Beijing News On February 14, according to the Xinmin Evening News, Yang Zaibao, a film performance artist of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe, died in Beijing on February 13 at the age of 85. In the early 1980s, Yang Zaibao played the director Luo Xingang in "Blood, Always Hot", leaving a new and unique tough guy image for the screen at that time, and won the Best Actor Award at the 4th Golden Rooster Awards and the Best Actor Award at the 7th Hundred Flowers Awards. In 2019, he was awarded the honor of "Lifetime Achievement Film Artist of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles" at the 32nd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Film. His representative works "Red Sun", "The River Gushing", "From Slave to General", "Blood, Always Hot", "Acting Mayor", "Wilderness" and so on have influenced a generation.
Stills from "Blood, Always Hot".
Actors Feng Yuanzheng, Xiao Rongsheng and others posted tributes for the first time on the social platform: "Teacher Yang Zaibao has gone all the way! Director Chen Guoxing also recalled, "Chinese film national treasure level old predecessor, Yang Zaibao teacher all the way." Director Gao Qunshu said that "another tough guy left...", director Mao Weining also sent a memorial for the first time: "Yang Zaibao teacher is gone, in addition to watching all his performances on the screen, I also had the honor of cooperating with Mr. In 2015, when the academy asked me to direct a star alumni version of the drama, we chose "The Young Generation", and at the same time I took the film of the same name as another structural space, so that the film role actor Yang Zaibao and Dashi Chang also participated in the rehearsal of the drama In more than a month of getting along, sir, whether acting or being a person, has profoundly influenced me, you will always be a young generation, and our blood will always be hot."
Stills from "The Wilderness".
Shi Xiaojie, head of the rap troupe of the China Coal Mine Cultural and Labor Troupe and a cross-talk actor, recalled Yang Zaibao, "a hero who has struggled for the film industry all his life and lived a lifetime". Yang Zaibao's on-screen memories left by the audience are enlightened, and film critic Sai Ren said, "'From Slave to General' has a major film enlightenment for me, and this is the first time I feel the span of time in the film." He was the first tough guy I recognized as a Chinese actor. Like stone, but also like pine trees. Yang Zaibao is using his non-standard Mandarin to shape a standard. ”
Stills from Slave to General.
Edited by Tian Kaini Proofreader Liu Jun
Source: Beijing News