"The Good Guy" was released, and the audience saw Zhang Beijing again, and also found an old artist with both virtue and art, Niu Ben.
In April this year, the veteran artist Niu Ben was selected as one of the top 10 people who moved China in 2023, causing a storm on the Internet. CCTV said that he was a bitter child who wandered into the movie, and he was an old actor who is still trekking.
But most of the audience didn't buy it, thinking that he could win an artistic lifetime achievement award, but they didn't recognize that he was qualified to receive this honor, after all, standing with him were rice expert Yang Huade, Blue Sky Guardian Air Force Corps Brigade, etc.
Many people began to pick up Niu Ben's private life and found that the nursing home he lives in now costs at least 5,000 yuan a month.
In fact, Niu Ben did not simply enjoy this award with his more than 80 years of acting career, but if you understand his past experience, you can know why CCTV is willing to award this award to him.
As early as 1946 before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Niu Ben, whose parents died when he was a child, played a little village boy in the anti-Japanese movie "Tale of the Holy City" in order to make a living.
After the founding of New China, Niu Ben began to do miscellaneous work in various movies, when filming anti-Japanese dramas, he was bitten by wolf dogs, washed away by the Yellow River, and even broke his ribs, and finally became the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 48 with "Wrangler", and at the age of 79, he became the leading actor for the first time in the movie "Old Seagull".
Maybe at the beginning, Niu Ben was forced by life to become an actor, but in his long acting career, he has fallen in love with this industry, although he has not encountered the best time, he is willing to dedicate his best acting skills to the audience.
In this case, Niu Ben has insisted on doing charity for decades, becoming the initiator and public welfare ambassador of the special fund for diabetes intervention and relief, and the ambassador of AIDS prevention and control, and has funded hundreds of students to successfully complete their studies and donated to build a number of nursing homes.
At the age of 80, Niu Ben and his wife established the Beijing Lao Niu Brothers and Sisters Public Welfare Foundation to continue to support poor children and youth entrepreneurship in a more systematic way.
In 2018, the 83-year-old Niu Ben decided to join the party and received a special letter of congratulations and encouragement from the country's top leaders.
After becoming a party member, Niu Ben actively responded to the call of the country and participated in the cultural poverty alleviation drama "Scholars Everywhere", the inspirational drama "No One is Missing" in rural life, etc., because he is old, his memory is not as good as before, he gets up in the early morning every day to review the lines of the day, and this perseverance does not know how many digital ladies and digital young masters will be ashamed of themselves.
Niu Ben never cared about fame and fortune, and didn't even care if the audience could pronounce his name, in his cognition, actors were not rich positions, and even early actors were paid to death, the monthly salary of actors in the 70s was only 18 yuan, which was not as good as ordinary workers, so only those who could endure hardships could become actors.
When he got older, Niu Ben cared more about whether he could make a little contribution to the country, so he participated in many TV series with zero pay, and used his meager strength to help promote poverty alleviation and public welfare.
Niu Ben stands in the spotlight and sticks to the boundaries beyond the screen, he is not only an industry benchmark for Chinese film and television practitioners, but also an active participant in China's public welfare, which is the key to him becoming the person of the year who moved China.