I made a movie in Angie

Stills of "Jiang Zhuying", the left is himself, and then Weizi

In 1991, just after graduating from college, I packed my bags alone and went to work on a labor camp in Anji. It is a remote town in the mountains of northern Zhejiang, the traffic is very inconvenient, and my work unit, more than forty miles away from the county seat, is located in the northernmost part of Zhejiang, across the road from Anhui Province, adjacent to Changxing and Guangde, which can be described as the junction of two provinces and three counties.

Although the material conditions were relatively harsh at that time, and the spiritual life was also very poor and monotonous, it was at a time when I was young and vigorous, ambitious, and bent on doing a career, and the hardships of the environment did not consume my will. In fact, the mountains, the people, the years, the green bamboo forests and tea gardens full of life still enter my dreams from time to time, adding a beautiful scenery. The accidental "electrocution" experience ten years ago was even more as if it were yesterday, clearly recognizable.

It was the golden autumn of 1993, I was working as a secretary in the field office, and one day I suddenly received a phone call, saying that the crew of the movie "Jiang Zhuying" was going to come and shoot a set of shots, hoping to contact Yunyun. The director immediately assigned me to make arrangements, and while I arranged food and accommodation in advance, I called several subordinate supervision brigades to contact the location site. A few days later, the crew arrived as scheduled. Speaking of the crew, in fact, there are only two actors, one is Weizi, a young actor in Beijing who has been very active in the domestic film industry in recent years, and the other is Gu Lan, an old actor who played Li Hongzhang in the movie "Beiyang Water Division". Played by Weizi Jiang Zhuying, Gu Lan played Jiang Zhuying's father, and the director was Song Jiangbo. The next day, the sky is clear, the autumn is high and cloudy, just suitable for location shooting, a group of people are about to leave, the director suddenly said to me, there is still a lack of a police actor who plays a policeman, let me recommend a person in this unit, said to take out a set of white clothes, blue pants and red collar badge of the early eighties police uniform. This can be difficult for me, although there are hundreds of police officers in the whole field, and they are originally responsible for supervising prisoners, it is not difficult to find a person, and it is fast to enter the play, but everyone is in the post, how do I arrange it for a while? In a hurry, I patted my chest and introduced myself. Wearing a uniform, the size is just right, and the director claps his hands and says it's you.

The first scene is about Jiang Zhuying, who is already a well-known optoelectronic scientist in China, who traveled thousands of miles from Changchun to the laogai farm to visit his father, who had not yet been rehabilitated because of the unjust case of the "Cultural Revolution" and was still serving a sentence. Temporarily borrowed a buffalo from the villagers working in the field, Jiang Zhuying's father wore a bucket hat and led the cow into the camera, while the camera was mounted on a mound in the tea garden, and I took Jiang Zhuying on the other side into the camera, and the close-up was frozen. At the same time, there are a few lines: "Jiang Shumin (Jiang Zhuying's father), your son has come to see you!" When the camera is pushed closer and frozen in Jiang Zhuying's father, I ask again: "Do you know him?" Father Jiang shook his head, a confused face, close-up freeze frame, the camera turned to me and Jiang Zhuying, and then said a line: "He is your son Jiang Zhuying!" ", back and forth lasted up to two minutes.

Maybe I was afraid of the stage, maybe I wasn't acting material at all, as soon as I saw the camera, my palms were sweating, my legs and feet were stiff, and I couldn't take a step. The director was so angry that he stopped three times in a row, because I was the host, but the director did not lose his temper with me. But it pained the two actors, and they had to follow me over and over again. The fourth time I adjusted my mindset, took a deep breath, and finally barely passed. But I was already sweating profusely, secretly glad that I hadn't chosen to act.

The second scene moved to a quiet and verdant bamboo forest, I have two sets of shots, one is a long-range scene, following Behind Jiang Zhuying's father and son, the director is afraid that I will make a mistake, let me smoke while walking, try my best to let me relax; the second group is a close-up scene, after Jiang Zhuying's visit, he turned away, Jiang Zhuying said goodbye with tears, I asked: "What is your son doing?" Father Jiang replied, "Optical expert." The whole play ended in the afternoon. That night, the crew also left Angie.

At the end of the year, the film "Jiang Zhuying" was released nationwide, and because of the excellent actors, the plot was touching, it was well received, and it also won a government's best feature film of the year. And I seem to have followed the light, and many relatives and friends who recognized my "glorious image" on the screen have written to inquire, which is nothing more than a celebrity around them. The farm theater where I was located also won a copy of the play in the spring of the following year, and it was released in the venue for two days, and a notice was posted: "The play was filmed in my field, and there were police officers participating in the performance" Yunyun, which was very lively.

The next year, I finally couldn't stand the pain of homesickness, and I couldn't stand the pain, so I found an opportunity to transfer back to my hometown. After returning, I also saw the show twice on the movie channel. But the stills that the director promised me have not been heard, for ten years, Weizi, who was combing his big back, wearing sunglasses, and humming a small song, has long been no longer a fledgling newcomer in the acting industry, and has a good performance in "Love Full of Pearl River", "Laughing Proud of the River", "DA Division" and other dramas, red through the film world; and I am no longer the hairy boy who is angry in uniform. Only after many years, sometimes I think about it occasionally, and I still don't feel Guan'er, as if I have returned to the small town of Anji in northern Zhejiang province with verdant bamboo forests and turquoise tea gardens, and returned to the youth years that were once young, dreamy, and once poor.