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"It is said that Chairman Mao once lost a child in Wuhan, and all the information shows that you are that child. Is this true?"
In an interview, Gu Yue was asked by reporters like this.
Is this true? What is the relationship between Gu Yue and Chairman Mao?
Gu Yue
First encounter
By chance Gu Yue actually formed an indissoluble bond with Chairman Mao.
That time he was on a business trip, and while the train was driving, he suddenly felt a strong gaze falling on his body, never moving away, and his heart was shivering.
After a while, he couldn't stand it anymore. He raised his head and met the person's sight. As a result, the other party did not avoid his sight just because he looked over, and he still looked at him with inquiry.
Gu Yue also looked at the man who looked in his early forties and asked in his heart: "This gay man, why do you look at me?"
"I think you look like a person?"
"Who do you look like?"
The man took out a painting from his travel bag under his seat and said: "Like this one." "
The painting is "Chairman Mao Go to Anyuan" . People on the train heard their conversation and came over to see it. They looked at the painting and then Gu Yue, and they said : "It looks, it's really like it."
So they got off the train, and Gu Yue went to Xinhua Bookstore and also bought a picture "Chairman Mao Go to Anyuan".
After returning to the guesthouse, he looked at himself in the mirror and the painting on his hand, and couldn't help but sigh : Hey, don't say it, it's really that interesting!
Chairman Mao
When he was at work, he consciously wanted to confirm whether he really looked that way. He parted his hair, put one hand on his hips, and put the cigarette in the other hand on his mouth and asked his colleagues: "Who do you think I look like?"
College of colleagues was amazed : "Like Chairman Mao!"
Another colleague said : "If there is another mole on the chin, it will be more like it."
Soon this matter spread in their organs, but no one mentioned it again not long after. After all, it was just a joke, so how could it really have anything to do with Chairman Mao.
But Gu Yue didn't expect that this joke actually caused his life to change drastically.
Auspicious Moon Stills
Rewrite Destiny
In the 1970s, the founding fathers of New China and a generation of great men passed away one after another. In order to commemorate them, the Ministry of Culture of the State Council and the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army of China jointly issued a notice on selecting special actors.
For this reason, the relevant units have also set up a working group to select this group of people. The top priority is the actor of Chairman Mao.
This not only requires similar shape and spirit, but also ability to act. This was a worry that the deputy minister of the General Culture Department at that time Hu Ke .
working group sometimes sighs : "Looking at the whole of China, these people who are similar in shape, spirit, and acting can be found, but it is so difficult to concentrate these conditions on one person!"
Chairman Mao
There are many people all over the country, and there are several candidates, but Hu Ke has never been very satisfied.
One day, a colleague suddenly suggested to her: "I heard that there is a person in Kunming who looks very much like Chairman Mao, who has been recognized and missed, but he has never acted in a play."
Hu Ke immediately expressed his opinion as soon as he heard it : "It doesn't matter if you haven't acted in a play. You can learn it later. The key is to be like it. I have to go to Kunming to see it."
Hu Ke went to Kunming in the name of inspecting and pointed out that Gu Yue be with him. During the accompanying process, Hu Ke kept observing Gu Yue and really looked like him.
has observed a lot, and Gu Yue also noticed some situations. The leaders from above seem to often talk about him, but after all, he didn't say anything.
Not long after, Gu Yue received a special notice.
The organization transferred him to the Bayi Film Studio, which was this notice. Gu Yue only knew when Hu Ke and the others came to inspect. , what are you talking about?
After receiving the notice, Gu Yue delayed it for a long time and didn't report it.
How could he, a small person, play Chairman Mao? He had no confidence and felt that he couldn't play well at all, so he fell into deep entanglement.
Just when he didn't know how to make a decision, a reply from his sister woke him up.
My sister said in the letter: "Poetics (Gu Yue's real name), I was very excited to see what you said in your letter... I also know your concerns, but we are soldiers, and soldiers must obey orders. You can do it with confidence..."
In this way, Gu Yue set out with the expectations of his sister and the entire military region, opening a new chapter in his life.
and Gu Yue did not disappoint everyone. He played Chairman Mao for the first time in " Xi'an Incident " , and he won the public's recognition and let many people know his name.
However, the tree attracts wind. As the reputation continues to expand, various rumors are coming one after another, which has caused him a lot of trouble.
Respond to the rumors
Because it resembles Chairman Mao’s appearance, there were many newspaper rumors at that time that Gu Yue was the child lost by the Chairman.
It turned out that Chairman Mao was in Hubei. Wuhan once lost a child. Gu Yue happened to be an orphan and just grew up in Wuhan. All the information was right for a while, so everyone could not help but have such a guess.
During that time, Gu Yue often received a lot of letters, one of which was the general content of the letter was : You and I were both born to He Zizhen, we are brothers, and there was a sister named Jiaojiao...
Gu Yue was originally named Hu Sixue , and he had a sister named Hu Jiaojiao . Gu Yue thought it was very bizarre at that time. What's more, there was a person from Hunan who studied party history who also came to ask him.
For this reason, Gu Yue responded to this scandal in public : "This is just a rumor, please don't guess anymore. I really have nothing to do with Chairman Mao. "
Hu Shixue was born in Hankou, Hubei in 1939. He loves painting and literary creation and likes to sign the name Gu Yue on his works, so he continues to use it.
He lost his parents when he was five or six years old, and was then taken to Guilin, Guangxi with his sister Hu Jiaojiao. Later, the orphanage moved to Nanning .
One morning, Gu Yue went out to see with his friends when he heard the gunshot. He found that many military uniforms were discarded on the streets and military supplies .
It turned out that Guangxi was liberated, and the people were The party withdrew.
A special force came at this time, the 13th Army Art Troupe. This is a literary and artistic unit. It usually arranges some art performances to regulate the lives of the soldiers.
At that time, the leaders of this regiment looked at the onlookers and looked at the group of children watching, so they wanted to take them in. Gu Yue's sister, who was upright and beautiful in character, joined the army.
And Gu Yue was only 10 years old at that time, because she was too young to join the army. Seeing that her sister was about to go to Kunming with the army, he pulled the corner of his sister's clothes and said tearfully : "Sister, I can't separate from you."
Sister didn't think about being separated from her young brother at first. She told Gu Yue: "Just follow me behind the army, we won't be separated. "
So the little Gu Yue followed the big army all the way to Kunming. It was difficult to walk along the way, and it was difficult for adults to struggle, let alone a small child.
But Gu Yue did not cry or make a fuss, and with amazing perseverance, he walked to Kunming.
Thirteenth Army Text The leader of the troupe was deeply moved by the little Gu Yue and decided to make an exception to accept him.
In this way, Gu Yue became the youngest member of the 13th Army Art Troupe and did not wear military uniforms.
Even though Gu Yue had an indomitable spirit, it was not enough to have this spirit as a special actor. , the acting skills must be kept up, but the difficulty lies in acting. Gu Yue is just a blank piece of paper. What should I do?
leader is difficult to play
Gu Yue regretted it as soon as he arrived at Bayi Studio .
As the saying goes, "Across the road is like a mountain". When he is in the face of acting, he knows nothing, and no one special person will guide him." What should I do? For a moment, he fell into confusion and regret and retreated.
The next second he thought of his sister and leaders' expectations for him, and the trust in him in the organization. It would be too embarrassing to go back in shame. His strong self-esteem would not allow him to do this.
Gu Yue reorganized He should take care of his feelings. Since no one comes to teach him, he will think about it himself.
He collected all the portraits and photos of Chairman Mao that he could collect at that time. Some of them were cut from the pictorial, and some were sent by others, with a total of more than 600 pictures.
Then he took these paintings and photos according to the youth, The order of middle-aged and old age was pasted on the wall of the guesthouse one by one. The wall was covered with him and he pulled a few iron wires to continue to stick.
He kept observing and analyzing every day except eating and sleeping, and then imitating.
There was no big mirror at that time, so Gu Yue could only lean against the reflection of the glass on the window, and then repeated it again and again Imitating Chairman Mao's expressions over and over again, as well as various movements, such as those who put their hips on their hips, waving their hands, smoking, etc.
After unsolved efforts, he didn't expect that he really slowly found the feeling.
After , Xi'an Film Studio made the feature film "Xi'an Incident", and Gu Yue was the famous national makeup artist at that time, Wang Xizhong , recommended to the director of "Xi'an Incident" chengyin .
chengyin After seeing Gu Yue, I was a little dazed for a moment and couldn't help but sigh at : "You are the person I have seen the most like Chairman Mao. "
Cheng Yin, as a director, has met many people in order to find good actors. Gu Yue's conditions are truly unique.
So Cheng Yin notified Gu Yue that night to go for the audition the next day. Gu Yue was very excited. He finally had a chance to perform after practicing hard for so long.
The next day, Gu Yue came to the audition location early. He looked at the shooting machine on the scene and felt it was particularly novel because he had never seen it.
At the beginning, he was not nervous at all, but suddenly he heard a staff member on the scene whispering: "Cheng Yin is a big director. If this drama is tried, it will be finished. "Handling said this, the staff member of
said that Gu Yue, who was not nervous, was nervous.
Later, until Gu Yue's audition, his nervousness did not ease. After recording the first one, Cheng Yin didn't say anything, but Gu Yue was not very satisfied.
He took the initiative to tell Cheng Yin : "Director, can I do another one... ”
Chengyin was very satisfied with Gu Yue's active and continuous spirit of excellence, and happily agreed to Gu Yue's request.
Gu Yue was dissatisfied with the first point that he felt nervous, not relaxed enough, and did not interpret Chairman Mao's expression.
"Are you ready?" Cheng Yin shouted there.
"No!" Gu Yue said with confidence.
He was indeed not ready at this time, but he had calmed down.
He substituted himself as Chairman Mao, focused his energy and quickly entered the show, looking at the twenty people on the scene with a look of contempt. After the performance of
, Gu Yue went to watch the replay again and quietly observed everyone's expressions. When she heard everyone's discussion, she performed well, Director Cheng Yin was also quite satisfied and felt relieved. The news of
was soon spread, and everyone knows that Gu Yue performed well.
An actor came to try the same scene in the evening, which may be too stressful, and he tried several times but couldn't do it.
Later, there were two more famous actors. They once played Chairman Mao on the stage. After hearing about this situation, they directly expressed their opinion: "Refuse to try the show, use it if you want to use it, don't need to pull it down."
Just like that, Gu Yue won the first role of Chairman Mao in his life, but he didn't expect that even greater difficulties would be behind.
When I tried the makeup for the first time, Yan Bijun, a famous makeup artist from Bayi Film Studio, drew an arc on Gu Yue's forehead, and while drawing, she said : "It's hard to play Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao's heaven is full. You have too much hair, so you have to pull it out."
She said while really pulling Gu Yue's hair.
It hurts to pull off one piece of hair, let alone pull out one piece. Gu Yue screamed in pain, and it was not just pulled once. This piece of hair grows every time, until it doesn’t grow out of hair.
After a long wait, Gu Yue finally ushered in the first scene, but unexpectedly, the first scene made a fool of himself.
He prepared it well in advance, and the script was full of writing. He thought of any specific sentence to wave his hand.
But what he didn't expect was that thousands of people watched the scene, and it was blocked.
They were filming in Zhidan County at that time. Everyone wanted to come and see "Chairman Mao". Suddenly feeling the enthusiasm of the masses, he suddenly panicked. After the shooting of
started, Gu Yue only had soulless body movements. Cheng Yin quickly stopped. He suppressed the fire and said to Gu Yue: "Comrade Chairman, this won't work. You can adjust it and we will reshoot it."
As a result, Gu Yue became even more nervous when the director said that. He still couldn't pass the two shots in a row, and wasted a lot of film. At that time, the film was very valuable.
Chengyin could no longer suppress the popularity, so he came up and sarcastically said to Gu Yue: "Oh, it's a pity why does this face grow on you?"
Gu Yue was humiliated by the director in front of so many people, and was also very angry, but after all, he still chose to put the overall situation first.
Later, "Xi'an Incident" achieved great success, and Gu Yue also said : "I taught this video step by step with Director Cheng Yin, one shot and one shot. I sincerely thank Director Cheng Yin."
After gaining the first experience, Gu Yue still encountered difficulties in the subsequent shooting, but she could overcome them quickly.
In order to experience and understand Chairman Mao more deeply, Gu Yue watched a lot of Chairman Mao’s literary works, learned Hunan accents, and even copied Chairman Mao’s words vividly.
With this spirit of study, Gu Yue truly brought Chairman Mao to life and was loved by the people of the whole country.
Later, he also won the Best Actor Award at the 13th Film Hundred Flowers Award for his outstanding performance in " Founding Ceremony " .
said that everyone deserves it, and there is no doubt about it.
Before this, in December 1983, on the occasion of Chairman Mao’s birthday, Central Opera House held a special performance, and Gu Yue was invited to participate.
At the performance meeting, he met Yang Shangkun, an important national leader. During the conversation, Yang Shangkun found Gu Yue was a little reserved and said : "Why are you still very nervous in front of me? Chairman Mao is not like this."
Gu Yue replied: "I am a fake chairman, and I don't have the momentum of Chairman Mao."
Gu Yue replied: "I am a fake chairman, and I don't have the momentum of Chairman Mao."
html l2 "Actors are your profession. You should be more casual and generous in your daily life. You should not be nervous and afraid. Chairman Mao is not afraid of anyone!"
Yang Shangkun
After listening to Yang Shangkun's words, Gu Yue really relaxed. He no longer looked at others with his eyes, but only listened with his ears. Chairman Mao's feeling suddenly came out.
In 1989, Gu Yue was invited to attend the National Day banquet, and he met Yang Shangkun again.
Yang Shangkun told him : "You should be more casual when playing Chairman Mao" , which gave birth to that classic photo.
Although Gu Yue has achieved great success because of Chairman Mao, he has always been low-key and humble : "I am just a person who plays Chairman Mao. No matter how good I act, I can't become Chairman Mao. What qualifications do I have to show off?"
Gu Yue did get an entrance ticket with his special appearance, but he devoted his whole life to his acting career. He is a real artist, an artist that is always worthy of being remembered and respected by the audience.
