The 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is a wonderful chapter and an insurmountable classic in the history of Chinese television, and every character in the play greatly conforms to the original book, just like coming out of the book, satisfying our imagination of all the characters in the original book.
Chen Xiaoxu is the "Lin Sister" that I see with pity, Ouyang Fenqiang is the "Second Master Bao" of the Chaos Demon King, Zhang Li is the dignified and atmospheric "Bao Sister", and Deng Jie is the "Phoenix Spicy"...
National auditions.
Wang Fulin boldly used new talents, did not use any popular stars, and adopted the method of national audition to select actors.
In film and television publications such as "Popular Film", the crew published news of looking for actors such as "Bao Daichao". The whole country boiled over, and the letters flew like snowflakes to the crew.
Unfortunately, in thousands of letters, there are very few suitable actors, except for Chen Xiaoxu, no suitable actors have been found.
Then, Wang Fulin sent casting directors to go to all parts of the country to find actors. Wang Fulin has only one criterion for casting directors, that is, it is not too important to look like people who look like Daguanyuan and whether they will act.
Every time the casting director goes to a place, he finds a troupe from all over the world, selects the actors, makes up the makeup, makes a sketch, and then sends the video tape back to Beijing for the director team to decide.
After watching the video, the director team selected a more suitable actor. In this way, batches of videos were sent to Beijing, and the director selected a batch of suitable actors.
Finally, Wang Fulin gathered the selected actors in Beijing and held two training courses for these actors to receive training.
Actors and characters "fall in love".
Wang Fulin spent a lot of money to open two study classes, so that the actors could accept the influence of the master and feel the power of the role.
In the first workshop, the actors listened to the lectures of the red scholars.
At that time, many actors were not familiar with "Dream of the Red Chamber", and some people had not even read it, so Wang Fulin invited red experts to teach the actors, lead them to study the original work, analyze the role, understand the background, make character notes, and let the big actors have a specific and detailed understanding of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
The second training course is to perform skits. Actors find suitable roles from books, make sketches, perform them, and show them to the director.
If the director feels suitable, then, you are the candidate for this role, if not, then find a new role, make a sketch performance, so that after a round, each actor has found his own suitable role and become a candidate.
In the words of director Wang Fulin, it is "actors and characters understand each other and talk about a relationship."
Then, between these candidates, there are sketch performances separately, and the director team watches again, and finally chooses who is the most suitable candidate.
As the female number one in the book, Daiyu's choice is the most deliberate.
At that time, the candidates in the Daiyu group were Chen Xiaoxu, Zhang Jinglin, Zhang Lei, Hu Zehong, Shen Lu and Wang Xiaojie.
Chen Xiaoxu.
Chen Xiaoxu was the only actor to enter the crew through the cover letter.
In his cover letter, Chen Xiaoxu wrote down his understanding of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and his analysis of the character of Lin Daiyu, and attached a small photo of himself and a small poem published.
At that time, among the eighteen or nineteen-year-old youth, it was not easy to find a person who had read the original work of "Dream of the Red Chamber", let alone write poetry?
After Chen Xiaoxu entered the crew, he wanted to play Lin Daiyu, but he was not interested in other roles.
Although Wang Fulin felt that Chen Xiaoxu's temperament was very in line with Lin Daiyu, he always felt that Lin Daiyu should be more beautiful.
Wang Fulin once tried to ask Chen Xiaoxu, if he did not play Lin Daiyu, which role would he choose?
Chen Xiaoxu replied without hesitation, "I am Lin Daiyu." If I go to play another role, then everyone will think that Lin Daiyu is playing another girl.
In the end, Wang Fulin still put his temperament on his appearance and acting skills, gave up the more beautiful Zhang Jinglin, and chose Chen Xiaoxu to play Lin Daiyu.
Zhang Jinglin.
Zhang Jinglin looks beautiful as a flower, and her eyes are good. Before entering the crew, she played Mrs. Xiaowen in "Four Worlds Together", with high understanding and good acting skills.
Zhang Jinglin also came running to "Lin Daiyu", and she had the confidence to play Daiyu well.
Director Wang Fulin did struggle between Zhang Jinglin and Chen Xiaoxu, and it was more appropriate to choose who to play, which made the director very difficult.
On appearance, on acting, Zhang Jinglin is slightly superior, on temperament, Chen Xiaoxu obviously wins.
Wang Fulin believes that Zhang Jinglin's temperament is the temperament of a "crazy girl", so she played Qingwen.
Zhang Jinglin learned that she could not play Daiyu, so she did not want to act and wanted to leave.
Wang Fulin said that the role of Qingwen is tailor-made for you, no one can play it, and no one is more suitable than you.
Under the persuasion of Wang Fulin, Zhang Jinglin reluctantly agreed, and put forward a condition, that is, she did not follow the group. At that time, the actors ate and lived in the crew, and they could not leave casually, let alone roll the scene.
In order to keep Zhang Jinglin, Wang Fulin agreed.
This is also why in the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" group drama, there are very few Qingwen appears. Bao Yu was surrounded by raiders, musk moons and other rings, and few Qingwen appeared.
Hu Zehong.
Except for Chen Xiaoxu, the other actors did not have too persistent goals. It is a great honor to be able to enter the crew of the Red Chamber, no matter what role you play.
Hu Zehong is outgoing, lively and generous, and is far from Lin Daiyu. In order to be able to play Lin Daiyu, she "pretended" wen wen quietly in the study class.
Hu Zehong's appearance and temperament are very tasteful of Lin Daiyu, and director Wang Fulin is also very optimistic about her.
Unexpectedly, it did not take long to "load", Hu Zehong was exposed.
She went to the Yuanmingyuan one day, met an uncle, the uncle looked very amiable, Hu Zehong showed his nature without paying attention, and chatted with the uncle Tiannanhaibei, chatting hotly and happily.
After that, Hu Zehong was told that she was not suitable for playing Lin Daiyu and played Xi Chun instead. At this time, she knew that the uncle in the Yuanmingyuan was the director Wang Fulin.
Shen Lu.
Shen Lu was born in a family of literature and art, and her grandfather Ma Jingui was a famous critic master, one of the founders of the art of drama criticism, and the master of Zhao Lirong. Ma Yinzhu, the mother, once played the commentary version of Lin Daiyu, and became a household name.
Because of her mother, Shen Lu has longed for Lin Daiyu since she was a child, and after entering the crew, she became a candidate for Lin Daiyu as she wished. Shen Lu, who has put on makeup, has beautiful eyebrows and has a bit of the taste of Daiyu.
Shen Lu's personality is very lively, and at a party, Shen Lu danced a passionate disco. Wang Fulin looked at it and hesitated in his heart.
What happened after that made Wang Fulin completely break the idea of letting Shen Lu play Lin Daiyu.
At that time, Deng Jie was Wang Xifeng's candidate, and once, she wanted to play with QiuTong, and she couldn't find anyone to play, just as Shen Lu was next to her.
Therefore, Deng Jie asked Shen Lu to help her set up a play. The two acted in a similar way, especially Shen Lu, who had not been in contact with Qiu Tong before, but could well control the personality characteristics of Qiu Tong and acted vividly.
With this time, the next time Deng Jie asked Shen Lu to help her play.
In this way, when it comes to playing back in the evening, everyone will shout, "Come and see Shen Lu's Qiutong, come to see Shen Lu's Qiutong." ”
Wang Fulin also felt that Shen Lu playing Qiutong was too appropriate. As a result, Shen Lu became the actor of Qiu Tong.
From Lin Daiyu to Qiutong, from female number one to small supporting roles, this contrast is too big, and Qiutong is a negative character, is a "bad woman", and Lin Daiyu cannot be compared at all, which makes Shen Lu unacceptable.
Enraged, she resigned, rolled up her covers, and returned to the northeast. Wang Fulin was reluctant to be such a good seedling, and he entrusted someone to bring words, and he wrote to her, and finally persuaded Shen Lu to return to the crew and play Qiutong.
Zhang Lei and Wang Xiaojie.
Zhang Lei's national color is heavenly, the temperament is melancholy, and she has the taste of Lin Daiyu, but at that time, she was older, and Wang Fulin considered her acting for another three years, and there was no sense of childishness.
Moreover, at that time, Zhang Lei was ready to study abroad and had already submitted an application to the embassy, so Wang Fulin let her play Qin Keqing, who had less drama.
After filming Qin Keqing's scene, Zhang Lei went abroad and there was no news.
After that, patting and patting, Wang Fulin found that there was still Qin Keqing's scene behind, but he could not contact Zhang Lei, so he had to look for actors again and found Xia Lirong, who was very similar to Zhang Lei.
Wang Xiaojie is the lowest sense of existence among daiyu candidates. She has a Daiyu temperament, but her cheeks are a bit large. In the end, Wang Xiaojie played Baozhu.
The moment she appeared, we were stunned, this little girl, looking so beautiful and beautiful. Few people know that "Baozhu" was also a candidate for Daiyu.
Zhang Lei and Wang Xiaojie were both candidates for Daiyu, and in the end, they only played a pair of master servants who did not play a small role.
Therefore, it is no accident that the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" can become a classic. What crew can now spend so much time and energy on a national audition, inviting a grand advisory board, and running a special training class just to select the most suitable actors?
Pay tribute to the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and pay tribute to director Wang Fulin.