Xu Zheng's self-directed and self-acting "囧Mom" has become the only New Year movie in this "Spring Festival file" to meet the audience as scheduled.
This time, he uses comedy as the tone, telling a story of mother and son from confrontation to reconciliation and understanding.
In the film, Xu Zheng starred as the "workaholic" son who was busy with work and snubbed his mother, and while he was a funny and cute task, he also warmed the audience's heart with warmth.
The role of "囧Mom" is played by the old drama bone Huang Meiying. Born in Shanghai in 1950, she is about the same age as "囧Mom", and she is already an old man of ancient age.
Huang Meiying's family is superior, her grandfather is rich in assets, and her father is an engineer, so she has lived in a bungalow with a garden since she was a child. And because of the influence of the family style, it has cultivated an elegant atmosphere.
Besides, she was still good-looking.
Even though she is now seventy years old, the marks of time cannot be erased, but the beauty charm between Huang Meiying's eyebrows is still there for all to see, and anyone who looks at it will believe that she must have been a great beauty when she was young.
It is also because of her beauty and cuteness that Huang Meiying entered the dance team in the second grade and met "literature and art" for the first time. What inspired her to become an actress was to participate in the filming of "Sentinel under Neon Lights" as a mass actor at the age of 13.
That time, she met Tao Yuling, and then happened to meet Qin Yi.
However, for a variety of reasons, Huang Meiying did not pass the examination of the General Political And Cultural Troupe until she was 20 years old, with the support of Teacher Wang Cuinian, and officially became a "reserve" literary and art worker. After several years of study, Huang Meiying was assigned to the song and dance troupe and became a singing actress and announcer in the troupe.
Although it has been "normalized", this is still a long way from her dream of being an actor. But fate is like this, always in your hands when you can't think of it.
In 1974, Huang Meiying was seconded to the drama troupe and played "Li Fenglian" in the drama "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains", and acted for 3 years. Later, Yan Jizhou directed the filming of the movie "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains", and Huang Meiying was undisputed and naturally became the "Li Fenglian" on the screen.
Subsequently, she starred in another film directed by Wang Ping, playing a progressive college student.
However, after filming this movie, Huang Meiying turned back to the original point - back to the song and dance troupe.
Appearing in the film twice in succession, the performance experience and experience under the camera and on the screen made her completely fall in love with acting. However, as the literary and artistic backbone of the original unit, she wants to really change careers to become an actor, but there is a lot of resistance.
In 1977, before the filming of the film "Instant", Li Qiankuan, who was an assistant director, came to Huang Meiying and wanted her to play the heroine in the film, but he could not get the consent of the head of the song and dance troupe.
Subsequently, Li Qiankuan went through several twists and turns, and finally helped Huang Meiying transfer to Bayi Factory, allowing her to officially become an actress from then on.
It is also for this reason that Huang Meiying has always been deeply grateful to Li Qiankuan. Years later, when she won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Peacock", she also thanked Li Qiankuan in particular when receiving the award, saying that "without his help, I would not be an actor in my life."
Huang Meiying, who wishes to become an actress, is 27 years old, which is considered "older" among actresses. And she is good looking and good acting, but she is always a little worse in luck.
Huang Meiying, who won many awards for golden rooster and hundred flowers, was originally the heroine of the director's favor, because she had an intellectual beauty, dignified and generous, elegant and unworldly. However, because of the content of the script, Huang Meiying accepted the kind suggestions of those around her and rejected the film.
Pan Hong, who subsequently took over, was nominated for the role of "Lu Wenting" and won the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Double nominations, and won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress home.
In addition to missing "People to Middle Age", many films starring Huang Meiying either failed to be filmed smoothly or were not released smoothly after filming.
And she was also lamented that "the times are not lucky".
Career is not smooth sailing, Huang Meiying's feelings are also a little "twists and turns".
In 1981, Huang Meiying participated in the filming of "The Long Road", playing "Hu Xiangyu" in the film, and met Jin Xin, who played "Zhu Hua".
Although Jin Xin, who loves sports, is not the kind of "cream boy" with clear eyebrows, he is strong, his facial features are upright and heroic, and he is very man in today's words.
When Huang Meiying noticed him, Jin Xin also noticed this beautiful-looking and elegant girl.
Two people from the same shanghai, with the rural tone as the "touch" point to catch up, and became more and more familiar with the cooperation. Jin Xin, who is two years younger than Huang Meiying, fell in love with this beautiful, gentle sister, and Huang Meiying was also moved by this young man.
But just when the two hearts were throbbing at the same time, "The Long Road" temporarily stopped filming because it was necessary to revise the script. After a short separation, the two people met again in the crew, and after completing the shooting, they went to the west and east, and the feeling in their hearts was still not spoken after all.
However, the thoughts stopped and the expulsion did not disperse.
In the Spring Festival of 1982, when Huang Meiying returned to Shanghai to visit her relatives, she met Jin Xin. The two people made an appointment to go to the drama, but because Huang Meiying was late, the meeting between the two people was somewhat unhappy and dispersed.
In an old report, the situation after the two people met was described like this:
"Did you wait a long time?" She said apologetically. "I was lucky that you finally didn't let me spend a night in the cold wind." He said self-deprecatingly. "I'm really sorry, I've always been a rare person. I'm sorry to make you wait. ” "Time is of the essence!" From now on, you should understand how important time is to us. ” The two people were silent for a while, and this silent silence made the two suddenly feel strange and distant...
After this separation, Huang Meiying and Jin Xin were each busy filming, and the difference was three years.
In the past three years, both people have had new encounters, but neither has been able to find the original feelings - in short, they have not met anyone who can "call".
Two people who have been out of touch for 3 years still can't give up their thoughts of each other.
In October 1984, Huang Meiying participated in the filming of "A Deep Love", because she knew that Jin Xin would come, so she waited for him in the district square of the Bayi Factory. At the moment of meeting, the two people had a feeling like they were in a different world, and they could really be described by Liu Yong's sentence "Holding hands and looking at each other with tears, but they are speechless and choking".
After more than a week of reunion, the two people, who had missed 3 years, held a simple but heartfelt wedding in the simple room in the tube building.
Just after getting married, Huang Meiying and Jin Xin went to Guangzhou for work and spent their honeymoon in a film seminar. Subsequently, the two people went south and north, and then threw themselves into the filming of the new play.
In the second year of marriage, Huang Meiying gave birth to a son, Jin Yan.
And her previously unobstructed "star path" also began to become smooth, after starring in a number of film and television dramas, Huang Meiying took over the filming of "Longing" in 1990, playing "Wang Yaru" in the play.
For this appearance, Huang Meiying laughed and said, "I was deceived."
Wang Yaru is the sister of Wang Husheng, who has a good personality when she appears, but then her personality changes greatly because of many blows in her life, and she is mean, eccentric and paranoid, and unkind.
Although "Wang Yaru" is annoying, Huang Meiying feels that such a role has given the actors plenty of room to play. From the perspective of the character, she analyzes the changes in the character's temperament from her encounters, to explore her psychological activities as an ordinary person, rather than simply interpreting her as a villain.
Huang Meiying used her own understanding and shaping to add flesh and blood and emotion to Wang Yaru's body, find logic for her behavior, and interpret the characters as real and credible without changing the character settings.
With the high ratings of "Longing" that year, with superb performances, Huang Meiying was also well known to the audience and became a famous star in the country.
After that, Huang Meiying has successively starred in a number of dramas, including "The Golden Powder Family" starring Chen Kun and Dong Jie, playing the mother of "Leng Qingqiu" in the play.
Later, there was the love of "Family Tree", "New Marriage Era", "Home in Minami Sanjo", and "Hawthorn Tree", and the close-knit drama made her busier than when she was younger, becoming a "mother professional household" on the screen.
Huang Meiying's own temperament and personality are all everyone's feminine intellectual, gentle and dignified, and she is also very good at interpreting such characters.
The "mother" in "Peacock" and the mother in "囧Mom" are very different.
In order to play the mother in "Peacock", Huang Meiying not only gained weight, but also deliberately slept less, making herself look more like the mother who was under the pressure of life and was therefore "fat and haggard".
With this role, 55-year-old Huang Meiying won the Golden Rooster Award.
"囧Mom" in the a little harsh and suspicious, speaking fast, procrastination love late, obsessed with a variety of nutritious meals, is angry to the point of playing the "Lu Xiaohua", so that many people feel that life is full of breath, unconsciously guided to replace their elders.
Huang Meiying's performance is relaxed and natural, there is almost no trace of performance, if you don't know her own personality, it will really make people think that she is playing in her own color.
Although, the setting of the character of "Lu Xiaohua" in the film obviously has a "reference" to Huang Meiying, such as love being late is a bit "rare Maha".
Another example is "Lu Xiaohua's love for singing"
For the sake of "Lu Xiaohua", Huang Meiying also contributed many of her "private photos" as props in the film.
At the end of the film, the mother and son finally melted away the original prejudices and misunderstandings in the companionship and bumps along the way. When Xu Yiwan left, the camera swept over the picture frame hanging on the wall, and the previous conjecture that "my mother must have been beautiful when she was young" was confirmed in the photo.
The "mother" in the photo, that is, Huang Meiying when she was young, is really beautiful and beautiful.
Huang Meiying, who is 70 years old, uses the profound skills accumulated from art for more than 40 years to complete the characters well, but also adds a wonderful stroke to her performance resume.
In life, she and Jin Xin have been married for 35 years, and the husband and wife are deeply in love and carry each other all the way. Although she is no longer a young girl, around her husband, who is two years younger, Huang Meiying often unconsciously shows a delicate look.
As netizens said, "This is what love looks like."