《三家巷》是著名作家欧阳山的一部烩炙人口、流传甚广的小说。它通过对三家巷里三个不同阶层人家子女之间错综复杂的关系的描写,表现了大革命时期各个阶层的分化与变化。这部反映重大革命历史题材、为人们所熟知的名著,要改编成电影就必须做到在主题思想、人物性格和情节发展等方面保持原著的基调,并在一个半小时的放映时间里,将数十万言的长篇小说的精华,以真实和生动的艺术形象再现出来,这是一件不容易的事。早在一九六三年,珠江电影制片厂导演王为一和作家曾纬受欧阳山的委托,就已写成《三家巷》电影文学本初稿。后因受极左思潮影响,小说又被无理批判,电影也就流产了。一九八○年初,王导演再次和曾纬合作,拟出了改编《三家巷》的构思大纲和分场提纲,得到了欧阳山的同意。欧阳山还帮他们分析了周炳这个人物的思想和性格的来龙去脉,及其他一些重要人物的发展变化,要他们努力把《三家巷》中周炳这个正在成长中的 “Three Alley” is a famous writer Ouyang Shan a popular, popular novel. It expresses the differentiation and change of all strata of the Great Revolution through the description of the intricate relationship between the children of three different strata in the three alleyways. This is a well-known masterpiece that reflects the major revolutionary historical themes. To be adapted into a movie, it is necessary to maintain the original tone of theme, personality and plot development. In an hour and a half of the screening time, It is not easy to recreate the essence of the hundreds of thousands of words in a realistic and vivid artistic image. As early as 1963, Wang Weiyi, director of the Pearl River Film Studio and author Zeng Wei entrusted by Ouyang Shan, has written this first draft of “Three Lanes” movie literature. After being influenced by the extreme leftist thought, the novel was again unreasonably criticized and the film was aborted. In the early 1980s, again with his collaboration with Zeng Wei, Director Wang drafted the outline and sub-outline of the concept of “Three Alleyways”, which was agreed by Ouyang Shan. Ouyang Shan also helped them analyze the ins and outs of Zhou Bing’s thought and personality and the development and changes of other important personalities and asked them to work hard to make Zhou Bing,