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"The Wrangler" poster
In 1982, "The Wrangler", adapted by the famous director Xie Jin and based on Zhang Xianliang's novel "Spirit and Flesh", caused quite a stir when it was released nationwide.
At that time, a movie ticket only cost a dime. After the film was aired, it earned a box office of .12 billion, equivalent to people all over the country watching it once.
Not only that, after the film was broadcast that year, it also won the Ministry of Culture's 1982 Outstanding Feature Film Award and the 1983 Hundred Flowers Award for Best Feature Film.
At the same time, the main creative actors who participated in the film have also become popular movie stars. Now forty years have passed, and the current situation of several leading actors in the film is also lamentable. Some have died early, and some have collapsed in their later years. In the house, someone was jealous after becoming popular, and his fate was rough...
Zhu Shimao's "Xu Lingjun" stills
01 Xu Lingjun and Zhu Shimao played the role of the male god in many people's hearts. Scandals continued in his later years
Zhu Shimao was born in Yantai, Shandong in 1954. He is a famous film and television actor, sketch actor and director.
had been in the industry for ten years before starring in "Wrangler" and was well-known in the industry. In the drama, he played the male lead "Xu Lingjun".
Zhu Shimao was 27 years old at the time. Although he did not win any awards for his role as "Xu Lingjun", he became a male god in the eyes of many viewers and won Cong Shan a lifelong confidante.
In the play, Xu Lingjun was originally the eldest grandson of the Xu family in a large family. He was born in such a family with great food and good food. He was bound to be rich and wealthy throughout his life. However, it was such a family that gave him all the hardships. , making him commit the "crime of birth".
When he was eleven years old, his father Xu Jingyou could no longer bear the pain of a feudal arranged marriage. He pursued love and yearned for freedom, so he abandoned his wife and children and left for the United States;
And his mother also He died of illness in the hospital on the fourth day after his father left, leaving Xu Lingjun to grow up alone.
Later, in the special era, Xu Lingjun suffered unfair treatment and was sent to work in the northwest pasture of . At that time, he was lonely and desperate, and once thought about ending his life.
But in the end, he survived strongly. It was the natural environment there that purified him, the labor that pleased him, and the simple and kind-hearted herdsmen who warmed him. He found the meaning of survival.
Then one day, Guo Zi suddenly rushed in happily, his eyes shining:
Lao Xu, if you want a wife or not, if you want a wife, as long as you ask for it, I will bring it to you later.
Obviously, Xu Lingjun was used to their jokes, so he smiled and said: "Then you can send it."
Unexpectedly, Guo Zi really brought a beautiful girl to his little shabby house.
Xu Lingjun was a little at a loss. He thought it was a joke.
He never thought that in his life, he would meet a girl who didn't dislike him and trusted him so much. This was untrue.
But in fact, he and she became a couple in need and gave birth to their son Qingqing, forming a happy family of three and composing a classic and enviable life-long love story that lasts until death.
Just like the line he said after finally confirming Xiuzhi's feelings:
Suddenly, such a kind person walked into me. I seemed to have been waiting for this day for many years, and it finally came. He is no stranger to me. It feels like she has been waiting for me for many years.
So when faced with the request of his father Xu Jingyou, who had abandoned him and then came back to look for him to inherit hundreds of millions of wealth, Xu Lingjun refused.
Compared with money, the motherland, the land he has soaked with sweat, the relatives on this land who have shared weal and woe, and the wife and children who have always supported each other are more worthy of his cherishment and remembrance.
Xu Lingjun's determination and perseverance finally moved his father. Xu Jingyou no longer forced his son to follow him. At the same time, he also asked Lingjun to buy a cemetery for him in the mainland. After his death, he wanted to be buried back in his motherland.
Farewell to his father, Xu Lingjun returned to that land and his wife and children.
With "The Wrangler", Zhu Shimao became the dream lover of a generation, and his career reached a new peak.
In 1983, Zhu Shimao was transferred to the Bayi Film Studio Actors Troupe. The following year, he collaborated with Chen Peisi to perform the sketch " Eating Noodles " at the Spring Festival Gala, which became a classic on the Spring Festival Gala stage. After
, Zhu Shimao and Chen Peisi became a "perfect match" partnership, and collaborated on " movie ", " mutton skewers ", " protagonist and supporting role ", " police and thief " and other works, which are still talked about today. Le Tao.
Only later, he transitioned into a director and rarely collaborated with Chen Peisi.
As a director, he has directed films such as " Quit Smoking but Not Drinking " and " Love Not NG", but the response was mediocre;
As an actor in recent years, he has occasionally made guest appearances in some film and television dramas, such as in in 2021 In the TV series "The Far North and South" directed by Feng Xiaogang, he had a twilight love affair with Liu Xiaoqing, and his acting skills were once again recognized by the audience.
Emotionally, Zhu Shimao, like Xu Lingjun in the play, also has a happy family of three.
He and his wife Fan Xuxia were recruited from Yantai, Shandong in the same year as the Fuzhou Military Region Repertory Troupe. They were 15 and 13 years old at the time. They could be said to have been childhood sweethearts.
They were married before filming "Wrangler".
In 1992, Zhu Shimao and his wife gave birth to their son Zhu Qingyang. Later, Zhu Qingyang went to the United States to study. As his mother, Fan Xuxia, also went abroad to accompany him while he stayed in China to work hard for his career.
Zhu Shimao's family of three
During this period, the couple lived apart for eight years. There were no problems in their relationship, and Zhu Shimao had no scandals.
On the contrary, when he was about to enter his twenties, scandals continued, and there was a suspicion that his house would collapse.
In 2012, Zhu Shimao was photographed behaving intimately with a young woman in an underground garage, but he clarified the situation by hugging her goodbye.
However, five years later, the 63-year-old was once again photographed behaving intimately with a young woman in a car. After the
photo was exposed, it once again aroused heated discussions among netizens. In order to prove that the woman was his wife Fan Xuxia, some people compared the two, but there was no similarity.
In response to this incident, Zhu Shimao condemned some media for making things out of thin air and paying no attention to the truth itself.
Although he made a clarification, the good reputation he had accumulated in the past was still severely damaged in "Wrangler".
02 Xu Jingyou played by Liu Qiong has been dead for many years
Liu Qiong's "Wrangler" stills
When he starred in "Wrangler", Liu Qiong was already 70 years old. The Xu Jingyou he played in the play was Xu Lingjun's father.
Although he is an extremely irresponsible man in the drama, he abandoned his wife and children for thirty years for freedom and love.
But he is really handsome to me. He is over seventy and still has such a straight figure. The most important thing is that the elegant temperament radiating around him is very attractive, and he is not in a state of old age at all.
Perhaps this has something to do with his experiences when he was young.
Young Liu Qiong
Liu Qiong was born in Xiangyin, Hunan in 1912, and his original name was Liu Boyao.
Liu Qiong is a law student, but because she has loved film art since she was a child, she co-founded the "Spring and Autumn Drama Club" with her classmates when she was in college. Later, before graduating, she entered the company under the introduction of the famous actor Jin Yan. Lianhua Pictures Company as an actor.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Liu Qiong became a popular film star with film and television dramas such as "Wu Song and Pan Jinlian", "Gone with the Wind", "Life and Death", "Gold and Silver World" and "Du Shiniang".
After the 1950s, he filmed films such as "Women's Basketball Team No. 5", "Sea Soul ", "Ode to Youth" and "Square Hat" and became a household name.
Stills of "The Wrangler"
Liu Qiong devoted his life to the film career. After 1956, he worked part-time as a director, directing "The Girl with a Horse", "Master Qiao Goes to the Sedan", " Military Station " " Ashima" " " Li Huiniang (Peking Opera)" and many other films, and also played important roles in some good movies. When
participated in "Wrangler", he was already seventy years old. Many actors of the same period had retired, but he never stopped.
After "The Wrangler", he starred in many movies, and won the Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award Performance Special Award for his performance in "Death and the Maiden" and 's artistic achievements in the half century since his filmmaking. He became a veritable performer. artist.
Emotionally, Liu Qiong had a failed marriage. His ex-wife Yan Fei was once a first-generation actor in the Tianjin People's Art Theater. She was not only good at singing and dancing but also good at acting.
Liu Qiong and his ex-wife Yan Fei
Originally they were very much in love, but later Liu Qiong was involved in scandals, and they had no children since their marriage, which aroused the dissatisfaction of Liu Qiong's mother, and Liu Qiong was an only child. My parents are also very filial.
Under multiple pressures, they divorced by agreement in 1946.
Later, Liu Qiong met Di Fan on the stage. The two gave birth to a pair of daughters, sharing the joys and sorrows and staying together for more than half a century.
Until 2002, Liu Qiong died of lung cancer in Shanghai, leaving 85-year-old Di Fan alone in the world. On May 19, 2012, ten years after Liu Qiong passed away, Di Fan also said goodbye to the world and went to heaven. Got together with his husband.
The last photo of Liu Qiong and Di Fan was taken in 2002
03 Li Xiuzhi, played by Cong Shan, was jealous after becoming popular, and had a bumpy fate, but found happiness after remarry
Cong Shan's "Wrangler" stills
Li Xiuzhi was who fled famine in Sichuan to the imperial edict. A rural girl from Lechuan Ranch, she was originally promised a marriage and fled here to seek refuge, but she didn't expect that the other party died in an accident.
She was alone here with no friends and nowhere to stay. The kind-hearted Guo Zi took her to Xu Lingjun's small shabby house, and the two got married. They got married first and then fell in love, composing a good love story.
To be honest, a girl like Li Xiuzhi can live a happy life no matter who she marries. Not only is she kind, intelligent, hard-working and capable, she is also magnanimous, sensible, optimistic and progressive, and does not complain about others.
Although she had no choice but to marry Xu Lingjun, who was fifteen years older than herself, at her best age, she did not complain or accept her fate, sincerely trusting her husband and living a peaceful life with him.
Before marrying Xiu Zhi, Xu Lingjun’s little shabby house had no life at all, but after Xiu Zhi left, she tidied up his shabby house and made it look brand new. She planted trees, flowers and raised chickens in the yard. , ducks, pigeons, full of vitality.
Xiuzhi's ability surprised Xu Lingjun, and her positive and optimistic spirit influenced him.
Later, they had a son, Xiao Qingqing, which brought more joy to their warm and happy family. Xiuzhi believed that there would be bread and milk. They were moving towards a better life and their days would get better and better.
Compared to his father Xu Jingyou, who owns more than a dozen factories and billions of assets in the United States, Xu Lingjun is luckier and happier. Financially, his father is a billionaire, but emotionally he is impoverished, and Xu Lingjun has such a good wife beside him who shares weal and woe with him and supports each other.
"Wrangler" stills
Li Xiuzhi has so many beautiful qualities that women should learn from. With this role, Cong Shan was nominated for the Best Actress in the Golden Chicken Award and was selected as one of the "Top Ten Most Favorite" by "China Youth Daily" No. 1 on the "Youth Screen Image" list.
"The Wrangler" was Cong Shan's first film. She was nineteen years old at the time and had just entered the first year of her undergraduate studies in the performance department of the Central Academy of Drama. Fortunately, she starred in the role of "Li Xiuzhi", which made her an instant hit.
However, her popularity did not bring her smooth sailing. Instead, her fame made her journey bumpy.
was first envied by his classmates, ostracized, isolated, and even bullied at school.
Early Cong Shan
At that time, after knowing Cong Shan's situation, Director Xie was going to help Cong Shan get Beijing Film Studio , but Cong Shan, who had not yet completed her studies, declined. She wanted to finish her studies first.
So she continued to stay in school and endured it silently. The long-term depression caused her to be mentally depressed. In the end, she could only rely on drugs to survive until she graduated from college.
In 1984, Cong Shan was assigned to work at the China Youth Art Theater.
Originally, Cong Shan thought that she had finally seen the light of day and could shine on the screen, but as soon as she entered the unit, the director talked to her and told her not to be proud and to start with a small role.
Cong Shan has been a good girl since she was a child. Faced with the boss's "power", she had to respond obediently, and then she continued to play her role. After a while, she finally ushered in her post-graduation career. The first protagonist drama.
At that time, director Huang Jianzhong was preparing to film " Good Housewives ". He approached Cong Shan: "I reserved the heroine Yu Xingxian for you in "Good Housewives". Do you have time?"
Cong Shan was very happy, She had a lot of time, but when she ran to report to the leader, the leader refused to agree.
In the end, it was director Huang Jianzhong who took the initiative to win her this opportunity. However, she was regarded as a negative teaching material by the boss and had a yin and yang connotation in the unit, which caused her colleagues in the unit to avoid her.
What's even more disgusting is that after filming "The Good Housewife", Cong Shan was asked by her boss to write a self-criticism and paid 300 yuan to the unit for filming.
After director Huang Jianzhong learned about Cong Shan's experience, he offered to transfer her to Beijing Film Studio, but Cong Shan refused his offer.
Because the rumors were so terrible, she didn't have the courage to accept the director's kindness. After that, she just played a small role in the unit.
originally thought that she would be calm for a while, but Cong Shan's forbearance and concession did not buy her the peace she deserved. Finally, two years later, she decided to go abroad to study acting. She could not afford to hide.
When she went abroad, while studying, Cong Shan would also take on some roles in film and television dramas, playing small roles to earn some living expenses.
Unexpectedly, he met Shi Liang while running. Two like-minded people met in a foreign country, got to know each other and soon fell in love. After that, the two got married and gave birth to their son Woody in 1995.
upgraded from a world of two to a happy family of three. Cong Shan thought she had finally found happiness and had a stable home.
But Shi Liang is a person who values art above all else. After becoming a father, he still focused on the art he pursued, leaving Cong Shan to shoulder the responsibility of supporting the family alone. She fell into depression, and these As a husband, Shi Liang couldn't understand.
Therefore, Cong Shan, who was used to "escaping", divorced Shi Liang in 1996 and returned to China with her son who was less than one year old.
Later, Cong Shan remarried director Xiao Feng. Xiao Feng loved Cong Shan very much. They did not have any children after their marriage. He always regarded Woody as his biological son. For a long time, Cong Shan was taken care of at home. son.
Sometimes when she is happy or has a good role, she will come out to film. When she is not afraid, she will quietly be the little woman behind Xiao Feng.
Now, Cong Shan's son has grown up, and she and Xiao Feng are still in love as before. After becoming famous and experiencing various ups and downs and divorce, Cong Shan finally found happiness in her second marriage.
Cong Shan's recent photos
04 Qingqing Fang Chao plays the role of height that limits his development
Fang Chao's "Wrangler" stills
In addition to the male and female protagonists, there is also a small actor in "Wrangler" who has attracted much attention, that is Xiao Qingqing, the crystallization of Xu Lingjun and Li Xiuzhi's love. , this role is played by the well-known child actor Fang Chao.
When he played this role, Fang Chao was less than six years old. After 40 years, he has entered middle age. Everyone has not seen him on the screen anymore, and they are more concerned about where he is.
In fact, before starring in "Little Qingqing", Fang Chao was already somewhat famous. It can be said that he was more famous than Zhu Shimao and Cong Shan, who played his parents.
Fang Chao was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province in 1976. He has been very cute since he was a child, and his big round eyes are full of aura.
When Fang Chaocai was only three years old, he appeared in the movie "Ah!" directed by Xie Jin. Cradle" plays the famous dean.
then played Lin Yao's childhood in the movie "Bitter Fruit", played Qingqing in the movie "Wrangler", played Bingbing in " Spring Water Ding Dong " starring Zhang Ruifang, played Dongdong in "Under the Bridge", and also She played Xiao Jiya in "Love on the Hump" starring Siqin Gaowa .
Fang Chao can be said to be the most popular child actor in the 1980s, and those who played mother and son with him on screen were all A-list celebrities.
Fang Chao is not only cute, but he is also very good at acting. He can perform well in front of the camera and cooperates well with great actors. Therefore, his photos are often published in the magazine " Popular Movies ".
After entering the 1990s, Fang Chao, who has grown into a teenager, is still very popular. He has appeared in "The Story of the Panda", "The Bells of Qingliang Temple", "Under the Century Bridge", "The Setting Sun is Like Blood", "People on the Edge of the City", "Jinan" Starring in dramas such as "Battle" and " New Fang Shiyu ".
But as he grew older, Fang Chao found that he could get fewer and fewer roles. When he wanted to take the exam, he was not able to pass the exam because of his academic performance, and he was rejected for the second time by Beijing Film Academy because of his height problem. Shut out.
Later, Fang Chao came to Shanghai Film Factory, the place where his dream had taken off, and worked while looking for development opportunities.
Here, he met a new noble man. He was working as a waiter in a noodle shop. Shao Feng, an actor famous for "Boys and Girls", happened to walk into his noodle shop to eat noodles.
When Shao Feng looked at the waiter who came up with the noodles, his thumb almost stuck into the soup. When he was about to get angry, he looked up and saw that it was the former popular child star Fang Chao.
At that moment, Shao Feng felt unspeakably sad. Later, when he had the opportunity, he would recommend Fang Chao to all major film crews, and this allowed him to re-enter the entertainment industry.
If the career development is not smooth, it is only temporary. As long as you work hard, you still have opportunities, but if your parents are gone, they are gone.
In a short period of time, Fang Chao's parents left him one after another. He could not accept this reality and once fell into sadness and could not extricate himself.
Fortunately, there were a group of friends around him who pulled him out of his sad mood.
Later, Fang Chao turned behind the scenes and made the dramas "Hukou" and "Growing Up" as a producer. At the same time, he directed dramas such as "Thirty-nine Degrees of Youth" as a director.
Fang Chao's recent photo
Fang Chao, who is now forty-six years old, has undergone tremendous changes in appearance compared to the past.
His face lost the innocence and cuteness it once had, and became more mature and fashionable. He was in good condition after dyeing his hair white on the set.
Although the glory of the past is no longer there, it can be seen from the state that Fang Chao presents that he is still happy.
In middle age, people cannot shine on the screen for various reasons, but they can direct behind the screen and help others achieve their goals. Dreams are also a blessing.
Forty years have passed since "The Wrangler". Over the years, it is still a classic in the minds of the audience, and you will still be moved by it every time you watch it.
The leading actors in the drama have also undergone earth-shaking changes in the past forty years. Some of them lost their reputation in their later years, some had a rough fate after becoming popular, some have passed away, and some have been restricted in their development because of their height.
But just like Plato said:
"The world is so imperfect. If you want to gain something, you have to lose something."
Their lives may not be perfect in the end, but the images they create in the play are perfect and become It is an eternal classic, and the audience will look it up from time to time, and they will still be moved by the spirit of "Wrangler". This is enough.
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