In 1999, the emergence of a "Yongzheng Dynasty" completely pulled "Huan Zhu Gege" off the altar of ratings.
In 2001, "Kangxi Dynasty" swept the screen and once again became a hit for the public to follow the drama.
Two closely related historical dramas are also written by February River. Behind the rave reviews, there are always viewers who like to compare the two plays, especially the actors who have acted in the two plays.
The contrast is particularly fierce, that is, the actors of "Kangxi", Chen Daoming and Jiao Huang.
Whoever is better in the acting skills of the two people, the vast tv audience is inconsistent. Some people say that Chen Daoming's version of Kangxi is more than domineering; some people say that Jiao Huang's Kangxi is not domineering enough.
These two versions of Kangxi, who played better?
Chen Daoming was born in 1955 into a family of Tianjin intellectuals.
Chen Daoming's father, a graduate of Yenching University, was a translator.
The year Chen Daoming was born, the 19-year-old Jiao Huang, with a passion for drama, knocked on the door of the Shanghai Theater Academy.
Jiao Huang was also born into a family of intellectuals, his father Jiao Shufan, and Chen Daoming's father, Chen Leiguang, who were yenching University alumni.
Coincidentally, Jiao Shufan and Chen Leiguang are engaged in work related to foreign languages.
After Jiao Huang graduated, he mainly acted in dramas, played villains in movies, and has always been in a state of loneliness and no name.
When Chen Daoming was 15 years old, he began his career as a dragon runner. This run is seven or eight years.
In 1978, when Chen Daoming was running a dragon suit in Tianjin Renyi, Jiao Huang met the actor Li Yuanyuan because he acted in the drama "Anthony and Cleopatra".
The two fell in love because of the drama, but there is a 25-year age difference. Because of his family's opposition, Jiao Huang eventually missed Li Yuanyuan.
Later, Li Yuanyuan became a good friend of Chen Daoming when she played the TV series "Siege" adapted by Qian Zhongshu.
This is the entertainment industry, big and small. Jiao Huang and Chen Daoming, two artists who have not worked together, outline inextricably linked in another way.
At that time, neither of them thought that they would receive the play of Kangxi, and they did not expect that because of playing Kangxi, so many audiences were keen to compare them.
In 1989, because of his participation in "The Last Emperor", Chen Daoming broke into the public eye.
A year later, his acting career went further, and he participated in "Siege" and won the award.
Wrapped in the aura of success, Chen Daoming began to drift a little.
At this time, Jiao Huang was still immersed in the drama stage, seriously studying each role.
Because of his outstanding performance in "Siege of the City", Chen Daoming met the original author Qian Zhongshu with piety.
At Qian Zhong's calligrapher, Chen Daoming felt the fragrance of books in the room, and his feelings were sublimated as never before.
He threw off the shell of the villain and threw away the copper smell all over his body, and this precipitation was 9 years.
In 1999, Chen Daoming became the Best Actor of the Golden Rooster Award for his film "My 1919".
Also in this year, Jiao Huang won two awards for outstanding supporting actor of the Golden Eagle Award and the Outstanding Actor of the Feitian Award for his role in the Kangxi role in "Yongzheng Dynasty".
However, Jiao Huang refused when he received this play: "I am not willing to act in a Qing Palace drama that shaves my head and speaks modern language." ”
But when he read the script, he took the initiative to run to the crew and said that "Yongzheng Dynasty" would definitely succeed.
Jiao Huang's prediction was successful, the drama was on fire, and he was also well known to the vast television audience.
Because this drama was a big hit, the audience said that Jiao Huang's version of Kangxi was insurmountable.
But less than two years after this sentence was said, the audience who praised Jiao Jiao's acting skills was punched in the face.
In 2001, a "Kangxi Dynasty" swept in, and its ratings quickly surpassed that of "Yongzheng Dynasty", and even the "Great Mansion Gate", which was currently being broadcast that year, could only look back on it.
Since then, the audience's comparison of the two versions of Kangxi has not stopped.
Few people know that in the casting of "Kangxi Dynasty", Jiao Huang and Chen Daoming had a competition.
In 1992, Liu Dayin, who was filming the TV series "Wu Zetian", accidentally saw February River's novel "Kangxi Emperor".
Liu Dayin, who is good at operating costume dramas, was immediately struck and bought out the filming rights of the novel.
No one expected that "Kangxi Emperor" had not yet been filmed, and director Hu Mei took the script to find Jiao Huang.
"Yongzheng Dynasty" began to broadcast, turn on the TV Liu Dayin, watching this drama exhaust the essence of the original work, can't help but have mixed feelings, invited the military writer Zhu Sujin to re-create the script.
The two were bored in the office, holding various polishing of the script, and deducing for ten days before they had the later "Kangxi Dynasty".
It is worth mentioning that after the START of the TV series, Liu Dayin became the actor of Zheng Jing.
After the script was finalized, the casting problem came again.
Jiao Huang has a good performance in "Yongzheng Dynasty", and investors prefer Kangxi to be played by him. However, Liu Dayin, who has a deep understanding of the script, believes that this version of Kangxi is not suitable for Jiao Huang, because the play mainly tells the tortuous life of Kangxi from youth to middle age. At that time, Jiao Huang was already in his 60s, which was not suitable for this role at all.
Due to the disagreement, Liu Dayin and the investor had a conflict, and the two sides even reached the point of going to court. For this reason, Liu Dayin would rather bear millions of liquidated damages than insist on choosing a more suitable actor.
He first found Jiang Wen, but unexpectedly was rejected. Jiang Wen feels that the filming of "Yongzheng Dynasty" has become a classic that is difficult to surpass, so he does not dare to try it easily.
Turning around, Liu Dayin found Chen Daoming.
Many viewers believe that in terms of acting skills alone, Jiao Huang is better because he is a drama actor.
There are unwritten standards in the circle for the acting skills of actors: those who act in dramas are stronger than those who act in movies; those who act in movies are stronger than those who act in TV dramas.
The reason is that acting in drama is different from filming and filming, all scenes can only be passed once, there is no room for shouting in the middle, and the test is the actor's acting skills.
Jiao Huang is known as the "South Jiao Bei Yu" in the drama industry, and has a lot of prestige in the circle.
Chen Daoming has acted in movies and TV dramas, but he has not been professional in drama, so in terms of acting skills, he is not as good as Jiao Huang.
But this view is not convincing.
The expressiveness of the drama stage is stronger than that of filming and TELEVISION series. Let the drama actors, to act in TV series, it is easy to appear traces of "exaggeration", Zhang Kaili, Song Dandan is a good example.
It is biased to position an actor whether he has acted in a play or not. Although Jiao Huang's version of Kangxi is stable and stable, it is not enough to prove that Chen Daoming's acting skills are lost.
Chen Daoming's acting skills are outstanding, and the strength he plays on the spot is also unbeatable. The Kangxi he played was the real "no ancient person before, no one after him".
Without communicating with the actors in advance, Chen Daoming threw up his hands and slapped Takada Hao, the eldest brother of the actor.
A father's indisputable anger at his son is played by him. If you don't go too deep into the play and think of yourself as Kangxi, how can you have such an explosive performance?
In the scene where he angrily rebuked Suo Ertu, Chen Daoming also did not communicate, and the actor Xue Zhongrui was caught off guard and was splashed with tea.
Afterwards, Chen Daoming expressed his apologies, and Both Takada Hao and Xue Zhongrui laughed, which was a tacit understanding between the actors and an affirmation of Chen Daoming's acting skills.
And the same is angry scene, Jiao Huang is calm and calm, and the domineering is insufficient. In the scene of recovering the arrears of the national treasury, Kangxi, played by Jiao Huang, is not ashamed or angry in the face of the minister, but has a feeling of seeking perfection, which makes people look anxious.
Some netizens said: Jiao Huang said lines, his mouth was like sugar, one did not speak clearly, and the other did not have the strength. Then again, Teacher Jiao played Kangxi in his later years after all, and his performance seemed to be old and forgivable. But the historical Kangxi, 60 years old, can also draw a bow and shoot arrows, which is not at all what Jiao Huang played.
Year-on-year, Chen Daoming's performance at the end of the play "Feast of a Thousand Sorrows" was really amazing. Kangxi, known as the "Emperor of the Ages", how to impress the audience without momentum?
Even if Chen Daoming exerts too much force in the performance, the performance is slightly exaggerated, but the contrast is weak, which do you prefer?
The line was put up with, but his attitude towards the brothers was more like a father than an emperor. The brothers of the "Yongzheng Dynasty" dared to talk back to Kangxi, and there was no such scene in the "Kangxi Dynasty". The majesty that the emperor should have failed to exert, and the idea of not being angry and arrogant is too far-fetched.
If it is not a problem of acting, it can only be blamed on the script and the screenwriter.
But the script is not a reason, the script is for the audience. The ratings from the audience are telling. Let's take a look at the ratings of these two dramas on Douban: "Yongzheng Dynasty" 9.3 points, "Kangxi Dynasty" 9.2 points, the latter slightly lost, but the number of people who scored is also a highlight.
The former is rated 68,000 people, while the latter is 135,000. In the case of indistinguishable scores between the two, the number of people who score the latter is about twice that of the former. Speaking with data, it is clear who loses and who wins.
In terms of role investment, both people have put a lot of effort into it.
Before Jiao Huang goes on stage, he will set himself a few questions first:
1, who am I; 2, when; 3, where; 4, what to do; 5, why, etc.
For how to play Kangxi well, he has a degree, how to walk, how to stand, how to sit down, he has paid a lot of desk work. Therefore, Kangxi will be played by him with a special three-dimensional sense and win the recognition of the audience.
Jiao Huang once said that acting is not acting, it is to connect the role with life, emotions cannot be played, if the interpretation is a pretense.
Therefore, The Kangxi played by Jiao Huang is more like himself.
Chen Daoming was also very involved when he got the "Kangxi Dynasty".
At that time, Chen Daoming memorized his lines on the set like a demon, and when filming, he would prepare several sets of plans. A scene of great rebuke of the courtiers, nearly seven minutes of unscripted play, Chen Daoming passed it over. If you are not well prepared, you will never shoot so smoothly.
"Kangxi Dynasty" made Chen Daoming successful, but also brought him a lot of trouble. Some people say that Chen Daoming plays everyone like Kangxi, criticizing him for being difficult to play.
Jiao Huang has played Kangxi and qianlong, carefully compare, what is the big difference between the two roles he played? But it's all about that taste.
Many people feel that Chen Daoming plays everyone like Kangxi, but it is an affirmation of him. Everyone watching "Dream of the Red Chamber", who can replace Chen Xiaoxu's Lin Daiyu? Watching "Country Love", who can replace Xie Dazu who won Yu Yuexian?
In other words, it is not surprising that Chen Xiaoxu plays everyone who has the shadow of Lin Daiyu, and it is not surprising that Yu Yuexian plays everyone like Xie Dazu, because their role modeling is too successful. It is difficult for the audience to get rid of the original role, and the actors are also helpless.
In fact, this is an unflattering topic, no matter which side is biased, it is not appropriate.
People often say: "Wen wu is the first, wu is the second." ”
The so-called "wen" word should also include performances in literature and art.
Who can say that Chen Daoming's acting skills are definitely stronger than Jiao Huang's? vice versa.
For example, if you give the two novels "Yongzheng Emperor" and "Kangxi Emperor" to different people and ask which one is better, the answer is bound to be different.