Lu Yanni
Halfway through the TV drama "Qing Ping Le", Huai Xiang was flourishing. The fate of Yan Shu, the politician and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty in the story, was nearing the end.
On May 1, 2020, Yan Shu ’s performer, actor Yu Entai, spoke on social media infrequently and frequently, updated twice a day, all for the upcoming “offline” of this role that has been with him for months And the table. He embraced it with two words, one was "Hunxi Sha · Everlasting Limited Life", and the other was "Hunxi Sha · A Glass of New Ci Wine"-all from the hands of Yan Shu.
This is Yu Entai's way, from ancient times to present days, by oneself. But, unsurprisingly, after such a thorough handshake with the characters and goodbye, he once again escaped into his own world.
Few people will know how Yu Entai, who has shaped people's hearts, has been building his own territory for many years. With the doubt of "what he abandoned and what he wanted", we dialed a telephone, and the other end of the radio wave connection was him who was thousands of miles away.
"Self-sufficient strain"
In Lhasa in May, the sun was burning. Yu Entai did not dare to expose his eyes to strong ultraviolet rays because of the eye diseases he had had. He occasionally wore sunglasses in the room and silently looked out the window. On the contrary, after dark, he could sit on the sofa and watch the scene openly for a longer time.
Outside his window is the Potala Palace. "When I talk to you now, I am facing it, and then there is a mountain behind, and the cloud slowly drifts ..." Yu Entai's tone was soft and gentle, and he talked to me with interest about Lhasa's sky. He has lived in this room for some time, and it is not pure vacation, nor is it entirely work-"I am practicing lines", using a language that is not born to him. He is practicing, "I want to practice to make people think that I was born in that place ... The artistic achievement of this work is very high, I like it very much, I think it is what I should do ..."
He is fighting for a role he loves. The word "fight" is the author's summary, not what he said-the reason for emphasizing a seemingly irrelevant wording is because many misunderstandings are generated from these seemingly blurted descriptions. In fact, for many years, Yu Entai lived in everyone's "misunderstanding", and the accompanying impression could not escape the mysterious words like "hermit" and "transcendence". Are you not a "hermit"? "I'm not. I'm struggling in the red dust and never leave."
"Xianfeng is boneless and invincible, this is the illusion I gave you, so you will ask me if many things have nothing to do with me, or whether the performance cannot satisfy me, this is what you treat me Elevating and beautifying. "Yu Entai followed suit and was not an excuse. His feelings were closer to that because I was anxious to see him anxiously. He patiently opened a prescription for me.
The world is fair to everyone under the sun, but people are different because of the way they are treated differently. Often, many times, Yu Entai would fall asleep by the window on a high-speed train, always waking up in the afternoon, only to feel a slight numbness, fever, and a little sweat behind him. At that moment, he obviously felt " The physical body responds strongly to the absurdity of life. " "Then I asked myself, why should I be here? Why should I stay here for so long? Why am I not doing this and not doing it, how can I be doing such a meaningless thing?"
absurd. In our conversation for more than two hours, the word appeared very frequently. "Yes, my point is that nothing in the world is absurd, and I am often awakened by my own absurdity."
"If you ask me what books or music I want to bring to the desert island, I don't need it. I just take my brain and do it all my dreams. Indeed, I have this self-sufficient strain."
"The real secret of acting ..."
He is an actor, performance is still something he "very passionate", can fully satisfy him, but also gave him "a lot of happiness and gain". He did not intend to pull himself out.
When you talk to Yu Entai, when you are getting better, you will be greedy and want to know more, only to complain that time has passed too fast. He is like a towering tree with strong roots and intricate branches. He walks down a branch with lush foliage; like a field of fields, he is always harvesting himself. If you are lucky enough, enter the middle of it. Swim around and pick it up to keep it crooked. Because of his possession, he is generous.
He said, okay, let's talk about "Qing Ping Le".
In the eyes, this is one of the things he cares about shaping Yan Shu-or almost all characters. The eyes ca n’t be performed. “It does n’t mean that your eyes have reached a state of dullness through some kind of scientific or non-scientific training, and then outlined a rough heart. This is not what it means.” Eyes are— “ You have been to such a place, experienced such a thing, or you have seen old photos of ancient people, things you imagined, you put them in your heart, and then the look conveyed through your eyes again ... "
At the end of "Qing Ping Le", Yu Entai naturally lost 7.5 kg, and the clothes that had just fit were loose, "But we have not changed the clothes, because as long as your eyes are right, the memory is right, the clothes on your body How to wear it, it fits perfectly. "
There is also skin color. In addition to the early drama that taught the little emperor, which had a normal foundation close to the original skin color, in the later drama, Yu Entai did not put on makeup and used his own skin. "Because I have normal wrinkles and some pigments on my face. Precipitation, the makeup teacher said, this is the best truth. "
Under the surface, another important mechanism for shaping the role lies in the spiritual level. This is related to concepts, experience and some accidental talents.
Later, a drama of walking and chanting in the rain, which was unanimously praised by the audience and industry peers, was originally not included in the notice table. It was temporarily added at the scene. This required Yu Entai to walk through a court path alone on the scene. Shaking the bamboo tube of the divination in his hand, he sang the song "Hunxisha · Xiaoge heavy curtains have swallowed" while raining.
"But there is no professional teacher at the scene to teach me, what do I sing? What is the melody? No one gave me the answer, I had to use my memory immediately." Yu Entai repeated the tone of this story, calm and frustrated.
He thought, what would the Song Dynasty music look like? He remembered that when he was living in Dunhuang many years ago, he heard a friend of a musician talk about it. Once the music score of the Song Dynasty was excavated from Dunhuang, he quickly found it and listened to the pop-up, "You know the pop-up is What's the taste? The popular taste is Japanese Noh. But can I sing like Noh? I can't. So I compromised and hummed a looming tune that could be enough on both sides. " In that scene, a long shot went through for about a minute, and the pure impromptu performance, just like that, was left forever.
"It's a very accidental event. If the announcement tells me 5 days in advance, I am ready, it is another thing. The announcement is accidental, the performance state is accidental, anyway, you come, I accidentally hit it, What was hit? "Yu Entai summed up the scene smoothly and summed it up as a combination of" memory "and" absurdity ". What is credible is the accumulation of his "memory" in the past, like a bead on a string, which was groped by him at that moment; the "absurd" is this sudden, he has become accustomed to it.
A few years ago, in a talk show, Yu Entai was invited to talk about Shakespeare and drama with Dou Wentao and Xu Zidong. At that time, Xu Zidong once mentioned a statement, the general idea is that all the characters in the world are nothing more than two: one for Hamlet and one for Don Quixote.
So, which one is Yu Entai? "Yes, I must be. I don't think of myself as a single character. Even if he is the same person, he may have two roles on the same day. Everyone gets up in the morning and before he goes to bed at night His blood pressure, blood sugar, and even his IQ have changed, and this will be the same throughout life. "
We talked about "a lifetime". This topic is too big, but Yu Entai still caught it.
"You see, life is destined to be a tragedy, pain and sorrow are inevitable, but optimism, happiness, and happiness are temporary. There is no work in the world whose name is not" Dream of Red Mansions ", any art works are I miss the good, and it is destined to be lost, ... I made it clear to myself more than ten years ago. The real secret of performing, the real eye of performance, the biggest theme is two words: compassion. They are all poor people, and so are we ourselves. "
"I have been with them for more than 10,000 years"
For quite a long time, Yu Entai lived in two states, one side was extremely satisfied with himself, "I have to admit that sometimes, for a moment, very happy, very satisfied, very pleased"; but in an instant, he will fall into At the other extreme, there are "torture" and "sadness" and "desolation". Life is not a black and white game, life is a flowing chaos.
In order to get more "memory" in this change; in order to find the answers to all his doubts in a limited time, Yu Entai decided to do an important thing.
More than a year ago, he started a documentary project. The interviewee was an elderly person who was nearly one hundred years old in China. This project has nothing to do with the establishment of his own "personal setting", nor is it a program specifically made for which platform. It is purely public welfare, first of all for the record, in order not to forget.
Unlike the existing oral historical documentaries, Yu Entai, as an interviewer, participated in the whole process, accompanied the elderly's life, guided them and talked with them. Often, the records of an elderly person need to do their homework in advance, play in front of the station, shoot at least two or three times, multiple camera positions, full-view coverage, from the present to the past.
Over the past year, he has found and photographed more than 100 elderly people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Central Plains provinces.
Many documentary films were shot at the same time during his shooting of "Qing Ping Le". He wants to grab time, he wants to grab these old people with time. The entire documentary team was arranged in his crew, and the editing room was downstairs. When there was no announcement, he went to interview the elderly in the area around Hengdian.
Sometimes I set off at 5 or 6 in the morning, followed the old people to live one morning, chatted, finished the documentary filming before noon, and hurried back to the crew to start the work. For a period of time, he only slept two or three hours a day, and he didn't feel too tired. More, it was still a kind of magical absurdity.
The absurdity of this time is that, in front of grandparents, he is a child, they will teach him to farm, take him to drink, show him his life, and tell him various stories of his youth-"Talk Love, drunk wine, missed woman, dances skipped, foreign countries visited, cars drove, planes fought, battles experienced ... "He" coquettes in front of them " . Then he came out of the old man's house, got into the car, went back to the crew, put on the costumes, and he began to "pretend to be an old man"-Yan Shu's later stage court drama, mostly in the state of middle-aged and old people.
One day he was there, looking around. "So many elderly people occupy most of the hall." There are many real old actors, but there are some classmates and even younger brothers of his age.
"I was suddenly at a loss in my mind. I haven't grown up and walked this road well. I always thought I was a young or young actor. Why did everyone suddenly become an elderly person? And it really is , The staff regarded us all as seniors, the middle director shouted a card, and stopped all of a sudden, everyone immediately moved us on the stool to give us. "
Sometimes things are reversed. He had to film the scene first, and then interview the old man. He took off the costume, washed off the hair gel on his head, and took off the headgear. He would tell the staff: "Look, I just pretended to be an old man myself. Now we are going to meet a real old man."
The interlacing and suspicion brought by the role contrast with his feelings about the old after the real impact with the aging life, which is a kind of absurdity. "You are regarded as an old actor or an old artist by others, and I can qualify as a child only in front of these old people."
"When I was with my 95-year-old or even 105-year-old old friends, I really never felt that they were much older than me. Sometimes there was a kid next to them. It was the old man ’s son, who looked so young. I asked again, and I ’m in my 80s too. The younger ones are better. "
He interviewed a grandmother who was nearly 100 years old in Lushan. When they crossed a road together, he helped her to recount her family life, saying that his eyes were injured last year and he recovered slowly. "I said I have been suffering recently, eyes It ’s broken. ”Originally, he just wanted to praise the grandmother ’s eyes, never thought that once he finished, the grandmother helped him with a backhand:“ Come, it ’s okay, I will help you cross the road. ”
The old people's pupils will generally glow blue-this is what he has seen for a long time. Yu Entai likes to ask them: What is the first memory of childhood? What dream have you had recently? There is a social news, what do you think? What is the story of first love? Do you have any regrets? Remember what was a song from childhood ...
Every person's existence has his unique meaning. If a person's memory can be described as a "memory disk", if you have the opportunity to open it, they are all dense and rich, but not everyone. Will leave traces, will be remembered by others. Yu Entai said that he wanted to be the one who remembered others. The more he wrote down, the better.
"The most remarkable thing in this world is memory, which is memory. It must be experience and memory, which determines the nature of a person, not his physical body. His emotions are also based on his memory."
He was embarrassed to use such words to knot his movements, but occasionally, he also wanted to "pull myself up suddenly, think about it, this year, I accompanied 100 100-year-olds Recalling their lives, after all, I have spent more than 10,000 years with them ... and the most interesting thing is that you are really by your side. "
"Yes, write it down"
In early April 2020, the death of writer and painter Rao Pingru made Yu Entai feel "sorry."
He and Mr. Pingru have known each other for many years, and they are also Nanchang fellows. When they talk, they all speak the native language. He thought that Mr. Pingru could live to 120 years old, and they can chat for 10 more times. questionable."
"I do n’t have any disrespect. I feel that he is a friend of my age. He is full of confidence. The two of us are talking and laughing together, drawing and writing, and talking about stories. We are talking about three or five. hour."
They talked about a kind of paper money issued by Nanchang during the Republic of China that could be torn off and also talked about their alma mater. Just ask him about the accommodation and meals at Nanchang No. 1 Middle School during the Republic of China period, including tuition fees. "He was sure that Mr. Rao and other media or other people would never talk so thoroughly and carefully about what he asked about.
He also told Mr. Ping Ru that he played Yan Shu and he must watch it when it is broadcast on TV. They all know that Yan Shu is also from Jiangxi. As a result, a few days before the opening of "Qing Ping Le", the old man left. When Yu Entai recounted these, there was no sorrow in his tone, and I could n’t see his face and eyes, but I guessed that he still left some memories of those old gentlemen and their common memories for himself, and felt a little relieved. . "Yes, we do these things not for the sake of not suffering in the future, but for the sake of giving ourselves a cushion when the pain comes." It is these elderly people who let Yu Entai get optimistic in so many unexpected and painful things now strength.
He knew that he was definitely not perfect, "I can't count my flaws because I don't want to waste my time in vain. I might as well look up at the stars, so many stars ... We don't need to waste our time for flaws, look more See the light of others for the brighter light on yourself. "
This is really a world where exam questions and exam papers are everywhere, and the scoring standards are constantly changing-this is the kind of metaphor that Yu Entai likes. He thought that every day we write down the paper violently, but we never know what kind of score we can get. "It is possible that you have done your whole life and suddenly found that day before you left, regretting it, it turns out that life is not like this ..."
"So are you going to copy these old people's papers?" I chatted down his metaphor. He suddenly became excited: "Yes, I want to know their answer in advance! It turns out that the purpose of my documentary is this! This is a major discovery! I want to write it down, yes, this is, really, very good , Awesome! "The voice on the other end of the phone sounded, and he was actually writing notes. "I just want to know the answer to life earlier, look at their papers, there is always a suitable for me. Yes, write it down."
The conversation was coming to an end. Yu Entai will come to an end "according to the normal practice": "If there is something that is inappropriate, or that will cause you trouble, please help me cut and modify it. No, the second is that you help me to check, try not to hurt others. "
As if it were a small theater, it must be made of wood, with the mark of old times. He has just staged a gentle good show, and now the show is about to end. He finished the last line, very polite and full of distance. The curtain was closed, and the person who had just spoken to us just now had to retreat into the distance. But you know he will be back, with a new story.