Li Chengru's first video column, "The Life of Drama Confucianism", has aroused widespread concern among netizens since its launch. On the one hand, Li Chengru, who has been in the film and television circle for decades, is a recognized drama bone, and has also participated in many well-known works, so he knows that many unknown "gossip" in the film and television circle, for example, in previous programs, he has revealed that some crews have stopped working for the college entrance examination for other actors, told the past of the filming of "Journey to the West", and also revealed that there is small fresh meat admitting to having professional fans, etc.; on the other hand, Li Chengru does not change the "poisonous tongue" style in the column, dares to criticize various phenomena, and the views and values he exports are interesting and thinking.
Recently, "Drama Confucian Life" launched the last issue of "Police Gangster Drama", this issue of the column Li Chengru recalled his participation in the "Six Groups of Serious Cases", but also mentioned Zhao Baogang's "Never Look Away", in addition to sharing his own insights on the theme of police bandits, Li Chengru once again put the perspective on the capital operation and actor selection of the film and television circle, and the amount of information is not small.
It is not easy for the director to choose actors, and there is a big gap between photos and real people
Speaking of police dramas, Li Chengru first mentioned his starring role in "Six Groups of Serious Cases", which is also one of his masterpieces, and also a classic of police dramas, and the current douban score is still as high as 8.7, which shows the audience and netizens' love for this drama.
In the column, Li Chengru revealed a figure that may surprise everyone, "Six Groups of Serious Cases" has been repeated 3860 times since its inception! This is a really staggering number and proves that classics never fade. After talking about his works, Li Chengru said that there were two directions for the creation of police and bandit themes at that time, one was a police romance drama, and the other was a documentary version of the case drama.
Among them, the one that impressed him the most in the style of police romance drama was Zhao Baogang's "Never Look Away", Li Chengru and Zhao Baogang were classmates, so they paid great attention to his works. Speaking of this, Li Chengru began to break the news, he revealed that Zhao Baogang encountered too many difficulties when choosing the number one woman, he said: "I once went to I was particularly impressed, he (Zhao Baogang) was particularly unhappy that day, I said what's wrong? It turned out that Zhao Baogang was choosing actors with a headache, and the table was full of a bunch of actress photos.
Li Chengru helped Zhao Baogang choose two from one or two hundred photos, saying that the two actresses still look like that, but Zhao Baogang called the actress over to take a look, in Li Chengru's words, it is "unrecognizable", for this reason, Zhao Baogang said to Li Chengru: "Chengru, remember that in the future, you must not look at the photos, you must see me." ”
In Li Chengru's view, the current technology is too high, and the actor can shoot how well he wants to look good, but when you see himself, it is not like that.
It is worth mentioning that "Never Look Away" was shot in 1998, launched in 2000, there was no smart phone in that era, so the photo processing was actually limited, looking at the present, the technology of smart phone beautification pictures is more advanced, the difference between photos and myself is more serious, but Li Chengru recalls Zhao Baogang's past when he chose actors, it seems that the film and television circles also had a big gap between photos and real people.
With 150 million large projects using unknown actors, directors have no power to choose
After talking about Zhao Baogang's "Never Look Away", Li Chengru began to "digress" and complained about the film school, he said that there was a period of net recruitment xiaohuadan, he said that when he was in the film school, he had very clear requirements for the height of girls and boys, but now 1.55 meters, 1.58 meters of actresses also have, when acting, in order to look good, he has even seen "apple box actresses standing on the second floor".
Then Li Chengru began to complain that it was too difficult to find actors, and the director had no right to choose actors, "Even if it is some big-name directors, I am afraid that they do not have the right to choose actors, it is completely capital in the selection." ”
Then Li Chengru broke the news that in the crew, he would inexplicably feel where this female number one came from, where did she graduate, and what works had she acted in? When Li Chengru said this, it is obvious that the actress he is referring to is not well-known, and there is no masterpiece that he is familiar with, that is, the capital choice he mentioned earlier.
When he talked to others about how good the play was and how much investment was made, Li Chengru said with a very surprised expression: "Huh? This hundred and fifty million is pressed on her, is this successful? This phenomenon is particularly prevalent. This sentence shows that Li Chengru learned that a certain work invested 150 million yuan, but the actress was not recognized by him, nor was it too highly recognized, but there are many such phenomena in the film and television circle.
At the same time, Li Chengru also did not forget to complain about the above-mentioned actresses, the set could not complete the shooting task, can only be adjusted in the post- stage, give her the best dubbing, obviously the voice actor has used all his strength to match very well, but the actress is still not satisfied.
At the end of this issue, Li Chengru said: "As long as capital occupies this literary and art market, strange circles and strange phenomena will follow. The matter of casting actors can rarely be grasped by a director. "Do you agree with Li Chengru's point of view?"