As the first chapter novel in the history of mainland literature, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the pioneering work of historical novels and the first literati novel, and even had the title of "First Talent Book" during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Since 1994, this masterpiece was made into a film and television drama, and it has been repeatedly remade for several years but has not been able to surpass.
The actors played are also changed one stubble after another, among them, the most representative role is Liu Guan Zhang's three brothers, and the role of the third brother Zhang Fei is difficult to control.
As we all know, Zhang Fei's cultural level is not high, so he can certainly not do it to let him talk in a crepe, reckless and impulsive personality, and has no patience for anything.
Because of this, Zhang Fei, played by many actors, is a reckless man with no brains, which makes the audience look very funny.
For example, Zhang Fei, played by Zhu Laicheng, is very joyful, and Zhang Fei, played by Fan Shaohuang, has lost the original personality characteristics of the role.
However, when collecting Xichuan, Zhang Fei had calculated to collect Yan Yan and outwit Wakou Pass, which showed that his military ability was excellent, not to mention his martial arts.
To say that playing Zhang Fei is the closest to the original work, it must be Li Jingfei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and Kang Kai in "New Three Kingdoms".
Next, Xiaobian will take you back to the actors who have played Zhang Fei and see how they interpret it? Who is closer to the original?
01, Li Jingfei version of Zhang Fei
First of all, let's first look at Li Jingfei as the first version of Zhang Fei, how does he interpret the role?
Li Jingfei is not a science class actor, he was once an athlete, and by chance, he became the actor of Zhang Fei by recommendation.
Audiences who know the original work know that the description of Zhang Fei's appearance is
"Eight feet long, the leopard's head is ringed with eyes, the swallow jaw is tiger's whiskers, the sound is like a huge thunder, and the momentum is like a galloping horse."
And Li Jingfei just has these characteristics.
Li Jingfei, 1 meter 83 tall, weighs 113 kilograms, because he is an athlete, he weighs 113 kilograms of tendon meat.
Using fierce animals such as tigers and leopards as metaphors, the majesty of Zhang Fei's appearance can be seen; The sound is like thunder, which shows Zhang Fei's unstoppable voice, and these characteristics li Jingfei are completely in line with, just like the characters of the original work have crossed to modern times.
After determining that he played Zhang Fei, Li Jingfei knew that his acting skills were very different from other actors in the group, plus he had no contact with performance at all.
Therefore, to play Zhang Fei well is a big challenge for him, more difficult than his weight-bearing squat 100 times.
It is precisely because of backwardness that we must work harder.
He first read the original book from beginning to end, focusing on the part of the book that has Zhang Fei, and secondly, studied the script and characters.
During the shooting, in addition to the consultants invited by the crew, he also deliberately found a professional acting teacher to teach him acting skills and help him analyze the emotions of the characters.
Even if he has made sufficient preparations, he is still very nervous when he faces the camera, often unable to keep up with the rhythm, and the emotions and actions are not in place.
Comparison is human nature.
Li Jingfei looked at the wonderful acting skills of other actors, and he couldn't help but feel that he was very poor, and his original humorous and open personality became less talkative, and even had the idea of quitting.
Later, the eldest brother Sun Yanjun and the second brother Lu Shuming in Li Jingfei's play found that his morale was not high, and after questioning, the two decided to help the third brother.
Basically, as long as there are three people's drama, the eldest brother and the second brother will go to the third brother's room one night in advance to "talk about the play" to him.
If Li Jingfei had doubts, he would also go to the two brothers.
The deeper the feelings of the "three brothers", the happier the director, and later at the suggestion of the eldest brother Sun Yanjun, the three brothers lived in a dormitory.
The three often appeared together in the play, although they were together almost all day, and Li Jingfei gained a lot from his brother's side.
Gradually, Li Jingfei found the feeling of the role, and when he extended his acting, he became more natural and skilled.
Athletes are usually very strict about their own intake, but Li Jingfei strives to gain weight at the request of the director in order to be closer to the role.
During that time, his main character was to eat, almost crazy to eat, to eat several meals a day, in a very short period of time to successfully gain dozens of pounds.
Li Jingfei said in a later interview, "I specifically picked fatty meat to eat, and now when I see pork, I want to vomit."
However, it turns out that Li Jingfei's own burly physique is larger because of the weight of dozens of pounds, the dimension and area are larger, and the feeling of reckless zhang Fei comes at once.
As a military general, Zhang Fei has many scenes of battlefield fighting in the play, riding a horse and galloping, but Li Jingfei will not do this, especially on horseback.
The only way is to practice hard, in order to allow the actors to skillfully palm the horse, the crew specially invited the coach of Inner Mongolia, and Li Jingfei is the most hard-working of all the actors to train, basically all the scenes of fighting on horseback are completed by him personally, without the use of stand-ins.
The burly figure is the characteristic of Zhang Fei, and secondly, if you want to distinguish which is Zhang Fei in the play, see whose beard is the most "explosive" is him.
Sticky beard is the most important thing for Zhang Fei's character in makeup, and this is also the most painful thing for Li Jingfei.
Because each sticky beard takes more than half an hour, almost every day with makeup can reach more than ten hours, his face has long been made of glue itchy, red and swollen, tearing down is even more fatal, a heart will tear hair, skin.
Because of the content of this drama, the shooting time is also as long as 4 years, and Li Jingfei in order to be able to keep the characteristics of Zhang Fei's eyes at all times, every morning when he wakes up, he will contact the mirror to "stare"
No matter how bitter it was, Li Jingfei finally survived and conquered the audience with his outstanding performance.
The most profound impact is the scene of Dangyang Bridge, in the majestic team, Zhang Fei stands on horseback at the head of the bridge, he stares and shouts loudly, "Yanren Zhang Yide is here, who dares to compete with it?" ”
The brave momentum in his body, and the fearlessness, the world's first courage, frightened the Cao army to retreat, and even Xiahou Jie was frightened to vomit.
In this passage, Li Jingfei vividly interpreted Zhang Feixiao's brave and bloody boy's side.
Zhang Fei, played by Li Jingfei, is not only liked by domestic netizens, but even the Japanese in neighboring countries are more stunned by his performance.
A professor at a Japanese university said after watching the whole play
"I like Zhang Fei's role the most, and Li Jingfei plays Zhang Fei's rough, childish, hot and other characteristics just right, and his every action shows the personality of the character."
Zhang Fei, played by Li Jingfei, is the memory of a generation, and he has deeply understood the character's heroic, heroic, wise and humorous interpretation of the role, which teenager has never fantasized that he is a hero Zhang Fei.
Due to the long time of this play, Li Jingfei returned to the team after the play, and he had missed the opportunity for an athlete to do a good job, so he decided to continue to be an actor.
Good people are great everywhere they go.
After Li Jingfei retired from the army, he put all his energy into the performance, and the kung fu paid off, and he became a national first-class actor under his diligent and studious efforts.
Unfortunately, Li Jingfei suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 61, and after treatment, he still left sequelae and did not speak very sharply.
But it is worth mentioning that the relationship between the three brothers is not only maintained in the play, the relationship between the three people outside the play is also very good, and the three people will also greet each other every New Year's Festival.
But no matter what, Zhang Fei played by teacher Li Jingfei is successful, and his acting path is successful.
02, Kang Kai version of Zhang Fei
Next, let's look at Zhang Fei, played by Kang Kai.
Kang Kai is not in Li Jingfei, he graduated from the North Film Directing and Screenwriting major, in addition to being an actor, he also serves as a martial arts instructor.
When he was young, Kang Kai liked the role of Yue Fei very much, and he also longed to do martial arts like Yue Fei and defend his family and country.
Therefore, he pestered his father to practice martial arts, and so the 7-year-old Kang Kai began to learn martial arts.
Practicing martial arts is very tired, every day when I get up at three o'clock in the morning, I have to go to find the master Lian Chengong, and after about 6 o'clock, I hurriedly eat breakfast and go to school.
After years of practice, Kang Kai has become more than several times better physically than children of the same age, and his body shape is taller than others.
After graduating from high school, Kang Kai opened his own martial arts gym in the local area, martial arts is what he is good at, and he loves to do what he likes.
However, with the development of the times, parents are willing to let their children suffer from practice, and the business of Kang Kai Wuguan is not as good as a day.
When he was worried about whether to change careers, the staff of a certain crew listened to others and learned that Kang Kai's kung fu was very good, and wanted to ask him to enter the group to guide the knowledge of martial arts.
In this way, Kang Kai's fate with the acting career began as a martial arts instructor.
In 1995, Kang Kai successfully took the Northern Film exam and began to study acting systematically.
After graduation, Kang Kai did not act, but became a person behind the scenes.
In 2000, Kang Kai served as a planner and program host in the program "Travel China" broadcast by CCTV.
Therefore, Kang Kai not only has a well-known reputation in the show business circle, but also has a little fame in the hosting industry.
Subsequently, he single-handedly carried the banner as the general director of the advertising contest and the Miss Universe China contest.
In order to learn more correct shooting skills, he went to Russia alone to study.
After returning from studying abroad, Kang Kai heard that "New Three Kingdoms" was busy preparing for the preliminary stages, and it happened that he and director Gao Xixi had been friends for many years, and he had his own careful thoughts to meet with Gao Director.
Kang Kai's personality is very direct, and after seeing Gao Dao, he said, "I want to play Zhang Fei."
After the high conductor up and down the dose of Kang Kai, he felt that the appearance was really good, but it was still a little too thin to gain weight, but basically he had decided to use Kang Kai.
In order to play Zhang Fei, Kang Kai violently ingested high-fat, high-carbon foods while violently increasing the intensity of exercise.
When filming officially began, he increased from 80 kilograms to 112 kilograms.
The filming process is very arduous, as a martial arts instructor, Kang Kai, in the play is a real knife and real gun on his own, basically his own fight scenes are designed by himself.
But it may be this advantage of Kang Kai that has become the disadvantage of his performance.
For example, the classic bridge section of Dangyang Bridge, Kang Kai's interpretation is not very appropriate.
Zhang Fei was alone in the face of Cao Jun's millions of male soldiers, and the tone of his speech should be deterrent, with a domineering spirit that swallowed mountains and rivers.
However, when Kang Kai said his lines, he may be considering that he has anger in his heart, and wants to decide a victory or defeat with the other party as soon as possible, speaking quickly, compared with Li Jingfei's version of the deterrent is not strong enough.
Acting needs a rhythm, when to be fast, when to be slow, are very exquisite.
The soldiers led by Cao Cao were all shrewd and capable soldiers, and when Zhang Fei stood alone on the bridge, it was best not to give the other party a sense of oppression, but Kang Kai's performance was a bit hasty.
At that time, Zhang Fei's troops were already strong in the outside world, and their strength was far inferior to that of the enemy army, so they should not be tough and outsmarted, and rely on their momentum to scare the enemy army; The enemy army was cautious and refused to advance, in large part because of the timidity of Zhang Fei's prestige.
When the two sides were deadlocked, it ended with Xiahou Jie being scared to death and Cao Cao retreating.
This scene Zhang Fei is the absolute protagonist, all the emotions need Zhang Fei's role to foil, but the Kang Kai version always lacks a little credibility.
After the broadcast, the audience was very disappointed in Zhang Fei, played by Kang Kai, and the overwhelming bad remarks were not expected by Kang Kai.
Netizens all said that Kang Kai's performance was too superficial, playing the famous martial artist into a brainless villager.
Another big factor in Kang Kai's suffering from these doubts is that he also played the same type of role, Li Kui and Fan Duo.
If you look at the stills alone, the people who don't know may be one of the three different age stages of a character.
Regardless of which of these three characters, Kang Kai's iconic bubble noodle head, beard, and flying eyebrows are welded to the face like semi-permanent makeup.
The characteristics that originally belonged to Zhang Fei's character gradually became the characteristics of Kang Kai.
The basic skill of the outside world in judging a good actor is to act like what, in the current buzzword, it is "drama throwing face".
But Kang Kai handled the details of the three roles too similarly, and the audience naturally questioned his acting skills.
Fan Duo and Zhang Feina were both great generals who commanded millions of heroes on the battlefield.
Their image is not only heroic and rough, but also has a thinking and brainy side.
The audience's expectations of Kang Kai were still high at first, but Kang Kai was always amplifying the "rudeness" of the character, without the heroism of the general.
Li Jingfei's version of Zhang Fei gives people a feeling of not being angry and arrogant, and their momentum is menacing.
Even if he just stands in one place, silent and expressionless, the audience can still feel the inviolable force he carries with him, and has long been aware of what is happening around him.
His laughter is more of a kind of arrogance, a kind of dashing.
And Kang Kai's smile is a little unsatisfactory.
Among them, one was when Zhang Fei violently beat Lü Bu's younger brother Cao Bao in Xuzhou.
This scene is indeed in the original work, and the author should want to reflect Zhang Fei's bluntness and the character of not being able to tolerate sand in his eyes through this scene, rather than the viciousness of the character bullying good and fearing evil.
The cause of this drama is that Zhang Fei did not have a good feeling for Lü Bu, so when Cao Bao used Lü Bu's name to let him give face, Zhang Fei's fuse was immediately lit and instantly angry.
Therefore, Zhang Fei's expression must have been very angry.
Imagine feeling insulted if someone who doesn't know anything about you keeps poking out someone you hate or even hate in front of you, and the other person asks you to give him face.
Zhang Fei was also in such a mood at that time, Cao Bao understood that this was the dog fighting situation, how could he easily spare the other party.
But Kang Kai's expression in this section is not only not angry, but even a little funny.
Although the result was very relieving, from his expression alone, there was a feeling that he was teasing others.
When the other party knelt down and begged for forgiveness, he did not have a little general's temperament, but a little bit of a villain's sense of success.
Kang Kai can be said to have played zhang fei's type of role over and over again, and his image in the hearts of the audience has long been fixed, becoming a professional in ancient costumes.
With the fast-paced life, the audience is more accustomed to watching some relaxed and pleasant variety shows and short videos, and roles like Zhang Fei are gradually eliminated.
Kang Kai also had no scene to shoot, and gradually forgotten by the audience.
But Kang Kai received so many bad reviews, is it because he did not work hard enough?
No, when Kang Kai first entered the group, he was injured because of a martial arts drama, but he continued to shoot the scene with great pain, which eventually caused the wound to crack.
In fact, there are many aspects of the quality of a play, the actor is only one of the environments, and there are investors, screenwriters, and directors behind the scenes.
Remake a famous historical drama, if the director uses a more modern idea to shoot, it must be unbearable.
A closer look at the lines in "New Three Kingdoms" actually does not stand up to scrutiny, and some garbage words designed to cater to the characters seem very vulgar.
Of course, the line setting is set by the screenwriter, and the actor sometimes uses too much force to fit the line.
Therefore, Kang Kai's failure is only his own problem.
summary
In contrast, the reason why the original "Three Kingdoms" became a classic was because the crew had no distractions at that time.
They did not use some modern exaggerated performance forms, the screenwriter spent a long time to figure out and polish the lines, the costume team made costumes through the characteristics of each character, and the actors deeply understood the original and the characters, so the crew even invited a history teacher to teach.
These aspects are all necessary factors to create a classic film and television drama, and why the audience will laugh at the new version.
Although Kang Kai is not very brilliant compared to Zhang Fei, played by Li Jingfei, he at least performed Zhang Fei's domineering and fierce side.
It can only be said that Li Jingfei and Zhang Fei, played by Kang Kai, have their own advantages, but the focus is different, and we cannot talk about heroes because of temporary success or failure.
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