(1) In 2016, Wang Zhiwen and Xu Fan met in "A Tree of Peach Blossoms".
(2) Wang Tianwang, played by Wang Zhiwen in "One Step Away", is a special character, a combination of drama celebrities, liars and conspirators.
(3) In "Heavenly Dao", Wang Zhiwen and Zuo Xiaoqing cooperated to create Ding Yuanying, an absolutely ideal type of legendary figure, and Wang Zhiwen stepped on the charm boundary of the character with excellent line skills.
(4) Gu Shenyan, played by Wang Zhiwen in "Rebels", seems to be greasy and sleek, but he is actually an elite agent "postman" arranged by our party inside the enemy. This role is always heavy and double-sided, walking on thin ice in the Tiger's Den Dragon Pond, and Wang Zhiwen's superb performance makes this role the core driving force for the audience to chase the drama.
(5) Wang Zhiwen's turnaround work is 2001's "Black Ice", which is an unconventional TV series with the villain as the absolute center, Guo Xiaopeng, played by Wang Zhiwen, has been given a unique charm, the confidence of a mature man, a high degree of control, and a calm bad mood, combining Guo Xiaopeng, the villain protagonist who is difficult to reproduce in the TV series.
When "Rebel" was broadcast, not only the traffic star Zhu Yilong was on the hot search, but also the 55-year-old mother's lover Wang Zhiwen, who played Gu Shenyan combing a lewd middle-point traitor head, which seemed greasy and sleek, but was actually an elite agent "postman" arranged by our party inside the enemy. This character, Lao Cheng, is a double-faced exquisite person who walks on thin ice in the Tiger's Den Dragon Pond, during which he accidentally discovers Lin Nansheng's jade, becomes his life mentor and guides him to the light.
In the play, Gu Shenyan is the key figure in plotting against Lin Nansheng, and Wang Zhiwen's superb performance makes this role the core driving force for the audience to chase the drama. As Gu Shenyan went offline in episode 34, netizens mourned in unison and lamented that the soul role was gone - Wang Zhiwen's eye bags could soar. Wang Zhiwen is indeed old, and even his appearance is far beyond his actual age, but his core charm has not changed.
As a golden drama bone, Wang Zhiwen is often compared with Jiang Wen, Ge You, Pu Cunxin, Tang Guoqiang, Chen Baoguo, Chen Daoming, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian, Liu Peiqi, Zhang Guoguo and others, in terms of acting skills alone, Wang Zhiwen can naturally compete with the above- and above-mentioned people; but in terms of image, Wang Zhiwen has suffered slight losses, and the number of "big male protagonist" roles he has played so far is also very few. Even so, Wang Zhiwen can still occupy a place in the era of giants, that is, relying on his ultimate charm: super-first-class line skills and the ability to see through the hearts of the characters.
The heart is like boiling oil and boiling water, and the dough is still full of laughter
After "offline" in "Rebel", netizens began to follow Wang Zhiwen's trail and trace his past film and television classics. In terms of espionage warfare alone, "Rebel" is enough to occupy a place in the era, but in terms of quality and historical reputation, it is neither as good as "Latent" and "Kite", nor as much as "Tracking Without Regrets" directed by Yin Li in 1995; the latter is known as the No.1 of domestic historical spy dramas, not relying on the precision involved in the spy battle bridge, but relying on the fighting method between Wang Zhiwen and Liu Peiqi. Compared with Liu Peiqi's one-line personality of the new Chinese policeman, Feng Jingbo, played by Wang Zhiwen, is a Kuomintang spy with a turbulent heart and a calm appearance, and he has a unique achievement in shaping such a complex character, which can be called "calm bad mood".
Therefore, without Feng Jingbo, it is difficult to have a prudent statement, and the latter is only a negative mirror image of the former, only in different beliefs. But between Feng Jingbo and Gu Shenyan, there is another image that can be called a succession, that is, Wang Tianxiang in the movie "The Sound of the Wind". "The Sound of the Wind" has so far been regarded as the pinnacle of Chinese spy movies, huayi's stars have collectively moved out and dedicated their best performances (even Huang Xiaoming); Wang Tianxiang, played by Wang Zhiwen, is both a supporting role and a puppet army secret agent who does not smile, but also a key figure in the plot. In the film, Wang Zhiwen shows a person's cunning, viciousness, wit and sleekness, and is the actual perpetrator of all torture, but his actual identity is still so secret that fans continue to make up their minds with reference to the TV version of "The Sound of the Wind", and even speculate that he may be a spy installed by our party.
Regardless of whether these speculations belong to the truth conceived by the Mai family, we need to see Wang Zhiwen's cultivation on this complex human setting, netizens while emphasizing the wonderful performances of the main actors, while ridiculing Wang Zhiwen in the film to hang all the leading actors of Huayi, with the intention of giving him the highest praise.
In terms of acting skills alone, it is indeed unfair to compare Wang Zhiwen with Li Bingbing, Zhou Xun, Huang Xiaoming, Su Youpeng and other descendants; but if we turn the time pointer back ten years, we can witness the peak showdown of the contemporary giants in "Jing Ke Thorn Qin King". In this historical masterpiece directed by Chen Kaige, Zhang Fengyi plays Jing Ke, Li Xuejian plays Yingzheng, and Wang Zhiwen can only get the role of Concubine Yi, who is buried in the palace as Zhao Ji's concubine, and indeed has a hint of espionage, which is more complicated in human nature. In Wang Zhiwen's interpretation, this role seems to be obedient but is actually arrogant, and the heart and appearance belong to two skins, close to the model of neuroticism, and eventually rebel and win the government and meet each other.
As it turns out, Yan Yi left the deepest impression on the audience, not only because Wang Zhiwen is best suited for this Shakespearean performance and whiteness, but also because of his performance and reaction in some critical situations. The most wonderful scene in "Jing Ke Thorn King of Qin" is when Ying Zheng forces Yan Yi to a wooden bridge with a fourteen-meter palace wall to create a highly oppressive panic punishment. Heavy snow fell the day before filming began, and the towering wooden bridge more than one person wide melted into the ice ballast, so that filming seemed impossible. However, the next day, Wang Zhiwen asked Miao to go into battle, stood on the high-altitude wooden bridge for seven or eight hours, and actually finished shooting as time, and finally he staggered across the wooden bridge, not only allowing the characters to escape the difficulties of Yingzheng, but also leaving himself with the reputation of fighting for his life.
Although the role is limited, Wang Zhiwen's Concubine Yi is not inferior to Zhang Fengyi's Jing Ke and Li Xuejian's Yingzheng, and his ability to meet strong and strong makes him very suitable for intervening in the dramatic situation where giants gather and are full of tension. In addition to "Jing Ke Thorn Qin Wang", his cooperation with Jiang Wen and Ge You's "One Step Away" is also an example, although Wang Tianwang in "One Step Away" is a special role, but also a collection of drama stars, liars and conspirators in one, his appearance aggravated the demise of Ma Zhaori, and he performed on the stage "Shooting Ma Away Day" A section of the same glorious, "Finish the face, president, change ah changed heart ..." The adapted "Tianya Song Girl" and the adapted "Yan Ruisheng" were stirred up and became classic passages of complex textualization in the play.
Thin and weak literati, too addicted to death
Compared with today's glory, Wang Zhiwen's early years were not easy. In 1966, Wang Zhiwen was born in Shanghai in an ordinary worker family, his father died prematurely due to an accident, although he was bent on entering the Beijing Film Academy, he suffered a car accident and fractured before taking the culture class, and finally was carried into the examination room on a stretcher after many negotiations, and luckily "lay down" to pass the examination.
At that time, he was 179 tall, weighed 100 pounds, was a young man with a small voice, and his thin figure was contrary to the aesthetics of the time, and was generally considered to be useless. After all, Wang Zhiwen can neither rely on the hard school students, nor can he rely on the cream students, and the way of interpretation is disliked by the hard school, so that he was dismissed by the crew halfway and left historical black materials such as "Secret Interview". Wang Zhiwen also tried to get closer to the thin literati figures such as Liu Yazi and Ai Wu, but in fact they were not successful. But there is no invincible road, at this time, the young director who is in the limelight, Zhao Baogang, who has just completed "Longing" and "The Story of the Editorial Department", picked Wang Zhiwen to play "Imperial City Roots".
It should be said that "Imperial City Roots" is an old Beijing drama, and Wang Zhiwen is not the protagonist, but the role of Wang Xi makes people witness his accurate grasp of the image of modern urban angry youth. In this way, he became a young man of Wang Shuo's style, developing in parallel with the stubborn lords of Mijiashan in laughter and anger, making cameo appearances in "I Love My Home" and "Seahorse Dance Hall", and the role of dialect in "Addiction" was none other than him. In 1993, Wang Zhiwen's era finally came, and his and Jiang Shan's ditches and bumps, grievances, and stumbles finally transformed the people of the whole country from a hundred steels to a soft finger. Wang Zhiwen instantly reached the top and became a traffic star, and his popularity was not much more than that of the contemporary top stream.
The dialect played by Wang Zhiwen has both the melancholy and taciturn of a generation, the literary temperament of a bookish student, the more angry and youthful physique, and there is no lack of warm male feelings. These personality combinations that conform to the pulse of the times finally flowed clearly to Wang Zhiwen's body, giving him charm, and the beautiful, kind and temperamental Du Mei, that is, Jiang Shan in reality, was considered to be the best partner for a man like him. When the national CP became famous, everyone thought about all kinds of grooming, thinking that they should fall in love and get married as husband and wife.
During that time, the MV of "Confused Love" was played on TV every day, which was a wonderful duet between Wang Zhiwen and Jiang Shan, and Wang Zhiwen walked the cave to perform, and also laid the foundation in the music industry. In fact, Wang Zhiwen's singing skills are indeed average, far from professional singers, but 1994's "Confused Love" and 1995's "Want to Say Love You're Not Easy" both created the largest number of tape distributions in China that year. Wang Zhiwen's success has made many musicians red-eyed, and his role has become a portrayal of his state at this time, so that the sixth generation of Lou Ye asked him to play "Weekend Lover", and the role was also a rock youth.
Wang Zhiwen's amphibious development of the drama world and song world is Zhao Baogang paving the way, and his and Jiang Shan's screen CP has almost become a product that the domestic film and television industry needs to review regularly. From 1993's "Addiction" to 2001's "Let Love Be the Master", and then to 2011's "Man to Forty", the two played a couple in the age of 20, 30 and 40, almost becoming a myth.
Wang Zhiwen and Jiang Shan cooperated seven times, which is the most tacit understanding; followed by Xu Qing, who has cooperated as many as five times. Even in terms of career, Xu Qing was Wang Zhiwen's original partner, the cooperation began in 1990's "Journey to the South", and he was once a boyfriend and girlfriend who were officially dragged, but the final ending was the sunrise in the east and the rain in the west - they broke up and were still friends, and reunited in "DA Division" in 2002. Xu Fan is the same, the short teacher-student relationship and the dog blood rumors of the breakup at that time did not damage their relationship, and the two met in "A Tree of Peach Blossoms" in 2016, proving that this man who loves "addiction" will not trigger the ultimate hatred of the women around him.
The light that flowed out of the eyes, everything was different
Many of Wang Zhiwen's roles are love field saints, which can be seen from the beginning of "Addiction", and it is no exception when he starred in "Beijing Meets Seattle 2: No Two Love Letters" when he was old. However, in the 1990s, Wang Zhiwen was still labeled as an urban angry youth and a thin literati, so that the performances in "No Regret Tracking" and "Red Pink" did not have the improvement of charm value although they had improved their acting skills.
This rebirth began at the turn of the century, when the nearly 35-year-old Wang Zhiwen opened an introspective performance mode, in his own words, not acting, but "to feel". In 1999, Zhang Jiandong invited him to star in Xiao Wen in "The True Colors of Criminal Police", and his performance greatly shocked Zhang Jiandong: "You can notice the light flowing from his eyes, everything is different."
This change means two things: the first is that Wang Zhiwen bid farewell to youth into middle age, after all, his length is older than his actual age; the second is that Wang Zhiwen bid farewell to idolized performances, natural performances, and inertial malnutrition. Since then, Wang Zhiwen has obtained a metaphysical thing, or his own "secret book", and can finally compete with Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian, Ge You, Jiang Wen and others in acting skills. From 1999 to 2005, Wang Zhiwen acted in 10 films, half of which were cooperated with the fifth generation of directors Chen Kaige and Huang Jianxin, the number was naturally enough, but there was no obvious breakthrough in the status of the film industry, and even because of the public opinion incident of "Fanny's Smile", the producer sued the court.
But on the other hand, Wang Zhiwen's own charm value has been formed, and he has written a new chapter in the field of TV dramas that he is better at. His turnaround work is 2001's "Black Ice", which is an unconventional TV series with villains as the absolute center, and Guo Xiaopeng, played by Wang Zhiwen, has been given a unique charm, he is the boss of the pharmaceutical group and a big drug lord; he is a highly educated business elite, but also a pervert who has a distorted personality due to his childhood experience. He circled between the two women, and the true feelings and false intentions were ignored for the time being, but they fundamentally captured their souls.
According to Wang Zhiwen, the deduction of Guo Xiaopeng is not that he moves closer to the character, but tries to incorporate Guo Xiaopeng into his world, and this introspective character shaping makes Guo Xiaopeng, the evil person, also look glorious. You can say that this was conceived according to the godfather's thinking, or basically built in a positive way, but it is divorced from Wang Zhiwen's realistic performance, and the conception is just a kind of castle in the air. The charm of the characters of "Black Ice" lies not only in Wang Zhiwen's handsome appearance in middle age, but also in an inexplicable male self-confidence in his bones, his eyes have the ability to perceive human nature, can easily see through the puzzle, and can easily see through the woman's heart.
From this point of view, Wang Zhiwen's acting skills should complement this charm, and the confidence of a mature man, a high degree of control, and a calm bad mood combine Guo Xiaopeng, the villain protagonist who is difficult to reproduce in the TV series. The dialogue between Guo Xiaopeng and Liu Mei in the play, the passage where the pen was arrested and thrown, and the 11-minute dialogue at the end of the film have all become the brilliant moments of his screen career.
But Guo Xiaopeng has always been a villain, and Wang Zhiwen wants to go further and needs an absolute image of a positive road upwards. At this time, the "Heavenly Dao" should come from time to time, which can be called a metaphysical miracle. "Heavenly Dao" is adapted from the novel "Distant Savior" by writer Doudou, and there is a high person behind the original work, shaping Ding Yuanying, an absolutely ideal legendary figure, and in the process of film and television adaptation, this role seems to be none other than Wang Zhiwen. After all, Ding Yuanying is a business wizard, but also insightful of the times, carefully analyzing policies, culture, and human nature, and can talk about religious Buddhism into chapters, to put it bluntly, it is not grounded, not to speak human language.
Although such a role is very Mary Sue, no matter who plays it, it will have a high probability of failure, and Wang Zhiwen is simply in the hands of victory. In the play, Wutai Mountain discusses the Tao, which is the peak of philosophy and a model of fabrication, Ding Yuanying stepped on the threshold of enlightenment, entering the pure land, retreating into the mortal dust; Wang Zhiwen stepped on the charm boundary of the character in parallel with it, entering the demon is not human, retreating is too much. Wang Zhiwen's precise grasp of the role lies in firmly stepping on a traceless boundary, not advancing or retreating, and finally cultivating the right results.
Another thing that allows him to control the role of Ding Yuanying is his excellent line skills. Wutaishan's discourse, the philosophy of raising children and preventing the elderly, the interpretation of cultural attributes, and the structure of political life, these long-winded passages need a master of discourse, and looking through the discourse film world, Wang Zhiwen is really a master in this regard.
His plays can be heard with his ears
Wang Jinsong, who is almost the same age as Wang Zhiwen but has become a late bloomer, is one of Wang Zhiwen's fans. He once mentioned in an interview: "Teacher Wang Zhiwen's plays can be listened to with the ear, his movements, his behavior, his rhythm, I think it is the best line I have heard among the male actors."
Zhao Baogang made "Never Look Away" in 1998, which was specially pulled Wang Zhiwen to serve as a narrator, because he knew the absolute strength of his old friend, and the subsequent "Black Ice", "Dragon and Tiger Life" and "Razor's Edge" also followed suit, and CCTV's "Universal 45" even invited him to be the host, which proved that Wang Zhiwen's narration represented a kind of industry height. Lines are definitely Wang Zhiwen's unique weapon, his earliest profession is to serve as a line teacher in Chinese drama, in a few decades, he has long left the teaching position and joined the show business, but the ability to speak has become more and more its golden signboard.
Wang Zhiwen's characteristics are that his voice is loose, the rhythm is slow, the tone rises like a smooth curve, and he plays with sound anytime and anywhere, which has largely helped him successfully shape various vivid images, that is, the so-called vocal unity - this is not a simple technique, but fundamentally an inner projection.
Because of this, the screenwriter will also fit his endowment when writing lines, and arrange some long speeches of more than five minutes from time to time, such as "No Regret Tracking", "Black Ice", "Heavenly Road", and "Mobile Phone", which can be called a character exclusive. Today, when TV dramas are getting more and more ducks on the shelves and the lines are getting more and more than two lines, actors like Wang Zhiwen have become a treasure in the world.
Of course, Wang Zhiwen does not speak like Chen Baoguo and others, but a natural charm that is almost demagogic, and for the women in the play, these lines are similar to PUA artifacts; for his own characters, the lines are similar to a deep attribute - Wang Zhiwen's character is "more intelligent and close to the demon" The saying is derived from this, because the lines are clever and well controlled, and the characters are immortal.
The same is true in "Rebel", Wang Zhiwen now looks old and his eyes have become bigger, and the charm of his thirties and forties has never returned, but the charm of his lines has not changed at all. His eye bags began to soar, and the glow of his eyes and the familiar recipe of lines were still supporting the peak of his career. To paraphrase a sentence in "Heavenly Dao", this is Wang Zhiwen's "cultural attribute", in the current film and television drama, Wang Zhiwen is the immortal secret of strong culture, in contrast, many people are just popular products of weak culture.
(The author is Ph.D. in Film Studies, Associate Professor of Southwest University of Political Science and Law)
Source: Wen Wei Po