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"You are strong, you are strong, I am Tang Guoqiang." When the reporter read this sentence to Tang Guoqiang, he laughed heartily on the other end of the phone. In recent years, Tang Guoqiang has undoubtedly become an extraordinary "love bean" in the hearts of the younger generation, and the roles he has played cover the history of China for 5,000 years, and the ranking of these roles is a Chinese history, Yuan Shi Tianzun, Yongzheng Kangxi, Zhuge Liang... In the face of this insurmountable actor resume, Tang Guoqiang smiled and said that this "situation" he did not think of: "I have seen the audience summary, I really did not think about it when I acted, these are all shaped unconsciously, but they are strung up by others, in fact, some of the dramas also make a beard, show a face, it is everyone who raises love, and is amused. ”
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Although Tang Guoqiang regarded the roles from Yue Wang Gou Jian, Han Xuandi, Tang Taizong, Song Renzong, Genghis Khan, Yongzheng, to a generation of famous Zhuge Liang, calligraphy master Yan Zhenqing, Wanli Shoufu Zhang Juzheng and other roles as a coincidence, each of his roles has the capital to go out of the circle, he played Zhuge Liang in the 1994 version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and by virtue of the confrontation with Wang Lang, with the sentence "I have never seen such a brazen person" Wang Lang scolded the ghost animal fragment in the B station A battle, This sentence has almost become a code for entering the two-dimensional world of young people; he has also been a young and handsome little student, in the movie "Peacock Princess" he played the Prince of the Dai tribe, which was the representative of a handsome male actor at that time; he once served as an "imperial professional household" on TV, played Yongzheng and also played Qianlong, but there are many mistakes in the inventory of Tang Guoqiang's role circulating on the Internet, such as Qianlong's stills, in fact, he played Yongzheng in the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty".
At present, he can't understand the situation in the entertainment industry, he knows that the current entertainment circle is a complex market closed loop, everyone is working under the drive of capital, he does not have the ability to analyze and question each of these links, can only be from the perspective of the old actor's predecessors, bitterly talking about the importance of the original intention of the pursuit of art, just like he has been in the art for 51 years, there are still too many things he wants to do in the pursuit of art, and he has not yet satisfied so many classic roles he has played, he said that there are still too many things he wants to do, the history of wanting to play, If he wants to have a breakthrough and a height, he has been looking forward to expressing and expounding the major issues in the history of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Resistance League, and even wants to play Zhuge Liang again, and he hopes that his interpretation of Chairman Mao will be one step deeper and higher.
But in fact, Tang Guoqiang is over sixty years old, he constantly mentioned the fact of gradual aging in interviews, he knows that time is very urgent for him, and he also feels more and more the sense of mission he carries, shaping more roles, passing on more history, and pursuing better art. He knows that there are still many urgent problems in the industry, and the most urgent thing is the lack of history education for the younger generation. He told the Beijing News reporter: "Many young people have a lack of honor for traditional history, such as many historical works we have created, every time they are released, some people will question who still likes to watch this kind of drama, if you do not systematically organize everyone to study history, it is really not saved." Many children now don't know much about history. He would know what boy band and girl group he knew, but did he know Marshal Judd? He would know Wu Yifan, but would he know Liu Bocheng? For so many years, everyone has been using the Hollywood way, according to the actor's box office, ratings, traffic, and appearance to determine the value of the actor, everyone will make money on the end, what is this broken atmosphere? ”
——Tang Guoqiang dictated——
1. It's an honor to play so many roles, and there is still the possibility to continue to fight
After playing so many roles, I am still more honored, you see, many actors who are at the same time as me basically do not act anymore, why? Because playing the key role of Chairman Mao has led me to this day. This year is my 51st year of art, but now sometimes I feel that I have more than enough and lack of strength, and my physical condition and other aspects make it impossible for me to act and direct like when I made "Long March" in those years, and I still walk the Long March. Now I don't have the time and energy to take care of so many things, so I put forward some opinions and ideas in some plays, help as an art director, and act a little if I can. Just stick with it. But I hope that I can still shine a little light and heat up a little, and I believe that I still have the possibility of continuing to fight for many roles.
2. The younger generation of actors need positive guidance, not box office and market theory
In recent years, the market has chosen actors, there is a trend of box office theory and market theory, why there will be people like Wu Yifan, in fact, they only account for one in ten thousand. Every year, thousands of art college graduates, most of whom are unemployed after graduation, are the main force in the society of "north drift", "horizontal drift", "up drift", they are the main force, but they have not accepted positive guidance, managed by the company, praised by fans, used as a cash cow by the market, and have been held to the position where they are all confused. Everyone is box office, this is a serious problem. Now we propose to rectify the industry and put an end to unhealthy trends, in fact, we can promulgate more meritorious actors and people's actors, so that good actors who really work hard have a head start. Works and actors are not simply regulated by the market, but everyone sincerely pursues art.
3. Having a "character universe" is a lucky person, and a good work is that you are no longer alive
I've played so many roles and I'm the lucky one. Especially the performance of the national level theme, to this day is still doing, can still do, really lucky. Why I have been a director in the past two years, because major historical themes cannot lack historical knowledge, and I hope that the works I direct can pass as much as possible and rework less. Director is very difficult, why I direct very few works, because get the script, polish the script, choose the scene, choose the role and then shoot, after the shooting of the actors are gone, the director also has to stay to edit, synthesize, review and then edit, the process is equivalent to having a child, maybe a year, a year and a half to complete one. Unlike being an actor, you can act two or three times a year, but I think it is worth taking the time, you see ten years later, "The Long March" and "Liberation" are still broadcasting. Because they interpret the history of the Chinese revolution, the history of the development of the army, and the history of the growth of the party, they have a very strong historical significance. That is to say, these things you do, as long as you can stick to them, you can broadcast them in the future when you are gone.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan Zhang He
Edited by Tong Na Proofreader Li Lijun