There was a hot topic on Zhihu that was "Who is the most successful villain in your mind?" "There's no standard answer to this open-ended question, and everyone lists almost everyone's classic villains in film history, Gary Oldman, Heath Ledger...
If this question is put to the netizens to answer today, I believe that the answer will probably add another character.
Who? Teng.
The bad, stupid, cute, pathological and neurotic villain in "Wudong Qiankun", the Yin Puppet Sect Young Lord, Teng Yan (Li Xinliang).
When Tian silkworm potato wrote this role, there was only one chapter mentioned in the whole book, and the simple comment was "a young hero with Lin Dong". In the TV series, Teng's voice runs through the story, but this character scolds continuously in the early stages, Teng's practice of fu kui, the evil charm is fierce, licking the hands and ears of the human body with the tip of his tongue, and opening the bullet screen is nothing more than "God, the picture causes serious discomfort", "This role is too disgusting". What I didn't expect was that this character, who had caused the audience to experience serious discomfort in the theater, suddenly went offline a few days ago, opened Li Xinliang's Weibo, and netizens were saying "My God, why did I let my pistachios receive a box lunch?? ”
As protagonists, we often don't want these villains to be caught, but instead want to see the "good guys" who try to catch them unlucky. Unconsciously, we are also in the position of the villain. This kind of role that can put us in the position of the villain is difficult and rare. But it is difficult and rare, and these actors are particularly expensive.
"I really liked something like Gary Oldman
and an actor like Heath Ledger."
In the worldview of justice and evil, Teng's behavior is often contrary to justice, and he vows not to give up in order to achieve his goals, even if he sacrifices his cronies, and does not do evil for his own ambitions, even if he wants to burn with Lin Dongyu. This is a standard villain setting, coupled with exaggerated styling design, coupled with a bad plot setting, a domestic drama routine villain will come out.
However, Li Xinliang's Tengyu did not act according to the established routine of the domestic villain, and the Tengyu he presented was a villain without twists and turns, abandoning the processing of face, just like an artist, full of criticism of the real world. And Li Xinliang's understanding of the character coincides with director Zhang Li.
To say that Teng yan is an artist is not to glorify his evil deeds, but to say that he is like a person immersed in his own world, completely enjoying his own joys and sorrows, yes. When Li Xinliang expresses this character, he carries a kind of "extreme" and "concentration" similar to that of an artist, and some actions and expressions are not deliberately designed and sculpted, but are completely out of that spontaneous madness. "I have never played a villain as a villain", so the villain portrayed by Li Xinliang is natural, because after having a deep understanding of the character, everything is not "acting", but naturally, naturally.
There is a scene that makes the pure and simple characteristics of Teng yan undoubtedly show, Teng Yan mistakenly thinks that the mink is the ancestral symbol, under the instruction of the mink, call grandpa, kowtow, and even stupid enough to "look directly at the sun" to absorb what yang force, and also stupidly reply to a "hmm". Teng's ambition makes him look bad, and because of his ambition, he seems to have a clear purpose and pure persistence.
Obviously, in Li Xinliang's dimension, the "villain" is not a role that makes him jealous. "Actor acting" and "strength to match the role" are relatively high-ranking words in his value system, even when he talks about other actors.
"Did you know Gary Oldman and Heath Ledger?"
"Yes, I heard it"
"You know, I like both of them very much, especially, the joker and Stanfield are so good and good."
Stanfield, the crazy cop who shot the Mathildes in "This Killer Isn't Too Cold," is extremely bad, and the Joker, the crazy and evil supervillain in Batman: The Dark Knight, who says "Why so serious" in a weird voice, is naturally bad. Li Xinliang's Tengyu is also like them, he never hides his evil, the bad is very pure, the bad is natural, just like Heath Ledger's clown, he only stems from his own understanding of the fair world, and like Oldman's Stanfield, the bad is unobstructed.
These villains are not the C position in the TV series, but they can firmly occupy the audience's attention with superb acting skills and infinite personality charm. Not the protagonist, but can become the highlight of the audience, with the actor's ultimate interpretation of the character.
Throughout the conversation, Li Xinliang always praised these actors he respected, he admired them, and he also looked forward to becoming them.
"I want to be red so I have more options,
in order to bring the real idea to the audience."
Although entering the industry as a host, Li Xinliang now focuses on acting, "Actor is a profession that can bring me a lot of expressiveness."
Actors, in today's film and television circle where "traffic stars" have become the mainstream, this word is particularly precious. On the scene of the variety show "I am an actor", Ren Suxi once said something that may be the heart of many excellent actors, she said: "The reason why I came to participate in this show is because I saw a lot of good scripts, but they didn't come to me, but in fact, I think I can act very well, I want to tell them that I act very well, so I want more people to know me, I can act very well, you can trust me." ”
This is the current situation faced by an excellent Chinese actor, and these words also speak to Li Xinliang's voice -
"I want to be red, the reason I want to be red is that this is why I can have more say in the market, and I hope that everyone can see my ideas in the role, not just watch the hilarity."
Acting for him is not a play ticket after hosting, no matter how small the role is, no matter how short the role, he has always studied it wholeheartedly. It is precisely because of this that he always goes too deep into the drama because he goes too deep into the heart of the character, so that it takes a long time to withdraw from the play every time. Despite this, I feel that I will still choose some deep roles to play, "I especially don't want to play that kind of hilarious thing, I hope that the role I create can bring you some feelings." 」 At the same time, I also hope that the market can accommodate the diversity of actors, believe in my ability to shape the role, give me a chance, I can also play these roles. ”
After acting, Li Xinliang believes that he is "just an ordinary boy", does not love makeup and loves fitness, a sports-style outfit is his common style, and accompanying his parents is the most he does. "I feel that filial piety is the most important thing in my life for me as a child, so I will definitely leave my time outside of work to my family."
Not long ago, another work in which Li Xinliang participated, "The Biography of Sun Ruowei, The Princess of Daming", was also successful. In this costume history drama starring Tang Wei, Zhu Yawen and other well-known actors, Zhang Yixing and he play a famous pair of brother emperors in Chinese history, Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong and Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty, who fell in love and killed each other in the play.
Li Xinliang has made many breakthroughs in the play, whether it is a change in image or a change in personality, and the opponent play with well-known actors such as Tang Wei and Zhang Yixing is also worth looking forward to.
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