Author | Li Qingli
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Dapeng left the northeast because of a scam.
In 2002, Dapeng was a junior at Jilin Jianzhu University. When he was in school, his grades were very good, and when the best real estate company in Changchun wanted to sign him, he did not agree. The 20-year-old Dapeng thought about making music all his heart.
Dapeng's mother was an actor in the provincial drama troupe, and after leaving the troupe, the couple first opened a small restaurant called "Zhen different Hotel", which was later changed to a small dance hall. There are a number of musical instruments in the dance hall, and when I go to school, every winter and summer vacation, Dapeng will practice the piano in a bright and honest manner.
There was a performance at the school in the first year of junior high school, and Dapeng and two good friends were ready to set up a temporary group. The three of them went to the stall next to the school to select the "target combination".
Among the candidates are the Tigers, the Los Angeles Three Brothers, the Grasshoppers and Beyond after Huang Jiaju's departure. The Tigers were defeated because their appearance was too outstanding, and the three finally chose Beyond.
"If I had chosen the Tigers at that time, I might have become a singer and dancer."
The three of them went home holding the tape and listened to it over and over again, until many years later, Beyond was still irreplaceable in Dapeng's heart.
In 2003, the students basically found a "serious" unit, Dapeng followed the advice of a QQ netizen, and went to a record company in Beijing to introduce himself. The office was in an old residential building near Sihui in Beijing, and Dapeng listened to the songs he had written for the record company, which gave them high praise.
"I was very happy." Dapeng recalled, "However, he said that we only package singers at our own expense, and if you want to become a signed singer, you have to pay us 270,000." "Dapeng can't come up with money, so he can only go back to his hometown to beg his parents." I told them at the time that my dream is 270,000 yuan short, and whether it can be realized depends on how hard the family makes. ”
His mother's answer was very direct, telling him that he couldn't get so much out of smashing pots and selling iron, but in the end he borrowed 38,000 yuan everywhere, and said to him, "Just this little money, you don't care about me, what dreams you have in the future has nothing to do with me, what do you love to do with this money, you can't achieve it, don't complain about me." At this point, Dapeng was holding his legs on the couch, and the red woolen socks tucked in the outside of his pants were exposed.
With only 38,000 yuan, Dapeng returned to Beijing and said to the boss of the company: "Let's discuss, 270,000 minus 38,000, the rest are counted as I owe you, can you let me sign the contract first?" The boss took Dapeng's suggestion, collected 38,000 yuan, and signed the contract. The contract reads, "There can be no breach of contract within 5 years, otherwise the company will be compensated 5 million yuan." ”
In the face of the 5 million liquidated damages, Dapeng was still a little happy, thinking, "The company still attaches great importance to me, it turns out that I am so valuable." ”
The time is approaching graduation, and Dapeng has not yet been "packaged" by the company. As a signed singer, the company must have a lot of plans for him, so he helped the company find various reasons in his heart, unwilling to believe that the company ran away so quietly. Could it be that he is running badly and encountering difficulties, or that he has not been informed of the move?
"It should have been moving without notifying me." Dapeng repeated.
Dapeng decided to come to Beijing to be on standby at any time, and he was afraid that if the company called one day, he would not be able to appear on time. For this phone call, Dapeng did not change his mobile phone number for many years after that.
Without travel expenses to Beijing, Dapeng was heartbroken and sold his electric guitar.
For a long time, the red electric guitar accompanied Dapeng to sing in a bar in Changchun. He described the place as smelling of beer, especially to the northeast. He likes beyond, he loves bands, he loves rock, but the audience doesn't. The audience only likes Wu Bai, and Dapeng has been singing "Ronin Love Song" and "Norwegian Forest". For Dapeng, what to sing is not so important, but the old iron is important.
The new resident singer bought Dapeng's electric guitar, and Dapeng took 1500 yuan and left the northeast.
Just arrived in Beijing, can not afford to live in expensive places, Dapeng lived in a youth hostel near the front door of 50 yuan a night. Every day while waiting for the call of the record company, while submitting his resume on the Internet, he voted all the posts with the word "music" on the Internet, and finally entered Sohu as a music editor, 800 yuan a month.
In three or five years, Dapeng has moved to Wudaokou to share a room with someone, but he still has not waited for the record company to call, and he gradually accepts the fact that he has been deceived. The roommate is from the law department of Tsinghua University, Dapeng asked him if it was possible to get this money back from a lawsuit, and the roommate gave him a science popularization of the difficulty of recovering the money, and more importantly, the money spent may be far more than 38,000 yuan.
As he reminisced, Dapeng looked up at a high window in his office. "I sometimes wonder how those people would feel if they saw me on TV, on a movie screen right now?"
"When I first signed the contract, I thought it was a particularly energetic moment in my life, thinking that my life would be rewritten from now on." Until now, Dapeng still keeps a group photo of the signing of the contract.
The music dream was pressed to pause, and the road to work became smoother and smoother. In 2007, Dapeng began to host "Dapeng Bo Bar", "Di Si Men" as a unit drama in this show, a hit. In 2012, Dapeng made "Di Si Men" into a mini comedy with more than 100 stars in this drama. In 2012, when Internet video had not yet emerged, Dapeng keenly grasped this outlet, and "Di Si Men" became the hit of the year.
Influenced by Internet thinking for a long time, Dapeng knows how to catch the attention of the audience, and he summed up four words "simple and rude". There are a lot of clips in the play that now seem very nonsensical, but the audience was very happy to see it at the time.
"You now imagine a person standing by a wall, his whole body painted the same color as the wall, representing invisibility. I don't dare think about it now. Dapeng tilted his head and waved his hand, "When you think of this bridge section, a thought will pop up in your head to deny, saying: 'Is this the case in real life?'" How long it takes to put on this makeup, how much cost to consume, is unreasonable. So, when this thought comes out, the bridge section does not exist, but it is those bridge sections that make up "Di Si Men". ”
In 2013, Dapeng published an autobiography, "Laughing Out Loud on a Difficult Day", in which he said that he was a person who particularly needed a sense of existence, and the success of "Di Si Man" allowed him to find this existence. At the time, the signing of new books was held in a book building, and readers waiting for autographs lined up from the upper floors to the underground garage.
That year, Dapeng was 31 years old.
The "process" after everyone is red is similar, and for Dapeng, the controversy has never stopped at this moment. Some people like him, some people think he is low, some people say that he has done a comedy genre that has never been seen in China, and some people scold him for having no laugh point in his works and not understanding what he is talking about. But Dapeng can't think about these voices for the time being, because there are still people who want him to make "Di Si Men" into a movie.
Dapeng originally wanted to find a professional director and comedian to complete the film, but the other party insisted that he star. After a while, Dapeng thought, "Then I will simply write a story that belongs to Dapeng and play it myself, after all, no one but me can play Dapeng." ”
This story is the later "Pancake Man".
It took two years for Pancake Man to be released in 2015 and grossed more than $1.1 billion at the box office. In the 1910s, there were not many directors whose debut films could earn more than 1 billion at the box office.
Looking back at the first two works, Dapeng will always be in a trance, "I don't understand anything at that time, the rules of photography, the depth of field, the camera position, the performance scale... Now I understand, I understand it thoroughly, but those bridge sections no longer exist. He knew very well that his abilities were much higher than six years ago, but he might not be able to make a better "Dick Man" and "Pancake Man" than he did at that time.
"At that time, I didn't understand anything, so I just did it, and I gained and lost."
After "Pancake Man", Dapeng became more obviously red, and he began to frequently participate in various film festivals, and even appeared on the Spring Festival Gala. When making up and hair, wearing suits and shoes on the red carpet, Dapeng often sees the sides of the red carpet, and the reporters who once ran with him on the scene walked together.
Sometimes he wonders what these peers think of him. A few years, a red carpet, two identities, this moment will make him a little unnatural.
Therefore, Dapeng tries his best not to change, and rarely keeps his distance from people. At eleven or twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, he would suddenly receive a video call invitation from his old classmates, and after Dapeng connected, he saw the other party at a certain liquor bureau, and the mobile phone came: "My friends all love to watch you play, I said I know you, and they still don't believe it." Then Dapeng would talk to his friends for a while.
When asked if his parents would feel that he was the pride of the family after becoming famous, Dapeng denied it. He didn't feel too much that his family's attitude towards him had changed, for a long time, his parents supported him to do what he liked, although he didn't know how to make movies, but Dapeng would watch every work, "Every time he will praise me, my son's shooting is awesome." ”
After the release of "Auspicious Ruyi" this time, his mother also praised him, but added an extra sentence: "The mother is a little old." ”
"Auspicious Ruyi" was filmed while preparing for "The Sewing Machine Band". "Sewing Machine Band" was filmed in Ji'an City, Jilin Province, close to Grandma's hometown, the "big guitar" in the movie was built for 5 months, when it was close to the Spring Festival, Dapeng wanted to go back to shoot a family Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and by the way, he could accompany Grandma for the New Year.
"Sewing Machine Band" big guitar sculpture image source network
In the first few years of work, every Spring Festival Dapeng used to report on the Spring Festival Gala as a reporter, interviewing the star guests who participated in the Spring Festival Gala, and could not go home for the New Year. Later, Dapeng himself began to participate in the Spring Festival Gala, but he still could not go home for the New Year. Therefore, how long it has been since I spent the New Year with my grandmother, Dapeng can't remember clearly.
For this filming, all of Grandma's children returned to the village.
In Dapeng's impression, Grandma is the head of the whole family, a very sunny and festive old lady. Grandma has 5 children, Dapeng's mother is the fourth oldest, and her brother is the protagonist of "Auspicious Ruyi", the third uncle.
Dapeng is the only child in the family, but he has six older sisters and one younger brother. During his long childhood in the Northeast, he often mingled with his sisters.
The third sister, Wang Lili, left the deepest impression on Dapeng, because the third sister always brought him some new things. Before the third uncle fell ill, he was the only one in the family who went to school outside the village, and later became the chief of the Liaohe Oilfield Protection Section, with a decent job and the best development. Every winter and summer vacation, Dapeng visits the third sister's house and can always discover a new continent. "The first piece of chocolate and the first piece of bubble gum in my life was given to me by my third sister, and the first time I played Tetris was from my third sister." Dapeng joked, "When I was a child, every time I saw her home, I had a feeling of 'I can't climb high'. ”
Later, the third uncle fell ill, the job was gone, and gradually could not remember the people around him, and even could not recognize his daughter, every time the daughter entered the house, the third uncle would chase her and beat her. "Later, my third sister did not dare to change her shoes when she entered the house, and as long as my uncle beat her, she ran outside the house." Dapeng description. The third uncle's wife could not stand this kind of day, divorced the third uncle, and took her daughter to a foreign country.
By the Spring Festival of 2017, the third sister had not returned home for ten years.
Dapeng's third uncle, Wang, was auspicious
In the days that followed, the third uncle began to gradually become gentle, except for some stupidity, and was no longer grumpy. When filming "Auspicious Ruyi", he got along well with Liu Lu, an actor found by Dapeng to play the third sister Wang Lili. Liu Lu once asked the third sister in the film, why didn't she go home for ten years?
The answer is silence.
"I can understand her." Dapeng explained, "During the critical period of a girl's growth, the family suddenly appeared such a change, which hit her very hard. "After leaving the country, the life of the mother and daughter was not good, and in order to support her, the mother worked as a nanny for different families, which was the case for more than ten years." She hadn't received much love, so she hadn't learned how to love anyone else. In recent years, the third sister did not have a stable job, and then her daughter was born, and she did not know how to get along with her daughter. ”
A few years ago, Wang Lili's mother was diagnosed with advanced cancer. Wang Lili did her best to take her mother to her illness and take care of her mother. In September 2020, during the critical period of treatment, Dapeng helped find a hospital in Beijing and arranged for hospitalization. Dapeng took a sum of cash and found a rut to say that it was the remuneration for filming "Auspicious Ruyi", he knew that the third sister needed it, and wanted to bear this part of the financial pressure for her, but the other party refused.
"She told me that I wasn't going to make this movie to make money. I hadn't been with my dad before, and this time you made me go home and put it in the movie, which I thought was complete. ”
At that moment, Dapeng felt that the third sister was great.
Dapeng's third sister, Wang Lili
When he was very young, Dapeng's mother was also diagnosed with kidney disease, and the doctor said that there were only two or three years left, and his father continued to take his mother around to see a doctor, and Dapeng was entrusted to his grandmother. Now her mother's health is fine, and Dapeng says she is a "medical miracle."
Until junior high school, Dapeng's parents laid off to open a shop, and they were busy every day. The third uncle suddenly fell ill, and would only recite a few words back and forth, "one two four five, wen wu xiang gui", the grandmother turned to take care of the third uncle, dapeng had more time alone.
Every night he would skip the last self-study class with his classmates and take a dozen children home to play. At 10 o'clock, the students went home separately, and Dapeng cleaned up the house alone and recovered as before. Then write your own things and go to bed. The next morning, when his parents returned from the dance hall, Dapeng went to school with his school bag on his back.
This life is repeated day by day, until college.
Therefore, dapeng is most afraid of the new year with his parents alone. "40m2 two rooms, three people together is very awkward. Is it a fight for a landlord, or a deep conversation? Not knowing what to do, I have not developed a suitable relationship model with my parents. ”
Until the end of the filming of "Auspicious Ruyi", Dapeng began to call his parents every day and ask them what they ate and what they were doing. Go out of your way, over and over again.
Poster of "Auspicious Ruyi"
On January 29, the day of the release of the movie "Auspicious Ruyi", poisonous eyes waited for him in Dapeng's studio.
Dapeng, who had just finished his last interview, walked down the stairs with his pocket in his pocket, wearing a black sportswear, a dazzling fluorescent pink beanie on his head, and red socks wrapped around the legs of his pants.
There is a long solid wood table on the first floor of the studio, where Dapeng recently celebrated his 39th birthday. Before the interview, we met at this table and sat down at the table smoking a cigarette. Dapeng was a little tired: "Let me slow down, slowly we can talk better." I found that this man, ah, said too much to feel drained of energy. Answering repetitive questions over and over again is the norm for directors during the promotional period.
The smoke was thick, and Dapeng, who had been silent, looked at the mobile phone and suddenly said: "Sometimes I can't understand the evaluation of some viewers." Then he laughed a little, a little helplessly.
Dapeng was watching the audience's evaluation again.
Dapeng is a person who cares a lot about public evaluation. He boiled it down to his personality, "Those compliments don't seem to affect me, and I'm shy when people praise me." I believe in the influence of those negative comments on me, and if I am scolded, I will take it seriously, and I will explore why, why I have created this situation. ”
"It can be very emotional."
"Yes, it affects the mood very much, but there is no way. I know I can't explain too much because it will have a new impact. But don't say that I'm also quite uncomfortable. ”
"What is the way to dispel this problem?"
"Time. Hopefully, there will be longer time and more works. Let everyone establish a new evaluation of me. Dapeng sat down on the couch, pulled off his beanie hat and threw it aside, brushing his hair.
The other day, Dapeng participated in "Actors Please Take Place", the original purpose was to make a short film. The program team suggested that he make comedy, and he wanted to shoot a different martial arts scene. After the broadcast of "Mulan", the praise was overwhelming, and Dapeng received countless praises.
The sentence he listened to the most was, "I didn't expect this to be taken by Dapeng." This bothered Dapeng a little, and the audience's evaluation of him always had some "lag".
Before filming, he knew exactly what he was, and a few years of directing had given him confidence, but the audience didn't seem to know much. "It may be a little immodest to say that, but I'm sincere." Dapeng knows that it will take some time to change the perception between the audience and the self.
The studio has a trophy wall with neatly arranged honors over the years, because the Golden Horse Award certificate won by "Auspicious" is placed in the most prominent position on the shelf. These trophies are somehow proof that he is good at doing this.
Dapeng clearly distinguishes between good at and love. "I'm not that good at making music, and people often mistakenly think that what they like is what they're good at, but they're not."
At the end of last year, he invited the old Fan next door to sing the ending song of "Auspicious Ruyi", "Often Go Home to See". He could have sung it himself, but he would often deliberately "miss" these opportunities. The easy realization of dreams is far less important to him than the process of chasing.
"But when do you say it will be achieved?" I feel that I have the opportunity to do this in the future, and I am not in a hurry. ”
"You can wait." Dapeng pondered for a moment. "Otherwise, why can I go forward with such momentum?"
For Dapeng, the film will continue to be filmed and filmed seriously, but some things will not disappear and cannot be replaced. It was those who supported his life, just as he had left the northeast alone.
When he went to see Lao Fan's concert next door, Dapeng looked at the surrounding audience, who waved glow sticks in their hands and sang a chorus with Lao Fan.
At that moment, an impulse surged in his heart, "If one day I also stand on the stage and have a concert, the people below are all because they want to hear me sing, how good." ”