Recently, sister squirrel brushed "The Age of Awakening" three times, and every time I watched it, it made me feel excited and couldn't sleep at night.
Today, it is the 101st anniversary of the founding of our party, and looking back on the more than 100 years of glory, our party has grown from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong, and cannot be separated from the selfless dedication of countless revolutionary ancestors and without fear of life and death.
They are fighting for national rejuvenation without hesitation, sacrificing their lives to pursue the truth, and their firm belief is the most precious spiritual wealth and is also a magnificent force that promotes the prosperity of the mainland.
In addition to Chen Duxiu and Mr. Li Dazhao in the play, the most impressive thing about Squirrel Sister is Cao Lei, who plays Mr. Lu Xun, as if the real person reappears.
Lu Xun, formerly known as Zhou Zhangshou, later renamed Zhou Shuren, the character Yushan, and later the word Yucai, was an important participant in the new cultural movement and one of the founders of modern Chinese literature.
He has profound ideological connotations, a rich spiritual world, and distinctive physical characteristics.
It is very challenging for the actor who plays him to be both a god and a god.
Today, Sister Squirrel will take stock of the actors who have played Mr. Lu Xun for everyone to see if there is the "Lu Xun" that you most recognize in your heart.
01 Zhao Dan version of Lu Xun
Zhao Dan had an unshakable position in the history of domestic cinema at that time.
He is one of the first batch of film actors trained in China, and has starred in classic film and television works such as "Pipa Spring Complaint", "Cross Street", "Lin Zexu" and so on.
Zhao Danxiao's solemn, cheerful and clear temperament made him suddenly loved by many audiences, and also made his play path unrestricted.
Whether it is a fashionable and foreign youth, a revolutionary ancestor with a firm will, or a gentle and elegant ancient scholar, he can easily control it.
In 1990, in order to commemorate Lu Xun, the Shanghai Studio prepared to make a film and television work called "The Biography of Lu Xun".
Zhao Dan is very excited about being able to play Lu Xun, he said, "This role makes me the most satisfied, I feel that the meridians of my body are unblocked, and I am in a state of excitement at all times."
Zhao Dan himself is a fan of Mr. Lu Xun's books, and the ideas conveyed by Mr. Lu Xun have a deep influence on him, and he admires Mr. Lu Xun very much.
In order to play Lu Xun well, he read almost all of Lu Xun's works and tried to get a little closer to the spiritual world in Mr. Lu's heart.
He also went to Beijing, Shaoxing and other places where Lu Xun lived many times to feel the local customs and customs.
The home is even dressed up as "Lu Xun's room", with gold without changing brushes, drinking Shaoxing wine with a small cup, smoking must go to the root, and the whole house is full of the smell of ink. He also learned lu xun to install pictures and albums himself.
Zhao Danke took pains for this role.
Unfortunately, due to the long preparation time of this film, it was not filmed in the end.
One day, Zhao Danzi cried while watching her daughter dance, and her daughter asked him why he was crying? He said, "I was touched by you, but the main reason was that I couldn't play Lu Xun anymore." ”
Not being able to play Lu Xun's blow to Zhao Dan is actually quite big, and he often can't sleep at night to fantasize about the scene after he starts filming.
It is rumored that there are many reasons why the crew stopped filming, one is that the script is not completed, the second is that the director is hospitalized, and the third is that the actors have changed.
Premier Zhou Enlai was very concerned about this drama and asked many times how it was progressing.
But even with the support of Premier Zhou, this drama was still not completed, and Zhao Dan failed to play Lu Xun.
02 Su Min version of Lu Xun
The mention of this name may seem unfamiliar to many people, he is the father of the famous actor Pu Cunxi.
Su Min, formerly known as Pu Sixun, has been working hard for the promotion of Chinese drama since the 1940s.
In 1952, beijing Renyi was founded, and he went to Renyi and became a member of the Renyi family.
Many of the actors who are now known as old drama bones are his students, such as Song Dandan, Liang Guanhua, Xu Fan and others.
In 1954, the famous drama "Thunderstorm" was staged in Beijing Renyi, which was the first version and the most difficult to surpass.
This edition brings together the best actors of Renyi so far, Hu Zongwen, Tong Chao, Su Min, So Zhi, Zheng Rong, Diao Guangqin, etc., becoming the pinnacle of renyi history.
In the 1980s, the TV series "Cultivator" with only 4 episodes was released, in which Su Min played Lu Xun.
Afterwards, he told Pu Cunxi, "He felt that the reason why the director chose him to play Lu Xun was because of the contour of his face, the direction of his eyebrows, and especially his slightly swollen eyes, which were very similar to Mr. Lu."
Judging from the makeup photo alone, Su Min's image is really similar to the real Lu Xun.
Su Min once said, "The person I want to play most in my generation is Lu Xun."
03, Pu Cun Xi version of Lu Xun
Pu Cunxi grew up in the Renyi Grand Theater, watching the older generation of Renyi actors rehearse since he was a child, and he was also deeply affected by the spirit of his fathers who only wanted to pay and did not ask for returns.
After growing up, he also became an actor, and in the second version of Renyi "Thunderstorm", he took over his father's class and played the second generation of Zhou Ping.
Interestingly, he also played Lu Xun.
At first, the movie "Lu Xun" was considered to let Jiao Huang play Lu Xun.
When someone asked Jiao Huang "how sure do you have to play Lu Xun", he said very pertinently, "There is no one, because the character of Lu Xun is too difficult, throw away the appearance, he has too many things inside to understand, this role really makes my head bigger"
The consultant of this drama is Zhou Haiying, the son of Mr. Lu Xun, and the plot selects the last 3 years before Lu Xun went, mainly highlighting the feelings and thoughts of being a democracy fighter.
When discussing the plot, due to the disagreement and disagreement between Jiao Huang and the director in many places, he finally chose to resign.
Filming is about to start, the lead actor resigns, which can make the director sad, where to find an actor with a suitable appearance and acting skills in a short period of time?
At this time, Zhang Yu, the actor who plays Xu Guangping in the play, recommended Pu Cunxi to the director.
In this way, Pu Cunxi became the actor of Lu Xun.
The producer of this drama once said that "without Zhang Yu, there would be no Pu Cunxi's version of Lu Xun".
There are only a few days before the start of filming, and the director is busy arranging Pu Cunxi's makeup.
Sticking on the beard, cutting it into a flat head, and tossing it down, the image of Lu Xun of Pu Cunqing has made many people's eyes shine.
Between the eyebrows there is a kind of arrogance that the literati bring.
Time is tight and the task is heavy, and Pu Cunxi begins to prepare for playing Lu Xun.
Because the setting of the script is the last 3 years of Mr. Lu Xun's life, he was already plagued by diseases at that time, and his face and body shape were very haggard and emaciated.
In order to pursue the similarity in appearance, Pu Cunxi decided to lose weight, drink water to fill his hunger when hungry, and in just half a month, he lost about 10 pounds.
Pu Cunxi felt very lucky to be able to play Mr. Lu Xun.
He began to read Lu Xun's works from his high school days, so he was very familiar with Mr. Lu Xun and admired him very much.
Coupled with the fact that his father once played Lu Xun, he felt that this was a kind of fate.
Pu Cunxi once said, "'The blessing of stealing heaven', the blessing borrowed from god."
At the opening ceremony of the film, Zhou Haiying, who is over 70 years old, gave recognition to Lu Xun, played by Pu Cunxi.
He said, "The film brought me a great shock, shocked by Pu Cunqing's realistic shape, and even more shocked by his superb and strong acting skills and heritage."
At the same time, he also pointed out that in the previous film and television works, the father was always portrayed as an image of "horizontal eyebrows and cold eyes", but in fact, this was incorrect, and Pu Cunxi's version interpreted the father with flesh and blood, truly restoring Lu Xun's true colors.
Facts have proved that Lu Xun, played by Pu Cunxi, is successful, and he has interpreted his appearance and spirit just right.
04, Li Xuejian version of Lu Xun
Li Xuejian is the first person in the entertainment industry to receive the honor of outstanding contributor to reform and opening up, and the only one.
His acting skills are beyond doubt, playing who is who.
Lin Biao, who played on the stage of the drama "913 Incident", refused to shake hands with Liu Shaoqi because his lover, who was too similar to Liu Shaoqi.
In the movie "Jiao Yulu", he played a grassroots cadre with a strong will and a burning passion for work.
In the TV series "Young Marshal", he played the role of Zhang Zuolin, a great warlord who resolutely did not conform to the evil after the outbreak of the war of aggression.
In 2019, he played Lu Xun in his later years in the film and television drama "Red Star Shines on China".
His eyes, the posture of his fingers holding cigarettes, and the gesture of raising his hands and feet seemed to be "Lu Xun himself", and even his hair was cooperating with him.
Although Lu Xun, played by Li Xuejian, has only one scene in the play, his appearance has become the highlight of the overall situation.
This film is based on the American journalist Edgar Snow as the first perspective, telling the story of Snow breaking through the blockade and rushing to the northwest revolutionary base area of the front line for field interviews, during which he witnessed the style of Chairman Mao and other leaders, and exposed a real and cruel historical event.
Lu Xun played a crucial role in Snow's trip to China.
In a book called "Living China," Snow wrote about his conversation with Lu Xun on the topic of the new cultural movement, in which he said, "Lu Xun is the key to teaching me to understand China."
It was because of Lu Xun that Snow and his wife began to look at China and understand China without prejudice.
When the director found Li Xuejian as Lu Xun, he actually retreated a little, and he asked the director, "Can I do it?"
As a result, the director said flatly, "Yes, you must be able to do it."
This made Li Xuejian recall the past when he played Jiao Yulu, he asked the director the same question at that time, the director's answer was yes, and "Jiao Yulu" has also become a classic.
With enough affirmation and confidence, Li Xuejian began to prepare with the determination that it must be a classic.
He prepared for more than a month in order to appear on camera in just a few minutes.
He studied Lu Xun's books, looked at Lu Xun's videos, and analyzed Lu Xun's mental journey and changes in mentality along the way.
Meticulous observation and calm exploration made Li Xuejian full of confidence and ten to nine when the filming was officially started.
He interpreted Lu Xunren to his old age, walked through the rain of bullets and bullets, survived in a corrupt society, and looked down on everything.
If there is a flaw, it is the voice of teacher Li Xuejian.
It is well known that his voice is so hoarse and cloudy because he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer in 2000.
In order not to affect his acting career, he chose conservative treatment, and he also left serious sequelae, one of which is vocal cord injury.
After the vocal cords are damaged, it is very difficult to speak clearly, and Li Xuejian can overcome the difficulties to speak normally, which is really worthy of respect and admiration.
05, Cao Lei's version of Lu Xun
Cao Lei, an actor, seems to have landed in the entertainment circle in an instant, if it were not for his role in Lu Xun in "The Age of Awakening", many viewers would not know him at all.
However, this can not blame the audience, the main reason is because his acting skills are too good, proper "drama throwing face".
In 2000, in "Very Citizen", he played a Li Zhong who was extremely trusted by Puyi, but secretly communicated with Wan Rou.
In 2014, he played the heroic lieutenant Wang in "No War in Peking".
In 2017, Guo Jia, a strategist by Cao Cao's side who was bohemian and calm in "The Army Division Alliance of Sima Yi of the Great Army Division".
Cao Lei was also very surprised to be able to play the role of Lu Xun.
At that time, it was Zhang Zhi, the director of "The League of Military Teachers", who threw an olive branch, and he knew that the character of Lu Xun was of great significance, but the director trusted him, and he should also trust the director, so he gladly agreed.
Actors need to set makeup before officially starting, and the shape in the play, especially the historical figures, must be more rigorous.
Cao Lei bluntly said that "playing a historical figure, the pursuit of shape seems to be the first threshold for actors to enter the role and substitute the audience to enter the role".
When it came time to set the makeup, Cao Lei spent more than a week just on the styling problem.
The makeup artist wanted to use Cao Lei's real hair, but he always felt almost interesting, so he chose to use an all-inclusive hood.
Don't think that the hood is convenient, the makeup artist changed three or four hoods before and after to find the most suitable one.
Before each shooting, Cao Lei needs to stick the hood to his head, and then the makeup artist trims the hood, each time needing a new hood, and the time to cut a hood takes 4 hours.
After the appearance was roughly determined, Cao Lei began to go deep into the heart of the character.
He himself frankly said, "There are prototypes for shooting revolutionary historical themes, so the preparation of the desk is not very painstaking, and the difficulty lies in the fact that if the real restoration of the state of the characters under the society at that time, if the normalcy of life is to go deep into the lives of the characters."
To put it bluntly, it is how to become a character and live in the world of characters.
He searched for a large number of photos of Lu Xun, and in order to catch mr. Shen Yun, he was like an old man reading a newspaper, holding a magnifying glass and observing it painstakingly.
In his opinion, Lu Xun's heart was extremely depressed, but he was also extremely struggling.
Therefore, careful viewers in the play can observe that Lu Xun, played by him, is always intentionally or unintentionally high and low shoulders.
Cao Lei wanted to use this form to show Lu Xun's struggle under the sour and dark society.
By flipping through and browsing Lu Xun's literary works, he tried to understand Lu Xun's spiritual level.
He found that Lu Xun's words were very sharp and sharp, but his words were round and full.
What really inspired and resonated with him was that he read Lu Xun's prose poem "Autumn Night" again.
"In my back garden, I can see two trees outside the wall, one is a date tree, and the other is also a date tree."
The autumn night was very dull, the scorched yellow leaves fell with the cold wind, and only two jujube trees proudly stood alone in the garden, as if fighting against the impending darkness of the sky.
In the shooting location, also with two jujube trees, Cao Lei stood under the tree, looking up at the middle space, and for a moment Lu Xun's image clearly appeared in his mind.
The role of Lu Xun does not appear in many scenes in the play, but each scene is very meaningful.
The director can also restore to the era of numbness and cold blood at that time, and Lu Xun's indomitable spirit.
For example, when Qian Xuantong was entrusted by Chen Duxiu to ask Lu Xun to write for "New Youth", the camera switched to the Liuli Factory, and the ignorant masses were robbing the blood steamed buns that cured all diseases.
Then the camera goes to Lu Xun, who says to Qian Xuantong, "If there is an iron room, it is difficult to break without windows, and there are many sleeping people in it, and they will soon suffocate..."
This sentence comes from Mr. Lu Xun's first collection of novels, "Scream".
What people remember most is the scene where Lu Xun created "Diary of a Madman" without sleeping or eating.
After seeing the unfair encounters around him, Lu Xun angrily wrote a line, "I looked through the history, this history has no age, and every page of the crooked slope is written with "benevolence and morality." I couldn't sleep horizontally, and I looked through the middle of the night and saw two words in the cracks, cannibalism."
Cao Lei did not have a word, he could only replace the language through cold eyes and strong limbs, and express lu Xun's inner anger, disappointment, and resistance.
The shot uses a top-down shot, the room is full of messy manuscript paper, the ashtray is full of cigarette butts, as we all know, Lu Xun likes to eat fava beans, so there is also a plate of broad beans.
The chili peppers obtained next to them are judged according to historical data.
When Lu Xun was a child, he used to study at Jiangnan Academy, and often went to the joint to exchange awards for books and peppers, thus resisting the chill and sleepiness brought about by reading books at night.
Finally, it ends with Zhou Shuren's famous "Lu Xun" in the manuscript and leaving a tear.
In this regard, the first modern vernacular novel in Chinese history, "The Diary of a Madman", was completed.
It is worth mentioning that all the manuscripts in the play are written by Cao Lei himself, and the director of the word "Lu Xun" gave him a vision.
When he knew that there was this play, he began to imitate Lu Xun's font, diligent practice and his own calligraphy skills, creating a classic scene.
If you talk about acting, Cao Lei's experience and skills may not be as good as the old drama bones mentioned earlier, but Lu Xun, who he plays, must also have left a strong mark in the film and television circle.
He once said, "What I want to do is to embody the spirit of Mr. Lu Xun as much as possible, everyone will have a Lu Xun in their hearts, if everyone says that I am like, it does not mean that I am successful." If everyone says that this is the image of Lu Xun in my heart, that is my success."
summary
The above actors who have played Mr. Lu Xun, some people are similar, some people are similar, and some people will cause controversy among the audience.
The reason why there is controversy is because everyone's social experience and life experience are different, and they will add their own understanding and create secondary creations when playing.
And who plays the most like, it depends on who is the most in line with the image of Mr. Lu Xun, a literary giant in your heart.
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