The most popular national drama in the past two months is probably "Sweeping Black Storm".
It also really made the "uncle circle" actors in the play a big fire.
Sun Honglei has got rid of the "shadow" of the "extreme three fools" and returned to the texture of the past.
Wang Zhifei played Gao Mingyuan, the sinister and fierce villain, to the audience's sweat and hair.
But Sir wants to talk more about a former "villain professional" in the play today.
Playing a villain, but never playing a "bad", but acting until you understand, but also let you fall for a villain.
Who has the ability to do this?
Be confident and say the name in your heart - Liu Yijun.
01
The anti-gang policeman investigating major projects, He Yong.
In the face of the newly arrested prisoner, he squeezed the other person's face fiercely, and his eyes showed a fierce light, which made people shudder.
Face your colleagues.
He has words in his words, his expression is playful, and his eyes are meaningful.
It's like a warning, it's like a temptation.
What kind of police is this?
In the complicated situation of "Sweeping Storm", is he worth believing?
The audience was confused.
When the plot was halfway through, many people were wondering: He Yong was undercover, would he be anti-water?
This policeman seems to be a little different from what we think of as a normal screen policeman.
Yes, this is the effect that Liu Yijun wants to perform - good and evil are difficult to distinguish, confusing.
It always makes you feel that there is a little evil in his Sven.
Who makes many people's first impression of him, is to start with two "old evils".
In 2015.
"The Pretender" and "Langya List" have exploded one after another, and the audience has begun to remember Liu Yijun, who has amazing performances in both dramas.
Playing a villain, many actors are prone to walk into two misunderstandings.
The first is to deliberately play a cruel game and write a stomach full of bad water on the face.
Just like Hao Lei said that the concubines in some palace fight dramas kneel in front of the emperor and the empress, and their eyes are grunting, for fear that people will not know that she is playing with her heart.
The second is to perform the legendary "pitiful and hateful", and the result is a blind crying and "whitewashing", and the characters are divided.
Liu Yijun's performance.
It's a trick you can't think of, but it's so convincing.
In "The Pretender", Liu Yijun played Wang Tianfeng, the commander of the military command.
He is paranoid and fierce, and is a madman in the eyes of outsiders.
The famous "eating lollipop" scene has always been the psychological shadow of many viewers.
Wang Tianfeng met his former schoolgirl Yu Manli in Shanghai, eating a lollipop and looking like a naïve girl.
Originally, there was only one line on the script, "Life is good."
Liu Yijun temporarily wanted to eat Wang Manli's lollipop.
This scene, 10 people acted, 7 people were greasy, 2 people were artificial, and one may be pure gluttony.
Liu Yijun was the eleventh.
He took it, looked at it, licked it, and said the lines.
If lollipops represent a good life.
Then a bite to pieces is his statement.
Wang Tianfeng's viciousness and complex emotions that could not be explained to the female students all came out.
The more you want to play "crazy".
The more you should not focus on the performance of madness.
It's about playing out the logic of this man, because that's where he's the craziest.
For his own anti-Japanese plan, Wang Tianfeng used others and his own lives as stepping stones.
He even did not hesitate to bear the name of a traitor and die at the hands of his most beloved student.
When the student misunderstood him, he questioned him:
"My teacher will not betray his soul, and he will not be a traitor!"
Wang Tianfeng will continue to play the role of a traitor, but in his eyes, there are repressed, painful tears.
The complexity of Wang Tianfeng's role lies in his madness and evil, which is based on an ideal that transcends everything.
And Xie Yu of the wolf ambition of "Langya List".
He performs a rare human touch and fireworks high above the temple.
When it comes to the success of the king and the defeat of the Kou, his eyes are full of untamed and murderous spirits.
Only when facing his wife, his eyes were full of affection.
In shaping this character, Liu Yijun deliberately blurred the boundaries between good and evil.
In one scene, after Xie Yu was defeated in the struggle, his wife came to persuade him to admit defeat and die.
He held his wife and took the dagger from behind her, and for a moment the audience felt that he wanted to die with his beloved wife.
The audience believes that Xie Yu has done it.
But in the end, he threw the dagger away again.
Liu Yijun said that this was a temporary idea of his own.
He deliberately showed his dagger to the camera, creating an illusion for the viewer.
Xie Yu's fierceness, tenderness and uncertainty all melted into a specific person in that series of extremely rhythmic actions.
But you'd say why he's always out of the loop is contradictory, with a dark side to the character.
So much so that everyone's impression of him seems to be a "villain professional".
In fact, Liu Yijun did not intend to walk on the bumpy path.
It's just that he guarded the peak loop.
02
If you have seen Liu Yijun's appearance when he was young, you probably can't imagine that he will become famous by playing a villain later.
Qingxiu soft face, watery eyes, like a docile cat.
From the current point of view, there is no problem in taking the route of fresh meat and small students.
But it is also a kind of "untimely birth".
In 1991, Liu Yijun, who graduated from Nortel, was assigned back to Xi'an Film Studio.
Job: Logistics miscellaneous.
The late 1980s and early 1990s were when Chinese cinema became internationally famous for the exploration of the fifth generation of directors.
Inspired by the aesthetic radiation of the fifth generation, film creation prefers atmospheric actors with rough texture.
For example, Jiang Wen and Gong Li.
Liu Yijun's exquisite appearance is marginal.
Classmate Wang Quan'an also took him to meet a director, and as a result, people opened their mouths and said, You are not like our northwest.
No drama.
Throughout the first and mid-nineties, in Liu Yijun's most youthful years, he was a person without roles.
In less than a year, he resolutely left Xiying.
He first went to the south as a choreographer, and then returned to Beijing in 1997 to look for opportunities.
In his bitter 1990s, the environment of China's literary and artistic creation was also quietly changing.
The 1994 TV series "Addiction" made Wang Zhiwen and Jiang Shan become the youth idols of the first generation of screens.
At the end of the 1990s, the TV drama market began to develop, and the south wind of Hong Kong and Taiwan pop culture blew in.
Good-looking male actors began to be loved by young people, and even idol dramas such as "Carry Love to the End" were even available.
In 2000, 30-year-old Liu Yijun finally waited for the most important opportunity in his life.
Probably because the eyebrows are a little like Zhang Guorong, he was selected by director Kong Sheng to star in the TV series "Man Ghost Love" adapted from "Liaozhai", playing the male protagonist Ning Caichen.
As soon as Liu Yijun's face was put there, the role was established for the most part.
But what is interesting is that he actually put Ning Caichen, a weak scholar in everyone's impression, into a straight and poisonous tongue.
The female ghost came to seduce him, and he pointed at the nose and damaged the house.
Prostitutes are persecuted
And you're being yourself a slut
The Douban score of "Human Ghost Love" is now 8.6, but it was not hot that year.
However, this play made the production team remember him.
Yes, this team is from Mountain Shadow, Liu Yijun can wait for "The Pretender" and "Langya List", and the foreshadowing has been buried here.
In the 2002 Sino-Korean co-production of "Modern Family", he starred as Xiao Yuntian, a young talent who stayed in the west.
Tall and tall with long legs, a gentleman, and his appearance and temperament are not at all inferior to the Oba in those Korean dramas.
Aesthetic changes and the marketization and diversification of TV series production have made Liu Yijun finally become a professional actor of her dreams.
At that time, the roles that found him were mainly some young students, this son, the young master.
As if, this is the most in line with his play path.
But Liu Yijun began to be "restless".
Because playing a small fresh meat and playing a reusable character is too unchallenging.
It feels like no matter how much acting skills you hold back, you can only swing your fist at the air.
So Liu Yijun took the initiative to start "destroying the image".
Behind them, a large number of better-looking fresh meats are following in the footsteps.
In the 2004 TV series "The Great Qing Official", everyone discovered another side of Liu Yijun.
The madness and perversion of a traitor released Liu Yijun in the shell.
At this time, it can also be seen that Liu Yijun, who first played the villain, has a relatively superficial interpretation of the role.
"Evil" is in place, but there is still something meaningful and thought-provoking.
In 2007, Kong Sheng made the crime film "Top Secret Escort" and found him again.
Let him play a businessman who looks elegant in appearance, but in fact does all the evil things, and the big boss behind the scenes, Xiang Luoyang.
He was doing something elegant with his hands and a kind smile on his face, but his eyes were full of calculation and fierceness.
This time, Liu Yijun secretly added drama.
The script writes that Xiang Luoyang is a villain and an enemy of the people.
But is it possible to perform something other than his superficial evil?
Xiang Luoyang came from the bottom and received a good education.
Fearing poverty, he struggled to succeed, and after struggling, he gave up the good part of human nature.
When he talks about and thinks about the poor days he once had, he is afraid and can't control his behavior.
People can live in poverty
But with money, you can no longer be poor
Xiang Luoyang's end was to be shot dead by the police while fleeing.
Liu Yijun elaborately designed his death:
The moment he was killed, he fell to his knees.
That kneeling reveals a more profound and complex meaning.
kneel.
It was himself, who had always been strong and wanted to get ahead, who was suddenly broken and straightened.
But he was not willing to fail, and still used his last bit of strength to try to resist the time when he fell to the ground.
Liu Yijun found.
A villain who is not disciplined by too much framework may be able to fully mobilize the imagination of the actor and break the established way of acting.
It can also give actors more space to think about the complexity of roles and people.
Liu Yijun seized these opportunities for tempering.
In 2008, Nortel's 87-level performance class appeared on the show "Flowing Golden Years" together.
Teacher Ma Jingwu said to Liu Yijun on the show: This person will definitely become a great instrument late.
03
Where does Liu Yijun's late capital come from?
Part of it is experience.
For an actor, the bittersweet and bittersweet of life, the twists and turns of fate, are probably the best nutrients.
Brave actors, who do not even avoid their own pain, but make the pain the deepest part of the performance.
In 2011, Kong Sheng asked Liu Yijun to play Ouyang Yi in "Parental Love".
An intellectual who once stayed in the west.
When the scenery is beautiful, he invites people to eat Western food, and the brother-in-law is overwhelmed with chopsticks, and he uses a knife and fork with a straight and elegant hand.
A casual glance came over, full of vanity and arrogance.
Later, in the special era, such a proud son of heaven was sent down as a fisherman and his dignity was flattened.
No one called him the bookish name, Ouyang Yi, and called him "Lao Ou".
After he was finally rehabilitated, at the simple dinner table, Ouyang Yi used the strength of wine to vent his grievances for more than ten years:
"I am, I am Ouyang Yi, I am not Lao Ou, I am Ouyang Yi, my name is Ouyang Yi..."
Maybe at that moment, he could really fully understand Ouyang Yi.
I thought I should have reached the age of a grand plan, but I found that there was no place to play.
When he was 17 years old, he was admitted to Nortel, a class of more than a dozen students, and he once felt that he was the proud son of heaven.
He said he liked taking physical fitness classes the most so he could keep his head high.
Later.
He found himself in the direction he had envisioned, and the iron door was locked.
Only repeated detours and walking up the rough and winding paths.
From wanting to play the leading role to being smoothed out by pride, as long as there is a drama, he seizes the opportunity.
In the days when he had no drama to act, he could only watch the movie tapes over and over again.
Probably like Ouyang Yi when he fell, looking at his brother-in-law's clean and decent clothes, that kind of longing and loneliness.
Liu Yijun later recalled that the role of Ouyang Yi was really difficult.
Because as a side line in this play, there are not so many complete scenes to show the experience of this character.
Maybe between one play and another, it's a span of ten years.
This is a very test of an actor's understanding of the role.
In these years without drama, what kind of state will he be? It depends on Liu Yijun's own imagination.
Where the script was not written in its entirety, what kind of person he really was, he had to rely on Liu Yijun himself to fill it.
Throughout his acting career, he is basically a supporting role.
But he has completed one incomplete supporting role after another with painstaking efforts.
I dare say I take every one of them
Those humble characters
It will all be better than the original script
Everything on this character line
I've made him rationalize
Especially let him be as vivid as possible
An actor's ability to understand the character is cultivated in this way.
As Liu Yijun himself said, he is a restless person in his bones.
After so many years of acting career, he will never be willing to do it, not willing to surrender, not willing to act so casually.
In the fourth grade of Liu Yijun Elementary School, the teacher asked them what they wanted to do when they grew up.
It was also the era when most actors were called "dramas", and Liu Yijun bravely wrote "actors" in his book.
The class teacher at that time disdainful eyes, he still remembers deeply.
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But that didn't change in the slightest, he just wanted to be an actor.
In the 1990s, he gave up his years in a stable studio and left his hometown in search of opportunities.
More than a decade ago, he bravely broke the shackles of his appearance and embarked on a "narrow road" of playing a villain.
In his most difficult and difficult times, when there are people around him who are discouraged, face bad characters, and begin to bow to the performance of getting by.
He prefers to play small supporting roles and bad roles as well.
Get a role, everyone expects him to do what kind of behavior, he is unexpected, contrary to the routine.
As Liu Yijun once said, get the role and forget it first.
So now I get a role
The first homework to do is to forget
Forget about this character before
About roles like this
All conventional things
Now, after everyone fell in love with him as the villain villain, he jumped out again.
The role of He Yong in "Sweeping Black Storm" was won by Liu Yijun himself.
Originally, the drama party found him because he wanted him to continue to play the villain.
But such a character is played a lot, and he wants to play something different.
Conventional things, he prefers.
What others want him to act, what kind of acting, he wants to break this expectation.
The times are changing, and so are the stages of life.
But at no time did his restless heart stop bouncing up and down.
When no one is.
It is the power against the fall.
It's time to spotlight.
It is the engine of artistic creation, breaking free from stereotyping.
Why does Liu Yijun stand out now?
Is it face value? Is it acting? Or is it just on the hit?
It seems that any one regular answer is not enough to explain.
But this may explain exactly why:
He doesn't rely on any of the traits that are in vogue at the moment.
Rather, it is constantly filling the scarcity of the moment.
There is no one to set, and there is no absolute black and white of the three views, and he believes that the charm of the character is to continue to expand the ambiguous zone in human nature.
Always abandoning the successful routine, habitually taking the path of inaccessibility, and finally becoming the only one that cannot be classified in a homogenization.
It's good, we have Liu Yijun.
There are such actors who retain their dignity for the performance.
Twenty or thirty years
We're still doing what we love
We are still standing
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