On October 17, 2006, the inheritance case of the special actor Gu Yue finally came to an end. Half a year ago, the relationship between the three children and the stepmother was once tense to the point of going to court, but in the end, the two sides shook hands and made peace, which was also a happy ending for everyone.
People who know the actor Gu Yue know that he is a special actor who is responsible for playing Chairman Mao in many film and television works. Even Chairman Mao's daughter Li Ne saw him, her eyes filled with tears of excitement, and she clasped his hands tightly and cried bitterly.
As a special public figure, how much of a legacy did he leave behind after Gu Yue's death? Why do wives and children go to court despite their influence? Later, how did the two sides reach a settlement?
First, the unexpected death of the special actor is regrettable
On July 2, 2005, the news of the sudden heart attack and death of actor Gu Yue was once reported, which caused widespread concern from all walks of life. People who know Gu Yue know that he has always been a special actor who played Chairman Mao, so people can't help but feel sorry for his sudden death.
Before that, except for some mild high blood pressure, Gu Yue's body did not have any major problems. According to Lu Qi, a special actor who played Deng Xiaoping, during that time they filmed the movie "Armageddon" together, due to the tight time and urgent task, the daily work intensity was very large, so everyone developed the habit of bathing.
In addition, the play "Armageddon" is mainly to show the revolutionary image of the leaders in the difficult years, so there are certain requirements for the figure of the actors, everyone brainstormed, and finally thought of using the bath and sauna to lose weight.
In order to present a better visual effect to the audience, as an actor Gu Yue, the fat and thin body needs to be adjusted according to the needs of the role, and fattening and weight loss are commonplace.
Moreover, Gu Yue treats work very seriously, and when he shoots a scene, he often stays up all night without sleeping, and he is very playful at work, and friends around him often advise him to pay attention to rest, otherwise the body will be overdrawn.
Every time Gu Yue would use his good health as an excuse to let his friends not worry. It is probably these habits that laid the foundation for his sudden myocardial infarction.
That day, everyone went to the bathhouse together to take a bath, and before going out, there was talk and laughter, and there was nothing unusual. At that time, everyone was soaking in the pool, discussing recent work, and some people present talked about Gu Yue's next TV series to be filmed, "The Founding diplomacy of the country".
Later, not long after Gu Yue entered the sauna, there was a sharp pain in the chest, and colleagues around her quickly called the emergency number, and finally because the onset was too fast, Gu Yue's life was frozen at the age of 68.
As a special actor, what environment did he grow up in? Why was he later selected to play Chairman Mao in film and television works? These have aroused people's curiosity.
Second, the orphanage is large and has tasted all the sufferings of the world
Gu Yue, born in 1937, has been dependent on her sister since she was a child, because her parents died early, so they became orphans, and they have been raised in the orphanage in Guangxi.
One night in 1949, the sound of gunfire and gunfire in the city woke up Gu Yue, who was sleeping, when he was a young man, he did not know what was happening, and when he grew up, he learned that China was liberated that year, and Guangxi was also liberated.
At that time, people came to the orphanage one after another, and Gu Yue's friends were taken away one by one. Gu Yue was also adopted twice, but in the end he sneaked back on his own, until the People's Liberation Army entered the city and rescued him and his sister.
Since then, Gu Yue has lived in the army. At that time, the name registered on the roster of the orphanage was not Gu Yue, but Hu Shixue, and his birthday was only September 1937, because he was an orphan, he did not know his birthday at all, and finally he added a 9 to the back.
Because there were not too many children in the army, at the suggestion of the orphanage, the leaders of the cultural and labor corps decided to select some school-age children with more prominent looks to bring back to the army for training. Gu Yue's sister was lucky to be chosen, and because she did not want to be separated from her sister, Gu Yue followed her sister to the 13 Literary troupe.
There was also a small episode in the process. After Gu Yue saw that his sister had been selected, he took the initiative to ask for registration, but the leader felt that his age was too young and did not agree.
After the large army set off, the immortal Gu Yue had been following behind the troops for three whole days, and it was his perseverance that did not give up and his deep feelings with his sister that impressed the leader and finally agreed to accept him.
In this way, Gu Yue became the youngest soldier in the army, and no one thought that it was this smallest People's Liberation Army that would later form an indissoluble relationship with Chairman Mao.
For Gu Yue, who suffered from snacks, living in the army was like heaven, because he was influenced by the literary troupe since he was a child, coupled with his artistic talent, he soon became a member of the literary troupe.
At that time, he mainly undertook civilian work in the literary troupe, and he did not expect to become an actor in the future, because he liked to paint and create, he gave himself the stage name of Gu Yue, and he has been using it since then.
Third, a paper transfer order, since then become a special actor
Gu Yue was diligent and earnest in the face of any job, and the leaders and colleagues around him at that time were very optimistic about him. Sure enough, Gu Yue, who had just entered middle age, became the chief of the cultural section of the Kunming Military Region, and his future was unlimited.
Once, on a business trip, Gu Yue was pointed out by a fellow traveler that he had some similarities with the great leader Chairman Mao. After returning home, he combed a similar hairstyle modeled on Chairman Mao's photo, and also imitated the chairman smoking, in addition to the lack of a mole on his chin, his colleagues around him also felt like the chairman.
For a time, everyone in the organ knew about this matter. Because he was in a special era, the superior leaders also criticized and educated him, but they did not expect that this matter did not pass so easily.
At the end of the 1970s, in order to commemorate the great leader Chairman Mao, the State Council decided to make film and television works about Chairman Mao. However, who will play Chairman Mao has become a big problem, after all, Chairman Mao has always been a great and glorious image in the hearts of the people of the whole country, and his actor must also be able to interpret the momentum of the chairman's life.
Soon, the State Council began to look for special actors everywhere, and after round after round of screening, Gu Yue stood out from many candidates. In 1978, a paper order was sent to Gu Yue's hand, asking him to immediately report to the Bayi Studio in Beijing.
At that time, Gu Yue's heart was very conflicted, and he was very excited and happy to be selected to play Chairman Mao, but he had no performance experience, and he was even more worried that he could not show Chairman Mao's arrogance and wisdom.
At this time, his sister gave him great confidence, so that he must not fail to live up to the expectations of the party and the state, so Gu Yue, as a soldier, stepped on the train to Beijing.
In order to play Chairman Mao well, Gu Yue collected many photos of the chairman, studying and practicing one action after another, from waving and smoking to one action. In 1981, the film "Xi'an Incident" was first released, and Gu Yue left a deep impression on the people of the whole country, and since then everyone knows that the actor who played Chairman Mao is named Gu Yue.
Since then, in Gu Yue's more than 20 years of acting career, he has starred in more than 80 film and television works, without exception appearing in front of the public in the image of Chairman Mao.
Three marriages, three wives, three children
Gu Yue's career can be said to be smooth, but his marriage and family life do not seem to be very smooth, he had a total of three marriages, married three wives, two daughters and a son.
When he was in his twenties, Gu Yue was still an ordinary clerk in the literary troupe, he met his first wife, and the two soon formed a happy family, and two daughters, named Hu Yan and Hu Bing respectively.
However, the weather was unpredictable, and his first wife died not long after, and Gu Yue fell into sadness and depression for a while.
Time passed day by day, and after becoming the chief of the cultural section of the Kunming Military Region, by chance, Gu Yue met his second wife, Gui Ping, the pillar of the Kunming Repertory Theatre.
Guiping, who has a cheerful personality and is diligent and self-motivated, soon attracts Gu Yue deeply. Gui Ping is well aware of Gu Yue's difficulties, and at the same time, she also understands that he is a meticulous and hard-working person who treats his work meticulously and hard, and after the two people get along for a period of time, they enter the marriage hall. Not long after, Gui Ping gave birth to a son, Gu Yu.
In order to support her husband's work, Gui Ping chose to resign and go to Beijing with her husband. When Gu Yue's career was in full swing, Gui Ping's career had plummeted, and because she could only do some dragon running work in the Bayi Film Studio, she was very unbalanced in her heart as a former pillar.
Gui Ping, who has a strong sense of enterprise, is not willing to live the same life as a housewife every day, and finally chooses to divorce Gu Yue.
While working at the Bayi Film Studio, Gu Yue met Zhang Yan, who was also a special actor, and at first they were just ordinary colleagues. At that time, Gu Yue, who was more than half a hundred years old, had already had two failed marriages, and he did not dare to ask for anything more, he just wanted to work seriously and take good care of his children.
Once Gu Yue's child was sick, Zhang Yan knew that after that, he took the child to the hospital at the first time, which made Gu Yue very moved. At that time, Zhang Yan was also a person with a child, and it happened that once her son went missing, it was Gu Yue who helped find it.
After these two events, the feelings of the two people towards each other also changed. Despite her parents' objections, Zhang Yan chose to marry Gu Yue, and after marriage, she returned to the family and took on the responsibility of taking care of her husband and children.
5. In a complaint, the child takes the stepmother to court
After Gu Yue married his third wife Zhang Yan, his life was very happy, Zhang Yan arranged the big and small things in the family very properly, and for a while Gu Yue seemed to have lost his ability to take care of himself, and many things seemed to be unsustainable.
Colleagues around him saw Gu Yue's transformation and envied him especially, and said that he was now like a man living in a happy marriage. His wife took such good care of him that even Gu Yue would say in front of her colleagues and friends that the reason why he couldn't do anything now was that her wife was used to him.
However, this happy life did not last long. On July 2, 2005, Gu Yue, who was still happily accompanying his wife and children during the day, went shopping and tasted snacks in Guangzhou, and unfortunately died that night due to a sudden myocardial infarction.
As a wife, Zhang Yan could not accept the fact that her husband had died for a while, and she was in sadness all day. But what happened next made her even more unexpected. Gu Yue's two daughters and sons sued her in court in a complaint, which became the focus of attention as soon as it was announced, and was hyped up by the media.
Because Gu Yue died suddenly and did not make any will in advance before his death, Gu Yue's three children hoped to divide the property left by their father, but they did not get a reply from their stepmother.
According to Gu Yue's three children, their father died suddenly, and they were not prepared for anything, and their hearts were also very sad. Considering the mood of the stepmother, they did not go to Zhang Yan to divide the property when their father left, until the father died for almost half a year, they hoped that Zhang Yan could disclose the true financial situation of his father and divide the property.
I don't know why, Zhang Yan has never answered the request made by Gu Yue's three children head-on, and she is also closed to them. The three children felt that Zhang Yan's approach was not fair to them.
In the end, there was really no way, so they took their stepmother to court, hoping that the court would come forward to help protect their legitimate rights and interests.
6. The two parties reach a settlement agreement and divide the property
In fact, the dispute between Gu Yue's wife and children belongs to the contradiction within the family, and Gu Yue, as a public figure, after his death, his family still went to court, which in itself had some bad effects.
Coupled with the fact that Gu Yue was a special actor of Chairman Mao before his death, his identity is even more special, and once this family affair is not handled well, it will not only damage Gu Yue's image, but even continue to ferment, becoming the focus of speculation by some people with bad thoughts.
When the Fengtai District Court of Beijing Municipality received the case, it was listed as a key task of its work. In order to minimize the impact, the judge did not conduct the trial at the first time, but patiently listened to the opinions of the parties when visiting and investigating and collecting evidence, and actively did the work and ideological work of both sides.
From the perspective of his children, Gu Yu once expressed his thoughts, when he felt that money was not mainly because of his blood relationship with his father, he felt that he should get a part of his property from his father. However, his stepmother Zhang Yan not only did not tell them the real situation, but also avoided it, and he was forced to do so in the end.
As Gu Yue's third wife, Zhang Yan has not responded positively to this problem because she also has some selfish intentions. After she married Gu Yue, she lived together for more than 8 years, and although her son was not Gu Yue's own child, he should also have the right to inherit a part of the inheritance.
After understanding the situation, the staff of the court used legal channels to evaluate Gu Yue's property, and what people did not expect was that Gu Yue, who had acted in more than eighty film and television works, only had more than 300,000 yuan under the provident fund account.
At the beginning of this incident, Gu Yue's daughter Hu Yan once said that this was originally a family affair, and there was no deep hatred between them and their stepmother, and they did not want their father's image to be damaged because of this incident, and they did not want the media and journalists to pay too much attention to this family dispute.
Finally, through the unremitting efforts of the court staff, on October 17, 2006, under the auspices of the judge, the parties not only signed the memorandum of understanding, but also performed their duties in accordance with the agreement, and the property was divided on the spot.
The sensational Guyue inheritance case finally has a happy ending.
For Gu Yue, his insistence on ideals for more than 20 years cannot help but make us awe-inspired, and the classic moments and pictures he has left for the people of the whole country have also made chairman Mao Wei'an's image forever in the hearts of the people, which is a precious asset for every Chinese.