Uncle Circle has added new soldiers! The 54-year-old Ning Li performed so well that he even "acted" the way he breathed
After "The Long Season" and "Happy Face", X Theater ushered in the third boutique short drama "Under the Bustling City".
After the broadcast, the popularity soared, the reputation exploded, and it was once again eye-catching, and the Douban score above 8 was locked in advance.
What is "under the bustling city"?
"Bustling city" refers to the hustle and bustle of the city, and "below" is the deeply buried forgotten secrets and people's hearts.
The director said.
From a series of bizarre cases, and then dragged out the Lu family's unsolved case twenty years ago, under the cocoon, "Under the Bustling City" undoubtedly played the king of ancient costume suspense. Under that rich and prosperous small city of Jiangnan Ying County, full of intricate desires and human nature, every little person is at the mercy of fate without mercy, not black and white, but good and evil.
In this drama, like "The Long Season", the case itself is no longer important, and more attention is paid to the fate of the characters and the different choices under human nature. "Human nature is difficult to distinguish between good and evil, but we must still adhere to justice", which is undoubtedly the main point of view that the play wants to convey.
"Under the Bustling City" is a suspense story on the surface, focusing on small characters at a deeper level and excavating complex human nature. There are open and secret struggles in rivers and lakes, farmers, industrialists, merchants, and peddlers and pawns, focusing on the fate of many small people in the city. Every little person under the wheel of fate is "pitiful and weeping."
Of course, from the perspective of the cast, there are even more powerful people. Among them, Ning Li, the actor of Song Chen and Song Dianshi, is even more amazing.
Especially the revelation of the mystery of the sixth episode of his life, an episode of sealing the gods, the acting skills exploded, and the 54-year-old Ning Li portrayed the history of Song Dian into three points, and the interpretation was accurate and in place.
The inspiration and prototype of this character comes from the famous talent Tang Bohu, who has an extremely bumpy life.
Song Chen Song Dianshi was originally named Song Zhongqiu, once a great talent in Jiangnan, with the name of a prodigy at a young age, a sixteen-year-old middle show talent, the first in the township examination at the age of nineteen, took the yuan, entered Beijing at the age of twenty-eight to rush for the exam, and the first was the first and won the yuan. When he arrived at the palace test, just when everyone thought that Champion Eighty Percent was him, an accident occurred. Because of the political struggle in the court, he was arrested in heavenly prison for cheating in scientific examinations, tortured, beaten into tricks, and left disabled.
But the case was overturned not long after the confession, but Song Chen Huiyuan was exempted, and he was also held accountable for misconduct before the exam, and the friend who was confessed committed suicide. Later, the emperor decreed that he could choose the following county order, but he chose the canonical official who used the punishment. Because he had received all the great punishments in the heavenly prison, he had a lot of experience and was ready to apply what he had learned. As a herald official handpicked by the emperor, although it was only a canonical history, he took more than the county order, but he only received the canonical history every month, and never took an extra article.
He even tattooed a cruel and vengeful beast on his body.
After suffering, a great talent has thus become a cynical, gloomy and withdrawn temperament, addicted to abuse criminals, and vents his past resentment and injustice to the world through torture of the perpetrators.
With such an experience, coupled with a physical disability, this character is extremely distorted, truly embodying the indistinguishability of good and evil.
In the sixth episode, he came to Cuihualou again, and after listening to a song, he remembered his old friend, improvised poetry, but his disabled hand could not hold a pen, and in anger, he used his only fingers to dye ink on the screen and write the poem he had just made.
"Drunk can not sing for twelve years, labor in the middle of the music sleep in prison, Mo said Hainai left a name, who believes that there is no alcohol money in the waist."
He said, "That's my word"!
From flicking a pen in anger to dyeing his fingers with ink and writing poetry, a smile gradually appeared on his face full of anger and grievance, tears in his eyes, and finally he was ecstatic. The interpretation of the entire role can be said to be precise and delicate, extremely layered, which can be called a textbook-level performance, and the charm of this character can be completely bloomed at that moment.
From a great genius to a victim of court disputes, to a cool official, he is a tragic figure, fully embodying the tragedy and cruelty of the times in him.
As a powerful actor, Ning Li can be said to interpret the history of Song Dian extremely expressively this time, whether it is the physical details or the complex changes in inner contradictions, they have been vividly presented, which is once again amazing.
In order to shape this character, Ning Li's preparation and thinking before shooting was very meticulous and profound, from the state of the character, to the details of a small action, and even the way of limping, the way of disabled hands and crutches will be discussed in advance. Even in order to speak more routinely, Ning Li also presents by changing the breathing pattern and rhythm, as well as the change of speech speed and sentence breaking.
In the end, there was such a wonderful presentation, which can be called a movie king-level performance.
Ning Li has been acting in dramas for more than 30 years, but it was not until 2017 that a "Undocumented Crime" really began to become popular, and it also entered the audience's field of vision again after many years.
In the play, he played the ruthless, calm and calm perverted murderer Li Fengtian to life, and every time Ning Li is mentioned, the audience still misses this role and has become a label for him.
Since then, there have been blockbusters born almost every year.
2020's "Hidden Corner" and "The Silent Truth"; "Black Storm" and "Rivals" in 2021, as well as the movie "Love Myth"; Police Honor in 2022; "The Wandering Earth 2" in 2023 and now "Under the City".
From cold-blooded killers to enthusiastic policemen, from city dwellers to scientific elites, different types of characters have been vividly interpreted by Ning Li and are impressive. Obviously, there is nothing he is not capable of, and the boundaries and formativeness of the actor are infinitely expanded here. Considering acting as his mission, he has contributed textbook acting skills every time.
This time, "Under the City" resolutely does.
For acting, Ning Li once said that in the earliest days, I always felt that acting was to let the audience see - see your skills and techniques as an actor, such as your voice, lines, physical expression, and emotional outbursts. But later, I realized that shaping the character ultimately allows the audience to see the inner feelings of the character.
In Song Dianshi, Ning Li is shown in this way, allowing us to see the inner contradictions and complexities of this character, not only those external disability characteristics and emotional presentation.
The first half of Ning Li's life was not all smooth sailing, but these were of great benefit to the role of actors. Ning Li has indeed fully integrated his past experience into the role, which makes the characterization more attractive. At the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, in the era of Shuhuan, Ning Li was on fire again, and the spring that belonged to him had come.