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After the release of the film "Everything About My Mother", many viewers who watched it cried bitterly.
Xu Fan's "Chinese-style mother" in the film is full of nagging, so that many people see the shadow of themselves and their mothers in life, and they have sighed: it is indeed "the same world, the same mother".
The film depicts a woman who can be called "perfect", Ji Peizhen.
Outside, she is an experienced geography teacher and was selected for the Chinese Antarctic expedition team when she was young. After struggling for many years on the three-foot podium, he was already full of peach and plum when he retired.
Inside, she is the "pillar" of the family, enduring the chicken feathers of life and handling the chores of large and small things.
The husband's work is not smooth, he is silent at home; the daughter cannot stand the strong control of the mother, and would rather be with the husband of the wife than come back; the mother-in-law suffers from Alzheimer's disease, the younger brother is a fool who has nothing to do, and he can achieve nothing in middle age...
In order for the family to function normally, Ji Peizhen was eager to divide herself into several parts, and she was stunned to live as an omnipotent steel warrior.
After retiring and thinking she could breathe a little relief, fate made a big joke again: she was diagnosed with cancer and her life entered the 4-month countdown.
But at this time, her biggest concern was not herself, but the family members who were not instrumental: what would they do if I died?
This is Ji Peizhen's life, this family has broken her heart, that impatient nagging, meticulous and orderly arrangement of everything for her family, real and close to life, and a sense of substitution.
And when she wore a beanie hat, sat on the hospital bed, and said to her daughter Xiaomei with tears in her smile, "Baby, my mother can't wait", it was instantly defensive.
There is a saying that Xu Fan's acting skills are too moving, there is no deliberate sensationalism but directly hit the heart, making people cry bitterly, worthy of being recognized as a "mother professional household".
From "Qingyi" and "Wrong Love" to "Tangshan Earthquake", from "1942" to the current "Everything About My Mother", Xu Fan has portrayed all kinds of mothers in film and television dramas, each of which is impressive enough, and the interpretation of true dedication can be called a teaching template.
Even years later, you'll still be blown away by her performance.
11 years ago, she played a mother Li Yuanni who lost her husband in the face of natural disasters and had to make difficult choices in "Tangshan Earthquake".
When she chose to save her son, she struggled, holding her daughter's "corpse" confused and helpless; for 32 years, she stubbornly guarded the ruins, and also guarded the thoughts and guilt of her daughter.
Years later, mother and daughter recognized each other, she trembled and knelt down to apologize, a heart-rending cry that made countless viewers tremble.
This is a role that needs to be "hollowed out" by itself, especially in the face of children's innocent performances, there is no trace of "acting", and it must be expressed word by word.
"I had to subtract for the character and suppress the emotions and not let them out. It was Xu Fan who released it, and it was Li Yuanni who pressed it down. ”
Reporters asked her: Would it be hard to act in such a play? Xu Fan's answer was unexpected: "Not at all, but I released it very freely, and it was particularly comfortable after release." ”
With this role, she shined at the award ceremony, not only nominated for the Golden Horse Award, the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress, but also the Huabiao Award for Outstanding Actress. At that time, Feng Xiaogang also praised her for "contributing the best performance in the industry".
In "Nineteen Forty-Two", Xu Fan once again challenged to play a suffocating role - Hua Zhi, a representative of a suffering mother.
She is stoic, affectionate and helpless to fate, willing to give up everything for the sake of her children.
On the way out, she even agreed to sell herself in exchange for food for her children to survive.
The mother flower branch in "Nineteen Forty-Two"
This may be Xu Fan's most "unrecognizable" image, gray-headed and embarrassed, but it is also the "most cherished role".
She integrated herself into it, and in a calm and restrained way, restored the feelings of a mother's powerlessness and sadness, although introverted, she directly poked the audience's heart, and she has since become an excellent representative of the "mother faction" actor.
For many actresses, once they are labeled as "mother professional households", it means that they have no connection with the young and beautiful "girl" role, but Xu Fan does not care.
She claims to be an actress without "youth", starting from "wife" and "mother" at the beginning, never trapped in the framework of age, and only willing to do everything to the extreme.
"In fact, I was originally a mother, and I will be upgraded to a grandmother in the future." When I was young, I was energetic and always made safflowers, and now it is also great to make green leaves. Moreover, one year old and one year old, playing a mother is also very happy. ”
In "Venus Show", Xu Fan once mentioned that Xiao Yanqiu in "Qingyi" was one of his most satisfactory characters.
Xiao Yanqiu became famous at a young age, but because she loved drama as her life, she was too obsessed with art to distinguish between stage and reality, which eventually led to an unfortunate tragedy.
Life is like a drama, maybe she should be like her husband Mian Gua said, "always be her Chang'e on the moon beautifully."
Xu Fan of "half man, half drama" is undoubtedly the best interpreter of Xiao Yanqiu. With a show of hands and feet, a crazy fool stood in front of him.
Stills from "Tsing Yi"
Xu Fan also admitted that there is an alternative fate between Xiao Yanqiu and himself: "Xiao Yanqiu has my shadow on her body, and the process of filming is like pouring out her previous life a little bit." Encountering such a role is a blessing for an actor. ”
You can see a lot of overlap in them.
Xu Fan was born in an artistic family, his parents are Chu opera actors, and he has had the opportunity to have close contact with the stage since he was a child. This small audience felt the thunderous applause at the end of the curtain offstage, and gradually had the idea of becoming an actor.
At the age of 12, she secretly learned Peking Opera behind her parents' back, singing, reading, doing, beating, kicking, and lowering her waist.
Although it was boring and hard, she enjoyed it and took the teacher's teachings to heart, because it was her own choice.
At that time, the living conditions were very poor, there was no stove in the dormitory in the winter, and the cold wind whistled into the house.
Once, Xu Fan was frozen cold, with a high fever of 40 ° C, a person lying alone on the bed, covered with 3 beds of quilts still cold and shivering.
She bit the quilt, suppressed tears, and constantly "brainwashed" herself: we must fight for a breath, as long as we survive this hurdle, everything will be fine.
But before she could learn, the Peking Opera Department suddenly disbanded, and the actor's road was already dusted before it could shine.
By chance, she switched to the Wuhan Repertory Theatre, from the dragon set to the protagonist, as long as there is an opportunity to act, she will seize it.
In just a few years, from newcomer Xiaobai to Taizhu, she gained a firm foothold in the troupe and also met the future nobleman - Yang Lixin.
With the encouragement of Yang Lixin, Xu Fan was successfully admitted to the performance class jointly organized by the Beijing People's Art Theater (hereinafter referred to as "Renyi") and Chinese Opera.
The students in this class are not good: Hu Jun, He Bing, Chen Xiaoyi, Jiang Shan, all of them are powerful factions.
Xu Fan (first from left)
The opportunity to learn is extremely precious, Xu Fan does not dare to slacken off, late-night rehearsals are commonplace, and the practice room has almost become her second dormitory. Persistence and dedication have made her acting skills more and more refined.
Upon graduation, she entered renyi with the mentality of "running for 5 years dragon set". Unexpectedly, she became the protagonist a week later, and her solid business ability made her no less inferior when she partnered with a big coffee like Pu Cunxin.
The first time Venus met Xu Fan, he was sitting under the stage of "Ruan Lingyu".
Although Xu Fan was young at that time, he was able to bring the audience into Ruan Lingyu's world step by step in the layered performance, and experience Ruan Lingyu's heartache and helplessness.
Years later, Venus also lamented on the show: "She is too good at acting, too emotional." ”
Xu Fan's version of "Ruan Lingyu"
"Ruan Lingyu" made Xu Fan win the plum blossom award, the highest award of Chinese drama, and also became the master of human art, playing almost all the heroines.
"Hamlet", "Cai Wenji", "Wotou Guild Hall", "Zhao Orphan", "Wilderness"... She challenged herself again and again on the drama stage and improved in continuous tempering.
The double material of Peking Opera and drama has made her aura and figure unique among actors, and has also become her secret weapon on the road of future actors.
Mention Xu Fan, you can't always get around Feng Xiaogang's name.
In September 1993, Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Di's marriage had come to an end.
Bored, Feng Xiaogang remembered Xu Fan. He had only met Xu Fan twice before, and that night, he made a phone call to Xu Fan, and someone picked it up before it rang a few times.
"Trouble, please find Me Xu Fan."
"No hassle, I am."
"You can never imagine who I am."
"You are Feng Xiaogang."
In the 90s, if Feng Dao recognized the second, the first fear was that no one dared to recognize it.
In the 1998 Lunar New Year film "Not Seen, Not Scattered", Xu Fan served as the female number one. Since then, more than half of the films directed by Feng Xiaogang have Xu Fan's figure, and she has also become the "royal Feng Girl" in everyone's mouth.
The following year, she officially became "Mrs. Feng".
I have to say that Xu Fan has always been a "woman with a story" under the lens of Feng Xiaogang.
In "A Sigh", she is the virtuous wife Song Xiaoying, who works hard and complains, and is hysterical because of her husband's cheating.
In "Not Seen, Not Scattered", she is a simple and lovely Beijing girl Li Qing, who meets Liu Yuan, the destiny nemesis, and the two are entangled with each other in the division and combination.
As the dinghai god needle in Feng's play, Xu Fan's superb acting skills can always immerse the audience in front of the screen. Even if it is not a starring actor, it can shine in the crowd.
In the words of Feng Xiaogang: "She is the best actress, don't let her catch up with the good play, as long as you walk the heart, the brew must be wine, and will never give you a glass of boiled water." ”
In "Only Yun Knows", Xu Fan plays the matchmaker Lin Tai, although the role is not much, but it is extremely brilliant.
At the newlywed hot pot feast of the male and female protagonists, she read her husband by drunkenness. Xu Fan in front of the camera choked up and trembled, "Why did you leave me alone... Thinking of him... Miss him. ”
Fingertips trembled, tears fell silently, and in just a few minutes they instantly infected people. Feng Xiaogang outside the camera couldn't help but blush and look at the monitor and burst into tears.
Leaving Feng Xiaogang's lens, Xu Fan's performance is also amazing.
In the "Wrong Love" cooperated with Feng Yuanzheng, she has always played a virtuous wife, incarnating as a perverted stepmother, showing a "degenerate history" from an "original professional household" to a "crazy third party".
Zhou Jiali, a young and beautiful female nurse, intervened in the feelings of the girlfriend, and after the little third took the throne, she faced the two children left by her husband, she tortured and abused as much as she could, and finally caused bitter fruit.
Stills from "Wrong Love"
"AnJiahe" plus "Zhou Jiali" is simply a double shadow of childhood.
And in "Yang Yu to My Home", she has become a bit of a "neurotic" makeup artist Wen Juan, using the strictest elite model to educate her daughter, although the Gu family works hard, but often ignores herself and lives as a greasy mother.
She can easily hold a variety of roles, without deliberately pursuing contrasts and breakthroughs, but conveying real emotions in a smile, so that the audience sincerely believes that this is a real character.
Xu Fan in "Emergency Landing"
Poisonous tongues such as Venus have praised her: "Who believes that Xu Fan's acting skills are not good?" No one in all of China will believe it. ”
In Xu Fan, you can easily find the characteristics of a good actor: you can bear the pressure, you can eat bitterly, and everything is only for the role.
Xu Fan is not the kind of prolific actor, more qualitative than quantitative.
She enjoys the process of filming, and the feeling of simple happiness is particularly fulfilling. She said that she only wanted to be a good actor, at all costs, only for the ultimate professionalism.
As one of the most box-office actresses in China, Xu Fan has always been inseparable from the entertainment industry. She does not like to play social platforms, and there is a "safety line" between her and the public.
Even in the "fast" era, you must live a slow and leisurely life at your own pace.
Someone asked her, how to divide acting and life?
She did not hesitate to sort: the first is life, the second is acting.
In her spare time, she loves to stay at home, has no desire to go shopping, and does not gather to drink and talk about the bustle of the mountains. Buy vegetables, cook, wash and shabu, go to the flower market to bargain to buy flowers, and decorate the home warmly and emotionally.
Occasionally, I will eat snacks, watch "Cherry Pills", and learn a few lines when I am interested.
For Xu Fan's simplicity, the most vocal Director Feng once "complained" in the program: it is really too difficult to surprise Xu Fan.
In her eyes, brand-name jewelry and bags may not be as attractive as the fresh melons and fruits of the wet market.
As a "patient" of modern home appliances multi-functional fear, she has only one requirement for electrical appliances - the necessary functions are good, too much trouble and waste.
When it comes to the secret recipe for maintaining youth, it is also too simple to do: washing your face only with soap, exercise is walking, as for how to maintain your figure - sleep more.
In Xu Fan's eyes, the simpler life is, the better. Perhaps because of this, there is always a sense of calmness in her, not bothered by trivialities, and everything goes naturally.
Despite the aunt's generation, there is the vitality and sunshine of young people, and this trait in the bones cannot be changed by age.
"I think blandness is the most interesting part of life, and some people may find it boring, but I enjoy it."
Looking back at Xu Fan's acting career, although he has not been popular, he can move the audience with his outstanding works every time he appears.
She is at ease in different roles, can control the stage, and has more respect for the stage.
Filming well when filming, and living a good life when she returns home, is the "way of survival" that she insists on.
"In life I can be like a worm, and it doesn't matter if I don't get noticed. But on the stage, I must be like a dragon and emit my own light. As long as the audience can remember the characters, it doesn't matter at all whether they remember Xu Fan or not. ”
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