During the Qing Dynasty's Foreign Affairs Movement, the delegations sent out not only bought a large amount of military equipment, but also imported video cameras. Since the advent of the camera in China, China's film and television art has blossomed. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, although China started late in the film and television industry, it still got a certain development. By the middle of the Republic of China, a considerable scale had been formed, among which Chinese film and television works had won awards at the Moscow Film Festival.
With excellent directors and screenwriters, without excellent actors, Chinese film and television works cannot win awards. However, many of the actors of that era came from Shanghai song and dance halls, and one of them became popular in Shanghai because of its tacky name. So who is she?
I changed my name and was blessed with it.
The person I am talking about today is Wang Renmei, a famous actress in the Republic of China period.
Wang Renmei's original name was not Wang Renmei, but Wang Shuxi. Her name change is also related to her experience in college. Wang Shuxi's family is well-off, and her father is a teacher of the First Normal School, so she received a good education when she was young. After studying at Women's Normal University, she fell in love with singing and dancing. After graduating from women's normal university, she came to Shanghai and began to learn to sing and dance, which opened the door to her art.
Wang Shuxi, who has just come to Shanghai, worked hard when learning dance, but he was not taken seriously. The other girls at the school began to hug each other, consciously avoiding associating with Wang Shuxi, mainly because her name was relatively elegant and could not enter the mainstream of the secular world. At that time, Shanghai was a fashionable and modern entertainment city, but the elimination rate in the song and dance industry was also very high, so soon some teachers suggested that she change her name, but how to change her name became a problem in her heart.
When Wang Shuxi was worried about changing her name, a professor and principal of the dance academy pointed out an idea to her. In Shanghai, where entertainment is developed, the name must be tacky and have commemorative significance. Then the name Wang Renmei came, and after changing the name, Wang Renmei was renewed. Instead, it was such a cheesy name that made her classmates and teachers reacquaint themselves with her.
With this new name, coupled with solid dance skills, she quickly won the favor of her teachers, so after graduation she was recommended to work in a dance hall, which made Wang more famous, and she was also happy because of the name change.
Become the protagonist of a classic movie.
After working in the Shanghai Dance Hall, she quickly won the favor of the theater directors at the time with the opportunity to star in musicals, and soon got the opportunity to appear in movies.
It is definitely a very fortunate thing to appear in the Republic of China movies. At that time, all the people who watched this movie were high-society people, so Wang Renmei gladly accepted the invitation and began to participate in the first film of his life, "The Sound of the Ape in the Empty Valley", for a short time. However, Wang's outstanding performance impressed the audience, which made Wang Renmei a celebrity in Shanghai, and many dignitaries became her fans, so the director let her star in a more important movie.
The experience of acting in movies has made Wang Renmei always feel that she is the protagonist, and more and more people come to the dance hall to see Wang Renmei. After learning that she would be starring in another film, she devoted herself to the performing arts.
Wang Renmei starred in the movie this time is "Fishing Light Song", which immediately caused a great response after its release in China. Later, he was sent by the Nationalist government to Moscow to participate in the film screening, and won the ninth place in the world. For China, which was still relatively backward at that time, it was really rare to achieve such impressive results in the film industry, so Wang Renmei became an internationally recognized celebrity.
After Wang Renmei received the honor, she was very grateful to the teacher who suggested changing the name. It is precisely because of the help of this name that she spread throughout the country and went to the world faster.
conclusion:
Movie stars in the Republican period were very different from movie stars today. Although Shanghai was known as the entertainment capital at that time, there were still a large number of people with low levels of education in Shanghai. Changing a relatively cheesy name will help spread the popularity of movie stars. Wang Renmei relies on her wonderful portrayal of the character, and at the same time, with such a cheesy name, she quickly became a famous movie star in Shanghai Beach.