The same is the difference between acting Chairman Mao and Gu Yue and Tang Guoqiang. One is like an oil painting, and the other is like an actor.

Before I can remember, my parents died one after another, and then they were sent to an orphanage. They were caught in the war and they didn't have enough food.

Later, the People's Liberation Army entered the city and liberated Guilin. Gu Yue and her sister were found in an orphanage and rescued.

From then on, the army was Gu Yue's home.

But Gu Yue never thought that he would become an actor, especially a special actor who played Chairman Mao. It is a coincidence and a gift of fate to embark on this road.

One year, Gu Yue was on a business trip. On the green leather train, a comrade took his hand and said that he looked like Chairman Mao.

Gu Yue is puzzled. After he got off the bus, he bought a copy of Chairman Mao's Go to Anyuan. After returning home, he looked at the mirror again and again, but he was not sure. He took the portrait to the office and asked if it looked like it. Colleagues booed, it would be more like if he had a mole under his mouth.

Gu Yue then picked up a pen and ordered a mole under the corner of his mouth.

However, it was a special era. Gu Yue's imitation of taking a portrait to the office was severely criticized by his superiors.

Originally, Gu Yue thought it was all over, but this was just the beginning. It was this imitation that rewrote his fate.

1978, the literary and art circles have an important political task. They want to find a special actor to play the proletarian revolutionary leader of the whole army, and all major military regions have reported to them.

Gu Yue was also reported by the chief.

That year, 82-year-old Ye Jianying, holding a magnifying glass, kept examining hundreds of photos of candidates. Finally, I drew a circle behind a photo, called "Hu Shi Lun".

Hu's poetics is ancient music.

198 1 year, Gu Yue was transferred to Bayi Film Studio and became a special actor, but in fact, Gu Yue hesitated.

That year, Gu Yue was 44 years old.

Judging from the actor's career trajectory, the 44-year-old actor has experienced the impetuous youth and the ups and downs of youth, which is the best age for an actor and the golden career for a young actor.

However, Gu Yue has not experienced it.

In the first 44 years of his life, he has been engaged in writing and painting. He has never been exposed to performances or even been on the stage. He backed out and wrote to his sister, who told him: You are a soldier, and it is the first duty of a soldier to obey orders.

His wife also encouraged him to go.

Soon after, Gu Yue went to Beijing with a bag on his back.

Life in Beijing is very difficult. Gu Yue, 44, has so much to learn. In fact, he never talked about his diligence and hard work for so many years.

His contribution to the performance of "Mao Zedong" was revealed by later generations.

In order to play the role of chairman, Gu Yue traveled all over Beijing's museums, archives and video studios, collected 600 photos of the chairman, and locked himself in the dormitory to watch them repeatedly every day. There was no video of Gu Yue at that time.

Video tapes are too expensive. Gu Yue can't afford video materials. Go to the company to find it. The company has strict time limits.

No way, Gu Yue can only imagine in the mirror.

It's hard. At that time, the chairman's memoirs and biographies were still being sorted out. Gu Yue had to go to the historical archives to find information.

He can only imagine himself as the chairman of the board, imagining that kind of hardship and wisdom. . 1981"Xi incident", Gu Yue appeared as the chairman for the first time. In fact, there are not many plays, but he wrote hundreds of thousands of words in the months of preparing for the play.

However, after the experience, Gu Yue still felt unsatisfied.

No matter how much he writes, Gu Yue finds it difficult to touch the chairman's heart. He can't be that calm.

More importantly.

He is a new actor, and he became a monk halfway. His first screen performance left too many marks.

There are so many traces that the audience can see at a glance that it is acting.

Gu Yue wanted to make the audience quiet as much as possible, so he began to give up on himself and lived completely according to the chairman's way of thinking and dealing with problems, from daily life to manners. One of his towels has been used to depilate and cracked, so he can't eat without pepper. When it appeared in front of the camera, everyone agreed that it was too similar.

Gu Yue, born in 1990, has reached the peak of her performing arts career after constantly settling into the role.

However, Gu Yue knows it.

Every year, he receives thousands of letters and is recognized as soon as he walks into the street. He also generously took photos with people, even when eating in restaurants. Gu Yue immediately put down his chopsticks and took photos with others.

His wife once told Gu Yue that she hoped he could be selfish and treat himself better, but Gu Yue said, "Chairman is the chairman of the people of China, and the people love him not me, but Chairman. 」

In a sense, Gu Yue is different from other "experiential" actors. Others may play a role and experience it for several months, but Gu Yue is a special actor. He sacrificed part of his personality in order to get as close as possible to the chairman.

This also makes it difficult to distinguish the true personalities of Gu Yue and the chairman. Over the years, his action language is most like Chairman Gu Yue's version of Chairman Mao, the closest chairman in China's screen history.

The part of Gu Yue's self that he sacrificed really incorporated some characteristics of the chairman, and under the artistic processing, Gu Yue brought that characteristic closer to the public and Gu Yue in life.

This was not done by any actor later.

Even Tang Guoqiang's "chairman" has lost his charm.

It's not Tang Guoqiang's fault. Gu Yue's "Chairman" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Not to mention being close to the chairman, he is far from Gu Yue.

So 1996, Tang Guoqiang's Long March was the first time to beat the chairman, which was very stressful. He is afraid of screwing up and disappointing people's expectations. You know, he is Tang Guoqiang. Before playing the chairman, Tang Guoqiang played Zhuge Liang in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (94th edition).

The 94th edition of Zhuge Liang is regarded as the most attractive Zhuge Liang in the history of China's screen. Tang Guoqiang's eyes and body are drama.

He is going to play the role of "chairman", and the national audience is staring at him.

Under great pressure and careful consideration, Tang Guoqiang found that he could not play the "prototype-like" Gu Yue, nor could he cross the mountain left by Gu Yue, so Tang Guoqiang decided to take another road and leave his own characteristics.

Tang Guoqiang decided to use the laws of artistic creation to perform.

Of course, not surprisingly, Tang Guoqiang screwed up.

Tang Guoqiang, who played the chairman for the first time in the Long March, was widely scolded by the audience, not because he didn't play well, but because he always felt that Tang Guoqiang was a little too arrogant.

If you can't go up or down, you always feel something.

Tang Guoqiang himself has been thinking about this problem, but he decided to stick to his own ideas. 200 1 The TV series Long March was put on the agenda, and Tang Guoqiang played the role of chairman again.

This time, Tang Guoqiang abandoned the image and gave the chairman more details. In his own words, "it is enough that there are five places in an episode that make people feel very similar." It is impossible to copy these photos. If you really shoot like this, it will be over and the role will definitely be ruined. "

In Tang Guoqiang's view, Gu Yue can't look like the chairman. In addition, to some extent, Gu Yue's "spirit likeness" has some solidified thinking. Looking at Gu Yue is like looking at the chairman's oil painting.

Tang Guoqiang wants the characters to be fluent. He wants the role to be dynamic, not static. Therefore, when filming "Chairman" later, Tang Guoqiang will deliberately find some scene scheduling, physical changes, and even some language changes.

For example, in 1999 The Founding Leader, Tang Guoqiang suggested to the director that the map was too big. Can you change the map from the wall to the ground? The feeling on the ground is different. The lens is aimed directly at the ass, and the characters can be seen with a magnifying glass.

Such a chairman can communicate with the scene and the audience, the camera can also come alive, and it can also make the chairman closer and not put on airs.

However, Tang Guoqiang's handling of "the law of art" enabled him to enter the stage of drama. To some extent, Tang Guoqiang's performance on the stage of drama gave the chairman more details, but it also exposed the performance traces left by Tang Guoqiang.

This also makes the chairman of Tang Guoqiang's version, although good, always have a distance from the audience, and this distance is a bit too far. Historically, the chairman is sincere, confident and close, but this sincerity and confidence can not be explained by performance. If you want to perform, you have to imitate and be as close as possible, just like Gu Yue.

It's just that Tang Guoqiang is not Gu Yue.

Since Tang Guoqiang decided to play the role of "chairman" according to the law of artistic creation, Tang Guoqiang's performance was destined to conform to reasonable beliefs, but it was always far from the audience.

This caused a lot of controversy and is still being discussed.

But there is no way, the Tang Guoqiang dispute is inevitable.

The "real performance" and "dramatic performance" of film performance are completely different. The former is closer to "life" and the latter is closer to "creation". There is no difference between the two. In terms of "princes and princes", "drama performance" is better, richer and more stereoscopic. The real performance is more suitable for parents' short and gentle drama.

Whether to choose the closeness of "live performance" or the alienation of "drama performance" is a multiple-choice question.

It is also the fundamental difference between Gu Yue and Tang Guoqiang.

Every man has his hobbyhorse.