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Who is the first star of "I Love My Home"?
Many people may say song dandan, some people will say yang lixin, or Liang Tian. In fact, it is not, the absolute first starring role of "I Love My Home" is Wen Xingyu, who plays Comrade Fu.
In the whole series, there is not a single episode in which Lao Fu has not appeared, and other characters have been absent to a greater or lesser extent, and he is also the largest in terms of line volume. It is hard to imagine what the whole drama would have become without such a respectable and lovely parent as Lao Fu, what the Jia family would have become, and whether everyone would still love them so much.
Some people may not know that Wen Xingyu was only 52 years old when he played Lao Fu, and the role of Lao Fu was positioned to be 67 years old, which means that Wen Xingyu played an elderly person at a nearly middle-aged age. In the beginning, the white hair on his head was painted by a makeup artist.
Sadly, in 2007, Wen Xingyu left the audience he loved him at the age of 66, not yet the age of the old Fu he played.
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In 1993, the crew of "I Love My Home" found a suitable person to play Lao Fu, and it took a lot of trouble.
According to the prior setting, Fu Ming is the head of the family, and he has experienced the most historical stages and life stages and stories on his body, so he is the primary role. The actor initially set by the director of the whole drama Yingda is Zhu Xu, a veteran actor of renyi. Due to Zhu Xu's relationship with Yingda's father, Yingruocheng, Yingda called Zhu Xu from an early age.
Zhu Xu has starred in many classic dramas on stage, and has also participated in the filming of film and television dramas such as "The Last Emperor". During the writing of the script of "I Love My Home", Yingda deliberately asked Zhu Xu to play the most important role Fu Ming, and once invited Zhu Xu to read to him the script of the episode of "Uninvited Guest".
This screenplay was the proud work of one of the screenwriters, and later became a masterpiece in the play because it was starred by Ge You (reinterpreted as "Ge You's paralysis" in the summer of 2016). However, in the end, due to scheduling problems, Zhu Xu still failed to participate in the shooting and went to shoot a movie "Heart Fragrance".
Now think about it, if Zhu Xu really played the old fu, what would happen? I believe that with his old man's performance skills, he can naturally create a typical image, but the drama critic Shi Hang once gave a judgment, Zhu Xu should also be able to perform the cute old comrades like Lao Fu, but it is certainly "not as cute as Wen Xingyu's performance." Maybe it will be.
Yingda was busy looking for other candidates, and Yingruocheng recommended Wen Xingyu, vice president of the Central Experimental Drama Theatre (later merged into the National Theatre of China).
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In 1993, Wen Xingyu was 52 years old. When he was in the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama, he was a good student in the school, and he usually loved to read books in the library, and his business skills were very solid. After graduating in 1963, Wen Xingyu became an actor in the Central Experimental Drama Theatre, and his colleagues called him "Dawenzi". Although he likes to perform, he never has the opportunity to show his full talent due to the limitations of his image.
According to the screenwriter Yingzhuang, Wen Xingyu can't play a good person or a bad person on the drama stage. Wen Xingyu's tooth is particularly large and the image is not good, and he cannot play a positive role; then play a negative character, but he is 1 meter 83 tall and too tall, standing on the stage is detrimental to the image of other positive characters. After the Cultural Revolution, Wen Xingyu simply turned into a drama director and gradually became known in the circle.
At that time, Wen Xingyu could be called a cutting-edge director, good at practicing new ideas in drama. He has directed works such as "Heshi Bi", "Spirit and Flesh", "Song of the Great Wind", "In the Silent Place", "A Q Zheng biography", "When the Maple Leaf Is Red" and other works, and the technique of each play is different. "Heshi Bi" shows the process of women giving birth, which has never appeared on the stage, very exploratory, and "Spirit and Flesh" also tries to not close the curtain during the performance.
For Yingda, Wen Xingyu can also be regarded as an acquaintance. In "Love You No Discussion", Wen Xingyu served as the acting director of the actor, and also played a role that did not play a small role, Dean Wang. At that time, Wen Xingyu was idle at home for some reason, and Yingda was ordered to find him. For playing the role of Lao Fu, the heaviest role in the whole drama, Wen Xingyu has some drumming in his heart, and he has not concentrated on acting for more than ten years, and he does not know whether he can be competent.
So Wen Xingyu said to Yingda, I can try it first, and I can do my best to act, but if I can't perform it in a few episodes, you will change people. Yingda quickly made a decision to play the old man Fu Ming by Wen Xingyu. It is reasonable to say that Wen Xingyu was still a "young" cadre at that time, who knew that this time he directly played an old man in his 60s.
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According to the design of the plot, Fu Ming is 67 years old, while Wen Xingyu is only 52 years old, and the gap with the age of the characters also makes him look for a long time after the TV series began filming.
The feeling is gradually found. Attentive viewers can find that in some of these episodes, such as "In That Distant Place", Lao Fu speaks faster and his voice is louder, more like a middle-aged man close to his own age, which has changed later.
Wen Xingyu tried to change the speed and tone of his speech, and found that the audience's response to this speech was more enthusiastic, so he strengthened it even more, and gradually formed the old cadres' speaking style of lao Fu. This way of speaking, and then also known to television audiences, in many of the later film and television works, Wen Xingyu also used this "Wen's voice" many times.
Playing such a lovely old cadre as Lao Fu, Wen Xingyu somewhat referred to some of his father's images. His father worked at the Yan'an Party School and was a veritable old cadre, but in his old age he had that "old naughty boy" side and often joked with his family.
When "I Love My Home" was broadcast, it was accused of ridiculing the old cadres too much, and Wen Xingyu himself was not impressed. In his eyes, no matter how high a person is in a position, but you are a person first, and when you are old, most of you have an old child side in the family. Jokes don't mean offense, and he is perfectly receptive to jokes in the play.
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The scene that appears the most in the whole drama is the Living Room of the Jia Family, followed by the Dining Room, and the footage of Lao Fu's bedroom is not much. It can be seen that there is a husband and wife photo hanging on the bedroom wall, which is Wen Xingyu and his lover Zhang Kejing.
Zhang Kejing was a professional diver who was famous for starring in the movie "Female Diver" when he was on the diving team. After changing careers, Zhang Kejing entered Wen Xingyu's Experimental Drama Theater, where he was the secretary of the Youth League Committee of the theater. Wen Xingyu already knew Zhang Kejing, Zhang Kejing had never seen him, but the first time she saw Wen Xingyu, she felt as if she had seen this person somewhere. This fate eventually brought the two together.
The black-and-white group photo was taken in Dongdan Park. At that time, Wen Xingyu and Zhang Kejing had just been married for about a year, and they did not have children, so they went to Dongdan Park with their colleagues in the drama theater that day, and the colleagues took a group photo of them. Group photo Chinese Xingyu is wearing a hat, which is also a habit he developed when he was young, as long as he goes out, he puts on the hat. For this reason, Zhang Kejing's grandmother was also suspicious at that time, and specifically asked Zhang Kejing, how can this person you are looking for always wear a hat, should it be bald? On the contrary, Wen Xingyu's hair was particularly thick at that time.
During the filming, the crew asked Wen Xingyu if there was a photo with his lover at home, and the two picked this one after arriving home. This precious group photo is still hanging in Zhang Kejing's bedroom, as if his wife and children have never left.
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On July 30, 2007, Wen Xingyu left this world forever due to illness.
In the last days, he could no longer speak, and the two communicated by writing in notebooks. Wen Xingyu wrote a lot of "love" words, and some words overlapped due to physical strength and vision. Zhang Kejing understands this word, because the two have never quarreled for decades, have not blushed once, and their eating habits can be changed for each other. According to her arrangement, Wen Xingyu's tombstone was engraved with eight words on the back: Youth has gone, love forever.
Every year on the death day of Qingming and Wen Xingyu, Zhang Kejing would drive to the cemetery to see his wife and talk with him. According to the agreement between the two, she would bring a rose every time she went up the mountain.
Roses in front of Wen Xingyu's tomb