旧上海的题材开始热门,于是这个话题也开始热门了。这话题的热门,多半缘了陈凯歌、张艺谋和陈逸飞三部电影的开机和宣传。但是把眼界放开一点,便发觉旧上海的题材远不止这些流氓加妓女之类,尽管这曾被那时偏激的文人看作“海派”的标志。不久前播放的由严顺开和林锡彪主演的《王先生和小陈》,(根据叶浅予当时的漫画改编),也以海派自居,显出昔日上海小市民的无奈的面目,作为今日大上海小市民的镜子。再想开去,反映上海工人武装起义的影视作品也应属于“旧上海的题材”,至少象《上海一家人》更是地地道道的“旧上海的题材”了。于是一个问题就冒出来了,今天成为热门的“旧上海的题材”意味着什么呢?是上海首当其冲经受西方文明冲击和压迫所作的回应?是现代工业文明的铁轮无情辗过留下的现代痕迹?这些或许与被 The theme of the old Shanghai began to become popular, so this topic has begun to be popular. Popular topic, most of the edge of Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and Chen Yifei three movies boot and publicity. However, letting her eyes open further, I found that the subject of old Shanghai was much more than such rogue and prostitutes, although it was once regarded as a symbol of “Shanghai School” by the then radical literati. Not long ago, “Wang and Chen,” starring Yan Shun Kai and Lin Xi Biao, also based in Shanghai on the occasion of the comic adaptation of Ye Xiaoyuan, showed the helpless face of Shanghai’s small urban residents as a mirror for today’s Shanghai small citizens. Think about it again. The film and television works that reflect the armed uprising of workers in Shanghai should also belong to the “theme of the old Shanghai.” At least, the “Shanghai’s family” is even more out of the “old Shanghai theme.” So a question emerges. What does it mean to become a popular “old Shanghai theme” today? What is the response of Shanghai to bear the brunt of the impact and oppression of Western civilization? It is the iron wheel of modern industrial civilization ruthlessly left behind Modern traces? These may be with