The period drama "The Age of Awakening", which tells the ideals and struggles of the revolutionary ancestors, not only received a very high reputation after broadcasting, but also aroused strong resonance among many people.
Those historical figures that were originally solidified have faded the "mythical" color and are no longer the stereotypes of the past, such as the young Zhou Enlai in the play, which is not only the gentleness and elegance that has always been recognized, but also the bloody side of the revolutionary youth.
Counting carefully, from the first appearance of Zhou Enlai's image in the 1978 movie "The Great River Rushing", dozens of actors have played this role in more than 40 years.
Among all the actors who have played Zhou Enlai so far, people are undoubtedly most familiar with Wang Tiecheng and Liu Jin.
From 1978 to 2003, Wang Tiecheng spent almost all his energy in his career as an actor to interpret the prime minister, and later won the golden rooster award for film emperor, which is absolutely deserved.
Liu Jin is the actor who has played Zhou Enlai the most times, since 1995, he has played the premier in different periods, and in his view, to play such a character is not only perseverance, pressure, but also a responsibility.
But there has long been a great debate about the question of "who plays Premier Zhou Enlai more like the two."
In Pi Ge's view, Wang Tiecheng and Liu Jin have their own advantages, and both of them have accurately captured a certain aspect of the premier and vividly interpreted it -
First, Wang Tiecheng's version of Zhou Enlai
As the first generation of "premiers" on the big screen, Wang Tiecheng is a rare one who has "both form and god".
In that era when special actors were selected based on the criterion of "similarity", Wang Tiecheng's similarity to the prime minister in appearance was an advantage that others could not match.
But if it is only similar in appearance, Wang Tiecheng will definitely not reach the height of the future.
In order to achieve a "god-like" that is more difficult than the shape, he spends almost all the time after tea and dinner practicing and figuring out how to shape this role.
Repeatedly observe the prime minister's video data, imitate the prime minister's walking posture, practice the intonation and pronunciation of the prime minister's speech word by word, and taste the prime minister's emotional pulse.
This unremitting effort and subtle perception of the premier's deep soul are the fundamental reasons why Wang Tiecheng has been able to conquer countless audiences.
From the first "Great River Rushing" to the later "Li Siguang", "Xi'an Incident", "Wind and Rain Under The Bell Mountain", Wang Tiecheng in the 1980s and 1990s was almost synonymous with Zhou Enlai.
But the film that really established Wang Tiecheng's performance status and was well known to hundreds of millions of viewers was "Zhou Enlai" in 1992.
Not the spirit of the revolutionary period, nor the brilliance of diplomacy, the film focuses on the extremely difficult last decade of the prime minister's life.
The prime minister, who was at the center of various contradictions and whirlpools, had extremely complex inner changes and mental states during this period, all of which were magically manipulated by Wang Tiecheng.
At He Long's memorial service, Zhou Enlai's lips trembled in the face of the departure of his old friend, and the old tears flowed, making the viewers feel uncomfortable from the bottom of their hearts.
Dragging the heavy sick body to the meeting, he took a steady step in thunderous applause, but hidden under his determined eyes was exhausted by the pain of illness.
Even at the time of his death, his face was sallow and gossamer, and he was still worried about the official business that had been handled, and his face was full of worry, which made people extremely distressed.
The wonderful thing about Wang Tiecheng's performance is that he does not fix himself in a performance model, but goes into the heart of the character and restores the image of the prime minister to a documentary-like height.
It is also this kind of "realistic" performance, when "Zhou Enlai" was released that year, many people cried in the theater into tears.
Even When Deng Yingchao watched the movie, he couldn't help but lean forward, and after watching it, he praised it one after another.
Second, Liu Jin's version of Zhou Enlai
Unlike Wang Tiecheng, Liu Jin is not a special actor, in addition to Zhou Enlai, he has also played many other roles, like Zhang Xueliang in "The Song Dynasty".
In 1995, a sentence by Wang Xizhong, a famous makeup artist at The North Film Studio, changed his acting career.
Wang Xizhong told him that your appearance can not only play Zhang Xueliang, but also zhou Enlai.
In this way, Liu Jin, who had just finished playing Zhang Xueliang, played Zhou Enlai for the first time in "Zunyi Conference".
Compared with Wang Tiecheng, Liu Jin, who is not superior in appearance, pays more attention to the "god-like" shaping of the inner level of the character.
Among the many works starring Liu Jin, what impressed Pige very deeply was a scene in the movie "August 1st" in which Deng Yingchao bid farewell to Zhou Enlai.
When Zhou Enlai learned the news that Deng Yingchao could no longer have children, Zhou Enlai's hand that was comforting Deng Yingchao suddenly paused, and tears slowly began to appear in his eyes.
At this moment, his tone was a little trembling, but he said with great determination, "As long as the revolution has a future, why should you and I have no future?" ”
We were touched by Zhou Enlai's pride and belief in the revolution, but from the tears on his face, we clearly saw the unspeakable pain and sorrow in his heart.
Liu Jin really integrated the spirit of the premier into his bones, and he expressed the image of the premier in rich and delicate details so that the image was no longer flat, so that the audience forgot the difference in the image and focused on the transmission of inner emotions.
In "Zhou En's Return to Yan'an", when the premier saw that the people in the old revolutionary areas still had not enough to eat and suffered from hunger, the feelings that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly spewed out, and the tears could not help but flow.
What he interpreted was not only Zhou Enlai as a "great man", but also Zhou Enlai as a "man".
For Liu Jin, the premier has brought him not only the glory and glory on the road of film and television, but also the premier's living habits, ways of talking and dealing with people, etc. have long penetrated into his life.
He also named his daughter "Lai'en" to express his gratitude and respect for the prime minister: without the prime minister, there would be no such thing as an actor today.
Just like Liu Jin said, he reproduced Zhou Enlai, and Zhou Enlai is constantly shaping his life.
Playing the role of prime minister for a lifetime can make your performance penetrate deep into the hearts of the audience and be recognized by the audience, then these decades of actor career are not in vain.
In general, Wang Tiecheng and Liu Jin pay attention to the high degree of restoration of the documentary style, and the other deeply interpret the inner truth of the great man in the form of artistic processing, and the performances of the two together constitute a full image and complete Premier Zhou.
Their performances cannot distinguish between high and low, and they are all using spirit and flesh to try to reborn the image of the prime minister on the big screen.
Paying tribute to the two actors, it is precisely because of their interpretation that the image of the prime minister can be admired and recognized by more people in film and television works!
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Ah Zhi
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