According to the Hulunbuir Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, at 3:50 a.m. on December 12, Tu Men, a famous film and television artist and director of the Evenk ethnic group, died at the age of 61 due to ineffective medical treatment. Subsequently, the China Filmmakers Association also issued a tribute.
For the film industry, the death of Tu Men seems too sudden. Two months ago, he also took his self-directed and self-acting "Heavenly Dao Unforgivable" and was active on the stage of the Fifth Pingyao International Film Festival. A month ago, he was also participating in the promotion of the movie "Wuhai", and the film's star Huang Xuan sent a message of condolence, saying that when they promoted the film together last month, Tu was still "as tough and humorous as ever."
But in fact, tus were already in trouble at that time. According to an interview with Wang Luna, producer of "Wuhai" by the Beijing News, Tu Men found that he was unwell in the past six months, but the crew did not know that he had identified advanced esophageal cancer when he first diagnosed in November. Later, the results of the two chemotherapy treatments were not ideal, and "Tu's personality was very stubborn, so he gave up treatment."
When the bad news came, Hui Yinghong, a friend who had cooperated with Tu for many times, sent two microblogs in a row, saying that "I would rather believe that the old beast was just asleep." Yan Ni, who co-produced the film with Tu at the beginning of the year, wrote, "Handsome old man, you are like riding a horse to heaven." Directors Xie Fei, Jia Zhangke, Degna, actors Huang Xiaoming, Jiang Qinqin, Liu Tao, Yang Zishan, Kan Qingzi and other performing arts people, or recall the experience of getting along with Tu, or write a farewell sentence to express the feelings of remembrance of Tu.
Tu Men was born in 1960 in Hailar District, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia. In 1985, Tu Men participated in "Genghis Khan" and began the road to acting. In 1986, Tu Men officially graduated from the Acting Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy, and then worked as an actor in the Inner Mongolia National Song and Dance Theater, and later transferred to the Inner Mongolia Film Studio as an actor and director. In 2009, Tu Men was transferred to the Hulunbuir Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, where he served as vice chairman of the Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature.
Perhaps it is the grasslands of his hometown that give Tu Men a unique rugged and heroic atmosphere, so that he is always handy when shaping a majestic hero. He also did not shy away from his yearning for heroes, calling himself a "heroist". In a character story in Film magazine, Tu said that the Evenks are "all descendants of heroes," which sowed the seeds of "curiosity and inquiry."
In his early works, Tu Men created many images of arrogance and eight-sided majesty. In 1996, he starred as the savannah man Balai in "Sad Brooke", and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 16th Golden Rooster Awards Collective Performance Awards.
Since then, Tu has played Genghis Khan twice in "A Generation of Heavenly Glory Genghis Khan" and "Stop Killing Order". In 2001, the TV series "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" was a sensation, in which Tu Men played Zuo Lengchan, the leader of the Songshan Sect, and with his superb acting skills, he vividly expressed his sinister city government and ambition. He is also the late Yuan general Detu Timur in the TV series "Zhu Yuanzhang", the Jieli Khan in "Zhenguan Changge", the Huhan Evil Dadan Yu in "Wang Zhaojun", Wu Sangui in "Deer Ding", and the Ruyang King in "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon"...
Almost every classic character contains a noble hero of exuberance and eight-sided majesty, but each image is different from each other. The Hulunbuir Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature directly used the phrase "galloping in the clouds and the sky" to depict the image of this old artist.
However, "Prairie Prince Professional Household" is not tu's only pursuit. In 2015, Tu was invited by director Degna to appear in the film "Farewell". Based on Degna's father, the Mongolian director Saif, the film tells the story of what happened in the last moments of his life after Degna's cancer.
Saif is the director of "Sad Brooke" and is a mentor and friend of tus. The synopsis of "Farewell" writes that the father played by Tu Men "has a glorious past" and "is wild and uninhibited in his heart, resisting the call of death with an unusual and unreasonable stubborn attitude". This role earned Tu them a nomination for Best Actor at the 31st Golden Rooster Awards. But in a later interview with Lu Yanni, he admitted that playing an old friend who is no longer alive is "a disaster". The image of the deceased lingers, making it difficult for Tu to calm down.
It is about a coincidence that since 2015, most of the films tus have starred in have been stained with a little sad color. In the interview, he attributed part of the reason to "character", to the "indescribable" "world of solitude". But in this sadness, the heroism of the character is still there, which also adds a more real and complex layer to the character - "Each of us may be a hero." What's so suspicious about that? Nothing to doubt. In a 2018 interview, he recalled two real-life experiences of saving people, saying so.
The tragic heroism may be glimpsed from the role of Lao Yang in "Old Beast". In the film, Lao Yang also had brilliant moments, but he was forced by reality, although he was serious and righteous, he did not cheat, but he still became an "old bastard" who confronted the times. And Tu's superb acting skills also make every aspect of Lao Yang's role full and vivid. In 2017, Tu Men won the Best Actor Award at the 54th Golden Horse Awards for "Old Beast".
Although Tu Men has publicly stated that directors "do not need to distinguish between young and old", it is undeniable that he still participates in the works of many young directors. "Old Beast" is the debut feature film of young director Zhou Ziyang, who also starred in another feature film of Zhou Ziyang, "Wuhai". In November this year, Tu Men also appeared in a variety show featuring young directors, playing a "stubborn old man" who did not want to sell his house in the short film work of young director Wu Zhongtian. At present, Tu's three films to be broadcast, "Up the Mountain", "Getaway" and "The Last Truth", are all in cooperation with young directors.
In addition to the identity of the actors, Tu also holds the guide tube, aiming at the fate of the characters who do not succumb to the times. 2019's "Hulunbuir City" depicts the tragic legend of the women of Solun Evenk in the late Qing Dynasty who survived for the tribe and went to the border pass. The 2021 "Heavenly Path Unforgivable" tells the story of the last dynasty coachman completing the task of life and death express, and the film was shortlisted for the 5th Pingyao International Film Exhibition Hidden Dragon Unit. The audience has mixed praise and criticism for these two works, but the actor Tu has become accustomed to good or bad comments, so the casual director Tu does not care that the work is judged, "I don't mind, when the daughter-in-law, the mother-in-law can not pick you a few words?" ”