Promotional poster for Wrangler.
In 1982, the famous director Xie Jin's film "Wrangler" adapted from Zhang Xianliang's ** "Spirit and Flesh" immediately aroused widespread attention and repercussions after its national release.
In that period, a movie grossed only a dime, but the film made 1200 million box office revenue, which is almost equivalent to the audience across the country has ** once.
In addition, after the film was broadcast that year, it also won the Outstanding Feature Film Award issued by the Ministry of Culture in 1982 and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Feature Film in 1983.
At the same time, the main actors involved in the film also quickly rose to prominence and became very popular movie stars at the time. Forty years have passed, and the performances of the main actors in the film are breathtaking. Some died young, some suffered a collapse in their old age, and some were jealous of others after becoming famous, and their fate was full of ups and downs.
About the stills display of Zhu Shimao and "Xu Lingjun".
01 Xu Lingjun is played by Zhu Shimao, he is a male god in the minds of many people, but his scandals in his later years have been constant.
Born in 1954 in Yantai, Shandong Province, Zhu Shimao is a well-known film and television actor, sketch performer and director.
Before participating in the performance of "Wrangler", he already had a lot of popularity in the entertainment industry, and he played the leading role named "Xu Lingjun" in the play.
Zhu Shimao was only 27 years old at the time, although he did not win many awards for playing the role of "Xu Lingjun", he won the love of a large number of audiences and became Cong Shan's confidante in his life.
In the play, Xu Lingjun was originally the eldest grandson of the big family Xu, he was born in a prosperous Zhongming Ding Food family, his life was destined to live a luxurious life and enjoy wealth, but such a family brought him endless suffering, making him commit the "birth sin".
When he was only 11 years old, his father, Xu Jingyou, could no longer endure the pain of arranged marriages under the feudal system. In pursuit of true love and freedom, he chose to leave his wife and children behind and go straight to the United States;
His mother died of illness in the hospital four days after his father's death, which caused Xu Lingjun to grow up alone.
In that particular era, Xu Lingjun was unfairly treated and sent to work in the Northwest Ranch, when he felt lonely and hopeless, and considered ending his life.
Despite this, he eventually survived tenaciously, and thanks to the pure natural environment, the industrious Tao Yi, and the warmth of the simple and kind herdsmen, he found the true meaning of survival.
One day, Guo Zi suddenly rushed in ecstatically, with a twinkle in his eyes:
Lao Xu, whether you want a wife or not, as long as you can say Chrysostom, I will send it to you later.
Obviously, Xu Lingjun was used to their jokes, so he smiled and proposed: "Then you can send it over." ”
Unexpectedly, Guo Zi really brought a beautiful woman to his dilapidated house.
Xu Lingjun looked a little overwhelmed, he originally thought it was just a joke.
He never expected that in his life, he would meet a girl who trusted him so much and would not dislike him, it was really an unreal experience.
But in fact, he and her came together, became a couple who shared hardships and hardships, and had a son, Qingqing, who formed a happy family of three and weaved an enviable eternal love story.
As he said after confirming Xiuzhi's feelings:
Suddenly, I met such a kind-hearted person, as if after years of waiting, I finally came to her side, and she didn't feel any strangeness to me, as if she had also been waiting for me for years.
Therefore, when faced with the request of his father Xu Jingyou, who had abandoned him and returned to find him to inherit hundreds of millions of assets, Xu Lingjun chose to refuse.
More than money, he cherishes and commemorates the motherland, the land he has cultivated with sweat, and the relatives who have shared his weal and grass with him on this land, and his wife and children who support each other.
Xu Lingjun's perseverance and determination deeply touched his father. Therefore, Xu Jingyou decided not to force his son to go with him, and hoped that Lingjun could buy a cemetery for him on the mainland, and he hoped that he would return to his homeland for burial after his death.
After saying goodbye to his father, Xu Lingjun returned to the land and returned to his wife and children.
Through the work "Wrangler", Zhu Shimao has become the ideal partner in the hearts of many people, and his career has also reached a new peak.
In 1983, Zhu Shimao was transferred to the actors' troupe of Bayi Film Studio, and then the following year, he and Chen Peisi performed the sketch "Eating Noodles" at the Spring Festival Gala, which was hailed as a classic on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Later, Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi formed a pair of "perfect match" partners, and they also participated in the filming of many works such as "Making Movies", "Lamb Skewers", "Protagonist and Supporting Roles" and "Police and Thieves", which are still talked about today.
But as time went by, he chose the path of directing, and his cooperation with Chen Peisi became less and less.
As a director, he directed films such as "Quit Smoking and Don't Quit Drinking" and "Love Don't Ng", but their response was not significant;
In recent years, as an actor, he has occasionally made cameo roles in some film and television productions. For example, in the 2021 TV series "North and South" directed by Feng Xiaogang, he had a twilight love conversation with Liu Xiaoqing, thus winning the audience's recognition again.
In terms of feelings, Zhu Shimao, like Xu Lingjun in the play, also has a happy family of three.
He and his wife, Fan Xuxia, were both recruited from Yantai, Shandong Province to the Fuzhou Military Region Repertory Troupe in the same year, when one of them was 15 years old and the other was 13 years old, so it can be said that they were friends who grew up together.
Before participating in the filming of "Wrangler", they had already entered the palace of marriage.
In 1992, Zhu Shimao and his wife brought their son Zhu Qingyang to them. Subsequently, Zhu Qingyang went to the United States for further study, while his mother Fan Xuxia also chose to go abroad to study, while Zhu Shimao chose to stay in China to pursue his career dream.
Zhu Shimao's family consists of three members.
During this time, the couple lived apart for up to eight years, during which there were no problems in their relationship, and Zhu Shimao was not involved in any scandals.
However, as he was about to enter the era of ear obedience, rumors swirled and it was suspected that it might lead to the collapse of the house.
In 2012, Zhu Shimao** caught an intimate act with a young woman in an underground garage, but he clarified it with a hug as a reason to say goodbye.
Five years later, however, at the age of 63, he was once again caught showing intimate interactions with young women in the car.
After this ** was made public, it once again aroused heated discussions among netizens. Some people even compared the two of them in order to confirm that the woman was indeed his wife, Fan Xuxia, but the results did not show any similarity.
In the face of this incident, Zhu Shimao strongly condemned some **, believing that they were fabricated out of thin air and did not care about the truth of the matter.
Despite some clarifications, the good reputation he had previously established in Wrangler was still seriously damaged.
02 The role of Xu Jing is played by Liu Qiong, who has been dead for many years.
A still from Liu Qiong's work "Wrangler" is shown.
When Liu Qiong participated in the performance of "Wrangler", he was already in his seventies, and in the play, the character he played Xu Jingyou was actually Xu Lingjun's father.
Although he behaves very irresponsibly in the play, he has given up his wife and children for thirty years in pursuit of freedom and love, however, he really impresses me with his handsomeness, although he is over seventy years old, his figure is still very upright, and the most attractive thing is the elegance he exudes, and there is no sign of old age at all.
This may have something to do with what he experienced when he was younger.
Young Liu Qiong.
Liu Qiong was born in Xiangyin, Hunan Province in 1912, and her real name is Liu Boyao.
Liu Qiong originally had a background in law, but she had a strong interest in film art since she was a child. While in college, she co-founded an organization called the Spring and Autumn Opera Club with her classmates. Although she has not yet finished her studies, she joined Lianhua Pictures and became an actress on the recommendation of the well-known actor Jin Yan.
In the thirties and forties of the 20th century, Liu Qiong quickly rose to prominence and became a hot student in the film industry because of her outstanding performance in many film and television works such as "Wu Song and Pan Jinlian", "Gone with the Wind", "Life and Death", "Gold and Silver World" and "Du Shi Niang".
After the fifties, she participated in the filming of many films such as "Women's Basketball No. 5", "Sea Soul", "Ode to Youth" and "Square Hat", and thus became a well-known movie star.
Liu Qiong has devoted her life to the film industry. After 1956, he also took on the role of director, successfully directing many films such as "The Woman Attached to the Horse", "Master Qiao Gets on the Sedan Chair", "No. 51 Military Station", "Ashima" and "Li Huiniang (Peking Opera)", and played a key role in many excellent films.
He was in his seventies when he performed Wrangler, and although many of his contemporaries had chosen to retire, he never stopped.
After "Wrangler", he also starred in several films and won the Special Award for Performance at the Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award for his outstanding performance in "Death and the Maiden" and his half-century artistic career, establishing his status as a true performance artist.
In her love life, Liu Qiong experienced an unsatisfactory marriage, her ex-wife Yan Fei was a founding actor of Tianjin People's Art Theater, she is not only good at singing and dancing, but also very good at acting.
Liu Qiong is with her ex-wife Yan Fei.
Liu Qiong and her mother originally loved each other deeply, but then Liu Qiong was plagued by scandals, coupled with the fact that they had no children for a long time after they got married, which made Liu Qiong's mother very dissatisfied. Although Liu Qiong is the only son in the family, she is very filial to her parents.
Under the influence of many pressures, they reached a divorce settlement in 1946.
Subsequently, in the stage performance, Liu Qiong and Di Fan became attached and had a pair of daughters, and the two spent more than half a century together through thick and thin.
Until 2002, Liu Qiong died in Shanghai due to ineffective lung cancer**, leaving 85-year-old Di Fan alone in the world. On May 19, 2012, ten years after Liu Qiong's death, Di Fan also said goodbye to this world and went to heaven to reunite with her husband.
The last photo of Liu Qiong and Di Fan was taken in 2002.
03 Li Xiuzhi is played by Cong Shan, she was jealous of everyone after becoming famous and experienced many ups and downs, but after remarrying, she found true happiness.
A still from Cong Shan's work "Wrangler".
Li Xiuzhi is a rural girl who fled the famine in Sichuan and came to the pasture of Eilechuan. Initially, she came here to seek refuge because of a marriage arrangement, but unexpectedly, her partner died in an accident.
Here, she was alone, unable to find a place to live. The kind-hearted Guo Zi took her to Xu Lingjun's dilapidated cottage and married her, and their love story is marriage first and love later, weaving a touching love story.
Frankly speaking, a young woman like Li Xiuzhi, no matter who she marries, can live a happy life. Not only does she have the qualities of being kind, intelligent, and hardworking, but her style of conduct is also frank, wise, and optimistic, and she doesn't complain or blame others.
Although she married Xu Ling, who was fifteen years her senior, when she was youngest, she did not complain or accept fate, but deeply trusted her husband and hoped that they would have a good life.
Before Xu Lingjun married Xiuzhi, his dilapidated little house had lost its vitality. But when Xiuzhi left, she completely renovated his house, planted the yard with trees, flowers, and chickens, ducks, and pigeons, creating a lively scene.
Xu Lingjun was both surprised and surprised by the talent displayed by Xiuzhi, and her optimism and positive attitude deeply influenced him.
As time passed, they welcomed a new son, Xiao Qingqing, who brought more joy to this warm and happy family. Xiuzhi firmly believes that not only will there be bread, but also milk, and their lives will be better.
Compared with his father Xu Jingyou, who has many factories and huge assets in the United States, Xu Lingjun seems more fortunate and happy. In terms of wealth, his father is a billionaire, but in his love life, he has nothing. However, in Xu Lingjun's life, there is a good wife who shares his ups and downs and has deep affection.
Li Xiuzhi shows many beautiful traits that women should learn. It is because of this role that Cong Shan was nominated for Best Actress at the Golden Rooster Award and won first place in the "Top 10 Favorite Youth Screen Images" list of "China Youth Daily".
Wrangler marked the beginning of Cong Shan's film career. At that time, she was only nineteen years old and had just entered the first year of undergraduate studies in the acting department of the ** Drama Academy. She was fortunate enough to play the role of "Li Xiuzhi", which made her quickly popular.
Despite her fame, it did not make it smooth sailing for her, on the contrary, her fame made her life path full of ups and downs.
First of all, he was jealous of his classmates at school, ostracized and isolated by others, and worse, bullied at school.
Cong Shan in the early days.
After learning of Cong Shan's condition, Director Xie planned to assist Cong Shan to go to Beijing Film Studio, but Cong Shan, who had not yet finished her studies, politely declined, hoping to complete her studies first.
As a result, she chose to stay in school and endure stress alone, and the long period of psychological depression caused her to gradually fall into depression, and eventually she had to rely on drugs to survive her college graduation days.
In 1984, Cong Shan was assigned to work at the China Youth Art Theater.
Initially, Cong Shan thought that she had finally seen the dawn of hope and was expected to shine on TV, but as soon as she joined the work unit, she was summoned by the director, who advised her not to be too proud and start with a supporting role.
Cong Shan has been an obedient girl since she was a child, and in the face of her superiors' "dismounting", she had to obediently agree, and then she would seriously do her supporting role, and after a while, she finally ushered in her first leading role after graduation.
At that time, director Huang Jianzhong was preparing to shoot "Women from a Good Family", he found Cong Shan and asked: "Yu Xingxian, I specially left the heroine for you in "Women from a Good Family", are you free?”
Cong Shan was ecstatic because she had a lot of free time, but when she decided to report to the leader, the leader was adamantly opposed.
In the end, it was director Huang Jianzhong who personally intervened and won her this rare opportunity. However, because she was regarded as a negative teaching material in the unit, with a sense of yin and yang, it also made her colleagues in the unit stay away from her.
What's even more infuriating is that after Cong Shan completed the filming of "Women from a Good Family", she was also asked by her superiors to write a review report, and was paid 300 yuan as a filming fee for her unit.
When director Huang Jianzhong learned what Cong Shan had experienced, he offered to help her transfer to Beijing Film Studio, but Cong Shan rejected his kindness.
Due to too many rumors, she didn't have the courage to accept the director's kindness, so she could only play a supporting role in her own work unit in the end.
She had thought that patience would bring temporary peace, but Cong Shan's patience and concession did not bring her true peace. Two years later, she chose to go abroad to study acting, not wanting to provoke or hide.
While studying abroad, Cong Shan will also participate in some film and television roles, and earn some living expenses by doing small roles.
Unexpectedly, they meet Shi Liang while running. These two like-minded people meet in a strange country and quickly develop a deep affection. Later, they entered the palace of marriage and welcomed their son Woody in 1995.
Cong Shan has gone from a world of only two people to a happy family of three, and she thinks she has finally found true happiness and has a stable home.
Shi Liang is a person who regards art as supreme. After becoming a father, he still focused on the art he loved, leaving Cong Shan to take on the responsibility of supporting his family alone. This made her feel very depressed, and Shi Liang, as her husband, found it difficult to understand this.
Therefore, Cong Shan, who was accustomed to "escaping", ended her marriage with Shi Liang in 1996 and returned to her homeland with a child who was less than a year old.
After that, Cong Shan and director Xiao Feng entered the palace of marriage again, and Xiao Feng was full of doting on Cong Shan. Although the two did not have children after marriage, he always regarded Woody as his biological son, and Cong Shan was at home for a while to take care of her children.
Sometimes, when she feels happy or has a great role, she also chooses to participate in the shooting, and when she is not afraid, she will quietly become the little woman behind Xiao Feng.
Today, Cong Shan's children are adults, and the relationship between her and Xiao Feng is still the same, despite many difficulties and marriage breakdowns after becoming famous, Cong Shan finally found true happiness in the process of remarriage.
Cong Shan's close proximity**.
04 Qingqing is played by Fang Chao, and her height limits her further development.
A still from Fang Chao's work "Wrangler".
In the work "Wrangler", in addition to the hero and heroine, there is also a high-profile small role, that is, the crystallization of the love between Xu Lingjun and Li Xiuzhi - Xiao Qingqing, this role is played by the famous child star Fang Chao.
Fang Chao was not yet six years old when he played this role, and forty years later, he has entered middle age, and the audience no longer sees him on the screen, but pays more attention to his future direction.
In fact, before playing the role of "Xiao Qingqing", Fang Chao's popularity was already relatively high, and it can be said that his popularity at that time even exceeded that of Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan, who played the role of his parents.
Fang Chao was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province in 1976, he has shown a cute appearance since he was a child, and his big round eyes exude a mysterious charm.
When Fang Chao was only three years old, he was famous for his role in the movie "Ah!" directed by Xie JinCradle" played the role of a college student and became famous.
Subsequently, he played Lin Yao's childhood in the movie "Bitter Fruit", played Qingqing in "Wrangler", played Bingbing in "Spring Water Dingdong" starring Zhang Ruifang, played Dongdong in "Under the Bridge", and also played Xiao Jiya in "Love on the Hump" starring Siqin Gaowa.
Fang Chao is undoubtedly the most popular child star in the 80s, and the mother-son roles in the movie are all top stars with him.
Fang Chao is not only flattering, but his acting skills are also quite good, he often shows his talent in front of the camera, and cooperates with many top actors, which is why his ** is often published in "Popular Film" magazine.
Since the nineties, although Fang Chao is already a teenager, he is still widely loved. He has performed well in many works such as "The Story of the Panda", "The Bell of Qingliang Temple", "Under the Century Bridge", "The Remnant Sun is Like Blood", "People on the Edge of the City", "The Battle of Jinan" and "New Fang Shiyu".
However, as he grew older, Fang Chao realized that the theatrical opportunities he could accept were gradually decreasing. When he intended to take the exam, on the one hand, he was denied admission to the Beijing Film Academy twice due to his substandard cultural scores, and on the other hand, due to height restrictions.
Fang Chao later chose the Shanghai Film Factory, the venue that once inspired his dream to take off, where he worked hard and looked for more development opportunities.
In this place, he met a new nobleman. At that time, he was working as a waiter in a noodle restaurant, and actor Shao Feng, who became famous for his role in "Boys and Girls", once happened to walk into the noodle restaurant where he worked to enjoy noodles.
Shao Feng looked at the waiter in front of him, his thumb was almost sticking into the soup, and when he was about to get angry, he looked up and saw that it was Fang Chao, a child star who had been in the limelight.
At that particular moment, Shao Feng's heart was filled with unspeakable pain. Whenever he has the opportunity, he will recommend Fang Chao to the major crews, which is why he re-entered the entertainment industry.
If the unsatisfactory career is only short-lived, as long as you put in the effort, there are still opportunities, but losing your parents means losing everything.
In a very short period of time, Fang Chao's parents left him one after another, he couldn't accept this cruel reality, and once fell into deep grief and couldn't extricate himself.
Luckily, he had a group of close friends by his side who helped him get out of his sad mood.
Subsequently, Fang Chao decided to start behind the scenes, he participated in the production of the two dramas "Hukou" and "Growing Up**" as a producer, and successfully directed many works such as "Thirty-Nine Degrees of Youth" under the role of director.
Fang Chao's recent **.
Compared with the past, Fang Chao, who is now forty-six, has undergone earth-shaking changes in appearance.
His countenance has lost its former innocence and cuteness, and instead appears more mature and stylish, and after dyeing his gray hair on the set, he is actually in quite good shape.
Although the glory of the past no longer exists, but from the state of Fang Chao, we can still feel his happiness, when people enter middle age, due to various factors may not be able to shine on the screen, but behind the screen to guide and help others to pursue their dreams, it is indeed a very lucky thing.
Although "Wrangler" has gone through forty years, in the passage of time, it is still regarded as a classic by the audience, and every ** will be deeply touched by it.
Over the past four decades, the show's protagonists have undergone a radical transformation. Some of them have lost their good reputation in their later years, some have suffered misfortunes after becoming famous, some have passed away, and some have been limited because of their height.
As Plato described:
The world is so imperfect that you have to lose what you want to gain. ”
Although their lives may not have been flawless, the image of perfection they portrayed in drama has become an enduring classic. It's enough that the viewer occasionally flips through these works and is still touched by the core spirit of Wrangler.
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