An 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has made generations of people remember, mention "Dream of the Red Chamber", I believe that what comes to mind is every face in the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Each character is vivid, each character is three-dimensional and plump, Jia Baoyu who "faces like the mid-autumn moon, the color is like the flower of spring dawn", Lin Daiyu who is "dotted with tears, delicate and slightly breathless", Xue Baochao who "has red lips without dots, eyebrows without painting, face like silver basins, eyes like water apricots", Wang Xifeng who "has a pair of Danfeng triangular eyes, two curved willow leaves hanging eyebrows"...
Each character is like coming out of the book, satisfying our imagination of all the characters in "Dream of the Red Chamber".
I had a preconceived impression of the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and then I watched Li Shaohong's "Dream of the Red Chamber", which was really unbearable.
Li Shaohong's "Dream of the Red Chamber", all the characters are similar, and sometimes it is impossible to tell which role it is. The new version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", whether it is makeup, clothing, pictures, songs, can not be compared with the 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
The reason why the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is so successful has a great relationship with director Wang Fulin.
At that time, Wang Fulin used the method of national audition to select actors. He wants to choose the actor who best fits the image in the book from the vast sea of people.
For director Wang Fulin, the most important thing in choosing an actor is like, whether he will act or not, is secondary.
Thus began a huge casting campaign.
The casting director went to various places to select actors in three ways. For casting actors, although director Wang Fulin has no specific requirements, there is no requirement, higher, they travel to every city to select the actors suitable for Jia Fu.
At the same time, the crew in Beijing also received letters from all over the country, as well as self-recommended visits, Wang Fulin specially let Wang Gui'e be responsible for the receipt, sending, reading, and reception of letters, and finding suitable actors from them.
After several months of selection, the performance videos of the actors were successively sent back to Beijing, Zhang Li, Yuan Mei, Shen Lin, Deng Jie, Zhou Yue... These actors were selected by the director's group.
After that, the director team put these actors who could be shortlisted, got a file, discussed and studied, of course, there are still suitable actors, one after another into the director's sight.
After that, the director group informed the selected actors to come to Beijing to carry out red study training classes and concentrate on training.
In March 1984, all the actors selected by the Red Chamber crew came to the guest house in Beijing's Nancaiyuan to report.
Yuan Mei came early, and after she settled in, other actors also came to the guest house one after another.
That day, someone said, "Yuan Mei, look, there is an actor." Yuan Mei looked back and saw a girl walk in, she was stunned, and felt a kind of shocking beauty.
She thought to herself, how can there be such a beautiful person in the world? This kind of beauty, indescribable, is a kind of fairy beauty, a kind of otherworldly beauty, a kind of beauty that does not stick to any worldliness.
This person is Chen Xiaoxu.
At that time, Chen Xiaoxu was wearing a black tweed jacket, Tang costume, skin was particularly white, eyebrows were picturesque, ice was clean and jade, and he was wearing a single braid, like an "ice beauty".
Although Yuan Mei was "five golden flowers" before and was very confident in her appearance, this moment still made her feel ashamed of herself.
In this way, Chen Xiaoxu and Yuan Mei met, the two lived in a room, and began a friendship that lasted for nearly twenty years.
When I first entered the crew, the actors did not have specific roles. First learn the original work, and then do the sketch, in the study and performance, the director thinks which role you are suitable for, will position the candidate, and then through the sketch again and again, the performance, from which to choose the most suitable actor for the role.
For most actors, it is already a very fortunate thing to be able to enter the Red Chamber crew, as for which role to play, everything depends on the director's arrangement.
Just like Yuan Mei, who was previously a candidate for Xue Baochao, and later set as a Mandarin Duck, when it came to booting, she became an attacker again.
Only Chen Xiaoxu was different.
Chen Xiaoxu entered the crew just to play Lin Daiyu. She has been familiar with "Dream of the Red Chamber" since she was a child, and her favorite is Lin Daiyu.
When she was selected by the crew, the first question she asked was, who played Lin Daiyu? After entering the crew, Chen Xiaoxu and Zhang Jinglin, Zhang Lei, Hu Zehong, Shen Lu, etc. became candidates for Daiyu.
On appearance, Chen Xiaoxu is not particularly prominent among these beautiful women, but in terms of temperament, she is the most consistent.
Director Wang Fulin is also entangled, zhang lei and Zhang Jinglin's appearance, in line with the image of Daiyu in the book, but Chen Xiaoxu's poetic temperament is unparalleled.
Wang Fulin tried to ask Chen Xiaoxu which role she would choose if she did not play Lin Daiyu? Chen Xiaoxu's answer made Wang Fulin look at him with astonishment.
Chen Xiaoxu said, I am Lin Daiyu, if I go to play another role, the audience will feel that Lin Daiyu is playing another person.
Chen Xiaoxu's categorical answer allowed Wang Fulin to see Lin Daiyu's shadow, and in the end, Chen Xiaoxu played Lin Daiyu as he wished.
Although in the heart of director Wang Fulin, Chen Xiaoxu should be more beautiful. But, that's also comparative.
At that time, Deng Jie was also shocked by Chen Xiaoxu's appearance. When I first met Chen Xiaoxu, Deng Jie, like Yuan Mei, sighed, this girl is so beautiful.
At that time, Deng Jie thought that Chen Xiaoxu could play Lin Daiyu.
Only that year, when the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was broadcast, the public did not recognize the "Lin Daiyu" played by Chen Xiaoxu.
At that time, in Hangzhou, a special red scholar commented on the roles in the play, and also went to the "People's Daily" as an official report, praising the four characters in the play.
The first, the brilliant Wang Xifeng, the second, Jia Baoyu, the only real male actor in hundreds of years, the third, the virtuous and dignified Xue Baochao, and the fourth, the appropriate flower attack.
As the female number one in the play, Lin Daiyu failed to get official and public certification.
With the passage of time, the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has become a classic, and Lin Daiyu, played by Chen Xiaoxu, has become a classic in the classic, and after Chen Xiaoxu, there is no Lin Daiyu.
Chen Xiaoxu will always be the most beautiful "Lin Sister" in our hearts.