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"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

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"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

Recently, there has been a phenomenon of cultural return, and some film and television dramas in the early years have been revived. Born in the early 80s, "Wrangler" is one of them.

"Wrangler" is a classic of the century, which was filmed in 1982 by the famous director Xie Jin based on Zhang Xianliang's novel "Spirit and Flesh".

The humanity cultivated in the scars shines with a simple light, and the grassland and herders are Xu Lingjun's totem, from the initial inadmissibility to the later inseparable.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

Full of descriptions of human nature, Li Xiuzhi, a Sichuan girl, is the flesh of Xu Lingjun in the difficult years, and it is also his soul.

The experience of suffering and coexistence and the run-in against wind and rain have made the couple's lives come together. Love resisted the temptation that was not a temptation, and Xu Lingjun finally refused the request of his father Xu Jingyou, and did not go to the United States, but in the land where he was already affectionately attached.

Xu Lingjun hugged and kept his wife and children together.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

The birth of "Wrangler" was not smooth, and the original author Zhang Xianliang felt that the film must not express the original intention of the work and refused to adapt. And the script also involves some other factors, under the efforts of director Xie Jin, it was not easy to put on the screen.

The shooting process was also very difficult. The scene requirements, the film was completed in Gansu and Beijing respectively.

With the efforts of many parties, "Wrangler" not only successfully broadcast, but also won the "Golden Rooster Award" Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing Award, "Hundred Flowers Award" Best Feature Film, Best Supporting Actor Award, and Ministry of Culture Excellent Film Award.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

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Zhu Shimao was born in 1954 in Yantai, Shandong. He did not get to college, and he began his life as a literary soldier. As an actor in the Fujian Military Region Repertory Theatre, he has shown his talent for acting from the beginning, and he has performed a famous performance in a "Xisha Children".

It is said that the two films, including "Wrangler", are classics, and Zhu Shimao's luck has come, and his career has been highlighted in a short period of time.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

Later, Zhu Shimao's identity was an actor at bayi Film Studio. Until 1990, he transferred to the China Broadcasting Art Troupe.

In fact, the main stage familiar to Zhu Shimao for the majority of audiences is the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV. In the mid-1980s, he collaborated with Chen Peisi on countless sketches that audiences loved, such as "The Policeman and the Thief" and "Protagonist and Supporting Role", which performed with excellent results and became the most brilliant work since the era of sketches, and laughter has continued to this day.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

The sketches cooperated by Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi were widely respected later and became the classics of the times.

On the issue of marriage and family, Zhu Shimao had a breeze, and his wife was playing with a big green plum bamboo horse from childhood, and the two had a high degree of trust and never had any displeasure.

His son, Zhu Qingyang, once studied in the United States, once appeared on the stage. The family is happy.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

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Li Xiuzhi in "Wrangler" is a girl who escapes the wilderness and meets Xu Lingjun at the Shulechuan Ranch, which makes a poignant love story.

In particular, on the eve of Xu Lingjun's invitation to the United States, the beauty of human nature in life and death made people tear up.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

As an older generation actress, Cong Shan's acting skills are highly praised. Many of the crying scenes in "Wrangler" Cong Shan are basically emotional brewing to natural tears.

Don't forget that Cong Shan was only a freshman at that time.

Xie Jin selected Cong Shan to participate in the filming of "Wrangler", but the school did not let people go, if it were not for director Xie Jin's insistence, I am afraid that the later Li Xiuzhi would be someone else.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

Cong Shan was born in Beijing in 1962 to kunqu opera masters. She is from a scientific class and works in the China Youth Art Theatre.

At that time, the theater management was still relatively strict, and the actors were not allowed to go out to take over the film without authorization, and Cong Shan was once very depressed because of the film.

In 1987, cong Shan decided to leave the film industry and study in France when her career was booming, her popularity was exuberant, and she was at her most popular.

In France, she met Shi Liang, who developed in the film and television circle, and began an exotic relationship until she entered marriage and gave birth to a son.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

However, this marriage in a hurried environment did not last long, and in 1996, Cong Shan and Shi Liang divorced.

Dreaming of a foreign country, Cong Shan took her son back to Beijing. Married to director Xiao Feng, At this time, Cong Shan's film specially took children until his son became an adult.

Now Cong Shan and Xiao Feng have a stable life, and in the later stage, she came out to take on several plays, such as "Who Decides My Youth", etc., to make some money, let go of the wind, and be comfortable.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

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The character of Guo Zi is a warm-hearted herdsman, a role we often see to assist the protagonist in fulfilling any dream. He helped Xu Lingjun openly and secretly.

The actor, Niu Ben, was born in Tianjin in 1935. It belongs to the kind of situation where the family is poor, there are many children, and the parents are not in good health. Niu Ben was brought to Beijing by his brother to live at a young age.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

My brother's job was as a film studio driver, so Niu Ben had the opportunity to contact some famous actors, which was a bit of a clever ghost. It's very popular.

Later, the famous actor Xie Tian recommended him to play a small village boy in an anti-Japanese drama and began his acting path. Stumbled all the way to the Shanghai Film Studio as a full-time actor.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

"405 Murder" and "Sunrise" are classics that Mr. Niu Ben participated in, and won the "Golden Rooster Award" and "Hundred Flowers Award" Best Supporting Actor Award.

Until now, the 86-year-old actor Niu Ben has still not completely disappeared, and has more than 150 works in his lifetime.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

Wang Huiling, the wife who met because of playing table tennis, the two have walked hand in hand for more than 60 years, and in 2019, her wife died and she had two sons.

Nowadays, the life of the cow beng teacher in his later years is very normal and comfortable, and he still works from time to time.

"Wrangler" 40 years, Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan, Niu Ben 3 starring different lives

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Flowing golden years, a life of tranquility. In the blink of an eye, 40 years have passed since the classic "Wrangler", and the protagonists' lives are also diverse and quiet. Looking at it again, there is a feeling that life is bleak. Let us find the good, the memory is good, the memory is beautiful, and we must cherish the beautiful.

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