See "Red" in "True Color" - Watching the movie "My Father Jiao Yulu"

See "red" in "True Color"

——Watching the movie "My Father Jiao Yulu"

Stills from the movie "My Father Jiao Yulu"

Many people who have seen the movie "My Father Jiao Yulu" have told me that you should pay attention to Ding Liuyuan's performance, she is a "tear gas", many tears are in her and the protagonist's opponent scene, full of humanity. I don't think I'm studying acting, but it seems to raise a question of the relationship between supporting characters and themes, and to dig deeper, it actually involves the question of how themes such as "sublime" and "sacrifice" are presented. In recent years, the number of red-themed film and television works has been quite large, and there is not much discussion of them at the level of theatrical aesthetics. I would like to borrow the movie "My Father Jiao Yulu" and the performance of Ding Liuyuan to discuss the relationship between "true color" and "red" in performance and creation.

The movie "My Father Jiao Yulu" is unfolded in the form of jiao Yulu's second daughter dictation, and there is not much narration, but it provides a perspective, that is, the perspective of life and family. This perspective allows people to see that Jiao Yulu observes reality and determines work goals from the perspective of people's lives, and the events in the film are all unfolded from the perspective of caring for the people. Solving problems such as wind and sand, floods, and hunger is the embodiment of the original intention of the Communists. In such a work, giving up a small family, taking care of everyone, and even forgetting oneself, the dedication has been sublimated to the realm of sacrifice. The events in film and television works are ordinary life and work, but Jiao Yulu's realm is extraordinary, it is beyond the worldly scale, so it is outstanding and therefore admired, and the spirit of Jiao Yulu has entered the spiritual genealogy of Chinese communists. In the 100 years since the founding of the Communist Party of China, red culture and red spirit have run through it. In the era of peaceful construction, "red" is the lofty ideological realm and sacrifice spirit displayed by outstanding figures, and infiltrating such aesthetic and moral concepts into the plot and characters is to implement the main theme into the realistic theme and place "red" in the "true color".

Another feature of the play is that it shows Jiao Yulu in a family life, so the performance as a wife Xu Junya is crucial. The wife of a prominent figure is the most difficult character to deal with and express in this genre. It is contrary to reality to make the wives of outstanding people as tall as outstanding people; the husband and wife are incompatible, very different, and unrealistic. But the movie "My Father Jiao Yulu" handles the relationship between the characters well and realistically, and Xu Junya, played by Ding Liuyuan, presents the audience with an ordinary and family needs wife, but also a wife who is influenced, influenced and elevated by Jiao Yulu. Her lack of understanding of some of Jiao Yulu's extraordinary decisions and behaviors is the reaction of a normal wife. And her transformation from not understanding, opposing to understanding and cooperating is a real process of sublimation from the ordinary to the outstanding realm. An ordinary woman has to face the multiple pressures brought to her by outstanding people: she has to leave Luoyang, where her living conditions are relatively superior, to Lankao, which is full of wind and sand; she has to face her husband who not only has no time to take care of her family, but also has to work hard, is terminally ill, and is about to leave her wife and children. This woman, because she is married to an outstanding person, has to bear the dilemma of life and fate that ordinary people cannot bear. She showed resentment, but not hate; anger, but pain. Therefore, Jiao Yulu was surprised to see his wife and children from Luoyang in the courtyard of the county party committee with simple conditions; there was a wife who complained that Jiao Yulu refused to leave Lankao but accompanied him in life and death; and when Jiao Yulu was dying, he choked up and said that he was willing to accompany him in the next life. Xu Junya's wishes are all derived from the basic expectations of life, but they are guided by outstanding people to transcend the world and face higher and more difficult requirements. Isn't subordination to the realm of outstanding people also a spirit of sacrifice? The tears of the audience are flowing for the light of humanity that flashes on such ordinary characters.

From the perspective of performance, Xu Junya, played by Ding Liuyuan, gives people the intuitive feeling of being real, natural, real and touching. Some of the incomprehension, resentment and anger towards the husband come from the heart and from life. From not understanding to understanding, pain and love also come from sincerity and from true feelings. The incomprehension and comprehension in the film are manifested differently. At first, Xu Junya was full of enthusiasm and even joy for Jiao Yulu's transfer from the Luoyang Machinery Factory in the large industrial system at that time to Lankao County, which was in difficult conditions, and was a wife who had not yet deeply experienced the hard life. At this time, Xu Junya's lines and expressions were not so heavy, which was accurate. But in order to support her husband, the family moved with her family and followed her husband to live in Lankao. The second incomprehension is when the superiors are about to disintegrate Lankao County and let the surrounding brother counties carry a burden to solve Lankao's problems. Xu Junya believed that since the superior had already made a decision, he must have made a thorough consideration, including considering Jiao Yulu's physical condition, and Jiao Yulu should obey and not oppose. However, Jiao Yulu objected and persuaded his superiors to change his mind, keep Lankao County, and continue to let Jiao Yulu stay in Lankao. In fact, this was expected by Xu Junya's speculation, and she was worried that Jiao Yulu would object, but when the result was really so, she could not accept it at once, because she thought that this result was beyond reason. This is a real reaction of a virtuous wife who has repeatedly considered the problem of Jiao Yulu's stay and has a personal experience of life. The advice that was not assured in advance was long and serious; after learning of Jiao Yulu's decision, he was angry and threw up his sleeves and left. Ding Liuyuan's performance accurately and vividly interprets and sets off Jiao Yulu's excellence - outstanding people are also responsible for real life, but many of them are undertaken by a virtuous wife, truly reproducing the emotions and emotions of the characters.

A virtuous wife, of course, needs to understand and identify with Jiao Yulu's career and realm, but what is more real and delicate in the film is the natural care, consideration and love. The audience sees the tired Jiao Yulu when he returns home, greeted by his wife who takes the briefcase, hangs up his clothes, and brings him foot wash; what they see is the trembling hands when they learn of his illness, the suppressed crying at the time of death, and the tone of the choking voice when they are willing to accompany you in the next life. These details may not be indicated in the script. The main creative team introduced, the crew and the main actor repeatedly listened to the memories and narrations of Jiao Yulu's daughter Jiao Shouzhi, Ding Liuyuan carefully asked Xu Junya's temper, personality, clothing, hairstyle and other details, and carefully read all the information, studying how to convey the gods rather than grasp the character similarly. The so-called grasp, Stanislavsky emphasizes "experience", changing himself into a character, the essence of which is to understand the inner and spiritual realm of the character. Only when the actor truly appreciates the true color, nature and life logic, true feelings and people's nature that are inherent in the character, can he play the role as a whole, choose the details freely, grasp and express emotions naturally and fluently, and see "red" in the "true color".

Author: Shuye

Source: China Art News