Beijing News (reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) On August 12, a reporter from the Beijing News learned from the Changying Group that Li Qiankuan, a famous director, a national first-class director and honorary chairman of the China Filmmakers Association, died in Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, at the age of 80. The Beijing News reporter first exclusively contacted the actor Liu Zhibing, who had cooperated with Li Qiankuan many times, this sudden news made Liu Zhibing sad, and he could not believe it for a long time: "He is a very optimistic person, recently, I know that he is sick, and I know that he has been treating, I did not expect that the condition would deteriorate so quickly, and when we met, I basically would not mention his condition, because I did not want to give him any pressure." But today, the news of his departure, I am very difficult to accept. >>> Li Qiankuan, director of "Founding Ceremony", died at the age of 80
Actors Liu Zhibing, director Li Qiankuan and director Yin Li took a group photo at the 2014 Chinese New Year group meeting. Photo courtesy of Liu Zhibing
Counting up, Liu Zhibing and Li Qiankuan have cooperated many times. In the spring of 1988, Li Qiankuan and Xiao Guiyun were preparing to make a TV series "Blood Sprinkled ancient capital", which brought together well-known actors in the film and television industry at that time, such as Song Dandan, Kou Zhenhai, Liang Tongyu and Han Yueqiao, and the two directors unanimously decided that Liu Zhibing would play a young revolutionary. "At that time, the other actors were very famous, only I was a young new actor, but they entrusted me with such an important role, and they trusted me very much in their work, and this play also made me nominated for the 1989 Golden Eagle Award for Outstanding Actor, which was a great encouragement for me."
It is precisely with Liu Zhibing's down-to-earth creative attitude in "Blood Sprinkled Ancient Capital" that Li Qiankuan and Xiao Guiyun strongly recommended Liu Zhibing to cooperate in the preparation of the film "Founding Ceremony" and finalized him as an assistant director. "I was very stressed, but the former director went out of his way to help me, and he always asked me, 'Do you know what an assistant director should be capable of?' The assistant director is like the hospital assistant surgeon, when the main surgeon can't do it, the deputy surgeon should insist on making the operation, you have to demand yourself and grow according to this standard', this passage has had too deep an impact on me, although later I did not insist on the road of the assistant director, more chose to act, but this passage has always been the direction of my efforts as a filmmaker. ”
It is worth mentioning that before preparing to shoot the "Founding Ceremony", Li Qiankuan inadvertently found that Liu Zhibing looked very much like the young Mao Anying, and the crew looked through the data to see that Liu Zhibing and Mao Anying were really somewhat similar, and in this way, Liu Zhibing and Mao Anying formed a fate. In the "Founding Ceremony", Mao Anying, played by Liu Zhibing, won unanimous recognition and praise from the audience, and since then, Liu Zhibing has also played Mao Anying many times. "At that time, he led everyone to shoot the "Founding Ceremony", all the talents and abilities of everyone were united by him, and the whole crew completed this work on time, quality and quantity, and until now, this film is an insurmountable peak."
In the film "The Founding Ceremony", Mao Zedong and Mao Anying.
In Liu Zhibing's heart, Li Qiankuan is a very enthusiastic and very talented person, he is an artist, he can paint well with one hand, and write well with one hand. In particular, he has a cheerful personality and the ability to infect the people around him: "Cooperate with him, you will not feel unhappy." He always creates with an optimistic attitude, and despite the pressure of his work, he is also particularly positive. In his eyes, there is no difficulty, just like his mantra, 'there is no flame mountain that cannot be passed', he thinks that no matter how big the difficulties are, he can't cry all day and lose his face, he always has to solve it. ”
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan
Edited by Huang Jialing Proofreader Wu Xingfa