Golden Rooster Wall of Honor: In 1987, starring in "Furong Town" won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress In 1988, starring in "The Wilderness" was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress
Whether I'm in the mountains or in the lows, I've never been forgotten by movies. So when I make movies, I never pay for it, which may make a lot of people think it's incredible, but I actually think it doesn't matter. Because I was originally a movie actor, I didn't make movies for money. ——Liu Xiaoqing
As a well-known movie star in China, Liu Xiaoqing has won countless film honors, a Golden Rooster Trophy, five Hundred Flowers Trophies... The heavy trophies prove her superb acting skills. In the 48 years since his debut, Liu Xiaoqing has never forgotten his original intention of making movies, and he is also grateful to become a witness to Chinese films.
Liu Xiaoqing said to himself
No one is more suitable for Hu Yuyin than me
For me, winning the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress was both expected and unexpected. When I made "Furong Town", I had already won many important awards, especially in 1980, the Hundred Flowers Awards set up a total of 12 awards, and "Little Flowers" won 11 of them. Since taking over "Furong Town", I seem to have a hunch that this film may be rewarded at the Golden Rooster Awards, and joked with the staff before the award that they should prepare the acceptance speech in advance. So, when I hear the list of winners, my heart is relatively calm.
The original author of "Furong Town" is Gu Hua, and when his novel was first published in 1981, it was very successful, and several well-known directors rushed to adapt it into a movie, and finally director Xie Jin won the copyright. Coincidentally, after reading this novel, I also felt that the role of Hu Yuyin was none other than me. I have indeed heard that almost every director who wants to make "Furong Town" thinks that the first person they think of Hu Yuyin is me.
Of course, director Xie Jin invited me to shoot "Furong Town", and I was a bit surprised. As we all know, director Xie Jin likes to use new actors, rarely choosing actors who have become famous, but at that time I was already famous and won many awards. However, I am not panicked, and I personally think that no one is more suitable for Hu Yuyin than me. Later, when we were chatting at the Beijing Film Studio, I quipped to him: "You can't choose anyone else." "It turns out that in addition to me, the other seven actors of "Furong Town" include Xu Songzi, Zhang Guangbei, Jiang Wen, etc. are all unknown newcomers, of course, they are all good friends of mine now.
At that time, director Xie Jin belonged to the fact that as long as the film is made, the film will definitely win awards, and it is undisputed. He is very good at shooting female subjects, and the heroines of his films are the winners of the previous Golden Rooster Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards, such as "The Red Detachment of Women" and so on. He was a myth of his time, and every one of his works was very good, so I respected him very much for being able to participate in his films and win the Golden Rooster Award.
As a film actor, I am proud of my pride
I have never watched the movies I participated in, but during this epidemic, I accidentally watched "Furong Town", I felt that I was still doing a very good job, and sent a Weibo saying that I was still very online.
The reason why this film can win awards and be recognized by the audience is actually because the filmmakers do not forget their original intentions. Because we have a long preparation period, I will turn myself into a "role", and when the crew communicates with others, the other party will think that I am Hu Yuyin instead of Liu Xiaoqing, and only when I reach such a state, I think it will be easy to perform. Not only Hu Yuyin in "Furong Town", interpreting other roles, I also ask myself. Every time I play a role, I have to study them, read books about them and experience the life of the characters, and when I shoot "Little Flowers", I read books on the Liberation War; When I was filming "The Wedding", I read related books; When I was filming "Look at This Family", I experienced life and gained a lot of knowledge.
In "Furong Town", Hu Yuyin is good at making rice tofu, so I learned it in advance, until now my rice tofu skills are also good. For example, when Hu Yuyin and her husband counted money together, she put down the mosquito net and quietly counted inside, she seemed to think that the mosquito net could block everything. These creative details together shaped Hu Yuyin, and also made the Golden Rooster Award judges and the audience feel the three-dimensional vividness of "Furong Town". Many times, making a movie is the details that determine success or failure.
Until now, I still miss the "original intention" when I first started making movies. At that time, we all shot "The Mysterious Buddha" in person, including Ge Cunzhuang. Ge Cunzhuang's heart was not very good, every time we practiced, he had to gasp for half a day, I advised him not to work too hard, but at that time we did not have a stand-in, everyone insisted on personally playing. When we made Little Flowers, we really went to our knees. The stone ladder in Huangshan was hewn out, and there were uneven parts of the stone surface on it, and the actors at that time were wearing very thin militia pants, and they broke their knees in a few clicks, but no one felt pain, and no one thought of taking knee pads, because they were worried that the play was not natural enough. Every day, everyone gets up at four o'clock in the morning and practices back and forth on the steps countless times, but when it comes to the official shooting, it is completed once. This has had a great influence on my later creations, and so far, I will not be unprepared for every play and perform on the spot. I think we filmmakers all love movies, and I'm particularly proud and proud to be a movie actor.
Behind-the-scenes footage: After filming "Furong Town", Liu Xiaoqing became the honorary mayor of Furong Town for life, and the town also opened a lot of "Liu Xiaoqing Tofu Shop".
Golden Rooster Anecdote: Liu Xiaoqing once received a "late Golden Rooster Award nomination". "Wilderness", which was filmed earlier than "Furong Town", premiered in Hong Kong, China in 1981 and was only released in Chinese mainland in 1988. In 1988, Liu Xiaoqing was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for the second time with this film. It is worth mentioning, "Me and your mother fell into the water, which one do you save first?" This "problem of the century" that has been passed down to this day comes from this movie. In 1981, "The Wilderness" participated in the Venice Film Festival, won the honor of excellent film recommendation, and is a work that has gone international.
