On May 9, the famous actor Qin Yi died in East China Hospital at 4:08 in the morning. "People's Artist" is in his 100th birthday, and "the most beautiful struggler" is 100 years old.
Ishi Chuan, vice-chairman of the Shanghai Film Association and professor of the Shanghai Theater Academy, mentioned in his own impression that Qin Yi's beauty transcends the times, "I have seen her on many occasions. Even in her old age. When I attended the event, I never saw her leaning on a cane, she was always in high spirits."
In 1938, 17-year-old Qin Yi ran out of the house alone. "She is going to the rear to join the field ambulance team in Wuhan. When she arrived at the dock, the boat's springboard had been removed, and the boat was leaving the shore. But she didn't care, she ran a few steps and jumped... This moment , like the stop-motion shots in the movie, the symbolism is too rich! Not only did he leave the life of a longtang girl behind, but also started a long and beautiful artistic life since then." Ishikawa said.
There is no distinction between the north and the south of the land, and there is no distinction between the old and the young. In Chongqing, Qin Yi actively starred in many progressive dramas such as "The Grass and Trees Are Soldiers" and "Drama Spring and Autumn". At that time, she and Zhang Ruifang, Bai Yang and Shu Xiuwen were called "Four Famous Dan". Among the four dan, Qin Yi is the youngest, especially famous for her beauty. "However, Duke Zhou said that she was 'the most beautiful woman in China' and that her second husband Jin Yan was 'China's concubine' and so on. These must have been fabricated by later generations." Ishikawa recalled that after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of literary and artistic Workers returned to Shanghai one after another, and Qin Yi really began to make a name for herself on the big screen.
Ishikawa said that Xiao Yuanxi, a university professor played by Zhao Dan in the film, is a traditional macho image, he loves Yu Zhen's beauty, and wants to transform her according to his own ideas, "but I didn't expect it to be like this. The awakening of personal consciousness and female consciousness has become more and more 'unable to hold' his wife. This is very similar to Qin Yi's growth path. When she first stepped into society, she was an ignorant girl and the teacher beside her. Peer, it is the real society that makes her mature gradually."
In 1949, after the founding of New China, Qin Yi, like many actors in Shanghai, faced the transformation of her personal screen image. "With so many film studios and actors in Shanghai, everyone was once faced with a situation where there was no drama to play and what to do." Ishikawa said, "Most of these actors are from the Kuomintang-ruled areas and have never been in contact with workers, peasants and soldiers. How do you manage their temperament and image? A question. Can it be played well? It all depends on the luck of encountering the script."
The times call for transformation. Examples of success and failure can be enumerated: in the 1950 film "Female Driver", Shu Xiuwen played the role of Sun Guilan, the first batch of female train drivers in New China, which was not satisfactory; in the 1960 film "Dongmei", Bai Yang played the role of the Red Army girl. Cadres, "according to the tone and the tone", are also difficult to say successful. In 1955, Shangguan Yunzhu starred in "South Island Wind and Cloud", and her role as a female nurse won a lot of applause; in 1954, "Crossing the River Scout" directed by Tang Xiaodan, Sun Daolin changed the white-faced scholar and successfully shaped the role of the female nurse. Company Commander Li, and gave our soldiers a wise and wise side.
The highest good is like water, and the transformation "does not have brilliance"
Ishikawa recalled that in that era, everyone was trying to catch up. In 1951, Qin Yi and Wang Renmei co-starred in the drama "Two Springs", playing the role of a child bride from the northern countryside. "This is a typical story of a big daughter-in-law and a small husband. Qin Yi's performance was not ideal, and she was even criticized as a 'petty bourgeoisie in peasant clothes'. She looks so beautiful, no matter how she dresses up She is not like a simple village woman. But she is a very strong person. The excitement of this incident made her heart sway. She carried the blanket on her back and followed the crew to live in the countryside of Laiyang, Shandong Province. She lived in a village full of cow dung. I lived in the house for half a month at a stretch."
Lost to the east, harvested mulberry. "Without the disadvantage of "Two Springs", there would not have been Mrs. Fanglin in the 1955 film "Railway Guerrilla". Does it look like it? It's three-pointed. We just look at Qin Yi's image in it. The hair bun and the bun at the back are exactly what the village women in Shandong looked like back then. The cotton padded jacket was not worn on the body, but was draped over the body. Walking a few steps is also the local gait. These details are not fundamental to life. It's impossible to act. Qin Yi has finally completed a successful transformation of her personal screen image. Of course, she doesn't have a lot of roles in this man's play, but it doesn't violate harmony, and it's glorious."
In Ishikawa's view, the ultimate achievement of Qin Yi's status in the new Chinese film industry is the representative work of the domestic sports film "Women's Basketball No. 5" (1957), "It can be said that in this film, Cao Qiwei, an athlete, is mainly responsible." Basketball', and the suffering couple played by two veteran actors Liu Qiong and Qin Yi propped up the 'play'."
Recalling Lin Hong's lines before her death, "A revolutionary should not be imprisoned, even if she sacrificed her own life, she not only does not feel wronged, but also feels honored." It is worth repeating. With Sister Jiang played by Yu Lan in "Eternal Life in Fire", and "Zhao Yiman" starring Shi Lianxing, in similar plots, their performances and states are different.
"Lin Hong, played by Qin Yi, is not a heroic heroine, she has the bookish air of the city, and she has to tidy her hair before leaving and give her beloved red scarf to the inmates... So it's like I just now As for Sun Daolin mentioned, the times gave them an opportunity, and they also enriched the connotation of the times with their talents.” In Ishikawa’s view, there is no lack of this unique temperament in the old movies of the 1950s and 1960s, “It’s just that we today People are too impetuous, if you have the patience to taste it, you can feel a lot of taste in it."
The post-90s beautiful girl wow? Thanks!
In 1979, after the reform and opening up, Qin Yi returned to the film industry and played roles in "Overseas Innocent" and "The Distressed Smile". In the early 1980s, she began to serve as the deputy head of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe. Ishikawa recalled that Qin Yi's most impressive role during this period was in the movie "Thunderstorm" directed by Sun Daolin. "Everywhere Mr. Qin puts it is 'big Tsing Yi'. I heard her recall the past. Earlier in the drama "Thunderstorm", she played Fan Yi and Sifeng, but I didn't expect her to change roles in the movie.' Lao Dan' Lu Ma. This is a big leap for her."
The 1984 Shanghai version of "Thunderstorm" and the 1961 Hong Kong version of "Thunderstorm" can be described as the twins of this classic drama on the big screen. "The Hong Kong version of "Thunderstorm" is also a relatively representative Hong Kong left-wing movie. The mother Lu in the film is played by Gong Qiuxia, and she was once a big star in Shanghai. But compared with the mother Lu played by Qin Yi, it is obvious that the latter It is more able to achieve a life-like performance without traces." Ishikawa said.
The days increase people's longevity, and the years never defeat the beauty. Recalling the interaction with the old man Qin Yi, Ishikawa thought of everyone celebrating her 90th birthday with her, "At that time, everyone called her 'post-90s'. At first, she didn't understand what post-90s meant. Then she was very happy, Do you know? She immediately accepted this statement, and she was very willing to be called a beautiful girl born in the 1990s. When you talk to her like this, she has to say, 'Thank you', with a smile on her face. I think It is this energy of life that supports her, and she radiates this positive energy to the people around her."
After the death of her son "little brother" (Jin Jie), although Qin Yi couldn't hide her grief, she soon returned to work. Tong Ruixin, the current head of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe, once recalled, "I always remember Mr. Qin Yi's words that my age is not determined by me, but my life can be determined by me. Not working hard."
What makes Ishikawa unforgettable is also the 2008 movie "My Strong Boat" directed by Peng Xiaolian, in which she plays a very sincere relationship between the mother and the little grandson. "There is a scene in the film. Qin Yi points to the photo of Jin Yan hanging on the wall and traces the past to Sun Sun. Do you think Qin Yi was acting at that time, or was she acting herself? She was already taking her own life. It extends naturally to the screen."
Ishikawa emphasized that in Qin Yi's series of works in her later years, she wrote and acted in the self-financed film "Qinghai Lake" when she was 93 years old, which was especially sincere. "We all thought this incident was incredible at the time, but the old man said that the touching story of female meteorological engineer Mei Xin Yishe's small family for the country had been in her mind for ten years, and she had to write it down. She didn't want to. She knows how to use a computer. We saw her write a paragraph in the movie. If she wasn't satisfied, she tore that page down, tore it off, and threw it away... In reality, she completed the script in this way."
The shooting of "Qinghai Lakeside" was even more difficult. At that time, someone thought about the health of the old man and persuaded her to set up a set in a studio in Shanghai, but Qin Yi insisted that artistic creation cannot be separated from reality, "I must personally go to life and go to the plateau to shoot on the spot, so that I can come from life, Higher than life, can you move the audience and be worthy of the audience.”
Recalling this past incident, Ishikawa was also very sad, "I really gave up my life to shoot. I don't know if this can be declared in the Guinness Book of World Records. It did have an impact on the old man's body. Where did she go before? Walking is very stable.”
In "The Legend of the Demon Cat" directed by Chen Kaige in 2017, considering Qin Yi's physical condition, her role was only three days. "The old lady she played sat there, and without a few lines, the poetry came. It was written in Yuan Zhen's "Xinggong", 'The white-headed palace maid is here, sit and talk about Xuanzong'. She doesn't need to' act at all. 'This word, as long as she is in front of the camera, is a beautiful landscape. I think that was her most dazzling role in her later years." Ishikawa said.
Ishi Chuan, vice-chairman of the Shanghai Film Association and professor of the Shanghai Theater Academy, mentioned in his own impression that Qin Yi's beauty transcends the times, "I have seen her on many occasions. Even in her old age. When I attended the event, I never saw her leaning on a cane, she was always in high spirits."
In 2017, in the lounge of the Shanghai Film Museum, Ishikawa (right) took a group photo with Qin Yi
Take a leap, "like a stop-motion shot in a movie"In 1938, 17-year-old Qin Yi ran out of the house alone. "She is going to the rear to join the field ambulance team in Wuhan. When she arrived at the dock, the boat's springboard had been removed, and the boat was leaving the shore. But she didn't care, she ran a few steps and jumped... This moment , like the stop-motion shots in the movie, the symbolism is too rich! Not only did he leave the life of a longtang girl behind, but also started a long and beautiful artistic life since then." Ishikawa said.
There is no distinction between the north and the south of the land, and there is no distinction between the old and the young. In Chongqing, Qin Yi actively starred in many progressive dramas such as "The Grass and Trees Are Soldiers" and "Drama Spring and Autumn". At that time, she and Zhang Ruifang, Bai Yang and Shu Xiuwen were called "Four Famous Dan". Among the four dan, Qin Yi is the youngest, especially famous for her beauty. "However, Duke Zhou said that she was 'the most beautiful woman in China' and that her second husband Jin Yan was 'China's concubine' and so on. These must have been fabricated by later generations." Ishikawa recalled that after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, a large number of literary and artistic Workers returned to Shanghai one after another, and Qin Yi really began to make a name for herself on the big screen.
"Distant Love" poster
"Distant Love", directed by Chen Liting in 1947, can be regarded as the Chinese version of "My Fair Lady" and is also Qin Yi's famous film. "Chen Liting and Qin Yi can be described as best friends. During the 'War of Resistance Drama Movement', they worked together to rehearse dramas. Chen Liting was her driving force behind the scenes. When they returned to Shanghai to make movies together, they would naturally think of old friends. "Distant" "The Love of Love" is about a modern woman who is growing up in a big era, and there are certain similarities between the image of the maid Yu Zhen and Qin Yi's own experience."Ishikawa said that Xiao Yuanxi, a university professor played by Zhao Dan in the film, is a traditional macho image, he loves Yu Zhen's beauty, and wants to transform her according to his own ideas, "but I didn't expect it to be like this. The awakening of personal consciousness and female consciousness has become more and more 'unable to hold' his wife. This is very similar to Qin Yi's growth path. When she first stepped into society, she was an ignorant girl and the teacher beside her. Peer, it is the real society that makes her mature gradually."
In 1949, after the founding of New China, Qin Yi, like many actors in Shanghai, faced the transformation of her personal screen image. "With so many film studios and actors in Shanghai, everyone was once faced with a situation where there was no drama to play and what to do." Ishikawa said, "Most of these actors are from the Kuomintang-ruled areas and have never been in contact with workers, peasants and soldiers. How do you manage their temperament and image? A question. Can it be played well? It all depends on the luck of encountering the script."
The times call for transformation. Examples of success and failure can be enumerated: in the 1950 film "Female Driver", Shu Xiuwen played the role of Sun Guilan, the first batch of female train drivers in New China, which was not satisfactory; in the 1960 film "Dongmei", Bai Yang played the role of the Red Army girl. Cadres, "according to the tone and the tone", are also difficult to say successful. In 1955, Shangguan Yunzhu starred in "South Island Wind and Cloud", and her role as a female nurse won a lot of applause; in 1954, "Crossing the River Scout" directed by Tang Xiaodan, Sun Daolin changed the white-faced scholar and successfully shaped the role of the female nurse. Company Commander Li, and gave our soldiers a wise and wise side.
The highest good is like water, and the transformation "does not have brilliance"
Ishikawa recalled that in that era, everyone was trying to catch up. In 1951, Qin Yi and Wang Renmei co-starred in the drama "Two Springs", playing the role of a child bride from the northern countryside. "This is a typical story of a big daughter-in-law and a small husband. Qin Yi's performance was not ideal, and she was even criticized as a 'petty bourgeoisie in peasant clothes'. She looks so beautiful, no matter how she dresses up She is not like a simple village woman. But she is a very strong person. The excitement of this incident made her heart sway. She carried the blanket on her back and followed the crew to live in the countryside of Laiyang, Shandong Province. She lived in a village full of cow dung. I lived in the house for half a month at a stretch."
Lost to the east, harvested mulberry. "Without the disadvantage of "Two Springs", there would not have been Mrs. Fanglin in the 1955 film "Railway Guerrilla". Does it look like it? It's three-pointed. We just look at Qin Yi's image in it. The hair bun and the bun at the back are exactly what the village women in Shandong looked like back then. The cotton padded jacket was not worn on the body, but was draped over the body. Walking a few steps is also the local gait. These details are not fundamental to life. It's impossible to act. Qin Yi has finally completed a successful transformation of her personal screen image. Of course, she doesn't have a lot of roles in this man's play, but it doesn't violate harmony, and it's glorious."
"Railway Guerrilla" stills
"That generation of actresses is facing a big challenge, whether it is social thought, aesthetic concept, or movie content is facing a huge transformation, which requires actors to transform. Qin Yi not only turned around, but also achieved very high. If you want to find an explanation in the subconscious, I think Qin Yi is like water. Water is invisible, but its plasticity is the highest. In Taoist speech, the highest good is like water, and water is good for all things without fighting. This is also what she has experienced in the future. The reason why I always survived tenaciously.”In Ishikawa's view, the ultimate achievement of Qin Yi's status in the new Chinese film industry is the representative work of the domestic sports film "Women's Basketball No. 5" (1957), "It can be said that in this film, Cao Qiwei, an athlete, is mainly responsible." Basketball', and the suffering couple played by two veteran actors Liu Qiong and Qin Yi propped up the 'play'."
"Women's Basketball No. 5" poster
"Speaking of which, Qin Yi's most glorious role has to go back to the urban women who wear cheongsams and have permed hair. When "Women's Basketball No. 5" was filmed, Qin Yi was 34 years old, a little fat, and not very good at fighting. Basketball. But it's not difficult for her. When she was in school, she would play some boys' sports, horizontal bars, parallel bars, climbing poles. These are all good, why can't basketball? At that time, the actor's training base was in a busy city. The Jing'an Gymnasium in the center is not far from her home. She put on jerseys and shorts and ran and jumped with the athletes.""Song of Youth" stills, Xie Fang as Lin Daojing, Qin Yi as Lin Hong
Lin Hong, an underground party member in the film "Song of Youth" released in 1959, is another unforgettable screen image of Qin Yi. Qin Yi lacked self-confidence at first. Lin Hong was locked up in prison and suffered so many punishments. How can she act like she is so white and fat? "Director Cui Wei told her that the key is to have a sense of belief. The role is more tangible. As long as the actor has a fulfilling inner life, it doesn't matter how he looks. This sentence seems to wake up Qin Yi."Recalling Lin Hong's lines before her death, "A revolutionary should not be imprisoned, even if she sacrificed her own life, she not only does not feel wronged, but also feels honored." It is worth repeating. With Sister Jiang played by Yu Lan in "Eternal Life in Fire", and "Zhao Yiman" starring Shi Lianxing, in similar plots, their performances and states are different.
"Lin Hong, played by Qin Yi, is not a heroic heroine, she has the bookish air of the city, and she has to tidy her hair before leaving and give her beloved red scarf to the inmates... So it's like I just now As for Sun Daolin mentioned, the times gave them an opportunity, and they also enriched the connotation of the times with their talents.” In Ishikawa’s view, there is no lack of this unique temperament in the old movies of the 1950s and 1960s, “It’s just that we today People are too impetuous, if you have the patience to taste it, you can feel a lot of taste in it."
The post-90s beautiful girl wow? Thanks!
In 1979, after the reform and opening up, Qin Yi returned to the film industry and played roles in "Overseas Innocent" and "The Distressed Smile". In the early 1980s, she began to serve as the deputy head of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe. Ishikawa recalled that Qin Yi's most impressive role during this period was in the movie "Thunderstorm" directed by Sun Daolin. "Everywhere Mr. Qin puts it is 'big Tsing Yi'. I heard her recall the past. Earlier in the drama "Thunderstorm", she played Fan Yi and Sifeng, but I didn't expect her to change roles in the movie.' Lao Dan' Lu Ma. This is a big leap for her."
The 1984 Shanghai version of "Thunderstorm" and the 1961 Hong Kong version of "Thunderstorm" can be described as the twins of this classic drama on the big screen. "The Hong Kong version of "Thunderstorm" is also a relatively representative Hong Kong left-wing movie. The mother Lu in the film is played by Gong Qiuxia, and she was once a big star in Shanghai. But compared with the mother Lu played by Qin Yi, it is obvious that the latter It is more able to achieve a life-like performance without traces." Ishikawa said.
"Thunderstorm" stills, Qin Yi (first from the left) as Mother Lu
What moved Ishikawa the most was that Qin Yi's health had not been very good. He had undergone several major operations, and his gallbladder had also been removed. "But she was never seen sick, and she was only heard making fun of her illness. She always called herself a 'braveless hero'."The days increase people's longevity, and the years never defeat the beauty. Recalling the interaction with the old man Qin Yi, Ishikawa thought of everyone celebrating her 90th birthday with her, "At that time, everyone called her 'post-90s'. At first, she didn't understand what post-90s meant. Then she was very happy, Do you know? She immediately accepted this statement, and she was very willing to be called a beautiful girl born in the 1990s. When you talk to her like this, she has to say, 'Thank you', with a smile on her face. I think It is this energy of life that supports her, and she radiates this positive energy to the people around her."
After the death of her son "little brother" (Jin Jie), although Qin Yi couldn't hide her grief, she soon returned to work. Tong Ruixin, the current head of the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe, once recalled, "I always remember Mr. Qin Yi's words that my age is not determined by me, but my life can be determined by me. Not working hard."
What makes Ishikawa unforgettable is also the 2008 movie "My Strong Boat" directed by Peng Xiaolian, in which she plays a very sincere relationship between the mother and the little grandson. "There is a scene in the film. Qin Yi points to the photo of Jin Yan hanging on the wall and traces the past to Sun Sun. Do you think Qin Yi was acting at that time, or was she acting herself? She was already taking her own life. It extends naturally to the screen."
"My Strong Boat" stills
In front of the camera, "she is a beautiful landscape"Ishikawa emphasized that in Qin Yi's series of works in her later years, she wrote and acted in the self-financed film "Qinghai Lake" when she was 93 years old, which was especially sincere. "We all thought this incident was incredible at the time, but the old man said that the touching story of female meteorological engineer Mei Xin Yishe's small family for the country had been in her mind for ten years, and she had to write it down. She didn't want to. She knows how to use a computer. We saw her write a paragraph in the movie. If she wasn't satisfied, she tore that page down, tore it off, and threw it away... In reality, she completed the script in this way."
The shooting of "Qinghai Lakeside" was even more difficult. At that time, someone thought about the health of the old man and persuaded her to set up a set in a studio in Shanghai, but Qin Yi insisted that artistic creation cannot be separated from reality, "I must personally go to life and go to the plateau to shoot on the spot, so that I can come from life, Higher than life, can you move the audience and be worthy of the audience.”
Recalling this past incident, Ishikawa was also very sad, "I really gave up my life to shoot. I don't know if this can be declared in the Guinness Book of World Records. It did have an impact on the old man's body. Where did she go before? Walking is very stable.”
In "The Legend of the Demon Cat" directed by Chen Kaige in 2017, considering Qin Yi's physical condition, her role was only three days. "The old lady she played sat there, and without a few lines, the poetry came. It was written in Yuan Zhen's "Xinggong", 'The white-headed palace maid is here, sit and talk about Xuanzong'. She doesn't need to' act at all. 'This word, as long as she is in front of the camera, is a beautiful landscape. I think that was her most dazzling role in her later years." Ishikawa said.
Stills of "The Legend of the Demon Cat"
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