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Did you see the new drama "Agitation"?
Just broadcast several episodes, the evaluation is good and bad, there are highlights in the plot but there are many awkward points.
Uncle read the comments and said that the actors were tender and scolded the director, but they generally appreciated one of the old drama bones.
Yes, he's —"
Tao Zeru
Compared with many old drama bones that his uncle had talked about before, Tao Zeru did not seem so brilliant and famous, but in terms of acting skills, he was never to be underestimated.
Tao Zeru was actually from a science class.
In 1973, when the country began to restore the high school examination system, Tao Zeru took the examination and was admitted to the Drama Department of Nanjing University of the Arts.
After four years of diligent and diligent training, he learned to have solid basic skills, and after graduation, he was assigned to the Nanjing Repertory Theatre.
But to be honest, at that time, he did not have any achievements on the drama stage.
The reason is not him, or because of looks.
Not handsome enough to be released, can only be said to be unremarkable, and there is no advantage in the drama.
Out of the head is not out of the head, can only play some corner of the role;
But acting like this still leaves others with the impression of "good acting".
However, this began to change after a few years.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the "fifth generation of directors" who are now famous are still young people who pursue new things and have the most avant-garde ideas.
One of them, Zhang Junzhao, plans to make a film called "One and Eight", and needs an actor with a simple appearance and a cold temperament to play a tough guy.
Looking around, I found Tao Zeru.
Looking back from now on, "One and Eight" is definitely a milestone of that era, and Some netizens in Douban commented:
In that era when Chinese cinema was just revived, this kind of cold and fierce audiovisual language was indeed a kind of purification for the film industry, although the plastic arts were unique, but the values were still the mainstream state of the kneeling licking style, and a few fledgling young people had just arrived at the Western Film Studio, which lacked talents, so they had the opportunity to directly take charge, and when they tried the cattle knife, they were still slightly unable to let go of the shackles of ideological education, but this has indicated the arrival of a new era.
This is also Tao Zeru's film debut, but he unconsciously participated in a historical work.
After this, Tao Zeru turned his energy mainly to the filming of movies and TV series.
He has played many roles, won many awards, and also served as the dean of the Film and Television School of his alma mater, Nanjing Academy of the Arts.
There are several characters in it, which are impressive.
In Guan Hu's anti-corruption drama "Black Hole", the acting skills exploded to the point of being exclaimed by netizens as "performance artists".
And Chen Daoming and chen Daoming played each other in the play, and outside the play, they felt sorry for each other;
Chen Daoming admired Tao Zeru's acting skills very much, and Tao Zeru praised Chen Daoming's particularly high understanding, and the two had a lot of friendship.
Also Guan Hu's "Migrant Worker of Survival", he played a stubborn migrant worker who begged for money for everyone, was bullied in the process, but was not willing to bow to fate and yield to stubborn migrant workers.
Dirty, dark-skinned, with a look overwhelmed by life.
The picture may not be able to show it, but looking at the evaluation, you can generally know from the side how good Tao Zeru is.
In addition, Su Renmao in "Bullfighting", Zhang Xun in "The Great Cause of Party Building", and Chen Jinshui in "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky" are all characters that Tao Zeru can play into his ears.
The great cause of party building
Chicken feathers fly into the sky
But in shu's heart, his most representative is still the smith in "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix".
There were many storms at the time of release, and although the film itself had shortcomings, it was particularly sincere in expression.
Among them, Tao Zeru's wonderful performance added too many points...
His most brilliant scene was when his apprentice You Tianming returned to master's house, brought him tobacco to eat, and the two drank and chatted.
Third Master Jiao, the smith, was happy to see that his apprentice had taken over and brought him tobacco dim sum wine.
The smile on his face, rubbing the bottle of wine, the emotion of happiness and showing off, can be felt through the screen.
The performance at the end after drinking is even more impressive.
Third Master Jiao put a bowl of wine in his stomach, the wine went up, turned around and waved open the box containing the sigh;
Picking up na and recalling the beautiful scene of the old times, the thought of today's loneliness is a little sentimental...
The complex emotions of multiple levels, under the control of Tao Zeru, are natural and extremely infectious.
And such a performance can be called an old drama bone in general, and can be called a performance artist.
Tao Zeru said that he himself likes the American actor Al Pacino, and likes the feeling that he can express thunder without moving;
"A good actor is like an iceberg, or a huge rock that gives a very thick feeling"
And he himself is probably such an excellent actor.
Looking back at Tao Zeru's career as an actor, it is actually not difficult to find that he is not particularly different from other performance artists.
The older generation of actors have a commonality, that is, to truly regard acting as a job, as a career to work hard and struggle wholeheartedly.
They don't have any gossip, they don't have any messy things.
Some are just acting well, doing a good job of themselves, and bringing one wonderful image after another to the audience.
Such an "old drama bone" deserves our admiration!