Tang Guoqiang, a special actor of the leadership type, once again shined in the centenary of the founding of the party.
Tang Guoqiang
The TV drama "Crossing the Yalu River" starring him in the theme of "Crossing the Yalu River" is being broadcast on the CCTV comprehensive channel, the drama is the best in the same period in terms of ratings and word of mouth, Tang Guoqiang deeply interpreted the image of the leader during the period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and vigorously excluded the crowd to send troops to North Korea, and the loss of the eldest son wanted to cry without tears...
At the same time, in the centenary of the founding of the party, Tang Guoqiang also starred in the TV series "Armageddon", "Xiangshan Ye Zhenghong" and the movie "Founding General Shuai Awarded 1955" as a great actor.
Hou Jingjian,"The Age of Awakening"
Among the special actors of the young leaders, Hou Jingjian, as a leader, starred in the TV series "The Age of Awakening", "Glory and Dreams", the movie "Red Boat: Breaking New Ground"; Wang Renjun starred in the movie "1921" and the TV series "Red Boat";
Tong Ruixin
In addition to Tang Guoqiang and Hou Jingjian, there are many "half-pulled" special actors.
Tong Ruixin starred in the tribute drama "Glory and Dreams", which is also his second role as a middle-aged leader after "Long March Division".
Bao Jianfeng
Bao Jianfeng and Wang Lei played young and middle-aged leaders in the centennial tribute dramas of the founding of the Party, respectively, in the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party: "The Great Waves and Sands: Sailing" and "A Hundred Refining into Steel", respectively, and Zhang Ge played Mao Zedong in the TV series "Toward Victory".
What is somewhat surprising is that Wang Xia, an excellent special actor with the same name as Tang Guoqiang, did not appear in the centennial gift season of the founding of the party.
Wang Xia
Previously, Wang Xiao has starred in more than 30 film and television dramas such as "Jinggangshan", "Red Cradle", "Chongqing Negotiation" and other young and middle-aged Mao Zedong, and won the 2007 Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor for his outstanding performance in the movie "My Long March".
And after the experience and accumulation of dozens of works, Wang Xia's interpretation of Mao Zedong has become more and more handy and comfortable.
Objectively speaking, compared with Tang Guoqiang, it seems that the image of the leader played by Wang Xia is more in line with the expectations of the older generation of audiences, there is warmth and domineering, and the leader portrayed by Wang Xiao is more grounded on the whole.
Moreover, the 62-year-old Wang Xiao is in the golden period of his special actor career, he can shape the leaders before and after the new China and in his old age, and has more advantages than Tang Guoqiang, who is already 68 years old, in shaping the age span of the role.
In terms of hardware conditions, compared with Tang Guoqiang and Tong Ruixin, Wang Xia's appearance is more similar to that of the leader.
Wang Xia played the young leader in the movie "Breaking New Ground"
▲ Wang Xia played the young leader in the movie "Breaking New Ground"
When he first played Mao Zedong, his modeling was evaluated by the director team of the movie "Groundbreaking" as "a character who walked down from the oil painting of "Mao Zedong Goes to Anyuan", except for a narrower brain, everywhere is like. Since then, Wang Xia has stepped into the film and television circle and become a "special actor" who specializes in Mao Zedong.
As a leading special actor, it is common to lose weight and gain weight for the role for a short time, and Wang Xiao also inherits the "fine tradition" of the older generation of special actors.
In the film "Blood Battle Xiangjiang" directed by director Chen Li, Wang Xia played Mao Zedong again, because this movie was created in the background of the "Fourth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression", when Mao Zedong was as tall and emaciated as most of the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, so when he received an invitation from director Chen Li, in order to make this movie, Wang Xia lost 20 pounds in 20 days, which is hellish weight loss.
Of course, this "Blood Battle on the Xiangjiang River" also fills the gap in Wang Xia's artistic career, before which he did not play Mao Zedong during the Xiangjiang Campaign.
Director Chen Li commented on his performance in the film, "No one can show the temperament of Mao Zedong at that time better than Wang Xia."
Such an experience was already commonplace for Wang Xia.
In 1993, when Wang Xia filmed "Autumn Harvest Uprising", in order to meet the requirements of the role, he had to grit his teeth and lose weight. In just 28 days, the weight fell from 168 pounds to 140 pounds, showing a classic image of the leader of the autumn harvest uprising.
Compared with Tang Guoqiang, Wang Xiao's fame is not very large, and he is very low-key outside the works, rejecting many other types of roles over the years, and also rejecting commercial activities such as cave walking, and focusing on playing a great leader.
I just don't know why, Wang Xia, an actor with both form and god, did not get the opportunity to play Mao Zedong in the centennial gift season of the founding of the party, but the result was that Tang Guoqiang "picked on one shoulder", or Bao Jianfeng, Tong Ruixin and other "half-pulled" special actors picked the beams, to tell the truth, there are some regrets.
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The threshold for great actors is low, but the audience's requirements are always very high, and it is easy to leave a "handle" if they are not careful, especially in such an important gift season as the centenary of the founding of the party. Therefore, whether it is the director or the producer, they must be cautious when choosing actors who play great people, and special actors such as Wang Xia, who have rich performance experience and large advantages in appearance conditions, should be "reused".
Wen | Song Fat Zi