"I didn't take a professional class, it was those old actors who taught me to act bit by bit and brought me out." At the Shanghai premiere of "Actors" on October 20, Wu Yunfang, an 86-year-old actor of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe, said excitedly after seeing the older generation of Shanghai filmmakers appearing in the movie. "Act innocently and act seriously", the documentary film "Actor", which focuses on "the twenty-two film stars of New China", will be released in theaters nationwide on October 30. This is the first film in China to explore the virtues of actors, and about one-third of the content is related to Shanghai. Taking the "Twenty-two Film Stars of New China" as the starting point, the film lasted five years and recorded in multiple forms, telling the film experience and artistic achievements of yu Lan, Qin Yi, Tian Hua, Yu Yang, Jin Di, Xie Fang, Wang Xiaotang, Zhu Xijuan, Niu Ben and other artists of the older generation, excavating their perceptions and thoughts on the profession of actors for more than half a century, and paying tribute to the century-old Chinese films with the classic film image they created.
Stills from "The Actor"
In 1961, Premier Zhou Enlai proposed that the prominent positions of cinemas were all pictures of Soviet film actors, "Why can't we hang pictures of our Chinese actors?" "North Film Studio, Shanghai Film Studio, Changying Film Studio and Bayi Factory , the four most influential film studios at that time responded positively, selecting nomination lists among the three generations of actors of the old, middle and young, and finally selecting 22 people, becoming the first batch of publicly recognized film stars in New China." The following year, the major cinemas across the country replaced them with huge photos of the "twenty-two movie stars", setting off the earliest wave of "star chasing" after the founding of New China. "Actor" takes "Twenty-two Movie Stars" as the main shooting object, recording the style of China's first generation of film artists across the era and century.
Sixty years later, the popular "Twenty-two Movie Stars" have interpreted the four words of "virtue and art double xin" with their own struggles. The acting career of the "Twenty-Two Movie Stars" condenses the history of new Chinese films from birth to growth: "Song of Youth", "Early Spring and February", "Lin Family Shop", "Daughter of the Party", "Red Women's Army", "Young People in Our Village", "Tiger Hero", "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City"... Through the roles they have created, they have become the white-haired women, Jiang Jie, Lin Daojing, and Wu Qionghua that are burned in the memory of many people. Zhu Xijuan, the youngest of the "Twenty-Two Movie Stars", once said: "Acting innocently and seriously is probably the motto of our generation of actors." ”
"Actor" is produced by the CCTV Movie Channel Program Center, and director Pan Yilin is the host of the movie channel, who has hosted columns such as "Good Film Appointment" and "Flowing Golden Years". About one-third of the film is related to Shanghai, and the familiar Shanghai Cinema, shanghai film museum, and the home of the Shanghai Actors Troupe on Wukang Road can be seen in the picture. In order to interview the performance artist Qin Yi, Pan Yilin flew to Shanghai several times. "Teacher Qin Yi is not in good health, and the doctors and nurses in the hospital where she lives do not allow her to participate in the activities. Especially when we were in a movie, the equipment we used was so big that it might disturb her rest, and we almost gave up. ”
After repeated contacts with Tong Ruixin, the head of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe, Pan Yilin interviewed Qin Yi during the internal visit of the Actors Troupe. If you look closely, you will find that the 2018 content in the film was actually filmed with a mobile phone, and there were only four people on the scene at that time. Qin Yi is very concerned about the image, and has to carefully wear makeup before each interview. On the day of the interview, she was dripping, and Pan Yilin photographed the state of her plain face: "Her image of plain face looks idyllic, thin, and has a unique beauty. ”
At that time, on the 65th anniversary of the establishment of the Shangying Actors Troupe, Tong Ruixin told Qin Yi the news that the troupe had moved back to Wukang Road and invited her to return to the old place to revisit. Unfortunately, due to physical reasons, she has not been able to make the trip so far. After watching the movie, Tong Ruixin sighed a lot, "They are our role models and beacons. In the film, each artist talks about going into life, into the people, shaping the character with heart and affection, this film makes the young generation of actors stop and look back at what the actor is and how to become an actor that the audience likes. ”
In the movie, there is a woman strolling in a cheongsam at the Shanghai Film Museum, and that graceful figure is Yu Hui, an actor in the Shanghai Film Actor Troupe. Last year, the crew came to Shanghai to make up the shots, invited Yu Hui to play a woman with Shanghai temperament, Yu Hui agreed, and insisted on not charging remuneration, which surprised the makeup artists of the crew, "The artists on the film are really admirable!" Due to the needs of the film, Yu Hui's front-facing lens was not used, and the final image was presented, but she did not feel regretful, "I like this lens very much, it is very meaningful, let me think of the hazy vision of the movie when I sat in the open-air cinema when I was a child watching "Shangganling" and "Daughter of the Party". This hazy picture is my tribute to the older generation of filmmakers as a descendant. ”
Shortly after entering the Shanghai Film Studio, Yu Hui participated in the filming of the sequel to "Women's Basketball Team No. 5" "A Thousand Miles to Find a Dream", at that time, the lead actor Qin Yi said to her the words of "influencing a lifetime": "To shoot a drama, you have to experience life for half a year, there is no remuneration, and you have to carry your own luggage, with a warm pot and a washbasin, but as an actor, any role must experience life, so that the soul of the character can walk into your soul, and be worthy of the audience." "These are the words she thinks about every time she shoots a scene." I like the title of "Actor", this film is screened in a timely manner, and all actors and people who want to be actors should come and see this film seriously. ”
The Shanghai premiere of "Actor"
The documentary film "Actor" is a memoir of light and shadow of a domestic classic old movie, and it is also a "love letter" that pays tribute to Chinese films and remembers the old film era. At the Premiere in Shanghai, many young students came to watch the film, and a boy said, "The 90-minute film is like giving us two epic acting lessons." ”
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Shi Chenlu Image Editor: Shao Jing
Source: Author: Zhong Han