Original title: Actor Tumen died, 61-year-old “Old Beast” fell asleep
Reporter/Ni Wei
At 3:50 am on December 12, Tu Men, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, passed away due to illness at the age of 61. Last month, Tu was diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer.
Tumen were born in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia. As the descendants of the Ewenki nationality, they have been associated with horsebacks and grasslands throughout their lives. The role he played the most was the prairie prince. The first role was the general in “Genghis Khan”. The directorial debut in his later years also told the story of the Ewenki nationality.
However, what made him shine was the characters in his later years that deeply interpreted the hearts of the elderly-he won many honors for his “Farewell” and “Old Beast”.
After the death of Tu Men, many people in the entertainment industry who had worked with him sent messages to mourn him. Actor Hui Yinghong, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress in the same year as him, said, “I would rather believe that the old beast just fell asleep…”
“Old bastard”
Tu Men has entered the public eye in recent years, starting with the 2017 film “Old Beast”, which earned him honors such as the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor. This is his transformation after he entered middle age at the age of 55.
In 2015, in the movie “Farewell”, he played the story of the last moments of the life of Mongolian director Safu. He shaved his hair and eyebrows in order to play the role of Sef in cancer chemotherapy. Director Zhou Ziyang was attracted by Tu Men’s performance and invited him to star in “The Old Beast”.
The Lao Yang played by Tumen once tasted the taste of Chafu in the market economy wave, and went bankrupt and wandered all day. His wife has been in bed for many years, but he stole the surgery fees that the children had collected for her. His unbearable children tied him up, and he took the children to court. The original name of “Old Beast” was “Old Bastard”. Tu people felt that Lao Yang had many shadows of people around him. “I think he is representative and the economy is developing rapidly. After all thinking and emotions are transferred to money, What is lost is the emotional level. In the third- and fourth-tier cities where he is located, the image of the old beast is still a lot.”
The picture comes from the screenshot of the web videoOn the night of the Golden Horse Awards, the camera filmed Tus napping in their seats. After waking up, he won the best actor. He was 57 years old that year. The Golden Horse Award gave him the reason for the award: “He played the role of an old man who is no longer beautiful but still fighting against the beasts. His wonderful performance is the soul of the film.” After taking the stage, he accepted the trophy with a smile, “I won all the awards. By luck”.
“Old Beast” brought him many trophies and praise. The Ninth China Film Directors Association also awarded him the Actor of the Year. The award speech read: “A traceless gesture, an immersive inner shaping, an old man in a strange madness, a projection of a period of time after the rush of time.”
In “Wu Hai” released this year, Tu Men and Zhou Ziyang once again cooperated. This is also a family story trapped in many contradictions. Tu Men played the role of father-in-law. His silent performance created a strong sense of depression. “Thank you for each movie and different characters for giving me a new life.” He was talking And said when working with the director again.
“Not reconciled”
“Prairie princes, princes and nobles, Genghis Khan, Zuo Lengchan, etc., have also brought me some distress. The movie we love, it will kidnap you and turn you into a genre.” After winning the Golden Horse Award During the interview, he talked about his own distress, “I have also wondered for a long time, how to get out of here, and whether I can try other characters and expand some drama.”
In the first half of his acting career, he was indeed almost overwhelmed by Mongolian characters. He was born in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia in 1960 and was put on horseback at the age of six. In 1985, when he was a junior at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, he participated in the first film “Genghis Khan” and entered the performance industry. He has played Genghis Khan twice in “Genghis Khan” and “Stop Killing Order”. He has also played the Mongolian roles such as Touttemur in “Zhu Yuanzhang” and Jie Li Khan in “Zhen Guan Long Song”.
“Everyone is willing to be a noble in the palace, but if you only do one type as a profession, you are still not reconciled.” He once said frankly.
In 1996, the movie “Brooke of Tragedy” attracted him attention and was nominated for the 16th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award for Collective Performance and the Best Supporting Actor at the Southeast Asia International Film Festival. “Sorrowful Brook” is directed by the Mongolian leader Saifu. It tells the tragic story of Mongolian shepherds fighting the invaders to defend their homeland after the “September 18th” Incident.
Sef died in 2005. Ten years later, Sef’s daughter Degna wrote “Farewell” based on her father in her later years, and invited her father’s old friends Tus to play it. He had his own worries, but in the end he took on the “most uncomfortable” drama in his life, “It is better not to know a friend who is going to act every day.” He regarded this experience as a “hardship in his heart.” .
And this movie opened the long-awaited turn for him. The “Professional Household of the Prairie Lord”, who had been domineering in the first half of his life, turned and became an old man with a depressed and melancholic temperament.
“Don’t be pessimistic”
However, after filming a few transitional works, Tumen returned to the grassland from the city.
In June 2019, he served as a director for the first time, dedicating his debut to his ethnic group, the Ewenki. This “Hulunbuir City” tells a legendary story about the Ewenki people’s “death and extinction”. He said that the reason why he chose such a strong epic theme as his directorial debut is because he has a deep love for the motherland and nation. At the same time, he also has a lot of words. Family speak out.
The last time he appeared was in the variety show “Director Please Advice” last month. In a short film, he plays a widower who sells a villa. He uses the villa as a bait to wait for the murderer of his son, and finally succeeds in revenge. Most of the time, he was lying in the rocking chair without making a sound. A suspenseful story, tainted with a lonely temperament coordinated with him.
Most of the roles he plays are as taciturn as himself. He once said that his character is lonely, and that the world of solitude is his own world.
In an interview three years ago, he once said that the fragility of life is a natural law and there is no need to be pessimistic. When answering the bigger question about life and movies, he said: “What is the relationship between the passage of life and whether you keep things? Do you have to stay? It doesn’t matter if you don’t. Love the person you want to love, don’t What’s the harm.”
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