In October 1936, a lovely girl was born in an ordinary family in Laizhou, Shandong, she was Shi Shugui.
As a girl, Shi Shugui migrated to the far northeast with her parents and spent her childhood in Harbin. After graduating from high school, she was admitted to Harbin Architectural Engineering School to study Xi architecture, and began her youthful years.
Shi Shugui was born with bright eyes and bright teeth, and has a slender and light body. During her school years, she was fortunate to join the school dance team with her outstanding appearance and passion for performing arts, and since then she has started her fate with stage arts.
In 1959, Shanghai Film Studio selected and formed an actor troupe nationwide, and Shi Shugui, who was interested in the film career, successfully passed the selection and joined this big family, officially entering the ranks of professional film actors.
It was a time when the art of cinema was booming, and Shanghai was the center of the film industry, with countless film talents. And Shi Shugui has also become a shining star in the film industry of that era.
She has beautiful long hair and beautiful facial features, like the reappearance of the movie goddess Shangguan Yunzhu, which fully meets the standards of screen beauties at that time. After joining Shanghai Film, she will usher in the golden period of her artistic career here, contributing outstanding acting skills to Chinese films.
In 1961, Shi Shugui participated in a sensational war-themed movie "Red Women's Army", which also became one of her representative works. The film is directed by the famous director Xie Jin and tells the story of a women's army during the Revolutionary War.
In the film, Shi Shugui played the role of female soldier Danzhu. Although she is only a supporting role, she used her sincere and moving acting skills to successfully portray the image of this cute and moving female soldier.
In particular, her energetic smile is full of youthful energy. In the only scenes, Shi Shugui showed excellent acting skills. She grasped the spiritual outlook of a Communist Party member, her eyes were firm, and her movements were simple.
The audience was impressed by the character. It can be said that the role of Danzhu became a highlight of Shi Shugui's early acting career. Although she didn't have many scenes, she successfully demonstrated her acting prowess and showed what a great movie actor she was.
This also established her position in the hearts of the audience. The success of "Red Detachment of Women" marks that Shi Shugui has grown into a mature actor. In this movie, she interpreted the vivid characters in the movie with youthful passion, and made her own contribution to the development of Chinese films.
However, despite her outstanding acting talent, Shi Shugui's film career is still full of regrets. Although she has the beauty of Shangguan Yunzhu and her acting skills are comparable to that of first-line actresses, she has never become a superstar or a leading actress in the film industry, which is indeed regrettable.
There are several reasons for this:
First of all, Shi Shugui's appearance and temperament are too glamorous and elegant, and there is some distance from the image of "workers, peasants and soldiers" needed for film publicity at that time, so it is difficult to get more starring opportunities.
Secondly, she can only play supporting roles in many movies, and rarely has the opportunity to play the leading role to fully show her acting skills. Even if he occasionally starring, the topic selection is not mainstream and it is difficult to attract attention.
Moreover, Shi Shugui's acting skills are introverted and deep, and she does not choose an exaggerated performance route to steal the scene, so she is often ignored by the audience and fails to penetrate into the hearts of the people.
In the end, the prime of her acting career coincided with the downturn in the development of the film industry, and she missed the best opportunity to become a top superstar in commercial films.
Despite all the regrets, we still have to see that in that era, Shi Shugui created different vivid roles on the screen with her enthusiasm, and she contributed sincere and moving acting skills to Chinese films, which can not be erased by any regrets.
With the passage of time, Shi Shugui gradually faded out of the sight of the film industry. At the age of 55, she completed her performance in her last movie "I'm going to Marry You", marking the end of her acting career.
Soon after, she immigrated to Australia with her husband Shi Jiufeng and started a new life.
In the blink of an eye, the actress who was once a brilliant film industry has passed her eightieth birthday, and she has not been heard from at all, and I don't know if she is okay. We don't know if she is still living in Australia and enjoying her retirement healthy and happy.
After all, it has been dozens of years since I left Shanghai for a foreign country. Whether Shi Shugui still remembers the bits and pieces of the film industry back then, and whether she will revisit the movies she participated in, is unknown.
We can only remember the actress who once shined on the screen through the film image she left behind. She used her youth and passion to interpret popular roles, enriching the connotation of Chinese films.
Although it has faded out of sight now, those classic fragments are still vivid in our minds and worthy of being remembered forever. I hope that Shi Shugui, who is in a foreign land, is still enjoying life healthy and happy, and her smile is still bright. The moving youth in those movie pictures is forever frozen in the pages of history.
Shi Shugui is a representative of talented actresses in the development of Chinese films. It is necessary for us to revisit her films and remember her outstanding contributions to the Chinese film industry.
She has touched generations of moviegoers with her sincere and delicate acting skills, and every screen role she plays is so vivid. We must not let these wonderful film images be lost in the long river of history, but we must preserve and disseminate them well, so that more people can remember her works.
At the same time, we should also pay attention to and support the older generation of filmmakers who have made important contributions to the development of Chinese films and are little known. Whether they end up becoming famous or not, they light up page after page of the movie with their passion.
It is worth learning from Xi our hearts and minds for their selfless dedication to the film industry. In the new era, Chinese films also need to absorb the essence of their predecessors, inherit their spirit, and shine more brilliantly with a new look.
Finally, I sincerely wish Ms. Shi Shugui, who has gone through 80 wonderful years, to continue to enjoy the joy of family healthily and happily. She is like a flower in the history of cinema that never withers, always fragrant.
In the turbulent era, Shi Shugui used her youthful passion to light up a corner of Chinese films. Although her film career was full of regrets and failed to become a superstar, she still left a brilliant mark.
She has a beautiful appearance comparable to Shangguan Yunzhu, and her restrained acting skills are unforgettable. Representative works such as "Red Detachment of Women" show people her extraordinary acting skills.
Although most of them are only supporting roles, every screen role she plays with her heart moves the audience.
The times have made many outstanding filmmakers of the older generation pay a heavy price, but their spirit is always worth learning from Xi. No matter what the final direction is, they have lit up the development process of Chinese films with enthusiasm.
Now, Shi Shugui is in her prime, enjoying the joy of family. Those classic movie shots have become a footnote to history, worthy of our memory and inheritance. Chinese films also need to absorb the essence of their predecessors and write a more brilliant chapter.