In June 2021, after the TV series " Battle " was broadcast on CCTV Integrated Channel and other platforms, it set off a movie watching craze. Since then, the ratings have risen frequently, and won the first place in the ratings with an average rating of 1.63%. The script
has nothing to do with Li Xuejian , but he was pulled in. The reason is that Yu Hewei , who made a deep impression on people for his role in "Uncle Liu" in the 2010 version of the TV series " Three Kingdoms ", was sprayed.
It turns out that many people like the plot and character settings of "Armageddon", but they are not satisfied with the actors of some characters. Except for the "failure" of Song Meiling's actor Liu Tao , Yu Hewei has also been criticized. one of the objects. Some people say that Lin Biao, played by Yu Hewei, is nothing like Lin Biao, and it always makes people play.
In order to come up with a classic image for comparison, Li Xuejian's role as Lin Biao was "picked up" and used as a reference for Yu Hewei.
So, what kind of Lin Biao, played by Li Xuejian, is he used for comparison?
Liu Shaoqi's wife Wang Guangmei's reaction is the best evaluation for Li Xuejian.
Once, Li Xuejian, who played Lin Biao, had the opportunity to have a close contact with Wang Guangmei, but Wang Guangmei shook hands with others but refused to shake hands with him, and then said to the people around him, "He reminds me of Lin Biao!"
At that time, Li Xuejian Just debuted not long ago. From the point of view of
, Yu Hewei really needs to work hard or directly consider whether to change the role, otherwise, he will inevitably be used for comparison, especially when compared with old actors such as Li Xuejian.
In fact, Li Xuejian not only successfully played Lin Biao, he also created other unforgettable characters, such as Song Jiang, Jiao Yulu, Yang Shanzhou, Qin Shihuang, "General Feng Shi" and so on. This is something no other actor can compare to him. What
did not expect was that, with such excellent acting skills and solid acting skills, Li Xuejian was actually not a professional. It's hard to imagine how he made himself so professional?
Maybe, his experience has the answers to these questions.
1. The first time I realized the true meaning of an actor It doesn't matter much.
In 1964, 10-year-old Li Xuejian followed his parents to leave his hometown of Heze, Shandong, and came to Zhibian, Kaili City, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province.
At that time, the roads in Kaili area, which were all stretches of mountains, were not smooth, people were isolated in small production and living areas, and there were very few entertainment programs. Therefore, propaganda teams that are local or mobile are very popular - they bring joy to boring people.
Li Xuejian may not have thought of it at the time, because he is from Shandong, his words are closer to Mandarin, and he also speaks some Shandong Kuaishu , which will make him have a relationship with the propaganda team.
Shandong Kuaishu, also known as " Bamboo Board Kuaishu ", originated in Shandong, and is one of the main forms of local traditional folk art in Shandong and Northeast and North China. The language of Kuaishu is very rhythmic. It is mainly based on rap and . It is not limited by the venue. It can be performed anytime and anywhere. It can quickly reflect real life and has strong communication and artistic charm.
can be said to be able to master Shandong Kuaishu, which can be regarded as a unique skill.
In 1970, 16-year-old Li Xuejian graduated from middle school and then entered Guizhou 210 Factory (also known as "State-run Xinyun Equipment Factory") to work as a lathe.
At that time, the publicity team of the 210 factory was still recruiting people. Li Xuejian was successfully admitted by virtue of his ability to speak fast books. After that, he began to participate in various performances and accumulated performance experience.
can be considered the beginning of his acting career.
In 1972, he was drafted into the army and came to Yunnan to serve. Because of his talents in literature and art, he was selected into the propaganda force and became an "amateur" actor.
is the years when he was literary soldier , which made Li Xuejian grow up quickly. He learned the true meaning of being an actor for the first time in other people, and he used it for a lifetime.
Around 1975, a large number of National Defense Art Troupes of Kunming Military RegionThe actor came to Li Xuejian's army to prepare for a condolence performance. As the backbone of literature and art in his army, Li Xuejian was fortunate to be sent to help the actors of the art troupe.
The camp of their troops was stationed in a ravine. The conditions were very poor and there was no stage for performances. Therefore, the soldiers moved stones from the river to build a temporary and simple stage for the actors to perform.
is this stage and almost killed a female warrior.
Li Xuejian remembers very clearly that a female warrior was performing acrobatic "High Platform Fixing the Car" on the stage, when a mountain wind suddenly blew up from the side of the high platform, although the warriors in the background tightened the safety rope to make the female warrior settle down, But the stage was really too rudimentary, and the female warrior finally fell heavily from the stage.
saw this situation, Li Xuejian ran over to help immediately, and then prepared a glass of water for the female warrior. However, as soon as the female soldier took a sip of water with her mouth, she spit out bright red blood. She may have suffered internal injuries.
For the sake of the female warrior's body, Li Xuejian and his comrades suggested that the female warrior should be sent to the hospital for treatment first, regardless of the performance. The scene of
was deeply imprinted in Li Xuejian's mind, which made him realize what an actor is and what an actor should do. Since then, he said, "there has been a greater admiration and yearning for the profession of an actor."
In 1976, New China ushered in an important turning point, and Li Xuejian's fate was also changing.
The drama team of the Second Artillery Art Troupe of the People's Liberation Army transferred Li Xuejian from the original unit and asked him to participate in the whole army performance. When
was rehearsing the drama "The Great Career of the Thousand Autumns", whether he was doing chores or running tricks, he was very involved in it.
Not long after, director Lu Wei tried his best to recommend him to the Repertory Theatre of the Political Department of the Air Force. The reason for the recommendation was that he was hardworking, serious, and willing to work. He could not be an actor, but he could also be a carpenter, an artist, and do some props and chores.
He did not disappoint Lu Wei. In 1977, he was successfully admitted to the Repertory Theatre of the Political Department of the Air Force, and he started his professional career as an actor.
In 1980, he made his official debut in the movie " Tianshan Xing". Later, he participated in the performance of a drama related to Lin Biao, which became an instant hit and became a household name.
2. He became famous for playing Lin Biao. After the self-written play "Chen Yi Out of the Mountain" exploded, by the spring of 1980, Ding Yisan was brewing to write a drama about Lin Biao, and the script was written quickly, which attracted enthusiastic attention.
Sure enough, after the play was put on the stage, it caused a huge sensation.
Of course, the reason why the drama is so successful is not only a good script, but also the actors. The person who played the leading role of Lin Biao in the play and gave the play a soul is Li Xuejian.
Li Xuejian made huge sacrifices in order to play Lin Biao well. When the script of
first came out, the repertoire of the Political Department of the Air Force found several famous actors and asked them to play the leading actor Lin Biao. But they shied away with excuses, and the roles could not be settled for several months.
One day, a leader in charge of casting accidentally met Li Xuejian, and suddenly felt that he looked very much like Lin Biao when he was young, so he came up with the idea of letting him try makeup. When
heard that it was this role, Li Xuejian hesitated.
just didn't struggle for long, he decided to take it on. He is also afraid of being scolded, but he is not afraid of being scolded for playing a role, thinking that it is an affirmation of his acting skills. After
decided to take on the role, Li Xuejian did not go to try makeup immediately, but made some preparations and spent a few days studying Lin Biao's appearance and behavior.
For this reason, he posted pictures of Lin Biao all over his house. While looking at the photos, he looked at the documents and listened to the recordings about Lin Biao. He didn't try makeup until he felt about the same.
When he removed some of the hair on the top of his head, glued on thick false eyebrows, and put on the military uniform that Lin Biao liked to wear, a Lin Biao image with thick eyebrows and some Mediterranean in the 1960s and 1970s came out. The casting leader, director and staff of
were all stunned by his makeup and almost thought he was Lin Biao himself.
Photo | Li Xuejian's version of Lin Biao (right) The leader in charge of casting at
immediately decided that Li Xuejian would play the role of Lin Biao.
try makeupIt's one thing, acting on stage is another. Judging from the makeup, Li Xuejian did look a lot like Lin Biao, but he was only 26 years old at the time, with a relatively rough and sturdy figure, and there was still a big gap between the image of Lin Biao, who was plagued by diseases and was thin.
Li Xuejian also noticed this, so before he officially played the role, he shaped himself in less than two weeks, and the weight dropped more than 20 pounds.
can see that his perseverance and dedication have been reflected in this detail.
's eyes are the window to a person's soul, and also where his temperament resides. In order to show Lin Biao's temperament, he squinted in front of the mirror all day, imitating Lin Biao's half-squinted eyes.
In addition, he imitated Lin Biao's words and deeds.
Every morning, he paced in the yard following Lin Biao's style, imitating Lin Biao's hunched back and shredded steps. In terms of accent, he also worked hard to learn the accent of Lin Biao's hometown, looking for the feeling word by word, and stopped until he was satisfied... When the
was officially arranged, the director did not arrange too many lines for Li Xuejian according to the characteristics of Lin Biao's reluctance to speak, but only suggested He sat down on the sofa in a slumped manner with his eyes closed.
In this way, a new problem arises, that is, how to show the psychological changes of the characters to the audience? Can't let "Lin Biao" sit on the stage like a specimen?
Li Xuejian quickly found a solution. He seized Lin Biao's habit of playing with matches and applied it to the psychological changes of the characters. During
's performance, whenever a plan was brewing, Li Xuejian would slowly stroke the match in his hand, staring at the burning flame, as if seeing the "fire of sin" burning all over the country; when arranging some plans, he would The matchsticks in his hand were broken one by one, expressing the mentality of doing things cleanly and mercilessly.
don't speak, and he will be a blockbuster when he speaks. When there are no lines, Li Xuejian is playing with matches and half-squinting his eyes, which is quite intimidating. Performances like
have achieved good results. Many people think that Li Xuejian standing on the stage is the living Lin Biao. It is said that someone else said: "This kid is going to Tiananmen , and he has to scare a few people to death!" Said: "The actor who plays Lin Biao is very similar to the former defense minister!"
In February 1981, "Drama Film News" commented on Li Xuejian's performance in the eighth edition, affirming his contribution.
In 1983, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles , China Dramatists Association began to award those outstanding actors the highest award in Chinese drama performance art - Plum Blossom Award . Li Xuejian won the first award in one fell swoop by virtue of his wonderful performance in the drama. In the year of
, he was not yet 30 years old, and his future was immeasurable. The response of
audiences and foreign friends, and the awards from the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Dramatists Association are all affirmations of Li Xuejian's performance.
has someone who must not be ignored. She is Liu Shaoqi's wife, Wang Guangmei.
Once, after watching the play, Wang Guangmei took the initiative to take the stage to shake hands with the actors one by one, but when she came to Li Xuejian, she did not shake hands with Li Xuejian and avoided it, which made Li Xuejian very embarrassed.
later asked Wang Guangmei why, she said: "Seeing him (Li Xuejian's makeup) reminds me of Lin Biao."
Wang Guangmei's reaction is the highest evaluation of Li Xuejian. In this comparison, Lin Biao, played by Yu Hewei, doesn't seem to be so wronged when he is complained.
In addition to successfully shaping the image of Lin Biao, Li Xuejian also created other classic characters.
3. Grasp the secret of success
's role as Lin Biao is only the beginning of Li Xuejian's acting career. Ten years later, in 1990, the movie "Jiao Yulu" starring him was a great success again, winning the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award Best Actor for both awards. How popular was
's "Jiao Yulu" back then? When
filmed "Jiao Yulu", the crew only received an investment of 1.3 million yuan, but 300,000 yuan of which was used for the so-called "management fee", and they could actually use only 1 million yuan, which is not very high.
But after the movie was released, the return was a million times more. According to relevant statistics, "Jiao Yulu" received a total of 130 million yuan at the box office.
At that time, the ticket price of "Jiao Yulu" was only about 30 cents. In this way, the number of people watching the movie was astonishingly large, at least 300 million, and this did not include the number of people for free screenings. Today, which movie dares to compare with this movie? !
can say for sure - no. In addition to the high box office of
, "Jiao Yulu" also caused a huge sensational effect, setting off a nationwide upsurge of "seeing Jiao Yulu, learning Jiao Yulu, and walking the road of Jiao Yulu", everyone is proud to follow Jiao Yulu. The success of the
movie is also inseparable from the contribution of Li Xuejian, who plays Jiao Yulu. The secret of his success is still the same as the role of Lin Biao - serious integration with the role.
He said: "I don't look like (Jiao Yulu), so I played with my heart. I once ate cabbage for three months and lost 30 pounds."
From the appearance, Li Xuejian does not look like the real Jiao Yulu. , but after the broadcast of "Jiao Yulu", most people think that he is Jiao Yulu. This is indeed inseparable from his intentions. In response to the audience's reaction,
said in a slightly reprimanding tone: "Bitterness and exhaustion are for a good man Jiao Yulu, fame and fortune are for a silly boy Li Xuejian."
He strongly urged people to remember Live in the spirit of Jiao Yulu and Jiao Yulu, not the actor who played Jiao Yulu.
can see another noble quality of Li Xuejian from this: after successfully shaping the characters, he does not think he is these characters like some people, and rely on these characters for marketing and personal interests. Examples like
abound in the entertainment industry.
Li Xuejian's popular characters seem to have such a rule: one character is scolded, and another character is praised.
The image of Lin Biao he created in 1980 was unpopular, and this unpopularity has obviously extended from drama to real life. Wang Guangmei's reaction is an example; his image of Jiao Yulu in 1990 was very popular again. He himself became a role model. The two characters he created next also repeated this "law".
In 1998, Li Xuejian played Song Jiang in "Water Margin", which was very successful and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, this image of Song Jiang was not popular with people.
Li Xuejian was not guilty at all, but he was "guilty" because he restored the wretched and cunning Song Jiang who had the appearance of a slave in the original book, and he was scolded.
When seeing Song Jiang trying to persuade his brothers to go down the mountain to join the imperial court, the audience gnashed their teeth and smashed the TV with one punch, killing Song Jiang inside. The effect of
is exactly where Li Xuejian's success lies.
However, in addition to hating Song Jiang in the TV series, the audience also brought this hatred to real life. This phenomenon is almost exactly the same as when he played Lin Biao. In an interview, when he recalled this incident,
couldn't help but complained that the villagers in his hometown hated him and sent a signal of unwelcome to him: "Take all the heroes into the ditch, don't come back. , I'll beat you to death when I come back!"
Because of these words, he hasn't come home for many years.
In 1999, he and Li Youbin co-starred in the movie " was born ", all of a sudden, his real image was corrected again, and he became a popular person. In the
movie, the "General Feng Shi" he played was upright, daring to fight, and dare to innovate. There was some friction with Lu Guangda (the prototype is Deng Jiaxian ) played by Li Youbin, and then cooperated tacitly to overcome difficulties together, and finally served the motherland. The first atomic bomb, , was developed.
Through the movie, the audience not only saw the greatness of the hero who paid silently, but also saw the change of Chinese and Western cultures from conflict to fusion, and they were hooked.
won the 12th Golden Rooster Award with this movie.
However, he doesn't seem satisfied with the role of "General Feng Shi". In an interview,
said with some self-reproach that the "General Feng Shi" in the movie had just returned from the Korean War, and his image should be thin, but when he played the role of the general, he did not lose weight, which was a "failure" in the movie. ".
He has such a tangle, probably because he thinks he is actingLin Biao and Song Jiang both lost weight, but they did not play Feng Shi, and felt uncomfortable.
No matter what, through Li Xuejian's self-blame, we can see that he is a very serious and competitive person, and it is a manifestation of being responsible for himself and the audience.
One step at a time, Li Xuejian started from a drama actor to become a pillar of the Chinese film and television industry. It can be seen that the secret of his success is being serious and responsible, both for himself and for the audience.
And he is such a good actor, but he almost left us.
In 2001, he was accidentally diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer . Fortunately, with the company, support and careful care of his wife, Yu Haidan, he overcame the disease and regained his life.
This experience gave him a new understanding of acting and life. In the TV series " Beautiful Life ", he said: "A perfect life is impossible...to cherish life, cherish life."
Conclusion:
Looking back now, Li Xuejian's success should not be attributed to only His seriousness, responsibility, hard work and hard work should also be attributed to his correct values and self-cleaning.
No matter when, the entertainment industry is a big dye vat. Mixing in the entertainment industry can make people gain glory and wealth, and at the same time can make people fall into the abyss. For more than 40 years since
's debut, Li Xuejian has been keeping himself clean and there is no negative news. His life and life are basically dedicated to acting. He only shot one commercial in decades is the best example.
If his dream is not acting, but fame and fortune, then he can be like some people, constantly marketing his previous roles, shooting various commercials, and making big profits.
But he didn't. Except for seeing him in film and television dramas, he was rarely seen in other places. This may be what people call cherishing feathers, or it may be a manifestation of his not wanting to be polluted.
In short, in Li Xue's fitness, there are too many things worth learning in future generations.
