There has always been a saying in the "jianghu": Only Li Toyota can overpower Liu Huaqiang!
18 years ago, Liu Huaqiang, played by Sun Honglei in the TV series "Conquest", has been talked about by many viewers so far, and he has played the paranoid and fierce play of a triad leader to the fullest, which can be called a classic in the "bad guy".
"Conquest" Sun Honglei as Liu Huaqiang
Until 2017, a web drama "Undocumented Crime" adapted from Zijin Chen's novel of the same name was broadcast, and the real murderer "Snowman" Li Toyota, hidden in layers of fog, appeared, and Liu Huaqiang's bad and fierce can be regarded as an opponent.
"Undocumented Crime" Lee Toyota stills
Ning Li, with his superb acting skills, makes everyone who has watched this drama shudder, so that today, a few years later, many people may not remember the name of the protagonist, but still can't forget brother Li Toyota and his unique skill "reverse smoking".
Lee Toyota's classic action: reverse smoking
In the recent hit "Sweeping Black Storm", Ning Li's appearance also gave enough surprises, "Li Toyota" and "Liu Huaqiang", two "well-known" bad guys, were actually in the same frame!
"Liu Huaqiang" and "Li Toyota"
Although the role of Ning Li in the play is still not heavy, only four episodes appear, but the characters presented are not at all inferior to Sun Honglei, Wang Zhifei, Liu Yijun and other leading actors!
Ning Li, a treasure actor who can play supporting roles more brilliantly than the main characters!
Ning Li
Some people say that Ning Li is a late bloomer, and indeed, although he was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy in 1987, what actually made him famous overnight was the 2017 web drama "Undocumented Crime".
In fact, as early as after Ning Li just graduated, he was assigned to the Shanghai People's Art Theater, debuted as a starring actor, and won many awards. However, everyone has a young and crazy, and he is soon no longer satisfied with the work of the theater. In his own words, it was "not interesting.".
Because the film and television industry in the early 90s was not very prosperous, Ning Li, with the ideal of pursuing a new life, entrusted relatives in the United States to apply for a U.S. visa and began to roam in the United States.
He is not a rich second generation, and he still has to work part-time when he goes to the United States. After trying many jobs such as finance, jewelry identification, second-hand landlords, postmen, etc., I finally went around and found that I still liked my old business the most, so I went to the University of Minnesota to study film production.
In 2007, after graduating from graduate school, Ning Li began to return to China to take up plays, and occasionally went abroad to perform dramas. At this time, China's film industry has already changed compared with the early 1990s. His appearances in "Chinese Peacekeepers" and "The Legend of Bruce Lee" did not stir up too much splash.
But as the saying goes: good food is not afraid of late, good wine is not afraid of aging.
Ning Li finally waited for "Li Toyota"!
A supporting character who only appeared for a minute by the end of episode five, but all the audience remembered him.
The worn-out blue cloth cloth cotton jacket, labor protection shoes, the figure is not big, and the appearance of a poor laborer who is squeezed by life is alive.
Lee Toyota
He went to collect the bill, and the old gold, who was dressed in a large eagle and had a strong body, was like a little chicken boy and accompanied by a smiling face and a cigarette. The "poor laborer" pulled out his cheap "Sun Island", removed the filter, and lit it in turn, and the flames were instantly strung together, illuminating his expressionless face in the darkness.
Lee Toyota: Reverse smoking
There is no line in the whole process, there is no fierce expression, but the chill has already penetrated into the heart of every audience at the moment when the white smoke rises - this is a fierce stubble!
Later, the ashtray was used to smash the little who came to provoke, and the whole process was not particularly cruel, but on the way to pick up the ashtray several times, the mysterious smile that could not help but appear made all the audience shudder in an instant.
After the fight, it was like just finishing a fish, and I casually found a pennant and wiped my hands. Walking outside, I suddenly felt as if there was something in my mouth, and then I took a bite like all normal people spit rice dregs, spitting out half of the ear that was bitten during the fight.
Ning Li said that before playing Li Toyota, in addition to learning the Northeast dialect (even subdivided into Heilongjiang dialect and Jilin dialect), he had communicated with the director that he first had to remove the setting of the role "killer", because no one hired him to commit murder, and all the worst results occurred randomly.
Ning Li grasped this point incomparably accurately!
So what he presents is a very northeastern flavor of an antisocial personality disorder patient. Although Li Toyota is a person, he is actually closer to the beast. When death happens to his own hands, he does not produce various emotions due to excessive stimulation like a normal person, which can be said to be normal in the world of "beasts".
We can see him buying something and pulling out a cute strawberry wallet, and we can also see the owner feed the fish after the crime, and even eat a handful of fish food himself. This is not because of his inner contrast, but precisely because he does not have a "heart as a human", for a "beast", he has no human aesthetic, he only has the beast to fight fiercely and survive.
Ning Li's precise understanding of the character allows us to see a calm, not cool murderer, but the wonderful thing is that it is precisely this calm and indifferent, showing a terrible "inhuman" and pulling the audience's fear to the extreme!
So many people said that after watching "Undocumented Crimes", they all had psychological shadows, even the usual roadside waste collection boss, will not be able to help but make up a few plots, detour.
After that, he seems to have become the royal actor for the purpose of The Adaptation of Zijin Chen's novels, and has starred in "The Hidden Corner" and "The Silent Truth".
"The Silent Truth" Zhang Chao
Another character he has contributed to is the lawyer Zhang Chao in "The Silent Truth".
At the beginning of the play, Ning Li plays a "criminal" who takes the subway with a body after killing people and is arrested by the police at the scene.
The nervousness when walking into the subway station for fear of exposure, the panic after being suspected, the haste when fleeing, the fear when confronting the police... Every eye and body movement is particularly well held.
After his arrest, in the face of interrogation, although he was dressed in prison uniforms, he was not humble, wearing a pair of rimless glasses that showed a very scholarly temperament, and transformed into a well-known scholar and lawyer with knowledge, gentle and elegant - and was unjustly imprisoned, waiting for the court to return his innocence.
The magnitude of the shift is astonishing. Some people may say that this can only show that Ning Li's acting skills are good, but as the character Zhang Chao, a lawyer, should not have such superb acting skills! Therefore, Ning Li's interpretation of Zhang Chao was not in place.
But this is not the case, after watching the whole set, after understanding the whole truth, you know that it is logical.
Ning Li said that he once learned a knowledge point in college, which is still used, to the effect that if what you want to present is 4, then don't give the audience 4 directly, but they watch 2 +2.
This theory is reflected to the extreme in the interpretation of Zhang Chao's role.
Ning Li himself also made no secret of his love for this "little supporting character" in the whole story.
"The Silent Truth" Zhang Chao
Zhang Chao does not have the great sense of mission and sacrifice of the protagonist, he is actually more like most people, when encountering injustice, it is not a roar of uneven road, but try to stay away from danger. That's why he has the nervousness, panic, and fear that ordinary people have when they do bad things.
But at the same time, he is unwilling, when he has seen too many sacrifices, his harsh self-responsibility is also increasing, and in the long-term inner struggle, he finally chooses to join the team of "dying" for justice. After the "thing is done", his mission is completed, and the moment he stands in court, he is calm and indifferent.
This character has always struggled internally, there are many different sides competing with each other, and it is this multi-faceted that makes the character more real and makes the audience very enjoyable.
Such a delicate and infinitely true interpretation, "strength acting school" - Ning Li deserves it!
Finally, let's talk about Ning Li's recent role, Ma Shuai in "Sweeping The Black Storm".
Ma Shuai's scenes are very few, and most of his appearances are in prison, interspersed with a few memories of his youth.
The limited scene is short in length, but it does not affect Ning Li's play at all. It can be said that the phrase "punching the land of the lying bull" can be used to describe his performance.
In the extremely limited time and space, Ma Shuai's information output to the audience is very rich, and he can even make up countless articles similar to "The Anger of the Police Brotherhood", "The Black and White Cruise of the Blood Business War", "The Overbearing President and His Little Cute Baby", which revolves around Ma Zong.
In the first scene, Ma Shuai is in prison, but leisurely smoking cigars and eating a seafood dinner.
Compared with Sun Honglei, his lines are fewer, but in the opening 5 minutes, the audience can immediately read the following information: First, Ma Zong is not an ordinary businessman, involved in the black, there are people in the bureau; second, he has his own plans, very calm, everything is currently in the "plan"; third, he is so patient with a lawyer who is forced to nag, and he has a great relationship with Li Chengyang.
The first time he met He Yong, he was seen through at a glance, and Ma Shuai not only did not panic, but the corners of his mouth were gently raised, revealing a trace of imperceptible contempt of "can I help him".
A chuckle
Then Li Chengyang introduced the two people, and after Ma Shuai listened, a reaction of "it turned out to be your old classmate, acquaintance", the laughter intensified, but the laughter at this time has become a mask, covering up the true thoughts that have long been buried in the heart.
A smile on his face
This transition is very smooth and natural, and the look and feel is extremely comfortable.
Later, He Yong put out a formal interrogation list, and Ma Shuai was stunned at first, obviously unexpected. However, this expression was handled very lightly by Ning Li, and when he brushed it up, when he looked up again, he had a good attitude of cooperating with the interrogation.
However, Liu Yijun, who was accustomed to playing the "bad guy", at this time, as a party of absolute justice, the aura was completely suppressed by Ning Li. Interrogations that always seem to be putting pressure on prisoners become... Some are light and fluttery.
In the end, Ma Shuai had to choose to break his finger to stop the interrogation, but from the face before the broken finger to the "fish dead net broken" after the broken finger, he also completed the switch in an instant, and the viciousness after the mask was taken off, and he put it in place with a look.
At this moment, you can feel the fierceness and strategy of Ma Shuai, and goosebumps are up again... It is already conceivable that he is a person who has experienced countless "big scenes" behind the big story!
He is cruel to his opponents, but he is also very righteous and kind to his brothers and relatives.
This is Ning Li, who appears as a character created in just 4 episodes! Very intriguing.
In fact, when the director found Ning Li at the beginning, he had already signed another play and had 15 days to enter the group. Finally, under the director's soft and hard bubble and the guarantee that the Scene of Ma Shuai will be filmed within 15 days, we can see such a pleasing performance, as well as "Liu Huaqiang" and "Li Toyota" Century in the same frame!
Of course, in addition to the above three classic roles, Ning Li has also starred in many other plays in recent years, all of which have good performances. Such as the class teacher Wu Wenlu in "Hello, Old Time".
"Hello, Old Time" Wuwen Road
Fisher, the old boy conductor in Snails and Yellow Orioles.
Snails and Yellow Orioles, Fisher
In "The Hidden Corner", the small city servant "Zhang Jinglin" who first gave Yan Liang money and then took it back.
"The Hidden Corner" Zhang Jinglin
There is also the villain Yelü Jing in "Yan Yuntai".
"Yan Yuntai" Yelü Jing
Ning Li always makes you shudder and praise his character at the same time. And a good actor who proves with absolute strength can occupy the main position in the hearts of the audience even if he has a supporting role.
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