If there is a TV series that can bring together nearly 10 famous directors in the Chinese film and television circle today, more than 20 national first-class actors, more than 30 film emperors, and famous directors play small roles in scraps, and do not get paid a penny, this drama won the annual ratings championship that year, then it must be "The Big Mansion Gate" 17 years ago.
Why "The Gate of the Mansion" can create so many possibilities and become one of today's classic TV series. How many stories are hidden in "The Door of the Big House", open this door and take a look.
In 2001, "The Gate of the Mansion" premiered in a prime-time set on CCTV, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is as crowded as "Desire" in 1990, and it did set the first place in the annual ratings.
In Hu Xiaoqing's singing of "A Laugh from the Beginning, Love Opens Two Doors, and the Door of a Hundred Years of Wind and Rain in a Big House...", sitting in front of the TV set, one episode did not fall to the ground to chase this TV series that allowed her daughters who were in elementary school to watch together.
17 years later, now the child sometimes talks to me about film and television dramas, and still praises "The Gate of the Big House", thinking that she is still a child today, which shows how impressed this drama is on her. I've been writing about this big drama that makes me a classic several times, but I don't know where to start.
In "The Gate of the Big House", I want to say too much!
So hot, we have to say director Guo Baochang first.
Guo Baochang's face is big!
When "The Gate of the Mansion" was first filmed, it somehow suddenly replaced the director Guo Baochang, the director was out, and the lead actor Chen Baoguo immediately went on strike on the set: the director is not Guo Baochang, I will not act! He originally came for the script and director Guo Baochang.
Because the play was written around Bai Jingqi, the male number one went on strike, and the toss back and forth was finally directed by Guo Baochang, achieving an unprecedented classic drama.
Although this drama was eventually rejected by all awards, it can not be said that it is a pity, Guo Baochang only received a sense of lifelong achievement from the 3rd China TV Drama Festival 7 years later, which is also an affirmation of the excellent works he has spent 40 years creating. But it also does not seem to affect the audience's love for it, for 17 years, this drama has always maintained a high reputation of the market, whether it is after 60, 70, 90.
Guo Baochang was born in a poor family, and at the age of 5, he was sold by his family to a rich family as an adopted son until he was 16 years old. Li Tianyi in "The Gate of the Great Mansion" is a character created based on himself.
At the age of 16, he began to write, wrote for 8 years, and at the age of 24, the manuscript was destroyed as a monument to the capitalist tree. After that, he created two more works, both of which were burned. The fourth time he started writing, he was 45 years old, probably to learn a lesson, this time he changed the novel to a script, "Tongrentang" changed to "Baicao Hall", no one had to sit in the right seat, and his adoptive mother, Li Xiangxiu on TV, did not need to worry about anything anymore.
Shooting a TV series is also a twist and turn, and it is finally a wish to meet a noble person. Let's talk about why this show has so many possibilities mentioned earlier.
What does "The Gate to the Mansion" say? It is about the rise and fall of the capital at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the rise and fall of China's century-old "Baicao Hall" medicine shop and the three generations of the Baifu family of medicine. Guo Baochang lived in the house for more than ten years, spent a lifetime of painstaking efforts, according to his own personal feelings to write a number of vivid and vivid characters, but also reflected many traces of that era, such as national events, official power, industry competition, family internal contradictions, shop business model... It is a good work of conscience with connotation and value.
Many people were deeply attracted to the script the first time they saw it, there was a person named Yu Shengli who was one of them, the important thing was that he had a special identity, he could control the fate of the TV series production at that time, it is said that he used all the resources of CCTV at that time for this good book, defied the public opinion, and decided to start filming. At the boot ceremony, Guo Baochang stood on the stage, choked for more than a minute, and finally said:
"The Gate of the Mansion" is not filmed, and I am not blinded. Thank you!
The casting before the start of filming is naturally also excellent, what is the lineup mentioned at the beginning? Mainly Guo Baochang's popularity or human feelings.
Gorgeous lineup:
Sichenkova: as Bai Wenshi (second grandmother)
Chen Baoguo: as Bai Jingqi (Seventh Master)
Liu Peiqi: as Bai Yingyu (Third Master Bai)
Jiang Wenli: as Bai Yuting
He Saifei: as Yang Jiuhong
Ru Ping: as Huang Chun
Xie Lan: as Xiangxiu
Guo Baochang: as Shen Shuren (famous doctor in Xi'an Province)
Zhang Yimou: as Li Lianying
Chen Kaige: As Fu Ya (府衙務官).
Jiang Wen: as Lord Futai (Jinan Prefect)
Tian Zhuangzhuang as Tian Mu (Japanese soldier)
He Qun: Pi Tou'er (pawnshop guy)
Gu Changwei: I can't find the characters in the play
Hou Yong: I can't find the characters in the play
The two seem to be horns without lines
Zhang Fengyi: as Ji Zongbu (teacher Bai Jingqi)
Lei Kesheng: as Wang Xiguang
Bi Yanjun: Bai Yingxuan (Second Master Bai)
Zhao Kui'e: as Empress Dowager Cixi (Zhao is Chen Baoguo's wife)
Li Xuejian: as Yu Baye (drug dealer)
Ning Jing: As Brothel bustard
Zhang Shaohua: as Xiangxiu's mother
Shin Jun-yi as Daisaku Kono (Japanese officer)
Arya : as Bai Yufen
Zhang Shen as Wu BelleYe (Guiwu)
Jani : as Big Gege
Huang Zongluo: as Chang Gonggong
Du Yulu: as Bai Mengtang (Bai Family Lord)
Song Xiaochuan: as Wan Xiaoju (Song is a famous actor in Peking Opera)
Zhang Zhaobei: as Binghui (janitor)
Huang Zhizhong: as Huang Li (Huang Chun's twin brother)
Liu Zhibing: as Huineng monk (Lady Ru Ping plays Huang Chun)
Du Xudong: as Han Rongfa
Li Ping: as Bai Yaping
Zhang Qian: as General Manager Hu
Zhao Yi: as Bai Jingye
Ma Sichun: As young Bai Yuting
Liu Cihang: as Childhood Bai Jingqi
It is said that Guo Baochang is the benefactor of the fifth generation of Chinese directors. In the 1980s, Guo Baochang was the deputy director of the Guangxi Film Studio Art Center, who was specifically responsible for reviewing films, and he vigorously opposed the public opinion, and gave strong support to these directors in the initial stage, which was the grace of knowledge, so there were stars gathered, big names played together, and staged a classic drama that had never been seen before or since.
It is said that Zhang Yimou not only does not take the film remuneration, but also pays for the round-trip ticket; Jiang Wen carefully reads the script for the role of Bai Jingqi, and finally Guo directs Chen Baoguo, and he asks to play a role at will; Chen Kaige, because he is not very good at acting, takes the initiative to study on the set, and shaves his hair that does not need to be shaved; Tian Zhuangzhuang, in order to play a good role in Tian Mu's drunken play, he drank a bottle of two pots in one breath and got drunk after the play.
There is a scene in the play, Guo Baochang, Zhang Yimou, Jiang Wenquan wants to play, Tian Zhuangzhuang temporarily became the executive director, Hou Yong is responsible for shooting, Chen Baoguo said, think about it is fun! It is really full of humanity outside the play.
In order to play Bai Jingqi when he was young, 40-year-old Chen Baoguo had to tighten his wrinkles every day and suffer a lot, and he had to cherish such an opportunity to live up to the director's final selection of him among many candidates, of course, he felt a little old as soon as he appeared. Sichenkova lost 20 pounds in 2 months, and at the boot ceremony, she excitedly knelt down to the director, and the director was excited and knelt down to her, such a good team, every minute must be worthy of this conscience work.
In these 40 episodes of the TV series, wonderful scenes abound, there are 100 characters appearing, I don't know how to elaborate, but there are characters and clips that I personally like very much.
The scene in this picture is the classic "plaque picking" scene. Seeing that the Hundred Grass Hall, which had been torn apart, was powerless to stop it, the second grandmother took the young Bai Jingqi, and with a "pick", defended the dignity of the old "Hundred Grass Hall" left by the old ancestors, and also won the capital for the comeback in the future, so that Bai Jingqi could appreciate the bold style of the second grandmother's actions when he was young, and he would never forget it for a lifetime. Seeing this, I thought that the words and deeds of a mother or family member will play a great role in the formation of a child's early character.
To say that chasing stars, this Bai Yuting should be regarded as the grandmother of the fan world. Obsessed with the famous Wan Xiaoju, people dare not marry, then I will marry his photo, don't believe it, this is the real thing, the prototype is Guo Baochang's 12 aunts. She liked Mei Lanfang at that time, a sensation, but Mr. Mei Dexing was noble, and the matter of abandoning his wife and abandoning his son was absolutely not done, Bai Yuting proposed to do a partial room, but she was everyone's bridesmaid, Mr. Mei was absolutely afraid to agree, afraid of wronging her. So at the age of 36, Bai Yuting, an old girl of the Bai family in the capital, married Wan Xiaoju in a photo, and she was visiting the church to become a relative, and her brother Bai Jingqi sent her to marry, and the scene was quite sad and moving and magnificent, and she has been guarding for life ever since.
Bai Yuting, played by Jiang Wenli.
Bai Yuting waved a handkerchief in her hand, embraced the jewelry box, full of tears, threw her gold and silver jewelry to the stage, and shouted "Wan Xiao ju", this play is still fresh in memory, I believe that people who have watched the play are difficult to forget. I think Jiang Wenli simply played a fan girl to the extreme. I remember the actors I like, often starting with remembering one of her wonderful scenes, and I often compare them later.
Jiang Wenli's role in Bai Yuting was requested by herself, she was the candidate selected by Guo Dao to play Yang Jiuhong, but she recommended He Saifei and only looked at Bai Yuting. If the best supporting actress is selected in this drama, Jiang Wenli should be well-deserved.
Chen Baoguo's strike is only for Guo Baochang, quite a bit of Bai Jingqi's temperament, Jiang Wenli's resignation is more than yang Jiuhong, and like Bai Yuting, who is very persistent and obsessive, Guo's selection of people is really accurate!
Zhang Fengyi's name is not familiar and unfamiliar, familiar because he is a well-known actor, but also the former husband of excellent actress Lu Liping, but also a star of my girlfriend's lifelong obsession, she thinks that Zhang Fengyi's temperament is incomparable, too manly Strange is a rare popular work in recent years. However, as long as you have seen "Overlord Farewell", you will not forget him.
I like the few scenes in his play, one is because of Zhang Fengyi, but the character of Ji Zongbu (Mr. Ji). I watched the whole drama and thought that the two people who had the greatest influence on Bai Jingqi's life were his mother and grandmother, and the other was Mr. Ji.
Bai Jingqi was born unusually, he only laughed and did not cry, he was a naughty child, a little devil with a bad idea, one would kill the fish in the fish tank, and the other would sing "Heavenly Spirit Spirit spirit and earth spirit" naked and naked, which belonged to the old saying "if you don't get beaten for three days, you will go to the house and uncover the tiles". beat! Don't cry.
The second grandmother is not a small woman who protects the calves, and several gentlemen have been tricked by Jing Qi and gone, giving how much money everyone is shaking their heads with their fists. No way, please come to Mr. Ji who works at Yamen. This Mr. Ji can not only write but also martial arts, repeatedly recognized Jing Qi's small tricks, and punished him fiercely, the next person filed a complaint to the second grandmother, the second grandfather hurt Jing Qi, said that Mr. Heavy hands, but in advance to talk about it, Mr. manage the child can not interfere.
The drama in the later episodes is how Mr. Ji taught Jing Qi to learn literature and martial arts, so that the teenager Jing Qi felt unusual in the blur, and the adult Jing Qi was bright and upright, just and not ah, and the big pattern of having family and country feelings was very great with Mr. Ji. Zhang Fengyi's few scenes are also the most stable and quiet and rich time in the door of the mansion in the whole play, Xiao Jingqi is very spirited and smart, and the second master's doting on the child also makes these scenes very interesting. The style of painting changed, in the sound of the Jingyun gong and drum, Jing Qi grew up, Chen Baoguo appeared, how to say can not tell the taste, anyway, look at it and say good.
This picture has a netizen caption, "Shoko, do you remember the tiger girl of that year?" Thinking of the "Camel Xiangzi" that Sichen gaowa and Zhang Fengyi co-starred in that year, it is also a masterpiece. The picture and text are borrowed directly from the Internet, I like it so much, thank you to the original author, talented
The prototype of Bai Jingqi in the film is Guo Baochang's adoptive father, and in the adoptive father's dictation, Guo Baochang knows many things that he usually can't see, so the script is true, touching, and the content is extensive and orderly.
Because he grew up watching dramas with his adoptive father in the house door, Guo Baochang also understood dramas. The background music of the TV series has always been set off by erhu, yueqin, single skin drum, Jingyun drum, and Peking Opera singing voice, which pushes the plot step by step to the climax.
This is Guo Baochang specially invited the famous traditional music composer Zhao Jiping to come to help, adding a lot of color to the play. Imagine if it weren't for this music, "The Gate of the Mansion" would be much inferior. In particular, the theme song sung by Hu Xiaoqing is magnificent and sounds proud. Later, I saw Liu Peiqi, Xie Lan, and He Saifei sing this theme song in variety shows and some celebrations, and the background pictures are fragments of the mansion door, which really have their own tastes, and it is also a fortunate thing that these actors have this opportunity in their acting careers.
The theme song of "The Gate of the Mansion"
Lyricist: Yi Ming
Composer: Zhao Jiping
A laugh
Love opens two doors
The chaotic world is chaotic
A lot of grinding in life
Boys run rampant
Standing up is a person
There is affection and responsibility
I am self-reliant
This proud bone knocked with a clanging sound
There is righteousness and responsibility
Set the herbs to make the world fragrant
Oh, set the herbs to make the world fragrant
No regrets, a cavity of blood
Intentionally
Century-old wind and rain mansion door
At the beginning of "The Gate of the Big House", there is a person kneeling in front of the gate, and Guo Baochang says that this is Li Tianyi in the play, that is, he himself, because he is sorry for this family, especially for his adoptive mother.
A few years after the premiere of "The Great Mansion Gate", in 2006, Taiwan's Lien Chan, Song Chuyu visited the mainland, and in an interview with reporters, Song Chuyu said that he liked mainland TV dramas, the first to promote "The Great Mansion Gate", three days later, CCTV followed up and replayed (the segment originated from the network).
A few years ago, the drama version of "The Gate of the Mansion" was born, and Guo Baochang's response to the media was: I don't want to express any spirit, I just want everyone to see the "Gate of the Mansion", love to see it or not!
There is no "living bandit" Bai Jingqi's temperament. In fact, people who really engage in art should be like this, regardless of direction, true temperament, do not cater, but there are too few people who are so fully engaged.
17 years later, many people have brushed "The Gate of the Big House" several times, and now, its Douban score is still in the high segment of 9.3!
In order to shoot "The Gate of the Mansion", the actors worked tirelessly, regardless of remuneration, Guo Baochang directed with illness, insisted on the set by injecting insulin, and they were desperate, because they loved the drama as fate, the drama was bigger than the fate, and together created a classic work of the future generations. In order to do beautiful articles, I was also tired and dizzy, and my back was sore, in order to spit out the love I had in my heart for many years.
Hats off to the classics!!