During this time, a number of tribute dramas for the centenary of the founding of the party are being intensively created, such as "Crossing the Yalu River", "Armageddon", "Red Boat" and so on. Most of these tribute works are set in the history of the Party and the military, so the role of the great leader appears very frequently.
Tang Guoqiang
As the first special actor in the show business circle, Tang Guoqiang naturally assumed the heavy responsibility of playing a great leader.
As we all know, among the leading actors before Tang Guoqiang, Gu Yue is undoubtedly the most loved actor by the audience, and can even be described as "loved".
Ancient Moon
At that time, Gu Yue's national popularity was comparable to today's top traffic artists, and everywhere he went, he was often surrounded by ordinary people, affectionately called "Chairman" by the people, and even some people saw him in tears.
Because the image of the leader he created was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, there was no one who came after the ancients, so that he himself became the symbol and benchmark of the special actor.
Gu Yue, whose original name was Hu Shixue, was looking for a special actor for the chairman nationwide in 1978, and Gu Yue, who was then the head of the propaganda department of the Political Department of the Kunming Military Region, was selected to become a special actor to play the chairman. Later, in order to facilitate memory, he split his surname "Hu" into "Gu Yue" and used it as a stage name.
To be precise, Gu Yue was not a science actor, and he was even ridiculed by another special actor, Wang Tiecheng.
However, in the "Armageddon" series, "The Founding Ceremony" and other works, Mao Zedong, played by Gu Yue, has a broad military strategist's mind and heroic poetic temperament. He grasped the essence of Mao Zedong's character, and vividly embodied the optimistic, open-minded, strong, visionary and extraordinary boldness of Mao Zedong's character, and the image of Mao Zedong he created, although not comprehensive, was ready to come to life.
Unfortunately, on July 2, 2005, Gu Yue died of myocardial infarction at the age of 68, otherwise he could have created more excellent works.
After Gu Yue, Tang Guoqiang, who came from a science class and had a more superb acting skill, successfully took over.
However, while Tang Guoqiang "monopolized" the image of the chairman of the big and small screens, there were also many second-line special actors, and their stage names were more or less related to "Gu Yue".
Gu Xiaoyue
Gu Xiaoyue, the only disciple of Teacher Gu Yue, began to perform as a Mao Zedong special actor in 1999.
In 2001, he participated in the National Newcomer Competition hosted by the Ministry of Culture and won the first prize and the best image award for film and television special performance.
Gu Xiaoyue's advantages are obvious, his appearance is generous, and he can speak the standard fluent Hunan Shaoshan dialect, but his exquisite shape and language reproduce the leadership style of a generation of great people. He has not produced many TV dramas, but he has played the chairman in many stage plays such as "Chongqing Negotiations".
In addition, Gu Xiaoyue is also a well-known Mao calligrapher in the country and the chairman of the Capital Mao Calligraphers Association, and his works are collected by the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall, the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall and the Great Hall of the People.
Another special actor related to "Gu Yue" is called Gu Yun.
Ancient clouds
Gu Yun, formerly known as Gu Yunbin, is also a mainland special actor, who imitates the Hunan dialect very well, so he is often invited to participate in the opening ceremonies and theatrical performances of various evenings. As soon as Gu Yun came to power to imitate Mao Zedong's classic speech "Hello comrades" at the founding ceremony, the atmosphere on the scene would immediately be pushed to a climax.
Because of his recognition for his folk performances, Gu Yun entered the acting world and was favored by film directors as a film and television special actor, specializing in playing Mao Zedong. Gu Yun once went to Beijing to meet Li Yinqiao, Mao Zedong's personal bodyguard at that time, and asked him to evaluate whether he was suitable for playing Chairman Mao, and Li Yinqiao gave a positive answer.
Later, Gu Yun starred in the TV series "The Chairman Came to My House for the Dragon Boat Festival", but the influence of the work was general.
Of course, it must be pointed out that neither Gu Xiaoyue nor Gu Yun can be compared with excellent special actors such as Gu Yue and Tang Guoqiang, whose acting skills are very general and reasonable in appearance, but they can never show the soul of the chairman.
Item learning and
In addition to Gu Yun and Gu Xiaoyue, there are many similar second-line great actors in the show business circle, such as Xiang Xuehe, who has starred in small-cost works such as "Shuangqing Villa 1949", "Anti-Japanese Famous General Wei Lihuang", "Loess Love" and so on. However, now Gu Xiaoyue, Xiang Xuehe and other second-line special actors will basically not receive the play in the future, and will gradually disappear from the audience's sight.
Second-tier special actor
For these second-line special actors, the audience's evaluation is also mixed. On the one hand, these less famous actors have bad acting skills, and it is difficult to interpret the temperament of leaders even under the tutelage of professional directors; on the other hand, these "Gu Xiaoyue" go around digging for gold with the shape of great people, and to be honest, they are "blasphemous" to great people.
[This article is written by Song Fatzi, a non-famous film critic who "stands and talks without waist pain"]
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