From the 1950s to the beginning of the new century, The actor Lipo of bayi Factory has been active in the forefront of film and television drama performances, and in the audience's memory, he often plays the role of senior commander of the army or the leader of the public security system, mostly commanders, military commanders, division commanders, political commissars and public security bureau chiefs.
Lipo's tall and burly figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes of the Chinese character face, wide and loud voice, coupled with excellent acting skills, absolutely have the aura and style, and will not let people see the traces of "pretending to lead".
What is surprising is that this professional household who played the head of the army also played the low-level bandit "silly big man" in the old movie "Lin Hai Snow Plain", played the Japanese gendarme thug in "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City", and also starred in the 94 version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series in the 94th version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series and other negative roles.
In 2005, the 77-year-old Li Po played Uncle Qin in the TV series "Home with Nine Phoenixes", which may be his last screen image.
His outstanding achievements in the arts led him to win the first People's Liberation Army Literary and Art Award in 1983 and the Special Honorary Award of the "Golden Phoenix Award" of the Ninth China Film Performing Arts Society in 2003.
Unfortunately, this outstanding performing artist died in 2013 at the age of 85.
Born in 1928 in Dakoutun, Baodi County, Hebei Province, Li Po was originally named Li Qingzhang, and he studied at the town center primary school in his early years and often participated in the school's theatrical performances. In 1943, he moved with his family to Beiping. In 1944, he graduated from high school and joined the Beiping Ancient City Amateur Drama Society to perform dramas. In 1945, he went to Zhangjiakou to perform progressive dramas and joined the Eighth Route Army, becoming an actor in the Jinjin Drama Club of the Political Department of the Jicha Military Region, and has been working in the cultural and industrial troupe of the army since then.
In 1952, he served as the deputy head of the 67th Army Cultural and Industrial Corps of the Volunteer Army and rushed to the front line of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. After returning to China, he was transferred to the General Political Drama Troupe, successively served as an actor and detachment leader, and also starred in the feature film "Land" filmed by the Northeast Film Studio, playing the militia captain Xie Chenggang, and has since stepped onto the screen. In 1959, he was transferred to the Bayi Film Studio as a professional actor.
In the decades of artistic career, the image of senior military and public security cadres played by Li Po has left an unforgettable impression on the audience.
For example, in the film "Breaking Through the Darkness Before Dawn", he played Captain Ma, in "Hero Tiger Guts" as Commissar Ma, in "Hero Island" as a general, in "Huimin Detachment" as Detachment Leader Ma Benzai, in "Sea Eagle" as a Navy Colonel, in "Hero Tanker" as an infantry division commander, in "12 Trains" as a PLA colonel, in "Red Sun" as the regimental commander Liu Sheng, in "Hunting Word "99"" as the public security bureau chief, in "Party Group Leader" as Director Liu, in "The Great Armageddon" Played General Deng Baoshan in the third Pingjin Campaign.
In 1959, Li Po starred in the film "Huimin Detachment", which began to shine in the film world because of his success in shaping the image of the anti-Japanese hero Ma Benzai.
The film crew of bayi factory "Huimin Detachment" was established in the summer of 1958, with Feng Yifu and Li Jun as directors.
The two directors have made a lot of efforts to choose the protagonist actors of this film. They believe that the main criteria for choosing to play Ma Benzai actors are similarity and temperament. So I contacted several film studios and drama troupes and inspected many actors, but who played Ma Benzai was still unfinished.
One day, Li Jun and Feng Yifu went to see a play, and they were attracted by the actor on the stage who played the political commissar of the army. Seeing that he is tall and imposing, he is very leaderly, which is quite consistent with the role of Ma Benzai in the film to be filmed.
After the drama ended, Li Jun learned that the actor's name was Li Po, who used to be an actor in the General Political Drama Troupe, and had played roles in films such as "Hero Tiger Guts", "The Eternal Radio Wave", "Sea Eagle" and so on, and had great performance potential.
After Li Jun and Feng Yifu exchanged views, the current decision was made by Li Polai to play Ma Benzhai.
Receiving the task, Ripo was also particularly happy and cherished. In order to portray this heroic character, he came to Ma Benzhai's hometown and the place where he lived to seriously experience life, interviewed and collected a large number of materials, so that his body and mind were as integrated into the world of Ma Benzhai as much as possible, and he basically did his "homework".
Soon, the film crew rushed to Hejian County, Hebei Province, to shoot locations. At that time, it was the era of the "Great Leap Forward" in 1958, and the production of the production teams in the villages along the way was "in full swing". Also affected by the situation of the "Great Leap Forward", "Muslim Detachment" did not have a director's desk script, and was directly filmed according to the film literary script. The film crew strives to achieve both speed and quality insurance, so the film is very hard to shoot.
At that time, the country's economy was backward, materials were scarce, the film crew had a low cost of food, and sometimes everyone even went hungry to shoot. The rural sanitary conditions where the shooting is located are not good, and it is the season of extreme heat, flies fly around when eating, at night, flies also crash directly into the face, and mosquito bites, it is difficult to sleep peacefully.
One day, while filming a trench scene, the camera pans to Ma Benzai, played by LiPo, but the director finds him leaning against the edge of the trench and standing still. So he shouted, "Hey! What happened to Ripo? The concentration is too exaggerated, why is it motionless? And Ripo didn't react.
The staff rushed over to check and found that Li Po was asleep in the trench because of fatigue.
Director Li Jun knows that Li Po is filming continuously, he is too tired, and his love will be heartfelt. He whispered, "Don't bother Lipo, let him be confused for a while!" ”
Despite the hard work of filming, the film crew worked hard and tried to find a way to do things together.
The real Mamoto Isai is fierce, brave and skilled in riding. He never kicked the stirrups on his horse, and often leapt from this roof to that roof when fighting.
The director wanted Toipo to show the athletic side of Ma Benzai, but Ripo was tall and heavy, and riding was not sophisticated, so it was difficult to perform.
During the filming of a scene in which Ma Benzai chased the traitor Bai Shouren, Li Po fell off his horse fiercely, and he lay on the ground and said to Li Jun in frustration: "Director Li, I see, I can't do it." ”
Li Jun was angry and funny, and encouraged him to say: "Get up, people fall off the horse, the drama can't fall!" No, we can find a stand-in. ”
Li Po's heart was shocked, and at the same time, he was full of energy, and he would never look for a substitute.
Once, he was frightened in the market on a high-headed horse, running wildly, and when he saw the danger, Lipo hurriedly strangled it, only to fall down again, and his knee was broken. But this scene was filmed, and the director even said that the effect was very good after seeing it.
Later, Li Po came up with a solution: it was recommended to tie him to the head of a car first, and make a horseback riding appearance, and then the car ran on the bumpy road, the photographer followed his upper body shot, the long view was connected to the shot of the whip galloping, the close-up long view was repeatedly alternating, and a horseback chasing enemy scene should be completed.
Director Li Jun felt that it made sense after hearing it, so he adopted his suggestion. When the actual shooting, everyone also pinched a handful of sweat, I don't know what this scene of horses turning into cars will be filmed.
The result came out of the film, it is really difficult to distinguish between true and false, very successful.
In order to restore the real battle scenes, the crew used a large amount of explosives to make blast points. There is a scene where Ma Benzai jumps on the roof, and the explosion points below are constantly exploding, setting off a fierce battle scene.
During the shooting, a blast point closest to The Slope suddenly detonated, and he was suddenly thrown to the ground by the air waves, and his pants suddenly became strips of cloth. Fortunately, the body was not injured.
After the camera was shot, Ripo stood up and shouted, "Give me pants!" ”
Everyone was first frightened by the explosion scene, and then they were amused by LiPo's words.
Relying on such efforts, LiPo successfully reproduced the tortuous and complicated process of Ma Benzhai's growth from an old soldier to a Hui people's anti-Japanese hero and proletarian fighter.
Lipo's performance is sincere, simple and rough, and the meticulous inner activities and tense external actions are harmoniously unified, so that the characters in the film have personality, brilliance, and are ready to come out.
"Muslim Detachment" was released, and Ma Benzhai's image won rave reviews from the audience, and Lipo's reputation was greatly enhanced.
Li Po is Han Chinese, and after playing Ma Benzai, the Hui brothers treated him as a hero of their own nation. In the following three years of natural disasters, Ripo was stained with a lot of Ma Benzai's light. Every time he went to a Muslim restaurant to eat, he was always warmly entertained, and even some shopkeepers let him eat for free.
In 1960, Li Po participated in the old movie "Lin Hai Snow Field", in which he played a big bandit who carved a mountain down the mountain to catch chickens, and was a small supporting role.
In his later years, Li Po said that his favorite role was the bad and ugly "silly big man" in the movie "Lin Hai Snow Field".
The slope of the five facial features standard is only five big and three thick body shape suitable for "silly big man", but "ugly" is not up to standard.
In order to play the role of "silly big man", he asked the makeup artist to add a few teeth to him, put on the bandit costume of northeast China, put on a torn dog skin hat, and immediately became extremely ugly.
Even acquaintances didn't recognize him, and surrounded the director curiously and asked, "Where did you find such an ugly actor?" ”
It is precisely because of this film that in August 2006, CCTV Movie Channel invited Li Po as a guest in "Flowing Golden Years", and met with Wang Runshen (Yang Zirong), Daniel Zhang Hand (Shao Jianbo) and director Liu Peiran in the film that year.
More than forty years later, Lipo's voice is still very loud. He talked to the audience about the past when filming the film, saying that it was in the period of three years of natural disasters, and the shooting life was particularly difficult, and there was a scene in the film where the "stupid big man" nibbled on the flesh and bones, but he was relieved. He said wittily that the smell of meat would be remembered many days later...
In the film "Lin Hai Snow Field", LiPo played the seemingly stupid and cunning bandit "Silly Big Man" vividly, making such a small role difficult for the audience to forget for many years.
In the film, Ripo's performance is wonderful enough:
One night, in a dimly lit room where the squad was stationed, the bandit "Silly Big Man" was escorted in by the scouts, only to see that the scouts in the room were all dressed in plain clothes and behaved and dressed like the local bandits.
Liu Xuncang, who was sitting in the middle of the kang, pretended to be drunk, Sun Dade stood aside with a pipe, and the other members of the squad stood around with large knives and various guns, smoking cigarettes, and a pot of burning firewood was placed in the center of the room. The "stupid big boys" saw the situation and thought they were bandits like themselves.
Only to see the "stupid big man" thief sneak around, nodding his head with his teeth and saying: Brothers! Don't get me wrong. Three old and four young, which slipper are you?
Liu Xuncang shouted: Shut up! Grandma, which are you?
The "stupid big man" was frightened: I... I... I am Wei Hushan, Brigadier Cui, and third master Cui's brother.
This was actually a special interrogation scene designed by The Squad Shao Jianbo and Yang Zirong, with the purpose of pulling out some of the situation of Wei HuShan from the mouth of the "stupid big man" and preparing for Yang Zirong to break into the bandit's nest.
Inside the house, Liu Xunchang and others pretended to be drunk and talked to the "stupid big man", and in the next room next door, Shao Jianbo, Yang Zirong, and Bai Ru carefully recorded it.
Only to hear the frightened and trembling "stupid big man" say: Three old and four young, which slipper are you?
Liu Xuncang patted the table and said: Are you blind? What are you doing running to your grandfather's turf? Well? Sun Dade, who was holding a cigarette bag, also slipped and said: Then why did you run to us here? yes?
The stupid big man rolled his eyes and replied: Isn't this the third master Cui's kanzi coming? Chinese New Year's Eve held a "hundred chicken feast" and sent my brothers down the mountain to catch chickens. scold! I didn't think I hit the mountain gate by mistake. Forgive the little brother, forgive the little brother!
Sun Dade asked: Do you still know the "Hundred Chicken Feast"? What is a "100 Chicken Feast"?
The stupid big man saw that the other party had no intention of killing himself, and hurriedly said: Hey, hey! That is 100 chickens, from 100 families, the thirty whole mountain of the brothers feast, so it is called "hundred chicken feast". Oh, huh! This year is the 60th birthday of the third master, and the pomp is even greater.
He looked up at Sun Dade, swallowed and said brother... brothers! Are you the Ninth Biao, the mountain of the Ninth Master?
Sun Da had to push the boat along the water and say that he was right, and let the stupid big man sit down on the edge of the kang, and someone threw him a bone to eat.
Sundard said, Brother! You are not good at home to guard the mountain, running around all day long, what? Brigadier General Ofushan was wiped out by the Communists...
The big fool heard this and came up "silly". He said a few times, Brother! You don't know. He leaned over to Sundard's ear and whispered that there were no outsiders here, right?
Sundard: Oh, rest assured! Our Ninth Master is all his own brother here.
The stupid big one immediately blew away: We have a total of five mountain bags, and each mountain bag has built nine bunkers. Five-nine that's forty-five. Bunker after bunker, hit wherever you want. The traffic ditches are all dark. Awesome! Weihu Mountain, others can't hit it, it just hits it, we slipped through this dark ditch, and the shadows couldn't touch it! Huh...·
The stupid big man mysteriously pulled Sun Dade aside and said, I told you all, Wei Hu Hall, under the big leather chair where Third Master Cui sat, that is a hole, straight to Peony Peak! · ·
The situation is basically clear, and it is also necessary for the "stupid big man" to step out of the footprints leading to the bandit's nest.
As a result, Liu Xunchang and Sun Dade inadvertently left the house for an excuse, and the soldiers who left the guards to guard the "stupid big man" also dozed off. Soon, with the "Someone ran, go chase it!" Shouts and gunshots, the soldiers guarding the "stupid big man" also went out to chase people.
The "silly big one" saw this and grinned triumphantly. He shook off his clothes and ran out of the room desperately into the woods.
Immediately, another voice came out, "Another one has run, chase it!" Shouts and gunshots.
The "silly big one" panicked and ran faster, but left a clear footprint on the snow for Yang Zirong to go up the mountain.
In the film, the "silly big man" played by Li Po is this scene. But the image of the "silly big man" has become a classic.
After passing the year, Li Po was invited to play the treacherous minister Dong Zhuo in the 94 version of the costume TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
He carefully studied the script, flipped through the original work of "Three Kingdoms", ate through the essence of Dong Zhuo, a historical figure, and vividly portrayed Dong Zhuo's stubbornness, domineering, rudeness, ferocity, and vivid portrayal in the play, which was recognized and loved by the vast number of audiences.
Some people have compared Dong Zhuo, played by different actors in recent years, and finally believe that in terms of both form and spirit and acting skills, no one can surpass Lipo's version.
Ripo's voice is magnetic and has a strong sound quality, and he has participated in the dubbing and directing of many film and television dramas, such as "Barton", "Don Quixote", "Midway", "Yamamoto Fifty-Six" and so on.
Especially for the 86 version of the "Journey to the West" in the eight precepts of the pig voice, it is a classic. He has also served as the director of films such as "Wind and Rain Under the Bell Mountain" and "The Great Victory in Jinzhong".
In the 1990s, after filming "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", LiPo was diagnosed with lung cancer and hospitalized for more than three years; later, he was diagnosed with blood in the skull and had to undergo surgery.
The open-minded and optimistic LiPo has no fear, but actively cooperates with the treatment, and finally overcomes the danger twice.
After recovering from his illness, his later life was very relaxed and pleasant, and he often "chatted" with his old friends in the film and television industry, so he was nicknamed "Kanye".
In addition to chatting with old friends, Lippo also has a hobby of life is "good eating". Braised elbows and braised pork are said to be his favorite dishes.
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