The revolution is a difficult period in China's history that deserves praise and memory, which engraves the suffering suffered of the Chinese nation over the past 100 years and provides a spiritual driving force for future generations of people to strive hard and rejuvenate China.
But the revolutionary ancestors were also mortals, they suffered a lot during the war years, suffered many injuries, their bodies were not as strong as when they were young, and they left the motherland and people they loved one after another. In order to commemorate these ancestors who made significant contributions to the Chinese nation, people compiled biographies, memoirs or built memorials for them to preserve part of the red culture.
With the rapid development of science and technology, film and television dramas have also become one of the important ways to inherit red culture, and inspiring revolutionary film and television dramas such as "Bright Sword" and "Awakening Age" have emerged in the domestic film and television circle, among which the cordial and kind images of leaders such as Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou are impressive. We have the impression that the actors who play these great people are male special actors, but a woman named Chen Yan also loves this profession very much, and even gained weight in order to play Chairman Mao.
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Chen Yan, a woman from Sichuan Province who did not come from a professional background and received no artistic training when she was young, was motivated by her dream of being an actress from an early age. When she was a child, Chen Yan's greatest pleasure was to go to the theater performance with her friends, and she was envious of the beautiful and moving actress Chen Yan on stage.
She also wants to perform on stage and let people applaud herself. Unfortunately, Chen Yan's family situation does not allow her to study art performance, she can only obediently follow her parents' arrangement to live and study, and when she reaches a certain age, she begins to recruit marriage partners, and forms a husband and wife under the auspices of the elders of both sides, and has since run her own small family.
Although the living conditions of Chen Yan's family are not optimistic, it is enough for the family's food, clothing, housing and transportation, Chen Yan has never mentioned her dream. As she grew older, the surrounding neighbors would jokingly say that she looked like Chairman Mao when they saw Chen Yan, which made Chen Yan both excited and worried.
Excitement is because others praise themselves, and worry is because they feel that they are not as good as great people. Chen Yan would look at herself carefully every day when standing in front of the mirror, and found that some angles did resemble Chairman Mao, but she swallowed the idea of becoming an actress again and again, opened a building materials store at the suggestion of her husband, and immersed herself in busyness every day.
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Until one day in 2006, Chen Yan turned on the TV to watch the program when she was idle in the building materials store, and a talent show attracted her attention. This show is auditioning for contestants who love to perform across the country, and Chen Yan can no longer hold back her passion, and even chooses to sign up for the competition.
The children were puzzled when they learned the news, they thought Chen Yan was 50 years old and had any dreams to pursue? It's just ridiculous! But this time Chen Yan no longer chose to retreat, she packed her bags and got on the train to the TV station, she wanted to fly out of her hometown with her dreams, take root and sprout in the soil suitable for her, and then turn into a towering tree.
After coming to the TV station, Chen Yan was frightened by many talented contestants, and she found that she had no appearance and no talent, and it was simply a fantasy to want to be shortlisted. The next audition was also as she expected, because she had no acting skills and singing voice, Chen Yan was quickly eliminated by the program group, and she also began to question her dream and got on the train back home.
Soon after returning home, Chen Yan locked herself at home to reflect, unexpectedly, one day a group of tourists surrounded her home, it turned out that Chen Yan's appearance resembling Chairman Mao was discovered by the audience, and they came specifically to see Chen Yan's appearance. With the encouragement of the tourists, Chen Yan also regained herself, and she decided to play the image of Chairman Mao.
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In order to improve her acting skills and get closer to Chairman Mao, Chen Yan first signed up for a training class and followed the instructor to learn the basic skills of acting. After returning home, she practiced in the mirror while reading Chairman Mao's poetry, allowing herself to immerse herself in the image of Chairman Mao.
But Chairman Mao's tall figure is too different from Chen Yan, so she specially customized a pair of heightened shoes, and walked around in shoes whenever she had time, and her feet were bloodstained all day. When eating, she will deliberately eat more meals, in this way to gain weight, in just a few months to gain about 30 pounds.
After being tempered day after day, Chen Yan was more popular than before when she reappeared, not only her appearance resembled Chairman Mao, but even her expression and words revealed a similar charm.
Chen Yan's career is becoming more and more prosperous, but her husband and children are quite dissatisfied with this, first of all, because her husband shares a bed with Chen Yan every day, and he can't tell whether the person next to him is a wife or a great man. Secondly, tourists often make noise in front of Chen Yan's house, so the family cannot get a good rest environment, which also makes the relationship between the family a lot of estrangement.
epilogue
For her family's doubts, Chen Yan still did not shake her acting dream, and her dream chasing journey was also encouraged by the local cultural department, which brought considerable economic benefits to the development of local tourism. I hope that Chen Yan can stick to her original intention, don't forget why she played Chairman Mao, and don't lose her heart for money.