Recently, CCTV has broadcast a lot of word-of-mouth dramas, and Pigo collectively refers to them as "divine dramas that can sit with dad and watch.".
For example, at the end of last year, the TV series "Crossing the Yalu River", this drama is a panoramic story of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and Ding Yongdai simply brought Peng Dehuai to life.
The drama Douban opened with 8.5 points, and then rose all the way to 8.8 points, many people did not expect that a main theme TV series can also be filmed so flesh and blood, making people tearful.
Another example is the TV series "The Age of Awakening" at the beginning of this year, which tells the turbulent decade of the new cultural movement, this drama Douban opened with 8.4 points, and has now risen to 9.0 points, Yu Hewei successfully played Chen Duxiu, a revolutionary pioneer with a complex personality.
After the Spring Festival, "CCTV Daddy" is going to shoot again.
Starring Wang Jinsong, Yu Hewei, He Wei, Tang Guoqiang, Liu Jin, Liu Tao and others, the TV series "Armageddon" joined by many powerful actors revealed the first trailer.
This drama truly restores the three major battles during the Liberation War, and Pigo has mixed feelings after watching this 2 minutes and 52 second trailer.
The good news is that the war scenes of this drama are grand, the battlefield filled with gun smoke, the command room with a solemn atmosphere, the loud charge trumpet, and the fearless soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, and every detail presents a movie-like texture.
But my concern is that What Armageddon wants to surpass is an unusually terrible opponent.
When it comes to Armageddon, many people immediately think of the Armageddon trilogy filmed in the last century.
This series is the pinnacle of Chinese war movies, unprecedented, even unprecedented.
These three films were ordered by the central leaders at that time and made with the investment of the state, and the opening of the films was still inscribed by the state leaders themselves.
The characteristics of its shooting are: no remuneration, regardless of cost.
At that time, bayi Studios used the best resources in the whole factory to shoot, and found the best special actors at that time to shoot this peak work.
The four major departments and six major military regions directly sent soldiers to assist in the shooting, many of the extras in the play are soldiers, and finally counted as many as 130,000 soldiers participating in the performance, creating the most Chinese films.
The entire series of films adds up to 11 hours long and can be described as imposing.
As a main theme film, it did not vilify the Kuomintang, but objectively described the full details of the Kuomintang-Communist civil war.
As a political tribute film, it does not avoid history, and is the first film to portray Lin Biao positively, filming Lin Biao's complexity.
Through the game between the top level of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the dialogue between the generals of the two armies on the battlefield, and the choice of low-level soldiers and ordinary people, the whole film shows the whole process of the three major battles from multiple angles.
There are two "brutal" long shots in the whole film, one is the march of the Eighteenth Army of the Kuomintang Huang Wei Corps, and the other is the encirclement and suppression of the Eighteenth Army in the Battle of Shuangduiji.
Both shots were shot with the participation of real troops, more neatly than the real Eighteenth Army formation in history, and these long shots were also used repeatedly as material in many war dramas.
CCTV this time filmed the drama version of "Armageddon", the benchmark is the film version of "Armageddon", whether it can surpass the classic, it is still difficult to say.
However, the TV drama version has now exposed the cast, and we may be able to find some answers when comparing the cast of the drama version and the film version.
01. Mao Zedong: Gu Yue vs Tang Guoqiang
In the movie version, Mao Zedong is played by the special actor Gu Yue.
At that time, Ye Jianying took a magnifying glass and selected Gu Yue from twenty or thirty candidates to play Mao Zedong, and in order to play Chairman Mao well, Gu Yue repeatedly read relevant books, ate the braised meat that the chairman liked to eat, and learned the chairman's smoking posture.
In "Lu Yu Has a Date", Gu Yue recalled that when he played Chairman Mao, because the heavenly court was not full enough, he slowly pulled a handful of hair in front of his forehead under the advice of the makeup artist, and he pulled out the same hairline as the chairman, and only when playing the chairman did he achieve both form and spirit.
Gu Yue starred in Chairman Mao 84 times in his life, and he set himself the goal of completing 100 movies, but unfortunately, in 2005, he died of a myocardial infarction.
In the latest version of "Armageddon", Chairman Mao is played by Tang Guoqiang, who is familiar to us, who made his debut as a cream boy and later successfully transformed by Zhuge Liang, who starred in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
In 1996, the 44-year-old Tang Guoqiang first played Mao Zedong in the movie "Long March", and he was once questioned as a non-special actor.
But in the following 20 years, Tang Guoqiang starred in Mao Zedong 31 times and successfully became the chairman of the professional household.
The two versions of Chairman Mao played by Gu Yue and Tang Guoqiang are very different.
The chairman of the Guyue version is generous and temperamental, and the unique temperament of the individual is more obvious, more grounded, and slightly less imposing than the Tang Guoqiang version.
Because Tang Guoqiang is an "imperial professional household", he plays Chairman Mao more domineeringly, the leadership temperament is more prominent, and the personal characteristics are not interpreted enough.
The two interpretation methods of the two interpret Mao Zedong's great personality from two sides, which can only be said to have their own characteristics.
02, Zhou Enlai: Su Lin vs Liu Jin
The film version of Premier Zhou is played by Su Lin, who played Premier Zhou in more than a dozen movies and dozens of TV series, and also died in 2005.
In the new version of "Armageddon", Zhou Enlai is played by the special actor Liu Jin.
Liu Jin first starred as the young Zhou Enlai, in order to be closer to the premier from the image, he did not eat staple food for more than 20 days, and almost perfectly restored the premier's style with the help of makeup.
Later, when filming "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", in order to gain weight, he forced himself to eat four or five meals a day, and the recipes were full of fat-rich foods.
After the filming of "The Great Undertaking of the Founding of the People's Republic" was completed, Liu Jin had to play the seriously ill Zhou Enlai in a drama, he did not eat staple food for more than 20 days, and forced himself to stay up late, losing more than 30 pounds in a short period of time, and performing the haggard look of the premier when he was seriously ill.
After becoming a special actor, he refused to play the role of villain for the sake of the prime minister's image.
When "Journey to the West" made a sequel that year, director Yang Jie found him and wanted him to play Sun Wukong, but he also gave up.
He has only done one thing in his life: to play Premier Zhou well.
Even after his daughter was born, he named her Liu Lai'en.
Both the Su Lin version and the Liu Jin version of Zhou Enlai are amiable and bowed figures.
However, Liu Jin's version of the premier is obviously more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it is said that Liu Jin once took a taxi to buy vegetables, after arriving at the location, the driver ran down to help him buy vegetables, and did not want money after buying them, and excitedly said: "It is my great honor to buy vegetables for the premier", which made Liu Jin cry and laugh.
So the two versions of prime minister, I am more optimistic about the TV series version.
03. Song Meiling: Wu Zhiyuan vs Liu Tao
The film version of Song Meiling is played by Wu Zhiyuan, who is a professor at nanjing art college, the head of the scientific research team of the acting department, and a national first-class actor.
It is said that the actor who played Song Meiling changed more than twenty times before and after, and finally chose her, which also shows how rigorous the film version of the shooting is.
Wu Zhiyuan later became a special actor of Song Meiling.
The TV drama version of Song Meiling is played by Liu Tao.
Compared with Wu Zhiyuan, Liu Tao is more beautiful than enough, but her acting skills are slightly insufficient, after all, she has not been a special actor before.
However, Liu Tao's role is also very careful, and during the filming, in order not to destroy the hairstyle and makeup, she slept with her head to sleep.
Whether Liu Tao can surpass his predecessor Wu Zhiyuan, we will wait and see.
04. Chiang Kai-shek: Zhao Hengduo vs Wang Jinsong
In the film version, Chiang Kai-shek is played by Zhao Hengduo, who is very similar to Chiang Kai-shek in appearance and temperament, and has had many years of military life, and it is also handy to shoot war scenes.
Zhao Hengduo became a special actor of Chiang Kai-shek at the age of 48, and then in more than 20 years, he played Chiang Kai-shek in the movies "Ji Hongchang", "Dadu River", "Pipa Soul", "Sidu Chishui", "Armageddon", "Liver and Gallbladder Photo", and TV series "Shangdang Campaign", "Blue Three Rings", "Beiping Peace Talks", and "Mao Zedong in Northern Shaanxi", which left a deep impression.
In "Armageddon", he explained the complexity of Chiang Kai-shek - the tit-for-tat confrontation in the face of our party, the powerlessness in the face of family infighting, and the sense of indebtedness in the face of his wife.
In the TV series version of "Armageddon", chiang kai-shek was played by actor Wang Jinsong.
Objectively evaluated, Wang Jinsong's appearance as Lin Biao is more appropriate, but after makeup, he and Chiang Kai-shek are very close from the appearance to the action to the tone of speech.
Wang Jinsong did not meet in his early years, and later under the recommendation of Fu Biao, the acting resources were enriched, and he played Yang Jinshui, a eunuch who was very deep in the city government, in "Daming Dynasty 1566", and played Lin Yaodong, who was not angry and arrogant, in "Icebreaker Action".
On acting, Wang Jinsong can be called an old drama bone, but this time the role he challenged is Chiang Kai-shek, compared to the special actor, his grasp of the role is obviously a lot of losses.
And this drama is about the Kuomintang civil war, the play is the contest between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, outside the play is the acting skills of Tang Guoqiang and Wang Jinsong, if Wang Jinsong's acting skills can not support Chiang Kai-shek's temperament, then the whole play will be unbalanced, or even collapsed, Pi Ge had to pinch a sweat for Wang Jinsong.
However, after watching the trailer, I was slightly relieved, Wang Jinsong's appearance, his lines, all give people a full sense of oppression, he is on crutches, and the details of waving during the speech can make people quickly enter the play.
I think that what Wang Jinsong wants to do is not to surpass Zhao Hengduo, but to interpret another characteristic of Chiang Kai-shek.
05. Lin Biao: Ma Shaoxin vs Yu Hewei
Lin Biao is the most topical and complex character in Armageddon.
He is a figure who has been politically criticized, and many historical dramas treat him coldly, such as "Crossing the Yalu River" some time ago, Lin Biao, as one of the leaders, was obviously marginalized, and only appeared on camera a few times.
However, Lin Biao is also the commander and political commissar of the Northeast Field Army, and is the direct leader of the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign, and filming "The Great Armageddon" not only cannot treat him coldly, but also has to write a big book, to some extent, the success or failure of Lin Biao's role directly determines the success or failure of this drama.
In the film version, Lin Biao is played by Ma Shaoxin.
He was originally an actor at the People's Art Theater in Jixi City, Heilongjiang, and "Armageddon" was his first film appearance.
Playing such a complex role in a movie for the first time, Ma Shaoxin also did his homework, he visited Lin Biao's descendants, learned more about Lin Biao's personality, and in the following months, he read the telegraph documents of that year in the archives of the Academy of Military Sciences and the Central Archives.
Eventually, he developed Lin Biao's characteristics: moody and angry, without any hobbies.
Usually love to eat fried soybeans and look at the map, sit in the chair backwards, not angry, a glance can scare the people below.
These qualities were fully presented by him on the screen, which left a deep impression on people, and it is said that many people who watched this film will think of eating a plate of fried soybeans.
In the film, while the grand narrative, it also uses a variety of techniques to tell the complexity of Lin Biao.
For example, the environment is set off, and as soon as the picture arrives at the Northeast Field Department, it presents a gloomy and depressing feeling.
For example, in his inner description, Lin Biao was sometimes indecisive and did not dare to carry out the orders of the central authorities; sometimes he was very tolerant and could humbly accept the suggestions of his subordinates.
In short, the Mashaoxin version of Lin Biao is almost perfect, and the only drawback is that the Mashaoxin version of Lin Biao is a bit old.
And this time the drama version of Lin Biao is played by Yu Hewei.
From the appearance point of view, the two from the face shape to the height are far apart, although in the trailer, Yu Hewei pasted Lin Biao's signature thick eyebrows, after makeup face shape is also a lot thinner, but still has a lot of distance from the character archetype.
Whether this difference in appearance can be compensated by acting skills, Pi Ge is cautiously optimistic.
Of course, Yu Hewei's acting skills are not to be said.
He has successively starred in historical figures such as Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Chen Duxiu, and each role has been performed with his strong personal characteristics, so there is also a joke on the Internet that "everything can be done with Hewei".
Yu Hewei's characteristics of being both good and evil also made him extremely malleable, and this personality trait happened to be similar to Lin Biao.
Therefore, Pi Ge feels that Yu Hewei played Lin Biao this time, not to resemble, but to resemble God. If he tried hard to surpass Ma Shaoxin's version of Lin Biao, there was absolutely no possibility.
Just like Yu Hewei's version of Cao Cao to Bao Guoan's version of Cao Cao, Yu Hewei should play his own strengths and start from another section to show the audience a Yu Hewei version of Lin Biao.
In the trailer, Lin Biao's short appearances have shown Yu Hewei's extremely explosive acting skills, but he still holds the pipa and half covers his face, and whether his performance can succeed still needs to wait for the main drama to be online to judge.
After a series of comparisons, we can find that the TV series version of "Armageddon" has great difficulty in surpassing the movie version.
But CCTV dares to shoot such a challenging TV series, and this courage and boldness are worth the five-star expectations of all audiences!
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: A Chicken
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