Editor's note: Teacher Ma Xiaofeng played Gao Zhanlong in "Kite" directed by Liu Yunlong, and the memory of "Kite" from his front line is sincere and touching.
In my many WeChat circle of friends, there is a group of people called "Kite Family", the number is not much, more than a dozen people, are actors who have starred in the TV series "Kite", director Liu Yunlong and executive director Wei Bo are also among them. Yesterday, everyone was in the group @ Liu Yunlong, the content is: Happy birthday to the director! The first to send this message was Luo Haiqiong (played by Han Bing), followed by me, followed by Liu Xiaocui (played by the street director), followed by Wei Bo (executive director) and Liu Mingyang, Hou Yu, Ma Chi...
For many years, the crew life is "flowing water soldiers", not even a "iron camp" does not exist, everyone comes from all over the world, just a few months together, most of the crew scattered people will disperse, like this so harmonious and often miss not many. In the blink of an eye, it has been nearly ten years since the shooting of "Kite" in 2012, during which he and Yunlong have only seen two faces in a hurry. Yunlong wrote in the theme song "Farewell" of "Kite" that "the past is like smoke", and now recalling the various things when "Kite" was filmed, the past is actually not like smoke...
The first acquaintance with Liu Yunlong's fineness and awkwardness
One day in 2012, he received a call from his old friend Wei Bo, saying that he had taken over the job of "Kite" as an executive director, and the director was Liu Yunlong. Saying that there was a role in the play that suited me and asking if I was free that day, the director wanted to meet me. On the same day, I happened to have another matter and heard from other peers that Liu Yunlong was not good at cooperation, so I shirked that it would be very late to do things, and Wei Bo said on the phone: It's okay, we are waiting for you. At nine o'clock in the evening, Wei Bo called again: "Xiaofeng, are you done?" I said, "Then don't go when it's too late." Wei Bo said: "The director has been waiting for you." I was embarrassed, so I drove to the crew station, which was nearly eleven o'clock in the evening.
In a large room, Liu Yunlong sat in a corner of a long table deep in the room. I entered the room, Wei Bo introduced the two sides to each other, Liu got up and shook hands with me, when I held Willow's hand, I suddenly felt a force passing through my hand, and then looked at his eyes, deep, stable, confident... I responded with the same strength and gaze. In an instant, only those who have studied acting can experience the feeling of spontaneously, that is, silent communication.
Sitting still, Liu Yunlong said concisely: "Ma Ge, there are not many character plays please come to you, just the first four episodes, but the whole drama in the back revolves around this character, I don't know if you want to come?" ”
"What kind of role?" I asked.
"Gao Zhanlong, the station manager of Z Tong Chongqing, is the same level as the J Tong 'G Zi Six' played by me, and was later set up by G Zi Six QS..."
In the next hour, Liu Yunlong "played" the whole character for me, and sorted out all the large and small characters in the play. I was amazed that few directors know every role so well and analyze them so well, and I suspect that if it were possible, he would be able to perform the whole play alone. From his description, I felt that this was a good play, and I gladly expressed my willingness to participate.
When filming the scene of "Devil Six" designing S Gao Zhanlong, he called the actor Pei Xinglei (Gao Junbao, who grew up) who played my son, to the scene to meet me, and I asked the director at that time: I have no drama with him! Yunlong said that one is to let him establish a relationship with you; the other is to let him see how his father is S. The director's meticulousness can be seen to the extreme.
Speaking of Yunlong's "difficulty", I am afraid that the producer has the most right to speak, and few people can change him in the things that the director has identified. Also filming the scene where Gao Zhanlong meets C, I also waited at the scene for a long time that day, and when I inquired, I knew that the director was filming the scene where Zheng Yaoxian appeared. He sat in a jeep, in an American military uniform, draped in an overcoat and sunglasses, very stylish. When I saw him get out of the jeep and walk towards me to shake my hand, I said to him: Yunlong, I asked for a black glove with the costume, your bare hands are not strong now, if you also wear a white glove at this time, when the two hands are held together, how interesting is one white and one black! If you change to another director, you may say: Then you can take off your gloves. He listened and said: I went, why didn't you say it earlier, I spent half a day shooting before! I said I don't know what you shot in front of you, you're the director. He asked the photographer to look at all the material he had just shot, and to retake all the shots involving his hands. Oh, my God! I thought to myself that it would be half a day to shoot, but he said that the significance of this handshake is extraordinary, it is the wrestling between the two sides of the different camps, and it is the glue of the whole play. As a result, it took a long time to make up for the previous shots.
At this moment, I saw the producer's face stretched so long...
When I was shot and fell to the ground, he did not shout "ever" again and again, knowing that it was the middle of winter in Shanghai, and the ground was poured with water by him, and my face was pasted on the cold ground again and again, thinking: Should the director take revenge on what I just proposed? Later, the photographer told me that the director asked for the frightened appearance of his son Xiao Junbao from Gao Zhanlong's "dead eyes". Such a shot requires a high degree of cooperation between me, the camera, and the small actors to complete, so I can only fall to the ground again and again until he says "pass"!
His "fierceness" of the actor makes people feel uneasy. In the crew he is not only the director but also the lead actor, but what about himself? One day, I saw him constantly dripping eye drops, and I asked him what was wrong? He said: "Margo, a lot of plays are emotional plays, and the coordinator just put these plays together, I almost cried all day, shed tears for a day, eyes, pain!" "Haha, Liu Yunlong, you also have today!"
Re-recognize Liu Yunlong's "scolding"
The first day I joined the group was filming a scene in my office. After makeup and sitting in the lounge waiting for the shooting to start, the announcement time is 8:30, but after 9:20 there is still no one to call for work, before hearing about the various legends about Liu suddenly came to mind: "the director is overbearing, not good to cooperate, playing a big name" and so on. Displeased, he found Wei Bo and asked: Why didn't you shoot after almost an hour, and the director didn't come? Wei Bo said that the director had come early and cursed people at the scene.
When I arrived at the scene, I saw Liu Yunlong roaring: Have you checked the information? Did the slogan at the time read like this? Also, in a moment my camera is going to move from behind the chair, and the back of the chair is all gray, like the office of a Z stationmaster?!
I watched behind him for a full ten minutes or so, when he turned to see me and said apologetically, "Margo, I'm sorry to make you wait!" But I really can't do it, I can't get over it. I said: "Director, I watched behind you for ten minutes, to be honest, I heard before that you have a bad temper and cooperation, it is better to see it than to see it, I think you are right to ask, I am waiting for you!" ”
The second time I heard Liu Yunlong scolding people was to scold the actors on the shooting scene. I have a habit of not chatting, or silently speaking or in a daze. That day, several actors got together to chat and play with each other because they had not seen each other for a long time, and suddenly, Liu Yunlong rushed out of the tent where he worked, pointed at the few people and scolded: "Talk, talk, talk!" Just know the, the profession of actor is now very despicable, you yourself are not working hard, can not sit quietly like Margo and play silently? After all waiting to drink the northwest wind to go! ......”
In an instant, the scene was silent, and the actors he usually loved obediently sat back in their chairs. At the scene, Liu Yunlong never talked about idle stories that had nothing to do with the play.
The third time he scolded was the costume.
Shooting the scene where C killed Gao Zhanlong, because there were not many scenes, the costumes did not prepare too many costumes for this role from the budget point of view, when I wore an ordinary costume to the scene, Liu Yunlong asked me: Margot, how do you wear this? I said the costume and prepared this dress for me. Yunlong's face immediately darkened, and he said to Wei Bo: Call the costume boss!
After a while, a chubby young man came running upside down, with a sincere face full of fear: "Director, what's the matter?" ”
"You ask me? You let him just wear this costume? ”
"Huh!?"
"Did you read the script?" Who is he? Tangtang Z Tong Chongqing station chief, the same level as me, but you let him wear such a shabby dress? Do you call the head on your shoulder? ”
The young man was very unconvinced: "Director, I have exceeded the budget, you have requirements for each role, I no longer have the funds to make more costumes!" ”
At this point, Liu Yunlong was speechless, and he groaned for a while, "Go, and change the coat I made for Margo." ”
The boy ran back again!
Liu Yunlong has no selfish intentions for the play, unlike some actors now, everything that is good must be taken for himself.
Three senses of Liu Yunlong's wine
The crew S Qinghou had little contact with Liu Yunlong, and when they met again, it was five years later in 2018. "Kite" was finally broadcast on Oriental Satellite TV and Beijing Satellite TV after five years of silence, yunlong came to Shanghai to do publicity, and that day he asked Wei Bo to summon the actors in "Kite" in Shanghai and said let's get together. I found a private room where I could watch TV, and everyone had dinner while watching "Kite". At the beginning, I asked him: Yunlong, I have never had a chance to have a drink in the crew, how about drinking today? He said that the amount of alcohol is not good to drink less.
During the banquet, watching "Kite" and talking about "Kite", he said to me: Margot, let's drink some more! So everyone began to push the cup to change the cup. Finally, watching "Kite" talking about "Kite", listening to him say that it is not easy to "Kite" in five years, everyone unanimously said: Tonight is not drunk and does not return!
Yunlong, yesterday was your birthday, I wish you a happy birthday!
It's been nearly a decade since Kite, and everyone is waiting for your next Kite.
"No goodbye, forever!"
No meetup, when to see you again! ”
Here's the lyrics you wrote for Kite...
Ma Xiaofeng in Shanghai
April 8, 2021
