Not long ago, the movie "My Father Jiao Yulu" was released, and the film traced the past of Jiao Yulu from the perspective of his family, recreating Jiao Yulu's lofty image and glorious character.
The film's true presentation of the details of Jiao Yulu's life can't help but remind people of the movie "Jiao Yulu" starring Li Xuejian 31 years ago.
In 1990, once the film was released, it touched countless audiences and won a double harvest at the word-of-mouth box office, and in the case of only 30 cents in a movie ticket in the 1990s, "Jiao Yulu" won 130 million at the box office;
It set a record for the highest number of copies of the first round of domestic new films released since the founding of New China, and the degree of popularity can be imagined.
01. Conscientious and conscientious servants of the people
In 1962, Jiao Yulu came to Lankao County to take up a post, and as soon as he got off the train, Jiao Yulu saw that the railway station was full of hungry people who had fled the famine, the streets were full of begging people, and the dry food he brought was also robbed by the children who rushed up.
The backward appearance of Lankao County is shocking, the yellow sand is full of yellow sand, natural disasters for many years, the peasants' crops have not been harvested, and hunger is everywhere, which makes Jiao Yulu, who has just arrived in Lankao, feel very depressed.
Regardless of his own body, he endured liver pain, led the local leadership team to the grass-roots level, investigated and studied and formulated a plan to deal with the three pests of wind and sand, waterlogging, salinity and alkali, and adhered to the front line of fighting the three evils, so he was deeply loved by the local people.
Faced with the dereliction of duty and laziness of local cadres and the blindness to the disaster relief materials allocated by their superiors, Jiao Yulu took the initiative to lead his subordinates to personally carry the materials and distribute them to the local disaster victims.
In order to solve the problem of the shortage of living materials for local grass-roots cadres, he decided to increase the rations of cadres, but it caused dissatisfaction from his colleague Wu Rongxian, so Wu Rongxian instructed his subordinates to take advantage of the problem and complain to their superiors.
On the day when the investigation team of the prefectural party committee came to Lankao to learn the truth, hundreds of local people blocked the door of the conference room to complain about Jiao Yulu's grievances, and the mass resistance of the masses greatly shocked the personnel of the investigation group, and Wu Rongxian's false accusations were self-defeating.
Shortly thereafter, there was a flood disaster in Lankao County, at this time Jiao Yulu's liver disease was already very serious, but he still rushed to the front line of flood relief, and finally under the severe liver pain and physical exhaustion, Jiao Yulu was rushed to the hospital by the masses...
Perhaps in order to avoid the film's ending from being too sad, the director explained the ending at the beginning of the film: the funeral procession of 10,000 people formed by the local people buried Secretary Jiao's ashes in Lankao County, and Secretary Jiao was forever buried in the place where he had struggled.
The end of the film is handled with great enthusiasm, Jiao Yulu led the local people to walk in the yellow sand of the sky, the red flag behind him fluttered in the wind, and the awe-inspiring face of Secretary Jiao's justice in the picture gradually merged with the bright red color, and the film ended in a red.
02, Li Xuejian lost 20 pounds for the character
The story in the movie is touching, and the story outside the movie is equally wonderful.
Li Xuejian, who played Jiao Yulu, had already made a name for himself with "Longing" at that time, but in order to play Jiao Yulu well, Li Xuejian did not slack off at all, and lost 20 pounds for the role.
At the beginning of the film preparation, the director found Li Xuejian to invite him to play Jiao Yulu, and Li Xuejian, who received the invitation, was overjoyed, and when he asked the director to come to the film script to study carefully, he also asked his wife to go to the library to find Jiao Yulu's relevant books and materials for his reference.
During the study of the script, Li Xuejian also continued to communicate with the director Wang Jixing, after a period of time, Li Xuejian has studied the script quite thoroughly, and the director Wang Jixing also feels that the time is ripe, so he let Li Xuejian go to Lankao County to experience life, in order to better integrate into the living environment of the role.
Li Xuejian, who came to Lankao County, found Jiao Yulu's daughter and revealed that he was going to play Jiao Yulu and wanted to know more about Jiao Yulu's deeds, but who knew that he was splashed with cold water.
It turned out that Jiao Yulu's daughter said that her father was thin and long, Li Xue's fitness was not high enough, and he was too fat, and the image was not in line with it; this made Li Xuejian quite distressed, and he had no choice but to ask the director to discuss countermeasures.
So Wang Jixing told Li Xuejian that short can be solved by the camera position, but fat can only lose weight.
Li Xuejian listened to the director's words, immediately decided to diet to lose weight, the next few days, Li Xuejian only eat boiled cabbage per meal, do not eat meat, for a period of time, finally lost 20 pounds.
Not only that, in order to be closer to Jiao Yulu's appearance, Li Xuejian stayed up crazy every day in addition to eating green vegetables to lose weight, and made himself more haggard in this way, thus achieving a fit with the character himself in appearance.
In the process of filming the film, Li Xuejian also constantly exchanged performance methods and creative methods with directors, screenwriters and others, and finally achieved this classic character image.
03, the contest between two movie emperors, one of whom has passed away
In 1991, "Jiao Yulu" won the Best Feature Film Award at the 11th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema, and Li Xuejian also won the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award for this film.
At the award ceremony, Li Xuejian modestly said such a sentence in a slightly ridiculous tone, which is still regarded as the highest cultivation of an actor.
"Both bitterness and tiredness made a good man, Jiao Yulu, suffer, but fame and profit made a stupid boy Li Xuejian get it."
Since then, Li Xuejian's acting career has become more high, and many excellent works have made him a regular visitor to major film and television festivals, and now Li Xuejian has become a role model and industry benchmark for artists, and his dedicated and low-key work style has made countless actors and stars sigh and be worthy of real performing artists.
In this film, not only Li Xuejian dedicated a textbook-level performance, but also the performance of the actor Li Rentang, who played Commissioner Zhao, was equally wonderful, interpreting the character's personality in a very vivid and natural way.
In fact, as early as "Jiao Yulu", Li Rentang won the Hundred Flowers Award and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor with the movies "Tear Stains" and "Defendant Mountain Bar", so "Jiao Yulu" brought together two Golden Rooster Award film emperors to play on the same stage.
In 2002, Teacher Li Rentang suddenly suffered a heart attack and died suddenly in Gaoqing County, Shandong Province, and the death of the old man was stifling, but the film and television works he left behind were enough to make the audience remember.
Zhang Ying, the actor of Jiao Yulu's wife in the film, is also a powerful actor, although there are not many scenes in the film, but it also leaves a deep impression on the audience.
Today, Zhang Ying is still active in the public eye, playing roles in many film and television works, such as Da Feng in "Home with Nine Phoenixes", the director of the workshop union in "Golden Marriage", Hao Lanrong in "Empty Alley", and Sister Qian in "Kite".
Today, 31 years since the release of the movie "Jiao Yulu", at the special time node of the centenary of the founding of the party, the movie "Jiao Yulu" has once again been restarted by history and has received the attention of the audience.
In 2021, the film "Jiao Yulu" was selected for the screening list of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival, and also won the 30th Huading Award for National Excellent Film Works on the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China.
Classics never go out of style, and now Jiao Yulu's story is constantly being remade into various film and television works, and the newly released "My Father Jiao Yulu" makes Jiao Yulu's glorious image appear on the screen again, so that a new generation of audiences receive spiritual baptism. (Author: Pippi Shrimp)