Hu Ge is 36 years old. Fans are urging him to find a partner; his mother, who is accustomed to destroying education, finally recognizes her son after "Langyabang"; and he himself, after "grand escape", finally reconciles with himself and packs up and enters his "film era".
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Truly enjoyable creation
--What is a movie performance?
--In front of the cinematic lens, existence is performance.
Harper's Bazaar × Hu Ge: Forget yourself to understand the world more clearly
"Where to shoot well", Hu Ge looked up and down the hotel room, looking for a location, "the most important thing is to have the right light", he hit the cloakroom.
Here are spotlights, warm and warm, Hu Ge said to the mobile phone camera his role In "Hello, Zhihua" Zhang Chao's line.
What everyone is willing to expose is only a tip of the self, and there are hidden icebergs under the sea.
Zhang Chao's exposed "scumbag" component has become a small rest when Hu Ge reads the script, "the whole script is very smooth to read, until the time of this scene is stuck", Hu Ge stopped to take a breath, turned the script back, read it again, and rose up the desire to create, he called the film's executive producer Chen Kexin, saying that he wanted to play this small negative role.
Interested in a "scumbag" with very few scenes?
Chen Kexin didn't take it seriously.
Until a week before the boot, he remembered this joke that Hu Ge had made, and called over and asked, "Are you serious?", "Yes, I am".
What Hu Ge did not tell Chen Kexin was that when he read the script, he saw Zhang Chao and remembered a performance by Jin Shijie for no reason.
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Teacher Jin plays a father, when he sees his future son-in-law, he tells the other party about his feelings with his daughter and his wife's past, the plot and characters are completely different, but that state makes Hu Ge too impressed, in the face of related and not so relevant people, the narrative is closer to self-talk, Hu Ge's memory bank has saved the level and emotional changes of Teacher Jin's performance.
When Hu Ge saw the role of Zhang Chao, the new stimuli and the old memories produced a chemical reaction.
The "serious" Hu Ge then had to cooperate with his idol for many years, Director Shunji Iwai.
In fact, many years ago, Hu Ge was afraid of the stage, when Shunji Iwai went to Shanghai to hold a concert, and a friend helped Hu Ge to make an appointment for the director to eat spicy hot pot.
Hu Ge drove to the door of the hot pot restaurant, thinking about restarting the car again, "Too nervous, what can I talk about, or let's go."
Mr. Hu Ge, this time prepared.
He designed specific and subtle emotional layers for Zhang Chao, "there is repentance, there is guilt, and the last stop of emotional change is the despair of life."
On the day of the crew, Hu Ge completed his own scenes from morning to night.
He felt "not addicted".
It's not that the characters don't make him addicted, but that the first collaboration with an idol ended within a day.
What's more, he himself felt that the more the day went on, the better, "later cut out of the film, I can obviously judge that those were filmed later."
After filming back at the hotel, Hu Ge has been thinking about how to act today, the more he thinks about it, the more unwilling he is, simply record his own performance?
He put the phone on the shelf, the frame was just right, the light was a sensor light, it turned off after a while, a little movement, and then it was lit again.
The flickering light was originally troublesome, and when the third one was filmed, Hu Ge turned the trouble into a sharp weapon, adapting the lines in different lights.
In this six-minute confession, Hu Ge recorded five or six in one breath.
These 6 minutes, Hu Ge is his own director.
One last step is yet to be taken.
On the day of the premiere of "Hello, Zhihua", after doing a group interview, Hu Ge met the director in the corridor.
After hesitating, Hu Ge still showed the recorded small video to the director.
In Hu Ge's nervous mood of wanting to show the results to the director and afraid of disturbing each other, he and Iwai Shunji held up half of their mobile phones and watched the full video for more than six minutes in the crowd and cold wind.
"It's good to just play." The director said.
Satisfied.
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Just like one of his lines in the movie, "Life, it's not something you can write clearly by pulling and pulling", but there are still some highlight moments, even if you go to the dark, they are still behind you.
A while before the premiere of "Hello, Zhihua", Hu Ge's "The Party at South Station" with Hu Ge as the male lead had just been completed.
In the crew of director Diao Yinan, Hu Ge finally realized what is really enjoyable character creation.
After "The Hunting Ground", Hu Ge did not take over the job, "for a long time I was quite confused about the performance", until the appearance of Diao Yinan.
The Berlin Film Festival best picture winner flew to Shanghai, dragged Hu Ge out of his home, and told him the story that took place in the south.
A month later, Hu Ge got the script and began to enter this special crew:
Shoot down in script order, rather than the usual set-by-scene shooting method.
They filmed for half a year, and there was a long time for Hu Ge to go into the role, watch French movies, and figure out the role, from the shape to the temperament, from the appearance to the heart.
The life and experience of this role is impossible for Hu Ge to experience in his own life, so he consciously accumulates gloomy emotions, "A negative emotion is like a drop of ink into a bowl of water, normal people will stir the water, let the ink spread quickly, my practice during that time was to protect this drop of ink, do not disperse, and even take the initiative to add a little." ”
In this way, Hu Ge left behind the uncomfortable emotions in order to achieve the state of "existence is performance".
It sounds like a stupid bird is secretly working hard.
You had a dream in the story, and someone told a story in the dream
--What are you enjoying the most on stage?
--I don't always say that I want to be an actor, not a star. The moment I was on stage, I felt like an actor.
In the crew of the stage play "Like a Dream", Hu Ge will be discovered secretly and diligently.
Or Teacher Jin Shijie.
Patient No. 5, played by Hu Ge, has a line in the opening that goes like this:
During the Warring States period, there was a poet named Zhuang Heng.
Zhuang Heng's "Heng" character, Hu Ge always eats the back half of the sound, saying that it is incomplete.
At that time, Jin Shijie had not yet played, and he listened to everyone's lines from the monitor backstage, and he always said to Hu Ge:
"When you say Zhuang Heng, it is the first time that Zhuang Heng appears in the whole play, so you must let the audience hear clearly."
Once Hu Ge paid special attention to the opening sentence, "There is a poet whose name is Zhuang Heng--", Teacher Jin will smile when he hears this, and later praise him specially, "You are really special today."
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In the first half, the most antagonistic scene with Hu Ge was Xu Yanling, and the Jiang Hong she played did not have any deliberate traces of stage drama, "Being able to express naturally on the stage is more difficult than in front of the camera, but YanLing did it, and the measure was very in place." ”
The actor's life is sometimes a cycle of not being kind, into the crew, filming, and killing; when the broadcast starts, take a few days off from the new crew to cooperate with the publicity, occasionally interspersed with advertisements, magazine shooting, return to the crew, the new drama is finished, the broadcast begins, and a few days are freed up from the new crew...
Never stop, only the stage play is a special existence.
In 2012, drama producer Wang Keran wanted to put "Like a Dream" on the stage.
In the drama industry, Lai Shengchuan's "Dream like a dream" was originally a "business nightmare", it was about 8 hours long, divided into two books, 12 acts and 90 scenes with a total of more than 100 characters, such a large-scale crew, but also need to transform the theater, make a circular stage, dismantle more than a dozen seats to be enough to surround the lotus pond...
But Wang Keran made up his mind to do it, and one of the unavoidable problems was that he had to match drama actors and "popular stars" in the cast.
Wang Keran said that he was looking for Hu Ge because he "experienced life and death", and Hu Ge himself said, "I just like my popularity." ”
But one thing he forgot was that around 2012, it was almost a trough in his attention since his debut.
This was his own choice, after acting in "Traces of Xuanyuan Sword", Hu Ge decided to stay away from the costume idol drama and Changliuhai, "planning to make progress in acting".
"Like a Dream" came looking for it.
By the third year, Hu Ge "felt wonderful".
Every year with the same group of people, wearing the same clothes, saying the same lines, walking the same schedule, even in the Poly Theater, even in the same position in the background.
"Sometimes I'm in a trance, feeling like this year hasn't passed, something has happened. Or was this year a dream? I just took a nap and a year passed. ”
So "Like a Dream" is no longer a job or a performance, but "a temple".
"I have to go once a year and regain something".
But what is that stuff?
It feels like straightening your teeth, you haven't performed it for a year, your teeth are out of the way, and the re-rehearsal is to tighten them with braces again.
Put everything back in place.
After performing a round every year, Hu Ge was asked the most questioned question, "Will you still come next year?"
Yan Ling would ask, Tan Zhuo would ask, and Hu Ge would sometimes ask himself, but he had the answer in his heart.
Even after more than a year of "film period" after acting in "The Hunting Ground" in 2016, Hu Ge still did not give up "like a dream".
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One of the reasons he stayed on the stage was Lu Yan, who played the elderly Gu Xianglan.
Grandma Lu is more than 90 years old, and Hu Ge will hear her say to the producer and director every year, "You can rest assured, I will take care of myself and keep me in shape, next year you will not change people, let me come back to act."
On the stage, Hu Ge and Grandma Lu's rivalry did not play much, which happened at the bedside.
When the elderly Gu Xianglan was dying, patient No. 5 sat on the edge of the bed and watched her leave, "I want to accompany Grandma all the way through."
He has acted in many TV series, one after another in the middle of the crew, leaving him with very little space for "life", too late to live, and no opportunity to correct the regrets of the role.
Patient No. 5 faces a sudden loss, and a fantastic encounter, sadness, deep pain, Hu Ge in and out of this role, every year has a new understanding, a new life experience, each scene can repair emotions, care for details.
This regret, there is always a next one to make up.
The Knight of the Wilds who will eventually return
--To know the world and to know yourself, which one to solve first?
Forget yourself to understand the world more clearly. If we have a wall in front of us, and there are a hundred holes in the wall, and everyone just sees the world through the hole in front of us, what you see and what I see are different. To forget yourself is to break the wall. We no longer see the world from a hole.
In 2017. After that lonely but noisy grand escape, there is also a motorcycle trip that has always been accompanied. At 4 p.m. on this day, the cycling four-person squad was left with only Lao Hu and his companions.
After Lao Hu had placed his accidentally injured little friend, it was late, and he packed up and planned to spend the night on the spot. The companion looked at Hu Ge and said, "Let's go on."
Old Hu thought to himself, then you can't lose.
The "nightmare" began.
At more than 5 p.m., Lao Hu and his companions in two cars, one after the other, began to cross the Qinling Mountains.
It is when the sun sets, the sunset is behind you, and the scenery is in front of you.
The two rode slowly, and soon surpassed the first truck in front of them.
Lao Hu glanced at the truck that was left behind, and then saw a squirrel crossing the road in front of him, "When I saw it, I was ready to fall."
When the motorcycle is moving at high speed, once the road obstacle hits, it is easy to overturn, and Hu Ge has flashed two thoughts in his mind:
One is that I am going to fall; the second is, what should I do after I fall, there is the same high-speed truck behind me, how to hide?
As soon as the thought fell, the squirrel jumped away, it saved itself, and also avoided Hu Ge.
Old Hu was horrified and shouted on the walkie-talkie: "Or don't ride today."
His companion said a few "it's okay" in a row, and he knew that Hu Ge began to hesitate, and the encouragement and persistence of his teammates at this time were particularly important.
Qinling Mountain Road, with few straights, forced into the border of Henan Province, in the distance, you can see two motorcycles rushing into the rain curtain one after the other.
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At this time, the sky was completely dark, and in the sound of the heavy rain, Hu Ge could only hear the engine of his mount, and could only see the world illuminated by the headlights, as if the wilderness was boundless, and there was only one person.
He pushed the helmet lens up a slit, squinting his eyes to see a small black dot not far away, it was his companion's car, a hazy and firm little black dot, soaked in the raindrops, floating in the rainy and foggy air, looking so unreal.
On the contrary, at this time, Hu Ge did not hesitate, the two braved the rain into the mountain, and now they are more than halfway through the journey, no matter what, they must walk more than 700 kilometers to the destination.
A long part of the national highway is a cliff on one side, a cliff on the other, and the opposite lane is full of large trucks, which are like truncated trains, making a frightening noise and blocking the line of sight, Lao Hu and his companions drill in the convoy of trains, and from time to time they are splashed with mud, old mud and new mud, constantly adding color to the uniform.
The rain was still falling, the helmet lenses were pushed up, the eyes could not be opened, closed, the line of sight was obstructed, and the two decided to follow the taillights of the car in front of them, how it went, how they also walked.
Finally, at 2:30 a.m., they entered Nanyang, only 50 kilometers away from their destination, the road conditions were good, the endless trucks disappeared, and the rain stopped.
When the companion finally spoke, Hu Ge realized that they had not made a sound for a long time, "Old Hu! It's not an easy road! As soon as the words fell, a large pit flew out of the road, and the car of the "whoosh" Hu Ge went down solidly, and was glad that it did not fall again.
When they set off again the next day, they found that the front wheel of the motorcycle had been deformed, "that's it."
The 700-kilometer night rain ride was a dangerous ride, which Hu Ge said was a "test of his willpower."
Not many people know about this return journey, immediately after the well-known journey:
Hu Ge flew from Shanghai to Chengdu, planning to ride a motorcycle from Chengdu all the way to Seda, and while he was still in Chengdu, he was recognized by a Mo friend who said, "I know the scars on your eyes." ”
Hu Ge met the Moyou again at a gas station and told the other party that he would only be able to get to Seda the day after tomorrow, and the small talk was taken by the person next to him and uploaded to the Internet, "And then the whole world knows that I am going to Seda."
This journey, exposed to the eyes of netizens, superimposed with the experience of these years, has become a kind of escape that will eventually return.
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2016 and 2017 were the two most frequent years for Hu Ge to ride motorcycles, and most of the time, he rode around Shanghai, as far as Wuxi.
Putting on the helmet, he is not the Hu Ge who can't escape the gaze, the pleasure of driving, and the high concentration of attention, and the motorcycle has the "feeling of being alive" he wants.
Hu Ge, who claims that "most things in life are abandoned halfway", has finally completed the goal of riding the west, and also made a conclusion to his long-cherished wish to escape in the past two years.
Freud said the desire to flee was a form of self-preservation.
Hu Ge, 36 years old, has experienced two explosions.
In 2005, Hu Ge was admired by everyone because of Li Xiaoyao in "The Legend of the Paladin Sword"; in 2015, Hu Ge became a national idol because of Mei Changsu in "Langya List"; in 2019, Hu Ge became the wilderness knight who started again, no longer left by the wind.
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