On November 18, 1990, CCTV aired a feature film about the Republic of China-era film star Xuan Jinglin. The artist was 18 years old when he first appeared on the screen. Looking back at her artistic path, it is not difficult to find that in the founding period of her art in the 20s, and for a long time afterwards, she has been fortunate to be guided by a celebrity, who is Zheng Zhengqiu.
Zheng Zhengqiu
It should be said that the person who discovered Xuan Jinglin was first Zhang Ishikawa, who found Xuan Jinglin in 1924 to shoot her debut work "The Last Conscience". Xuan Jinglin played Qin Chunhua, a lady of the Broad family, in the film, and Zhang Shichuan served as the director.
As the screenwriter of "The Last Conscience", Zheng Zhengqiu naturally met Xuan Jinglin at this time. From this time on, Zheng Zhengqiu had a premonition from her body that she was a girl who could climb the long art ladder and look at the crown on the pre-end.
Therefore, during the filming of the film, there was such an episode: Xuan Jinglin, whose original name was Tian Jinlin, fell into the fire pit at a young age. She wanted to get out of the shadows, but her lover objected. Zheng Zhengqiu supported her and praised her for daring to "self-liberation."
Once, when Zheng Zhengqiu came to the scene to watch the filming, he quietly approached her, talked to her softly for a while, and then said to her: "Your surname is casual, and your name must be changed." He looked at her with a smile, and seemed to think that a young girl of a wonderful age, who was talented, talented, and lively, did not match the name of "Jinlin", and "Jinlin" was indecent!
Therefore, Tian Jinlin changed her surname to Xuan to commemorate her girlfriend "Xuanjie", who had not returned to France for a long time. Zheng Zhengqiu covered his mouth with a smile and said, "Jinlin has the love of a sister, it should be!" Very good! ...... I saw that the name was changed to Jing Lin, Jing, Tongying, Lin, that is, Mei Yu. You are a piece of the beauty of the film industry. ”
Xuan Jinglin
What a beautiful name! Xuan Jinglin was really embarrassed to be exaggerated, and couldn't help but laugh out loud, and her cheeks were red, but she knew that this name contained Zheng Zhengqiu's care and hope for her, which had a lot of weight! She nodded happily.
Later, Xuan Jinglin really acted seriously from beginning to end in "The Last Conscience". Zhang Ishikawa said to her before filming began: just act according to his words.
She believes that acting according to Zhang Ishikawa's words can become a piece of jade and live up to Zheng Zhengqiu's hopes. She "portrayed Qin Chunhua's arrogant and extravagant personality into detail", which was just in line with the identity of "sharp-mouthed girl", and she debuted on the screen and succeeded in one fell swoop!
Xuan Jinglin was encouraged, and then played an important role in "Little Friend" written by Zheng Zhengqiu, Tang Shenshi, which was also well received by public opinion circles and audiences. From Xuan Jinglin's success, Zheng Zhengqiu concluded that his premonition of her was correct.
In July 1925, after the film "A Woman in Shanghai", written by Zheng Zhengqiu, directed by Zhang Ishikawa and starring Xuan Jinglin, was released, it immediately touched the audience with its protagonist's kind character and unfortunate encounter of becoming a prostitute, as well as its beautiful human nature and human feelings, especially the women's circle at that time.
This film is one of Zheng Zhengqiu's masterpieces, and general film history and biography believe so. What is interesting here is that it was consciously made by Zheng Zhengqiu for Xuan Jinglin.
Zheng Zhengqiu is a person who "works for life", but is also an idealist and humanitarian. He had always been concerned about the social problem of prostitutes and had more than once prescribed a prescription for the problem: the Government had established part-time groups for prostitutes and introduced autonomy for prostitutes.
Therefore, when Xuan Jinglin finished filming "The Last Conscience", used the remuneration fee of the film, and then put together a sum of money, "redeemed herself, got out of the fire pit, and officially participated in the filming work of the film", Zheng Zhengqiu was extremely happy, admiring her rebellious spirit and sympathy for her painful experience.
In any case, he wants to help her escape from the fire pit that destroys the flesh and humanity, to seek a job in the film industry, to support herself, to be independent of society. The birth of "A Woman in Shanghai" is the result of this mood.
However, Xuan Jinglin still had no idea that the script of "A Woman in Shanghai" was written for her. Even though there were places in the script that transplanted her own experience, she hadn't been able to understand it.
Since Zheng Zhengqiu borrowed the role of "harem" in "Evil Family" to satirize his "stepmother", after the news leaked out, it gradually cultivated a part of the audience who loves to speculate, but none of them guessed that in real life, the real identity of who may be some shadow of the heroine in the play.
The woman in "A Woman in Shanghai" is named Wu Aibao. At the beginning of the script, it is her fiancé Zhao Guiquan who is working in the field, and suddenly is bullied by several farmers, unable to resist, and loudly calls for help.
Aibao heard Guiquan's voice and hurried to come, punching and kicking the peasants away.
Xuan Jinglin was strong and naughty when she was studying in a private school, and often fought with male classmates, sometimes playing a difficult fight, like a poor boy. Zheng Zhengqiu moved Xuan Jinglin's fight with the boy into the script without a trace.
The difference is that the location has changed, not in the school, but in the field; the name has also changed, not Xuan Jinglin, but Wu Aibao. Soon, Aibao was tricked into shanghai by the mother bustard Lin and forced to become a prostitute in the Lin brothel, living an insulted and damaged life. This encounter of Aibao is also the experience of Xuan Jinglin.
Xuan Jinglin did not shy away, she said frankly: "In my life, I will never forget the most heart-wrenching thing, that is, the old society forced me to fall into the fire pit when I was a teenager." ”
Xuan Jinglin did not think that the depictions similar to her own experience in the play were bad for her, so she did not protest to the writers who exposed or innuendo her privacy like some foreigners, and all she wanted to do was how to play Wu Aibao, a female protagonist, with the help of director Zhang Ishikawa, and shine with brilliance, so as to make herself stand firm in the film industry and occupy a place.
Later, when she recalled playing Wu Aibao in this film, she said: "The role I played was also difficult to please, because at first I should be a naïve and delicate rural girl, and then after becoming a prostitute, she lived a life of debauchery, but she should exude her pure heart from time to time to make the audience sympathize with her." In the first few scenes, the director explained to me like a storyteller the little girl's temperament, how naughty and naughty, let me experience it myself.
In the later parts, on the one hand, the director is well inspired, on the other hand, it is also experienced through his own encounters. For example, in the film, I was tricked into going to Shanghai, because I personally experienced this painful life, so the performance is more profound. ”
After the film was released, it was successful, and this place naturally includes Zheng Zhengqiu's contribution to Xuan Jinglin's cultivation, and Zheng Zhengqiu has been in a kind of praise joy for a long time. Since then, Xuan Jinglin has also leapt to become one of the four famous people in the film industry alongside Wang Hanlun, Zhang Zhiyun and Yang Naimei. It's really a drama that can make an actor!
When Xuan Jinglin was eager to further create more and better Hua Dan images in praise, Zheng Zhengqiu suddenly arranged for her to play an old woman in the countryside in her 50s in "Early Birth Guizi", written by herself and directed by Hong Shen.
Xuan Jinglin was very embarrassed, and everyone was worried that she would not act well. But Zheng Zhengqiu has his own reason, he said, Xuan Jinglin played Hua Dan's results are quite good, and the results of re-acting Lao Dan will be better, a little makeup, not only similar, but also similar to God.
He also encouraged Xuan Jinglin: "Believe in yourself! You will succeed! Sure enough, after the film was released, public opinion unanimously praised Xuan Jinglin for changing her appearance as Lao Dan.
Since then, Xuan Jinglin has played the role of Lao Dan. Later, Zheng Zhengqiu cultivated another big star, Hu Die, but still not thin Xuan Jinglin. For example, in his business card "Sister Flower", he invited her to perform with Hu Die, playing the role of her mother and trying to give full play to her acting talent.
Many years later, Xuan Jinglin still remembers his painstaking cultivation and shaping of himself.
She always likes to repeat such a passage to people once, ten times, and a hundred times: "After I entered the star company, Old Master Zheng not only taught me how to act well, but also let me understand the professional ethics that an actor should have, and the personality that should be a person." So after the release of "Sister Flower", the company held a reception at the Atlantic Restaurant, and when Zhang Ishikawa asked me to stand up and say a few words to the guests, I said: "We didn't do anything about "Sister Flower", and the credit goes to our 'old master'!" ”