Pictured| Chairman Mao and Li Ne
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > preface</h1>
On September 9, 1979, a great superstar fell, and Chairman Mao passed away, but the great achievements of his life will always remain between heaven and earth and be admired. In order to commemorate Chairman Mao, the film studio began to select special actors from all over the country to put Chairman Mao's deeds on the screen, at this time, another "Chairman Mao" came into people's sight, bringing wonderful images such as "Four Crossings of Red Water", "Founding Ceremony", "Armageddon" and so on, and this person was Gu Yue.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > "You look a lot like Chairman Mao."</h1>
Gu Yue, whose real name is Hu Xueshi, is an orphan, and he was only 9 years old when the People's Liberation Army rescued Gu Yue from an orphanage in Guilin in 1949, and since then, the army has become Gu Yue's home. Gu Yue did not know his birthday, and when the organization asked him about his date of birth, he only remembered that it was in September, so he told the registered comrades to write September 9, perhaps it was providence in the dark, and this day would become a special day in the future.
Once, Gu Yue was on a business trip by train, and across the seat was a middle-aged man in his 40s, who carefully looked at Gu Yue, and Gu Yue felt very surprised, so he asked: "Why do you always stare at me?" The middle-aged man said generously: "Comrade of the People's Liberation Army, I see that you look like a person." He said, took out the oil painting he had just bought, "Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan", and then said: "You look like Chairman Mao." ”
Pictured | Ancient Moon
Saying that Gu Yue resembled Chairman Mao was not only a middle-aged man he had met by chance, but also a colleague of his wife, Gui Ping. Gui Ping's National Defense Drama Troupe is performing a drama, Gui Ping plays a female guerrilla leader, a literary screenwriter plays Chairman Mao, although this comrade is one meter and eight meters tall, and Chairman Mao is indeed somewhat similar, but he is a single eyelid, and it is easy for the audience to see the "flaws" by paying attention.
After the performance, everyone talked about it, if you can find someone to play Chairman Mao a little more like it, then someone proposed that Gu Yue could try it, the director frowned, pondered for a moment, and said: "Hu Xueshi is indeed very much like Chairman Mao." "But as everyone knows, Gu Yue works in the organs of the military region and cannot come to participate in the drama."
The speaker has no intention, the listener intends. When Gui Ping returned home, she said to Gu Yue, "Many people in our regiment say that you are like Chairman Mao when you were young. Gu Yue directly refused: "Don't be funny, I won't go to your troupe to act." Although Gu Yue looked like Chairman Mao, he was not a professional actor, and he had never thought about acting.
Tu | Guyue as Chairman Mao
In 1978, the Ministry of Culture of the State Council and the Political Department of the People's Liberation Army issued a separate circular to select revolutionary actors who played the great proletarian leader in the national and all-army auditions.
However, when the comrades of the relevant departments interviewed, they could not help but sigh: There are many similarities with Chairman Mao, but they are both godlike and can act, and it is really difficult to find! Hu Ke, dean of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts and a famous playwright, listened to such remarks and reassured: "There are billions of people in China, who does not have them?" At this time, someone recommended: "I heard that there is a portrait in Yunnan, but I have never acted." ”
Hu Ke thought that he could learn not to act, so he made a special trip to Yunnan to see this soldier who looked exactly like Chairman Mao. At a meeting of a certain department in Kunming, Hu saw Gu Yue, only to see that he was one meter and eight meters tall, his face lines were more than comfortable, and his eye posture was even more into the wood, and he couldn't help but say: "Not bad, very similar." ”
Stills | Gu Yue as Chairman Mao
The news of playing Chairman Mao's work reached Gu Yue's ears, he made a mistake, acting is an art, he never thought that he would one day act! But he also profoundly knew that letting him play Chairman Mao was not only the trust of the superiors, but also the sustenance of the people of the whole country. His wife, Gui Ping, advised:
"You were rescued from the orphanage by the People's Liberation Army, you thank the Communist Party, you deeply love Chairman Mao, you express this feeling as a cadre, just express your personal feelings with hard work, and you as an actor can express the emotions of millions of people with images." Acting is not difficult, you can learn anything, learn to perform you are allowed. ”
Gui Ping's words gave Gu Yue great encouragement, so Gu Yue made up her mind and participated in the interview of Chairman Mao's special actor. Hu Ke quickly received Gu Yue's costume photos, and the comrade in charge of recruitment immediately asked Gu Yue to try on makeup at the Bayi Studio.
Pictured| Chairman Mao
At Marshal Ye Jianying's desk, there were more than a dozen photos of Chairman Mao's actors, he took a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully and carefully, when he saw Gu Yue's photo, his mind flashed the image of his close comrade-in-arms Chairman Mao, so he raised his pen for a while, drew a red circle behind this photo, and finally decided the case.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > Gu Yue lost "himself" in order to play Chairman Mao well</h1>
Gu Yue came to the Bayi Studio, he clearly realized that if he wanted to play Chairman Mao well, at his current level, it was still difficult to achieve, and the so-called "special actor" only met half of the conditions. For Gu Yue, the word "actor" is more important, so honing his acting skills has become the top priority at the moment.
Pictured| Chairman Mao reading the newspaper
Gui Ping sent a letter to Gu Yue, in which he wrote: The most outstanding performance is to go deep into the inner world of the character, turn the actor into a role, do not stay on simple imitation and physical action imitation, find the psychological action line, find the core of the role, make yourself enter the role and act actively, so that you and the role become one.
Inspired by Gui Ping, Gu Yue understood that if he wanted to play Chairman Mao well, he would have to enter Chairman Mao's inner world and "become" Chairman Mao. He read a lot of Chairman Mao's materials and watched video clips about Chairman Mao; on the basis of this information, he imitated Chairman Mao's physical movements, did not let go of every move, and also asked Chairman Mao's guards, secretaries, and others for advice and visits, and asked for advice from Chairman Mao's and Jin Naiqian, who had played Chairman Mao' roles, and studied with teachers.
Once, when Gu Yue watched the expansion pack, he found that Chairman Mao's way of smoking was very unique: Chairman Mao's hand was very large, the cigarette was sandwiched between the fingers, the cigarette was placed in the middle of the lips when smoking, and the hand holding the cigarette covered the entire mouth. Gu Yue learned Chairman Mao's movements, and when someone saw his performance, he couldn't help but clap his hands and applaud: "This is more like a simulation!" ”
In daily study, whenever Gu Yue discovered one of Chairman Mao's body movements, he immediately wrote it down in a notebook, and then practiced it repeatedly to engrave this set of movements in his bones. He also collected more than 600 photographs of Chairman Mao from different periods, hung them in the guest rooms of the guest house, and in the dead of night, he stared at the photos in a daze and pondered clues from the photos.
In the first audition, Gu Yue and the other two special actors had to perform chairman Mao's speech on the stage, Gu Yue was the first, although he constantly hinted in his heart not to be nervous, but in the face of the camera, the video recorder, a heart still fluttered and jumped. He found a corner and sat down against the wall, thinking back to every action he was going to perform.
The performance officially began, and Gu Yue relaxed in front of the camera, portraying every action into three points. As the director shouted "stop", everyone present looked at the camera with great concern, and when the performance process was revealed from the camera, everyone could not help but whisper: "It's like it!" But in a round of praise, Gu Yue felt that his performance just now was still somewhat insufficient, so he asked to do it again, and the director agreed.
The second time I recorded, everyone felt that Gu Yue was more relaxed in front of the camera, and at that moment, it was as if he was Chairman Mao himself. After that, "Xi'an Incident" was released, and Gu Yue's superb acting skills were praised by the audience, and even some fans wrote to him, hoping that he could play the leading role.
In "Xi'an Incident", Gu Yue's role is not much, and he only solves the problem of "like not like", if he appears in the next film with Chairman Mao as the protagonist, he will face a more severe challenge: he needs to create a Mao Zedong on the screen!
Gu Yue fell into contemplation and distress, so gradually, gu Yue, who had always been optimistic and cheerful, changed, he became solemn and profound, and he completely immersed himself and his heart in the role of "Chairman Mao". Gui Ping noticed the change in Gu Yue, and she felt that the husband she spent with day and night was no longer the same as before, and began to become strange and distant.
Gui Ping said, "Old Hu, you have changed, I can feel that you are not you anymore!" Gu Yue was unaware of his change and said, "Didn't I stand in front of you properly?" When Gui Ping explained her changes, Gu Yue suddenly realized and asked how this was good. Gui Ping said: "Just do it, the party and the people need you to become 'Chairman Mao', and you must shape it wholeheartedly." ”
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > Li Ne went to visit Gu Yue at the filming site of "Armageddon"</h1>
In the early summer of 1990, Gu Yue filmed "Armageddon" in Xibaipo, it happened that Chairman Mao's daughter Li Ne revisited her hometown, after visiting the memorial, she came to the shooting station, at the scene, she recognized Gu Yue who played her father at a glance, looking at the "familiar" appearance, Li Ne was very excited, hurriedly stepped forward, helped him to sit down on the sofa, and she looked at "father" affectionately like a child.
Gu Yue asked, "Have you seen the play I played?" Li Ne immediately said some titles, and unconsciously, she took Gu Yue's hand, just like a child holding her father. She recalled that when she was a child, she often went out for a walk with her father, and at the beginning she held one finger of her father, and when she was older, she could hold two fingers of her father...
Pictured| Li Ne
Li Ne said: "I have experienced my father's hand very deeply, and your hand feels the same as my father's hand. With that, Li Ne shook Gu Yue's hand tighter, how she hoped that the special actor in front of her was her father Chairman Mao!
When parting, Li Ne held Gu Yue's hand tightly before gradually releasing it, and then took a step to get into the car. Suddenly, Li Ne turned around and threw himself into Gu Yue's arms and cried bitterly, and Gu Yue also shed tears and said, "I understand you, I understand you!" When everyone present saw this scene, they couldn't help but burst into tears.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="44" > summary</h1>
A great man who has passed away has been "resurrected", but the former ancient moon has "disappeared", and the actors at that time, in order to play the role well, really integrate themselves into the role. Thanks to Gu Yue for putting Chairman Mao's image on the screen, countless future generations can understand Chairman Mao's great life through movies and television.