Li Baotian is a very respected old actor by the audience, he not only has superb acting skills, but also noble artistic virtues.
has insisted on not accepting advertisements or bad movies for decades, thinking about everything for the work and thinking about the audience.
But few people know that Li Baotian owes his family the most in his life.
He ran away from home when he was a teenager and did not return home for 6 years, until his father died, he repented and was full of guilt for his father.
When talking about his mother, he was even more tearful, saying that he had never hugged his mother, kissed his mother, and did not kiss his mother's urn until his mother died.
But Li Baotian's biggest regret is his younger brother who died young, even if decades have passed now, he still can't let go, and he still insists on doing what his brother likes.
And he insisted that he himself was responsible for his brother's death.
It is said that character determines fate, and this sentence is very suitable for Li Baotian.
He has a strange temper, and he is a bit different in the world, and he is destined to be unable to reconcile with himself.
Even though he is 78 years old now, he is still like a hard and sharp stone, hurting others and hurting himself.
Even his own son has suffered a lot from him.
01
Li Baotian was born in 1946 in a cadre family in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, he is the eldest son in the family, and his father has high hopes for him.
Hopefully, he will become the first college student in his family and be a good role model for his younger siblings.
But who knows, Li Baotian was dark, thin and dry when he was a child, and his temper was also stinky and hard, and when he got angry, he could not talk to his family for a week.
And most of the time, the family can't figure out why he is angry, and the angry father just wants to whip him with a belt.
When he was about eleven or twelve years old, Li Baotian fell in love with opera, and always fantasized that he could become an opera actor and stand on the stage and sing big operas.
Because of this incident, the relationship between him and his father was very stiff, and the two could not eat at the same table, and they quarreled as soon as they ate.
When he was 14 years old, Li Baotian quarreled with his father again, and his father was angry and said cruel words:
"If you go to learn to sing, I will cut off the relationship with you, and you can go wherever you like. ”
At that time, Li Baotian was also ambitious, and he was so excited by his father that he really ran away from home.
His mother didn't close his eyes for three days and three nights, and his father looked for him for months.
However, he disappeared without a trace, and has not been heard from since.
In fact, Li Baotian did not go far, he followed a Bangzi troupe in Xuzhou, and followed the troupe to perform while learning art in the countryside.
And he still learns the extremely difficult harlequin.
In that era of lack of food and clothing, life in the troupe was even more difficult, Li Baotian had to practice and grow his body, and his nutrition couldn't keep up at all.
Over time, his body finally couldn't hold up anymore and he contracted typhoid fever.
If you put it now, this is not a problem at all, but at that time, it was a very serious disease.
He had a high fever that did not go away, and he had a fever for more than half a month, and finally the people in the troupe sent him to the hospital in the city.
And find a way to contact his mother.
At this time, Li Baotian had been away from home for 4 years.
02
Li Baotian woke up in the hospital bed with a hanging bottle, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw his mother, and his mother didn't blame him, but just told him,
My father was also sick and was also admitted to this hospital, in the innermost ward.
Li Baotian's heart was a little apprehensive, four years, this is the closest moment he has to his father, only a few hundred steps, the father and son can meet,
But the father and son turned out to be a temper, no one was willing to bow their heads first, Li Baotian didn't go to see his father, and his father didn't come to see him.
Until one day, Li Baotian fell asleep while playing the hanging bottle, and in a daze, he felt that someone was moving his somewhat numb arm.
When he opened his eyes, he found that it was his father who was wearing a hospital gown and a military coat.
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"Just make an uproar, and the little thing about our grandfather will be completely resolved. ”
But even so, neither of them refused to speak softly, and Li Baotian did not go home after he recovered from his illness, but returned to the troupe to continue singing.
His mother didn't tell him that his father was very sick.
Two years later, Li Baotian suddenly received the news of his father's death, and his mother asked him to go home to see his father on his last journey.
It was only at this time that the 20-year-old Li Baotian realized what he had lost, and his heart was full of guilt.
As the eldest son in the family, Li Baotian decided to take over the burden on his father's shoulders, and he assured his deceased father that he would take good care of his mother and younger siblings.
Let them live happily.
In order to facilitate the care of the family, Li Baotian transferred to the art troupe in Xuzhou and began to sing and dance on the stage.
At this time, a cadre from Beijing came to the art troupe, and he gave Li Baotian a book on performance theory.
Li Baotian was addicted to it at once, and his mind suddenly opened up, he finally knew what he wanted.
Since then, Li Baotian has "stolen" books from the library of the art troupe, read Chinese and foreign drama masterpieces all over again, and when he encounters good books, he simply does not return them.
And he also bought a mosquito net, and studied in it every night, on this kind of "swallowing dates" learning method, Li Baotian has studied for more than ten years.
This shows how much he loves drama.
In 1977, the college entrance examination resumed, and Li Baotian, who was already 31 years old, also had the idea of applying for the Central Academy of Drama, but the people around him looked at him with a playful eye.
thinks that with his cultural level, it is simply a fool's dream to want to go to university.
However, what Li Baotian doesn't care about the most is the eyes of others, after a year of hard review, in the second year, he was really admitted to Chinese opera.
In 1981, 35-year-old Li Baotian graduated from Chinese opera, and because of his excellent grades, he also obtained the qualification to stay in school to teach and became a teacher of Chinese opera.
But what made him helpless was that the art troupe refused to let him go, and also detained his household registration, resulting in him being unable to become a regular and could only work as a temporary worker in Chinese opera.
Because his income was too meager, he often accepted help from his mother, which made him feel sad, so he also began to take over film and television dramas.
officially debuted as a harlequin artist in the movie "Breaking the Rivers and Lakes".
But at this time, bad luck befell Li Baotian's house again, and this incident also became a knot that he would be difficult to unravel for the rest of his life.
03
Li Baotian's youngest brother is a very talented painter, and once, he went to Xinjiang to sketch.
In order to save money on train tickets, he took someone else's ride, but on the way, the driver fell asleep because he was too tired.
A car accident made his younger brother the only victim.
When the bad news came, Li Baotian's heart hurt beyond measure, he blamed himself very much, and thought that it was all his fault, he reflected on himself:
"If I had a few spare money, he could have taken the train and wouldn't have died. ”
The death of his younger brother made Li Baotian blame himself for a lifetime, and his younger brother's favorite thing was painting, so he imposed his younger brother's dream on himself.
Forced himself to learn to draw and do what his brother wanted to do.
But these are all later words, what Li Baotian was most worried about at that time was that he didn't know how to tell his mother,
In the end, seeing that he couldn't hide it, Li Baotian called several doctors in his mother's hospital and was ready to rescue his mother at any time.
However, when he was stumbling and racking his brains to think of words, his mother said very calmly:
"Did something happen to your brother, I guessed. ”
After saying that, the mother also personally sent several colleagues out of the house and told them that she was fine, but as soon as she returned home, she locked herself in her room.
What makes Li Baotian unforgettable for life is that his mother didn't shed a single tear, but Li Baotian could feel that his mother's heart was dripping blood.
Li Baotian's mother is a doctor and a cadre in the hospital, and her personality is also very strong, and she never asks for help in her life.
Even when it was the work of her children, she didn't open the back door.
After retiring, her mother refused to live with Li Baotian's family and insisted on living alone.
She would push Li Baotian away very hard.
Later, after the death of my mother, the city government and the hospital sent a banner with four big characters written on it: "Life is innocent".
Li Baotian hugged his mother's body and kissed her cheek, and after his mother was cremated, he kissed her several times on the urn.
Li Baotian knows that his mother does not love him, but is not good at expressing feelings, and every time he talks about his mother, Li Baotian will sigh:
"You are so blessed to live in this day and age. ”
But in many cases, how to think and how to do it are completely different things, when educating his son Li Yu, Li Baotian also unconsciously followed the old path of his parents.
When his son Li Yu grows up, he also wants to become an actor, but Li Baotian wants him to learn to paint, because of this incident, the father and son are also very stiff.
In order to prevent his son from running away from home like him, he reluctantly made some compromises.
Since 1994, Li Yu began to be admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, Li Baotian is a professor of Chinese opera, and it is not a matter of words to let his son go to school.
But he had to stick to his principles and refused to open the back door for his son, until 2000, Li Yu took the exam four times before he was admitted.
Every time he talked about it, Li Yu was full of mixed feelings, helpless and proud.
In September 2009, Li Yu got married, Li Baotian was filming in other places, and his son called him to come back to attend the wedding.
The people in the crew also persuaded him to go back, and specially arranged a vacation for him, but he stared at him and said angrily:
"Which is more important, my son's marriage and the crew's filming? My son is not sensible, are you not sensible?"
The people in the crew were stunned, although they had heard of some of his deeds, but they still thought that his temper was so weird.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this is impersonal.
04
Li Baotian has an eccentric temper, and the most famous thing is his relationship with Zhang Guoli and Wang Gang.
In 1996, the TV series "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" starring these three people became popular all over the country, which also became the representative work of the three people.
With this drama alone, three people are enough for a lifetime.
Because the audience's response was too enthusiastic, the investor wanted to shoot the second part while the iron was hot, Zhang Guoli and Wang Gang both raised their hands in favor.
But Li Baotian was the only one who voted against, because in his opinion, the story of Liu Luoguo has been told, and the reenactment will be meaningless.
And the script of the second part is also very hasty, and it can't pass his eyes at all.
Since then, Li Baotian has never cooperated with Wang Gang and Zhang Guoli, and in an interview, he even admitted frankly:
"Some people can't work together anymore. ”
When asked the reason, Li Baotian didn't say much, only said that it was because of incompatible personalities.
Later, after this matter was hyped, many people mistakenly thought that the relationship between the three was not good, but in fact, it was not.
It's just that Li Baotian himself thinks that the three of them are no longer suitable for cooperation.
Li Baotian's "incomprehensible world" is far more than that, because of his toughness, he was almost banned.
When filming "The Minister", Li Baotian negotiated with the producer and signed a contract, filming a total of 30 episodes.
But after the filming, in order to make more money, the producer cut out 3 more episodes, and Li Baotian also got 3 more episodes.
But this kind of "good thing" annoyed Li Baotian, who believes that this is "injecting water" into his work and deceiving the audience.
So he took the contract and directly sued the other party in court, and finally won.
Li Baotian's move can be said to have moved the cake of the entire entertainment industry, and the producer has joined forces with 10 companies to ban Li Baotian.
and said that he was a "drama bully".
In this regard, Li Baotian also has his own opinion, he said:
"I'm a drama bully, what's wrong, I'm for the quality of the play, whatever they say. ”
But the facts have proved that the audience's eyes are bright, and Li Baotian cannot be blocked with just a few companies.
After this incident, there are still many people who are willing to ask him to film, but because of the script, he has been in a semi-retired state.
In the past ten years, there have been very few plays.
In 2020, 74-year-old Li Baotian won the China TV Golden Eagle Award for Lifetime Achievement TV Artist Award.
When he took the stage to accept the award, all the actors in the audience consciously stood up and sent their highest respect.
Li Baotian said:
"Over the years, there have been fewer services for everyone, not because there are fewer opportunities, but because there are fewer roles I like. ”
Although he has long passed the age of not exceeding the norm, his temper has not changed much, and he still speaks straightforwardly, not thinking much about other people's thoughts.
But fortunately, he has been frank all his life, and others really can't grasp what tricks he has, perhaps, this is his confidence.
Li Baotian's son Li Yu is also an actor, but his fame is far inferior to him, and he also made a clear relationship with his son early.
He will not allow his son to borrow his fame, and he will not help his son go through the back door and introduce him to resources.
When talking about this matter, Li Baotian thought that this was his "incompetence", because he really couldn't open his mouth and didn't want to be the person he hated.
In this regard, Li Baotian really did what he wanted and did not exceed the rules.
Occasionally, his son Li Yu would run to his house to report his situation to everyone, and when someone asked, what was Li Baotian busy with now,
Li Yu said:
"The old man has four things now, reading, painting, drinking tea, and walking the dog. ”
In his small room, except for a desk for painting, there are books all around, because the place is too small, it looks very messy.
There is also a very shabby sofa under the bookcase, and it is hard to imagine that this could be the home of an old artist.
Li Baotian's life, his achievements in art can be said to be the peak, and there are very few people who can compare with him, which proves the sentence "If you don't go crazy, you can't live".
But his family affection is bleeding and crying, even though he is now 78 years old, he still insists on painting and insisting on doing what his brother likes to do.
Maybe he also knows in his heart that his brother's death is actually a "natural and man-made disaster", but his stubbornness and persistence are unwilling to let go of himself.
Such a temper and character not only made him, but also made him lose a lot.
I hope that in the days to come, this old drama bone can be in good health like Teacher You Benchang and bring more surprises to everyone.