Now that the name Blue Horse is mentioned, do you feel very strange?
But in fact, his achievements in performance are no less than those of his contemporaries Shi Hua, Zhao Dan and Xie Tian.
However, in his acting career, he did not appear in many movies.
This made his extraordinary acting talent unrecognized by a wider audience.
In my opinion, his life, rather than an actor, is more like a warrior, for the purpose of the goal in his heart, bravely moving forward, and constantly improving himself.
Blue Horse was born on August 16, 1915. His father, Dong Zihe, was a progressive and open-minded physician who had a reputation for opening Suncheon Hospital outside his front door.
At that time, the profession of actor, also known as "drama", belonged to the lower nine streams, and was disgraced by some so-called upper class people.
But Mr. Dong Zihe is very supportive of his two children to embark on the road of acting.
Her daughter Dong Shijin entered the Peking Xinqiu Drama Club as early as the early 1930s, and then introduced her younger brother Dong Shixiong into the drama club as an actor.
This Dong Shixiong was the later Blue Horse.
When Lan Ma was very young, he had a wish, that is, to go to the front line as a soldier.
But obviously this is a very distant thing for him at a young age.
At that time, he loved to watch opera, especially Peking Opera, and whenever he had time, he would go to the theater garden to listen to the play. After watching too much, he thought that if one day, he could stage a civilian and military general on stage, it would not be bad.
The dream of being an actor can be said to have been inadvertently generated.
In 1921, he entered the Beijing Normal University Boys' Primary School, and among his classmates, there was also the big star Shi Hua, who later became the "Emperor of Drama".
In 1930, because he was interested in acting since he was a child, he was admitted to the Peking Lianhua Film Talent Training Institute. Here he has a deeper understanding and understanding of acting and film.
But the blue horse really stepped onto the stage to become an actor, or under the guidance of his sister Dong Shijin, he was able to achieve it.
In 1932, the 17-year-old Blue Horse entered the New Ball Drama Club and played his first role, that is, the wounded soldier Lao Liu in the drama "Comrades in Arms" written by Tian Han.
Yes, his first role was that of a warrior. This made him extremely excited.
His performance is very successful, calm and natural, and has won unanimous recognition and affirmation from everyone.
In the autumn of 1934, Blue Horse joined the Chinese TravelIng Theater Troupe, where he starred in plays such as "Buying and Selling", "Behind the Screen", and "The Death of a Famous Master".
But I think the formation of the Blue Horse Realist performance style was still in 1938, after he participated in plays such as "A Q Zheng biography" in Hankou, Wuhan, and people in the circle were impressed by his natural performance and called him a "talented actor".
Later, on the eve of the fall of Wuhan, Lan Ma joined the Chinese Salvation Theater Troupe led by Jin Shan, and went through Hong Kong to various parts of Nanyang to engage in anti-Japanese rescue performance and propaganda activities, and later in Hong Kong, through the form of drama, to publicize the War of Resistance to the people.
At that time, the blue horse was enthusiastic every day, walking in front of everything, and there was no end to the energy.
It was at this time that he participated in the first film "Lonely Island Paradise", playing a role that did not play much, but through a vivid and vivid performance, the role was shaped to life.
In the summer of 1942, Blue Horse came to Chongqing and joined the Chinese Art Drama Society led by our underground party, performing plays such as "The Motherland is Calling", "Beijingers", "Home", "Grass and Trees are Soldiers" and other plays, which promoted the development of drama art and also played a positive role in awakening the people.
In the drama "Home", Lan Ma is assigned to the role of Feng Leshan, who vividly expresses Feng Leshan's hypocrisy, fierceness and extremely deep city government through meticulous design.
Lan Ma engaged in artistic activities in Chongqing for about three years, during which he performed many plays, especially "clowns", and the vivid and vivid performances had left a deep impression on the audience, and together with Xie Tian, Huang Zongjiang and Shen Yang, he was known as the "four famous uglies" in the drama circle of Shancheng at that time.
In 1946, Lan Ma returned to Shanghai and joined the Shanghai Opera Art Society led by Yu Ling, and caused a sensation by playing the pseudo-governor in "The Elevation chart". In 1947, he joined the Shanghai Kunlun Film Company led by Kingsoft and shot three films - "Ten Thousand Lights", "Li Ren Xing" and "Hope in the World".
In "Ten Thousand Family Lights", Blue Horse portrays Hu Zhiqing's kindness, helplessness and dilemma in contradictions.
And it was also during the filming of "Ten Thousand Family Lights" that Lan Ma and Shangguan Yunzhu met and became lovers. But then they finally broke up because of personality incompatibility.
And I personally remember his second brother in "Reunion". This character is a fan of the play, and he always loves to sing two voices and walk the birds. I remember his few steps in the movie the most, the outer eight characters, step by step, very characteristic, but appropriately show the characteristics of the character.
I think he's acting really well.
But many of my friends say that this is not the best play played by the blue horse. He acted best, some said to be "Drama Spring and Autumn", and some said that "Hope is in the World".
On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, Blue Horse accepted a glorious and dangerous task, that is, to "defend the Kunlun Factory to the death."
In the darkest days before the dawn, of course, this task is dangerous, and it is not easy to lose your head at any time. However, Lan Ma took the task and together with the clever Wu Yin, Shangguan Yunzhu and others defended Kunlun from losses and handed it over to the people.
It is precisely because of Lanma's outstanding performance in the factory protection activities that he was elected vice chairman of the Shanghai Film Trade Union by unanimous vote and became the first people's representative of Shanghai.
At that time, Lan Ma was one of the four high-paid actors in the Shanghai film industry (his salary at that time was more than one million old coins, while ordinary employees were only a few thousand yuan old coins).
But he proposed to the organization that he wanted to join the army.
Because, he never forgot his childhood dream. Moreover, he saw the touching performances of the People's Liberation Army after it entered Shanghai, and saw the tremendous changes that had taken place in the lives of people in the new society. He was very excited, he sincerely wanted to go to the army, to be a warrior, to change himself.
So in 1950, the "most expensive actor" in Shanghai at that time took off his fashionable suit, put on a cloth coat and rubber shoes, bid farewell to his previous life as a "movie star", and became a cultural teacher with a monthly salary of only 7,000 yuan.
How many people can stand such a change? But the blue horse not only endured, but also was happier every day than winning the lottery.
Blue Horse first spent four months in the 20th Army Cultural and Labor Corps, and then was assigned to work in the film crew of "Towards New China".
In the spring of 1951, as a literary and artistic soldier of the army, he crossed the Yalu River and performed a condolence performance for the fighters of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
During this period, he never flinched in the face of enemy artillery fire, and always and everywhere embodied the initiative and sense of responsibility of a literary and artistic warrior. Near the 38th Line, a comrade-in-arms in the condolence group died gloriously, and at the memorial service, Blue Horse wrote such a sentence: If I die on the battlefield, please cross my body and continue to advance! After the victory, please erect a small tombstone in front of my grave, which reads: Chinese People's Liberation Army and Volunteer Army Soldier Blue Horse. Please don't write any titles like national treasures or famous actors, because the real me is a warrior.
After returning to China, Lan Ma was arranged to serve as the deputy head of the General Political Affairs Cultural and Labor Troupe, and in 1955 he was appointed as the artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of the General Political Affairs Cultural and Industrial Troupe. In 1956, he was honorably admitted to the Party. At that moment, he was very excited. He walked up to Yu Ling like a little child and said happily: Please congratulate me, I have joined the party!
During the General Political Period, he acted in many plays, the most influential of which was "Ten Thousand Waters and a Thousand Mountains", which was later made into a movie.
In the movie, Blue Horse plays Li Youguo, an instructor of the Red Army, and one of the scenes that impressed me the most was when Li Youguo was seriously injured and endangered, and he also commanded the soldiers to seize the enemy's horses, but when the soldiers returned triumphantly, he died.
Later, many people said that in life, Blue Horse was an untrimmed person, and his appearance was plain, and he sometimes spoke with a little stuttering, and he did not look like a brilliant star at all.
However, as soon as he goes on the stage, it is as if he has changed a person's radiance, what he looks like, as long as he stands wherever he goes, the character image will stand up.
I remember him saying: There is no absolute truth, but absolute sincerity.
Later, in successive movements, blue horses were of course persecuted, and he was imprisoned in a cowshed, quarantined and censored, and his wife divorced him.
But no matter what kind of day, he always maintained the fiery passion and strong faith in his heart.
Like all warriors, he marched forward, never defeated, and always believed that darkness would always pass and light would come.
In 1976, Blue Horse died, completing the path of his 61-year-old life.
He is an actor, but he has spent his life proving that he is a good warrior.
Looking back at Blue Horse now, I don't know in your minds, the first thing you remember is which character he once created? Welcome to interact with more friends through the message area. I am Yaqing, thank you again for your attention, we will meet again tomorrow at the same time.
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