Today's film and television circle can be described as handsome and beautiful as clouds, today out of a handsome star, soon to be forgotten; tomorrow out of a beauty star, it will not take long to break the scandal. Either they will be empty and drug-addicted, or they will earn money and evade taxes, or they will have a chaotic private life, live together today, and break up tomorrow. It is simply dazzling, and the melon-eating masses are blindfolded.
Today I introduce a real male god, a handsome artist, in the fifties and sixties, or even in the seventies, he was called "the first handsome man on the Chinese screen", and no one can refute it. He is Wang Xingang, a mainland film performance artist ----.
Step onto the screen and make a splash
Wang Xingang, born on New Year's Day in 1932, is a native of Dalian, Liaoning Province, of Hui ethnicity.
Relying on his love for literature and art and his innate talent for performance, after graduating from middle school in 1949, he participated in the Shenyang Literary and Art Backbone Training Class and studied drama performance.
In 1950, looking at the ever-changing new China, Wang Xingang joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army, was admitted to the 38th Army Cultural and Industrial Troupe of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and officially became a drama actor.
Wang Xingang once accompanied the troupe to the Korean battlefield lined with bullets and bullets to perform condolences for the volunteer army, Wang Xingang witnessed the hardship and heroism of the volunteer soldiers, sacrificing and sacrificing their lives, laying the foundation for shaping the image of soldiers on the screen in the future.
After the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Wang Xingang performed for the vast number of workers, peasants, and soldiers at the grass-roots level of the troupe, and also accumulated rich experience through stage performances.
In 1956, Zhu Wenshun, director of Changchun Film Studio, was preparing to shoot the anti-special film "Silent Mountain Forest", and Zhu Wenshun's partner was deputy director Guangbu Dorji, who was ordered to go to the "Anti-Enemy Literary and Labor Troupe" of Wang Xingang of the Shenyang Military Region to select the male number one. The criteria are: unique temperament, handsome and handsome, military demeanor, tall and tall.
Hirobu Dolgi thought: This is too difficult, where to find such a perfect actor? As a result, after seeing Wang Xingang in the troupe, he decided at a glance that this was Zhu Wenshun's standard! At a glance, he decided that this was the target he was looking for when he stepped on the iron shoe!
"Borrowing" from the repertory theatre must be approved by the leader of the repertory theatre. When the leader of the drama troupe talked to Wang Xingang and said that Changying wanted to "second" him to shoot a movie, Wang Xingang was very reluctant in his heart. Because he prefers drama performance, drama performance and audience can communicate directly.
The leader of the drama troupe said that "we must obey the organizational arrangements." Wang Xingang said at that time that he would "resolutely obey the organizational arrangements and obey the needs of the work." "The actors of that era were like this, obeying the organizational arrangements and obeying the needs of the work.
The story told in "Silent Mountains" is that the female agent Li Wenying secretly returned to the northeast from Hong Kong, which was still a colony at that time, to win over a small number of villains who were dissatisfied with the new Chinese regime and form a criminal group to meet the airborne agents of US imperialism. After the mainland's public security departments received reliable intelligence, they dispatched investigator Shi Yongguang, disguised as businessman Feng Guangfa, to infiltrate the enemy's interior, cooperate with the public security forces, and cooperate with the internal and external forces to eliminate Chinese and foreign spies in one fell swoop.
In just a few months, Wang Xingang, who had no film performance experience, was inspired by director Zhu Wenshun and deputy director Guangbu Dorji to complete the shooting of "Silent Mountain Forest", successfully completed the tasks assigned by the organization, and returned to Shenyang.
After the release of this "Silent Mountain Forest", Wang Xingang won the elegant title of "Handsome Little Student". Inside and outside the circle, there was a lot of applause.
At that time, I paid attention to the box office revenue of the film, and I was able to make money for my own film studio! Zhu Wenshun and Guangbu Daoerji were optimistic about Wang Xingang's screen "box office effect" and invited Wang Xingang to star in "Son of the Shepherd".
"Son of the Shepherd" reflects the story of the Mongolian demobilized soldier Deriger who was trained and taught by the party in the army, and after demobilization, led the herders in his hometown to develop grassland production. At this time, Wang Xingang was already able to perform handily, shaping the image of the new herders in the grassland who had grown up under local cultivation, and the result was once again a sensation.
After filming these two films, Wang Xin just returned to the repertory theater and was at ease with the drama stage.
As a result, fate took a turn for the better.
The first screen soldier, no one shook
"Silent Mountain Forest" and "Son of the Shepherd" were great successes, and Wang Xingang's outstanding performance on the screen attracted the attention of Chen Bo, director of the Bayi Film Studio, which was only established in 1952, and a paper transfer order from the General Political Department transferred Wang Xingang from the "Anti-Enemy Drama Troupe" to the Bayi Factory.
Although Wang Xingang is nostalgic for drama performances, he still has the phrase "obey the arrangements of the organization." Although he prefers drama performance, as a soldier, he understands that "obeying orders is the natural duty of a soldier", so he went from Shenyang to the Bayi Factory in Beijing. Since then, the red students in the new Chinese film industry have been born.
In the Bayi Factory, Wang Xingang starred in many business cards and cooperated with many female stars. He cooperated with Wang Xiaotang in "Sea Eagle" in naval life, "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City" working behind enemy lines during the anti-Japanese period, "Red Lady Scout Army" with Zhu Xijuan in the revolution of the Hainan Island Lady Army Company during the agrarian revolution, "Green Sea Tianya" with Wang Fuli, "Zhiyin" with Zhang Yu on Cai Yi's anti-Yuan Shikai restoration during the democratic revolution, "Wounded Death" adapted from Lu Xun's novel with Lin Ying, and "The Great Wall of the South China Sea" with newcomer Liu Xiaoqing.
In 1958, Yan Jizhou, who had directed "Hero Tiger Guts", prepared to shoot "Sea Eagle", Wang Xingang played Zhang Min, the captain of the "909", and Wang Xiaotang played the militia captain Wu Yufen.
In the play, Zhang Min and Wu Yufen became excellent "screen partners", and their high morale and new spiritual outlook swept the country. This is also an attempt by Yan Jizhou in the absence of a "star system" in New China. Practice has also proved the success of the attempt. Since then, there has been a saying that "men look at Wang Xingang and women look at Wang Xiaotang".
After many deletions of the storyline of "Sea Eagle", some plots are not connected, but the audience does not care about these, regardless of whether the plot is coherent, it is to see Wang Xingang and Wang Xiaotang, and the audience of all ages is captured by Wang Xingang and Wang Xiaotang.
In the 1960s, Wang Xingang, Sun Daolin, Feng Zhe, and Pang Xueqin were known as the "Four Handsome Little Students".
In 1961, Wang Xingang was loaned to the Shanghai Film Studio, where Xie Jin directed the filming of The Red Detachment of Women. Director Xie Jin is good at discovering new people. Wang Xingang's co-operative partner this time is Zhu Xijuan, a junior at the Shanghai Theater Academy discovered by Xie Jin.
Hong Changqing and Wu Qionghua, one is a representative of the Niangzi Army Party, and the other is a new soldier of the Niangzi Army who has a bitter vendetta. Under the guidance and help of Hong Changqing, Wu Qionghua grew from a "stunned qing" who only knew how to repay personal vendettas to a mature female warrior of the Girl Scout Army. Hong Changqing was heroic and righteous under the big banyan tree, the communist party members were unyielding and generous, and Wang Xingang's performance touched too many audiences.
Due to the limitations of the times, in the movie "Red Detachment of Women", the relationship between Hong Changqing and Wu Qionghua rose to love and was cut, but the audience could feel it from the eye contact between Wang Xingang and Zhu Xijuan. "Red Detachment of Women" also won the best feature film at the first "Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards" in 1962.
In 1963, Yan Jizhou once again invited Wang Xingang to star in "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City". Wang Xingang plays Yang Xiaodong, who was ordered to go to the enemy-occupied area to carry out the anti-puppet army Guan Jingtao uprising, and Wang Xiaotang plays the sisters of Jinhuan and Yinhuan.
Yang Xiaodong's courage and strategy, wisdom and courage, so that Wang Xingang is perfectly presented on the screen. In the enemy's interrogation room, Wang Xingang and Chen Lizhong, who played Yang's mother, played the opponent play. Yang Xiaodong's profound understanding of righteousness, sacrificing life for righteousness, and motherly heart, and finally jumped off the building to commit suicide; Yang Xiaodong's iron bones, mighty and indomitable, loyalty and filial piety can not be complete, and the pain of her mother's jumping off the building is still fresh in the audience to this day.
Like "The Red Detachment of Women", in "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City", due to the limitations of that era, yang Xiaodong's relationship with Silver Ring can only be very implicitly hidden, and neither side can say it.
Wang Xingang and Wang Xiaotang's performances are subtle, intrinsic, and let the audience feel it by looking at them and moving expressions. The ring at the end of the film is returned to the ring, can you remember?
Later, "Wildfire Spring Breeze Fighting Ancient City" was adapted into a TV series twice in 1995 and 2005, but the audience still had a fondness for the movie version.
Wang Xingang won the 1964 "Hundred Flowers Award" for Best Supporting Actor with Yang Xiaodong in "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City", but later cancelled this award due to well-known reasons.
In 1975, he starred in "Scout", and in 1976, he starred in "The Great Wall of the South China Sea", although there is a shadow of the times, the audience still likes to watch.
"Wounded Death" and "Zhiyin" have reached a new high
In 1979, Shui Hua, director of The North Film Studio, invited Wang Xingang to star in "Wounded Death", based on Lu Xun's only love novel.
Wang Xingang was nearly fifty years old at the time, and in the past he was a soldier on the screen, and now he wants to play a wandering and wandering little intellectual, whether he can complete the role of Juan sheng in "Wounded Death" is a problem in front of Wang Xingang.
Director Shui Hua wanted to make up for the regret that Liu Siyang and Cheng Gang, who played Wang Xingang at the end of the filming of "Eternal Life in the Fire", had no choice but to delete it. At that time, due to various interferences, Wang Xingang in "Eternal Life in the Fire" changed from the original male number three to the last remaining shot. But Wang Xingang did not complain in the slightest.
At that time, there were many old artists playing young people, but most of them failed. For example, "Jade Butterfly", "Second Handshake" and so on.
With many years of acting skills, Wang Xingang completed the shaping of the image of intellectuals in the 20s and 30s. Wang Xingang understood that this was a challenge, and had done a lot of desk work in advance and read a lot of Mr. Lu Xun's works. In the end, the image shaping of Chuansheng was completed: intellectuals who reveled in the liberation of individuality, ignored the cruelty of reality, and encountered walls everywhere in reality.
Especially the narration in the movie "Wounded Death", listening to it is a kind of enjoyment. Without a certain line skill and in-depth grasp of the role, it is impossible to control the narration of the movie "Wounded Death". To this day, it is a classic for film school acting students to learn.
In 1981, Xie Tieli of the North Film Studio invited Wang Xingang to star in "Zhiyin", and cooperated with popular star Zhang Yu to play the democratic revolutionary General Cai Yi.
Wang Xingang played a soldier who was completely different from the revolutionary soldiers in the past. The plot is that Yuan Shikai claimed the title of emperor, and General Cai Yi defended the democratic republic, taking advantage of the interaction of the wind and dust woman Xiao Fengxian as a cover, and finally escaped from Beijing, and in December 1915, he erected the banner of "protecting the country and seeking Yuan". In the end, Yuan Shikai's dream of restoration was shattered. Cai Yi went to Japan for medical treatment and died in Japan.
In the end, Wang Xingang was elected the best actor of the 1982 "Hundred Flowers Award" with the high vote for Cai Yi's portrayal on the screen. This is the recognition and praise of the vast number of audiences for Wang Xingang's performance art for more than 20 years.
Sixty years of mutual affection and non-abandonment
Wang Xingang's wife, Yang Zhaocai, turned out to be an actor, and after Wang Xingang became a family, Yang Zhaocai understood that both people were actors, and no one could run a family, so he made self-sacrifice, took care of the children at home, completely elected behind the scenes, and served as a recording job that no one knew.
After marriage, Wang Xingang and Yang Zhaocai have always been in love. In 1972, Yang Zhaocai's good friend suddenly committed suicide, and Yang Zhaocai's spirit was strongly stimulated and insane. This brought Wang Xingang a major pressure in his life. To be busy with work, but also to take care of the wife and children.
Watching Yang Zhaocai being tormented by illness, Wang Xingang was heartbroken. On the one hand, we must work, on the other hand, we must take care of Yang Zhaocai, and seek medical treatment everywhere. Facing Yang Zhaocai, who was originally Wen Jingxianshu and now has an impermanent personality, Wang Xingang did not have any complaints. Fulfill the responsibility of a husband, grasp the medicine, boil the medicine, feed the medicine, and insist on it for a long time.
After Wang Xingang became the deputy director of Bayi Factory in 1975, the business work became more and the tasks were heavier, and the care for Yang Zhaocai was not reduced. Hearing that listening to music can alleviate the disease, he took all his free time to accompany Yang Zhaocai to listen to music. To this day, Wang Xingang still accompanies Yang Zhaocai.
Wang Xingang has a son and a daughter, and neither of them is influenced by his father to engage in acting. The two children are low-key, and at school, no classmates know that their father is the big star Wang Xingang.
In his later years, Wang Xingang sent a family portrait, which was the first time he exposed his sons, daughters, grandchildren.
It is said that after the photo was exposed, someone once found a clue that Wang Xingang's sons and daughters were engaged in the IT industry, doing business in the United States, and the value of Outstanding Achievements had already exceeded 100 million.
After filming The King of Sulu and the Chinese Emperor in 1987, Wang Xingang decided not to make films anymore. Because it is time to quit the stage, it is necessary to quit the stage, very open-minded.
In 2006, when Bayi Factory filmed "My Long March", Wang Xingang appeared again and played an old Red Army. Wang Xingang, who has always been low-key, still has the phrase "obey the organizational arrangement!" ”
Wang Xingang rarely appears in public and is low-key. After serving as the deputy director of bayi factory, if it is not a special work need, he never takes a special car and insists on riding a bicycle to and from work. Without privilege, Wang Xingang believes that he is an actor, and as a leader, he has only taken on greater responsibilities and burdens.
Wang Xingang, tall, handsome, simple, frank, exquisite in art, excellent in morality and art.
In 1962, Wang Xingang was awarded the "Twenty-Two Movie Stars" of New China by the Ministry of Culture.
In 1995, he was selected as a "Chinese Film Star" by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
In 2005, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese cinema, Wang Xingang was awarded the "Film Artist with Outstanding Contributions to the State".
Wang Xingang's scout Shi Yongguang, captain Zhang Min, Female Scout Instructor Hong Changqing, Political Commissar Yang Xiaodong, intellectual Juan Sheng, and general Cai Yi will always shine in the Chinese Film Gallery.