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In 1938, after the release of the large-scale Soviet revolutionary historical film "The Dawn of the Great Land", Stalin smiled after watching the actor Grovanni who played himself in the film:
"I didn't expect me to be so handsome and attractive when I was younger, which was good."
Later, films such as "Lenin in October" and "The Great Dawn" were introduced to China, and Chinese people saw the revolutionary leader played by an actor on the big screen for the first time.
Twenty years later, we also began to have special actors who played leaders, and among the older generation of artists, Gu Yue, Wang Tiecheng, and Sun Feihu were called the "Golden Triangle of Special Actors".
Gu Yue, who played the great Mao Zedong up to 84 times in his life, whether inside or outside the play, he looked like Chairman Mao, and in the face of Lu Qi, a friend who played Liu Shaoqi, he once said:
"I have only played Chairman Mao alone in my life, and I must act the best, and I must act in 100 films of the Chairman."
Gu Yue plays Chairman Mao
Mr. Wang Tiecheng, who plays Premier Zhou Enlai, should be regarded as China's first special actor, and he played Zhou Enlai on the drama stage before he went on the screen.
Later, when he starred in the movie "Zhou Enlai", in order to show the image of a great man who was emaciated in his later years, he desperately lost weight, and his wife was afraid of his physical problems, but the dedicated actor said:
"I can die, but I can't act well."
After the film was released, because of his outstanding acting skills and god-like appearance, he was unanimously recognized by the audience, and many viewers even thought that he was Premier Zhou.
Wang Tiecheng plays Premier Zhou
Compared with Gu Yue and Wang Tiecheng, who are willing to play leading figures all their lives, Sun Feihu, who plays Chiang Kai-shek, has never wanted to become a "special actor" who only plays one role.
In order to broaden the path of drama, he made several films in succession in his later years.
However, what people really remember is his role as Chiang Kai-shek, who won the Golden Rooster Award in 1980 after filming the movie "Xi'an Incident", and almost always played Chairman Chiang Kai-shek in his acting career for more than 20 years since then.
Sun Feihu plays Chairman Jiang
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In 1964, after graduating from the acting department of the Shanghai Theater Academy, 23-year-old Sun Feihu went to the Guizhou Repertory Theatre as a drama actor.
During the years of performing on the same stage, he met his later wife, Dai Huiyao, and more interestingly, Dai Huiyao also played Song Meiling. The two are also a couple on the screen.
In 1981, at the invitation of Cheng Yin, the director of the North Film Studio, Sun Feihu played Chiang Kai-shek for the first time in the movie "Xi'an Incident", and the opponent with him was Mao Zedong, played by Gu Yue.
To play the leader, he has worked hard, in addition to the appearance of some similarities with historical figures, the creation of makeup artists also makes him more similar, but how to look like god, still depends on himself.
The first is to watch the historical photos of the chairman of the committee in various periods and the relevant documentaries taken before liberation, from which to capture his unique habitual movements.
Movie "Xi'an Incident"
For example, Chiang Kai-shek used to look left and right everywhere he went, and when he lectured, he would swing the fist of his right hand from top to bottom, and he also liked to point his cane to the east and the west.
The second was to interview people familiar with Chiang Kai-shek, who had made a special trip to Chengdu to visit a former Kuomintang lieutenant general who had revolted during the Battle of Huaihai, because the two had worked together at the same officer academy.
The lieutenant general had this to say about Chiang:
"Chairman Jiang walks with great spirit, his waist is straight, and as a graduate of the Japanese Non-Commissioned Officer School, he pays great attention to military appearance and discipline, and he rarely laughs, and when he treats people and objects, his eyes are cold and sharp, and that look can sometimes make a person look at the hair, which is daunting."
Through the capture and reflection of these subtle details of the characters, Sun Feihu firmly grasped the character characteristics of the characters.
After the release of the film "Xi'an Incident", the screen image of Chiang Kai-shek played by Sun Feihu has made breakthrough achievements, and in the hearts of the older generation of audiences, Chiang Kai-shek is him, he is Chiang Kai-shek.
Film "Xi'an Incident"
Through his performances, those ugly and demeaning meanings are no longer the focus, but a more objective and fair statement of history, he changed people's stereotypes of negative characters in people's minds, and made this historical figure a flesh-and-blood, real and credible "living person".
With this film, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 2nd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema.
Then, out of control, he became a professional who played Chiang Kai-shek.
Among them, there is "The Great Thief of Tanglin", which tells the story of the warlords' scuffles, and "Weiwei Kunlun", which tells the story of Hu Zongnan's attack on the northern Shaanxi base area and the central government's withdrawal from Yan'an.
There are also historical blockbusters "The Founding Ceremony", "Chongqing Negotiations" all the way to "The Great Turning Point", etc., although they all play Chiang Kai-shek, but in the play, different historical periods, different war backgrounds, and unused opponents, his performances are all different.
It is this amazing acting skill that has won him many awards.
Chongqing Negotiations
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And his image on the screen naturally spread to Taiwan, and the Chiang family was very concerned about the image of the chairman of the committee created by Sun Feihu, especially Chiang Kai-shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo, and some people asked him if he played like his father.
He nodded, "It's so similar, even the back of his head."
The back of the head is like this, which is enough to show the recognition of the Jiang family.
Later, after the film "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" was released in Taiwan, it was not Sun Feihu who played Chiang Kai-shek in the film, but another excellent special actor, Zhao Hengduo, who created every image of Chiang Kai-shek to be very glorious and left a deep impression on the audience.
However, the distributor insisted on changing the name of Chiang Kai-shek's actor to Sun Feihu, and Sun Feihu did not understand why, it turned out that only Chiang Kai-shek, played by Sun Feihu, was recognized in Taiwan.
In the past 20 years, he has played dozens of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, and when it comes to his feelings as a special actor of Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Sun Feihu replied very seriously:
"People say I'm like Chiang Kai-shek, but I never felt like me before I played this role. But since the movie "Xi'an Incident" played Chiang Kai-shek, it has been out of control. ”
Chiang Kai-shek, played by Sun Feihu
However, although the play is a leading figure, but always a supporting role, compared to playing the main role in the play, will there be a gap in the heart?
Old Mr. Sun Feihu also answered this question:
"Safflower needs green leaves, and if I want to play green leaves, I have to line the safflowers even more red... Artistically speaking, it is not divided into the main supporting roles, everyone is performing, creating, and doing a good job in their own position is the most important. ”
As an old artist, Mr. Sun Lao's insight can be said to have taught the current young actors a vivid lesson.
In fact, it is not an easy task for a special actor to play a person all the time, because the role he plays really has his own person in history, not the general fictional character can have more free space to play, and the actor must make the audience recognize that you are this real historical figure through his own performance.
However, even after 20 years of acting in Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Sun Feihu always dislikes being called a "special actor", and he does not want to be a person who can only play one role, which will make him lose his creativity, which is sad.
Since 2000, Sun Feihu has rarely played Chiang Kai-shek again.
"When I'm older, I'm blessed, and I don't look like it anymore." He believes that "actors should be responsible for the audience, and they should be responsible for the past film and television image." ”
It was an era of individual talents, and after Sun Feihu, excellent actors such as Chen Daoming and Zhao Hengduo emerged to play Chairman Jiang.
For Chiang Kai-shek portrayed by other actors, Sun Feihu once commented:
"Chen Daoming has a special character in his performance, but Taishu is angry, Chiang Kai-shek is from the ranks and has domineering spirit; Zhao Hengduo is good, but unfortunately his domineering spirit is not enough."
For this remark, as a veteran artist who has been filming for more than 20 years and acting in dozens of films and TV series of Chiang Kai-shek, it is indeed qualified.
Chen Daoming plays Chairman Jiang
In 1997, after the launch of "General Zhang Xueliang", Sun Feihu used chiang kai-shek, whom he played in this TV series, from the age of 40 until his death, as his "box-sealing drama".
In order to get out of the shadow of "Chiang Kai-shek", Mr. Sun Lao seized the opportunity to play zeng guofan in the 50-episode costume drama "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" directed by Chen Jialin, becoming the first actor in the film and television industry to play Zeng Guofan.
In order to get closer to the character and enter the heart of the character, Sun Feihu read a lot of books about Zeng Guofan and family letters, and the final artistic effect was amazing.
Zeng Guofan
In 2014, Mr. Sun Feihu died of illness in Xi'an at the age of 73.
Since the 1970s and 1980s, the most popular performing artist, who played Chiang Kai-shek, has not been widely recognized.
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