In 2000, an old man sewed his own birthday clothes and personally "directed" the funeral rehearsal, which is both a movie picture and a real experience of the people's artist Zhao Lirong in her later years.
She appeared on stage at the age of 1, became famous at the age of 17, played a lifetime of supporting roles, but after the age of 60, she really became popular, was the first person to sing and dance at the Spring Festival Gala, rap, and the achievements achieved by Zhao Lirong in her career were beyond doubt, but in terms of feelings and family life, her life was very unsatisfactory.
In 1960, Zhao Lirong's husband Sheng Qiang unfortunately died, and she and her two sons became orphans and widows. At that time, Zhao Lirong was only 32 years old, and it was not easy to support the whole family alone, so the family gave Zhao Lirong an idea that sounded good, but in fact made people feel embarrassed.
Sheng Qiang has a younger brother named Sheng Hong, and the family's idea is to let the little uncle marry his widow.
Since ancient times, where has there been such a thing? Zhao Lirong was furious when she heard this, where will her reputation go after this?
Under the persuasion of her family, after a few years, Zhao Lirong gradually let go of her heart knot and married Sheng Hong, and her two sons did not have to change their surnames, which was also worthy of her dead husband.
After marrying Sheng Hong, Zhao Lirong gave birth to two children successively, but unfortunately, the younger daughter died of a congenital disease when she was 7 years old, and eight years later, Zhao Lirong, who had been relieved from the pain of losing her daughter, became a lonely person again.
Sheng Hong had a heart attack and also left.
That year, Zhao Lirong was 56 years old, because her appearance was no better than those of Xin Fengxia, and since she was in her twenties, Zhao Lirong had been playing some supporting roles such as Aunt Li and Ruan's mother in the commentary.
In fact, the old lady just lacks opportunities, and the big instrument is late.
The first time she acted in a TV series, Zhao Lirong met Yang Jie and her director "Journey to the West".
The two were originally old acquaintances, and when Yang Jie invited Zhao Lirong to play the queen of Che Chi, Zhao Lirong also simply agreed.
The only problem was that Zhao Lirong couldn't read and could not read the script.
When she was one year old, Zhao Lirong, whose milk name was "Old Love", was carried to the stage and replaced the prop doll as a color doll.
Later, the old love's mind was all on that stage.
At the age of 12, "Old Love" officially worshiped the teacher and changed her name to "Zhao Lirong"; at the age of 15, Zhao Lirong debuted on stage as a "horn", and her performance was difficult to find 2 years later.
Her love for the stage delayed Zhao Lirong's studies, but Zhao Lirong was unwilling to compromise, and she told Yang Jie that as long as someone read the script to her, she could remember it.
Zhao Lirong is not willing to bother others more, so she is always very attentive, often without a few times, she remembers all the lines.
In addition, Zhao Lirong is also an actor who "plays bigger than the sky". Unlike the current stars who want to play their roles beautifully, for Zhao Lirong, what the role itself is is the most important.
The queen of Che Chi Guo, people in the unknown will feel that it is just another magnificent role, but in fact, it is not the same thing.
Zhao Lirong took Yang Jie's elaboration of the role to heart, and played a kind but timid queen who listened to the rumors of the monster but sympathized with the Tang monks and apprentices.
As a pilot episode of 86 "Journey to the West", although the response after broadcast was not satisfactory, the queen played by Zhao Lirong was praised.
No one expected that Zhao Lirong, who retired from the commentary theater, had just ushered in the peak of her career.
China's first international film emperor is director Zhang Yimou, and the first international film queen is Zhao Lirong, a teacher who sings and reviews dramas and performs sketches.
Zhao Lirong in 1991 was 63 years old, and the old lady who put aside others had already teased her grandson at home, and teacher Zhao's career had just sounded the horn in the second half of her career.
Li Baotian, Ding Jiali, Six-year-old children, Ge You, Shi Lanya... The cast of the movie "New Year" is luxurious, in a star-studded light, Zhao Lirong, who plays the mother, stands out and wins three trophies at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the 15th Chinese Film Hundred Flowers Award and the 4th China Academy of Film Performing Arts Awards.
Of course, what really makes Zhao Lirong start to be popular is the Spring Festival Gala stage.
In fact, long before becoming an international film queen, Zhao Lirong had already appeared twice on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
In the first year, the partner with Zhao Lirong was the popular "Jigong" actor You Benchang, and the mother of Che Xiao in "Sweeping the Black Storm", Wang Liyun, Zhao Lirong was still a supporting role, she was also willing to eat, and a full of joy tangshan dialect began to be well known.
The following year, Shi Lin, the screenwriter of the sketch "A Day in the Hero's Mother", solemnly requested that Zhao Lirong must be played, and Zhao Lirong, who was partnered with the cross-talk master Hou Yaowen, left her first famous stem: "Sima Guang Smashing Light" and "Sima Cylinder Smashing Cylinder".
After becoming an international film queen, Zhao Lirong's sketch career also began to explode.
This year, Zhao Lirong partnered with Gong Hanlin for the first time. In the following years, Zhao Lirong also tried to perform sketches on spring evenings with other actors, but the effect did not work well with Gong Hanlin.
Therefore, since 1995, Zhao Lirong and Gong Hanlin have joined hands again to bring two performances of the Wang Explosion level in the history of the Spring Festival Gala - "So Packaged" and "The Adventure of Part-time Work".
The first person to contribute to the singing and dancing and rap trinity performance on the Spring Evening is not a traffic idol, but our "rap queen" - Teacher Zhao Lirong.
"Spicy Chicken Silk" allows the audience to have a physical perception of the fancy star stage name for the first time, and the "hmmm" spoken from Zhao Lirong's mouth has since become synonymous with arrogance.
And in the rumors, those who can't pick up the next sentence of "Palace Jade Liquor" are likely to be really not Chinese. At that time, Dong Jie was still playing a passerby behind Teacher Zhao Lirong.
It is worth mentioning that at the end of the performance of "The Adventure of Migrant Work", the illiterate Zhao Lirong waved her pen and ink on the stage and wrote down 4 big characters of "genuine goods", which was quite windy.
In order to practice these four big characters, Zhao Lirong practiced calligraphy in retreat for half a year like a demon, and sometimes woke up in the middle of the night to practice with a pen. The people in the unknown were really "confused" by her on-the-spot skill.
After the Spring Festival Gala that year, many people asked Zhao Lirong for words, but she smiled and said, "In fact, I can't read." ”
In 1998, "Titanic" was a hit in China, and Zhao Lirong also sang a song "My Heart Is Eternal" in the spring evening of 1999, when no one expected that this song would become her masterpiece.
In fact, when rehearsing the sketch of the year, Zhao Lirong was already sick, she coughed blood in the background, frightened Gong Hanlin, when Gong Hanlin found a chair for Zhao Lirong and let her sit next to the boiler room to rest.
"Even if the spring night is over, Teacher Zhao must be allowed to rest." Gong Hanlin said.
But in order to make the performance go smoothly, Zhao Lirong insisted.
Only a year later, Teacher Zhao Lirong said goodbye.
At the farewell ceremony, almost all of the peers of the Chinese entertainment industry rushed to give Zhao Lirong a ride. Why can Zhao Lirong have such a high prestige?
Hollywood movie star Clint Eastwood was born in 1930 and is still self-directed and self-acting, and China also has such an old and strong acting superstar - Qin Yi, born in 1922, Blue Sky Wild, born in 1927... If Teacher Zhao Lirong is still alive, she will be 93 years old.
In 2000, the people's artist Zhao Lirong died of lung cancer, not only many big people with heads and faces in the entertainment industry came to bid farewell, but also tens of thousands of ordinary people who spontaneously came.
More than ten years later, people still feel the sincerity of Teacher Zhao Lirong when facing the audience in the previous interview videos.
Treating the performance for decades as "attentive" is the secret of Zhao Lirong's success.
When she was a child, Zhao Lirong learned to sing, and without good conditions, she hung her throat next to the ice cellar day after day;
After growing up, Zhao Lirong got the opportunity to star in "Dream of the Red Chamber", and she was a "semi-illiterate" all her life, in order to understand the storyline, she studied the comic strip version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" over and over again;
It is said that Zhao Lirong is a "people's artist" and "people" because the content of her creation is close to the daily life of the people, and "artist" is an affirmation of the level of her work.
"Gan Son" Gong Hanlin has mentioned more than once that Zhao Lirong is one of the greatest artists he has met in his life. Because of her pursuit of art, her requirements for innovation, never a little sloppy, never lagging behind the times.
Gong Hanlin said that every time they perform, they will prepare 3 or 4 plans, and Zhao Lirong usually chooses the most innovative one.
unbelief? You see......
In the "Mother's Today" in 92 years, the old lady single-handedly set off a national upsurge of learning tango, and now the rich sunset red life of the elderly is at least square dancing;
The "Star Chaser" in 1993 is consistent with today's hot discussion of "rice circle culture";
"So Packed" in 1995 explores the clash of old and new cultures and the crazy diss against nonsense;
In 1996, "The Adventure of Part-time Work", which satirized the black-hearted business behavior of Jin Yu's external failure, can still be pinpointed today.
It is worth mentioning that Zhao Lirong has not become a feudal and conservative defender, and her artistic career has never lacked the atmosphere of inclusiveness in the new era.
Cover the Tigers' classic golden song "Love", wearing a baseball cap and singing "String your heart and my heart, string a lucky grass, string a concentric circle" Teacher Zhao Lirong can be described as a forward-looking cross-border superstar;
She sang the golden song and Ren Xianqi's "Heart Is Too Soft", and later Ren Xianqi recorded a variety show and said that in addition to introducing him to Faye Wong of the Spring Festival Gala, the most grateful person was Teacher Zhao Lirong, and her casual hum made Ren Xianqi, who had not been known for many years, begin to flourish in the mainland.
Times are changing, people's values are also changing, and now there is always some chaos, which makes people jaw-dropping. The reason why the audience misses Zhao Lirong may be because in this year, there are really not many "people's artists" who can spur in a way that everyone likes to hear.
We will always miss that era, when in the middle of the old and new confrontations, someone knew what to cherish and what to learn, rather than going with the flow and losing meaning.
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