"Soldier Assault": What Duan Yihong wants to play most is not Yuan Lang, and what Zhang Yi wants to play most is not Shi Jin

In 2006, more than ten days before the filming of "Soldier Assault" started, the actor for the starring role of Xu Sanduo had not yet been decided.

Director Kang Honglei had already given this role to Wang Baoqiang, but Wang Baoqiang refused to play the role.

At that time, the 24-year-old Wang Baoqiang had already become famous through the two movies "The Blind Shaft" and "A World Without Thieves", but the more he was recognized, the martial arts dream brought to him by "Shaolin Temple" when he was young became more and more famous. The more determined you are.

So when the military drama "Soldier Assault" came to him, he refused immediately. Firstly, he was worried about missing the cooperation in the martial arts film due to the filming schedule of the TV series. Secondly, he believed that the subject of military affairs was not suitable for him. They match well. Thirdly, I am worried that playing a "silly" role again will put my career as an actor at a bottleneck.

Wang Baoqiang’s rejection made the fight for the role of Xu Sanduo complicated, because there were so many actors coveting this role.

The first one to emerge was Chen Sicheng.

Chen Sicheng, who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, has rich acting experience. He won the Beijing Film Academy Best Newcomer Award at the age of 24. He also starred in Kang Honglei's previous work "Migrant Workers", so he is preparing to shoot "Soldier Assault" At that time, Chen Sicheng was determined to play a role in the play.

Of course Chen Sicheng wanted to play the male lead Xu Sanduo, but he was too embarrassed to tell the director directly, so he took the initiative to liven up the atmosphere at a dinner party with the director and stole the show.

But after the dinner, Director Kang bluntly told him that he was not suitable to play the role of Xu Sanduo.

Xu Sanduo is a very eccentric person who is not liked by everyone, while Chen Sicheng is a very shrewd person in appearance and cannot act that dull.

In the end, Chen Sicheng starred in the play as a veteran.

After Chen Sicheng failed, another actor coveted the role of Xu Sanduo for a long time.

He is actor Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi is an ordinary stage recorder of the Beijing Comrades Repertory Theater. He usually serves as a host at military evening parties, writes speeches, and helps dismantle the stage after the performance. In short, he is a marginal role.

Zhang Yi likes to act, but he failed in a performance due to nervousness in the theater troupe. From then on, he said goodbye to the stage completely. He could only learn acting while doing odd jobs.

The drama troupe he belongs to often performs a drama "Elna Assault". Zhang Yi followed this play for three years. Although he did not have the opportunity to perform on stage, he memorized the lines of each character by heart. , especially obsessed with the character Xu Sanduo.

At that time, Kang Honglei was preparing to film "Elna Assault" into the TV series "Soldier Assault". Zhang Yi couldn't sleep all night after hearing about it. He decided to go crazy for his dream of being an actor.

He wrote a 3,000-word long letter to the director titled "My Letter of Challenge", in which he requested to play the role of Xu Sanduo.

Kang Honglei was deeply moved by Zhang Yi's enthusiasm and immediately decided to let him join the cast. However, he was not given the role of Xu Sanduo, but was given the role of the unpretentious monitor Shi Jin.

Zhang Yi starred in Shi Jin, stealing the role of another actor.

He is Duan Yihong.

Duan Yihong is older than Zhang Yi and Chen Sicheng and has richer acting experience. At the age of 33, he was in urgent need of a transformational work, and "Soldier Assault" was a good opportunity.

He asked Director Kang to let him play Shi Jin, but Kang Honglei gave the role to Zhang Yi. He felt that the role of Shi Jin was too difficult, and the role of Yuan Lang could help Duan Yihong broaden his acting skills.

So Duan Yihong played the role of Yuan Lang in "Soldier Assault".

Actors have taken their places, but Xu Sanduo's position is still vacant. Kang Honglei once again approached Wang Baoqiang and suggested that he must play this role, because Xu Sanduo was tailor-made for Wang Baoqiang.

Wang Baoqiang hesitated and knocked on the door of Feng Xiaogang's house. After starring in "A World Without Thieves", he had already regarded Feng Xiaogang and his wife as his life mentors.

After hearing Wang Baoqiang’s troubles, his wife, Xu Fan, decisively asked him to take the role because Xu Sanduo was the male lead and Wang Baoqiang had never played a male lead in movies in the past.

I can make martial arts movies in the future, but as the male lead, there is no such shop in this village.

In the end, Wang Baoqiang took over the role of Xu Sanduo and started his own career as an actor.

A few months later, the filming of "Soldier Assault" was completed and sold to the TV station at a price of 3,000 yuan per episode. In December, it was broadcast for the first time on the Shanghai News Station, and the time was moved to It was 10:30 in the middle of the night, but the result was that it didn’t make any waves.

Unexpectedly, on the Internet, it became a classic through word of mouth among netizens, and the phrase "never abandon, never give up" became the most inspirational aphorism of that era.

In May 2007, the show triggered a viewing frenzy when it was aired for the second time on the TV station and became a phenomenon-level hit.

"Soldier Assault" was originally a military-themed drama without big names, no romance, or even a heroine, and its audience was very small.

However, it unexpectedly became a symbol of the times. Many boys chose to become soldiers after watching this drama. In 2013, when Wang Baoqiang participated in "Real Men", he entered the military camp to experience life. Almost all the soldiers inside They are all fans of "Soldier Assault".

More importantly, this drama has provided a large number of talents to the Chinese film and television industry, including Wang Baoqiang, Zhang Yi, Chen Sicheng, Duan Yihong...

It can be said that half of the Chinese film industry now All come from the "Seventh Steel Company" of "Soldier Assault".

All this may seem accidental, but in fact it is inevitable.

The drama version of "Soldier Assault" had been performed for more than three years before the filming of the TV series began. The script was polished time and time again to become a masterpiece. After taking over the script, screenwriter Lan Xiaolong went to After experiencing military life for several months, I finally wrote this good story.

This drama tells the story of Xu Sanduo’s growth from a rookie to a king of soldiers. Every character is very vivid.

At the beginning of the story, Xu Sanduo is a taciturn and dull rural boy, the evil son described by his father as useless.

His father sent him to serve as a soldier. After seeing Xu Sanduo's so-called "talent", squad leader Shi Jin shook his head helplessly and said that his character was not suitable for being a soldier.

After his father beat Xu Sanduo severely, Shi Jin softened his heart and recruited Xu Sanduo under the influence of alcohol, and promised to train him into a good figure within a year.

Xu Sanduo and Chengcai entered the military camp together. Chengcai performed well, but Xu Sanduo made many mistakes. Company Commander Gao Cheng looked down on him, his comrades did not want to see him, and only Squad Leader Shi kept encouraging him.

After the recruit training, Xu Sanduo was assigned to guard the oil pipeline in the wilderness.

He organized the whole class's housekeeping, practiced walking in the forward step every day, practiced shooting with an unloaded gun, and also paved four new roads between the four rooms of the army, and built stone barriers with his comrades. A five-pointed star.

Xu Sanduo's spirit gradually spread, and he was recalled to the Seventh Company.

Here, he memorized the entire book on vehicle shooting techniques, completed 333 abdominal pole wraps, broke the group record, and won respect with his persistence.

The angry Sanduo caught the sniper Yuan Lang, the old A of the special forces, with his bare hands. At the end of the exercise, Yuan Lang was rejected by Xu Sanduo when he was poaching.

Later, when it was time for squad leader Shi Jin to demobilize, Xu Sanduo pressed his body against the squad leader’s luggage to prevent Shi Jin from leaving. This scene made people tearful.

After the squad leader left, Xu Sanduo took over the baton from Shi Jin and became the acting squad leader. He passed on this sense of responsibility and cared deeply for the new recruit Ma Xiaoshuai.

Later, during a military confrontation, Xu Sanduo and Yuan Lang of Brigade A did not know each other before fighting. With the help of Yuan Lang, he gradually grew into a soldier.

Along the way, Cheng Cai, played by Chen Sicheng, stood on the opposite side of Xu Sanduo. He was synonymous with smoothness and a typical egoist. In the army, he used cigarettes to please the squad leader, but he left Gangqi for promotion. Company, a brother who gave up the same hardships in order to join Lao A.

The name Chengcai is full of irony, and this character in turn brings out how valuable the spirit of Xu Sanduo and his comrades is.

Throughout the whole play, although it is full of chicken soup that young people today sneer at, it was the spiritual food of many people in that era.

Whether it is the continuous training of the Seventh Steel Company "Don't give up, don't give up", or the golden saying of Shi Jin "Sometimes you find that from Tiannan to Haibei is just a lift of a leg" or the old horse The sentiment "Stop messing around with life, be careful not to let life mess you up" deeply inspired the young people of 15 years ago, allowing them to shine in their jobs and squander their youth and sweat.

Now 15 years have passed, housing prices have skyrocketed, classes have solidified, opportunities have plummeted, "mourning culture" and "Buddhist culture" have taken over, jokes have replaced chicken soup as the new pastime of young people, nipple music The enjoyment of "Soldier Assault" has replaced Xu Sanduo's struggle. In this context, "Soldier Assault" seems to be getting further and further away from us.

But I think that no matter what era, struggle will always be an outdated theme of this era. In this slightly impetuous new era, "Soldier Assault" should be watched by today's young people.

"Don't abandon, don't give up" is by no means a popular saying, but a new interpretation that embodies the Chinese nation's spirit of hard work and hard work. Many years from now, this sentence may be outdated, but The spiritual core it conveys will not change, inspiring generations of Chinese people to become truly prosperous and powerful.

Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: A Chicken

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