Lin Zhaohua's passion is something that young people can never match

Beijing News July 6 edition.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, the Beijing News exclusively interviewed 40 "pioneers" in the field of culture, sports and entertainment, who have made pioneering innovations and dazzling achievements in different fields. The Beijing News will successively launch these "pioneer" character features that have changed the era in the next time. The commentary will correspond to these topics, publishing vivid details of the conversation between the reporter and these people, showing their extraordinary charm and wonderful life.

"Big guide" is also fashionable, and several clothes are worn out of the supermodel temperament

The interview was held in the studio of Lin Zhaohua's friend Yi Liming, located in a small courtyard in a hutong in Gulou. When I got off the car, I saw that Lin Zhaohua, who has always been a unique "big guide" in clothing, still did not disappoint this time, and the yellow striped shirt was matched with a pair of wide-legged pants that were very similar to the color of the green trees in the alley, and a pair of sneakers. "The pants are very wet", Lin Zhaohua turned back and hey hey Yile, "Hey! I bought it when I travel to Thailand. "As everyone knows, on the day of the interview, many friends sent me private messages, wanting to ask Lin Zhaohua about the purchase link of shirts and pants.

About the tag of "Lin Zhaohua's clothes", in the theater industry is also "a must", "absolute" is that he does not often buy clothes, several years of appearance in the film clothes are so few, but the way to wear clothes is never the same - you can see the way to tie the coat around the waist, wear it, wear only one sleeve and the other side is always shrugged. He is not at all excited to "dress", it is "hanging clothes", a young actor in Lin Zhaohua's drama studio once said in an interview that when he first met Lin Zhaohua, a sentence that came out of his head was "Where is this immortal wearing a robe and coming in?" ”

I sometimes think that Lin Zhaohua's fashion resources should be good according to the reason, and then the basic clothes on the street are worn by him, and he stops in front of the camera, with the interpretation that he never intends to look at the lens and advocates the "natural photography law", the photographer cannot help but be excited, and the film rate is very high. This time when shooting also has the same feeling, it seems that the big guide with the people around him can always accurately press the shutter at the moment, allowing the photographer to capture a different self, and the accuracy of the lens control is comparable to that of a supermodel.

Young man of 82 years, curiosity is his rule of life

Lin Zhaohua is 82 years old, but he still seems to be a young man. This is not a flattery, he has never had the concept of age in his heart, so the creation of this matter has become passionate after he has no age in his heart. The works have no boundaries of the times and are fashionable whenever they are placed. Lin Zhaohua's youth lies in the fact that he is curious about everything, and when the interview is about to start, Lin Zhaohua is still wandering around in the courtyard and can't stop: "What is the house here?" "What's upstairs?" "Where's the kitchen?" Can I cook? Is there a range hood? "Can you rehearse here?" "Will the rehearsal sound disturb the people?" Serial questioning.

Lin Zhaohua has his own "law of life" - no matter where he goes, what he cares about most is food afterwards. There was no response during the interview, and when he looked up, he found lin Zhaohua cleaning up the residue of food that had fallen on the table and was eaten by him. When asked about what memorable things were possible when doing the "Tea House" group performance on the world tour in the early years, Lin Zhaohua said, "In Hong Kong, there is a lot of food in the background, but I don't understand why bananas were cut into small pieces at that time!" I should eat it whole! ”

Lin Zhaohua's daily notes use small books, but when you open it, you will feel that it is a book of heaven, because the schedule is always changing. He doesn't start another page, and the way to remind himself is to cover the old information with different colored pens, outsiders can't understand what he's going to do that day, but he can always accurately identify what he wants to do from the colorful information piled together.

Mobile phones are also the latest smart phones that are changed with the trend, but there is nothing inside, and they do not play often when they look at it, and they still pull out their own paper phone books when looking for a phone. The ringtone of the mobile phone is so small that it is almost "silent", and the answer to the phone depends on fate, but these young people like new things even if they are not used. Including when he thinks, there is not only a brain, but also a hand, tinkering with any object in his hand, and then he can always find details that ordinary people can't find.

"Oh, this is quite interesting, is it a real tree stump?" Before the interview, I also heard that even after many years of retirement, Lin Zhaohua had maintained his "kennel" of renyi at nine o'clock in the morning (the director laughed at himself in renyi's office), and did not leave until five o'clock in the afternoon, living a white-collar nine-to-five "punch card life". In the interview, he asked, "Is the director still going to renyi now?" "Told" not to go, but to go out for a walk at a fixed time in the afternoon. ”

The secret of creation: observe life and keep the passion forever

It is always said that Lin Zhaohua can discharge nearly 80 stage works in 36 years, but the close observation that this old man can create so many masterpieces and ensure "one play and one grid", which stems from the original curiosity in his personality, coupled with the observation of every moment in life. Nowadays, the popular TV series old masters have "watched", and when he was in the former collection, his old partner He Bingzhu said that when he watched "Langya List", the director would always sneak over from time to time to look at the two eyes, blindly commenting on two sentences "Oh this actor's voice is not bad" and ran away. Son Lin Xiyue also echoed the TV at home always have to be turned on, sometimes do not open the sound and light have to open the picture also have to be placed there, and when the chat you think he does not know the things in fact, he is clear.

Observing life is not just these small things, a few years ago Lin Zhaohua opened a small column in the Beijing News to record the bits and pieces of his life, which read: I was sad to see many old houses in the hutongs being demolished when I walked, when I went out on tour, I saw that the foreign rivers were not cleaned up and caused the stink and became angry, talked about some translated books, and was disappointed by the author's lack of cultivation of classical Chinese words... It can be said that Lin Zhaohua's skill of "observing life" as an artist has never stopped, and he is still accompanied by a stubbornness.

Producer Crystal once said that "Lin Zhaohua is a stupid old man in the drama", and he feels the same way. Over the years, Lin Zhaohua always said that he did not rehearse the play and did not want to talk about the play, but between interviews, he could still hear him and his son Lin Xiyue chatting about how the invitation exhibition he had created should be improved. I remember when Peter Brooke came to China a few years ago, when Lin Zhaohua, then 77, asked reporters, "How old is Brooke?" The reporter replied "88 years old", Lin Zhaohua replied in seconds, "Then I can work for another ten years." ”

One morning after the interview, I saw a photo of Lin Zhaohua playing in a Bar in Shanghai with his wife and a group of young actors who had been studios in the circle of friends, which was the award ceremony of a Shanghai drama award. Can't help but sigh, whether it is creation or life, seeing the passion of the great director Lin Zhaohua, those of us who claim to be young people will never be able to compare.

□ Tian Weini (Beijing News reporter)