Zhang Guoguo, Li Chengru and He Bing, three powerful factions, jointly starred in a TV series adapted from Lao She's original book "My Life", at the beginning the director Zhang Guoli was ready to let Ge You play the male number one "I" (Fuhai), Ge You hurriedly resigned: can't act, can't act. In the end, I really couldn't find the lead actor, there was no way, Zhang Guoli could only personally play the male lead.
Everyone didn't want to play the male lead for no other reason, just because there was a person who had already played this role before, and it was played very well, and even Lao She's son Shu Yi thought that he was much stronger than Zhang Guoguo.
The big director Xie Jin once said that if the male protagonist of "Furong Town" was replaced by him, it would definitely be better than Jiang Wen.
Scared off Ge You, stronger than Zhang Guoguo, better than Jiang Wen, this person is Shi Hua, who is praised by many as the best actor in China, and even stronger than Zhao Dan's Shi Hua. CCTV's "Movie Legend" program once made him a special program called "Forever Stone Wave".
First, the root of the stone swing
Shi Hua, whose original name was Shi Yutao, was born in Tianjin in 1915, their family had been wide before, but when he was born, it just fell, so his father took the family to Beijing to make a living, basically Shi Hua spent in Beijing before the age of 25, and his roots were in Beijing.
Due to the family's financial difficulties, Shi Hua went out to make a living in junior high school, he worked as a tea house, did broken urging, and also worked as a conductor, in the words of his friend, Shi Hua was mainly mixed in the Tianqiao area, maybe he had heard Jiao Dehai, Zhu Kuoquan and Hou Baolin their cross-talk, and in his future films, he often referred to the way of cross-talk when designing Jingwei'er lines.
When Shi Hua was 19 years old, his elementary school classmate Dong Shixiong persuaded him to act, and Shi Hui gladly went there, and later he and his classmates both became famous drama actors, and Dong Shixiong's stage name was Blue Horse.
However, Shi Hui, who had just joined the troupe, could only be a broken urge, until one day in 1935, an actor had a temporary affair, and he made a cameo appearance in a tea house, which was exactly the work he had done, so he performed well and was praised by the troupe. This successful performance also built up shi hua's confidence, and he was determined to become a good actor.
It can be said that in shi hua's first twenty years of life, he was an ordinary Beijing guy, but it was this life from the bottom of society that gave him endless creative sources and ideas, which was the root of his genius actor road.
Second, Shi Hua's path of genius
Shi Hua's performance road is an amazing performance once he came out, he did not learn any acting theory, he quickly became the main actor of the troupe, in 1938, the 23-year-old Shi Hua starred in the drama "Thunderstorm" in Lu Gui, this role was even highly praised by Cao Yu himself" "He played Lu Gui, better than I wrote.". Who would have thought that after only three years in the industry, Shi Hui had become a well-known drama actor.
In 1940, Shi Hui was denounced by the traitors for giving anti-Japanese speeches, and he was forced to leave Beijing and go south to Shanghai to join the famous traveling troupe, in just a few years, Shi Hui quickly conquered the audience in Shanghai, he was known as the "Emperor of Drama", at that time Shanghai even called watching drama "Watching Shi Hua".
At that time, drama actors generally began to enter the film industry, Shi Hui was not exempt from vulgarity, he was first electrocuted in 1941, and by 1947, he basically completely turned into the film industry, and once again conquered Shanghai audiences through films such as "Fake Phoenix" and "Long Live the Wife", and was also praised by some audiences as the "Emperor of Film".
Shi Hui said that when you are an actor, you must act in a drama, and when you make a movie, you must become a director. In 1948, he wrote and directed his first film "Mother", in 1950 he directed and acted in "My Life", in 1951 he directed and starred in the film "Guan Lianchang", in 1953 the eight major film companies in Shanghai merged to form the Shanghai Film Studio, and he also served as the director of the famous film "Chicken Feather Letter"...
Entering the industry in 1935, becoming the emperor of drama in less than ten years, becoming the emperor of film in less than five years, and becoming a well-known director in less than five years, Shi Wei's short acting career of twenty years is almost a typical genius road.
Third, Shi Hua's classic works
Due to its age, we can hardly even see a few photos of Shi Hui's drama works, but the films he starred in and directed are still regarded as classics by fans after more than half a century, especially in the years after liberation, Shi Hui was almost the most popular director and actor at that time.
"I" in "My Life", this movie is the national box office champion that year, once won the second prize of the Ministry of Culture Excellent Feature Film, Shi Hui in the film gave full play to his advantages of growing up in Beijing, a Beijing city patrolman from childhood to old age, perfectly reproduced the life state of ordinary people in that era, this role is like Wang Lifa is a classic that is difficult to surpass.
"Guan Lianchang" is the first PLA theme film filmed by a private film company, Shi Hui plays the protagonist Guan Lianchang in the film, he changed from a Beijing film to a Shandong dialect, Guan Lianchang, this person is humorous, bold, full of foul language and does not delay positivity, if you want to use the role to measure, Guan Lianchang is the earliest Shi Guangrong and Li Yunlong.
In "Sisters and Sisters Stand Up", Shi Hui played a Beijing rogue Ma San who was bad to the bone, and he adhered to his view that "bad people never think of themselves as bad people", and played Ma San as a rogue into three points, which is the kind of bad that can make the audience angry but helpless. At the same time, he interpreted the details of the old Beijing Beijing film, black talk, playing a thousand children, and Qiankun in the sleeve very naturally in the film, which was breathtaking.
In the epic film "Song Jingshi", Shi Hui, who has been blessed with a good figure, played the late Qing Dynasty heavy minister monk Greenqin, and the success of this role lies in the fact that his line skills have almost reached the point of entering the realm, and the difference between non-anger and thunder anger is vividly interpreted by him.
To be honest, most actors in the films of the 1950s more or less brought some drama or stage cavity, and even Zhao Dan's "Lin Zexu" inevitably showed the style of drama actors in some places, which will make today's audience feel some violation. Although Shi Hua is the emperor of drama, his lines and performances in the movie have almost no trace of drama, in jiang Wen's words, Shi Hui implanted the soul of the character into his body, and he acted with the soul of the character.
Fourth, Shi Hua's friends and relatives
Shi Huai has an older brother named Shi Yuxun, pen name Yang Liuqing, who has served as a screenwriter for "Guan Lianchang" and "My Life". They also have a younger brother named Shi Yushu, who is a famous cardiovascular disease expert in China.
Shi Hui also has a nephew, in the field of drama can almost be compared to Shi Hui, he is the result, and the famous voice actor Yu Ding of the Translation Factory is also the cousin of this.
Shi Hua once set up a Five Flowers Society in the Shangying Film Studio, and he served as the president, with members including Bai Shen, Xie Jin, Shen Huan and Xu Changlin, all of whom were considered Shi Hui's "dead party".
In the film industry, Shi Hui also has some almost fixed partners, they are also very good actors, such as the famous actors Cheng Zhi and Li Wei, they have served as the main supporting roles in Shi Hui's films many times.
Of course, there are two important people in Shi Hua's life, one is his former lover Zhou Xuan, the two of them were once such a match, called the gods and immortals of the heavens and the earth by the film industry, and even made a marriage contract, but later due to the gathering of less and more and the rumors, the two gradually drifted apart.
Shi Hua once told a friend that he felt that there were only two kinds of people in the world who were the cutest, one was a mother and the other was a child. In this way, in his thirties, he actually fell in love with Tong Baoling, a Peking Opera Danjiao actor who was more than ten years younger than her, and the two of them had more mutual attraction from filming and contact, although the Tong family had some objections, but the two still got married in 1954, the wedding was very simple, and also invited the bride's colleague, Wang Xiaotang, who was still singing at the time.
The short marriage lasted only more than three years, and in November 1957, Shi Hua suddenly disappeared from this world.
Fifth, the mystery of the disappearance of the stone wave
The information now released indicates that Shi Hua died of suicide in 1957, but some people still do not believe that his disappearance was suicide.
Let's go back to the fifties, Shi Hui's "Guan Lianchang" was criticized, but this did not have much impact on him, and he later used a "Chicken Feather Letter" to declare his ability to grasp the new era of film.
Some people also say that Shi Hua's last film, "Night Flight in the Sea of Fog", was criticized and caused him to think about it, in fact, the film that praised the People's Liberation Army and the greatness of the people's humanity was not much of a problem. What really led to his tragedy was an article titled "Eastern Wu General 'False Words'".
In any case, on November 19, 1957, at the shanghai film studio conference, Shi Hui was criticized continuously, and the previous "Guan Lianchang" was revived by the old matter, and even his relationship with Zhou Xuan was also stirred up, which caused him great psychological pressure.
After the meeting, Shi Hua was a little confused, he saw his old friend Shen Huan could not help but sigh: "Then I can't act in the future", and then he sighed twice: It's over, it's over. After returning home, in the face of his wife's inquiry, he only had two sighs: powerful, powerful.
The next day, originally Shi Hua still wanted to attend the second conference, but he did not go, Tong Baoling was going to meet the foreign art troupe to visit, Shi Hua and his wife kissed goodbye, but Tong Baoling did not notice anything unusual.
Subsequently, Shi Hua boarded the Democracy Iii, which was the place where he experienced life and scenery when filming "Fog Sea Trek", so the crew knew him and thought he had come to experience life again.
That night, several people saw Shi Waving move a chair and sit on the deck looking out at the sea.
After that, Shi Hui disappeared, and he disappeared into the sea.
Seventeen months later, an unnamed male corpse was found on the beach outside Wusongkou (a reed), soaked for too long to be recognized, and finally people determined that it was Shi Hua through the watch on the corpse, unsprothed shoes and molars, so almost all the information determined that Shi Hua died in 1957 because of suicide.
But there are also some people who do not believe that Shi Hua died in this way, and Li Zhen, the editor-in-chief of "Shi Hua On Art", believes that Shi Hui only disappeared on the sea, but it is not necessarily a suicide. In particular, the crew of Democracy III only saw him sitting on the deck and did not see him jump into the sea. At the same time, the number of people disembarking the ship was equal to the number of people on board, and there was no DNA technology at that time, but it seemed a bit hasty to judge that the stone was swung and died by suicide through external conditions. Therefore, Li Zhen believes that in fact, we can not rule out that Shi Hua did not commit suicide at that time, and he may have just changed his life in anonymity.
For Shi Hua's "disappearance", Jiang Wen once had his own opinion, he said that Shi Hui is the kind of person who is particularly easy to communicate with the soul of the character, such a person you can't scare him, as soon as you scare him, he is easy to drill the tip of the bull's horn.
In other words, Shi Hui seems to be just a pure actor and an excellent director, and he is not mentally prepared to bear the wind and rain, which may be the internal reason for his sudden "disappearance".
Sixth, Shi Hua's performance theory
There is a kind of performance theory called "head-on", which basically means that an actor only needs to know the gender, age, occupation and lines of the character to get the script, and the subsequent performance can almost all be performed in accordance with the script and the director's requirements, so that a play can be completed quickly, and at the same time, it will not be picked out in the acting. This may be the performance theory that most actors currently follow actively or passively.
The performance theory that Shi Hui insists on and respects is called "starting from the root", for example, if he wants to play the patrolman in Lao She's "My Life", then he must first understand the background of Lao She, the author, know what kind of person Lao She is, and what kind of things he has encountered. Then it is to understand the creative ideas of the work, the background of the times and the connotation and meaning of it, and also to know the logical relationship between the preparation, development, climax and ending of the whole story. Then there is the life, personality, family and background of the patrolman character, and finally the people and things related to the role of the patrolman.
In short, as Jiang Wen said, Shi Hua's performance is to implant the soul of the character into his body. Therefore, the great director Huang Zuolin commented that Shi Hua's acting skills are proficient in all kinds of roles, tragedy, comedy, farce and drama can be performed well, and he is an extremely rare performance artist in China.
In our popular words, Shi Hui is the best actor in our country.