The four famous works are the most brilliant chapters in the history of mainland literature, and their status can be described as unparalleled, and the film and television drama of the same name filmed by CCTV is also a classic in the classics, and many actors have also become famous through these works and become household names.
In addition to the classic "old version" film and television works, the four famous works have all been remade by directors who have smelled the heat in recent years, but almost all of them have been mediocre. In the "new version" remake, there is a special actor who has played the role in two famous books in a row, and he is our protagonist today - Kang Kai.
You may feel strange to hear this name, but when you see a picture of him, you will definitely think of his image in the play "Oh! Isn't that Zhang Fei (Li Kui). ”
Being able to star in a famous book is almost every actor's dream, and such a lucky thing has become the beginning of the "tragedy" on the road of Kang Kai's acting.
Is he acting too badly? Or was the script so bad that he was implicated? What did he go through after filming these characters? Let's look down.
PART/ 1
Learn martial arts as a "hero"
On March 1, 1972, a new life was born in a family in Beijing, and this seemingly wild and uninhibited northern Man was actually a "Pisces" with a delicate heart.
Kang Kai's father is from the military, he has always believed that boys must be able to endure hardships, can be affected, in order to grow into a man who stands tall in the sky, so he has been strictly educated by Kang Kai since he was a child.
When Kang Kai was young, television sets were not yet widespread, and the main way for people to receive fresh information was through the radio and newspapers. At 12 noon, the family would listen to Liu Lanfang on the radio commenting on books while eating.
Kang Kai's favorite is "Saying Yue Quanshu", Xiao Kang Kai has admiration and yearning for the loyal and righteous Yue Jiajun, he showed several martial arts fights to his father, and said loudly to his father: "I want to learn martial arts, and when I grow up, I can defend the country like Yue Fei!" ”
Kang Kai's father was very happy after listening to it, he felt that the boy's martial arts training could not only exercise his body, but also sharpen his heart, and since the son had this intention, it was the best, and immediately began to help Kang Kai prepare for the matter of worshiping the teacher.
Kang Kai, who had just turned seven, officially embarked on his "martial arts".
Every day at four o'clock in the morning, the roosters that reported the time on time were still in their dreams, Xiao Kang had come out of the warm bed, did not eat breakfast, and ran directly to the nearby park to start practicing morning exercises, practiced for three hours and then ran home to carry his school bag to school.
Children like to lie in bed, but Kang Kai is used to getting up early, and he feels fun from the process of learning martial arts, and enjoys it. Kang Kai first learned Shaolin Kung Fu, and as he grew up, he began to learn other martial arts and enjoyed it.
By the time he reached middle school, Hong Kong martial arts movies became popular, and Kang Kai was addicted to kung fu movies and a number of martial arts dramas.
The happiness of the rivers and lakes, the light of the sword shadow, this is the truest yearning in Kang Kai's heart all along.
A dream arose from Kang Kai's heart, he wanted to become a professional kung fu actor and realize his heroic dream in film and television works.
PART/ 2
Dreams lose to reality
Eighteen-year-old Kang Kai, in partnership with a friend, set up a martial arts gym in Beijing and taught some basic martial arts basic movements and simple self-defense techniques.
Although the martial arts movies at that time were really popular, there were still very few people who really wanted to learn martial arts, Kang Kai's martial arts hall often had more teachers than students, Kang Kai and his friends touched the increasingly dry wallet, and the two found that martial arts could not fill their stomachs, but only as a hobby.
While running a martial arts gym, the young Kang Kai often received invitations from some crews to serve as a martial arts instructor. He would always tell his actor dreams to acquaintances in the crew, and also tell the other party that he actually had some worries, such as not being handsome enough, and he did not have much cultural influence when he was a child.
What he didn't expect was that after listening to it, people slapped him violently: "What are you hesitating about, aren't you just this piece of material?" ”
"Yeah, what am I afraid of?" Kang Kai thought, how did he, who has been indomitable since he was a child, now become cringe and shrink?
In 1995, Kang Kai found that the Beijing Film Academy had posted an admission notice, and immediately ran to apply for the exam and was successfully admitted. However, Kang Kai understood that he looked very tough and did not meet the admission requirements of the acting department, so he chose to major in choreography and directing, mainly to study behind-the-scenes work.
When he was studying in North Film, Kang Kai often went to the crew to take on some roles in the dragon set, and over time, he and the people in the film and television circle slowly became acquainted and became good friends. His connections were also slowly accumulated at this time.
After graduation, Kang Kai not only worked as a choreographer and director of film and television works, but also used his spare time to run dragon sets in the crew. Those insignificant small roles are not paid much at all, but Kang Kai enjoys it, and he regards acting as a hobby to learn.
Kang Kai's reputation in the choreography industry is gradually rising, but if he wants to go further, he must improve his knowledge and experience.
In 2006, he chose to study abroad and went to Russia to study art.
But unexpectedly, he stayed in Russia for just over a year, then suspended his study abroad program, and after returning to China, he encountered the opportunity to re-realize his dream of being an actor.
PART/ 3
Luck favors those who work hard
When Kang Kai was still in Russia, he suddenly received a call from his father one day, and after the phone call, Kang Kai lost his soul and could not sleep for several nights.
His father told him the news that his mother had suddenly fallen seriously ill and had been hospitalized, although his mother told him not to tell Kang Kai, hoping that he could study well and not worry about himself, but his father still told him.
Kang Kai was lying on the bed tossing and turning, distraught, recalling the careful care his parents had taken care of him since he was a child, if he didn't even care about his own little family now, what "heroic dream" would he talk about? He will regret it for the rest of his life in guilt.
Kang Kai almost did not think about it, decisively gave up his studies in Russia, and quickly returned home to take care of his mother.
When this burly man dragged his luggage out of the airport, the back shadow made people feel very lonely. He seemed to be shrouded in dark clouds, his studies were interrupted, his dreams were fruitless, and his relatives were seriously ill, which made him feel that life was a failure everywhere.
There is a word called "things must be reversed", when people's lives fall to the bottom, they may usher in the surprise of peaks and loops.
His mother's condition did not take long to improve significantly, and when Kang Kai, who was relieved, considered whether to continue to return to Russia to complete his studies, he suddenly received a message that made him very excited.
His good brother, director Ghosh, is preparing to remake the classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Since college, Kang Kai has always had a beard, and after a long time, he has become a thick beard, and friends always joke about his beard: "If you shoot the Three Kingdoms, you don't play Zhang Fei, I won't watch!" ”
The speaker has no intention, the listener intends. Kang Kai actually took this sentence to heart in his heart, he would sometimes make an expression in the mirror, using his own understanding to interpret a "Zhang Fei" in his heart, he has been looking forward to this opportunity.
And now, this opportunity he had dreamed of was right in front of him, and it was almost a hand.
Gao Xixi and Kang Kai have known each other for more than ten years, the two are familiar with each other, as close as brothers and sisters, Kang Kai has always called him "Xi Xi Ge".
The face is not worth mentioning in front of the dream, Kang Kai found Gao Xixi mao and introduced himself, originally Kang Kai thought that Gao Xixi would be very embarrassed, and needed to use the friendship of more than ten years to ask him. Who knew that Gao Xixi said that Kang Kai had long been the "Zhang Fei" candidate in his heart.
Kang Kai has never stopped the hero's dream in his heart, and now he can finally see the door in the dream open to him, but reality has always been more cruel than imagination.
PART/ 4
Is this Zhang Fei or Li Kui?
In 2010, the new "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was broadcast simultaneously on 4 satellite television stations with great fanfare. However, under the suppression of the high quality and high scores of the old version, the public's evaluation of the new three countries is not very high, the director's casting ability has also been questioned, and Zhang Fei, played by Kang Kai, has also become the target of everyone.
People's impression of Zhang Fei is heroic and mighty, not angry, but Kang Kai's version is a bit silly.
But what is most difficult for everyone to accept is his character portrayal of Zhang Fei in the new "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhang Fei's image of scheming and courage completely collapsed, only showing Zhang Fei's recklessness and rudeness, "Is this Zhang Fei or Li Kui?" ”
When Kang Kai participated in the interview program, his evaluation of the old version of Zhang Fei was "decent", and many people took his comments as evidence of his arrogance and empty-mindedness.
Seeing the comments and complaints of netizens, Kang Kai, a tall and mighty man, was actually aggrieved and shed tears.
The idea of the writers and directors is to create a different version of "Three Kingdoms" than it once was, hoping to make the audience feel refreshed. In half a year, Kang Kai can be said to have turned over the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", just in order to better control the psychology and charm of the characters.
Every day when the meal arrives, it becomes a torturous moment for Kang Kai, who is almost crazy to eat various foods and gain nearly 40 pounds, just wanting to make himself more like Zhang Fei in history.
In the process of filming, he suddenly suffered from acute appendicitis, the wounds had not yet healed, he ignored the dissuasion to get on the horse to shoot the scene, and also wore a half-man heavy armor, resulting in the wound bursting because of the excessive range of movements, and his clothes were stained red with blood.
As a witness, Kang Kai knows how hard and painstakingly the crew has made during the filming of the new "Three Kingdoms", but the audience only pays attention to his shortcomings, and almost no one cares about the efforts behind these.
PART/ 5
The more the scene is filmed, the narrower the road, and the sadness of the special actors
Regardless of the public's opinion of him, Kang Kai's popularity has really increased, and the film contract has begun to come.
As soon as the identity of "Zhang Fei" was removed, Kang Kai immediately began his "devil weight loss training", and when he was sweating in the gym, a new drama made his movements stop abruptly.
Unexpectedly, the comments of netizens became a slur, "Zhang Fei" really wanted to play "Li Kui", but this also meant that the twenty pounds of meat he had just lost could return to him in a painful way.
Kang Kai was full of joy at this time for receiving the role of "Li Kui", completely unaware that from "Li Kui", his actor path would be completely fixed, he thought that he could change his appearance by slimming down, but in the eyes of others, he had become a "special actor".
The remark that "Zhang Fei played Li Kui" had been lingering in his mind, and Kang Kai was determined to prove that he could put Zhang Fei and Li Kui to perform different feelings.
But the result once again made Kang Kai unacceptable, and the audience was even more dissatisfied with his interpretation.
The audience complained the most about his style, "black whirlwind" Li Kui was actually several shades whiter than "timely rain" Song Jiang.
But in this regard, Kang Kai has his own views. He felt that the name "Black Whirlwind" was not named because of his dark skin color, but because he cut people like "black and fierce".
In fact, when he first entered the crew, the makeup set for him was a big black face like Bao Gong, but he was rejected by Kang Kai, who thought that the face was too dark to help him show his acting skills from micro-expressions.
Coupled with the fact that he also has a large number of beards, the audience looks at him, and can only see a piece of black and dirty, so how can he show the demeanor and expression of the characters?
The director approved of his idea, but one thing that surprised Kang Kai, Zhang Hanyu, who played Song Jiang, loved to sunbathe, and he dried himself into the color of Gu Tianle. As a result, There is a "famous scene" that Song Jiang is darker than Li Kui.
Talking about Li Kui becoming a "humble man", Kang Kai also felt very wronged, he said that such an interpretation is actually his elaborate design, he feels that although Li Kui is brutal and rude, but he is very affectionate and righteous, he wants to make the role of Li Kui more plump.
But unfortunately, the audience does not agree with Kang Kai's way of acting, and even hates it.
Even though Kang Kai has already acted in two of the four famous works, his fame has not spread, but his play path has narrowed sharply.
After that, The role of Kang Kaijie was almost carved out of a mold, and even the image in the play was almost the same.
Zhang Fei, Li Kui, Niu Gao in the Yue family's army, and Fan Duo, a fierce general under Liu Bang, seemed to be quadruplets born in the wrong time and space, and all three of them could be eliminated by the method of "eliminating happiness".
Coupled with the later "Zhong Kui" and "Lu Zhishen", as long as it is a costume image with a large waist and a round waist and a big beard, he has almost performed it once.
In the eyes of everyone, Kang Kai is already synonymous with this kind of image, other images have been far away from him, the actor's road, he has inevitably come to the bottom.
In fact, like Kang Kai, many people who have slowly changed from "actors" to "special actors" have rarely changed from "special actors" to "actors".
The actor in the picture is called Jin Jingcheng, who played "Young Zhou Enlai" in the CCTV documentary "Rebirth", and netizens mistakenly thought that it was a model made with CG technology, because it was too similar.
After that, Jin Jingcheng also took over the role of "Premier Zhou", but everyone thought that he would rely on the "great man's appearance" and become a "premier" professional household, he chose to give up the "special" dividend and starred in "Orphan of Wulin" and "The Man Taken by the Light", subverting people's impression of him.
Although it cannot be said that the complete transformation was successful, he can also be regarded as a "special actor" in the eyes of the public to an "actor".
Back to Kang Kai, after 2018, he has hardly participated in new works, and slowly, he has returned to his former behind-the-scenes work.
The hardships, sweat, and time he put in as an actor seemed to have dissipated like a dream.
Some people began to feel sorry for him, if he had rejected the second highly repetitive role and tried other different characters to play, would not be as unmatched as it is today.
But Kang Kai's dream has always been not to become a "star", but to feel the arrogance of being a "hero".
His dream was never a "star dream", but a "hero's dream".
Being able to play so many heroes Haojie who he envisioned as a child, he has already fulfilled his dream.
In fact, a special actor like Kang Kai is actually very passive in the film and television circle.
Just like the special actors who professionally play "great men", it is convenient to make a living by relying on unique shapes and images; but when you want to break through the shackles and pursue more possibilities, the image becomes a shackle.
These "demons and ghosts" in the picture are also special actors.
Land Gong, Green Face Lion King, Big Horse Monkey, Nine Spirit Yuansheng... You may not know the actor's name, but as soon as you see the character, you can always blurt out the image he plays in the film and television works.
The six-year-old boy who played the "Monkey King" in the 86th edition of "Journey to the West" once said: "I am an actor, not a special actor." Because if the actor's play path is fixed, then maybe he can only play the "monkey" forever.
I hope that everyone will give suggestions and complaints about these actors at the same time, but also have more tolerance and understanding.
I also hope that everyone who insists on pursuing their dreams and has the courage to break through can harvest the life they want.