The first time we met Gu Yiye was on the noisy train platform.
The recruits wearing large red flowers on their chests were in groups of threes, but he was alone against the pillar reading a book. Tanks - Forward in his hand! Published in March 1982, it was only one edition and had only been printed once, so when his green plum bamboo horse came to him and wanted to take the book away, he took the book away at once.
In the face of the girl's questioning, he said that it was my life to be a soldier.
As soon as the words fell, a song sounded in our ears: "Always hanging on our hearts / Is an ordinary wish / May the dear hometown be beautiful / May the motherland be long / Listen to the noise of the wind and snow / Watch the shooting stars flying / My heart calls to me / Run to the turbulent far away." "The melody in minor, interspersed with the accompaniment of the accordion, my first impression is that it is really like a song from the former Soviet Union. A look, it is indeed a song from the former Soviet Union, composed by Bakhmutova in 1958, translated as "Singing Turbulent Youth".
The song faded, and the train carrying the recruits pulled out of the platform, and we entered Gu Yiye's life.
In real life, we gradually get to know a person in depth, and the way we understand a character when watching film and television dramas is similar: the first meeting, through the words and deeds of the other party to make up for the first impression, and then continue to meet to complete the impression of all aspects. But the difference is that in reality everyone is real, so no matter how big the image gap or conflict between the same person before and after, we will use logic to find the connection because of its existence, or try to find an explanation, such as a recognized honest person suddenly killing someone, we will try to think of details related to his killing outside of honesty.
The image in the film and television drama is created, and the audience has no obligation to think of finding logic for the character, which requires the character to be presented to the audience, through various details or other means.
Otherwise, the audience has the right to think that the character is false, illogical, and should not exist.
And Gu Yiye is a real, logical character who can exist in reality.
When we know him, he is arrogant, knowledgeable, even out of his bag, excellent and a little frivolous, somewhat idealistic.
Then we will see:
- His idealism he is practicing seriously;
- His frivolity is more introverted in the old age of much more than his peers;
- He used knowledge as a weapon on the path of practice.
When he carries these labels, almost so good that the audience feels that they are about to levitate, he appears in the field with his comrades-in-arms to break bananas and fight with others for the honor of the class.
Then the audience will naturally remember, Oh, he is still an eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man, no matter how precocious he is, he can't cover his blood, and no matter how arrogant he is, he can't leave his comrades-in-arms.
So in him, those negative labels such as dropping the book bag will not become a "disadvantage". Because these are the parts that make him complete and complex, he can "fall to the ground" and be clearly perceived by the audience.
Gu Yiye also met his love.
The love of young people does not need many reasons. The audience said a thousand ways and ten thousand, can not change the original beauty of this love for him.
He copied Whitman's poems with the most neat pen at night with the most neat pen, and he opened his smile and showed his body on the seashore, and the young people in love were like clouds, with the most simple but most moving romance.
Excellent such as Gu Yiye will also be distracted in the exercise because of the loss of love, the world of young people is very pure in nature, in addition to training physical fitness, learning theory, is his beloved girl, so the girl's every move will also worry about his heart.
This is the character we know Gu Yiye.
And when he is written only on paper, the right to interpret his words and deeds lies with the reader.
For example, for the reader, a large paragraph of his words that drop the book bag will only be a book bag drop, and when he stands up alone and shoots the first, he can only have a strong "loading" meaning.
But Gu Yiye is fortunate not just a character on paper, he is finally presented to the audience with visual hearing, and his soul is filled by Xiao Zhan.
So when he talks about knowledge in large sections, the audience hears a sense of conviction rather than the contrivance of dropping the book bag; he never shows off or is full of spirit when he is maverick, but always dignified and thoughtful.
Xiao Zhan controlled Gu Yiye's interpretation power in his hands, so that all of Gu Yiye's words and deeds had logic, all his looks were more detailed, and all his performances were more vivid.
It is also for this reason that many of Gu Yiye's words and deeds that can be called shortcomings when described in words are difficult for people to perceive after being deduced. It was Xiao Zhan who made Gu Yiye imperfect and perfect.
I always felt that one of the basic qualities of an actor is that whether he is acting in a long episode or a short film of a few minutes, he should always remember that he is presenting a fragment of a character with a complete life:
Beyond the words written on paper, the characters still experience the flow of time.
The script uses a simple "three months later" time, and the actor must know in his heart what the character has experienced and what changes have occurred in these three months. If the actor only regards acting as reading out a paragraph of lines, and has not thought about the character logic behind the lines, if the actor only uses to squeeze out a few tears when crying, the script writes a laugh to twitch the corners of the mouth to give a smile, without considering its background, its role, its context, the final effect can only be that the role is directly abolished, all his words and deeds are fragments, can not be glued into a complete person, the audience will feel that this role is not compatible, anti-logic.
And Gu Yiye appeared at the age of 18, and his every word and deed reminded the audience of what kind of life experience he had in the eighteen years before he appeared, and every detail of his demeanor was just right to show what he had experienced and what he was experiencing, such as family lineage, such as family education, such as personal ideals when he was a child, experienced in the army, and the girl he fell in love with. Gu Yiye originally had idealism that modern people could not imagine, and everything about him was originally far away from us, so that "like a petrel flying in the wind, it did not touch the ground."
But Gu Yiye was Xiao Zhan's Gu Yiye, so Gu Yiye "fell to the ground".
The next time I heard "Singing Turbulent Youth" was at a performance of the recruits' joint party.
Gu Yiye led the singing and sang this song with several comrades-in-arms in front of all the male and female soldiers.
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The lyrics of the song "Even if the disaster is followed by the disaster / Can't make us decadent" is far away and out of reach for him. When the audience and Gu Yiye experienced the war together, witnessed the sacrifice of their comrades-in-arms and the suffering of their comrades-in-arms' families, and looked back on this scene, they would really feel like a dream.
Most of the time, we know Gu Yiye through the above-mentioned words and deeds and other external appearances.
We once again have the opportunity to spy on his inner world, when he was locked up for killing pigs: in the confinement room next door, Song Guchang was painstakingly explaining to Gu Yiye's grassroots comrades-in-arms
Gu Yiye's face was expressionless, but his mouth hummed a tone without words, and the melody was extremely familiar, and it turned out to be the song "Singing Turbulent Youth". This time, in the song, he revealed his heart, and with the figure of his father, he chose to do the "right thing".
In his heart, he heard his father say, "In the eyes of the world, it is a great thing, but love, friendship... In the eyes of strategists, these can be put down. ”
Gu Yiye of course understood this kind of letting go, but at the age of nineteen, he gave up the college entrance examination to come to the grass-roots army, and his daily life was just to be alone, to get along with his comrades-in-arms, and to get along with his lover, love and friendship were a big thing for him, and together with his off-camera, the audience could only glimpse a corner, day after day of boring training, which made up his youth.
When discussing major turning points in life, we are accustomed to detaching words such as "childhood" and "youth" from the original definition of age stage and referring to a state of mind.
When children are forced to take on the responsibility of providing for their families or to understand the adult world, we say that their childhood is over; when young people are hit by reality, we say that their youth is over.
Therefore, when the nineteen-year-old Gu Yiye first came to the battlefield, even though he had always known the cruelty of war, he was still hit hard by the unbearable life and death of a real flesh mortal fetus, in the above context, Gu Yiye's youth should be over.
I go back and reflect on this statement, in this definition we default to the fact that youth can only have one color, that is, the unbridled bright and carefree color, so that the gray and heavy years are stripped out of the scope of youth.
But I actually still hope that youth can be turbulent, as the name of the song goes. The charm of youth lies in not only the high tone, but also the dull low moan.
Gu Yiye later made a heavy choice, and he became the "price" for accomplishing some good things without hesitation.
He would wander around with his lover and would be out of place among the joyful cadets. When he and the lover who would eventually say goodbye to him met for the last time at the seashore, the sea breeze whistled, the waves hit the beach, and the lover remembered his bright smile and loud cries on the same seashore before the war, the handsome face and healthy body in the sun, and he said that he was a petrel, a petrel that no one could stop. But Petrel may still be blocked by fate after all.
But perhaps, Gu Yiye, who chose to carry the weight forward, lost the opportunity to become a free petrel, and at the same time was sharpened into an eagle.
I don't like the "youth burial theory" or the "end of freedom."
It is true that Gu Yiye's sacrifice is huge, but this is not the whole of his life after all, he is still struggling to move towards the established track, that is, the footprints are deeper, and the road is more lonely.
On the contrary, I can be more heartbroken than anyone, but as Xiao Zhan said, "the arrangement of fate will really have his reason", and I hope that I will see the huge charm and brilliance of humanity that Gu Yiye still cannot be covered up after the dramatic tragedy is full.
Back to Singing Turbulent Youth
A Soviet song appears three times over and over again, and it's hard not to think about whether there's some metaphor or symbolism behind the song.
The biggest theme of the play itself is to reflect the forty years of our army's strong army, and the drama is not a documentary, the drama cannot be reflected through a pure grand narrative, the preaching history cannot become a drama, the torrent of the times falls on a specific person, in order to have a story, in order to let the audience in front of the screen feel the strength of the wave and the pain of being beaten.
Gu Yiye's life is a microcosm of an era, and the turmoil of his youth is accompanied by the changes of the times.
His experience is tortuous and even heavy, but all the colors constitute his youth, this youth is like a song, like a burning flame, like a raging sea, like a shu rolling clouds, bright and dark together mixed into the most brilliant color, let the audience immersed in him and sympathize with him after admiring him, withdraw from the view, and finally understand that his personality is rich in artistic charm, his youth is rich in epic romance, and all his details of the landing can also rise to the grand beauty of the ism, It can tell the voice of that era, and finally let us always remember his turbulent youth.
Author: October Interest
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