Since the main roles of the leading actors cannot be replaced, Wu Zhenyu thought about the minor roles in his head.

By the way, let Tang Lin play Fan Xing, Wu Zhenyu suddenly had an idea in his heart.

Fan Xing is one of Wu Zhenyu's favorite characters, because in history, there is no such character as Fan Xing, Fan Xing is completely made up for this TV series, and the reason why it was added is because Wu Zhenyu wants to use the role of Fan Xing to show the spirit of forbearance and humiliation in traditional Chinese virtues.

In Wu Zhenyu's design, Fan Xing, the governor of Zhongshan County, was born as a slave, because of his rich experience in fighting with the Hu people for a long time, and because of his knowledge of the habits of the Hu people and the entanglement of tribal forces, he was recommended by the eldest grandson Wuji as a squire in the military department, but was opposed by most ministers.

In the setting of Fan Xing, he knew the art of war very well, and thought that the Tang army would never be able to resist Jieli's 200,000 army, and all the property in the treasury would be handed over to Jieli in exchange for Jieli's retreat.

Jieli soldiers retreated, but the court, the entire Chang'an City, because of Fan Xing's tribute and peace and scolded him, Fan Xing walked on the street, was insulted and scolded, and was embarrassed and squeezed everywhere in the court, Fan Xing took the overall situation into account, gave up his merits and depreciated himself as the history of Suizhou Thorn.

A few years later, the Hu people came to attack again, Fan Xing deliberately let the Hu people capture Suizhou in order to warn the imperial court, according to the law of the Tang Dynasty, the city guard officials must be executed. The courtiers demanded that Fan Xing be killed, Taizong understood that Fan Xing's righteous and wise actions could not bear to kill such a virtuous and loyal minister, Fan Xing also understood Taizong's thoughts, in order not to embarrass Taizong and not let the court have turmoil, Fan Xing once again made a huge sacrifice, and this time he gave up his life.

Before he died, Fan Xing used his own blood to write "Pinghu Ten Strategies" to Tang Taizong, and then committed suicide by taking poison, and the people in the capital saw that Fan Xing was dead, and actually thought that a scum had been removed, and cheered and celebrated, so Fan Xing could only be a tragic figure.

In Fan Xing's "Ten Strategies for Pinghu", the content of the Ten Strategies is:

1. Forbearance, 2. Forbearance, 3. Forbearance, 4. Forbearance, 5. Forbearance, 6. Forbearance, 7. Forbearance, 8. Forbearance, 9. Forbearance, 10. Establish a Datang own iron horse.

Later Tang Taizong really defeated Jieli with Fan Xing's "Pinghu Ten Strategies".

The most prominent thing in Fan Xing is the traditional spirit of the Chinese people to endure humiliation and seek perfection, which is a completely different ideological resource from the West. From the Yue Wang Goujian's "lying on salary and tasting courage" to the strategy of "Taoguang concealment" at the beginning of the reform, the spirit of "forbearance" is an indispensable part of traditional culture. This kind of "forbearance" is not the forbearance of inaction, but the accumulation of strength in order to achieve great things. This kind of "forbearance" is brewing before the eruption of the volcano, and it is the calm before the storm. The first nine strategies of Fan Xing's "Ten Strategies for Pinghu" are all forbearance, which is the most rational choice in an environment of external uncertainty and internal restlessness. The national strength is weakened, and although the pride of "drunk and lying on the battlefield and smiling, and fighting a few people back in ancient times" can achieve their heroic ideals, they must have a more humiliating life for future generations. Strategic endurance is undoubtedly more relevant than fanatical destruction. The spirit of patience embodied in Fan Xing is rational and a kind of patience with strategic vision. No matter how many people criticize it, the tremendous power of this spirit of patience cannot be overlooked.

When creating the character of Fan Xing, the director cut into the historical smoke and clouds from a humanized perspective, trying to clear the fog and find the brilliance of human nature. The plot does not revolve in the circle of history, but is creatively written under the principle of reasonableness, exploring the fate of the little people in the great ups and downs of history, and revealing the glorious surface of the "rule of Zhenguan". Compared with many costume dramas that depict the "human nature" of heroes through seven emotions and six desires, the appearance of these characters is undoubtedly much more clever. Human nature is not only in the childish love of the small family, when the distinctive personality of the characters collides with the squeeze of history, the spark of human nature will fly. In historical dramas that express emotions and desires, "human nature" is the selling point, and in historical dramas that express events, "human nature" often becomes a "meal". If a historical drama can't create characters with a glorious humanity, I'm afraid that no amount of jokes will be able to move the audience.

This is a role that Wu Zhenyu values more and is easy to shine, and being able to give the role of Fan Xing to Tang Lin can be seen to recognize Tang Lin's performance.

Wu Zhenyu called Tang Lin and asked Tang Lin to come to his room, and because Lin Fangdian, Tang Yanzheng and Tang Lin were waiting for the news, they came to Wu Zhenyu's room together.

Wu Zhenyu said to Tang Lin: "I thought about it, I'm going to give you the role of Fan Xing, what do you think?" After speaking, he stared at Tang Lin, wanting to see Tang Lin's reaction.

Lin Fangdian, who is the main star in the play, naturally knows the weight of Fan Xing's role, and said ecstatically: "Really? This is great." ”

Tang Lin had also read the script, and he knew the weight of Fan Xing's character in the plot of the previous episodes, so he was very happy, but he was not as ecstatic as Lin Fangdian, and just said to Wu Zhenyu gratefully: "Thank you, Director Wu." ”

Wu Zhenyu thought that Tang Lin didn't know the weight of Fan Xing's role, and said to Tang Lin: "There are not many scenes in this character, only four episodes, but the weight is extremely heavy, and the performance can definitely be brilliant." ”

Lin Fangdian also rushed to say to Tang Lin: "Tang Lin, this is a role carefully designed by Director Wu, it turns out that there are preliminary candidates, and now I give you this role, which is really the greatest affirmation of your performance!"

After finishing speaking, Lin Fangdian said to Wu Zhenyu again: "Director Wu, you are so interesting, I misunderstood you before, I'm really sorry!"

"Hehe, I'm not looking at your face, I think Tang Lin can play this role well," Wu Zhenyu shook his head with a smile, and did not accept Lin Fangdian's apology.

"I know, I know, it's Tang Lin's play, and it has nothing to do with me. Lin Fangdian grinned.

Tang Yan stood aside, looking at Tang Lin with a happy face, his big eyes flashing, but he didn't speak.

Wu Zhenyu said: "It's time to talk about the salary." What do you want? I can get it from the producer. ”

Tang Lin hurriedly said: "I'm just a newcomer, I can get the role of Fan Xing has already earned, can I still ask for it? ”

"I'm relieved if you say that, so I can discuss it with the producer," Wu Zhenyu felt that Tang Lin knew how to measure things very well, and couldn't help but appreciate Tang Lin even more, and said, taking out a script, "You go back and read the script carefully, ponder the character's character, and there will be Fan Xing's play in two days." ”

Tang Lin took the script and said, "Director Wu, don't worry, I'll go back to study the script now." ”

After speaking, everyone didn't talk about other issues, and Tang Lin left with Lin Fangdian and Tang Yan.

Out of Wu Zhenyu's room, Lin Fangdian shouted excitedly: "Happy today, let's go out to drink and celebrate." ”

Tang Yan glanced at Lin Fangdian and said, "I know that when I drink, Brother Li still has to study the script." ”

Lin Fangdian patted his head and said, "Yes, I'm happy to see that I'm patronizing, Tang Yan thinks better than me." Drink the wine later. Tang Lin, you must take advantage of this opportunity, go all out to study the script in the past few days, and shock them when the time comes. ”

Tang Lin smiled and nodded, and said, "Don't worry, I won't let you down." ”

After finishing speaking, they also left, Tang Lin now wants to go back to study the script, they can't give Tang Lin any advice from the past, everyone has their own way of studying the script, it's not that more people can easily digest their own task roles, so they chose their own places to live and then study their own roles.

Besides, Tang Lin returned to his room, took out the script, and began to seriously study the role of Fan Xing.

After reading the script seriously, Tang Lin has a general understanding of the character of Fan Xing, Fan Xing's character has several characteristics, first of all, he understands the righteousness and takes into account the overall situation, although after making a major contribution in exchange for accusations and misunderstandings, Fan Xing did not make a big noise, but would rather be wronged in exchange for the stability of the country. The second is to have a strategy, which can be seen from his two suggestions to save Datang. The third is that he is not afraid of power, and it is mentioned in the script that Fan Xing beat his superiors when he was young and was sentenced for this. The fourth is the commoner origin, so that in language and action must have the characteristics of a commoner, to be simple, not too elegant, not as gorgeous and fancy as the aristocracy.

And the core of Fan Xing's character is embodied in the word "forbearance", enduring humiliation and burden, obviously he designed to deceive Jieli to relieve the siege of Chang'an, and he took the initiative to let Suizhou out of order to avoid the Tang Dynasty rescue force being surrounded and eliminated by the Turks, and these two times were not understood by the world, but were labeled as traitors to glory and betrayal. In the face of such grievances and misunderstandings, Fan Xing chose to take into account the overall situation, endure humiliation, seek satisfaction with grievances, take the initiative to ask for punishment, sacrifice himself, and fulfill the country. This is the most shining highlight of Fan Xing.

After some analysis, Tang Lin had a clear understanding of Fan Xing's character. Although Fan Xing is a tragic person, he cannot be portrayed as a character with a sad face and sad heart, and move the audience by coaxing the audience's tears, but to portray Fan Xing as a heroic man who stands up to the sky.

In the evening, Tang Lin came to Wu Zhenyu's room again and said to Wu Zhenyu: "Director Wu, I want to talk to you about my understanding of Fan Xing's role. ”

Wu Zhenyu looked at Tang Lin with interest and said, "Oh, do you have an idea so soon?" Okay, I just don't have anything urgent, you can talk about it." ”

"Okay, I went back and studied the script carefully, but it's just a little idea, and I don't know if it's right or not, if there is something wrong, I hope Director Wu can correct it," Tang Lin nodded, not too pretentious, he came here mainly to ask Wu Zhenyu for advice.

"It's okay, be bold and say it, let's study it together," Wu Zhenyu nodded with a smile, for Tang Lin, he felt that it was worth spending a little time, and his ability gave him this right.

Soon, Tang Lin talked about his analysis and setting of the character. Then he said: "There is another point that I haven't thought about, that is, Fan Xing's attitude towards Li Shimin, is it a humble and down-to-top attitude, or a relatively equal and friendly attitude?"

"I look at it this way, we must show respect and obedience in words and actions, Li Shimin is the emperor after all, but we must be equal in momentum, otherwise the image of Fan Xing sacrificing his life for the country will not be established," Wu Zhenyu thought for a while and said to Tang Lin.

"Okay, I understand," Tang Lin nodded, he had thought so before, but after all, ancient times were different from modern times, and he wasn't sure if this attitude was suitable for showing in the play.

Wu Zhenyu continued at this time: "You are basically right about Fan Xing's character setting, and I agree to it." It should be noted that although Fan Xing is a tragic character, Fan Xing should not be played too pessimistic, and the tragedy should give people strength, so that the audience can be moved more. There is also the need to perform spirit, Fan Xing is a military general, and he is in the prime of life, so he has to find this feeling. ”

got Wu Zhenyu's affirmation, Tang Lin was very happy in his heart, and he was more confident in playing Fan Xing, all along, Tang Lin did not have much confidence in the analysis of the character and the grasp of the character, he knew that his current strengths were all in the performance technique, such as performing grief, immediately grief-stricken, happy performance, and immediately able to smile, but specific to a character, a scene, whether to make the character cry or laugh, how to laugh, to what extent, this is not what acting skills can help, you need to understand the character.

After all, Tang Lin himself is just a young man who has just left school and is not very experienced in society, although he has absorbed a lot of life experience from the devoured memory, but after all, he has not experienced it personally, and he does not feel it deeply, and there are still some deficiencies in the grasp of the character and the analysis of the role.

However, what Tang Lin didn't know was that Wu Zhenyu was very satisfied with his performance just now, and from Tang Lin's speech just now, he could see that Tang Lin had worked the characters.

Now the main actors in the play, such as Tang Guo, Sun Feihu, and Cao Peichang, are all older, and the heaviness of the historical drama itself makes this drama a little heavier and less changing, which is also another reason for choosing Tang Lin.

Two days later, Fan Xing's drama was about to start filming, Lin Fangdian, Tang Yan and a few friends who didn't play all came to the filming site early to help Tang Lin, and similarly, those group actors were also on the scene, after knowing that Tang Lin was going to play a supporting role, these people were envious, jealous and hateful, and they all wanted to see Tang Lin make a fool of themselves today.

This scene was filmed in which Fan Xing deliberately lost the Suizhou warning, which made the Hu people's conspiracy to besiege the city and send reinforcements to fail, and he had no choice but to leave. Fan Xing once again saved the fate of the Tang Dynasty, but because of the loss of the city, he knelt down and beheaded the Hu people according to the law.

Li Shimin learned the truth of the matter, and he was very reluctant to Fan Xing, so he went to the prison to visit Fan Xing, so this is a scene where Li Shimin visits Fan Xing in prison, and it is also the last scene of Fan Xing's life, and it is the most important part of shaping the characteristics of Fan Xing's mission.