Duan Yihong's sensual spirit

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After a relatively long vacation, Duan Yihong began his film shooting work this year, leaving the noisy hustle and bustle of the city and arriving in the small town of the Central Plains in early spring.

At the beginning of the rainstorm, the wet road passes through the mixed old and new neighborhoods and shopping malls, deep into the rice fields, as if going back in time to the machine tool casting and forging factory that existed in the 1960s: cannon copper gray corridor buildings, thick plane trees, green painted red signs and gravel main roads, all with a nostalgic atmosphere.

Actor Duan Yihong's another police story is about to happen here, from the moment he stepped into the small city, he, as always, entered the role world with full affection, from the skin of the body to the heart, after the past experience was gradually emptied, he began to walk into the "Old Jia", walking into the environment that will die, reproducing the past of the nearly twenty years of pursuing the physical evidence of the murder. Strong attack and fierceness, indomitability and cunning, in the time of each other to compete.

All sensory experiences are new, Duan Yihong said, after so many years of acting as a policeman, he still hasn't played it through, and each new role has something that has never been touched.

At the launch conference of the movie "Three Decades", Duan Yihong wore a black T-shirt printed with three timelines of 1969, 1979 and 1989, and introduced himself to the audience in the tone of the character Jia Guozhi he played. There is a little more caution and restraint in the iconic tough posture, and the fortitude between the eyebrows is even greater than before. He seems to have developed a habit, and his face has a tired expression between complete haggardness and full concentration, which is a clear portrayal of the middle age of the film's protagonist Jia Guozhi.

Once again, Duan Yihong approached the character in a realistic and frontal way.

Jia Guozhi, a northwest policeman known as Lao Jia by Duan Yihong, is a border guard soldier born in 1969, who worked as a criminal police officer in his hometown after changing careers, originally thought that his life would be spent in a bland and unremarkable, but a pistol lost at the scene of the crime led him into a long road of pursuing the murderer, Lao Jia began to compete with time, compared with twenty years, and the repeated failures and frustrations not only did not thwart his will, but also aroused his determination to eliminate evil and promote good.

Talking about this role, Duan Yihong is like talking about a friend who has known each other for a long time.

"In order to pursue a truth, Lao Jia took a life for decades."

As always, Duan Yihong gave himself a little time to digest the middle-aged man in the fictional world who clenched his fists and kept running. What exactly makes a person willing to spend so much time and go through so many setbacks without giving up? Is this luck due to fate, or is it an impenetrable obsession?

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Duan Yihong's final answer was quite simple, he thought that there was a passion that was not disturbed by time, and it could even be said that it was some kind of late passion. Lao Jia reminded him of some of his early past, from the small city of Xinjiang to the capital Beijing, persistently knocking on the door of the performance again and again. The details of the story have been repeatedly told by various media over the years, inspirational or persistent, crazy or anxious, in the final analysis, when Duan Yihong's heart was like an inexhaustible firewood, the daily fire did not stop, and sometimes when he stopped, he would ask himself:

"Is this me?"

"It's you."

He also used this answer in shaping the character of Jia Guozhi. "People are multi-faceted, and sometimes there is even a side that you can't see clearly, and you have to bump into something before you know who you are?" Lao Jia bumped out of his own passion, that kind of almost pure elimination of evil and promotion of good, which made Duan Yihong deeply interested, "Many times we always like to find the motivation to do a thing." However, Duan Yihong felt that whether it was the motive of the police to pursue the murderer or the motivation of the persistent performance, in his and Lao Jia,there was always a similar result, that is, self-discovery.

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It is a tempering and a blessing.

In the eyes of others, the interpretation of the same role in different eras in "Three Decades" is very challenging for actors, but Duan Yihong feels that this part is not his most difficult problem, even if he cannot travel through time and feel the specific past, with text and video materials, fieldwork of local residents, and even set music and photography, are all experiences. From the shadow for many years, these parts are his basic skills that need not be said much. The difficulty this time is that he needs to spend more energy, approaching Lao Jia from the spiritual level, approaching the more core of his heart, which is difficult to describe in words. Lao Jia's experience, the judgment gains and losses in this experience, relatives and friends, mistakes and correctness, he wants to find out, in other words, he wants to have as much as possible all the intuition that Lao Jia holds about life.

Duan Yihong's eyes are shining, although it has been turned on for a while, his thinking about the role has not stopped, and the parts that can be said and cannot be said between words reveal the desire to turn themselves into roles, and sometimes even make it impossible for others to distinguish whether it is Duan Yihong or Lao Jia in front of him at this moment. This is not the first time that he has revealed the same frequency resonance between the individual and the character, like the shadow of the resurrection overlapping with the real person, for Duan Yihong, there is both obsession and fun.

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Over the years, Duan Yihong used to keep himself alert, acting is a profession that requires huge energy and emotions, he knows that he will try to go deep into it every time, for some people may be risky, too close to the role sometimes inevitably will affect real life, but for Duan Yihong, he does not have this kind of trouble.

"I don't really bother with how the characters look like me, which character is closer to the real me, or how much I perceive myself in the performance, it doesn't make sense."

Acting is a skill, it gives actors emotional space, gives actors the experience of life, in Duan Yihong's view this is enough. Over the years, he has continued to contribute amazing performances, but when it comes to performance, he does not want to easily set a fixed standard. He certainly has his own criteria, and this criterion is not necessarily fixed, and in different roles, sometimes the standards for himself and for the role may even be diametrically opposed. Of course, he will also encounter incomprehensible, or incomprehensible, but every time, Duan Yihong tries his best to reduce the influence of his own level, how the old duan thinks, the old duan will not, the old duan is not as important as in this time, how the role at that time thinks is more important. Duan Yihong deeply believes that the meaning of performance is ultimately wobbly, and you need to change your position at all times to think about what you are about to face next time.

"It's an abstract existence that's always mutable."

Duan Yihong can't sway the imagination of the outside world that often associates him personally with his character, even if many of them are based on the projection of fans' personal emotions, he has no intention of standing up and sorting out the real and fictional. The characters portrayed can honestly walk into the hearts of some suitable people and produce echoes. For the actor, this is already a great comfort and love.

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He still can't define what a good actor is. The relationship between the actor's work and the actors themselves is complex and fascinating, and playful, like a novel that can be read again and again. He mentioned the news that his favorite actor Will Smith punched people during the Oscar live broadcast not long ago, and bluntly said that at that moment he had a very complicated emotion in his heart, mixed with "this dude can" and "this is not very appropriate", and even out of professional inertia, he felt that this was a designed performance bridge, Will Smith did not beat people in the movie, maybe just for the active little golden man award ceremony in recent years has become more and more dull atmosphere.

"Do you think Will Smith is such an actor?" I won't, I can't do something general. ”

He turned back to acting, counting with us the recognized legendary actors, from Marlon Brando to Johnny Depp, who had different moves in the eyes of different people. He can explain the specific moving, specific to which play, which dialogue, but he does not want to easily use personal touch to demarcate the entire industry and the significance of this skill. That's what critics and film critics do, and he's just an actor.

When filming, he does not think of himself as a seniority, tries to do only his own part, and never easily judges others, but often feels that he has found something from others. Occasionally, when playing against a young colleague, he would also marvel at the childishness of the other party, the seemingly clumsy response under the eyes of the industry, which is a rare innocence.

Performance is a fluid art in Duan Yihong's view. He took over a play, even if he was already familiar with the script before filming, he had an early imagination of various transitions and emotions, he would never relax, and he was still willing to be overturned at any time in the process and ready to start again at any time.

"I'm the kind of person who continues to ponder the emotions of my characters even during the dubbing phase."

The swing of meaning may not be a hesitation about the presentation of the performance, but more like a rigorous wait for the result of the performance. Duan Yihong does not trust the feelings of the moment, nor does he hope for the habits developed by experience. It's like he's played so many cops, but every cop is different for him.

"If there is a next time, it will start as if it had never been acted."

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It is said that the filming process of this time is somewhat tortuous, the director team has searched for a long time and has not found an industrial factory that retains the style of the 70s of the last century, and after it was finally decided, Duan Yihong also followed the group to the small city of Hanzhong that he never had in the future. For small cities, Duan Yihong is not unfamiliar, his childhood and part of his youth spent in Yili, Xinjiang, many roles after becoming an actor often circulate in various small cities, from south to north, the small city maps of the roles are rich. And himself, like many people, has always had a kind of uncertainty about the life and memory of the town.

The sweetness and simplicity of life in the small city and the purity of the world have affected his serious and persistent personality to some extent, but during the time he studied in Beijing, the dazedness of the small town's vision has also brought him some burdens.

Those years of humble and taciturn youth have often been known to the public as free stories that have been laughed at in past experiences, with either comfort and moving, or inspirational and inspiring.

The regrets of life are inevitable for anyone. Just like every performance that is fully committed, in hindsight, Duan Yihong will also say that there are still regrets in the drama, some regrets will turn into treasures, some regrets will inspire the way forward, and some regrets will always be there.

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With the passage of time, Duan Yihong's feelings for the small city have become more pure because they are free from the shackles of the fate of the future. Over the years, whenever he came to a strange town because of the drama, he always felt a sense of gratitude. After spending a season in a quiet town and taking off Duan Yihong's identity, this "old Jia" had a brief sense of seclusion. He has quietly remembered this feeling in the details, and maybe the next role will use it.

"I'm a person who records how I feel about life all the time."

From the obsessive unrepentant obsession, the true toughness of the fist to the flesh, to the constant attempt to achieve spiritual resonance with each character today. Duan Yihong's style, like his past life, is not bound by time. His curiosity is still the same, his persistence is still the same, although there is also hard work, sometimes a little confusion, but it is only an occasional event. The actor is a sense-oriented profession, once his senses were physical, and now his senses are spiritual. Like an ancient river that seems to dry up, on the riverbed of ravines, experience and time radiate a deep tolerance, waiting for new travelers to come at any time.

Photography by Xi Min

Interview, writing Xiao Qin

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