also played the "black boss", put Yu and Wei Zhang Songwen together, the difference is clear at a glance

In this year's National Day file, there was a "spectacle": a movie with a low rating won the box office championship.

This is "Rock Solid".

Its Douban score is only 6.4 points, which is the second lowest movie in word of mouth among all new films.

But its box office is dominant, winning the box office championship for 7 consecutive days, and the final box office is likely to exceed 2 billion, almost locking in the overall championship of the National Day file.

What's going on? Doesn't it say that good word of mouth is king?

The reason behind this is actually very simple.

Although "Rock Solid" is Zhang Yimou's new film, it was filmed as early as 4 years ago, and it has not been able to be released due to scale reasons, 4 years later, it finally met the audience, the original version of 157 minutes was cut to 127 minutes, the lines were rematched, the plot deletion and remake traces were obvious, the overall tiger was over, and the audience also scored low.

However, none of these problems can obscure its edge.

More importantly, the acting skills of all the members of this film are online, Yu Hewei and Zhang Guoli's two major acting schools are racing, sparks are splashing, and the actors' performances also save the movie.

Yu Hewei played the black boss Li Zhitian in this anti-corruption film, his decisive killing, madness and evil charm can't help but remind people of Gao Qiqiang played by Zhang Songwen in "Crazy".

So, a topic also began to set off waves on the Internet -

Also starring as the black boss, who plays Yu Hewei or Zhang Songwen better? What's the difference between the two?

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Yimou also talked about these two roles in an interview:

"If you (Yu Hewei) came out when the character came out (earlier), Zhang Songwen might have come second."

It can be seen that Zhang Yimou's confidence in the characters under his movie is overflowing.

However, evaluating two characters with the same characteristics, we cannot jump to conclusions so simply.

Pico summarized it for you before:

Don't look at the "black boss" is just a film and television image, under the role, there are actually many doorways hidden.

The leader of the street gangsters is the black boss;

Chen Honan, the bearer of Causeway Bay, is also the black boss;

Du Yuesheng, who went to the beach, is still the black boss.

It can be seen that the same black boss also exists among each other.

Then in film and television dramas, different actors will also perform different layers.

When we take this sense of layering as a scale and savor these two characters, the difference is self-evident.

01、

First of all, Gao Qiqiang and Li Zhitian, these two characters have a lot of similarities.

Both are from the bottom.

Gao Qiqiang is a small fish vendor in the vegetable market, but he has been bullied by the Tang brothers.

Li Zhitian is a member of the Chongqing Baseball Army, but was ridiculed as a "dog mongrel" by his own hair.

Both have their own bonds.

Gao Qiqiang is the eldest brother in the family, and there is a younger brother and sister to support.

The eldest brother is like a father, and he has always endured humiliation and burden for the sake of his two relatives.

The background of the character Li Zhitian is relatively blurred.

His family is also crippled, with only one daughter by his side.

There is no explanation for his wife in the story, and according to the conventional understanding, he should have pulled his daughter up alone, which is why he spoiled his daughter very much.

Both have a "last resort".

Gao Qiqiang was involved in a gang fight because of a fight, and he turned from a dragon slayer to a dragon by relying on a ruthlessness.

In order to survive, Lai Zhitian set up a five-person team from scratch, and the result became bigger and bigger, becoming a bully on the rich side.

Both have their own umbrellas.

Gao Qiqiang had Uncle Tai in the early stage, and Huang Lao and Zhao Lidong in the later period, proper "family slaves with three surnames".

Li Zhitian looks more single-minded at first glance, at least on the bright side, he has always been the white glove of Vice Mayor Zheng Gang (played by Zhang Guoli).

Zheng Gang knocked him casually, and he could knock out 4.8 billion oil and water.

Both men also have bitter rivals.

Gao Qiqiang's nemesis is An Xin.

An Xin is a little honest, but the main one is a fierce chase, and he has been fighting with him for more than 20 years, and finally pulled him off the horse.

Li Zhitian's nemesis is Su Jianming (played by Lei Jiayin), the son of the vice mayor.

Under Su Jianming's cute appearance, there is a smart brain hidden.

He took his girlfriend (played by Zhou Dongyu) to bravely break into the tiger's den, and the two of them wiped out the gangster empire led by Li Zhitian.

Both of them have their own famous scenes and golden sentences.

There are many famous scenes in Gao Qiqiang.

For example, kneeling to Uncle Tai, meeting with An Xin on the street, being forced back by An Xin with a police cordon, and racing with his son on the street.

His sentences "Tell Lao Mo that I want to eat fish" and "The bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish" are still impressive.

Li Zhitian did not hesitate.

He fished out mobile phones in hot pot, showed broken tongues, and smashed people with a wrench, challenging the peak of the scale of domestic anti-corruption films.

The phrase "there is money outside money, and there are officials in the official" is even more chewy.

In short, Gao Qiqiang and Li Zhitian are both ruthless characters who climb up from the bottom.

As their status grows, their ambitions become more and more inflated, and their means become more ruthless and invincible.

02、

But under similar roles, the two top actors still have different treatments.

Let's see what different flavors they perform.

"Crazy" is a 39-episode TV series, judging from the cast list, it is the double male protagonist setting of Zhang Yi and Zhang Songwen, but it is actually Zhang Songwen's personal performance show, leaving him a lot of room for performance.

Zhang Songwen's role as Gao Qiqiang can be described as "meticulously crafted".

The plot is routine, but it is full of details.

For example, in the early stage of fish trafficking, Gao Qiqiang was called over by the Tang brothers, and he would pick up a little water in the fish tank, wash his hands twice, and then shake it again.

He takes care of the fish and will bring two green onions to the guests by the way.

These small actions are not in the script, all rely on the actors to figure it out themselves, and the audience who has experienced the life of oil and salt feels that the shooting is very real.

Later, An Xin came to visit Gao Qiqiang, Gao Qiqiang cooked for An Xin, and before cooking, he would shake the gas tank twice to see if there was still gas.

This kind of braving life performance is generally never seen by actors, let alone performed.

Zhang Songwen revealed on social media that in order to capture these details, he went to the vegetable market every morning at four or five o'clock to watch fish and sell fish, and finally acted out his first-hand experience.

For example, in the early stage of blackening, Gao Qiqiang ran to the video store to "fight the grievances" for people, and then a group of people from Wuyang Wuyang came in, all showing fierce faces.

Gao Qiqiang looked calm, which looked very unreal on the surface.

But the camera gave him fingers that kept shaking, and the feeling of pretentious composure came out at once.

There is also witnessing his brother fall to his death, this performance is the most difficult, and it is easy for the actor to act too hard.

Zhang Songwen added a small design to the performance.

He was in a trance after witnessing his brother's tragic death, his legs were soft, he propped up the table with his hand, the table fell apart, and the whole person fell down.

The design of this supporting table makes the whole person feel like a trance.

In "Acting School", Zhang Songwen revealed that he will roughly draw a general outline when shaping the character, and only during the performance will he add details.

These details are not predetermined, but naturally revealed when you get there.

The most precious thing in performance is life, what is life? It is the experience, his natural outpouring, it is all experienced.

Such an actor, the output will not be too high, because he needs a lot of life to experience, and then naturally integrate the experience into the performance, so that people can not see a trace of performance.

"Crazy" is certainly a cool drama, and Gao Qiqiang is also a black boss, but Zhang Songwen's performance is a work of art, and every clip can read the rich life experience of this actor.

Conversely, let's look at Yu Hewei.

His "Rock Solid" is a 127-minute movie, and he is only third in the cast.

In addition to him in the movie, Lei Jiayin, Zhang Guoli, Chen Chong and others are also full of scenes.

Then the performance time left for Yu Hewei adds up to less than half an hour.

To create the role of Li Zhitian, it is not appropriate to use Zhang Songwen's "meticulous carving", and it is easy to play too full.

Yu Hewei's method is a three-step process.

The first step is to find "people".

That is, to find the "human" side of the character of Lai Zhitian.

Some of the human natures are arranged in the script, his childhood encounters, and his history of struggle are all shining points.

There are some human natures, which are not mentioned in the script.

For example, Li Zhitian's wife, there is no mention in the script, this is the blank space in the script.

Yu Hewei used this blank space to make up for the process of Li Zhitian pulling the child up alone.

Then the child becomes the Achilles' heel of this demon, and his performance has a fulcrum.

The second step is integration.

The biggest difference between Yu Hewei and other actors is that no matter what the role, he can always perform his own characteristics and does not play together.

Yu Hewei has played Xun Yu, Lu Su, Liu Bei and Cao Cao in three different dramas, and each role is very exciting.

There is also the online drama "The Three-Body Problem", Shi Qiang in the novel is a big man like Jiang Wu, Yu Hewei's appearance is seriously inconsistent, and he was attacked by many book fans in the early days of filming.

But he also used his own performance methods to integrate personal characteristics into the characters, and the final performance effect made everyone praise.

Yu Hewei's super "compatible" ability has allowed him to gain the reputation of "everything can be in Hewei".

When creating the role of Li Zhitian, Yu Hewei confessed that first of all, he must maintain a sense of relaxation and perform a sense of life.

But this is not enough, because the audience sees the life of Yu Hewei.

He also needs to join the black boss like Li Zhitian.

Yu Hewei will look for the characteristics of this type of black boss based on his life experience, accumulation and observation.

Then extract the keywords, allocate them to this character of Li Zhitian, and finally combine his own characteristics and the character itself.

At this point, we can see the most critical difference between the two.

Zhang Songwen is an immersive experience that then presents almost instinctively.

Yu Hewei consciously screened and then integrated his own characteristics.

He said that the performance should be loose and not show traces, but it is by no means the actor's own slackness.

The third step is explosiveness.

The movie duration is limited, which requires the actor to output the maximum energy in a limited scene, and Yu Hewei is an actor with great energy density.

In the film, we can see his explosiveness in many scenes.

This includes the hotpot game that killed chickens and monkeys, including the dialogue scene between him and Zhang Guoli in the car, including the scene where he wore a gas suit and smashed people with a wrench.

But Yu Hewei himself felt that the play that satisfied him the most was the one with few lines.

Coming out of his daughter's delivery room, Li Zhitian had mixed tastes at that time, with the joy of welcoming the newborn, the despair of the imminent limit, and the confession of the son-in-law with a blade.

Under the impact of a specific time, many complex emotions come to the face.

At this juncture, Yu Hewei has no lines, only relying on close-ups of expressions, and presents the multifaceted nature of this character to the audience in a delicate manner.

The short time and the accuracy of the performance are amazing.

With these three steps, Yu Hewei's performance is already convincing.

But in "Rock Solid", he got the true biography of Zhang Yimou and truly entered the master level.

After performing a rivalry scene with Sun Yizhou, Zhang Yimou stepped forward and slowly said: "Weaken that thing a little more." ”

It was this sentence that woke up Yu Hewei.

What is inhibition and frustration, is to work neatly, this is the realm pursued by many actors, Yu Hewei is already familiar with it.

But life is actually not so neat, Zhang Yimou asked Yu Hewei to perform this feeling of not being tidy.

Just like in "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon", Zhang Wuji learned all martial arts, but Zhang Sanfeng told him that he could only practice taijiquan by forgetting all martial arts.

There is no trick to win, Zhang Wuji realized, Yu Hewei also realized.

The film best reflects this is the Hongmen banquet on the ship.

Li Zhitian killed chickens and monkeys, told Su Jianming the story of a mute chef, and he had a large section of lines throughout the scene, and one person had to control the whole scene.

Yu Hewei said that in this play, the performance is different every time.

But the difference in this scene is that his entire character state is in the play, no treasure, no fusion, no outbreak, and he releases the characteristics of Li Zhitian's character without traces.

03、

Through the above comparison, we can find the difference between Zhang Songwen and Yu Hewei, who also play the black boss.

Zhang Songwen is a "system installed" type.

He needs a lot of time to experience life, get the freshest experience of life, and then perform without presupposing details, and it is natural to give this experience to the audience when he gets there.

After the performance, he brushed off his clothes and recharged himself in real life.

Yu Hewei is a "U disk" type.

He is plug-and-play, and any role, whether suitable or not, he can perform his own taste.

Not only can the method be hidden invisible, but the method of finding fusion explosion can be fused in one furnace to obtain a performance method in one go.

Which of these two methods is better?

In Pi Ge's opinion, Zhang Songwen is more suitable for acting in TV series, and he has accumulated a lot of words.

Yu Hewei is more suitable for acting in movies, and it is self-contained in a short period of time.

And which one do you prefer?

Text/Pippi Film Editorial Office: A Chicken

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