The 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" can be said to be a divine drama, a play that cannot be surpassed by future generations.
This drama respects the original work, respects the audience, restores the original work to the greatest extent, and each character satisfies our imagination of the characters in the original work, bringing us great beauty and shock.
At that time, the shooting of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" was huge.
Five years of preparation, three years of filming; national audition of actors, and then two study classes for actors, inviting red science experts as consultants; the establishment of beijing Grand View Garden, in Hebei Zhengding jianning RongFu ... It was prepared in 1983, started in 1984, and filmed in 1987.
Director Wang Fulin is the soul of the entire crew. Without Wang Fulin, there would be no 87 version of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
It was director Wang Fulin who proposed to shoot the four famous works, it was he who single-handedly took over the burden of shooting "Dream of the Red Chamber", it was he who tried to overcome public opinion and adopted the way of national audition of actors, it was he who invited red consultants, gave lessons to actors, let actors do sketches, selected actors who are really suitable for the role, it is he who strives for excellence, the polishing of one shot after another, sometimes only two or three shots a day...
In the face of the trust of the leaders, the huge investment, and the criticism of the outside world, director Wang Fulin secretly decided that he must make a good film of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
For the crew and actors, Wang Fulin is very demanding.
In order to let everyone feel the atmosphere of the Red Chamber and enter the role, all the staff and actors live in the crew and devote themselves to learning and shooting.
Whether there is a play or not, you must be in the crew, there is a drama of filming, there is no drama to watch the play, let yourself feel in the scene of the Red Chamber.
Director Wang Fulin stipulates that actors are not allowed to roll the scene.
At that time, most of the actors, not professional actors, were from various places, and under normal circumstances, the crew seconded actors to sign a three-year contract with the original unit.
In this way, everyone was immersed in the Red Chamber, getting along day and night, and becoming one with the characters, so that later, as long as they put on the costume and stood there without speaking, they knew which character it was.
And she, who was born beautiful and beautiful as a flower, was selected into the Red Chamber crew, originally a candidate for the Daiyu group, but in the end she was not selected, and only played a small role.
Before entering the Red Chamber crew, she had gone to the Westward Journey Crew to try the play, and director Yang Jie let her try the village girl in "Three Dozen White Bone Essences". Later, I heard that she was photographed by the Red Chamber crew, and director Yang Jie was afraid of the conflict in the shooting, so he gave up on her.
After that, Huang Jianzhong noticed her and wanted her to play Xingxian in the movie "Good Family Woman", Xu Anhua's movie "Book of Swords and Enmity", the role of Princess Xiangxiang, also considered her, 89 film version of "Dream of the Red Chamber" director Xie Tieli, also liked her, Xie Tieli said, there are two roles, asked her if she wanted to act, one is Mandarin Duck, one is Tanchun.
Unfortunately, at that time, she had already entered the Red Chamber crew, and the crew was not allowed to roll the scene, so she refused one by one.
She is Hu Zehong, the actor of Jia Xichun in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber".
Hu Zehong is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, from a family of Yue opera, and her father is the famous playwright Hu Xiaozi.
When she was studying art, Hu Zehong studied under Wang Wenjuan, and when the Red Chamber Crew selected actors, the teacher of the Beijing Hongqiyue Opera Troupe where she belonged recommended her to the crew.
In fact, before, Hu Zehong went to the Westward Journey Crew to try the play. Her family and the family of the six-year-old children are family friends, and the six-year-old children entered the Journey to the West crew to play Sun Wukong, so they recommended Hu Zehong to Yang Jie.
The two crews are very close, and Chen Jianyue also went to the Westward Journey Crew to audition and was met by Pan Xinxin.
Pan Xinxin suggested that she also go to the opposite crew to try it, that is, the Red Chamber crew, and as a result, Chen Jianyue was also photographed by the Red Chamber crew.
What's even more coincidental is that Hu Zehong and Chen Jianyue actually tried to be village girls in the "Three White Bone Essences". However, these two village girls were all matched by the Red Chamber crew.
Hu Zehong entered the Red Chamber crew and once became a candidate for Lin Daiyu. She is lively and cheerful by nature, and her friends tell her that to play Lin Daiyu, she must be sentimental, so she has always pretended to be successful.
Until once, Hu Zehong went to the Yuanmingyuan and met an uncle, the uncle was very amiable, Hu Zehong revealed his nature without paying attention, and chatted with uncle Tiannanhaibei, chatting happily.
Then, Hu Zehong was told that she was not suitable for playing Lin Daiyu and changed to Xi Chun. At this time, she knew that this uncle was the director Wang Fulin.
From Daiyu to Xichun, this gap is a bit large. After Hu Zehong went back, he took out the original work, read it several times, and found that there were too few plays in Xi Chun.
So, she ran to Director Wang and told the director that Xi Chun's role was too small. Wang Fulin smiled and squinted at her, saying that she should go to find the original work, and the scenes that were not on the script could be added.
Therefore, Hu Zehong went back to seriously read the original work again and found out the play that the script did not have, Wang Fulin said, plus, and found a paragraph of the script that did not, director Wang Fulin said, plus.
In the play, Zhou Rui's family sent palace flowers, and the scene where they encountered Xi Chun and Smart Play was Hu Zehong's own request, and later added, this scene implied that Xi Chun would escape into the empty door after that.
Hu Zehong has a cheerful personality and is the "pistachio" of the crew, she and Chen Xiaoxu are good friends, Chen Xiaoxu calls her "strange bean", she calls Chen Xiaoxu "white rat". Director Wang Fulin is very strict, the crew is afraid of him, only Hu Zehong is not afraid, and Chen Xiaoxu nicknamed the director "a lonely little boy".
Xi Chun's role is not much, when there is no play, Hu Zehong quietly watches other actors filming. Although there are constantly crews coming to her, Hu Zehong has no heart, and she stays in the crew for three years and learns a lot of knowledge.
In fact, if Hu Zehong finishes filming the scene of "Xi Chun" and asks to leave the crew to take other scenes, I believe the director will not force her too much.
At that time, Zhang Lei finished filming the scene of "Qin Keqing" and then went abroad. After that, the crew found that there was still "Qin Keqing" scene that had not been filmed, but she could not be found.
Li Yi, the actor of Xing Xiuyan, went to the film version of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" crew in his spare time, and played Jia Mu's Yahuan "Amber".
However, Hu Zehong did not.
Of course, Zhang Lei and Li Yi had a reason. When she entered the crew, Zhang Leiju had already decided to study abroad and submitted an application to the embassy, Li Yi was still a student at the time, and when the crew had a play, she was only looking for her to shoot.
Since she has promised the Red Chamber crew, since she has signed a contract, she is at ease to stay in the crew, even if Xi Chun is a small role, there are not many scenes.
There are many such actors, Hou Changrong, who plays Liu Xianglian, does not have many scenes, when there is no drama, he will go to the props group to help, do the coral trees in Wang Xifeng's house, do the meals of the Grand View Garden, play Wu Xiaodong who plays Jia Yun, shoot his own scene, go to director Wang Fulin to make a field note, and so on.
The actors of that era were really too pure, single-mindedly focused on the role, without the temptation of money and fame, just to create an artistic image.
Imagine now, which actor can do this? For three years, he stayed in a crew, played only a small role with a small role, and could refuse all kinds of temptations and push off the invitations of many big directors.
Now the actors, each play only a few months, can honestly stay in the crew shooting, no stand-in, no cutout, no trouble, is a rare dedication.
How big a gap is that?
This is the reason why the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber" can be long-lasting and classic.
Tribute to the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", to director Wang Fulin, to all the cast members of the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber".