Do you know that the beloved old man in I Love My Family has left us for more than ten years?

Who is the protagonist in I Love My Family?

Many people may say Song Dandan, while others may say Yang Lixin or Tian Liang. Actually, it's not. I love my family. I'm definitely the first Wen Xingyu to play Comrade Lao Fu.

There is not an episode in the whole drama that Lao Fu has never seen, and other characters have been absent more or less, and his lines are also the largest. It's hard to imagine what the whole play would be like without Lao Fu, a respectable and lovely family, and whether people would love them so much.

Some people may not know that Wen Xingyu was only 52 years old when he played Lao Fu, and the role of Lao Fu was 67 years old, which means that Wen Xingyu played an old man who was nearly middle-aged. At first, the white hair on his head was painted by a makeup artist.

Sadly, when Wen Xingyu left the audience who loved him in 2007, he was only 66 years old and not old enough to play Lao Fu.

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As early as 1993, the cast of "I Love My Family" found a suitable person to play Lao Fu.

By default, Fuming is the head of the family and has experienced the most historical stages, life stages and stories, so he is the primary role. Ying Da, the director of the whole drama, initially identified the actor as Zhu Xu, an old actor in human arts. Because of the relationship between Zhu Xu and his father Ying Ruocheng, he was called Zhu since he was a child.

Zhu Xu has appeared in many stage classic dramas, and also participated in the filming of film and television dramas such as The Last Emperor. In the process of writing the script "I Love My Family", Ying Da specially invited Zhu Xu to play the most important role of Fu Ming, and invited Zhu Xu to watch the script of "Uninvited Guests".

The play is the representative work of Ying Zhuang, one of the screenwriters. Later, because of Ge You's performance (reinterpreted as "Ge You Lie" in the summer of 20 16), it became the masterpiece of the play. However, due to the scheduling problem, Zhu Xu was unable to take part in the filming and went to shoot the movie "Heart Fragrance".

Now think about what would happen if Zhu Xu really hit Laofu? I believe that with his acting skills, he can naturally create a typical image. However, Shi Hang, a drama critic, once made a judgment that Zhu Xu should be able to play an old comrade like Lao Fu in MengMeng, but he is absolutely "not as cute as Wen Xingyu's program". Maybe so.

Ying Da was busy looking for other candidates, and Ying Ruocheng recommended Wen Xingyu, vice president of the Central Experimental Theatre (later merged into China National Theatre).

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1993 Wen Xingyu is 52 years old. He is a good student in the performance department of the Central Academy of Drama. He usually goes to the library to read books, and his professional skills are very solid. 1963 After graduation, Wen Xingyu worked as an actor in the Central Experimental Theatre, and his colleagues called him "Big Wen Zi". Although I like acting, I have never had a chance to show all my talents because of my limited image.

According to screenwriter Ying Zhuang, Wen Xingyu can't be a good person or a bad person on the stage of drama. Wen Xingyu's teeth (the plural of the poor) are particularly large and his image is poor, which can't play a positive role; Then he plays the villain, but his height 1.83 meters is too high. Standing on the stage is not good for other positive people. After the Cultural Revolution, Wen Xingyu simply turned to be a drama director and gradually became famous in the circle.

At that time, Wen Xingyu was a cutting-edge director who was good at practicing new ideas in drama. He has directed He Shibi, Soul and Meat, Song of the Wind, Silence, The True Story of Ah Q, When the Maple Leaves are Red, etc. And the technique of each play is different. Cai He shows the process of women's childbearing, which has never appeared on the stage and is very exploratory. Spirit and flesh also try to be very different during the performance.

To Ying Da, Wen Xingyu is an acquaintance. In Love You, Wen Xingyu once acted as an actor's performance director and played the role of Wang Chuang. When Wen Xingyu was at home somehow, Ying Da was ordered to look for him. For the most important role in the whole drama, Lao Fu, Wen Xingyu has some drums in his heart. He hasn't concentrated on acting for more than ten years, which is not qualified.

So Wen Xingyu said to Ying Da, I can try first and do my best, but if I can't play a few episodes, you can change people. Ying Da soon decided to let Wen Xingyu play Fu Ming. It stands to reason that Wen Xingyu was still a "young" cadre at that time, but this time he directly became an old man in his 60 s.

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According to the plot design, Fu Ming is 67 years old and Wen Xingyu is only 52 years old. The gap with the age of the role also makes him feel that the TV series has been shooting for a long time.

Feelings are gradually found. Careful viewers will find that in some plays, such as In that Far Away Place, Lao Fu speaks faster and louder, more like a middle-aged man close to his age, and then changes.

Wen Xingyu tried to change the speed and intonation of his speech, and found that the audience responded enthusiastically, so he strengthened it and gradually formed the speech style of Lao Fu, a veteran cadre. This way of speaking was later familiar to TV viewers, and Wen Xingyu also used this "warm voice" many times in many film and television works.

Playing the lovely veteran cadre Lao Fu, Wen Xingyu refers to some images of his father. His father works in Yan 'an Party School and is a veritable veteran cadre. However, when he is old, he has the kind of "old urchin" who often makes fun of his family.

When I Love My Family was broadcast, it was accused of ridiculing veteran cadres too much, but Wen Xingyu himself disagreed. In his eyes, no matter how tall a person is, you are first of all alone, and there are old people, and most of them have old children at home. Joking doesn't mean offending, he can totally accept the jokes in the play.

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The scene with the highest frequency in the whole drama is Jia's living room, followed by the dining room, and there are not many shots in Lao Fu's bedroom. As you can see, there is a photo of husband and wife hanging on the bedroom wall, which is Wen Xingyu and his lover Zhang Kejing.

Zhang Ke Jing used to be a professional diver, who was famous all over the country for starring in the film "Female Divers of the Diving Team". After job-hopping, Zhang Kejing entered the experimental theater where Wen Xingyu was located. At that time, he was the secretary of the Youth League Committee of the Theater. Wen Xingyu already knows about Zhang Kejing. Zhang Kejing had never seen him before, but when she first met Wen Xingyu, she felt as if she had seen this man somewhere. This fate finally brought them together.

That black and white photo was taken in Dongdan Park. At that time, Wen Xingyu and Zhang Kejing had just been married for about a year and had no children. That day they went to Dongdan Park with their colleagues to watch a play, and their colleagues took photos with them. In the photo, Wen Xingyu is wearing a hat, which is also a habit he developed when he was young. He wears a hat every time he goes out. Therefore, Zhang Kejing's grandmother became suspicious and asked Zhang Kejing specifically. Why does the man you are looking for always wear a hat? Are you bald? On the contrary, Wen Xingyu had thick hair at that time.

During the filming, the crew asked Wen Xingyu if there was a photo with his lover at home. When he got home, he chose this. This precious photo still hangs in Zhang Kejing's bedroom, as if his wife had never left.

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On July 30, 2007, Wen Xingyu died of illness forever.

In the last days, he couldn't speak, and both of them wrote with notebooks. Wen Xingyu wrote a lot of "love" words, which overlapped because of poor physical strength and eyesight. Zhang Kejing understands this word because they have never quarreled for decades, and their eating habits can be changed for each other. According to her arrangement, there are eight words engraved on the back of Wen Xingyu's tombstone: Youth is gone, love lasts forever.

Every year when Wen Xingyu of Tomb-Sweeping Day died, Zhang Kejing would drive to the cemetery to see his wife and chat with him. According to their agreement, she will bring a rose every time she goes up the mountain.