This is obviously a good actor of Bayi Factory who is often ignored and forgotten by the majority of fans.
Probably because he always plays supporting roles in movies, we rarely mention him when we talk about those classic old movies of Bayi Factory in the past.
But his performance in those films also has a lot of remarkable.
For example, in the first feature film "Breaking Through the Darkness Before Dawn" filmed at Bayi Factory, he played the liaison officer of the village, and the first scene was to bang the gong, along the village street, shouting as he walked: Fellow villagers, the imperial army is coming, assemble at the entrance of the village, repair the artillery building, repair the car road... When the villagers heard this, they scattered and fled.
I noticed that his performance state is very natural and relaxed, coupled with his unpretentious temperament, wearing the clothes of local people and mixing in the crowd, it can simply have the effect of fake reality. The audience thought he was a local villager.
In the next scene, the Japanese army and the crooked neck Li came to Li Daniang's house to search and found the injured Eighth Route Army Yan Zhigang. In order to find out Yan Zhigang's identity, Crooked Neck Li called the village liaison officer. I saw him nodding and bowing in front of the ghost, but when the ghost asked for the key information, he covered without changing his face. "Oh, he, great good citizen, coolie work... Hey, hey".
Then he closed the curtain of the house. Cleverly avoided the head-on contact between the devil and Yan Zhigang.
This scene was played by him very interestingly. In the same frame as him, there is also Liu Jiyun, an old drama bone of Bayi Factory, who is very familiar and loved by everyone, known for his superb acting skills, and played the crooked neck Li in "Through the Darkness Before Dawn". But if we taste it carefully, we will find that his acting skills are comparable to Liu Jiyun. The liaison he plays is false and deceitful in front of the devil, but in front of the lackey of Crooked Neck Li, he is neither humble nor promiscuous.
In the classic old movie "Heroic Tiger Guts" of Bayi Factory, which we have also seen countless times, he also starred, and the role he played was the old hunter who assisted Zeng Tai played by Yu Yang to complete the reconnaissance mission.
This time, looking at his character appearance, and the liaison in "Through the Darkness Before Dawn", it is almost the same as the two. And his performance state is completely different. The weather-beaten old hunter, the vigilance and sensitivity hidden in his eyes were very different from the wind-seeing rudder and the all-faced liaison.
There is also Song Xueyi in "Five Heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain", an introverted and even a little shy little soldier of the Eighth Route Army, who was also portrayed by him as vivid and lifelike.
In these films, he presents skilled acting skills and a broad drama path, which is described by the four words "what is acting", which is no exaggeration.
Among the group of "hard lizi" actors in Bayi Factory, he is definitely famous.
But compared with Liu Jiyun, Gao Baocheng and other old comrades-in-arms, he has always been unknown.
This probably has something to do with the fact that he has not participated in many movies. It is also related to the fact that he always plays an inconspicuous supporting role.
But why?
Is it that he doesn't get many opportunities to show? Or is it not being reused?
Neither actually.
Because he has held the leadership position of the Bayi Factory Actors Troupe for a long time. In the distribution of actors and roles, there will naturally be a certain priority.
However, he gave up more good roles that were easy to excel to other actors, and left some corner tricks to himself.
The old actor I am talking about is Li Li, another good actor in the former Bayi Factory, who is not popular.
He is an old cadre of the "38th style".
He was born in November 1923 in Hongdong County, Shanxi. In 1938, at the age of 15, he joined the revolution. He first worked in the Shanxi Provincial Working Group on Women and Children, and then entered the political training class of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Because of his literary talent, he became an actor in the "Lü Liang Troupe".
At that time, actors not only had to act on stage, but also needed to participate in battles. In 1941, when 18-year-old Li Li went to Yan'an to participate in the "Military Art Academy", he participated in the battle to defend Yan'an, and was awarded the "Independent Merit Medal" for his brave and fearless performance.
Later, we saw Song Xueyi, played by Li Li, in "Five Heroes of Wolf Tooth Mountain", which was so vivid and realistic. I think this is largely inseparable from his personal experience and training in the army. He himself has experienced the baptism of gunfire and smoke, and is a true hero who is not afraid of life and death. That's why he plays a hero on the screen, so he will be so successful.
In 1942, Li Li, who performed well, was transferred to the "Combat Drama Club" of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army as an actor. This "Battle Drama Club" had only 6 people at that time, so it was also called "6-person Drama Club". But these six people basically became old artists with outstanding achievements and fruits.
For example, Zhu Danxi became a screenwriter and created scripts such as "Long Sky Wings" and "The Dawn of the Menghe", Meng Guibin became a singer and sang songs such as "Farewell" and "Singing Erlang Mountain", Wang Yan became a director and directed works such as "Independent Brigade" and "From Slave to General", while Gao Baocheng and Li Li both became professional film actors in Bayi Factory.
After the founding of New China, Li Li first served as a deputy captain in the drama team of the Lanzhou Military Region's Combat Literary Troupe, and then transferred to the General Political Literary Troupe as a sub-captain in 1953. In October 1956, the Bayi Factory Actors Troupe was established, and Li Li was appointed deputy director. However, because the actor's troupe did not have a full director for six years from 1956 to 1962, Li Li was actually the deputy acting as the director.
But what he didn't expect was that he would stay in this position for 15 years. The head of the troupe was changed from Meng Hao in 1962 to Gong Jiemin in 1966, but Li Li was always the deputy director.
During this period, he also participated in some films, but more often he was engaged in administrative work, serving actors such as Tian Hua, Wang Xingang and Wang Xiaotang of the troupe. And in the arrangement of roles, he never took advantage of his position to pick good roles for himself, but always played some secondary supporting roles that were easily ignored by the audience.
For example, the liaison in "Breaking Through the Darkness Before Dawn", Wang Tai in "Five More Cold", the old hunter in "Heroic Tiger Guts", the old horse in "Never Dying Airwaves", the colonel staff officer in "Hero Island", and Zhang Dashan in "Lin Hai Xueyuan" are all characters with few scenes.
But the characters he played still remain in our minds.
Li Li's role in the two films shot at Bayi Factory in the mid-60s impressed us even more.
One of them is the role of Li Hua in the anti-special film "Secret Drawings" starring Tian Hua and Wang Xingang.
Li Hua is a scientific worker, because of his carelessness, the secret drawings he carries with him are transferred by special agents, and the story begins.
In fact, Li Li does not have many scenes in the film, but his performance is quite calm. The feeling of the characters is also very correct, and the identity information and personality characteristics of the characters are vividly displayed in the limited shots.
Another role is Feng Renyi in "Bitter Cauliflower" directed by Li Ang. This time, Li Li is playing a couple with Qu Yun, a famous old Dan actor of Bayi Factory. The two cooperate tacitly. In the film, Feng Renyi only appears in Feng Daniang's memories, and there are only two scenes. One scene is that Feng Renyi was plundered by the bully landlord because his land was plundered, so he went to the door to reason, but was knocked to the ground by the landlord.
Another scene is Feng Renyi being forced to die by the landlord. Before he died, he said to his wife and son, "Gun, gun!" "It means that to take revenge, to turn over, you must have the barrel of a gun in your hand.
Although there are only two scenes, they play a decisive role in the development of the plot. And these two scenes are very testing the skills of the actors. A little overheating or force, will make the performance appear false, and will also steal the limelight of the protagonist. But if the play can't come out, it will directly affect the establishment of the character.
But we look at Li Yi's performance in "Bitter Cauliflower", forbearing, subtle, very heartfelt, especially the grasp of the characters' emotions and complex inner feelings is very accurate. In just a few minutes, the role of Feng Renyi stood on the screen.
Today, when I have seen several roles created by Li Li on the screen, I am deeply impressed by his ability to "change". He is a peasant who is good at improvisation, a hunter with a keen sense of smell, a brave and fearless Eighth Route Army at one time, and a polite engineer at the next.
He is the kind of good actor who "changes his face" every time he plays a new role. The so-called "drama throwing face", I want to talk about him, right?
But the biggest difference between such actors and stars is that they often make the audience remember the role, but ignore the actor himself.
Therefore, Li Li has also acted in so many movies in Bayi Factory, but he has always played good people and not popular, not for nothing.
In the special year of 1966, Li Li ceased to serve as the leader of the Bayi Factory Actors Troupe. And he has not continued to appear on the screen since then. Some people say that he later returned to the General Political and Cultural Labor Corps, but this information has not been confirmed.
The only information we know is that he died in September 1992 at the age of 69. It is also silent.
Later, we saw many reports about the actors of Bayi Factory, but very little about Li Li. This is undoubtedly a regrettable thing. Therefore, I hope that today's introduction and the pictures and texts presented to you can evoke everyone's long-lost memories and have more knowledge and understanding of this "green leaf" on the screen in the past.
So, at this moment, do you also recall the many roles that Li Li has played? Which one is the most memorable? Next, we will give the time to more friends who like to watch old movies, and welcome everyone to communicate and communicate with more fans through the message area.
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