Every time I listen to his recitation, I am deeply attracted to him. His magnetic voice is so thick and powerful, and his treatment of the work is also very profound, emotional and expressive.
And his performance in the movie, I was even more impressed. In particular, the heroic image he created on the screen, just and upright, righteous and awe-inspiring, can always bring me a deep shock.
Yes, he is Li Moran.
Speaking of him, everyone's ears will remember his sonorous and powerful recitation, and his role as Deng Shichang in "Jia Wu Fengyun", right?
I still can't forget the first time I watched the movie "A Noon Storm", which brought shock to my soul. In particular, when the officers and men of the Zhiyuan led by Deng Shichang, despite running out of ammunition, were still unyielding and unyielding, driving toward the enemy Yoshino with full horsepower and preparing to sink the Yoshino with their flesh and blood, our hearts were firmly grasped and we were deeply shocked by the heroic feats of the Beiyang Marine Division.
Li Moran's performance in it is calm and atmospheric, relaxed and measured, especially his line skills, which are particularly profound. The words are clear and the voice is full of emotion. He portrayed Deng Shichang, the hero's heroic and fierce disposition and patriotic feelings, all vividly.
"The Storm of The Afternoon Storm" is the first film that Li Moran participated in on the screen, and he became a hit.
But then Li Moran told us that the reason why he became popular was completely an accident. Because at the beginning, the actor who the director arranged to play Deng Shichang in the movie "Jia Wu Fengyun" was not him at all.
In the summer and autumn of 1959, the long film studio prepared to shoot the historical war film "Jia Wu Fengyun" and appointed Lin Nong as the director. Lin Nong had long heard that there was a young actor named Li Moran in the Liaoning People's Art Theater who was very good, and after watching his performance, he thought he was tall and decided to let him play the role of Li Hongzhang in it.
Who was the actor who was scheduled to play Deng Shichang in the film at that time? It can be said that he is a very famous performance artist named Jinshan. It is the good actor who played Shi Yang's lawyer in the movie "Storm". However, at that time, Jinshan happened to have an affair in Beijing and could not enter the crew. This is not bad for the forester director. And it just so happens that at this time, Li Moran entered the crew, and the photographer in "Jia Wu Fengyun" is Wang Qimin, who is famous in the long film studio, he has a very unique pair of eyes, and when he looks at Li Moran, he says: What are you looking for Deng Shichang, isn't this Deng Shichang? Lin Nong also took a serious look at Li Moran, first excited, and then his eyes dimmed and said, how can you play a hero when you see him with a pimple on his face? Wang Qimin said, I can give him makeup. In this way, Li Moran became Deng Shichang.
Li Moran was surprised after receiving this task, because he really did not expect that he would be able to play the leading role in the movie with his face full of pimples. Therefore, in the process of film shooting, he has always been very careful and hardworking, consulted a large number of historical materials, carefully designed and prepared every line of the characters, and wrote the inner monologues of the characters on the script, written full of them, and finally perfectly reflected in front of the camera and on the screen.
Li Moran's performance is as strong as wine, as pure as tea, which makes people feel addicted after watching it.
Almost everyone says he's a talented actor, only he knows, he's not.
The real Li Moran is actually a poor child born into a poor family. And because his family was poor, he only read until the third grade of primary school and dropped out of school, and even after graduating from primary school, he began to work around to earn money to support his family. In 1941, at the age of 14, Li Moran began selling cigarettes along the street or working as a postman at a post office. However, he was intelligent and good-looking from an early age, so in 1945, when the Mudanjiang Postal Amateur Theater Company recruited actors, he tried and was selected. Since then, he has embarked on the path of an actor and has been out of control.
In fact, Li Moran really studied performance theory systematically after the founding of New China in 1949. In 1951, he systematically studied and trained Stanislavsky's performance theory, and won the Northeast Regional Drama Performance Excellence Award for his successful role as Kurepin in the play "The Dawn Shines on Moscow". In the drama stage in the northeast, it began to emerge. At that time, Li Shiqing, who played in the drama "Sunrise", and Feng Tao, who played in "The Second Spring", were very popular.
In 1962, after the release of "The Storm of the First Afternoon", starring him, it was unanimously praised by the audience, and in the "Popular Film" Hundred Flowers Awards held in 1964, the film won the Best Film Award. Li Moran's performance has also won the unanimous recognition of the audience. Unfortunately, because although the results of the Hundred Flowers Awards have been released, there is no award party, so these creators have not received the honors they deserve.
However, the film industry has since remembered the name Li Moran. In 1964, he created the role of Minister Jiang in the movie "Soldiers Coming to the City".
Li Moran's appearance is atmospheric and tough, with thick lines, very masculine and full of masculine charm. At that time, he was the most popular time, there should be a lot of film contracts to come to the door, but fate is sometimes so ridiculous, just when he was ready to show his fists, in 1966, a movement began, and his artistic life was forced to be interrupted. It was not until 1977 that he appeared again in the anti-special film "Bear Trace", in which he played Zhang Jian. By this time, he was 50 years old.
Fortunately, after this, he ushered in his own creative peak, and he successively played roles in films such as "Walking in Front of the War", "The Story of Director Qiao", "The Prosecutor", and once again proved to the audience his good acting skills and strength. At the same time, he also served as the president of the Liaoning People's Art Theater, the vice chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, and the chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Dramatists Association.
I think the audience must not forget the movie "No. 5 Garden Street" co-starring him and his old partner Pang Xueqin in 1984, right? He played Han Tao in it, which was equally successful. It is worth mentioning that his son Li Longyin and Pang Xueqin's son Pang Hao played the young Han Tao and Liu Zhao in the film respectively.
Then, he starred in the movie "Lin Haiqing" with his son Li Longyin, starred in the TV series "The Last Emperor" with Chen Daoming, and starred in the TV series "Iron Mayor" with Tao Yuling, and the roles he played were also remembered by the audience.
In 1987, as the chief tandem, he also served as the host of the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV.
After that, the main thing we enjoyed on the TV screen was his art of recitation. Many of the works he recited are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, such as "Man Jiang Hong", "I Love This Land", "Nostalgia", "When You Are Old", etc., which are deeply engraved in the minds of the audience and linger.
In our impression, Li Moran is a very great man, but in real life, in the family, he is not a very good idea. So who is the person in their family who has the idea? Then he is his wife Long Chao.
Earlier we said that Li Moran did not graduate from primary school, but he married the talented daughter Long Chao. According to Li Mo, he then came to tell us that in their family, the person who should become a star the most was not him, but Long Chao. Long Chao was born in Xiangmendi, a standard showman, and is also a college graduate of the Music Department of Changchun Normal University. It was 1947, and she and Li Moran were both actors in the "Northeast Literary Association Literary troupe". At that time, actors had to know everything, both to act and sing, but Li Moran was a "left voice" and sang out of tune. So Long Chao taught her. The two developed sincere feelings in getting along, so Li Moran boldly confessed to Long Chao, but Long Chao did not say yes or no, only said that we would talk until you learned to sing.
As a result, Li Moran did not sing a song well in the end, but they became a very loving couple. Long Chao is extremely talented, and is a composer and conductor of the Liaoning Provincial Song and Dance Troupe. In her position, she has trained the president of the Chinese Dancers Association, the president of the Chinese Musicians Association, and Li Moran, the president of the Chinese Dramatists Association. And she herself, the person who should become a star the most, has been obscure from beginning to end, willing to dedicate everything to her family.
They married in 1950 and had three children after marriage. The husband and wife have always been in love and respect each other as guests. During the special ten years, Li Moran was sent to the countryside, and once accidentally used an iron pickaxe to get a tetanus on his foot, and the blood flowed non-stop, and he was unconscious before he arrived at the hospital. At that time, everyone was frightened and quickly called the dragon tide. As a result, Long Chao stayed by Li Moran's side for a week, and he almost didn't close his eyes so much that he kept guarding, and finally let Li Moran turn the crisis into safety.
There are many similar situations, as if every time there is a very urgent moment, it is Long Chao who comes forward to make up his mind. Even Li Moran met some fanatical suitors, and it was Long Chao who gave his idea, saying, you don't have to say anything, as long as you send our family portrait to others, people will understand everything, neither hurt people's faces, things are solved, the best of both worlds. Therefore, Li Moran has said countless times that the person he is most grateful for in his life is his wife, a big woman who burns herself and illuminates others.
After Long Chao's death in 2010, Li Moran was like a soul that had been taken away. And for a long time, he was always in the middle of a dream and half awake at night, as if he could see his wife as soon as he closed his eyes, and then the tears flowed.
On November 8, 2012, two years after the death of his wife, Li Moran also passed away at the age of 85.
When I get to know these old artists, I find that they are still very contrasting on the screen and in life, such as Li Moran, in the movie, he is a great hero who is unparalleled in the world, but in life, in front of his wife, he is extremely "obedient" and shows his cute side.
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