The "domestic man" in "Don't Talk to Strangers" makes people hate it; the sissy train robber in "A World Without Thieves" makes the audience laugh or cry; Jianguo in "If You Are the One" changed its name to Jasmine and turned charmingly; the drama The second master Song in "Tea House" can be seen with tears in his clothes...
These clever roles that make the audience "realize fantasy" are all played by Feng Yuanzheng, as one of the first five tiger generals in Class 85 "Feng Yuanzheng is already the mainstay of the Chinese performance industry, the current "captain of the talented actors and actresses team". Feng Yuanzheng, the old drama bone, was originally a very talented skydiver. Who knew that after moving from the blue sky to the stage, he also penetrated the mystery of the performance. From then on, no borders can restrict him to interpret the various forms of life.
Four years of skydiving experience helped liberate nature
Feng Yuanzheng never thought that he would become an actor. Now when I meet his middle school teacher, I can’t imagine Feng Yuanzheng will be an actor when he is in school, because he was a talkative child.
In 1976, Chinese sports began to recover. The sports team went to Feng Yuanzheng’s school to pick people. The students took physical coordination tests on the school’s playground. Some people said that they were dizzy or unable to run if they didn’t want to go. The honest Feng Yuanzheng did it. Particularly serious. As a result, although he was thin, he was considered to have good coordination. He was recruited to practice skydiving. After practicing, Feng Yuanzheng fell in love with the sport. He even gave up the college entrance examination in 1981. I am confident that I can join the professional team after participating in the August game. However, after the game, the coach said that there is no chance. I didn’t know until I went to the aviation school celebration a few years ago that I actually entered the professional team list at that time. Which part of the selection went wrong.” Feng Yuanzheng, who originally had enough grades for admission to university, had to go to work in the zipper factory after graduating from high school. At that time, a colleague in the factory wanted to learn acting, so he took him as a company and was studying recitation. During the vocal process, Feng Yuanzheng fell in love with the performance. In 1984, Feng Yuanzheng went to the Beijing Film Academy and was selected by director Zhang Nuanxin in the examination room to play "Youth Rite". After returning, he was told that he had not been admitted to the Film Academy because of his poor image.
In the second year of Renyi enrollment, Feng Yuanzheng and Gao Dongping, who was also one of the five tigers in the 85th class of Renyi, took the exam together, and then went to the Renyi examination. Because Renyi sent the admission notice in advance, the two We chose Renyi together.
In this way, Feng Yuanzheng became an actor of Beijing People’s Art. What he didn’t expect was that his four-year skydiving experience was of great help to his performance: because skydiving is a process of liberating nature for him, skydiving must adjust his own psychology. Make accurate judgments in the air, fight with the team members, and even engage in some pranks in the air. Feng Yuanzheng, who is used to drifting in the sky, has already truly opened himself.
liberating nature is obviously a necessary quality for drama.
has never beaten his wife, and played the drama of the women’s hotline
mentioning Feng’s expedition. It is necessary to mention the TV series "Don’t Talk to Strangers" that left a psychological shadow on many people. This drama became very popular after it was broadcast in 2002. Feng Yuanzheng also became famous because of this. Of course, he was mainly "notorious." He was often scolded when he walked on the street. Many friends even wondered if Feng Yuanzheng has life experience, otherwise how could he act so realistically?
was asked too many questions, Feng Yuanzheng was helpless, "I have never beaten a wife, only the women's hotline."
In 2001, when this TV series was filmed, it was far from the current Internet development. Feng Yuanzheng called the women's hotline to consult about beating his wife. They taught and educate me earnestly, "Tell me cases and tell me how bad beating a wife is. I just learned that there are so many domestic violence in China. An Jiahe is a Ph.D. and a senior intellectual. I began to not believe that senior intellectuals would After beating his wife like that, I believe through cases later, including now, the probability of violence with a college degree or above is higher than that of ordinary people, because the pressure is too great."
Actually, Feng Yuanzheng has not read "Don't Talk to Strangers" completely. This drama, because he didn’t want to watch it, "There was a period of time when a legal program was involved in domestic violence, so he invited me to go and let me watch the clips. When I saw the clips for the first time, tears came out. , I think this person is too cruel, and Mei Xiangnan is too miserable. I will analyze my performance after watching too much. I think the homework at that time is still right." How do
performers look for the seeds of characters? Feng Yuanzheng's approachIt is to observe life:
"How actors interpret their roles is related to their own qualities. I love opinion-based shows at home, and there are many cases in them. I often tell my lover, you see, in real life this is how we act. Absolutely not. Next time, if I play a similar role, I will do it in this way, instead of following the routine. Therefore, an actor must observe life and experience these in life to be able to act life more vividly. "What should I do if I can't experience
? Need savvy and imagination
Feng Yuanzheng believes that the communication between the performance and the audience is actually at the soul level, not body language. When some actors are acting, they are talking lines and learning what is superficial, but what they lose is inner expression.
When an actor is looking for his own role, he needs a certain amount of time, understanding and reason. In
"Teahouse", Feng Yuanzheng plays Song Erye. The Song Erye played by Huang Zongluo has become a classic. Even if he is going to study, Feng Yuanzheng has to find some psychological basis for playing Song Erye.
"For example, Song Erye is walking on the ground, why? It fits the character of this character's cautiousness. In addition, I found a reason for him physiologically. He has flat feet and he cannot stride.
plays him in the second act. When I am old, my ten toes are curled up. This is invisible to the audience. I gave the characters a physiological pavement. Therefore, the form of the characters, whether they walk or they are completely dependent on my feet Control.
This is what I do in the creative process. Not everything needs to be experienced. There are some things you can’t experience. What should you do? One is imagination, and the other is to search for things that can be felt. On the stage, how the actors deliver the best performance to the audience is the most important thing. The audience feels our performance with their heart, and then thinks about it. This is the right thing."
"A World Without Thieves" "If You Are the One" although only one The scene, but let the audience remember for a lifetime
Feng Yuanzheng's performance of Amore in "If You Are the One" is absolutely amazing. The flow of makeup, costumes, eyebrows, frowns and smiles have become classics. Only in this scene, this role will be used. Shaped so that people never forget.
It is said that the role was played by someone else, but the director Feng Xiaogang decided that Feng Yuanzheng must come, because Feng Yuanzheng's speech in "A World Without Thieves" was a bit of a sissy thief. The cocked orchid finger became a major part of the film. Smile point, with the foreshadowing of this role, Feng Yuanzheng's replay of Amore is a familiarity.
Speaking of the "A World Without Thieves", Feng Yuanzheng once revealed that he was influenced by Fan Wei. When he and Fan Wei went to the show, Feng Xiaogang told them that this passage might not necessarily be cut into the film, although It may be a white performance. Feng Yuanzheng and Fan Wei still acted in earnest. As soon as the two of them finished their lines, the extras laughed loudly. This time, Fan Wei's emotions came up, and when it was filming, he immediately stuttered. "Fighting, robbing, and robbing" Feng Yuanzheng took a look. What kind of line is this? Fan Wei played so well, what should I do? So he stretched out orchid fingers.
And the Amore in "If You Are the One" is not too difficult for Feng Yuanzheng. The makeup is put on, and he enters the drama instantly. Several roles are played. Many "atypical" roles need to be played by Feng Yuanzheng, but for similar Feng Yuanzheng rejected the role, "I don't want to repeat it."
That's right, Feng Yuanzheng is a drama player who doesn't play repeated roles.
According to Feng Yuanzheng, why is performance called performance? What is a table? Expression, performance, surface, it is external, expressing, the audience feels the inside of the character through the external things of the actor, feels the content that the actor wants to express; after acting, deduction is to evolve the internal things through the appearance:
"Actors should act from the inside out, and pass the lines, scripts, and the inner things of the characters that I know to the audience through appearances, so that the audience can understand what you want to tell. The audience sees the performance through the outside of the actors. The language, body, clothing, etc. can see the content and inner thoughts. Therefore, the audience feels the content from the outside to the inside while the actor is from the inside to the outside.”
China’s current performance teaching is in the “big brother” "
Feng Yuanzheng often cite an example when teaching performance. He said that performance in China, especially teaching, is in the era of Big Brother.
"Big Brother, it has an antenna, a phone case, and various buttons. It is very complicated, but has a single function. The tablet phone only has a body, Screen, camera, but very powerful. Our current acting teaching is in the era of Big Brother. The Stanislavsky system has a lot of practice in the early stage of the performance. There is no physical movement practice, concentration practice, imitating animal practice, and liberating nature practice. With so many basic exercises, when an actor is training, one exercise may take half a month. You will find that after finishing these things, he will not let him go on stage, because the teacher did not tell us how to assemble the parts. We will make a lot of exquisite parts, but the assembly will not. So before an actor comes on stage, he thinks, I want to relax, I want to concentrate, I want to liberate my nature, but in the end the play will no longer be performed. "
When many actors talk about how dedicated they are, they often say how many biographies they have written before preparing. Feng Yuanzheng bluntly said that it is easy to lead themselves astray:
" I read the script at home and design for this person after I read it. There have been countless plots, but when I was rehearsing in the rehearsal hall, I found that the characters were different from what I thought behind closed doors at home. Our usual wrong request for actors is to write biographies, which will set the life course for the character, and what is presented on the stage is instant. Rehearsal is to find and correct. At the beginning, writing biographies is not only useless, but hindering. Judgment of the role. Therefore, I basically do not encourage young actors to write biographies. I say you can write them. You can write them after the performance and write a summary of the characters.
For example, An Jiahe, I once photographed a period and suddenly understood why An Jiahe beat his wife. This seed has always supported me to finish the performance. The reason why it is presented perfectly today is that this seed is very important. It was not what I planted at the beginning, but what I realized during the shooting. Why did An Jiahe beat his wife? In addition to love for Mei Xiangnan, hate is more important, he does not believe in the opposite sex. This kind of disbelief came from when he was a child. When he was a child, the opposite sex he believed most was his mother, but when his mother let him down, can he still fall in love?
I set up for An Jiahe, "My father was gone when I was young, and my brother and my mother depended on each other. I think my mother loves me the most in the world, and I love her the most. Only me and my brother are in her heart, but school is too early. Suddenly I went home and saw another man with my mother. I felt that my love had been taken away. I felt that everything my mother said about being dependent on each other was broken. From then on I didn't believe in the opposite sex. ’This seed is small, but it’s enough to support me in this role. "There is no right or wrong in
performances, only accuracy and inaccuracy.
Feng Yuanzheng also gave an example of when he was 24 years old when he played a person in his 40s. There was a line that was particularly good. He saw ten meanings, but how to act as a director. They were all wrong.
Later, Feng Yuanzheng went to the head teacher Lin Liankun, "I said I can see ten meanings, but what should I do if I can’t perform ten meanings? The teacher asked me to talk about it, so I said ten. meaning. The teacher said: "What you said is quite reasonable, but if you want me to act, I can't act out ten meanings. Why do you act ten kinds of meanings? You can see a thousand meanings, can they all perform? Come on? You only need to act the core idea. All the behavior logic and basis of the characters are explained in the history and the script. If you look carefully at other people's lines and other plays, you will know how to act. There are different performances. There is only one method, but the audience sees only one.”
Therefore, in Feng Yuanzheng’s opinion, there is no right or wrong in performance, and there is only accuracy and inaccuracy:
“Whatever you feel is what you feel, don’t look at others. Feel that way, you will feel that way. So there are a thousand Hamlet in the eyes of a thousand people. When we use one brain to deal with one thousand or one hundred million viewers, we can’t deal with it at all. We can only look for the character in our heart. In the end, if everyone’s approval is high, even if he is an actor who plays accurately.” As Feng Yuanzheng,
, not only does he act well, but what is even more rare is that he has formed a systematic teaching theory. Listen to his words. Comparing his performance again, it seems that he is reading a lively textbook, which makes people see that it is too "interesting". (Photographed by Feng Yuanzheng by Wang Xiaoxi)
