Today, I watched the old movie "Lin Hai Snow Field" filmed by Bayi Factory in 1960. Among them, the actors acted well, especially Liu Jiyun, who had so few roles, but he interpreted the old and calculating image vividly.
In Liu Jiyun's film actor career, the villain image he has created is not only Dinghe Laodao?
Some netizens said that he played the villain only, which is not false at all.
I specifically went to look through Liu Jiyun's artistic resume, and I found that he actually did not act in many movies. But every screen image he has created is deeply remembered in our minds.
What is strength? This is called strength. What is acting? Liu Jiyun's performance in these movies is acting.
So why can Liu Jiyun portray different characters so well?
I think it has a lot to do with his experience, with the transformation of his three identities.
1. Orphan Liu Jiyun
Liu Jiyun was born on June 12, 1910 in Beijing, and his original name was Liu Enmian. He was an orphan whose parents died since childhood. He was later adopted by relatives. According to Tian Hua, an actor at bayi factory, Liu Jiyun entered an opera class when he was a child, could sing Peking opera, and also worked as a recorder. What is a Recorder? It's about setting up a table on the street, writing letters for people, and making some small money. From this, we can know that Liu Jiyun has a certain cultural foundation, but his life is very bitter.
Liu Jiyun's uncle is a Peking opera actor named Gong Yunfu. Because of this relationship, he entered the drama class. Do some tea and water, run errands and miscellaneous things, and occasionally run the "dragon set". At that time, his biggest dream was to stand in the center of the stage like a "horn" and accept the applause and applause of the audience, but such a wish was almost impossible to achieve.
However, in the days of the drama class, Liu Jiyun followed his master to the south and north, got acquainted with many three religions and nine streams, and also gained a lot of insight. These accumulations later became the material for him to portray his screen roles. Why can he play the fictional characters in the movie so realistically? It's because he has a life.
In the few years that Liu Jiyun was in the drama class, his life was not good. It also coincides with the year of chaos and chaos, and all kinds of dangerous things may be encountered. Once, during the performance, they unfortunately encountered the Japanese Kou sweep, and Liu Jiyun was arrested and used as a laborer. Fortunately, he was extremely quick-witted and took the opportunity to escape during the escort.
But the various evil deeds he saw along the way aroused his anti-Japanese fighting spirit. Determined to find the Eighth Route Army, he inquired everywhere. At this time, he was penniless, and because his voice was down, he could no longer sing, so he had to live by begging. Fortunately, when he was poor and destitute, he finally found the anti-Japanese armed forces under the leadership of the Communist Party in jizhong in October 1938.
Liu Jiyun, a soldier of the Eighth Route Army
In this way, Liu Jiyun's life has turned a new page. At the age of 28, he became a soldier in the Eighth Route Army. His face finally burst into a heartfelt smile.
Because he has culture and can write and sing, he is very much used. He was first arranged to study at the sophomore branch of Kang University, and his progress was very fast. Subsequently, he was assigned to work as a technical secretary, a cultural instructor, and the head of the propaganda unit. Later, he entered the military cultural and industrial troupe and served as a theater director and the head of the cultural and industrial troupe.
In the ranks of the Eighth Route Army, Liu Jiyun saw many new people and new things that he had not seen before. I sincerely felt that "the sky in the Liberated Areas is a bright day", and everyone's face was full of smiles and their eyes were full of hope. All this has inspired his creative enthusiasm and he has participated in many plays. Moreover, he wrote down his observations from this period into his own "material record book", including the personality characteristics, professional habits, dressing, speech and demeanor of different people, etc., all of which were recorded in great detail.
Later, in many movies, we have also seen the positive image played by Liu Jiyun, all of which are so divine and physical. I think that his life during this period and this "material record book" must have helped him a lot.
The life of the army is hard, but the human heart is full. In 1945, Liu Jiyun joined the Communist Party of China. In 1949, he went south with the troops. In 1952, he worked as an actor in the Southwest Military Region Combat Literary troupe. In 1953, he was transferred to the General Political Drama Troupe, with the rank of Grade IV in Literature and Art.
Third, Liu Jiyun, a lieutenant colonel in Bayi Factory
In 1956, Bayi Factory put the drama "Darkness Before Dawn" on the screen, and the actors were all the original members of the General Political Drama Troupe, and Liu Jiyun was also among them, and his role was the traitor Li.
This is the first role created by Liu Jiyun on the screen. He was 46 years old. In order to play this traitor crooked neck Li well, he put a lot of effort into it. The first is to overcome many habits left behind when acting in dramas in the past, and strive to make their performances more lifelike and at the same time have characteristics. Colleague Li Po recalled: Liu Jiyun's creative attitude is very serious, and he wants to vividly show the things in the sub-shot script, and he will also show the things that are not in the sub-shots through thinking and digging.
There is a small detail in it, that is, the murder props that this traitor usually brings, is the leather whip good? Or is it a stick? Who in general would notice such a problem? Liu Jiyun was meticulous. To this end, he specially held the leather whip and the wooden stick in his hand to find the feeling, and finally decided to use the wooden stick, because the effect of the shooting is more impactful, and it can better show the characteristics of the character of Crooked Neck Lee.
So any character that we think comes alive and well is not a casual success. Behind this, there is a lot to do with the professionalism of the creators.
I remember that in the 1958 film "Heroic Tiger Guts", Liu Jiyun played a supporting role, an old landlord who had been lurking in the cellar for a long time, with only a dozen shots in total, but Liu Jiyun could not tolerate sloppiness. Even in the character modeling, I also keep thinking about it. Finally, let the makeup artist highlight the effect of pale face, in order to show the old landlord's perennial state of not seeing the sun.
Liu Jiyun actually entered the Bayi Factory in 1958. This year, he was 48 years old, the oldest actor in Bayi Factory, and a highly respected elder. But he created the character, but he was unambiguous.
Immediately after, a series of villain images were vividly established on the screen - Lao Dao in "Lin Hai Snow Plain", Han Laoliu in "The Tempest", Chen Lame Zi in "Capture the Seal", Gu Zhongru in "Secret Drawings", etc., whether it is a landlord or a secret agent, he has a flesh and blood interpretation, no similarity, and no facial and conceptualization.
From this series of negative characters he created, we can see that he is very good at embodying the heart of the character. Through subtle changes in appearance, the hypocritical, cunning, and fierce side of the character is displayed, without any trace of performance. After watching it, the audience is not only convinced of the existence of the characters, but also feels endlessly evocative.
If someone thinks that Liu Jiyun can only play a villain, it is a big mistake. The positive characters he portrays are also very successful, and people can't find a trace of the shadow of the negative characters. For example, Uncle Lao Liangcai in "Five More Cold", Li Laohan in "Muslim Detachment", Bayaner in "Storm of Ordos", Uncle Li in "Tunnel Warfare", etc., are all so thick and simple, unforgettable.
In 1962, when the bayi factory actor was awarded the rank, Liu Jiyun was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, which made him the highest-ranking actor in the bayi factory at that time.
Fourth, the old man Liu Jiyun
The last figure That Liu Jiyun left for us on the screen was Gu Zhongru in "Secret Drawings". Since then, he has also participated in the creation of some films, but unfortunately it has not been presented to the audience.
In 1966, mountain rain struck. In that campaign, Liu Jiyun was treated unfairly. By this time he was already an old man over half a hundred years old. Their family of three was driven to a row of simple houses under the western wall of the Bayi Factory. It was dark and damp, which made Liu Jiyun's sickly body even worse.
At that time, he was constantly asked to write material and confess his crimes. Coupled with the fact that he himself suffered from emphysema, his asthma became more and more severe, and sometimes he even lost his breath. On June 24, 1971, the old man finally died of ineffective treatment for emphysema at the age of 60.
During his lifetime, he wrote many "performance notes" and "character observation diaries", but these materials disappeared inexplicably. It's a pity.
According to Gao Baocheng, an old actor at Bayi Factory, Liu Jiyun was kind and kind in life and handled things fairly. Whether it is in the Bayi Factory or in the film crew, he can mingle with everyone. But in terms of artistic creation, he is extremely rigorous, and once he enters the role, he strictly prohibits discordant fighting and laughter around him.
I think that's why he left so many shining screen images for us, right? The villain he plays, a bad stomach, but it is hidden deeply. Sometimes a look can make the audience feel a murderous breath. And the old man he played was so simple, kind and upright, and he grasped it just right, showing his superb acting skills.
Today, when we talk about Liu Jiyun as a good actor again, I believe that in front of everyone's eyes, there must be many roles he has played before, right? Why can the performances of old actors stand the test of time and years? I think the most important reason is that the old actors are good at observing, good at thinking, and the creative attitude is very serious, so that the characters created have flesh and blood, and there are traces to follow. You think, yes or no?
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