In the Shanghainese movie "Love Myth", Zhang Zhihua's role is still not much. Like her participation in other Xu Zheng films, "囧Mom" is a singing voice in the choir, "Win the Championship" is a fan, "Duck Prophet" is a lively neighborhood... In "Love Myth", she plays Xu Zheng's mother, and a sentence of "thirteen points" contributes accurate laughter and is very suitable for the charm of Shanghai well life.
Stills from "Love Myth", Zhang Zhihua plays the white mother
Zhang Zhihua liked this movie, and after watching it for the first time, she thought, "Oh yo, this movie is also too good!" So Zhang Luo sent tickets to friends and relatives. Recently, she has received various messages and greetings on her mobile phone because she has watched a movie. A lot of people say she doesn't have too few scenes, and she says, "Enough is enough, it's fun." ”
Compared with Ma Yili, Ni Hongjie, Wu Yue and several other shining actresses, Zhang Zhihua's role in "Love Myth" is indeed only a few strokes, but the Shanghai Mu Ma, who she plays, does outline an indispensable part of this urban genre painting. Bai's mother intends to match her son and her ex-wife Bei Bei to reunite, but what can be given to Bei Bei and what can't, she knows in her heart; she wants to interfere in her son's life and restrains herself from talking too much, and after she understands her son's signs of love, she will knock on the side of the real estate issue... In the movie, several scenes are idle writing, but they lightly outline the background and situation of the protagonist.
She is so Shanghai, so vivid, rich and relaxed. So that the first scene began to shoot, a walking back, she with a small emotion of anger, small steps clicking, trying to stop her son behind her, a sharp wave, and her head did not return. Director Shao Yihui shouted "click", ran over and said, "Mom, this feeling is too right." Zhang Zhihua was "so happy that his bones were light." Although she also prepared a variety of other different rhythmic gaits for the director to choose.
Over the years, small people have almost become the norm for Zhang Zhihua. She became a "mother-in-law and mother-in-law professional household", and everyone regarded her as a golden leaf. In fact, Zhang Zhihua was a small flower dan in the film when he was young, and he played many heroines in the golden age of the shanghai film studio. But at the best time of her career upswing, she chose to return to her family, and then experienced various "bad luck" in succession, and her acting career fell into a trough. At that time, Zhang Ruifang, an old artist who treated her very well, told her, "The tribulations you have gone through are the wealth of your life." Zhang Zhihua smiled bitterly, "I don't want this wealth." Later, when I really understood Zhang Ruifang's words, it was already after Zhang Zhihua was 50 years old.
A lifetime of awe of performance, whether it's red flowers or green leaves
Zhang Zhihua
Zhang Zhihua was born on October 19, 1958 in Hongkou District, Shanghai, and has loved literature and art since he was a child, and was admitted to the Shanghai Children's Radio Choir in junior high school. At that time, because of the need for performance, she went to sing Lao Dan. Later, I was seen by Zhang Ruifang and thought this child was really interesting," Zhang Li Tiemei's face grew but sang the grandmother's play. ”
Zhang Zhihua acted in the movie for the first time, and she was the female number one. In 1975, the Shanghai Film Studio filmed the black-and-white film "Little General", because of the remake of the film and the adjustment of the actors, Zhang Zhihua, who had no experience in filming, made a mistake as a substitute and "debuted".
"The Young General"
In 1976, Zhang Zhihua officially became an actor in the Shanghai Film Studio Actors Troupe, the youngest of the group.
She was joined by Zhang Yu and Guo Kaimin, including her contemporaries Chen Chong, Pan Hong, Zhao Jing, etc. In the later glorious 1980s, Zhang Zhihua and a group of handsome young men and women became bright new stars on the Chinese screen.
When they first entered the troupe, they performed a lot of dramas, Zhang Ruifang, who was the head of the troupe of shangying film actors, and Li Wei, Niu Ben, Cheng Zhi and other predecessors were enthusiastic to help these new children rehearse dramas, "Our growth is inseparable from the atmosphere and rigorous attitude created by these big artists, Teacher Ruifang is very strict with us in art, and it is absolutely not allowed to be lazy during rehearsals, saying that this is a blasphemy against art." This reverence for art has encouraged me to this day, and I dare not neglect any of the characters. Zhang Zhihua is very proud of the fact that she can say, "After acting in a lifetime of drama, no matter the size of the role, I have never been late." ”
Later, she successively starred in films such as "Waiting for the Mountains to Fall Leaves", "Good Things are More Mills", "Female College When Married", "Can't Forget You", "Dripping Guanyin", "Exile University" and other films, and her career was in the limelight.
Stills from "University in Exile"
Although he has performed many "big plays", both the quality of the film and the weight of the role are worth saying, but Zhang Zhihua's luck is indeed a bit bad. She picked scripts, some of which she had read and liked, and when people delayed opening them, she waited for a year without doing it.
For example, for "Mr. Zhao" directed by Lu Le, she waited for a year. Zhang Zhihua said that "Mr. Zhao" is the kind of film that is closest to her dreams, and it is rooted in the truth of life and human nature. Zhang Zhihua's acting skills were commented by today's netizens, "The truth is unbearable." The City's atmospheric Shanghainese lines are so vivid that they think it was a scene that happened to the next door neighbor's house when I was a child. ”
Stills from "Mr. Zhao"
"Mr. Zhao" won the Golden Leopard Award at the 51st Locarno International Film Festival, but for some reason, this film, which can almost be regarded as Zhang Zhihua's "artistic peak", could not be released in China, and at that time, because of the award, the media flocked to interview Zhang Zhihua, and Zhang Zhihua had to plead with them to "be merciful in writing".
Another film that makes her deeply regret is "The Battle of Huaihai of Armageddon", in which she plays Liu Bocheng's wife Wang Ronghua, who is the real female number one in the film. The female chief who rushed to the front line, the female warrior with the iron bones of ZhengZheng, a rare female figure in the history of Chinese cinema, is also very different from the aunt of the city who was almost "stereotyped" in the future.
Zhang Zhihua was featured in the crew of "The Battle of Huaihai in Armageddon"
Zhang Zhihua attaches great importance to this role, for a whole year, she made various preparations for the role of "both culture and martial arts", and the director sent two "guards" to follow her all day long in order to cultivate her to accept the style of "chief" more naturally, and she awkwardly adapted to her "identity" for a while.
This film has been praised by many fans as the pinnacle of Chinese war films. Unfortunately, later for various reasons, Wang Ronghua's line was completely deleted, and Zhang Zhihua's performance was once again "knife and gun into storage".
"They later issued me a military merit badge, which I still keep." But I actually thought in my heart, what do I want the military merit badge to do, I want my role and work! "After 30 years, when it comes to this work, Zhang Zhihua still misses it so much." But you have also experienced it with this character, and these things have become your own nourishment, and then there are war films or such characters to find me, and I will not be afraid. But war movies don't look for me anymore as I get older. ”
I don't regret returning to my family in the golden age, but I won't go back to the old way if I start over
The twists and turns of Zhang Zhihua's acting career began with her marriage. Because of "Good Things And Many Grinding", she and the male protagonist Guo Kaimin are together. After that, Guo Kaimin was sent to the Beijing Film Academy to study, and she received a salary to study in theater.
Guo Kaimin co-starred with Zhang Yu in the then national sensation of "Lushan Love", and the national audience was sniffing the screen CP, which made the legitimate girlfriend Zhang Zhihua a little embarrassed. Later, the two gradually opened the gap in their careers, and Zhang Zhihua, who was traditional in his heart, felt that there were people between husband and wife who were out and about, and it was also a good choice for someone to control the rear, and since her husband's development in the career was better than her own, she was also at ease to choose to manage the children at home.
Zhang Zhihua and Guo Kaimin
In the past few years, actresses of the same age have come up with good results, such as Chen Chong has "Little Flower", Zhang Yu has "Bashan Night Rain", but Zhang Zhihua can only write in his year-end work summary report, "In 1986, I contributed a healthy little citizen to the country. This "little citizen" is guo cheng, the son of her and Guo Kaimin.
In fact, the cost of this contribution is enormous. When Zhang Zhihua gave birth to a child, she encountered difficult childbirth, hemorrhage, and her body was greatly damaged and recovered for a long time. Coupled with the fact that her husband studied in Beijing during this time, it was also a period of rising career development, and the two gathered less and left more, and the contradictions intensified day by day.
"When I was trying to get back to my body and make a work, my marriage went wrong again, and at that time I was very anxious, and I thought how could I be like this, with nothing. The work is gone, and the home is gone. I used to try so hard to have a home, but only in return for this result. ”
She had to take the child and couldn't leave Shanghai for a long time. When there is no drama, she "goes around" dubbing, singing, singing, hosting, and doing everything. "At most, I change the recording studio five times a day, and I feel like a ghost, from morning to night in the studio, it's all dark, I can't see the sun."
The important memories of the post-80s "Ultraman" series have the voice of Zhang Zhihua, who is the mother of Ultraman and the little boy in it. When she went to the singing hall party in the New Year, the appearance fee was only a few tens of yuan, and after singing Peking Opera and folk songs, she did not pick. She was worried about acting, but the failure of the marriage and the gap with her peers greatly damaged her confidence.
Zhang Zhihua said that he had no other thoughts at that time, that is, he wanted to make money. But there are two ideals that have never been shattered in the heart, one is to cultivate his son into a talent, and the other is to be a competent and good actor, and one day he will make up for this lost time.
Even after so many years, Zhang Zhihua's first marriage will still be mentioned. Most of the time, her past was processed by marketing numbers, some articles said that she was "tragically abandoned", some articles said that she was "living on the street", and some people wrote that she later revived her career, and her second husband's love and love were always "face-punching counterattacks" against her predecessor. The years of self-knowledge in this are by no means out of context like the marketing number with a point of view. Zhang Zhihua said that whether it was when she first got married, had children, or separated after that, and raised her children alone, it was her decision without regrets every time she fell.
Once she felt, "In order to build a complete and happy family, there must always be someone to sacrifice, for the sake of the lover, I can sacrifice myself", and now in retrospect, I do not regret, "There was such a beautiful period in those years, I cherished, but also grateful." ”
But asked her if she would do it again if she had the chance to do it again? She replied emphatically, "I don't want to." ”
"We came together not for the sake of fame and profit, it was a marriage with love. But love is so untestable, scattered, I don't think it is nostalgic. If I were to start over, I wouldn't have wrestled again in the same place, and women shouldn't give up their careers for marriage. Now I am very self-reliant in marriage, I will not give up too much because of marriage, I will not. ”
The harvest of her first marriage, in addition to the son she has always been proud of, is that she has learned to love herself. "A person must first love himself, and only with strength can he have the ability to love others, rather than giving all his love to the point of drying up." When you feel that you have nothing to give, you are actually incapable of it, and you have no choice but to spend it. ”
Later Zhang Zhihua, for a long time, did not fall in love. Her second husband, Zha Guojun, was a painter in the United States, and when she was first matched by friends, she was not careful. But my son likes to draw and admires this uncle who can paint. Over time, Zhang Zhihua found that the two had a common language, both liked art, went to see movies and dramas together, watched art exhibitions together, and could chat for a night without sleeping. At that time, Zha Guojun could not paint because of the death of his wife, nor could he sell any paintings. Zhang Zhihua was also a little depressed because his work could not be broadcast. "A painter who can't sell his paintings and an actor who is not seen may be a little sorry for each other." Zhang Zhihua teased.
Zhang Zhihua's portrait hangs on the wall behind her, which is the work of her husband, Zha Guojun. The surging news reporter Xue Song figure
In Zhang Zhihua's study, there is a portrait of Her when she was forty years old, and it can be seen that the brushstrokes are gentle. Unlike the previous "golden child" marriage, the second marriage is much freer, more comfortable and independent. The two have their own independent space, each with their own study room. Zhang Zhihua has a lot of "complaints" about Mr. Zhang, but he can also glimpse a very grounded happiness. "My husband has watched more TV dramas than I do, watch everything, and we will discuss good films together." Some of them were badly filmed, and I got angry after watching them for a few minutes, but he could watch them with relish. Then I'll go to another room, turn on another TV, or read a book in the study. "So for a certain period of time, if there is only one TV at home, there are probably good works that enrich the lives of the old couple."
Having played an evil mother-in-law, she knows more about the preciousness of proportions
Zhang Zhihua is still grateful to wu Zhennian, the female director of the studio, for "fishing" her back into the road of acting. She remembers that one day Wu Zhennian came to her and said, "Zhang Zhihua, you should come back to act."
Wu Zhennian filmed a four-episode TV series "Women", allowing Zhang Zhihua to play a textile worker. This role opened up a new world of Zhang Zhihua's performance. Because her mother works in a textile factory, Zhang Zhihua observed from childhood that her mother and colleagues would speak loudly, "because in the place where the machine roared all year round, everyone spoke in a hurry, and she was very cheerful, and the male and female masters were mixed together, and anything was said directly." ”
Zhang Zhihua, who was used to taking the virtuous and ladylike route, got such a role for the first time and played a very straight and spicy textile worker. "The first time I played this kind of role, I felt that I played it well, I felt that the drama path was broadened, and the emotions that were very depressed in the previous years were released." As a result, after the performance came, many people thought that her life was so hot, and she cried and laughed. "After this play was finished, I was like this for a while, and I felt very bored."
Later Zhang Zhihua, who played a lot of "shrews", sometimes quarreled until the brain lacked oxygen, sometimes quarreled with blood pressure soared, and sometimes returned home after filming a day's play, she just sat there in a daze, and her mind was blank. Most of the time, she doesn't like these big-hearted roles, but if it makes sense, she's happy to see it happen. For example, in 2012, "Children's Love is Longer" broadcast on CCTV, Zhang Zhihua, who was fat because of physical reasons, was looked at by the director as a conspicuous "trace of the years" on her body, and she was already a big round face, and she was also asked by the director to make a tall and curly and fatter hairstyle. Because in the setting of the three sisters, Shanghai's exquisite petty bourgeoisie has Wu Mian and the intellectual atmosphere has Xi Meijuan, Zhang Zhihua has weighed the rationality and necessity of the characters in it, and has gone out to argue in the dark during the shooting.
Stills from "Children's Love Is Longer"
Many actresses, after getting older, will once resist taking over the role of their mother, because once they start playing their mother, the role of mother will continue to come to the door.
Zhang Zhihua was very calm. Her first mother role was Zhou Liping's mother in "Smile in the Candlelight". "I think mom is a very broad identity and doesn't limit the possibilities of actresses. It's just that the mother written in the domestic drama is too limited, especially many of the mothers-in-law and mother-in-law I played later, they are selfish and arrogant, and they dance with their teeth and claws. ”
Zhang Zhihua can also understand that from the perspective of the screenwriter, these mothers must provide some kind of "villain" functionality, "but where are there so many mothers in life, who don't want their children to be good all day long, and want to stir up people and dogs everywhere?" Zhang Zhihua said that after playing a lot of "evil mothers-in-law", the biggest side effect is, "I feel that life is not beautiful." ”
"Pin like a mother" Zhang Zhihua
As for the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Zhang Zhihua's feeling is, "In the literary and artistic works of the past ten years, the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law have always been made into natural enemies, and although there may be friction in life, everyone still tries to live a good life." The mother in "Love Myth" is very much like myself or my next-door neighbor's mother, the kind of decency of a Shanghai mother. "She has an idea, right?" Yes, other women still have children, and she does not want her property to end up being given to outsiders. But she ordered it so far, not demanding. ”
It is also because of the unpleasant experiences in some plays that she has become a particularly kind and kind old aunt in her life, and she is kind to everyone around her. She worked hard to raise her son, who was her whole spiritual pillar for a long time, but when she grew up, her attitude towards children was completely free and respectful.
"If they are all like that in domestic TV dramas, who is still married?" I have played so many mothers-in-law, played so many mothers-in-law, these roles are to remind me to be a decent mother in my own life, to return the rights to the children, and let them be the masters of the house themselves. ”
Zhang Zhihua's douyin small video
Zhang Zhihua, who is now a "national mother", has also opened his own Douyin account. To create a short video, she has a small "routine" created by herself - one person plays the two roles of mother-in-law and mother-in-law, respectively, from the different perspectives of men and women to dismantle and analyze the problems encountered in marriage and family, such as who manages the money, whether there is no house can get married, whether to have children, whether to have a second child, whether to ask for a sister-in-law, and so on. Zhang Zhihua, who finally grasped the initiative, did not engage in confrontation at all in his vibrato, representing the two sides to consider the happy life of a small family together, expressing the concern of being a mother for practical factors, and sparing no effort to give support to the elders. Perhaps, this is the mother she wants to convey the most in her mind.
When she is not filming, she is immersed in life, buying vegetables and cooking every day, reading and watching movies. She has loved to visit the vegetable market for decades, listening to her aunt who sells vegetables tell her to buy whatever is freshest today. Recently, she just went to see the literary and art film "A River of Spring Water" that has fewer films than can hardly find the number of scenes, and she is impressed by the performances of the actresses in it, and plans to brush it twice. There is an old dog in the family, Lucy, who is almost 10 years old, and when she reads, she will sit obediently next to her and put her head on her lap. "I'm a person who wants to live a life, and many people say that my play is very down-to-earth and very calm in my performance, and that's because I've always been a serious person."
Zhang Zhihua and her puppy Lucy. The surging news reporter Xue Song figure
From "model drama" to "half the sky", from TV series sprinkled with dog blood, to award-winning literary and art films, from red flowers to green leaves, from opera stage to dubbing studio to vibrato, Zhang Zhihua's path as an actor is a rich and solid lifelong love. There has been the suffocation of bowing to reality, the unwillingness to be stereotyped, the persistence of art, and the gratitude of being recognized.
Zhang Zhihua said: "Actors should keep pace with the times, each era has an aesthetic that belongs to that era, and the good performance of each era is actually different." But the profession of an actor should be an evergreen tree. ”