Director Kang has given the role to Wang, but Wang refused to play it.
At that time, the 24-year-old Wang had become famous through two films, Blind Well and world without thieves, but the more he was recognized, the more he strengthened his martial arts dream brought by Shaolin Temple when he was young.
Therefore, when the soldiers of the army TV series raided him, he refused for the first time. First, I am worried that I will miss the cooperation of martial arts films because of the shooting schedule of TV dramas. Second, he thinks that military themes are not suitable for him. Thirdly, he is worried that playing the role of "Stupid Root" again will put his career in a bottleneck.
Wang's refusal made the battle for the role confusing, because too many actors coveted the role.
Chen Sicheng was the first to emerge.
Chen Sicheng, a graduate of Central Academy of Drama, has rich performance experience. At the age of 24, he won the Best Newcomer Award in Northern Film and starred in Kang's last work "Migrant Workers", so when preparing to shoot "Soldiers Assault", Chen Sicheng decided to play a role in the play.
Of course, Chen Sicheng wanted to play Xu Sanduo, the first hero, but he was too embarrassed to tell the director directly. Once having dinner with the director, he took the initiative to enliven the atmosphere and cut a dash.
But after dinner, Kang Dao told him bluntly that he was not fit to co-star in Xu Sanduo.
Xu Sanduo is a man with a special axis, not everyone likes him, but Chen Sicheng is a man with a smart appearance, and he can't play so plain.
Finally, Chen Sicheng plays the role of a smooth operator in the play.
After Chen Sicheng failed, another actor coveted the role of Xu Sanduo for a long time.
He is the actor Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi is an ordinary reporter of beijing comrade Repertory Theatre. He usually hosts an army party, writes a string of words, and helps dismantle the stage after the performance. Anyway, he is a marginal role.
Zhang Yi likes acting, but he failed because of nervousness in a performance of the troupe. Since then, he has completely bid farewell to the stage and can only perform odd jobs.
His troupe often performed a play "Elna Assault", and Zhang Yi followed it for three years. Although he didn't have a chance to perform on the stage, he remembered the lines of every role, especially the role of Xu Sanduo.
At that time, Kang was preparing to make "Elna Assault" into a TV series "Soldiers Assault". After Zhang Yi heard about it, he couldn't sleep all night. He decided to be crazy about his dream as an actor.
He wrote a 3000-word long letter to the director entitled "My Challenge Letter", in which he requested to play the role of Xu Sanduo.
Kang was deeply moved by Yi Cheung's enthusiasm, and immediately decided to let him join the League, but instead of playing the role of Xu Sanduo, he was asked to play the unpretentious monitor Shi Jin.
Zhang Yi took the role of Shi Jin and robbed another actor.
This is Duan Long.
Duan Long is older and more experienced than Zhang Yi and Chen Sicheng. At that time, at the age of 33, he was in urgent need of a transformational job, and Soldier Assault was a good opportunity.
He asked Kang to let him play Shi Jin, but Kang gave the role to Zhang Yi. He thinks it is too difficult to play the role of Shi Jin, and the role of July can help Duan Long broaden his acting skills.
So Duan Long played the role of July in Soldier Assault.
All the actors have fallen, but Xu Sanduo's position is still vacant. Kang found Wang again and suggested that he must play this role well, because it was tailored for Wang.
Wang hesitated and knocked on the door of his home. After starring in world without thieves, he has regarded Mr. and Mrs. Xiaogang Feng as his life mentor.
After listening to Wang's distress, Jenny insisted that he take the role, because he was the first hero, and Wang had never played the first hero in a movie before.
Martial arts films can be filmed later, but there is no such store after The First Hero.
Finally, Wang took the role and started his own career as an actor.
A few months later, "Soldier Assault" was filmed and sold to TV stations at a price of 3,000 yuan per episode. It premiered in Shanghai News Complex on June 5438+February at midnight 10: 30. The result did not cause any waves.
Unexpectedly, on the internet, it became a classic under the word-of-mouth of netizens. The sentence "Don't abandon and don't give up" became the most inspirational motto of that era.
In May, 2007, when the drama was broadcast in the second round of TV station, it triggered a viewing frenzy and became a phenomenal hot drama.
"Soldier Assault" was originally a legionary teleplay without big names, love and even a heroine, and its audience was very small.
However, it unexpectedly became a symbol of the times. Many boys chose to be soldiers after watching the play. 20 13 Wang entered the military camp to experience life when he participated in Real Men. Almost all the soldiers in it are fans of Soldier Assault.
More importantly, this drama has sent a large number of talents to China film and television circles, including Wang, Zhang Yi, Chen Sicheng, ...
It can be said that half of China's film industry now comes from Soldier Assault's Seven Companies of Steel.
All this seems accidental, but it is inevitable.
The story version of Soldier Assault has been played for more than three years before the TV series started shooting, and the book has been polished again and again to form a boutique. After the screenwriter Lan Xiaolong took the book, he went to experience the army life for several months and finally wrote this good story.
This drama tells the story of Xu Sanduo's growth from a rookie to a soldier king, and each character is very vivid.
At the beginning of the story, Xu Sanduo is a taciturn, wooden rural baby, an unworthy villain in his father's mouth.
His father sent him to the army. Monitor Shi Jin saw Xu Sanduo's so-called "talent" and shook his head helplessly, saying that his character was not suitable for being a soldier.
Shi Jin relented when his father beat up Xu Sanduo. With his strong drinking, he recruited Xu Sanduo and promised to train him within one year.
Xu Sanduo successfully entered the military camp. His success was excellent, but Xu Sanduo made mistakes again and again. The company commander Gao Cheng looked down on him and his comrades hated him. Only the history monitor has been encouraging him.
After the training of recruits, Xu Sanduo was assigned to the wasteland to guard the oil pipeline.
He tidied up the internal affairs of the class, practiced stepping every day, practiced shooting with a gun without bullets, paved four new roads between four houses in the army, and built a five-pointed star with stones with his comrades.
Xu Sanduo's spirit gradually spread, and he was recalled to the seventh company.
Here, he memorized the whole book on shooting vehicle technology, completed 333 feats of abdominal pole winding, broke the whole group record and won respect with persistence.
Angry sanduo grabbed July, the sniper of the special forces old A, with his bare hands. At the end of the exercise, Xu Sanduo refused in July, when he succeeded in sneak attack.
Later, it was time for Shi Jin, the squad leader, to be demobilized. In order not to let Shi Jin leave, Xu Sanduo pressed the monitor's luggage with his body to prevent him from leaving. This scene makes people cry.
After the monitor left, Xu Sanduo took the baton of Shi Jin and became the acting monitor, passing on this sense of responsibility, which is also the care for the recruit Ma Xiaoshuai.
Later, in a military confrontation, Xu Sanduo and July of a brigade were strangers. With the help of July, he gradually became a soldier king.
And along the way, Chen Sicheng successfully stood on the opposite side of Xu Sanduo. He is synonymous with greasy and smooth, and is a typical egoist. He used cigarettes to please the squad leader in the army, left Gang Qilian for promotion, and gave up his brother who shared weal and woe in order to enter the old A.
The name "success" is full of irony, and this role in turn shows how valuable the spirit of Xu Sanduo and his comrades is.
Throughout the whole drama, although it is full of chicken soup that young people scoff at now, it was the spiritual food of many people at that time.
Whether it's just the continuous training in Qilian, "Don't abandon or give up", or the golden sentence of Shi Jin, "Sometimes you find that it is the distance to lift your legs from Tiannan to Haibei", or Ma Lao's feeling, "Don't dawdle any more, be careful to let the days mix you up", all of them deeply inspired the young people/kloc-0.5 years ago, and let them shine brilliantly in their jobs and shed youth and sweat.
Now 15 years have passed, housing prices have soared, social strata have solidified, and opportunities have plummeted. "Funeral culture" and "Buddhist culture" have taken the lead, jokes have replaced chicken soup as a new pastime for young people, and the enjoyment of nipple music has replaced Xu Sanduo-style struggle. In this context, the soldiers' assault seems to be getting farther and farther away from us.
But I think, no matter which era, struggle will always be the outdated theme of this era. In this slightly impetuous new era, soldiers' assault should be shown to young people now.
"Don't abandon, don't give up" is by no means a popular golden sentence, but a brand-new interpretation that embodies the spirit of hard struggle of the Chinese nation. Many years later, this sentence may be out of date, but the spiritual core it conveys will not change, inspiring China people from generation to generation to become truly rich and strong.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: A Chicken
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