At the beginning of October, the Jingweier drama "Player" starring Feng Yuanzheng, Wang Gang, Liang Dani, Cheng Lisha and other actors landed at the Beijing Capital Theatre again. This time, Feng Yuanzheng is famous for throwing vases.
Which bottle is thin and which bottle is thick, and how much force does it take to break the bottle in your hand? In the face of these difficult problems, Feng Yuanzheng, who had made sufficient preparations, could see it at a glance.
Just like when he starred in "Don't Talk to Strangers" 20 years ago, sometimes crazy, sometimes elegant, sometimes gentle, sometimes angry, Feng Yuanzheng always put it in place.
So much so that when I saw the scene of Anjia and the vicious beating of Mei Shonan in "Don't Talk to Strangers", I don't know how many people were so angry that they wanted to call the police on the spot, and how many friends were scared out of their guts.
Some people couldn't even look directly into Feng Yuanzheng's eyes, and the level of fear belonged to the kind that could be frightened to turn off the TV set immediately.
Today, as the first domestic work with domestic violence as the theme, "Don't Talk to Strangers" has long since changed from a TV series that simply shows the "reality of domestic violence" to an "anti-domestic violence" propaganda film. However, it took a lot of effort to create this giant childhood "shadow" in that year.
Twenty years ago, the famous screenwriters Jiang Wei and Xue Xiaolu were inspired by the American novel "Rose Madman", so they began to create a sad and thought-provoking story according to China's cultural habits and cultural background.
This story is a story about domestic violence that has never been discussed on the table, and the perpetrator described in the story is still a high-knowledgeist.
In our inherent belief, domestic violence generally occurs in remote rural areas and families with low level of knowledge. Once upon a time, the famous director Zhang Jiandong had the same idea as us.
Only later, he found that in some highly educated families, there was actually domestic violence.
In order to stop domestic violence and let the society pay attention to the social phenomenon of domestic violence, which must be faced squarely, director Zhang Jiandong found Wu Xiaoming, and the two of them together selected the angle of violence by high-knowledge elements in domestic violence, and created the "Wang Bombing" script "Don't Talk to Strangers".
The book is there, to act well, casting is the key. So the two directors opened the "address book" one by one, but it is interesting that the combination of Feng Yuanzheng and Mei Ting, who created the best "shadow" in the final version, was not ranked at the beginning.
In the director's view, Anjiahe is a particularly "scum" domestic violence man, so he wants to find a male actor who is popular with the public and is more handsome to play. First, "mix a face familiar", and second, in the face of the face, the fans of the drama will at least not "rise to myself" too strongly.
According to this "concept", Pu Cunxin, Wu Ruofu, Sun Chun and Gao Shuguang, four handsome men who were both face value and acting skills at that time, entered the shortlist.
Unexpectedly, when the crew called them excitedly, these people either felt that the impact was not good, or felt that they were not representative, or they were afraid of restricting the drama, so they all refused.
And the idea of Feng Yuanzheng, a "non-staff" personnel, is just the opposite of them. Feng Yuanzheng felt that the drama "Don't Talk to Strangers" reflected both social reality and was challenging, and he had to perform it once anyway, so he desperately introduced himself.
But when he appeared in front of the director, everyone's first reaction was that this person's appearance was not good, such a depressed appearance, where is the qualification to beat his wife?
Feng Yuanzheng himself particularly likes this role, and especially wants to participate in this drama, so no matter how the director refuses, he does not abandon or give up, and lets the director give him a chance to try the play.
The director couldn't see it and thought: Try it. As a result, this attempt was a big deal, and Anjiahe, who was morally upright in the script, instantly had a face.
The male protagonist's side is "retreating to the second" to produce a miracle, and the female protagonist's side is also full of twists and turns. The director's first choice for Mei Shonan is Xu Jinglei, a talented woman in the "Beijing Circle".
But at that time, Xu Jinglei's eyes were all on the movie, and she had no time to busy with the TV series. And as a "big honey", Xu Jinglei is not interested in the "angry daughter-in-law" at all, so when the director contacted her, Lao Xu simply refused.
After Xu Jinglei, the crew quickly contacted the "candidate" Mei Ting, thinking that there should be no problem this time. Who ever thought that Mei Ting's heart was also rejected.
Like Lao Xu, Mei Ting, who has become popular, did not want to play a little daughter-in-law who was abused by the family, but the director asked wittily: "Then you say, is the role of Mei Xiangnan good?" ”
Mei Xiangnan is a victim of domestic violence, although it is not very rational to deal with emotional problems in the early stage, but the decisive escape in the later stage is definitely a representative of rationality and brave anti-domestic violence.
Mei Ting was stunned, carefully calculated for a long time, and felt that no matter what else, this is indeed a good role, so Mei Ting "went on the road" step by step under the guidance of the director, and also created the classic role Mei Shonan.
In March 2001, "Don't Talk to Strangers", which gathered the main supporting roles of "Tiantuan", officially began filming, and was broadcast on the News Comprehensive Channel of Nanjing Radio and Television Station in October. This work with the theme of "tricky" and "dare to write" and "dare to act" became a "hit" as soon as it was broadcast, causing a "spiritual scream".
In the play, An Jiahe, played by Feng Yuanzheng, is suspicious, unable to communicate, bloody and violent, and acts without a word, which can be called the most ruthless in history.
A good doctor who loves his wife is portrayed as a crazy domestic violence "masterpiece", in addition to Feng Yuanzheng's own acting skills, the various decisions of the behind-the-scenes director are also indispensable.
There is a shot of Anjia and "beating" Mei Shonan, needing to step on each other's faces.
In order to be true, the actors are personally on the battlefield, because there is a close-up, and they cannot borrow a position, so Feng Yuanzheng's foot is really stepping on Mei Ting's face.
When this scene was filmed, many staff members on the scene proposed to give up, after all, it was too realistic, and while hurting Mei Ting, it might be troublesome for people from the Women's Federation.
The director is not unsafe about these problems, but domestic violence in real life is far more cruel than in TV dramas, so if you want society to pay attention to it, it needs to be as real as possible.
What's more, since you decided to shoot a TV series on this subject, you must make it have its own meaning. It is also the director's insistence on almost "asking for trouble", as well as the actor's realistic and real acting skills that penetrate into the bone marrow, which has achieved the miracle of "Don't Talk to Strangers".
"Don't Talk to Strangers" made Mei Ting and Feng Yuanzheng "out of the circle" quickly, but behind the visible flowers and applause, they were deeply troubled by the "sequelae" of the role.
As a TV series that reflects domestic violence, although the scene of Anjia and "beating the daughter-in-law" in "Don't Talk to Strangers" is not really fighting, the depressing feeling of the atmosphere on the scene is not at all real.
Later, when Feng Yuanzheng stared at his eyes and teeth, he could scare the female colleagues on the scene not lightly.
Mei Ting, a female comrade who was in "close contact" with him, endured more, fear and fear were standard, and what made her hysterical and unbearable was the humiliation felt by shooting some scenes.
Take the scene of "stepping on the face" for example. Anjiahe hit the "head" directly "domestic violence escalation", stepping on Mei Shonan's face.
When filming this scene, Mei Ting's heart was actually trembling, relying on "self-hypnosis" to support the whole field. As soon as the director shouted "card", Mei Ting, who had been holding back for too long, burst into tears on the spot, and in order to vent her frustration, she even dropped the props on the shooting scene.
"It's so humiliating, the feeling of being trampled on with dignity and dignity is very depressing."
What is more difficult is that every time she "plays a play", Mei Ting must show a painful expression of "different styles". And "playing drama" is the highlight of "Don't Talk to Strangers", in Mei Ting's own words, the drama is fake, but the pain is real.
Domestic violence drama is so much, the warm drama is not much better, Mei Ting, like the majority of netizens, can't understand why Mei Xiangnan will forgive An Jiahe again and again.
"Straight girl" Mei Ting even simply found the director to complain: "I can't accept his words, if I go back with him, I will be a fool." ”
Mei Ting was almost "depressed" during the filming process, and Feng Yuanzheng suffered from the "sequelae of the role", but from the beginning of filming to twenty years later, it has been in a state of "can't stop at all".
When filming, because the acting was too real, too scummy, and too outrageous, no one on the scene dared to take care of Feng Yuanzheng for a while, and later, Feng Yuanzheng was almost "isolated".
After the broadcast of "Don't Talk to Strangers", the image of An Jiahe, the "originator" of the domestic violence man in the play, made Feng Yuanzheng "hurt" many times by fans who were too deep into the drama.
Some people pointed to his nose to warn him not to beat his wife, some people pricked his car tires, and some people slapped him when they met in order to teach him a lesson...
Feng Yuanzheng's real daughter-in-law, Liang Dani, is even more concerned about whether she has been abused by the family everywhere she goes.
Liang Dani's colleague once asked her: "Have you really not been beaten?" After getting a definite answer, the colleague asked: "Then how did he act so really?" ”
What's more, because Feng Yuanzheng acted too really, so that later, as long as there is a news event about domestic violence, either the picture must be Feng Yuanzheng's stills and memes, or Feng Yuanzheng himself will personally go down to accuse the perpetrator.
When Li Yang defended his domestic violence incident, Feng Yuanzheng publicly rebuked him in person: domestic violence is unforgivable! Over the years, Feng Yuanzheng has also publicly made anti-domestic violence remarks on various programs.
To this day, as long as the originator of the domestic violence drama "Don't Talk to Strangers" is mentioned, fans of the drama still can't forget the performances of Teacher Feng Yuanzheng and Mei Ting.
But even 20 years ago, the show told us that domestic violence is not a simple family problem, and there are still people who disregard life and the law and punch and kick their other half.
Here, I would like to use this article to remind men and women once again that domestic violence is not only a family problem, but also a social problem, a moral level and a problem of laws and regulations.
Domestic violence is physical injury and a crime.
Domestic violence does not "endure the calm of the wind and waves for a while", let alone "take a step back from the sea and the sky". There are only zero and countless times of domestic violence, and when encountering domestic violence, you must learn to take up legal weapons to protect your personal safety and interests.
Only with zero tolerance can we truly move towards the day when "zero violence" will be achieved.
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