Cow ben and so, Yu Lan
The photograph was taken in Guangzhou in 1985 at a great gathering of filmmakers. On the left is Niu Ben of Shanghai Film Studio, the other two are Suizhi of Beijing Renyi and Yu Lan of Beiying. They seemed to know each other quite well, and they talked and laughed a lot. Why? The acquaintance of these three may go back more than thirty years, as early as 1952, when Hezhi, Yu Lan and Niu Ben co-starred in the famous film "Dragon Sugou".
In 1952, Xian Qun, a famous choreographer and director of the Beijing Film Studio, completed the black-and-white feature film "Longsugou" based on the writer Lao She's drama of the same name.
So, Zhang Fa and other stills
The film "Longsugou" tells the story of the old Beijing city before the liberation, and there is a stinky ditch called Longsugou on the east side of the overpass. Poor working people living at the bottom settled along the banks of stinky ditches, disenfranchised by persecution, humiliation, illness and death. Whenever the rainy season comes, the water in the stinky gutters floods and floods into the homes of the poor, and the suffering is unspeakable.
So the "Cheng Madman" and Yu Lan's Cheng Niangzi
Cheng Baoqing, an old artist who was called "crazy", was discouraged and resentful, and he relied on his wife Cheng Niangzi to sell cigarettes to survive. The inhuman old society makes people lose hope for the future. In the blink of an eye, the liberation was ushered in, and the people of Longsugou finally ushered in the turnaround and became masters and lived a happy new life.
In the film, Cheng Crazy played by Cheng Crazy and Niu Ben played by Ergazi
Whether it is a movie or a drama "Dragon's Whiskers". It is recognized that the "Cheng Madman" played by him is the most successful artistic image created. The positioning of Cheng Madman in Lao She's script is "a bit of a spirit, will not exchange labor for money, but often helps others." He can sing, especially the number of nobles... Originally a pretty good entertainer, he moved to Longsugou due to his decline." It is such a music artist who is unemployed under the oppression of the dark forces, and thus lives an inhuman life of bearing humiliation and burdens, mentally and physically devastated. He is upright, kind, cowardly, unwilling to be humiliated and powerless to resist... He helplessly became a "madman", and such a "crazy" state is vividly reflecting the pain in his heart and his hatred for the dark society. Liberated, healed, and finally held his head high, he was no longer "crazy", and the theme deepened.
Cheng madman
In order to experience life, so he followed the "life life and then life", he spent a long time brewing teahouse, learning to sing single strings, in the teahouse he found a large group of "Cheng crazy people", he began to understand the life, personality, psychology and even action habits of this group of people, wrote a 6,000-word character biography, and then invited this character who stayed on the letter paper to the stage and screen. Playwright Huang Zongjiang once commented on cheng crazy who played him: "That is one of the best roles he played, and it can be said that he has played it perfectly." This play can be said to have laid the foundation of human art, and also laid the foundation for the acting of the future. "The film was filmed at the age of twenty-five.
Yu Lan plays the role of selling cigarettes for the sake of the cheng lady
In 1951, Yu Lan completed the film "Cuigang Red Flag" by Zhang Junxiang, a famous director of Shanghai Film Studio, and in 1952, Yu Lan played Cheng Niangzi in the movie "Longsugou". At that time, Yu Lan had just returned from the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, was pregnant with a child, and her legs were swollen badly, but she did not flinch. Yu Lan did not find the character feeling in the body of Su Sister-in-law, the daughter-in-law of the porter worker in the courtyard, until the start of filming, and later wrote in the reminiscence article: "Su Sister-in-law has the taste of a Beijinger", that is, to perform a bold and spicy look, Yu Lan is very fond of his role, and also thinks that it is a successful performance.
The cow beebeth plays the role of ergazi
In 1947, director Zhang Junxiang was invited to Hong Kong to shoot "Cremation", and the lead actor Bai Yang recommended Niu Ben to play her "little husband", and the teenager followed the crew to Hong Kong.
Stills of the three collaborating in the film
In October 1949, the good news came from Beijing. Niu Ben received a message from Xie Tiantuo: "The hometown has been liberated, and there is food to eat." Come back, kid. In 1952, Niu Ben followed Tao Jin, Gu Yilu and others back to the mainland, playing Ergazi in "Longsugou", and after the film was filmed, he became a member of the Shangying Actors Troupe.
The film "Longsugou" has been filmed for nearly seventy years, and the famous actors Suchzhi, Yu Lan and most of the main creators in the film have passed away, and the only surviving cow is also eighty-six years old. But this classic film "Longsugou", which has been painstakingly composed by many artists, is destined to be recorded in the annals of Chinese film history forever.