In the movie "Chosin Lake", there is such a scene:
Duan Yihong played the "veteran king" Tan Ziwei, fighting alone with the US military, killing each other and then picking up a grenade and throwing it out, a series of actions flowing through the clouds.
The camera zooms closer, and Tanzi's eyes are full of tears as he looks at the war-torn earth. The skill of killing and the inner torment are fully interpreted through this one look.
How important is the look to an actor? Duan Yihong debuted for more than 20 years, and each stage gave himself a different eye, which made him look like a "changed person".
When he was a student, his eyes were simple and stubborn, at this time he was still the "spoon (stupid)" who was often beaten by his father, full of acting enthusiasm but nowhere to release;
When he first debuted, his eyes were full of evasion. Although the acting skills are excellent, my friend Tao Hong said worriedly: "He stretched himself too tightly and could not let go";
After obtaining the Emperor of Shadows, Duan Yihong's eyes became self-consistent. But when you frown, you can still see the look of "crazy for the drama" before.
The three eyes symbolize that he has passed through the three stages of acting: absorption, precipitation, and explosion.
Most actors, stuck in one of these three stages, it is too difficult to complete them all, and Duan Yihong has done it.
Absorption period
Duan Yihong's love for acting has made him an "outlier" in the eyes of his parents.
In the vast Xinjiang Ili, Duan Yihong's parents are workers, and the future they envision for their son is to be a lumberjack, living and dying in this land.
In the 1970s, the lumberjack was already a good way out, and Duan Yihong's father named his son "Duan Long", hoping that he would not live up to his expectations.
However, Duan Long was not obedient at all, skipping school in class, making trouble after class, and his bones were restless, and the old father smoked several meals with rattan.
In addition to disobeying, Duan Long also has the ambition to become an actor.
He performed skits in school competitions and was recognized by professors and teachers at the Shanghai Theater Academy. A light and fluttering encouragement, Duan Long hit the chicken blood, and when he returned home, he said to his parents: I want to take the exam.
The old father was almost angry with a mouthful of old blood: "You are the life of the lumberjack!" ”
No one believed that Duan Long could be an actor, except himself.
Without the financial foundation and the support of his family, Duan Long went to Beijing to take the exam. The bus turned to train to bus and walked, rushed for 6 days and 6 nights, and finally only stayed in the examination room for ten minutes.
There is no appearance, the results are not good, this fatal two-point hard injury, let Duan Long be brushed off.
He sat in Tiananmen Square all night, decided to retake the exam the next year, did a lot of preparatory work, and the result was that the three tests were brushed off again.
In the third re-examination, he studied dance, practiced forks, applied for training classes, worked to earn tuition, and finally scored the first place in the total score of the Northwest District and was admitted to the Chinese opera.
Duan Yihong (far left) and classmates
I thought that "I was willing to come", but I didn't expect to just get a stepping stone, and the road behind me rarely made Duan Long inferior to the extreme.
Low appearance, pressure to drop out of school, poor family, Xinjiang accent... Many of the students who had just come into contact with him and greeted him with a smile gradually began to ignore him because he lowered the average class; the teacher did not want to see him, pointing at Duan Long and teasing: This child is suitable for taking the rural route.
Can you act? Duan Long's heart went up and down. In order to find a sense of security, he stumbled on his professional skills and often practiced Mandarin in the playground. Classmate Tao Hong listened, deliberately imitating his non-standard Xinjiang accent, and made Duan Long jump to his feet.
Imitation is imitation, Duan Long's growth is fast, and he is looked at by teachers and students. In the first year of admission, his professional class was the first in the class, and every time he handed in his homework, it would trigger a full house of onlookers, and Tao Hong and other students also took the initiative to play with him.
Compared with Tao Hong, who has a warm and considerate personality, Duan Long is more like an artificial light source, constantly putting pressure on himself, in order to be able to shine and heat, his spirit is actually tense to the extreme.
Once, in order to perform a good sketch, Duan Long kept trying on clothes, and the classmates behind him were very impatient: "It's almost over, do you turn in an assignment?" ”
Duan Long said, "As for, especially as for." ”
He believes that he is inferior to others everywhere, and that he is dead and professional, and that he is the only straw to save his life.
Grasping this straw, Duan Long spent 3 years of rapid growth and graduated with quite excellent results. But he still had no sense of security, afraid that he would not be able to stay in Beijing, and took the report card to the Ministry of Culture to introduce himself, so he won a place for himself in the National Drama Theatre.
Sedimentation period
During college, Duan Long would send his report card to his parents every year, which was a ceremony to reassure his parents and also hint to himself: I am still very good.
After graduation, there was no transcript to send, and although the drama theater gave him the opportunity to show his hands and feet, Duan Long was tormented by pain for a long time.
Compared with fate, he is too small, even if he holds a Coke and eats pancake fruit like the people around him, he has a strong sense of "abandonment".
The classmates became popular one by one, and the girl tao Hong, who had a crush, was even more red and purple, but she had no drama to shoot, and she could only act in the drama theater, or run away from the dragon set, which made Duan Long feel very unhappy.
When the pain is extreme, it becomes numbness. Duan Long began to get used to cold words, and even felt that "it is natural for others not to see me", someone enthusiastically threw out an olive branch, but he felt uneasy.
At the age of 29, Duan Long ushered in the first protagonist in his life: the male protagonist who starred in the movie "Second Brother". In order to seize the opportunity, Duan Long desperately wanted to perform this drama well, and every pore seemed to be exerting force.
The film stirred up a splash, and Duan Long won the international A-category film festival. After 10 years of bitterness, I finally tasted a little bit of the sweetness of acting, but the next few days did not reverse, but more bitter than before.
What about the Movie Emperor? Duan Long still had no drama to play. A Thai director approached him and asked him to play the notorious killer in Thai society, "Hoo Wai".
Duan Long didn't have to pick, and took over this street rat-like role with a hard scalp, racking his brains to think about how to play a good killer.
He went to visit the dried corpse of "Xiao Wei" in the Thai Museum, observed his facial expression for several days in a row; ate salad every day and thinned into a bone shelf; and went to understand Xiao Wei's experience and excavate the inner human side of this ogre.
Excellent acting skills, coupled with focused empathy soft skills, the final effect is that he let Xiao Wei, a "cruel, ignorant and pathetic complex character", come alive.
After the film was released, Duan Long won the "Thai Film Emperor", and locals pointed at him and shouted "Xiao Wei". This shouting made Duan Long lose his soul.
In the middle and late stages of filming, he kept having nightmares, and the dreams were full of blood; after the shooting, he still had nightmares and couldn't sleep at all. In order to get rid of the nightmare, under the guidance of Thai masters, he changed his name to "Duan Yihong".
After changing the name, Duan Yihong's drama slowly increased. In 2006, he played Yuan Lang in "Soldier Assault", playing the heroic and angry veteran to life;
Filming "My Commander My Regiment", contributing a large number of textbook-level classic shots;
Starring in "White Deer Plain" cutting wheat and cutting his hand, he looked at the wound and wondered, "What should be the reaction of the character?" It wasn't written in the script", the wound bleeding constantly, frightening the surrounding staff.
Compared with physical pain, Duan Yihong was more familiar with the pain of the soul.
Every time he gets a new script, he falls into a long period of self-torture: fear and restlessness, self-criticism, forcing himself out of inertia, tearing himself apart and kneading into a new shell.
Duan Yihong himself is very open-minded, he said: "I enjoy the pain, for me this is normal, if there is no pain, it is not normal."
Perform a good play, shed three layers of skin, and each molt is a few points stronger. Ten years later, this has been the norm for him.
Outbreak period
Around 2015, Duan Yihong was awarded the Tokyo International Film Festival Film Emperor and the Shanghai International Film Festival Film Emperor. Tao Hong was so excited that he called him: Old Duan Bull! You're finally awesome!
At the award ceremony, Duan Yihong, who had never laughed out loud in the university for four years, laughed loudly in front of reporters and took the opportunity to confess to Tao Hong.
After more than ten years, the mango that Tao Hong peeled for Duan Yihong during his student days is still the warmest memory in his heart, but he was once too inferior to dare to say it until today.
In 2015, Duan Yihong gained fame and fortune, and his nerves were stretched for 20 years, which was only then relieved. Perhaps it was precipitated long enough that after the explosive growth of fame, he not only did not float, but instead became self-consistent.
Some fans said: Duan Yihong is a very interesting person, the stage is hard and rough, and the hotel under the stage should sprinkle flower petals, drink coffee, and listen to Ono Lisa.
He knows all too well how this road came, and although the external evaluation is important, his own feelings are more important. The interview with "People" used four words to evaluate him: on the water side.
He is like a seasoned boatman, holding the oars as the axis, no matter the wind and clouds, there is only one direction in his eyes: worthy of every role.
When filming the web drama "Double Detective", he served as a supervising producer for the first time, and friends from all over the world came to make a cameo appearance, even if he only said a few words, he was dead with others, and he had to ask the other party to show the spirit of acting in a big drama.
A small web drama, which was filmed by him with the effect of a blockbuster;
In the cameo movie "Chosin Lake", he was not worried about the box office, but about the image of the soldier, repeatedly pondering those scenes, and every look was in place.
Nowadays, "Chosin Lake" has a thousand at the box office, and he also has credit.
20 years after his debut, Duan Yihong has gone through the absorption period, the precipitation period and the outbreak period, and the former "earth hail" has become a rare good actor in China, and only he himself knows how difficult it is.
But the reason is very simple, just two words: dead bump.
As Tao Hong said, "Actors are actually a group of people who have high requirements for themselves." Decades of death, insisting that the original heart is not shaken by fame and fortune, and if you take a crooked step in the process, you will abandon your previous achievements.
This is not easy for anyone, fortunately, Duan Yihong persevered.
Just like his tearful testimonial at the Shanghai International Film Festival: "As an actor, I am willing to be a slave to the play, and I will continue to follow the path of my inner actor." ”
Nowadays, fans call him a "drama demon", "movie emperor" and "powerful faction", but he insists that he is a "drama slave".
Acting for a day, enslaving for life.
After Duan Yihong filmed the "crazy leader" in "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", the director said: Where there are so many diamonds, most of them are soybeans, but Duan Yihong is indeed a diamond.
After more than 30 years of polishing, Duan Yihong's gray rough stone has finally become a brilliant pearl in the Chinese actor group.
Author: Miss Muang Lai
Editor-in-Charge: Blue Orange