This year's Spring Festival stalls are full of smoke, before Wu Jing starred in the big production of "The Water Gate Bridge of Changjin Lake", and then "Four Seas" directed by Han Han earned enough gimmicks.
As the only comedy in this year's Lunar New Year file, "This Killer Is Not Calm" produced by Happy Twist has unexpectedly won the love of many audiences, and the current box office has exceeded 2.1 billion, ranking second in the box office list.
In addition to the absurd movie plot and the lines full of jokes, another successful out of the circle is the male protagonist of the film - Wei Xiang.
Speaking of Wei Xiang, perhaps everyone is not unfamiliar.
He is the horse coach who ate a pig in three bites in the movie "The Richest Man in Xihong", and the mayor of Wei Village who covered for Shen Teng in "My Hometown and Me".
For the first time to play the male protagonist, Wei Xiang was so excited in the easter egg at the end of the film that he choked up and burst into tears on the set.
After 23 years of playing in the show business, now at the age of 42, Wei Xiang's life has begun to turn red.
Wei's road to success began with running the dragon set
In the film, wei Xiang's dragon set actor "Wei Chenggong" is a down-to-earth little person.
In order to win the role of a few more lines, he will take the initiative to add drama to himself, even if all he gets is counting and mocking.
Between the sets, he played a soldier who was killed by a shot, and his awkward acting skills once made everyone present lose their speech; when competing for group performances, he would suddenly emerge and recite the lines backwards with a serious look;
Even when he was deceived by the female star Milan and the director, his expression was still full of acting components, obviously a grateful look, and did not forget to sneer: "Where did you people of insight go earlier?" ”
Exaggerated body language and expressions, funny and nonsensical performance style, and the counterattack of small characters are properly interpreted by Wei Xiang and integrated.
Sometimes, when you see the more real strength in Wei Xiang's body, you will have a kind of bitterness that is difficult to hide.
The first time I became a male protagonist, it had a lot to do with Wei Xiang's personal experience.
Wei Xiang liked to perform since he was a child, and after retiring from the literary troupe, he was successfully admitted to The North Film and wanted to make a name for himself in the show business circle.
In 2005, Wei Xiang, who graduated, accepted Shen Teng's invitation and officially joined Happy Twist, ushering in a new page in his life.
However, the young Wei Xiang never thought that the road of an actor had an endless dragon set.
Since the film, Wei Xiang has played at least two hundred supporting roles, and "running dragon set" has become a label that welds to death on him.
At first, the business state of Happy Twist was very bad, everyone was trying to rehearse the performance, and the drama box office was still very dismal, which made everyone feel anxious.
At that time, even Shen Teng and Ma Li had no place to display their talents.
Even if Happy Twist later caught fire, on the drama stage, Wei Xiang's role had almost no name.
Even the film and television dramas he starred in were all small supporting roles, either playing kidnappers or passers-by, and frequent cameos only gave him a familiar face, and no one knew what his name was.
After doing dragon sets for a long time, Wei Xiang also gradually figured out the hearts of the little people.
Although it is regarded as a "drama throwing face", Wei Xiang has contributed absolute highlights in many of the plays in which he participated.
In the TV series "Ji Gong Chuan • Living Buddha Ascending the Throne", he is the hilarious monk Guangliang.
With the protagonist Guo Degang set up a play, Wei Xiang can also catch the laughing stem, adding a lot of color to the play.
In the sketch "The Legend of the White Snake" performed with Allen, with cyan eyeshadow painted, Xiao Qing, who did not smile, laughed at everyone as soon as he appeared.
His vivid image with comedic effects will never be forgotten by the audience.
In order to make the age and image of the character more in line with the image, Wei Xiang took the initiative to do the Mediterranean hairstyle in "The Richest Man in Xihong".
This makes everyone remember the sad coach who stepped on the mineral water bottle and fell down, and was carried away on a stretcher.
Of course, Wei Xiang's laughter will not let go of the tall literary and art films.
In "Flying Life", the audience who has seen it can't forget the happy scene when he sang "Brilliant Years" in broken Cantonese.
For 23 years, he has been hovering on the fringes of the actor, each role seemingly dispensable, but little by little irreplaceable.
Wei Chenggong in the film, after experiencing the thrill of jokes, finally ushered in success, and the success of actor Wei Xiang has just begun.
Mainland "Wu Mengda": The more comedy, the more inappropriate it is to act as a comedy
From the golden supporting role to the super supporting role, Wei Xiang's journey is not easy, and some people have named him the title of "Wu Mengda" in the mainland.
But only he knows in his heart how difficult it is to act well in a comedy that touches people's hearts.
But at the same time, Wei Xiang was lucky.
Because of the mutual support of Shen Teng, Ma Li and the members of Happy Twist, his performance no longer has the vulgar appearance of ugly and funny, but has a little more contrast with real life.
In the movie, the female star Milan and the director took a fancy to Wei Chenggong's simplicity and persistence, and falsely claimed to ask him to be the male protagonist to make a movie, in fact, they wanted to escape from the gang boss and wait for the opportunity to escape.
Wei Chenggong, who is addicted to drama, turns the danger into a disaster step by step, and also makes an alliance with the gang boss and participates in the deal with the Italians... A hilarious play was staged.
When the truth was exposed, Wei successfully escaped from death and recovered a life.
At this time, the weak and small he was unable to fight against the evil forces, and could only hold the suitcase and run away with tears.
At that moment, in the midst of panic, Wei Chenggong, who was aggrieved and angry, was not like the little person who lost his hand with success and was beaten by reality?
What can make people laugh and cry is not only the actor's acting skills, but also the helplessness and pain of life.
Some people say that Wei Xiang's success is too pediatric, and the characters he has created have no depth to speak of, let alone compare with Xingye.
But for an actor who has been dormant in comedy for many years, even if the talent is not enough and the heat has not yet arrived, as long as he has been working hard, it is also a success and transcendence in another sense.
Although the film is an adaptation, it is not limited to shaking baggage and gags, and one of the crying scenes gives us a glimpse of the strength of this comedian.
When Milan, played by Ma Li, could not bear wei success and scolded him for being useless and could not act at all, Wei Successfully sat on the beach and cried bitterly.
This crying scene was a non-physical performance by Wei Xiang, and it was repeated over and over again.
In the midst of crying and laughing, he grasped the loss and sadness of life, and regained the courage of life under the unwilling roar again and again.
Shrouded in darkness, hidden in the lonely back is a frustrated ordinary person.
Wei Xiang said in an interview: "The more comedy, the more inappropriate it is to act as a comedy. ”
The difficulties of life make people only choose to compromise after entanglement and struggle in contradictions.
And comedy is to show the difference between ideals and reality, and to show the tragedy of life naked in front of the audience.
Late success is a kind of luck
At the premiere of the film, there were several such vignettes.
In the face of the reporter's question, Ma Li handed the microphone to Wei Xiang, who stood by the side and said that he was the male protagonist who deserved to be unyielding.
Shen Teng, who sat offstage watching the movie, frequently shed tears, laughing that Wei Xiang was his biggest threat in the future, and that future movies should see "Xiang Xiang", and even said harshly: "He should have been on fire ten years earlier." ”
Over the years, as partners who have grown together, they have witnessed Wei Xiang's magnificent transformation together and accumulated deep feelings.
In life, there is also a person who has been silently by his side, giving him support and encouragement, and this person is his wife.
After more than ten years of marriage, unlike other male stars, Wei Xiang likes to share his married life.
On his wedding anniversary, he would send flowers to his wife to express his gratitude.
On stage, the person he most wants to thank is also his wife.
Because of his comedy, he often gives joy to others, but gives the bitter water of life to his lover.
Years later, he understood that the most precious thing in life is not to chase fame and fortune, but to have someone who has always understood you.
After 23 years of grinding and pain, Wei Xiang survived, and then the bitter past, walking past, is also a kind of growth.
Mo Yan said in "Late Ripening People": "Late ripening people, when the right time comes, there is a stage that allows him to show his talent, and he will shine." ”
Life is a painful process.
Take your life as a stage, when the opportunity comes, you can catch the best praise, and you will not forget to stick to your original intention when you are in a desperate situation, so that you have the courage to continue to walk.
In recent years, there have been many powerful actors in the show business world.
Qin Hao became popular at the age of 42 with the role of Zhang Dongsheng in "The Hidden Corner"; the film emperor Yu Hewei dominated the screen with Chen Duxiu in "The Age of Awakening", and the old drama bone Ni Dahong played Su Daqiang, who was loved and hated in "All Is Good", which is still fresh in people's memories.
Each of them has experienced the trough of their acting careers, crawling and rolling in small roles, and lonely adhering to the awe and love of acting.
Thankfully, they waited for a good role, waited for a good script, and could be seen and liked by more people.
However, not everyone can wait until their own home field, and not everyone can get the favor of fate.
Some people become famous at a young age, and some people become late in life, but more people do not even have the luck of late success, and they are unknown all their lives.
If the big instrument is late, why not be a kind of luck?
As the reporter asked: "This is your first protagonist on the big screen, will you feel that you are "late in life"?
Wei Xiang said modestly, "To tell the truth, I can support myself by doing this line of work, and I am already very satisfied." ”
Half of life, rather than success, accepting the arrangement of fate and trying to live a good life is everyone's ultimate fate.
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Over a long period of time, each stage of life has a theme.
Sometimes we doubt ourselves, stagnate, and lose our way because we can't control our lives.
But even if the core of comedy is always tragedy, even if we may not even have the luck of a late bloomer, ordinary people still have to laugh and live their lives into comedy.
Lin Yutang once said: "Life is just like this, and do and cherish, you will always be your own protagonist, don't always play a supporting role in other people's dramas." ”
Life is like a drama, even if you can't be the protagonist, the life of the supporting role is also worth looking forward to and struggling.
Author | How chubby, in the world of words, to be a person with temperature.
Anchor | Yi Fan, radio host, sound temperature explorer.
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