In the early morning of June 28, the famous performance artist Yu Lan died in Beijing at the age of 99. Her youngest son, the famous director Tian Zhuangzhuang, posted a confirmation in the circle of friends and mourned it fondly.
"Mom is gone, now your senses are no longer functioning, your mind is independent, naked, clear and in the present moment, you have never experienced it before, everything you are experiencing now, this is the Buddha. Thanks to everyone who cares about Mom, I want to be alone for a few days quiet. ”
"All the great achievements and sacrifices of the revolution were made by Sister Jiang, but today people have given me their love for Sister Jiang." In the face of praise, Yu Lanzeng, who played the revolutionary martyr Jiang Zhujun in the classic film "Eternal Life in the Fire", responded with such humility.
Personally experienced the "918" incident, trekked thousands of miles to Yan'an, joined the anti-Japanese salvation movement; devoted himself to literary and artistic creation, met the love of life, fell in love and married despite the pressure of "being a stepmother"; her husband died of depression, and he was forced to leave the screen, so he chose to retire to the background to write books and teach his children...
Yu Lan has gone through 99 years of life, never been defeated by many difficulties, and she is like Sister Jiang, who she plays, tenacious and self-reliant, and unyielding.
In 1931, when the "918" incident occurred, Yu Lan, who was only 10 years old, was playing at her grandfather's house, and she personally witnessed the change on the banks of the Songhua River, watching Shenyang being occupied by the Japanese army.
Previously, as a young woman, she had traveled to several places, born in Xiuyan, Liaoning, and moved to Harbin, Heilongjiang with her parents in her infancy, and at the age of 8, she came to her grandfather's house in Shenyang, Liaoning Province.
After the accident, Yu Lan fled with her family to Hebei, because her aunt studied at the Hebei Women's Teachers College, and 3 years later, she was also admitted to the middle school department of this school, at that time, her name was still Yu Peiwen.
In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing, and North China fell, and she was forced to drop out of school. Through the introduction of a friend, she knew the revolutionary holy land of the anti-Japanese resistance - Yan'an, and without any hesitation, she immediately decided to set off with her classmate Zhao Shufeng and go to the ideal holy land.
When making preparations before the hair in the classmates' homes, Zhao Shufeng's mother, who was worried about her daughter, changed the name of Zhao Shufeng to Zhao Lu, which means to pray for a safe journey. Yu Lan's mind moved, and asked Mother Zhao to change her name, "Your name is Lan, I hope you will walk under the cloudless blue sky." ”
In this way, Yu Lan and Zhao Lu, two 17-year-old girls, on two legs, spent more than two months on a long journey of more than 1,000 kilometers from Beiping to Yan'an.
After arriving at her destination, Before Yu Lan could digest the hardships encountered along the way, she immediately began to adapt to the new harsh environment, sleeping on the floor, living in bunks, working and studying day after day, but her heart was always full of excitement and joy.
"Yan'an is the hardest place in the world, but Yan'an is also the happiest place in the world! I love Yan'an! ”
In addition to studying, there are a variety of rich literary and artistic activities here, Yu Lan likes to participate in drama performances, because she has been in the northern region since she was a child, she speaks fluent Mandarin, and she has many more performance opportunities than others.
When he once starred in the student leader "Sha Hong" in the drama "Pioneer", Yu Lan's performance was praised and affirmed by many experts, so he was selected into the experimental theater troupe of Yan'an Lu Xun Art College and became an official actor.
At this moment, her love also took root. In the process of watching the drama and participating in the drama, Yu Lan met his predecessor Tian Fang, who has been engaged in performance activities for 8 years and is a screen face that everyone knows.
However, Tian Fang himself did not have the slightest "star" shelf, and he rushed to do dirty work, actively helping the people in difficulty, and Yu Lan had a deep affection for him. Although he was ten years older than her and had been married and had children, Yu Lan only felt that this was a mature and stable good man, and married him without hesitation.
In 1940, Yu Lan and Tian Fang, who had just become a formal actor, were married in Yan'an, and their love career blossomed twice, and she was trapped in happiness, and she was more determined to act well.
Since then, the old maid in "Marriage Proposal", the rural girl in "Tenant", the heroine Chen Bailu in "Sunrise"... Yu Lan does not pick the size of the role, constantly improves his acting skills, and strives to bring good works to the audience.
In 1949, it was a year full of hope, with all kinds of waste to be revived, and all walks of life were revived, and the film and television industry was no exception.
Yu Lan's Northeast Film Studio began to create screen works, and she had the opportunity to go from stage to screen - the film debut "White Soldier" began filming.
Facing the camera for the first time, this challenge is not small. Yu Lan's nearly ten years of experience in drama performance has led to her performance style being slightly exaggerated in front of the camera. In addition to the unnatural performance, the pressure of "getting on the camera" also follows, and the photographer always shouts "You have too big eyes and too long teeth!" ”
Everyone is slowly exploring, the problem is found, but the solution can not emerge immediately, Yu Lan is under unprecedented pressure, hard scalp in the camera repeatedly groping. When she mentioned this debut film many years later, she was very dissatisfied, "At that time, I couldn't talk about character creation at all, and I was still very young." ”
When the second film "Cuigang Red Flag" two years later, Yu Lan, who transferred to the Beijing Film Studio, proved her ability, she adapted very quickly, and those problems disappeared, not only making a happy film, but also receiving the affirmation of all the audiences after the release.
Premier Zhou Enlai personally told Yu Lan that Chairman Mao had watched the film three times, and after watching it, he also instructed the central cadres to "never forget the people in the old Soviet area."
In 1961, when Yu Lan was recuperating in the hospital, she accidentally read the novel "Red Rock" from the newspaper, and she was deeply moved by the heroic story in it, and co-director Ouyang Hongyi prepared to put this story on the screen.
Subsequently, Ouyang Hongyi was sent to direct "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", which made the birth of this work have some twists and turns, fortunately, the results were good, and two classics were born.
There is a poem in Ye Ting's "Prisoner Song": "I should have eternal life in the fire and blood." Yu Lan took inspiration from it, and finally the title of "Eternal Life in the Fire" was personally decided by Premier Zhou Enlai, and Guo Moruo personally wrote the inscription.
Soon, a ten-year catastrophe that could not be bypassed came, Yu Lan was defeated together with Tian Fang, and as the key "gangster" of the North Film Factory, they were brutally criticized many times, and they were sent to the township to participate in labor.
In 1974, the darkest year of Yu Lan's life, Tian Fang became depressed and went to the hospital for examination. On the night of Tian Fang's death, Yu Lan sat on the edge of the bed, how could not believe that the lover who had promised her to go to the old man together had left himself and his four children and died.
At the same time, Yu Lan found that she could not act, and the release of the movie "Scout" made her clearly see her right face twitching slightly in the close-up of the camera, and a fall injury in the early years finally revealed its sequelae now, and her acting career was sentenced to death.
When one blow after another hit, life still had to go on, and too much immersion in grief would not help, she packed up her mood and began to turn to behind-the-scenes work, focusing on the children.
She co-directed films, distilling these years of acting experience into words and writing articles to teach younger generations. She focused on children's theme works, set up a Chinese children's film studio, put children's films on the right track, and created a new field of brilliance.
Yu Lan and Tian Fang's love crystallization - sons Tian Xinxin and Tian Zhuangzhuang have inherited their parents' acting careers, and his nephew is also a famous old drama bone Li Xuejian, like a talented acting family.
In 1962, Yu Lan won the Best Actress Award at the Moscow International Film Festival for "Revolutionary Family", and in the same year, she was named one of the "22 Film Stars" by the Ministry of Culture, and in 2009, she won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Golden Rooster Award of Chinese Cinema.
The reporter once interviewed Tian Zhuangzhuang and asked him to talk about the similarities and differences between his film creation and his parents' generation, and his answer was full of respect, "It is the older generation of artists who have created the glory of Chinese films, without them, there will be no Chinese films, and the younger generation will always go forward." ”
After a hundred years of suffering, suffering has become a medal, looking back on his life, Yu Lan is as determined as usual, has not yielded, has made achievements repeatedly, and achieved remarkable results, "The sunrise river is red and the fire is better, and the spring river is as green as blue." ”
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