This article is reproduced with authorization from Southern People Weekly. The original title is " Li Ruotong , My best time is not yet here"
The coincidence of actor Li Ruotong is that she has straight nose, deep facial features, and a Western appearance, but she has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people with a number of ancient costume female characters. They include but are not limited to Xiaolongnu in the 1995 version of "The Legend of Condor Heroes", Wang Yuyan in the 1997 version of " Tianlong Bazi ", and Yang Bamei in "The Female General of the Yang Family".
also coincidentally, she made her debut in a movie. Her first cameo film partnered with Joey Wong and Simon Yam , and signed a contract with director Johnnie To . The first film to play the leading role was " Burning Red Lotus Temple " by director Lin Lingdong . She was really popular with the audience, but after filming several TV series, Xiaolongnu and Wang Yuyan who the audience missed so far, but because she owed TVB, she had to pay back the two films.
"Burning the Red Lotus Temple", the few "destined" of
in 1994, is the matter of becoming an actor. As early as the third grade of junior high school, a company had come to sign the contract. The contract was sent to the house. The sister said "not to go", so she gave up. When the flight attendant received an invitation from an advertiser, she was selected by director Gao Fei to play the advertisement and continue to be a flight attendant after filming. A year later, Tsui Hark was selected to be a crew member of "The Monster City", and she did not sign the contract after filming. It was not until she quit her job and was in a hurry to have a relationship that she became an artist under Johnnie To and officially entered the industry. "(acting) is really a bit destined."
"Monster City", in 1992,
Yang Bamei was born in the General Family and grew up in the barracks. Standing upright, sitting boldly, walking with the wind, eating and drinking without particular care, having a tough personality and stubborn personality, having a clear distinction between love and hate and not being spoiled, is a "anti-costume female character". Li Ruotong is the seventh child in the family. She is favored by her brothers and sisters and will take care of her brothers and sisters. She is also in a state of being like Yang Bamei at home. Yang Bamei has a tough personality, but her relationship will be hurt even if she is deceived by Jiang Bin. Li Ruotong and Shang Geyundun fell and were injured without complaining, but her emotional failure made her feel disappointed several times.
"The Female General of the Yang Family", 2001
Xiaolongnu fits the quiet side of Li Ruotong's personality. The third-grade elementary school class teacher gave her comment: "It's like a rabbit to escape, and it's like a virgin." She claimed that "it's scary to be quiet". She was at home for a week without saying a word, like Xiaolongnu's life in the ancient tomb. This quiet reached its peak from the six months from preparation to filming "The Return of the Condor Heroes". Before the filming started, she told all her friends not to contact each other in the past six months. My phone can't be connected and my family won't be seen. On the set, she hardly talks to others except acting. Every day after filming, I go home, open the refrigerator to make some food, and go to bed after eating. I have never cut my hair at home or at the TV station. When I first started the shooting, my hair was over my ears and I was shoulder-to-shoulder after the shooting. "This is what Xiaolongnu's life looks like. She has lived like this for 16 years, but she is not lonely."
"The Return of the Condor Heroes", 1995
Li Ruotong envies Xiaolongnu's love, persistent and dedicated. From this perspective, Xiaolongnu and Wang Yuyan are very similar, and the difference lies in whether they meet the right person. Li Ruotong once hated Wang Yuyan, because of her persistence, she became obsessed with her, and she became stupid. But her love with Murong Fu is most like a replica of her own feelings. "I hate Wang Yuyan on the surface, but I vaguely feel that I am doing what she does. Now I realize that I actually hated myself on the other side of myself back then."
Love occupies an extremely important part of Li Ruotong's life. She was the class monitor since she was a child and ranked first in her grades, but she fell in love before the entrance exam, which seriously affected her studies and missed the opportunity to go to college. In 1992, she was spotted by Tsui Hark for shampoo advertisements, and partnered with Jacky Cheung , Leonard , Liming , and Li Jiaxin in "The Monster City". Later, she missed the premiere due to vacation with her boyfriend. In 1998, she had two works: "The Legend of Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and she also starred in the Stephen Chow's movie " Da Nei Spy Lingling Fa ". Her future was very good, but she devoted herself to another relationship and gradually reduced the filming of film and television dramas until she completely faded out of the entertainment industry in 2005.
"Da Nei Secret Spy", 1996
The above feelings ended in failure, and Li Ruotong is still alone. She believed that every relationship brought benefits. The college entrance examination taught her that early love would really affect her study; this was taught by her as an important course to her niece, and accompanying her growth was the greatest comfort in her dark period. The second relationship taught her not to escape if she had any problems; at that time, she agreed to go to the mainland to shoot "The Burning Red Lotus Temple" for four months just to escape from the predicament; the easter egg of this relationship was that she signed Johnnie To and her debut as the heroine was released, and she officially entered the industry. A recent ten-year relationship ended in 2008. During this period, she gave up her career, forgot her hobbies, lost herself, and finally recovered five years after breaking up. She decided not to rely on others anymore. "Don't be a plant that climbs vines. Every tree can grow independently, and the cactus in the desert can be very thick and strong. This is how people should."
25 years after her debut, she believes that she is more mature than before. Look at Wang Yuyan again, and she finally understood her. Look at Yang Bamei again, she continues to live like her. Look at Xiaolongnu again, she still envies her. The former is the past she has reconciled, the latter is the future she yearns for, and the middle is the present she strives for. She is not an actor with many works, but several roles are enough to chew for a lifetime.
01 Xiaolongnu
TVB producer Li Tiansheng saw "Youth Sparks", this movie co-starred by Li Ruotong and Er Dongsheng tells the story of a campus volleyball team in Hong Kong. Li Ruotong's hair is 300% in length, and the length is as close as the ears. Just as TVB was preparing to shoot the new version of "The Legend of Condor Heroes", Li Tiansheng sent an invitation to Li Ruotong, "I see, Li Ruotong must be the most like Li Ruotong, because she is cold, Xiao Longnu must have a very cold person to be like." Li Ruotong, who had never played ancient costumes, knew it and was full of questions. Until the day of the trial dressing, she had white clothes and long hair over her back, and she felt, "So I can really do it." The makeup shot looked cold, and Li Tiansheng also took it to Jin Yong, and he relayed Jin Yong's response, "This is the little dragonnu in his mind."
Li Ruotong read five original books in a week, and then read it several times. As she looked at it, tears flowed down, and she cried out several times. The scene of Jueqinggu getting married with Yang Guo was sweet, but also bitter. It was obviously the long-awaited wedding banquet, but both of them were poisonous and said something that they didn't know what tomorrow would be. Yang Guo thought about dying together, but Xiaolongnu decided to leave the antidote and jump off the cliff herself. The mood of the scene was mixed and the layers were rich. Every time Li Ruotong thought about it, she would burst into tears.
After reading the book and adding the "self-isolation" operation, she quickly entered Xiaolongnu's life. "I opened my past and felt that I was her hundreds of years ago. I now know that the past is like this, so I was naturally involved in the show."
Li Ruotong believes that on the day of jumping off the cliff, Xiaolongnu was not in pain, and it was even the most relaxed part of the book. "There is nothing in the book. After it is over, it is over, and when it is over, it is over, and no one wants to study it. But there is an explanation for her pain before. The fact that jumping off the cliff itself has skipped all the pain and decided to do it. As long as you are dedicated to Yang Guo, it will be decided."
On the contrary, the scene of reuniting 16 years later, the emotions came even more intense. She thought about how to express it many times, and finally decided not to think about it and to express it on the spot based on her psychological feelings. This was regarded by her as her "talent" in acting.
When filming "Burning Red Lotus Temple", the director taught the rehearsal of the opera. She sat in the room for a whole morning but couldn't get into the state. Finally, she said, "The director stopped, I can't digest it, I want to rest." Lin Lingdong thought the newbie was showing off his face and his face turned dark after hearing this, but he stopped rehearsal. But the next day, when the light props were in place, Li Ruotong immediately got into the state. After the filming, Lin Lingdong praised her for being "very natural and very good." She said, "I had nothing yesterday, and I didn't know what I was doing. Today I put on a costume and stood in the scene. I think I am such a person." Lin Lingdong said, "That's right, that's it."This is the first time she felt that maybe she had some talent in acting.
talent played an important role in future filming, and the reunion of the scene was. When Yang Guo really appeared in front of her and shouted "Aunt", Li Ruotong was a little dazed, "I don't believe it, it's so beautiful, so beautiful that I can't believe it. "She wanted to ask Yang Guo how she lived 16 years and tell Yang Guo how she lived. What emerged in her head was her 16 years of self, drinking honey and practicing qigong. "Return to her former life in the ancient tomb, but she is not lonely. She used to grow up so much since she was a child, but now she has a life in her heart. "The original work came to an abrupt end after a brief description. "Mr. Jin Yong is too powerful and has no life at the bottom of the valley. There is room for readers to use their imagination. This kind of emotion is difficult to express in words. Short is good, this scene is memorable. I thought they had been talking for 16 years for a month and couldn't finish talking every day. "
Li Tiansheng told her that Xiaolongnu had few expressions, and her hands would not move when she spoke, and her tone was indifferent. She smiled less even when she smiled. When she saw Yang Guo's emotions fluctuated, but the fluctuations were only expressed through her eyes. In the first half of the plot, when others spoke, Li Ruotong showed a little emotion on her face. In the scene where Grandma Sun died, she taught herself that people who had no feelings had passed away since she was a child. She had feelings in her heart, but the emotions on her face only stayed for a second or two. Then she started a revenge competition against Hao Datong. "Little Longnu's reaction was very light, she had to be almost expressionless, but she could not be expressionless, nor could she not be reactionary. She was not a wooden man. "Li Ruotong said.
Li Tiansheng believes: "Lou Tianle's play is still a little short of experience. But thanks to Tongtong and Louis Koo playing, he still passed the test. "
At the end of "The Legend of Condor Heroes", the love between Xiaolongnu and Yang Guo has reached its peak. The two went to Zhongnan Mountain together, and Li Ruotong was finally happy. But the story ended quickly. " The five books are all engaging in love, and they can never finish it. But most of the part is bitter, only a small part is happy, and there is blank space, and even happiness needs to be imagined. "Having finished filming , she had basically never smiled at anyone. When she went out to meet her friends, she was asked why she had become so quiet all of a sudden. The next drama is "Romantic Storm" starring Aaron Kwok . It tells the story of a boxer falling in love with a female college student. At the end of the tragedy, Li Ruotong's role is still unhappy. After filming two dramas, she asked Johnnie To to complain: "I'm so unhappy, life is so hard. "Joan-Tong enlightened her: "The roles in two consecutive dramas have not had a good experience. This is how you get involved in the drama. You have to adjust yourself slowly. "
"Romantic Storm", during 1996
, she highly recognized Xiaolongnu and hoped to be her. "She treated love wholeheartedly. Even if Yang Guo was not there, she still had him in her head, and she had a kind of support and feelings. "
The 16-year reunion between Xiaolongnu and Yang Guo even spread to life. After the filming of "The Legend of Condor Heroes", she and Louis Koo never met again, and they did not meet on the plane until 2011. Louis Koo's first sentence was also "aunt". When the two calculated, it happened to be 16 years.
02 Wang Yuyan
Wang Yuyan lost his martial arts Li Mochou . He was a little luckier than Xiaolongnu and didn't fall in love with the right person. Wang Yuyan was quiet and virtuous, and he stood obediently in all the scenes. He was a little bored when filming. He was so kind to the sky to the sky, and the other party shone with the moon shining on the ditch, but he still loved, "I really don't have personality. "Li Ruotong has no good feelings for her. With the same preparation work, I can't bear to close my eyes when I turn "The Legend of Condor Heroes". If I turn "The Legend of Condor Heroes", I will be sleepy. If I am sleepy, I will put it aside and say to myself, let it watch it tomorrow.
"The Legend of Condor Heroes", the experience of
and Wang Yuyan's secret relationship in 1997 is waiting for her one year later. She is in a relationship, and the man is much older than her. She likes the other party "the knowledge and education are richer than her." But she "vaguely knows that it is the wrong person, but the person who cannot say the wrong person is wrong, and I have to stick to it. Since they are together, they have to go on."
She has completely changed her body in order for the other party to be different. The other party doesn't love her acting, so she turned down the film appointment and stayed at home with peace of mind. The other party doesn't want children, and she was dragged past the best age for pregnancy.She almost obeyed the man's dialect and had dinner with her friends. She could leave a table behind with a call and return to him. No matter how good a friend you have, as long as your boyfriend doesn’t like, you can never meet.
When I was addicted to the drama, I tried every means to negotiate with the man. If I couldn’t negotiate, I would make up stories, saying that I would repay the favor. I would go this time, and I would go this year for a few months and not in the future. "It's very sad to think back now, but I didn't think so back then. I just thought I was respecting my partner. I didn't think he respected me or not back then. I just thought he loved me very much. He was afraid that I would work hard outside filming."
When I was a child, Li Ruotong saw her parents quarrel. In my memory, sometimes my mother would run away for several days, but she came back to take care of their brothers and sisters in a few days. "It's right and right, my parents quarrel, but my mother still has to come back. Unconsciously, it's right and right, it's normal. Now I know that my mother has lived in a good friend's house for a few days. She came back because she had children to take care of her. She couldn't bear to leave us."
people around me think that the man is not suitable and think, "Have you made a mistake?" But he also knows Li Ruotong's personality very well. He can't listen to anything in love and dare not persuade her. In fact, Li Ruotong had similar actions in her previous relationships. Her twice gave up the opportunity to enter the entertainment industry and her two absences in the film promotion were all related to love. Producer Shi Nansheng met Li Ruotong's former colleague on the plane and commented that she was a "unambitious person". "She knew I didn't promote it for love. It was a great opportunity. Several big stars were together in this drama. As a newcomer, there was a chance to attend. If you don't go, you have no ambition. Looking back now, this attitude at work is wrong. I didn't realize that cooperating with publicity is part of the actor's work." In fact, during the filming, Li Ruotong was dedicated enough to practice volleyball for filming "Youth Sparks"; she played the doctor in " Hundred Thousand Hot Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hit Hi "I'm very traditional, too traditional." At first she enjoyed the joy of love, but after slowly accommodating to the other person's life, she gradually lost herself and was the one who gave her completely.
This relationship lasted for ten years and the other party proposed to break up. Li Ruotong was ineffective in rescuing her and suffered a blow. The next year, her father was hospitalized after a stroke, and she was emotionally broken. It took five years to adjust slowly. During this period, the sister gave birth to a daughter and couldn't take care of her because she was too busy with work. Li Ruotong helped her take care of her for three years. She studied children's psychology courses, learned about children's vaccines, nutrition distribution and education, and her mood gradually recovered due to taking care of her children. "I like children very much. Although they are not my daughter, they also feel like a mother. She is my little angel. Although she is borrowed, it makes me feel that my dreams come true."
Wang Yuyan woke up after being pushed down from the ancient well by Murong Fu, and Li Ruotong completely reflected on this relationship. "Wang Yuyan knows that her cousin is not good to her, but she is just persistent. If she loves this person, she must love her to the end. So is me. If he didn't propose to break up, I might have to endure it. I don't know when to endure it."
She began to appreciate Wang Yuyan, learn things quickly, be loyal to love, and is willing to wake up when her dream broke. I also understood the deep reason for hating Wang Yuyan: "I have been living Wang Yuyan's life and have not met Duan Yu, so I am so angry with Wang Yuyan, but I am actually angry with myself. I am like Wang Yuyan, and I also hope that the ending will be like Wang Yuyan, living for myself, and everyone is an independent individual. "
In the ending of the new version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Wang Yuyan found that Duan Yu loved the statue of the fairy sister rather than herself, and decided to return to the crazy Murong Fu to take care of him.
3 Yang Bamei 993, Li Ruotong starred in " Flying Tiger Ambition " directed by Chen Jiashang. Young police officer He Zhiwei, who had just joined the police force, and his colleagues from the Royal Hong Kong Police Force patrol the downtown city in Central. When he encountered a criminal robbing jewelry with heavy arms, the story unfolded. Previously, the filming of "The Fire-Burning Red Lotus Temple" was filmed in conjunction with the mainland, and the software and hardware conditions were not mature, and even the language was not completely smooth, so the shooting process was subject to a lot of resistance. While filming a crying scene, Lin Lingdong called her "hold" and understood that her feelings needed to be controlled during filming, otherwise it would no longer be true by the third and fourth times. "Flying Tiger Ambition". When
filmed "Flying Tiger Ambition" in 1994, Chen Jiashang kept saying "too side, too side" that she realized that her face had turned her head. In the past, when filming, she used to accommodate herself, and here she learned to look at the camera. She also needs to pay attention to the voice and intonation of this drama. The whole Hong Kong team has no barriers to cultural background and language. She worked very smoothly with this crew and found the fun of filming. I fell in love with acting.
997, Johnnie To and Wei Jiahui founded the " Galaxy Image " company. As an artist under Johnnie To, Li Ruotong played the heroine of four early works such as "Hundred Thousand Urgent" "Birth of One Word" " Two can only live one " and "The Last Verdict". "The Birth of a Character" is considered to be the pioneering work of the Galaxy Image, and its narrative method and shooting techniques are both advanced. As the heroine, Li Ruotong plays a massage girl in the film and develops in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The scenes have little impact on the story, and there are mostly some future prospects and few shots. "Hundred Thousand Hurry" plays a broken female doctor, and in "The Last Referee" is a female lawyer. "Two Only One Lives" has the most important role. The two killers took over the task of killing people and developed feelings for each other. In the end, Takeshi Kaneshiro lay on the freighter under the setting sun, watching Li Ruotong's plane fly overhead. The film is still a series of pessimistic emotions between Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai and the connotation of Hong Kong mainland metaphors. The rendered indifferent human feelings make the unusual emotions that the hero and heroine emerge in a rare and valuable way.
"The Birth of a Character", 1997
Galaxy Image Love Police and Bandits Film. These four are obvious male movies. Female characters have low importance, and it is difficult for Li Ruotong to be outstanding. On the contrary, she participated in Stephen Chow's "Onei Scepter, Zero-Lei" in 1995. She played the charming Qin Cao, and her abnormal comedy performance impressed the audience.
Looking at Li Ruotong's film works, there are many collaborations with popular male actors such as Tony Leung , Liu Qingyun , and Simon Yam. However, due to the majority of male movies, her role is not outstanding. Hong Kong has experienced piracy waves and financial storms, and the Hong Kong film market has been in a slump. In addition to Li Ruotong's personal wish, after filming " head-on " with Shanggeyundon in 1998, all of her films and TV series were filmed in the mainland, and she starred in many costume TV series such as "The Female General of the Yang Family", "Qiuxiang", " Wudang ".
"Wudang", among the characters of
in 2003, she likes Yang Bamei. Yang Bamei is a fictional character. Unlike other classical female characters, she has broad minds and open personality. She is a modern person living in ancient times. Li Ruotong can be imaginative in Yang Bamei. When filming "The Female General of the Yang Family", Hengdian Film and Television City had just been completed, and the supporting facilities had not yet been built, and the conditions were very difficult. The crew shoots at high temperatures above 35 degrees every day. Yang Bamei goes to fight to kill the enemy. Her armor is heavy, so photography can only take the medium and close-up scenes, because her lower body is soaked in sweat. The likable thing in Yang Bamei's personality is the motivation that supports her to shoot all the time.
She loves TV series more than movies. "The TV series is more satisfying, and the time is invested longer, and a scene will continue to be filmed. The movie is different, and the shots are very short. The process of interpreting the TV series gives me a great sense of satisfaction."
Accompanying my niece is still an important topic in her life. She tried to tell her life experience to her niece, "I used to study so well and I got the first place in the exam every year, but I started dating, and my grades were not good. Alas." Recently, she told her niece that you want to dating at the age of 18.The niece said, "I don't want to date, no, I must not." She secretly said, "Wow, she said she didn't want to date at the age of 18, and I gradually affected her. She smiled so happily."
In order to grow up with her niece, she took the initiative to learn new things. She opened a Weibo post in recent years and asked netizens online what "CP" means. Recently, people around her are talking about Douyin, and she really wants to give it a try. After hearing about B station, she learned to search for highlights about her produced by netizens.
" Women's Club ", 2014
After experiencing the storms of love, her life has been completely renewed, and she has been worried and worried for a long time but never imagined. After fading out of the industry for many years, she made a guest appearance in the TVB drama "Women's Club" in 2013. She made a full comeback in recent years, and many works are in urgent need of release. She enjoys the present day and looks forward to the future because "I think my best time is not yet here."
" Untamed ", 2019
