The Paper's reporter Yang Kaiting
For actor Yu Bo, the roles that many audiences are most familiar with are Lian Chengbi in "Xiao ShiYilang", Tong Bo in "Water Moon Cave Heaven", and Jin Cheng in "Phantom Needle". For the post-80s audience, Yu Bo is almost one of the great hero image spokespersons in those martial arts TV series in his childhood.
Stills from "Water Moon Cave Days"
Yu Bo said to himself that he has a hero complex since he was a child, and he likes to play some more heroic roles. When he was young, he was a hero who played the role of a man who crossed the rivers and lakes, and recently, in the "Trumpeter in Place" that was being broadcast, Yu Bo starred in the "Dinghai God Needle" in the play - Rocket Force officer An Lei.
"Being able to play rocket force is the biggest attraction of this play." Yu Bo bluntly explained the reason for participating in the project.
Stills from "The Trumpeter in Place"
I want to shoot more heroic characters
Before participating in "The Trumpeter in Place", Yu Bo was full of curiosity about the Rocket Force. After participating in the project, he had the opportunity to visit and experience the actual site of the Rocket Force, and learned about the history, important figures, and step-by-step upgrading and evolution of missiles since the founding of the Rocket Force.
"In the past, I imagined that the Rocket Force was launching missiles, which was a very ordinary class of soldiers. After contacting, understanding, and going to the actual venues, including the military academy, I found that the development of the Chinese Rocket Force was far beyond our imagination. It feels like the most cutting-edge scientific and technological power of our country was first practiced in a place like the Rocket Force. It really makes us sigh for the development of the Rocket Force, see the kind of high-tech of the Rocket Force, that kind of deterrent power, as the Chinese people, feel very safe and very proud. Yu Bo lamented that the Rocket Force is a powerful force of deterrence, "once used, it is likely to have a big war." Therefore, the Rocket Force is more often silently guarding the country, and the general public rarely really feels the existence of the Rocket Force. ”
Yu Bo believes that "Anlei", as a Rocket Force officer presented in "The Trumpeter in Place", the biggest charm of the role is that he is not a symbolic character. "He's flesh and blood, he's very lifelike, and the relationship between him and many characters is intricate. His state with his wife and children is presented, so it is easier for the audience to accept that he is a living person rather than a face-making character. ”
For this performance, Yu Bo admitted that the biggest challenge he faced in the performance was due to the particularity of the rocket force theme, and the performance was basically carried out in front of the green screen without physical objects.
"Because all the equipment of the Rocket Force, all the scientific and technological things, a lot of it involves confidentiality, so you can only rely on imagination to design some equipment environments and the like, and these are all needed to be done in the post-special effects, that performance is based on imagination to perform, and it is more difficult when performing." Fortunately, director Li Lu has a deeper understanding of the Rocket Force, "When he tells the actors about the play, he will tell us 'what is here', 'what is there', 'what will be presented in the future'." When he talks, he lets the actor have a sense of picture, there is a very real imagination there, so although the actor is a performance without physical objects, the degree of detail he said allows the actor to find some basis to perform. ”
Another difficulty is the character's large non-communicative monologue, "My lines are sometimes one page, two pages, and at most I remember speaking two and a half pages in a row, and the amount of lines is particularly large." "There is no opponent actor in the performance, "Anlei" as a brigade commander, calm words and deeds, can not have too many big moves, more or rely on the eyes, tone to express emotions, which invisibly adds difficulty to the performance.
Yu Bo admitted that when he was young, he filmed more costume dramas, "At that time, he completely relied on his own physical ability to act, fight, ride a horse and other action scenes are more dangerous." But now that I've reached a new stage, I'd rather try some introverted, heartfelt, and more complex characters, and I want to try more different genres of drama. Yu Bo once again stressed: "But my original intention has not changed to this day, I want to shoot more heroic characters, which can have some inspiration and encouragement for the audience." ”
Speaking of "The Trumpeter in Place", Yu Bo also said that he and the lead actor Li Yifeng had a live exchange on the role modeling during the filming, "He would worry about 'whether I am not enough of a soldier in this state', I said that in fact, I don't have to think so much, his character was not a soldier, he just entered the military camp after graduating from college, then at the beginning he was the image temperament state of the soldier. From not being a soldier to a soldier, first of all, there must be some basic training, physical training, quality training, plus self-cultivation training, which need to be tempered for a period of time. After you have been a soldier for a few years, the image and temperament of a soldier will come out from the inside out, so I say: Your 'not like' is right. ”
In YuBo's view, this involves the actor's "staged understanding" of the role. "The filming is all paragraph-disrupted, and the shooting schedule is arranged according to the scene. So all the scenes, the plot is disrupted, for an actor, what can't you lose? It is the story line and character network from beginning to end. ”
"For example, two people in love, from not recognizing the recognition, to the ambiguity to love together, this process you have to show, can not know that the two just met, but the performance state is very familiar, can not be two old husbands and wives, but the performance is a small couple in love." 」 Yu Bo emphasized: "The integrity of a role comes in part from the stage of his character relationship, and we cannot lose the stage and disrupt the stage. Performance is not to achieve the goal, performance is the process, the process of emotions, the process of growth, not the result of a face. ”
Being an actor requires a good attitude and cannot be in a hurry
Talking about the works that have been impressive for many years in the industry, Yu Bo said that the most unforgettable thing is when he first debuted to shoot "Xiao Eleven Lang". "I especially miss that time, when all the actors in the crew lived together, and everyone would discuss and communicate with each other for a scene, how you wanted to act, how I wanted to act, and the atmosphere was very warm and very happy. Even if one of the scenes today is not performed well, this atmosphere has always infected us and prompted each other to work hard. In such an environment, it will grow the fastest in performance. Yu Bo admitted frankly, "Now many crews, the shooting rhythm is very fast, are grabbing time, between the actors and actors, there is no communication in life, to the play, there is also a lack of opportunity and energy to understand each other and discuss the performance." “
Stills from "Xiao Shi Yi Lang"
"This is not to say that it cannot be accepted, maybe this is what the times need." But the biggest missing thing may be that on the set, the human touch between people and people is getting weaker and weaker. In fact, the sense of familiarity and communication in the life of the actor can play a role in the relationship between the characters in the play. Actors really need to understand each other, when acting is about control, for example, in the play we are enemies, I want to beat him and scold him, but we have a good relationship in private, I know that in the performance I hit him and scolded him, he understands, he will not blame me. Then this is a good help for the tension between the characters. But now that everyone is not familiar with it, it is not good to grasp the measure of this performance. Looking ahead to the back may cause it, and our performance is also contained and cannot be released. ”
So in this new situation of this era, how to complete your own performance well? "How to adjust yourself in a good state, arrange your life well, and put your position in the shortest possible time is the most important." Based on his own experience, Yu Bo simply put forward a few suggestions.
"Constantly experience life and feel the changes around you. I think that the actor's performance must be based on a deep understanding of the script, a real feeling about life, and a true feeling for the times. To what extent you can understand, you can act to what extent. Yu Bo said, "When I was young, I didn't know what it was like to play a mature and married man, but with the passage of time and the accumulation of experience, my understanding of the role continued to deepen." On the one hand, this accumulation comes from a large number of filming experience, "accumulating experience in filming, going to find the feeling and state in front of the camera, allowing yourself to maximize your own advantages, and perfecting your shortcomings"; on the other hand, it comes from learning outside of filming, "reading more books, doing more homework, watching more films, this accumulation is very helpful when encountering complex roles in the future, you can find resonance from these accumulations, find imitation and rely on models." ”
"To have physical training, filming is also physical work" Yu Bo took himself as an example, after filming, he did not stay up late, lived regularly, did not drink drinks, rarely ate sweets, and insisted on various sports and exercises: climbing, running, fitness, swimming. "We must be self-disciplined, smoke less and drink less, and always maintain a good mental state, which is worthy of the audience and worthy of ourselves."
"Doing this requires a good mindset, going with the flow, not rushing to make a quick profit." Yu Bo said this especially sincerely, "When we were young, it was a drama and a drama, and the audience could slowly get to know you. Now a play can make a person 'red', a play can also make a person 'black', this kind of moment peak to trough ups and downs, the pressure is very large, I think the average person's mind is difficult to bear, so the peaceful state of mind, is very important. ”
"Fame and fortune, maybe in this circle, seem too accessible." Sometimes the gains and losses are taken too seriously. We must find out what the true value and meaning of life are, rather than blindly pursuing and asking for something. Or to find a balance between gains and losses. Yu Bo said that on the shooting scene, it is often the departments of costumes, lighting, photography, etc., dozens of people, hundreds of people, in the service of the actor's work, for this, the actor should not be accustomed to, "to feel that everyone's efforts are to make you present the best performance, so you have no reason to do it well, you must do well." Let yourself be more self-respecting and more in awe from the mentality, from the state, from the cognition of this industry. ”
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