On August 6, 2016, actress Li Meng, who has participated in the filming of the TV series "White Deer Plain" for 2 and a half months and has filmed more than 100 scenes, suddenly received a notice: You are not good at acting, and you are not suitable for the role of "White Spirit".
Three days later, Sun Iridium, a newcomer actor who was still studying at university and a student of Zhang Jiayi, entered the group and replaced Li Meng's position and re-filmed all the scenes of "Bai Ling".
Adapted from Mr. Chen Zhongzhong's original novel, "White Deer Plain" is a long work that reflects the life style of the Guanzhong region in Shaanxi Province.
In order to shoot this TV series, the producer invested hundreds of millions of dollars and invited several old drama bones to present the best effect.
And Li Meng is the "White Spirit" hand-picked by the original author Chen Zhongzhong, and the role even surpasses Tian Xiao'e.
She was suddenly replaced, and this unprecedented news caused a big shock in the film and television circle, and the reason for the change also became an "unsolved mystery".
Some "insiders" said that it was art director Zhang Jiayi who personally called the director late at night to inform the director to replace Li Meng.
So, what exactly makes Zhang Jiayi prefer to reshoot and change people?
It was not until 5 years after the broadcast that the truth of this matter was personally told by Li Meng.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="242" >01, Bai Ling: Li Meng was replaced, and Sun Iridium provoked criticism</h1>
In the 2020 fire TV series "The Hidden Corner", it is Li Meng who plays Zhu Chaoyang's stepmother and Zhu Jingjing's mother "Wang Yao".
When participating in the variety show "I Am an Actor", Li Meng won the affirmation of several directors with the role of "Gong Er"; but Zhang Jizhong turned his words around and mentioned that Li Meng was replaced by the "White Deer Plain" crew that year.
Zhang Jizhong's words were sharp, and there were words in his words: "I heard that you are a more difficult person." ”
On the one hand, Li Chengru also saw that the hilarity was not a big deal, and said: "If it weren't for the turning over the producer and the whole crew, who would easily change the actors!" ”
Hearing this question, Li Meng's eyes turned red almost instantly.
In fact, when filming the film version of "White Deer Plain" in 2011, Li Meng, who was only a freshman in college, was selected to play "White Spirit".
Although Wang Quan'an later deleted her scenes, her performance still left a deep impression on the original author, Chen Zhongzhong.
In 2015, when filming the drama version of "White Deer Plain", Chen Zhongzhong once again selected her to play Bai Ling.
As a result, the fate of Li Meng and "Bai Ling" came to an abrupt end in August 2015, replaced by Sun Iridium, who was still a student.
Regarding the reason for replacing Li Meng, some people say that it is because of "bad acting skills and incompatible concepts", and Li Meng cannot play the feeling of Bai Ling's "White Deer Elf".
Some people also said that Li Meng not only asked for additional drama but also shouted on the set, Zhang Jiayi could not bear it, did not want to delay the entire crew, and replaced her.
There are also rumors that Sun Iridium is a student of Zhang Jiayi, with his back to a big tree to cool off, and Zhang Jiayi's replacement of Li Meng is purely to pave the way for Sun Iridium.
For whatever reason, this was the second time that Li Meng had lost touch with Bai Ling.
Six years later, on the scene of the variety show, Li Meng only answered Zhang Jizhong and Li Chengru's sharp questions with a sentence of "I am a person with a flawed personality".
"White Deer Plain" is Li Meng's blessing, but also her sadness.
Li Meng said: "I am grateful for "White Deer Plain", but I will never make "White Deer Plain" again in my life. ”
And Sun Iridium, who played instead of Li Meng, did not perform Bai Ling's "spirit", but was evaluated by netizens as "acting like a fool".
"White Deer Plain", which started with a score of 9.2, dropped to 9 points after Sun Iridium's "White Spirit" appeared, and later reached 8.8 points.
The comments section's doubts about Sun Iridium are also endless.
Zhang Jiayishe Li Mengliu Sun Iridium, not only the final shooting effect is not good, but also provoked several years of criticism, but also made a "loss-making deal".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="241" >02, Zhang Jiayi: Neiding Bai Jiaxuan</h1>
Because of the change of role, Zhang Jiayi has been questioned many times about the unspoken rules.
However, if anyone wants to make "White Deer Plain" the most, Zhang Jiayi must be one of them.
The other is director Liu Jin.
Liu Jin, like Zhang Jiayi, is a native of Shaanxi and has deep feelings for "White Deer Plain".
But when the drama side found Liu Jin to direct, he refused: he was afraid of being sorry for his hometown father and elder. The last to convince him were the chief producers Li Xiaobiao and Zhang Jiayi.
Li Xiaobiao said: "You can't shoot if you don't shoot, this drama doesn't have you, and there will be others to shoot after all." But such a good work has crossed out in front of your eyes, and you think that such words are worthy of yourself, worthy of our family? ”
Zhang Jiayi not only told Liu Jin that "the script is very good", but also took the initiative to ask for help, wanting to play the male protagonist "Bai Jiaxuan".
With Zhang Jiayi's "needle of fixing the sea god", Liu Jin finally took over this play.
In order to present the final effect, Zhang Jiayi personally served as the artistic director and personally set the actors, which shows his importance to this play.
In fact, Zhang Jiayi took over the role of "Bai Jiaxuan", and he was also criticized.
Because of Bai Jiaxuan in the novel, his back has always been straight, until he was broken by Heiwa.
Zhang Jiayi, because of his injury, could not completely restore Bai Jiaxuan's "straight waist", which is a little regret of the drama version. But he completely made up for this with his acting expertise, which can also be regarded as flawed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="239" >03, Qin Hailu, He Bing: XianCao and Lu Zilin</h1>
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A "White Deer Plain" made He Bing and Qin Hailu catch fire again.
Some people even commented on He Bing: "The "White Deer Plain" that Zhang Jiayi watched, the result was amazing to He Bing. ”
As an "old drama bone", He Bing's acting skills are unquestionable.
What's more, his interpretation of Lu Zilin makes this role more vivid and complete. Lu Zilin in the original work is bad and selfish and lustful.
And Lu Zilin, played by He Bing, is not a pure bad person, he is sleek and timid, selfish and loves face, but he also has cute and kind moments.
Every shot, every detail, every line seems to have been carefully polished by He Bing, and it seems that a living Deer Zilin is standing in front of you.
No wonder some people say that He Bing is "reincarnated acting".
What about Qin Hailu?
In the play, as Bai Jiaxuan's wife "Wu Xiancao", she is the representative of the traditional women in the original.
She is tenacious, simple, hardworking, living for her husband, living for her children.
Unlike Bai Ling or Tian Xiao'e, she can easily cause a topic, but she has always existed silently. But because of this, the fairy grass is not easy to act.
Fear of being overwhelmed by the crowd, afraid of being ignored. Fortunately, it is Qin Hailu; her acting skills can be blown with her eyes closed.
At the age of 23, she became the double film queen of the Hong Kong Academy Awards and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards with a "Durian Fluttering".
But after that, she "did not do the right thing", ran to work as a white-collar worker, opened a shop, started a business... Tried a lap, failed a lap, and finally returned to acting.
When he played the role of "Immortal Grass", Qin Hailu gave birth shortly after.
In order to make the effect more realistic, the director asked them to enter the group in advance and go to Shaanxi to experience life. Men go to cut wheat, women and face weaving.
Some newcomer actors need guidance, and Qin Hailu opened a "newcomer class" in the crew to take everyone to the scene and line.
After a scene was filmed, she lost 40 pounds.
Qin Hailu, like Xian Cao, does not have a specific "shape", but she is a "childcare".
Xian Cao supported Bai Jiaxuan; Qin Hailu supported Zhang Jiayi.
And He Bing, and Zhang Jiayi achieved mutual achievements, becoming the most classic "Bai Jiaxuan" and "Lu Zilin".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="238" >05, Tian Xiao'e: Li Qin, who is cold and stubborn, why did she become Tian Xiao'e? </h1>
Liu Jin said in an interview at the beginning of the interview, when talking about casting: "Tian Xiao'e should be extremely plump. ”
Whether this is the fullness of the body or the fullness of the character, he did not say.
Tian Xiao'e was the first character to be created in Chen Zhongzhong's mind when he conceived "White Deer Plain".
She carried Chen Zhongzhong's pity for the poor women of that era.
Therefore, in "White Deer Plain", the meaning of Tian Xiao'e is not her debauchery, but also her instinctive pursuit of self-awareness.
Before Li Qin starred, many people's impression of "Tian Xiao'e" was still Zhang Yuqi, a big girl in Shandong.
She's beautiful enough, feminine enough, sexy enough.
But what about Li Qin?
Whether it is a personal image, or a birth experience, or a screen image, it has nothing to do with the "ten thousand kinds of styles" for a dime.
Tian Xiao'e is a "rebel on the White Deer Plain" and Li Qin's "rebel" against his own image.
Her appearance is not charming enough, but she has studied Kunqu opera for more than ten years, and the figure of Kunqu Huadan has been integrated into Tian Xiao'e's hands and feet, and the feeling of "style but not windy" immediately came.
There is a scene that requires Tian Xiao'e to bite her fingers.
For this shot, Li Qin and Qin Hailu discussed, bitten the ten fingers over and over again, and finally chose the little thumb, because biting this finger is the sexiest and most moving.
Until now, Uncle Chai felt that this was the best play of Li Qin's acting skills.
Good thing is the breakthrough.
She is not the Tian Xiao'e who best meets the audience's imagination, but her performance breaks through the limitations of appearance.
Tian Xiao'e is somewhere between traditional women and new women.
She is a delicate and debauched aunt, a "fox spirit" who circumvents several men.
But at the same time, she is kind, innocent, and longs for freedom; her fate has always carried a tragic background, and the cold stubbornness of Li Qin's body just blends with this background.
A thousand spectators have a thousand Hamlets.
What do you think of Tian Xiao'e, played by Li Qin?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="237" >05, Zhang Zijun: A new character living in the lines</h1>
Like Li Meng, who missed "White Deer Plain", there was Dong Jie.
Dong Jie plays a new role "Zhang Zijun" added in the drama version of "White Deer Plain", a progressive young woman.
There is a sentence in her poster: "Zhaopeng take me away!" It seems that Zhang Zijun and Lu Zhaopeng have emotional entanglements.
However, in the plot presented in the end, there is no shot of Zhang Zijun, but only in the lines.
"White Deer Plain" originally had 85 episodes, but for a series of reasons, it was removed from the shelves and then re-listed, and it was cut to 77 episodes.
Among these deleted contents, there is the role of Zhang Zijun.
Therefore, we have no way of knowing how this newly added character will end up.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="204" >06, "White Deer Plain" is Mr. Chen Zhongzhong's "pillow coffin work"</h1>
In order to write this book, he spent more than 2 years collecting materials, returning to the country and breaking houses, and writing books for 4 years.
Written from the age of 44 to the age of 50, this book poured all the efforts of Mr. Chen Zhongzhong.
In 1998, "White Deer Plain" won the gold medal of the "Fourth Mao Dun Literature Award".
After that, the rights to the TV series and the film were sold, but it was never filmed.
The film copyright from Wu Tianming, Xie Jin to Zhang Yimou, changed hands several times, and finally fell into the hands of Wang Quan'an, becoming "The Biography of Tian Xiao'e", and even some people will only think of Tian Xiao'e and her men when they think of "White Deer Plain".
In fact, such a large volume of a book, only TV dramas can express the grandeur of it.
The TV series was established for 16 years, costing 230 million yuan and shooting 227 days to complete; but when the drama version of "White Deer Plain" was broadcast, it coincided with the hit of "Ode to Joy 2".
Although the latter plot is protracted and exaggerated, it still crushes "White Deer Plain" in terms of ratings.
This HUGELY INVESTED TV SERIES, WITH RIGOROUS SERVICE AND COMPACT PLOT, CAN BE CALLED A WORK OF CONSCIENCE.
But it is also inevitable to fall into the strange circle of "conscience drama ratings are not as good as topic dramas, and topic drama ratings are not as good as traffic dramas".
However, time will know what a good drama is really worth waiting for.
4 years after the start of broadcasting, "White Deer Plain" still maintains a good reputation, and the traffic dramas that were popular in the ratings of that year have long been unable to remember the plot.
A true drama of conscience will last forever.
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