Text/Meng Zehui On the third day of the ninth lunar month of the Xin Ugly Year
The famous film performance artist Xiang Mei, formerly known as Wu Xiangmei, was the head of the Troupe of Shangying Actors. He is a director of the China Filmmakers Association, a director of the Shanghai Filmmakers Association, and a director of the China Film Performing Arts Society. The artistic images she has created on the screen with distinct personalities have left a deep impression on the minds of the audience, especially those who came from the 1950s and 1960s, who are more familiar and fond of her.
In January 1957, Xiang Mei was invited to participate in the filming of "Women's Basketball No. 5" directed by Xie Jin. Later, he successively filmed "Good Boy", "Important Lesson", "Night Sailing in the Fog Sea", "Two Salesmen", "Letter from the Front", "Cuckoo Calling Again", "Thousand Girls Noisy Sea", "Red Girl Scout Army", "Jinsha Riverside", "North Jiangnan", "Warship Platform", "Donggang Spy Shadow", "The Gunshot of the Secret Bureau", "Blue Archive", "Piano Boy", "Will a Miracle Happen", "Fly to the Pacific", "The Last Choice", "Exile University", "Summer Expectation", "Innocent Killer", "Generation of Gun Kings", "Hell and Heaven", "Moon With People", "Thousands of Dreams", "Dream of a Thousand Miles", "Dream of a Thousand Miles". October Meteor Shower", "Ancient Town Raider" and other films.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Xiang Mei also filmed "The Death of the Groom", "The Long Night", "The Red Flower That Never Withers", "The Price", "The Blue House", "The Passing Years", "Journey to the West", "The Beginning of Man", "Lilac Villa", "Gulangyu", "The Battle of Majiang", "Golden Rose", "Fang Rongxiang", "Fengyun Family", "Nine-Nine Roses", "Where is the Dream", "Black Ice", "Not at the Scene of the Crime", "More Annoying at Home", "If There is an Afterlife", "Let's Remarry", "New Ashima", "Dangerous Game", "No Wave on the Water", "Behind the Strange Edge", "Long Hate Song", "Long Hate Song", "Long Hate Song" TV series such as "Pretty Lady" and "The Old Man's Story". He has also performed dramas such as "Spark of Fire", "Youth of Battle", "Thunderstorm", "New Sentinel under Neon Lights", "Military Soul", "Extraordinary Mission" and so on.
Her first film was "Women's Basketball Five". In this film, she plays Wang Aizhu, a somewhat squeamish basketball player. She can play the accordion, has a bed dispute with No. 5, and finally with the help of the coach, the two reconcile. The film "Women's Basketball No. 5" won the silver medal of the Moscow Youth Film Festival and was widely praised by audiences at home and abroad.
Stills from the film "Women's Basketball Five"
In "The Red Detachment of Women", he played a Red Army soldier who was raised by a child bride - Red Lotus. Unwilling to be the daughter-in-law of the wooden man, Red Lotus broke through the feudal cage and defected to the Liberated Areas with Qionghua. In the ranks of the revolution, she charged forward, heroically killed the enemy, and found true love and lived a human life. After the screening of the film "Red Detachment of Women", because of her simple, natural and authentic performance, the audience reacted strongly and won the five best awards of the first "Hundred Flowers Award".
Stills from the film "The Red Detachment of Women"
After 1964, Xiang Mei participated in the "Four Qing" Movement, and at the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", Xiang Mei was isolated and censored, and then entered the "May Seventh Cadre School", which lasted for more than ten years. In 1976, in the anti-special feature film "Eastport Spy Movie", he played the wife of an awakened secret agent. Although she does not have many shots in this film, it helps her to relieve the strangeness in front of the camera and the tension after a long period of professional absence.
Stills from the film "EastPort Spy Movie"
In the second half of 1978, Shi Xiuying, a brave and witty underground worker who played "The Gunshots of the Secret Bureau", took over the work of Zhou Fuxiang, who was killed by the enemy, when he learned that his comrades-in-arms had been betrayed by traitors, and sent out the information under the cover of Liu Xiaochen's wit. The film is based on the novel "Fighting at the Heart of the Enemy", which Xiang Mei is familiar with and has seen this novel a long time ago. After the film was released, it was welcomed by the audience and also won the Outstanding Film Award issued by the Ministry of Culture.
Stills from the film "Gunshots of the Secret Service"
In June 1979, he played the martyr Zhang Zhixin in the TV series "The Red Flower That Never Withers". How to reproduce the heroic image of martyr Zhang Zhixin and her spirit of struggle? Xiang Mei not only achieves "shape-likeness", but also "god-like", and her treatment of the character tone is: deep, subtle, perseverance and diligent thinking. Focus on showing the character's inner feelings, showing her love for life, hatred and contempt for the "Gang of Four" and its accomplices. In the course of her performance, she always follows the principle of authenticity, noting the multifaceted nature of the characters; she has experienced both ideological and emotional contradictions, painful struggles, and liberation and resolute action.
Stills from the film "The Blue Files"
In January 1980, she played the main role in the thrilling feature film "Blue Files" Shen Yaqi, a figure underground worker in our party, but she was working in her public capacity as a manager of a Kuomintang bank and a big red of the Central Bureau of Statistics. She pays great attention to grasping the relationship between the prescribed scene and the feelings of the character, which not only fully demonstrates the noble quality of the character, but also appears to be real and credible. After the film was screened, it won the praise of the audience.