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The screenwriter Chen Baichen tried to reveal problems by filming the actual events happened in Shanghai. In October 1948, inflation became more intense in Shanghai, and citizens had to purchase gold from the KMT government. Chen Baichen combined the event with his script, and filmed the scene of little Broadcast purchasing gold bars.

The screenwriter Chen Baichen reflects actual events happening in Shanghai in the movie script. During the civil war between the KMT and Mao, the KMTs government resorted to printing money to finance 65-80% of their annual spending. This caused major inflation which reached its peak in 1948 when the money supply had grown by 389,910 billion yuan in just 3 years. The inflation destroyed wealth in the middle class and drove many into poverty. These events of inlfation can be seen in Crows and Sparrows script several times, including when little broadcast is seen reading a newspaper with the word "inflation" scribbled all over the page, and he then rushes to instruct his wife to shut down their street cart out of fears that prices will rise again by the afternoon.

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Zheng Junli went to prison after the creation of the film Crows and Sparrows and ended up dying in prison. His many years in film and stage made his reputation disintegrate as the times changed.

The story of the movie Crow and Sparrow takes place in 1948. About the background and events of the times in Shanghai in that era.

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In the 1970s Zheng Junli's character was "repaired" as he was deemed a progressive and an enlightened saint. Which was not the case; in the 1950s and 60s when he was viewed as an bourgeois degenerate. Neither of which are true to his character, when he was alive he surrounded himself around "leftists" like Xia Yan and Chen Baichen. In the 1920s and 1930s Zheng Junli did very well under the Nationalist Party during the Nanjing decade. He went from stage to film joining the Lianhua Film Studio. During these times Junli did very well navigating between international settlement and the "national" film settlement. Due to his good fortune during these times, during the Mao years he ended up in jail being seen as a traitor and a threat. [1]

Cast

• Wei Heling as Kong Youwen
• Zhao Dan as Mr. Xiao
• Wu Yin as Mrs. Xiao
• Sun Daolin as Hua Jiezhi
• Shangguan Yunzhu as Mrs. Hua
• Li Tianji as Hou Yibo
• Huang Zingying as Yu Xiaoying
• Wang Bei as Ah Mei
• Wang Lulu as Wei Wei
• Xu Weijie as Da Mao
• Qiu Huan as Er Mao
• Ge Meiqiang as Little Mao

The movie's poster shows the list of characters.

Production

The Crows and the Sparrows The Crow and the Sparrow is an excellent satire, using metaphor and symbolism from the theme to the details of the film. The house at the center of the conflict means the kingdom, which was once occupied by the reactionaries but eventually returned to the people; the crow symbolizes the corrupt officials; the sparrow symbolizes the common people. The director's camera treatment is also full of symbolic meaning; the upward shot of the "crows" living upstairs shows its power; the downward shot of the "sparrows" living downstairs shows their low status. The ideological meaning is profound.