Stills from "Liu Sanjie"
60 years have passed
There is a classic old movie that we still remember
There are some classic old songs that we still sing from time to time
There is a beautiful figure, still the unchanging goddess in the minds of many viewers
In December 1943, Huang Wanqiu was born in an ordinary family in Guilin, Guangxi, although the family was not rich, but her parents were industrious and kind, frugal and frugal. Although the mother does not know the books, she is very polite, and the children are eager to learn and motivate. My father's biggest hobby was humming and singing.
Huang Wanqiu "loved to perform" when she was young. In 1956, at the age of 13, she was in the fifth grade of primary school, and during the winter vacation, she saw an advertisement in the newspaper for the Gui Opera Troupe recruiting students. The troupe stipulates that the applicant actors must reach the level of high school graduation. Huang Wanqiu, who is shy by nature, does not know where a stubborn spirit comes from, boldly walks up to the examination room and takes the initiative to ask for a dance. At that time, Huang Wanqiu's appearance and figure were not bad, and her dance was also decent, especially her eager mood as an actor touched all the teachers present, who felt that this must be a good seedling, and decided to open up to Huang Wanqiu, exempted her from the cultural class examination, and broke the admission.
Unexpectedly, parents, who have always been more enlightened, do not want Huang Wanqiu to eat "open rice". Because of the inhuman suffering and miserable fate of the artists in the old society, they still remember it vividly.
Huang Wanqiu's stubborn temper, her parents have long been taught. I really couldn't screw it up, so I had to let her write a letter to my eldest brother who was studying in Changchun to solicit opinions. In the long days of waiting for the eldest brother's reply, Huang Wanqiu really wanted to see through it and live like a year. Seeing that some of the little sisters who applied for the exam together had entered the troupe, this made her even more anxious and scratched her heart. The letter from the eldest brother supporting her as an actor finally came, with the support of the eldest brother, her parents would no longer block it, and Huang Wanqiu finally fulfilled the dream of being an actor since she was a child. Because she was beautiful and had a good voice, she was assigned to play Xiao Hua Dan and was deeply loved by her teacher.
In 1960, Guangxi launched a vigorous activity to create an artistic masterpiece "Liu Sanjie". At that time, the whole of Guangxi was performing "Liu Sanjie", and Huang Wanqiu's Gui Opera Troupe was no exception. And Huang Wanqiu is also one of the actors of Liu Sanjie.
This activity has been paid attention to by Changchun Film Studio. Director Suri decided to bring "Liu Sanjie" to the screen. And when he came to Guangxi to select actors, a photo caught his eye. The girl in the photo looks beautiful and pure and cute, so he recruited this girl into the crew and prepared her to play the role of Zhou Mei in the play. This girl is Huang Wanqiu.
Suri first considered letting professional film actors such as Jindi and Tao Yuling play the heroine Liu Sanjie. However, guangxi side believes that Liu Sanjie is a brand of Guangxi, and the actor should still be played by local actors, so it found Fu Jinhua and other actors to audition, but the effect is not very satisfactory. In the end, director Suri locked his eyes on Huang Wanqiu again, informed her of the makeup audition, and the result was very ideal, and it was decided that she would play Liu Sanjie.
Director Suri's decision changed the fate of Huang Wanqiu's life. Although the audition allowed Huang Wanqiu to successfully get the role of Liu Sanjie, but really began to shoot, Huang Wanqiu was restrained, her expression also converged, neither dare to laugh and show her teeth, because she felt that her mouth was big, her smile was not good, and she did not dare to walk in stride, because there were many factors such as angle, camera position, light and other factors and external conditions. At this time, director Suri said to her: "You are just like usual, don't be too rigid, change the stage performance, and get closer to life." I chose you to play Liu Sanjie, is to see your purity and nature, you just need to change some of the habitual actions of opera performance, understand the role well, and devote yourself to life, I believe you will be able to act well. ”
Inspired by director Suri, Huang Wanqiu's performance became smoother and smoother, but there was one scene that made her embarrassed, that is, the scene where she made love with Brother Ah Niu under the big banyan tree. At that time, Huang Wanqiu was only 16 years old, had never been in love, and did not know how girls who were in love should behave. At first, she did not know how to act, but later, inspired by the director, she focused on showing the sincere love of the third sister for Ah Niu through her eyes. This scene has less dialogue, mainly through the eyes, expressions, hydrangea throwing action, and singing to communicate with each other, Huang Wanqiu used her own characteristics of using her eyes on the stage to use in life-oriented movies, using her eyes to pour out love to Brother Ah Niu. Someone joked: "Little Third Sister's autumn wave is really powerful!" If you act this drama in a pretentious and pretentious manner, then you will lose the sincere and unrestrained character of the third sister, a mountain girl. ”
Huang Wanqiu's just right performance, coupled with a very beautiful singing voice, makes this section a very beautiful scene in the movie.
In 1961, after the movie "Liu Sanjie" was released, it immediately caused a huge sensation. Suddenly, Liu Sanjie's singing voice spread throughout the north and south of the river, and Huang Wanqiu, who played Liu Sanjie, naturally also became popular with her pure and beautiful image and vivid and simple performance, becoming the most popular movie star of that era.
Huang Wanqiu won many honors for playing Liu Sanjie. This made her uneasy. What she did not expect was that not long after, with the arrival of the special decade, her fate underwent a 180-degree change. Almost overnight, she went from being a big star to a "black seedling" and was criticized.
In 1982, Huang Wanqiu was finally completely rehabilitated. She once again ushered in her second artistic life, and was once again named "Liu Sanjie" to become a star liked by more audiences.
After the time entered the 80s, Huang Wanqiu became extremely busy, she not only participated in films such as "Chunlan Qiuju", but also served as the deputy director of the Guilin Municipal Bureau of Culture, contributing to the promotion of Guilin. Of course, the most difficult thing for Huang Wanqiu to give up over the years is her deep love for the big brand of "Liu Sanjie". In order to carry forward the image of Liu Sanjie, she made a lot of efforts, not only personally playing Liu Sanjie in the performance, but also specially forming a Liu Sanjie art troupe.
Initially, there were only 4 people in liu sanjie art troupe, including Huang Wanqiu, but later it gradually grew and established Liu Sanjie group company, and she also became the chairman of the group.
In 2017, Huang Wanqiu once again took Liu Sanjie's singing voice to the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Now Huang Wanqiu has trained several new Liu Sanjie actors, including her daughter He Yanyun.
Huang Wanqiu is now 77 years old. She has made great achievements in her career, but in her heart, her greatest wish is to sing Liu Sanjie's singing voice from generation to generation; At the same time, I hope that the love between myself and Brother Ah Niu will always be fresh, forever, just like the song in the movie "Liu Sanjie", "which ninety-seven years old died, waiting for three years on the Nai River Bridge".
(Comprehensive)