When the last episode of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was broadcast, the TV drama seminar was held in Puxi Ancient Chibi, Hubei Province. Chief producer Ren Dahui introduced that an Australian audience member tried every means to call him and pay tribute to Tang Guoqiang.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series poster
Two five-year-olds loved Zhuge Liang on TV and impressed me. Puxi girl Song Xiaoxiao ran to the seminar and must take a photo with "Zhuge Liang". When I was returning to the economy, I met Du Lin, a Yantai boy, on the train, and listened to the mouth of "Laughing People Lack teeth and dog Dou Dakai" sing "Rolling Yangtze River East Flowing Water" word for word, I asked who is your favorite in the Three Kingdoms? Without thinking, he said, "Zhuge Liang! ”
Back in Jinan, Zhang Haidi said on the phone: I really moved Zhuge Liang, Tang Guoqiang acted so touchingly! I was in tears several times, I had never participated in the TV awards vote, this time I voted for Tang Guoqiang!
Zhuge Liang touched so many people of different ages, different identities, and even different nationalities. This is an unprecedented popularization of the Chinese elite's loyalty to the country and the spirit of "bowing down and dying and then dying".
Some people also say that Zhuge Liang's Immortal Wind Dao bone seems to be a little missing?
After the opening ceremony, I made a speech at the conference, and first criticized Tang Guoqiang by name for advertising and damaging Zhuge Liang's image.
After the closing ceremony, I asked Tang Guoqiang to talk about how he created the image of Zhuge Liang. The three hours of free talk between teaching the Three Kingdoms and acting zhuge Liang are really discussions that can be called discussions.
The conversation took place in my residence, and if it was in Kong Ming's room, there would be people constantly asking for autographs and group photos, and in the middle of the night, someone would come to ask for a photo with Kong Ming. The young scholar Hu Xiaowei came to talk loudly, almost replacing the two interlocutors.
The author took a group photo with Tang Guoqiang
Teachers often look at the eyes of students to measure other young people, Tang Guoqiang is very college student characteristics, the face is like a crown jade, the eyes are like paint, there are books elegant, and smart and witty, mouth like a river. Speak in an organized manner, not cumbersome, and stand up and take a few steps to perform when you speak into the mind. After performing the play for such a long time, he could still memorize such long lines as Kong Ming out of the mountain, Wolong hanging filial piety, and the master's table word for word!
I didn't read all the passages on the TV, such as Wuxiang Hou scolding Wang Lang to death, and this time, I actually listened to "Kong Ming" reciting a large section of "The World of Huan and Ling in the Past, the Ling Dynasty of Han Tong, the Eunuchs Causing Disasters, and the National Chaos and Murder..." It was really a lucky audience. Unfortunately, I did not bring a tape recorder, the camera film was also finished, and I could not record the "special performance", fortunately, Hu Xiaowei took two photos after midnight.
More regrettably, I found that the crew had a big mistake: in addition to Cao Cao being dubbed by the actor himself, other major roles were dubbed by voice actors, and they often could not experience the characters in depth like the actors, I listened to Tang Guoqiang while analyzing while performing the tongue battle group Confucianism, how to zhang Zhao, xue zong, and Lu Ji, it is really suitable for people, each has its own good, the tone is tight, there is tension and relaxation.
On the TV, Zhuge Liang's tone has always been impassioned, giving people an awe-inspiring impression of Communist Party-style righteousness, and the dubbing has become a set of plates, which reduces the charm of the actor's performance. Television is an audiovisual art, and the actor's performance is only half the success, so the dubbing of such a huge film should not be taken lightly.
Stills of Zhuge Liang in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
Tang Guoqiang put a lot of effort into playing Zhuge Liang and almost became a bookworm.
I asked him: Many people have played Zhuge Liang, each with their own grasp of the angle, what do you focus on?
Tang Guoqiang said that he grasped the axis of Zhuge Liang's "bowing and exhausting" and "humanized" and hierarchical Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang first and Liu Bei and then assisted Liu Chan, "a soldier dies for a confidant" and "a master for the king", which are feudal things. He was invited out of the mountain by Liu Beizhi, just as he said, "General Ren Yibu is in the four seas", Zhan Ren, don't be afraid to mention "the worries of the world before the world, and the happiness of the world after the world"! This is something that all the descendants of Yan Huang in the world can use, for the country and the people, after death, is the precious morality of the Chinese nation, that is, to use Zhuge Liang to vigorously promote these.
Tang Guoqiang "humanized" Kong Ming, and each scene has its own ideas and careful considerations. This is quite like an empty city plan, which is an artistic risk.
Stamp "Wolong Out of the Mountain"
The first is Zhuge Liang's "upper wind". Zhuge Liang's appearance can be handled into the Tao Yuanming style; Tang Guoqiang can be handled into the HuaiCai no encounter style: Zhuge Liang sits on the ground and lies in clothes, and then turns over into a large character and reads a poem: "... Caotang Spring Sleeps Enough", get up, put your hand up and point upwards, "The sun is late outside the window!" "The sleeves fall off and the arms are exposed.
This treatment is to consider the evaluation of the world when Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain, Cao Cao said: "Mountain Wild Pifu." It is to have some mountain atmosphere. Huai Cai does not meet, and he is not a sycamore, nor is he dependent on the Lord. The appearance explains Zhuge Liang's thinking: I have been recuperating and preparing to go out of the mountain, but no one appreciates it, and there are big talents that cannot be used, "the day outside the window is delayed." Let him have a flowing place but limited, with no talent, quick thinking, and some childishness. Such appearances are different from the Fairy Wind Dao Bones created by some artists in the past. In the end, he died before he was paid, and it became a back and forth echo.
Is Tang Guoqiang's treatment in this way in line with the original intention of the work? There is some basis for this. However, there is a certain distance from Zhuge Liang, who has long been in the minds of the masses, especially Ma Lianliang's Xianfeng Dao Bone. Ma Lianliang's performance highlights the phrase in the novel: "The ethereal immortal man also".
From the early Zhuge Liang to the Wolong hanging filial piety in the "humanization" efforts, but also a kind of adventure, Tang Guoqiang because he already had the first shot of zhuge liang in his later years, he relaxed the role of Zhuge Liang as a "man", shattered the image of the god, and leaned on the twenty-seven-year-old:
Qing Shengping painted Zhuge Liang
Selling Guan Zi let the arrogant Guan Yu talk about the terrain and asked "Does the lord have any worries?" he whisked his sleeves away and showed his youthful vigor; Zhou Yu let him make arrows, and then stretched out three fingers: as long as it was three days, when writing military orders, he did not mention the pen to write, but took the pen to look at Zhou Lang challengingly, looked at Lu Su, and then wrote, showing a competitive and conceited performance.
Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu are their masters, and Jingzhou should rely on it and drag it out. After Tang Guoqiang's lover saw the three Qi Zhou Yu, he said, "Zhuge Liang is bad enough", Tang Guoqiang thought that this showed that the effect was right.
Tang Guoqiang's confucian performance of the tongue-in-cheek battle group is anti-guest-oriented, laughter and anger are all articles. Drawing on the commentary, as soon as he entered the meeting place of the Eastern Wu Heavy Ministers, he shook his hand and his eyes indicated, and said: "Disrespectful!" "The purpose of not giving Eastern Wu Chongchen a fight is to show zhuge Liang's youth and vigor, obviously knowing that these people are going to be difficult, but they want to see Lord Wu and persuade them to break Cao together." With a knife mouth, cut them down one by one! Dumb!
Zhuge Liang went to Eastern Wu to be a lobbyist for help, but the more he came to ask for help, the more he did not say the words of distress, maintained his dignity, and began to sit there, you do not speak, I do not say, take out a silk scarf from the sleeves of the wide robe, and gently wipe the fan. Then he talked about "The Confucian of a Gentleman, loyal to the king and patriotic, and abiding by righteousness and evil", and when he achieved the main goal of opposing the guest, he deliberately stood in the middle of the hall and said these words, so that the voice of the "Confucian of the Gentleman" spread throughout the hall! Let the Eastern Wu Qunchen who advocate surrender have no land to tolerate themselves!
Comic strip "Tongue Battle Group Confucianism"
Many deputies thought that Wolong Hanging Filial Piety was the most touching. I said in my statement that hitting the coffin with my head was "a bit too much".
Tang Guoqiang said: Wolong hanging filial piety is true and false, false and true, false and true, true and false, false and true. Zhuge Liang began to act for everyone to see, he opened the screen of painting Zhou Yu, recalled Zhou Lang's exploits for everyone to see, talked and talked, touched Xiao Qiao, but also touched himself, when shooting this paragraph, I suggested that the director add a piano, because Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu are confidants, in the process of playing the piano, Zhuge Liang was more and more moved, and finally listened to Xiao Qiao, Zhou Yu confessed on his deathbed: continue to unite with Liu Bei and give power to Lu Zijing.
At this time, Zhuge Liang really felt that although Zhou Yu and himself were their masters, he was truly a confidant! So he said, "He who knows me, Gongjin also." Prostrating the coffin with the head is not a performance for others to see, it is the real feelings that reveal, so that the drama reaches a climax, which is Zhuge Liang's most passionate part and the natural development of his emotions.
Tang Guoqiang was obviously very satisfied with this performance, but he also had regrets, and had already filmed this shot: when Kong Ming was in the Lingtang, Ling Tong came over, raised his sword to slash Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun stopped, the sword landed on the ground, Zhuge Liang picked up the sword and handed it to Cheng Pu, which means: If you want to kill, kill it! These movements should be put in slow motion, showing Zhuge Liang's courage and sincerity. Unfortunately, it was all cut off.
Stills from the Peking opera "Wolong Hanging Filial Piety"
A paragraph also cut out is: Wolong hangs filial piety and returns the next day, and there is originally a section of Cao Cao activities in the back. Now with such a cut, Hanging Filial Piety and Jiangbian meet Pang Tong are closely linked, Wolong's mood is not right, how can it be so sad just now, and immediately talk and laugh?
Tang Guoqiang said that the great ups and downs from the Seven Star Altar Sacrifice Wind to the Five Zhangyuan Youxing were the most important for the stratification of Zhuge Liang's character. Zhuge Liang went from being determined to win the heavens to having to pray to heaven. In the early stage, he boldly took risks, entered Eastern Wu alone, and could be killed at any time, but calmly borrowed the wind, borrowed people, and borrowed things.
Borrowing the East Wind is not pretending to be a god and a ghost, it is because it is mysterious but confident, and people will surely win the heavens. The altar of wind is borrowed for the golden cicada to shed its shell. Zhuge Liang was there dancing his sword, but he turned his eyes to "evil" and saw Zhao Yun's ship. When he arrived at Gojohara, he had to beg for heaven. It's a kind of end-to-end chord, a contrast.
Gojo Hara Youxing is a fight. Zhuge Liang was already in a sad atmosphere. Guan Yu carelessly lost Jingzhou, and Zhuge Liang was half discouraged. As soon as Liu Bei's map of Yiling was sent, Zhuge Liang sighed: The number of Great Han Qi has been exhausted. His longevity was not to prolong his own life but to prolong the life of the Han Dynasty.
Tang Guoqiang focused on highlighting the loneliness, loss, and aging of Zhuge Liang in his later years, and designed such a picture:
Stamp "Autumn Wind Gojohara"
Liu out of Qishan is to attack and defend, and the attack is already full of death and loneliness. There was no longer a way to look at the map, so he could only sit and look at the map; when cutting down the Central Plains, a person came out of the tent and looked at the big banner "Ke Fu Zhongyuan" and prayed: The spirit of the former emperor is in the spirit of heaven, help liang a hand. He tried his best to express his disappointment, loneliness; Liu Chu Qishan photographed Zhuge Liang with a long shadow, a lonely shadow.
Tang Guoqiang also made a big fuss with his "hand": when he was on the table, Bi respectfully wrote, wrote, suddenly, stopped, went to the lamp, and pulled a hair out of the pen. This is to enhance Zhuge Liang's labor from a visual point of view.
Zhuge Liang's two broken strings plot is praised by many people, the broken strings of Wolong Hanging Filial Piety and the broken strings of the Empty City Meter, the former touching and heartfelt, the latter moving. Tang Guoqiang talked with great interest: hanging filial piety and fuqin showed that Kong Ming and Zhou Lang knew each other for their masters; the two armies confronted each other, zhuge Liang calmly played the piano, played and played, and the string broke at once.
At this time, in the quiet field, only the flag hunting sounded, and suddenly, a war horse hissed, and Sima Yi realized: Saying that there are ambush troops, withdraw! At this time, Zhuge Liang did not care about anything, did not fear anything, but was covered in sweat and soaked his clothes.
Pastel empty city plan porcelain plate between the Republic of China "Empty City Meter"
The handling of Zhuge Liang's death, many scholars think that it is more concentrated than the novel, Tang Guoqiang said, he especially wants to use Kong Ming to return to heaven to show this character who "has a feather in the sky through the ages", let the lupine slip from Kong Ming's hands, use the method of high-speed shooting, first shoot the fan to land, then the sunset, it is the wind that sweeps the leaves, making people tremble in their hearts: Can he still live? Will he still be alive?
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Tang Guoqiang has a lot of experience, but also a lot of regrets, the biggest regret is that television lacks the meticulousness of the movie, and there is not enough scrutiny. There are also actors who have carefully designed shots that are cut out.
The TV series cut some good shots to make Tang Guoqiang grumpy, and Wuzhangyuan Zhuge Liang returned to the light and wanted to go out to see the warriors. It was difficult to get into the car with a lot of strength, and a veteran soldier came over and asked: "Minister, do you still know me?" Zhuge Liang could not speak, so he pointed his finger with his finger, and the veteran immediately burst into tears, and Cheng Xiang remembered that he was a veteran who was injured in the head when he captured Meng!
The veteran soldier held a small jar and told Zhuge Liang that the emperor liked Qu Qu (promoting weaving), and the old man caught it for the emperor. Zhuge Liang's hands trembled, and he took the small can... This is foolishness, but it is the real and touching Zhuge Liang!
Speaking of midnight, the young scholar Hu Xiaowei suddenly ran and heard that so many good shots had been cut, so he said that he was about to cut a ninety-minute Romance of the Three Kingdoms for somewhere, and simply cut it with the Chibi War as the center and cut it with the material piece.
Social Sciences researchers cut movies? That's really a cross-cutting.