Zhang Changcheng's interesting artistic experience

Zhang Changcheng created two vivid characters, Gai Jigang and Wang Zuo, in the Chaozhou opera films Tell My Husband and Kaifeng House, which left a deep impression on audiences at home and abroad. During his 40-year stage career, most of his characters are upright, majestic and tall. In fact, Zhang Changcheng himself is not tall, less than 1.6 meters. Many actresses in the troupe are over 1.6 meters tall. Standing with them, he is a little short. However, he made some technical compensation for his clothes. For example, the soles of boots worn on the stage are generally about two inches high, but the boots he wears should be specially made to make the soles four or five inches high; However, the most important thing is that when he performs on the stage, he handles his body movements, making full use of his strengths and avoiding weaknesses, giving the audience a feeling of being above others. For example, the "turning fingers" and "pointing to the sky" commonly used by the old students of Chaozhou Opera are generally raised to the brow, but he raises them to the top of his head, giving people the impression of "upright" and "high above". In footwork, he uses less eight-character stance but more T-shaped stance, because the eight-character stance squats and the T-shaped stance looks tall and straight. When he comes out or pauses, he uses his side less and his body more, because when he is sideways, the audience looks smaller from the audience; This is the processing of the body action itself. In dealing with the relationship with people on the same stage, he also pays great attention to fostering strengths and avoiding weaknesses, especially in the scene of framing and modeling, which is often high and low. For example, in NoKaifeng, when Wang You finally locked the arrogant imperial edict lady with a chain, Wang Zuo was a "golden rooster", waving the chain high in one hand, while the imperial edict lady squatted low, and Wang Zuo was tall. In addition to body movements, Xu's high and low pitch and speech speed when he was ill were properly handled to strengthen his boldness of vision in portraying characters. In a word, Zhang Changcheng used various artistic means to make up for his own shortcomings, which made his characters tall and bold.