In 1997, "Yongzheng Dynasty" began filming, the director arranged for Tang Guoqiang to play the "Eight Masters", but Tang Guoqiang refused, he said: Non-"Yongzheng" does not act. Director Hu Mei is actively doing Tang Guoqiang's communication here, but he did not expect that Zhang Fengyi had a problem over there.
Zhang Fengyi left the protagonist of "Yongzheng Dynasty" Yongzheng not acting, he said that he was going to act in Chen Kaige's international films, it was Chen Kaige's "Jing Ke Thorn Qin King" masterpiece.
Zhang Fengyi said: "I will not act this Yongzheng, you please gao ming, I am going to make a movie." ”
Zhang Fengyi this walk, the director is stupid! This time, "Yongzheng" and "Eight Masters" have all run away, what else to shoot?
Who knew that this TV series turned out to be a classic under the yin and yang errors later.
Adapted from February River's novel "The Yongzheng Emperor", the work was widely acclaimed after it was broadcast on the CCTV General Channel on January 3, 1999.
This work has also won a number of awards, the Golden Eagle Award, the Feitian Award, each of which has won one after another.
So far, the rating of this work is still 9.3 points, and many people will continue to re-brush this drama every year, which is really a work that is more and more addictive the more you watch it.
In 1996, producer Liu Wenwu won the rights to "Yongzheng Dynasty" in February River, so they began to prepare for filming.
The first choice is the director, which is the most important soul of making a good work.
At that time, there were more than a dozen alternative directors, and it is said that Hu Mei's two old classmates, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, were also among them.
At that time, whether it was fame or achievements, Hu Mei had to lose a few points. Zhang Yimou has long been popular with "Red Sorghum", and he also won the first Golden Bear Award for Chinese cinema. After that, Zhang Yimou filmed a number of works, all of which were well received by word of mouth.
Chen Kaige has also become an excellent director with "Farewell to the Overlord", and both of them are stronger than director Hu Mei.
During the Spring Festival holiday, producer Liu Wenwu still took the novel and found Hu Mei.
Hu Mei spent the whole holiday to study "The Yongzheng Emperor", and she carefully and carefully read the novel. She loves the novel, and she is in awe of every character in the work.
But she was still very sensible, and she felt that she might not have the opportunity to make this excellent work.
But she seems to have a glimmer of hope in her heart, and she looks forward to someone taking the initiative to contact her and give herself the opportunity to express her feelings about this work.
As a result, the investor also found her after communicating with several big directors.
They heard director Hu Mei's evaluation of this work, and the two words of awe she said touched the investors, and they knew that Hu Mei must have studied it carefully.
She said: Only I can make this work well. This shocked the investor, and the tone was very domineering.
But then she said with some suffocation: "But I know you won't let me shoot it."
Unexpectedly, the investors identified her and entrusted her with the arduous task.
Really taking on this task, Hu Mei also encountered some troubles, first of all, there was a problem in the choice of actors.
When Hu Mei was preparing to shoot "Yongzheng Dynasty", she found Zhang Fengyi as Yongzheng and Tang Guoqiang as Baye Yinyu.
But Tang Guoqiang did not want to play the eighth master, since playing the "Zhuge Wolong" in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he had some resistance to the supporting role, and he had also carefully read the novel, he had a special understanding of Yongzheng, he had to play Yongzheng.
This made Hu Mei very embarrassed, when she first saw this work, she already had the male protagonist in her heart, Zhang Fengyi, who has always played the role of a tough guy, and is more suitable for playing the emperor of yongzheng, who is deep and energetic in the city government, and he has a kind of overlord atmosphere.
But Hu Mei also believes that Tang Guoqiang's role as the Eight Sages King must also be very suitable.
Hu Mei advised Tang Guoqiang: "I think you are more suitable for the Eight Masters, the Eight Masters are built for you, known as the "Eight Sages King", which coincides with your elegant temperament, and the performance is also very brilliant, not worse than Yongzheng. “
Hearing Hu Mei say this, Tang Guoqiang was also a little moved, it seems that Yongzheng can't act, then he can only retreat to the second place.
Hu Mei had just appeased Tang Guoqiang here, but she didn't expect zhang Fengyi to have another moth over there.
It turned out that he and Chen Kaige's friends for more than ten years, when he was able to become popular, was also because of Chen Kaige's promotion, let him star in Duan Xiaolou of "Overlord Farewell", he broke through himself and became famous in a war.
Although he promised Hu Mei, Chen Kaige needed temporary rescue. In his big movie of "Jing Ke Thorn Qin King", the male protagonist picked up the pick and did not do it.
It turned out that Jiang Wenwen was the male protagonist, but his idea was unique, and he always couldn't think of going with Chen Kaige, and finally he left in one breath.
So Chen Kaige had to let Zhang Fengyi come to help. Zhang Fengyi could only choose Chen Kaige and abandon Hu Mei.
This is a good opportunity for Tang Guoqiang, Hu Mei is angry, Tang Guoqiang once again came to fight for the role of Yongzheng, Hu Mei could only let him try the play, but Tang Guoqiang's Yongzheng attracted her, and immediately finalized the protagonist Yongzheng to use Tang Guoqiang.
However, the Eight Sages King was also an important role, and Tang Guoqiang invited his good friend Wang Yichun to come.
Wang Yichun starred in 1990 as Kong Qiu in the TV series "Confucius" directed by Zhang Xinjian and Liu Ziyun, and the drama also set a record for winning five "Feitian Awards" for one play.
Therefore, Hu Mei is also very relieved to use. So "Yongzheng Dynasty" underwent a change of roles, and then started again with full vitality.
Tang Guoqiang's Yongzheng, Wang Yichun's Eight Sages King, have also become classic characters, and it is difficult for anyone to surpass them.
The success of "Yongzheng Dynasty" not only has a good script and director, but also a very prominent behind-the-scenes team.
The team is the most important. Behind this work, there is not only a first-class screenwriter such as Liu Heping, but also a well-known artistic director Zhang Li, Zhang Li's achievements in historical dramas are unique, representative works include "Daming Dynasty 1566", "Towards the Republic", "The Right Way in the World is Vicissitudes" and so on, it can be said that Zhang Li's works are classics.
No work is propped up by one person. The perfect team can create the perfect work.
