Recently, at the scene of the 2021 TV series list conference of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, an exciting blockbuster news was exposed - the drama version of "Armageddon" was launched.
This drama is written by Huang Jiandong, directed by Gao Xixi, and joined by Stars such as Tang Guoqiang, Yu Hewei, Wang Wufu, Liu Zhibing, Wang Jian, Guo Lianwen, Lu Qi, Liu Jin, etc., and is the most anticipated drama next year.
What netizens are most concerned about is the cast -
According to the cast list that has been exposed, Tang Guoqiang plays Mao Zedong, Liu Jin plays Zhou Enlai, Guo Lianwen plays Liu Shaoqi, Wang Wufu plays Zhu De, Lu Qi plays Deng Xiaoping, Gu Wei plays Chen Yi, and Wang Jian plays Ren Bishi.
These are all special actors fixed team, which have long been accepted and familiar to the audience.
The new faces who joined the show are:
Wang Jinsong played Chiang Kai-shek, Lin Yongjian played Nie Rongzhen, Li Qiang played Du Yuming, Chen Yiheng played Fu Zuoyi, Guo Guangping played Su Yu, He Shengming played Jiang Jingguo, Shao Bing played Chen Geng, and Liu Zhibing played Liu Bocheng.
Among them, the most interesting thing about Pi Ge is that Lin Biao's actor is actually "Uncle Liu Huang" Yu Hewei.
There are many classic Images of Lin Biao in film history
For example, in the film version of the "Armageddon" trilogy, Lin Biao is played by Ma Shaoxin, who retired 15 years ago, and he once became the best candidate to play Lin Biao.
Another example: Li Xuejian played the drama version of Lin Biao at the age of 26, so realistic that Wang Guangmei refused to shake hands with him.
These Images of Lin Biao have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and this time Yu Hewei wants to perform, which is bound to be compared with the former, and the difficulty of playing this role is far more difficult than any of his previous roles.
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Those classic Lin Biao characters in the history of film and television dramas
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been no less than 10 actors who have played Lin Biao in film and television works, and among them, pigo believes that there are three:
The first: Li Xuejian in the drama "913 Incident"
Second place: Ma Shaoxin in films such as Armageddon and The Great March
Third place: Yu Liping in works such as "The Great Cause of The Founding of the People's Republic", "Liberation", "Orient" and so on.
Li Xuejian is a farmer, from a young age to love acting, he joined the army at the age of 19, 3 years later transferred to the People's Liberation Army Second Artillery Cultural and Industrial Troupe Drama Team, in 1980 participated in the first screen work "Tianshan Xing".
In the same year, he played Lin Biao in the drama "The 913 Incident", and for this role, he won the first Chinese Drama Awards Plum Blossom Performance Award.
At that time, Li Xuejian was only 26 years old, in order to play Lin Biao well, he lost dozens of pounds, shaved his hair into lin biao's appearance, imitated his habitual movements and walking posture, and finally played this role.
It is said that Liu Shaoqi's wife, Wang Guangmei, after watching his performance, narrowed her smile when comforting the actor and refused to shake hands with him, which shows Li Xuejian's success in shaping the character.
The movie "Armageddon" trilogy is a large-scale war film produced by Bayi Film Studio, which is divided into 6 episodes of "Liaoshen Campaign", "Huaihai Campaign" and "Pingjin Campaign".
Ma Shaoxin participated in two films, "The Battle of Liaoshen" and "The Battle of Pingjin", and later played Lin Biao in the TV series "Blood Siping" and "The Great March - The Great Pursuit of the Southern Front".
Ma Shaoxin's characteristics are relatively obvious, that is, "like", he is in that casual station, without subtitles, you can also recognize that it is Lin Biao.
As a special actor, the image is always in the first place, sometimes the actor's image is highly similar to the character archetype, and the audience will even ignore the actor's own acting skills, not to mention that Ma Shaoxin's acting skills are absolutely qualified, and the spirit of the character is performed.
Yu Liping is the actor who played Lin Biao in recent years, the most recognized actor by the audience, he has played Lin Biao in the movie "The Great Cause of The Founding of the People's Republic", the TV series "Liberation", "The East", "The Five-Star Red Flag Fluttering in the Wind 2", "Mao Zedong", "Changed the Human World", "Admiral Hong Xuezhi" and other films. His interpretation has reached both form and god, and now he has become a "Lin Biao professional household".
Of course, in addition to these three, the other Lin Biao's special actors are also very powerful, but Pi Ge believes that the above three are like Wang Chongyang, Hong Qigong and Ouyang Feng of Huashan On the Sword.
If Yu Hewei wants to perform successfully, he must first take into account the difference between the appearance of the god and the difference between the performance and the three.
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Also good and evil, the talented actor Yu Hewei, playing Lin Biao, faces two major problems
Yu Hewei is the only actor in the world who can play from Uncle Liu huang to Cao Aqi, but perhaps many people do not know that he also played Cao Cao's adviser Xun Yu.
Yu Hewei was originally an actor in the Nanjing Military Region Frontline Drama Troupe, and debuted in the TV series "Cao Cao" in 1999, playing Xun Yu.
Although the role is not much, it still makes the audience remember him, and in 2004, he played the deputy political commissar of the military sub-district In the anti-war drama "The Sky of History" directed by Gao Xixi, and since then he has also opened up as many as 13 cooperation with director Gao Xixi.
In Yu Hewei's 21-year career as an actor, there are 5 roles that have been most successfully portrayed-
One is Liu Bei, played in Gao Xixi's TV series "Three Kingdoms" in 2010.
Different from Sun Yanjun's version of Liu Bei's image of an old and good man, Yu Hewei highlighted the side of Liu Bei's tyrant, creating a new image, but also recognized by the audience, and he also expanded the drama road.
Second: In "The Legend of Chu Han (2012)", he played Qin Shi Huang, who was praised by the audience for his acting skills stronger than the protagonists He Rundong and Qin Lan;
Third: Lu Yunpeng, a chemical engineer played in "The Drug Hunter (2018)", let people see that his acting skills in modern dramas are still stable;
Fourth: Zhang Zong, who played in the movie "A Good Drama", let the audience see the stunning image of his villain.
Fifth: Cao Cao in "The Army Division Alliance of Sima Yi (2017)".
This is also Yu Hewei's most well-received role, although there are Bao Guoan, Jiang Wen, Chen Jianbin and other actors version Zhuyu in front, but Yu Hewei still performed his own new taste. He interprets Cao Cao's power plot very well, and is completely integrated with the historical Cao Cao, and there is no trace of performance.
Yu Hewei's version of Cao Cao's grasp of movements and demeanor is quite in place, and also thanks to the advancement of imaging technology, his words and deeds can be fully displayed, reaching a realm of freedom and ease.
Some people say that although Sima Yi, played by Wu Xiubo in the play, is also very good, he is still compared with the Wei version of Cao Cao, which seems much darker.
Although Yu Hewei has such advantages, there are still two major problems to control the role of Lin Biao.
First of all, the biggest problem is how to deal with the merits and faults of Lin Biao's role in maintaining historical authenticity.
Lin Biao is a highly controversial figure, he is one of the marshals of the Republic, during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and also reached the peak in the 60s, but in the late 60s he made serious mistakes and finally ended in tragedy.
In the three major battles in history during the Armageddon stage, Lin Biao, as the commander and political commissar of the Northeast Field Army, was the direct leader of the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign.
Together with Luo Ronghuan, Liu Yalou, Luo Ronghuan, Nie Rongzhen, Fu Zuoyi, Wei Lihuang, Guo Jingyun, and others, he influenced the development of the war situation and played a decisive role.
Lin Biao in this period made great contributions to our party, because the TV series is mainly about "Armageddon", and it is conceivable that Yu Hewei's role in the play should be more heavy.
However, because of the particularity of his character, the problem in the handling of the role is very large, and Yu Hewei wants to solve this problem, and he must make sufficient efforts to perform the "two-sidedness" of this character.
This point of Ma Shaoxin's interpretation of the "inner drama" in the film version of "Armageddon" has great reference value.
However, in terms of directorship, whether the drama will reduce the role of this character for historical reasons is still unknown.
The deletion of the plot and the two-sided shaping of the characters are directly related to the success or failure of Yu Hewei's version.
Secondly, Yu Hewei's "outward-style" performance style, how to adapt to the "introverted" role of Lin Biao
At present, we can only see a few stills and some sporadic material released by the producer of "Armageddon".
According to these pitiful materials, some people published their own "high theory", saying that Lin Biao was thin and Yu Hewei's face did not resemble him at all.
Pi Ge tried to find a photo of Lin Biao in this period, and we would find that he was a handsome man with a melon face at that time, and the gap between Yu Hewei's face was not very large. This can be completely solved by the slimming of the actors, and the makeup of the post.
Pi Ge felt that the biggest difference between Yu Hewei and Lin Biao in terms of image was in height, and the height of Yu Hewei of the Northeast Hui ethnic group reached 179cm, which was at least half a head taller than Lin Biao, whose family was in Huanggang County, Hubei Province.
Northeast people are generally extravagant and free, through the role of Cao Cao, we can also see that Yu Hewei is best at that kind of "external" performance, he can use his own unique personal style to completely control the role.
But whether this way of performance can be used on Lin Biao, who is extremely deep and calculating in the city government, Pi Ge feels that it is still necessary to put a question mark.
However, if Yu Hewei can solve the above two problems, Pi Ge believes that his Lin Biao will surely be famous in the history of film.
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The Armageddon trilogy of the early '90s was the largest war film to date, and since there was no CG special effects technology at the time, all the magnificent shots in the film were shot on location.
Tens of thousands of troops were involved in the filming process, equipped with vehicles, tanks, artillery, and warhorses, and the numbers now seem amazing.
Although the TV drama version is shot by a large institution such as the Central Radio and Television Corporation, it is estimated that the scale is not as "luxurious" as the film version.
Since the technical means have been improved now, there should be a different presentation, so the performance of the actors is the top priority of the movie.
Pigo believes that with the participation of so many well-known old drama bones in China, the quality of this big drama should be guaranteed.
Whether Yu Hewei's performance can surpass his predecessors and create a classic image that can be remembered by the audience, we will wait and see.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Bloody Dan Heart
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