Recently, because of the attention to "Wrangler", I am very curious about Zhu Shimao's acting path, tracing back to the roots, Zhu Shimao's first film was "Xisha Children".
The creative team configured in this film is very strong, which can be said to be a temporary choice for the elite creative talents of that era.
The original work of the film, Haoran's "Sunny Days" and "Golden Light Avenue", show a vast picture of human customs and secular customs in the northern countryside, while "Children of Xisha" is Haoran's pen, focusing on the sea south of Hainan, China, creating a patriotic and majestic ode to resisting the invading enemy.
The screenwriter of the film, Yang Xiao, has just written "Red Rain" before this, the film is directed by Cui Wei, who has directed "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", although the film does not surpass the "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" filmed in the heyday of his creation, but the whole film is full of strong passion, and the majestic and strange mountains of Henan shown in the film are reminiscent of the literary reproduction of this same landform by "Ying Wu Brother", which recently won the Mao Dun Literature Award.
Because of Yang Xiao's successful writing of the script, and Haoran was busy writing novels at that time, the North Film Studio invited Yang Xiao to adapt Haoran's original work "Children of Xisha".
The rich details and rich emotions of Haoran's original work have laid sufficient confidence and sufficient foundation for Yang Xiao's script. The director who made this film is Shui Hua, the famous director of North Film.
However, Shuihua filming has a characteristic, that is, the progress is too slow, exquisitely carved, although it can create a fine product, but also brings the disadvantage of too long film cycle. Before he directed the film "Revolutionary Family" for two years to finish shooting, for some key scenes, he repeatedly deliberated, not to his satisfaction and did not stop modifying.
This is also one of the reasons why "Children of Xisha" was not filmed in time. In February 1976, the crew filmed a naval battle scene in TieluWan, Hainan, of course, the ships listed in the film shots were starred by models, but it was the first time that the models were filmed on the real sea, which was also a unique approach of "Xisha Children" to pursue the restoration of real images.
It can be seen that Shui Hua's meticulous personality, like his previous films, ensures the quality of the film, but affects the progress of the film.
Looking back at shui hua's film, "Revolutionary Family", which was filmed in 1960, I personally feel that this is the highest artistic standard film in Shui Hua's directorial career.
The valuable thing about this film is that it pushes the era to the background, and focuses on the fate of the individual in this context, and this fate is expressed through the joys and sorrows of the family.
Xiaobian found that there is a strange phenomenon, that is, in the movies of the 1980s, there is no interest in showing the family affection, and the father image containing this kind of affection under the wings of the family has also plummeted in Chinese movies, and "father" has been made into a "pitiful father" type by Chinese movies.
It was not until 2019 that the image of the Chinese father re-stood tall in the movie marked by "Galaxy Tuition Class", followed by "Nezha" and "My Motherland and Me", we all saw a new aura of a courageous and warm father.
In the "Revolutionary Family" filmed in 1960, we found that the film perfectly portrayed a father image that gave spiritual nourishment and family affection to the child, and it can be said that the image of the father in the film is one of the most outstanding creative models in Chinese films.
The children in the film are full of hope and expectation for their fathers, which is also the best sign of a good father. Then, the film shows the father's unique pulse affection for the child, especially when the father returns, the child is like a bird, snuggling next to the father, and the film shows this kind of family relationship that ordinary Chinese have experienced, which is quite moving and vivid.
In this way, the three children of a revolutionary family in the film, like three treasures, are highlighted in an important position in the film and become the dazzling halo in the film.
In films that express revolutionary themes, there are few films that "Revolutionary Family" makes the internal relationship between a pure family member so watery and romantic.
In this way, the children in "Revolutionary Family" have become the protagonists in the movie.
Among the three children, the most refreshing role is played by her daughter Xiaolian.
There is a touching scene of a father and daughter meeting in the film. The father in the film is played by Sun Daolin, when he returns home with a heavy heart, he shows the children the strong strength of his father's love, and also uses his gentle and elegant temperament to support the children with a strong strength. This is the essence of the father's spiritual luster from the inside out, so the father played by Sun Daolin in "Revolutionary Family" represents the highest model of a father's identity.
When the father returned home, the daughter threw herself into her father's arms, and then snuggled up to her father's chest, enjoying her father's caresses with a sense of happiness, at the same time, she took her happy response, through her eyes, paused on her father's smile.
This scene is too warm and too beautiful.
Xiaolian's character is named Liu Guiling, and she has not been seen to continue to star in movies since then.
So, what kind of history and future life course does Liu Guiling have?
In song Luxia's book "Detailed Discussion of Liu Bingzhang", I unexpectedly saw Liu Guiling's extraordinary history and her future development path.
From the records of this book, it can be seen that Liu Guiling has an extraordinary life and is a late-born descendant of a famous late Qing century-old family at home and abroad.
Liu Guiling's great-grandfather Liu Bingzhang, and Li Hongzhang belonged to the late Qinghuai Western affairs group, and the Liu family had close personal relations with the Li family and also established a complex in-law relationship.
In this way, if Liu Guiling crawls through the dense cobweb-like family lineage map to bend and comb, he can also connect with Zhang Ailing.
When Liu Bingzhang was serving as the governor of Zhejiang, he fought in the Sino-French War of Zhenhai, won three battles and three victories, greatly revitalized the country's prestige, and made important contributions to the integrity of the country Jin'ou.
Of Liu Bingzhang's five sons, the fourth son, Liu Hanzhi, is the most famous, and he once served as the general manager of the Industrial Bank of China. Liu Guiling is the granddaughter of Liu Hanzi.
Liu Guiling's parents, who were American students who originally worked for a company in Shanghai, were hired as English teachers at the People's Liberation Army Foreign Language Institute in 1957 because of their high English proficiency. Liu Guiling also came to Beijing with his father, majoring in piano at the Affiliated Middle School of the Central Conservatory of Music.
In 1960, when Shui Hua was shooting "Revolutionary Family", he was looking for the right actor in the play, and the character image of Xiaolian in the film was still a young girl, so the main scope of the search was to target the student group of this age group.
Lv Dayu
According to CCTV announcer Lu Dayu recalled, she was in school that year, also participated in the role of the election, at that time, the brother's actor Zhang Liang has been determined, the crew let her and Zhang Liang stand together, the tall Lü Dayu, compared with Zhang Liang, is too tall, difficult to give people a feeling of sister, and finally helplessly eliminated.
Hu Yousong
Li Zongren's wife, Hu Yousong, said in her memoirs that she was also the target of the role determined by the crew. If Hu Yousong can participate in this film, then her life may be completely reversed, and later at the age of 27, she married Li Zongren, who is forty-eight years older than her, and her strange marriage may go to another possibility.
But unfortunately, Hu Yousong, who has been engaged in nurse work, suffered from appendicitis, and after the operation, he caused intestinal adhesions and lay in a hospital bed for three months, and the crew could not wait, so Liu Guiling was successfully selected.
At that time, Hu Yousong was about twenty years old, and her slender face shape was closer to the appearance of Yu Lan, who played the role of mother, in fact, this age, for the role in the film, was a little too big, and the fifteen-year-old Liu Guiling was more in line with the Xiaolian in the film who was still in the arms of her parents.
Of course, we also see that the more adult performance requirements borne by Xiaolian in the later period show that Liu Guiling's performance is a little too childish.
Therefore, from the initial Hu Yousong to the final role of Liu Guiling, it shows a diametrically opposed choice of the character setting in the movie. Hu Yousong's appearance is too adult, if she plays it, then the father played by Sun Daolin in the film affectionately holds his daughter's cheeks and conveys the father's caress, which is a little difficult to accept.
Fifteen-year-old Liu Guiling, on the other hand, showed this innocent and natural mood of her younger daughter just right.
And what is interesting is that Liu Guiling has a large silver plate face, with the distinctive aesthetic tendencies of that era, and later Yang Likun until Li Xiuming, are all this disc face shape. Liu Guiling, who has this big face, in "Revolutionary Family", sometimes has the characteristics of a childish baby's face, and sometimes has a tendency to become mature, especially the shot of her and her brother walking together on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, which is particularly mature and highlights the strong youth style.
It can be said that Xiaolian played by Liu Guiling in "Revolutionary Family" is a rather dazzling role in the film, although it does not play a central role in promoting the plot like his brother, but it also adds a warm sense of family affection to the film and emits a warm and moving warm atmosphere.
It's just that Liu Guiling never participated in film shooting again, so where did she go later?
After graduating from high school, she achieved excellent results and went directly to the Central Conservatory of Music. Later, she returned to her parents in Shanghai, transferred to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and after graduation, came to a middle school in Putuo District as a music teacher.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution, she returned to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a teacher, teaching and educating people, until her retirement, and Tao Li was also full of people in the world.
On the left is Liu Guiling
Zhang Liang, who played his brother in "Revolutionary Family", also changed his age in the film, from the ignorant teenager at the beginning to the revolutionary who died generously to death, the role image contrast was strong, but Zhang Liang better completed the transformation of the character's personality, leaving a handsome and energetic handsome man image in the film.
Zhang Liang's father also has an extraordinary background. His father's name was Zhang Jinduo, who had been an instructor at the Whampoa Military Academy and had met Zhou Enlai. Later, he followed Zhou Enlai to Yan'an Kang Da to teach. After liberation, he served as a member of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative
Zhang Liang was born in 1935, once played Xia Qi in "Song Jingshi", Yang Decai in "Shangganling", Played Shousheng in "Lin JiaPuzi", and was 25 years old when filming "Revolutionary Family", with his masculine temperament, showing the male aesthetic style of that era that was diametrically opposed to today's small fresh meat.
During the Cultural Revolution, due to the involvement of "Revolutionary Family" and "Lin JiaPuzi", Zhang Liang was sent to the Qinghai Repertory Theatre, and in 1978, he was transferred to the Shandong Repertory Theatre as an actor. In 1980, he played Renwen in "Xiyingmen" in The Upper Film Studio, when he was 45 years old and played the image of a thick, simple middle-aged man. Looking back, he left the pinnacle of his acting career in "Revolutionary Family" with a youthful image.
Shi Xiaoman, who played the youngest brother in the film, was only five years old at the time, and he was still in a state of ignorance in the film, but he became an actor who has been active in the film and television circle among the three brothers and sisters in the film, and the "Little Bell" he starred in later became famous. We can often see him in TV dramas, such as the human trafficker played in "The Gate of the Big House".
His father is the famous actor Shi Yu, who once played the male protagonist in "Spring in a Small Town", and the advantage of getting the moon first in the water tower undoubtedly provided convenience for Shi Xiaoman to participate in the filming of "Revolutionary Family".
Judging from the films shot by director Shui Hua, "Revolutionary Family" is the most tender of his films.
Interestingly, in the films filmed before the Cultural Revolution, almost none of the films were based on love, but Shuihua was able to show the character's deep and emotional sensing mood with implicit visual lenses in the film, this kind of expression technique and ability, I believe that Shuihua can also give the film "Children of Xisha Children" the kind of point between the lovers played by Li Xiuming and Zhu Shimao, just right from the green plum bamboo horse to the main spiral of love, covered with harmony, warmth and softness.