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Friends who have watched "Heroes and Children" must know that Wang Wenqing, played by the famous film performance artist Yu Lan's husband and the famous director Tian Zhuangzhuang's father Tian Fang, is the director of the military political department, but do you know? Like Tian Fang, there is also an actor on the screen in China who also played the director of the political department.
This actor is Li Yan, a special actor and film performance artist of the new Chinese high-ranking general.
Our army has set up political departments in units at and above the division level and units equivalent to divisional levels, and the directors of the political departments are the principal responsible persons of the political departments at all levels. After the founding of New China, there were two main people who successfully created the image of the "director of the political department" on the screen, one was Wang Wenqing in the well-known "Heroic Children", that is, Wang Fang's biological father, and the other was Li Yan, who played Huang Bingguang, director of the political department of the New Fourth Army's Advance Column, in the "Overture to the Eastward Advance" filmed by bayi Factory in 1962.
In 1961, the Bayi Factory transplanted the play "Overture to the Eastward March" won by the Nanjing Military Region Frontline Drama Troupe in the all-army drama performance into a movie, and the actors chose the original drama team, and only one of the characters, Huang Bingguang, director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, was played by Li Yan.
During the filming process, in the face of the enemy's intimidation, coercion, and inducement, Huang Bingguang, played by Li Yan, was heroic, righteous, and not humble, and his tongue fought against the tall image of Jiang, Ri, and Wang, who was dashing and self-assured, witty and brave, and resolutely stood on the screen.
Being able to play the male lead in the film "Eastward Overture" is not only the best opportunity to show Li Yan's artistic potential, but also a turning point that determines his artistic path. Some people say that so far they have not seen better unit chiefs than Li Yan and Tian Fang, and when they look at their performances, people do not feel that they are acting, but feel that they are the living "chiefs." Now it seems that there are no two of them among the twenty-two major movie stars in New China, which is really a pity.
In addition to Director Huang in "Overture to the East", Li Yan also played the commander of the Red Army in "Ten Thousand Waters and a Thousand Mountains", the soldier in "Wisdom to Take Huashan", the commander in "Fighting the Aggressor", the "old revolutionary" Lin Jian in "The Young Generation", the commander in "Special Mixed Fleet in Action", and the general in "Cradle with a Rudder"...
In the filming, Li Yan never regarded himself as an actor, but a real army cadre, when shaping the character, he did not want to stay in the state of conceptualization and face, but constantly went deep into life and experienced the deep inner world of those soldiers. In this regard, Li Yan said: "We are soldiers, only by throwing ourselves into the fiery struggle can we show real soldiers, cultivate our own temperament and demeanor, and show the freedom, courage and strength of soldiers." ”
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Li Yan, born on October 12, 1927 in a rural family in Li County, Hebei Province, his father knew a little writing, kept accounts in the Li County Government, worked as a tax collector, and often wrote couplets for the villagers in the New Year. In 1945, he joined the Fireline Drama Society of the Jizhong Military Region and became a professional actor, participating in drama performances such as "White Haired Girl" and "Blood and Tears Vengeance".
After the liberation of the whole country, Li Yan successively worked as an actor in the North China Military Region's Cultural and Labor Troupe and the Shenyang Military Region's Anti-Enemy Drama Troupe, engaging in drama performances. In 1952, he accompanied the second Chinese people's condolence mission to the Korean front to pay tribute to the volunteer army. After returning to China, he played the commander of the People's Liberation Army in the dramas "Growing Up in Battle", "Heroic Position" and "Moving South on the Front".
Since 1958, Li Yan has been an actor in bayi Film Studio, and has played different roles in "Ten Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains", "Jiangshan Duojiao" and "The Legend of the Golden Bell".
In 1961, Li Yan starred in the Bayi Factory's "Overture to the EastWard Advance", playing Huang Bingguang, director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army's Advance Column. After that, he was very busy with one play after another. In 1963, he starred in "Seize the Seal", playing he Wenjin, the secretary of the branch. In 1964, he starred in "Fight against the Invaders", in which he created the image of a front-line commander - Li Guodong, the commander of the Volunteer Army. After the film was released, it was deeply loved by the audience, and since then everyone has called him "Our Captain Li!" ”
After that, Li Yan participated in the Shanghai Film Studio remake of the film "The Young Generation", and then played roles in "Zhengrong Years", "Residual Snow", "Dragon Species", "The Last Choice", "Task Force in Action", "Cradle with Rudders" and so on, mainly military.
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Li Yan's lover, named Bai Feng, is a singing actor, and the two married in 1950. After marriage, all walks of life are specialized, and the art department is no exception. In this way, Li Yan was assigned to the drama troupe, who was in Shenyang, and his lover Bai Feng was assigned to the opera troupe, who was in Beijing.
Faced with the reality of the cowherd weaver girl, both of them are difficult to solve. Here, Li Yan is the pillar of the Shenyang Anti-Enemy Drama Troupe, and it is impossible to easily mobilize. Over there, Bai Feng was the backbone of the opera troupe, and he refused to give up his profession easily.
As a result, Li Yan is alone in Shenyang, while Bai Feng lives in Beijing with her two children. It was not until 1958, when Li Yan was transferred to the Bayi Film Studio as an actor, that the couple resolved their separation from each other and were finally reunited in Beijing.
For decades, the couple has been loving and loving, and has experienced ups and downs together. Li Yan is both conscientious in his acting career and loyal to his lover, and is an admirable old artist.
Li Yan is a person who persistently pursues his career, his performance is calm and atmospheric, whether from the character to the temperament of the character, there are constantly new breakthroughs, from the art of more than fifty years, created many vivid, different personality screen images, especially the image of the army chief he created, it is even more fascinating, wonderful, with a powerful aura and deterrent power.
Due to his outstanding achievements in performance, Li Yan has made many meritorious contributions and awards, and won the title of "Chinese Film Star" in the 100th year of the birth of world cinema and the 90th anniversary of the birth of Chinese cinema.
However, in 1997, Li Yan died of biliary cancer at the age of 70. In 2003, the famous performance artist Shi Wei published an article entitled "Changsheng General Li Junchang" in Popular Cinema, introducing Li Yan's artistic life. She wrote at the end of the article: "He can still act more plays, and he will leave more and better images for the audience, but the disease has taken his precious life." Li Yan is not only an excellent actor, but also a decent, generous, simple and kind good person, I believe that the audience will not forget him. ”
Yes, people will not forget the former "director of the political department" Li Yan!
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