The "Jianghu You Dongge" of "Itinerant Inspection Team" can also play Liu Qing and Zhang Zuolin
Sung Tae Sun: I'm an "amateur actor" with little talent
Cheng Taishen, who plays Mi Zhendong in the hit drama "The Touring Inspection Team", is often called "Brother Dong" by the audience, but Cheng Taishen "has a lingering heart": "Don't call me'Brother Dong', it's great to call'Liu Qing'."
The biopic "Liu Qing" starring Cheng Tae Sun will be released on May 21.
This film looks back on the life of the writer Liu Qing, telling how he was struggling to seek and create for the future, how he upholds the life of "If you want to write, you must live; if you want to create a hero, you must first create yourself" The guidelines have reached the commanding heights of the spirit of the times in the depths of life.
Cheng Taishen, who has been a writer's dream since he was a child, has integrated himself into Liu Qing's mind, allowing the audience to feel the great personality of Mr. Liu Qing on the screen, in front of the simple wooden hut desks in Huangfu Village, and in the magnificent scenery of wheat and waves.
In addition to the movie "Liu Qing", Cheng Taishen played Zhang Zuolin in the "Revolutionary" which began on July 1, and Chen Duxiu in the TV series "Big Waves Washing the Sand", which was launched a few days ago.
Every time he creates a character, he has his own opinions and opinions.
A few days ago, in an exclusive interview with a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, Cheng Taishen told the story behind the shooting of these works.
Play the villain
Responsible to explain to everyone the cause and effect of the villain’s choice
Cheng Taishen’s acting career has a high starting point. In 2001, at the age of 30, he won the Best Actor Award at the French Nantes Three Continent Film Festival for his movie "Seafood". Therefore, he was favored by directors such as Jia Zhangke and Wang Xiaoshuai, and he took a lot of literary works. sheet.
This award made Cheng Taishen’s career path a smooth path, but it made him a bit "repentant" years later, "I actually acted as a rapist. Before 2005, I was an angry young man, and acted in a gray, world-defining role. The character who feels desperate is terrible to think about now."
The basic requirement for Cheng Tae Sun to choose a role now is: roles without conscience and moral bottom line will not play, absolute dark figures will not play, "I must first think that my children and grandchildren can watch my role, they will not blush, otherwise, I Just a sinner. I can't act as a bad person, pollute myself, and smear my soul in order to make money."
However, there are two exceptions to Cheng Taishen’s role this year, one is Mi Zhendong and the other is Zhang Zuolin.
Cheng Taishen confessed that he had concerns about playing Mi Zhendong, "When I read the script of "The Touring Prosecutors", he was really attracted by Mi Zhendong. The biography called him a knight of the rivers and lakes. If in ancient times, he was a knight who robbed the rich and helped the poor. He is filial and filial, has a conscience, and can avenge his adoptive parents. But unfortunately, in modern society, he is a blind person, and he should not do things in a quack."
After the performance of "Itinerant Inspection Team", Cheng Taishen specially made several interviews with the purpose of telling the audience about Mi Zhendong's "bad things", "Many girls like Mi Zhendong, saying that he is kind and righteous, so I want to find such a person to do it. "Husband", I said no, he is a criminal, which is wrong. Someone told me on the Internet: "Jianghu, my brother, I want to learn from you and take revenge!" I said you must not do this When you hurt others, you also sent yourself to the guillotine. Therefore, I cherish every interview opportunity. I have a responsibility to explain to you the cause and effect of the characters I play, especially the villains, who choose their lives. The more successful the actors are. , The easier it is to influence others. When actors gain fame and gain, they must also bear the cause and effect and not mislead the audience."
The role of Zhang Zuolin in "Revolutionary" also made Cheng Taishen a little "resistant." "I just finished playing Mr. Chen Duxiu in "The Big Waves". Nan Chen and Bei Li are like brothers. Zhang Zuolin is the murderer of my brother." However, Cheng Taishen thinks twice. Later, I took the play, mainly because of Li Xuejian, "I admire Li Xuejian, and I always want to interact with the audience through roles, just like him."
Moreover, in Cheng Taishen’s view, Zhang Zuolin also has his own advantages. For example, he talked about loyalty and refused to give up an inch of land in the northeast, so he was killed by the Japanese. "So, I still hope to show this hero in "Revolutionary", just because of his loyalty. After the performance of Chen Duxiu, he hasn't completely appeared in the play, so there was a moment of swaying during the performance."
In "Itinerant Inspection Team", Cheng Taishen and Yu Hewei have a lot of rivals, and Yu Hewei starred in "Awakening Age" as Chen Duxiu, Cheng Taishen starred as Chen Duxiu in "Big Waves", did the two have any exchanges about this?
Cheng Taishen revealed that when he collaborated with "The Touring Inspection Team", he knew that Yu Hewei had filmed "Awakening Age", but he didn't know that he was acting Chen Duxiu, so the two did not discuss Chen Duxiu.
"I played "The Tour Inspection Team" and went to the teacher Yu. The actors were like Huashan Lunjian when they were shooting opponents. Sometimes, Mi Zhendong and Feng Sen were not fighting face to face, but competing behind the scenes. The aura has already met, like an internal force competition without weapons."
When Cheng Taishen was asked to play Chen Duxiu in "The Big Waves", Cheng Taishen said that he would not dare to act, because he knew that besides Yu Hewei, there are several very good actors who have appeared in different works of Chen Duxiu. "I was very entangled. Later they told me that In this play, I want to act until the end of Chen Duxiu's life, which is to interpret the complete life process of Mr. Zhong Fu, and my interest comes.
Literary dream
Completely melted in the spiritual world of Mr. Liu Qing
Cheng Taishen is a literary youth who has been sensitive to life and death since he was a child. During an interview, he recalled a scene from his childhood: "One evening when I was about 10 years old, when I saw the low clouds in the sky, a crack suddenly opened. I was frightened and felt The sky is about to collapse, and I am about to die. I ran home and got under the table. From then on, I was awakened. I wanted to relieve my fear and I was very sensitive to heaven and earth, life and death."
Cheng Taishen’s solution to life’s confusion is to step into literature. “I always think that literature can answer all kinds of life and can enter life. In the writer’s pen, the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of life can be expressed in art form. Therefore, I am bound to writers. Respect. For this reason, when my writing can't reach that level, I feel extremely disappointed and desperate, and feel boring to live. Once I even wanted to jump off the shelf, but when I saw the starry sky, I felt that the starry sky was so beautiful , And I still had a chance at such a young age, so I made a plan for myself, hoping to get close to literature through a lot of reading and relying on sister art, and even thinking about raising children and making him a writer after marriage."
The movie "Liu Qing" allowed Cheng Tae Sun to review his literary dreams again.
Liu Qing is a famous contemporary novelist, and his representative work is the first book of "The History of Entrepreneurship".
Cheng Taishen confessed that the only work Liu Qing had read before was the "Liang Shengbao Buying Rice Seeds" in the high school Chinese textbook. "When Director Tian Bo asked me to play Liu Qing, I was very nervous. As a literary youth, I know well the masters of literature. The spiritual world is infinitely broad, while the inner world of our ordinary people is relatively limited."
In the biography of Liu Qing, Cheng Taishen was very pleased, but did not directly agree, "When Director Tian Bo showed me the 21st draft of the script, I thought it was good, it's okay." But how to touch Liu Qing's spiritual core, still let him Cheng Taishen is under great pressure.
Afterwards, Cheng Taishen read the biography "Liu Qing Biography" written by Liu Qing's daughter Liu Kefeng, "Mr. Liu Qing was accompanied by her daughter during the last 9 years of his life. The information in it is very precious. This book has the temperature and the details to help me. Walking into Mr. Liu Qing and seeing his mental journey in the last 9 years, I can feel the maturity and transcendence of Liu Qing's thoughts."
In addition, Cheng Taishen also read Mr. Liu Qing’s works "Bite through the Shovel" and "Bronze Wall and Iron Wall". "I read his aesthetic notes, the advice he gave to young writers in his later years, and his life experience. I felt Mr. Liu Qing. The direction of my heart allows me to break myself bit by bit and melt into Mr. Liu Qing's spiritual world."
Cheng Taishen said that the spiritual world of a great writer cannot be entered by an actor with skills. It is ridiculous to want to use skills to express his inner world and spiritual feelings. "I can only destroy myself and crawl on the master. In the spiritual world, let all his information be recombined under the script, give my mind and body to Mr. Liu Qing, and let him reappear in the present."
After playing Liu Qing, Cheng Taishen said that his "writer's dream" knot had also been resolved, and he was relieved.
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Although "Liu Qing" was filmed 3 years ago, Mr. Liu Qing's imprint on Cheng Taishen is eternal, and now he is still very excited: "I got a thorough baptism. The poem by Mr. Liu Qing— —'Bringing to all rivers, Zhiyue Wanren Mountain, looking forward to a thousand years of things, and a plain in the heart.' It's really great, and I encourage us not to give up in the face of any wind and rain. Everyone's "entrepreneurial history" is still going on."
Unfortunately, this movie that moved many viewers to tears did not appear "miracle". The current box office is only more than 3 million yuan. The filming process has also experienced many twists and turns, and even it was shut down due to funding problems. Fortunately, it was met in time. The new investors came to the rescue.
The release version of "Liu Qing" saw Cheng Taishen crying, "I was not satisfied with the early edited version, but I watched the final release version in tears. I didn't expect this movie to be so powerful, more powerful than mine. I was deeply impressed by the power of all the versions I saw before. This version removed the subjective preferences of many creators, returned to an objective and pure perspective, and shaped the life course of Mr. Liu Qing’s open-mindedness. History is a melting pot, every time An individual’s life is a moment. In the melting pot of history, can you stick to your original aspirations and pursue the true nature of the truth? Mr. Liu Qing did it. After watching this movie, I feel that the traditional Chinese scholar-officials’ worries and worries about the world , The post-mortem of happily and happy', that kind of mission and responsibility has never changed."
Cheng Taishen hopes that more people will be able to see this film. For this reason, he also volunteered to join the publicity staff, "I have such an obligation to pay tribute to the idol. This work is about spirit. It has strong humanistic care and portrays At a critical moment in one's life, how to choose the path of life and become a virtuous person with noble personality is the most in need of this kind of person in this era."
Due to the lack of publicity costs, Cheng Taishen paid for the road show of "Liu Qing".
He set off alone, settled the accommodation and transportation expenses by himself, put on makeup himself, "all to pay tribute to Mr. Liu Qing."
Words in my heart
Listen to the agent
Are you "going crazy" when you need plastic surgery
2005 was a huge turning point in Cheng Taishen's life. At that time, he felt confused and depressed.
For this reason, he read a lot of ancient Chinese traditional cultural books, "It is really a divine enlightenment, and then I'retreat' for 100 days without going out and read the classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism."
After 2005, Cheng Taishen, who was concerned about his own awakening, changed his play path. Most of his characters were mature historical figures. In "Heaven, Earth and Minxin", he acted as the "three generations of emperors (Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi)". Qi Liaozao; in "Yu Chenglong" played a generation of Lian Lie Yu Jackie Chan; "China Sky Eye" played "Father of Sky Eye" Nan Rendong; in "Liu Qing" played Liu Qing.
"It is my luck to be able to play these characters. They have preserved energy and light in the long river of history, as if entering my body, giving me blessings, and opening up many blind spots in the inner spiritual level."
Cheng Taishen devoted all his strength to each role. Therefore, as Liu Qing, he has a deeper understanding of Liu Qing and literature; as Chen Duxiu, he is familiar with the history of the party, laughing and saying that he is "a party member who is not a party member", "for the sake of As Chen Duxiu, the first book I read was "The Communist Manifesto". I was sweating all over and I was very excited."
Wandering in the spiritual world of these characters, Cheng Taishen feels extremely happy, but when he returns to reality, Cheng Taishen feels uncomfortable: "When I walked out of the role, I felt very small and boring in the face of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and chicken feathers. Listen. The agent said, do you feel that you are going crazy when you need plastic surgery? Living in the world of sages, you can’t face the reality and you’re very entangled.”
Refuse to socialize
Be an "amateur actor" in the age of traffic
The more sages and sages perform, the more Cheng Taishen feels that he is useless. "This is not modest. I am now an'amateur actor', so I have little knowledge."
In this age of traffic, Cheng Taishen also hopes that he is an "amateur actor", "I have also struggled, wanting to have creative opportunities and play good roles, but there is no traffic, but if there is traffic, it is easy to become popular. So, in this In the age of traffic, I would rather be an'amateur actor'. If I were an actor, I would feel a bit embarrassed."
Since 2006, he has stopped having any social entertainment after filming. "I won't listen to what the agent says. I also told the fans to stop being obsessed. If you have time, it's better to go home and read."
One of Cheng Taishen’s fans had unfortunately suffered amputations in a car accident. The child was still young. He was extremely stressed and wanted to commit suicide. "I called him Brother Yunlang. After seeing my interview, he regained his confidence in life. Now the child is also admitted. After college, he often sends me WeChat now, which makes me feel that actors still have a little effect."
With light
That the character already has a life
In the characters created by Cheng Taishen, the eyes are bright, as if the stars twinkle in the spiritual world of the characters.
In this regard, Cheng Taishen said, “Light is the light of the character’s heart, it is the source of living water. Without light, it would not be that character, but the actor would be playing a role. With light, that character already has life, and he is not you anymore. , He took the actors away."
Many people ask Seong Tae Sun how to improve his acting skills. Seong Tae Sun’s method is to let himself disappear and let the character enter. “Everyone says that the role is played alive, but in fact, the role itself is alive and you destroy yourself, at the moment the filming started. , You enter the time and space of the character, the character takes you, and the video and audio are synchronized and inseparable, otherwise you will be entangled, nervous, artificial, show off your skills, and act falsely."
The classic films in Cheng Taishen’s heart have all been baptized by time. The films of Tarkovsky and Ozu Yasujiro that he admired have reached the level of poetry. Digging into the dark side, I think that movies that express anger are a staged contribution, equally great, but in the long river of history, what is left is often those calm works that can settle down."
Text/Reporter Xiao Yang