Playing the great man of China and choosing the actor to play him is a very prudent thing, and it must be screened layer by layer in reality and on the screen to give the audience the most positive image.
In my impression, the most successful person who played the great man was Gu Yue. He was selected by Ye Jianying in 1978 to become a special actor to play Chairman Mao. Subsequently, in 1981, he participated in his first film "Xi'an Incident".
After that, he began a career of special actors for more than twenty years. Both the appearance and the accent are almost perfect, especially in the "Founding Ceremony", which won him the Best Actor Award at the 13th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films.
Unfortunately, in 2005, Gu Yue died of illness, which made the special actors who played the great man blank, and actors like Wang Lixian and Ma Yufei, who played the great man, all died in 2006 and 08.
At this time, Tang Guoqiang, who played Zhuge Liang, became the best candidate, he may not be able to get close to the great man in appearance, but he has broken through to a new height for shaping the great man, and has also become the most familiar special actor for the audience in the context of the new era.
Prior to this, he also successfully portrayed Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Yongzheng Emperor in the Yongzheng Dynasty, and even participated in the classic film "Garland Under the Mountain" when he was young.
Therefore, Tang Guoqiang is not only focused on creating the role of a great man, which is probably a multi-faceted development that other special actors cannot do. The first time he played a great man was in the 1996 movie "Long March", for which he won the Huabiao Award for Best Actor.
Speaking of which, Tang Guoqiang is legendary enough, he almost played all the historical figures, Qin Shi Huang, Tang Taizong, Tang Xuanzong, Song Renzong, Genghis Khan, Zhu Di, Yongzheng, Qianlong and so on.
Of course, Tang Guoqiang, who plays a great man, actually does not deliberately imitate the accent or demeanor, but conveys that spirit, which is why he is now recognized by the audience, from the temperament and spirit to shape the great man full.
However, as a person in 1952, now 69 years old, you can continue to play the role of an old man, but the young man may not be able to do it. Therefore, who should play the great man in the middle and young period is also a difficult problem in front of us.
In my opinion, there are two more suitable candidates, they are Gu Zhixin in "Qia Classmate Youth", and Hou Jingjian in "The Age of Awakening".
"Qia Classmate Boy" is the most outstanding youth red revolution drama I have ever seen, it was first broadcast on Hunan TV, and then bought by CCTV to replay it, which was also a big viewing frenzy at that time.
And the great man in his youth, played by Gu Zhixin, is really vigorous and vigorous, which corresponds to the poem of the great man: "Qia classmate is a teenager, the style is flourishing, waving fangs, pointing out the country and mountains."
Although Gu Zhixin could not get close to the great man in appearance, he definitely had the temperament, and the kind of fighting with the people of heaven and earth had endless joy, which made me dance and boil.
In fact, Hou Jingjian played a great man in his youth in the large-scale series of autobiographical nature of great people directed by Gao Xixi, but at that time, this drama was partial to the form of biography, and what really made him enter the audience's vision was the "Age of Awakening" broadcast this year, with a strong reputation.
The appearance of the great man played by Hou Jingjian is unique, the environmental portrayal plus the use of slow motion, the texture of oil painting, gives the audience a strong visual impact.
If the great man played by Gu Zhixin has that powerful spirit, then Hou Jingjian's great man has his own literary temperament and a strong bookish atmosphere.
Of course, Hou Jingjian is not only close in temperament, he has one more advantage than Gu Zhixin, that is, the similarity in appearance, the god seems to be combined with the spirit of the spirit, which is the perfect image of a great man.
Therefore, Tang Guoqiang is suitable for the elderly great, then, Hou Jingjian is the best candidate for the young and middle-aged great, if you can put aside the appearance, Gu Zhixin is also very suitable.
If you don't believe me, then I strongly believe that Amway's "Cha Classmate Boy" and "The Age of Awakening" are two dramas that are worth watching repeatedly and replaying repeatedly.