Towards * * * and the crew: a group of "drama experts" crazy works, many old artists have passed away.

Zhang Li, the director who is destined to go down in the history of China TV series. Move towards harmony and become a palace-level work of a bright pearl of domestic drama.

When it comes to both, few people don't give a thumbs up.

Judging from the ratings, "Towards * * * and" is actually bleak. It was broadcast in the prime time of CCTV in 2003, and the audience rating was only 3. 1%, which did not even reach the benchmark of CCTV prime time. However, because the audience are mostly "three highs" groups (high age, high education and high income), this drama has a great response and has become the focus of public opinion.

The drama series starts from four lines: Cixi, Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen. Although some of them are inconsistent with historical facts, it is undeniable that it makes that turbulent history more vivid and full, and also makes the characters left in the history books vivid and three-dimensional.

It is not easy to understand "Towards * * * and" completely, but also to keep independent thinking beyond the values endowed by the series. It needs some historical basis, which is one of the reasons why it is regarded as a classic but difficult to replay in full version.

"Towards Harmony" can achieve such a high "social status" without the "crazy magic" of a group of cast members directly drawn from "Yongzheng Dynasty".

Although the investment in this drama is very large, the funds are still relatively tight as a whole. More than 200 characters and actors have been found, and they have taken pictures all over the country, built sheds and set scenery, 1: 1 restored scenery, which has consumed 7788. In order to restore the scene, in addition to shooting in the Forbidden City, a number of warships were even mobilized to restore the naval battle.

Fortunately, the creators are not masters of melodrama. It doesn't matter how bad the conditions are, so perform.

The casting is not only based on the photos of historical figures, but also as similar as possible. Besides, the actors are better. They put themselves in the role just like Cheng Dieyi did when filming Farewell My Concubine. The starring actors are almost immersed in the crew, both in and out of the play, and even chat while eating.

With such a master creation, why worry about the failure of the work? Let's talk about these painstaking masters.

Bing Wang was 70 years old when he played Li Hongzhang. He is the oldest actor in the crew, and he is in poor health, but his professionalism is enough to make some actors who take money and sell tickets ashamed.

One month before the shooting, Bing Wang joined the organization. He first read the script in one breath, and then read five books about the history of the late Qing Dynasty. After that, he stayed in the crew for seven months.

Old artists don't simply play a role step by step as actors, but discuss their own understanding and direction of the role, so as to complete a work of art under the pressure of self-setting.

How good is Bing Wang's performance? When filming the scene of signing "treaty of shimonoseki", a girl translator of the crew held him on the spot and burst into tears, because she was full of emotions.

As Bing Wang said, "In many scenes, I found the performance basis from my emotional passbook".

On the one hand, Bing Wang's familiarity with performance stems from his many years of life experience, and on the other hand, he has always regarded creation as a hobby. Since 1950s, Bing Wang has been the pillar of the theater and the only candidate for the male actor of the new drama until 1990 retired.

Later, he began to play a guest role in film and television works, and once portrayed Song Jing in Tang Huangming and Di Renjie in Wu Zetian.

After filming "Towards * * * and", Bing Wang, who was in poor health, seldom filmed. Unfortunately, Wang Lao died of illness on 20 12 at the age of 82.

Lv Zhong (Cixi), an old artist, is also a drama background. 18 years old. He began to be a dramatic actor in the 1950s, and didn't set foot in the field of film and television until the end of 1980s. From daughter-in-law to mother, queen mother, and then to grandmother, the transition between Lu Zhong is natural and comfortable.

Lv Zhong initially played the role of Empress Dowager, starting with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which she played Dong Taihou, and then became a "professional empress dowager". In the corner of Cixi alone, she has performed more than four times (Towards Harmony, Princess Deling, Qiao Family Courtyard, Dingjun Mountain, etc. ), as well as Wu Zetian in De Renjie, sourdrang queen in The Secret History of the Crown Prince, and the empress dowager in The Fission of the Daqin Empire.

And her grandmother role is even more unique, always making people feel kind and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Now 80-year-old Lv Zhong is still full of energy and active on the screen.

Sun Chun, who plays Yuan Shikai in the play, gained more than 30 Jin by eating Haisai in order to get closer to the role and shape it.

Sun Chun started filming in 1980s, and cooperated with famous directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige successively, and has been unknown. Although "Towards * * * and Harmony" is well-known, its exposure rate is not high. Most viewers know him from the corner of Qu En in "The Right Way on Earth is Vicissitudes".

With his outstanding acting skills, he finally won the Best Actor (Qiu) Award in the 201Golden Rooster Award, and won the Best Supporting Actor in Hundred Flowers Award for Yuan Shikai (Revolution of 1911) in the same year.

Sun Chun has always taken the route of low output and high quality in film and television. As the name implies, this powerful actor always gives the audience a simple and honest feeling, as warm as jade.

Ma Shaohua looks quite similar to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and his acting skills are skillful, so he played Dr. Sun Yat-sen in film and television works many times after Towards Harmony (the elementary school of the Revolution of 1911 and the great rejuvenation). ).

Born into an artistic family, his father was BOB, a descendant of the Beijing Opera School, and his grandfather was Wang, the founder of stand-up comedy in China, so he studied Beijing Opera from an early age and laid a solid foundation for entering the performance industry. I worked in a drama troupe in my early years and didn't begin to participate in film and television works until I was 40 years old.

This national first-class actor has a wide range of performances, such as Dou Ying in Hanwu the Great, Boss Xie in Survival of Migrant Workers, Sun Chang Wuji in Zhenguan Governance, Xie in A Stranger, and the dumb father in Wrong Car. He is a versatile man, and each character has a different personality, which Ma Shaohua is familiar with.

At that time, Li Guangjie, a sophomore, gave a resume to the cast with the mentality of giving it a try, and didn't even get an interview.

After a round of director interviews, none of them are suitable for Guangxu. I can only rummage through the wastebasket and pick up my resume at the top. Boy, that's him, so Li Guangjie made his debut, with a high starting point.

Li Guangjie, who has been honed in the crew for several months, has benefited a lot from her performance, and at the same time, she has got a pass to enter the entertainment circle. Based on "Harmony with * * *", there will be more opportunities to appear in excellent works, such as Military Secret, Blue Storm, Special Mission, beginning of spring, Killing Tiger Mouth and so on.

What really made him popular were two urban emotional dramas, Du Lala's Promotion and A Man I can afford. 30-year-old Li Guangjie finally ushered in the spring of his career, and the film contract continued.

Li Guangjie, who is nearly 30 years old, has also been promoted to father this year.

Scarlett is known as "the most beautiful Soong Ching Ling". She is a special actress who plays Soong Ching Ling. She looks like the teenager Soong Ching Ling in many people's eyes.

However, although Shi Jiali has acted several times, there are not many plays. Her wish to play a drama about Soong Ching Ling's legendary life has not yet come true.

Yang Meng, who plays Cai E, is very unpopular. Since his debut in the 1980s, he has mainly played supporting roles, mainly war dramas and historical dramas.

Most of the audience's impressions of him began with the Water Margin (1998). It is said that he participated in Water Margin. You can't figure out who he plays, and you can't even name the role of He Tao. You have to think it over.

Remember the observer whose ear was cut off by the Ruan brothers in Water Margin? That's him.

He is also Xu Xiaochuan in the Public Security Bureau, Xun You in the Military Alliance of Sima Yi, and Lao Taizai in the Records of Clouds in Kyushu.

For many years, Yang Meng has been active on the screen, and he has participated in many works every year. Unfortunately, the audience will not remember much.

This drama also hides many "big brothers" in the field of artistic performance.

Li, who plays Huang Xing, also plays in Pink Girl and the butcher in Double. And his other identity is the dialogue class teacher in the last play.

Sun Ning, who plays Kang Youwei, is a big coffee in Beijing Opera circle, occasionally making guest appearances in film and television dramas and being a national first-class actor.

Min Xu, who plays the green prince, is also a national first-class actor. He was the leading actor of the first domestic movie "405 Murder" (1980) with a box office of over 100 million yuan, and also appeared in many famous masterpieces such as Yongzheng Dynasty, Secret History of Xiaozhuang, Daming Dynasty 1566.

Li is also a national first-class actor, mainly performing drama, and is a big shot in the drama industry. Now he is the Dean of Film and Television College of Nanjing Art College.

Xuege Qian, who plays the alcohol prince, is a professor of Nortel, and ZhangFeng yi and other stars are his students.

Unfortunately, 17 years have passed, and some old artists in the play have passed away.

Zheng Tianyong, who plays Prince Gong, has played a supporting role in many film and television works. Even a small role can make it come alive. He is also the director of the famous Quyi program Qu Yuan Zatan.

The old man died in 20 16 at the age of 8 1.

Zhang Ju, who plays Weng Tonghe, is a national first-class actor. He is also Zhang Song in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Priscilla in the Spring and Autumn Annals of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. He died of illness in 2009 at the age of 74.

Liao, who plays Zhang Zhidong, was once the head of Hunan Repertory Theatre and a famous first-class performing artist. He has created hundreds of various characters in drama and film and television works. He also has a son, Liao Fan.

The old artist died of lymphoma on 20 16.

Do you remember the actors in the following play? The role in this play is his first Japanese role since he arrived in China.