Zhen Huan has been killing the monarch for 13 years, and Chen Jianbin still hasn't escaped Shilang.
On March 10, Jiang Qinqin won the Asian Film Award for Best Actress for the role of Wu Moshua in the new movie "The World of Grass and Trees".
During the film festival, her husband, Chen Jianbin who is the second male lead in the film, was in the limelight - countless onlookers shouted "Shiro" at Chen Jianbin on the other side of the red carpet.
In recent years, no matter how many roles Chen Jianbin has updated, in the public's impression, he is still the "fat orange" Yongzheng who is not angry and arrogant in "The Legend of Zhen Huan". On the short video platform, the creators who imitate his voice and cover songs have millions of fans.
Some time ago, Chen Jianbin responded that "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is just a play that has been acted, and there is no special difference. The success of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" comes from the audience, "it is the audience who decides to keep it in their hearts".
"After I finished the role, the audience spontaneously interacted with the character in their own way, and I thought it was an unexpected surprise. ”
He said: "I'm just an actor, and my image is all in the role. ”
To understand Chen Jianbin , a "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is far from enough.
In 2024, Chen Jianbin updated two roles.
One is the just-concluded TV series "Black Soil Without Words", in which he played the criminal police captain Guan Yu. The other is the old money in the upcoming movie "The World of Grass and Trees".
Among them, Guan Yu is the eighth time he has played a police officer in recent years.
Chen Jianbin talked about the reason for taking the film, which is simple and pure. Because the background of the story focuses on the tide of layoffs in Northeast China, and the main creative team is a group of young people, he feels that young people can dig out and care about the stories of the older generation, which moved him.
But the reality is that the sound of the two works is no match for the sound of him being called "Shiro".
Hu Jun and Chen Jianbin in "Black Soil Without Words".
"The Legend of Zhen Huan" has been on the air for 13 years and still maintains its vigorous vitality.
Not only are there endless videos of editing and second creation, but on the short video platform, the creator "Milk Tea Little Fat Boy" imitates Chen Jianbin 's timbre, and adapts Internet pop songs based on the materials of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" itself, and new hot stalks are constantly born:
“嬛嬛，朕emo啦。 ”
"If you let him spend the winter with you, then can I sleep in the middle? ”
Therefore, netizens laughed that Chen Jianbin was the only one who did not sing, but had a bunch of albums. Because the "Little Fat Boy of Milk Tea" had interacted with Jiang Qinqin on social media, it was interpreted by netizens as: Chen Jianbin does not sue bloggers because Jiang Qinqin likes to watch it.
Until the beginning of this year, when the media asked Chen Jianbin what he thought, he made a joke: "They didn't pay me for the performance." Then he replied officially: "No matter what form it is, as long as it can make the audience feel happy and entertained, I think it is also what we actors should do." ”
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The work of "Milk Tea Little Fat Boy".
During the Spring Festival, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" became popular in Taiwan, China.
The eight major TV stations in Taiwan Province broadcast "The Legend of Zhen Huan" uninterruptedly, with a total of five rounds of live broadcasts. In the last round of live broadcasts, the TV station also deliberately echoed the audience's request and skipped part of the plot of Ganlu Temple. Among them, the classic episode of the emperor's death even attracted 61,000 people to watch it at the same time.
On March 10, at the Asian Film Awards ceremony, Chen Jianbin was asked by a reporter how he thought of the fact that this drama is still popular after more than ten years, Chen Jianbin only said: This is the audience's choice.
In recent years, Chen Jianbin has answered "The Legend of Zhen Huan" in interviews more than once. Even though he has starred in more than a dozen works in the past ten years, including "Trident", "The Nameless", "A Spoon" and other works have a good reputation, he still has not stepped out of the highlight of "Shiro".
Fragment of "Trident".
In Chen Jianbin 's view, for "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the audience's perspective is actually a little different from his own feelings.
On a film review platform, the score of this drama rose to 9.4 points, and it was evaluated as: the most orthodox TV series I have watched in recent years.
For Chen Jianbin , this is just one of his films, "I put the same amount of effort into each play, but some of them are concerned, and some of them are not." Each play has its own destiny".
Having said that, he still wants to hide himself in the character.
When he first connected with the character, Chen Jianbin was 18 years old.
In 1988, after failing the college entrance examination, Chen Jianbin had nothing to do, and inadvertently walked into the theater and watched two movies.
One is the French film "The Last Metro" directed by Truffaut, and the other is "Red Sorghum" starring Jiang Wen.
After watching the movie, he walked out of the dim theater, the sky was bright outside, and Chen Jianbin was stunned: "Where have all the people in the movie gone." ”
Jiang Wen gave Chen Jianbin the idea of becoming an actor. In Chen Jianbin 's youth, male actors were popular with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and they had to read their lines sonorously and powerfully. It wasn't until he saw Jiang Wen that he realized: "This person looks not much different from me, and his performance is quite lifelike, which means that I may also become an actor." I can do that, too. ”
18-year-old Chen Jianbin
Chen Jianbin began to write scripts and wanted to film by himself. Filming needs money, and he plans to open a restaurant to make money. But the restaurant also needed start-up capital, so he took an iron oil drum from his grandmother's house, converted it into an oven, and began selling roasted sweet potatoes.
Later, the tin bucket was pulled away by the chengguan, and Chen Jianbin was forced to suspend his dream-chasing journey.
Fortunately, fate favored him at this moment.
In 1990, the Central Academy of Drama and the Xinjiang Repertory Theatre reached an agreement to recruit Xinjiang classes. Admitted students are assigned to a targeted assignment and must return to the Xinjiang Repertory Theatre after graduation.
Chen Jianbin couldn't wait to sign up. After the interview, because he didn't wait for the admission information, he also wrote a letter to He Bingzhu, the teacher in charge of admissions:
"I am 20 years old this year, and I clearly understand that my life cannot be without art, without performance, without this only thing that makes me fanatical, makes me unable to myself, makes me intoxicated, makes me feel that life is still fun, and makes me work hard for it, and I will never swerve in my fighting spirit......"
In fact, Chen Jianbin has long been on the admission list. didn't recruit enough people for the first time, and the Chinese opera also organized the second enrollment, and accidentally recruited Li Yapeng, who accompanied his girlfriend to the exam.
This year, Chen Jianbin finally knocked on the door of drama.
Group photo of the 90th level of Chinese opera
The third from the right in the front row is Chen Jianbin
In Chen Jianbin's sophomore year, Meng Jinghui graduated with a master's degree. He rehearsed the drama "Waiting for Godot" at school, and the leading actors brought Hu Jun and Guo Tao.
Chen Jianbin sat in the audience watching the performance of his senior brothers, and there was a sentence stirring in his mind, which was written by director Meng Jinghui in "Director's Words": "I found the secret of loving you, forever as the first time." ”
In the dark, Chen Jianbin sensed his connection to drama.
After graduating from the bachelor's degree, Xinjiang students need to return to Xinjiang according to the agreement. Many people were unwilling to give up the opportunity in Beijing and left their luggage in Beijing, but Chen Jianbin packed all his luggage on the train.
Before going back, Chen Jianbin was drunk for the first time in his life. He said: "If you don't see the outside world, you won't suffer, and if you see and deprive you, you'll be miserable." ”
The train carried the students all the way west, full of boredom and unable to see the road ahead.
Chen Jianbin in college (bottom row, far right)
After staying in the repertory troupe for a long time, the leaders of the repertory troupe were relieved to see the listlessness of the students. Everyone ran back to Beijing and became a "North Drifter", leaving only Chen Jianbin to remain in Xinjiang.
When asked the reason, he said, "I want to go back to Beijing, and I must come back with dignity." ”
How can he return to Beijing in a dignified manner? Chen Jianbin actually does not have a charter.
That was the most confused period for him. has nothing to do every day, his girlfriend has left him, and he even plans to reopen a restaurant and follow the mundane road of marriage and childbirth.
In 1995, the teacher He Bingzhu called and suggested that Chen Jianbin take the postgraduate examination, and the difficult future was torn apart.
During the preparation for the exam, Chen Jianbin wrote self-motivated words on his review materials, encouraging himself with Cui Jian's lyrics: "Reality is like a stone, and spirit is like an egg." The stone is hard, but the egg is life. ”
At that time, it was not popular to take the postgraduate entrance examination, and the graduate students of the Chinese Opera Performance Department did not enroll students for a long time because no one had signed up. Chen Jianbin picked up the leak, and even his guessed English actually passed the line.
When he was admitted to graduate school, Chen Jianbin was 25 years old. He thought that life was finally going to reward him with a piece of candy, and life was gathering momentum to give him a hard blow.
Chen Jianbin old photo
Graduate school life is not much different from college, and there is a lot of time to splurge. Looking out, it was an era of rapid change, but Chen Jianbin could only soak in the library every day to read the script, and rarely had an invitation to film.
Once, Chen Jianbin received an invitation from a crew and asked him to film in Liaoning. When Chen Jianbin arrived on the set, he remembered to report to the teacher, but after the phone was connected, He Bingzhu asked him to go back to school: "Your task now is to study." ”
He Bingzhu's lover, Beijing Renyi director Lin Zhaohua, disagreed on the other end of the phone, and Chen Jianbin was so anxious that he shouted: "Director, they give me 10,000 yuan!"
Lin Zhaohua persuaded him: "10,000 yuan is nothing. Chen Jianbin thought about it and chose to resign.
For the sake of ideals, he ruthlessly rejected reality. But as he gets older, he has to reach out to his parents to ask for money, and his classmates have already got ahead, Chen Jianbin doesn't know how long he can hold on to such a choice.
In 1997, Meng Jinghui found his younger brother Chen Jianbin and invited him to collaborate in the drama, and Chen Jianbin readily agreed.
The first drama the two collaborated on was "Love Ants", and Chen Jianbin commented that his performance was like "cooking dumplings in a teapot, and I can't say anything with a full stomach".
The following year, 28-year-old Chen Jianbin appeared on the stage of Meng Jinghui's new drama, and this time, he finally found a hearty performance.
Chen Jianbin plays the role of a "madman", running while outputting a long monologue. On stage, he drilled circles, split bricks, threw chairs, performed hysterically, and ended the performance with the last shout.
Chen Jianbin said that it was not until the appearance of this drama that he had confidence and felt that he could be a good actor.
This avant-garde drama premiered 30 times, and it was almost full, creating a miracle of the Grand Theater performance. Many years later, the play is still known as one of Meng Jinghui's most classic works, the pinnacle of experimental theatre.
Chen Jianbin on the stage of the drama
During his graduate studies, Chen Jianbin starred in five dramas by Meng Jinghui and Lin Zhaohua. At the same time, Meng Jinghui began to create the drama "Rhino in Love", inspired by the short-sighted Chen Jianbin , screenwriter Liao Yimei wrote the famous sentence at the beginning of the script:
"Dusk is the worst time of the day when I see beautiful women on the streets, and the tall buildings and streets change their usual shapes, like in a movie. ”
Meng Jinghui invited Chen Jianbin to play the starring role again, but to his surprise, Chen Jianbin refused.
In 1998, Chen Jianbin graduated from graduate school and began to rent a house. The rent of the Beijing tube building is 800 yuan per month, and Chen Jianbin has not even seen the living expenses for the next month. At that time, he had to post money for the rehearsal of the drama, and he told Meng Jinghui that he was going to act in a TV series.
Meng Jinghui didn't say much, got up from his chair, and turned to leave.
Stills from "Rhino in Love".
Hao Lei and Duan Yihong starring in the version
Many years later, Chen Jianbin recalled this past and still insisted that drama was his passion. "From the age of 20 to 32, I have been in Chinese opera (I stayed in school to teach for a while). My understanding of life and the world comes from the theater and the stage. ”
Until now, he rarely takes on drama performances, and he dare not touch it easily. The sacredness of movies in his heart is second only to drama, and the team must also be carefully selected. TV series are the exception.
He said: "TV dramas are my means of making a living, and I don't think anyone will love the art of TV dramas. ”
In 1998, Chen Jianbin 's old classmate Li Yapeng took over the filming of a youth film "Love Together".
The director of this drama is also Chen Jianbin 's senior Zhang Yibai. Because he was not satisfied with the original title, Zhang Yibai said "Reward for name". When the phone called Chen Jianbin here, he said casually: "It's called 'carry out love to the end'." ”
"Carry on Love to the End" is the first youth idol drama in the mainland in the true sense. With the arrival of a new century, it is the golden decade of China's TV drama industry.
In order to survive, Chen Jianbin bowed down to enter the industry.
In 2002, he received the script for "Ten Years of Marriage". At the beginning, Chen Jianbin got a script in fragments, all trivial things, and Chen Jianbin didn't want to shoot it.
Until Chen Jianbin saw that the heroine was the senior sister Xu Fan - before winning the title of actress, Xu Fan won the Plum Blossom Award, the highest award in the field of drama, for the drama "Ruan Lingyu".
With the mentality of learning from his predecessors, Chen Jianbin took over the filming of this drama. He didn't expect that this drama would make him win the Feitian Award for Outstanding Actor in one fell swoop.
Stills from "Ten Years of Marriage".
Xu Fan and Chen Jianbin
Drama appointments are coming, and Chen Jianbin no longer has to be anxious and painful because he was left behind by his classmates.
In 2006, he met another character, Qiao Zhiyong in "Qiao's Courtyard". In this play, Chen Jianbin acted from youth to old age, and in order to perform the historical thickness of Shanxi Jin Shang, he spent two months studying the script in the early stage.
He met his future wife Jiang Qinqin here, and it was from here that Chen Jianbin had a label: drama bully.
At that time, Jiang Qinqin and Chen Jianbin had a lot of rivalry. Once, when she came to the set after memorizing lines all night, Chen Jianbin came directly: "This word is not very good, let's change the word." ”
Because of the change of play, Jiang Qinqin was deeply dissatisfied with Chen Jianbin , and Chen Jianbin was incomprehensible about this. He felt that acting was originally a creative process, and the director also agreed, "Artistic creation is to destroy the law, but more people think of the law." ”
This idea has not changed until the later "Three Kingdoms".
Stills from "Qiao's Courtyard".
Jiang Qinqin and Chen Jianbin
When the new "Three Kingdoms" was preparing for filming, Chen Jianbin was the first actor to sign a contract and play Cao Cao. Director Gao Xixi said: "Chen Jianbin read through all the books he could buy about the history of the Three Kingdoms. ”
In previous works of art, Cao Cao was mostly negative, sinister and cunning. Chen Jianbin remembered Cao Cao's "Artemisia Journey", which has a sentence: White bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crying for thousands of miles. The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines.
The bones were uncollected in the wilderness, and the war left no one for thousands of miles. Only one person can survive a hundred civilians, and Cao Cao is in pain when he thinks of this.
Chen Jianbin thought, how could a cunning and selfish person write such a majestic and compassionate poem.
In 2009, after five years, "Three Kingdoms" was finally completed. Gao Xixi mentioned the most impressive scenes in the interview, one of which was the death of Cao Cao.
This scene was designed by Chen Jianbin . He reached out and dipped his hand in the wine, silently looking at the drops of wine on his fingertips. Finally, with all his strength, he bounced the drops away. Everything is a mirror, and a generation of heroes has passed away with his unfinished dreams.
New "Three Kingdoms", a fragment of Cao Cao's death
Cao Cao is "the emperor goes to work", Chen Jianbin wants to experience the feeling of "the emperor gets off work", so he took over the filming of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
Sun Li once said that after filming the first scene with Chen Jianbin , Chen Jianbin suddenly asked her very seriously: "Why are you acting like this?"
Sun Li was so nervous that she didn't know what to do, and Chen Jianbin said: "If you have any thoughts about me and acting in the future, tell me directly." Don't tell me in person that I'm good and good, and behind my back say that I'm playing a big name and not cooperating. I don't like such actors. ”
Sun Li began to worry about how to cooperate in the next 1,000 scenes. When she returned home, she happened to see Jiang Qinqin's visit, Jiang Qinqin complained on the TV that he was tortured by Chen Jianbin and needed to communicate with his agent and crew, and once wanted to quit filming "Qiao's Compound".
Sun Li thought to herself: "If the relationship is so bad, I can become a wife, then I must be fine." ”
Stills from "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
In fact, Chen Jianbin has not read the original work of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and when he received the script, he only knew that he was going to play the role of "Yongzheng".
Yongzheng is recognized as a "model worker", he is very busy with government affairs every day, and when he returns to the harem after work, his first feeling is tired. Director Zheng Xiaolong wants to shoot this drama in the direction of "main drama", and Chen Jianbin also has this intention.
So the audience saw that Yongzheng in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" always looked irritable. "First, because he is the emperor, there is no need to hide it, but more because he is very tired, he wants to do the most with the least expression. Chen Jianbin said.
"The Legend of Zhen Huan" has made Chen Jianbin gain unprecedented attention, and for many years after that, Yongzheng played by Chen Jianbin was often compared with Qianlong in the sequel "The Legend of Ruyi".
What few people know is that the appearance of this TV series made Chen Jianbin Chen's career precarious.
Chen Jianbin in "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
After the filming of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Chen Jianbin suddenly didn't want to act.
He attributed this to the fact that he has acted in too many TV series, ""Three Kingdoms" has been filmed for more than 90 episodes, and there are more than 70 episodes of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and the amount of work you work in it is very huge, and sometimes you will feel that it is individual work. ”
Until one day, his 6-year-old son woke him up: "It's the world that is old." Chen Jianbin therefore decided to find salvation in another world.
In 2012, he took over the filming of the movie "The Sea of People".
This is a low-budget film adapted from a homicide case in the mountains of Guizhou. Chen Jianbin knew before he took over the filming that this seemingly disgraced film would not make money, "but his script attracted me, and I knew that he was the seed of a good movie."
Sure enough, the film eventually won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Before the release of the movie, Chen Jianbin wrote a poem, and the last sentence wrote: Poems are always written in the heart of suffering, Chekhov came to me.
Chen Jianbin in "The Sea of People".
The film made him realize the love that he had sprayed on stage, and Chen Jianbin decided to make a movie himself. In between filming, he lay in the car and finished writing the script of "A Spoon" word by word.
He thinks that many excellent Hong Kong movies use Cantonese, that is, the local dialect, and he also wants to write a story about the northwest land, "spoon" is the meaning of "fool" in the northwest dialect.
He said to Jiang Qinqin: This time he can finally point fingers justifiably.
But what he didn't expect was that this movie made frequent waves from filming to release.
First of all, it was difficult for actors to form a group, and he had to call Jiang Qinqin to save the scene. Later, the investor withdrew his investment, and he was forced to attract new investment. finally cut out the movie, and it was revealed that the actors in the film were taking drugs. In the end, it was deleted, deleted, and released.
Chen Jianbin in "A Spoon".
In 2014, Chen Jianbin won two awards for Best Actor and Best New Director at the Golden Horse Awards for this film. Coupled with the Best Supporting Actor won for another movie "Paradise in the Army", Chen Jianbin became the first Chinese actor to "connect the three yuan" at the same award ceremony.
At the award ceremony, Chen Jianbin couldn't even prepare for the award. So, he repeated a sentence twice, from the monologue he heard Meng Jinghui on the college campus:
"I've found the secret to loving you, forever as the first time. ”
When he was in school, Chen Jianbin was a rock 'n' roll youth.
He proclaimed himself a group of "Four Outstanding Youths": Meng Jinghui, Jiang Wen, Cui Jian, and Wang Shuo. These four people have influenced him in the fields of theater, film, music, and literature, respectively, and have far-reaching significance.
Jiang Wen led him to the path of an actor, Meng Jinghui took him to the theater stage, his youth was written in Wang Shuo's book, and his shouts were roared in Cui Jian's songs.
After turning forty years old and becoming a father, many people say that Chen Jianbin has changed.
He is no longer obsessed with changing words on the set, and even participated in reality shows. Chen Jianbin himself said: "A serious actor should not participate in reality shows." So I'm not a serious actor, or I've gone from being a serious actor to being a less serious actor. ”
It's just that the rebellious appearance has been infiltrated to mild by age, but the core of rebellion still seems to have not changed.
In 2018, Chen Jianbin wrote, directed and acted in a movie again, and at first, he named the movie "If You Smell It".
The story is about a social incident 30 years ago: a couple of men and women cheated on the back of a tractor, and the tractor driver was the woman's original husband.
Hu Quentin, director of the Municipal Repertory Theatre, wants to adapt this old incident into a stage play, and the party in the original case, Ma Fuli, has a life that has finally calmed down after being released from prison, and he wants to overturn the case for himself.
Chen Jianbin mixed a lot of selfishness in this film, pouring out all his love for drama.
The actor's name projects his maniacal love for drama. Jia Meiyi corresponds to "Aunt May" Meryl Streep, and director Quentin Hu corresponds to Quentin Tarantino. Chen Jianbin played Ma Fuli in the movie, and he also played Mavolio in the undergraduate graduation drama "Twelfth Night".
Chen Jianbin told about his feelings in the movie in a previous interview: "I just want to say out loud my views on the world, even if your judgment may be a little biased, a little naïve, it doesn't matter, that's the reason why I am who I am, that's the most important reason why I exist in this world." ”
The movie was filmed and changed, and Chen Jianbin recalled in the future that he was revising the script almost every day, until the final cut, Chen Jianbin suddenly thought of narrating the story in the form of chapter hui.
He called a friend overnight and wrote ten chapters. At that moment, he decided to change the name of the movie to "The Eleventh".
"There are only ten episodes in this movie, and it's like a prologue to a drama. When the prologue ends, the lights are turned on, and each audience walks out of the theater, the eleventh episode that belongs to him (her) really begins. ”
Stills from the movie "The Eleventh".
Chen Jianbin and Zhou Xun
In 2021, the film was finally released after going through a lot of censorship.
According to speculation, the cost can only be recovered when the box office reaches 200 million, but the final box office is only more than 7,000 yuan, which can be called dismal.
On a film review platform, netizens commented on this movie: The style of the stage play is too obvious, the desire for expression is extremely strong, and the lines are dropped in the style of a book bag. This is a very academic Chen Jianbin author's movie, but it doesn't really consider the audience's viewing experience.
During the film's release, Chen Jianbin published a poem online. He writes:
I've never felt like myself / So much like a poet / It's a shame / Or a glory / A million roses / Wear on your chest / A wounded apple / Hold it in your hand......
If you ask him if he regrets such an expression, the answer is already known.