Do you know? On the surface, do you think that Wang Baoqiang became a billion film emperor just by pretending to be crazy and selling stupidity? Wang Baoqiang is not the stupid root of our imagination at all. On the surface, Wang Baoqiang's silly image has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts, but when you look deeply into his and Ma Rong's story, you will find that he is really not simple. Feng Xiaogang once said: "The most regrettable thing in his life is to praise the red king Baoqiang" A local old man with no looks and no background, why can he be favored by Feng Xiaogang? Today we will reveal the behind-the-scenes story of Wang Baoqiang.
In 1982, Wang Baoqiang was born in Hebei Province, and when he was a child, his family was particularly poor, and the things his parents used when they got married were borrowed from someone and returned in two days. In 1990, when the eight-year-old Wang Baoqiang watched an open-air movie in the village Shaolin Temple, he had the idea of going to the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts as a kung fu star, but when he told his father about this dream, he exchanged it for one. Beating Wang Baoqiang did not give up, she starved her mother for a few days, and even promised that as long as he could go to the Shaolin Temple, he would study hard, and when he grew up and had a career, he would build a new house for the family. His father saw that his attitude was resolute, and finally agreed to him. However, what he did not expect was that after arriving at the Shaolin Temple,
Everything was completely different from what he had imagined. After studying martial arts at the Shaolin Temple for three years, Wang Baoqiang suddenly asked his master, when can I make a movie? But under the master's explanation, he learned that Jet Li was a "fake monk" who had lived in the Shaolin Temple for six years, and Wang Baoqiang was extremely envious when he saw Shi Xiaolong walking out of here. The six-year wait also made Wang Baoqiang feel the distant dream for the first time, but in the end there was still a dream teenager in his heart. When he heard that there were many opportunities for filmmaking in Beijing, fourteen-year-old Wang Baoqiang took the 500 yuan given by his parents and stepped on the train to Beijing.
But he didn't know how hard it was for a rural grassroots to be a star, and when he heard about the Beijing Film Studio all the way, he was dumbfounded, because there were a large number of extras waiting for the opportunity gathered at the gate of the North Film Studio all year round. At first, he couldn't even solve the problem of food and clothing, so he could only go to the construction site to do odd jobs while performing in groups. In order to survive, you have to do something, anyway, some are construction teams that do temporary workers. However, although he worked on the construction site, his salary was only half that of others, because the foreman bullied him as a child. However, the roof leaked during the overnight rain, and once Wang Baoqiang accidentally broke a washstand while working, and the foreman directly deducted his salary for a month. In the end, he really didn't have money to eat, so he had to ask his family for help. His father sent him a letter and borrowed 300 dollars. In the letter, the father, who has always been strict, instructed Wang Baoqiang to take good care of himself in a very warm text, and after reading his father's letter, Wang Baoqiang secretly swore in his heart that he would not break into some fame and would never contact the family.
Perhaps it was really in response to the words of the invincible road in heaven, just when Wang Baoqiang was in all kinds of distress, an opportunity quietly arrived. In 2002, the new director selected actors for his first film "Blind Well", Wang Baoqiang's simple and simple honest image was taken by Li Yang, although the film was not released in the mainland, he let Wang Baoqiang win the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer. And when he delivered his acceptance speech on stage, he didn't know that he had been targeted.
In 2003, Feng Xiaogang wanted to shoot a "No Thief in the World" and Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu", and he gathered Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Ge You and other film queens together to open a huge creative conference. When the script was passed, the rural silly boy Silly Root found someone to play but it was difficult for Feng Xiaogang, because this role not only had to look like Shicheng, but also had to be really stupid. After Feng Xiaogang looked around, he found that the stupid one was not honest enough, and the honest one was not thick enough, which made him very anxious. At this moment, he saw Wang Baoqiang, who was giving an acceptance speech on the Stage of the Golden Horse Awards, who was stupid and silly, very simple, and then he called to find Wang Baoqiang, but he did not expect that this news frightened Wang Baoqiang, at the door of the North Shadow, Feng Xiaogang asked Wang Baoqiang who he liked the most? He said Andy Lau and Ge You.
When Feng Xiaogang said, "Let them give you a supporting role", it made Wang Baoqiang feel shocked, and he was really happy; worried; nervous; and afraid, that feeling, even if Wang Baoqiang had been mentally prepared, when he really saw Andy Lau, he still went out of the ocean. On the day that the world was free of thieves, Wang Baoqiang, who saw Andy Lau for the first time, suddenly lost his mind and knelt down against Andy Lau, frightening Andy Lau to quickly kneel down and return the grain to him. Looking at Andy Lau, Ge You, and Rene Liu, who played with him in front of him, and then looking at Fan Wei and Feng Yuanzheng in the supporting roles, Wang Baoqiang, who was only 20 years old, felt that he was dreaming.
When it came time to really shoot the scene, Wang Baoqiang was so restrained that he didn't enter the state at all, but he didn't expect Feng Xiaogang to exaggerate his performance non-stop, in the process, shooting Feng, Feng Xiaogang's uncle exaggerated the good performance, just like that, and then his heart was particularly beautiful. In the face of the director's praise, Wang Baoqiang wondered in his heart, because he felt that he did not act at all, and he did not know whether it was really or false, anyway, I think there was no performance. However, after the release of the film, Feng Xiaogang regretted it, he said that the role of Silly Root made the audience across the country misunderstand that Wang Baoqiang was really a fool, and Wang Baoqiang's family was heartbroken, but it didn't take long for Feng Xiaogang to think of a solution.
In 2005, Kang Honglei was looking for a suitable actor for the soldier assault, and when Feng Xiaogang read the script, he found that Xu Sanduo was not a role tailored for Wang Baoqiang to get rid of the image of a fool? Wang Baoqiang did not disappoint Feng Xiaogang, and he vividly expressed Xu Sanduo's integrity, kindness and never-say-die. At this point, Wang Baoqiang completely took off the hat of the stupid brother and became the king of soldiers in the hearts of a generation of young people, and even more influenced countless hot-blooded boys.