The 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has become a seemingly fateful ambush line, which secretly confirms their life trajectory.
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This June, 54-year-old Ouyang Fenqiang frequently appeared at train stations and airports. The preparations for the 30th anniversary of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" are nearing the end, and for him, he can relax a little and wait for his old friends to arrive from all over.
He found Zhang Lei, who had not appeared in public since the dissolution of the crew, and also welcomed back his sister "Yuan Chun" Cheng Mei, "Yuan, Ying, Tan, Xie" The four sisters were able to share the same frame for the first time.
"Yuan, Ying, Tan, Xie" The four sisters were able to share the same frame for the first time / Ouyang Fenqiang Weibo
In addition to director Wang Fulin, screenwriter Zhou Ling, and the behind-the-scenes heroes of the camera, art, costume and prop departments are also invited.
Everyone expected it to be a grand event that no one was absent.
However, before leaving, Zhang Li, the "Xue Baochao" who had bought a ticket early, suddenly suffered kidney stones and was hospitalized, so that at the gathering on June 17, of the four people of "Bao Dai Chao Feng", only "Jia Baoyu" Ouyang Fenqiang and "Wang Xifeng" Deng Jie appeared.
"Dai Yu" Chen Xiaoxu died, and "Bao Chao" Zhang Li could not come. Chinese's image memory, the "Dream of the Red Chamber" with gold and mourning jade has become a reality in the dark.
First sight and goodbye
The first time I saw Zhou Ling was at his home in Beijing's East Fourth Ring Road, where the courtyard was full of flowers and was surrounded by silence, and the slightest sound could be clearly heard.
Zhou Ling first calmly brewed a pot of tea, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he pulled people into the memory: "When visiting the Grand View Garden, Jia Mu took everyone to Miao Yu to drink tea, saying that I don't eat Lu'an tea, Miao Yu replied, I know, this is Lao Junmei - what I brewed is Lao Junmei." ”
The 67-year-old Zhou Ling was the earliest screenwriter to enter "Dream of the Red Chamber" that year, and because of his tall and talented, he was very popular in the crew. He was also one of the teachers at the time, analyzing the main characters of "Dream of the Red Chamber" for the actors.
The audience is full of new youthful faces - sales clerks, shoe factory women, office clerks, troupe actors, dragon sets without acting. Zhou Ling asked, how many people have read "Dream of the Red Chamber"? Few people raised their hands. Some people mischievously asked, does the "villain book" count?
Baoyu's actor Ouyang Fenqiang has not seriously read "Dream of the Red Chamber", he is the last to enter the group, everyone has entered the "preparation" state, "Jia Lian" Gao Hongliang took him to see Chen Xiaoxu for the first time, "This is Ouyang Fenqiang, Baoyu; Dai Yu, Chen Xiaoxu." ”
It was the Old Summer Palace in April 1984, and it was the culmination of happiness in these people's memories. This period of time was later called "sisters into the garden" by the crew, and there were many girls, most of whom were eighteen or nineteen years old, chattering and lively.
Since then, from the first set of shots in Huangshan, Anhui Province, to 41 regions and 219 scenic spots in 10 provinces and cities across the country, the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has left the creators and audiences with a beautiful dream.
Later, Chen Xiaoxu wrote an essay calling the shooting day "three years in the dream", and she wrote that she would always be nostalgic for the Yuanmingyuan in April of that year, the blooming peach blossoms, the winding paths, and the girls who laughed or cried in order to get the ideal role. She also wrote that she hoped that the vicissitudes of life would not erase their former innocence.
But dreams also have deadlines.
At the end of filming, the crew ate a casual meal at the newly built CCTV (now an old site), many people cried, men drank and smoked with their heads down, and some people turned their heads to the ceiling in order not to let the tears flow down.
Yuan Ming gave Chen Xiaoxu a toast, and the two quarreled for 3 years inside and outside the play, Yuan Ming said: "We have a truce." Say something, there is no smell of gunpowder. Chen Xiaoxu tilted his head and asked, "In the future, will we still have a chance to quarrel?" ”
Later, "Dream of the Red Chamber" was successfully broadcast, and in the era of cultural scarcity, almost every household floated out of the lament of "Frowning", and overnight, the people in the play became household names.
Taking advantage of the heat, some actors participated in a two-year cave performance. There are also people who go abroad, study, are selected by other crews to continue acting, or get married and have children, and return to the days of ordinary people.
Half a life
In the past 30 years, the sequel beyond the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has not appeared, and with the death of Chen Xiaoxu and the fluttering of the new version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in 2010, it has been pushed into the temple of national memory.
No one mentions the "feast will disperse" in "Dream of the Red Chamber". In the past 10 years, the crew has met frequently, the 25th anniversary of the start-up, the 25th anniversary of the start-up, the 30th anniversary of the completion of the Rongguo Mansion in Zhengding, the 300th anniversary of Cao Xueqin's birth... There are also small stories between friends in private: "Liu Grandma" Sha Yuhua's eightieth birthday, director Wang Fulin's birthday, screenwriter Zhou Ling Zhang Luo's family banquet, almost all can see the figure of the creators.
At the 30th anniversary of the broadcast of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Deng Jie and Ouyang Fenqiang took a group photo.
In the past month, the 30th anniversary of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is approaching, and there are especially many gatherings, this meal "Wang Xifeng" does the east, that "Xi Chun" treats guests, everyone pushes the cup to change the cup, and shares their praise for the youth time 30 years ago.
Deng Jie, now 60 years old, can already laugh and talk about the past at the party. When the competition for the role of "Wang Xifeng" was the most fierce, she saw two spiders on the wall, one large and one small, the big one was white, the small one was red, the white spider climbed fast, and the red spider could not catch up.
Deng Jie was the red spider. Like the trial situation of "Wang Xifeng" in the play, she was 27 years old at the time and understood that this was an opportunity that she had to seize in her life.
Before entering the Yuanmingyuan, Deng Jie was an ordinary actor in the Sichuan Provincial Sichuan Opera Troupe, dark and thin, small, and unremarkable in the pile of people.
In the troupe for a few years, I could only play the squirrel all the time. It was hard to arrange a modern drama, brush a station, the leader said, replace the short one.
At that time, the person who competed with her for "Wang Xifeng" was Le Yun, who was tall and tall, born with a pair of Dan phoenix eyes, and was recognized as the first beautiful woman in the crew.
Zhou Ling recalled that at that time, Deng Jie often chased after him and asked how to pinch the character of "Wang Xifeng". After doing your homework, go to the stone rehearsal, the stone is "Liu Grandma", "Lin Daiyu" and "Second Master Lian".
The stones of the Yuanmingyuan bear witness to Deng Jie's tears. She sometimes jealous of Le Yun's beauty, and sometimes complained about why she couldn't be born a few centimeters taller.
In the midst of torment and competition, fate presented a great gift to Deng Jie, and She got the role of "Wang Xifeng" as she wished.
At first, he almost became the music rhyme of "Wang Xifeng", and later went to Hong Kong, in the illusion of becoming a big star, he was deceived by her husband and abandoned, and finally could not bear the humiliation and jumped from the 13th floor.
The person who is good with Wang Xifeng is Qin Keqing, who died early in the play. Zhang Lei, the actress who showed her shoulders in the TV series, once appeared in various versions of the rumor. For example, with large sums of money, bankruptcy, poverty, people wishfully associate her fate with the characters in the play.
This year, Zhang Lei reappeared, and we learned that she had a half-life, studied abroad in the 80s, and is now the financial director of a technology company.
Zhang Lei does not play much, and the branding brought to her by "Dream of the Red Chamber" is not obvious. But many Americans know "Dream of Red Mansions", and when she is occasionally mentioned, she feels like a dream.
If not met
Xia Minghui, the actor of "Lady Xing", is also one of the creators of this dream. Before the filming of "Dream of the Red Chamber", as a director's assistant, she had been looking for and selecting actors across the country.
Xia Minghui, who appeared in a gallery in Beijing, took out three photo albums from his collection. These 3 photo albums record the complete time of the crew of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber". The people in the album are frozen in the youth era, outside the album, Xia Minghui watched these people become famous and old.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" is a great gift from fate. Sometimes 80-year-old Xia Minghui also thinks about what their lives would have been like if these children had not met "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Most people are probably not better than they are now, of course, there are some people who once made her wonder: "Was it the wrong choice?" ”
For example, Ma Guangru, who plays "Jia Rui" in the play, died in 1996, and the cause of death was alcoholism.
Xia Minghui still remembers the first time he met Ma Guangru, in the Huangmei Theater Troupe in Anqing, the young boy dressed up and painted, alive and free is a Jia Baoyu. But after removing her makeup, she could immediately see that Ma Guangru had several acne on his face.
Xia Minghui gave Ma Guangru the opportunity to interview and told him to cure the acne on his face.
When they saw each other again after a while, Xia Minghui's heart was half cold: Ma Guangru's acne was not cured, his hair was still messy, and his sloppy appearance did not have the shadow of "Baoyu". Xia Minghui counted down a few words, and Ma Guangru cried at that time.
Ma Guangru later played the "Jia Rui" who died of color in the play, but he read through "Dream of the Red Chamber" at the age of 6 and regarded himself as "Jia Baoyu" all his life, and he has never been able to get out of the obstacle in his heart.
When he was in the crew, Ma Guangru fell in love with "Lin Daiyu" Chen Xiaoxu, and even did not hesitate to cut her wrist Mingzhi; later in life, he took wine as a companion, and when he was interested, he recited the poems of the Red Chamber, and the bedside sticker was: "Cold Pond Crane Shadow, Cold Moon Burying Flower Soul". At the time of his death, his funeral was a "Dream of the Red Chamber" and a hole in the coffin.
It was 1996, and the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was only one of many TV series, far from reaching the height of later praise, the actors in the play were not closely linked, and Ma Guangru's death was almost silent.
According to Ma Guangru's friends later recalled, on the day of his death, the local TV station broadcast the episode of "Wang Xifeng Poison set up the Love Affair Bureau" in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" - Ma Guangru, who had longed for a lifetime of "Jia Baoyu", finally failed to escape Jia Rui's fate.
Chen Honghai, the actor of "Xue Pan", was one of the few friends who knew the news of Ma Guangru's death at that time, "The death was very sloppy, it was completely stupid." ”
It needs to be carefully identified in order to find the shadow of the "Dumb Overlord" on Chen Honghai's face. He also couldn't tell whether Ma Guangru's tragic story was doomed or a coincidence of fate, "but in 30 years, what kind of sadness and joy is not normal?" Chen Honghai sighed.
Later, Chen Xiaoxu's death was known to the world. The year after her death, the news came that Li Yue, who was only 29 years old, had died in a car accident.
At that time, "Liu Grandma" Sha Yuhua was 78 years old, and many people stopped her from attending Li Yue's funeral. But Sha Yuhua still insisted on appearing, and with great sorrow, sent the "little grandson" on his last journey.
The dead are gone, and the living have experienced the loneliness and frustration of life, becoming middle-aged people who have been trimmed by time.
Many people have bad marriages or don't have children. In the early years of filming, Ouyang Fenqiang died a son prematurely. Deng Jie also shed tears in the show, and the biggest regret in her life is that she did not have her own children.
In the end, it is difficult to reconcile
After the end of "Dream of the Red Chamber", Ouyang Fenqiang fought as a director for 30 years, and now he is full of white hair.
He had previously spent most of his life getting rid of the shadow of "Jia Baoyu". In the year of recording "Art Life", in the face of Zhu Jun's questions, he showed obvious reluctance and helplessness: "The TV series I directed won all kinds of awards in China, but none of them made the audience feel particularly good. ”
This year, Ouyang Fenqiang's movie "Strange Eyes" was released, and the final box office was 1.53 million, with a Douban score of 3.2. What is more embarrassing than the bad reviews is that there are few followers. Some people who watched the movie said that they were stopped in the supermarket to give tickets before they went to see the movie.
After knowing the age of the Mandate of Heaven, Ouyang Fenqiang in the middle-aged body shell finally ended his confrontation with "Jia Baoyu", he changed his WeChat name and Weibo name to "Ouyang Baoyu", opened a WeChat public account with the same name, and registered a company called "Red Chamber Baoyu".
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Xia Minghui saw it clearly, and she described the TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber" as "a beautiful accident that belonged to the 80s".
"The more the main character, the harder it is to break through that character." Xia Minghui said.
Later, many actors had difficulty in making achievements and changed their careers early, which is also the reason. It's not how well they play it, it's that they're too much like that character. "Chen Xiaoxu's sentence is particularly correct, what she plays, it is like Lin Daiyu played other roles."
Zhou Ling recalled that around 1990, Chen Xiaoxu had looked for him. At that time, Chen Xiaoxu still wanted to develop in the show business circle, the money spent on filming and going to the cave was almost spent, rented a broken house, did not even have the ground to sit on, and was very nervous when facing Zhou Ling, took out a video tape and let him guide the performance.
The film is called "Black Grapes", Chen Xiaoxu plays a rural girl, from the story to the performance is very mediocre, there is no highlight.
Stills from Black Grapes
Zhou Ling said bluntly, "Xiao Xu, you can't take this kind of drama in the future, it's not suitable for you." ”
Chen Xiaoxu was silent for a while before he spoke: "Teacher Zhou, where is there a "Dream of the Red Chamber" for me to shoot?" ”
"Dream of the Red Chamber" has become an inflection point in many people's lives, but it is also a high point that cannot be crossed.
As a bystander, li Yaozong, the cameraman of the TV series, used the camera to freeze the most youthful appearance of this group of people, so that they could integrate with the characters of the novel. But he has always insisted, "The past is the past, and the role and the actor should be separated." ”
He did not like the outside world's chiseling attachment to the 87 version, especially for Chen Xiaoxu. The two have been friends for many years, and Li Yaozong has helped Chen Xiaoxu's company a lot, "A Lin Daiyu, can you manage such a big company?" ”
Chen Xiaoxu's death, he still feels pity, is obviously a story of concealing illness and avoiding medical treatment, but in the repeated beautification of onlookers, death has become a "good thing".
Li Yaozong believes that unlike Ouyang Fenqiang, the other party has always presented the outside world with a state of "falling asleep and not waking up for life", and he feels that everyone's dream should have woken up earlier: "Dream of the Red Chamber" is just a small stage of life. ”
Chances are uncertain
Chen Jianyue, the actor of "Xiangling", was anxious to wake up and walk out of this dream.
She once wrote on Weibo, "I like to tell the truth, and I like the role of Xiangling." But I really didn't act well. If I had been (now) that age, I would have created a very glorious fragrance. ”
Chen Jianyue and her husband Hou Changrong are among the few actors who are still engaged in acting after "Dream of the Red Chamber", who is played by The King of Beijing and Liu Xianglian in the play. The two met and fell in love in the play, which is a good story of the crew.
As both professional actors, the two have similar troubles. Chen Jianyue later interpreted many mother's roles, kind, reclusive, and divided, but whenever he was mentioned, he was still the "bitter Xiangling" who was abducted by human traffickers and forced to marry Xue Pan as a concubine. Hou Changrong is also, he has played almost all the male protagonists of the opera AND TV series that were popular in the 90s, but in people's memory, he is still the Liu Xianglian who beat the dumb overlord and failed You Sanjie.
The influence of this role is everywhere. Chen Jianyue and Hou Changrong jointly participated in a big drama is about to be staged, the protagonist is Sun Li, every time he sees her, Sun Li will say that he feels that she is a person of the old time, especially the temperament of the old time.
But Chen Jianyue was not willing to stay only in "Xiangling". She has rarely forwarded messages about "Xiangling". Last year, she had a serious illness, but did not disclose to the outside world, "People will definitely equate me with Xiangling again, which is too exaggerated." I want the audience to see my changes and progress. ”
For almost 10 years, Gao Hongliang was once very resistant to the identity of "Second Master Lian", as the male character second only to Jia Baoyu in the role of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the handsome "Jia Lian" became a label that he could not tear off. Once on a business trip to Beijing, in a taxi, the driver immediately came with a familiar sentence: "Yo, Second Master Lian, you are back!" ”
"Dream of the Red Chamber" makes the life turn of most actors extremely smooth, but Gao Hongliang chose the most stupid. He hid the review materials in the sandwich page of the script, memorized the examination materials after memorizing the lines, finished the drama, and also got the notice of the play, "At that time, I felt that "Dream of the Red Chamber" was just a starting point, and the road to life in the future was still very long. ”
He later participated in many acclaimed works such as "Kangxi Dynasty" and has become a mature actor who can play the role with a phone call from the director.
But the reality is cruel, and "Dream of the Red Chamber" is still the highest point of his performance. Gao Hongliang was unwilling: "Everyone's applause is for Jia Lian, but I prefer to give me a performance." ”
30 years is enough to make the film and television environment change dramatically, and Gao Hongliang feels that acting with peace of mind has become a luxury now. He is currently the age to play the father of the little fresh meat, "sometimes I really can't act, and the other party will not do it at all." Another director said directly: "Teacher Gao, you leave him alone, you can rely on imagination to act." ”
After people pass middle age, the feeling of twisting the bar disappears, and Gao Hongliang begins to perceive that life opportunities are uncertain.
When he first entered the crew, there were more than 20 people competing for the role of Jia Lian, who had no acting experience and seemed to be the one with the least chance. Finally announced that he would play "Jia Chain", some young people were not angry, and directly ran to the director's house to cry. But now that I have saved enough acting experience, there is no chance to act well in the real world.
Who understands the taste
"There is no hero at all times, and the shaft has become famous", to this day, Zhou Ling still has thousands of regrets in his heart, "The 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" can do better, but there is no chance." ”
The times dragged people forward, and the sequel beyond the 87 version did not appear, but the excessive pursuit of posterity still made Zhou Ling feel incredible.
He maintains the habit of lecturing 30 years ago, still calling the actors in the play "children", and has always reminded people not to inflate the "children" in middle age, they are just lucky people at a special time, nothing more.
The overflowing lyricism and cheering from the outside world quickly annihilated the advice. Zhou Ling also understood that if there was no Dream of the Red Chamber, these people were just ordinary people in the crowd. But even with "Dream of the Red Chamber", they were just ordinary middle-aged people in the crowd.
As the 30th anniversary party approaches, all the actresses are nervously preparing for the day's clothing, hoping to appear in the public eye with brilliance and struggle to regain some decency with time.
Some people are willing to stand in the center of the stage, others are willing to make it clear that they will not appear, and others are willing to watch from afar, or just want to take this opportunity to meet old friends who have not been seen for a long time.
But in any case, the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" has become a fate that seems to be there or not, which secretly confirms their life trajectory.
Director Wang Fulin still has to turn over the poems of "Dream of the Red Chamber" every day to fall asleep, and screenwriter Zhou Ling is the most popular expert in red studies, who will regularly give lectures in colleges and universities, just like 30 years ago, so that contemporary young people know the charm of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
In the emotional faction, "Lin Daiyu" Chen Xiaoxu died of illness, Zhang Jinglin, the actor of "Qingwen", changed his name to An Wen, and his boyfriend who had been in love for 23 years was fraudulently imprisoned, embezzling more than 10 million of her savings, and An Wen was forced to come back to pay back the money, and was entangled in the word "love" for life. Ji Peijie, the actor of "Miao Yu", changed his name to Ji Yu and immersed himself in the cultivation of Buddhism.
Standing firmly next to the aging "Baoyu" now are "Raiding People", "Exploring Spring", and "Wang Xifeng", which belong to Cao Xueqin's rational faction, as if reproducing a certain law of people's fate choices in the play.
In the home of Gao Hongliang, "Jia Chain" still has an old version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in a dignified manner. When "Xue Pan" Chen Honghai practiced calligraphy, the three words he wrote the most were "Dream of the Red Chamber", he moved home many times, and the script when filming "Dream of the Red Chamber" was always with him. The WeChat avatars of "Yuan Chun" Cheng Mei and "Xi Chun" Hu Zehong are still screenshots of them in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
"Xi Chun" Hu Zehong is also one of Chen Xiaoxu's former friends, and like the characters in the play, she believes in Buddhism and constantly reminds herself that she cannot be obsessed.
Once, she dreamed of Chen Xiaoxu, far away, foggy, Chen Xiaoxu was wearing the clothes of "Lin Daiyu", which was the look in the TV series, smiling at her from a distance.
That was the only time Hu Zehong dreamed of Chen Xiaoxu, "We will continue to grow old, and only those who are no longer will be young forever."
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