The character of "Penglai", the attraction to Yao Chen is like a "crazy flower", with deadly gravity. This attraction even made Yao Chen finally decide to join in a shorter preparation than previous episodes.
Penley, a rock musician and a failed idealist. She once stood at the pinnacle of her stage career, returned from a runaway, faced a daughter she hadn't seen for many years, an elderly mother, an old adolescent friend, a quagmire life, when the rock spirit collided with real life, a chicken feather.
Compared with the atypical mother image in "Rock and Roll Flower", Yao Chen pays more attention to "Penglai" himself as an individual. "When I was first attracted to the script, I was actually attracted to Penley as a person. I've almost never seen a script where everything the heroine goes through is so bad, it's like a puddle of mud. ”
After the interpretation, saying goodbye to the characters, to the launch of the series, and re-seeing Peng Lai in "Rock Flower", Yao Chen's description of "Peng Lai" has never changed - "My description of her has always been one sentence, that is, a mourning dog." In fact, before he finally decided to star in "Penglai", Yao Chen ordered a guitar and carried it every day. "The first is to adapt to the weight, and the second is to make yourself look more integrated with the piano."
"It's really not a role I decided to take on right away. But when everything is not settled, I have already begun to find a teacher to learn guitar, and I should learn a new skill myself. "Due to time preparation, Yao Chen can only take the initiative to adjust the way of creation and make some trade-offs." When it is close to the start of shooting, I will not overdo Peng Lai's piano skills, because no matter how you practice, it is impossible to present a person who has played the piano for more than ten or twenty years. Technically I can't do it, but at least I need to make it a way that the back of the instrument is coordinated on my body. ”
During filming, she spent almost all her days off in the Lescool Music Base, chatting with friends who played rock, slowly entering their context, "The breath and energy field on their bodies will also affect you." "At the end of the day, the most important thing is to find out what kind of person Peng Lei is." That's what you need. ”
Becoming Penley is not an easy task. Peng Lai has a lot of shadows of rock actresses in the eighties and nineties, and that is also an era when women were not absent from rock expression. Initially taking over Penglai, Yao Chen watched documentaries, videos and written materials of a large number of rock bands at home and abroad. "Like the most outstanding rock musicians in China, Luo Qi and Wei Hua, their generation of rock musicians is similar to Peng Lai's era background, and female rock musicians were still a minority at that time. I myself like Punk Godmother Patty Smith, and I read a lot of related materials during my biographies. "This kind of picture and visual reading is only to establish a basic understanding of the rock profession, and cannot be directly applied to the characters.
"When I was young, I rode my bike to see the livehouse, and I also listened to Dou Wei, He Yong, Zhang Chu, and Xu Wei at that time, these were all rock musicians we liked very much at that time, but I can't say that I know rock very well. Because I listen to folk songs on weekdays, I also need to adjust my inner rhythm when acting in this play. In order to better become "Penglai", Yao Chen also went to chat with current rock musicians, such as Shi Lu. "Shi Lu told me that in fact, rock is when you sing on stage, it is OK to express yourself." This sentence is a great reminder to Yao Chen, who was still trying to find a prototype for "Penglai" at that time, trying to find a character to put on "Penglai". "No one can get in because they are not Penglai, and Penglai's personality is very distinct and strong." Being Penley and finding her way on stage, thinking about how she is going to express it, that's all that matters.
In the opening performance of "Rock and Roll Crazy Flower", which is also a rare description of Peng Lai in the play about the peak moment in the past, before the opening, Yao Chen shouted to the audience in the audience, "Hey! Feed! Feed! These three sounds, no rock musician on the stage has such a reference, "just suddenly appeared in my head, subconsciously did so." "This scene is also a highlight in "Rock and Roll Flower", which also impressed Yao Chen." Penglai's whole whole process is very sad, the tone of the characters is going down, this performance is Penglai's only most gorgeous and brilliant display on the stage, so when creating, I consciously let myself look very insolent. Because only in the opening more indulgent, more insolent, more chaotic, to the back Penglai more mournful, can form a strong contrast and contrast. "The live performance of this scene was filmed in the relatively late stage of the entire shooting, although in the later stage, the role of "Peng Lai" has grown on Yao Chen, but she was still very nervous when filming.
"The day before the shoot happened to be my day off, so I didn't take a break and went to the scene again to see how everyone was rehearsing. Because it is the opening scene of the whole article, all departments are very rigorous, and they also attach great importance to this scene, and I was shocked that I did not expect to invite 800 extras, and they are all students of professional music schools. At that moment, I was a little scared because musically I felt like an impostor. At that moment, Yao Chen's uncertainty about the stage and the knot of "Penglai's return to the stage in the later stage" overlapped from a certain time and space. "That day was actually going to shoot the hand substitute. Our music director, Lou Lao, is also helping out with the position. Later, it didn't feel right. I decided to go on my own. Although it was just a back scene, I quickly applied a makeup to myself at that time, and I needed to let the people in the audience go with Peng Lai at that moment to have a chemical reaction," Yao Chen said, "You have to make them believe." ”
Before the official start of filming on stage, Yao Chen also chatted with the students in the audience and borrowed picks from them. "When the music started and I shouted those three hellos, I felt like they were instantly ignited, and in an instant the whole field was burning, and I even faintly heard young people below say, hey, come on for real!" At that moment, whether on or off stage, everyone believed that it was at a frenetic concert site, some people were taking the train, running on stage and diving again and again, and even one person ran on stage with a big flag, "Although this shot was ruthlessly cut by the director, but the belief of everyone on the scene also made me believe that I am Peng Lai at this moment." ”
At that moment, Yao Chen suddenly felt that the thickest barrier between himself and "Penglai" had been completely broken through, broken, and completely grown together. At that moment, Yao Chen finally became "Penglai".
Penglai and Daytime are an abnormal mother-daughter relationship, and Penglai has also become a rare image of an atypical mother in recent dramas. Saying goodbye to the more general group anxiety faced by mothers in the current society, such as workplace, further education, and family relationships, Peng Lai is not only facing the same stranger with his daughter for more than ten years, but also the almost vacuum of domestic life, accompanied by the hidden physical danger of long-term alcoholism in suppressed life abroad.
In Yao Chen's view, Penglai and Day, outside the core of traditional maternal love, are more like the differences between two individuals with different personalities. Peng Lai experienced her ex-husband's cheating, divorce, real estate cutting, and going abroad. The plot does not stick to the pull of this, and handles the laying out of the previous plot at the speed of electric light and flint, simply and neatly. But this simplicity also led to the lack of communication between Peng Lai and her daughter during the day. How to return to the mother's position, this is not with superficial tears and lyricism, but fiercely colliding, rubbing out Mars burst.
"Duffy Zhuang is a rookie actor, and when he first joined the group, he normally showed respect for the senior actors. But for me, the two characters of Penley and Day are-for-tat, a very comet hitting the earth, so she has to stand up and not show the slightest fear of me. The first thing I did was to break her so-called respect for me and help her build her own character confidence. Yao Chen said that the best way is to get acquainted quickly. In this way, Duffy Zhuang will also be more relaxed when communicating with her. "We would rehearse over and over again, pulling her along to pick out the details of the performance. Because the richer the details of each performance, the richer the amount of information it is. For example, if there are some opponents, I will think of several ways to deal with them, but if she can't catch one of them, or the performance will interfere with her, no matter how good it is, it won't work. We slowly established a tacit understanding and trust in the cooperation, so in the end, the state of Penglai and the mother and daughter during the day was presented, which matched the performance state and would not make people dance. "The mother screams, and the blood is thicker than wine", and finally reconciled.
Yao Chen used "one step away" to describe the ending of "Rock and Roll Flower". "Rock and Roll Flower" did not fall into a kind of family reunion, and some viewers regretted this Be's ending. In Yao Chen's view, this may be a regrettable ending for Peng Lai, but for herself, it is true enough.
"Life is nine out of ten, people who fail want to succeed, not everyone has the luck of this success, which is indeed more in line with the trajectory line of Penglai's fate." So about the ending, I think the screenwriter is very powerful, and giving such an unsatisfactory ending is actually more moving than being brilliant again than performing on stage. ”
At the end of "Rock and Roll Flower", Yao Chen wrote on Weibo: "Good luck, Ms. Peng Lai. "There are reasons behind every choice, Yao Chen is not familiar with the workplace and urban dramas, but chooses to create a rock singer who is not exquisite, lives in a chicken feather, and is no longer at the peak, looking back to face life after escaping, and finding a self-consistent way of coexistence with his family and the world, the glory is no longer good, and even not very decent.
Yao Chen, in her own way, chose to become "Penglai" and also bid farewell to this role. "The ideal is always young."