For an excellent film, there are always endless flashes, and for every character in the film, it is always so impressive that it seems that it is a pity to miss anyone.
The success of a film is far more than the efforts and efforts of two people, it relies on the seriousness and efforts of every actor and every worker in the crew.
Without the foil of green leaves, flowers will also lack color, no brilliant supporting roles, the protagonists of singing monologues, and there will be less brightness and aura, supporting roles and starring actors, decent and villains, is a process of mutual achievement, and their perfect interpretation can achieve a real classic.
"Sentinel under the Neon Lights", let us remember Xu Linge's Lu Hua, remember Gong Zi Pi's Lu Dacheng, remember Liao Youliang's Tong Anan, remember Tao Yuling's Chun Ni, remember Liu Hongsheng's Hong Mantang, and of course remember Yuan Yue's Zhao Dada.
Through violent conflicts, the film allows each character's individual thoughts to develop from different starting points, and through personalized language and action, it highlights the different personality characteristics of the characters.
There are no two identical leaves in the world, there are also large or small differences between people, the film is to seize the difference in the character's personality, to create a colorful character image, but also to let the audience have different memory points for each role.
This film is adapted from the drama of the same name, and the blueprint of the story is based on the good eight companies stationed on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, because there is a real story prototype, in order to celebrate their efforts, the leaders attach great importance to the shooting of this film, and provide the greatest convenience for the filming.
In order to ensure that the effect of shooting not only provided them with Eastman film, the unprecedented blockade of Nanjing Road in Shanghai, because the film used the original team of the drama troupe, so they did not know much about the filming art, so they invited Many film and television stars such as Bai Yang, Sun Daolin, Qin Yi and so on to give lectures and solve their puzzles, escorting the perfect interpretation of the film.
Zhao Dada, the eighth class leader played by Yuan Yue, is straight and thick, simple and unpretentious, with clear love and hatred, he is simple, and he is friendly with his comrades-in-arms, the lights and wine of Shanghai are incompatible with him, and he has not been lost in the prosperity, contaminated with any bad atmosphere.
However, his cultural level is not high, so even if he is mellow in nature and can resist temptation, he cannot understand and analyze complex enemies.
Therefore, after entering the big city of Shanghai, he was once unable to adapt to the new environment, and his emotions were sometimes very extreme, and he felt that soldiers should be enthusiastic and carry guns to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but they did not know that stationing in Shanghai was also their battlefield.
Yuan Yue, born in 1932 in Shanghai to an ordinary working family, he has loved to watch movies and dramas since he was a child, and has also participated in amateur drama performances, such as "Love of the Earth" and "Nightclub".
Because of this absolute sincerity to art, at the age of 15, he was admitted to the Shanghai Drama College in 1947 together with Zhuang Zedong's brother Zhuang Zejing and Wei Qiming.
The Shanghai Drama College was the predecessor of the Shanghai Theater Academy, and here he also became a classmate of Zhang Hitomi, who later played Liu Shuyou in "The Story of the Editorial Department".
Two years later, after graduating from school, he was admitted to the Cultural and Labor Corps of the Southern Jiangsu Military Region of the People's Liberation Army and became an actor, but soon after, full of enthusiasm, he and a group of members of the Cultural and Labor Corps followed the combat troops to the Fujian front.
He had worked as a cultural instructor in a company, participated in some battles, and was awarded the second class merit, and in the life of the army, he gradually grew up and possessed the quality of a soldier's perseverance.
In 1955, at the age of 23, he was transferred to the Nanjing Military Region Frontline Drama Troupe and began his drama performance career.
Here, he starred in many classic drama performances, such as "Yang Gensi", "Cuckoo Is Calling Again", "I Am a Soldier", "Sentinel under Neon Lights" and so on.
The play "Sentinel under Neon Lights" caused a big sensation as soon as it was launched, so it was quickly adapted into a movie and pushed to the big screen.
Because their performances were very classic, they were instructed by the leadership, and the film "Sentinel under Neon Lights" was also starred by the original team of people in their plays.
In the drama, he played the eighth class leader Zhao Dada, so in the film he continued to play this character, and the scene that made the audience very unforgettable was the story of his hero saving the United States.
He bravely rushed into the US consulate car in the parade, rescued Tong Axiang, the sister of Tong Anan, who was bullied by the bullies of the ground, and actively cooperated with the company's handling of Tong Anan.
He is brave, loves and hates clearly, is a good warrior who is as vicious as a vendetta, and Zhao Dada in the script is a "big soldier", so he is also a big man, and he has been selected by everyone to play this role.
In order to play this role, he also went to the company to experience life, and in the company, he unexpectedly found that there was a soldier in the fourth class named Luo Dada, and Luo Dada was the prototype of the character he played.
So the two became close friends, he followed Luo Dada to stand guard, night camp training, but also learned to mend his own socks, and under various experiences, he finally realized what kind of role Zhao Da should be, how to play this role.
Although Zhao Dada, played by Yuan Yue, is not the protagonist, his vivid performance is still bright, making people unforgettable for him, there is no small role only small actor!
In 1963, after seeing his performance, even the chairman quoted the lines in the play and said to him humorously: Oh, black is not slippery, stand aside! You soldier acted like and acted well!
It is precisely because everyone, regardless of the protagonist or supporting role, has carefully starred in each role that a classic has been achieved, and the drama "Sentinel under the Neon Lights" crew has also been awarded the collective second class merit by the Nanjing Military Region.
In addition, he was commended by the whole army together with Gong Zipi, the "Commander of the Lu Company", Liu Hongsheng, the old squad leader of the cooking class, "Hong Mantang", and Tao Yuling, who played Chun Ni.
Perhaps his name is not loud enough, but his role of "Zhao Dada" is deeply imprinted in the minds of the audience, and in life, like the role of Zhao Dada, who he plays, is a good soldier with a straight personality and a good warrior.
However, in the era of ups and downs, he, like many people, was far away from the stage he loved, and he entered the Shanghai Post and Telecommunications Bureau professionally.
Without the opportunity to perform on stage, he created his own opportunities, so he also formed an amateur literary troupe there, and when he heard that Liao Youliang had returned to his hometown to become a worker in the hardware factory, he also managed to transfer him to the literary troupe and let him be acted by the play.
In 1976, Yuan Yue was transferred to the Shanghai Film Studio and officially became a film actor, who has starred in films such as "The Flow of the River", "The Troublesome Laughter", "The Return of the Swallow", "Good Things And Many Mills", "Midnight" and so on.
However, the most impressive is his role as Zhao Dada, who once had a very enviable marriage, and his wife is Cao Yindi, a national first-class actor.
Cao Yindi once starred as Qi Guan in the Yue opera movie "Dream of the Red Chamber" and Xing Yuehong in "Stage Sisters", and the two after marriage were once like glue, but the two failed to work together in the sunset.
He is seven years older than Cao Yindi, and the two gradually come together because of the proximity of the studios of "Stage Sisters" and "Sentinel under Neon Lights".
However, after Yuan Yue was more than half a hundred years old, the lovers parted ways for various reasons, and then Yuan Yue did not start a new marriage again, but spent the second half of his life alone, and died in 2018 at the age of 86.
It has been exactly 56 years since the release of "Sentinel under Neon Lights" in 1964, and many actors such as Gong Zipi, An Jiaxiang, Xu Greenlin, Tenney, Li Enqi, Liu Hongsheng and many other actors have passed away.
I can't help but have a little more heartache and feelings of "things are people and not things, and tears flow first"...