After the reform and opening up, the audience's demand for movies has been increasing day by day, and the opening of the market has allowed many directors to start gearing up again and prepare for a big fight.
At this time, the director Xie Jin is in the flourishing period of creation. He desperately needs a perfect girl to play Wang Zhaojun in his movie. This girl must have a bookish look, everyone is pretty, and she must be proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and calligraphy, and she must be young enough.
Such girls can only appear in in play or nortel . At that time, Xie Jin selected and Lv Liping_span_span and after a long selection. candidate.
Stepping into the North Latitude Hotel, Cong Shan looked a little nervous. This is the first time she has met with such an influential director. This kind of occasion seemed somewhat serious, and Xie Jin was also very experienced. Seeing the two girls was a little cautious. , He took the initiative to open the conversation box, and first chatted with them about school life, the usual hobbies, the parents were short, until the two girls began to relax, Xie Jin began to enter the subject.
The two little girls gave Xie Jin live performances. Xie Jin was very satisfied and asked them to go back and wait for the results. In the end, Cong Shan won the competition with Lv Liping and got Xie Jin's. Favor.
There was actually an episode on the day I received the call. Originally, Cong Shan was chosen as Wang Zhaojun, but the film failed to make it. Xie Jin clearly told her: "The movie still has to be made, and you still have to It works, but "Wang Zhaojun" has become " Wrangler".
This is a very sensational movie in the early 1980s. It became popular with Cong Shan as well as Zhu Shimao , who played an opponent with her.
Before this, Cong Shan never thought that she could cooperate with such a heavyweight director when she was a student. You must know that before she was admitted to the middle school, everyone around her, including her parents, was not optimistic about her choice. Although she was born in a literary family and was influenced by her parents since she was a child, this child is too shy and not good at expressing herself. Her parents felt that she was not suitable for her career as an actress.
However, the introverted Cong Shan is very assertive. No one can stop the things she believes. For this reason, she and her parents often have fierce disputes. In the end, under the helpless compromise of her parents, Cong Shan Admitted to the Chinese opera.
Before the shooting of "The Wrangler", Cong Shan also encountered a lot of resistance, because there was a clear stipulation in the Chinese drama at that time that freshmen and sophomores were not allowed to leave the campus to film outside. Cong Shan's request was rejected. Just as she was at a loss, Xie Jin went out in person and asked the principal Jin Shan to ask him to give Cong Shan a green light.
The principal Jinshan meant that young actors are learning their skills, and they are all just a blank sheet of paper. If you let them go out to pick up the show now, let them appear brightly in front of the screen, let They have gained everything, so how can they settle down to learn and practice? To improve yourself?
And Xie Jin means that we need a pure girl, a girl with no acting experience, acting skills can be practiced later, but a girl’s 19 years old is only this year, a girl There are only so few years of youth and innocence. What we need is a 19-year-old Cong Shan with no acting skills, not a 24-year-old Cong Shan with superb acting skills.
The principal was finally persuaded. For the first time, Cong Shan made an exception for Cong Shan. After all, it was Xie Jin. His face is still to be given, which is related to the whole of China. The development of the film industry.
Cong Shan naturally did not live up to Xie Jin’s guidance. She went to the crew to prepare in advance, read the script, and entered the role. Sometimes Cong Shan could walk up to 20 times, eat on the set, and live in the film. During that time, she The actors and other staff on the set have become relatives, like a family, where is the filming, everyone is simply living together.
After a full eight-month filming cycle, the movie "The Wrangler" was finally released successfully. The audience response was very good. The film finally set a box office record of 120 million yuan. Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan also He became a veritable "public lover" at the time.
At that time, Zhu Shimao had to wear sunglasses when he went out, and Cong Shan had to receive a thick stack of love letters from all over the country every day.
The success achieved in society makes her more distinctive on campus. The eyes of her classmates have changed. She seems to have surpassed this class, and even the teacher will treat her more High demands. Once she was late for school and was severely criticized by the teacher. The teacher’s attitude towards her made her a little puzzled. The teacher’s explanation was: “You are different from them. In this class, everyone can be late. You alone can't".
Cong Shan seemed a bit wronged. She believed that she was no different from others and should not be treated differently. In fact, Cong Shan had already taken three works at this time, and she was indeed special one of.
In the year of graduation, Cong Shan was accepted by French Academy of Art . After receiving a scholarship, she planned to go to France and continue her studies there. In the mid to late 1980s, she was in the midst of going abroad. Trends, Zhang Yu and Chen Chong both chose to study abroad during the most brilliant period of their careers, and Cong Shan naturally did not hesitate.
The female celebrities in the 1980s all have one characteristic,Cong Shan is so aggressive that she didn't even think about it. She doesn't speak French, she doesn't know how to communicate with French people, and she doesn't understand the local customs and culture. She doesn't even know who and how to contact when she is in France. All the difficulties she should have considered were that she only realized when she got off the plane at Charles de Gaulle Airport . Everyone was heading in different directions. Only Cong Shan stood in the middle of the crowd at a loss.
At this time, Cong Shan really realized that this is a country completely different from China. Everyone here, all the scenery, all the food, everything is strange, no one knows. She, no one has watched "The Wrangler." She has to start from scratch if she wants to achieve success. This start is not only from stage performances, but from the most basic learning of French.
Five years of life in France allowed Cong Shan to truly understand the world and perceive her own insignificance. Of course, Cong Shan also made a breakthrough in her self here, and she became the first Chinese actors performing in the French dome theater.
But a Chinese actor who speaks bad French can only be a marginal person. The occasional flash is also destined to be a meteor moment. After it has passed, it will pass. No one will mention it.
Later Cong Shan also tried to play roles in film and television dramas in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the response was average. After all, in Hong Kong's most glorious 1980s and 1990s, their film factories were only energized. The second largest film industry in the world after Hollywood is called Oriental Hollywood. At this time, the outstanding actors in Hong Kong are in a blowout state, and Cong Shan does not appear to be more special than others in this crowd. The aura of "The Wrangler" has long been obliterated with the passage of time.
After the new millennium, Cong Shan returned to the mainland, after more than 20 years, Cong Shan and Zhu Shimao joined hands again.In road senior 's movie " room for two people ", they continue to play husband and wife, but compared to more than 20 years ago, the two are no longer immature, and replaced by a calm and sophisticated.
Although the reunion of Cong Shan and Zhu Shimao from the “middle grassland” to the “cement forest” was enough to make the generation feel emotional, the young people at this time did not understand the meaning behind it. In their eyes , This is just a family trivial matter for two middle-aged mother-in-laws. Such a movie is destined to not cause too much disturbance.
Someone once asked Cong Shan, at the peak of your career, you chose to go to France and gave up your most brilliant career. Do you regret it?
Cong Shan’s answer is: I don’t regret, I became famous at the age of 19. People choose to study abroad, study more, progress more, and reflect on themselves. This is more important to me than becoming famous. I am very happy with my choice and I have taken control of myself.
Cong Shan never feels anxious about others forgetting her. She once said that the purpose of her acting is not to let others know her, nor is she engaged in this profession to be famous.
It is true that it is difficult for people to become famous; but it is even more difficult for people to abandon all this and choose peace after becoming famous. There are always people who have different pursuits. Maybe we shouldn't feel sorry for Cong Shan's career development, because this is the ideal way of life she chose.
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