孙道临同志将曹禺同志的名剧《雷雨》搬上了银幕,并亲自导演和主演,让更广大的观众鉴赏它,应该说这是一个很有意义的尝试。改编文艺上已有定评的名作,在银幕上再现人们所熟知的艺术形象,从来都是个难题,常常是吃力而不讨好的。然而孙道临同志编导演的这部影片,却取得了相当的成功,这充分显示了他深厚的艺术功力。影片《雷雨》的成功之处,首先是它忠实于原作的主题思想和艺术风格。原作写的是二十年代初半封建半殖民地旧中国的一出家庭悲剧。剧中以周、鲁两家的矛盾冲突为主要线索,通过他们两家父子母女两代人的性爱和血缘关系,暴露了资产阶级残酷、虚伪的本质,腐朽没落的生活和丑恶卑劣的精神面貌,揭示 Comrade Sun Dao Lin put Comrade Cao Yu’s famous play “Thunderstorm” onto the screen, personally directing and starring him and letting a wider audience appreciate it. This should be a very meaningful attempt. It has always been a difficult task to adapt the well-known masterpieces in the literature and art to represent the well-known artistic images on the screen. It is often difficult and not pleasing. However, this film, compiled by Comrade Sun Dao Lin, has achieved considerable success, which fully shows his deep artistic skill. The success of the movie “Thunderstorm”, above all, is its theme and artistic style that is faithful to the original. Written in the original is a family tragedy of the feudal and semi-colonial old China of the early 1930s. In the play, the contradiction and conflict between Zhou and Lu were the main clues. By the sex and blood relationship of their two sons, their mother and daughter, the cruel and hypocritical nature of the bourgeoisie, the decadent and decadent life and the ugly and despicable spirit Look, reveal