Ge Cunzhuang
Ge Cunzhuang (January 13, 1929 - March 4, 2016), born in Dongwanai Village, Raoyang County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province, is an actor of Beijing Film Studio . In 1949, he officially started his career as a film actor; in 1960, he was familiar with the audience for playing the landlord Feng Lanchi in the movie " Red Flag "; in 1963, he starred in the movie " Xiaobing Zhang Ga ", playing the villain Kameda; In 1997, he played Qi Baishi in the movie "Zhou Enlai - A Great Friend", and won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 18th China Film Golden Rooster Award for this role; in 2016, he won the 33rd Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award Lifetime Achievement Award. On March 4, 2016, he died of heart failure due to cerebral infarction, at the age of 87.
Every time he receives a character, Ge Cunzhuang has to carefully analyze the characters' characteristics, dig deep into the characters' backgrounds, thoroughly study the characters' emotions, words and deeds, and psychological activities, and then pay attention to different aspects during the shooting process. the character of these characters. When summarizing his performance experience, Ge Cunzhuang once said: "We must break the stylized and stereotyped performance of the villain. The villain is more 'hidden' than 'revealed', because the real bad guy is the best at covering up." Therefore, When he plays the villain, he is not blindly fierce, but knows how to disguise, lure the enemy, and know how to detour and intimidate.
This article is excerpted from the 202004 issue of " People's Artist " magazine, and the content has been edited.
Sixty-seven years ago, an anti-Japanese war movie " Plains guerrillas " was born and wrote the legend of Chinese film history. A new star in the role of "traitor Yang Shouye", Ge Cunzhuang, is rising rapidly. If the positive characters are compared to red flowers, the villains are green leaves, and red flowers should be matched with green leaves. Ge Cunzhuang, who is also known as the "five villains" together with Chen Qiang, Liu Jiang, and Fang Hua, is one of the performing artists who are willing to be green leaves and safflowers.
"Five Villains" actors (from left to right are Chen Qiang in the front row, and Liu Jiang, Fang Hua and Ge Cunzhuang in the back row from left to right) village. In 1938, Ge Cunzhuang's family set out from Hebei to break through Guandong and came to Qiqihar, Heilongjiang. Before he became attached to literature and art, he had excellent academic performance and had no choice but to drop out of school due to his family's poverty. During his apprenticeship at the hospital, he met Japanese officers of all stripes, which made his later portrayal of the Japanese even more believable.
Ge Cunzhuang
In 1946, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army wiped out the Qiqihar 's Restoration Army. When the literary and art soldiers soldiers in the team passed by the hospital gate wearing shiny red star military caps, Ge Cunzhuang, who was an apprentice in the hospital, looked at him with great admiration. follow them. It was also from then on that his heart was no longer comfortable with his job in the hospital, and he began to take an interest in literature and art.
In order to have a dream of literature and art, Ge Cunzhuang asked a friend to introduce him to work in Qiqihar Railway Bureau, and joined the Railway Bureau's amateur cultural and art troupe. He has a great talent in literature and art. He has learned a lot of talents here. He can act, sing, and play instruments. But the good times didn't last long, and he lost his job after a major layoff at the railway bureau.
After Ge Cunzhuang and his wife Shi Wenxin
, Ge Cunzhuang had three opportunities to join the art troupe. The first two times ended in failure, and the last time he was accepted by the Qiqihar art troupe. He got his wish and started his new literary life. In 1948, during the three major battles of , the art troupe where Ge Cunzhuang belonged was transferred to Northeast Film Studio , and Ge Cunzhuang was assigned to the actor group, and he started a long career as a fledgling. On the first night of
's move to the dormitory of the cast, Ge Cunzhuang looked at the ceiling. He didn't expect such a wonderful career to end.On his body, there seemed to be a starlight flashing in front of his eyes in the haze... The first time
Ge Cunzhuang's name appeared on the subtitles of the cast was in the movie "Zhao Yiman". He played a pseudo-cop in the movie, and he didn't have many roles. It was a great honor to see his name appear in a People's Republic of China movie, and he decided it would be a fresh start.
Ge Cunzhuang's name appeared in the cast list of the movie "Zhao Yiman" After
finished filming "Zhao Yiman", in that era when the tendency of " to make " was obvious, the image was not "handsome and beautiful", but the performance Ge Cunzhuang, who has a very good level, has actually become a "professional household" of the villain, and the roles of "bad guys" will follow.
In the movie "Gate 6", Ge Cunzhuang played Zhu Baotou, the overseer of the port porter. This is the first time he has officially played the villain with lines and shots. After that, the "Plain Guerrilla" crew found him and invited him to play the role of the traitor Yang Shouye. This film later became an enduring classic in the history of new Chinese films. Ge Cunzhuang also left a deep impression on the audience with the role of Yang Shouye. impression.
Ge Cunzhuang plays Zhu Batou in the movie "Gate 6"
Ge Cunzhuang plays Yang Shouye, a traitor in the movie "Plain Guerrilla"
In Ge Cunzhuang's opinion: "No matter how much drama there is, or the villain is upright, I just let the flow take its course. Choose not to choose. Small roles should also be played as big roles, and being a mass actor also lays the foundation for future acting careers. Only in this way, once you meet the main role, you can carry it." He has a lofty spirit of collective cooperation, which is one of the important reasons why he has been recognized and appreciated by countless directors later, and it has also won him the love and respect of many colleagues.
The actor who took the "wind"
In 1955, the Northeast Film Studio changed its name to Changchun Film Studio , and later merged with the actors of the Beijing Film Studio to form an actor troupe. Ge Cunzhuang came to Beijing because of this, and was discovered by his Bole director Ling Zifeng .
Ling Zifeng (photographed by Ling Fei)
In 1958, Ge Cunzhuang played a soldier of the Eighth Route Army in the film "Chrysanthemums in the Deep Mountains" directed by Ling Zifeng. While waiting for the filming, Ge Cunzhuang saw that Ling Zifeng was anxious for finding a suitable actor to play the role of a temporary additional Japanese devil, so he offered himself to Ling Zifeng. Ge Cunzhuang's audition made Ling Zifeng quite satisfied and left a deep impression on Ling Zifeng.
In 1959, major film studios were filming the film dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. After discussion and decision by the factory leaders, Ling Zifeng was appointed as the director of the film "Red Flag Spectrum". Subsequently, Ge Cunzhuang, who was only 29 years old, was directly selected to play the opposite number one, the landlord Feng Lanchi, whose age spans from youth to old age.
Ge Cunzhuang played the landowner Feng Lanchi (when he was young) in the movie "Red Flag"
Ge Cunzhuang felt flattered when he heard about it. He has been playing tricks all the time and has never played the leading role. He doesn't know how he can be trusted by director Ling Zifeng. And the big difference between the real age and the character's age also brought him a lot of pressure.
Ling Zifeng said frankly to Ge Cunzhuang: "I didn't watch the main roles you played in the original films, but I have confidence, based on the fact that in the past three years, in the process of my directing, you often played a Japanese devil for me for a while. , play a fellow for a while, and add a beard to play an old man for me. When I edited the film, I felt that the roles you played were all in place, and although there was only a little drama, you were very serious."
Ge Cunzhuang In the movie "Red Flag Book", Ge Cunzhuang, who plays the landlord Feng Lanchi (in old age), bought two novels of "Red Flag Book" in order to play this important character well. One book was used for repeated reading. Wherever Feng Lanchi was written in the book, he carefully analyzed his psychological state and figured out the character of the characters; then he cut out the paragraphs describing Feng Lanchi in the other book and pasted them in the corresponding paragraphs of the storytelling script. beside to deepen the understanding of the characters.
later, when Director Wang Yang of Beijing Film Studio watched the samples of "Red Flag" and saw that the actor who played Feng Lanchi was Ge Cunzhuang, who used to play tricks in some films. He said with great surprise: Through this film, our factory There's another actor in there!
"Beijing Shadow No. 1"
Some actors are reluctant to play the villain for fear of damaging their own image, but Ge Cunzhuang has never had this concern. He even thinks that the villains in the script are often written more vividly than the positive characters, and they act It's easy to shine without too much restraint.
Ge Cunzhuang has created too many villains, such as the Japanese manager Tajima in "Miner's Lamp", the Japanese officer Shimizu Squad in " Grain ", the rogue Jin Wang in "Little Erhei's Marriage", and in " After the Armistice" "The Sun Kidnapped, and so on.
Ge Cunzhuang played the Japanese manager Tajima in the movie "Miner's Lamp"
and Ge Cunzhuang played Kameda in the movie "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", which established his immortal status in the history of Chinese film. The image of "Captain Kameda" has not only become the pinnacle of his personal acting career, but has also become a "recognized" classic devil image in the eyes of the common people. Even his lover Shi Wenxin would say after watching the movie that his role was so bad that people could believe it.
Ge Cunzhuang played Kameda in the movie "Little Soldier Zhang Ga"
Ge Cunzhuang played some minor supporting roles in the movie, but every role is memorable. Gradually, he became a well-known star and won the reputation of "Beijing Shadow No. 1".
However, this title also caused some trouble for Ge Cunzhuang. When Ge Cunzhuang and Shi Wenxin fell in love, Shi Wenxin's family conducted a two-year "investigation" on Ge Cunzhuang before agreeing to their marriage. Ge Cunzhuang later recalled with a smile and said, "Just because I played the villain, I almost didn't find a partner. What do you call this?" Internally, but most characters are able to perform well. Ge Cunzhuang's performances are not limited to negative roles. Since the 1970s, a steady stream of positive roles have found him.
In 1975, Ge Cunzhuang played the role of Dean Sun Ziqing in the movie " Breaks ". His phrase "the function of a horse's tail" became popular all over the country, and many people still remember it.
Ge Cunzhuang played Sun Ziqing in the movie "Break"
For a while, images of horse tails appeared on the blackboards of many schools, and children followed Sun Ziqing and laughed at their teachers. At that time, Ge Cunzhuang's precious son Ge You was in middle school, and Ge You was even more ecstatic. He drew a horse's tail on the blackboard and wrote "the function of a horse's tail", which made the classmates laugh.
In 1998, Ge Cunzhuang won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 18th China Film Golden Rooster Award for his role as Qi Baishi in the movie "Zhou Enlai - A Great Friend".
In order to make Qi Baishi look both physically and spiritually, Ge Cunzhuang grew a lot of beards half a year before the filming started. Thick layers of clothing.
Ge Cunzhuang plays Qi Baishi in the movie "Zhou Enlai - A Great Friend"
On March 4, 2016, Ge Cunzhuang died of heart failure caused by cerebral infarction at the age of 87.
Regarding the long "Green Leaf" career, Ge Cunzhuang said: "A film is a comprehensive art. From an actor's point of view, there must be a protagonist, a hero, and a villain. For decades, in actors Zhong I said that I am a green leaf, and many of you are safflowers, and safflowers still need green leaves to help me, Ge Cunzhuang is willing to be green leaves and safflowers, and my artistic path has come this way in my life.” A reporter at
once asked Ge Cunzhuang: "Which movie do you think is the most representative of the movies you've acted in for decades?" Ge Cunzhuang replied humorously, "How well you act is still up to the audience, but I personally feel that my The representative work is Ge You! I am also proud of him!"
Ge Cunzhuang and Ge You
