Review of The East is Red

The filming of the film "The East Is Red" made the necessary cuts to the 1964 stage performance version. In the original 8 games of the stage play, only the prelude "Dongfanghong" and the first 6 games of "Oriental Dawn", "Spark Fire", "Wanshui Qianshan", "Anti-Japanese bonfire", "Bury the Jiang Dynasty", "The Chinese people stand up, In accordance with Mao Zedong's opinion, there is no income to the movie picture. A great system of singing and dancing. In music, the nationalized lining tone polyphony is brought to the extreme, and the pentatonic mode and the national mode alternate. The folk orchestra and the Western orchestra compete against each other. The chorus on both sides is magnificent, and the lead singer is tall, wide, crisp and sweet. The dance combines ballet movements with opera routines, and the movement is appropriate, and the stage scheduling is clear and distinct. It all shapes a rustic and powerful aesthetic tendency that has influenced the way the stage is presented today.