Romain Rolland once said that the great significance of art is basically that it can show the true feelings of man, the mystery of inner life and the world of passion.
This is exactly the case with the art of cinema, and the film "Heroes and Children" combines these aspects perfectly, and many older generations still remember the characters in this movie, and the actors who played them are also firmly remembered.
However, there is such an actor, she does not play much in the movie, but the difficulty of the role is higher than that of the lead actor, and many people also remember her for her short performance in this movie.
The actor's name is Cho Moon-yu, now 80 years old, her character in "Heroes and Daughters" is Park Jeong-ko, an ordinary North Korean peasant girl, at that time many people thought that the crew really found a North Korean girl to play this movie, did not expect that this girl with such a moving acting skills is Chinese.
In an interview in her later years, she said that "Heroes and Children" is timeless art, and Park Jung-ko is also a role she will never forget in her life. Today, the 80-year-old Zhao Wenyu is still running around for art, and it can be seen from her face that the years have never defeated the beauty.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the preparation of the film, and resolutely decided to play a supporting role</h1>
After the founding of New China, the state attached great importance to the development of various cultural undertakings, and the film industry also ushered in a period of development. Major film studios have been established, and many excellent novel themes have been selected as film scripts. In order to make an excellent film that reflects the spiritual outlook of the volunteer soldiers, the organization asked Mr. Ba Jin to go to North Korea and write a book for these most lovely people.
Mr. Barkin ate and lived with the volunteer soldiers, observed their real lives, and finally wrote a novella, "Reunion", which caused a sensation as soon as the novel came out, and the script of "Heroes and Children" was born on this novel.
The organization entrusted the task of shooting "Heroes and Children" to the Changchun Film Studio, one of the oldest film factories in the motherland, with director Wu Zhaodi as the director of "Heroes and Children" and Mao Feng as the screenwriter for "Reunion".
Mao Feng's pen power is very outstanding, the script of "Heroes and Children" was quickly finalized, the remaining problem is the casting, this task was handed over to the director Wu Zhaodi's hands, Zhao Wenyu ushered in her opportunity.
In 1960, Zhao Wenyu joined Changchun Film Studio in her first year, and with her shy acting skills and youthful appearance, she starred in the movies "Hongyan" and "Circus New Program" in two years, in these two films, she showed extremely outstanding acting talent, the roles on the screen were vividly represented by her, and she began to appear in the public eye.
Her outstanding performance in these two films was also recognized by the directors, and when considering the heroine of "Heroes and Children", director Wu Zhaodi thought of this girl.
The heroine Wang Fang in "Heroes and Children" is a very lively and brave young woman, and the heroine who plays her must have both youth and perseverance, and Zhao Wenyu's performance in the first two directed films shows these two qualities. After consideration, Wu Zhaodi felt that Zhao Wenyu was more suitable for the role of Wang Fang, and intended to let her play the heroine.
After Zhao Wenyu heard about this incident, she read the novel "Reunion" in detail and carefully studied the script, and she was very eager to get the role of Wang Fang.
Zhao Wenyu has several years of acting experience at this time, her body faded a lot of childishness, appears very capable, in fact, and Wang Fang's young and ignorant characteristics are slightly different, director Wu Zhaodi decided to first zhao Wenyu as a candidate heroine, if she has not met a person who fully matches Wang Fang's role characteristics, let Zhao Wenyu play the heroine.
In the process of the director's selection of the heroine, Zhao Wenyu did not idle, she has been repeatedly speculating on the characteristics and psychology of the protagonist Wang Fang, preparing for the possible opportunity of the protagonist.
What is unexpected is that Director Wu Zhaodi's friend Xie Jin actually met an actress who is a little more suitable than Zhao Wenyu. This person's name is Liu Shangxian, an ordinary student at the Beijing Film Academy, xie Jin accidentally saw Liu Shangxian when he was selecting actors at the academy, and she turned out to be exactly the same as Wang Fang he imagined.
Xie Jin immediately took Liu Shangxian to Wu Zhaodi's side, and when Wu Zhaodi looked at it, he also felt that this girl was the best candidate he was looking for. After Zhao Wenyu learned this news, he was a little disappointed. But the director told her that you could play a supporting role in the movie, and Cho Moon-woo was very happy and volunteered to play the role of Park Jung-ko.
After Zhao Wenyu got the role of supporting role, he immediately threw himself into the study of the role. Wu Zhaodi's decision proved to be the most correct, and he found the most suitable role for these actors.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > is becoming more and more mature, and the supporting roles are not afraid of hardship</h1>
The soundtrack and lines in "Heroes and Children" are transformed into eternal memories and precipitated in people's minds. Wang Cheng's sentence "For victory, shoot at me!" To move everyone, the spirit of those heroes and sons and daughters in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was condensed in this sentence.
Cho Moon-yu played Park Jeong-ko, a North Korean girl in "Heroes and Children", and she studied the content of the script many times for this role, and the Park Jeong-ko shown on the screen was the same as the characters in the novel. Park Jeong-ko has also become a role that Cho Moon-yu has deeply remembered throughout her life, and this character has made great progress in her acting skills, and this role can no longer be surpassed.
The Park Jeong-ko in the script is a North Korean girl, and Cho Moon-yu always thinks that she can't personally experience the living habits of the Korean nation, so she decides to personally go to the home of the Korean people in Yanbian for a few days to experience the difference in life between different ethnic groups.
For seven days of life, Zhao Wenyu ate and lived with Korean girls, observing the Food, Clothing, and Housing of Korean Girls. After these seven days of life, her understanding of the character of Park Jeong-ko became more profound.
For the girl, there is a scene in the play that is very difficult to shoot, it is easy to hurt the girl's body, she learned of this scene, there is no worry at all, only let the director rest assured. The scene was filmed of a North Korean girl, Park Jeong-ko, and uncle Kim escorting the injured Wang Fang across the river, and it was winter and the river was full of ice ballast.
At the beginning of the play, Zhao Wenyu did not have any hesitation, she stepped directly into the river, very determined, it is difficult to imagine what extent the cold has reached, everyone only knows that this girl persisted, and she stood up to finish the scene, and the change in Park Zhenzi's expression on the river in the movie is Zhao Wenyu's true inner performance.
She fully integrates herself into the role, and if the words can't express it, she shows it with action.
Zhao Wenyu told everyone about the performance experience at the scene of the "Tribute to the Classics", when the weather was below minus thirty degrees, standing in the water basically could not move his feet, coupled with the impact of the explosion point, it was very difficult to walk in the water, and every step had to endure the bone-chilling cold.
At that time, this young man overcame all difficulties, after the release of the movie, not only Liu Shangxian, who played Wang Fang, became a fire, but many people noticed the performance of this supporting role and lamented the perseverance of this young actor, and she was also deeply loved by the people.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > continue to perform, and break through themselves after further study</h1>
After the broadcast of "Heroes and Children", the characters in the play are all popular, and Zhao Wenyu, who plays Park Zhenzi, has also received the attention of the masses, although she plays a supporting role, but the perseverance and bravery shown by Park Zhenzi have left a deep impression on everyone, and she has more opportunities because of this role.
In 1966, Zhao Wenyu was given an opportunity to challenge himself. Director Chang Zhenhua was preparing "Under the Wild Goose Ridge", and he remembered Zhao Wenyu's performance in "Heroes and Children" and invited her to be the heroine of the film.
The director gave the script to Zhao Wenyu and let her decide for herself whether to play the role of Teacher Xu. Zhao Wenyu has not been exposed to the role of a teacher, and she needs to take on the responsibility of teaching a boy in the play, so that the boy can mature step by step.
In addition to studying her own role, Zhao Wenyu also constantly studied the role of the boy, and she wondered how she could perfectly express this teaching process without appearing stereotyped. In order to achieve this process, she went to the school and personally observed the teachers in class, only to consider the role of Teacher Xu from the perspective of the teacher.
She also used her own efforts to create a classic role, and The teacher Xu on the screen followed the rules and was considerate of the students, and this image still remains in the hearts of some older people.
More than ten years later, the 39-year-old Zhao Wenyu played Fang Zhimin's wife in "Blood Fertile China", her acting skills did not regress due to time, the characters in the play were very vividly performed by her, and the spirit of the characters who were not afraid of life and death was completely interpreted.
After the film was made, Zhao Wenyu was already a senior in the film and television circle, but she began to reflect on herself, although her acting skills continued to improve, but her ability in other aspects was obviously insufficient. She decided to suspend her performances and go to school to learn more professional film and television knowledge, and in the Jilin Art Academy, Zhao Wenyu became an all-rounder.
Through further training, Zhao Wenyu has mastered the knowledge that a director should have. Among the proudest things in Zhao Wenyu's life, one is to star in Park Jeong-ko in "Heroes and Children", and the other is that "Moon Night", where she is a translation director, won the Best Translation and Production Award at the Government Awards that year.
As an Italian film, "Moonlit Night" is extremely difficult to translate. In order to carry out this work, Zhao Wenyu set up a director team to find people across the country who were familiar with the Italian language, requiring them to be very familiar with the Italian language. After a lot of selection, the crew finally selected the best translators.
The production of a translated film is very difficult, and the most important thing is the problem of lines. As a director, Zhao Wenyu lists each sentence and thinks about the specific meaning of these words according to the translated words.
She also combined the background and era environment of the film "Moon Night", constantly collecting information to prepare for the full translation of lines, Zhao Wenyu and the screenwriters integrated and adjusted the lines many times, and finally came up with the most satisfactory lines. According to the characteristics of the characters in the film, she looked for voice actors from many aspects such as sound and color, and found excellent voice actors such as Hu Lianhua and Deng Xiaoou for the crew.
Since then, she has continued to work hard and undertaken the translation and production of many foreign TV dramas, including the German TV series "The Masked Man", the Japanese TV series "The Road to Life", and the translated film "The Banner of the Four Years and Three Classes" has won the government Child Cow Award.
Her directing skills are also very profound, "Husband and Wife Project" won the second prize of the Heilongjiang Provincial TV Drama Competition, "Distant Rivers" won the Golden Tiger Award, and she also assumed the role of the heroine in this TV series.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > on CCTV, reminiscing about the glory days</h1>
Zhao Wenyu, who is older, rarely appears in movies, and spends most of her time on TV dramas, as well as in the dubbing industry and the director industry. She has participated in hundreds of film and television works in her life, and each character image is rich and full, not only the older generation is familiar with Zhao Wenyu's face, but even some young people have known this old predecessor through TV series.
At the age of 80, Zhao Wenyu decided to take the CCTV stage to let more people know about the past of filming "Heroes and Children".
On September 25, 2021, CCTV recalled the popular film "Heroes and Children" again through the column "Chinese Literature and Art : Tribute to Classics", and invited Zhao Wenyu, the actor of Park Jung-ko, to reminisce about the filming process for everyone.
The 80-year-old can't see the appearance of aging at all, the spirit is strong, just from the face you can imagine how graceful she was when she was young. She just sat there, and a period of time when everyone was competing to work and the people were struggling together came out.
The host Meng Shengnan invited Teacher Zhao Wenyu to sign a sentence on the signature book that she most wanted to say to "Heroes and Children", and she wrote this sentence: "Heroes and Children", the eternity in my heart.
The host Meng Shengnan asked: "Why did you write such a sentence on the signature book?" ”
Zhao Wenyu replied with a smile: "This play I don't have many plays, just a few scenes, there are not many shots, but it is more impressive than any other plays I played, even the female number one, the whole group makes me very nostalgic, so it is eternal in my heart." ”
As the two guests talked about it, we had a deeper understanding of the past, and the host asked Zhao Wenyu, "Teacher Zhao, what kind of requirements did the director put forward for the actors at that time?" ”
Zhao Wenyu began to recall the past of that shooting, she replied: "The director of this play, I think his requirements for the actors are real, life, and nature."
Zhao Wenyu slowly said about the shooting days, "Take my small role, I don't have many scenes, but the director asked me to experience life, when I recorded a North Korean translation film in the factory, after the last line was recorded, I was immediately sent to the train station, and the next morning I went to Yanbian."
Meng Shengnan was deeply moved, she continued to ask: "So every actor is no exception, so the first thing to enter the group is to experience life separately, what work does the actor need to do?" ”
Zhao Wenyu still had a faint smile on her face, she said that no matter which department, we must work together to complete the shooting task, and added: "The winter scenery we shot in Tonghua, especially cold, around the Spring Festival in 1964, it was cold wind, dripping water into ice." ”
Nearly 60 years have passed since that movie, but the old man still remembers the time very deeply, even some particularly small details.
Some people have contracted arthritis because they have built bridge piers in the glacier, and if Master Shang, who buried the bombing site, takes the wrong route, he may even be in danger of life. She said that after drinking ginger soup, she also went straight down to the river, and the more she walked, the braver she became. In fact, "Heroes and Children" is not only eternal for her, but also eternal for the people.
The elderly Zhao Wenyu is so constantly running for the acting career, doing publicity as much as possible, so that more people can understand the glorious years of the past, so that people can understand how difficult it is to produce an excellent film and television work. Her love for the film and television industry moves everyone, and it is a very rare and valuable thing to do well in her life.
epilogue
Teacher Zhao Wenyu has been running for the acting career all his life, even if he has reached the age of 80, he still does not forget to shine for it, which is the real master.
The most precious thing is the spirit of not being afraid of difficulties and daring to fight, when Teacher Zhao recalled the difficult shooting period, there was light in her eyes. I wish Teacher Zhao Wenyu more and more health, and I wish the cultural undertakings of the motherland better and better!
If everyone can be like Teacher Zhao Wenyu, adhere to the original intention, firmly do a good job, in the face of difficulties, can quickly cheer up, work hard, the motherland's various undertakings will surely go to glory in everyone's struggle!