After the broadcast of "Detective Di Renjie", the market response was strong.
Subsequently, the crew filmed three films in a row, the ratings went all the way up, director Qian Yanqiu, Liang Guanhua who played Di Renjie, and Zhang Zijian, who played Yuanfang, were also recognized as "iron triangles" by the entertainment industry, and a sentence of "Yuanfang how do you see" swept the entire Internet.
In the filming of the first three films, director Qian Yanqiu had producers and investors behind him. When filming the fourth part, the producer asked to add more emotional scenes, but Qian Yanqiu did not agree, and the two sides fell out.
Qian Yanqiu pulled the original team out to shoot himself. Due to the absence of the original investors, Qian Yanqiu strictly controlled the cost of new dramas, the quality of new dramas declined seriously, and the Iron Triangle failed to continue its glory.
Qian Yanqiu and Zhang Zijian
In 1987, Qian Yanqiu was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy. During the interview in the Beijing examination area, Qian Yanqiu said a cross-talk.
Zhang Zijian, who grew up in Tianjin, was his father Zhang Zhikuan, the first person in China. Zhang Zijian has been very interested in cross-talk allegro since he was a child, and was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in the same year as Qian Yanqiu, and listened to Qian Yanqiu's cross-talk on the spot, he said: "It's very interesting." ”
Soon after, the class organized a performance of cross-talk, Zhang Zijian and Qian Yanqiu teamed up, and the two cooperated tacitly, amusing the audience. Soon, the two became more and more familiar.
In his junior year, Qian Yanqiu could not receive the drama and could not earn money, so he followed Zhang Zijian to his hometown of Tianjin to say cross-talk. Qian Yanqiu learned quickly, lived in Zhang Zijian's home to study, and followed him for hundreds of games, making a lot of money.
Once, two people teamed up, and the audience lined up from the field to go out of the field, blocking the door. In that scene, the two people each earned more than a thousand yuan, Zhang Zijian said: "It is much higher than the income from filming." ”
But the teacher advised Zhang Zijian not to engage in cross-talk, and the teacher said: "Your image is too sunny, you should change to acting in movies or TV series." ”
Zhang Zijian pulled Qian Yanqiu to perform a youth drama, and his appearance won the recognition of the audience, who called this drama "the originator of the mainland's youth idol drama". Soon after graduation, Zhang Zijian took over a martial arts drama.
When he read the script, he found that his roles were all literary dramas, and the director also told him that he would arrange a "no fight" role for him. But after entering the crew, Zhang Zijian found that he was arranged as the third male number, chasing after the white eyebrow hero every day.
Because of his good looks, Zhang Zijian, as a villain, has become the most popular character in the play, and he is known as "China's first generation of idol Xiaosheng".
< Young Zhang Zijian >
Qian Yanqiu was not as lucky as Zhang Zijian, after acting in the youth drama, Qian Yanqiu did not attract any attention, he looked at Zhang Zijian and commented on himself: "Looks a little cold." ”
Subsequently, Qian Yanqiu played two unremarkable roles, and never stirred up a splash. Soon after, he transformed into a screenwriter. In 1999, Qian Yanqiu wrote a "Journey to the West Sequel".
< Stills of "Journey to the West" >
The show's imagination is eclectic, breaking the audience's stereotype of the original work, and it is a mess. This year, one out of every two televisions broadcasts Qian Yanqiu's works.
In contrast, Zhang Zijian drove high and walked low.
In order to break through the image of martial arts students, Zhang Zijian turned to literary films, and he played a talented designer in "Four Seasons of Burning Love". But after the audience watched it, they said: "I only left an impression on the ending song sung by Tian Zhen." ”
Soon after, Zhang Zijian played a role in a campus drama, and after a fan of Zhang Zijian heard about it, he went through the cast list and was stunned that he had not found Zhang Zijian's name. After the fans watched the whole series, they finally found Zhang Zijian in the eleventh episode.
After Qian Yanqiu became famous for writing the script, he pulled Zhang Zijian over to perform his own play.
In 2001, Qian Yanqiu directed an anti-Japanese drama "Hero", and Zhang Zijian starred as the protagonist Yan Shuangying. Yan Shuangying is set as the first legendary hero of Kwantung Mountain, with strong martial arts, known as "half a person, half a ghost, the first sharpshooter", with almost no shortcomings. Someone commented: "This is a drama in which the director personally fights su male protagonist." ”
At this time, Liang Guanhua was still a poor-mouthed laughing star Zhang Damin in the eyes of the audience. In "Hero", he dubbed Tong Xiaohu, a character with no role in the play, and did not have the opportunity to appear on camera.
The birth of the divine drama
Also in 2001, Qian Yanqiu met a producer named Zhang Wenling.
Zhang Wenling was previously one of taiyuan tv station founders, when taiyuan television station flipped a 1986 version of Di Renjie's short drama, in which Di Renjie was set as a detective, which caused a warm response.
Later, Zhang Wenling went to CCTV, where she planned to make a similar TV series and found Qian Yanqiu and said her thoughts. Qian Yanqiu said that she was filming an anti-Japanese drama and did not have time to write a new script, so she only pulled an outline.
After Qian Yanqiu was busy, Zhang Wenling still did not find a suitable screenwriter, and everyone around her was optimistic about Qian Yanqiu. Qian Yanqiu rushed the ducks to the shelves and took the job. He discussed with Zhang Wenling to break with tradition and find a different protagonist to play Di Renjie.
Soon, Qian Yanqiu finished writing "Detective Di Renjie" and began to look for actors.
He found Liang Guanhua, who had previously dubbed him. Prior to this, Liang Guanhua mainly did drama performances, and he played Cao Cao with a complex personality in the drama "Cai Wenji".
The important characters in the first two versions of this drama have become the big names in the stage art industry after the play, and some audiences commented when they went to see this play: "This is watching the performance of the Rising Star in advance." ”
After Liang Guanhua performed Cao Cao, he took the heavyweight trophy in the industry and became the "pillar" of Beijing Renyi.
Qian Yanqiu felt that Liang Guanhua was very large, and even his head circumference reached seventy-five centimeters, and wanted to invite him to play "Different Di Renjie".
People around disagreed, saying that Liang Guanhua looked like a Garfield.
Liang Guanhua said: "I think my advantage is more secretive, because you look like an eagle, people know that you are a rat when you look at it, you are like a stupid rat, he will not guard against you." ”
< Young Liang Guanhua >
Di Renjie's bodyguard Li Yuanfang was set up as a character with high martial skills and courage and strategy, and Qian Yanqiu found Zhang Zijian and told him: "This time, it is difficult for you to do this." ”
After Zhang Zijian watched Li Yuanfang's role, he said to Qian Yanqiu: "How to act this, tiger head and tail, every day to follow the side, this can not be done." ”
Zhang Zijian has always played the leading role in Qian Yanqiu's plays, and he can't look at the role of Li Yuanfang, so Qian Yanqiu has to keep saying in his ear, "Come on, come on." Zhang Zijian, however, thought about the brothers he had known for so many years, and said, "Then come." ”
Zhang Zijian pushed away the plays of other big directors and concentrated on playing supporting roles.
< Zhang Zijian plays Yan Shuangying >
In 2003, the first filming of "Detective Di Renjie" began, just in time for the outbreak of SARS, and Qian Yanqiu was isolated. At the end of the quarantine period, he found that Several of Liang Guanhua's actors were still in quarantine at the hotel.
He ran to the hotel to quarantine with everyone. During this period, he told everyone about the history of the Tang Dynasty, told the whole history of Wu Zetian and Di Renjie, and even explained how Li Yuanfang should fight.
Liang Guanhua said: "The first part was done according to these preparations in the first two months of shooting, and the preparation of the desk was very sufficient, so I think the first part was filmed very solidly." ”
Zhang Zijian has always been close to Liang Guanhua in the crew. Every time Liang Guanhua broke the case, Zhang Zijian came up to him and said, "The adult is really a god and a man." ”
Later in the performance, Liang Guanhua said: "I am used to being praised. ”
Sometimes Zhang Zijian is far away, and when it is his turn to play, the staff will call him over, shouting with a slogan: "Brother Jian! Handsome guy! Brother Jian! Handsome guy! ”
Liang Guanhua also envied Zhang Zijian's role, handsome and strong in martial arts. Once, he teased Zhang Zijian: "Yuanfang, the girls have gone with you, I don't even have a wife here." ”
The three people cooperated with tacit understanding, and in the environment of SARS raging, they finished filming The first part of Di Renjie.
Iron Triangle
In 2004, "Detective Di Renjie" was broadcast on CCTV, setting a record for the highest rating of 3.05% of a single episode, becoming a well-known national drama.
Some fans commented: "The plot is interlocking, the suspense is steep, and the murderer is not easy to guess." The actors are superbly acting and the roles are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It can be regarded as one of the top works of domestic suspense detective dramas. ”
For a time, Qian Yanqiu, Liang Guanhua and Zhang Zijian were all over the country, known as the "Iron Triangle", and occupied the position of an encyclopedia of the noun "Iron Triangle".
Zhang Zijian said: "I didn't expect that after the first broadcast, there was such feedback. ”
Qian Yanqiu is very satisfied with himself: "This new type of suspense drama relies on creating a story atmosphere, the overall modeling style and other shooting methods to complete, and at the same time integrates horror, suspense, martial arts action and so on into the case." ”
< Stills of "Detective Di Renjie" >
As the first part received warm feedback from the market, Qian Yanqiu led the crew to hit the iron while it was hot, and the original team continued to build the second part and the third part.
Di Renjie's popularity swept the entire market, and there were more than ten crews in the studio at the same time filming Di Renjie's film and television.
When it came to the third part, Qian Yanqiu still did not have the idea of changing the sound effect, and some viewers said: "Qian Yanqiu is not suitable for his own boss, he is anxious to suppress the cost, he even repeats all the background music of the play, and the cost is too terrible." ”
In 2009, Qian Yanqiu prepared to shoot the fourth part. Producer Zhang Wenling wanted to add more emotional scenes to the script in order to increase ratings, and Qian Yanqiu was unwilling to accept her ideas.
Therefore, Qian Yanqiu's side and Zhang Wenling's side fell out.
Zhang Wenling said: "The first three films are the investors hired Qian Yanqiu as a screenwriter and director, (Qian Yanqiu) only has the right of authorship, not even the copyright, the investor is the sole copyright owner of this play." ”
Zhang Wenling found Yang Mi, the most popular of the year, and filmed an idol version of "Detective Di Renjie Prequel". Qian Yanqiu said: "That scene has nothing to do with me, I don't shoot scripts written by others." ”
< Qian Yanqiu plays Xu Shide >
Qian Yanqiu summoned Liang Guanhua and Zhang Zijian to continue di renjie's fourth part, and in order to avoid copyright disputes, he renamed the sequel "Divine Judgment Di Renjie". Zhang Wenling sued Qian Yanqiu in court, and Qian Yanqiu lost 800,000 yuan.
After the broadcast of "Divine Judgment Di Renjie", the word of mouth was not as good as the previous ones.
Qian Yanqiu lost his original investors and became more and more restrained in cost, an audience member commented: "I have never seen a TV series so chaotic in the use of actors, and the director would like to let all the dragon sets be played by one person, so as to save some box lunch money." ”
At the same time, Qian Yanqiu took two people to continue shooting new subjects.
In 2011, Qian Yanqiu directed a revolutionary theme of "Flying Tiger Condor". In the play, Zhang Zijian is the protagonist Yan Shuangying, who breaks into the enemy's interior alone and smashes the enemy's plan.
Liang Guanhua became a villain, playing one of the four major killers of the military command, and was eventually shot by Yan Shuangying.
In the play, Liang Guanhua has a lot of action scenes with Zhang Zijian, and in a drag racing scene, Liang Guanhua and Zhang Zijian fight on a motorcycle. Before filming, Liang Guanhua said to Qian Yanqiu: "I can't do my own actions. ”
Zhang Zijian said: "It is impossible, how can you really do it yourself?" ”
As a result, Liang Guanhua was still fooled up. Liang Guanhua said: "As far as my big fat body is concerned, let me flash and move, the cat pounces on the beaver, and also takes out a big fight." There are not many martial arts actors like this in the world. ”
After the broadcast of "Flying Tiger Condor", some viewers found that the TV series filmed after Qian Yanqiu, BGM almost did not change. One viewer said: "Once I was in the shower, my brother changed the stage, and when I heard BGM, I told my brother that he must be watching Di Renjie, and it turned out that he was watching Yan Shuangying. ”
In 2012, Qian Yanqiu's work "Plain Beacon" was completed, and this drama still uses Di Renjieli's BGM heavily. Zhang Zijian fans said: "Please ask Zhang Zijian not to act in such a drama again." ”
After filming several works with a bad reputation, Liang Guanhua signed up for other companies, and the outside world reported that the Iron Triangle was about to be dismantled.
At the premiere scene of the TV series, only Qian Yanqiu and Zhang Zijian were in the Iron Triangle. Zhang Zijian's eyebrows tightened, and he stood on Qian Yanqiu's right side with his hands behind his back.
The reporter asked Qian Yanqiu how to see the rumors outside that the Iron Triangle was about to be dismantled, and Qian Yanqiu said: "Anyway, there is some unpleasantness in the middle, not that the gang is about to be dismantled, but that the gang has already been dismantled." ”
The reporter said that can we still cooperate? Qian Yanqiu said: "After everyone's psychological shadow has passed, maybe there may still be cooperation." It may be angry at the time, maybe in a few years it will pass. ”
The reporter asked: "What is the contradiction?" Qian Yanqiu said: "He always plays this kind of two-way or supporting role, and may feel that his development is not very good, so he didn't say anything and transferred to other companies." ”
The reporter asked Zhang Zijian, who had been silent, to express his opinion, Zhang Zijian took the microphone, looked down at the ground, and said: "Divide and combine, whether it is in life or work, in fact, this is also a law." ”
"Plain Beacon" became the last play of the Iron Triangle cooperation.
After the broadcast, the response of this drama almost fell into the abyss, and the number of people scored on Douban did not even exceed five hundred. In contrast, the first Di Renjie had a rating of nearly 50,000 people.
The reporter ran to ask Liang Guanhua again: "Is the contradiction between you because you don't play a supporting role?" ”
Liang Guanhua said: "I have been acting, how many (supporting roles) have been played on the stage, and how many (protagonists) have been played on the stage, this kind of thing I think, the parties know best in their hearts." ”
After the breakup
In 2013, in order to reproduce Di Renjie's ratings miracle, Qian Yanqiu filmed a "Detective Bao Qingtian".
The protagonist Bao Zheng is still played by Zhang Zijian, in addition, Zhang Zijian also plays Bao Zheng's father. The other actors also played two more roles, Chun Yu Shanshan played Zhan Kunlun and Then Zhan Zhao, and Qu Zhazha played Gan Qiu niang and Zhao Yu.
Qian Yanqiu also took a role according to the custom.
During the shooting, Zhang Zijian painted his face with black charcoal. The enemy came to attack, and Bao Zheng, played by Zhang Zijian, held up a large knife and led a group of small soldiers to kill, completely subverting the image of Bao Zhengsiwen.
< Stills of "Detective Bao Qingtian" >
After the broadcast, netizens directly called "Thunder Man" and commented: "Wen wu double all inclusive black charcoal, Dynasty Mahan side stand." Yuanfang's soul is possessed, and Zhan Zhao is laid off on the spot! ”
The internet was full of bad reviews, Douban scored a low score of 4.6, and an audience member said: "Qian Yanqiu has lost the favorability and audience popularity of the Di Renjie series, please take a break, don't ruin yourself and take Zhang Zijian again!" ”
A year later, Qian Yanqiu pulled Zhang Zijian to shoot a film "Shi Dare to Be a Hero of Tiandong".
Because the show was extremely frugal, the audience came to look for stubble. It was discovered that the same passerby could walk from one scene to another, and a man in one room suddenly appeared in another place.
Since there is no set, the actors are all facing the camera, and there are very few long-range scenes. The special effects are also difficult to say, the plot is a copy of the previous "Journey to the West Sequel", Douban scored a 3.6 rating, some people rated it as "the worst TV series in history".
Many fans of Zhang Zijian believe that Qian Yanqiu ruined Zhang Zijian, and they appeal: Zhang Zijian run!
Zhang Zijian quickly came out to accept an interview: "Because the mythological drama must have some different way of performing, especially it may be more important to pay attention to saying that this play may be more, smaller children, some young people to watch, so there are still some differences in grasp." ”
< Stills of "Stone Dare To Dang" >
After leaving Qian Yanqiu, Liang Guanhua also began to make many new attempts.
In "The Beggar's Big Treasurer", Liang Guanhua plays an old treasurer, because of the old drama bones of He Bing and Ni Dahong in the play, Liang Guanhua does not appear outstanding. After watching it, an audience member said: "He Bing's acting skills are really hanging the whole audience." ”
Soon after, Liang Guanhua starred in Bao Zheng in "Five Rats in Tokyo".
The two actors who played with him were Chen Xiao and Yan Kuan. After the drama was broadcast, Liang Guanhua, as the protagonist, was ignored by the audience, and the audience disputed whether Chen Xiao was better looking or Yan Kuan was better looking.
Some media wrote a report saying: "Without Qian Yanqiu's Liang Guanhua, I can no longer make an impressive representative work."
In 2017, Liang Guanhua went around and went back to acting in Di Renjie's sequel.
This time, Liang Guanhua cooperated with Zhang Wenling. In order to shoot a new drama, Zhang Wenling found eight screenwriters and eight directors. After Liang Guanhua entered the group, he found that there was only one original class of people left around- Xu Qian, who played Di Renjie's student.
The gimmick of the sequel promotion is: the original team of people and horses to modify and upgrade.
The audience obviously did not buy it, the new version of Di Renjie set a new low rating for the series, one audience member said: "Li Yuanfang's knife is not the original chain knife, Li Yuanfang's sword is not the original pit viper sword, you change Li Yuanfang is enough, even the weapons are changed." ”
Due to the poor reputation of the sequel, many viewers said that Liang Guanhua's late festival was not guaranteed.
< Wu Zhuohan plays Li Yuanfang >
Also in 2017, Qian Yanqiu also restarted the new Di Renjie series.
Due to Liang Guanhua's absence, Qian Yanqiu set the story when Di Renjie was young, and he found a 21-year-old actor Gao Minrui to play Di Renjie.
Zhang Zijian was arranged to play a villain character, Iron Prince. When the media went to visit the class, the young man who played Li Yuanfang pointed at Zhang Zijian and said: "Compete with him on the same stage, so there is pressure." ”
Someone asked Qian Yanqiu: "Will the Iron Triangle still appear in this drama?" Qian Yanqiu said: "This will not disappoint everyone, there will be a continuation, but the specific identity appears, for the time being." Please keep an eye on it and don't let everyone wait too long. ”
However, the crew has since lost word.
Di Renjie's first part, the ratings repeatedly broke records, and received a high score of 8.9 on Douban. Since then, the score has gone all the way down, and in the fourth part, the Di Renjie series, which lost the original team, only has 6.1 points left.
Someone asked, "When will Di Renjie, who has no ending, see the reunion?" ”
< Online game advertising >
In 2020, an online game invited Liang Guanhua and Zhang Zijian to re-star "Di Renjie" and "Li Yuanfang". After ten years, Zhang Zijian once again bowed to Liang Guanhua and said, "Welcome Lord Di." ”
Liang Guanhua held up the game interface of his mobile phone and said to the camera: "Do you dare to challenge?" ”
People found that in this game advertisement video that revealed a strong cottage style, the names of the two people were written as "Dillon Jay" and "Li Yuanfang". Qian Yanqiu Studio silently forwarded this advertising video.
Creation and money
In 2015, Qian Yanqiu filmed the sixth part of the Yanshuangying series, "Jinmen Flying Eagle", in which Qian Yanqiu pulled her own son to act.
In the face of the interview, Qian Yanqiu's explanation was: "Exercise his ability to live independently and let him suffer a little." ”
But the discerning person can see that it is a matter of money. In order to save money, Qian Yanqiu directly replaced it with cutouts, which looked like it was back in the 90s.
Due to the dismal ratings, the number of evaluations of this drama is not even equal to the Douban opening score. One of the comments at the top of douban is: "Qian Dao, Qian Dao, from hero to Jinmen, 17 years have really haunted you." ”
Since then, Qian Yanqiu has not released any works, and occasionally there will be some news of Di Renjie's new films being released, and eventually they all sink into the sea.
In order to break through the image, Zhang Zijian frequently ran the crew. In 2019 alone, he took on four big plays.
Once, during the filming of "Predator", Zhang Zijian was injured in the explosion and fractured the root bone of his left foot. A picture leaked from the Internet, Zhang Zijian was pushed out of the hospital, and his face was dull. Someone said: "Li Yuanfang, 53 years old." ”
In contrast, Liang Guanhua, who was ridiculed for "no drama", has a new representative work.
In the hit "Daming Style", Liang Guanhua played a prince who only promised to survive and pretended to be stupid, and in the end, even his son felt that this prince was too embarrassed.
Liang Guanhua broke the image of Di Renjie, was known as the "most grounded prince", and won the "Excellent Actor Award" in one fell swoop, successfully turning red.
Every time Qian Yanqiu directs a new drama, he often arranges a role for himself.
In di Renjie's first part, the role he assigned to himself was called Xu Shide. In order to yue wang treasure, Xu Shide used a trick to let himself participate in an investigation case and find a way to get the treasure map.
Before searching for the last treasure map, Xu Shide met Li Gui, the son of King Yue.
Li Zhi wanted to oppose Wu Fu Tang, he asked Xu Shide why he wanted to help himself, Xu Shide said: "I do not want to oppose Wu, nor am I interested in Fu Tang, of course, I help you is conditional: money!" ”
In the play, Xu Shide has a tough attitude: "I want money, I have no interest in anything else." ”
Some references:
[1], Qian Yanqiu Weibo
[2] The crew of "Detective Di Renjie III" was interviewed by the "Film and Television Club"
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Author | Few forks