After easily listing a large number of Chinese female film stars who became popular in the 1930s, it was difficult to list a considerable number of male film stars who could match in fame, because the concept of female stars as the production center in the Shanghai film industry at that time was extremely strong. Even so, there are still some male actors who are deeply loved by the audience, and one of the most representative and dazzling stars is Golden Flame.
In 1910, Kim Yan was born in what is now Seoul, South Korea, and was originally named Kim Deok-lin. Kim Yeon's father, Kim Bi-soon, was the first Western doctor in North Korea, and while his father was the president of the hospital, he initiated and led the national independence movement (in today's Seoul Medical University, there is also a bronze statue of Kim Bi-chun). Later, his father was wanted, the family went into exile, escaped the Yalu River, and became a Chinese citizen, when Jin Delin was less than two years old.
In the northeast, my father opened a clinic to make ends meet. Kim Deok-lin is the third oldest, with 7 brothers and sisters, and his life is difficult, but the Kim family always receives North Korean compatriots who are fleeing. One day in 1918, his father was poisoned in milk by Japanese agents, and his father's death brought lifelong pain to the 8-year-old Jin Delin, who tasted the hatred of his home and country at a young age, and condensed into a will to strive for self-improvement, a rigidity of determination to resist, and a personality that made a difference in his life.
The difficulties in life caused Jin Delin to run to his aunt in Shanghai, and at the age of 15, he moved with his aunt to Tianjin and studied at Nankai Middle School. One day, in the library, Jin Delin saw Lu Xun's "Scream", was shocked and inspired by chapters such as "Diary of a Madman", and determined to become a person like Lu Xun, awaken the people, rise up and fight, and change his name "Jin Delin" to "Jin Xun". Later, because "Jin Xun" was not loud, he simply changed it to "Golden Flame", hoping that he would be like a gold mine, smelted in the flames of the furnace, and finally became shiny and strong gold.
Carrying only one yuan in his pocket, Jin Yan, who graduated from junior high school in 1927, came to Shanghai alone, looking for a job that could support himself. He began to write novels, but was told by the "Good Friend Pictorial" that the writing was not very good and could not be used.
At this time, the "Minxin Film Company" had just moved from Hong Kong and needed people to do miscellaneous work, so Jin Yan entered the "Minxin", one yuan a day, doing chores such as drama and field notes. Sleeping on the bench at night, eating bowl noodles when hungry, Golden Flame does not feel bitter. Because there are so many movies to watch without spending money, and you can also make two small cameo roles in "Mulan's Army" and "Predator". He fell in love with movies and wanted to be an actor. The studio gave him dreams.
At the beginning of the dream, the "Minxin Company" declared bankruptcy, and Jin Yan undoubtedly became a tramp. In the winter, there was no food to eat, and the cotton robe had to be sent to the pawnshop. Wan Litian, the original director of "Minxin", saw that Jin Yan's eating had become a problem, so he introduced Jin Yan to find Tian Han, the "tian boss" in the film circle. Jin Yan came to the front of a two-story building on Golden Priest Road, and before he could go upstairs, a person ran down from the upper floor and held Jin Yan's hand tightly, and Jin Yan was suddenly hot in his heart, and he had lost this feeling for a long time, just like returning to his brother's house. This person was Tian Han, Jin Yan's later enlightenment teacher, the person who led Jin Yan into the hall. He joined Tian Han's Nanguo Art Drama Society, which was a turning point in his life path and the beginning of his real career in art. Tian Han saw that Jin Yan had good character and performance potential, and he was carefully guided by his ears and face, and Jin Yan also honed hard, and his acting skills improved, and he successively played an important role in the drama directed by Tian Han.
After the end of the Nanguo News Agency, Jin Yan introduced himself to the "Star Film Company" as Zheng Zhengqiu's note-taker.
In the same year, director Sun Yu returned from the United States, and he admired the lively simplicity and handsome bodybuilding of the 19-year-old Jin Yan, letting him play the protagonist in "The Swordsman of the Wind". Jin Yan's performance showed his artistic talent and was refreshing, and this martial arts film became Jin Yan's debut work. In 1930, Jin Yan joined "Lianhua", and Sun Yu once again used him as the male protagonist in "Wild Grass and Idle Flowers", or a popularity.
1934 was a glorious period for Golden Flame's life and career. At midnight on January 1 of this year, Jin Yan married his partner Wang Renmei in the movie "Wild Rose". Two years ago, on May 1, 1932, hu di was selected as the "movie queen" in the event ——— the front page of shanghai's "Electroacoustic Daily" that readers were asked to vote for China's top ten movie stars, and the newcomer to the screen, the 22-year-old Jin Yan, got the most votes among male actors and won 3 "most": "the audience's favorite male star", "the most beautiful male star", "the male star with whom the audience is most willing to be friends", and the media and audiences called him "movie emperor".
In the 1920s and 1930s, the literary and artistic youth, who were ideologically progressive, actively sought reform and revolution while struggling with wandering and contradictions, and petty-bourgeois intellectuals were the mainstream image of the male protagonists of the films in this period. But at that time, most of the small students were oily,face-to-flour, lingering and mournful, and disease-free moaning. And Jin Yan, with a sharply contoured face, a slender but upright figure, temperament partial "literary", vigorous, fresh and charming, most of his films with petty-bourgeois intellectuals anti-feudal as the theme, rebellion against traditional etiquette, the pursuit of personal freedom, falling in love with the bottom of the society, created a handsome young man image completely different from those "oil head slippery brain" that filled the film world at that time, formed a healthy and fresh unique style, quite the atmosphere of the times, Golden Flame has become an idol obsessed with young students, words and deeds are imitated by the public Perhaps because of Jin Yan's unique Korean ancestry, his silhouette on the screen is clearer. Coupled with his realistic and tough performance in the film, it ushered in a new era of film xiaosheng image.
This year, director Sun Yu created a script depicting the War of Resistance "The Great Road", Jin Yan suddenly felt that this is the theme he had longed for, and quickly put into the role, the emergence of "The Great Road" is a major change in his film image, Jin Yan with a handsome appearance and a sincere and simple performance, will be under the oppression of the dark society, the image of the road builder Jinge is shown to the public.
Shortly before the Spring Festival in 1935, Jin Yan, who had been in secret contact with the Korean anti-Japanese independence movement in Shanghai, accepted a commission from the head of the organization, Shin Sheng-sik, to send a sum of money (including some gold bars raised) to Nanjing and handed it to the leader of the headquarters, Jin Jiu. What should be explained here is that since Korea became a japanese colony, the Korean people have never stopped the anti-Japanese struggle and have gone forward heroically and unyieldingly.
In the early years of the Republic of China, the Korean expatriates living in Shanghai formed the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army Alliance. In June 1919, the Japanese militarist military bureau chief Tanaka Yoshiichi returned to China via Shanghai after a visit to the Philippines, and learned for the anti-Japanese soldiers that they sent Kim Sung-lung to attack Tanaka Yoshiichi's convoy, but without success, Kim Sung-long was arrested by the Bureau of the Ministry of Works of the Concession and detained in the capture house detention center. In 1926, the Japanese chiefTain Yoshiichi Tanaka released the infamous "Japan-China Recital", advocating the invasion of China and the subsequent annexation of Asia, and the heart of the jackal was revealed, but it was not immediately approved because Emperor Hirohito still had scruples.
In 1929, Kim 9, Lee Ching-tien, Syngman Rhee and others established the headquarters of the Korean Anti-Japanese Independence Movement in Shanghai, and carried out activities, which gradually increased their influence and made the Hongkou Japanese Concession feel threatened. After the Hongkou Park explosion in May 1932, the Japanese in Shanghai were terrified, and two thousand more Marines were deployed to Shanghai, and the gendarmerie special agents were strengthened to deal with the anti-Japanese forces in China and South Korea. Jin Jiu and others went to Nanjing to ask Chen Guofu, Chen Lifu, Zhu Jiahua and others for help, and after gaining sympathy, they were allowed to set up an office of the Korean independence movement in Nanjing, so that the Nanjing office actually became the real headquarters. Jin Jiu, Li Qingtian, Rhee Andg-Wan, and other responsible persons also moved to Nanjing to carry out anti-Japanese activities, while the headquarters of the same name in Shanghai has become nothing in name, only responsible for raising funds among overseas Chinese and trying to contain Japanese forces in Shanghai.
In fact, to do this, there was no need to ask the Emperor of Tangtang to come forward, and it was enough to send underground traffic officers to do it, Jin Yan volunteered to come to Nanjing with another idea, he wanted to meet the legendary warrior An Gonggen in his heart, and wanted to use his anti-Japanese killing deeds as material to create a script to inspire millions of Korean compatriots to struggle against the Japanese. The script is tentatively named "Hero Blood and Tears", and it is planned that he will star in Zhishi An Gonggen, with Tian Han as the general consultant of the film, let his wife Wang Renmei play the wife of An Gonggen in the film, Cui Shunyu, and ask the Shanghai child star Han Xiaohong to play The quiet life of An Gonggen's daughter, and the film is formulated for the upper and lower episodes, which will be distributed worldwide. Funds are mainly donated by people from all walks of life in China, and there should be no problem. Later, due to various reasons such as the outbreak of the War of Resistance after the "July 7" incident, the script was not written.
As early as March 22, 1930, Jin Yan had participated in the struggle of the Shanghai Daguang Theater to resist the screening of the insulting Chinese film "Not Afraid of Death". He braved artillery fire to take part in front-line ambulance work. In the film "Top Gun", in which he starred, he passionately issued a call for "we must resist".
In 1938, the year after the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, almost all the film companies in Shanghai were closed. One day, Jin Yan came home very late, looking ugly, it turned out that he had been invited to dinner by a Japanese young man. The Japanese were arrogant and arrogant, saying that Kim Hyun was Korean and should take the lead in making films for the Empire of Japan. Jin Yan said emphatically, you just put the machine gun in front of me now, and I won't shoot it! Later, in order to get rid of the control of the Japanese, he and his wife Wang Renmei took a Dutch mail ship, left Shanghai, went to Hong Kong, and began their exile.
Mr. and Mrs. Jin Yan lived in Hong Kong for several years, and then went to the rear area of southwest China. In the spring of 1944, Jin Yan learned in Chongqing that Ahn Kyung-geun, a resistance fighter he had admired for many years (then deputy director of the Intelligence Department of the Provisional Government of South Korea and engaged in intelligence work against Japan), had mysteriously disappeared two days after returning to Chongqing from Hong Kong to report to Jin Jiu.
This major case caused a sensation in Chongqing, and there are many different opinions, one saying that An Gonggen died of the murder of Japanese spies, the other saying that Dai Kasa secretly ordered the military command agents to assassinate An Gonggen, and the other saying that this Korean national warrior died in internal factional struggles. Jin Yan was sad for many days, his mood was difficult to calm down for a long time, because he was in a bad mood, he fell in love with drinking, and he often drank drunkenly, which had caused some damage to his body, and he was cynical and complained more. Due to various reasons, Golden Flame has made very few films and has no longer the glory of that year. Because he studied correspondence at the American Academy of Architecture in Shanghai in his early years, in Chongqing and Kunming, he tried to do the construction business, but he lost money and became more depressed. Jin Yan also did business with others, but none of them succeeded.
In 1944, Jin Yan and Wang Renmei broke up. Jin Yan came to Chongqing and participated in the filming of the film "Long Sky" and the performance of the stage play "Romeo and Juliet".
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Jin Yan returned to Shanghai and starred in 3 films: "Yingchun Song", "Riding the Dragon And Fast Son-in-Law" and "Lost Love". In 1948, Jin Yan and his current wife Qin Yi co-produced "Lost Love", which was the only work the two of them worked together, and in the filming of "Lost Love", Jin Yan and Qin Yi met and fell in love. In 1948 they decided to get married. Friends arranged for them one by one, set up 5 tables in the Universe Club, and 36-year-old Jin Yan and 24-year-old Qin Yi held a lively and simple wedding.
Since then, Jin Yan has filmed five more films, such as "Heavy Light on the Earth", "The Great Beginning", and "Mother".
The Shanghai Film Studio has all the film films produced by the factory since the founding of New China, and Jin Yan was already a popular film actor before liberation. Jin Yan was appointed by Chairman Mao Zedong as a national actor. After the founding of New China, there were only three actors who received this honor, and their administrative treatment was even higher than that of the chief.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qin Yi frequently appeared on the scene and became a brilliant star in the new Chinese film industry, and when Jin Yan filmed "Eagle in the Storm" in Qinghai in 1957, due to the cold weather on the outskirts of the plateau, the crew slept in a tent to keep out the cold with roast lamb and liquor, and Jin Yan drank his stomach badly. In 1958, he went to Germany to participate in the filming of a co-starring film, and just after returning to Beijing, Jin Yan, who had a heavy stomach bleeding, passed out in the hotel, and his condition deteriorated since then.
In his later years, Jin Yan suffered from emphysema again, and after suffering from the disease, on December 27, 1983, Qin Yi was playing Lu Mama on the set of "Thunderstorm", Jin Yan's old illness recurred, Qin Yi rushed to the hospital when he heard the news, at this time Jin Yan was already lying stiffly on the hospital bed, dying, and soon passed away at the age of seventy-three.
Later, Qin Yi once recalled her husband Jin Yan, "He is a person who is not very good at talking, and it is difficult to explain his opinions clearly, but he is a truly loving person." In fact, I sincerely admire his character, perhaps because he was my idol before falling in love, so it is likely that he did not think carefully about his shortcomings later, but in retrospect, he was handsome on the outside and kind on the inside, and he was really a perfect man. ”
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jin Yan tried to adapt to the baptism of the new society, but he could no longer show his acting skills without encountering good roles, and his masterpieces were underserved. Although he also played some revolutionary roles such as "Heavy Light on the Earth" filmed in 1950, he also received the attention of the government and vigorously promoted this film, but the audience at that time did not seem to buy his account, perhaps many old fans at that time could not accept how the handsome man became a hero of the people. (Wen dean5)