's acting career, the audience remembered Huang Shiren and Nan Batian. Later in his career, Chen Qiang's comedy almost made the audience forget that he was a "bully professional." In his later years, Chen Qiang summed up his comedy experience in 16 words: funny but not tiresome, noisy but not chaotic, laugh but not vulgar, fun and sincere. Every time
is in a foreign drama, the actors have to stick a fake nose, and Chen Qiang doesn't use it, he has a big nose. The image conditions directly restricted the development of Chen Qiang's positive role. He is the only actor who is famous as a villain among the 22 major movie stars in New China. In the age when heroes of workers, peasants and soldiers were the protagonists, Chen Qiang used his superb acting skills to create villains that were unforgettable for the audience. Huang Shiren and Nan Batian became insurmountable peaks in the galleries of Chinese screen villains. In his later years, he became an outstanding comedian, and his son Chen Peisi opened an era of comedy, and even successfully transformed into the earliest independent producer in China.
Chen Qiang
Birthplace: Xingtai, Hebei Province
Original name: Chen Qingsan
Work unit: Beijing Film Studio
The bad guys have to perform a different bad law
Opera Academy, Yan'an Lu Xun Art Academy in 1945. Chen Qiang aimed at the role of Yang Bailao, because he had acted many old man images on stage before, and he was familiar with the image of a loyal and kind farmer like Yang Bailao, and he had long thought about how to interpret this character in his heart. However, when the role assignment was announced, Chen Qiang received the role of the bully landlord Huang Shiren. At first, Chen Qiang rejected this role, because Chen Qiang was only 27 years old at that time and was not married. If he played a badass, there would be any girl willing to marry him in the future. So he ran to director Wang Bin and asked for a role change, but the director rejected his request on the grounds that it was a "political task from above." The originally rejected role of
brought Chen Qiang a bright moment in performance. There is a scene where Huang Shiren insults Xi'er. Chen Qiang rushes to Xi'er. When Lin Bai, who played Xi'er, looked back and saw Chen Qiang's expression, he was really shocked. Some people commented on Chen Qiang's laugh, others couldn't laugh out, it was both rape and bad.
However, while Chen Qiang's superb acting skills were affirmed, it also brought a lot of trouble and even danger. Once, the audience saw Huang Shiren's ugly face on the stage, picked up a rock and smashed it at Chen Qiang. Chen Qiang couldn't dodge and hit his eyes. At that time, "White Haired Girl" was performed in various places. The most dangerous performance was for the troops in Hebei. A young soldier was anxious by "Huang Shiren". He raised his gun and shot Chen Qiang. Fortunately, the squad leader next to him was timely. Stopped. Later, "The White Haired Girl" went to the army to perform again, and the soldiers in the audience were not allowed to be equipped with guns. "The White Haired Girl" has a very large performance. The heroine Xi'er is divided into the AB role. In addition to Lin Bai, there is also Wang Kun from the Repertory Troupe, but Huang Shiren is always the only role played by Chen Qiang.
In 1950, the opera "White Haired Girl" was adapted into a movie, and Chen Qiang continued to play Huang Shiren. In the opera, Huang Shiren is so pure and single, Chen Qiang added a few scenes of Huang Shiren's filial piety to his mother during the filming, so that this role is not bad for nothing but more three-dimensional. The movie version of Huang Shiren was once again successful, and Chen Qiang also secured the top spot in the "bully professional" on the screen.
"The White Haired Girl"
is too popular because of the role of the bully. In 1960, Chen Qiang was selected by the director Xie Jin to play the role of the bully landlord in "Red Detachment of Women", Nan Batian. Although he is also a villain, it is easy to act as a stereotyped conceptual character, but Chen Qiang hopes to make a breakthrough, and different bad guys have to perform different bad laws. After studying the script, Chen Qiang discovered that Huang Shiren was a rich native of remote rural areas in North China, and he was somewhat rustic, while Nanbatian was a bully in Wuzhishan on Hainan Island, more foreign. From his image, he first made Nan Batian look greasy, well-dressed, and he was extremely proud and arrogant. There is a detail in the film. Nan Batian took the opportunity to escape after being arrested. Chen Qiang deliberately made the action design of Nan Batian holding one eye to highlight the cunning character of this character. With this role, in 1962 Chen Qiang won the Best Supporting Actor Award in the first Hundred Flowers Awards.
"Red Detachment of Women"
created many firsts in Chinese film history
, because the two famous villains Huang Shiren and Nan Batian were too realistic, many people thought Chen Qiang would be the originalStarred in color. In fact, Chen Qiang is the son of an authentic farmer, and in real life he is a good and honest man. At that time, Xie Jin’s first actor for "Red Detachment of Women" was Chen Qiang. The heroine was difficult to choose. Finally, Zhu Xijuan, who was just a sophomore, was found from the Shanghai Theatre Academy. Zhu Xijuan was too young and lacked acting experience, so Chen Qiang took the initiative to help her play against her, always shouting "dead girl, you get me here", and quickly brought Zhu Xijuan into the context of the story.
Zhu Xijuan and Chen Qiang
Apart from being the villain, Chen Qiang actually has a wide range of dramas, costumes, fashion, workers, farmers, old men, young people, protagonists, and supporting roles. He plays well, and his positive roles are equally easy to do. Before acting as a bully, Chen Qiang was already a professional old man. At the age of 29, he played the bereaved father of his loved one in "Leave him to beat Lao Jiang". He speaks Shandong dialect, and his modeling and emotional performance are very plump and realistic. This is Chen Qiang 1947. The first short feature film in the liberated area played in the Northeast Film Studio in In 1949, Chen Qiang played the role of the worker Laohou in the first feature film "Bridge" after the founding of the People's Republic of China; in 1962, he played the magician Lu Huanqi in my country's first color three-dimensional widescreen film "The Magician's Adventure".
"Magician's Adventure"
try a new comedy performance style
"Look at this family" in 1979 is the first comedy after the "Cultural Revolution", is also an important transformation of Chen Qiang, began to get rid of the previous villain stereotypes, also Started the cooperation between him and his son Chen Peisi's golden father-son file. Chen Qiang's comedy style is self-contained, his performance is full of life and he inadvertently reveals humor. When it comes to the tricks of comedy performance, Chen Qiang said that it is a little bit thicker, as long as you put such a stroke on the knots, the color of the play will be thicker. The film was a great success at the time and received unanimous praise from the audience.
In the 1980s, a film studio had to take the lead in preparations for making a movie, making scripts, selecting actors, and looking for investment. But comedy was not the mainstream of movies at that time, and few film studios tried it. In order to stick to his path of comedy, in 1985, Chen Qiang, who had retired, made a shocking decision to make everyone the first independent producer of New China. Together with his son Chen Peisi, he began planning the first film of the "Two Sons" series. Father and Son.
"Two Sons" series
"Father and Son" brought countless joy to the audience, but behind the countless hard work and sweat of the father and son. Chen Qiang made his own investment, looked for a screenwriter, and asked for a director. Halfway through the filming of the movie, the investor proposed to modify the script. Chen Qiang would never accept interference in artistic creation. In the end, the investor withdrew in angrily. Chen Qiang had to put aside half of the film and look for investment again. The 67-year-old Chen Qiang exhausted all his energy to complete the filming, but the film could not be screened, because at that time the film must be released by a film studio, otherwise he would not be eligible for submission. Finally, thanks to Chen Qiang's various efforts, the Film Bureau issued a special approval for this film, and it was acquired by China Film Corporation with a one-time payment.
Someone once said that Chen Qiang did this to make money from the sea, but his main purpose was to make his comedy road without regrets. Later, Chen Qiang continued to shoot a series of "Two Sons Open a Shop", "The Two Men Open a Cabaret", "Father and Son Classic Car" and other series Comedy works. Son Chen Peisi said that the old man is stubborn. No matter what others say to him, he knows that he won't win prizes for acting in comedy, and he doesn't make much money, but he just wants to shoot.
Beijing News reporter Teng Chao editor Xu Qiaoyang proofread Xue Jingning
