I think the biggest difference between the young people of the seventies and eighties of the last century and the young people of today is that they have a special sense of mission.
At that time, young people almost always thought about the same question, that is, what kind of youth should we have?
Such questions, if used to ask young people today, they may see us with the same eyes as aliens.
In the seventies and eighties of the last century, almost everyone felt that the heavens would descend on the Slovak people, so they were particularly hard, hard-working, and diligent, you chased after me to catch up with the upstream, everyone competed to be "advanced", and for the "backward youth", everyone would also work together to help him.
So the young people of the seventies and eighties of the last century, their spiritual outlook, seems to be so energetic and positive, uplifting. Everyone's eyes are full of hope, and everyone's face is full of bright smiles like sunshine.
We can see this from the movie "Little Characters" released in 1979.
That year, when the movie "Little Characters" was released, it was difficult to get a ticket.
It's not a blockbuster, there's no grand scene, and there's no joining of big stars. What is told is nothing more than a trivial matter that happened to the Shanghai No. 29 bus. However, the youthful atmosphere it exudes and the innocence it embodies resonates with many people, especially young people.
Everyone seems to be watching the stories of themselves and their friends around them.
In 1979, the Ministry of Culture selected excellent films, "Small Characters" was among them, and actor Chi Zhiqiang and other actors also won the Young Actors Outstanding Creation Award. And the box office revenue is also very good, young audiences especially like to watch, some also watch more than one show.
The general reaction after everyone has seen it is that the plot of the film is light and humorous, the songs are good, and the actors in it are so beautiful.
Yes, in 1979, the movie "Little Characters", in addition to showing us the unique style of young people of that era, also launched 8 new stars in the film industry.
They are young and beautiful, handsome little students, and beautiful Hua Dan, like freshly shelled lychees, look fresh and charming.
Until now, everyone must be able to call out their names - Wang Weiping, Chen Yixin, Chi Zhiqiang...
And do you remember their youthful demeanor?
At that time, they were really invincible.
Just like us back then.
Only now, with the passage of time, we are all middle-aged.
So, 42 years later, what kind of changes have the actors who starred in "Small Characters" now? What is their current situation and recent situation? Today, let Yaqing and everyone work together to revisit and review it.
Speaking of the actors in "Small Characters", director Wang Jiayi's original idea is very interesting. That is the small student of the Long Film Studio, with Hua Dan in Shanghai.
So he arranged for Yin Fuwen, Chi Zhiqiang, Yu Yanping and Zhuang Peiyuan to play the four young men in the film. Among them, Yin Fuwen and Yu Yanping just entered the factory, while Chi Zhiqiang and Zhuang Peiyuan also entered the factory around 1972.
And the four young actresses, the director in the Shanghai Opera House looked for three in one breath - Chen Yixin, Wang Qinbao and Pang Min, and one, found in the Shanghai bus system, that is, the female driver Zhang Mingming.
Such a combination brings a strong sense of freshness to the audience.
Among them, Yin Fuwen, the actor, is the most regrettable. He was originally the absolute male protagonist in "Small Characters". But after the film started, he always couldn't get into the state, and the director felt that the gap between him and Xiao Ge in the film was too big, and finally had to give up. This also made Yin Fuwen miss an opportunity to become a big hit.
At that time, the director also wanted to find another male actor from the long film studio, but because the young students of the long film had a scene in the body, and the film had been filmed in Shanghai, the water could not quench the near thirst, so the actor who was finally replaced was still found in the film studio.
The actor who plays Xiao Ge is Wang Weiping.
This movie made Wang Weiping a hit.
Several other actors, including Chen Yixin, Chi Zhiqiang, wang Qinbao, etc., also became movie stars who shone in the film industry in the 80s.
So, what happened to them today?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="103" >, Wang Weiping plays Xiao Ge</h1>
Wang Weiping had never made a movie before this.
Although he was already a member of the actor training class at the studio at that time, and the appearance conditions were very good, there were not many directors who somehow came to him to act. Chen Chong, Zhang Yu, Chen Hongmei, etc., who participated in the training with him, have already come to the fore with films such as "Youth" and "Little Flower", and he is still waiting for the opportunity to make films.
This opportunity was finally waited for by him in early 1979.
His handsome appearance, coupled with his unpretentious performance, coupled with the personality of Xiao Ge, a "studious youth", made him an idol of the new generation in the 80s as soon as he appeared on the screen.
After that, many film crews threw olive branches at him. Immediately after that, he wrote in "Love, What's Your Last Name?" He played Li Zhengang, zhang Hua in "The Prosecutor", Pu Guan in "Flying to the Pacific", Lan Wei in "Female College Dormitory", Xiao Ou in "Midnight Song", and chen Zhenyun in "Daze Dragon Snake".
These characters, whether positive or negative, are so handsome.
Later, Qiong Yao drama began to become popular, and he played the role of Meng Qiao in "I Am a Cloud", which was very popular.
At that time, in the hearts of the vast number of audiences, he was the "first handsome guy" of the film studio.
After reaching middle age, he starred in dramas such as "Loyalty", "Walking Through the Flower Season", "Deep Rain and Rain of Love", "Mao Renfeng Issued a Secret Killing Order", "Partial Not Divorced" and so on. Among them, Wei Guangxiong in "Love Deep rain and rain" is impressive. Then he went to Hong Kong with his wife.
When I saw him again, it was at the 65th anniversary celebration held by the Studio.
He's changed enough.
His figure is still so tall, and his hair is still so thick, but his body shape is a big circle fatter than when he starred in "Small Characters". On the day of the event, he wore a vertical striped shirt and a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, which made him look polite.
It is understood that Wang Weiping is now in Hong Kong and lives a good life. He and his wife who studied medicine have always been very affectionate, and the daughter born to the two has long grown up and has a very high appearance.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > Chen Yixin plays Xiaoqing</h1>
Chen Yixin is an actor recruited by director Wang Jiayi from the Shanghai Opera House. The director chose her mainly because she is beautiful and has a dignified and generous temperament. After the release of the movie "Small Characters", Chen Yixin also quickly became popular. Her large photographs have been published in magazines such as Popular Cinema, and her name has been repeatedly mentioned by fans.
Since then, many film crews have invited her, but she has refused. In 1983, she only played the role of Zhang Ying in the feature film "Alley Youlan" shot by Liaoning Science and Education Film Studio, which did not have many scenes and gave people a deep impression.
Since then, she has disappeared from the screen. It turned out that she married Yu Keyong, who was also an actress at the Shanghai Opera House, and went to Hong Kong in 1995. In order to support her husband's singing career, she was willing to teach her husband and children at home, and at the same time engaged in some work related to vocal education.
Today, Yu Keyong has become a famous singer, and Chen Yixin is also 64 years old. Judging from her recent photos, she has a delicate temperament, dignified and elegant, and compared with when she starred in "Small Characters", there are only a few wrinkles in the corners of her eyes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" > Chi Zhiqiang plays Xiao huang</h1>
The prototype of Xiao Huang's role comes from a young conductor who has become more advanced in the Shanghai bus system. Chi Zhiqiang made this character vivid and vivid. He was recognized by the audience for his vivid and vivid performances, and he also won the Outstanding Young Actor Award issued by the Ministry of Culture.
Prior to this, in fact, Chi Zhiqiang had already appeared in many movies, including the technician Xiao Wei in "Entrepreneurship", the rural boy Wan Renxi in "Suolong Lake", and the "image of workers and peasants" such as Xiao Dou, a soldier of the People's Liberation Army in "The Battle of Jinan". But he really became popular after starring in "Small Characters".
His handsome image and simple and natural performance are the reasons why everyone likes him.
After that, he became one of the most popular movie stars in the 80s, and successively participated in many films such as "The Last Eight", "Gu This and Lost", "Hidden Shadow", "Sunset Street" and so on.
After a person becomes famous, there are naturally more temptations. Chi Zhiqiang was no exception, so in 1983 he was arrested for personal life problems, and in 1984 he was sentenced to four years in prison by the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court for hooliganism.
A good screen boy, just overnight, became a prisoner of the order.
In 1986, Chi Zhiqiang was released early for his good performance in prison. However, at this time, he could no longer return to the actor troupe of the long film studio, but was assigned to do logistics.
But who would have thought that a few years later, the album "Tears of Remorse", which he recited, suddenly exploded, and Chi Zhiqiang once again became the object of discussion in the streets and alleys. He became popular again, and starred as an actor in film and television dramas such as "Heavenly Drum", "The Great Roundup", "Urban Foreigner", "Master Luban", "Dignity" and so on.
Until now, the 62-year-old Chi Zhiqiang is still active in front of the film and television camera.
He should be regarded as the person who has the most bumpy life experience among the leading actors of "Little Characters", but has always insisted on the acting career he loves. Last year, we saw Director Li starring Huang Xuan in "Aiming". And this year, the movie "Operation Storm Sweeping Black" starring him has also been launched. We will see a whole new role for him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="61" > Wang Qinbao plays Xiaolan</h1>
Wang Qinbao has a beautiful face and a gentle temperament, and is the best candidate for Xiaolan in the film. In fact, after the release of "Little Characters", although she starred in a supporting role, her performance was recognized by everyone. This has made her not only a star in the minds of the audience, but also an invitation from many film crews, including several films from pearl river film studios, which have invited her to play the heroine.
In 1980, she played baimei and hongmei in "Plum Blossom Scarf", in 1981, she played Lily in "Nostalgia", and in 1982, she played Camellia in "Magpie Ridge Tea Song". In addition, she also played Jin Mei in "Blue Shield Safe" filmed by Nanjing Film Studio, and He Zhenzhen in "Sad Brow and Smiley Face" filmed by Jiangxi Film Studio, and her beautiful image is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
But in the mid-1980s, she also chose to go abroad to Japan, and since then, she has not been heard from. Many fans who like her have been looking around for news of her, but nothing has been found. But I don't know if the almighty netizen can provide us with her exact information?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="65" > Yu Yanping plays Xiaobai</h1>
Yu Yanping grew tall and big, giving people a very powerful feeling. Therefore, the traffic police xiaobai he played in "Small Characters" also gave people a deep impression. It's just that many viewers are not very familiar with Yanping. I think the most important reason is because his time in film is very short, and he has not starred in many movies.
In 1976, Yu Yanping entered the actor training class held by the Long Film Studio, and in 1979, he starred in "Little Characters". In 1980, he starred in Liang Zhongtai in "Shining Arrow", and in 1981, he starred in "Spring Return to the Red Chamber". In 1983, in the "Alley Youlan" filmed by Liaoning Science and Education Film Studio, he once again partnered with Chen Yixin and played the role of Zhang Min.
After that, he was transferred out of the long film studio, but his whereabouts are unknown.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" > Zhang Mingming plays Xiaohong</h1>
Zhang Mingming was not originally an actor, but a female driver of the Shanghai bus system. But she already had a film experience back in 1972.
At that time, she was also in the team at Chongming Farm in Shanghai, and she was selected by the crew of "Ode to the Silver Needle under the Shadowless Lamp" and played a role in it. Coincidentally, in 1979, when director Wang Jiayi selected actors for "Small Characters", she was selected again.
Not only that, in the second year after filming "Small Characters", another movie found her, that is, in the documentary "Don't Let the Years Pay the Water", as a bus driver, tell you the true story. Moreover, in this "Don't Let the Years Pay the Water", the choreographers also showed everyone Zhang Mingming's emotional life at that time. Sadly, her then-boyfriend broke up less than a year later, and her later husband wasn't the guy who appeared in the movie.
Zhang Mingming fell in love with acting after starring in "Small Characters". But there were not many opportunities for her. In order to get closer to the film, she entered the production company in the 90s, starting with the field notes, and then slowly had some opportunities to perform, which was a realization of her dream of being an actor.
Today, 65-year-old Zhang Ming has retired from Shanghai's bus system and lives a quiet and undisturbed life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="75" > Zhuang Peiyuan plays Xiaojiang</h1>
I think Zhuang Peiyuan is a good actor who has been delayed. He entered the long film studio in 1972 and starred in many movies, acting in simple and natural, but he has never become popular.
In 1979, Zhuang Peiyuan starred in "Small Characters" as the out-of-the-pocket youth Xiao Jiang, and the shape of a mustache was very eye-catching. But because there are few scenes, even if he acts well, there are not many audiences who can notice him.
Since then, he has starred in "Pride! Mother", "Medicine", "Enemy", "Children of the Earth", "Magical Land", "Li Bing", "Zhang Blacksmith's Romance" and other movies, playing basically supporting roles, the biggest feeling for me is that his face is very clean, and his eyes are incomparably clear.
Later, when I asked my friends at the long studio about him, they said he had become a voice actor. In many of the translations we are familiar with, his voice appears. Now that he is 66 years old, he has changed his name to Zhuang Fengyuan, and he is also old.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="80" > Pang Min plays Xiaofang</h1>
When director Wang Jiayi found Pang Min, the role she most wanted to play was the heroine Xiaoqing. However, what the director gave her was a small supporting role, Xiao Fang. It made her very emotional. But in the end, she accepted the task. She was 23 years old. With her relaxed and natural performance, she portrayed the image of a young woman who loves vanity to life, and won the love of the audience.
I think that perhaps because of the success of the character of Xiao Fang, so immediately after the Pearl Film Studio began filming "Fog Is Vast", the director found Pang Min to play the female agent Lin Jing in it, which made her famous and became a popular star.
Subsequently, Pang Min played roles in films such as "After the Trap", "Where not to flow", "Poseidon", and "Explosion at Dawn". In 1990, she once again attracted the attention of the audience for playing Tian Li in the TV series "Longing". However, after that, she reduced the chance of appearing in front of the camera, because she was engaged in administrative work in the Bayi Factory.
Pang Min was admitted to the Shanghai Opera House in 1974 and became an opera troupe actor in 1977. In 1986, he was transferred to the Shanghai Television Actors Troupe. In 1991, she joined the Bayi Factory Actors Troupe. Later, he became a member of the party branch of the Bayi Factory Actors Troupe. Since 2002, she has served as the director of the TV drama department and the secretary of the party committee of Bayi Factory, and was awarded the rank of colonel.
Over the years, she has participated in the production of "People's Heart", "I Am a Soldier", "Worthy of Cangsheng", "Eighth Route Army", "Heaven and Earth Grain Man", "Dark Calculation", "New Sentinel under Neon Lights", "Sorghum Red" and many other excellent film and television dramas, which are deeply loved by the audience. Today, she is 64 years old and still works tirelessly.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="86" > the situation of other actors in "Small Characters"</h1>
What kind of changes have the actors who played minor roles in "Little Characters"?
Ren Weimin, who played the old captain, was an old actor in the long film studio, but he died in 1993. Guo Zhenqing, who played the captain of the traffic police brigade, the "Li Xiangyang" in "Plain Guerrilla", also died on August 24, 2005, at the age of 78. There is also Cui Chaoming, who plays the engineer Gao, who is also an old actor loved by everyone, and he also left this world in 2011. Lin Bin, who played Xiaoqing's mother, she is a famous actress in the film studio, and she also died of illness on April 28, 2014, at the age of 90.
Among several old actors, Ye Linlang, who played the fat sister-in-law, is now alive, but she is also 89 years old.
The movie "Little Characters" also launched a very nice interlude for us called "How Beautiful Life is", and I still sing: Life Ah Life, how cute and how cute, like the spring buds fragrant and colorful... Today, Li Xiuwen's singing is still in the ears, and our youth time is only in the warm memories.
So, in everyone's memory, do you remember this beautiful movie? Do you remember the scenes and actors in the film? Welcome to interact with more netizens through the message area.
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