What kind of experience did bilibili have when he watched Duan Long and Hao Lei’s Rhinoceros in Love？

Text |No.7 (No.Si film and television research group)

"Dusk is the worst time of my day. At first glance, the streets are full of beautiful women, and the tall buildings and streets have changed their usual shapes, like in movies … … You stood at the corner of the stairs, with a certain fragrance, a little wet and strange smell, and only when you passed by did you understand that you were crying. " Duan Long said one-way, sitting in front of him is a red dress, blindfolded Hao Lei.

On October 22nd, the 2003 version of the drama Rhinoceros in Love, starring Duan Long and Hao Lei, was launched in bilibili, and was released by director Meng Jinghui himself. This is the official specially-made restored version with the highest definition in the whole network.

The netizen who was hurt by the Fog in the Octagonal Pavilion turned to see that the Rhinoceros in Love was cured. "The youthful, passionate, impulsive and desperate love between two young people from the inside out is really beautiful."

2003year

Duan Long is also called Duan Long, and Hao Lei sings very well.

Guo Tao, wuyue, Duan Long, Hao Lei, Duan Long, Wang Ning, Zhang Nianhua, Qi Xi, Zhang Nianhua, Hao Lei, Liu Chang, Huang Xiangli, Liu Chang, Liu Runxuan, Xiao Dingchen, Mao Xuewen, Shan Ruo, Wang Ying … … Rhinoceros in Love has been staged for 22 years. So far, it has released 9 versions and performed more than 2,500 performances, covering more than 10 countries and regions.

The 2003 edition of Rhinoceros in Love, starring Duan Long and Hao Lei, is regarded as a classic among the classics. Bilibili’s video was released by Meng Jinghui himself. Although the picture quality is rough and grainy, the stage is dim and the sound is flawed, it does not affect the audience’s immersion in this story of 1 hour and 48 minutes.

Screenshot of the 2003 edition of Rhino in Love.

The performances of the two leading actors were impeccable. Duan Long was also called Duan Long at that time. He created the most paranoid road, and presented the obstinacy and loneliness that belonged to the road to the audience with a very sharp, powerful and angular performance.

There is a kind of determination and madness in Hao Lei’s play, which endows the character with powerful and forward-looking power. Screenwriter Liao Yimei commented that this energy is particularly like "rhinoceros". "It is the feeling that energy, desire and hormones in the body can’t be controlled, and all attempts to the world have to be ejected from the body."

By the way, there are Li Naiwen and Wang Longzheng in this edition. Even if they are not the protagonists, they can be recognized at a glance with their highly recognizable shapes and sounds.

The second from left and the third from left are Wang Longzheng and Li Naiwen.

After a lapse of 18 years, when netizens saw Rhinoceros in Love by video, Duan Long’s figure and Hao Lei’s singing became the out-of-circle password.

For the first time, the road read the poem he wrote to Mingming. Mingming grabbed the shirt off the road and squatted in front of him, writing the poem on the road’s chest with lipstick. Hao Lei and Duan Long’s rather seductive performance spread to Weibo, arousing exclamations. Everyone’s focus is on Duan Long’s figure. "Is this something you can see for free?" "The end of the inner entertainment hormone is the old segment."

Hao Lei wrote poems on Duan Long’s chest with lipstick.

Some viewers who have seen other live versions commented, "This version of Duan Long and Hao Lei feels different, which may be related to the fact that their sexual tension can be integrated into their feelings, and there is an irresistible primitive desire." Netizens who haven’t seen the live version can also feel a powerful force: "The vitality and sexual tension shown by actors intentionally or unintentionally are already rare at the moment."

Another famous scene was Hao Lei singing Oxygen. She sings brilliantly, dispiritedly and intensely, and her unique voice is particularly amazing. Until now, this song is still played as an episode in the performance of Rhinoceros in Love.

"Hao Lei sings so beautifully" rushed to the hot search. She hasn’t sung for a long time, but she is actually a "treasure singer". In 2010 and 2011, respectively, EP Langzhong and the album Sadness about TA were released, and there were voices in film and television works such as The Summer Palace and When Love Is Past.

As early as 2019, Erdi, a well-known music critic, shared Hao Lei’s live version of Oxygen in Weibo, and listed Yolanda and Hao Lei as the first-class "aura" in the list of "China Mainland Actresses’ Singing Rankings". Erdi’s evaluation is: "At this level, professional singers can hardly replace it. It’s not how advanced the technology is, but its personality, aura and temperament have greatly penetrated into the singing."

22Years old

Why do we still miss Rhinoceros in Love?

"In those days, Hao Lei was bright and smart, wearing a red dress and creaking on high heels, and she stepped into my heart; Duan Long is young, awkward and sexy. After reading it, he just wants to turn into the cigarette in his hand. The lines and music are so good that they are avant-garde enough and have great impact. They have been touched again and again after reading the script. " Just like an audience in bilibili, Rhinoceros in Love reproduces classic scenes and monologues again and again, but it always hits people’s hearts.

In fact, Rhinoceros in Love is just a simple love story: a young rhinoceros keeper falls in love with his female neighbor Mingming, but Mingming doesn’t love him. The road firmly believes that it is obviously his, which makes the road fall into a desperate situation. After a long entanglement, the love on the road was finally hopeless, so he kidnapped Mingming and personally killed his favorite rhinoceros.

Born in 1999, this "avant-garde drama" was directed by Meng Jinghui and written by Liao Yimei. This is the first drama that the couple cooperated with, and it was awarded as the flagship work of China drama and the leading work of avant-garde drama with its brand-new narrative style, performance mode and stage design. More people regard it as a "Chinese love bible", and poetic lines directly hit the hearts of young artists. It is no exaggeration to say that half of the love stories on the Internet come from it.

You are my warm gloves, cold beer and shirt with sunshine, which is my dream day after day.

Compared with you, all white things have become black ink and feel ashamed. All ignorant birds and animals are desperate because they can’t say your name.

One day I saw you, and I felt that you were as lonely as me. I suddenly felt that I had found something to do, and I could make you happy.

Emotion is a candle, which gives you light and goes out when the wind blows; Feelings are birds that decorate the scenery and fly away as soon as the weather changes; Feelings are flowers, fresh and moving, and wither after May; Feelings are rainbows, how colorful and gorgeous they are. It’s an instant scam, and the sun will evaporate as soon as it dries. How perfect the feelings are, but fragile.

It is noted that in Duan Long’s and Hao Lei’s versions of Rhinoceros in Love, "Strong lines" is the most frequently brushed comment on the barrage. Duan Long’s timbre is clear and his breath is rich. He designed a small, tearful ending for most lines, giving people a very humble and even fawning feeling. And Hao Lei’s voice and posture are proud, and she vividly interprets Yao Ming’s unbridled and condescending love. The literary lines of large paragraphs match the actors’ unique body movements, which complement the emotional expression of the whole play.

At present, the performance plan of Rhinoceros in Love has been scheduled for January next year, and many performances will be performed in Beijing, Qingdao, Changsha and Hangzhou from November. Twenty-two years later, why do we still love Rhinoceros in Love? Meng Jinghui Studio once answered this question: Because that kind of paranoid, simple, straightforward, violent, mixed with taste, almost intuitive love is really rare in the present era.

Post-pandemic era

Will online drama become a popular trend?

Rhinoceros in Love was launched in bilibili, which attracted many netizens who watched the drama for the first time. Someone left a message saying, "I was completely fascinated." A small number of controversial voices came from drama fans: "Drama is a kind of theater art, and the video version and the theater version are totally different. Live version > video version > drama script. Even the third-rate actors’ remake of the theatrical version of Rhinoceros in Love is better than the video version of Duan Long Hao Lei. In the space of the theater, the lighting, the beauty of the dance, the live reaction of the audience, and the small mistakes of the actors are all part of the’ drama’. "

In fact, it has always been controversial to put the drama on the screen. In 2014, Hunan Satellite TV launched the drama reality show "Star Drama Club", presenting 12 dramas created by the National Theatre, Mahua FunAge, Shanghai Drama Center He Nian Studio and other troupes on TV. At that time, director Tian Qinxin screened Romeo and Juliet on tour, and it was badly watched by Waterloo.

Romeo and Juliet starring Li Guangjie and Yin Tao

For TV viewers, after the original drama was greatly deleted, the impression brought by the incoherent plot was not good; In the eyes of drama fans, exaggerated stage expression, direct lines, humorous and ironic stories and other beautiful drama forms are greatly reduced because of a screen.

However, in recent years, the "limitations" of drama have been dissolved by TV and online media, and there have been new expressions. In Douban’s 9.3-point variety "A Good Book", every classic book has been carefully adapted into a drama; Acting competitive variety shows such as "I am an actor" also present the actor’s basic skills in a performance form close to drama; The new life of drama, which was broadcast in January this year, provided the audience with an opportunity to "get in touch with the theater for the first time" and a way to understand the behind-the-scenes stories of the dramatists.

During the epidemic, BBC produced a mini-drama "Stage Play" with epidemic characteristics. The whole drama consists of 6 episodes, each of which lasts for 15 minutes. During the epidemic, an upcoming stage play was forced to stop, and the actors used multi-person video to meet, discuss and rehearse online, so as to complete the rehearsal of the stage play as much as possible. Such a novel plot and creativity close to the hot spots of the times made the play get a high score of 9.3. The production and filming of this drama also provided reference for the development of literature and art during the global epidemic.

In the "post-epidemic era", will live screening and online drama be used as alternatives and become the future development trend? This is a hot topic in Wuzhen Drama Festival, which ended not long ago.

This year, Wuzhen Drama has newly launched the "Lake-Surrounding Theater", and eight masterpieces from six major drama festivals (art festivals), such as Edinburgh Art Festival, Berlin Drama Festival and avignon Drama Festival, have been shown live. In addition, the drama festival also opened a new form of "online live broadcast".

"The biggest feature of drama is the connection between the actors and the audience. This kind of atmosphere can’t be achieved by watching on the big screen or online. However, the recurrence of the epidemic has made it impossible for the audience to go to the theater to watch the drama as they used to. " Naizhu Ding, the general planner of Wuzhen Drama Festival, believes that the epidemic situation has given the whole industry a chance to self-examine. Whether the future drama can create a brand-new model that is neither a theater nor a movie and turn the crisis into vitality is worth exploring by all dramatists.

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