I have seen Li Bai in dramas and Li Bai in movies. To be honest, what I saw was just a drunkard, not Li Bai. The image of Li Bai in my mind should be chic, elegant, like a jade tree. Facing the wind, his gestures seem to point to the country, his atmosphere is dignified, and he is romantic but not stagnant and kitsch. The sluggishness of his steps after being drunk does not hide his suaveness. This is Li Bai, the genius of romanticism, the immortal who was relegated to the human world. I'm afraid no one can play him well now, because the cultural quality revealed in his bones cannot be acted out.
Personally, I think Li Bai in The Legend of the Cat Demon is somewhat similar
It’s very difficult to play Li Bai. Li Bai is Li Bai. He needs to be chic, grand, eclectic, and It needs to be romantic and suave, it needs to be literary and military, but it also needs to be unreverent and rude, it needs to be poetically lonely, but it also needs to be noisy and wild. At one moment, it wants to startle everyone with its words, and the flowers are blooming vigorously.
Li Bai has been played by many people, but the one who really wins my heart is Li Bai in "The Legend of the Demon Cat". Maybe it's because he doesn't appear in many roles, so I think he has the most charm. Drunk and crazy, Gao Lishi asked him to take off his boots. After writing the poem, he threw the pen into the wine pool. This is so cool and unrestrained, but if he wasn't as crazy as Li Bai, how could he dare to tease Gao Lishi? If he didn't have Li Bai's talents, how could he be able to withstand such a slap in the face?
The phrase "vulgar" vividly demonstrates the poet's charm. He nodded slightly, or seemed to be shaking his head, indulging in the beauty of Concubine Yang. The sentence "clouds like clothes, flowers like looks" was not written about her, but it was her. Between imagination and reality, that is the ultimate pursuit of the poet throughout his life.
Li Bai is a dream of mine, a life that I can only dream of. We admire him and long for a life like his. We expect to ride a horse in the mortal world and wield a sword to the end of the world. We also expect to spend a lot of money and exchange a five-flowered horse with a thousand gold fur for wine. Like him, we are down and out in this world, feeling unspeakable loneliness. We fall asleep after being drunk and wake up in a strange place looking around at a loss. More often than not, I leave everything behind just for a hearty moment.
When I saw this question, the first thing that came to my mind was Pu Cunxin. Personally, I think his temperament, conversation, and appearance are more suitable for the role of Li Bai. Especially Pu Cunxin's elegant and free appearance in the poetry recitation.
Li Bai was a poet of the Tang Dynasty and an outstanding romantic poet. He was a poet and a wine wizard. He was romantic, unrestrained and unrestrained. Throughout his life, Li Bai was full of ups and downs and twists and turns. He loves wine and music, is crazy about his talent, and looks down upon the powerful. He is extremely talented, but has a bad fate. In his later years, he was extremely poor and miserable, but he was unwilling to be lonely. He often lamented his life. He has great ambitions, but he can only listen to the destiny and express the unbearable feeling of "the sky is destroying him and his power is not enough" and the resentment of "the gray hair is three thousand feet". He has no choice but to drink and get drunk, but it is a pity that "raising a glass to relieve sorrow makes the sorrow worse". He is civilized and martial Shuangquan was not reused. He was originally summoned to Chang'an by the emperor, but because Li Bai's arrogance offended the powerful, he was not tolerated by the world, so he was kicked out by the emperor in the name of "giving money back to the mountain". In Chang'an, there are really not many Li Bai who are suitable to play such a free and uninhibited Li Bai, who is both civil and military, but I think Jiao Enjun is quite suitable, because the little Li Fei Dao he plays has a bit of Li Bai, and Uncle Jiao Enjun's good looks It was very high back then.
Li Bai's image is actually relatively easy to act. His emotional expression is very direct and there is no hiding. This is also a typical characteristic of people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty were born with romanticism. Moreover, the emotional expression is very strong, whether it is joy or sadness, sorrow or anger, it is clear at a glance without any concealment.
Li Bai did not experience life and death like Du Fu, and he would not write about the sorrow of family and country like "the country is broken, the mountains and rivers are there, the city is springy and the vegetation is deep". Through Li Bai's poems, what we see more is a high degree of self-confidence and heroic feelings.
Even if his official career is not going well, he still writes "I am born with talents that will be useful, and I will come back after all my money is gone." Even if I am lonely and sad, it is still heroic "Toast a glass to the bright moon, and make three shadows There is a clear difference between the euphemistic style of "people" and the Song Dynasty's "helpless flowers fall away, and the familiar swallows return" in the Song Dynasty.
When he received the imperial edict from Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty to Beijing, he was also very high-profile, "I looked up to the sky and laughed and went out. How can I be a Penghao person?" If someone were to be an official now and shout like this, he would definitely be called a lunatic.
We were received with extremely high standards in the capital. If we were officials now, we would have been more humble when we first arrived. Li Bai doesn’t care what you do, the concubine pours the wine and the powerful man takes off his boots! Facts have proved that he is indeed not an official.
Later he was allowed to travel around the world. He treated people regardless of high or low, had a "chivalrous heart", talked loudly with the emperor in the Jinluan Palace, and mingled with the common people in the fields. Very loyal, "The water in Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun's gift to me." Wang Lun was extremely lucky. A farmer, with a glass of home-brewed wine, became famous throughout the ages!
Although Li Bai was very talented, he was not like an ordinary bookish literati. On the contrary, he was like a knight-errant with a sword. If placed in a film and television drama, he would be said to be like Li Xunhuan, who "has three Jinshi in one discipline, and a father and son who have two talents". But it seems that he lacks the heroic spirit of a good man - Qiao Feng.
If you combine the two, I think it should be about the same.
When I saw this question and the word "free and easy", the first person that came to my mind was the early feeling of Li Xiaoyao in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy One".
Although Li Xiaoyao felt a bit rogue and naughty in the early stage, he still has the feeling of a free and uninhibited knight. The feeling that Li Bai gives me, at least from his poems, is that free and uninhibited feeling.
So, if I were to find someone to play Li Bai, my first feeling would be that Hu Ge is more suitable to play that kind of free and easy knight.
The second feeling is that I think Huang Haibing (when he was young) is more suitable to play Li Bai. At least when I watched Shen Lang, I particularly liked the chivalrous spirit in him.
Li Bai's talent and madness are both first-class. In other words, if talent can support ambition, he will naturally be qualified to look down on the world. Li Bai's rise to fame was almost synchronized with the expansion of the empire. Standing on the city tower and looking out at Chang'an, the streets in the dusk were particularly magnificent. This made it difficult for him to realize that the body of the dynasty was rotting from the inside out. Li Bai's romantic literary talent is just used to cover up the festering abscess. Until Yuyang's frown comes and stirs the ground, shocking the song of colorful clothes and feathers. The yellow sand blowing from the Pamir Plateau blew the beautiful Chang'an into pieces. The charm of the prosperous Tang Dynasty has been completely obliterated, leaving only the yellowed pages floating in the long river of history. The unruly Li Bai had to sharpen his edge and blend in with the mighty fleeing army. From then on, he was on the run, spending the rest of his life wandering around.
Li Bai is a rare outlier among literati, and would not be tolerated by society in any other era. To play Li Bai, it would be best for a yandere and artistic boy to play the role. Dressed in white, he walks with striding steps that carry the wind. He drinks and sings wildly in broad daylight, and throws dirt at thousands of households. Expand to your heart's content and contract the disease of a bohemian scholar, only in this way can you be worthy of attention.
Di Renjie played by Zhao Youting looks a bit like him!
I dare not say that I am free and easy, but the only person in the entertainment industry who can recite poetry is Song Xiaofeng
Master Li Xiaoyao, the Jiujianxian of Sword and Sword No. 1!