On April 19, the film "1921", which was produced and directed by Huang Jianxin and co-directed by Zheng Dasheng, released a character poster, officially announcing the actor of Mao Zedong in the film, Wang Renjun.
This is also after the success of the movie "Gutian Jun" to portray Mao Zedong, Wang Renjun once again challenged the role of a great man. When filming "Gutian Jun", Wang Renjun went through almost all the historical materials of Chairman Mao. As early as the "1921" crew sent Wang Renjun a thick list of books, Wang Renjun said that 70% of the books had been studied several times. However, Huang Dao put forward a new request to Wang Renjun, hoping that when he re-read these historical materials, he would focus on the stories and ideas of Mao Zedong from 1893 to 1922, and not look back. He hoped that Wang Renjun would be able to put aside the ideological baggage of acting out great people and truly enter the state of a young man when the chairman was twenty-seven or eight years old.
Poster of the character of Wang Renjun in the movie "1921"
Two months before entering the group, Wang Renjun started from the external and internal levels, in addition to reducing the reshaping type and practicing the Shaoshan accent, repeatedly re-read a large number of precious historical materials such as "Mao Zedong's Early Manuscripts", spent a lot of time pondering and feeling the spiritual world of Chairman Mao in his youth, and tried to "have both form and god" to create a hot-blooded young man who had ideals but was still exploring the road to national salvation. The poster exposed this time shows a fragment of Mao Zedong, played by Wang Renjun, when he first arrived in Shanghai. At that time, Mao Zedong worked in the Shanghai laundry room, experimenting with "work-study mutual assistance", which is a little-known history, and it is also the first time that the image of the chairman appears on the big screen. The poster shows him carrying a large bag of clothes he had taken from a client's home and took the tram back to the laundry room where he worked. Although the clothes are simple, just like ordinary "workers", the sun shines all over the body, the look is confident, the eyes are bright, full of hope and yearning for the future, and the youthful chairman's vigor and passion are fully displayed.
"Bao'er is determined to go out of the countryside" to pick up the revolutionary fire "The sun at seven or eight o'clock" illuminates the whole of China
Mao Zedong had a lofty ambition to save the country and save the people since he was a child, and when he left home to study at the age of 17, he wrote: "The child is determined to go out of the countryside, and he will not return the oath if he does not become famous." Buried bones why mulberry land, life is everywhere green mountains" such a very bold famous article. When he was less than 25 years old and studying at the Hunan Provincial First Normal School, he and Cai Hesen and others initiated the Xinmin Society, a progressive organization.
In 1918, Mao Zedong came to Beijing to work as an assistant in the library of Peking University. During this time, he became acquainted with Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu. Driven by Li Dazhao, Mao Zedong was able to read a wide range of Marxist books in the library collection at that time, and after returning to Hunan to imitate Li Dazhao's Weekly Review, he founded one of the most outstanding revolutionary publications during the "May Fourth" period, the Xiangjiang Review. After the outbreak of the "May Fourth Movement", Mao Zedong personally drafted leaflets and led the students of the society to the changsha schools in tandem to respond to the Beijing student patriotic movement.
While in Shanghai in 1920, Mao Zedong met with Chen Duxiu, who was preparing to form the Communist Party. Mao Zedong and Chen Duxiu discussed the Marxist books he had read. Chen Duxiu's words about his own beliefs had a profound impact on this critical period in Mao's life. Mao Later commented on Chen Duxiu, "He probably had more influence on me than anyone else." In the summer of that year, Mao Zedong transformed from an intellectual with rudimentary communist ideas into a Marxist.
As soon as the revolutionary flame was ignited, it became a major trend, and Chen Duxiu, while actively promoting the establishment of the early communist organizations in various places, sent a letter to Mao Zedong urging him to establish the early communist organizations in Hunan. Thanks to Mao Zedong's efforts, the early organization of the Changsha Communist Party was established. In July 1921, Mao Zedong and He Shuheng represented the early organization of the Communist Party of Changsha at the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Since then, Mao Zedong's fate has been closely linked to the fate of the Chinese Communist Party, changing the fate of the Chinese nation.
"The world is yours and ours, but in the end it is yours. You young people are full of energy and are thriving, like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning. Hope is in you. This is Mao Zedong's message to all Chinese youth, and he also used his youth to perfectly confirm this. It is precisely because one patriotic young people who dare to think and dare to act, dare to fight and dare to break through, who have gathered sparks and gone forward to succeed each other, have truly realized their original intention of overthrowing the old world and recreating a new world of "national independence and equality for all."
Running non-stop weight loss practice accent Wang Renjun "both shape and god" when playing the great man youth
In the movie "GutianJun" released in 2019, Wang Renjun played the 36-year-old Mao committee member who had just led the Red Fourth Army to break through from Jinggangshan. The audience generally believed that he performed Mao Zedong's "bloody, momentum, faith, and perseverance" side, full of revolutionary romantic feelings. Although he has the experience of successfully acting, for Wang Renjun, playing the 28-year-old Mao Zedong in "1921", how to perform the differences between different ages and show a more unknown Mao Zedong to the audience is a major challenge for him.
"1921" gives Wang Renjun room to play. In his youth, Mao Zedong not only had a passion for revolution and ambition to change China, he was also an ordinary young man. As director Huang Jianxin said, although the names of great people are thunderous and radiant today, "their state at that time was actually the same as many young people now", positive and upward, full of hope and hope for the future. In 1920, Mao Zedong came to Shanghai from Beijing and rented a trial work with a few like-minded friends on Hartung Road (now Anyi Road), "only 3 yuan per person per month for pocket money, often eating broad beans to cook rice and green vegetables and tofu soup", but he would also save money to buy progressive magazines, constantly study Marxist thought, and explore the way for China to go. Wang Renjun grasped these details in his performance, showing the true temperament and life of the young Mao Zedong that the audience rarely saw.
In order to be able to show the chairman's sportsmanship of attaching importance to physical education from childhood, from two months before entering the group to the entire shooting period, Wang Renjun insisted on morning running and night running like the chairman every day, often until the sweat soaked clothes before resting. In the film, the director needs to show Mao Zedong's running posture in various parts of Shanghai to build a set of montage shots, Wang Renjun's months of hard work on running have not been in vain, which is closer to the state of young Mao Zedong at that time, and makes the running posture very professional and good-looking, Huang Dao every time he sees the camera of Wang Renjun running in the monitor, he is full of praise, praising Wang Renjun for showing the chairman's youthful spirit through this spirited running posture. The portrayal of these details enriches the image of the young Mao Zedong from the side, and makes the unreachable great man instantly become closer and more three-dimensional.
For this appearance, in addition to the study and speculation of the inner spiritual world of the role, Wang Renjun also made a series of preparations in advance in terms of appearance and accent. Before filming, in order to be closer to the image of Mao Zedong when he was young, Wang Renjun specially lost weight, and finally reached the closeness of his facial features and physical appearance to the young Mao Zedong, which often caused the whole group to sigh "too similar". In terms of accent, in addition to making the mouth open is the authentic Hunan rural tone, Wang Renjun deliberately studied and practiced Russian with a Shaoshan accent in order to have only one Russian line in the film, just so that the audience can naturally perceive from the details: This is the "young man" who came out of Shaoshan, Hunan. The movie "1921" is to gather such a group of creative teams that strive for excellence, in order to create a work full of sincerity and ingenuity, and strive to become a masterpiece worthy of the times.
(Source: 1905 Movie Network)