Guo Baochang

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Early experience

Guo Baochang, formerly known as Li Baochang, was born in August 1940 in a poor worker's home in Beijing. When he was two years old, his father froze to death in the street. His mother sold him to the Wu family, the head of Shacheng railway station in Hebei Province, for 80 yuan, and changed his surname to Wu. Later, his third aunt borrowed money to redeem him and sold him to Tongrentang for 200 yuan. Because of the adopted mother's surname Guo, she changed her name to Guo Baochang. Guo Baochang has been smart since he was a child. He was able to sing opera at the age of 5 and write articles at the age of 8. He entered Beijing No.5 Middle School at the age of 12. At the age of 16, he began to write the novel "big house gate" with family theme. In 1959, 19-year-old Guo Baochang was strongly recommended by Tian Feng, director of the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy, and was admitted to the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy. With the support of the teacher, he started to write the literary script of "big house gate". In 1964, Guo Baochang was labeled as a "reactionary student" and two-thirds of his novels "big house gate" were confiscated for erecting monuments and biographies for reactionary capitalists. Guo Baochang was sentenced to three years and assigned to Beijing Nankou farm for labor reform. He committed suicide in the most difficult time. After the beginning of the cultural revolution, Guo Baochang was sentenced to life imprisonment. During this period, Guo Baochang still wrote "big house gate", but it was noticed again, and "big house gate" was burned by the red guards. In March 1969, he went to the cadre school of the 4619 army in Zhangjiakou to continue to accept the supervision and transformation, and began to write Da Zhaimen again. In 1973, Guo Baochang was assigned to work in Guangxi film studio. In July 1979, Guo Baochang's unjust case was vindicated, and then he got the diploma of Beijing Film Academy (the normal graduation time is 1965). In 1980, because of his divorce from his wife, the manuscript of the gate of the big house was burned by his wife.

Acting experience

In 1980, Guo Baochang became a director and made his first film and television work the fog of Goddess Peak. The film made bold innovation and exploration in both form and content, and achieved good box office after it was released. It is considered to be one of the most successful criminal investigation films after the "Cultural Revolution". In 1981, he directed the science fiction film "latent image", in which he tried his best to explore a kind of bizarre, absurd and exaggerated artistic effect, which was incompatible with the popular aesthetic pursuit of realism at that time. The film was unanimously criticized by the society, and Guo Baochang's artistic creation fell into a low ebb. In 1982, Guo Baochang made a comeback and directed a film "Chunlan Qiuju", which was full of life interest. The film touched on the social problems of common people at that time, so it was widely praised. In 1983, Guo Baochang, who was the artistic director of Guangxi film studio, vigorously fostered new people. With his support, directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige produced one and eight, the yellow earth and other works, which laid the foundation for the fifth generation of directors in China. In 1984, Guo Baochang was transferred to Shenzhen film company, where he created the first TV play "love in the restaurant" in Shenzhen and the first award-winning TV play "love in hometown" in Shenzhen. In 1988, Guo Baochang edited and directed the drama "he chose murder", starring Xia zongxue, Jiang Cheng and Yu Shaokang. In 1989, he wrote and directed the action film "joint detective" starring Rong Guang, Hong cosmos and Jing Jing. The film takes Shenzhen and Hong Kong as the story background and tells the story of a case of counterfeit banknotes cracked by the police of Shenzhen and Hong Kong. The theme of the film is upward and the plot is tortuous. It not only makes people feel the diversified development of mainland films, but also touches the field of commercial films in terms of theme selection, scene design and organization arrangement. It is recognized by the audience and won the excellent film award of the Ministry of radio and television from 1989 to 1990. In 1991, Guo Baochang directed the historical drama Han Xin, Hou of Huaiyin, starring Zhang Fengyi, Shi Weijian and Shi Jingming. At the beginning of 1994, to commemorate the 200 years of huiban's entering Beijing, Guo Baochang shot the drama "big boss Cheng Changgeng" starring Ji Qilin, Liu gege, Lu Jixian, etc., which won the fourth five one project award of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee. At the end of 1994, Guo Baochang declined all the film contracts and wrote "big house gate" again. In 1997, Guo Baochang shot the love history drama sunset Forbidden City starring Siqin Gaowa, Qiu Xinzhi and Jiang Wenli. In 1998, Guo Baochang directed the urban life drama "sad and happy years" starring Li Zonghan, Su Yan and Ye Jing. In 2001, Guo Baochang's family drama Da Zhai men, which had been created for many years, was finally created and filmed into a TV series. It was premiered on CCTV on April 15 and won the annual viewing champion of CCTV in 2001 with a rating of 17.74. In 2002, she wrote and directed the Republic of China emotional drama "house gate rebellious son" starring Tong Ruixin and Chen Hao, and acted in the crosstalk master "KaiKou music" of the hero Tong Ruixin. In 2003, he wrote and directed the modern urban TV series "the whirlpool of desire" with the theme of fighting for heritage, starring Juan Zi, Li Ping and Fu Yongfan. On April 3, 2006, the legendary drama of the Republic of China, deep wine lane, directed by Guo Baochang, was premiered. Later, Guo Baochang, a drama lover, directed the TV drama, Prince of Fenmo (also known as dawusheng), which tells the legendary stories of the older generation of pear garden artists, based on the quintessence of Peking Opera. in 2010, Guo Baochang personally launched the urban emotional drama "the days in search of happiness" with Luo Haiqiong, Tu Songyan and other actors. The drama focuses on the story of Hongyun, a female worker, who encountered many tests brought about by her career, love and family in the late 1980s, but did not fear difficulties, and gradually became a strong woman and successfully started a business. In 2012, Guo Baochang directed the legendary TV series of the Warring States period based on the historical allusion "stealing Fu to save Zhao", and guest starred in the role of "old housekeeper". On January 17, 2013, the drama "grand gate" starring Liu Wei, Zhu Yuanyuan and Lei Kesheng premiered in the National Grand Theater of China, and director Guo Baochang told the story of the "white family" in his own way; on April 22, Guo Baochang premiered the part "grand gate 1912" starring Chen Baoguo, Si qingaowa and Wang Zhifei, which tells the story from 1912 to 1921 In the past 10 years, Bai Jingqi worked hard in Jinan, Shandong Province, and founded a story about the black seven Hall of traditional Chinese medicine shop. On August 20, the 2nd Beijing Denny international stage performance art award was announced, and Guo Baochang won the best screenwriter Award for the TV play "big house gate". On August 21, China's first historical strategy melodrama "seek the Holy Ghost Valley", directed by Liu Juan and starred by Duan Yihong and Qi Wei, was launched Guo Baochang was the chief director of the play.

Personal life

family

Guo Baochang's father's surname is Li and his mother's surname is Cui. His mother sold his sister's surname Chen after his father died. He was also sold to Xuanhua tofu shop by human traffickers. His brother's surname was Zhang, and his mother had a daughter in Zhangjia. After the liberation, he married the Wang family, the breeder of the production team, and the child's surname changed to Wang. Therefore, Guo Baochang's brothers and sisters have their surnames Chen, Wang, Guo and Zhang. Guo Baochang's foster mother, Ms. Guo Rong, used to be a maid for the old lady in the Tongrentang family. Later, Le Jingyu, the fourth master of the family, recruited her as his wife. Because when Guo Rong married at the age of 26, Le Jingyu was already 70 years old and could not bear children. In such a big house, it was impossible to have no children. However, according to the rules of the Yue family, Guo's stepson must be selected from his own family, and no other surname is allowed. Guo Rong didn't choose in Lejia, mainly because she didn't want to leave her property to others. Therefore, Guo Baochang first thought that his mother's family had bought a son, so he was fostered at her mother's knee and temporarily called her aunt. After her mother died, he took Guo Baochang to the Yue family, and then the mother and the son matched each other.

feeling

In 1973, Guo Baochang married and had children. Divorced in 1980, the wife took her son out of the country. In 1990, she divorced her second wife. At the end of 1984, Guo Baochang and Liu gege got to know each other in love at the restaurant. Liu gege, 15 years younger than him, graduated from Beijing opera academy. After that, Guo Baochang and Liu gege cooperated with each other in six TV dramas. In 1990, Guo Baochang, who returned to single, expressed his love for Liu gege. In 1998, they married.

Opera fans

Guo Baochang is a fan of opera. When he was young, he liked martial arts opera, especially monkey opera. After high school, I like Hualian, then Laosheng. After middle school, I was infatuated with Huadan and Qingyi. Before going to Beijing Film Academy, Guo Baochang watched at least three to four plays a week. Beijing opera, Wu Opera, Sichuan Opera, Qin opera, Han Opera, Yang opera, Guangdong opera, Yue opera, ballet and so on all like it. They also like to listen to cross talk and speak cross talk on stage many times. He also studied Hualian under Feng Jingchang's tutelage, and performed "nvqijie" (advocating justice), "Zhuzhi" (niugao), and "beating the fisherman" (Sean). He has also written two Beijing Opera scripts in the form of live newspaper, Jinlong Zhihu Dou and Dagui.

Good wine

Guo Baochang is very fond of drinking in his life. At the age of 14, he learned to drink and claimed to be "steeped in Luzhou Daqu". He believes that wine is not only a kind of material, it also has a profound cultural precipitation, which is inextricably linked with human nature.

Main works

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Director's work

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Screenwriter's works

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Award winning record

Character evaluation

Guo Baochang's historical dramas such as sunset Forbidden City, big house gate and big house gate 2 are ingenious in the weaving and setting of historical situations, which can link history to the world

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