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Chapter 484 It's really easy to film with veteran actors
In addition to Ma Yue, the actors for other roles in the drama "Tian Khan" were also carefully selected by Li Yu.

For the role of Li Yuan, Li Yu asked Ding Yong, who played the old Emperor Liang in "Nirvana in Fire", to play the role.

If you want to play some wise and powerful old emperors, the best choices must be veteran actors and movie kings such as Tang Guoqiang, Chen Baoguo and Chen Daoming.

The performances of the old emperor played by them are absolutely top-notch.

They have a strong aura and are very impressive, especially Chen Daoming and Chen Baoguo. It is a real pleasure to listen to them speak their lines.

However, it is obviously not appropriate for them to play the role of an emperor like Li Yuan.

As the founding emperor, Li Yuan was definitely capable.

But if you say how high his level is, I'm afraid most people won't admit it.

As we all know, Li Yuan's greatest ability was to have children. He gave birth to two good sons, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.

Less than half a year after he started his rebellion in Jinyang, he entered Chang'an and proclaimed himself emperor, and has stayed in the imperial palace in Chang'an ever since.

Most of the world was conquered by his good son Li Shimin.

The founding emperor who founded a country in turbulent times was probably the most comfortable one in the past five thousand years.

Therefore, for a role like this, there is no need to use actors like Tang Guoqiang and Chen Baoguo who are good at playing the old emperor.

Just let Ding Yong, who played the old Emperor Liang, take over.

The old Emperor Liang played by Ding Yongdai in "Nirvana in Fire" is capable, but he is old and a little confused.

Mei Changsu and the Jiangzuo League did so many things under his nose, and they even had spies planted in the palace. They probably even knew what color shorts he wore on any given day.

Even so, he remained indifferent. He always had a mysterious confidence that came from nowhere and felt that everything was under his control.

Ding Yongdai played the role of this sometimes shrewd and sometimes foolish old emperor very well.

His performance in Nirvana in Fire was recognized by the audience.

Li Yu had reason to believe that he could play the role of Li Yuan well.

Li Yuan was similar to the old Emperor Liang. He had certain abilities, but he made a lot of stupid moves.

For example, Li Shimin spent a lot of effort to besiege Luoyang City for more than a year, and finally achieved the dazzling achievement of capturing two kings in one battle, and brought the two leaders of the anti-Tang forces, Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong, back to Chang'an City.

Li Shimin made it very clear that Dou Jiande was a hero and was very famous in Hebei at that time. If he was killed, Hebei would definitely be in trouble.

Before Dou Jiande surrendered, Li Shimin promised him that he would save his life.

Another leader of the anti-Tang forces, Wang Shichong, was an absolute insect.

This man was cunning by nature and had done all sorts of despicable things including regicide, usurpation of the throne, and slaughter of loyal officials.

Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin and others were originally subordinates of Wang Shichong.

They saw that Wang Shichong was a cunning person and did not want to work under him, so they defected to the Tang Dynasty.

These people became famous generals in the Tang Dynasty and their names will be passed down through the ages.

From this we can see that Wang Shichong’s character is really bad, and all the truly capable heroes look down on him.

According to normal thinking, Dou Jiande should be kept and placed under house arrest to appease the people of Hebei, and then Wang Shichong, the scum who is despised by everyone, should be killed.

Li Yuan's train of thought was very interesting. He believed that Wang Shichong was of noble birth, and even if he had done something as heinous as declaring himself king or emperor, he should be spared because of his noble status and only needed to be demoted to a commoner.

Dou Jiande was born in poverty. A peasant dared to claim to be king. He must be killed and beheaded to let the common people in the world see that this is the end of the rebellion of the common people.

Such outrageous actions laid the groundwork for the two subsequent rebellions in Hebei.

The two rebellions in Hebei were not entirely due to the killing of Dou Jiande.

But the killing of Dou Jiande must have been a very important factor. In addition to killing Dou Jiande, Li Yuan also killed many people who surrendered to him.

The act of killing surrendered soldiers has been despised by people since ancient times, but Li Yuan enjoyed doing it and could be called a crazy killer of surrendered soldiers.

To be honest, based on his series of extremely foolish and absurd actions, if he didn't have a good and capable son to clean up his mess, the Tang Dynasty might have collapsed shortly after its founding.

In addition to his outrageous operations in military and national affairs, Li Yuan also bears a great responsibility for the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

The Xuanwu Gate Incident was the result of his failure to exercise checks and balances.

From the day he started playing checks and balances, it was inevitable that his sons would kill each other.

Less than three days after filming began in Xiangyang's Tang City, veteran actors including Ding Yongdai contributed many famous scenes.

In a scene just now about the Jinyang Uprising, Ding Yongdai portrayed Li Yuan as wise and domineering.

After that scene, Ding Yongdai received a lot of applause and praise from people.

Li Yu also praised Ding Yongdai a few words.

It’s really easy to film with professional actors or veteran actors.

Director Li Yu doesn't need to worry about anything, as they can figure out their roles very clearly and then give wonderful performances.

Yan Danchen, who plays Li Er's wife Changsun, quietly asked Li Yu: "Director Li, did Teacher Ding portray Li Yuan as too domineering? Emperor Li Yuan shouldn't be that powerful, right?"

It will take some time before Yan Danchen makes his debut.

However, she insisted on joining the show early to adapt to the atmosphere of the crew to facilitate her performance later.

"It's a little too domineering, but don't you think Teacher Ding's performance was very effective?"

Li Yu asked rhetorically.

“It really works.”

Yan Danchen couldn't deny this.

Just now, when Ding Yongdai finished his performance, many staff members and actors gave him applause, which was enough to show that his performance was very shocking.

However, it is also an undeniable fact that the performance deviated from the script to a certain extent.

“Film and television dramas are works of art and are called historical dramas, but we certainly cannot restore the real history and real historical figures 100%.

We are just filming, not traveling back to the Tang Dynasty with cameras to make a historical documentary.

Teacher Ding acted so well that it didn’t matter if he deviated a little from the script.

We can't be too rigid. Many classic works from Hong Kong were slowly polished on site.

As long as the actors perform well enough, they can even change the script on the spot to suit the actors."

Li Yu explained.

"Besides, Li Yuan, who had just started his rebellion, was not stupid. On the contrary, many of his actions were remarkable. How could someone who could create a country in troubled times not be capable?

The scene just now was about the uprising, and it was a pleasant surprise that Mr. Ding played a domineering and wise Li Yuan."

Not only Li Yuan, many people are like this.

Don’t be too proud when your business has not yet succeeded. When you need to make a decision, you can think calmly, weigh the pros and cons, and make the most practical decision.

After successfully starting a business, you will be surrounded by people who say nice things to you. Living in such an environment full of flattery for a long time, it is inevitable that you will feel a little arrogant, and it is normal to do a lot of outrageous things.

(End of this chapter)