There is a saying that goes well: "Classics never go out of style." "As long as it is in line with the mainstream of the times, it will be loved by the audience at any time, and the movie "Wrangler" fully proves this truth."
The movie "Wrangler", released in 1982, set a record of 120 million viewers at the time, and now 40 years later, in the era of short video explosion, it has once again become the crown of another group of young audiences "Internet celebrity healing movies".
Among them, the farm old Guo said when he was a matchmaker for Xu Lingjun:
"Old Xu, do you want a wife?" If you want a wife, just open the golden mouth, and I'll send it to you later. ”
It has also become a mantra for netizens to ridicule each other.
But all this is not the focus of netizens, in this movie, the most attractive to the audience is its heroine "Xiuzhi".
Xiuzhi was a Sichuan girl, but because of the catastrophe at that time, the family was too large to support her, so she could only follow her relatives to marry, but unexpectedly, when she came to the Qilian Mountain grassland, the object she wanted to marry died. With nowhere to go, Xiuzhi asked for help from the passing "Guo Yuzi" and begged him to help find a family to take her in, as long as she was given food. In this way, Xiuzhi and Xu Lingjun, who was mistakenly branded as a "rightist", came together by mistake...
The actor who plays the role of Xiuzhi is named Cong Shan, she wears twisted braids, a round face, dark eyes, and a kind and tenacious personality, which perfectly interprets all the advantages of women in that era.
With her outstanding performance, Cong Shan was popular all over the country, and she was just 19 years old that year.
In 1962, cong zhaohuan, the famous inheritor of kunqu opera, and Qin Xiaoyu, the famous character of kunqu opera, welcomed their new family members, their baby daughter Cong Shan.
At this time, Zhu Shimao was just 8 years old and was attending primary school in Yantai City, Shandong Province.
The strong family art atmosphere, the respect of parents as guests, which makes the little Cong Shan live a very happy life after birth, and what is more rare and valuable is that she inherits the excellent genes of her parents, not only looks beautiful and well-behaved, but also sings and dances, with high artistic talent.
If the happy days can continue, maybe we won't see the later Cong Shan.
After the outbreak of a certain movement, Cong Shan's parents were mistakenly imprisoned, and her sister, who was a few years older than her, was also sent to the cadre school to study.
After the family was separated, the lonely Cong Shan was picked up by her grandmother, who has been growing up with her elderly grandmother ever since.
Although she did not have the company of her parents, Cong Shan has not left behind the hobby of singing and dancing, her dance is the more she dances, the better, and the longer and more beautiful people are. After going to middle school, Cong Shan was even more fascinated by watching movies, and at the same time, she still had a dream of acting in movies.
In 1981, before the college entrance examination, Cong Shan temporarily studied two months of acting courses, the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger, she signed up for the supplementary admissions examination of Chinese opera, what she did not expect was that 19-year-old Cong Shan could really be admitted to the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama with excellent results, where she and Lu Liping and Jiang Wen became classmates.
Round face, Yingying smile makes people heartbroken, the appearance belongs to the classical beauty of Cong Shan became the class flower of the class, at that time almost more than half of the boys in the class admitted to having a crush on Cong Shan.
However, Cong Shan, who is full of ambition, seems to have a very weak view of feelings, and she seems to devote all her energy to learning to act, spending three hours in the dance studio every day, where she practices alone in front of the mirror every day.
Day after day, Cong Shan's acting skills have been greatly improved.
Hard work will eventually pay off.
In her freshman year, Cong Shan vaguely received a great gift from God.
One day, Cong Shan and a few roommates took a nap in the dormitory. Suddenly, a classmate broke in and said breathlessly, "Hurry up!" I went to the studio to choose actors at school. (When director Xie Jin was preparing for the movie "Wang Zhaojun", he went to the Chinese opera to cast a role.) ）
"Ah!" Several girls shouted and scrambled to get up, this news for these little girls, is undoubtedly a huge good news, once selected by the big director, it is a good start for their acting career.
However, at this moment, Cong Shan was drowsy and drowsy, and originally did not plan to go, but the roommate still dragged her up, so confused, Cong Shan casually put on a cotton jacket, took two 2-inch black and white photos, and followed.
Cong Shan and classmates Lu Liping and Shen Jialiang went to the audition together.
During the interview, the director took out a piece of paper with the plot written on it, and then asked them to perform a sitcom according to the script, and after the performance, they were asked to go back.
Time flew by, half a month passed, there was no news from the crew, and Cong Shan, who had no hope of being selected, completely forgot about this matter.
However, at this time, Cong Shan received an invitation letter from the Shanghai Studio. The first half of the letter expressed regret for not being able to cooperate last time, and the second half invited her to star in Xie Jin's new film "Wrangler", and did not play a supporting role, but directly as a heroine.
This made this 19-year-old girl very happy, she took the envelope and cried and laughed, and ran wildly in the dance studio.
However, happy to return to joy, happy to happy, Cong Shan wants to go to filming, there is a very real problem in front of them. Because at that time, the Chinese opera stipulated that students were not allowed to shoot in their freshman and sophomore years.
As a student, she could not say that the principal could open up for her, so she had to tell the director Xie Jin the truth. Xie Jin replied directly: "This heroine still has to be played by you, others can't act, you can rest assured, I will solve this problem for you."
Therefore, in order to allow Cong Shan to smoothly enter the crew, director Xie Jin personally came to the Chinese opera to talk to the principal. After a verbal battle, the principal was still unwilling to make a special case for Cong Shan, and finally director Xie Jin, who had no way, said: "This youthful atmosphere on the girl can be described as fleeting, and if the acting skills are mature in the future, this atmosphere will no longer exist." ”
The principal looked at Xie Jin's sincere eyes, pondered for a while, and finally nodded his head in acquiescence, Xie Jin excitedly shook the principal's hand and said gratefully: "Rest assured, I will definitely make a good work and will not live up to your expectations." ”
The chatter and laughter of the two predecessors directly determined the film dream of young actor Cong Shan.
In 1980, the movie "Wrangler" entered the preparatory period for filming, when Zhu Shimao was 27 years old, and Cong Shan was still 3 months away from turning 20 years old.
How the two young men navigate the development of this film, showing the unique life of that era and the inner spiritual world of the characters, became a major problem.
In order to let Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan perform this film well, director Xie Jin directly pulled the two of them to a remote pastoral area to experience life for more than a month, and strictly stipulated that they must eat and live with the herders to truly experience the living habits of the pastoral area.
Cong Shan is a girl from a big city, although the family conditions are not good, but compared to the pastoral area, it is still a heaven and an underground, in the face of the herdsmen's untrimmed and informal way of life, she loves cleanliness for a while or can not adapt.
Even when she couldn't change clothes and take a bath for a few days, Cong Shan once broke down and cried, and directly asked to go back to school and didn't want to shoot.
At this time, Zhu Shimao, as a big brother, stood up, and he comforted Cong Shan: "You have to think clearly, how long it took you to get here in the first place, during this period, not only you are working hard, the director, the principal, classmates and your family are supporting you all the way, and what we are experiencing now is just to ensure that our works can be displayed in front of the audience in a more authentic posture, which is our basic requirement as an actor, responsible for the audience, and also responsible for our profession." If you leave today, are you sure you will regret it? ”
After listening to Zhu Shimao's words, Cong Shan's mood stabilized, and she decided to spend another night thinking about it, and then decide whether to leave or stay.
The next morning, when Zhu Shimao went out, he found Cong Shan helping the herdsmen feed the horses, and her face was filled with a smile that she had never had before, and he already knew: "This little girl is staying." ”
Because the age difference between Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan is 8 years, the two play a couple who are deeply in love, and in that era when the mind is not so open, they are a bit unable to let go, in order to eliminate the discomfort between the actors. Xie Jin assigned homework to them: the two needed to do ten sketches in twenty days, showing xu Lingjun and Li Xiuzhi from not knowing each other to becoming husband and wife.
In addition, Xie Jin also asked Cong Shan to learn from the actresses in the same group who had become mothers, learn to hold children and tease children, learn to be mothers, learn to work, and learn to take off blanks.
Through such a run-in, they slowly deepened their understanding of the role.
A month and a half passed quickly, from the details of life to horseback riding and grazing, Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan gradually erased the imprint of life in the big city.
In October 1980, the shooting officially began, and the tacit understanding between Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan was also greatly improved, so the shooting of the first half of the film was very smooth, but with the deepening of the plot, the emotional scenes of the two characters played were more, which also led to the frequency of their physical contact.
At that time, Cong Shan did not say that she was in love, even her hand had not been held by a man, so every time she asked her to "have intimate contact" with Zhu Shimao, she was very panicked.
Zhu Shimao joked to encourage Cong Shan: "You will hold me like a wooden stake." At the same time, Zhu Shimao also tirelessly played with her over and over again, and the details were more patient and careful to set a good tone for her, so that she could show herself more confidently.
The most ironic thing is that during the filming process, there is a picture of Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan happily hugging on the grassland, showing the sweet look between lovers, but this section is Cong Shan can not shoot well in any way, after NG more than a dozen times, director Xie Jin finally broke out, he loudly asked Cong Shan why the shooting is not good?
Cong Shan, who had no choice, could only blush and tell the truth: "Director, it's not that I don't want to hug, it's just that Mao Ge's chest is full of fur, and I can't hold it." ”
This answer made everyone present laugh, and Xie Jin waved his hand and said, "Go get a razor and shave the hair on Zhu Shimao's chest." ”
In this way, Cong Shan and Zhu Shimao were finally able to successfully film the scene.
"Wrangler" was released, and indeed detonated the domestic box office, although the conditions at that time were not good, people did not have much money on hand, but there was no money to take bricks to redeem movie tickets, three bricks a movie ticket. So in order to be able to watch this movie, many people are stealing bricks in exchange for movie tickets.
The most touching thing is that a teacher in Guangxi has watched "Wrangler" for 10 times, and after each time he read it, he wrote a post-viewing feeling to Zhu Shimao to express his thoughts and thoughts. The last letter was about a dilemma he faced, that he was also a teacher and now had the opportunity to give up his education and live abroad. But he could not give up the homeland where he was born and raised, and the children who wanted to learn and progress. (This is very similar to the situation of Xu Lingjun in the movie.) ）
Zhu Shimao wrote back to him, saying that loving or not loving the country is not to see where a person is, but to look at the person's behavior itself, and it is important not to give up his meaningful life.
In the end, the audience stayed at home.
In addition to Zhu Shimao's popularity, the fledgling Cong Shan has become the best of the new generation of actors. Every line, look, and action in the movie completely became the imitation object of the girls at that time, and she was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress with her outstanding performance.
Sometimes in order to find an opportunity to interview Cong Shan, reporters have to stand outside the school gate and wait for most of the day, no way, because the newspaper and reporters who want to invite her are really uncountable.
But in the face of overwhelming resources and publicity, Cong Shan did not lose herself, after each interview, she will always say: "For the red thing, I don't have a lot of feelings, I just want to study well, study acting, and hope to have more works to contribute." ”
However, people in the jianghu, involuntarily, not to mention that people are red and natural. The simple Cong Shan could not escape the disaster brought to her by the original sin of "jealousy".
Upon returning to school, her red-eyed classmates began to alienate and isolate Cong Shan, and sometimes she was even bullied on campus.
Some classmates took advantage of her lack of attention to fill her cardboard box with clothes, and when she was not in the dormitory, they also emptied her quilt and pillow, not knowing where to lose.
In the face of bullying, Cong Shan dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
Even, some teachers who have no teacher morality are also extremely mocking of Cong Shan, once Cong Shan wanted to fight for a stage play heroine in the department, but she did not expect that as soon as she went to the interview, a teacher directly said: "Didn't you just make a movie?" What's so great, you're far from acting in a stage play, you're eliminated. ”
Cong Shan's tears of grievance were swirling, but she still had no other choice but to bear it silently.
The fame of a "Wrangler" was originally a happy event, but Cong Shan's life was more like being betrayed by the whole world. Teachers don't like it, classmates don't love it, parents aren't around, they are alone.
In 1983, Cong Shan once again co-directed Xie Jin to shoot the patriotic film "Qiu Jin", in which Cong Shan persevered and was not afraid in the face of danger, not only fully expressing the temperament and spirit of the characters, but also innovating the characters.
The audience's evaluation of her is: "The best looking Qiu Jin".
But getting more and more popular means that her life at school is even more difficult, and at the worst time, Cong Shan also found that she suffered from moderate depression, she could not eat, did not sleep well, and needed to rely on drugs to maintain her health.
At the most painful time, she even wanted to end it all by quitting the film and television industry.
Fortunately, college life did not last long, and after two years, Cong Shan was finally relieved because she graduated.
After graduation, Cong Shan was assigned to work in the Youth Arts Theater, a new environment and a new atmosphere, and she was ready to start her life again.
But reality soon struck Cong Shan again.
"Cong Shan, you don't want to play the main role as soon as you come, everyone is set up from running dragons, you go to run dragon sets first." As soon as Cong Shan arrived at the unit, before her feet stopped, she was asked by the leader to talk.
Let the stars who are red all over the country run the dragon set, and can only say that this leader is a big miracle, but people under the eaves, have to bow their heads, Cong Shan still agreed to the leader's request.
Cong Shan can only be low-key and low-key in the unit, silently running the dragon set, anyway, there is no fame, she is also happy to relax.
One day, director Huang Jian found Cong Shan and said, "Do you have time for Yu Xingxian, the heroine I left for you in "Good Family Women"? ”
Cong Shan has not been able to get a formal role for more than half a year, although it is psychologically relatively relaxed, but it is also difficult for her who loves acting.
Therefore, after hearing Huang Jianzhong's news, Cong Shan immediately agreed.
Cong Shan ran to the leader with great interest and told the leader about this matter, hoping that the leader could agree to her to star, but unexpectedly, the leader rejected Cong Shan on the spot without thinking, and his reason was: "This will waste too long a long time, for Cong Shan's own job is not good, everyone will learn Cong Shan in the future, it is all messed up." ”
No matter how Cong Shan pleaded, the leader was indifferent, just refusing to nod his head in agreement.
Later, after the director Huang Jianzhong learned about the situation, he personally called the superior leader to say hello, and Cong Shan was allowed to shoot the scene
The film was made, but Cong Shan began to encounter the exact same situation as in school.
At a group meeting, the leader of the Youth Art Theater said in a strange way: "Now some people, in order to shoot the drama, deliberately find a relationship to suppress me, this bad atmosphere, I can forgive for the first time, the second time can be forgiven, but I hope not to have a third time, otherwise you look good." "Whoa, I really don't know what to do, I think I've acted in a few movies and I'm amazing." A female colleague deliberately looked at Cong Shan.
Cong Shan finally knew the horror of people's hearts, and at the meeting, she was so nervous that her head was almost retracted.
In order to make Cong Shan ugly, the leader asked her to write a review letter, and Cong Shan exchanged her 300 yuan remuneration for the results of the review book out of peace and tranquility.
"If you want to leave the unit, I can help you transfer to the North Film Studio, are you willing?" Huang Jianzhong knew about her situation and wanted to help her.
"Thanks, no." In the face of the help of the nobles, Cong Shan did not have the courage to accept.
After that, Cong Shan put away all her radiance, and for the next two years, she refused all external film offers and was at ease as a running dragon suit.
In 1985, at the age of 25, Cong Shan decided to resign and leave this land of right and wrong. And the next stop she chose was the romantic capital of Paris, France.
And Zhu Shimao, who was related to "Wrangler" at that time, learned that Cong Shan was about to leave, and also rushed to say goodbye, and before taking the plane to France, Cong Shan's tears could not stop dripping.
She said to Zhu Shimao: "Most of my life is full of parting, separated from my parents when I was a child, separated from my grandmother when I grew up, and now I have to be separated from this homeland." ”
After arriving in France safely, Cong Shan lived a solitary life of half-work and half-study, and she was both full and happy. Occasionally, he also plays a variety of roles with Chinese characteristics. For example, the popular stage play "Marco Polo's Travels" was starred at that time.
Excellent people will never lack suitors, cong shan is such a person.
Cong Shan and Shi Liang, a Chinese who immigrated to France early, both of them are engaged in the industry of actors in Paris, France, and the two meet as they run.
The tall, handsome, confident and sunny Shi Liang has given Cong Shan, who has been insecure for many years, an inexplicable trust and peace of mind, and Cong Shan's beauty and generosity have also deeply attracted Shi Liang. In this way, two young people who appreciate each other successfully "hold hands".
The life of the two was simple and happy, and it was not long before they were married in Paris. In 1995, their son Woody was born.
But Shi Liang has never been a peaceful person, and a successful career has always been what he desires most.
In 1996, the villain film "Patron Saint" played by Shi Liang was released, which caused a sensation in the French film industry, and he finally mixed up a world in France.
In the next five years, Shi Liang has starred in more than 20 French film and television dramas and stage plays such as "Pacific Pearl" and "Dual Identity", becoming the hottest Chinese actor in France at that time.
Addicted to cross-border, playing his acting career, busy filming and not home, Shi Liang did not put family responsibilities in his heart.
Cong Shan originally wanted to find a safe harbor, but she didn't expect that she would carry more than before. A person must take care of the family with his children, but also fight for his career, and he is physically and mentally exhausted.
In the end, the two chose to divorce by agreement due to emotional discord, and the son was raised by Cong Shan alone.
After the marriage failed, Cong Shan returned to her hometown with her son for many years.
In order to have the financial resources to raise her son, Cong Shan had to pick up the film actor business again.
In 1996, Cong Shan was invited to appear in "Drama About Cixi" filmed by Taiwan Television.
In 1997, in the Hong Kong TV series "Jingwumen" starring Zhen Zidan and Wan Qiwen, Cong Shan played the "big brother woman" Qi Qiao.
After life entered the right track step by step, Cong Shan's second love also quietly came. She and xiao feng, a young director, met at a party, and the two left contact information for each other.
Later, the two also cooperated in "Fairy Tales of Youth" and "Hero Era" works, and unlike Shi Liang, although Xiao Feng also valued his career, he was more family-oriented and very careful and considerate.
In addition, in life, Xiao Feng not only cared for Cong Shan, but also treated Cong Shan's son as a son.
After a long time of love, the two held hands to form a happy family, and they have loved each other so far.
If cong shan's first half of life was full of separation, then Xiao Feng became her destination, hoping that this former "Li Xiuzhi" could grow old with her "Xu Lingjun" and love and happiness.