Editor's note: According to Yu Yong, a film researcher in Nanjing, and Li Ruihai, director of Bayi Film Studio, at 4 a.m. on May 1, Comrade Liu Jiang, a Chinese film performance artist who was good at shaping villains, died at the age of 95. Teacher Liu died peacefully at home in his sleep.
Liu Jiang
At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, Liu Jiang, a famous performance artist and national first-class actor, died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 95. Ercao's body and name are gone, not to mention the people with the same name, people may not be right for this old man for a while, but mention two lines that enter the collective memory, "I Hu Hansan is back again!" "High, really high!" The villain image that Liu Jiang has created on the Chinese screen in the past years jumps out of the paper.
Liu Jiang was born in 1925 to an ordinary worker family in Harbin, Heilongjiang. At the age of 16, he participated in the Harbin Beidou Amateur Experimental Theater Troupe. In 1946, after the liberation of Harbin, he entered the "Songjiang Military Region Political Department Literary and Art Work Group", and his civilian career began in Sisi. During the Liberation War, the plays he participated in, such as "White-Haired Girl", "Blood and Tears Vengeance", "Liu Hulan", and "Flesh and Blood Relatives", not only carried a distinct brand of the times, but also the performance environment was blended with the environment of former enemies such as Siping, Siege changchun, and liberation of Shenyang, and the warrior actors deserved it.
In 1952, Liu Jiang went south with the army to transfer to the Central and Southern Military Region Troop Art Theater, and since then he has become a full-time actor, and his stage roles are mostly capitalists, landlords, enemies, bureaucrats... In an interview after becoming famous, Liu Jiang grew up in puppet Manchukuo as a child, came from a poor family, and dropped out of school at the age of 13 to enter society. He was an apprentice in a soda factory and also delivered newspapers to the post office. In the chaotic world, the world is full of heat and cold, "enemies and hypocrites, traitors, gendarmes, dog legs, all kinds of characters' faces are clearly stored in the depths of memory." ”
Stills from "Tunnel Warfare", Liu Jiang as Commander Tang
In 1958, Liu Jiang was transferred to the Bayi Film Studio. Taking a train from Guangzhou to Beijing, Liu Jiang inquired all the way to LiuliQiao on the outskirts of Beijing and saw the Bayi Factory in a crop field. With him before and after entering the factory, there are also well-known actors such as Wang Xiaotang, Tian Hua, Wang Xingang, etc., all of whom are prosperous. Liu Jiang's first impression on the big screen was his participation in the 1959 National Day tribute film "Sea Eagle". This film, which reflects the combat life of the speedboat units of the People's Navy, not only set off a wave of competition to wear the "sea soul shirt" throughout the country, but also made "men look at Wang Xingang and women look at Wang Xiaotang", which is the limelight for a while.
At that time, Liu Jiang Was determined not to be able to be with Yourong. In a drama, the enemy ship was shot, and the "national army" Captain Li, who he played, fell into the water in a hurry. Before the shooting began, Liu Jiang specifically asked the fireworks master, telling him that an explosion point in the sea water was only "four or two with (explosive) medicine". During the shooting, he plunged down from the bow of the ship, expecting that the physique he had trained when he swam the Songhua River and the Pearl River was not hindered. Who knew that the explosives had spared the amount, and the water column that soared into the sky shook his internal organs into pain. According to the plot, the militia fished Captain Li ashore with seven hands and eight feet, pulled it aside, and said, "Dead." After a while after the shooting, Liu Jiang, who was wet with water, still lay there without moving, which really frightened everyone.
Stills from "Shining Red Star", Liu Jiang as Hu Hansan
On the Chinese screen in the 1960s and 1970s, there was the so-called "five villains". They are Chen Qiang, who played Huang Shiren in "The White-Haired Girl", Ge Cunzhuang, who played Feng Lanchi in "Red Flag Spectrum", the "Intelligence Chief" statement in "Crossing the River Reconnaissance", Fang Hua, the captain of the "Yoshino" ship in "Jia Wu Fengyun", and Liu Jiang, who said "I will come back again" in "Shining Red Star", with a fierce and evil face. Yu Yong, a special researcher at the Oral History Center of Nanjing University of the Arts and a film researcher, believes that "Chen Qiang's screen image occupies the word yin and poison, and Huang Shiren must also have the appearance of a 'great benevolent person'; the image of the villain in the statement is also gloomy, but strategic, and it is intellectual; Ge Cunzhuang is a squire, including sha rudder who later played "The Mysterious Big Buddha", all of which are local bullies; FangHua of the long shadow was a recording engineer during the 'full screen', and the Japanese language is very good, plus the image also has edges and angles, mainly playing Japanese devils." ”
Stills from Journey to the West, Liu Jiang as King Yan
In Yu Yong's view, Liu Jiang's "fierce appearance" among the five people is the most famous, "he is particularly in line with the description of 'leopard head ring eyes' in classical novels." Later, in the TV series "Journey to the West", Yan Wangye can find him to act, on the one hand, the makeup artist Wang Xizhong's magic hand, on the other hand, compared to the embroidery portrait painted by Dai Dunbang, Liu Jiang is dressed as a living Yan Wang. "The artistic vitality of the five villains is very strong," these actors can not play the main role in their lifetime, may be two or three lines in a play, which makes them have to eat through the role. In 1987, the German eunuch in "Kyoto Ball Man", Liu Jiang looked fierce as soon as he appeared, and there was a scene where he pinched the crotch of the little eunuch next to him... The sinister perversion of the character's identity is all there. ”
Contrary to the image of the screen, that generation of villain actors have a good reputation in real life. When filming "Breaking Through the Wujiang River", Liu Jiang played the enemy chief of staff and had a good time, and he needed to set up several tables of banquets. Liu Jiang was steamed with a plate of sauce meat in front of him, and he picked up a chopstick and ate it like a decent one, until the director shouted to stop, and then turned around and vomited. He later described it as , " Smelling the coffin board on a nose " . In the eyes of Liu Jiang's wife, the old partner "played a generation of villains, and is a very good person in life." He himself once said, "We villain actors should be clean and self-righteous in life." "It's subtle here, it's not a person who comes over, it's not enough."
In 1995, Liu Jiang was diagnosed with stomach cancer. At the age of 82, in order to entertain his old comrades-in-arms, he drank a bottle of Maotai and was admitted to the hospital that night and found prostate cancer. Soon after, it was discovered that a tumor had grown in the liver. At this age, suffering from terminal illness, ordinary people must not be able to survive, Liu Jiangfeng said, "We must treat every day as the last day, so that people can live freely and happily." "Speech therapy" is his spiritual weapon to defeat the disease. In the Year of the Goat in 2015, he did not forget the humor in the TV interview, "This year is the three sheep Kaitai, I am the 'three cancer Kaitai'. ”
In addition to actively fighting cancer, actor Liu Jiang's later life can be described as a retreat. From time to time, "special appearances" are still unforgettable. In 2012, in Zhang Yang's "Flying Over the Old People's Home", the generation of old actors all starred, and Liu Jiang also extended his signature "big thumb brother" in the film.