Li Tianlu Prize

After the film "Daughter of the Nile", Li Tianlu only belongs to a go through the motions, or an old man, and there is nothing special about it. It was not until 1989' s City of Sadness that he played Grandpa Lin. As a witness of the Japanese occupation era, Hou Xiaoxian asked the old man about Yidan, old restaurants, rivers and lakes grievances and the February 28th incident. In the same year, Li Tianlu was awarded the title of "National Artist" and the honor of "International Communication Award" by the authorities.

After The City of Sorrow won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival, Hou Hsiao-hsien prepared his next film, which recorded the life of the elderly in Li Tianlu. By writing memoirs and collecting a lot of information, everything is slowly getting on track.

1July, 990, Li Tianlu returned to Quanzhou for the first time, and Quanzhou was also his ancestral home. He visited Huang Yiqie, a national first-class actor and puppet master, while Hou Xiaoxian was looking for a location suitable for "dream realization" in Quanzhou and other places in southern Fujian.

The fortune teller said that the older you eat, the farther you go and the redder you become. This point was confirmed after Living Dreams 1993 came to Cannes International Film Festival, and it was this film that made fans, people across the Taiwan Straits and at home and abroad know this tough and humorous grandfather, a generation of puppet master Li Tianlu.

1993 Cannes Film Festival is also full of magical colors. Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine and Hou Hsiao-hsien's Dream Life brought together Chinese forces from three places across the Taiwan Strait and appeared in this seaside town in southern France. They also talk about life through drama, interspersed with the background changes of the great era. The difference is that one is full of emotional penetration and the other is desolation without paper. Before the award ceremony, the actors of Farewell My Concubine were told that the winner was beaming, while the actors of Dream of Life looked a little expressionless without knowing it. It would be disappointing if this work dedicated to grandpa just returned to Taiwan Province Province.

However, when the first special jury award was announced to be won by Dream Life, Hou Xiaoxian, Li Tianlu and the staff were overjoyed. Hou Xiaoxian helped 84-year-old Li Tianlu receive the award. The grandfather wore sunglasses and said "MERCI" to the audience in Chinese and French, which aroused enthusiastic response from the audience.

In his later years, worried about the decline of traditional art and culture, Li Tianlu spared no effort to set up a puppet show cultural relics museum. The fate of his life is the rise and fall of local operas in Taiwan Province Province, under the difficult environment of insufficient resources. 1996 65438+February 3 1, the cultural relics museum was finally completed with the support of all parties.