中英雙語話中國影視演藝圈 第8期:馬路天使
Street Angel (1937)
《馬路天使》（1937)The Film Tells about the sufferings of lower classes in Shanghai: life experiences of a group of sworn brothers and the two sisters, Xiao Hong and Xiao Yun. The youth, Chen Shaoping, who was a trumpeter and news vendors, live together with his sworn brothers included Laowang, fruit seller, barber, and the street walker in an attic. Towards the attic live the two poor sisters, Xiao Hong and Xiao Yun. Xiao Yun had already been forced into lower prostitution while Xiao Hong had a fine throat by nature and served as a teahouse singer, with a stringed-instrument player. Xiao Hong and Xiao Chen gradually fell in love. The film reproduced the hard life of the cities' lower classes of 1930s, paid a tribu their kindness and attacked the gloomy society.
《馬路天使》講述的是上海底層人民的疾苦——一羣“把兄弟”與小云和小紅兩姐妹之間的生活遭遇。青年陳少平是個吹鼓手，他和賣報的老王、賣水果的小販、剃頭司務、失業者結拜成兄弟，住在同一個弄堂的小閣樓上, 對面住着一對生活貧苦的姐妹小云和小紅。小云在生活逼迫下只得做了下等妓女，小紅天生一副好嗓子，就跟着琴師到茶館去賣唱。小紅和小陳每每對窗玩鬧，日久生情。這部影片生動地再現了20世紀30年代都市下層人民的苦難生活，歌頌他們的善良，抨擊黑暗的社會。
Made by Star Film Company, written and directed by Yuan Muzhi and starred by Zhao Dan and Zhou Xuan, Street Angel was an excellent realistic film with profound social significance and sky-high artistic was one of the representitive films dealing with social problem. It was considered as the symbolic work which made Chinese film art developed to its peak in the 1930s. It was selected as one of the Best 100 Chinese Films by the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards, ranked 11th and one of the outstanding Chinese films in 90 years.
《馬路天使》是由明星影片公司製作，袁牧之自編、自導，趙丹、周璇主演的一部具有深刻社會意義和極高藝術成就的現實主義優秀影片，是我國早期社會問題片的代表作之一，成爲20世紀30年代中國電影藝術發展高峯時期的標誌性作品；在第24屆香港電影節被選爲“中國最優秀的100部電影”之一，排名第11位；是“中國電影九十年優秀影片”之一。
Zhou Xuan once said she had not been satistied by her films except Street Angel. And Zhao Dan had said Street Angel marked his actor career. The film may fairly claimed to be the classic sound film in 1930s. A French film historian, praised the film as " typical Chinese film with unique style”. Even today, it is still full of charm.
周璇曾經說過,她一生沒有什麼滿意的電影，除了《馬路天使》；趙丹說他真正的演員生涯是從《馬路天使》開始的。本片堪稱中國20世紀30年代有聲片的經典。這部被法國著名電影史學家讚美爲“風格極爲獨特，而且是典型中國式”的影 片，即使放到今天來看,依舊魅力不減。The film also left us with the well-known songs, Song of the Four Seasons and Wandering Songstress.
本片還留下了至今仍膾炙人口的歌曲《四季歌》和《天涯歌女》。
