Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, May 9 -
Title: Hong Kong actor Simon Yam: good movies always deliver positive energy
Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Min
In the 90th anniversary gift film "The Founding of the Party", he starred in the famous modern industrialist Zhang Jian, and he was the first to appear in the film. He was the first to appear in the film. In the 70th anniversary gift film "Me and My Motherland", he played a role. Master watch repairer, the police wife who will attend the power transfer ceremony on the day of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland asked him to proofread the time of the watch. He was full of confidence: “Don’t worry, there is no difference in one second”; , He played the inheritor of a century cake shop and won the China TV Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor for his simple and sincere performance.
It is a Hong Kong actor who has participated in so many positive energy dramas with the main theme.
He debuted for more than 40 years and is well-known in both acting and life.
He is the actor Ren Dahua.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party.
Ren Dahua said that although he has not experienced the history of the establishment of the Communist Party of China in the 1920s, it is an honor to be able to participate in it through acting.
Now, whether in fighting the epidemic or in poverty alleviation, China has achieved impressive results, thanks to the communists "putting the happiness of the people first."
Good movies always convey positive energy
When the national anthem was played, he could not help standing up while listening to the live broadcast alone on the roof of the building, put his right hand on his chest, looked up at the starry sky with tears in his eyes, and the fireworks celebrating his return bloomed in the night sky.
There is not a single line in this scene in "My Country and Me", but it is worth a thousand words.
For Ren Dahua, who has experienced the return, this scene has always been in his heart.
On the evening of June 30, 1997, he stayed at home early to watch the TV broadcast of the power transfer ceremony.
At 0:00 on July 1, amid the majestic national anthem, the national flag of the People's Republic of China and the regional flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region rose slowly, and thunderous applause rang out from the venue.
"It was raining outside, I was very excited, and my eyes were wet. I finally have my own identity. I am a Chinese!" When filming, he found the feeling when he recalled the scene.
In "Macao People", he played Liang Dingwen, the inheritor of the century-old cake shop, and led the family to stick to it in the turmoil, and finally ushered in new development opportunities and hopes.
Liang Dingwen's perseverance is the epitome of the people of Macau. It is precisely because of such a group of ordinary people who stand with the motherland with faith that there is a prosperous Macau today.
"Believe, heart, and confidence" is the family motto of the Liang family, and it is also the sentiment that Ren Dahua knows well.
"Hong Kong is the same. From the past years, only by relying on the big tree of the motherland can we achieve better development and progress."
In "The Founding of the Party" he played Zhang Jian, the "king of industry", a genre he had never played before.
Although there are not many scenes, he can play such a patriotic industrialist and participate in this drama that reflects the history of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. He cherishes it very much.
In addition to listening to the speech, Ren Dahua himself also checked the information to understand the role and historical background.
When he played this play, he felt how difficult it was to establish a political party whose original intention was to seek happiness for the people in China, which was full of internal and external troubles and sufferings at the time.
"A good movie moves people with emotion and always conveys positive energy", Ren Dahua is not tired of this.
"Chinese hands are sentimental"
When he was young and poor, Ren Dahua went out to shoot commercials to make money to support his family, and thus embarked on the road of acting.
In many years of filming career, Ren Dahua has accumulated and sharpened his acting skills a little bit. In 2010, he won the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for his film "The Thief of the Moon".
In "The Thief of Time", he plays a shoe repairer, just like the watch repairer of "My Motherland and Me" and the macaroon chef of "Macao People", he is a craftsman.
"Chinese hands can create so many good things for the world, it is the most remarkable." Ren Dahua said, while spreading out his big hands, "I am proud that I am Chinese. I have a pair of Chinese hands."
He said that the hands of Chinese people are sentimental, and they can convey enthusiasm, friendship and warmth.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Ren Dahua traveled to the mainland. At that time, the traffic in the mainland was inconvenient and the materials were scarce. However, wherever he went, the locals were very friendly and hospitable.
Once he went to Jiamusi, Heilongjiang in a boat and car, and encountered a heavy snowfall.
In the freezing cold, a family opened the door, raised their hand to greet him to enter the house, "come in and eat together."
There was heavy snow outside, and the house was warm like spring.
"That scene seems to have happened yesterday."
Ren Dahua, a native of Shandong, often said "I am from Shandong".
He has traveled all over Shandong over the years, but Taishan has never had the chance to go.
At the end of last year, he was found in a movie filmed in Tai'an, and he agreed without saying a word.
"How can Shandong people have never been to Mount Tai." He said.
In 2 months, he went to Tarzan 15 times, and he was addicted.
Perhaps it is connected by blood. A native of Hong Kong, he actually loves Shandong green onions and garlic. "Why is it so sweet?"
After traveling all over the country, Ren Dahua could not forget the first time he saw a birch forest in the northeast.
It was an autumn, and the wind was very strong, and the golden leaves rustled. He had never seen such a scene in the south all the year round.
"Stop!" He ran to the side of the road and recorded the sound of the wind and the singing of birch leaves in the wind with a tape recorder.
He was amazed by the vastness of the motherland with different scenery and features.
He hoped that Hong Kong friends, especially young people, would visit the mainland more to learn about the country’s history and culture.
"Go skiing in Changbai Mountain, see the big lake in Qinghai, eat roast lamb in Inner Mongolia, and taste the authentic stinky tofu in Changsha..." He said, seeing it on the spot, the feeling is completely different.
I must buy a Chinese history book every year, and I love to read the Chinese National Geographic magazine.
"These are all treasures in my heart." He said.
Looking forward to filming the return of Hong Kong
Ren Dahua in front of him is tall and tall, with a hearty laugh, and he can't see that he is over sixty years old.
"In the 1960s, the mainland was still very poor, but many good things were supplied to Hong Kong." He remembered that when he was a child, Hong Kong was short of water and the water supply was limited in time. Water supply was only available for a few hours every 4 days, and it was so hot in summer. , No water is uncomfortable.
"Later, the country brought in Dongjiang water to solve the problem of water supply." At that time, the supplies to Hong Kong included luncheon meat and canned dace in black bean sauce. "Many people of our generation grew up eating these."
Today, Hong Kong has food from all over the world.
Looking back on the road, Ren Dahua is always grateful, "Grateful that I am a Chinese, and there is a strong motherland behind us supporting us."
The rapid progress of the country made him full of pride.
He took traffic as an example. "It takes 20 minutes to drive from Central to Yuen Long in Hong Kong, but now it takes more than 20 minutes to get there by high-speed rail from Shenzhen to Guangzhou."
"The people's happiness is getting stronger and stronger." Ren Dahua said, whether it is anti-epidemic or poverty alleviation, the country has done a lot for the people. The most important thing is that the Party Central Committee always puts the happiness of the people first. "This time The world has done the best in fighting the epidemic! We are united and watchful to help each other. No matter what storms or waves we encounter, we will face them with a positive energy mentality and work together to move forward."
Hong Kong will usher in the 25th anniversary of its return next year, and Ren Dahua is looking forward to the return of the studio.
"I want to play a Ding Ding car driver, driving a tram through different ages in Hong Kong, telling the story of what happened on the tram", intertwining love, friendship and family and national conditions, reflecting the changes and struggles.
Just like the right half of the word "shoes", like "difficult" and like "good", life is "one step is hard, one step is good"-he recites the classic lines of "The Thief of Time"-"but always go forward ".