The Golden Age of China Entertainment

"The emperor has a decree, not to kill..."

In the monitor, the screen was fixed on a close-up of Li Baotian, and the excitement of the rest of his life was vividly displayed through his glowing eyes and distorted face.

Yi Qing and Zhang Zien looked at each other, and they both read the same message from each other's eyes: What a good actor.

It's just that this old drama player is too paranoid about performing arts, so the future development... is really a pity.

In the era before Yi Qing's rebirth, there were many actors in the domestic film and television industry who could afford the old drama. People like Chen Baoguo, Li Youbin, Chen Daoming, etc. were all good actors with superb acting skills, and Li Baotian was naturally on the list. .

Later, people said that Chen Daoming was not easy to cooperate with, and he was a bully.

But, to be honest, among all the old actors, Li Baotian is the most difficult to work with and the most different.

Before Yi Qing was reborn, he had seldom seen his scenes anymore, and felt that he was almost forgotten, and he seemed to have disappeared.

Throughout Li Baotian's acting career, he has played countless classic roles and won numerous awards, such as Golden Rooster, Hundred Flowers, Golden Eagle Award, Feitian, Li Baotian has won almost all the honors that an actor can enjoy.

The reason why he has won so many honors is because of his dedication and pickiness in performing arts, which is well-known in the industry, so that many people call him a "drama bully".

In his heart, he only has the profession of actor and the job of acting, and he is an out-and-out "senior actor".

He has never shot any commercials in his life, nor has he endorsed any events, and he has never been seen in variety shows.

It has to be said that Li Baotian is one of the few performing artists who sticks to his bottom line and principles among the many old actors.

As he himself said later: "Man's greatest enemy is himself. People are always recasting themselves, negating and negating, so I am willing to compete with myself."

And the way he competes with himself is to always stick to what he insists on, never crossing half a step.

Li Baotian has liked acting since he was a child. When he was still in elementary school, his favorite thing to do was to go to the theater to watch a play, and every time he went to watch it, he would sit there in a daze.

Finally, at the age of 13, he went to the local Bangzi Troupe to learn clowns, and later successfully entered the Xuzhou Art Troupe and became an actor.

After working here for more than ten years, he became the deputy director from an actor.But his pursuit of acting career is far from that.

In 1978, the Central Academy of Drama's director training class began to enroll students, and Li Baotian was successfully admitted. In that year, he was already 32 years old.

When most people reach this age, most of them begin to yearn for a stable life, but Li Baotian wants to make a fuss.

During his school days, Li Baotian kept learning various forms of art performance, delved into performance skills, and also learned painting, poetry, sculpture, etc. by himself.

In terms of performance, he has honed his stage drama for several years, and his acting skills are already very solid.

After graduating from his undergraduate degree, he continued to apply for a graduate student in the directing department. Later, the school made an exception and allowed him to stay in school to teach and became a teacher.

Not long after becoming a teacher, Li Baotian ushered in his own screen work. In 83, Li Baotian played a clown artist Zhang Letian in his first movie "Crossing the Rivers and Lakes".

From then on, he officially started his big screen acting career and created his own peak of interpretation.Li Baotian was 37 years old at this time, a typical late bloomer.

Afterwards, Li Baotian played the father of female artist Qiu Yun in the film "The Love of Ghosts".

With his excellent character control, Li Baotian won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 8th Golden Rooster Awards in one fell swoop. This is his first award on the big screen, which made him stand out in one fell swoop.

Also from then on, Li Baotian began to explode completely, and the film appointments continued.

But what really made him famous in one fell swoop was his cooperation with Zhang Yimou. In the movie "Ju Dou", Li Baotian and Gong Li partnered to play Yang Tianqing, a depressed and tragic man.

With this role, Li Baotian won the Special Award at the 43rd French Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. It can be said that Li Baotian at this time is already an actor at the level of an international actor.

After that, Li Baotian played an old man who was nearly seventy years old in the movie "Grandpa Ge". With this role, Li Baotian won the Best Actor Award in the 8th TV Drama Feitian Awards.

In 93, Li Baotian starred in the movie "Phoenix Piano", in which he played the role of principal Yu, a mountain teacher, and won the Best Actor Award at the Government Award, Hundred Flowers Award, and Golden Rooster Award.

It can be said that Li Baotian at this time is already one of the best drama-level existences.

In 95, Li Baotian cooperated with Zhang Yimou again and played the role of Tang Boss, a gangster in Shanghai in the 30s, in the movie "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge".

It can be said that in Zhang Yimou's early works, Teacher Li Baotian was the real queen hero, and Ge You had to stand aside at that time.

Boss Tang is Li Baotian's first villain since he has been in the arts for many years.

Who would have thought that Li Baotian, who has always played positive roles, could play a ruthless black boss. Anyone who has watched this movie will probably immediately abandon Li Baotian's previous screen image, because he appeared on the big screen He is a boss who is not angry and arrogant.

It's just that domestic films were at a low ebb at that time. Although Li Baotian won many awards for his wonderful performances in many excellent works, his popularity among the people was not very high.

But the next role brought Li Baotian to the pinnacle of his career and made him an actor with high national recognition.

That is this "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo".

After the "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" in the previous life was broadcast, it became popular all over the country immediately, and Li Baotian also became synonymous with "Liu Luoguo" for a time.

Zhang Guoli and Wang Gang, who worked with him at that time, had to play supporting roles for him, and their performances in the play were far inferior to Li Baotian's.

After "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" became popular, Zhang Guoli became a "professional emperor", Wang Gang became a "professional Heshen", and Li Baotian no longer played Liu Luoguo.

This is also his insistence, because he didn't want to repeat himself, and he didn't want to be trapped by a role, so that later, he turned down many scenes that asked him to play Liu Yong.

"It's easy to make the audience sick by playing a role all the time. It's not easy to create a successful character, but it's easy to destroy it."

Because he never accepts bad films, he is extremely serious in filming, he doesn't like to follow the trend, and he is picky and difficult to cooperate with, so that Li Baotian was dubbed the title of "drama bully" and fell into a situation where there was no film to film.

Even he himself admitted: "It's too tiring to cooperate with me!"

But in Li Baotian's mind, everything is for art and creation itself, and everything else is superfluous and meaningless.

For example, Li Weijian has only accepted one commercial in his life, even so, he still regrets it.

And Li Baotian is even more extreme. He has never filmed a commercial in his life, and he doesn't like to show his face to participate in entertainment, and has always lived in a simple way.

In his heart, there is only performance, and performance will always be put first. Even when his son got married later, he had no time to rush to the wedding because he was busy with filming.

It's just because he doesn't want to ask for leave and bring unnecessary losses to the crew.

It is worth mentioning that Li Baotian's son, Li Yu, was the one who played Liu An in the original "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" in his previous life. He took the Chinese opera exam back then and took 6 years to pass the exam.

You know, Li Baotian himself is a teacher of Chinese opera, which shows how upright his character is.

Mr. Li Baotian devoted his whole life to filming, he was a clean man, he was too low-key, and because of this, he was often ignored and underestimated.

As he himself said: "We are all ordinary people in our bones, and our audience is them, so there is no need to treat ourselves as personal figures."

When Yi Qing was reborn, Mr. Li Baotian was already in his seventies, old, and had already passed the peak of the acting era, and almost stopped filming.

Just think back to his classic masterpieces and life events.

Yi Qing can only give him one comment: "A good actor is a man of integrity, this is an artist."

Such an artist should have given more wonderful performances to the audience, but because he was too persistent, he was not tolerated by others, so that in the peak period of acting, such a good actor of the drama level did not have many performances What a pity.