——Uncover the inside story of the red classic film "Heroes and Children" that you don't know (3)
Chen Hui
The film "Heroes and Children" has many actors, each of whom is remarkable, but the most exciting is the four main actors: Wang Cheng's actor Liu Shilong; Wang Fang's actor Liu Shangxian; Wang Wenqing's actor Tian Fang; Wang Fubiao's actor Zhou Wenbin. Let's tell the story behind the four main actors.
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——Wang Cheng's actor Liu Shilong. Liu Shilong was born in 1930 in Xiao County, Anhui Province, to a small intellectual family, and his father Liu Zongjin had some culture and often wrote complaints. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, out of national righteousness, he joined the anti-Japanese guerrilla group in 1938, and his sister Liu Zizhen also followed his father to the revolutionary ranks. His mother presided over the Rural Women's Rescue Association, and Liu Shilong's family once became an underground liaison station for the party. Liu Shilong's father and sister both joined the party in 1941, and Liu Shilong joined the party in 1946. Her sister died in 1943.
When Liu Shilong was 9 years old, his father took him to the army, first to join the children's group of the county propaganda team, and then to participate in some small programs in the Xiaosu Bronze Corps.
In 1939, Liu Shilong joined the New Fourth Army and successively served as a serviceman, a messenger, a soldier, a squad leader, a platoon leader, a member of the propaganda team, a member of the cultural and industrial troupe, and a theater captain. During this period, he participated in more than 40 stage plays, such as "Brothers and Sisters Opening the Wilderness" and "White-Haired Girl". In 1951, he was sent by the 16th Military Security Corps of the People's Liberation Army to the Southwest People's Art Academy and the Beijing Film School to study acting, and graduated in 1953 and was assigned to the Long Shadow Actor Troupe as an actor. He has starred in 15 films such as "Heroes and Children" (as Wang Cheng), "Liu Sanjie" (as Ah Niu), "Hongyan" (as Li Fangfei), "Zhan Hongtu" (as Ding Shenghe) and so on. He has played the role of a correspondent and other mass roles in "Shajia Grain Store Station", "Dong Cunrui", "Re-examination", "Female President", "Dawn Riverside", and he has also participated in many episodes of TV series. He directed tv series such as "Erlin Biography" and "Pursuit".
Liu Shilong sent letters during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; during the War of Liberation, he participated in the suppression of bandits, went to the battlefield, commanded battles, and encountered bandits many times in the suppression of bandits. In Luzhou, he independently led his warriors to participate in many battles, killing many enemies. The experience of the battlefield laid the foundation for him to shape Wang Cheng's heroic image in the future.
Liu Shilong is not tall, not tall, and his appearance is not outstanding, he does not meet the requirements of the leadership, and his big and temperament can withstand the requirements of the scene, but the director is strong enough to resist the public opinion and resolutely wants Liu Shilong to play Wang Cheng.
At the beginning, when director Wu Zhaodi chose the male protagonist Wang Cheng in the filming of "Heroes and Children", he first asked the Long Film Troupe to propose recommended candidates, and the troupe proposed two people, but there was no Liu Shilong among the two people. Wu Zhaodi felt that neither of them was ideal, and proposed that Liu Shilong play this role.
The head of the troupe at that time clearly said: "Liu Shilong can't play a hero." Wu Zhaodi asked, "Why?" The person in charge of the troupe said: "Liu Shilong's ideology is seriously right-leaning, and he was once punished by probation in the party. To control usage. It turned out that Liu Shilong had said some excessive words and complaints in the struggle against the rightists in 1957, and at that time he took these words too seriously and was punished.
Director Wu Zhaodi did not take the problem as particularly serious, he believes that Liu Shilong has a good image and temperament, joined the army at the age of 9, rolled in the army for many years, and participated in the fight against bandits, playing the hero Wang Cheng has superior conditions. But it's not easy to stand up. Wu Zhaodi took a roundabout way and said: "I will try it first, and then I will change it if I am not qualified. "The troupe is not too insistent, and the two sides reached a trial agreement.
After Liu Shilong was tried into the "Heroes and Children" group, Wu Zhaodi said to Liu Shilong: "Liu Shilong, Wang Chengcheng is you, you have to play me well, you have to go to the army to become a soldier." Liu Shilong said: "Please rest assured that the director will definitely act well, I will not steam steamed
Therefore, Liu Shilong packed up his backpack and went to the outskirts of Changchun to serve as a soldier in a company under the 16th Army of his original unit. After arriving at the troops, he participated in many projects of standing guard, sending sentry, dropping bombs, killing, and competing in big competitions, and after 3 months, Liu Shilong was full of heroic temperament. Director Wu Zhaodi smiled at the sight.
Liu Shilong's main role was that Wang Wenqing, the political commissar of the Volunteer Army Division, was the son of Wang Fubiao, a comrade-in-arms of Wang Fubiao, and Wang Fang was a brother and sister, and in a battle he shouted: In order to win, after firing at me, he died with the enemy with a blaster, and the whole army launched a campaign to learn from him.
In order to play the hero Wang Cheng, Liu Shilong carefully read the literary script and the sub-shot script, repeatedly experienced the requirements for the character in "Director's Elaboration", made a detailed analysis of the growth process and ideological development of Wang Cheng, and fully considered the performance level and action of the heavy scene, Liu Shilong showed a heroic appearance everywhere, and people admired him. Just to shoot Wang Cheng rushing through the gunfire smoke, Liu Shilong suffered a lot, he had to rush through the sea of fire that was constantly exploding and burning everywhere, running again, his eyebrows were burned out, his sideburns were also burned off, and his arms burned into many big bubbles, and the pain was unbearable. Once not, a second time, makeup needs to re-dip eyebrows, trim sideburns, Liu Shilong can not take care of the many blisters on the arm that have been burned, gritting his teeth and running from the sea of fire again to kill the past, so that twice down, Liu Shilong's arms, the blisters on his body are difficult to count, Liu Shilong really regards himself as a hero, without fear, without complaint. In this way, at the end of the filming every day, others are clean, but Liu Shilong is full of smoke and smoke, and he is like a coal sunspot.
Liu Shilong has a black and red face, thick limbs, a straight waist, and a military demeanor, and is an easy-going, enthusiastic, and upright person. He has a profound artistic foundation, he never complains bitterly, his hands are cocooned, and he never tires when he is tired, like a nervous, serious and combative soldier. In life, Liu Shilong is open-minded and cheerful, always holding a peaceful attitude towards the things around him, gaining but not happy, losing without worrying.
Liu Shilong played Wang Cheng in "Heroes and Children", although this role took only 17 minutes in the whole film, but Liu Shilong put Wang Cheng's heroic spirit to life, vividly, the sentence "For victory!" Shoot me! The classic lines, full of revolutionary passion, make it have a moving charm and courage, so that Liu Shilong has spread all over the country. After more than half a century, audiences are still fascinated by the main theme of this film. Liu Shilong, the actor of Wang Cheng in the film, successfully shaped this role, and his silver screen image is still unforgettable to this day, affecting the growth of several generations.
People often regard Liu Shilong as the hero Wang Cheng, whenever this situation is encountered, Liu Shilong always emphasizes: "Wang Cheng is a hero, I am Liu Shilong, I am not a hero; I just played the hero Wang Cheng." Liu Shilong has gone through hardships to play a good hero, not to think of himself as a protagonist but always regard himself as an ordinary person, which is also the quality of a hero and should be respected and praised by people. Liu Shilong is not a hero and a hero.
In 2005, Liu Shilong won the 10th Golden Phoenix Special Honor Award of the China Academy of Film Performing Arts. On September 16, 2017, Liu Shilong won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema.
At 23:20 on September 27, 2017, Liu Shilong died of illness in Changchun at the age of 87.
——Wang Fang's actor Liu Shangxian. Liu Shangxian, born in December 1941, is a native of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Acting Department of Beijing Film Academy in 1963. "Heroes and Children" was filmed at the invitation of Long Shadow when she graduated from school. Her performance makes the artistic image of the heroine Wang Fang have a characteristic of both modernization and personalization, which has been widely praised inside and outside the military, and has won the Outstanding Film Creator Award for the 35th anniversary of the establishment of Changying.
At the beginning, the script of the feature film "Heroes and Children" was transferred to the Ministry of Culture, and Xia Yan, vice minister of culture, instructed the head of the Film Bureau to lead: "Focus on making this film well, and the film should be imported from Britain!" At the same time, the script was also delivered to Barkin in Shanghai, who also agreed to make it into a movie after reading it.
Then, director Wu Zhaodi was busy looking for actors, and he and screenwriter Mao Feng not only visited the literary and art groups in Beijing, but also traveled to the army's general political, air administration, sea administration, railway soldiers, engineers and other song and dance troupes, but never found a suitable candidate for "Wang Fang".
When he was worried, director Xie Jin brought a good news. It turned out that when Xie Jin went out of the door after finishing his work at the film school, he happened to catch up with Liu Shangxian to shoot "Beijinger" to borrow props from the props library, and when she finished borrowing the props and went back, she and director Xie Jin had a face-to-face, with years of directing intuition, he immediately flashed in his mind: "Isn't she the 'Wang Fang' that Wu Zhaodi is looking for?" Xie Jin immediately came to Mao Feng's residence, entered the door and said, "'Wang Fang' has found it!" Mao Feng and Wu Zhaodi listened to the second word and followed Xie Jin straight to the film academy.
Because Xie Jin and the girl just passed by, and didn't even have time to ask her name, the three of them had to look for "Wang Fang" one by one next to the bedroom. When they walked into a women's dormitory, they found a girl putting something on the bed, and Xie Jin's eyes lit up, she was the girl she had just seen at the gate. After inquiry, the girl's name was Liu Shangxian, a Shanghainese, who had just graduated from the film school, and the three of them explained their intentions to Liu Shangxian, and she was overjoyed to hear it.
After meeting people, you have to look at her acting skills. Coincidentally, Liu Shangxian was playing a little daughter-in-law in Cao Yu's "Beijinger", and Mao Feng and Wu Zhaodi came to see her performance for four consecutive days, and they found that Liu Shangxian's acting skills and her temperament and appearance were very similar to Wang Fang in the script. At that time, Liu Shangxian, a Shanghai girl, had just graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and was only 22 years old. Therefore, it was decided to let her play the role of "Wang Fang". After the film was made, Liu Shangxian also became an actress in the Bayi Film Studio as she wished.
According to Liu Shangxian's own recollection, Liu Shilong once asked me: Do you know how to pick you up? I said I really didn't know, but he told me that the first person to find me was director Xie Jin. What am I trying to say now? There are many things in life that are actually very accidental. If I had found the right person before me, I might have been able to act better than me, but Wang Fang finally fell on me.
Liu Shangxian played Wang Fang, learned to dance the authentic Korean long encouragement, but also learned the Xihe drum, she successfully shaped the image of Wang Fang, people in the appreciation of the red classic movie "Heroes and Children", no one will forget the frank and enthusiastic female warrior Wang Fang, Liu Shangxian created this role that is both contemporary and personalized and became famous in one fell swoop, becoming a popular idol.
In 1963, Liu Shangxian starred in the war movie "Heroes and Children", and then starred in "Roar! Films such as the Yellow River, Boxer, Footprints, and The Vast Sea have created middle-aged female figures with different personalities. At the end of the 1980s, he served as the director of Bayi Film Studio, and participated in the filming of "Bell Mountain under the Wind and Rain", "The Heart of the Daughter-in-law", "Chinese Criminal Police" and so on.
Nowadays, "Heroes and Children" has grown up with generations of people, and the name Wang Fang has also been engraved in the hearts of generations. "Liu Shangxian said that she did not feel anything about the overnight fame at that time, and the most guilty thing was not to give the audience more and better roles."
——Wang Wenqing's actor Tian Fang. In "Heroes and Children", Wang Wenqing, the political commissar of the division, is an old revolutionary, and the actor Tian Fang is also an old revolutionary. Born on January 3, 1911 in Baoding, Hebei Province, Tian Fang joined the second team of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Drama in 1937, entered the Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in 1938, and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. He has successively served as the first head of the Beijing Film Actors Troupe, the director of the Beijing Film Studio, the deputy director of the Cultural Film Bureau, the second standing director and the third vice chairman of the China Film Association.
When Tian Fang was studying in Tianjin in his early years, he participated in stage performances. In middle school, he participated in the school's spring shoot club, published literary works, and enthusiastically participated in the school's performing arts activities, and once performed the script written by Liu Bannong. In 1930, he was admitted to Fu Jen University. In 1931, he dropped out of school and went to Shanghai to work as an actor in Tianyi Film Company, starring in films such as "Fei Shu". After 1935, he served as an actor in jixing, Xinhua and other film companies, and played a major role in films such as "The Legend of the Red Sheep Hero" and "Top Gun".
In 1937, he joined the second team of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Drama, in 1938 he entered the Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and after 1939, he served as the artistic director, instructor and actor of the Yan'an Luyi Experimental Theater Troupe, and played important roles in dramas such as "Sunrise", "Grain", "The Man with the Gun", "Frontline" and so on.
In 1945, he was appointed deputy head of the First Regiment of the Northeast Cultural and Labor Troupe. Later, he participated in the preparation of the Northeast Film Studio and served as the secretary-general. In addition to his work as an artistic leader, Tian Fang has successively played roles in films such as "Chrysanthemum in the Deep Mountains", "Revolutionary Family", and "The Wind Comes from the East". In 1962, he presided over the first Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards ceremony.
In 1964, he starred in the film "Heroes and Children", and with his skillful acting skills, he created the image of Wang Wenqing, a political worker of our army who was resolute and composed, dignified and warm.
Tian Fang's wife Yu Lan is the Best Actress Award at the Moscow International Film Festival, one of the "22 GreatEst Film Stars of New China", and the first director of the China Children's Film Studio, she recalls her husband Tian Fang: In 1963, the long film studio was preparing to shoot "Heroes and Children", the director found Tian Fang and asked him to play Wang Wenqing, at that time he felt that he had not made a movie for a long time, afraid that he would be incompetent at once, and he agreed to it under the repeated requests of the director.
It must be an old actor with deep skills, Tian Fang plays Wang Wenqing, and the performance is deep and intrinsic. The face that was not angry and arrogant, and the smile was as bright as a spring breeze, and when he gave orders to the crowd with determination, it would make people feel very excited and convincing.
Tian Fang is the founder of China's film industry, both inside and outside the play are amiable and respectable chiefs, in the eyes of young actors, he is as kind as a loving father. Wang Wenqing, played by Tian Fang, is full of pure acting skills, and "Wang Wenqing" has become the most important role in Tian Fang's film career. On August 27, 1974, Tian Fang died of cancer in Beijing at the age of 63.
——Wang Fubiao's actor Zhou Wenbin. Zhou Wenbin, born in 1907, a native of Shanghai, is an old actor in Changchun Film Studio. In 1937, he entered the literary and artistic circles. In 1951, he was appointed as a special guest actor of Shanghai Daguang Second Factory and an actor in the drama team of the Army Art Theater of the Hankou South Military Region. In 1953, he was transferred to the Eastern Film Actors Troupe as an actor.
Zhou Wenbin not only successfully created the image of the amiable worker master such as Wang Fubiao and Master Zhao in "Heroes and Children" and "Railway Guard" on the screen, but also played a role in terms of fang Boqian in "Jia Wu Fengyun" and bandit officers in "Daughter of the Party".
Zhou Wenbin is also an old actor, he played the old worker Wang Fubiao in "Heroes and Children", wang cheng's biological father and Wang Fang's adoptive father.
Zhou Wenbin is worthy of the famous big star, he plays wang Fubiao simple and real, the character portrayed into the wood three points, into the painting, making people unforgettable.
Zhou Wenbin's film works also include "Peach Blossom Fan", "Secret History of the Qing Palace", "Generation of Heroes", "Dongmei", "Railway Guard" and more than 20 other films. In 1981, Zhou Wenbin died of illness at the age of 74.
The other actors in the film "Heroes and Children" also have their own characteristics in the film. Guo Zhenqing, who played Li Xiangyang in "Plain Guerrilla", played The famous Guo Zhenqing in one fell swoop, and in "Heroes and Children" he played the volunteer regimental commander Zhang Zhenhua, although not the protagonist, he still portrayed this role beautifully, and the character's heart was vividly expressed; Puke played the scene of The Old Man Kim Jong-tae in the movie, carrying Wang Fang across the river in the cold river, which is impressive; the old actor Ren Yi, who played Captain Wu in "Heroes and Children", his performance is very natural and kind The role of Cho Moon-yu, a Long Film Studio actor, as a North Korean girl, Park Jeong-koo, is also unforgettable; Liu Xiaoguo plays Wang Wenqing's guard Xiao Liu, who is also very successful.
It is the many outstanding actors who have made the red classic film "Heroes and Children", which is touching, inspiring and unforgettable.
This article was published in the 10th issue of Party History Expo magazine in 2021 and included in the forthcoming book "Red Classics and Party History Stories".
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