A few days ago, a netizen named Yunjian Crane privately left a message for me, hoping that I would introduce this actor to everyone.
His original words were: He is a good actor, but also a good person, unfortunately, for so many years, fans do not know him very well, only to see him appear in the movie, will say: Oh, this person is good and familiar.
This netizen, the actor he was talking about, is named Deng Nan. In the past, a "hard lizi" of the film studio, he made many movies, but he was not famous.
As the netizen Yunma Crane said, everyone will only think of the roles he has portrayed in the past when they see him in the movie.
In fact, in the past, there were many actors like him. At that time, everyone did not have a sense of fame and fortune, as long as there was a movie to shoot and give the role to play, it was quite a happy thing. As for not being famous, red or not red, they don't care very much. Relatively speaking, the thing they care more about is whether the role they play can be recognized by the audience. The other is that I have not experienced "drama addiction".
Yes, many actors at that time were "addicted to drama". As long as they can stand in front of the camera, even if it is only one or two lines, a few minutes of scenes, it will make them happy for a while.
Deng Nan also has a "drama addiction". And his "drama addiction" began to develop from the time he was young.
Deng Nan was born in 1916. He was a descendant of a large landowner' family. His family was very rich at that time, how rich was it? It is said that his grandfather had thousands of acres of fertile land and a spacious mansion. This is a local, that is one of the largest households. His father's name was Deng Quanren, a talented man, polite and polite, and he was taught to be upright from an early age.
And his uncle Deng Quanyi was very bold. I think the two very different personalities of his father and his uncle both had a great influence on him. We can see from his later experience that although he was born in a landlord's family and was a young master of a landlord's family, he was more like a good man in the green forest, with a straight personality and a righteous and wealthy man.
When Deng Nan was young, he liked art very much, and often invited a group of friends to go around to see the performance, and after watching the performance, he learned to act like a person on the stage. As the young master of the landlord's family, he naturally had supporters around him, and he enjoyed this kind of hugging very much. At that time, his family had money, and as long as he was happy, he grabbed a handful of money to buy candy for his friends. He also loves to make friends, especially for those who are knowledgeable and cultivated, and he admires them incomparably, so he makes more and more friends.
However, the so-called "moon has clouds and sunshine, and people have bad luck and bad luck." Because his family was too rich, it was very eye-catching in the area of Pengnan Township in Suining, so it attracted the attention of bandits and robbers in the surrounding area. These people not only seek wealth, but also kill people. His father and uncle were killed during bandit robbery. Perhaps it was the premature experience of life and death in the human world, or perhaps it was the harm caused by seeing too much money, so Deng Nan after this was even more light on money and righteousness.
After his father's death, he inherited a large inheritance, but he did not take it seriously. Instead, under the guidance of an elder, he threw himself into the anti-Japanese team. Because he met many cultural people with progressive ideas, under their leadership, he entered the ranks of actors and began to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda.
At that time, he heard that his drama club lacked funds, so he did not say a word, returned to his hometown to sell his ancestral property, and then donated most of it to the anti-Japanese organization. It can be seen that he is not only light on money, but also clear and righteous, but also extraordinarily bold, quite a good man in the green forest. After that, he joined the famous Chinese Drama Art Society, and together with Bai Yang, Shu Xiuwen, Zhang Ruifang, Qin Yi, etc., participated in patriotic dramas such as "Spring and Autumn of the Kingdom of Heaven", "Qu Yuan", "Peacock Bile", "History of the Qing Palace" and so on. Of course, he played almost all supporting roles.
In the course of the performance, Deng Nan met his wife, named Luo Zhuo, who is also an actor. The two married and gave birth to two daughters.
In 1947, together with many good actors, he came to Hong Kong, participated in a series of films, and accumulated some acting experience.
Later, after the founding of New China, he returned to Shanghai and became an actor in the Shanghai Film Studio. But then something went wrong in his family, and his wife, unfortunately, was killed during a boat trip. This incident hit him hard. But he still kept his grief in his heart and worked hard to get into his new work.
In the studio, because of the image problem, he could not become a "face actor", so he was at ease to be a "gold medal green leaf" and play a supporting role all his life. After years of experience, his acting skills have made great progress, so he has become more and more handy in shaping characters.
As an actor, Deng Nan's image is actually very special and recognizable. He looks very stout and has a "fierce face", which is very suitable for the role of a warrior or a mangy man in a movie. In fact, most of the characters we see him playing in movies are also this type of character.
Among them, we are more impressed by the following.
One is Li Yuanmin in "Song of the Phoenix" starring Zhang Ruifang, a rich peasant with a bad stomach, who saw that the cooperative was running up and affecting his economic interests, so he co-opted some backward villagers to run a "small society", worked against the cooperative, and spread rumors about Jin Feng (played by Zhang Ruifang) everywhere. In the end, his sabotage was exposed by the villagers and he received the punishment he deserved. Deng Nan portrayed this Li Yuanmin very well, and vividly expressed his ignorance, selfishness, and psychological darkness.
One is Lu Han in "Railway Guerrilla", a character with distinct personality characteristics, easy to talk and do things impulsively, but in the battle against the enemy, he is extremely brave and tenacious, and finally died heroically. The character he created gives me a very deep personal memory. So much so that when I see him on the screen again, I always think of this cute and respectable Luhan.
There is also the traitor Jiang Wang in "Sea Soul". This is not a good role, and it is a test of the actor's acting skills. But Deng Nan completed the task very well, interpreting Jiang Wang's silent cunning and the insidiousness disguised by his loyal appearance into three points, which was unforgettable. Zhao Dan, the star of "Sea Soul", has specifically praised him, believing that he has performed a huge contrast in the characters and achieved good results.
Deng Nan has played a supporting role all his life, but he has no complaints. Even every time he was assigned to a role, whether it was a positive image or a negative character, he was extremely happy, one was that he could make himself "addicted to drama", and the other was to make him feel "very valuable". Therefore, whether it is Guan Tianpei in "Lin Zexu", or zhao Zhu pasha, the head man in "Moya Dai", or Xue Ba in "Lin Chong", he takes it very seriously, not only can quickly find out the differences between the roles, but also through his own acting skills, the personality characteristics of these characters can be expressed.
Deng Nanduo on the screen mainly plays a rude fool, which makes everyone have the illusion that he is also such a person in life. Not really. Don't look at Deng Nan who looks a little "fierce", but in fact, his heart is particularly soft. In life, his mind is particularly delicate, his heart is very kind, when he is young, as long as he sees others have difficulties, he will always help, and when he is older, as long as he sees others have misfortunes, he will secretly weep.
In addition, there is one more point that must be mentioned. That is, he is more sensitive than others, and the slightest movement of the wind makes him like a great enemy. I think the formation of his character has something to do with his experiences, with the death of his father and uncle. And the last tragedy of his life is related to his character.
In Deng Nan's acting career, there is a movie that cannot be bypassed, that is, "Stage Sisters". In it, he played the role of the "Yangchun Opera Class" class leader and monk Ah Xin, a mercenary "villain", a character who is diametrically opposed to Deng Nan himself, but he portrayed him vividly. I have always felt that this is the best and most classic role played by Deng Nan in his life, and it is also the last he left on the screen. And it was the movie "Stage Sisters" that caused him to suffer a flying disaster and brought him a fatal blow.
"Stage Sisters" officially began filming on January 10, 1964, when it was still filmed as a key film. But at that time, it was already "the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings", so the filming of the film was extremely unsuccessful. After the filming was completed, some people in Shanghai reviewed the film and thought that the film was "not high in theme" and immediately began to criticize. Later, director Xie Jin led a group of actors to revise, but it did not help, and finally fell into the crime of "big poisonous weed".
All the actors who participated in the film were criticized and criticized. Deng Nan is no exception. Moreover, he was from a large landlord family, and this indelible "black spot" was even more "a sin plus a grade" for him at that time. Therefore, he became the object of key "transformation", endless street parades, beatings, and even insults to personality, making his vision more blurred and making his mood more desperate. I think it must have been the darkest time of his life, and I believe he looked up at the sky countless times, but he never saw the light. I think it was in this hopelessness that he made the same choice as Shangguan Yunzhu.
On December 24, 1968, Deng Nan committed suicide at the age of 52. Before that, on November 23, 1968, Shangguan Yunzhu, who played the queen of Yue opera Shang Shuihua in "Stage Sisters", committed suicide by jumping off a building at the age of 48. There is also shen hao, an actor who played Shen Jiamu's mother in "Stage Sisters", who committed suicide in 1966 at the age of 50. In just two years, the three actors who have participated in "Stage Sisters" have left this world in an abnormal way, how can it not be heart-wrenching and lamentable?
As a film actor, Deng Nan has never been famous in his life, nor has he ever been popular, but the images he left on the screen are always glowing and have long been preserved in people's memories.
Today, when I talk about this actor, for some reason, my heart hurts. The pain is that such a good person, who does not compete for fame and profit in his life, only single-mindedly pursues his beloved career, but in the end, he ends up with such an ending.
But I don't know if you remember this actor? In everyone's memory, which role of him is more memorable? Welcome to interact with more fans and netizens through the message area. I am Yaqing, thank you again for your attention and sharing, we will meet again at the same time tomorrow.
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