Text/Meng Zehui The fifteenth day of the ninth lunar month of the Xin Ugly Year
Xiang Kun, an old actor with high artistic accomplishment and artistic achievements, is still fresh in the films I have seen and the main actors I have played, and Xiang Kun is one of the film actors I most admire.
In Shanghai and Beijing Film Studios, he has successively participated in the filming of "Heavy Light of the Earth", "Shangrao Concentration Camp", "Struggle on the Lake", "Cuigang Red Flag", "Southern Expedition and Northern War", "Three Years", "Deep Friendship", "Wedding", "Vibrato of Life", "Jade Butterfly", "Mountain City Snow", "Record of Appointment", "Submarine Net", "Sea Prisoner", "After the Armistice", "Eternal Life in the Fire", "Great River Rushing", "General Sabre", "Burning Yuanmingyuan", "Mountain Flower", "Youth Like Fire", "Menggen Flower", "Bells", etc. Whether on the theatrical stage or on the movie screen, he has carefully shaped many artistic images to be well known to a wide audience.
If he once left a deep impression on the audience in the film "Southern Expedition and Northern War" as the kuomintang commander Zhang Lingfu, then his role as the Kuomintang negotiator Li Guoqing in "After the Armistice" and the secret agent leader Xu Pengfei in "Eternal Life in the Fire" deepened the audience's impression of him. The popular lines in "The Southern Expedition and the Northern War" are still unforgettable to this day, such as "Some people even disregard the overall situation and deliberately save their own strength!" This kind of common sense may not be available militarily! "Please hold out for the last 5 minutes!" "Commander Zhang Jun, for the sake of the party-state, pull the brothers together" and so on.
The three characters he plays have the commonality of sinister cunning, fierceness and viciousness, and have distinct personality characteristics: Zhang Lingfu is arrogant and arrogant, rigid and self-conscious; Li Guoqing is morally calm and skillful in sophistry; Xu Pengfei is vicious and fierce. Xiang Kun can not only play the heroic characters vividly and convincingly, but also make the negative characters vivid and vivid. He was able to affirm revolution and progress from different angles, to deny ugliness and reaction, and to reveal the truth of life from both positive and negative perspectives.
In the film "The Vibrato of Life", Xiang Kun played Xu Yixiang, a medical doctor, and his wife Ruan Fei and son Xiang Zhizhi played Zhang Guoying and Wei Li respectively; in the film "Mountain City Snow", the family of three played He Yingqin, the Japanese maid and Captain Wu respectively; in "General Sword", the family of three played Yan Jun, Madame Ma and the aide-de-camp respectively. The family has starred in the same movie many times, which is very rare in the history of Chinese and foreign films.
Although this prestigious and famous film performance artist of the older generation has left us, I still miss him very much, admire his unique performance style, and often watch his films.