As an actor, Cui Wei was a bit late in life, and it was not until the age of 42 that he starred in his first film "Song Jingshi". It was also from that time that the audience gave him a graceful name: Grand Marshal Cui Wei. Cui Wei does have a handsome style, as a Shandong native, he is tall, rugged, and has a heroic atmosphere, which also continues to the movies he starred in. Song Jingshi wielding a sword and plotting horses in "Song Jingshi", Dou Erpeng, a righteous sailor in "Sea Soul", Zhu Laogong and Zhu Laozhong's father and son with iron bones in "Red Flag Spectrum"... Huang Zongjiang said that this man was covered in smoke from the flesh to the spirit.
towering
1912-1979
Birthplace: Qingdao, Shandong Province
Former name: Cui Jingwen
Work unit: Beijing Film Studio
The personality has the boldness and cuteness of Shandong people
Cui Wei's original name was Cui Jingwen, and the illiterate father hoped that his son would have culture and bring good luck to the family, so he specially asked someone to give him a very cultural-sounding name. However, this does not quite match his rough and brash personality. In 1931, he changed his name to Cui Song, which means earth mountain with stones.
Cui Wei is a typical Shandong Han, as early as the Yan'an large-scale production movement, he was regarded as a master of reclamation, so that the hoe he asked his fellow countrymen to make for himself, larger than the hands of ordinary people, no one in the literary and artistic team can swing. On the mountain to carry charcoal, the average person can only carry 30 pounds, he can carry 80 pounds. Once on a visit to the Soviet Union, Sergei Bondalchuk, the great director who had directed "War and Peace", was a little arrogant and said to Cui Wei: "I heard that you are China's Bondalchuk", Cui Wei was not happy when he heard it, and immediately countered: "I also heard that you are Cui Wei of the Soviet Union."
Cui Wei has a simple personality, and even some are innocent and cute. "The New Biography of a Veteran" has a scene in which the actor wears a cotton coat in the studio on a hot day, and Cui Song, who is dizzy with heat, actually shoots eight times in the first place, and the lines are old and stuck. At that time, color film was imported, the state exchanged grain for grain, very expensive, so Cui Wei was so sad that he did not go to dinner, and sat alone in the empty shed and sulked.
"New Biography of a Veteran"
In 1959, director Ling Zifeng prepared to shoot "Red Flag Spectrum", everything was ready, only the male protagonist had not yet been found. In fact, Ling Zifeng already had a candidate in his heart, letting Cui Wei play him the most down-to-earth, but at that time, Cui Wei's "Song of Youth" had not yet finished the post-production, and there were some problems in the schedule. One day at the door of the North Film Studio, the two collided head-on, and Ling Zifeng took the opportunity to persuade Cui Wei to star in this movie, but he was afraid that Cui Wei would repent and say that he had to clap his oath to count. Therefore, according to the rules of the flag bearers, the two knelt down in the street and swore an oath, completely ignoring the surprised eyes of passers-by. That year, Ling Zifeng was 42 years old, and Cui Wei was 47 years old.
Passion is the life of performance creation
Some actors have a thousand faces, such as Shi Hui, acting like what, in the play and in life are completely two people. But Cui Wei is just the opposite, he is one of the few people who can do the drama as a person, and when you see his expression on the screen, it is like seeing the real person in his life.
Cui Wei in life has a rough personality and a clear love and hatred, and he also integrates this passion into the performance. Acting in some scenes with relatively large emotional fluctuations, Cui Wei will really be angry and trembling, sometimes the director shouts to stop, he also kicks people, and the actors who play the opposite role are afraid of him. In 1957, Cui Wei played the sailor Dou Erpeng in the movie "Sea Soul", and Zhao Dan had many rival scenes with him. When performing, Zhao Dan felt that he had a lot of light, because Cui Wei's feelings were as abundant as a flood, and it was easy to be brought into the situation when acting against him. In fact, in terms of seniority, Zhao Dan debuted early, and his performance experience is far richer than Cui Wei's, which is considered to be a senior, but after this cooperation, Zhao Dan is like a junior, giving Cui Song's performance a very high evaluation: "Unique", "Can be met but not sought", "Chinese style".
Sea Soul
In the 60s of the last century, there was a saying in the film circle of "Southern Zhao Bei Cui", Southern Zhao refers to Zhao Dan, and Northern Cui is Cui Wei. Mr. Lao She also commented on the performance of the two: "Zhao Dan luzi is wide, pretending to be a dragon, pretending to be a tiger like a tiger, but sometimes showing traces of drama; Cui Wei is cheerful and generous, playing a heroic character, making people think that the hero is what he looks like." ”
For performance, Cui Wei once said: "Passion is the life of creation". Cui Song's performance lines are delicate in the thick lines, the breath of life is strong, and it is full of fire-like passion. Cui Song's passion is inseparable from his life experience. Born in a poor family in the county seat of Shandong, he left his hometown at a young age, was unemployed and wandering, and experienced human sufferings at an early age, so when Cui Wei finally had the opportunity to play the peasants Zhu Laogong and Zhu Laozhong, who were fighting against the landlord class, in "Red Flag Spectrum", it was so full of form and spirit, fierce, but also very humane. The film also brought the highest honor to Cui Wei, in 1962, when the first "Hundred Flowers Award" was selected, the 50-year-old Cui Wei received a certificate from Guo Moruo's hand, there was no trophy, no bonus, only an inscription given to him by Mr. Lao She: Zhen ru Cui Bamboo Ming Yu Xue, quiet like Cang Pine Jiao Ruolong.
Red Flag Spectrum
Without life, everything you shoot is nonsense
Cui Wei has a habit, every time between shooting, he likes to go around the nearby villages, chat with the villagers, and the hometown's cigarette bag pot is taken over, wiped without wiping, and smoked in the mouth. It's his way of experiencing life, bringing himself closer to the emotions of the villagers. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cui Wei rehearsed the anti-Japanese drama in the enemy-occupied areas, and at that time, the ordinary people of the eight townships in ten miles came to see the rehearsal, and they could give their opinions at any time.
In 1955, Cui Wei, who had just resigned from his official position, went to Shandong to shoot his first film, "Song Jingshi", and according to his cadre treatment, the government arranged for him to have a jeep, a single room, and two attendants, all of which he refused. He plunged into his hometown to eat and live together. The "Song Jingshi" played by Cui Wei really has his own person in history, and in reality he is particularly filial piety. In the days of experiencing life, Cui Wei always put a meal from Wu Yin, the actor who plays her mother in the film, on the table, and then respectfully said: "The mother has eaten." Sometimes in time to catch up with the village to perform, Wu Yin sat on a bench to watch the play, Cui Wei stood behind herself, from time to time to make tea and pour water for her mother, the villagers thought they were a family. Wu Yin, who plays the mother, was also infected by Cui Wei's reality, once it snowed heavily, she went to find him with her coat, almost all over the village, and finally found Cui Wei on the kangtou of an old man who drove a car, and the two were smoking a cigarette bag and chatting.
Song Jingshi
For Cui Wei, creation must have a life, "without life, everything you shoot is nonsense." "Before filming the movie "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", the crew rehearsed the scenes for the young actors. After Cui Wei saw it, she was very annoyed, "Who let you rehearse the play for the children, starting tomorrow, let the actors all wear small pants, strip off their butts, play with the children of Baiyangdian, and go swimming." This can make the little actors happy, and after ten days of booting, it is almost impossible to distinguish the difference between Gazi, Chu dun'er and Baiyangdian children. In the past children's movies, the image of children was all positive depictions, losing their childlike fun, looking like little adults, not real. But "Gazi" is full of problems, plugging chimneys, pulling bicycle valve cores, wrestling and biting people, etc., so that a real and plump child image suddenly stands. In the actual shooting, Cui Wei's performance of the small actors is also three words: no acting.
The set of "Little Soldier Zhang Ga"
Beijing News reporter Teng Chao
Edited by Xu Qiaoyang Proofread by Xue Jingning