The Paper's reporter Yang Kaiting
From "Longling Labyrinth" to "Yunnan Bug Valley" to the "Kunlun Shrine" that was just filmed, Jiang Chao, the actor of Wang Fatzi, felt that in the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series, he was really "playing with his life" in the filming.
The cold winter moon soaked in the water day by day, and hoisted the Wia that had never been hoisted in his life; ran and fought in the primeval forest, injured his shoulders, injured his knees, and came down with painkillers and crutches all the way down; at an altitude of three or four thousand meters, standing and gasping for breath, he still had to shoot a lot of fights and chases.
Stills from "Yunnan Worm Valley"
Like this filming of "Yunnan Bug Valley", the exterior scenes are in a primeval forest in Cangyuan, the shooting place is under a deep ditch, the ditch climbs to the top of the ditch for 40 minutes, and the way up and down is a small pit that the field brothers shoveled out of the ditch wall with a shovel, and then pull a long rope, so that everyone can step on these pits and put the rope up and down. From the shooting ground to eat a meal, Jiang Chao was terrified back and forth.
"Happy to be troubled"
Looking at the strong and mentally strong Wang Fatzi in this series of TV series, you may forget that Jiang Chao is already a fifty-year-old person. He is not too good, and he is afraid of heights, and he also carries old wounds, before the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series, the work was mainly comedy, and he basically never tried this kind of adventure suspense theme.
But the character of Wang Fatzi was too attractive to him. He has seen the original work of "Ghost Blowing Lights" and also likes Wang Fatzi. "This person is quite real, and then this brother is also really righteous, for the sake of friends two ribs into the knife, a mind, when encountering things, he can also stand up, but also a very cute person." I think the fat man I played is hoping to make him more real, more grounded, he is poor, he can indeed resolve a lot of embarrassment, can deal with anyone, he is a very urban person. Jiang Chao said.
The last "Longling Labyrinth", showing Wang Fatzi's fighting scene, is richer than "Yunnan Worm Valley". Therefore, when "Yunnan Bug Valley" first started broadcasting, many viewers sent private messages to Jiang Chao: "Why doesn't the fat man fight, how does he instigate it." ”
"In the novel, Wang Fatzi may be able to fight better than Hu Bayi," Jiang Chao said, "but I think in film and television dramas, we still have to consider the primary and secondary, and give the hero image of saving the world to Hu Bayi." "And the task of making Hu Bayi and everyone happy and relieved is done by Wang Fatzi." And Shirley Yang can also fight, among the three people, there must always be one who needs to be saved, otherwise how to reflect the wisdom and ability of the person who saved people. Jiang Chao replied happily.
In "Longling Labyrinth", there are also "big gold teeth" and "ma bold" gangs, while in "Yunnan Worm Valley", the heavy scenes all fall on the shoulders of the "Iron Triangle". In addition to the tension, the task of adjusting the atmosphere fell on Wang Fatzi.
"Longling Labyrinth" in terms of character relationship, focusing on the brotherhood of Hu Bayi and Wang Fatzi, after the establishment of this pair of characters, "Yunnan Bug Valley" put more ink on the relationship between the characters, put on Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang, the fat man more than the previous part to assume the role of "pick-up" and "light bulb", cracking and creating embarrassment between the three characters.
Jiang Chao has completed this task very well, and Wang Fatzi's poor mouth can be called a rare opponent in recent domestic TV dramas. Jiang Chao admits that he is really not such a poor person, "When I play him, sometimes I feel that this guy is so poor. In fact, the older people are, the less they like to talk to anyone. ”
To help friends resolve embarrassment, Jiang Chao and Wang Fatzi are very similar. "For example, when I go to a party, a large part of the people don't know much, then it may be a little embarrassing, so I make a joke about myself, don't hurt others, find a topic to talk to everyone." 」 I'm willing to be that atmosphere adjuster. ”
Jiang Chao is willing to be "troubled", he started from the crew in his early years, did life production, bits and pieces of daily chores, handled clearly and properly, or a good hand at managing accounts. The three actors of the "Iron Triangle" have a very good relationship in private, and everyone bought a pressure cooker in a group, and together they have nothing to do to improve their food. This matter was handed over to Jiang Chao, who built an "iron triangle accounting group" and raised funds to let Jiang Chao manage the account. Make some potato ribs today, stew some fish tomorrow, relieve the hunger by themselves, and don't forget to send a few copies to the director and crew.
"Teacher Pan (Pan Yueming) has a more introverted personality and is not a person who does not speak much, so I talk more next to me, and when there is a problem, I will make more remarks." Jiang Chao feels that in everyone's life, there is always such a friend around him, and he is willing to arrange it well for everyone and let others not worry about anything. "That's how I am."
From "Longling Labyrinth" to "Yunnan Bug Valley" to the later story, there are few TV dramas that can be made into series in China. Spend more time together, the "Iron Triangle" and the creators are getting more and more familiar, who comes to visit the class, dumplings, seafood, snacks, are shared everywhere in the crew, "a large group of people like relatives, very harmonious and happy." ”
Jiang Chao also feels that this familiarity helps the performance. "The two people don't talk in life, the acting is sweet and sweet, and I personally feel that the performance may not be satisfactory to the audience." But like the relationship in our lives, the familiarity presented in the play is very real. ”
But it's too cooked, and there are bad things. There is a passage in the play where Shirley Young discovers the bones of her father who died many years ago. The fat man was anxious to comfort Shirley Yang, and did not say a word: One of your fathers fell, and a thousand Hu Bayi stood up. They were glared at by the two.
I said this very seriously, and the two of them laughed badly. The fat man is too out of tune, too unobtrusive. When filming, we couldn't get past this, ng more than a dozen times, right? As soon as I said that we laughed, the staff also laughed, and finally Sister Yuqi and I both looked at each other's brains and shot them, we couldn't look at our eyes, and we laughed when we looked at them. ”
These comedic elements belonging to Wang Fatzi are things that Jiang Chao is good at and familiar with. "When there is no strong plot for the time being, I think it is good to use comedy elements to increase the watchability."
Be measured in comedy
Jiang Chao began to really contact comedy from "The Story of the Cooking Class", and he did act in comedy for so many years, "Maybe everyone thinks that I still have a sense of comedy."
Stills from "The Story of the Cooking Class"
And over the years, Jiang Chao believes that he has a little bit of learning and experience, "I personally feel that comedy first needs imagination, and there is a saying that comedy should use wisdom other than wisdom." Comedy needs to be unexpected, it must be imaginative. Then there is the fact that you have to know a little more, to learn more, to keep learning, to have a wide range of knowledge, to understand more skills, things are not necessarily fine, but you have to understand a little bit to know the point, this is ok. ”
Jiang Chao also said that the requirements of comedy for screenwriters, directors and actors are very high, including post-editing, comedy creation, and the creators of various departments need to have a high degree of cognition and understanding of comedy, and there must be tacit understanding. These are actually very difficult to do, and doing a good comedy is far more difficult than everyone thinks. But Jiang Chao added, "I am not a very talented person, I have accumulated so many years of experience in making comedy, and continuous learning, which may have some help for my current performance." ”
After 20 years of acting in comedy, he felt that the comedy performance was like a big picture in Chinese landscape painting. But in the past decade, he has hoped to try to "paint the brush in the big picture", to be more measured in comedy, and to portray the characters more delicately. "I hope to be able to create comedy that belongs to my own style, real and unpretentious, grounded, and delicate and accurate." I am also learning, whether I can do it is difficult to say, I can only say that I am working hard. ”
Source: The Paper