1946165438+10, Li Baotian was born in an ordinary family in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. It was the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and the children in this area finally had a stable school environment. Therefore, Li Baotian's father especially hopes that Li Baotian can achieve something in his studies.
However, Li Baotian was an extremely restless child when he was a child. He doesn't like reading, he only likes going to the theatre. I often sneak to the front of the theater at school to watch the play. After watching it, I sat at the door, thinking about the plot in the play. Every time I go home, my father will hit me. But that's all. Li Baotian often skipped classes to go to the theatre, even if he was beaten.
In the fifth grade, Li Baotian didn't want to continue studying, but wanted to be an actor. On one occasion, Li Baotian's father secretly read Li Baotian's diary and saw such a passage:
"Dad, don't look down on me. When I become a big actor in the future, I want my father to take Li Baotian home. "
However, in that poor era, satisfying the most basic hunger and satiety became a luxury. In such an environment, Li Baotian can't find an ideal growing soil to nourish it. Instead of supporting him, his father hit Li Baotian hard in words, saying that he "will never be a great actor".
Although realistic conditions can't support Li Baotian's ideal, stubborn Li Baotian naturally doesn't want to give up easily. Once you set your goal, you won't be afraid of the wind and rain. Therefore, Li Baotian, 0/3 years old, decided to run away from home and find her own way to perform.
After leaving home, Li Baotian found a Bangzi troupe to learn clown performance. During this period, Li Baotian can be said to eat every meal. When he was poorest, he could only drink tofu milk.
However, even though he was down and out, Li Baotian never came home once.
At that time, Li Baotian was at the age of long body. After a lot of training and malnutrition, Li Baotian finally fell down in an exercise and went to the hospital.
When he woke up in the hospital bed, it was his father who accompanied him.
The two men looked at each other for a long time, and neither of them spoke.
However, after Li Baotian recovered, Li Baotian's father quietly left.
Both father and son are stubborn people. On the one hand, they are unwilling to give up their dignity as fathers, and on the other hand, they are unwilling to give up their dignity as "actors". Although in the bottom of my heart, the two have already put it down, but no one wants to say it.
Regrettably, a few years later, Li Baotian's father died of liver cancer. Until the day of his father's death, neither of them could reach a final settlement.
As he grew older, Li Baotian began to understand his father's stubbornness and deep love for him. However, with the death of his wife, Li Baotian never had a chance to make up for his guilt. So at that time, he devoted all his time and energy to the performing arts, hoping to make a name for himself as an actor.
Later, he was successfully selected into Xuzhou Art Troupe and officially became an actor.
In the Art Troupe, Li Baotian worked hard to improve her acting skills. Ten years later, Li Baotian became the deputy head of the Art Troupe. However, this is still a long way from his original dream. Administrative work needs people everywhere, and he wants to be an actor.
Perhaps by providence, the Central Academy of Drama re-enrolled students at 1978. After getting the news, Li Baotian was very excited. Although he was in his thirties, he went to sign up without hesitation.
After many selections, I didn't expect Li Baotian to be successfully admitted to Chinese Opera. Since then, this has become a turning point in Li Baotian's acting career. Entering Chinese opera means that there will be more performance opportunities in the future, which also means that he is one step closer to fame.
"Man's greatest enemy is himself. People are constantly recasting themselves and constantly denying their negation, so I am willing to compete with myself. " In an interview, Li Baotian said this.
Li Baotian is 32 years old.
02, talking easily can't be a good show, but middle-aged debut has become a "play bully"
During his study of traditional Chinese opera, Li Baotian showed his harshness and love for art. He not only learned a variety of performance forms, but also taught himself poetry, sculpture and other arts. After graduating from undergraduate course, I went to graduate school, and finally I was even allowed to stay and teach.
Li Baotian, who already has acting skills, combined with several years of drama performance study, has a very solid performance foundation, but lacks a chance to be on the screen.
1983, Li Baotian finally ushered in his debut novel Wandering in the Jianghu, in which he played a clown artist Zhang Letian. And the characters in the film are just like Li Baotian's experience. Once in Xuzhou Art Troupe, Li Baotian was also a clown.
From then on, Li Baotian began his acting career.
In the next few years, Li Baotian appeared in films such as The Tramp and Swan and Ghost. Li Baotian, who was a late bloomer, had very high demands on his role. He never picks up the script, and every time he picks up the play, he always tries to avoid the repetition of the role type and the solid performance.
Just like Li Baotian's stubbornness when he was a child, Li Baotian was also an extremely stubborn role in the process of acting, and was even once called "a bully".
"You can't make a good show by talking nonsense."
Therefore, the crews who often cooperate with Li Baotian are under great pressure, because Li Baotian's requirements for performance are too harsh, and even he himself once bluntly said that he was a very "awkward" person when filming.
But it was Li Baotian's seriousness and stubbornness that made him step by step on the peak of his acting career.
Ghost of 1987 and Chinese New Year of 1990 won the Golden Rooster Award and Hundred Flowers Award for Li Baotian respectively. The most famous is the collaboration with Zhang Yimou in Ju Dou.
In Ju Dou, Li Baotian cooperates with Gong Li to play a man suffering from sexual repression, which requires very high performance skills. However, with Li Baotian's many years of performance experience, he has well interpreted the role of Yang Tianqing.
Since then, the film has won the special prize at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival in France and the Golden Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. As one of the leading roles, Li Baotian became famous in one fell swoop and became more and more famous.
Li Baotian finally realized his childhood dream and became a well-known "big actor". I want to come to my father's soul in heaven, and I can finally get some comfort.
03, constantly broaden the road of play, to the peak of performing arts
After Ju Dou, Li Baotian and Zhang Yimou have cooperated several times, namely 1995' s Shake, Shake, Shake to the Waipo Bridge and 1997' s Speak Your Words Well. Together with the depressed Yang Tianqing in Ju Dou, Li Baotian played three completely different roles in the three films.
In "Shake, Shake, Shake to the Waipo Bridge", he plays an underworld boss, and in "Speak Out", he becomes a funny, timid and rigid middle-aged man.
In these three works, Li Baotian's incisive acting skills shocked the audience. Moreover, Li Baotian never fixed his own way in acting, which he thought would stifle his desire to act.
It is for this reason that Li Baotian chose not to cooperate with Zhang Guoli after the fire broke out on Prime Minister Liu. He is afraid that he will be labeled as "Liu" forever.
After Liu, Zhang Guoli became "the nail house of the emperor" and "the nail house of the emperor". Only Li Baotian, not just Liu.
"It is not easy to play a good role and be careful that the audience is disgusting. It is not easy to create a successful character, but it is easy to destroy it. "
Obviously, Li Baotian has his own artistic pursuit of performance.
After parting ways with Wang Gang and Zhang Guoli, in 2003, Li Baotian staged the classic masterpiece tell it to the judge. At that time, once the play was broadcast, it was replayed on David, and the image of happiness played by Li Baotian was deeply imprinted in people's hearts.
But in recent years, Li Baotian's appearance in public has become less and less. Perhaps it is because with the growth of age, Li Baotian can play fewer and fewer roles and is unwilling to settle for a satisfactory film and television drama, so he chose a semi-retired life.
Miss Li once received an advertisement when she was the most popular, and regretted it, saying that she would never receive this advertisement again.
When Li Baotian became popular all over the country, many advertisements approached him and asked him to speak for him, but he refused. In his eyes, performance is performance, and he ignores everything that has nothing to do with performance.
Li Baotian once said: "We are all ordinary people at heart, and our audience is them. There is no need to treat ourselves as characters." .
Now Li Baotian is 74 years old. Looking back on his life, there are always some inevitable regrets. But purely from the perspective of performing arts, Li Baotian has a clear conscience. The classic roles he played will be remembered by the audience.
As the saying goes, "taste is pure joy, prosperity is pure." In the busy downtown area of Li Baotian, I keep my initial heart, and after retiring from the countryside, I can also find my own leisure. What else in this world is worth regretting?