"Night Running" is also known as "Lin Chong Night Running", people who have read "Water Margin" know that after Lin Chong killed Lu Yuhou and others, he defected to Liangshan on the snowy night; "Night Running" is also called "Si Fan Down the Mountain", which is about a little nun who has been abandoned by her parents to the empty door since childhood, and has moved her heart to flee down the mountain to pursue love.
Japanese dancer Tsune Ito performs the Kunqu opera "Sifan"
Although there is a saying in the pear garden line that "men are afraid of "Night Running" and women are afraid of "Sifan"", for people who are not familiar with traditional opera, they often feel that their storyline is so simple compared to other multi-fold dramas, but the men go up the mountain and the women go down the mountain.
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First of all, they set the body drama, the lyrical drama of the masterpiece, the one-man show requires the actor's basic skills to be solid, the technology is comprehensive.
These two plays are representatives of the traditional Kunqu origami opera. As a body drama, they pay attention to both singing and workmanship, a play includes all the kung fu of hand-eye-body steps, and each action has to go home; as a lyrical play, it also requires the actor to sing Kun cavity with full tone, and there is a one-way effect to achieve the effect of flowing clouds and flowing water.
Take the second song of "Si Fan" [Hillside Sheep] as an example:
"The little nun is twenty-eight years old, and she is in her youth when her hair is cut off by Master. Every day, he burned incense and changed water in the Buddhist temple, and saw a few disciples playing under the mountain gate. He looked at us, and we looked at him. alas! He's with us, alas! Let's hang out with him, and we're worried about it both times. enemy! How could he have achieved marriage, and he died in front of the hall of the stuffy king, and it was up to him to scoop it up, saw it to unravel it, grind it and put it in a frying pan to fry it. Oops, by him! Then he saw the living man suffer, and he saw the dead and the yoke. Oops, by him! Burn your eyebrows and look at the eyes, burn your eyebrows and look at the eyes! ”
Actors who do not have enough foundation can not avoid panting after singing a song, let alone singing seven paragraphs. And its difficulty coefficient of each song is not small, one song is higher than the other, in order to reach the climax of the emotion. Otherwise, how could the little nun flee down the mountain immediately after counting the arhats?
Pei Yanling played Lin Chong in "Night Run"
In addition, it is a one-man show, and the second play has very high requirements for the spirit of the actors.
A play singing voice, reading white, workmanship, martial arts are all prepared, a person performs to the end, to be responsible for the audience, half a mistake can not be tolerated; the whole play is almost a body play while dancing and singing, there is not even a chance to change the scene in the middle, and the more you act, the more mental, the physical exertion is extremely large.
Therefore, "Si Fan" and "Night Running" have become big dramas for Xiaosheng and Nüdan respectively, and the roles that can be played in the whole of these two plays can make people recognize that their boy skills have been practiced.
Secondly, the emotional heat of the characters in the second play is difficult for actors to grasp, and it requires long-term stage accumulation and talent.
If the basic skill mentioned above is hard kung fu, the control of character emotions is soft kung fu. The so-called master leads the door to practice by the individual, it belongs to the skill of the mind that can only be understood and ineffable, and it tests the actor's understanding.
Two plays as lyrical plays, one play has no story, the actor's lyrics are the inner monologues of the characters, and it is necessary to seamlessly switch between various emotions of joy and sorrow, such as the large-scale stream of consciousness in foreign masterpieces, which is a headache.
Kunqu master Han Shichang
Kunqu master Han Shichang once said about "Si Fan" that he had already learned some folding opera before he studied the play, and practiced Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera for six years. Although it is not as skill-intensive as the sword dance in "Farewell to the Overlord", it is an overall difficulty - in addition to the consideration of attracting the audience, the eye and emotional changes of the action singing voice of "Si Fan" alone are still the most difficult scenes.
"Night Running" and "Si Fan", a complex male and a simple woman, are two extreme personalities, actors without literary and artistic accomplishment, it is extremely difficult to substitute for good acting.
First of all, Let's talk about Lin Chong, who has a complex personality. The hay field was burned, and after Lin Chong learned the truth, he also killed Lu Yuhou and Fu'an. At this point, in addition to the self-judgment, only the upper Liangshan road can be walked. But Lin Chong was not Li Kui, nor was he Lu Zhishen, he was too rational and too calm.
"Water Margin" Lin Chong stills
Jin Shengsi had a very famous sentence to comment on him: "Lin Chong is naturally a superior figure, but he writes too fiercely, seeing that he can calculate it, survive it, hold it firmly, and do it thoroughly, all of which make people afraid." "
The boy has tears and does not flick, only because he has not reached the sad place. Overlord Xiang Yu's Nian Bai was indignant: "The Great Cause Fang looks at the hanging hand, why is it embattled and singing?" Rise and fall is like a child's play, and from then on the hero does not want to be born! ＂
Compared with the hero of the end of the road, "Night Run" shows that a person who is rebellious and obedient is forced to retreat step by step, to the point of nowhere to go, and the helpless state of being "forced to Liangshan" is even more difficult. "How can the heroism of the sigh be dispelled?" "The complex psychological process after thinking about it, such a huge inner tension, there is no actor who is not afraid.
Not crazy, not a demon, not a good act. For example, Pei Yanling, a famous opera artist known as "the best actor to act a man", can also feel that she is very dedicated in her "Night Run" performance video - the two tear marks on Lin Chong's face are clearly visible.
If Lin Chong is resentful or hateful, the little nun is angry or delusional and rebellious.
Compared with Lin Chong's failure to "rush", every step he takes up the mountain is actually a barely different, while every step the little nun takes down the mountain is full of confidence.
In fact, the reason why "Si Fan" is very popular with the audience is that it is secularized. The same show of the flower season of young girls love "Garden", this play is more straightforward, but it is difficult to see elegance in the customs - women Si Chun, it is not accurate to be vulgar, if you want to be able to put away freely, not only have skills on the line.
"The slave ripped off his robe and went down the mountain to find a young brother", a little nun who did not want to become a Buddha, yearning for worldly marital happiness. Although she had been in Buddhism since she was a child, she also had a little scruple for fear of being punished by the bodhisattva. But "burn your eyebrows and look at the present!" ", can not suppress the fire of youth of a simple girl.
The little nun in the play is naïve and bold, she is not a big person like Du Liniang, and she is not too bound by worldly etiquette. However, as a young girl, you must have the subtlety of a boudoir and avoid frivolity.
In short, these two plays are both laborious and painstaking, very subtle in the scale of performance, without the accumulation of deep stage experience, and the innate understanding is not good at performing them.
Third, they all say that drama is like life, life is like drama, and the world's idiot men and women are afraid of life like its tragedy.
Stills from "Farewell to the Overlord"
"Men are afraid of "Night Running", women are afraid of "Sifan"" This jargon corresponds to the old saying that "men are afraid of entering the wrong line, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man". "Yu Ji, Yu Ji, Nai Ruo? "The hero has reached the end of the road;" Nu Ben is a female petite, not a man, why is he wearing a yellow tassel around his waist and wearing a straight robe!" Moving the love that should not be moved, the complaining woman has nothing to trust, and the ending of the two people in the play is a tragic fate for both men and women.
In Li Bihua's novel "Farewell to the Overlord", it is used as a proverb of the fate of the characters. Duan Xiaolou was as righteous as the overlord, but in the end he had to expose Cheng Dieyi against his heart; and Cheng Dieyi was originally a boy, biased to think that his daughter was a body, and falling in love with Duan Xiaolou was doomed to be a mistake, and the tragic ending of the two characters was heart-wrenching.
However, it is difficult to enter the drama, and it is even more difficult to make a play; for the obsessed with the art, they are afraid of deep love. Actors are often afraid that if they are too involved, they will be reduced to the same life as the characters they play, and they will not be able to walk out. "I was originally a female jiao'e, not a boy", this joke almost followed Cheng Dieyi's life.
Chen Xiaoxu
And Zhang Guorong played Cheng Dieyi well, entering the play too deeply, but he finally failed to get out of the play. Chen Xiaoxu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" died as early as Sister Lin, and a red chamber was mistaken for life, only to sigh...