Recently, Li Chengru's first video column program, "Drama Confucian Life", was launched exclusively.
Li Chengru, in the eyes of many people, is a very alternative "actor".
In 1982, CCTV was preparing to shoot "Journey to the West", and 28-year-old Li Chengru, because he had studied in his spare time and had also acted in dramas, found the director Yang Jie, and Mao Sui volunteered to play a Tang monk.
At that time, Li Chengru was very thin and amateur, so director Yang Jie did not agree, but looking at his cleverness, he let him record it on the spot in the crew.
In the following years, he became the busiest person in the "Journey to the West" crew, and many difficult scenes and props were completed by him, such as when filming the "WuzhuangGuan", the ginseng fruit tree was found by him.
So, he ended up doing the drama business.
Thanks to the "exercise" in the crew, after the end of the play, he did not enter the show business circle, but entered the business world, and quickly gained huge wealth.
In addition to business, he has also starred in some film and television dramas, such as: cameo appearance in "The Story of the Editorial Department", starred in the movie "Big Shot", in which the line of more than one minute has also become one of the classic shots of film and television.
I have to say that his acting skills are very good and his vision is also very unique.
In the first two years of the very popular variety show "Actors Please Take Place", he accidentally relied on sharp reviews and caught fire.
In the face of mutual praise, but childish and distorted performances, Li Chengru did not "get used to it", but chose to tear down this fig leaf in public.
His popularity is exactly to show that the entertainment industry needs to say the truth.
And the audience also likes such people who dare to tell the truth.
Nowadays, as soon as the first issue of "Drama Confucian Life" was launched, it was recognized by many audiences.
In fact, this is not surprising.
Because here, he still maintains the style he dares to say, and uses the most authentic state to talk to everyone about the changes in the entertainment industry in the past thirty years.
The program time of "Drama Confucian Life" is not long, only less than ten minutes.
But there is a lot of content and a lot of information.
The first issue alone gives us three perspectives.
1. From the classic love film and television works, see "What is love"
He took Zhao Baogang's "Addiction" as an example and called it an "immortal work".
In the program, he also hummed a few ending songs sung by Liu Huan - "Confused Love".
"Over the Addiction" tells the story of Fang Yu and Du Mei, like all lovers, who experienced an unforgettable love in a noisy and then compound separation.
The plot of just eight episodes can make you continue to believe in love after watching it.
As Li Chengru said, this drama can let you see what is the essence of love?
It's mutual respect, it's mutual tolerance, it's also like-mindedness.
Even now, you can still find resonance in it, which is where director Zhao Baogang is strong, and can accurately grasp the pulse of the times.
Therefore, there are many classic love works of Zhao Baogang, such as "Snowless Winter", "East Sunrise and West Rain", "Like Fog Like Rain and Like Wind" and so on.
Because you can find the most essential thing of love, you naturally have a direction to dig, and the love stories of these works are real and touching.
In comparison, he believes that Qiong Yao's love story is a little "light" and does not attract him.
For example, her masterpiece "Wan Jun", Li Chengru said unceremoniously: "It is far from my real life."
The same is true of "Sweet Honey", although it affirms Maggie Cheung's acting skills.
But for Li Chengru, these lack a lot of precipitation and resonance, and naturally there is a lot less recognition.
2. Campus love culture is "not advisable"
Li Chengru rarely agrees with the "youth love" film.
For the "campus love culture", it is even more used as a comment " do not use cheap brushstrokes to cause cheap resonance" as a comment.
In his view, the so-called campus love is a part of life that everyone must experience, and it is part of growth.
And this experience should be packed in the heart, not touching is the best.
On campus, the biggest responsibility of students is to learn, which is a choice about a person's future, and all the energy should be focused on learning.
He even used his own experience as an example, "Tong Zi Gong, you are going to eat for a lifetime!" ”
Indeed, there are too many love idol dramas and school dramas without quality, which bring a lot of bad influences to teenagers.
Although it is a criticism of the love culture of the film and television campus, to a certain extent, it also shows his attitude towards some so-called domestic idol dramas.
3. The "unhealthy wind" in the showbiz circle
And such "unhealthy winds" also appear in the show business circle.
Li Chengru said that in the past, old actors needed to discuss and correct filming, and a line was often said dozens of times.
But now a lot of young actors, this is not the case.
On the contrary, several actors in a play are "independent".
Encounter "traffic actors", and even use most of the crew to serve them, once they encounter the "old man's" college entrance examination, the crew has to stop work for several months to wait for his college entrance examination to end.
It seems that the show business circle began to focus only on traffic and data, and no longer cared about the quality of the work.
A director does not dare to correct and teach actors how to act, because they are "selling points".
All this is very "magical" and very strange in Li Chengru's view.
In fact, many old drama bones have criticized such chaos, such as Chen Daoming, Jackie Chan, Wang Jinsong and so on.
If an actor can't put his career right, then it's only a matter of time before he dies.
Although the program of "Drama Confucian Life" is not long, every point of view thrown out is very powerful.
Some people say that this is a "poisonous tongue", but I just think that this is a kind of "sobriety", and he uses his attitude to speak out the voice of most people.
I believe that such a program will definitely give the audience more thinking.
At the end of the show, Li Chengru also recommended a classic love movie - "The Story of Liubao".
This is a very romantic and revolutionary heroism film, very educational.
And that classic song "Nine Nine Sunny Days" is from this movie.
I believe that in "The Story of LiuBao", we can confirm Li Chengru's views today!
As a "treasure" program, "Drama Confucian Life" will certainly be able to give us more surprises in the follow-up, and we also expect Li Chengru to continue to carry forward the style and break bigger news!
(Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Board: Ann An)