.
The escaping Nan Batian reports the situation to the government and the KMT assigns a brigade to attack the Red Army in Hainan Island.
In his works, there is a strong sense of social responsibility and patriotic national consciousness, and with the combination of film narrative methods close to the public, reached the peak of political and ethical melodrama, and shaped a series of successful female images.”[3](By Shuqin Huang, Quan Yuan, Hong yin) Evaluation: Liang Xin's film literary creation can be divided into two periods.
The later works have various themes and extensive contents, he combines history with people, and shows the essential characteristics of the times through the emotional actions of characters in various historical periods.
With Hong Changqing's help, she is able to join the Red Detachment of Women, where she grows from an ordinary soldier to a proletarian pioneer fighter.
In the film, Zhu uses her " burning eyes" and strong body language to make the rebellious and resolute personality of Wu Qionghua's perfectly.
Because of the hardship his father suffered, Changqing struggled in the society at a young age and gained much experience, which made him mature.
Actress: Xiang Mei Fu Honglian is also an honest, kind young woman who suffers feudal oppression.
During the ill-fated Cultural Revolution, the ballet version of “The Red Detachment of Women" became a must-have for leaders to entertain foreign guests, was also designated as a Revolutionary opera and was remade into a film, showing all over the country.
Writers and artists who created the Red Detachment of Women series of works of art were also buffeted to varying degrees.
Bai Shuxiang (白淑湘), the first actress to play Wu Qionghua in the ballet Red Detachment of Women, was labeled as “destructive Revolutionary opera" and "counter-revolutionary” and was once sent to a Labor camp.
From the 1900s when cinema entered the market, it started to play an important role in the Chinese Communist Party's media strategy.
From ancient times to the present, CCP continuously oversees in the film industry, and the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party takes direct control over the profession.
In the ballet, villains were dark and showed up in dim color while the heroes were pure and they appeared with a bright and vivid atmosphere.
Through watching various revolutionary based communist movies, people enjoyed the entertainment, and at the same time they carried out a subtle influence.
[13] In 1958, Liang Xin, a professional creator of the Central South Military Area Command, went to Hainan Island to experience life.
In the Memorial Hall of Revolutionary Heroes, Liang Xin was inspired by the pictures of the Red Detachment of Women, and he decided to write a script about them.
Xie decided to rename the film "The Red Detachment of Women" because he thought the name <琼岛英雄花>was a bit cultural.
[14] Later, he was chosen by the director of Shanghai Tianma Film Studio, Xie Jin, and was renamed "The Red Detachment of Women".
In addition to organizing them to read novels and memoirs that reflect the revolutionary struggle of the Red Army era, Xie Jin also asked every actor who played the female army to wear leggings, perform military exercises, and practice military actions to make these actions become their lifestyle habits.
One day, when Xie Jin was passing a classroom in Shanghai drama academy, he heard a young man and woman quarreling.
After consideration, Xie Jin felt that this concern was not unreasonable, and then the script was changed accordingly, showing that Wu Qionghua and Hong Changqing had become comrades from lovers.
[14] To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Party and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Red Detachment of Women, the Red Detachment of Women inaugural meeting site in the old village committee of Yangjiang Town, Qionghai City, Hainan Province officially started reconstruction.
[16] The story was turned into a ballet and later a Beijing opera during the Cultural Revolution and became famous in the West for its gun-toting ballerinas.