Hou Tianlai, a national first-class actor, graduated from Jilin Academy of Arts in 1982 and is now working at the Bayi Film Studio of the People's Liberation Army of Chinese.
In 2017, with the role of Chen Qingquan in the anti-corruption TV series "The Name of the People", Hou Tianlai became popular all over the country overnight.
Hou Tianlai cameoed in the role of Chen Qingquan, appeared for less than 5 minutes, adding up to a few lines, but Hou Tianlai played the role of Chen Qingquan through impromptu play.
The most classic in the play is the clip of Chen Qingquan "learning a foreign language" with a foreign girl in the hotel room, and then being grabbed by Captain Qian on the spot.
When Captain Qian brought people in to check the room, Chen Qingquan's first reaction was to cover his face with his hands and say that he was doing business, this was his own private affair, don't bother me, you go out, go out!
In the face of Chen Qingquan's trickery, Captain Qian took out Chen Qingquan's photo again, but Chen Qingquan was not in a hurry, holding the photo in his mobile phone and asking Captain Qian: "Is this me?" ”
Chen Qingquan's face is full of great anger and confusion, as if it is a kind of determination that you "catch the wrong person", and this confident determination germinates a clown-like comedic effect, which makes the audience in the perspective of God can't help but be amused.
In fact, this original script is only two short lines of content, but Hou Tianlai is not satisfied after reading the script: it is not easy to rush over to shoot the scene, and these two sentences are too addictive.
Therefore, Hou Tian came to play on the spot during the shooting process, which led to this classic clip.
It is the role of Chen Qingquan in "The Name of the People" that makes Hou Tianlai's film and television drama image change from "bad guy professional household" to let people "want to laugh when they see it".
Looking at the acting career of the old drama bone Hou Tianlai, why is his film and television drama image defined as a "bad guy professional household"?
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Hou Tianlai, born in 1958 in Kuancheng District, Changchun City, Jilin Province, graduated from Jilin Art College in 1982.
After graduating from university, Hou Tianlai was assigned to the Jilin Provincial Repertory Theatre, but like when he was in college, Hou Tianlai was unknown on the drama stage, and no one in the film and television circle was interested.
Although he also starred in some film and television works in addition to acting in dramas, they were all dragon runner roles that the audience could not notice, and even the signature at the end of the film was not.
It was not until the age of 29 that Hou Tianlai ushered in a turning point in his life, and he received his first important role, playing Puyi in the movie "The Last Imperial Princess".
The movie "The Last Imperial Princess" was also a big production of drama movies in that year, and the film even invited Puyi's imperial concubine Li Yuqin herself as a consultant.
Why did you find Hou Tian to play the important role of Puyi?
It turned out that the director accidentally saw Hou Tianlai's photo and found that he and Puyi were very similar in appearance.
Hou Tianlai seized this opportunity, and in the film, he not only presented a fit in appearance, but also interpreted Puyi's pitiful and hateful complex level very well.
It seems that the tempering on the drama stage in previous years has made Hou Tianlai's acting skills have been subtly improved.
After that, Hou Tianlai began to receive some important roles: Tang Gaozong in "The Royal Nun", Xianfeng Emperor in "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", etc., because they were all supporting roles, there was no drama and performance space, and did not leave any deep impression on the audience.
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It was not until 2003, when Hou Tianlai starred in the first "sexual harassment" theme TV series "Women Are No Longer Silent", which interpreted the hated editor-in-chief Wang Xiansheng, and Hou Tianlai's "bad guy" image left a deep impression on the audience for the first time.
Although Hou Tianlai had also played some villain roles before this, he was not as hateful as Wang Xiansheng, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in "Women Are No Longer Silent".
Wang Xiansheng, a dirty "sexual harasser". On the surface, he was a literate, mild-mannered newspaper editor; in fact, his essence was very bad, he used his power to insult women, and he took all this for granted, and he was extremely vengeful, and when the purpose could not be achieved, he tore his face and took revenge by means.
After the broadcast of this drama, the voice of Wang Xian, who was dressed in a costume, directly triggered a wave of condemnation from the audience.
Many people refer to Wang Xiansheng in "Women Are No Longer Silent" and An Jiahe in "Don't Talk to Strangers" as "the two most memorable childhood shadows".
This drama has had a great impact on Hou Tianlai's real life, and even some of Hou Tianlai's female relatives and friends will unconsciously maintain a certain distance from him when they meet him.
It can be seen from this that Hou Tianlai's image of a "bad guy" is indeed deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
03
The TV series "Women Are No Longer Silent" has launched Hou Tianlai's reputation as a "bad person" and allowed him to find a development path suitable for himself, that is, "bad guy professional household".
Since then, he has also played a number of villain roles that make people hate to grit their teeth.
The head of the Japanese and pseudo-agents in "Twenty Days of CriticalIty", the sinister and murderous Japanese commander-in-chief Okamura Ningji in "Snow Leopard", the gambling-addicted Tian Yaozu in "Walking west", the deep and greedy fourth master of the city government in "Mou's Manor", and the traitor Shu Lifan in the anti-war drama "The Great Choice", these are all "bad guys" who make people grit their teeth.
There is also a starring TV series "Gentle Temptation", Hou Tianlai played the university professor Huang Zhongshi, a writer who is about to publish a book, with a happy family but can not resist the seduction of liao Xinyu, a little girl who has just left college, and cheats on the family.
University professor Huang Zhongshi and intern editor Liao Xinyu (Han Ye) meet because of the publication of books, and the two have a good feeling for each other at work. However, his wife Wen Li, because of their ambiguous relationship, resented Liao Xinyu and killed Liao Xinyu on the day of the book's deadline.
It is precisely because of this incident that Liao Xinyu successfully entered the Huang family, and even more in the Huang family, he stirred up the Huang family's chickens and dogs. Han Ye and Yang Ziyan, two powerful women, launched a marriage battle between Xiao San and Fa's wife.
It is not difficult to play a negative role well, but it is not easy to play a negative role deeply in the hearts of the people, making people hate and even fear.
Hou Tianlai of the "bad guy professional household" can not only play the role of the bad guy with ease, li Jianping, the kind and filial boss li Jianping in "My Ugly Lady", the warm-hearted Dr. Zhu in "Stepfather", and these good guy roles of Hou Tianlai have also been recognized by the audience.
epilogue
Hou Tianlai has acted in plays for half a lifetime, and has also played many good people, but he has left a deep impression on the audience by playing bad people.
When filming "Women Are No Longer Silent", Hou Tianlai actually hesitated to play such a hateful perverted role.
Later, Hou Tianlai figured out that whether he played a good person or a bad person, he called for "anti-sexual harassment" through "sexual harassment", and the more real he acted, the more the audience hated him, the more he could make the theme conveyed by the work penetrate deep into the audience's heart.
As an actor, being able to play the role "alive" and conveying a positive attitude and correct values to the audience is the most important.
Finally, from "Women Are No Longer Silent" to "The Name of the People", from "bad people professional households" to making people "want to laugh when they see it", Hou Tianlai's "villain career" of more than ten years has made him recognized and liked by many audiences.
[The picture comes from the Network, the creator of this article is the entertainment detective Xiao Qi]