01. Instructor of Gu Yue
If you want to ask about the highest level and largest film since the founding of New China, it is none other than the "Armageddon" trilogy.
How special is Armageddon? Directly ordered by the Party Central Committee, the three founding generals were instructed on the spot, 130,000 active military personnel performed group exercises, and 50 tanks, 100 military vehicles and 1.7 million shells were used.
But the most special of them is the number of more than thirty special actors who choose one out of thousands.
In "Armageddon", how similar is the instructor played by Gu Yue?
A rapid action of throwing paper contrasts with the slow march of 101, reflecting the indecisiveness of the instructors who are dissatisfied with 101, and the buttons on the clothes are buttoned and then immediately unbuttoned, indicating that the instructors are irritable in their hearts, and their thoughts can only be loaded with front-line war.
Just a few shots directly enrich the image of the instructor, who is both the leader of the three armed forces and an ordinary person with flesh and blood and feelings.
The teacher played by Gu Yue, why can it be so similar?
In 1949, at the age of 12, Gu Yue was rescued from the Guilin Orphanage by the People's Liberation Army, and later worked in the cultural and propaganda department, and in 1978, he was selected by Marshal Ye Jianying to become a special actor of the instructor.
However, this was only the beginning, after receiving the task, Gu Yue collected more than 600 photos of the instructor and pasted them all over the room, waking up every day to ponder the image of the instructor.
He saw that the instructor's hairline was higher than his own, and he was stunned to pull out all the hair in front of his forehead, the instructor had a large hand and liked to cover his mouth when smoking, and Gu Yue also learned to cover his mouth and smoke.
In order to learn Hunan dialect, he ran to Shaoshan alone, lived in a fellow villager's home for several months, the teacher's calligraphy was the best in the world, and Gu Yue refused to stand-in when filming "Marshal Zhu De" and chose to splash ink himself.
His wife often joked with people, and sometimes even she couldn't tell who her husband really was, so much so that the teacher's daughter went to the set to visit Gu Yue and cried without saying a word.
Gu Yue has played a teacher 84 times in her life, and the feeling I feel can be roughly summarized in four words: spring wind and rain, kind but not solemn, temperament and approachable, just in line with the image of the teacher "Runzhi".
Perhaps, this is what a people's leader should look like.
02. 101 of Marshals Shaw.)
In 1988, the creators of "Armageddon" quarreled over a question, should I write 101 in the script?
Due to the specific historical environment, 101 was portrayed as an ambitionist for 10 years, but if you do not write 101, there is no way to explain who the commander-in-chief of the Liaoshen Campaign was.
Later, under the influence of Yang Shangkun, the necessity of 101 was finally determined, but no one expected that the actor who made the peak of the 101 screen was initially assigned only a Kuomintang officer image.
In the summer of 1988, Wang Limin, the deputy director of "Armageddon", went to Harbin to look for actors, and the Harbin Drama Theater recommended Ma Shaoxin, who was already idle, and after some exchanges, the Bayi Studios believed that Ma Shaoxin's image was suitable for playing a Kuomintang officer.
However, on the day of the audition, he learned that he was going to try 101, which caught Ma Shaoxin, who had been preparing for a long time, by surprise.
It turned out that Yang Guangyuan, the general director of "Armageddon", looked at his photo and thought that Ma Shaoxin's face was as thin as a torch, so he temporarily changed his mind.
After the success of the audition, he quickly encountered the first question, how should 101 play? Since there is no positive reference, Masayoshin intends to start the investigation from 101 people around him.
First, the younger daughter Lin Doudou, then visited Marshal Luo Ronghuan and the wife of General Liu Yalou, as well as Xia Tong, the secretary of 101, and Su Jing, the director of the Siye Operations Division.
During this time, he discovered 101 many unknown details, 101 was silent and could talk endlessly when he mentioned the tactical layout, 101 often thought alone, and his favorite thing to do was to study maps.
101 has the habit of chewing soybeans, not because of hobbies, but to treat stomach problems.
Of course, it is not enough to have a shape, and the most classic scene of 101 in "Armageddon" is this section.
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There is a way that "kindness does not control the soldiers", 101 played by Ma Shaoxin has a cold and firm tone, not angry and arrogant, and a few words nakedly reveal the truth that "revolution is not a dinner for guests".
On March 14, 2022, Teacher Ma Shaoxin passed away due to illness, and many people lamented that after Ma Shaoxin, there was no more 101.
03. Chiang Kai-shek of Zhao Hengduo
Because a soldier of the People's Liberation Army on the mainland played a Kuomintang reactionary several times, he was approached by the Taiwan side to play a positive image of the Kuomintang, and the reason was that this villain role was too well portrayed.
Can you believe such an outrageous plot?
In 1997, when Taiwan filmed the TV series "Chiang Kai-shek is in Taiwan", they set the first choice of Chiang Kai-shek actors on a PLA soldier named Zhao Hengduo.
When Zhao Hengduo arrived in Taipei, he was not only reported by local newspapers, but even stars like Lin Qingxia came to take photos with him, why was Zhao Hengduo's fame so great?
In 1930, Zhao Hengduo was born in Qishan, Henan, and entered the People's Liberation Army Cultural and Labor Corps at the age of 19.
Because of his special appearance, he has played Chiang Kai-shek many times, the most famous of which is the trilogy of "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" and "Armageddon".
Unlike Gu Yue and Ma Shaoxin, the special actors of the positive role can understand the characters through military relations, and Zhao Hengduo can only rely on the "Gongdelin Prison Friends Association" to understand the real Chiang Kai-shek.
For example, every night he would take a notebook to Du Yuming's house to say one by one, and in a week he would fill a whole notebook.
And in 1986, "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" was one of the few positive film and television images of Chiang Kai-shek, and after its release, Taiwan's Chiang Ching-kuo was interested in giving Zhao Hengduo, who played Chiang Kai-shek, a high evaluation.
Whether it is the mainland or Taiwan, why can Zhao Hengduo receive such high praise?
The answer lies in both the divine form and the appearance of the special actor needless to say, the key lies in the connotation expression.
There is a kind of "fan's self-confidence" in Chiang Kai-shek, the famous scene of the Great Armageddon is "800,000 to 600,000, the advantage is in me", Chiang Kai-shek's face is indifferent, as if he is confident.
In contrast, the instructors looked solemn and the situation was not optimistic.
In the eyes of the audience, the two old rivals seem to be such an image, the tip of the needle to Mai Mang, the personality is very different, but it can come and go.
I think that an actor who plays a reactionary in a play can gain the heartfelt appreciation of the real reactionaries, which is a commendable thing in itself.