June 27, 2020 at 21:07 PM
Famous film performance artist Yu Lan
Died in Beijing
He died on December 31, 2012 at the age of 9
Yu Lan, whose original name was Yuwen, was born in Xiuyan, Liaoning in 1921. Because she played the role of Sister Jiang in the film history classic "Eternal Life in the Fire", she is well known to generations of audiences. On the screen, she has also played zhou lian, a revolutionary mother in "Revolutionary Family", Cheng Niangzi in "Longsugou", and a widow Zhang in "Lin Family Shop".
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△ Sister Jiang played by Yu Lan
She also has many dazzling halos on her body, such as "the most beautiful strivers", one of the "22 movie stars" in New China, and the winner of the Golden Rooster Award Lifetime Achievement Award.
△ Yu Lan plays Cheng Niangzi
"Forget me as an actor,
Always remember Sister Jiang"
In 1965, the movie "Eternal Life in the Fire" was released, and countless viewers were touched by the character of Jiang Jie, played by Yu Lan, and wrote letters to Yu Lan to express their respects to her.
And Yu Lan believes that this is an honor that belongs to a role, not only does she not look like Sister Jiang in image, but she cannot reach such a lofty ideological realm of Sister Jiang: "The main thing is that the deeds of the martyrs themselves have touched and educated people, not that I am an actor who is so great." ”
△ The crew of "Eternal Life in the Fire" is in Chongqing
Yu Lan always believes that no matter in life or work, his words and deeds cannot be ashamed of Sister Jiang, and every bit of things will be imagined if it is Sister Jiang what to do. She once donated a large amount of money to her by others to an orphanage. Yu Lan said that in fact, all the great sacrifices were made by Sister Jiang, but today people have given me their love for her, how can I afford it.
In The small living room of about 10 square meters in Yulan, there is a still of her playing Sister Jiang in "Eternal Life in the Fire" hanging on the wall; there is also a photo of Premier Zhou Enlai receiving her, and the photo last week the premier was pointing at her to introduce to others: "She played a good mother!" The "good mother" that Premier Zhou refers to is another revolutionary female image created by Yu Lan on the screen - Zhou Lian, the mother in "Revolutionary Family".
△ Premier Zhou received Yu Lan
△ "Eternal Life in the Fire" stills: Sister Jiang and comrade-in-arms Xu Yunfeng helped each other to the execution ground
It can awaken the people to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance
Realize that you are engaged in a sacred cause
If he hadn't gone down the path of an actor, perhaps Yu Lan would have become an engineer. When he was young, he wanted to serve the country by building bridges and roads, but after going to Yan'an in 1938, he was pulled to act because he spoke standard Mandarin.
△ Yu Lan in Yan'an
Originally thought that acting was just play, the enlightenment teacher Xiong Saisheng gave her a lesson. "Acting is not play, it's a battlefield, you're going to die on stage."
Yu Lan slowly understood that literature and art can awaken the people to participate in the anti-Japanese struggle, and what she is engaged in is originally a sacred cause. In her autobiography, she describes how she felt at that time:
"When I used to watch movies, I often fantasized that if there could be a movie factory in the world wearing blue cloth cheongsam and student clothes, without money and worldly pollution, then I would devote myself to it. At the time, I thought it was just a dream, but one day I actually walked into this art hall wearing a cloth coat and straw shoes. "
△ Yu Lan practiced photos
As a generation of actors who grew up under the nurturing of the Yan'an Literary and Art Symposium, Yu Lan firmly remembered the iron law of artistic creation of throwing himself into a fiery life, and ran through Yu Lan's future film career.
The Year of the Flower Armor will go out again
He was commissioned to form a children's film studio
In addition to portraying many classic characters, Yu Lan has also made outstanding contributions to children's films in China. In 1981, Yu Lan, who was already the year of Hua Jia, was commissioned to set up a children's film studio and served as the first director. And the difficulty of building a factory at the beginning was beyond her imagination...
"The cold that drips into ice, the simple and arduous shed office, the sick and disabled body that is difficult to die... It's too hard, it's really too hard! When I couldn't stand it, I thought that the tasks assigned by the party had not yet been completed..."
Someone vividly described her work image for a while - "eraser head, myna's mouth, frog's belly, rabbit's legs", describing her as not afraid to touch nails, able to nod people's hearts, able to accommodate all kinds of hardships, hating that she could not run eight units a day to do things.
In the end, the children's film studio was built with her efforts, and films such as "Red Elephant", "Young Peng Dehuai", "Oh, Xiangxue" and so on were also made.
"Don't call me a big star,
I'm a literary worker."
For fame and profit, Yu Lan has always maintained the simple and ordinary heart of the older generation of artists, and she often said in her lifetime: "Don't call me an artist, let alone call me a big star." I am a literary and artistic worker who has been doing literary and artistic work all my life. ”
"Have I made any incredible contributions? Actors are the ones who take advantage of them. So many of us in the film crew, at least hundreds of people, the first thing people think of is Sister Jiang. Are you contributing more than others? Not at all. Other people's contributions are not necessarily smaller than yours, but the position he holds, such as taking props, the audience can't see you. You can't compare that, measure that way. (CCTV reporter Shi Yan)
丨The source of this article: CCTV News Comprehensive CCTV Culture Ten, China Writers Network, etc