Sometimes I really wonder if there are actors in this world who live only to interpret one character all their lives.
For example, Chen Xiaoxu, and then Huang Wanqiu.
On March 4, Huang Wanqiu, the first generation of China's top idols, passed away, and fans called her Liu Sanjie.
In the 60s of last century, the mainland wanted to make a movie based on Guangxi folklore based on "Song Immortal Liu Sanjie", and 17-year-old Huang Wanqiu was elected the heroine.
The production team of "Liu Sanjie" is extremely powerful: head screenwriter Qiao Yu, top musician Lei Zhenbang, and top director Su Li.
The best script, with the most talented actors, "Liu Sanjie" was broadcast and became popular at home and abroad.
At that time, star chasing relied on writing letters, and Huang Wanqiu's fans were as young as six or seven years old and as old as 100 years old, and the letters written to her had to be packed in sacks.
She went on tour abroad, and a centenarian waited for her at the airport for five or six hours, just to ask for a group photo; There was a crazy iron fan who brushed the movie 99 times.
The top resources are good, and Huang Wanqiu has filmed a lot of scenes later, but she is not satisfied with her performance. She feels like "Liu Sanjie".
In the special period, people criticized Liu Sanjie, Huang Wanqiu suffered the loss of the role and was sent down for 15 years, but she had no regrets.
Once rehabilitated, she continued to inherit Liu Sanjie's culture——
She founded Liu Sanjie Art Troupe and Liu Sanjie Group Company; Participated in the investment in the construction of "Liu Sanjie Landscape Park", and re-choreographed the large-scale national song and dance drama "Song Immortal Liu Sanjie".
She even persuaded her family to train her descendants to become the inheritors of the "Liu Sanjie" culture, her daughter is called Xiaoqiu, and her two granddaughters named Ruqiu and Yuqiu, both follow her old path.
When Chen Xiaoxu finished performing "Dream of Red Mansions", he gave his body to Lin Daiyu; And Huang Wanqiu finished performing "Liu Sanjie" and dedicated her life to Liu Sanjie.
On February 19, Huang Wanqiu left her last words, saying that she would go to heaven to spread songs. Even if she goes to Tianwai, she still wants to be Liu Sanjie.
Nowadays, stars with acting skills in the entertainment industry are called "drama bones", and they have to be called old drama bones at the age of fifty, with Huang Wanqiu's age, achievements, standards and professionalism, the word drama bone is too light, she should be called "drama essence".
In addition to her, in the past year or so, internal entertainment has lost too many "drama essences", all of which are treasures in the literary and art circle, and one less is missing.
Their departure has left many people with lost links with childhood, dimming the memories of adolescence, and infinitely regretting them.
In June last year, Lan Tianye passed away, and the legend of the legend left us forever.
He gave the post-70s, post-80s and post-90s generations a common memory, he was a top actor, a director, a painter, a teacher, a major of the Kuomintang, and an underground worker of our party.
Lan Tianye, formerly known as Wang Runsen, was born in 1927 in a family in Dahu, Hebei, and was admitted to the famous art school - National Beiping College of Art at the age of 17.
At that time, the most progressive student group was the spark that spread patriotic ideas, and Lan Tianye also followed the students to do revolution. The organization asked him to act in dramas, and he became a drama actor.
On the stage, he is an 18-year-old handsome man with a jade tree and a starry eyebrow.
Privately, he was responsible for transmitting supplies and information between the National Unification and Liberated Areas, and his home was the underground party liaison point.
In order to preserve the flame of the revolution, he was transferred to the second drama team managed by the Kuomintang and lived a stimulating latent life. While playing mahjong with his superiors, secretly transferring his own comrades is his daily life.
He rose step by step, reaching the rank of major of the Kuomintang, and only in 1948 did he withdraw to the Liberated Areas and change his name to "Blue Sky Ye".
In 1952, 25-year-old Lan Tianye joined the Beijing People's Art Theater and slowly became a pillar of human art.
He is Zeng Wenqing in "Beijinger", Qin Zhongyi in "Tea House", and Dong Qi in "Cai Wenji". He stood on stage for 34 years and performed 374 times.
He also studied to be a director and exported the super word-of-mouth drama "Wu Wang Jinge Yue Wang Jian", but was forced to stop due to political issues.
Pu Cunxin mentioned Lan Tianye and said, "He is a pure artist. ”
Pure artists, on the other hand, do not have a pure artistic environment.
In 1987, Lan Tianye took the initiative to retire. Do not act, do not direct, do not watch, and are completely insulated from the drama.
He said in an interview with Yang Lan: "I want to do it seriously, but if I can't do it, I just can't do it well." So, I might as well not do it. ”
He was probably completely sad.
Fortunately, he still has a lot to do.
He went to shoot TV series, "Longing" and "Feng Shen List", becoming the best Jiang Ziya.
He picked up his brush again and was quite accomplished.
He photographed, played billiards, taught, fished, and caught dolls. At the age of 92, he can still appear on variety shows and wear on the stage of "National Treasure".
At the age of 94, he participated in the drama "Home" again, performing for 3 and a half hours and performing 11 consecutive performances.
At the age of 95, he could not act again because he left the world in this year.
Hopefully, there will be a bigger stage for him in another world, and hopefully his audience will always remember his name.
But remember, never call him a master.
Because he said that he should raise two dogs, one called Master and the other called Taidou.
That year, Chen Kaige made the movie "The Legend of the Demon Cat", with mixed reputation, but one of the roles was unanimously praised.
It was an elderly palace maid. She sat there, spoke the lines for two minutes, and the audience's hearts were said to be old.
The palace maid was played by Qin Yi, who was 95 years old at the time.
Last May, the centenarian passed away.
She has acted in dramas all her life, but the ups and downs of life are more embarrassing than any drama.
She was born in 1922, was born beautiful, was recruited into the film industry at the age of 16, and soon became one of the four famous dramas. At that time, Mr. Zhou praised her as "the most beautiful woman in China".
She has a huge fan group, and the university scholar Zhui Bozan, top male stars Jin Shan, Zhao Dan, and Chen Tianguo all like her. But she was still young and didn't know love.
One day at the age of 17, Chen Tianguo stood on the top of the mountain, threatened by jumping off a cliff, and forced Qin Yi to marry, she was ignorant and afraid, and she was confused.
On the second day after marriage, Chen Tianguo got drunk and beat her violently, kicking off the tragedy of the life of "the most beautiful woman in China".
Actor Chen Tianguo
Married for five years, Chen Tianguo is not drunk and domestic violence. When he wanted to give his infant daughter away, Qin Yi finally decided to divorce, and the tragedy of life entered the second act.
Three years after the divorce, Qin Yi remarried, and her second husband was even more outrageous.
The second husband is called Jin Yan, a movie king-level figure, who talked about Ruan Lingyu, loved Wang Renmei, divorced and married Qin Yi again.
The two had a brief affection and gave birth to their son "Little Brother". Qin Yi thought that he had to meet a good person, who knew that the blood of the dog was splashed, and he was amorous and hateful since ancient times.
Jin Yan cheated - it is said that the target is Qin Yi's own sister and has a child. He is determined not to divorce and live a small life outside.
In 1962, he suffered stomach bleeding after alcoholism, was paralyzed in bed, and returned to his family - Qin Yi took care of him for more than 20 years.
In 1965, the tragedy of the third act occurred. The 16-year-old brother was frightened and developed schizophrenia. At the time of the onset, the six relatives did not recognize it, and punched and kicked the mother.
Soon after, Qin Yi suffered from bowel cancer and had surgery seven times in his life.
At the age of 61, she sent away her husband Jin Yan, and at the age of 85, her son and younger brother died. In her later years, she was alone.
Many years later, Lu Yu interviewed Qin Yi and lamented that her fate was so bad that she didn't know how she survived.
Maybe it's because of work.
Qin Yi said: "If I don't work, I won't live now." ”
She has interpreted countless roles in her life, saying that the beauty has no drama to shoot in middle age, but she has become a "sister-in-law" professional and has evolved the role into the hearts of the national audience.
In her 70s, she also frequently participated in TV series, and in her 90s, she insisted on writing scripts every day. At the age of 93, she personally wrote and starred in the movie "Qinghai Lakeside".
She and the crew climbed the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters and filmed for three months. The conditions are difficult, and she is as happy as a glutton.
It is difficult to get rid of the flowers, and the poor flying flops are too floating.
In Qin Yi's life, the scenery on the stage is infinite, and the mud under the stage is unbearable. Work is the driftwood when she drowns, her only salvation, so she gives back to the screen with all the enthusiasm of her life, becoming a flower that can only bloom on stage.
She is the most bitter dramatist, a hundred years of life, a lifetime of sighing.
Actors acting, and the highest praise black word is called "Fengsheng". But in reality, there seems to be only one actor who has been "canonized" by the public - Lu Shuming.
That year, he played Guan Yu in "Three Kingdoms".
Lu Shuming, an ordinary handsome guy born in an ordinary family, worked as an actor in the Xi'an Drama Theater in the early years, and later successfully auditioned in the crew of "Three Kingdoms" and played Guan Yu.
"Three Kingdoms" began filming in the early nineties, known as "the most expensive national drama", spending 170 million yuan, repairing landscapes and building cities, renting horses and boats, costumed horses, grass and wood sets, and no details were fine.
The money is still not enough. The crew can't be bitter art, can only suffer actors, Lu Shuming has been in the crew for more than three years, eating no meat and no money.
Once I was really hungry, the three Taoyuan brothers went to the farmland to steal corn, and after being caught, they couldn't lose a penny.
Even food and drink are not guaranteed, but no one complains, all the staff are fully committed, and Lu Shuming is even acting to the devil.
He is plastered with lines on the four walls of the room, and he must go out of the house every day except for three meals, and he will face the wall at other times and figure out his acting skills.
Kneeling, standing, strolling, he chanted words in a daze, gestured with his hands, and twisted his body.
When it is time to put on makeup, Guan Gong has to hang his eyes, the conditions are limited, the makeup artist directly glues his eyelids with latex, and then tears them hard when removing makeup.
Day by day, the corners of Lu Shuming's eyes blistered and suppurated, and when he finished it, he left permanent scars on his face.
He acted on the river beach, fell off a horse and was injured, and his thigh abscess caused him to be unable to move for a month, and he did not go to the hospital, only receiving treatment in the crew. Tens of centimeters of steel needles pierced the side of the bone, sucked pus, he cried out in pain, and as soon as the injury healed, he got on the horse again.
A talented and hard-working actor, when he meets the right role, there will be a chemical reaction. After a few scenes were filmed, the entire crew recognized: Lu Shuming is Guan Gong.
Every time Lu Shuming filmed, as soon as he appeared, the "soldiers" in the audience shouted in unison: "General Guan has arrived~"
Before filming "Guan Yun Chang defeated Maicheng", the sky was snowing, Lu Shuming remembered what happened to Guan Gong, and knelt in the snow with tears flowing. When I turned around, I saw the "soldiers" all over the mountains kneeling in the snow.
Later, when the people in the neighborhood saw him, they bowed their heads and bowed down.
When the TV series was broadcast, he was surprised to find that even the Guan Gong sculptures in many temples looked more and more like himself.
Guan Yu achieved Lu Shuming, but also limited his career development, since then it is difficult for him to take on the play, it is easy to be on "Journey to the West", and he can only wear a hood to play the bull demon king.
Forced to make a living, he later accepted apprentices to set up the "Lu Family Class" and be Guan Yu for a lifetime.
When he endorsed the game and starred in the online drama, the scolding came like a tide.
He never responded, and he had a lot to do, live streaming to help farmers, donate to fight disasters, and advocate for his hometown. As long as the public welfare needs, Lu Jiaban will appear for free.
He also has to take care of the "younger brother" -
Li Jingfei, who played Zhang Fei, was bedridden due to three consecutive cerebral infarctions, his wife was scattered. He found a Chinese medicine physiotherapy for his third brother, sent him to a nursing home, raised funds for him, and brought Li Jingfeihuan to life.
After Lu Shuming died, the people around him did not dare to tell Li Jingfei's second brother's death. But Li Jingfei had already noticed it, and not long after, he also left with his second brother, becoming the most unpleasant CP for the audience this year.
Off the screen, "Guan Yu" ended, and the magnificent life of a "righteous" dramatist ended here.
In fact, nostalgia for the drama is also a sad thing. Audiences miss the opera masters not only for their excellence and legend, but also because they have no successors.
Nowadays, not only can we not find actors who can inherit a character culture with a lifetime, but even find a dedicated young actor is a little difficult, think about the embarrassing acting skills of today's little flowers and small fresh meat, the audience can't stand it, and the older generation of actors can't stand it.
There was a video circulating on the Internet of the collapse of the old drama bone for small fresh meat: the old drama bone Zhang Guangbei, Lv Bu in "Three Kingdoms" back then, was surprised to find that the actor no longer appeared after starting the film, and hired 30 stand-ins to help him complete the work.
Zhang Guangbei was shocked, thinking that back then, his "colleagues" included but were not limited to: Lu Shuming, who was disfigured by Guan Yu, Tang Guoqiang, who read Zhuge Liang's "Compendium of Materia Medica", and Sun Yanjun, who cried out of illness in order to play Liu Bei...
Look at today's children, this and this...
But no criticism. Pu Cunxin said: "Don't criticize other people's children, other children's children play." ”
At that time, Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy" laughed all over the country, and everyone felt that the extras who didn't want to die were a little too hard, and the way he held the book was funny.
Now when I watch "The King of Comedy", I only feel ironic. There are still a few actors in the world who are trying to study "how to die better", and everyone just wants to make money.
After the death of those actors who truly dedicated themselves to their acting careers, their spirit also became antiques.
Today's actors enjoy the honor and preferential treatment that the older generation of actors cannot match, but they step on the responsibility.
It seems that the requirements for actors are infinitely reduced, as long as you go to the crew on time and memorize your own lines, you can become a "dedicated" actor who is crazy and sought after.
A big country, abundant talents, there will be countless good scripts in the future. Now there are still some elites in the entertainment industry, but in another ten years, how many people can catch it?
How many people can really understand that meme: the self-cultivation of actors.