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The recently released "Feng Shen" has been widely praised, and the wonderful interpretations of many old drama bones have also brought "Feng Shen" to a higher level.
Among them, the role of Xibo Hou Jichang, played by teacher Li Xuejian, has caused great controversy!
Anti-cancer for 20 years insisted on filming
As an important supporting role in the movie, Li Xuejian's emotional drama in the play is absolutely fine, but the vague pronunciation has become a major flaw for Li Xuejian.
Many viewers have reported that many lines are not heard clearly and are very tired of watching. It seemed as if a mouthful of thick phlegm stuck in the throat.
In fact, when Li Xuejian starred in "Young Shuai" in the early days, his voice changed somewhat, and in the current filming of "The Wandering Earth 2", including "Me and My Fathers", Li Xuejian's voice condition is also very poor.
Teacher Li Xuejian's vocal cord problems were caused by previously detected nasopharyngeal cancer.
"Fengshen " director Wu Ershan, also revealed that when filming this play, teacher Li Xuejian not only suffered damage to his vocal cords, but also had hearing problems. When filming, you must wear hearing aids to hear each other's lines clearly.
Although Li Xuejian's body has many inconveniences, Wu Ershan still believes that the role of Ji Chang should be played by Li Xuejian.
The reason why Wuershan insisted on Li Xuejian as the actor of Ji Chang was because of Li Xuejian's rich acting skills and control of the characters' emotions.
Li Xuejian did not disappoint Wuershan, although he couldn't pronounce the words clearly, and he also had problems with listening. But after rehearsals, those movements and demeanor have been engraved on Li Xuejian's body, even if he can't hear what the other party says, it will not affect his performance.
Li Xuejian still has his own understanding of the role of Ji Chang. In the upper dynasty of the four great uncles, the plot of meeting the king of Shun was faced.
In the original plot, the four uncles all faced Yin Shou, but Li Xuejian thought that the character of Ji Chang did not recognize King Shuo, so he chose to sit on the side in front of the hall to express his dissatisfaction with King Shuo.
In the subsequent plot, Li Xuejian's every look can show the mood of the character, and his emotional drama is also the most touching place in "Feng Shen".
However, Mr. Li Xuejian's acting skills are not innate.
A classic image created in the early days
In "Water Margin" filmed in 1982, Li Xuejian's Song Jiang was well received by countless audiences and was also one of his many classic images on the screen.
There are many people who compare Song Jiang, played by Li Xuejian and Bao Guoan, together. Although the Song Jiang played by the two has its own merits, the most popular is Li Xuejian's version of Song Jiang.
First of all, let's tell the story of Bao Guoan, when Bao Guoan was only 38 years old when he filmed "Water Margin", he was in the golden period of his life, when Bao Guoan in addition to filming, he also worked in Chinese opera and became an acting teacher, which can be said to be promising.
After Bao Guoan was dressed up by a makeup artist, it was like he came out of a book. The domineering attitude revealed in the gesture, combined with Bao Guoan's sharp eyes, is completely a copy of Song Jiang.
In the plot of Song Jiang killing Yan Po in anger, Bao Guoan showed Song Jiang's mental actions one by one.
Song Jiang had just seen Yan Po pleading with the other party to return the lost property, and he still had a sincere expression on his face, but when Yan Po had to bargain, Bao Guoan's face was full of impatience.
In the end, after the rage, he was furious, and he simply killed Yan Po's kind of indulgence. All let Bao Guoan give a vivid interpretation. Not only the scene of killing Yan Po, Song Jiang drunkenly mentioning anti-poetry, Bao Guoan also showed Song Jiang's mood.
Bao Guoan's delicate acting skills are enough to fake the real, it can be said that it really played Song Jiang alive. It is worthy of being evaluated as the closest to the original Song Jiang.
Compared with Bao Guoan's Song Jiang, Li Xuejian's Song Jiang does not have that restrained feeling, and Li Xuejian's Song Jiang is more casual and closer to life. In addition to the difference between the script, this is also inseparable from the personal state of mind.
When the "Water Margin" crew invited Li Xuejian to play Song Jiang, he decisively refused, because Li Xuejian thought that Song Jiang was a coward and did not want to play such a role.
But under the director's repeated persuasion, he himself also thought for a long time, Li Xuejian believes that "Water Margin" is such a cultural treasure, and he as an actor has the obligation to bring the audience this kind of remade work from a famous book, so that future generations can also feel the charm of the famous book.
After thinking for a long time, Li Xuejian accepted the role of playing Song Jiang. Before filming began, Li Xuejian began to figure out the character of this character, which also made him realize that whether the character is a hero or a bear, as long as it is history, it should be faced squarely.
When Song Jiang accepted Zhao'an in the play, his butt was raised high, and he was out of place with the brothers around him. Such an eagerness to become a slave also made the audience scold, and one viewer in Hunan even smashed his TV in a fit of anger.
Song Jiang, played by Li Xuejian, put the character's weak character on the table. Although this is not in line with the audience's cognition, this is Song Jiang's original character.
Li Xuejian also showed Song Jiang's character of bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, because Lu Zhishen has a background, he was once a popular man in Erlongshan, so Song Jiang respected him.
And in the face of Li Kui, who was born as a farmer, he will not worry about anything, and for Lu Zhishen Song Jiang will be honored as my master, facing Li Kui will become a black house.
In order to let the audience feel Song Jiang's character more intuitively, Li Xuejian also put a lot of effort into the action.
In the plot, when Song Jiang went to meet his friends, he walked straight, and his steps were fast. Doing so will not lose face in the eyes of others, nor will it snub the guests because they are late, showing Song Jiang's smooth side.
Huang Bo gave a high evaluation of Li Xuejian's performance, saying that Li Xuejian was acting with bone and blood, and each character had flesh and blood, as if giving the character a soul.
It is not easy for Li Xuejian to get such a high evaluation. In order to play a good play in Song Jiang's anti-poetry, Li Xuejian specially hired a calligraphy teacher, studied calligraphy for half a month, and changed from a stunned green who did not understand anything to a calligrapher who sprinkled ink.
Under the camera, Song Jiang's poems on the wall were all written by Li Xuejian one by one, just to let the audience see the truth.
The words on the wall are also full of emotions, and at first they are still neatly written, but the more they write, the more angry they are, thinking of the unfair treatment they encountered, the font becomes rough.
and the laughter after writing it, are all classic portrayals of Li Xuejian's role as Song Jiang. It can be said that in order to play the soul of this role, Li Xuejian has thoroughly pondered this role.
Li Xuejian is a native of Shandong and grew up listening to these stories, which also made Li Xuejian's understanding of Song Jiang more profound. But Li Xuejian was still not satisfied, because Song Jiang's voice was not matched by Li Xuejian himself, and he thought that he could better express Song Jiang's emotions.
Compared with Bao Guoan, Li Xuejian's version of Song Jiang is more sleek and cunning, and such a negative character has naturally been scolded by many people. But isn't this proving that Li Xuejian is acting well?
In addition to Li Xuejian, those actors and actresses in the play are not worthy of their names, although there are not many scenes, but they are deeply impressive.
The actor is worthy of the name
Empress Jiang, played by Yuan Quan, can feel the royal atmosphere on her body just after she appears, and the scene of dialogue with her son can also make people feel the mother's doting on her son.
But these are not the most outstanding places for Yuan Quan, the period where Empress Jiang and Daji confront in the spring water can be said to be the scene where Yuan Quan has the fullest feelings.
In order to make King Jiang turn back, Empress Jiang planned to die in front of him and use her own death to let King Feng know that he was wrong, but even if Queen Jiang died, King Jiang did not wake up, it is clear that King Jiang's brutal character was born with him.
Empress Jiang's eyes were full of tears when she faced King Jiang, and when Daji induced her, Yuan Quan's expression seemed to be manipulated, or the fierceness on Tu Qiang's face when he saw it, Yuan Quan only used a few shots to perfectly shape the role of Empress Jiang.
Shen Gong Leopard, played by Xia Yu, is also a dazzling existence, with skillful spell casting movements, a smug expression when flying his head, and flattering lines when facing King Jun. The emotions are full and vivid, and people can't help but applaud.
Although the performance of these old artists is amazing, they are bleak compared with teacher Li Xuejian.
Acting: No contrast without harm
Ji Fa went to visit Ji Chang in prison, and Li Xuejian, the teacher who played Ji Chang, was surprised beyond words when he saw his son come to visit him. In the face of his son who has been PUA for a long time, the helplessness on his face is also empathetic.
He wanted to persuade his son to sober up, but he was not believed, and in the end he could only blame himself for pushing his son into the fire pit with his own hands, and these expressions made Li Xuejian show them one by one.
The emotions performed by Li Xuejian were very infectious, making the audience feel the rich fatherly love, and the viewers couldn't help but cry. It may be because Li Xuejian has this kind of acting skills that can infect people's hearts, so that Wuershan insists on using him to play the role of Ji Chang.
Although the old actors in "Feng Shen" have played well, those young actors are disappointed, and their acting skills are really worlds apart from Li Xuejian.
The actor of Daji in the play is a peerless fox carefully selected by Wuershan from hundreds of people and screened through layers of screening. Both temperament and appearance are very in line with Wuershan's understanding of fox demons.
But because the wildness exuded from his body is too heavy, he makes Daji, who has been seductive for life, unkind. It may be to highlight Daji's charm, and the action is a little suspicious, but because the actor's figure is really good, it is also pleasing to the eye.
Wu Ershan once revealed in an interview that Daji, an actor, has put a lot of effort into imitating foxes, and it took a full month of study to create the stunning scenes in the play.
In particular, the actions of imitating fox crawling and licking the blood of the king are no different from foxes. But the only drawback in the play is that the animal is not performed in key places.
When King Feng drew his sword to kill the fox demon, she did not perform the feeling of panic when the animal was frightened, but just looked at King Feng with a dull face. It is a pity that the key shots in the film were not grasped.
The proton acting skills played by young actors are also uneven. When King Feng forced the protons to kill their biological fathers, the demeanor of being helpless and unable to start is definitely a major attraction in the play.
Ji Fa, played by Yu Shi, his performance gave the audience a lot of surprises, and above the main hall, King Shun ordered Ji Fa to kill his father. The kind of entanglement revealed in his eyes, as well as the sincerity of interceding for his father, Yu Shidu revealed that nervous mood.
But the other protons were very crotch-pulling. Li Junrui is the son of Dongbohou Eshun in the play, and he can be regarded as having a lot of roles among many protons. After he saw the two tragedies around him, his eyes revealed only dullness.
Ding Yongdai, the actor of Dongbohou, when he learned that he and his son must die one, he loved his son and urged Eshun to hurry up. It is in stark contrast to Li Junrui's confused demeanor, and also exposes Li Junrui's crotch-pulling acting skills.
Epilogue:
In recent years, the condition of Li Xuejian's throat has become worse and worse, but he has not given up his acting path and feels that he can still act.
Although most of them are now taking on some cameo roles, it is not easy to be an old artist in his 70s who is still suffering from cancer.