This year, Zhu Xinyun is exactly 60 years old.
But in the memory of hundreds of millions of viewers, he is still the eight- or nine-year-old Pan Dongzi.
After the release of the movie "Shining Red Star", it deeply affected a large number of children of the same age.
And Zhu Xinyun has since developed an unbreakable relationship with Pan Dongzi.
Zhu Xinyun is an authentic Beijinger.
If it were not for the place of origin in Beijing, Zhu Xinyun would never have had the opportunity to be photographed by the director.
It was 1973, and the major film studios in China were putting down model plays and stepping up preparations for various feature films.
Among them, bayi film studios set their sights on a children's feature film.
Writer Li Xintian wrote a novel.
Before the Long March began, a Red Army soldier left his family a military hat wearing a red star.
Later, the son of the Red Army found his father wearing this military hat and joined the revolutionary ranks.
The name of the novel is "Shining Red Star".
After consultation, Bayi Factory decided to create a children's film based on this novel.
At that time, It was planned that Li Jun would serve as the director of the film.
Li Jun is very clear that whether a children's drama can be filmed well depends on how well the actors are selected.
The crew then officially began to select the actors.
Several directors have traveled to almost all the primary schools in Beijing, but nothing has been gained.
The little actors were not chosen, but time passed by minute by minute.
During Labor Day that year, schools in Beijing organized cultural performances as in previous years.
That year, Zhu Xinyun was already in the third grade of elementary school.
His chubby face, coupled with a pair of clear eyes,
He quickly stood out from his elementary school.
Zhu Xinyun was invited to perform by Beijing Tv.
At that time, there were no other entertainment activities, and a student live broadcast of the art show could attract a lot of attention.
Several directors of the crew also happened to see the later broadcast of the TV station.
Therefore, Zhu Xinyun, a child, immediately aroused the consent of the crew.
The crew immediately went through the TV station and found Zhu Xinyun's home.
After li jun saw him in person, he said directly that he would act and not change people.
The actors are fixed, but in the next stage of preparation, they encounter twists and turns.
At that time, some people criticized the upcoming film "Shining Red Star",
With bourgeois aesthetic tendencies.
After research, not only the script needs to be revised, but the director also needs to be replaced, and even the selected actors cannot be used.
At that time, the "crime" of Zhu Xinyun was that this child was too clever and did not have the simplicity of the proletariat.
Everyone else on the crew felt that this reason was too far-fetched.
In particular, director Li Jun directly raised his own doubts.
Can't the descendants of the proletariat and the Red Army grow more clever?
In fact, how you look is determined by your parents.
In essence, this divergence is actually a divergence in the field of film and television dramas.
According to the mainstream concept at the time, the good people in the movie must look good,
The bad guys are naturally sharp-billed monkey cheeks or a little treacherous.
In addition, because there was also a distinction between ingredients at that time,
In the depths of the consciousness of many people, proletarian figures should be displayed in a simple image.
A little cleverness or beauty will be attacked as something that only the bourgeoisie possesses.
It is based on this logic that zhu Xinyun can not participate in the exercise, and there was a big disagreement at that time.
After Li Jun raised different opinions, others in the crew also felt that they could not be replaced.
It is precisely because of their persistence that the relevant departments, after research, decided not to ask for the crew to change people.
At that time, when he entered the crew, Zhu Xinyun sang a children's song called "Little Crayon" to director Li Jun.
After entering the crew and starting filming, Zhu Xinyun not only learned to chop wood, but also learned to ride a bicycle.
The setting of the plot is in the countryside of Jiangnan, so Pan Dongzi must be able to chop wood and carry firewood.
Sometimes for half a day, Zhu Xinyun was practicing chopping wood.
After that, the firewood is stacked and then the firewood is carried down the mountain.
However, he still practiced little by little every day, and finally found the effect requested by the director.
Although I was tired every day, in addition to filming, Zhu Xinyun also learned to ride a bicycle.
The bikes in the crew are all staff.
Zhu Xinyun stood in front of the bicycle, not yet tall.
He also didn't care who owned the car, he often pushed one and began to learn to ride.
Instead of starting with his pedals, he pushes his bike first.
After running for a while, he didn't care if the car was balanced or not, so he directly stepped on the pedals.
As a result, the car began to crash crookedly and writheily.
Sometimes I fell on my own, and sometimes I just knocked everyone else's bike over.
One car hit the front of the car, and he pushed another one to continue riding.
In a few days, from director to cinematographer, from makeup artist to dramatist,
Almost all of their bicycles were ever ridden by Zhu Xinxing.
After falling like this for a while, Zhu Xinyun gradually mastered the balance.
Then he could pedal and run all over the yard.
The film was later shot intermittently for more than a year.
In 1974, "Shining Red Star" was released nationwide.
The upsurge that year was beyond the imagination of everyone in the crew.
Zhu Xinyun, 12, became a household name child star overnight.
Once Zhu Xinyun went to a foreign country and was surrounded by people at the railway station.
By the end, the trains were all 4 hours late.
Although it was very popular, Zhu Xinyun did not have a penny of remuneration at that time.
The actors of that era did not have a salary for filming.
In addition to the fixed salary of their respective units, it is a little subsidy.
Since Zhu Xinyun was still a child, he did not even have a salary or allowance.
Later, the only "remuneration" Zhu Xinyun received was a collection of films during the shooting.
However, just after playing Pan Dongzi, Zhu Xinyun had the honor of really wearing a military uniform.
Around 1975, he successfully entered the Bayi Film Studio.
Became the youngest actor at the time.
The Bayi Factory belongs to the troops, and the small military uniforms of Zhu Xinyun are all specially made.
In the following years, Zhu Xinyun successively participated in many TV series such as "Sari Ma Ke", "Ganshui Cangmao", "Ten Days" and so on.
A series of innocent and cute children starred, making Zhu Xinyun a hot child star.
However, the society at that time did not have the concept of star chasing.
Many children like Zhu Xinyun either by imitating what he wears in the film or by writing letters to him.
A child of that year recalled when he grew up, when he was a child, he watched a movie to wish for new luck,
You have to walk over the mountains for more than a dozen miles.
After reading it, he begged his parents to make a military uniform for himself.
As for writing letters, according to Zhu Jun's confession many years later, he wrote letters to Zhu Xinyun more than once that year.
Helplessly, every letter is a stone sinking into the sea.
Of course, the happiest thing is to wish the new luck himself.
Especially after becoming a small actor in bayi factory, he always wore a military uniform and appeared everywhere.
Especially after putting on clothes, I can't take it off when I sleep.
Everywhere I go, I want to show it to others.
Especially in school, in front of the onlookers,
He always said triumphantly, "If anyone you want to beat me, it's the People's Liberation Army."
I can tell the teacher to go.
Once Zhu Xinyun fell ill, he went to the Army General Hospital to see a doctor.
Who knows that the doctor felt strange after seeing Zhu Xinyun's medical record card, how can there be a teenage soldier, it must be a mistake,
Or it's the family of a soldier.
It wasn't until he saw Zhu Xinyun himself that the doctor suddenly realized that it was Pan Dongzi.
At the age of 18, Zhu Xinyun, who was in bayi factory, was admitted to the performance department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts.
Over the next 4 years, he had a wonderful time in college.
After graduation, Zhu Xinyun is still a member of the actor troupe in Bayi Factory.
It is said that there are past glories, and at that time, Zhu Xinyun should shine in the cause.
But it was his chubby face that made him suffer a lot in adulthood.
The cleverness and cuteness of his youth, in adulthood, became a stumbling block to his inability to play the main role.
Since it looks like a baby's face, after the eighties,
It is rare to see Zhu Xinyun playing a leading role in film and television works.
This time made the youth's wish for new luck very dull.
In addition, the audience's impression of him is basically still in the stage of Pan Dongzi.
Invisibly, it has become a barrier restricting the play of Zhu Xinyun.
This dreary day lasted until he was 25 years old.
That year, I wished the emotional door of the new fortune to open little by little.
At that time, a new movie called "Lightning Operation" was being filmed, and Zhu Xinyun also participated.
One day, while he was putting on makeup on the crew, others introduced him to a new makeup artist.
This female makeup artist named Zhang Lingya, the first sight of Zhu Xinyun,
He still talked to him about Pan Dongzi, and said that he was his admirer when he was a child.
But Zhang Lingya found that Zhu Xinyun's attitude towards her was lukewarm.
She didn't understand at that time that Pan Dongzi had become a forbidden area for Zhu Xinyun at this time.
It wasn't until a long time ago that Zhang Lingya understood the pain in Zhu Xinyun's heart.
And she found that although Zhu Xinyun didn't talk much on weekdays, he was very sincere.
Once, Zhang Lingya needed to make a molding mold during filming.
Not only is it uncomfortable to buckle on the face, but sometimes you even have to insert a tube to breathe.
As a newcomer makeup artist, she was embarrassed to find other actors to get it.
After Zhu Xinyun learned of this, he offered to be her model.
Next, no matter how uncomfortable the operation was, Zhu Xinyun never had a word of complaint.
It was this move that made Zhang Lingya treat him even more differently.
She found herself slowly falling in love with each other.
But after Zhang Lingya thought that she was a few years older than Zhu Xinyun and had a failed marriage,
There was some hesitation again.
Fortunately, this is not a big problem, after the two people slowly became familiar with it,
Zhu Xinyun would also pour the bitter water in his heart to Zhang Lingya from time to time.
Zhang Lingya is a few years older than him, and she also has a certain social experience.
He often enlightens Zhu Xinyun from other angles.
In this way, the relationship between the two people became closer and closer.
After three years of acquaintance, Zhu Xinyun and Zhang Lingya entered the palace of marriage.
The feelings stabilized, but Zhu Xinyun's career was still limited.
Zhang Lingya, who has become a wife, will give him necessary enlightenment from time to time.
Zhang Lingya is an acute child, sometimes likes to get angry, and likes to deal with anything as soon as possible.
Zhu Xinyun, on the other hand, is a chronic child.
Sometimes two people have to do something, Zhang Lingya is already very anxious,
Good luck is still not in a hurry.
Even so, Zhang Lingya rarely got angry in front of Zhu Xinyun.
And from time to time, she still gives her husband all kinds of suggestions from the perspective of a bystander.
After 4 years of marriage, Zhang Lingya once told her husband,
Since you think you can't expand more deeply as an actor, why not do the work of directing?
With the encouragement of his wife, Zhu Xinyun also decided to give it a try.
At that time, bayi factory was preparing to shoot a new film "Ballistic Traceless".
Zhu Xinyun took the initiative to ask the leader to serve as the assistant director of the play.
The leader felt that he had a foundation in acting, and he was very serious about doing things, so he agreed.
Zhang Lingya bought a large number of related books for her husband.
On the one hand, he took on all the housework.
Just as Zhu Xinyun was concentrating on sprinting for the director, his mother happened to be ill and hospitalized during that time.
In order not to distract the husband, the burden of taking care of the elderly was borne by the wife alone.
Without worries, I wish the work of Xinyun can proceed smoothly.
Moreover, it is the encouragement and support of Zhang Lingya,
Later, Zhu Xinyun was able to develop in depth in the position of director and producer.
Later, Zhu Xinyun served as the head of the Bayi Factory Actors Troupe.
Although undertaking other aspects of the work,
But Zhu Xinyun has always felt that his main task is to be an actor.
Other jobs are more like amateur activities.
As he thought,
Although the later Zhu Xinyun did a lot of work behind the scenes,
At the same time, he also took on many other types of roles.
But they are far less than the Pan Dongzi he played in his childhood.
This cannot be said to be a regret for Zhu Xinyun, who is already 60 years old.
But from another perspective,
An actor, if he can have a work that is remembered in his life,
There is a character who can be adored and liked by countless people,
That's actually enough.
| Nancy
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