The Paper's reporter Chen Chen
On December 12, the bad news of the death of actor Tu Came and soon won the first place in Weibo's hot search, and everyone was shocked. Tu, who was just in his early seventies, has been very active on the screen in recent years, not only acting, but also directing his own film works.
It is reported that Tu people just detected advanced esophageal cancer last month and returned to Hulunbuir at the end of last month. The family revealed that the teachers of Tu were very peaceful.
Tus. The picture is from the WeChat public account of the "China Filmmakers Association"
The eulogy of the China Filmmakers Association reads: "Shocked to learn that Tu, a famous film performance artist in China, passed away due to illness on December 12, 2021, the China Filmmakers Association expressed its deep condolences! Tu men dedicated their life to the film career they loved, and with his superb acting skills, he created a vivid and profound character image in films such as "Sad Brooke", "A Generation of Heavenly Glory Genghis Khan", "Farewell", "Old Beast" and so on, which was deeply loved and praised by the audience, and won many film professional awards such as the Golden Rooster Award of Chinese Film. Tu's life is full of sincere feelings for the country and the people, full of sincere love for film art, and the inheritance and development of national culture, which blooms on the Chinese film screen. His sudden death is a great loss to the Chinese film industry, and we are deeply saddened and regretful. The Slovaks are gone, but the style lives on! Hope relatives mourn! ”
Hulunbuir Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature issued a condolence note saying: "The death of Teacher Tu is a huge loss and regret in the literary and art circles. As one of the outstanding performing artists in inner Mongolia Autonomous Region who have won many international and domestic awards, Tu Men has made many contributions to the cultural and artistic undertakings of the autonomous region and Hulunbuir in his decades of artistic career. People in the city's literary and artistic circles and literary artists mourn and deeply remember Tu's teachers. ”
In 1998, Tu Men starred in the movie "A Generation of Heavenly Glory Genghis Khan"
In 2013, Tu Men played a role in the movie "Stop Killing Order" as Genghis Khan
Tu men are the good sons of the prairie and the screen memories of generations of audiences. When he was young, Tu Men acted in many TV dramas, labeled "Prairie Prince Professional Household", he was the emperor Genghis Khan in "A Generation of Heavenly Pride Genghis Khan" and "Stop Killing Order", the arrogant and domineering Jieli Khan in "Zhenguan Long Song", and the extraordinary Wang Ye in "Gada Merlin". Audiences who like to watch martial arts dramas should remember that he is Zuo Lengchan in "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" and Zhao Min's father Ruyang Wang in "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon".
Stills from "The Old Beast"
In his later years, Tu Has cooperated with many young directors to create a rich and three-dimensional image of middle-aged and elderly people in one literary and artistic film after another. The cancer father in "Farewell" makes people cry, and the bastard Lao Yang in "Old Beast" makes people love and hate. In the variety show "Director Please Advise" that met the audience not long ago, Tu Men starred in Wu Zhongtian's short film "Sale", and the image of a lonely and lonely old man living alone and calculating is also impressive.
In the "Director Please Advise" program, Tu Men starred in Wu Zhongtian's short film "Sale"
The 2017 Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor began the second spring of Tu's acting career. Compared with the highlight moments of other "Movie Emperors", his award also has a rather cute vignette. Because the host announced that the front camera just swept the Tu people sitting in the audience, the legend of "waking up and taking an award" also became a good story of that year's Golden Horse Awards.
After that, Tu began to work as a director again, and successively appeared with young directors at major film festivals. Self-oriented creations are closely related to the background of the grassland and the nation, and have a unique and strong personal style. This year, his director's new work "Heavenly Unforgivable" appeared at the Pingyao Film Festival, and the unexpected violent writing and black humor also led some fans to compare him to Takeshi Kitano or Eastwood in China.
It is reported that at present, Tu has many works such as "On the Mountain", "Getaway", "The Last Truth" and so on waiting to meet with the audience. After Tu's death, actors Huang Xuan, Yang Zishan, Hui Yinghong and other friends in the circle expressed their remembrance and mourning for him on Weibo.
Many actors who have worked with Tu have posted on Weibo to commemorate Tu
Childhood on horseback, love of the grassland all his life
"The lakes on the Hulunbuir grassland are dotted, I lived on the edge of the wetland until I was eight years old, and the white swans were swimming upstream on the lake, very close."
Born in February 1960 to an intellectual family in Hailar District, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia. As an Evenk, Tumen's happy time on horseback in his childhood and adolescence made him later familiar with grassland themes. His teenage years were spent during the Cultural Revolution, an experience that made him think, but in an interview, he only expressed, "The hardships of life will make you grow up quickly." ”
As a teenager, Tu men initially studied in the Chinese Department of Inner Mongolia University, but out of longing and curiosity about Shanghai, he chose to drop out of school and re-enter the Acting Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy. This rebellious choice was not supported by his family, and he secretly applied for the exam and once angered his father.
The Tu family has three brothers, and Tu remembers that his father had such an evaluation of the three people: "One learns the highway, one learns animal husbandry, and will benefit the society in the future, only the eldest son will not become a tool, and he has done a second-rate sub-profession." "This eldest son who is not a tool refers to Tu Men.
The reason for the initial arrival in Shanghai was just to see the prosperity of the Ten Mile Ocean Field, and as for what the performance was, it was a "go and say it again" for Tu. Tu was enrolled in the first Inner Mongolian class of the Shanghai Theater Academy, and the whole class was Mongolian students, and the children from other places were very different. For example, in the play of a Duel with a Western sword in a Shakespearean play, other students are fake analogies, Mongolian students go up and really fight, the audience looks at it with sparks, and fencing does not know how many roots are broken after a semester.
In the second grade of acting, he gradually became interested in acting, and at that time he preferred to create some small characters. In his junior year, he made his first film, "Genghis Khan", and at that time he did not expect that Genghis Khan would be so close to him.
After graduation, Tu and a class of students returned to Inner Mongolia. Later, after becoming famous, he also insisted on "working in this circle, but not living in this circle."
Tu men starred in the movie "Sad Brooke" stills
In Sef's Tragic Brooke, the Mongolian shepherds perform a thrilling story of defending their homeland against invaders. In the film, there is a person who makes the action of spreading his wings and flying on horseback, that is, Tu Men. The work also earned him a nomination for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In the movie "Farewell", Tu Men played his old friend Sef
Twenty years later, Sef's daughter Degna made a film for her father, "Farewell", in which Tumen played his deceased old friend, and in the screening room, he flipped out the old film to play, and the projection was the picture reflected on the film.
In recent years, Tu has begun to direct themselves, and the two films he directed have also had a deep connection with the grassland. "Hulunbuir City" originates from the long-standing legend of the Evenk ethnic minority in Inner Mongolia, and "Heavenly Dao Is Not Forgiven" is also a legend about ethnicity and loyalty that occurred on the grasslands in the last years of the Qing Dynasty.
The character is too successful and it is also a kind of distress
The arrogant steppe man in "Sorrowful Brooke", the arrogant and domineering Jieli Khan in "Zhenguan Long Song", the arrogant prince who forcibly occupied the land in "Gadamerin", and Genghis Khan in "A Generation of Heavenly Proud Genghis Khan" and "Stop Killing Order", because they often played the eight-sided and mighty "Great Khan", Tu was affectionately called "the professional household of the steppe prince" by the audience.
This success is not accidental, in addition to being closely related to their own growth experience, Tu is also working the character. He is not tall, his eyes are small, and he is not "domineering exposed" in the traditional sense. In an interview, Tu men recalled that after watching "A Generation of Genghis Khan", an audience member found him and found him not as tall and mighty as he looked in the film, expressing disappointment. But Tu men said, "Appearance can determine strength, I am an actor, I have never had a psychological barrier on appearance, I have performed myself, I am a hero." ”
Before performing "A Generation of Genghis Khan", he had just played a small person. Such a large span, he did not know how to start for a while. So while doing his desk work and reading through the script, he also asked the historians of the Inner Mongolia Academy of Social Sciences for advice on Mongolian history and learn more about grassland culture. At the same time, under tu's interpretation, Genghis Khan's majestic and heroic strategy is both tyrannical and ruthless, not angry and arrogant, and this role has won Tu's most authoritative film art expert award in China, the Seventh Film Performance Society Award of China.
Stills from "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", Tu Men played Zuo Lengchan
In addition to the prince of the steppe, Tu also performed many roles of the gangster type. Zuo Lengchan in Zhang Jizhong's version of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" is another representative figure of his. At that time, the martial arts part of the film and drama gathered the national martial arts champions, all-around and single champions, and Tu Also received 23 days of martial arts training for this purpose. Tu men recalled that when he was training, he did not play well, and he and another Mongolian actor played the best, almost without a stand-in.
But after that, more and more such characters came to him, which must have made him very tired. Even if you refuse, the people in this circle can still hold all kinds of relationships to find the door. "The approval of you by others is sometimes quite cruel." Tu said. He remembers the words that said, "Just you fit," which meant that only you could act, and no one else could." In fact, people say this to make you happy, but when I hear this, I can't be happy. ”
"Farewell" poster
The aforementioned "Farewell" is an important turning point for Tu. A domineering actor who has been stereotyped as an imperial general, to play a terminally ill intellectual artist, while interpreting the delicate emotions of life and family, is a new and great challenge for Tu.
Stills from "The Farewell"
Tu said that he never had the courage to watch the end of "Farewell" later, and at most he saw his daughter and father abandoning their car to release birds in the suburban woods, and they "escaped and turned off", because in his heart, he always hoped that everything would stop there, as if in that way, his best friend would still be alive.
The performance of "Farewell" allowed Zhou Ziyang, who was new to direct the tube, to discover Tu. "Old Beast" became a peak in Tu's performing arts career. In this film, Tu Men has become rich through youth and twilight years, falling into a real Loser, but he is also full of pride and does not admit defeat, has deep feelings and cannot find a proper expression, and holds countless self-esteem in the hopeless struggle of reality.
Zhou Ziyang remembered that when he first met Tu And was sent to the airport, he witnessed Tu Quickly entering the role to figure out the way the characters experience life - because he thought that Lao Yang was a straight and rude person, he took Zhou Ziyang's certificate and went directly to the queue to go through the formalities.
In that year's Golden Horse Awards, it is said that in the first round of preliminary evaluation, Tu's votes accounted for more than half, which was almost an overwhelming advantage.
After the success of "Old Beast", Tu Men got rid of his former troubles and made a comeback, and he received a bunch of film contracts, all kinds of "old hooligans". To this end, Tu has lost 20 pounds in the past month, and in his opinion, changing his body shape first is a very direct way to dissuade directors who have come to him to play the same role.
True hero, old Ji Futuo
Compared with the extraordinary and eight-sided "Great Khan", "Shan Yu" and "Wang Ye" in the film and television films, the Tu people in life are very modest and humorous, and he often says when introducing himself, "My name is Tu, that is, people who are confused", as soon as this statement comes out, it will always cause a burst of laughter.
He was a man of integrity and a man of heroism.
Many people do not know, tu in addition to playing a lot of heroes, life is also a real hero, 17-year-old summer, the teenager Tu in the River Emin saved an adult, when he did not understand the essentials of the water to save people, but also once almost let himself into danger. It was a drowning soldier, and tus dragged him from the river to the shore, pouring the muddy skin of the water on his joints, slowly recovering his frozen limbs. Another time, the daughter-in-law of the classmate turned on the gas, locked the child in the room, the room door could not be opened, tus climbed over from the balcony of the opposite person, kicked open the window of their balcony, turned off the gas, and the process was also thrilling to make people sweat.
Someone once asked Tu what he was most proud of as an Evenk, and he said proudly, "'Fighting nation', isn't it the end of four words?" He admired heroes, and if he did not become an actor, he said that he was quite a soldier, and when it came to the missing parts of Chinese film and television creation, he also said that there should be more things that belonged to the spirit and patriotism of Chinese.
At this year's Pingyao International Film Festival, Tu Men brought his second directorial work. A story about the last "postman" of the Qing Dynasty. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the soldiers were in chaos and wars broke out. At this time, the silver foxes, pinnacles, and small tigers of the Goode Station received a task from the station, but before they could set off, the news of the demise of the Qing Empire came. After the fall of the dynasty, the ashes and consolation money of General Wu still need to be given to his family through the hardships and obstacles of the mountains and rivers, which is a heroic and sincere story, the story of the film is extremely strong, and some viewers feel that such a story can be made into a series of dozens of episodes after watching it.
Poster of "Heaven Forbid"
Some people say that this film is a Chinese-style Western, and some people say that like Quentin and Kitano Takeshi, and what Tu wants to make is a down-to-earth Chinese film, rooted in the vast northwest and northeast regions, with violent elements as the medium of expression, and the evil and goodness of human nature are the core of the film. Tu wants to use this "Heavenly Path Unforgivated" to make up for the lack of genres in Chinese films.
Because he "loves movies", Tu said that he is "idle and idle, how good it is to tell some stories, and how good it is to share stories with everyone on the screen." For Tu, telling a good story is his original intention to be a director, and it has nothing to do with the professional development law of "acting and excellent guidance". In Pingyao, talking about his experience as a director, Tu said, "As an actor and a director, the emotions invested are the same. In addition to mental and manual labor, the film is more important than the emotional labor. If there is no emotional labor, just by mental strength, physical strength, you don't have to do movies, do something else. ”
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