＂Revolution of 1911＂ collection of young idols, Hu Ge’s interpretation of true love in the war
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Hu Ge, who is known as the "Prince of Ancient Costume", has had a lot of film appointments in recent years, and his acting career is booming. In 2011, he also became a producer for the first time in a new drama starring himself. On September 23, the movie "Revolution of 1911" starring Hu Ge is about to be released globally. It can be seen from the stills that Hu Ge has changed his previous "handsome man" temperament and made a bold attempt in styling. Not only did he transform into a bloody revolutionary, but he also starred in a period drama for the first time. In addition, director Zhang Li also greatly recognized Hu Ge’s performance and praised him as a malleable talent.
The movie "Revolution of 1911" brought together Hu Ge, Jaycee Chan, Du Yuhang and many other young actors, adding a touch of idolatry to this "unconventional" epic. However, the performances of these idols are also extremely subversive. In addition to Jaycee Chan’s gray-headed face playing revolutionary soldiers, Hu Ge, who plays Lin Juemin, has also changed his image as a young student, incarnated as a hot-blooded man, carrying guns and charging on the battlefield, and the interrogation room is excited to deal with the Qing court. Before the shooting started, Hu Ge made an oolong by mistaking Yu Peilun’s photo for Lin Juemin; after the shooting started, Hu Ge ran to the battlefield in white clothes and went to war like a dance, which seems to be very different from the historical image of Lin Juemin "voting for the revolution and giving up his wife and children, and unswerving for democracy." Hu Ge said in an exclusive interview recently that his role of Lin Juemin in "Revolution of 1911" was indeed somewhat poetic. "People are too facetious about historical figures. It seems that when they talk about heroes and martyrs, they are very masculine. In fact, it is not the case. In history, Lin Juemin’s evaluation is that his face is like jade, his liver and intestines are like iron, his appearance is elegant, but his heart is very powerful. There are many such heroes."
Premiere a period drama to avoid the portrayal of heroic characters
"Maybe because they are a bit similar, I searched online again and got it wrong. Later, when I actually saw Lin Juemin’s photo, I felt that we still have similarities: long face, thin, and more gentle looking."
Solving the appearance problem, in terms of acting skills, Hu Ge did not have much burden, "I tried my best to avoid the performance of historical figures, and at the same time, I tried my best to avoid my own traces and let myself go." Lin Juemin in history is proficient in multiple languages, but Hu Ge did not have many lines in the film, so he only involved Chinese, which also saved a lot of effort. It is reported that Hu Ge mainly played against Jackie Chan and Li Bingbing this time, because "Jackie Chan played Huang Xing, who brought me to the Guangzhou Uprising; I did not communicate directly with Li Bingbing, because I had already sacrificed, and she fished my body."
"Book with Wife" Love Tear,: Poetry of Gunfight Scene
Lin Juemin once left a heartfelt "Letter with My Wife" on the handkerchief, and this story was also brought to the screen by the director Jin Ge. In "Revolution of 1911", Lin Juemin played by Hu Ge and Chen Yiying played by Mei Ting have a particularly beautiful relationship between the two. Although the two have no direct confrontation scenes, and Chen Yiying’s role is not available until Lin Juemin’s sacrifice, Chen Yiying’s words are moving and quite tearful: "I have become accustomed to him being the master of everything in the family. When changing his body, I asked him, which one do you want to wear? Only then did I realize that he was gone and could no longer make decisions for me."
Although he did not focus on love, the director Zhang Li put forward requirements for Hu Ge to express his characters in a poetic way, "For example, the director would let me wear white clothes to participate in the uprising, and he also asked me to shoot and run like a dance. According to common sense, if you go to war, who would wear such bright colors, the stronger the camouflage, the better. The director’s hope must be to make Lin Juemin poetic and beautified in a limited space." Isn’t this kind of treatment afraid of being accused of affectation? Hu Ge denied, "In fact, this is the cooperation between the state of the performance and the camera, and the final result is a poignant and beautiful effect, because everyone knows that in the end his result is sacrifice, and such beauty can set off his heart when he sacrificed."