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The movie "Chosin Lake" exploded, and Duan Yihong, who played "Tanziwei" in the film, once again came out of the circle with his acting skills.
Some netizens concluded that as long as the cooperation between screenwriter Lan Xiaolong and Duan Yihong is bound to be a fine product, such as "Soldier Assault" broadcast in 2006, and "My Regiment Leader My Regiment" broadcast in 2009.
Two people, one well written and one acted well.
Referring to Duan Yihong's famous work "Soldier Assault", Guo Jie suddenly found that this TV series has been broadcast for 15 years.
So it is calculated that Duan Yihong, who graduated from China Opera in 1998 and debuted, has gone through 23 years.
Looking back on his acting career, it is really not easy.
Born in a small city in western Xinjiang, because of a sentence from others, saying that he had a talent for acting, he carried a bag of bread to Beijing to study.
As a result, the bread was stolen halfway, and it took him 4 years to take the exam 3 times before he was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama.
However, in the four years of college, he did not receive a single play, and most of the works he shot after graduation were for others.
He can't see hope and can't see the future, but he is very stubborn, does not bend for fame and fortune, does not hype, keeps his duty as an actor, plays every role conscientiously, and is willing to be a slave to the play.
Someone asked him, what do you think of the fact that he suffered for 8 years before he caught fire?
He said he felt fortunate that he didn't feel bitter at all, and that all the trials he had experienced in life were valuable experiences.
With such a mentality and a serious focus on acting, it really should be his fire.
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On May 16, 1973, a male baby named Duan Long was born in The small city of Ili Yining in the small city of western Xinjiang.
He is Duan Yihong, and friends like to call him Old Duan.
Duan Yihong is the third oldest in the family, his parents are honest and responsible, and his ancestral home is Sichuan.
Because he was the youngest child in the family, his family loved him and let him, and as a result, he developed a mischievous personality.
He didn't like to study, and the culture class was poor.
Once, because the principal said that his hair was too long and would not let him enter the school gate, he asked him to go back and cut his hair again.
He skipped two weeks of class, carrying his school bag out during the day and preparing to go home with his school bag in the afternoon.
The parents were stunned that they did not find a problem.
It wasn't until the teacher came to the door that the family didn't know.
The father was very helpless, saying that it would be good for the child to be a lumberjack in the future.
Who knows, decades later, Duan Yihong will become the brightest star on the big screen.
When Duan Yihong was a child, his family was poor and did not even have a television set, but they had magazines such as "Shangying Pictorial" and "Popular Film" at home, which was because Duan Yihong's mother liked to watch movies very much.
These magazines have become Duan Yihong's childhood reading publications, he and his mother, also like to watch movies, and not only watch, but also very fascinated, often with his mother while watching and shed tears due to plot infection.
He also has a hobby of performing for his mother to imitate the characters in the film after watching the movie.
So the movie he watched at that time was the performance enlightenment "teacher" in Duan Yihong's life, but he did not realize that this was acting, and he did not expect that one day, he would also become a part of the big screen.
However, the reason why Duan Yihong embarked on the road of performance is really very accidental.
In high school, Duan Yihong served as a member of the literary and art committee in his class.
Once the school organized a literary and art performance, the class needed to produce two programs, Duan Yihong volunteered to be the person in charge, they prepared two programs, a collective dance, the other is his self-written and self-directed sketch.
Duan Yihong's sketch was very successful, won the second prize, and also took a prize of 300 yuan.
But for him, the most important thing is that because this performance changed his destiny.
At that time, the school borrowed the Yili Hotel Theater as a performance venue, and it happened that the Yili Repertory Theatre also borrowed the same theater that day, and they invited a teacher named Chen Jialin from the Directing Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy to direct the play.
There is not much information about Teacher Chen Jialin on the Internet, he is a professor of drama, a national first-class director, who has directed many dramas, Pan Hong and Tranquility are his students.
Chen Jialin (right)
That day, Chen Jialin just happened to direct the yili repertory theater at the Yili Hotel, and just happened to see Duan Yihong's sketch performance.
He saw that the child had a talent for acting.
So he turned to the head of the Ili Repertory Theatre and said that he could talk to the child and let him go to the Shanghai Theater Academy.
After listening to the words of the director of the Yili Repertory Theatre, Duan Yihong knew that there were still such professional colleges in the world.
In other words, he may take this as a casual remark, but Duan Yihong remembered it in his heart.
He began to think about how to take the exam, and finally he decided to go to Beijing and enter the Central Academy of Drama.
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The night before Duan Yihong left for Beijing, his mother stayed up all night, and the next morning she went to buy two big buns in her bag and took him all the way to the bus station.
This was Duan Yihong's first time out of the country, and before that, he had never left Yining City.
Before getting on the bus, her mother told Duan Yihong that when she went out, she should treat others with sincerity, so that people would be good to you.
Duan Yihong replied, then what if I am deceived?
Mother said, you are not a fool, can you be deceived by others three times?
This sentence of the mother has become the principle of Duan Yihong's treatment of people, and the people in the circle are impetuous, there are many hypocritical feelings, and there are many people who sneak around and shoot horses, but Duan Yihong always adheres to his own principles, so he is often said to be too stubborn.
Continuing that day, carrying a bag of bread, 18-year-old Duan Yihong waved away his mother and embarked on the road to study.
He had to take a 24-hour bus ride and then a train, which took four days and three nights to get to Beijing.
In order to save money, he could only sit in a hard seat, and the sleeper was afraid to think.
This is Duan Yihong's first time to participate in the art examination, and he has not unexpectedly fallen off the list.
But he said he came out to know how big the outside world was.
In an interview with the media, recalling this past, Duan Yihong said that at that time, he especially wanted to stay in Beijing, so he deliberately ran to a pancake fruit in the morning and bought a coke, because he had never drunk this thing.
Holding pancake fruit in one hand and Coke in the other, Duan Yihong felt that this was fashionable, and he wanted to prove to others that he was also a part of Beijing.
Failing to pass the exam was within Duan Yihong's expectations, and the day he learned that he had fallen off the list, Duan Yihong ran to Tiananmen Square to go sightseeing, and he sat under the People's Monument and began to think about how to go back to his parents and let him take the exam again.
As a result, the next year, Duan Yihong still fell off the list.
But this time, after going back, he began to ponder the reasons for falling off the list, and then he insisted on paying money to apply for a certificate class, went to a class for seven or eight months, and as a result, he was admitted to the third time and became a student in the 94 acting department.
It took four years and three exams, duan Yihong finally realized his dream and stepped into the door of Chinese opera as he wished.
But for Duan Yihong, what followed was a sense of crisis, he suddenly felt an unprecedented inferiority complex, and uncertainty about the future, can he really be an actor? Is it suitable to be an actor?
In the class, Duan Yihong's height belongs to the first and second from the bottom, the appearance is also very rustic, not to mention the appearance is not important, in the show business circle, the first to see is the appearance, four years of college he went to audition, most of them are because the appearance was brushed off.
People told him directly, you are not the type we are looking for.
The second is the economic problem.
Others go to the running group audition, all with beautiful photos and resumes, but Duan Yihong is empty-handed, because he has no money to take photos.
However, the most inferior point for him is the gap between himself and his classmates in knowledge.
He found that his classmates had seen many famous books and films, and he didn't even know what "White Deer Plain" was, and thought it was a romance novel.
What should he do?
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In the four years of college, the first year or so, Duan Yihong lived in a trance, not knowing where to go.
He said that it was very painful at that stage and did not dare to mention these things to his family.
Because he took the exam three times before he was admitted to the school, this is his own choice, and it is up to him to bear all this.
After realizing his own problems, Duan Yihong chose a lonely path. He did not go out with other classmates to run the group, and many people advised him to go to the group performance and earn some living expenses by the way, but he refused.
He spent all his time studying.
Run to the library to read books to make up for literary knowledge, watch movies to increase the amount of movies, ponder the performances of actors in the film, his favorite actor is James Dean.
For the homework assigned by the teacher, Duan Yihong is particularly true.
His classmate Gong Beiyuan said that every time Duan Yihong handed in his homework, he had to rehearse until he was satisfied, and sometimes at the last moment, he wondered if he could be better.
Because the rehearsal ground was closed at the point, Duan Yihong would sometimes hide in the scene in order to be able to rehearse all night inside.
Wait for the teacher to check the closed door and then come out to rehearse, and then go out through the window the next morning.
Kung Fu pays off, and Duan Yihong's efforts have slowly paid off.
His academic performance is getting better and better, and many students run to observe every time he turns in his homework, and his performance has become an example for students to compete for learning.
With the teacher's approval, Duan Yihong's heart became more and more solid.
In 1998, on the eve of graduating from university, Duan Yihong ran to the Ministry of Culture, and he wanted to meet the Minister of Culture and ask him face-to-face, why can't he stay in Beijing with such good results?
He sat in the reception room for a day, and the minister did not see him, but he saw a section chief, and he mixed with one of the chicken legs and flower rolls of others. He said that after he went back that day, he felt energetic when he participated in the school performance at night, because he tried his best.
Duan Yihong's excellent results eventually played a key role.
With the help of his teacher, he entered the National Drama Theatre after graduation and stayed in Beijing as he wished.
Acting in dramas, sometimes playing a supporting role in some TV series and movies.
In 2002, Duan Yihong finally waited for the opportunity to star.
He starred in the movie "Second Brother" directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, in which he played a "stowaway".
In order to get close to the archetype of the character, he ran to the street to experience life, watching a group of small gangsters playing mahjong.
In order to become friends with these little, he ran to buy cigarettes and came back to hand them cigarettes, but he stood for a day to watch them play mahjong, followed them to dinner in the evening, and then went to the mahjong hall the next day to find them.
After playing together for a week, Duan Yihong brought the gang back to the crew.
Director Wang Xiaoshuai was dumbfounded, saying that I hadn't known these people for a month since I came, and you had only been acquainted with them for a few days.
In the end, these little bastards all acted as group actors in the movie.
Because of his outstanding performance in the film, Duan Yihong won the best actor at the New Delhi International Film Festival in India.
However, his acting path is still tepid.
Until he starred in Soldier Assault.
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At the end of 2006, a TV series called "Soldier Assault" was broadcast, and Duan Yihong began to be familiar with audiences across the country.
However, what many people don't know is that director Kang Honglei looked for Duan Yihong twice, and he resigned.
Because he was afraid that he would not be able to play the role of Yuan Lang.
He told Kang Honglei that he wanted to play the role of Zhang Yi, Shi Jin, but Kang Honglei said that it was absolutely not OK.
In order to make Duan Yihong agree to star, Kang Honglei used the radical method.
He said to Duan Yihong, outside there are rumors that your ability to shape characters is very strong, I would like to see where your ability is strong.
Duan Yihong replied directly, don't provoke me, I'm not strong.
However, because the script was so good, Duan Yihong finally took over the play.
During the whole shooting process, Duan Yihong was timid, and he had no bottom in his heart, afraid that he would not act well.
He said that he didn't expect the final effect, and everyone liked it.
After the success of this series, screenwriter Lan Xiaolong wrote "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", and it is said that it is precisely because of watching Duan Yihong's excellent performance in "Soldier Assault" that Lan Xiaolong let go of the creation of "Regiment Leader".
Director Kang Honglei once again joined forces with Yihong and created a classic drama.
And Duan Yihong climbed the peak of his career in "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", and the dragon article he portrayed was highly recognized by the audience and the circle, and won the Most Popular Actor Award at the Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award.
Subsequently, Duan Yihong also expanded to the big screen, starring in films such as "White Deer Plain", "I Wish I Do", "West Wind Lie" and so on.
In 2013, Duan Yihong took over Cao Baoping's film "Burning Heart in the Sun" and cooperated with Guo Tao and Deng Chao.
This is a more special play, in order to play the role of police officer Yi Guchun, Duan Yihong applied to go to the police station to experience life.
As a result, director Cao Baoping said, old Duan, do you still need to experience this Duan position now?
Duan Yihong replied, "A public security officer at a southern police station is strange to me, and this profession is also unfamiliar to me, I don't go near him, I don't go near him, I can't make some choices and judgments." ”
The film won Duan Yihong the Best Actor Award at the Shanghai Film Festival and the Huading Awards.
In 2017, Duan Yihong created a masterpiece "Blizzard Is Coming", playing Yu Guowei, an officer of the security section.
Duan Yihong felt that the role of Yu Guowei was very similar to him, both of them were quite sharp, very stubborn, as long as it was a matter of determination, they had to go to the end, but the ending of the two was very different, and Yu Guowei went astray.
The director of this film, Dong Yue, is a newcomer, and he did not expect that Duan Yihong would be willing to star in his small film, while Duan Yihong said that he chose the script to focus on the charm of the role, and he was attracted by the role of Yu Guowei.
He thought that it might be a high-end TV series, but he was very surprised to see it.
What surprised him even more was that with his outstanding performance in the film, he won the Best Actor Award at the 30th Tokyo Film Festival.
Duan Yihong once said in an interview with Yang Lan that he did not feel that he had talent, every play was a painful process for him, and the reason why he did not take many plays was because he was afraid of entering a state of masochism when shaping the role:
"A great deal of my masochism comes from my distrust of myself, my distrust of this new character, my way of harnessing him and interpreting his distrust, and I use this degree of masochism to give myself a sense of solidity."
Many people do not understand, advise Duan Yihong not to be so real, look at the current traffic stars, even the lines are not memorized, who is willing to spend time to experience the characters and ponder the role, some actors read the numbers when filming.
Duan Yihong said that he also met such an actor in his early days, but now that he can't see that actor, it is only a matter of time before such a person is eliminated.
In the show business circle, Duan Yihong's stubbornness may seem out of place.
But it is also this stubbornness that has made Duan Yihong now.
Three exams in the play, four years of college hard work to improve themselves, after debuting from a small role, step by step.
He walks steadily and steadily, which is the path that a real actor should take.
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