Sohu Entertainment News (Hamai/Wen XuanFang Ying/Picture Li Xin/Video) Du Jiang's performance in the field of film has become more and more prominent. Starting from "The History of Romantic Demise" in 2016, he has received more and more attention from celebrity guides. He has successively produced "Operation Red Sea", "Hello, China", "Long Days and Long", "Chasing the Dragon 2". His works, both literary and commercial films, are in full bloom. Recently, Du Jiang has three more movies. One is "Heroes of Fire", which is currently in theaters, and the other two are "Captain of China" and "My Motherland" which have been set for National Day. Both are the main themes.
In this movie "Heroes of Fire", Du Jiang played Ma Weiguo, the deputy captain of the fire brigade. He was suppressed by his powerful father, and he was in a deputy position who could not give orders. At the same time, he was also a father. He interprets and enriches the space of this character. Du Jiang had the dream of being a firefighter when he was a child. His relationship with his father was similar to that in movies. These experiences made him empathize with the situation of the characters. In just a few scenes, the characters were three-dimensional and vivid. Audience.
Du Jiang said that the relationship between Chinese fathers and sons is usually a very strange existence, that is, the father faces his son and wants him to surpass himself, and he is always suppressing him from challenging his father's authority. Even in his generation, although education methods and parent-child relationships have undergone great changes, as a member of a Chinese-style father, he also has a mentality of expecting a son to become a dragon. "The father-son relationship in the blood of Chinese people will not change. Every father hopes that his son can be excellent, and even looks forward to the day when he will surpass himself. There is a saying that the day when a son defeats his father , Is the beginning of his real maturity, I actually very much agree with this sentence. "
Sohu Entertainment: When it comes to the main melody movies, everyone thinks they are more routine. What do you think of the main melody movies? How do you think this drama is different from other main theme movies?
Du Jiang: Actually, I think the main theme has become more and more popular in recent years. In fact, starting from "Taking Tiger Mountain out of Wisdom", to "Operation Mekong", to "Operation Red Sea", to the "Wolf Warrior" series, as well as our "Heroes of Fire" and the future "Captain of China", etc., A large number of excellent, very marketable, and very popular theme movies have been born.
I think that in a film work, in addition to artistic expression, it can also promote a certain theme. In addition to positive energy expression, it can also be more in line with the audience's audio-visual habits. This is a trend in the main theme film in recent years. .
I still like the main theme movies, because every time I watch these movies, my heart is really very excited, very surging.
Sohu Entertainment: What touched you about this movie and made you decide to play it?
Du Jiang: When the project of "Heroes of Fire" found me, I suddenly remembered the stage when I was a kid that I wanted to be a firefighter and that I wanted to be a policeman. At such a stage, every boy might boast with his little partners and his father, saying that I should be a person who is useful to society and a person who contributes to society.
Of course I became an actor later. I seem to be getting further and further away from the road of heroes, and it is impossible to become a fireman or a policeman. But I think as an actor, in my own work, I still have to have a certain sense of social responsibility. If we can make movies with the main theme, let more audiences understand the story of the hero, understand the hard work and bitterness behind the hero, and understand the hero better, respect the hero, love the hero, and protect the hero. This is also the role of the actor. The meaningful part.
Sohu Entertainment: So are you excited about receiving this scene, or are you a little worried? It feels quite dangerous to film this scene.
Du Jiang: I have always been very excited. I feel as if I have really fulfilled an unfinished dream of mine, whether it is training or shooting. Hard work is actually part of the work of an actor. Now that I have accepted this play, I must be ready to prepare for this play, work hard, and do its best psychological construction.
Although I can't say that I have so much experience in the face of fire and blasting, I have experienced a desert journey under Director Lin Chaoxian before, so I have a certain degree of psychological preparation.
Do you think you will be nervous? Are you afraid? I think it’s too late to think about it, and more importantly, you have to knowWhat do you want to do right now? You can’t stand there and wait for March 21. When the director shouted, you were still thinking, oh, will the fire burn me for a while? The blasting team is not professional and reliable. Spectrum, I must be thinking about how I can finish this scene.
Because everyone only saw the actors flying out of the explosion heroically in the movie, they felt that the scene was huge and shocking. But in fact, the audience can't see that the whole team behind it has paid a lot of labor and time for such a scene. Maybe we saw a scene, a big explosion. Our blasting team will set up there one day in advance, and arrange every blast point very carefully. I think when I stand there, I will be The team is very trustworthy. As long as I put my own work and focus on what I want to do, doing my job well is also a kind of respect for the work of others. I think they also believe that I can do it, and I also believe that they will keep me safe.
Sohu Entertainment: As an actor, what do you think is the most difficult part of this scene?
Du Jiang: To play such a role with a special professional appearance, you approach this character in terms of body shape, movement and language, to learn, to train in advance, to prepare, to do the so-called experience life, I think this All are essential.
firefighters are a special group, everyone is familiar with them, but they are very strange. In fact, as an actor, there is rarely a chance to walk into the heart of a firefighter to hear what they are really thinking, and to ask about their inner state at the time. So in the process of filming this scene, in the early and middle stages, I met a lot of firefighters and fire chiefs, and chatted with them. Whether it was work or life, listen to them tell me something about them. The story of experience.
I think the role I play Ma Weiguo is not just written by a screenwriter, but an image created by it. It is a microcosm of many, many Chinese firefighters who are really alive.
If you watched the movie, you might know that at the end of the Easter egg, or in the documentary, you saw a captain comforting their team members, saying that the fire fighting will sooner or later be sacrificed. That scene was when I saw this video. Both the director and I agreed that it was very good. The director said we should take it down and put it in our play to pay tribute to these firefighters. I think it's very good, and I am also very touched. There is that scene in the play.
So instead of trying to figure out how I should act, it is better to go deep into the lives of firefighters and get energy and inspiration from them. This is what I want to do every day when I act in this play. .
Sohu Entertainment: After you meet so many firefighters, what is your biggest feeling?
Du Jiang: Every firefighter, whether it is a team member or a captain, is actually someone’s son or someone’s father. They are ordinary and simple people in their lives. They don't have any special equipment or superhuman skills. Some are in combat uniforms and a water gun. They can stand in front of the blaze and fight the fire to keep the people safe. What kind of spirit supports them?
I think that as an ordinary person, I will be afraid in the face of disaster. I will choose to say that I am gone, I will run away. No one will criticize you, because fear is the most normal reaction of people at that time, but the reason why heroes Calling heroes means that they overcome the fear of ordinary people. They choose to take a step forward when others are backing, I walk in, and I do it, so we call him a hero. What kind of power are they like, I'm thinking, what is it? Are they really not afraid of death? I think it must be scared, but I think it is their sense of honor, sense of responsibility, and sense of mission.
A firefighter once told me, a captain told me, he said that the fire brigade, or the fire brigade is the only unit that can’t retreat, he said that any troop might have a strategy when fighting. There will be a tactical retreat, but the fire forces cannot. They cannot take a step back. They will always move forward. Because every step they take back, it means that the people's property and lives will be more threatened. I think they have such a sense of mission on their shoulders. They feel that we are the last wall between disaster and the people, and we can't retreat anymore.
So when you watch the movie, the captain of me keeps shouting, IWe rushed in, we went in. In fact, this is their habit and first reaction engraved in their blood and bones.
Sohu Entertainment: You just said that firefighters can’t go back. A very touching scene in this scene is that they guard the chemical tank at the end and record the video with their mobile phones to their family. What was it like when you performed this scene? Experience?
Du Jiang: A very real experience. The two scenes you just mentioned are both scenes that I personally like very much. There are so many places in our drama that will impress you. Really, many of the sections are from real firefighting and disaster relief stories, including recording mobile phones, including moving rocks to block the door that you can escape. It is these stories. When I read the script, I was very moved.
But one of the interesting aspects of the scene recorded on the mobile phone is that the script gave such a bridge, but there is no clear more explanation for the lines, every member and family member you see in the movie say , They are all what they want to say from the heart, and one thing that is not even known is his name in the play, which is the real name of the actor himself, and no more role name was given to them. Each of their real expressions is very real. Through our training and some of our shooting, there is really a kind of comradeship in it.
The remarks about me and my family members were not written in the script. I am very grateful to Director Chen Guohui for giving me a little creative space. He let me design the lines of this scene by myself. He said Du Jiang, you follow your heart, and you can say what you want. If it is you you want to speak to the family, what do you want to say.
Sohu Entertainment: Why did you say those words in that situation? What kind of scene do you think?
Du Jiang: It was what I wanted to say most in my heart at the time. If I can't get out alive, I have to say something to my children and to my father. Of course, if it were me, I might have a lot of things to talk to my wife. In the play, there will be considerations and how to say it. My character may be more of a father-son relationship without too much imagination and design Naturally speaking, I hope my son will become a dragon and finally hope to be forgiven by my father.
Sohu Entertainment: When you play this character, he has a lot of life-like dramas in him. For example, he has a relationship with his father, he has a baby, and his relationship with the captain. In these respects, how do you understand this character?
Du Jiang: Every firefighter has his clothes to take off his work, return to his family, and return to the simplest state of being. They have all the emotions that people have. I even think that maybe because of the professional relationship, this emotion may be stronger.
Especially in this movie, I am a character who inherits his father's career. I think every man and every boy will have this kind of pressure, which is how to get the approval of his father. Chinese-style fathers are also very common. Because of high expectations for their sons, they are always strict and suppressed, but in fact, they are silently concerned about such a state. Although there are only two plays between my father and I, the relationship between the Chinese family and the family is very clear and representative through the two plays. I personally like it very much.
Sohu Entertainment: Do you have similar experience with this relationship?
Du Jiang: Of course I also have this experience. I am also an ordinary person. I have all the happiness, happiness, distress and worry that ordinary people have, but I have the opportunity to show it on the screen. In fact, sometimes I express my feelings through other people's stories. Just like the audience’s tears when watching a movie, I always feel that the audience’s tears are not for the characters in the play, but often for themselves. It must be a certain moment in a work that touched the audience’s inner connection with themselves. That part of the audience will have emotional resonance.
My father is also very strict with me. Since I was young, he has been very similar to the father in the movie. He doesn’t like me being an actor. The more traditional Shandong fathers of the older generation wear some colored glasses for this job.
But when I was admitted to the art school later, he was very proud to introduce to his friends, you see how amazing my son is, how difficult it is to take the Shanghai Theatre Academy, so many people want to take the exam. No, he was admitted. I feel that Chinese fathers are really a very contradictory collection. On the one hand, he hopes that his children will be outstanding, but on the other hand they cannot learn.How to communicate with children to express their emotions, this is some of my personal experience.
Sohu Entertainment: In your generation, when you get along with your children, you will not put your own high demands on him, right?
Du Jiang: No, I'm quite demanding. Sure that the times are advancing, this kind of parent-child relationship will definitely be more modern and scientific. When we are in contact with the Internet, we understand the whole world, and we know what is better and more right, we will definitely learn.
But I think the father-son relationship in the blood of Chinese people will not change. Every father hopes that his son can be excellent, even saying that he is looking forward to the day when he will surpass himself. There is a saying that the day when a son defeats his father is the beginning of his true maturity. I actually agree with this sentence very much. When my father faced his son, he wanted him to surpass himself, and he was always suppressing such a strange existence that he could not challenge my authority. This is also a profound manifestation of father's love.
Sohu Entertainment: You have a lot of emotional points in your body, but you are very moved in an instant. I think you played very well. You are relatively modest yourself, saying that you are not a talented actor. Can you correct this statement now?
Du Jiang: My evaluation of myself has not changed so far. I also feel that it is not easy for me. Every step, every film, and every new character is greeted. In fact, every step is not easy. It takes a lot of thought and effort to experience such a process.
Sometimes my method is a bit stupid. There may be some actors that I don’t know, maybe I can enter that kind of scene right away, or I can make up an illusion in my mind to deceive my body or emotions, but it’s very difficult for me. Doing all the steps will make me feel at ease.
Sohu Entertainment: Through these dramas, do you think your acting skills have improved?
Du Jiang: Actors are constantly taking on new roles, filming different scenes, and cooperating with more and more excellent staff. Each scene must be in terms of skills and experience. Will get help from many people. Then naturally every time you play a role, you will definitely leave some different colors in your body. It is a process of accumulation step by step.
I actually didn't think about it so technically. I always thought it was to put a character in my hands, and I took it with my greatest seriousness. I am satisfied with my work in the early, mid-term, and every step, so that I can be confident. If I can win the recognition and trust of the audience, I will be very satisfied.
Sohu Entertainment: Or to put it another way, do you feel more and more confident in your performance?
Du Jiang: The role will bring me a lot of happiness. Actually, in my life, I may not have as many open and close performances as Captain Ma Weiguo. I am a person with less emotional fluctuations, but through the role My body, I also feel such a joy of expression. At that moment I was confident because I was him.
But I think we still have to keep a humble and cautious heart for every job. I think I still have a long way to go from the standard of excellence in my heart. I also hope that in the future, I can cooperate with more outstanding filmmakers to improve and learn.
Sohu Entertainment: You have a strong feeling of hardcore in a few of your plays. What other directions do you think are suitable for you but haven't tried?
Du Jiang: I have always felt that the mentality of actors who feel good about themselves is unrealistic and has no practical meaning. Of course everyone wants to be the best actor in the world, but this is not his own decision. I think the audience's evaluation is the most objective and effective in the end.
As for what I think I am suitable for and what I am good at, this is my feeling. In the end, the audience trusts me to act, what they like me to act, this is determined by the audience. So try as much as possible to give the audience some freshness and make them trust me more. When they see my name, they think that maybe this is a good movie. This is my goal.
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