On November 1, 2022, actor Lu Shuming died of a sudden myocardial infarction at the age of 66.
After learning the news, everyone felt unbelievable because just the day before, he posted updates on social media.
Whenever Lu Shuming is mentioned, he will think of Guan Yu he plays.
CCTV version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has made many people famous. In addition to playing Zhuge Liang Tang Guoqiang , Guan Yu's actor Lu Shuming has the highest reputation, with personal contributions (who doesn't love Guan Yu), and actors' superb acting bonuses.
The actor of the boy Lu Shuming Meng
After Lu Shuming graduated from elementary school, his height has exceeded his peers, so he was selected as the main player of the school basketball team.
But under the instigation of the teacher, he also learned to sing Peking Opera at the same time. During his study, he developed a strong interest in Peking Opera.
school performance, Lu Shuming made everyone laugh, and the teacher of the art troupe praised him as a good seedling to be an actor.
So Lu Shuming had the idea of applying for Peking Opera actors, but his father killed his first budding of art - he firmly opposed applying for the theater troupe.
In my father's eyes, learning opera is like a class of all things and has no future.
He was still a teenager and could not resist his father's decision and could only continue to join the school team to play basketball. With his height and physical strength, he led the school team to the province, but unfortunately this was not a good future at that time, and the salary of basketball employees was too low.
After all studies were over, Lu Shuming entered by chance and worked in aerial photography, and was given a "iron rice bowl".
is gradually drifting away from his dream of being an actor.
However, fate is so wonderful. Who would have thought that 4 years later, actor Meng would come to him by himself.
When I was young, Lu Shuming
In 1980, my neighbor's sister was going to take the exam at the Xi'an drama troupe. The neighbor's aunt saw that she was tall and strong, so she asked him to accompany her. Lu Shuming helped her with righteousness and accompanied her for a while.
This incident completely changed his life trajectory.
Guo Da , who was the deputy captain of the actor team of Xi'an Theater at that time. Guo Da saw Lu Shuming with a straight facial features outside the examination room, and his eyes lit up: This is born to be an actor! He immediately greeted the recruitment teacher and arranged him to take the exam temporarily.
Lu Shuming did not disappoint Guo Da's vision. He passed the test successfully and became an actor in the Xi'an Drama Troupe.
The ups and downs of life
Lu Shuming has learned very well in the professional courses of the troupe. The basic skills of the actors have been practiced here, and the handsome appearance and burly figure have attracted the admiration of many girls in the troupe.
One of the girls took the initiative and often washed his clothes and folded quilts for him to take care of his life. Lu Shuming, who was alone outside, was hard not to be moved and gradually got together with the girl.
However, the girl was not 18 years old at the time. When the girl's family learned about it, they ran to the theater troupe to make a big fuss and said that Lu Shuming had a ill-behaved and kidnapped her.
Theater also has regulations that it is not allowed to fall in love. This Lu Shuming not only violates the regulations, but also falls in love with a girl under the age of 18. Even if she is in a free relationship, it is unreasonable.
So the troupe punished him to leave the actors on the grounds that he was not aware of his mistakes and did the troupe's misunderstandings and other miscellaneous tasks such as burning boilers and pulling cinders.
suddenly changed from an actor to a choreographer, and the psychological gap is huge.
But for the actor industry, he did not completely give up hope. He always waited for everyone to finish training and practiced the skills alone.
In his spare time, he found his own fun, that is, watching movies.
The incident of falling in love with the little girl ended up marrying the other party at the legal age.
In 1983, Lu Shuming finally filmed a movie to play Li Hu, the male lead in "The Man in the Desert", but it was also in this year that he was in trouble again.
htmlIn the early 1980s, a kind of " veneer dance " emerged in China: when a man and a woman dance partner had some intimate contact with her body.
Although this ambiguous dance has long been popular abroad, the domestic atmosphere at that time was not as open as it is now, and dancing veneer dance is "depressed".
Lu Shuming, who loves to play, made an appointment with a few young friends to have a date and danced several times. As a result, he was discovered by a girl's boyfriend and reported it in anger.
In the end, Lu Shuming was convicted of "mental pollution" and was sentenced to 16 months in prison (another saying is 14 months).
What a promising young man. He just acted in the first drama and went to prison. His life is really thorough enough.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" brought him back to the entertainment industry. After he was released from prison, he returned to the troupe. The actors must not be able to enter (it is a miracle that he can return to his original unit after being in prison and still return to his original unit). He can only work as a salesperson in the troupe's trading company.
During his three-year salesman, Lu Shuming still kept his throat hanging every day and did not miss his professional skills.
He firmly believes that as long as people are still in the theater troupe and their business is not abandoned, there is still hope of becoming an actor.
Hard work pays off. In 1986, he played roles in two dramas again, and he was still a salesperson at this time.
1989, Zhang Yimou met Lu Shuming at a dinner party. His heroic temperament left a deep impression on Zhang Yimou. Soon, Zhang Yimou threw an olive branch to him - inviting him to play the role of Qin Shihuang in " Ancient and Modern Wars of the Qin Terracotta Warriors ".
Unfortunately, in this movie, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li are the protagonists. Although Lu Shuming performed excellent skills, he can only be a foil.
In those years, Lu Shuming took on various roles, mostly playing supporting roles, and his income was barely enough. He began to doubt whether it was worth it to stick to the path of actors.
. When he worked in the aerial photography industry for four years before, his salary increased higher and higher. Lu Shuming began to have the intention of returning to his old business: to continue to do aviation photography.
At this moment, a letter of recruitment for the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" hits in front of you. What a good guy, it’s the CCTV crew recruiting people!
This letter has been delivered for many days. Lu Shuming only saw it when he returned home. When he rode his bicycle to the location in a hurry, there was only one hour left before the recruitment ended. The actors were selected and the interviewers had basically left.
Lu Shuming refused to give up and begged the interviewer to give him another chance.
The interviewer saw Lu Shuming's majestic and burly figure, and thought for a moment that the stylist gave him a look of Guan Yu.
Lu Shuming, who was wearing the costume, found his feelings instantly. He walked to the center of the stage, and 's energy sinks into Dantian , and he acted in a trick and said a line.
immediately stands out, face is righteous, Danfeng Eyes is very vivid.
The staff of the examination room were overjoyed and hurriedly called the interview teachers who had already left the venue and said that a "god man" had come.
interviewers rushed to the scene and saw Lu Shuming, and immediately decided to let him play Guan Yu.
That's it, Lu Shuming's intention to leave the entertainment industry was pulled back to by "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Compared to love and recognition, salary is considered a yarn.
shaping the most classic Guan Yu
Director Wang Fulin commented: "Lu Shuming is the embodiment of Guan Yu. In the next 50 years, no one can surpass the image of Guan Yu played by Lu Shuming!
More than 50 years, some people even use this version of Guan Yu as the model and shape a statue for the niche.
shows how deeply the image is.
image
If playing Zhuge Liang requires more temperament, then playing Guan Yu is more important.
is to behave in a more important way. Appearance.
Danfeng eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows; face is like a heavy date, lips are covered with grease
feet long, beard two feet long
Pretty and majestic
These are all Luo Guanzhong in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that describes Guan Yu's appearance.
translated into plain language, which means being 2 meters tall and majestic. It is rare for the appearance of Danfeng eyes and rosy lips to appear on a burly man, and it can also reflect the majestic momentum.
Looking at the entertainment industry, no one else seems to be able to find a second one except Lu Shuming.
Lu Shuming is 186cm tall, has a big bra and a round waist. He was about 35 years old when he played Guan Yu. He was very consistent with Guan Yu's image in all aspects. No wonder he was recognized during the interview.
Acting
After Lu Shuming got the script, he often locked himself in the room and read the lines repeatedly, just to understand the characters' personalities and to blurt out the lines when he was on stage.
If you feel that you have not performed well, you don’t need to ask the director to ask for it, and he will ask for a reshoot until everyone is satisfied.
How strong is his emotional infectiousness?
Guan Yu was defeated and left Maicheng, and he burst into tears and tears. This scene made all the staff on the scene cry.
The character Guan Yu does not have high requirements for literary dramas. In fact, Lu Shuming's literary dramas happen to be a shortcoming (relative to other actors).
His martial arts plays focus more on it. As long as he plays the aura of a military general, he will be a superb Guan Yu.
Interestingly, before Lu Shuming played Guan Yu, everyone did not have a general understanding of Guan Yu. After he played Guan Yu, Guan Yu was like this.
From then on, all Guan Yu's images were based on his appearance, including the Three Kingdoms game developed by Japan. This is also true:
The "Three Kingdoms" series began in the fifth generation, and Guan Yu's images gradually became consistent with Lu Shuming.
This obviously has formed a cultural symbol. His interpretation has made Guan Yu's appearance develop common understanding among the people and even the whole world.
Guan Yu is him, he is Guan Yu.
success or failure is Guan Yu
After "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" became popular, Guan Yu has become an indelible label on Lu Shuming.
Some actors who become famous and then play other roles have a bonus, such as Tang Guoqiang.
But some actors, because they play popular roles very special, have solidified their image and then play other roles, it is difficult for people to accept it. There is a good example of
, which is , Chen Xiaoxu, , played by , Lin Daiyu, . After ", Dream of Red Mansions ", she played like Lin Daiyu in everything she played. The audience could not accept her as a breakthrough role again. The same is true for Lu Shuming. He has taken on many dramas after "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but none of them are ideal.
Perhaps few people know that he played the role of the Bull Demon King in " Westward Journey ".
He once had a bond with Stephen Chow because of this drama. He had poor language communication on the set and it was difficult to match the lines. He wore a smelly and boring cow head mask and often waited for Stephen Chow for several hours. I even waited for a few hours and was temporarily cancelled.
The reason is that Stephen Chow feels that he has not acted well and has filmed it again.
Because he was very unhappy in his cooperation with Stephen Chow, Lu Shuming said angrily: It is impossible to cooperate again
In those years when Lu Shuming became popular, only the big crew dared to invite Lu Shuming to act.
After all, Guan Yu's image in the minds of the people is very majestic, so many characters are not very brave to let him play, for fear of damaging Guan Yu's image in the minds of people.
Playing Li Guang in "The Great Emperor of Han"
Otherwise, Guan Yu will succeed and fail.
Lu Shuming did not bring more opportunities to the protagonist because of his popularity, but was always on the decline.
As we grow older, there are fewer and fewer drama appointments, and Lu Shuming also begins to seek other ways out for himself.
, for example, take on township commercial performances.
He can get a reward of about 30,000 yuan when attending a township wedding banquet or commercial performance.
It’s a pity that time flies, the halo is gradually fading away, and some people no longer know him.
He no longer has the strong and burly figure he used to be, and he is so fat that he is not as good as he used to be.
sing a song in a simple venue. After singing, put down the microphone, casually find a table, and eat it on your own. This is the current situation of Lu Shuming's commercial performance.
is like the play, the righteousness of the sky,
Guan Yu is a righteous image with his brothers.
In real life, Lu Shuming, like Guan Yu, takes good care of his brothers and never leaves him.
plays Zhang Fei's Li Jingfei . A few years ago, due to stroke, , and there was no one to take care of his family. So Lu Shuming took his third brother to the nursing home he opened to take good care of his old age.
He walked around to take on commercial performances, and also to run the nursing home well and take good care of the elderly and widowed people in the hospital.
Unexpectedly, the third brother is still there, but he left first.
Things in the world are impermanent, but there are signs.
Although he is tall, he can't hold on to running around like this, not to mention that his weight had reached 200 kilograms before his death, which obviously exceeded his normal and healthy body shape.
In June 2022, Lu Shuming participated in an event and was witnessed that he was in a bad mood and could only sit on a chair and needed help from others when walking.
is already so tired and is still participating in commercial performances. Ordinary people only say that he ignores his health for money, but who knows that he is loyal.
Lu Shuming played Guan Yu alive, and in the second half of his life he integrated Guan Yu's passion and loyalty into his life.
is a good journey.
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