What has been unforgettable for generations is the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions", and when we mention this work, the faces of each of these characters immediately come to our minds.
Each character is lifelike, and each character is lifelike, three-dimensional and plump.
For example, "Jia Baoyu's face is like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the color is like the flower of spring dawn", "Lin Daiyu's tears are dotted, **slightly", "Xue Baochai's lips are red without dotting, his eyebrows are not painted, his face is like a silver basin, and his eyes are like apricots", "Wang Xifeng has a pair of Danfeng triangular eyes, and two curved willow leaves hang eyebrows" ......
Each character seems to have come out of the book, satisfying our imagination of all the characters in "Dream of Red Mansions".
Preconceived to be swayed by the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions", and then watching "Dream of Red Mansions" directed by Li Shaohong, it is really unacceptable.
In Li Shaohong's "Dream of Red Mansions", all the characters are similar, and sometimes it is even difficult to tell which character it is. The new version of "Dream of Red Mansions" cannot be compared with the 87 version in terms of makeup, costumes, pictures or songs.
Director Wang Fulin contributed to the success of the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions".
Back then, Wang Fulin used the national audition method to select actors, and he needed to find the most suitable actor for the image in the book.
Director Wang Fulin believes that when casting, the actor's performance skills are more important than their appearance.
So, a grand casting event kicked off.
The casting directors of the soldiers are divided into three ways, and they go to various places to conduct actor selection. Although director Wang Fulin did not have specific requirements, they understood that not having specific requirements was also a higher requirement, so they traveled to various cities to carefully select actors who were suitable for the role of Jiafu.
At the same time, the crew in Beijing also received letters from all over the country one after another, and some even recommended themselves to visit. Wang Fulin specially arranged for Wang Gui'e to be responsible for handling letters, readings and receptions, and hoped to find suitable actors.
After several months of selection, the performance videos of the actors were sent back to Beijing one after another, including Zhang Li, Yuan Mei, Shen Lin, Deng Jie, Zhou Yue and other actors, and they were finally selected by the director team.
Subsequently, the director team organized these actors who were expected to be shortlisted into files for discussion and research, and of course, there will still be suitable actors who will enter the director's sight one after another.
Subsequently, the director team notified the selected actors that they would go to Beijing to participate in the centralized red science training class.
In March 1984, all the actors selected by the Red Mansion crew gathered at the guest house in Nancaiyuan, Beijing, to report.
Yuan Mei arrived early, and as soon as she settled down, other actors also arrived at the guest house one after another.
That day, someone made a voice: "Yuan Mei, look, an actor is here." Yuan Mei turned her head and saw a girl walking in, she was stunned and felt a shocking beauty.
She meditated in her heart, is there such a beautiful person in the world? This kind of beauty is indescribable, it is a kind of ethereal fairy beauty, a beauty that transcends the world, and a beauty that is not contaminated by the world.
Chen Xiaoxu is this person.
Chen Xiaoxu was wearing a black tweed jacket at the time, the style was Tang costume, ** very fair-skinned, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, ice clear and jade beauty, and a single braid on his head, like an "ice beauty".
Although Yuan Mei had been known as the "Five Golden Flowers" before and was very confident in her appearance, she still felt a sense of self-shame at the moment.
Chen Xiaoxu and Yuan Mei met in this way, they lived in the same room, and since then they have been friends for nearly 20 years.
When the actors first joined the crew, they were not assigned specific roles. They first learned the original and then performed a sketch.
In this process, the director will observe the performance of the actors, determine who is suitable for which role, and then select the most suitable actors through multiple sketch performances.
Joining the Red Mansion crew is already a very lucky opportunity for most actors, and as for which role to play, it all depends on the director's arrangement.
Similar to Yuan Mei, who stood by and watched, she was a candidate for Xue Baochai, and later was selected as a mandarin duck, and she did not become an attacker until the start of filming.
Only Chen Xiaoxu is different.
Chen Xiaoxu joined the crew, and her purpose was to play Lin Daiyu. Since she was a child, she has known "Dream of Red Mansions" well, and her favorite role is Lin Daiyu.
When she was first selected by the crew, the first thing she asked was: "Who will play Lin Daiyu?" After that, Chen Xiaoxu, Zhang Jinglin, Zhang Lei, Hu Zehong, Shen Lu and others became candidates competing to play the role of Daiyu.
Among these beautiful women, Chen Xiaoxu is not particularly outstanding in terms of appearance, but her temperament is the most appropriate.
Director Wang Fulin is also hesitating, because Zhang Lei and Zhang Jinglin's looks match the image of Daiyu in the book, and Chen Xiaoxu's incomparable poetic temperament also makes it difficult for him to choose.
Wang Fulin asked Chen Xiaoxu which role would she choose to play if she didn't play Lin Daiyu? Chen Xiaoxu's answer impressed Wang Fulin.
Chen Xiaoxu said that even if I play other roles, the audience will feel that Lin Daiyu is playing another role.
Chen Xiaoxu's firm and decisive answer reminded Wang Fulin of Lin Daiyu, and as a result, Chen Xiaoxu starred in Lin Daiyu as he wished.
Director Wang Fulin believes that Chen Xiaoxu still has room for improvement in appearance, although this is only relative.
When she was young, Deng Jie was also attracted by Chen Xiaoxu's appearance. When she saw Chen Xiaoxu for the first time, like Yuan Mei, she sighed: "This girl is really beautiful." ”
Deng Jie was convinced that Chen Xiaoxu had the ability to play the role of Lin Daiyu at that time.
When the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" was broadcast, the public did not recognize "Lin Daiyu" played by Chen Xiaoxu, which is a fact.
At that time, a scholar in Hangzhou who specializes in the study of Dream of Red Mansions evaluated the characters in the play, and this evaluation was also published by "People**", as an official report, praising the four characters in the play.
Wang Xifeng, the radiant woman, was the first; Jia Baoyu, played by the only real male actor after hundreds of years, ranked second; Xue Baochai, her virtuous and dignified image, ranked third; And Hua Raider is aptly ranked fourth.
played the role of the heroine Lin Daiyu in the play, but failed to be recognized by the official and the public.
With the passage of time, the 1987 version of "Dream of Red Mansions" has become a classic, and Lin Daiyu played by Chen Xiaoxu is a treasure in this classic, and no one has been able to interpret another Lin Daiyu like her.