"Middle-aged" that won many awards such as the Golden Rooster Award for Best Film is a familiar film, the heroine of the film, Lu Wenting, in fact, the earliest director looked up to Liu Xiaoqing, not Pan Hong.
The directors of "Man to Middle Age" are Sun Yu and Wang Qimin, two famous directors who are also very artistically accomplished. All with their own artistic feel and choice.
When the film was just beginning filming, Pan Demin, the film's production director, felt that Pan Hong, who had starred in "Distressed Laughter", was the most suitable, thinking that this person acted deeply, was suitable for this role, and was also intellectual in image, with big eyes that could speak. But one of the directors, Sun Yu, thinks That Liu Xiaoqing is more suitable. Sun Yu felt that Liu Xiaoqing could act and also had certain artistic achievements. He even sent an assistant director to Beiying to find Liu Xiaoqing, but at that time, Liu Xiaoqing was already filming other scenes. Wang Yang, director of the North Film Factory, said: If Liu Xiaoqing is borrowed from Changying, what will our film crew do? At the same time, Liu Xiaoqing was not too interested in this role and had to give up.
Liu Xiaoqing that year
When Sun Yu returned to Changchun to prepare for other work, another director, Wang Qimin, continued to search in Beijing with his photography, and finally found Zheng Zhenyao, a famous actor at the Central Experimental Drama Theatre. Wang Qimin believes that Zheng Zhenyao has a good character, the image is also correct, and he also has the image of an intellectual, if the shape is processed again. Definitely up to the task. So the crew began filming in Beijing. In order to create a winter scene, he even bought more than ten bags of fertilizer and sprinkled it on the pavilion to show the effect of snow.
Zheng Zhenyao
Zheng Zhenyao performed two scenes. The sample was sent back to the factory, and the relevant people who had seen it believed that the image of Zheng Zhenyao's Lu Wenting was not appropriate for her age. Wouldn't you like to think again?
Pan Demin was very interested in Pan Hong's role at the earliest, so he sent assistant director Song Jiangbo to Eying to find Pan Hong. Song Jiangbo met Yuan Xiaoping and Pan Hong, the director of Eying Factory. Pan Hong has read the novel of "Man to Middle Age", is very interested, and is very willing to participate, so pan Hong is set as the protagonist.
Of course, when choosing an actor, it is said that Huang Meiying of Bayi Factory also came into the director's sight, but Huang Meiying seemed to feel that the role was not suitable for herself, so she gave up.
Huang Meiying
After the filming of the film, Pan Hong won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress with this film, which is more eye-catching in the film world.
Stills from "Man to Middle Age"
Pan Hong in the film
"Man to Middle Age", this very sensational movie do you remember?