Beijing News (reporter Liu Wei) The 48-episode legendary era drama "East Fourth ArchWay East" will land on Beijing Satellite TV from April 10, the drama directed by Guo Baochang, starring Fu Dalong, Hao Lei, Yu Zhen, Dou Xiaoxuan, tells the story of the former Qing Dynasty Belle Halan (Fu Dalong), who inadvertently got a secret record of the treasure of the imperial tomb, thus a huge change in life, and completed the story of character growth in the hatred of the country and the family. The drama unfolds through the interlacing of "treasure hunting and protecting treasures" and complex emotional lines, while showing the characteristics of Beijing flavor, it also integrates elements such as Peking Opera, food, adventure, and family ethics, and paints the sacrifices and struggles of small and medium-sized people in the change of the times into a desolate and tragic legend.
Poster of "East Fourth ArchWay East"
Guo Baochang recreates the legend of the "Beijing flavor" era
In 2001, written and directed by Guo Baochang, the modern legendary drama "The Gate of the Great Mansion", which told the history of the rise and fall of China's century-old "Baicao Hall" medicine shop and the grievances of three generations of the baifu family of medicine, triggered a national upsurge in watching dramas. Today, Guo Baochang has returned to the audience's vision again with his new work "East Fourth Archway East", which is an era drama set in the Republic of China period and with Ha Lan's turbulent and displaced life as the main line, reproducing an immortal legend that penetrates life. Guo Baochang explained: "Ha Lan is a baylor grandfather in the late Qing Dynasty, born noble but timid and afraid of things, in modern parlance he is a provocateur, but he provides a new perspective for the creator, a new possibility of script creation, an interesting way to explain the beijingers and Beijing stories." ”
"East Of the Four Arches of the East" adopts a two-line parallel narrative method, one is based on the thrilling imperial tomb secret guard battle, around Ha Lan was forced to flee because of coincidence, in the Kuomintang, the Japanese army, gangsters, water bandits in the multi-way pursuit and interception, staged a Republic of China version of the "PUBG" battle; the other is based on Ha Lan's ups and downs of the emotional line, showing the gathering and dispersion of small people in the chaotic world and the joys and sorrows of life. "You can see a national spirit in the whole experience of this little man. Compared with heroic characters, to show a person who can introspect himself, who can laugh at himself, who can have a correct understanding of himself and what he should do, I think it is more valuable. ”
"East Fourth Archway East" is another Beijing flavor work by Guo Baochang.
The East Fourth Arch was once one of the symbols of Beijing, representing an era, a city, and a group of people, and a group of people represented by HaLan are also witnesses and witnesses of the new and old eras, new and old China, "their own vivid, unique personality and strange vitality constitute a part of the city." In order to deeply restore the style and charm of the old Beijing city and reproduce this Beijing past with epic temperament, Guo Baochang, who is more than seventy years old, not only personally checked the historical materials and revised the script, but also invited a number of actors from the Beijing Opera House to perform. The reason is that the main creative team lacks the sense of mission and responsibility to do a good job. The right type is to save money and trouble, but what you come out, the audience can feel, good is good, bad is bad, rub a little sand. ”
Fu Dalong interprets "The Prince of The Fallen"
Whether it is King Qin Huiwen, a generation of monarchs who strategize and strategize in "The Vertical and Horizontal of the Great Qin Empire", or Yang Guang, a fierce and decisive tyrant in "Sui and Tang Dynasties", or Yan Hua, a worker leader who is not afraid of power in "Great Prospects", Fu Dalong has created many classic screen images. This time to join the "East Fourth Arch Building East", playing the title of "instigating adultery", in the play, Ha Lan was originally a former Qing Belle, pure in nature, loose and carefree, seemingly cowardly and fearful, but in fact, it is heavy on love and righteousness, both smart and cunning, but also has a lot of common diseases of the stupid children. Fu Dalong laughed and said that ha lan in the early stage was a typical "hardcore crop" - a prince and nobleman with no worries about food and clothing, idle hands, "he did not have to think about struggle, and his daily time was to play chess, calligraphy, painting, eating, drinking and listening to plays." "But deep down, Ha Lan still adheres to China's most traditional view of home and country and good and evil, and even if his family is broken and displaced because of the protection of the secret, he has never wavered in the belief of protecting the secret." The lines in the play have emphasized that this is what is in the grave of my ancestors, and I think it is actually a small word, that is, the family and the world. Although he does not look at it according to today's progressive ideas, his concept of home and country is actually in line with modern times, home is the country, and the country is home. ”
Fu Dalong starred in "East Fourth Arch Building East".
As the soul of the whole drama, in addition to the treasure hunting and protection line around the "Tanglin Secret", the emotional entanglement between Ha Lan and GeGe Tong Lihua (played by Hao Lei) and the famous character Lou Xiaoyue (played by Dou Xiaoxuan) in the capital gives the play a tragic and desolate era background. "To tell the truth, I still have a lot of sympathy for the character of Ha Lan, and I also sympathize with Tong Lihua, and I sympathize with Lou Xiaoyue, which fully conforms to this play, and everyone is a small person." In the play, Ha Lan originally fell in love with Lou Xiaoyue sincerely, but the disparity in the identities of the two was separated by Sheng Sheng, and he married GeGe Tong Lihua according to the order of his parents. Fu Dalong used "powerlessness" to describe the intricate emotions between the three people, "In fact, in the end, Ha Lan is still a well-behaved person, a powerless little person. He didn't have such a high mind to break through the feudal system, he kept all the rules of the old era, he wanted to be a good person in a down-to-earth manner, Tong Lihua was also, Lou Xiaoyue was also, they were all at the mercy of fate. ”
Hao Lei incarnated as "Royal Sister Gege"
When it comes to actor Hao Lei, many viewers will automatically bring in the label of "Queen of Literary and Art Films". This time starring in "East Fourth ArchWay East", playing Tong Lihua, the wife of Ha Lan (played by Fu Dalong), Hao Lei is less romantic than Wenqing and more domineering, not only the strength and independence of the new women of the times, but also the conservatism and weakness under feudal suppression, is a rather complex but tragic character.
"On the one hand, she is particularly like the thirteenth aunt, who has stayed in the West, is proficient in the four Chinese, and has a very good atmosphere; on the other hand, she is very similar to Xue Baochao, and she has not been able to completely break out of the shackles of feudal etiquette." In the play, Tong Lihua was originally an aristocratic gege who had received new ideas and new education, but had to submit to the arrangement of fate and marry Ha Lan. From and ruthlessly feel inseparable, she is like a big husband to solve various problems for Ha Lan in the escape, even Hao Lei can't help but spit out, Ha Lan is like a "giant baby": "I think Tong Lihua is more like his (Ha Lan) mother, because most of the things are solved by Tong Lihua, Ha Lan herself is a character with no ideas and a weak personality. And when it comes to why the domineering royal sister Gege would fall in love with the "instigated adultery" of the fallen Belle Grandpa, Hao Lei also gave her own understanding: "I think it is true. In terms of the relationship between people, she thinks that Ha Lan is a real person and an interesting person. And the other people in this play, including her brother Tong Zihua, the Japanese Kusuma who pursues Tong Lihua, or others, she will feel less real. ”
Hao Lei has her own "aristocratic temperament".
Although the filming of "East Fourth Archway East" is the first cooperation between Hao Lei and Fu Dalong, the cooperation between the two is extremely tacit. Fu Dalong praised Hao Lei for her strong aura and "aristocratic temperament", bluntly saying that "Hao Lei's efforts for this role and her final portrayal make me believe that this is Tong Lihua". And Hao Lei described Fu Dalong as a quiet "good student", and it is not easy to play such a naughty Baylor grandpa as Ha Lan, but the final degree of completion will definitely give the audience a surprise.
Yu Zhen's interpretation of "Complex Director"
Yu Zhen, who has the titles of "screen tough guy" and "brother of anti-war drama", changed the screen image of "righteous and awe-inspiring" this time, and played Ha Lan's lifelong opponent in "East Fourth Archway East" - police chief Wang Sihai. In the play, Wang Sihai will stop at nothing to survive and work hard for the sake of secrecy. But it is such a person who has done all the bad things, but he has a special love for Ha Lan's green plum bamboo horse and the famous Peking Opera character Lou Xiaoyue (Dou Xiaoxuan), and is obsessed with it, and even rescues Ha Lan from water and fire for her many times.
"So how can he be a villain?" Yu Zhen asked rhetorically. "The biggest villain in this play is the Japanese, Wang Sihai is not a good person, but he does not easily hurt others." He is only for his own love, for his own career, and after marriage, for his family and daughter, he will open up his own person. And director Guo Baochang also certified that Wang Sihai is by no means a villain in the traditional sense: "You can't measure him by the standard of a good person and a bad person, and he has also done a lot of things that big people should do, such as avenging the woman he loves and killing the Japanese with his own hands." It's a complex person rather than a symbol, and there are too many works now that paint figures into symbols. ”
Yu Zhen played Wang Sihai, who has complex human nature.
Lou Xiaoyue, a famous Peking opera singer who let Ha Lan worry about his life and make Wang Sihai obsessed, was played by Dou Xiaoxuan, the actor of "Yang Jiuhong" in the Peking Opera version of "The Gate of the Great Mansion". She confessed, "I have acted in Peking Opera for more than ten years, and I am considered an 'old man' on the Peking Opera stage, but it is the first time to appear in a TV series." "Many of the Peking Opera performances involved in the play are sung by Dou Xiaoxuan, which fully guarantees the original taste of the national Essence Peking Opera.
In addition, the drama lineup also includes Wang Daqi, Xin Yue, Kou Zhenhai, Li Chengru, Liu Peiqi and other actors. Among them, Wang Daqi, who played the role of He Shuguang, the commander of the guard company, in "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", played half of the jealous and hateful, and the god chef xie with a straight personality, followed Ha Lan in the first half of his life and played the role of his eldest brother and protective umbrella; in the second half of his life, he saw through the desolation of the world and resolutely defected to the Communist Party and embarked on a new road; Xin Yue, a Beijing artist who starred in many dramas such as "Thunderstorm" and "The Wilderness", played Ha Lan's servant and Xie Half's wife Cui'er in the play, with a cheerful personality, industrious and virtuous; Kou Zhenhai played a majestic appearance in the play. Ha Wangye, the father of the loving Ha Lan; Li Chengru plays Tong Lihua's father, Marquis Tong, who eventually ended up in disgrace because of his foolish loyalty to the Qing government; Liu Peiqi plays Ha Lan's year-old friend, Xie Shen Kitchen, the father of Xie Half, who is wise and introverted, and is the original guardian of The Tanglin Secret.
Beijing News reporter Liu Wei
Edited by Tong Na Proofreader Wu Xingfa