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The entertainment industry is a magical place, looking at the calm like water from a distance, and looking closely at the mixture of fish and dragons, which is also the reason why many artists do not want their children to get involved in the entertainment industry again.
In this circle of big and small, special actors have always been magical beings. Thanks to them, we who have come after us can deeply understand the hardships of the past.
The special actor I am talking about today is definitely a well-known old drama bone. People say that he played Liu Shaoqi to the fullest, and when he saw him, his blood was surging with enthusiasm.
Who is he?
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His name is Guo Lianwen, and he was born in Changli County, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province.
In his memory, his father worked as a primary school teacher all his life, and he was also a talent who could play and sing. In addition to these hobbies, his father often performed on stage and was well respected in the local area, and Guo Lianwen was influenced by this.
In his family, the family style is very strict, respecting the old and loving the young is the bottom line, and thriftiness and simplicity are virtues. Home wind can affect a person's life, and years later, this has been proven.
There are many brothers in the family, and Guo Lianwen has developed the habit of "competing for the first" since he was a child, whether it is learning or acting. Fast forward many years, and three brothers in this family became principals and became professional actors, and Guo Lianwen was one of them.
Unlike other brothers, Guo Lianwenkao's university was the Central Academy of Drama, which was now a very powerful university, and its status at that time could be imagined.
As early as 1985, Guo Lianwen had participated in movies, but at that time he was still a nameless person, and no one had carefully examined his appearance.
After nearly another decade in a trance, he finally had the opportunity to show his face. In the filming of "Zhuge Kongming" in 1996, Guo Lianwen's role of Sima Yi made him less famous.
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Guo Lianwen realized that he looked like Comrade Liu Shaoqi because of a chance.
In 1998, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Liu Shaoqi, CCTV immediately decided to prepare for the filming of "Comrade Shaoqi".
Everything is ready, only the East Wind is owed! Props and other things are easy to prepare, but where to find Liu Shaoqi's actors? Looking for one out of more than a billion people is simply finding a needle in a haystack.
At that time, Guo Lianwen was participating in the filming of the movie "Blue Three Rings", suffering from no inspiration, after a morning of hard training, he finally had the feeling of playing Geng Biao, and he was ready to audition without eating.
When he was acting on the camera, the director suddenly said to him: "Guo Lianwen, you don't shoot, come out with me." When Guo Lianwen was called out, he still wondered: "Director, why don't you let me shoot, is there something wrong?"
"You shoot well, but there are better places waiting for you"! The director said happily.
Walking out of the set with doubts, he looked up and looked even more confused. A bunch of people were already waiting for him outside the field, and he hurriedly asked, "What does this mean?"
After some exchanges, he learned that he was originally a candidate named by CCTV, and the filming of "Comrade Shaoqi" needed his own face! In the face of this unexpected pleasure, he closed his mouth in excitement.
But excited to be excited, he came with several actors who resembled Comrade Liu Shaoqi, and after going through layers of screening and review, Guo Lianwen was brought to Comrade Liu Shaoqi's wife, Wang Guangmei.
The crew asked Wang Guangmei if she was satisfied with the person in front of her playing "Comrade Shaoqi", and after some consideration, Wang Guangmei nodded in agreement. Comrade Shao qi played by Guo Lianwen was also so fixed.
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After the news was settled, Guo Lianwen received congratulations from all over the place, but he was also a little worried.
The good news is that he is a small minions who have been in the film and television circle for many years, and suddenly he is happy to fall from the sky, and it is inevitable that he can't sleep happily.
What is worrying is that I have a cloth coat, what if I smash a great man like Comrade Shaoqi?
For this reason, he thinks about it day and night and dreams, and in order to play Comrade Liu Shaoqi well, he has to perform dozens of times, hundreds of times, one action and one look. The people around him felt that they were doing it, and they felt that they were doing it in the mirror, so he changed the next action.
Despite my hard work, I felt pressure when I participated in the shoot. Comrade Zhu De of Wang Wufu can be described as three points into the wood, but looking back at his acting skills, he is slightly "frivolous".
Guo Lianwen's biggest advantage is that he is willing to meet better people, and during that time he was with Wang Wufuchang day and night, just to learn more skills from him.
Over time, his acting skills have indeed improved, whether in terms of looks or actions, he has taken a step closer to Comrade Liu Shaoqi.
But this is not enough, "Comrade Shaoqi" wants to highlight his political talent and comradeship. So he "stole art" from Chairman Mao's actor Li Kejian and gathered the strengths of a hundred families to enrich himself.
In 1998, the TV series "Comrade Shaoqi" was broadcast, and only he himself knew the suffering during the period from the beginning of filming to the broadcast. After the broadcast, the audience's affirmation gave him the greatest encouragement, and as a result, he slowly became a "professional household of Comrade Shaoqi".
In the same year, he also rushed to the crew of "Blue Three Rings" and "Tibet Storm" non-stop, and participated in the filming of scenes of Geng Biao and Liu Shaoqi.
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In 1999, Guo Lianwen participated in the filming of "Founding Leader Mao Zedong", and also participated in the filming of Tang Guoqiang, Liu Jin and other well-known actors. After the drama was broadcast, it won the "First Prize of the 20th Feitian Awards for Long-form TV Series".
In the following years, he carried out at the rate of one Comrade Liu Shaoqi TV series every year, and Comrade Shaoqi brought him a "name" and also made him friends with Tang Guoqiang and others.
If there is gain, there will be loss, and every TV series will play the same character, which will inevitably make him feel similar. The audience that liked him also walked away from the batch after batch.
In 2001, Guo Lianwen was again selected as the role of Liu Shaoqi in the TV series "Long March". This time he said very calmly: "The first time I played Liu Shaoqi, there was a lot of pressure, but this is the tenth time, so I am more grateful for everyone's recognition of me."
During the filming of "Long March", Guo Lianwen did get a "baptism".
Comrade Liu Shaoqi photographed before is all Zhongshan suit, a clean and neat style. However, when filming "Long March", he changed his old style and filmed Liu Shaoqi as a ragged comrade, in order to restore the difficulty of the Long March.
When the director saw it, he simply added the scene of Liu Shaoqi crossing the meadow to him: When Comrade Liu Shaoqi crossed the grass, he saw that a small soldier could no longer climb; Comrade Shaoqi stopped and fed him his own dry food. In addition, the little soldier's briefcase, weapons, and the little soldier were carried. Walked far, far, past the meadows.
It should be known that the shooting location at that time was on a plateau of 3800 meters, and a little carelessness could lead to the loss of life.
Later, Guo Lianwen recalled: "The conditions are good, but after carrying the little warrior, I am obviously physically weak, and my chest is like a crack." But the director did not shout to stop, he really did not stop, until the end of the audition, Guo Lianwen's lips were white and paralyzed, and his brain was numb.
This experience made him realize the hardships of the heroes of the past. As he himself said, this experience has made me thoroughly understand what kind of person Comrade Liu Shaoqi is, and his spirit has always deeply inspired me.
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From after "The Long March" to 2019, Comrade Liu Shaoqi, played by Guo Lianwen, has been back and forth no less than 40 times. He said it was his lifelong pursuit and love.
He never forgot his father's education for him in his early years, and as he grew older, Guo Lianwen also began to consider the problem of Comrade Shaoqi's role. So he started the school.
After all kinds of hardships, his "Lianwen Film and Television Art School" was finally opened. He also invited Comrade Wang Guangmei to write the name of the school for him. It all went well.
However, the children's tuition fees have become a big problem, and he once said in an interview: "The students are from the northwest region like Yan'an, and it is really difficult to make up the tuition fees." But they also like to learn this, and if there is no way, let them learn it. People open schools to make money, and I am a proper loser, but teaching and educating people is a hobby of mine."
After the school was opened, Guo Lianwen invited teachers from Nortel and China Opera to teach the children. He himself is also very busy, usually in his spare time filming, he will run to Beidaihe to give children acting lessons.
Watching the children like his acting class, he is patiently teaching every student, from film and television performances, broadcast hosting to dance, as long as the children like, he does not want "sponsorship fees".
In order to give the children a better education, he moved the school to Beijing. Entrusted by the principal, he personally worked as the head of the acting department for the children, and stayed for another three or four years.
In the past few years, he has lost a lot of weight, and even his own son will say: "My father has a problem with the man, and he loses money to run a school."
With the passage of time, more and more people came to visit, and Guo Lianwen's dream was half completed. His other half's dream is to find a successor to play Comrade Liu Shaoqi in the whole country, especially in the Hunan region (Comrade Liu Shaoqi's hometown).
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Comrade Liu Shaoqi, who has photographed most of his life, his spirit has always touched Guo Lianwen.
As a national first-class actor, his residence is very ordinary, his neighbors are ordinary office workers, and the decoration of his home is also extremely grounded, without a trace of the feeling of a star home.
His usual expenses are not high, and he is really the kind of old man who can eat enough. My wife is an editor of a newspaper, and in her spare time, the old couple likes to raise flowers and plant grass.
Although life is leisurely, Guo Lianwen is quite particular about his diet: he is 1.78 tall and requires that his weight must be maintained at about 70 kilograms, because this is the posture of Comrade Liu Shaoqi.
In order to play Comrade Liu Shaoqi well, he did not quit smoking, but for the sake of his own health, he smoked very little. Comrade Liu Shaoqi does not like to drink in his life, and he usually drinks a little.
Later, when the family was demolished, he had no choice but to move to the suburbs with his family, but he still taught the children some acting skills at no cost.
Because he has performed Comrade Liu Shaoqi too many times, many details of his life are now exactly the same as Comrade Liu Shaoqi. I didn't realize that I had become "less strange".
This is Guo Lianwen, a good actor who concentrates on acting, concentrates on teaching and educating people and does not seek to return, comrade Liu Shaoqi's virtue of two sleeves and a clean wind has always influenced him, and he looks forward to bringing us more good works.
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