In the late seventies and early eighties, people had just come out of the confinement of the Cultural Revolution, and their minds were liberated unprecedentedly; with the re-screening of a number of banned old films and the emergence of a large number of new films, a golden period of good movies and new stars shining together appeared in mainland films.
New film talents have emerged and received social attention, and there are opportunity factors such as the suspension of film schools for many years and the lack of talents; There are few Cultural Revolution films, and people's desire to see the emergence of new people is the reason for their expectation; There is also an important reason, which is the arrival of literary and artistic spring after the smashing of the Gang of Four, and the promotion of popular movies.
Since 1981, "Popular Film" magazine has launched the column "New Flowers in Yinyuan" with the purpose of "promoting new talents". From time to time, we recommend and introduce young movie stars who were active in the film industry in the eighties. For example, in the first issue of "Popular Cinema" in 1981, "Yinyuan New Flower" recommended 8 young actors for us. They are Guo Kaimin and Zhao Jing of Shanghai Film Studio, Pan Hong of E-Film Studio, Jiang Lili and Chi Zhiqiang of Changying Studio, Hong Xuemin and Chen Peisi of Bayi Factory, and Zhang Yuyu of Tianjin Renyi. In the following issues, Gong Xue, Liu Dong, Na Renhua, Mao Yongming, Xiao Xiong, Huang Meiying, Zhao Na, Zhou Lina, Zhang Liwei, Song Chunli, Wang Fuli, Wang Weiping, Wen Yujuan, Zhang Zhihua, Zhu Shimao, Wang Baosheng, etc. were introduced successively.
This group of young stars basically has no formal film education, and many are educated young people or directly selected as actors from middle school. Although they were born at an untimely time and did not enter film school, they caught up with the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Chinese films to flourish. Although they love art and are also the literary and artistic backbone of various units, they have no performance experience and basically star in their true colors.
This group of stars, who were launched as newcomers in "Silver Garden New Flower", made many excellent works in the eighties, which had a great impact at that time, and people also remembered them full of youth and vitality.
However, with the change of the film environment, as well as subjective and objective reasons such as age, their subsequent development shows different trends. Many people fade out of our vision, or change careers and leave movies, and some choose to go abroad. There are very few stars who are really still in the film industry, and even fewer can achieve.
At present, it still has a certain position in the domestic film and television industry, and the roles played are either the protagonists or important roles, and there are also advertising endorsements of the stars of the year, such as Liu Xiaoqing, Pan Hong, Song Chunli, Siqingova, Chen Baoguo, Zhang Fengyi, Tang Guoqiang, Ge You, Wang Xueqi, Zhang Guoli, Liu Jia, Zhang Tielin, etc., famous from the eighties, and can still play as the protagonist or important role, and has been popular to this day, it can also be regarded as an evergreen tree in the film industry. But compared with the massive number of young stars at that time, the proportion of these old stars with longer careers was very small.
Left to right Tang Guoqiang, Si Qingova, Da Shichang, Zhang Yu.
Zhang Fengyi
Liu Xiaoqing
Zhang Guoli (right) and Chen Baoguo (20 from left, etc.)
There are also some people, who were not too famous in the eighties, acted in some film and television dramas, but did not cause a big response, and the audience was impressed but not impressed. Some people have always insisted on acting, but most of them are supporting roles with little impact. For example, Kou Zhenhai, first participated in the historical war film "Aolei Yilan" directed by Tang Xiaodan in 1979, and participated in the love movie "Love, what is your surname" in the same year? In 1981, he played Jiang Guigen in "Laughter in Moon Bay". There is also Wang Shigui, who played the male protagonist Fang Dasheng in the film of the same name "Sunrise" based on Cao Yu's famous drama in 1985, becoming one of the young stars in the mid-eighties.
Kou Zhenhai
Wang Shi is ashamed
Others have stagnated for years and become unexpectedly popular in the TV industry.
For example, Zhang Guangbei, a lot of movies have been made, but there are not many people to remember, to the TV series, "Bright Sword" made him popular again.
Jin Xin, in 1981, played the main role Zhu Hua in the feature film "Long Road", and later participated in dozens of movies such as "Cuckoo Urging Spring", "North Country Red Beans", "Boss Brother and Electric Girl", but had little impact. In the mid-nineties, he starred in the TV series "Debt" and "Promise" to make him popular for a while.
Zhu Lin, filmed the first film "Traitor" in 1980. But her fame is in the TV drama industry. The first "Crooked Stone Path" made her first to the fore. In 1985, the king of the daughter country played in the TV series "Journey to the West" became a classic in the minds of the audience. 1987's "Triumph at Midnight" allowed her to establish her position as a master in the TV drama industry. She has been active in the TV drama industry for more than two decades.
Zhu Lin
Lv Liping entered the film industry in 1984 as a role in the movie "Childhood Friends" directed by Huang Shuqin. In 1988, she portrayed the daughter-in-law of Wangquan, a rural woman, in "Lao Jing", and won the China Film Golden Rooster Award and the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress. To be honest, although Lv Liping has been filming until 2019, there are few eye-catching works. On the other hand, her TV drama works, such as Ge Ling played in "The Story of the Editorial Department" in 1992, not only won her the Best Actress Award at the China TV Feitian Awards, but also established her status as a first-line actor. In 2001, she co-starred with Sun Haiying in the TV series "Burning Years" and won the "Most Popular Actress" award at the 3rd China TV Golden Eagle Festival. But some film and television dramas filmed afterwards received mediocre response.
Lin Fangbing, in 1981, began to work in the film "Valley Love Song", and later starred in "Jade Crushing Palace". In 1983, while in school, he starred in the movie "Our Field" directed by Xie Fei. In 1987, she was nominated for Best Actress at the 10th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards for the movies "Night Truck" and "A Dead Person's Visit to the Living". These movies made her famous, but it was the TV series that made her famous. In 1991, she won the 11th China TV Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress for her role as Yang Guifei in the TV series "Tang Ming Huang".
Lin Fangbing 16-year-old photo
There are also Pang Min, Ma Xiaowei, Han Yueqiao, Li Ling, Fang Shu, Zhang Chao, Huang Meiying, Wen Yujuan, etc., some of them were as famous as Tang Guoqiang and Guo Kaimin in the eighties, and some were indistinguishable from Wang Weiping, Mao Yongming and so on. But there are not many films and televisions that play the leading role in the later stage, and although they are filming intermittently, their influence has decreased significantly.
Pang Min
Huang Meiying
There are also actors who were famous in the eighties and basically disappeared after their thirties. Some of them have been in film for a long time, and some people have also made some film and television dramas, but they are basically supporting roles, and most of them are middle-aged and elderly images, and the works are average and have little impact. Such as Zhao Jing, Na Renhua, Shen Danping, Zhang Xiaolei, etc.
Zhao Jing
There are also actors who were not famous in the eighties, some acted in several movies that did not attract attention, and some did not participate in movies at all. But in the later stage, he was a late bloomer and became an influential big name in the TV industry. Such as Chen Daoming, Zhang Guoli, Pu Cunxin, Li Xuejian, Li Youbin, Li Baotian, Du Yulu, Gao Ming, Du Zhiguo, Feng Enhe, Xi Meijuan, Fu Yiwei, etc.
Chen Daoming
Pu Cunxin
Fu Yiwei
If there is a long flowering period, there will be a short flowering period. Some are short-lived, some are fleeting.
Short-lived made one or two movies, only three or five years of popularity, some even only one or two years of popularity, and then "disappeared" from the screen.
The three female stars I liked very much back then basically belonged to this type.
One is Ren Yexiang, the famous works "Hometown" and "Long Live Youth", both are stories of the fifties, but one is a shy country girl, and the other is a vibrant urban intellectual woman. Personality is very different, Zhang Chi is different. But her free performance has made these two characters with very different personalities not only come alive, but also become a classic film of Chinese cinema. But unfortunately, she died early due to illness.
Ren Yexiang
The second is cold eyebrows, she is famous in "Vibrato of Life", perhaps the first kiss after the Cultural Revolution, or the beauty of her performance shocked her, she was a very well-known female star at that time, but later went abroad, and her artistic life was too short.
Cold eyebrows
The third is Zhang Yuyu, the lively little sister of "Wedding", which makes us remember her who loves to laugh and has small dimples. Wei Wei, a medical doctor of "Love and Legacy", let us be moved by this dignified, beautiful and virtuous woman. But she also left the film and television industry early, which is very regrettable.
Zhang Yuyu
There are also Zhu Xinyun and Liu Jizhong in "Flash Line", Gao Ying in "They and Them";
Liu Jizhong and Zhu Xinyun performing the show
Chen Yixin, Wang Qinbao, Chi Zhiqiang, Wang Weiping in "Little Characters";
Chen Yixin in "Little Characters"
Chi Zhiqiang
Zhou Lina in "She Came from the Mist"; Zhu Biyun in "Rouge"; Wang Baosheng in "Proud Mother", Gong Xibin and Zhang Baishuang;
Zhang Baishuang Palace Xibin and his wife
Zhao Yamin in "Shanzhai Fire"; Zhang Jiatian in "Contemporary"; Li Shixi in "Not for Love"; Shi Zhongqi in "The Trill of Life"; Chen Yanhua in "Postal Edge"; Shi Jianlan in "The Legend of Tianyun Mountain"; Liang Tongyu in "Sunny Day Hates the Sea"; Yin Tingru in "The Village in the City"; Xiang Hong in "The Break";
Xianghong
Liu Xinyi in "Happy Bachelor"; Guo Jing in "The Girl Serving the Plate"; Wu Yufang in "Life"; Yang Hailian in "The Forgotten Corner of Love"; Cheng Xiaoying in "Sakura"; Gack in "A Garland Under the Mountain"; There are also Guo Xuxin, Huang Xiaolei, Baomin, Baoxun of Bayi Factory;
Baoxun
Zhang Min, Chen Hongmei, Zhang Zhihua, Chen Ye, Lu Qing, Dai Zhaoan of Shanghai Film Studio; Lin Qiang, Yang Xiaodan, Chen Guojun of Changying; Zhu Yanping, Fu Lili, Li Ping, Li Kechun, etc., the artistic life is not very long.
It is fleeting, longer than a flash in the pan, but the life of art is only about ten years. Such as Zhang Jinling, Li Xiuming, Zhang Yu, Wu Haiyan, Zhang Liwei, Gong Xue, Hong Xuemin, Jiang Lili, Zhu Shimao, Chen Peisi, Zhou Lijing, Zhang Guomin, etc.
Zhang Jinling
Zhang Yu, Li Xiuming
HONG Xuemin,SONG Chunli,SONG Xiaoying,ZHU Lin
Zhou Lijing
Many of these artists over 60 years old have not acted since they quit, such as Li Xiuming, Zhang Liwei, Gong Xue, Zhang Jinling, Wu Haiyan, etc. Some occasionally make cameo roles, and some return to play some supporting roles, such as Wang Fuli , Guo Kaimin , Song Xiaoying , Xiao Xiong , Jiang Lili , Da Shi Chang.
Hong Xuemin, Ren Yexiang, Gong Xue, He Xiaoshu, Li Xiuming, Wang Yumei, Zheng Zhenyao, Wen Yujuan, Na Renhua
Looking back at the stars of the eighties, the majority of them "disappeared" quickly and quickly. This has to do with their lower culture, with their limitations in shaping characters, and with their love and pursuit of art.
Also without higher professional education, the same lived in that era, but Liu Xiaoqing, Siqingova, Song Chunli, Tang Guoqiang, Chen Baoguo, Zhang Guoli, Li Baotian, etc. can maintain the longevity of artistic life, and there are no age restrictions, and heavyweight works continue to be launched, which are well received by the audience. Artistic talent is of course important. But taking the performance profession as a lifelong career, the dedication to art, the tenacity to overcome difficulties, the love and obsession with performance, the indifference to the loss of aura, and the calm of loneliness are the important reasons for their success.