Pay tribute to the classics and remember the brilliance of the filmmakers! On October 4th, the 109th anniversary of the birth of Cui Wei, one of the 22 greatest film stars, famous performing artists and famous directors and artists in New China, we take this opportunity to jointly express our high respect and deep remembrance to the old artists of Cui Wei.
It is not false to say that Cui Wei's life is full of legends. unbelief? Please read on.
Cui Wei was born into a poor family and worked as a child as a child. Cui Wei was born on October 4, 1912, in Zhucheng, Shandong. When he was ten years old, his hometown suffered a major drought, and his parents had to flee with their whole family to Qingdao to make a living. When he recalled his childhood memories, he said: "My family is very poor, life is extremely hard, I went to the factory as a child laborer when I was ten years old, but this could not solve the problem of life, and then I had to sell my sister to others..."
But the experience of poverty could not defeat Cui Wei, and when he was young, he read a large number of progressive books and periodicals, and gradually showed his artistic talent. He joined the Seagull Drama Society led by the underground party, came into contact with progressive ideas, joined the "Left League" in 1932, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he created and performed many stage plays reflecting the People's War of Resistance Against Japan, such as "Eight Hundred Heroes" and "Defending the Lugou Bridge".
In the 1930s, Cui Wei participated in the Oriental Drama Society, the Drama Life Society, the Shanghai Amateur Drama Association, the Shanghai Salvation Drama Team and other organizations led by the Left League, and successively created and performed stage plays and street plays in Shanghai, Wuhan and other places that reflected the lives of workers and the anti-Japanese resistance, and "Put Down Your Whip" is the most famous. In February 1938, Cui Wei came to Yan'an to participate in the preparatory work of the Yan'an Lu Xun Art College, and taught in the drama department of the academy, and later served as the director of the drama department of North China Union University, the president of the Fireline Drama Club of the Jizhong Military Region, and the director of the Creation Research Office of the College of Literature and Art of North China University.
During the Liberation War, Cui Wei experienced the rain of bullets and bullets many times. In 1948, he went south with the army to wuhan to work, and successively served as the director of the literary and art department of the Wuhan Military Control Commission, the dean of the Central South Academy of Literature and Art, and the director of the Cultural Bureau of the Central South Administrative Committee.
It is said that Cui Wei's life is full of legends, including that although he is an administrative official, he likes to perform and practice it. During this period, he successfully portrayed classic characters such as Song Jingshi in "Song Jingshi" and Li Hongkui in "Huanghualing".
What is even more admirable is that in 1956, the superiors decided to transfer Cui Wei from Wuhan to Beijing as the director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture, and Mei Lanfang also welcomed him to the Central Academy of Opera as vice president, but when asking for his opinion, Cui Wei said: "I don't want to be an official, I just want to be an ordinary actor." In this way, he was transferred to the Beijing Film Studio as the director of the art committee, an actor and director. In that year, Cui Song abandoned official acting and became a big news in the literary and art circles.
Since then, Cui Wei has become not only an excellent performance artist praised by everyone, but also a famous director with high talent.
From the perspective of performing artists, in addition to starring In Song Jingshi in "Song Jingshi" and Li Hongkui in "Huanghualing", Cui Wei also played Zhu Laogong in "Red Flag Spectrum", Dou Erpeng in "Sea Soul", Huang Laoqing in "Northern Wilderness Man", Zhan Changhe in "New Biography of Veterans" and so on. It can be said that Cui Wei has always been at the forefront of mainstream culture, and has created many classic images of the screen with high passion, which are majestic, iron-boned and dazzling.
From the perspective of the director and artist, Cui Wei has directed films such as "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Song of Youth", "Yangmen Female General", "Beida Wilderness Man", "Wild Boar Forest", "Plain Battle", "Red Rain", "Mountain Flower" and so on. Overall, his directing style is smooth and free, full of passion, and full of energy.
Cui Wei is not only the top 22 film stars in New China, but also the first "film emperor" of New China; she is not only the top ten film stars of the first China Film Festival, but also the actor of the Chinese Film Century Award. From a poor child laborer to a people's artist, from a warrior to an art master, classic works such as "Red Flag Spectrum", "Song Jingshi", "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Song of Youth" and so on make Cui Wei eternal!
However, the "ten years of turmoil" greatly damaged Cui Wei's body and mind, and unfortunately, on February 7, 1979, the famous performance artist and famous director Cui Wei died in Beijing at the age of 67.
Ten days after Cui Wei's death, Yang Mo, a famous writer and screenwriter who worked with Cui Wei on "Song of Youth", wrote with tears: "Comrade Cui Wei, will you really never see you again?" When I heard the bad news of your unfortunate death, I did not believe that standing in front of me was still your tall, strong, red-faced, talkative and smiling style... You left us too soon! You're not old yet... I mourn the loss of such a good comrade as you, and also mourn the loss of such a talented, wise and creative artist as you in the literary and artistic undertakings of our country, especially the film industry..."
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