At the mobilization meeting on the eve of the college entrance examination, the teacher was exhausted and passionately admonished the students: "Spell daddy you can't fight, don't you fight yourself?" ”
But this is a poor word, spelling daddy is not ok, you can also spell brother, especially in the entertainment industry, there is no resource and connections, it is simply difficult to walk.
Actor Yang Zhigang relied on "spelling brother" to take over many scripts and play the male lead.
It seems that since his debut, there has been such a question,
"Being praised by his brother as a male star" is the biggest slot point that he has criticized by netizens.
So why, on the other hand, people always question that his acting career was built by his brother's "nepotism"?
Why is it that in such a context, Yang Zhigang has fallen into a situation where there is almost no drama to shoot?
01
Yang Zhigang was born in November 1977 to a family of six in Chengde, Hebei Province.
His father's surname is Guo, and his mother's surname is Yang, and he is the fourth oldest in the family, the youngest child.
Yang Zhigang also has three older brothers, and he is the closest and best relationship with his third brother Guo Jingyu.
What is puzzling is that the elder brother Guo Jingyu follows the father's surname, and the younger brother Yang Zhigang follows the mother's surname.
Why do the brothers have the same blood roots but belong to two surnames?
Behind the answer is a story that makes Yang Zhigang always difficult to let go.
Yang's mother's physical condition has not been very good, and after giving birth to her youngest son, Yang Zhigang, her condition has taken a sharp turn for the worse.
The doctor informed the family that Yang Mu's physical condition would last for another 18 years at most.
In order to commemorate the hardships and difficulties of Yang's mother's birth of Xiaosi, Guo's father gave him his mother's surname and named him Yang Zhigang.
Later, the grandmother felt that Yang Zhigang had taken his mother's surname, that is, the child of the Yang family, and simply passed it on to his uncle.
It just so happens that the uncle's family likes children and wants a boy.
In this way, Yang Zhigang's biological mother became his aunt, and his uncles and aunts became his adoptive parents.
There's another reason to say,
At that time, it was time for family planning, Yang Zhigang had four children in his family, and he was already seriously overborn.
In order to solve the problem of the child's household registration, there was a matter of Yang Zhigang's succession.
The experience of succession has created Yang Zhigang's sensitive personality since childhood,
And his brother Guo Jingyu is full of guilt and self-blame for this,
He felt that he could not stand his brother and always felt indebted, so he loved Yang Zhigang even more.
This is also one of the important reasons why Guo Jingyu has constantly worried about and supported Yang Zhigang's acting career after entering the acting circle.
Roughly more than three years old, because of the phrase "Guo Xiaosi" in other people, Yang Zhigang doubted his own life.
He began to think about why.
Until he was about 10 years old, Yang Zhi just knew the origin of the matter.
His heart was full of confusion and incomprehension, and he was surrounded by complaints and grievances,
He wanted to ask why his biological parents gave him away, why not the other children in the family.
He wondered if it was because he wasn't obedient enough?
Or is it something else?
Unfortunately, no one has ever answered his doubts and told him why.
Awkwardness and unwillingness were like a barb that pierced deeper and deeper in Yang Zhigang's heart.
Both families are very fond of Yang Zhigang, in his uncle's family he is the only eldest grandson, and has grandparents to love;
In his biological parents' house, he was young and old, and he was loved by thousands of people.
When Yang Zhigang was a child, he would often play in his brother Guo Jingyu's house, and his aunt (mother) would always quietly open a small stove for him, boil eggs, and eat with dipping sauce.
It was Yang Zhigang's favorite and most precious meal in his memory.
Nevertheless, the traditional concept of blood relations imprinted in the bones of the Chinese people has always been a barrier between mother and son.
I can't see or touch it, but I always make people's hearts tingle,
Therefore, until Yang's mother died of illness, Yang Zhigang, who was guarding the bedside, could not call out to his biological mother "mother".
02
When he was about fourteen years old, Yang Zhigang slowly had his own ideas and opinions, and he began to rebel and decided to leave home to study.
But his academic performance was not very satisfactory at that time.
Guo Jingyu was working in a drama troupe at the moment, and he suggested that Yang Zhigang apply for the Hebei Provincial Art School to learn dance.
The young and ignorant Yang Zhigang initially knew nothing about the concept and types of dance, and he thought that it should be roughly the same as learning martial arts.
Before the exam, sister-in-law Yue Lina raided the tuition and taught Yang Zhigang a few ballet gestures.
It can be said that the sharpening knife is not fast and light!
In 1922, Yang Zhigang was successfully admitted to the Hebei Provincial Art School and embarked on a long and arduous dance journey.
At the art school, Yang Zhigang studied classical dance.
Subsequently, Yang Zhigang went to the Beijing Ballet Academy for further study, in-depth study of ballet, and successfully graduated in 1998.
The experience of learning dance, as well as the outstanding professional level, has also brought a lot of convenience to Yang Zhigang to enter the acting industry.
After graduating from the dance academy, his brother Guo Jingyu also happened to start his directing career.
He is like a guiding light, illuminating the future path of life for Yang Zhigang.
At the suggestion of his brother, Yang Zhigang was admitted to the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1999.
Behind the examination, Yang Zhigang also suffered a lot of doubts because of his brother.
At one point, some people even slammed his admission to the Beijing Film Academy as a "different way".
It is relying on his brother Yang Jingyu to help behind his back, spend money to find relationships, and entrust people to go backstage.
But this is not the case.
At that time, Guo Jingyu was still just a no-name in the director's world.
He shot "My 1919" in France, only as an executive director,
It is far from having the ability to "cover the sky with one hand" as the rumors say.
At that time, Yang Zhigang had a special love for Wang Zhiwen, the lead actor in the TV series "Addiction".
Influenced by it, Yang Zhigang also continued to have long flowing hair, looking like a gentlemanly literary and artistic youth.
But among the many candidates, he is only a mediocre "little transparent",
Later, with the charm of a dance, he was recruited by the teacher and became classmates with Yao Chen, Du Chun and others.
And with the same window Mach formed a deep friendship.
From learning to dance, learning to act, to later becoming a leading actor,
Brother Guo Jingyu paved the way and bridged for Yang Zhigang, so that his interpretation road was flat and open, and he almost did not encounter any big winds and waves.
It is really "pro-brother to the throne".
Therefore, in the face of people's doubts, Yang Zhigang never denied it.
He acknowledges his brother's kindness, and without his brother's worries, he would not have achieved what he has today.
The brother who arranges everything properly and the brother who is always well-behaved and obedient, this kind of brotherhood is really enviable and touching.
03
In 2003, Yang Zhigang starred in the movie "Wanma's Seventeen Years Old" directed by Zhang Jiarui, and officially entered the ranks of actors.
That was when he was in his sophomore year, 23 years old, full of youth, long hair and handsome, he was indeed eye-catching, eye-catching,
The film also won a number of awards.
In 2004, Yang Zhigang starred in the role of Ma Jinlong in "Jiangtang Concentration Camp" and began to gain attention.
The business ability is good, and it is the earliest wave of people in the class at that time to act and earn money.
This gave Yang Zhigang a lot of confidence, but it also boosted his later pride.
After graduating from film school, Yang Zhigang stayed at home for three years and became an unemployed youth.
The older brother Guo Jingyu's directing career gradually developed and grew, and he invited his younger brother to participate in his own works, but Yang Zhigang sternly refused.
But the ideal can not meet the reality, in order to maintain his livelihood, Yang Zhigang had to cooperate with Guo Jingyu,
The brothers began a long cooperative career.
From the first play "Perfect Summer" partner Jiang Shan starred as the male protagonist, to the "Iron Pear Blossom" partner Chen Shu, and then to the later Guo Jiaban anti-Japanese trilogy.
In Yang Zhigang's entire acting career, nearly 80% or 90% of his representative works were directed by Guo Jingyu.
The brothers are almost inseparable, and they are ridiculed as "the Haier brothers in the entertainment industry".
The real facts unreservedly replied to people's doubts about Yang Zhigang's "nepotism".
Netizens complained: "My brother is the royal star." ”
Guo Jingyu is also outspoken, for no other reason than two things:
"Don't be sorry for the ancestors"
First, he does not shy away from relatives, he trusts and recognizes his brother's acting skills.
Guo Jingyu joked: "Yang Zhigang acted very well, especially when playing a bad guy, how can such an actor not help him, not to praise him sorry for the ancestors, sorry for his father, sorry for the jianghu." ”
The second is human sophistication.
He is willing to use his own people, has nostalgia for the old, only hears the old people laughing, even if the new people cry, and gradually builds his own Guo family team.
For the actor Niu Baojun, who has collaborated on thirteen plays, he is even more praised:
"These old actors have good acting skills, and they are on call, they are not arrogant in acting, they can work early and work late, and they can play any role very well, so when writing roles, they can always think of him, don't need him to be worthy of the jianghu?"
It's no surprise that this situation abounds in the entertainment industry.
04
Under the background of pro-brother support and continuous resources, Yang Zhigang also lived up to expectations, achieved remarkable results, and achieved a win-win situation in which high appearance rate and high ratings were proportional to each other.
Like "Fire Blue Blade" and "BraveHeart", they have been recognized by CCTV and broadcast on the comprehensive channel of CCTV.
This is also among the best in the same type of war drama, and the period drama is also among the best, which is something to be proud of.
There are pros and cons to everything.
This is also why Yang Zhigang quickly fell into the voice of complaint and questioning after winning praise.
It can be said that the cooperation between the brothers was effective in the early stage of Yang Zhigang's acting career development.
At the very least, it has played a synergistic effect of one plus one greater than two.
But the film and television industry is changing rapidly, and the internal volume is serious,
The audience's aesthetic improvement has also put forward higher requirements for the creation of TV dramas with era and war themes.
Guo Jingyu's script can not keep pace with the times, and the characters are no longer popular with the audience.
This "bundled sale" of the brothers faces more challenges and questions.
In addition, there are many new people in the entertainment industry, and Yang Zhigang is facing the practical problem of increasing age.
The roles suitable for him to participate in are gradually marginalized,
He himself realized that it was difficult for a forty-year-old to perform a twenty-year-old juvenile feeling.
And the single acting experience has limited the improvement of his acting ability,
You can compare "Braveheart" and "Hitting the Dog Stick",
The characters he portrays are much the same, the performance is fixed in a certain pattern, and it is difficult to have other breakthroughs and innovations.
At this point, when Yang Zhigang participated in "Actors Please Take Place", director Er Dongsheng made a very sharp comment.
"You've shot a lot of scenes, you may have reached a so-called standard, and a lot of the TV series you've made may be what your brother or other directors demand of you, which is why I can see that every one of your works is basically the same." 」
Another point that Yang Zhigang criticized for the audience was his lines, which were intermittently expressed, in terms of words, and could not be complete and smooth.
In fact, he also consulted the teacher, but this was due to his personality and could not be corrected.
Over the years, Yang Zhigang has been mixed in the crew of his brother, playing his character roles,
Many of his shortcomings and shortcomings in acting have not been corrected in time, and now that they are getting older, they are ingrained.
The reason for this is that the audience no longer accepts such an actor, the flow is insufficient, the acting skills are limited, and the roles suitable for him are less and less.
Fewer and fewer directors are looking for him to shoot, and they have to end up in the same situation as they are now.
Who is to blame for this? Maybe it's the brother's overprotectiveness, or maybe it's the stagnation of the self.
But we have to know that this is true of both the actor and other professions.
If you don't innovate and don't break through, if you can't get out of your comfort zone, you will become an outcast and be discarded without hesitation.