The recent TV series "Hurricane" has set multiple TV series ratings and broadcast records. The outstanding actors in the series have been hotly discussed and praised by the audience. Lin Jiachuan, the actor of "Brother Knife" Tang Xiaolong, has also received a lot of attention because of this. At the end of "Hurricane", Lin Jiachuan wrote a long article to bid farewell to the characters and works. The writing shows his skills and the content shows his experience. It is quite interesting, which shows that he is an interesting person.
Lin Jiachuan as Tang Xiaolong
Lin Jiachuan joined the crew of "Hurricane" and was recommended by his friend Zhang Songwen for many years, but it is not easy for any actor to pass the test of director Xu Jizhou. Xu Jizhou has his unique way of selecting actors. Lin Jiachuan recalled that when he met Xu Jizhou for the first time, the other party did not talk about dramas and characters with him, but was like an old friend who had not seen him for many years. He talked with him about life and family, about the experiences of these years, about friends in the past, about the current performance understanding. "He is trying to understand and capture the individual qualities of an actor, to see what is suitable for the role, and to see if an actor can become the role. I think he chooses actors, especially like the state of 'tasting wine'." Lin Jiachuan said with a smile.
But when they joined the crew, Lin Jiachuan and other actors were blinded at the beginning. The script was only given the first stage, and they didn't know the story and the subsequent development of the characters. At that time, the actors were trying to find ways to "formulate" in the process of communicating with Xu Jizhou and the screenwriter, trying to figure out the follow-up of the characters.
For example, in the midst of chatting and laughing, when he let go of his guard, he pretended to spread his hands casually and said: "You figure it out for me, what happened to me?" Clenching his hands tightly, he said sincerely: "It's better to hold fate in your own hands, let's first interpret Xiaolong at this stage."
Helpless, after thinking about it, Lin Jiachuan still felt that "you must trust the director and this creative method", and convinced himself: After all, the characters themselves don't know their own future, so actors don't know, so they can accept it.
"But in retrospect, this is indeed a good way to enter. With the curiosity and desire for creation, I have maintained a fresh creative state for four months. Together with the team, I have built characters little by little."
Behind-the-scenes photos of "Hurricane", Zhang Songwen, Zhang Yi, Lin Jiachuan
"Take yourself for granted"
"Hurricane" has an excellent team creation atmosphere. The main creators sit together and do desk work together. The historical background of each character, what the family in Jiuchang Street have experienced, everyone speaks freely and complements each other. The level of detail, every action in a single scene, has its characters' psychological motives and history.
For example, in the scene where Gao Qiqiang came to Tang Xiaolong's house to give gifts during the Chinese New Year, he was always courting the brothers of the Tang family. He squatted by the coffee table and came over to talk, "We have been neighbors on the street for so many years, and my dad has treated your dad very well." Yunyun, just this sentence Those words made Tang Xiaolong furious instantly. In Lin Jiachuan's design, Tang's mother died of dystocia when giving birth to the tiger cub, and the burden of the family fell on the father. The father has no skills, he is submissive outside, often drinks too much at home, and vents his grievance and anger on the two brothers when he drinks too much. "So from a very young age, Xiaolong hated his father. After his father passed away, Xiaolong and Xiaohu depended on each other for life. When Gao Qiqiang mentioned their father, his subconscious reaction was, you can't expose the scars in my heart." A very short scene However, behind the scenes, a very meticulous desk work was done.
What impressed Lin Jiachuan deeply in the first stage was the fight scene with Gao Qiqiang in the warehouse. Afraid of the complexity of play scheduling, actors must memorize their performances and lines, while paying attention to cooperating with the camera at all times, and also pay attention to the strength of the play. Lin Jiachuan and Zhang Songwen are not professional martial arts actors, so the two discussed this scene for a long time, and the coordination of strength, rhythm control, and accuracy of movements were all considered.
While walking the scene, Lin Jiachuan watched Zhang Songwen walk the scene, and told the team in a little bit of a hurry, "I will stop here (one shot) first" and "and then stop here". In addition, Zhang Songwen usually "maintains tranquility", and in Lin Jiachuan's observation, "this man's biggest exercise is walking", so he boldly judged, "He can't do it". As a result, as soon as the filming started, Zhang Songwen played heartily, and took one shot to the end. After the filming, Lin Jiachuan was quite "wronged": "Brother, do you really want to beat me up? How have I offended you for so many years?" Zhang Songwen replied leisurely, "You can hit me back".
"Hurricane" stills
When the second stage of filming started, Lin Jiachuan still hadn't got the script, and he hadn't played for almost a month. During that time, Lin Jiachuan was really "suffering", and he kept speculating about Tang Xiaolong's future direction, what kind of person he became? How many more plays? How many more episodes can you "live"? Every time he went to the scene to watch everyone filming, he was very envious. When he saw the director, he went up to ask, but Xu Jizhou only said, "You wait, it's okay, it will be exciting later", but how exciting is it? Not at all. Just occasionally saying "you get fatter" makes Lin Jiachuan even more uneasy, "Does 'you get fatter' tell me to eat more, or is it the opposite, reminding me that I have gained weight recently?"
During that period of time, Lin Jiachuan often nestled in the room reading books, watching "Three-Body Problem" and "Fifteen Years of Wanli", which made his thoughts go further and further, which led to the words in the long farewell article: "Often put I feel weightless. Looking ahead is the torrent of history, and only a few names can be selected. Looking up, it is the law of the dark forest deep in the universe, and those names will also be erased. Looking at history, then looking at the universe, and then You’ll feel like you’ve lost sight of yourself.”
Sometimes, he would ride a small electric scooter wandering the streets of Taishan, always in a trance: who am I, where am I, what am I doing? It's like returning to the time when I first learned acting, wandering around with the three elements of acting every day. "I really feel that there are no events in history, and there are only vivid people in history, whether they are famous or notorious, the kind of extremely purposeful and individual people collide together, and there will be those stories that have been handed down." And who is he? I am very small, and hardly exist in front of the universe and history.
It wasn't until he got the script of the second stage that Lin Jiachuan was pulled back to the ground from the weightless state of being at a loss. After reading the script, I was finally relieved, "The director didn't fool me, it's quite wonderful, Brother Qiang needs me!"
"Hurricane" stills
For characters, ask "why"
The first scene of the re-shooting was when Tang Xiaolong met Gao Qiqiang in Bai Jinhan after he was released from prison. "Before I went in, I wanted to drive Chen Shuting to death, but she turned into a sister-in-law; Gao Qisheng used to be a frail scholar, but now he pinches me under his arm, which is arrogant and domineering; In the industry, he is still surrounded by younger brothers, he has a stylist, and he wants me to study for an MBA." Huge personnel changes, combined with Tang Xiaolong's panic and loss when he was released from prison and re-entered society, the drama tension and performance difficulty were full.
Lin Jiachuan disassembled and analyzed the characters step by step, and carefully designed every scene where the old people reunited. Xiaohu took his brother out of prison, and Tang Xiaolong only asked a few words in the car. This was the result of discussions between Lin Jiachuan and Xu Jizhou. "He has been in prison for six years, and the outside world has turned upside down. Every time Xiaohu visits him, he can only speak vaguely." Therefore, Lin Jiachuan believes that Tang Xiaolong, who is cautious and timid, should not speak too much when he is just released from prison. More, just be careful to test. "Leave only two sentences. He should keep everything in his heart and feel it slowly. Of course, the audience will expect him to say something, but we don't have to meet this expectation. On the contrary, we can keep this expectation. .”
Many performances have already been settled when the scene is taken, but there will still be improvised things during the shooting. Gao Qiqiang was talking to Tang Xiaolong, but he suddenly turned around and asked the stylist: My dress is a little hard, please help me deal with it. Zhang Songwen impromptu added this sentence, "brought me into Tang Xiaolong's deeper state of mind." Lin Jiachuan recalled, "When you want to meet someone very much, and this person appears in front of you, he suddenly does something else. Yeah, what kind of emotional reaction would you have if you were left there? That beat above the beat, that's right."
After Tang Xiaolong was released from prison, he met Gao Qiqiang again
By the third stage of the story in the play, Tang Xiaolong has become the notorious "Brother Knife" in Jinghai. At this time, he is in a brand new state. For the different states of the three stages, first look at the appearance of the characters. In the first stage of the story, Lin Jiachuan crazily exercised and dieted, trying to be close to Tang Xiaolong's lean and sharp in his twenties; in the second stage, he crazily gained weight to get close to Tang Xiaolong's puffy, swollen face just released from prison. Collapsed, empty eyes, hunched body, revealing tension and timidity. The contrast between the third stage and the first stage is even greater. In the first stage, Tang Xiaolong is a man who looks brave and ruthless, but is weak and timid in his heart; is extremely confident. "Tang Xiaolong has a brain and a backbone, so he is more calm in doing things."
In Lin Jiachuan's design, Tang Xiaolong grew up in a mixed environment in the old factory street. He had to protect himself and his younger brother. If he didn't fight, he would be bullied. To scare outsiders, this is a way of survival in the environment of Old Factory Street. "He must use a kind of arrogance to protect himself and protect his younger brother. But he is essentially a timid and cautious person who looks forward and backward. The essence of the first stage of domineering is to seek a sense of security, but by the third stage, he is no longer Need to feel safe."
"Hurricane" stills
Since his career, Lin Jiachuan has portrayed many villains. In the popular TV series "Live with a Smile" more than ten years ago, Lin Jiachuan played Lu Jun, who was hated by the audience at that time. Lin Jiachuan recalled that when he first received the script of "Live with a Smile", Lin Jiachuan had a terrible headache, "Why do you piss off your father, drive your mother to death, and rape your god-sister? This person is too bad. This challenge is too great. I need psychological training too much." However, the producer Lu Lunchang had unlimited trust in Lin Jiachuan, "Just go and act!" Lin Jiachuan was puzzled: "I don't know why she trusted me so much at the beginning, I really He's a really nice guy!"
Lin Jiachuan believes that he is not a "talent flow", but a "paying flow". "I am a creatively stupid person, and I need to empathize with the character." To interpret a "bad guy", one must find this person "bad guy". ", so that the audience will feel that this is a real "person" rather than a "tool" to add trouble to the protagonist.
In Lin Jiachuan's view, good scripts and good characters need to have a "gray scale", so that the audience can see the plight of the characters and give the characters a "why". "Why is it important? For example, Tang Xiaolong's predicament is that he is poor and white, but he still wants to take good care of his younger brother and have a good life. But he has no education, no ability, and no one around him who can help and guide him on the right path, so he is very sad. It’s easy to go astray.”
For characters, you have to ask "why", this is the professionalism of an actor, and this habit will also be brought into life. Lin Jiachuan is also used to empathize with others, "When you reach a certain age, what you have experienced and the people you have met may all be used in your performance, so you must be a careful person in life, open your tentacles and constantly absorb the emotions in life. You have to keep thinking and observing all the time." He thinks that his character in life is very different from the character he plays. "I personally think that I am an honest and good person, but occasionally when I am in a daze, or when I listen to others, my face looks a bit fierce." Lin Jiachuan said with a smile, "Oh, but I really think that I am a good person."
"Hurricane" stills
An actor's job is like going fishing
Recently, a clip of Lin Jiachuan and Zhang Songwen doubting whether he could be an actor in his early years was circulated on the Internet. Recalling the time when he just graduated, Lin Jiachuan said: "It was really a struggle." "When the film academy enrolls students every year, it hangs a big banner: the place where dreams begin. The film and television industry is indeed an industry that creates dreams." He recalled, "I am very grateful to my graduate tutor, Mr. Zhang Hua, who taught me acting and teaching me Be human. I remember when I graduated, Teacher Zhang Hua said: "Congratulations, you may become a real actor in the future. I also hope that you will become an actor who loves acting, but I also want to send you a word: There are ways to torture yourself. There are thousands of kinds, and being an actor is one of them.'”
"Because you are constantly being selected, you are constantly wandering in waiting, and after you have devoted yourself to the filming, you have to quickly get out of the role. You keep torturing your body and mind, and take this kind of torture as a daily routine. When the body and mind are worn out. Or after it forms a scab, you have to pick it off bloody again, because you have to keep your body and mind sensitive."
There weren't many dramas, and Lin Jiachuan at that time could only do other jobs in the industry, and tried scene recording and photography assistant. When he first made the scene notes, Lin Jiachuan thought that he would be accompanied by a senior master, but only after joining the group did he find out that he was the only one in the scene notes. Back then when filming, tapes were still used as storage components. Lin Jiachuan only memorized two tapes on the first day he entered the group. As a result, when the camera asked him to change the tape, Lin Jiachuan was taken aback. They said, "Look what I'm doing, change the tape." Lin Jiachuan muttered, "I only brought two tapes."
"What about the other plate?"
"That disk is in drive B."
When he was a photography assistant, he didn't know enough about photography, but he really wanted to see good actors' performances behind the camera and at the place closest to the actors, so he always wanted to help the photographer push the machine on the track. The teacher said that it takes at least two years to push the machine. "You must have music and rhythm in your heart. The machine moves on the track. Is this push an emotional track or an action track? Do you think you can push it when you say it?"
One day, the photographer said, "Come on, push this one. It's very simple. On the first page of the photography manual, the camera follows the actors and keeps a certain angle." I was so nervous that the rail car was pushed along with the actor, and suddenly I couldn’t think of which line to match the actor’s line. My mind went blank, my hands stopped, and the two front wheels of the cart fell off the track. The photographer was almost pushed off the track by him, but fortunately he hugged the machine in time. At that time, there were a lot of onlookers, everyone laughed, and Lin Jiachuan blushed, "It's really ridiculous, shameful and shameful."
But he still didn't think about changing his career, instead he proved that his heart is getting stronger and stronger, "I just like it, I really like it." The finished product is all by myself, "I will never do this kind of thing again - just bring two tapes for the scene notes?"
Lin Jiachuan's father is the famous screenwriter Lin Heping (the masterpiece "Blood Setting Sun", "Little Aunt Duohe" and "Living with a Face"), and his father was the one who led him into the gate of film and television. When I was a child, my father often took Lin Jiachuan to play on the set. "He didn't think much about it. He just hoped that I could grow up with him, and then I could see more of the world and exercise my courage. But for me, when I was eleven or twelve years old, I saw a group of people who love film and television and expression, busy on the scene, overcame all difficulties, and pursued what they wanted. I didn’t understand what they were doing at the time, but they planted the seeds for me.”
Lin Jiachuan also witnessed half of his father's creative career, "My grandfather passed away very early. My father lost his father when he was 5 years old. No one guided him. He has always found his own way by his own ignorant desire. And he has been engaged in creation for 40 years. Over the years, he was gradually recognized, not to say that he became a god in a drama. I saw a lot of persistence from him, and I also saw a lot of pain."
Lin Jiachuan said, "Every time I act in a play, it's like fishing in the sea. At the beginning, I think how many fish I catch is the most important thing. No matter how many storms I experience, I am eager to get something. When the number of fishing increases, I found that I became obsessed with the fishing process. As for how many fish I can catch each time, I no longer have extravagant expectations. The important thing is that in this process, I gradually honed my fishing skills." He said with a smile , "It's just that I didn't expect "Hurricane" to go online this time. It almost scooped up the 'sea'. I'm terrified."
"Hurricane" stills
"Hurricane" gave Lin Jiachuan a taste of being liked by many people. In front of the surging attention and praise, some people would "weightless" on another level, but Lin Jiachuan wrote in his farewell essay: "For an ordinary For actors, this kind of love is like a tide, surging in, and then going through the fingers.” The media and the public often like to hear the story of an actor’s “counterattack” that has been struggling for more than ten years and then shines brightly. Anyone, in any industry, will experience waiting? When you want to go up, but encounter a bottleneck and can't move, everyone will feel a sense of torture. It's just that our profession has been paid too much attention, and this torture For an actor, it is a kind of life accumulation." Lin Jiachuan said frankly, "And as an ordinary person, for more than ten years, I have not only waited, but also lived. Waiting is only a part of life."
Recently, Lin Jiachuan is writing a script and hopes to finish it, "Even if it can't be finished, the process of torturing oneself is also interesting." He has started writing the script, and he has a new feeling for creation, "From writing the script to directing From the realization of words into pictures, to the presentation of actors, every step is not groundless, it is everyone's thinking and creation based on their own experience and cognition." He also found that actors read scripts and write scripts with screenwriters. Two very different jobs.
In the past few days, Lin Jiachuan took his daughter with him, and that day her daughter asked him: When Xu Jiang beat you, what were you thinking? "As soon as I heard this question, I thought it was great. I said how could you think of this." He was very relieved to see his daughter grow up, able to think, talk and argue with himself, "But she still doesn't do it. Now that I’m an actor, it’s good to be a screenwriter.”
After "Hurricane", Lin Jiachuan hasn't changed much. There are many identities and experiences that anchor him to the ground, keeping him from weightlessness. Actor, father, son, even screenwriter. "In those identities, getting things done, taking responsibility, and not much else."
