New party member Niu Ben took the oath to join the party.
For niu ben, a new party member, the first month of joining the party is a rare "passionate" in his later years, except for experiencing life in the play, probably ordinary days have rarely been so exciting. Especially after receiving a letter from General Secretary Xi Jinping on June 25.
Along with Niu Ben is the actor Tong Ruixin, who is the junior of Niu Ben and the leader of Niu Ben. Tong Ruixin, the current head of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe, appeared with him at the scene of the study forums, exchange meetings and seminars at all levels after Niu Ben received the letter, as a representative of the actors who also had "feelings" and "responsibilities", expressing the general secretary's letter not only encouraged Niu Ben alone, but also all the actors who wanted to act well.
In fact, on the afternoon of receiving the letter, Niu Ben finished a meeting from the Propaganda Department, and the first person he went to look for was Tong Ruixin. Niu Ben returned to the Shangying Actors Troupe, and Tong Ruixin gave him an ice cream, which was a little "upgraded" than the popsicle he ate on the day of the party ceremony at the beginning of the year, niu ben said, "I have to be calm and calm." In fact, of course, he did not come to the troupe to eat ice cream, he has long retired, but he treats the troupe as his home, and often loves to hang out and talk to Tong Ruixin about creation and trivia. When he went to the troupe that day, he wanted to ask Tong Ruixin what he could do next? He has said on many occasions that even if he works non-stop, there is not much he can do in the time left, but he still wants to shoot some decent works. And Tong Ruixin, no matter where he is now, or what he has done over the years, is worthy of the "first choice" that Niu Ben thought.
Niu Ben and Tong Ruixin at the branch meeting of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe.
The "Little Parents" of Old Artists
Tong Ruixin joked that he probably "acted a lot of Chairman Mao" in recent years, and sometimes his thinking habits were inevitably carried away by the people in the play. Especially after playing "Unforgettable Years", a large number of party members were persecuted, and Mao Zedong was in a difficult period, he could especially appreciate the feeling of "wanting to join the party".
So when he starred in "Zou Bihua", Niu Ben stuffed a small note with his wish to join the party in Tong Ruixin's hand, saying that this was their "little secret", And Tong Ruixin felt that he had to do something for the old man. On the same day, he called Ren Zhonglun, president of the Shangying Group, to convey the wishes of the elderly and hope to "promote it as soon as possible", and was also "educated" by Ren Zhonglun, saying, "At first glance, he is not a party member", because joining the party has a charter for joining the party, "There is no such thing as 'joining the party in the line of fire' now." ”
Poster of "Qinghai Lakeside".
However, Tong Ruixin was still quite proud to find this "active member of the party" around him. In fact, in the 65th anniversary of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe, the old artists have all kinds of wishes.
For example, Qin Yi, the introducer of Niu Ben to join the party, has always wanted to make movies. 4 years ago, Qin Yi went to the plateau to shoot "Qinghai Lakeside", and the partner he found was also Tong Ruixin. In the movie, Tong Ruixin starred in the film with zero remuneration and the elderly Qin Yi performed together to fight in the meteorological work partner of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the cooperation between the two generations of the poor generation did not make people feel any violation. Tong Ruixin sighed that Qin Yi was fighting harder than him.
Before Wang Danfeng died, the relationship with Tong Ruixin was good, and Wang Danfeng and Tong Ruixin, who were almost reluctant to come out to see people after the film, became friends for a long time, and the actor troupe had public welfare activities outside, and she was also willing to come out and show her face. She even said, "If I were a few years younger, I'd love to act with you." ”
Recently, Tong Ruixin wanted to fulfill the wish of the late performance artist Zhao Dan before his death, "Zhao Dan wanted to shoot "Lu Xun Biography" at that time, and his wish was not realized in that era, can we make it in this era today? ”
After taking over the position of head of the troupe of hand actors for three years, when he was not filming, Tong Ruixin would go to work in the troupe early in the morning. An actor who "wants to go to work" is something he didn't expect at first. "An actor, now is the best age to create, it is the time to produce works", so when the position of the head of the group was placed in front of him, he also hesitated. "But think about this troupe, how old artists with a very high status in my heart are. My film career can be related to these people, and it is the happiest thing for me. ”
The actors' troupe itself is a kind of heritage. When Niu Ben was young, he looked at Zhao Dan, Bai Yang, and Zhang Ruifang, and he had very high standards in his heart, hoping that he would be close to them. Artistically, in terms of being a person, including joining the party, in fact, these are the requirements he has demanded on himself all his life. Tong Ruixin said.
After joining the party, Tong Ruixin accompanied Niu Ben to the hospital to thank his introducer Qin Yi. The two veteran artists mentioned several times in the dialogue that "we must cooperate", which made Tong Ruixin very moved.
"In fact, there are a lot of such old artists in our group, and today everyone says a lot of that kind of 'dedication', in fact, they are very common, for them that is the duty of the work." And they all have many wishes, not only niu ben wants to join the party, what is more common is that they actually hope to have some works, left to today's era, these people have experienced wind and rain, looked down on fame and fortune, and still have a heart that loves movies. They are eager not to leave this society so quickly, and they still have a lot of residual heat to play. ”
Restore tradition and the dignity of the actors together
After joining the party, Niu Ben gave many interviews, and was relieved to say that the Shangying Actors Troupe was "restoring tradition" under the leadership of the leader Tong Ruixin.
The older generation of filmmakers work in a collective way, study scripts together, rehearse together, and live together. For a play, you can experience life together for months or even years. This way of working seems really luxurious in today's fast-paced world. In today's rhythm, Zhang Yixing has vacated four months for "A Good Drama" and Li Yifeng has filmed for "Animal World" for nine months, which are all dedicated models in the "traffic students" that the director has repeatedly praised.
Tong Ruixin played Mao Zedong for the first time in "Unforgettable Years".
"Restoring tradition" has big ideas and seemingly inconspicuous details. When Tong Ruixin went to Beiying to shoot a scene a few years ago, he found that the Beiying Studio had no dressing room, and he was taken to a dark and cramped guest house basement, where a famous film makeup artist in his 90s completed Mao Zedong's modeling. Tong Ruixin returned to Shanghai and paid for the transformation of the actor troupe into a room as a dressing room, "This incident stimulated me, and I felt that I must restore these professional links that made the actors feel dignified." These professions make it a pleasure for veteran artists to come back, it's a kind of procedure of the past, next to the dressing room is the rehearsal field, and a set of rituals is a huge help for the actors to enter the role. "Including rehearsals, now the crew often rushes to the stage of the actors to directly read the words according to the teleprompter," many crews did not rehearse this link, do not know what the rehearsal is. ”
Tong Ruixin starred in "Zou Bihua".
In Tong Ruixin's view, "tradition" may be something he values more, "Now I always say 'innovation', for me I prefer to return to tradition, that is, to restore the working methods of those predecessors I saw when I was a child." Now the agencies outside don't have this kind of thing, they just sign stars and help them operate. But actors need to grow. ”
The main theme film "Zou Bihua" released in 2017 is a film project won by Tong Ruixin for the troupe. Although Shangying has always been producing new works in recent years, it has become more and more closely integrated with the market, and most of the time it participates as a producer, but the use of Shangying's own team has rarely "collective creation" as in the past. Tong Ruixin said, "There has been no such work for more than ten or twenty years before "Zou Bihua". In the movie, the three generations of actors of the Shanghai Film Actor Group are working on the same stage, "I hope that in the future, there will be more Zhengyang's works, and the old, middle and young will 'pass on the help' together." There are these old artists to support us. ”
The day after Niu Ben finished receiving the letter, the actors troupe held a small meeting, and the old artists such as Da Shichang and Wang Shihuai were very excited, and everyone said that they wanted to "take advantage of this east wind and make it a few more "Zou Bihua". ”
Niu Ben starred in "Zou Bihua".
Actors can choose their own lives
Tong Ruixin entered the industry in 1990 and cooperated with Niu Ben in his first film "The Strange Affair of Jiangcheng". Tong Ruixin still remembers that in that movie, Niu Ben played a security guard, with very few scenes and no lines. "I think this play must be mine, and as soon as I arrived at the scene, I found that the experience of their old actors could not be compared, he saluted, and his hat went crazy, which robbed me of all the plays." I still remember telling him, 'The first time you played, you bullied me.'" Tong Ruixin also cooperated with Niu Ben many times after that, and each time Niu Ben's role was a small supporting role that did not see any sense of existence in the script, but he could always give different colors to small roles, which made Tong Ruixin sigh, "Such a small detail, you can't see the play at all on the script, he can give you a performance flower when he comes to act, and show the character personality through details." He's not trying to steal the scene, it's that his performance is really glorious. Why he played a bunch of small roles but won the Golden Rooster Lifetime Achievement Award must be on the screen image of his brand. These small roles contribute to Chinese cinema. ”
As an actor, Tong Ruixin greatly admires Niu Ben, although in the eyes of many people, Niu Ben does not have any resounding masterpieces. But he believes that the affirmations that the calf receives today are more recognition of the performing arts. "In the past, we evaluated the achievements of an actor as a protagonist, a hero, a big star, and a big work. So much so that when we entered the industry, we always wanted to play the leading role, as if the industry benchmark was like this. But now you see that Niu Ben has always been a small role, but his artistic life is very long, there are so many different roles, we can also tell many young actors, be patient, not necessarily how brilliant, we hope that we can produce strong and solid actors, can stay in this industry. ”
The glory of the "late arrival" of the oxbewood has also made many people constantly question the standards of good actors in this era in the past, criticizing the disregard for the performance profession from increasingly entertaining works.
"Some old actors in our group are reluctant to act, looking at the old actors around them who are disappointed in the profession of acting, looking down on this art, I think this is very scary, and this profession may disappear in the future." Audiences have gradually become accustomed to the actors being those good-looking, popular and attentive artists. ”
Tong Ruixin said, "Everyone is pandering to the ethos of entertainment first. Now you don't need a work, you can pull a person to act, and there are also very good clicks and box office, but how many works do you see us every year? ”
Stills from "The Ghost Husband of plum blossom three lanes".
When it comes to this topic, Tong Ruixin's sad look reminds people of the fact that he was once an "angry youth" who refused to perform Qiong Yao's drama. Tong Ruixin has become what she is today, and there are traces to follow. Although Tong Ruixin himself is not happy to admit it, the role that makes him the most known is the role of Yang Wanli in "The Ghost Husband of plum blossom three alleys". But after that, he refused the invitation of many Qiongyao dramas and publicly stated that he could not accept the expression of Qiongyao operas. Many people say that Tong Ruixin could have been more red. Talking to him about this past, he still did not regret his choice.
"'Plum Blossom Three Alleys' is not the peak of my acting career, but it does make a lot of people know me. Looking back now, it was a bit extreme to look back at what I said when I was younger, but the way I expressed it at that time really did not conform to my understanding, to the logic of normal life as I understood it. At that time, it meant that I was very lucky to be able to play Qiong Yao, but I did not regret it, and I played "Shanghai Vicissitudes" and "Master Hongyi" at a very young age, from teenagers to eighties, which were very difficult roles. I'm glad I had a lot of roles to stay in instead of looking back when I was younger and saying ' how did I play that way'. ”
At present, Tong Ruixin's role to be invested is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China tribute drama "The Great Turning", following the "Long March Conference Division", "Zunyi Conference", "Unforgettable Years" and other film and television dramas, Tong Ruixin once again played Mao Zedong. This time, Mao Zedong spans a greater span of age and will play until his old age, so Tong Ruixin has recently increased the amount of food and eaten out of his stomach. When he was young, the "cream boy" did not expect that he would one day become a "chairman professional household". Playing the chairman, there are many comparisons, many restrictions, but there is also room for thinking and creating, Tong Ruixin shows "the self-cultivation of a good actor".
For example, the film shows Mao Zedong reciting poetry, literally the impassioned "ten thousand rivers and thousands of mountains are just waiting for idleness" and "the three armies are all open after the three armies", all of which are handled by him plainly and lowly, and even some choking. Tong Ruixin said that he walked through the snowy mountains on the plateau, imagining the tragic sacrifice of young lives along the way, "How could it be that Shi xing went to recite with great pride." ”
"A lot of people are just acting, he's not the character, he's making conventions, he's not thinking." Tong Ruixin said that he sometimes observes other actors around him, "they don't even look like life." ”
Some people say that today's stars are too busy, flying all over the world, rushing from one crew to another show, five-star hotels, bodyguards meet more than relatives, not performances out of life, but their lives themselves out of life, lack of soil. Tong Ruixin looked at the past photos of the once-well-known big stars hanging in the actors' troupe and said, "In fact, you can choose." Every era has stars, is sought after, is a lot of people and so on. But you still have to choose, whether to have a life or not. ”