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Double Twelve, an incomparably noisy day.
On the one hand, people keep checking out to their shopping carts. Consumption carnival, full reduction order. On the other side is the annual festival of musicians. Chinese music scene, top ten list.
In the midst of the noise, a sad news plunged everyone into silence. At 3:50 a.m. on December 12, actor Tu Men died of esophageal cancer at the age of 61.
It was too sudden, because many people had not yet had time to really know him...
01
In 2018, the Golden Horse Awards Ceremony. A Taiwanese filmmaker, while receiving the award, secretly poked and poked at the divisive remarks.
For a time, there was an uproar. The climax of the night took place during the unveiling of "Best Actress". After the last Golden Horse Film Emperor Tu took the stage, he smiled and introduced himself-
"Good evening, everyone, and it is a special honor to come to Jinma, Taiwan as an award guest again. This time I saw a lot of familiar faces,
Contact with many new faces, meet a lot of new friends, I feel that the two sides of the strait are close. ”
In front of the sensational beam-jumping clowns, Tu's voice is calm and calm, and he is decent and graceful. Judgment from above.
Because he is expounding an ironclad fact, you will taste in his peaceful tone an unquestionable firmness, as well as a deep will and a magnificent momentum that seems to be innate.
02
Some people are born for characters.
Tu, who graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy, played many well-known characters in the early days. For example, a generation of Tianjiao Genghis Khan, and zuo Lengchan, the head of Song Mountain. These roles,
Soon helped him determine his position in the film market - hero professional household.
In the play, he is physically strong, heroic, and does not violate the aura,
In fact, it is closely related to the environment in which he grew up.
Tu Men was born in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia.
He is an Evenk.
The story of this nation,
It can be said that it is an epic of a group of heroes.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Evenk people were stationed at the border in the Hulunbuir Grassland.
After the September 18 Incident, they participated in the Anti-Japanese War and fought bravely against the enemy.
As the descendants of heroes, Tu People who grew up in peacetime will also do some good deeds within their ability.
For example, he has risked risks to save people who have lost their feet and fallen into the water.
No one expected that people who have played many heroes are also a hero in real life. But in tu's mind, all this is not enough to hang on to the teeth.
Whether it is saving people from danger when he is young, or saying righteous words at award ceremonies in old age, these are things he thinks he should do.
03
When playing a hero becomes an instinct, the general, the khan, the prince... These heroic roles, for Tu, seem to be a task that can be done effortlessly.
What's more, costume drama is just needed in the film and television market. As long as there is a costume, you usually need a professional "wang ye". He can navigate this field with ease,
With excellent acting skills, he has become an old drama bone that everyone loves.
But the tus did not get carried away, but chose to jump out of this comfort zone. Starred in a movie that was very different from his previous role, "Old Beast". What kind of role is this? Just by a single word "beast", you can guess one or two.
He is an upstart who has eaten the dividends of the times. When he was developed, he cheated in marriage, ate, drank, gambled, and did not care about his children.
After bankruptcy, he became an unemployed vagabond and did not want to make progress. In order to save face in front of friends and return favors, he even stole the life-saving money from his wife's surgery. In the end, there was a farce in which the son kidnapped Lao Tzu and Lao Tzu sued his son.
You know, when a genre actor takes over a role he has never played before, it is easy to roll over because of the temperament inconsistency.
What is surprising is that whether it is the animalism in front of the family,
Or the humanity in front of his friends, which is particularly vivid under his grasp.
So when you watch, you will hate him to the teeth, and you will also lament his laborious struggle in the face of the change of times.
That's probably the charm of a good actor. As a film review said—
(In this era of infatuation with old cannons), someone finally took a picture of old cannons from the perspective of the sons and daughters of old cannons. There is no praise, only display. These sad but not completely useless old bastards, they may not be bad people to the world, but they are a nightmare for the family.
Once played a hero, now play a bear. Tu's interpretation breaks the obscenity of many movies for the old cannon. It triggers our reflection on reality.
04
If you don't get the movie emperor, it may be difficult for people to know the movie "Old Beast".
Not to mention that Tu took this play, not only to challenge themselves,
It is also for the support of newcomer directors.
The film and television industry has been groping for decades, and Tu knows the importance of opportunity. In order to give support, he even lowered his salary to help others dream.
Although he always worked in the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Tu would still choose to return to Inner Mongolia to live.
He loves the land under his feet and is willing to show the stories and culture of his hometown to more people.
So he directed a play as a newcomer, called "Hulunbuir City". Yes, the film is about the history of the Evenk people in shubian during the Qing Dynasty. It not only presents the heroism of tribal men, but also restores the efforts and feats made by tribal women.
Can't help but sigh: nowadays, the film industry has become more and more of an assembly line product. They are in line with international standards, keep pace with the times, and connect with algorithms and traffic.
But there is always a group of directors, they shoot the northwest, shoot coco Xili, shoot a small number of tribes, shoot realist themes, shoot history, shoot distant sounds, they use microscopic but grand perspectives to help us re-understand the encounters of tiny individuals in this era of entertainment to death.
All of the above behaviors in the film and television industry where interests come first,
Seems to be different, is a minority. Even in the eyes of those who toy with capital, it is a waste of time and a fool to do so.
But that's the Tus. He not only lived his "face" well through acting skills. Through the character of the actor, he also lived out "Riko".
05
Many actors in the industry, when they learned the news of Tu's death, they couldn't believe it.
After all, not long ago, he just contributed his outstanding acting skills in a directorial variety show. He also shared his experience with newcomers.
Being a filmmaker requires two conditions: First, people must be good. Second, live well. Good people are mainly the quality of will, filming is very hard, and actors need to have a tenacious and tenacious fighting spirit. To live well is to have a good professional standard and meet the requirements of others.
Until the end of his life, he continued to share his experience without reservation.
Diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer in November, he actively chemotherapized and tried to survive. It's just that in the face of fate, everything seems too powerless.
Eventually, he returned to his hometown of Hulunbuir. This is where heroes are born, with grasslands, rivers, blue skies, and horses. It is also the place where heroes sleep, with endless, romantic and heroic dreams.
Life, old age, illness and death may no longer be difficult for him to face. Because he has already learned not to be happy with things and not to be sad with himself in the galloping of horses again and again in his life.
When we find a star falling, don't be pessimistic, and don't be depressed.
After all— the trajectory of the stars breaking through the night sky was a testimony to his legendary life. Above the prairie, the stars are still shining.