"If you love someone, send them to New York because that's paradise." If you hate someone, send them to New York because it's hell. ”
This classic line, in the 1990s, was on fire for 10 years. Slightly older netizens know which drama he comes from.
In 1993, Zheng Xiaolong traveled to the United States with a loan of $1.5 million, and his purpose this time was to make a story about the Chinese in the United States in the context of the then overseas fever.
Before that, although the Beijing Television Art Center, where Zheng Xiaolong worked, had already produced popular TV series such as "Longing" and "The Story of the Editorial Department", it only made money and did not make money.
As the director in charge of television production, Zheng Xiaolong's heart is more anxious than anyone, which is why he has the idea of making a full-location TV.
The group worked in New York for more than three months, spending 1.5 million yuan to achieve the classic "Beijingers in New York".
After "Beijingers in New York" was broadcast on CCTV, it triggered a ratings frenzy, especially the theme song "Ten Million Questions" composed and sung by Liu Huan, which swept the streets and alleys.
This drama also reveals the true face of the United States is not a paradise on earth, and has really affected a generation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Wang Ji</h1>
In "Beijingers in New York", Ah Chun, played by Wang Ji, has the ability, vision, and wisdom, speaks fluent English, and is particularly beautiful. This kind of character characteristic, in the context of the times at that time, was very pleasing to the audience.
Before playing Ah Chun, Wang Ji had been in the United States for 6 years, and her business with Her Husband was on the right track, and she had a lovely daughter.
At this time, Wang Ji had not touched the stage for five years. At the beginning, she was dissatisfied with sitting on the cold bench in Renyi, and resolutely resigned to break into the United States alone, and Wang Ji's experience was also somewhat similar to Ah Chun in the play.
Although the business in the United States is doing well, in Wang Ji's heart, her dedication to acting has never given up.
When Chen Daoming brought her the news of the role of "Ah Chun", Wang Ji was not very excited, but she was absolutely overjoyed.
But who knows the left and right, Wang Ji did not wait for the crew's phone, but in the American newspaper, saw the news that "Beijingers in New York" has been turned on.
Wang Ji, who was holding a fire in her stomach, called the desk of the general director Zheng Xiaolong and asked how she had been brushed off.
The actual situation is that the actor who played Ah Chun at that time was not determined, but Zheng Xiaolong felt that Wang Ji was not suitable, so he did not call her again.
Zheng Xiaolong's practice ignited Wang Ji's fiery temper at once. She couldn't care about cultivation and had a big fight with Zheng Xiaolong on the phone.
Wang Ji's fiery temper made Zheng Xiaolong see Ah Chun's shadow in her, so Ah Chun's actor finally set Wang Ji.
After entering the group, Wang Ji, with twelve points of enthusiasm, threw herself into the intense shooting. Even if the A and B crews rotate in a row and there is no normal rest, Wang Ji is happy and tired, so she lies on the sofa and sleeps for several hours.
This kind of high intensity was difficult for ordinary people to bear, and Wang Ji at that time was still pregnant.
Wang Ji found out that she was pregnant in the second month of entering the group, and the high-intensity performance made Wang Ji show signs of threatened miscarriage. But the scene is already halfway through, and she can't pick a pick halfway.
In addition, although tired, but Wang Ji is very enjoy this kind of work, the original resignation from Renyi is a delay in waiting for the protagonist play, now the performance opportunity is in hand, how can she give up lightly.
Every time she was tired enough to choke, Wang Ji would say to the child in her belly: Baby, you carry it with your mother.
The child also seems to understand his mother's words and remains quiet until he gives birth. But in the months of the crew, the child's development was obviously not quiet.
When Wang Ji was six months pregnant, she didn't look like a pregnant woman in appearance, so much so that some people didn't believe she was pregnant.
Five days before the broadcast of "Beijingers in New York", Wang Ji's son was born. When her son was eight months old, Wang Ji won the "Best Actress Award at the 12th China Television Golden Eagle Awards" for the role of "Ah Chun".
There are children and daughters, the family is reunited in the United States, I thought that life would go on in such an orderly way, but I did not expect that my son's next diagnosis broke this peaceful happiness.
When Gao Xiaofei was one year old, he was diagnosed with stunted growth by the hospital, and suffered from epilepsy and autism, mental retardation, and had to be accompanied by medicine for life.
This news gave Wang Ji a blow, and she was willing to use everything to exchange for the health of her son I, but God ruthlessly refused.
Gao Feng's business at that time was mediocre, and the cost of his son's subsequent treatment would be astronomical. For the sake of her son, Wang Ji decided to return to China to continue filming and earn her son's treatment fees.
On the spot, Wang Ji sent her 5-year-old daughter to boarding school, took her mother to the United States to take care of her son, and she returned to China to shoot.
With the popularity accumulated by "Beijingers in New York", Wang Ji's plays are about one after another, "Red Pink", "Thunderstorm", "Evidence of Guilt", "Blood Linglong"...
The workload is very large, it is also very hard, but the return is also gratifying, in addition to the rich returns of the economy, the honors are also one after another, the Golden Eagle Award, the Spring Swallow Award, the Feitian Award and other heavyweight awards, so that her popularity soared at the same time, but also let her into the position of the domestic first-line actress.
Just because of the success of the career, it cannot make up for the lack of his son.
In 2008, a news story about Wang Ji's son being expelled by Air China attracted the attention of netizens, and everyone found out that Wang Ji's son was different from others.
Wang Ji did not shy away, in many subsequent programs, she generously shared the moments of her son's life with the audience, and did not feel that her son was any different from ordinary people.
Sons need to be cared for for for the rest of their lives, and in such a family, daughters often have to bear more. The same is true of Wang Ji, who has strict requirements for her daughter and allows her to live independently very early.
Daughter Gao Liwen has been well-behaved and cute since she was a child, because of her brother, she has been no different from left-behind children since she was a child, and she has lived alone since kindergarten. In terms of study and life, wang ji was hardly worried.
Although Wang Ji said that she had high requirements for her daughter, how could she not know her daughter's situation, but she had to work and take care of her sick son, and she was really lacking in skills, and only owed her daughter.
Fortunately, Gao Liwen was very sensible, and her academic performance was very good since she was a child, and later she was admitted to New York University, participated in the Miss Chinese in New York Area competition, and won the honor of "Most Photogenic Miss". After graduating from college, Gao Liwen chose to enter the entertainment industry.
The daughter is interested in developing in the entertainment industry, and Wang Ji is also doing her best to help her daughter. Not only did she help her daughter win a lot of roles, but through her own connections, she often took Gao Liwen to attend film and television fashion activities, so that Gao Liwen quickly had a certain popularity in the circle.
Because of her younger brother, Gao Liwen also often participates in some public welfare activities.
For this younger brother, Gao Liwen was very fond of her, equivalent to half of her brother's mother. In the program, Gao Liwen did not need Wang Ji to say more, and took the initiative to take on the heavy responsibility of taking care of her brother in the second half of her life.
After years of treatment, Gao Xiaofei is basically able to take care of himself. Now, Wang Ji's main task is to cultivate her son's living habits, so that he can take care of his own life as much as possible in the second half of his life.
The children's lives are on the right track, and Wang Ji, who has struggled for most of her life, began to use her free time to do what she liked. Practice calligraphy, travel around, and enjoy life.
Recently, Wang Ji joined a short video platform and shared her life with the public from time to time.
We see that Wang Ji is not only still young, but also very moist.
Wang Ji fought for her son for most of her life, Ni Ping gave up her career to accompany her son to treatment a few years ago, and now that her son has recovered, she is back on the stage and focusing on her career.
These great moms deserve everyone's respect.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Yan Xiaopin</h1>
In "Beijingers in New York", Yan Xiaopin played Guo Yan, the wife of Wang Qiming, who saw the cruelty of the United States and returned to China after completing her studies.
If Wang Ji's role as Ah Chun is the inevitability of personality, then Yan Xiaopin's role as Guo Yan is an accident in chance.
Like Wang Ji, Yan Xiaopin had been living in the United States for some time when filming "Beijingers in New York".
When "Beijingers in New York" was filmed, it caused a big sensation among the Chinese. The reason is that there is no other reason, and most of the people who went out during that time were mainly people in the literary and artistic circles.
At that time, Yan Xiaopin was studying while working as a reporter on a Chinese radio station.
The news of the filming of "Beijingers in New York" was widely influential among the Chinese, and Guo Yan did an interview as a reporter.
The interview was not finished, but the camera and director began to circle around her, which made Yan Xiaopin a little puzzled.
Later, Jiang Wen asked her, do you want to act? It turned out that Guo Yan's candidate had not yet been decided.
Yan Xiaopin's intellectual and generous image is very similar to Guo Yan in the play, and the director team believes that she is more suitable for the role of Guo Yan.
Before coming to the United States, Yan Xiaopin had actually become famous in China, graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, and came out acting in her sophomore year. "On the Side of the Water", "Two Midnights", "Sun Rain" and other dramas have her figure, of which "Sun Rain" also made her and Jiang Wen win the "Bachelor Award" of the University Student Film Festival, and they were famous in the film and television circle for a while.
Just after becoming famous, the newlywed husband went to the United States to study. At that time, domestic commercial films had just sprouted, yan Xiaopin did not want to make commercial films, and it was very popular to go abroad at that time.
So Yan Xiaopin also gave up everything in China and went to the United States as a companion, studying and working at the same time.
To say that there is no regret in giving up filming is definitely false, but it can only be abandoned for the sake of husband and wife reunion.
Now, such a good opportunity was in front of him, Yan Xiaopin had no reason to refuse.
The next day, Yan Xiaopin entered the group, and Guo Yan's candidate after putting on makeup was hers.
After the broadcast of "Beijingers in New York", Yan Xiaopin also became popular again.
After returning to China, Yan Xiaopin entered the entertainment circle again. "Sin Debt" has achieved great ratings, and "Sin" has made many viewers begin to pay attention to knowing her.
In the TV series "Walking Through Happiness" starring Sun Honglei, Yan Xiaopin played the timid and cowardly Wang Liqin.
In dramas such as "Never Look Back" and "Obstetrics and Gynecology of Love", Yan Xiaopin's figure has been left.
After entering the new century, Yan Xiaopin's film and television dramas mostly appeared in supporting roles, and the glory created by "Beijingers in New York" is difficult to reproduce.
And to this day, Yan Xiaopin has not been able to win the mainstream award of domestic film and television dramas, which cannot but be said to be a pity.
In recent years, the roles played by Yan Xiaopin have mostly been mainly mothers and mothers-in-law.
In 2021, in the hit drama "Like Jade", Yan Xiaopin played the role of Madame Wang. Yan Xiaopin's image seems to be less suitable for costume styling, which is very different from the elegant atmospheric image in the show, and it is particularly old.
Nowadays, Yan Xiaopin has reduced the filming of film and television dramas, but he is still active in the drama stage.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Liu Huan</h1>
If "Beijingers in New York" benefited Wang Ji Yan Xiaopin a lot, then the other person who benefited the most was Liu Huan.
In 1989, "Crooked Moon" composed by Li Haiying, after some singers failed to sing, let Liu Huan sing into thousands of households, "Crooked Moon" swept the country, liu Huan is also well known.
But no one expected that a disaster relief party in 1991 caused a misunderstanding between Yang Mama and Liu Huan.
At that time, Yang Ma's family was dominant, and after Liu Huan was excluded by Yang Ma, all shots about Liu Huan were processed.
Liu Huan participated in the "Feitian Award" and sang a song solo, and yang's mother did all of Liu Huan's entire performance as a stunt when it was broadcast, and the audience could only see a part of Liu Huan's body.
In this case, Liu Huan refused some invitations, and soon it was rumored in the circle that Liu Huan did not sing, and gradually, no one really looked for Liu Huan to sing anymore.
Therefore, when director Zheng Xiaolong came to the door, Liu Huan was at a low point in his life. Although people have low prices and love for music, there is no diminishment.
It was also during that quiet time that Liu Huan wrote 7 songs such as "Ten Million Questions" and more than 90 pieces of music.
With the broadcast of "Beijingers in New York" on CCTV, Liu Huan was also lifted.
In 1994, "Ten Million Questions" topped the Beijing Music Channel charts for 12 consecutive weeks, and the familiar lyrics hit the eardrums of listeners over and over again
I'm after you for thousands of miles
But you don't care
You're not like you're in my dreams
In the dream you are my only one
Time and time again You ask me
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Chinese plus English, became the most foreign song of that era, and the sales of "Ten Million Times Ask" exceeded one million, laying the foundation for Liu Huan's status as the king of Chinese pop singers.
Subsequently, Liu welcomed the golden time of his career and made him an irreplaceable king of the Chinese pop music scene.
In 1995, he was invited by the Ministry of Culture to Romania as a judge at the Brasov International Pop Music Festival.
In 1996, he won the "China Top Ten Singers Award" and the "China Top Ten Songwriters Award";
In 1997, he became the first singer signed by Sony Records in mainland China;
In 2008, he sang the theme song of the Beijing Olympic Games "Me and You"
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"Start Over Again", "Good Han Song", "Meet Like a Dream", etc., these songs with the characteristics of the times, let us remember Liu Huan, but also remember that era.
In 2010, Zheng Xiaolong came to the door again and invited Liu Huan to compose music for "The Biography of Zhen Huan", and the ending song "Phoenix Yu Fei" was composed and sung by Liu Huan.
Among them, the interludes "Picking Lotus", "Golden Silk Dress", "Amazing Dance" and "Bodhisattva Man" were completed by Liu Huan in only two days.
From the lyrics of "Phoenix In Flight", we can glimpse Liu Huan's profound literary skills
Old dreams are still faint, the past is confused, spring flowers and autumn moons
Like looking at the flowers in the fog, looking at the moon in the water, floating and floating
The king came and went without a word, and the clouds turned over in the rain
Although the two love each other, the two hearts are lost again and again
Talented people, opportunities are waiting for him all the time.