At the end of 2020, CCTV's annual drama "Loading Stage" was staged, which focused the story lens on the real life of a group of stage builders led by Diao Shunzi in Xijing City, telling the sour, sweet and bitter life of small people. The story is full of fireworks, allowing us to feel the precious side of ordinary people's lives.
This is also an out-and-out Shaanxi drama, from the main actor, supporting roles, directors, screenwriters, as well as the original work, filming location, crew, are inextricably linked to Shaanxi.
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In 1990, Zhang Xiaotong, a 20-year-old Shaanxi boy who studied in the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy, starred in his first film "Nie Rongzhen", playing the young Nie Rongzhen. The following year, Zhang Xiaotong graduated from college, was assigned to return to his hometown, entered the Xi'an Film Studio, and began to play supporting roles in many movies.
Zhang Xiaotong would not have thought that more than ten years later, in the eyes of teachers, classmates, and directors, he who looked like a "civil servant face" would become popular because he played a corrupt official Song Siming, who cheated on him, and become a national idol in the minds of audiences, especially female audiences; ten years later, he would become a "bitter" who pedaled three wheels on the streets of his hometown city and villages, smelling of sweat.
▲Zhang Xiaotong when he was young
In the same year, Yan Ni, a 19-year-old Xi'an girl, had been studying business management in the Department of Industrial Economics at Shaanxi University of Finance and Economics for two years, even though she did not like the major herself. In September 1990, the Battle Drama Troupe of the Political Department of the Lanzhou Military Region came to Xi'an to enroll, and this time she was admitted and became a literary and artistic soldier.
▲ 1999 Yan Ni's film
After that, Yan Ni served as a tv station's tourism program host, acted in dramas, and acted in movies, and now the most impressive thing is her mantra: "Forehead is wrong, Forehead is wrong at the beginning, if You don't marry, Erdi Fujun will not die, Andefujun will not fall into a sad place...", Tong Xiangyu, the female manager of Tongfu Inn, spoke a gentle and beautiful Shaanxi dialect, which made the national audience have a change in the impression of Shaanxi life as cold and rough.
This "Wulin Wai Biography" that did not see Wulin was particularly popular that year, and it is said that the finale was specially selected to be broadcast at the same time as the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and the director's confidence in the ratings can be seen.
In 1990, Sun Hao, a young man in Xi'an, graduated from Xi'an Engineering Technician College, and he arranged a different path for himself from his classmates and began to engage in acting, acting and singing. A few years later, a song "Chinese Folk Song" spread all over the country, and also sent him to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, truly interpreting "debut is the peak".
▲In 1995, Sun Hao sang "Chinese Folk Songs" on the same stage with singer Chen Hong.
At the same time, the 10-episode TV series "Foreign Sister" filmed by Guangdong Television station is being broadcast nationwide, and Chen Xiaoyi, a 21-year-old senior girl at the Central Academy of Drama, plays the heroine. By the way, the theme song "I Don't Want to Say" is sung by "Sweet Song Queen" Yang Gangli, and her stage name Yang Yuying should be more well known.
Later, The Sichuan sister Chen Xiaoyi married the Shaanxi director and became half a Shaanxi native. Husband and wife joined hands and made many good works.
▲ Chen Xiaoyi in "Foreign Sister" (front)
You Yong, a 29-year-old from Lintong, Xi'an, starred in the film "Bells of Qingliang Temple" starring Pu Cunxin in 1992, playing Kang Hulu, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 12th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema. In the roles played by You Yong later, most of them are tough guys and decent characters.
▲ You Yong in "Qingliang temple bells" (top right)
Nearly 30 years later, a "Loading Stage" brought these Shaanxi township parties together:
Zhang Xiaotong has changed his name to Zhang Jiayi twice, and Yan Ni starred in the TV series "Loading Stage" for the third time as a husband and wife, playing the small characters Diao Shunzi Cai Sufen and his wife; Sun Hao played the iron director of the troupe in the play, an iron rooster, and owed Zhang Jiayi's wages at the beginning; You Yong also changed his name to You Yongzhi, playing Zhang Jiayi's eldest brother Diao Dajun in "Loading Stage", which is an image of a swollen face and a fat man; Shaanxi daughter-in-law Chen Xiaoyi, in "Loading Stage", he played the small character Eight Aunts.
The drama of Shaanxi people, performed by Shaanxi people, is particularly flavorful.
▲ Stills of "Loading The Stage", people can't help but want to read the lines in Shaanxi dialect
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Chen Xiaoyi's husband is named Liu Huining. Liu Huining was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, 3 years younger than his wife Chen Xiaoyi. Liu Huining is not from a science class, before his debut as a soldier, after changing careers was assigned to Xi'an Film Studio to do a scene record, in 1988 Liu Huining and Huang Jianxin cooperated in the film "Reincarnation", which opened his road to directing.
In the Western Film Studio, Liu Huining, who was about the same age, met Zhang Xiaotong, and the two directed and acted in the careers of the following decades, and the number of excellent works cooperated was as high as 18. In 1997, Liu Huining began to direct the film alone, and after this year, Zhang Xiaotong changed his name to Zhang Jiayi.
▲ Xi'an director Liu Huining
In 1999, liu Huining's 20-episode documentary TV series "12.1 Shooting" was broadcast nationwide. This TV series is jointly produced by the Television Department of Xi'an Film Studio and the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau, and has been filmed in five places, including Xi'an, Baoji, Wuhan, Shanghai and Yinchuan. In the play, the xi'an criminal policeman starred in the real plot and the background of the real plot, which was a sensation at that time, and the executive director of this drama was Zhang Jiayi.
▲ Liu Huining's "12.1 Shooting Case", Zhang Jiayi is the executive director of this drama
▲Filmmakers who have cooperated with Liu Huining more than 2 times
This time, the old partner Zhang Jiayi starred in "Loading The Stage" and served as an artistic producer, Liu Huining is not a director, but when it comes to Li Shaofei, the director of "Loading stage", it is indispensable to Liu Huining.
▲ Li Shaofei, director of "Loading Stage"
Li Shaofei, a native of Ningxia, was three years younger than Liu Huining and was admitted to the Shaanxi Provincial Art School when he graduated from high school. When Li Shaofei was a child, the economic conditions in his family were not good, and his family was extremely opposed to his decision to take the road of acting, and only his mother supported him. In 1995, director Liu Huining came to the school to select the actor of Li Renyi in the TV series "Daobeiren" as a teenager, and Li Shaofei was favored by Liu Huining and performed the first TV series in his life. After that, Liu Huining, who was like a brother and a father, became the most important teacher in Li Shaofei's life.
▲Liu Huining and Li Shaofei (right)
▲ In "12.1 Shooting Murder Case", Li Shaofei played the fugitive Pei Donghai
Li Shaofei has served as an executive director for many times in many TV series directed by Liu Huining, and later gradually grew into a professional director. Li Shaofei and Zhang Jiayi also met early, many partners, last year he and his mentor Liu Huining directed the "Young Pi" hit, starring the national husband and wife Zhang Jiayi and Yan Ni.
▲ Filmmakers who have cooperated with Li Shaofei more than 2 times
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The protagonists are all old drama bones, and the supporting characters are also hidden.
Ma Xiaoyong, who played the gangster of the village in the city in the TV series "Loading Stage", his other identity is the screenwriter of "Loading Stage". Ma Xiaoyong is also from the Western Film Studio, and has a good personal relationship with Zhang Jiayi and Yan Ni.
The novel "Loading The Stage" is the work of Shaanxi writer Chen Yan, and the original work uses cold realism to describe the lives of the people at the bottom. After the adaptation, Ma Xiaoyong, a Xi'an native, let the drama version of "Loading the Stage" still tell the most real life of the low-level small people, there are sufferings, there is noise, there is sadness... But it also adds a sense of lightness, humor and calmness.
▲ Ma Xiaoyong, the screenwriter of "Loading Stage", also made a cameo appearance in the play
As a screenwriter, One of Ma Xiaoyong's most well-known works is the criminal investigation drama "Six Groups of Serious Cases". He is called "Ma Dacaizi" by fans of "Six Groups of Serious Cases", and when ma Xiaoyong is seen in the writers at the beginning of the film, it is generally certain that this episode must be a comedy, and it is not an unconventional comedy. He also had a drama addiction from time to time, making a cameo appearance in the play.
Uncle Scar of "Loading Stage" speaks fluent Xi'an dialect, in fact, the narration of the characters in the play is also voiced by Uncle Scar. The actor Li Chuanyi is also rumored to be from Xi'an, saying that he graduated from the eighth and sixth grades of Shaanxi University Affiliated High School, is a disciple of the First Affiliated College of Jiaotong University, and did not leave Xi'an until he was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy. Li Chuanyi is a teacher in the line class of the Acting and Directing Department of the Shanghai Theater Academy, and her line expression is very strong.
There are also two familiar faces in "Loading The Stage", which often appear in Zhang Jiayi's works, and both are rumored to be Zhang Jiayi's "cousins".
One is the actor of the big bird in the play, Ji He.
▲ Hime
Ji Ta is 9 years younger than Zhang Jiayi, a native of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, and a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy. Since 2004, Ji has cooperated with Zhang Jiayi and participated in many of his TV series.
In 2015, the drama version of "White Deer Plain" starring Zhang Jiayi, He Bing and others began filming, and Ji He played the most personality of the original five young people, before the acting school Duan Yihong's film version of Black Baby Zhuyu in front, Ji He used hard work and rigorous attitude to shape Heiwa's stubbornness, rebellion, and even the tragedy of fate to the fullest.
▲ Hime played the black baby
The other is Sun Hao, who plays the iron buckle in the play.
The name of the iron buckle is also more consistent with the character in his play, which is an iron rooster who cuts the door. Because the efficiency of the troupe is not good, so he took everyone outside to run a performance, but he did not expect that the first order was almost deceived, so there was also a bridge section for Diao Shunzi to ask for a salary.
▲ Sun Hao played the iron buckle in "Loading the Stage" (left)
Sun Hao's earliest fame was not because of acting, but because of singing.
"Picking up wine in a glass of flowers and nights, lonely people after the wind and rain, drunken smiles do you have, geese fly over chrysanthemums full of heads..." In 1995, Sun Hao went out of the circle with a song "Chinese Folk Songs", which brought him great reputation.
Sun Hao was born in Xi'an in 1969, and from the perspective of age alone, Zhang Jiayi cannot be his cousin, because he is a year older than Zhang Jiayi, but the two can be said to be hardcore brothers. In many plays starring Zhang Jiayi, Sun Hao has performed, he participated in "One Servant, Two Lords" starring Zhang Jiayi, Yan Ni, You Yong and others and gave his voice, singing the ending song and interlude. The opening song "No Worries" and the ending song "I Treat Life Like First Love" are also sung by Sun Hao.
"Be tired and bitter, don't worry; eat and eat, don't worry!" This attitude of life sung in the opening song is the attitude of life of this group of people in the play, and it is also the philosophy of life that ordinary people are tired and happy.
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After the launch of "Loading The Stage", some netizens found that the xi'an actor's article in the play was deleted. In the previously released trailer Chinese Zhang played a character in the play, who wore a yellow shirt and glasses.
▲ Article
Some netizens speculated that the time when "Loading the Stage" was finished was the period of divorce of the article, perhaps because this was affected.
Looking back at the previous list of filmmakers who have worked with Liu Huining and Li Shaofei more than twice, there is also a Xi'an actor Wang Dazhi who is more eye-catching. Wang Dazhi, born in 1977, has a good performance in "Soldier Assault" and "My Regiment Leader My Regiment". Unfortunately, Wang Dazhi was once photographed by the media and was involved in a scandal with an actress surnamed Dong, and there were basically no more works after that.
Grass snake gray line, lying for thousands of miles. Drama is like life, life is like drama.
Shaanxi has an important place in the history of Chinese film and television, especially in the early 1980s, and the center of Chinese cinema can be said to be in Xi'an. From this land, there have been big names such as director Wu Tianming, Zhang Yimou, screenwriter Reed, as well as Zhang Jiayi, Yan Ni, You Yongzhi, Guo Tao and other powerful actors...
▲ Western shadow has been brilliant for sixty years
In the past thirty or forty years, a group of outstanding Shaanxi directors, screenwriters and actors have not only intertwined and gathered in their personal destinies, but also the accumulation of wisdom and ideas condensed in Shaanxi film and television works.
Author: Wang Meow
Produced by Shaanlight
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