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There is such a director, she has served as a director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for many years, and she has produced many comedy stars in the sketches she has handled, and she is recognized as a "star-making" expert; But at the peak of her career, she suffered another blow from breast cancer and struggled with the disease for months, and she was Lou Naiming - what was her legendary life like, and what was her current situation?
A talented creator who has accumulated a lot of money and became famous at a young age
In the 80s of the last century, after experiencing the creative pressure of a special period, a number of new works emerged in the drama circles of the mainland, so that the creators and audiences who could only face "model operas" for a period of time found new hope. At the same time, awards for drama creators and performers have also emerged.
Speaking of which, I have to mention Lou Naiming, a talented rookie director in the drama industry - in the Golden Crow Awards held for the first time in 1984 and the Golden Lion Award for Drama held for the first time in 1988, Lou Naiming was selected in the list of best director winners, which is undoubtedly the highest praise for a new director.
At that time, Lou Naiming had frequent masterpieces in the field of drama, in addition to the award-winning "Double Romance", "Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei", etc., she directed "When We Fell in Love, We Don't Understand Love" from the drama industry all the way to the screen, so that many audiences in front of the TV also knew the director.
Lou Naiming's success is by no means an "accident" or "coincidence", but is actually the result of her accumulation. Speaking of Lou Naiming's drama career, it starts with her relationship with the identity of a "drama actor" when she was young. She has shown a strong love for opera and drama since she was a child, and when children of the same age like to get together to play, Lou Naiming prefers to run to the theater and the stage.
She watched the wonderful performances of the actors on stage day by day, although she was not very old, she already vaguely had her own understanding of "performance". Lou Naiming graduated from high school at the age of 15 and entered the Guangdong Provincial Drama Theatre, and her early performances were also concentrated during this time.
It is worth mentioning that Lou Naiming's attitude towards acting is not like that of young beginners, many new actors will pursue "protagonists" or roles that look more "glamorous", she pursues a more pure, standing on stage and enjoying the performance - this leads to her playing "old lady" type roles in many dramas that no one wants to choose.
From this incident, it can be seen that although Lou Naiming is still young, he seems to have his own understanding of drama. Her artistic career starts as an actress, but it does not end with a simple "stage", her ideal is a broader world of "director", and she aspires to be the one who manages the audience and conveys her ideas more accurately and intuitively to the audience.
After the resumption of the national college entrance examination, 28-year-old Lou Naiming was finally successfully admitted to the Central Academy of Drama and became one of the 18 people admitted to the directing department nationwide that year. The workload and complexity of the work of a drama director are beyond the imagination of many audiences who are not familiar with this field.
First of all, they are responsible for interpreting the script and finalizing the idea; then to divide the paragraphs and determine the stage events; then communicate with the actors to build the character image; It is also necessary to organize the rhythm and scheduling of this drama. It is not easy for Lou Naiming to receive rave reviews in the industry.
According to the feedback of the staff around him, Lou Naiming has a very accurate grasp of the script and scenes, and when the actors forget their words and remember the wrong moving line during rehearsals, Lou Naiming can always react and remind the actors as soon as possible, and truly make everyone listen to her scheduling and arrangement convincingly.
With such a talented director, the development will naturally not stop at the various performance activities of the art troupe - in 1994, Lou Naiming successfully served as the chief director of the sketch program of the Spring Festival Gala. Lou Naiming, who lived up to expectations, took out "Yang Bailao and Huang Shiren" directed and participated in on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in the second year after taking office, giving the audience a surprise.
This story from the classic drama "The White-Haired Girl" was analyzed and recreated by Lou Naiming through his own profound skills, and was put on the stage of a few minutes sketch for the national audience, not only did not "destroy the classics", but became a classic on the sketch stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
She got along with her husband and successfully defeated the disease
Lou Naiming's achievements in her career are continuous, and the outside world not only pays more attention to her work, but also cares about her personal life. This is not only the major media, but even Lou Naiming's parents have urged her to find a partner, and Lou Naiming ridiculed the past with an optimistic and relaxed attitude.
Because Lou Naiming is a big grinning and laughing character in life and work, and has been ridiculed by his classmates as "Lou Ye" since he went to college, in the face of the urging of his parents and the outside world, Lou Naiming also smiled and joked with his nickname: "Who dares to find a 'master'?" ”
It is worth mentioning that Lou Naiming did not "hate to marry" or despair of love because she was getting older, she always retained her initial enthusiasm for love. This made her and Sun Wenju, who was seven years younger than herself, officially get the certificate in 1992, and the move of entering the palace of marriage seemed "incredible" and very in line with her consistent "personality".
The two of them were only colleagues in the art troupe before, Lou Naiming was a director, and Sun Wenju was a dancer. At the beginning of the marriage of the two, there were also discussions in the outside world: they were nothing more than questions about the age and status of the two parties.
However, the lovers have always had their own rhythm from love to marriage, which makes the gossip from the outside world not hurt them in the slightest. Lou Naiming was busy with work and didn't pay much attention to his life, so Sun Wenju took the initiative to take care of the housework.
He is full of understanding and support for his wife's work, not only did he not oppose or affect Lou Naiming's directorial work, but let Lou Naiming have no "worries" in the family, only "logistics support", which requires deep love and respect for his lover to do, I believe this is also the reason why the two came together.
Time came to 1999, this year Lou Naiming was busy with the director of the Spring Festival Gala as usual, but what everyone didn't expect was that just a few days later, Lou Naiming was diagnosed with breast cancer.
According to Lou Naiming's recollection, at that time, the doctor asked her to avoid it first, and she also thought to herself, "How can it be like making a movie", thinking that this was the doctor's fuss. But immediately after a phone call from the deputy head of the art troupe, telling her that the checks needed for hospitalization and surgery would be sent immediately, she felt a bolt from the blue: she was really diagnosed with breast cancer.
From this day on, Lou Naiming was admitted to the hospital for treatment. And her husband Sun Wenju also took pots and pans to "settle down" in the hospital from the first day she was hospitalized, and became the escort of her ward, cooking for his wife every day;
The psychology of patients is always complex and heavy, up and down, especially in the face of the real word "cancer", even Lou Naiming's cheerful personality was really low for a long time at the beginning. During this period, her husband Sun Wenju took the initiative to take on the mental and practical pressure, and encouraged Lou Naiming again and again, so that she could regain a strong mentality to face the illness.
In fact, as Lou Naiming's lover, Sun Wenju's heart will definitely not be less heavy - once in the signing session of the family before the treatment operation, Sun Wenju's nervous hands trembled, and he couldn't even see the signature pen in front of him, and asked the doctor to sign the pen, and the anxious and uneasy mood can be seen.
After Lou Naiming was hospitalized, many of the comedians and staff who worked with her came to see her. There were no gloom clouds in her hospital room, only laughter. The herd said with admiration that the person who can "make the sick grin" is none other than Lou Naiming.
He has dedicated his entire career to the arts and is still active today
As the saying goes, "adversity sees true love", during this time, Lou Naiming and Sun Wenju not only did not have emotional dislikes, but the two hearts became closer, and this experience became the best proof of their relationship. Eventually, Lou Naiming overcame the disease, and after undergoing a mastectomy and several chemotherapy treatments, she was officially cured and discharged from the hospital in 2001.
Moreover, because Lou Naiming herself was a person who had struggled with breast cancer, she had special feelings and care for breast cancer patients after being discharged from the hospital. She participated in lectures on breast cancer and patient gatherings, and did not shy away from talking about her experience of getting breast cancer and having her breasts removed, so as to encourage those patients to be active in treatment and look forward to the future.
After being discharged from the hospital, Lou Naiming was not only as enthusiastic about her work as before, but also still active in the creative field: after the millennium, she made an attempt in the field of TV dramas and received more praise. A "Sister Idler" is a comedy masterpiece that will be watched repeatedly by many audiences to this day.
Liu Xiaoqing, known as "Wu Zetian's professional household", appeared on the drama stage at the age of 62 to perform "Wu Zetian", and the director was Lou Naiming. Because Liu Xiaoqing has played the role of "Wu Zetian" in the TV series three times before, judging from the choice of repertoire alone, the public will not find it much novel.
But in the end, this drama "Wu Zetian" was able to achieve global performances and rave reviews, which is due to director Lou Naiming: she and the screenwriter team selected the most representative chapters of Wu Zetian's legendary life, "Monument, Pet, Buddha", etc., and successfully made the characters stand up within the scope of the drama stage.
At the end of the play, Wu Zetian removed his political opponents, but admitted to his cronies that there was another opponent who would defeat her, and that was "time and years". It is difficult for people who have not experienced the ups and downs of the years to look at life from this perspective, and I believe that there are many feelings of Lou Naiming.
In addition to the environmental influence of her childhood, another important reason for Lou Naiming's success in her career as a director and actor is that she is willing to devote herself to her work and really achieve the point of "forgetting to sleep and eat".
And her deep grasp of comedy is destined to be no lack of humor and liveliness in her life, and this sunny trait allows her to get along well with the actors, overcome the disease, and harvest the love of a lifetime, and stay with Sun Wenju until old age.
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