Looking at the Bull Demon King who looks like a monster in the mirror, Lu Shuming regrets taking on "A Chinese Odyssey", and he dare not imagine the audience's reaction, "Second Master, what's wrong with you?"
After " Romance of the Three Kingdoms ", Lu Shuming became Guan Yu's incarnation. The obsessed audience did not accept his image outside of Guan Gong. That year, two viewers saw that Li Guang, who played him, suffered all the grievances in "The Great Emperor of Han Wu", smashed the TV angrily.
This is Lu Shuming's fate, and it is also the fate of several major starring actors in the 1994 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Today, when we mention Liu Bei , Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao, what comes to our minds is the old version of the Three Kingdoms actors, Sun Yanjun , Lu Shuming, Li Jingfei , Tang Guoqiang , Bao Guoan , their lives have arisen because of heroes and are also trapped by heroes.
In August 1990, the crew of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was cast nationwide, among which Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang and other major starring actors were the top priority, and the chief director Wang Fulin and five executive directors must be approved.
At the time, 38-year-old youth art actor Sun Yanjun became a popular candidate for Liu Bei, but he himself was very hesitant. Sun Yanjun is from Northeast China. At the age of 16, he was recruited to Daqing as an oil worker. Because he was good at talking about jokes, he also knew how to play the erhu. He was the "wrist" in the dormitory. His colleagues all said that he should go to the propaganda team.
However, the master in the workshop annoyed others about this the most. He thought it was not doing his job properly. "Can you jump out of the oil?" Who knew that by the end of the year, the superiors appointed him to hold a party, and the master who had no choice but to ask Sun Yanjun for help. Because of this successful party, Sun Yanjun was transferred to the propaganda team of the general factory to perform a drama and was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama.
Sun Yanjun
When I was young, Sun Yanjun didn’t like the crying Liu Bei. He liked Cao Cao the most, “It’s hateful and the heroic people are respectable.” He felt it was dangerous to create a character he didn’t like. Cai Xiaoqing director advised him, “Others can’t act even if they want to act. How many such scenes can you encounter in your life.”
After the filming of three years, Sun Yanjun said to his friend, “Although I don’t like it, I have no regrets.”
The eldest brother Liu Bei was half-rejected, while the second brother Guan Yu was destined. Lu Shuming, who plays Guan Yu, is 1.86 meters tall. His friends call him mainland China. When he was 18 years old, he recruited students at the Xi'an Drama Theater. He accompanied his sister next door to take the exam. As a result, he was attracted by the examiner's sketch actor Guo Da and arranged for him to take the exam. He became an actor.
In 1983, the nationwide crackdown was severely carried out. Lu Shuming, who went to his friend's uncle's house to dance, was imprisoned for 16 months. His girlfriend's parents said to him, "You can't marry your daughter to you even if you say nothing, you are not a good kid." After being released from prison, Lu Shuming worked in a trading company for several years, and during this period he also played Qin Shihuang in "The Love of the Ancient and Modern Warriors of Qin". When the crew of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" selected Guan Yu, Guo Da recommended Lu Shuming again. The director of the casting role couldn't find anyone at his house, so he posted a note on the door. If he didn't come back for ten days and half a month, Guan Yu might have been played by someone else.
Come happens to rain heavily in those days. Lu Shuming, who was acting in another place, was worried about the doors and windows of his home, so he rushed back to check it out for more than 40 kilometers and saw the note that had been posted for three days. At that time, the crew had tried several rounds of Guan Yu, and selected 36 people to try makeup. Lu Shuming put on makeup and looked in the mirror and scared himself, "It's exactly the same as Guan Gong in the villain's book."
Lu Shuming
He pushed open the door of the audition room and clasped his fists at the people in the room, "Please forgive Guan for coming late!" Director Wang Fulin calmed down on the surface, and his heart beat loudly, "General Guan is in place!"
only has three brothers left for the Taoyuan versus, he is Li Jingfei of Hebei Theater. Before becoming an actor, Li Jingfei was an athlete of the Shijiazhuang Track and Field Team. In the winter of 1990, he heard that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" selected actors at the Beijing Film Academy, so he got on the train without anyone recommending it. When he arrived, he saw that all the professional actors were professional actors, including those who played Zhang Fei in the TV series "Zhuge Liang", and those who starred in the movie "The Wreath Under the Mountain".
Looking at the room full of experts and directors, Li Jingfei's heroic spirit disappeared, and he relaxedly played Duan'er three visits to the cottage. "Brother, second brother, find such a bad scholar, why both brothers do you want to tie him up with a rope!" After that, he walked quickly for two steps, turned around and held his beard.
The directors went back to the house to discuss for 15 minutes and asked him to play another role. Li Jingfei brewed his emotions and clasped his fists at the "Guan Yu" next to him and said, "Second brother, I can't forget the kindness of our brother's brother's charity in Taoyuan. Today I blamed the second brother, I, I was wrong!" After that, he knelt down with tears in his eyes, and everyone in the room applauded.
Li Jingfei
15 minutes later, Wang Fulin said to Li Jingfei, "You go back first, wait for our notice, don't take any other plays." On New Year's Eve in 1991, Li Jingfei received a long-distance call from Beijing, "Zhang Fei is settled, it's you!"
Liu Guanzhang's actor was confirmed, and the casting work also ushered in a breakthrough. After auditioning for Zhou Yu , Tang Guoqiang, after wearing a beard, was exclaimed by Shen Haofang, director Shen Haofang, exclaimed "Zhuge Liang". Although there was an objection that "there is no one in China, so the young man has a lot of faces", the crew still withstood the pressure and did not replace people. Tang Guoqiang, who was determined to change the image of a cream-like young actor, also expressed his determination to the director, saying "How many times can there be fighting in life?"
Later he also fulfilled his promise. The scene was in winter, and the temperature was only zero degrees. "Zhuge Liang" had to wear a Taoist robe in a single dress and practice barefoot on the altar. Tang Guoqiang walked for a day, and his feet were red and swollen, and he gritted his teeth and survived.
The first protagonist of the whole play, Cao Cao, also made the final decision after Wang Fulin and Tianjin People's Art Theater actor Bao Guoan. Before Xie Jin was preparing for the movie "Burning Red Cliff", Bao Guoan wanted to play Cao Cao and also invited Huang Zongjiang to recommend it to himself, but Director Xie had already invited from Beijing People's Art Theater, so .
Bao Guoan
This time, the crew also invited him, and received a reply that he wanted to give him two years of preparation time, two years was impossible, so he found Bao Guoan and gave him two months of preparation time. Bao Guoan asked the 300 friends around him what Cao Cao was like in the minds of his 300 friends, and received 300 different answers. Only after half of his role did he realize that Cao Cao was an inexhaustible person. He wrote six words in his performance notes, "Bold, casual, and changeable."
On April 18, 1991, Cai Xiaoqing's filming team took the lead in filming. The first scene was the Taoyuan Fighting. The long shooting journey of 84 episodes of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" kicked off, and several leading actors also set off heroically.
In order to cultivate feelings, Liu Guan and Zhang brothers were inseparable from the crew, and they were also called "big brother, second brother, and third brother" in life. According to Sun Yanjun's recollection, "Three people watched the show together, practiced horse riding together, and knew the family background of each other's ancestors and three generations. The mainland and Jingfei were bothered by each other and complained to me. During the rest, we also went to steal corn, apples and grapes from fellow villagers. Although I was caught in the end, I still enjoyed sincere friendship."
Whenever I encountered a bottleneck in the performance, the three brothers would sit down to discuss until they found a solution. Sun Yanjun talked about Liu Bei's method of crying scenes, "Try not to cry where you can cry or not, and cry as much as possible when you have to cry." For example, the ancient city would be filled with tears, the death of the second brother was mourning, and the entrusting of the orphan in Baidi City was to shed tears at will.
With the help of his two brothers, Li Jingfei found Zhang Fei's "soul". This is "when ordinary people think, he doesn't think." Zhang Fei always has a passion in his body, so his crying and laughter need to be enlarged to act. The third brother has a simple personality, but he is definitely not a reckless man.
Compared with the eldest brother and the third brother, the half-man and half-god Guan Erye is the best and the most difficult to play. Once you put on makeup, Lu Shuming becomes Guan Gong, and the extras will involuntarily shout "General Guan is here!", and the villagers near the set even bow down and bow down.
Once, Lu Shuming fell off the horse and injured himself. His thigh abscess compressed his nerves. He rested for a month. The crew was looking for a doctor and sent someone to climb to the top of the mountain to set off firecrackers.The doctor took the steel needle to pump him the pus. Lu Shuming screamed in pain, but the doctor said, "What are you shouting? Is this pain better than scraping bones to cure poison?"
When Guan Yu walked to Maicheng, snow was flying all over the sky. The producer director took Lu Shuming to burn incense and pray in the snow. The two got up and looked back. The extra soldiers all over the mountains were kneeling on the ground. Lu Shuming's eyes were red, and he could only send the second master to his last journey with Guan Gong's possession.
Due to limited conditions, no actors in the crew can live in a single room, which also allows actors with many rival scenes to cultivate feelings. At first, Liu Guanzhang lived in a house, and later Sun Yanjun and Tang Guoqiang had a house. The two of them had a fight over snoring. One morning, Sun Yanjun said, "Guoqiang, did you scream a little loudly last night? I didn't sleep well all night." Tang Guoqiang immediately fought back, "I said, I was awakened by your snoring as soon as I closed my eyes."
It was night again, and Tang Guoqiang asked the "lord" to sleep first. Sun Yanjun vaguely guessed something, so he pretended to snore. Tang Guoqiang quickly got out of bed and went to the next door to testify with "Zhang Fei", but when someone came in, there was no movement at all. Tang Guoqiang had no choice but to lie down and sleep. Within two minutes, he snored loudly. Sun Yanjun was overjoyed and called his second and third brothers to wake up the "military advisor". The three of them looked at Tang Guoqiang with a surprised look on his face.
When I was filming the Battle of Red Cliff, because of the highlight of Huarong Road, Guan Erye and Prime Minister Cao lived in a house. Bao Guoan was worried that the big Lu Shuming would snore, but he didn't expect that "General Guan" always slept in the same position until dawn, so he said happily, "Mainland, I felt my brain hurt when I came back from filming the scene, especially afraid of others disturbing me. Later, I found that you sleep like a cat. I think you are quite reliable."
Bao Guoan, who was ten years older, had also advised Lu Shuming before. When he was filming Guan Yu's sword and Dadan guarding the scene outside the door, he said to Lu Shuming, "Mainland, can you put your arms down when you take a knife? I don't think Guan Yu is likely to be Su Du has a big knife. Your performance is dramatic, but it doesn't fit the objective reality. Just put your arm down like this and hold the knife naturally."
shoots Huarong Road When Cao Cao was let go, several plans designed by Lu Shuming were rejected by the director, and in the end he simply stopped "acting". Cao Cao said with a stern face and refused to look at him, because with Guan Yu's loyalty, he would collapse as soon as he saw the other person's eyes. The cold face was the most right state. After performing this scene, Bao Guoan said, "There is a very simple thing on the mainland, and he responds to changes with the unchanging. This is exactly what the character Guan Yu should have."
On the day of "Liu Bei"'s filming, Sun Yanjun, who had been holding on for three years and never touched the wine, drank two bottles of Wuliangye. He held his second and third brother and said a lot to the military advisor, "The role of Liu Bei suppressed me for three years. My nature was locked tightly by him. I was like a bean sprout that could never stretch my waist. I was afraid that it would block Zhuge Liang as soon as it stretched out. I was very tired and tired..."
On October 23, 1994, the highly sought-after TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" premiered on CCTV One, creating a super high rating of 46%. In the old capital of Cao Wei, Xuchang , anyone with TV would adjust the station before 8 o'clock in the evening, and all the original novels from Xinhua Bookstores in various places were sold out.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has achieved unprecedented success. The last " Water Margin " among the four masterpieces, which was not adapted into a TV series, has also entered the preparation stage. Lu Shuming went to recommend himself, but the director said that everyone was too impressed by him, Guan Yu, and would act 108 and act, so he tactfully refused.
Lu Shuming discovered that since he played Guan Yu, both the sculptures in the temple and Guan Gong in the painter have looked more and more like his image in the play. Although he is the fourth child at home, his friends have changed his words to call him second brother, and he has become Guan Yu's "special actor".
The other starring actors also realized the "weight" of heroes. Prime Minister Cao Bao Guoan has not received an invitation to a new drama for seven years, and his elder brother Sun Yanjun bid farewell to the drama stage in 1999. It was a drama set in the development of the Daqing oil field. He played a father who neglected his family for his career. Sun Yanjun's stage career started in Daqing, and ended in Daqing after a dream of Shu Han.
Second Master Lu Shuming didn't expect, "A character can help you and can also make you fall into a desperate situation." After "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he became a migrant worker in Beijing. The family rented a house. His son, who had just entered elementary school, had to pay tens of thousands of yuan in sponsorship fees. Lu Shuming couldn't take it out. The embarrassment in life made him let go of his arrogance and once took over the job of cutting the ribbon for the business.
When the crew of "A Chinese Odyssey" asked him to play the role of the Niu Mowang, Lu Shuming, who had not played the role for a long time, agreed. After the filming, he said that he would never cooperate with Stephen Chow again. "When he agreed, he didn't know that it would make people unrecognizable. Niu Mowang's makeup took four or five hours to put on his makeup. Not only did he wear a plastic head cover on his head, but he also tied a ring on his nose, and he also had real hair on his body and hands. He filmed in winter again. It was so itchy all over. "The rival scene between
and Stephen Chow also made Lu Shuming feel humiliated. "They Hong Kong actors all speak Cantonese on purpose, and there are great difficulties in communication. When I see them talking on the scene, I can only count in my heart in advance. When counting for a certain time, it's time for me to speak."
was filmed at the end, and director Liu Zhenwei felt sorry for it. , He changed the script to Niu Mowang taking off his headband and revealing his true face. Lu Shuming shook his head, "It's no longer necessary to show my face when he acted in this role, so it's best not to even have a signature."
Looking back at the years of moving to Beijing, Lu Shuming played Niu Mowang and also played the uncle who set up a street stall. That time, he was recognized by an old audience. "Second Master, why are you repairing your watch here? You have no chance to act. I'm carrying this basket of eggs. Let's go!"
In 2015, there was an event in Chongqing that wanted to invite the actors from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to perform on the same stage. Lu Shuming called on Zhangshan , who played Zhao Yun , and Li Jingfei, who had not met for a long time. They were about to board the plane, but Lu Shuming dared not recognize each other. The "Zhang Fei" in front of him had a messy hair and a pale face, and could only walk while walking.
After the crew was disbanded, Li Jingfei returned to the Hebei Drama Troupe. At first, he could take on some dramas based on fame, but then he had three sudden cerebral infarction. The sequelae often made him unable to speak, and in severe cases he couldn't even walk.
In 2014, some netizens compared several versions of Zhang Fei, saying that his image was rude, sloppy, and rude, and inexplicably scolded Li Jingfei, forcing him to say in the interview, "I have played Zhang Yide , but I am not Zhang Fei."
The brave and reckless "Zhang Fei" in the play is introverted and delicate in life. After he got sick, he became increasingly depressed. Zhang Fei, who was drunk with Cao Jun, was almost lost at that time, and the snake spear in his hand turned into a crutch.
Holding the third brother's shoulder, Lu Shuming was so uncomfortable that he couldn't speak, "My brother, I've been through so many years, and now is a good time, but you're using crutches."
Last year, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" celebrated its 25th anniversary. The actors, directors and staff gathered together. The most moving scene was that Zhang Shan, who played Zhao Yun, pushed Li Jingfei in a wheelchair, onto the stage.
even if it is replayed today 26 years later, the 1994 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can still rank among the top ten TV series ratings in the entire channel. Whether it is "Chronic Cliff" by Wu Jisen or "Three Kingdoms" by Gao Xixi , it cannot replace its position in the hearts of the audience.
Two years ago, Lu Shuming went to endorse a mobile game of the Three Kingdoms. Before the event began, there was a ceremony to worship Guan Gong's statue. Young people born in the 1980s and 1990s read the sacrificial text meticulously and did not have any attitude towards Guan Gong at all. Lu Shuming was very moved and felt that the hard work back then was worth it.
"Liu Guanzhang" and Wang Fulin
This summer, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has a barrage version. When the second master finished speaking, "The minister who chooses the master will meet the wise master, Guan's lifelong wish is enough", the barrage on the screen said with Zhang Fei, "I am the same."
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