Needless to say, now the actor in the eyes of some people, is synonymous with demonization, when thinking of actors, many people first think of drug abuse, tax evasion and tax evasion.
However, at least in the eighties of the last century, acting was still a noble profession, look at the actor Hu Yajie:
For acting, volunteer to go to jail!
Speaking of Hu Yajie, the current post-00s may be at a loss.
From the 1980s to 2000, Hu Yajie was in the show business circle, just like Wu Jing:
Handsome and hard. (At that time, the word pseudo-bride did not appear yet)
Hu Yajie, who was born in Kaifeng, Henan Province, in 1963, was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 1984.
Many of his film and television works have become the memory of an era:
"Thunder field acacia tree", "plainclothes policeman", "old lady soil", "national destiny" ...
Among them, released in 1987, his first TV series starring, "Plainclothes Policeman", has influenced generations:
The young and handsome policeman Zhou Zhiming, with his ups and downs before and after the Cultural Revolution, and his indomitable struggle in the tide of the times, deeply touched the audience.
Liu Huan sang the theme song "Young Ambition Without Sorrow", which is passionate and has been sung to this day.
What is less known is that when actor Hu Yajie played Zhou Zhiming, in order to experience the life of a policeman, he went to a police station and participated in the police's case handling the whole process:
Patrolling, stalking, arresting, and even the final trial.
This was a common occurrence in the show business of that era.
The actors of that era were called actors, not dramatists, and they regarded experiencing life as a necessary part of their creation, and most of them were so serious.
After that, what made people shoot the case was that Hu Yajie actually went to the squatting room in order to experience Zhou Zhiming's state of mind of being unjustly imprisoned.
Really, not acting —
In the case that only the director of a certain police station knew the inside story, he was really treated as a prisoner, really arrested and put into the detention center, and really locked up:
He was stripped naked, put on his number coat, and really became a prisoner.
Moreover, as in the legend, as soon as he entered, he was really given an ancient "meeting ceremony" by the prisoners in the same cell:
He was literally beaten by them.
So many years later, Hu Yajie once went to buy watermelons, met the inmates of that year to buy watermelons, and the prisoners asked him with concern, when did they come out?
Needless to say, if the drama performed by such an actor is not good, it is that God is blind.
When "Plainclothes Policeman" was released, I was still in elementary school and couldn't understand it, but my young parents actually agreed to sit in front of the black-and-white TV set and watch it with them.
This TV series, these actors, in the eyes of parents, are assured that children can also watch.
At that time, acting was really a profession that ordinary people respected and envied.
I remember that at that time, there was a big brother in the hutong who went to high school, determined to enter the film school, performed programs for everyone every day, and was deeply liked by everyone, although he was not admitted in the end, but in the eyes of adults, he still looked up to him.
A few decades later, one day in 2021, I was having dinner at an old friend's house, saw his beautiful daughter from middle school, and casually boasted:
Looking so beautiful, you can grow up to be an actor.
My honest friend, who was a worker, was discolored and livid, and said to me, and even more to my daughter:
"We want to eat in the future, and we can't go to be an actor"
I immediately apologized to my old friend for explaining.
I know that over the years, those showbiz scandals: drug addiction and prostitution, divorce promiscuity, tax evasion, count back lines, etc., have seriously demonized the showbiz.
Actor, this title, in the hearts of many ordinary people, is synonymous with corruption and degeneration.
Think of the old drama bone Hu Yajie of that year, looking back at the past, I can't help but sigh.
Of course, even if today our show business circle still has Chen Baoguo, Chen Daoming, Wu Jing, Yi Qianxi, etc., and other new and old actors, maintaining the true color of actors, it is worthy of our respect.
Unfortunately, too little.
Hopefully, in the future, we'll see films like "Plainclothes Cop."