For film and television stars, people may pay more attention to their complicated scandals than their works. Therefore, the circle of stars is also called the entertainment circle, pleasing themselves, pleasing the public, and the gossip and gossip that spread in the sky stimulate people's senses and become the most delicious snack after tea and dinner. In order to increase attention and traffic, since the 1920s, film companies have known how to create gossip to attract the attention of the public. But there is an actress who indulges all her energy in the pursuit of performing arts, strives for excellence, has a serious self-control in her private life, refuses to cooperate with vulgar hype, and has never had gossip and gossip in her life. This dedicated, dedicated and highly characterful performing artist is Lilian Giss.
Lillian Gish was born in the United States, and the family atmosphere from an early age was not very harmonious. His father was an alcoholic, and he often quarreled after drinking, disturbing the family's tranquility. My mother is a stage actor with extensive stage performance experience. In order to get rid of her alcoholic husband, when Lilian was a teenager, her mother took her and her sister away from home to make a living with the troupe. Because of acting, the family also got to know the Mary Bikefu family. With the decline of the theater market, under the introduction of Marie Bikford, Lillian joined David Griffith as an actress in his company.
David Griffith is the grandfather of the American film industry, who began film production at the beginning of the invention of film technology, and he is a rigorous, serious and professional film master. At that time, film was still a new industry, there was no special film and television school, and most of the actors were transformed from the theater industry, so the way of performing on screen was still the exaggerated expression of the drama school. David Griffiths believes that film performance should be natural and full of life, so he has carried out rigorous interpretation training for the actors of his company, and Lilian is undoubtedly one of the best. Her performance is fresh and natural, without exaggerated movements and looks, just with the eyes can accurately grasp the psychological activities of the characters. She and Mary Bichford were Proud Protégés of David Griffith.
Unlike Marie Bi kefu's uneasy status quo, shrewd and capable, sleek and sophisticated, Lillian is an artist who is obsessed with the exploration of professional skills, a typical professional talent, to be precise, a performer. She doesn't like to socialize, she doesn't like to deal with the boring questions of reporters, she is a calm, gentle, introverted girl. She has a pair of beautiful big eyes, like a cold star in the winter night, clear and shining straight into the heart, her face is round, soft, emitting a pure, gentle light, very classical beauty. She is good at portraying a weak and weak girl who is weak and weak, who has suffered from life and disease and has no counterforce, and is hollywood's "Lin Daiyu".
If you look at her appearance and think she's just a beautiful actress, she's brilliant enough to have personally directed a film in the twenties of the last century and had a good response. But in the process of directing, because of the female identity, they were not respected by the staff, they did not listen to the director's arrangement, they were late for no reason, and they confronted the director, even so, the film was successfully shot for less than ten thousand dollars with a budget of fifty thousand dollars. However, because the concept of patriarchy was too heavy at that time, and people had a contemptuous attitude towards female directors, Lilian felt that it was better to concentrate on being an actor, so she never set foot in the directing industry again.
She is a talented actress with excellent acting skills and a natural and subtle performance, while her work attitude is extremely serious and her professionalism is admirable. Once in order to play a terminally ill female patient, she used hunger strikes to make herself weak, felt that she was not enough and desperate, her face was still bright and delicate, and finally used cotton to dry her saliva. When filming the female patient's death, the director once thought that Lilian was really dead. There is a film to be filmed in the cold winter, Lilian is wearing thin clothes, lying on the thick ice floes in a snowstorm, and the ice floes drift down with the wind, which is a real-life shooting. Lilian did not have two words, did not need a stand-in, personally completed the dangerous shooting, before the shooting, her sister found the company boss and threatened to kill the boss if her sister was in danger. In the end, fortunately, everyone saved their lives. During the filming of the film "Wind", Lilian had to face the hot wind blown by the propeller of the airplane, the temperature was as high as 50 degrees Celsius, and the dust was full of dust, and Lilian filmed one scene after another in the dust and sand.
She seems to be weak, but her emotional explosion is amazing. There is a scene in which she hides in the closet to avoid domestic violence from her father, who slashes the wooden door of the closet with an axe and slashes at the wooden door, while she curls up behind the wooden door and shivers. In this scene, her frightened eyes, curled up body, and weak face convey a terrifying despair and helplessness that makes people look heartbroken. In this scene, she combines the exaggerated limbs of the theatrical stage, the expression performance and the naturalistic performance of the naturalistic expression of the naturalistic performance, and has become a classic shot of the film.
When she jumped to work at MGM, the audience resented that the actress did not have explosive news, and was as boring as water. MGM suggested that she cooperate with the company to create some love scandals with male actors, which made Lilian, who has always had a strict and upright work attitude, unbelievable, shocked, and categorically refused. In the end, the two sides parted ways after working on several films. Unwilling to work under slavery at major studios, she returned to the theater scene. In the years that followed, she never left her acting career, she participated in stage, television, and movies, and her steps never stopped until she was ninety-four years old.
Lilian never married, never had a scandal with anyone, and kept herself clean until the end of her life. She is kind and kind,She is kind and kind, and she still has a pair of bright and energetic eyes in her old age. Mentor David Griffiths was demoralized in his later years, and the film moguel of the silent film era was eliminated by the fast-growing film industry. When he was poor and sick, it was Lilian who reached out to take care of the elder who was also a teacher and father until his death.
People often say that the entertainment industry is a big dyeing vat, and then the people with the heart of hui lan enter the circle, they can't help themselves, can't help but tempt, or they will gradually be edified and contaminated into another person. Lilian, on the other hand, has been in the noisy theater circle since she was a child, but she has always adhered to her bottom line, refused to compromise, self-respect and self-love, and never gave up her persistent pursuit and awe of art. A performance artist like her can truly be called a virtuous artist.