Introduction: The role of "emperor" in costume dramas is actually very difficult to play, not only to show the domineering and majesty of the emperor, but also to conform to the emperor's own mental character. It is also necessary to serve the plot and perform the image of the emperor recognized by the screenwriter and the audience.
Playing the emperor is a very test of the actors' acting skills: too much force will be a little deliberate, giving people a feeling of "pretending". Convergent acting, and losing the emperor's nobility and domineering. The scale of the performance needs to be handled by the actors themselves.
Today, let's take an inventory of which "playing the emperor" has the most historical and see if there are any actors you like?
The actor who played the most roles of the emperor - Tang Guoqiang
Some netizens have specifically counted the mainland actors who "play the emperor" the most, and found that Tang Guoqiang, a national first-class actor, topped the list with 28 "emperor" roles.
In his youth, Tang Guoqiang was handsome and fair-skinned. The eyebrows are full of heroism, and he likes to eat cream, and is ridiculed by peers as "cream boy".
Zhuge Liang in 94 can be said to be Tang Guoqiang's work of popular transformation. The audience was surprised to find that this "little fresh meat" is not only handsome, but also unambiguous in playing the emperor general, and his acting skills are as pure as fire.
Since then, there have been many people looking for Tang Guoqiang to play the emperor, from the Jade Emperor to Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. Famous kings in history have been played almost over and over again.
What's more interesting is that the emperor he plays often fights with himself, and sometimes he is a life-and-death enemy.
For example: Emperor Jianwen in "The Legend of the Heroes of Yong'an"
was robbed of the throne by Zhu Di, who he played in "Zheng He Goes to the West". Good fellow, rebel against yourself
For example, the emperor Taiji in "Jiangshan Wind and Rain", his long-cherished wish in life is to overthrow the Daming Dynasty and win the Central Plains
As a result, Tang Guoqiang's costume was changed, and his braids were cut, and he was in "Zheng Chenggong" in the Southern Ming Longwu Emperor Zhu Yujian. It is really thoughtful to "destroy" yourself yourself.
Among the many imperial characters, the audience is most impressed by the Yongzheng Emperor in "Yongzheng Dynasty".
In order to get this role, he read a lot of historical materials and biographies about Yongzheng. Accurately grasped Yongzheng's loneliness and successfully shaped this classic screen image.
The emperor closest to historical facts - Jiao Huang
Jiao Huang's image of the elderly Kangxi in "Yongzheng Dynasty" is recognized as the Kangxi that is most in line with historical facts.
Judging from the picture above, the similarity between the two can reach 70%.
Jiao Huang not only pursues appearance, but also makes it as divine as possible.
After acting in dramas for decades, he accurately grasped the complex and suspicious character of the elderly Kangxi, not only the father image of his sons, but also the benevolence and warmth of a father, and the pain and helplessness of his sons fighting each other, which can be described as very real.
In history, Kangxi pursued the learning of Huang Lao in old age, and paid attention to governing the country without doing anything. The officials under his command were even more lenient and benevolent, and even the corruption of the imperial court in the later period was rampant, and the deficit was serious.
The scorched Kangxi came out of the history books. Compared with the previous emperor image, the scorched Kangxi has a hint of fireworks.
Tang Guoqiang and the director once revealed in an interview that when filming TV series, old man Jiao Huang often told them plays, so that they learned a lot, and the kind of white space in the TV series is also the masterpiece of old man Jiao Huang.
The most extensive performance - Zhang Tielin
Qianlong, played by Zhang Tielin in "Huan Zhu Gege", gives people a seemingly mighty and domineering feeling, and carefully recalls it with a feeling of being too strong.
At the beginning, we mentioned that if you play the emperor too hard, it will give the audience a sense of alienation.
In order to pull in this strangeness with the audience in the play, Zhang Tielin often laughed for no reason in the play, or suddenly raised his volume to show his authority and freedom.
As everyone knows, the ancient emperor's words and deeds were clearly stipulated, and his "extensive" performance did not look like an emperor at all, but more like a reckless hero.
The most successful young son of heaven - Huang Xiaoming
How should a teenager Tianzi act? How to perform to gain audience recognition? In order to bypass this problem, some directors often let powerful actors act from teenagers to the end.
In this way, although the acting skills are guaranteed, there is also a big drawback - it is easy to play.
It is clear that he is only fourteen or fifteen years old, but he has to forcibly dress up as a young actor who is almost forty.
The 2001 hit "The Great Han Tianzi" made the audience's eyes shine. 24-year-old Huang Xiaoming's exquisite facial features, handsome and pure youthful sense, tired of watching a tender costume drama, like a spring breeze. Call this is what a young man should look like.
The most outstanding acting Jun - Xie Junhao
In China's 2,000-year-old feudal society, although there are many Ming monarchs, there are also a lot of dim monarchs. They indulge in pleasure and indecency, resulting in the displacement of people and the destitution of their livelihoods.
How exactly should the Dusk Jun act? Is acting like a fool?
Xie Junhao's Yang Guang in "The Legend of the Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" gave me the answer, he interpreted the image of a comatose monarch who killed his brother and killed his father vividly, and his melancholy and deep eyes made people shudder.
His arrogant and lascivious, calculating, cynical frivolity, the extraordinary accuracy of being pinched by Xie Junhao, and the godless state with bloodshot eyes after personally killing his father to usurp the throne, is like the two before him.
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In the era when traffic is king, we have not seen the classic imperial image on the screen for several years. Although there are many young actors, they have challenged to play the emperor. But they are in vain and always lack something in the heart of the imperial character.