In other words, Xiang Kun's life is really fateful.
When he was young, his mother died early, and after his father married his stepmother, he did not treat him very well. At a young age, it is like an orphan.
Fortunately, he was intelligent since childhood, although he did not enter a regular primary school, he was able to become a middle school student by self-study, and at the age of 14, he was admitted to the Shandong Provincial First Normal School.
After the "918" incident in 1931, he actively participated in the anti-Japanese propaganda team, but he did not expect to be arrested for this reason. This was his first time in prison, and he was imprisoned several times since then, but fortunately he was eventually rescued. In 1936, he entered the National Drama College and became classmates with Zhang Ruifang and Zhang Yan. Here, he learned how to become an actor and began his own acting career.
In 1938, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Xiang Kun joined the Progressive Theater Troupe and performed in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and other places to collect donations for the Anti-Japanese War.
In 1940, he came to Chongqing and starred in the drama "La Traviata" with Bai Yang and others, and quickly became famous. And when starring in the movie "Young China", he met his lifelong lover Ruan Fei.
At that time, although Xiang Kun was already a little famous, his income was actually very limited. His newlywed wife, Nguyen Phi, suffered from tuberculosis, also known as "tuberculosis.". The disease was difficult to cure at the time, and even if it cost a lot of money, it would not necessarily be cured. Doctors even issued "death notices." But Xiang Kun did not believe in this evil. He said to Ruan Fei, even if the family is ruined, we must cure the disease.
In order to treat Ruan Fei's illness, Xiang Kun kept participating in performances to get more treatment fees on the one hand, and at the same time, he tried everything to increase nutrition for Ruan Fei. Under his meticulous care, a miracle happened. Ruan Fei's face was not only rosy, but also completely cured.
Xiang Kun has been making films since 1942 and has accumulated a wealth of experience in front of the camera. No matter what kind of role he plays, he can quickly capture the characteristics of the character and reflect it vividly. In 1949, he became an actor in the Shanghai Film Studio, starring in films such as "Heavy Light on the Earth", "Shangrao Concentration Camp", "Three Years", and "Struggle on the Lake". They were paired with Jin Yan and Zhang Ruifang, and became movie stars that the audience was very familiar with at that time.
In fact, in the beginning, Xiang Kun appeared on the screen as a positive student. Until 1952, after he participated in the "Southern Expedition and Northern War", he was classified as a "villain professional" because he successfully portrayed the role of the enemy Zhang Junchang, and since then, he has gone farther and farther on the road of villain.
At that time, he was one of the main actors in the star-studded Shanghai Film Studio. But in 1957, after he was mistakenly classified as a rightist, he "stood on the sidelines." He was even "swept out" by the studio several times. He was first sent to the Shandong Film Factory as a drama director, then reported to the newly established Eying Film Studio, and when the movement began in 1966, he was recalled to the Shanghai Film Studio for criticism. The back-and-forth toss made his body worse.
It wasn't until 1963 that he returned to the screen as Li Guoqing in After the Armistice. In 1964, he was transferred to the North Film Studio, and successfully created the image of Xu Pengfei, the head of the enemy intelligence department, in "Eternal Life in the Fire". This role has become another classic figure in Xiang Kun's screen career. He thus became an outstanding representative of the "villain actor" in the eyes of the audience.
Before Xiang Kun did not enter the North Film Studio, Chen Qiang was the "number one villain actor" of the North Film Studio. Although he does not play many villain roles, whether it is Huang Shiren in "The White-Haired Girl" or Nan Batian in "The Red Detachment of Women", they are so divine. Therefore, he has an irreplaceable position in the hearts of movie fans.
After Xiang Kun entered the North Film Studio, he had a feeling of "two tigers fighting each other".
And on the surface, the two do seem to be a bit "not dealing with".
First of all, Chen Qiang was very unaccustomed to some of Xiang Kun's style.
As a "lao eighth road" born Chen Qiang, he joined the revolutionary ranks in 1937, entered Yan'an in 1938, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1942, which is a real "old revolution". In 1947, he entered the Northeast Film Studio as an actor, participated in the shooting of the first film after the founding of New China, and became one of the audience's favorite old drama bones with superb acting skills.
I think that the old artists of the past have gradually established their prestige in the hearts of the majority of film fans through one work after another. Xiang Kun was like this, and so was Chen Qiang.
But the two have many differences.
Xiang Kun became a "star" very early, and has long worked and lived in Shanghai, Nanjing, Chongqing and other big cities, so many of his styles are very "modern", such as wearing suits and leather shoes everywhere he goes, his hair is combed smoothly and smoothly, the lines are not messy, mosquitoes can be split when they fall on it, and on the feet, they are always fashionable leather shoes with two joints.
Chen Qiang feels that this is not a typical "bourgeoisie", and what is it?
Look at Chen Qiang again, how simple. Although he is the most familiar movie star for audiences across the country, he has a white coat, round cloth shoes, and educated his son Chen Peisi for many years, no matter when, can not forget the fine tradition of thrift and thrift, can not forget the original.
Therefore, Chen Qiang did not accept Xiang Kun's style, and Xiang Kun did not agree with Chen Qiang's statement. He said that I dress decently is the greatest respect for others, how can I dress well and become "bourgeois thought"?
The two men were "awkward" for many years.
Chen Qiang served as a branch member of the North Film Factory for a long time, Xiang Kun has always wanted to join the party, and Chen Qiang also strictly controlled the pass, saying that he should investigate more. Xiang Kun, on the other hand, insisted that although he lived in the white area, he also threw himself into the anti-Japanese torrent early and made contributions to the development of the revolution.
Although the two do not know much of the same thing, they show the same respect for each other's performing arts. Chen Qiang said Xiang Kun, how much do you see the reactionary officer he played in "The Southern Expedition and the Northern War" and "Eternal Life in the Fire"? No one can play him.
Xiang Kun praised Chen Qiang as a rare talented actor.
These two people, fighting back and forth, are almost like two "old naughty boys" fighting each other? Funny and funny.
Xiang Kun finally joined the party, and under the coordination of an old colleague of the North Film Studio, he and Chen Qiang finally shook hands and made peace.
Chen Qiang said that at that time, I was too subjective and one-sided in looking at the problem, and there were also some things that were not done correctly.
After Xiang Kun listened, tears came out of his eyes and said: I joined the party, I am a good soldier of the party, and I am also a good comrade of chen qiang.
Later, at a gathering of filmmakers, two elderly people who were more than a year old finally sat at the same dinner table. Suddenly, the two looked at each other and smiled, and Chen Qiang said, "Are you still an old thing?" Xiang Kun said, "I'm still waiting for you to pull my brother." Without saying a word, the two laughed loudly, and the people next to them also laughed together, and everyone was very happy.
On February 15, 2009, Xiang Kun, a famous chinese film performance artist, died in Beijing due to a heart attack at the age of 94. After Chen Qiang heard this news, his eyes looked at a place and he did not speak for a long time. Three years later, on June 26, 2012, Chen Qiang died in Beijing, and like Xiang Kun, he died at the age of 94.
These two old masters, maybe go to another world to continue to "fight fun"?
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