Chen Daoming once defined two identities for himself: a good citizen and a dramatist.
He tried to do both of those roles well.
Yu Liangmin, he hovered on the edge of Vanity Fair, cultivated his personality, and guarded the gentleman's character.
In the play, he put a lot of effort into becoming an "acting textbook" and stood at the tip of the pyramid.
He never pandered to hypocrisy. Authenticity is the undertone of an idealist.
The world is full of beautiful bones, but only the king is the same.
Chen Daoming, 66, was on the hot search because of swearing. As the chairman of the China Filmmakers Association, Chen Daoming fiercely criticized traffic stars, saying that they do not belong to the literary and art circles, but are "plastic actors" who are packaged and hyped up in the traffic industry.
"They seem to be active in our business, but in fact they are not a small harm to the industry, and they have also affected the reputation of many excellent creators."
Public opinion is also divided into two factions. Chen Daoming, a faction of stations: the world's bitter traffic stars have been long. A faction mocks the "old drama bone": is the old drama bone clean? Aren't they also coming from traffic?
In fact, Chen Daoming's voice is precisely because he has 30 years of acting experience. He has witnessed the simplicity of the 1960s, the innovations of the 1980s, and the erosion of the film and television industry by consumerism. He pointed out that the film and television industry has moved from "one eight shares" to "another eight shares".
"In the past, there was still a little bit of wind bone, a little bit of arrogance, and a little bit of bamboo spirit, but now it is all assimilated by money." He dared to speak out and be angry, recklessly poking through the vanity of the show business circle, and his words were sharp. He misses the literary and artistic world of the past, "I don't like the entertainment industry. ”
Truth be told, he didn't have to. In his early years, he mediated in Vanity Fair as a "marginal person". He always carries a sense of distance and is polite. Now, he is willing to stand on the roof of the entertainment industry and complain about his sorrows. He was going to be the one who pierced the emperor's new clothes.
Chen Daoming was originally a person who did not like to walk into the crowd. He already knew that people have a life, and a play has a drama.
At an early age, he witnessed his father's fate. His father was an intellectual, graduated from Yenching University, the same school as Bingxin. He worked as an interpreter for the Tianjin Relief Administration and taught at universities until the wave of the Cultural Revolution. The fate of father and son is full of drama.
Chen Daoming's entry into the show business circle was also an accident.
In order to avoid going to the mountains and going to the countryside, there is a rice bowl in the city, Chen Daoming had to apply for the Tianjin Renyi Repertory Theatre. He wanted to take the stage team, but when he got there, the interview teacher saw him, thin and tall, with a beautiful face, and asked him to apply for the actor team. Chen Daoming was not prepared, went up and read the "Quotations of Mao Zedong", and was confused.
Chen Daoming as a young man (left)
Chen Daoming entered this line, his father was not supportive, and the actors of that era were called "dramas". He also felt that he was in the wrong line. Recalling the incident, Chen Daoming said: "Parents in that era looked down on this profession. Now parents are stuffing their children in because it becomes a shortcut to Vanity Fair. In the past, young actors were in a hurry to change their faces, and now they are popular to change their names, the only purpose is how to become famous tomorrow, right or wrong, the process is no longer important. ”
He holds the beginning of a protagonist version, but has played the dragon set for seven years.
In the past seven years, he has played bandits on the field, puppet army in the next scene, this time playing a secret agent, that performance of the eight roads, without a single line. Chen Daoming also does not complain, the protagonist and supporting roles take similar salaries, are "iron rice bowl".
When he made the movie "One and Eight", everyone was at the reservoir, basking in the sun for a month, and didn't do anything.
At that time, the show business circle had not yet been occupied by naked desires, and it was not wrapped in money to move forward quickly.
"One and Eight" stills Chen Daoming
Later, he met "The Last Emperor" and played the young Puyi. Sticking to the drama, he is desperate. Every day, he ran from the East Side to the West Side by bicycle, and more than 30 episodes of the TV series were filmed for 4 years. He spent that time delving into scripts and honing his acting skills.
After filming the first TV series, he won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor and the Feitian Award for Outstanding Actor, which became a hit.
He was 34 years old and flourishing.
Stills from "The Last Emperor" Chen Daoming
And the TV series "Siege of the City", ten episodes were filmed for a hundred days. The role of Shusheng Fang Hongwei, director Huang Shuqin first thought of Chen Daoming. "He has a kind of arrogance in him, the wind bone of an intellectual." However, the director Trigu Maolu, Chen Daoming still refused. The reason for the refusal is not suspicion, but cowardice. He was worried that he would not be able to learn Fang Hongzhi's Shanghai accent, and he could not hold the taste of the role, "Don't ruin the play when the time comes."
It turns out that Huang Shuqin's persistence was right. Chen Daoming portrayed the role of Fang Hongwei into three points, and Qian Zhongshu specially sent a letter to Chen Daoming, saying that Chen let him see a living Fang Hongwei. "I'm not a hard-working person, and I have a very poor sense of design for life.
When everyone is walking in unison, I may be walking there. Chen Daoming said.
"Siege" stills Chen Daoming (left) Lu Liping (right)
Chen Daoming and Feng Xiaogang have been friends for many years.
Feng said that he was a person who was so tall that he was only willing to bow his head in the play. He quipped that chen Daoming and Ge You had differences in personality. If the two are stopped in violation of the law, Ge must first touch his head, laugh twice, apologize, "dude admit to planting", win the love of the police, there is room for maneuver. And Chen Bi was "going to kill and slash, listening to the honor", and the result was predictable.
This is true. Once, at the crew's launch conference, everyone was praising the drama and doing enough publicity. Investors hope that Chen Daoming will also say something good, Chen Daoming's face is heavy: "How is the drama, how to know without shooting!" The reporter asked him about the bad film, and he also said bluntly: "These dramas can come out, because the director's brain is completely in the water." ”
More famous is the night banquet of the literary and art giants in the Beijing circle.
On the first day of the first lunar month in 2018, the big guys gathered together. Feng Xiaogang drank too much, pulled Miao Miao, the heroine of "Fanghua", and asked her to perform a solo dance in public to explain why she was chosen as the heroine.
Miao Miao was slightly embarrassed because she was not prepared.
Among the crowd, only Chen Daoming came out to break the siege: "First, people's servants, as actors, are inconvenient to dance this dance; second, people wear high heels, which is inconvenient." There are still people who coax: "Just draw a comparison." ”
Chen Daoming, who has always been polite and elegant, suddenly stood up and said in a strong tone: You haven't seen dancing! ”
In the second half of the story, Miao Miao still took off her shoes and danced, and Chen Daoming gave her old friend the steps down. The song of "Velvet Flower" lingered, Miao Miao danced, Chen Daoming matched, personally played the piano accompaniment to Miao Miao, and the female singer Zhang Yan sang with her.
At this moment, no one is cheering for anyone, who is consumed by whom, they are all equal performers. It is precisely because of this wisdom and personality charm that he has become a big brother respected by everyone in the circle.
In fact, Chen Daoming is not always so self-effacing, and he also feels that "the world revolves around him".
Just after filming "Siege of the City", he was lost in Vanity Fair and impetuous for a while. But the interaction with Qian Zhongshu made him sober up when he boarded. In Mr. Qian's home, there was almost no electrical appliance in sight, only a popping pot of medicine, and the aroma of medicinal incense and books filled the air. He felt, a real calmness. "Suddenly find myself very pitiful, in the face of learning, my own bullshit is not." The death of his father has further intensified his doubts about his acting career.
During that time, he once hated acting, semi-retired, and did not take any drama. He always remembered that his father told him to emphasize learning and cultivation, and he was not optimistic about this profession. He saw the problems in the industry, but he couldn't change it. He kept himself away from the crowd and banished to the edge. He is unwilling to go with the flow, does not compromise, does not shoot anti-Japanese dramas and pseudo-historical dramas, and does not shoot any money. "I am helpless to the world, but I strive to make the world helpless to me."
Later, he often regarded himself as a "drama", because he knew the ills of the industry and he really experienced all this:
"It's an opportunistic profession. When he was nothing, he lowered his eyebrows and begged for people everywhere; once he was red, he immediately did not know that the sky was high and the earth was thick. Arrogance and frivolity are a major vice in the Chinese performing arts industry, a very childish level of thought. ”
I don't know when, there are always rumors in the jianghu that Chen Daoming is a "drama bully". It is rumored that he loves to change the drama when filming, scolding the young actors who can't lift their heads, and the film remuneration is sky-high.
Indeed, many popular young students and he before filming, to do a long time of psychological construction. When filming "Our Youth With Nowhere to Put", Chen Daoming played Jiang Yiyan's father. After filming for a morning, Jiang Yiyan just couldn't enter the role. Chen Daoming showed no mercy, split his head and covered his face with a scolding, and put Jiang Yiyanxun crying: "Do you understand that you understand the drama, you are the role of Zhou Meng, don't put yourself as a student in the drama!" ”
Stills of "Youth Nowhere to Rest" Chen Daoming (left) Jiang Yiyan (right)
When filming "Kangxi Dynasty", the eldest brother Yinzhen (yìn tí) went west, because of his reckless behavior, he was captured and his face was not saved. After escaping, he lied that he had been swept away by the water. Chen Daoming played Kangxi, and he was furious and slapped Yin Zhen. Yin Zhen was confused, the director was also stunned, and there was no "beating people" scene in the script. Chen Daoming asked Yin Yu to come over again and gave him another punch.
This is not to mention, the scene of the removal of San Francisco, Chen Daoming couldn't help but say, a bowl of tea spilled on Suo Ertu's face. Later, the reporter shook all these things in front of him, and he only said: "If the actor cares about this very much, I have to say sorry, if I am suddenly slapped in the play, I don't feel surprised." ”
It sounds like he is talking big, but Chen Daoming is indeed a combination of words and deeds. He never arrives late for filming, nor does he leave early. He and Li Chengru filmed "Winter Solstice", Li originally wanted to pretend, Chen asked him not to be merciful, as soon as the shooting began, Chen was fanned down to the wall.
The play is good, one is over. He played the small staff of Feng Xiaogang's "A Place of Chicken Feathers". Feng was worried that he was still in the posture of "the emperor's micro-service private visit", but he suddenly changed, and really became a thoughtful and scruffy little person.
Off camera, he also nodded his head when he saw people, everything was negotiable, and his temper was excellent.
After the scene was filmed, he returned to the original face of the "old way".
Stills from "A Place of Chicken Feathers" Chen Daoming
At the press conference of the movie "Homecoming", the reporter asked him: Have you ever felt particularly enjoyable playing with Gong Li? Chen Daoming asked rhetorically, "What is a show?" I have never heard of 'Drag Drama', is it better than who acted? We don't have 'drag', it's cooperation. ”
In Chen Daoming's view, good actors are mutual achievements.
Because of his training, Jiang Yiyan played Zhou Meng deeply in the hearts of the people, because the play became a hit, and everyone remembered this light and chrysanthemum-like mengmeng.
The two additional plays of the Kangxi Dynasty became classics, retaining the authenticity and vividness of the majesty of the emperor. He demands more of himself. The director can shoot indefinitely, he can repeat it indefinitely.
In the same situation, Chen Daoming wanted to shoot several different states for the director. Sometimes the director says yes, and Chen Daoming still wants to "do it again". He didn't want to leave regrets for the characters in the play. He also wanted to steal from the young actors.
When he and Ma Yili filmed "The First Half of My Life", there was no play for him, and he did not leave, just watching from the side, wanting to learn the acting style of the younger generation.
He and Ma Yili said: "Our performance at that time has traces of that era, I will come to see how you people who are in your right age are acting, and I will learn." His "hegemony" is actually "stupidity."
Obsessed with drama, obsessed with characters, obsessed with acting. He believes that the most fundamental problem of performance is sincerity. "If you think it's negative, then I hope you become such a serious bully, and I believe your work will be better." 」
Stills from "The First Half of My Life" Chen Daoming (left)
People who are rich in acting always have a set of habitual acting patterns, acting like themselves. What Chen Daoming has been pursuing is that he cannot recognize him in the play. He does not want to make acting into a "carved mold", but to seek freshness and not be framed.
"I know what I'm going to do, just don't go to the comfort of myself." "The biggest allure of the industry for me is its uncertainty. Let me take three steps, then half a step to the left, and two steps further, and then I won't do it. ”
When he meets a favorite book, he can not be paid.
Knowing that Feng Xiaogang was going to shoot "Tangshan Earthquake", he ran over and took the initiative to say that he wanted to play the role of a soldier and take nothing.
Stills from "Tangshan Earthquake"
Later, Chen Daoming met Beijing Renyi's drama "The Sorrow of Comedy", which was excellent, and it was He Bing who played the opponent. One play, two actors, "a son don't". At that time, he had been away from the drama stage for 30 years. For a month and a half, he memorized the entire script, still nervous.
"In the face of a thousand spectators, do not make a mistake." Chen Daoming is such a person. A few years ago, he told a reporter that he had never said he loved acting, but only regarded it as a part of his life.
However, if you don't love drama, how can you be so harsh on yourself?
If you don't love drama, why bother with zero remuneration and take over several plays?
If you don't love drama, why do you pace and deliberate, just to deliberate on an action and a look?
He rarely goes to variety shows, but he is willing to go to "First Grade" to teach students to perform with zero remuneration. He personally demonstrated, without aggressive posture, a few points to make people open up.
In the program, he asked a student who played the sketch, what is acting? Female student answer: Middle-aged woman. He asked again: What is it for? The girl shook her head and said she didn't know the profession. He taught the children that acting cannot be imagined, but that empathy should be experienced.
"Good performances are not taught, they are brought out. Producing real experiences, including physiological responses, is called a belt. ”
He also scolded the actors who didn't show up.
"Some actors, they fall and fall in the water at every turn!" Your profession is this, and you should suffer like this! ”
He knows that capital speculates in short-term lines, makes hot money, treats the audience as a leek, and takes entertainment as the way. He also criticized the director of the costume drama for only focusing on appearance and not acting, "How can the aesthetic point of view be understood so superficially?" Who brought this road? This is a cultural regression. ”
He also has his own attitude.
In a cultural program "Inheritors", dozens of Shanxi children performed jishan high platform flower drums. Several young commentators were critical.
"There is no change in the form of traditional cultural programs, no innovation."
"There are so many people, I can't find the focus, I don't know who to look at."
The children and teachers on the stage were about to cry, and Chen Daoming was rarely angry in the show. "Group programming just needs to be uniform. Honor Guard, do you embody personality? With so many people, it is difficult to make a standard action. ”
"You may have a lot of knowledge, but you don't even have basic common sense about the culture we have inherited. Because you haven't seen it, you deny its existence. I'm against this. ”
Chen Daoming angrily rebuked the young judges for "no common sense" in the program Chen Daoming loved to read Lu Xun's essays, and he liked Lu Xun's bluntness in acupuncture. He dives into his heart, reads, writes and plays the piano, becomes a doughman when he has nothing to do, and sews a leather bag for his wife. He also played mahjong very well, always giving people that he won the 1998 national mahjong championship.
Filmmaker Zhou Liming said that he lived as "aged". Chen Daoming said that he was "useless and calm." Among the many images he has played, Lu Yanzhi in the movie "Homecoming" is the closest to him.
In the movie, this intellectual, who was affected by the Cultural Revolution, can do is to face his lover and children, stick to his life, and stick to his heart. He used to paint portraits of his characters. The painting for Lu Yanzhi resembled his own father, a face that often sighed and wore the same round-rimmed glasses.
"Return" Lu Yanzhi
Chen Daoming gradually became a father. A man who has carved his cultivation into his bones, an intellectual who stands on the margins and cares about the problems of the industry. The characters he played always left some similar fragments in his personality. In "Kangxi Dynasty", he improvised a part of the content in the lines of the angry courtiers, which later became the "highlight moment" in the national drama.
Now combined with Chen Daoming's drumming and shouting for the film and television industry, it also has a different meaning: they are rotten, and their hearts are broken.
The ancestors handed over the jiangshan to the hands of Yuan, but they made it like this, and Yuan's heart was painful. I haven't closed my eyes for three days and three nights, and I always think about saying something to everyone, but I always have to have a head, and there are only four words to think about (Zhengda Guangming). These four words, it is easy to talk about, how difficult is it to practice in person?