From "Military Song Loud" to "Soldier Assault", to "Anti-Drug Elite" and "Airborne Blade", Xing Jiadong has created too many classic military and police roles, and these roles have reversed his image in the minds of the audience. But Chen Hu, the captain of the criminal police detachment in "True Detective lies", is different. Chen Hu has a kind of characteristics that are invisible to everyone, he is serious and reckless, serious and funny, he is the comedy of the whole drama, and some viewers comment that he is "like a street slipper" and "an iron man".
Xing Jiadong said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Beijing News that he saw various evaluations on the bullet screen, the original script did not set Chen Hu so fine, and many personality characteristics were given by him after consulting with the director. "The real police don't always sit on their backs and look upright. I didn't understand the profession of the police from this concept at all. They have a real sense of justice and love for ordinary people in their hearts, but they are not on their lips and written on their faces every day. ”
Xing Jiadong gave Chen Hu a lot of new personality characteristics when performing.
About True Lies
Humor is something you don't feel yourself, and others look ridiculous
In the popular criminal investigation short drama "True Detective of Lies", Chen Hu (Xing Jiadong), the captain of the Bincheng Criminal Investigation Detachment, Ling Ran (Yu Nan), a lie detector, and Qin Xinyi, Geng Ning, Mo Xiaojie and other criminal police officers have solved a series of criminal cases with the help of lie detection technology. Each case is closely related to the current real social phenomena, such as the "Zhou Ruojun Murder Case" involving child sexual assault; the "Death of Jiang Yali" involving pyramid schemes, which also shows the hardships of rural migrant workers... Xing Jiadong said that what attracted him most about "True Detective lies" was the close relationship between the case and the real society, and the complexity of human nature and society was shown through the detection of the case. There is no absolute distinction between good and bad people, such as the little nanny who gave birth to a son with the old professor in the second case, some people feel sorry for her death, and some people think that poor people must have something to hate.
Chen Hu is both a tiger and a scoundrel, but also a comedy in the whole drama, and some viewers commented that he was like a "street slipper" and "iron man". Xing Jiadong believes that in reality, the police are not necessarily sitting in a precarious position and with a righteous face. When he was a child, the street outside his home became a stall resort overnight after the reform and opening up, and the degree of crowding was comparable to the end of the Beijing Workers' Sports Ball Game, breeding a lot of thieves. He went to and from school to fight there, and saw several people fighting, thinking that the street gangsters were fighting. After watching from a distance, I found that someone had taken the handcuffs out of his pocket, and only then did he know that it was plainclothes police who had caught the thief. One of them squatted on the side of the street in plain clothes, set up a torn card with a crooked word written "Eliminating The Spirit", and never saw it sold. That temperament didn't look like a serious stall, let alone like a policeman, and everyone thought it was a goon. "The police have a real sense of justice and love for ordinary people in their hearts, but they don't necessarily have to hang on their lips and write on their faces every day."
Chen Hu is the comedic director of the whole drama.
Chen Hu's personality and handling details are not set by the script, but are discussed by Xing Jiadong and the director. Given that there are already very cool police officers (Ling Ran) in the play, if Chen Hu is also very positive, the play will not be good. So what should Chen Hu look like? What was his relationship with his subordinates Geng Ning and Mo Xiaojie? "When filming, I talked to the director, such as why Geng Ning called Chen Hu 'brother' instead of 'Chen Team', the two titles represent different relationships of kinship and intimacy, and the audience will imagine a lot of content from it." As for Chen Hu's sense of joy, Xing Jiadong understands the humor that the parties do not feel ridiculous, while others look ridiculous, which is the trait he hopes to give Chen Hu. "When acting, he can't act according to the 'iron man', he just seriously does his own thing, but the audience thinks that he is a 'tie man'."
Xing Jiadong did not deliberately make fun of himself when he performed.
About the Great Qin Empire
Graduation thesis in the practice of unobstructed performance
Among the many classic military and police roles created by Xing Jiadong, the "Wu Liuyi" in "Soldier Assault" is undoubtedly the one that left the deepest impression on the audience, so that the name on the bullet screen of "True Detective Lie" was constantly mentioned 15 years later. Xing Jiadong often couldn't help but hold his forehead when he saw "Wu Liuyi" on the bullet screen: "Oh my God... It's not that Wu Liuyi is not good, I just sigh, it is not easy for the audience to come out of a role that is particularly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people! It is necessary to play another role that is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but such an opportunity is not available. "Soldier Assault" is also from the creative team to the audience at the time, all aspects of the factors are brought together, the achievement of the time and place is favorable. Xing Jiadong usually waits for the series to be broadcast for three or five days after the bullet screen accumulates a certain number. He revealed that the habit of understanding the audience's thoughts by watching the bullet screen began when the "Rise of the Great Qin Empire" network was broadcast.
In "The Rise of the Great Qin Empire", Xing Jiadong himself acted against the green screen for several months.
"The Rise of the Great Qin Empire" has a special place in Xing Jiadong's acting career. It was the first costume drama starring Xing Jiadong, and Bai Qi was also very different from the other roles he played. It is worth mentioning that he only entered the group after a few years of the show, and a person performed all the scenes of the white screen against the green screen, and then the post-special effects put him into the play in the form of keying. Even so, the drama still received a high score of 8.5 on Douban, and his "keying" performance was highly acclaimed. Talking about the starring Bai Qi that year, Xing Jiadong said that it was completely a coincidence. "A few years ago, this play first came to me to play Bai Qi, and there was no time for shooting other scenes at that time. They didn't broadcast it immediately after filming, and then there was some problem, and after a few years, they found me again, just during that time, it was okay, it was a help to others, and at the same time, it was also a try of costume drama. ”
What is more coincidental is that the title of Xing Jiadong's graduation thesis of the Acting Department of the Beijing Film Academy is called "On The Exchange of No Object in Film and Television Performance", and he did not expect that more than ten years after graduation, the theory would be linked to practice. "Good guys! During that time, I communicated with no object every day, and verified my graduation thesis well in practice. "For Xing Jiadong, playing Bai Qi is a very memorable experience, and he himself likes bai qi's complete character." The play not only writes about how he fights, but also writes about his relationship with the king, with his wife, with his colleagues in the court, and with his subordinate warriors, which is three-dimensional and rich. Although the amount of lines is very large, it is still half literary, but I am very happy when I act. Once you enter the characters, you will feel that the lines have a certain sense of rhythm, which is beautiful. ”
About campus memory
When he was studying, he was greatly influenced by his teacher Xie Yuan
At the earlier meeting of the creators of "True Detective lie", Yu Nan and Xing Jiadong both mentioned that this drama was the first film and television cooperation between the two of them after graduation from Nortel, and it was also the first time they met. Filming for the show was completed in 2019, 20 years after they graduated. When they were in college, they performed together many times and knew each other's business skills very well. For the first time after graduating for the first time, Xing Jiadong felt that everyone had become more mature, more stable, and their horizons had broadened, but the "things on the roots" taught to them by their teachers in college had not changed. Xing Jiadong and Yu Nan graduated from the Beijing Film Academy's 95-level acting department, and Xie Yuan, a famous actor who died of illness last year, was their class teacher for four years at the university.
Xing Jiadong said that the teacher Xie Yuan and the late fifth-generation director He Qun were his two "year-old friends" and had a profound impact on him. Xie Yuan took their class for 4 years, and what had the deepest impact on the students was not only to teach them the professional knowledge and skills of performance, but also to teach them how to establish a concept in their hearts, how to look at the world, and how to treat money after graduation, how to look at failure..." And these are not what he told us in a special and serious way, all of them are slowly penetrating into our hearts little by little when chatting with us. ”
Xie Yuan, whom the audience knows from film and television works, is humorous and funny, and is particularly erudite. From the student's point of view, the teacher Xing Jiadong knows, Xie Yuan, is more comprehensive. His humor is very advanced, and he has a lot of feelings in his heart. Every year on the first day of the Chinese New Year, others are visiting relatives and friends, Xie Yuan will go to visit Liang Sicheng's former residence, and also take a video with his mobile phone and send it to the class group to talk about his thoughts and feelings. On the first day of school that year, he called out to three teachers to drive the students to the Guozijian and the Summer Palace, talk about the history of these places, and then take everyone to sit on the big kang and wash the lamb. Sometimes he would call the students home and roll them noodles to eat. Therefore, the classmates were not afraid of this class teacher at all, and regarded him more as a friend.
Beijing News reporter Yang Lianjie
Edited by Tong Na Proofreader Li Lijun