At that time, Ni Ping was really beautiful, dignified and friendly, and really could use the word "dream lover".
But in the talented CCTV, with the continuous influx of fresh blood such as Yang Lan and Zhou Tao, Ni Ping felt that his time had passed, so he had the idea of quitting CCTV.
At this moment, director Yang Yazhou found Ni Ping and invited her to star in the movie "Beautiful Feet", so Ni Ping walked out of the TV screen and went to the movie screen again.
0 1. Ni Ping subverts the image and plays "village girl"
In the movie "Beautiful Feet", Ni Ping changed her beautiful and luxurious image and played a very grounded "village girl"-a kind and simple rural female teacher, Zhang Meili.
Zhang Meili had a painful life experience: shortly after her marriage, her husband was sentenced to death, and a few years later, Zhang Meili's children left her.
Zhang Meili, who suffered a series of blows, pinned her hopes on the children in the village. She treats the children as her own children and tries to impart her cultural knowledge to them. She only hopes that the children can step out of the mountains and get ahead one day.
In order to prevent Miss Xia from entering the city, Zhang Meili and the children provided the extremely limited water resources in the village to Miss Xia to wash clothes and boil orange water for her. (Mr. Xia called in the film, and it is estimated that the screenwriter deliberately did it. )
Deeply moved, Mr. Xia stayed and took Zhang Meili and the children to Beijing for a long trip.
Zhang Meili, who just arrived in Beijing, and her children stood in the street, shocked by rows of tall buildings and endless cars, and even peed their pants in the bath center.
In the amusement park in Beijing, Zhang Meili cried and taught the children: Don't accept charity from others, study hard, come to Beijing to go to college, and build your hometown as beautiful as Beijing.
Zhang Meili is a traditional woman. Although she is congenial to the projectionist Wang Shu in the village, she never dares to cross the line. Their emotional struggle is worrying and distressing.
Miss Xia in Yolanda's works is a completely different independent woman. She is emotionally independent and dares to love and hate. In the process of getting along with them, I was infected by Miss Xia and decided to face my heart bravely.
But when she was ready to meet new feelings, Zhang Meili's student Wang Dahe discovered their "derailment" scene, and Zhang Meili's emotional road came to an abrupt end.
In fact, the film should have ended here, but the end of the film played a huge joke on the audience.
On Zhang Meili's way to deliver potatoes, the tractor got stuck on the track, and Zhang Meili, who was asleep, was buried in the potato pile. The train ran over her body and took her big feet. ...
The film's true display of the backward appearance and educational dilemma in the poverty-stricken mountainous areas in northwest China is moving, and Zhang Meili's words before her death touched countless audiences.
"We came into this world crying. When I leave, we should walk with a smile."
After the film was released, directors Yang Yazhou and Ni Ping invited more than 40 children from poor mountainous areas to watch the film in Beijing Cinema. When watching the movie, the children's tears swirled in their eyes, which proved that the movie was true enough.
02. From Feng Gong's personal tailor to Ni Ping's Best Lady.
In fact, at the beginning, Yang Yazhou, the director of this film, planned to shoot a story about a rural male teacher. He had already decided the leading role, Feng Gong, whom we are very familiar with.
But when Yang Yazhou found Feng Gong, Feng Gong turned down the role because it was in conflict with his schedule.
In desperation, Yang Yazhou didn't want to give up the story easily, so she replaced the protagonist with a woman and found Ni Ping to play it.
The reason why Ni Ping was chosen, director Yang Yazhou also had his own considerations: first of all, Ni Ping met her own setting for Zhang Meili, and her kind and virtuous temperament and dignified and beautiful appearance were highly compatible with the characteristics of traditional women in China;
The second reason is that Ni Ping was the host of CCTV at that time, and was deeply loved by the audience, with high popularity and huge box office appeal, so Ni Ping was the best candidate for the role of Zhang Meili.
Ni Ping lived up to the director's expectations. In order to play this role well, she came to the northwest countryside, experienced the local living environment, had in-depth exchanges with local rural teachers and drew creative inspiration.
During the filming, Ni Ping didn't eat when he was hungry, and didn't drink when he was thirsty, just to find similarities with the character. Even because of the serious water shortage in the northwest, Ni Ping didn't wash his hair for three months, and he smelled bad all over.
Through this seemingly clumsy method, Ni Ping slowly explored the same psychological state as the role.
In this way, Ni Ping and the crew spent three months in the northwest where the yellow sand filled the sky, until the filming was finished.
Many things happen, and the movie Beautiful Feet touched countless China audiences as soon as it was released.
At the Golden Rooster Awards party in 2002, this film won many awards, such as the best director, including the best actress in Ni Ping, which shows that she is absolutely not inferior to the host in performance.
03. Status quo of actors: Some people come back to fame, while others retreat behind the scenes.
It has been 19 years since the release of beautiful feet. Some actors in the film are still active in the entertainment circle, while others choose to retreat behind the scenes.
Ni Ping, as Zhang Meili, entered the big screen as an actor after leaving CCTV in 2004. She has starred in many film and television works, such as Romance, Snow in the Wind, Big Sun, and won many awards, such as the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress and the Montreal International Film Festival for Best Actress.
Not only in film and television circles, but also in painting and writing books, Ni Ping has made great achievements and made great artistic attainments. For example, Ni Ping, who has spent this year, served as a guest judge in various variety shows.
Yolanda, who plays Teacher Xia, ended her long-distance relationship with her in 2009 and entered the marriage hall. After marriage, she faded out of the film and television circle and became active in the drama stage for a long time, and won the China Golden Lion Award for Drama Performance on 20 10.
A few years later, yolanda chose to make a comeback, and received attention again with The First Half of Life. Captain won the best supporting actress in the popular movie Hundred Flowers Award, and also performed brilliantly in the recently released Chinese Doctors. It can be said that Yolanda once again reached the peak of her career after her comeback.
It is worth mentioning that Huang Hong, the guest star of "Sunglasses Boss" in the film, gradually went behind the scenes after leaving the stage of the Spring Festival Evening. In 20 13, he returned to the film circle with his own film "Time of the Fallen City", and later directed one film after another, such as "Blood Hound" and "Everything is like you".
The northwest is full of yellow sand, Zhang Meili's silent dedication, children's laughter and curiosity. Now, revisiting "Beautiful Foot", many plots in the film are still deeply moving.
Perhaps this is the charm of the film. It can make people cross the limitation of time and space, produce an emotional voice with the characters in the story, and at the same time reflect the present, making people cherish the hard-won happy life more! (Author: Pipi Shrimp)