A few days ago, the TV series "Heart Residence" ushered in the finale, the Phoenix Entertainment Index public score of 6.5, the expert score of 5.3, douban opening score of 5.8, the reputation is average.
The old dog blood plot, the sloppy background setting, and the fact that several protagonists have been written by the screenwriter to "collapse all the members", this kind of urban drama that ignores the meaning of reality in order to sell anxiety has long made the audience chew out any novelty.
And Zhang Songwen, one of the protagonists, could not survive this gunfire - from the appearance of being spat on, it was too greasy, too embarrassing, and exaggerated to suffocate.
This is undoubtedly a word-of-mouth crisis for Zhang Songwen, whose acting skills have always been well received.
Just about to usher in the spring of the career, so soon to fall off the "altar"?
01 Oil, but not very greasy
Zhang Songwen played Zhan Xiang in "Heart Residence" is an upstart who got rich by speculating in houses in the early years.
When he was a teenager and did not even finish school, he recklessly plunged into the social mud pit and crawled and rolled.
Within a few years, he dared to take a loan to buy a house in a big city, and then he used a lease loan to buy dozens of houses one after another, some demolition, and some rose with the property market, and finally achieved this copper smell of "charter public".
The city of Zhan Xiang is very strong.
Bold and speculative, business sense of sensitivity, but no lofty ambitions and ambitions;
Because of the relationship between himself and his hard work since he was a child, his cultural level is not high, and the spiritual world is not rich, so no matter how much bluff and packaging the appearance, there is always a worldly taste that cannot be washed away.
In other words, the setting of the character itself is very greasy.
Just as the description of Zhan Xiang in the original work is "frivolous and formless, with teeth and claws dancing, and superficial like a primary school student", Zhang Songwen's "oil" in the play seems appropriate.
The control of the lines is part of it.
For example, how to pinch that degree between "self-righteous romance" and "crude and greasy expression" is a very delicate problem for actors.
Zhang Songwen's handling of posture is also very good.
He uses a lot of body language to show the side of the character Hanging Erlang, but not too levitating.
Unlike the stretching of other male characters, Zhan Xiang's body is mostly in a half-bow state, and he always can't help but shake his head locally;
Zhan Xiang has money and also likes to dress up.
Despite wearing a prestigious shirt and watch, you can always quickly tell from his standing posture and the wrinkled clothing, which is the rough jianghu atmosphere that has been tempered by the years.
Chatting with Feng Xiaoqin (HaiQing), he leaned against the railing like a boneless man.
The whole process of hand movement has never stopped.
Small steps down the stairs, a neck leaning forward, arms dangling back and forth on either side of the body...
These body languages do not need to be repeated in the dialogue to quickly reveal the character traits to the audience:
A person reaches middle age, likes beautiful women, thinks that he pursues fashion, but he can't erase the greasy taste of the earthy big money.
The details of a mouth-wiping here are also brilliant, and Zhan Xiang's pursuit object, Gu Qingyu (nursery rhyme), returns from outside and asks him what he is eating.
Zhang Songwen immediately wiped his mouth and whispered "plum blossom cake."
In front of the beloved, I always want to become an elegant gentleman, but my subconscious habits cannot be changed.
Zhan Xiang's posture is always loose and crumbling when he walks.
According to the state of the character and the current situation, Zhang Songwen has made adjustments between each "loose" and "collapse", so that these walking scenes that should be boring have different emotional outputs.
When he and Feng Xiaoqin played with each other every day, he walked into the store with ease and swaying, as if he didn't pay attention to anyone.
Lover Gu Qingyu chose to leave, Zhan Xiang smiled and fulfilled, turned his head on the road and whispered tears.
Although there are sunglasses to cover up his self-esteem, the walking posture is still not decent, but the arms hanging on his side have long exposed his frustration and sadness.
When this layer of progressive emotions is silently expressed through Zhang Songwenrunwu, many viewers have a change of view of the "greasy" exhibition and become pleasing.
Some people even said bluntly, after seeing the end, they found that he was the most flesh-and-blood, vivid and vivid character in the whole team collapse.
He always talks about love with a slippery tongue.
Willingly served as a spare tire for several years, gained hope and experienced disappointment again and again.
Despite this, he still maintains a smile and demeanor.
When urging the tenant to pay the money, he raised his chin to the other party with high spirits, and made a big speech, and the rude attitude was revealed.
However, when the tenant indicated his situation and said that he would pay the rent when he handled the sale of the car in the shop, he moved his compassion awkwardly.
"No... No rush".
In the face of Feng Xiaoqin's seemingly false and true confession, he changed his previous hip-hop attitude and sincerely gave feedback to the other party.
This is the reason why watching Zhang Songwen have fun acting.
Zhan Xiang is not the stereotypical "love chasing role": there is no so-called youthfulness, not elegant enough nor melancholy, greasy and jumpy and good at self-healing, as if there is no need to be pitied by the audience.
But you can see through his eyes the fabric of the character's life.
On this point, there are also traces in Zhang Songwen's previous roles, such as Tang Yijie in "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind".
A greedy and perverted corrupt official, a man who is completely out of control in official, husbandly and fatherly nature, from the beginning of the film, is destined to become the most eye-catching character in the whole drama.
Whether at the beginning of the film, in order to appease the villagers who gathered to fight, Lao Tang held a loudspeaker and switched freely, and the appearance of the road was calm;
Still seeing ah yun's body burned, the trace of cowardly and bitter smile that appeared in the light of the fire.
It's so evocative.
When the movie ended, the audience who was not familiar with him was muttering whether Lou Ye really found a civil servant to participate.
And to the role of Zhu Yongping in "The Hidden Corner", it was once to the point of being canonized.
There are two scenes in the play that are impressive.
The first game is Zhu Yongping playing poker, and many of the lines are played on the spot, such as "sitting south to north Feng Shui fortune rolling" and other feng shui chants.
There is also the action of getting up and subconsciously clipping the bag under the armpit, so that the image of a small business boss immediately jumps on the screen.
It is said that this place was originally a play of mahjong, but later Zhang Songwen proposed to change it to poker, because it takes a long time for mahjong to play a circle, and people who do business do not have so much time.
In addition, another highlight moment is the scene where Zhu Yongping eats wontons alone after his daughter's death.
Unbeknownst to him, the stall owner gave him three wontons as usual.
He first wanted to throw away his daughter's share, afraid to bring back his wife to see the scene and feel that throwing away the wontons was like completely abandoning his daughter.
In the end, he chose to go back to the stall and eat a portion first.
Silently, he swallowed the ravioli into his stomach along with tears.
Before the scene began filming, Zhang Songwen was deliberately hungry for three days.
At the same time, I also try to sleep as little as possible, so that there will be a three-dimensional image of "a father who collapsed in an instant because of the loss of his daughter".
It's a sense of belief that an actor and a character build together.
02 Just, boil
Although in "Heart Residence" I have experienced the addiction of flipping houses, I actually can't afford to buy a house for twenty years.
Looking back at Zhang Songwen's acting path, it is most appropriate to summarize it with "late success of big instruments".
Unlike many actors' tong zi gong, Zhang Songwen belongs to the type of halfway monk.
He was born in an ordinary county town in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, and grew up and studied step by step, and the early death of his mother made him choose to go to vocational high school after graduating from junior high school, so that he could come out early to work to supplement the family.
Without a good family and no beautiful academic qualifications, Zhang Songwen went to Dongguan to work after graduation, and could only circle in the circle of basic work.
He worked as a beverage salesman, as a hotel attendant, as a printer, and as an air conditioner installer.
In 1995, domestic tourism began to rise.
Zhang Songwen aimed at this untapped market, and immediately transformed himself into a tour guide, from the beginning of the ground to the leader responsible for taking tourists abroad, he only took two years.
In Thailand alone, Zhang Songwen has been to more than 200 times.
Because of his sincere hospitality, tourists like him very much, coupled with his willingness to bear hardships and stand hard work, almost 365 days a year, so he also received a lot of rewards.
Zhang Songwen recalled that at that time, the salary level in China was about 500 yuan, and his monthly salary was as high as 2w.
This figure was obviously difficult for ordinary people to reach at that time.
But Zhang Songwen did not feel stable because of this.
The tour guide's job is very good, but it is not his real heart.
By chance, zhang Songwen was asked about his dream when chatting with a female colleague, that is, "what he most wants to do".
Out of his love for movies since childhood, he almost without thinking about it and replied: "I want to lie in bed and watch movies every day." ”
"Then your dream is to make a movie!" After the girl finished speaking, she also encouraged him to apply for art colleges to continue his studies.
A word awakens the dreamer.
Six hours after the conversation, Mr. Zhang quit his job, disposed of the appliances in his dormitory, and flew from Shenzhen to Beijing with a sense of loneliness.
I've never been back.
In his opinion, this matter must be decided by a person on the spot.
Because once you consult with someone, you will encounter a lot of "opposition", they will list to you one by one how unrealistic the word dream is, until the fire in your heart is extinguished.
He proved to have made the right choice.
In 2001, at the age of 25, Zhang Songwen was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy as he wished, becoming the oldest student in the class.
Also enrolled in the same year was Monday Wai.
During his time in school, Zhang Songwen worked hard, not only with excellent academic performance, won the "First Prize for Best Performance" at the National College Student Drama Festival, and was also retained in school for his excellent grades after graduation, becoming an acting teacher in the Institute of Acting.
Although he has a stable back road, he has never given up acting.
Unfortunately, in the actor's industry, good grades do not mean that there is a drama.
Seeing that the classmates around him had not yet graduated and received a contract, as a Cantonese, he was still stuck in a Mandarin with Cantonese flavor.
In the year he graduated from college alone, he ran 300 crews and found nothing.
The inferior appearance also made him suffer a lot of cold eyes and ridicule, and was once evaluated as a "dwarf" by an assistant director.
And Monday Wei, who auditioned together, was also dismissed as a "sausage mouth".
Bei drifted for three years to run the crew, was rejected more than 800 times, and Zhang Songwen, who came with hope at the beginning, was fiercely whipped by reality.
Although the current situation of not receiving the drama is very worrying, since it chose to take this road in the first place, it is necessary to continue to stick to it.
More than a decade after graduation, Zhang Songwen quit his job at the school, set up his own performance studio, taught many star students, and won the title of "star godfather".
The road to coaching is booming, and the road of actors is stumbling.
Before 2016, Zhang Songwen either played a supporting role in various dramas, or played the male number one of the unknown works.
In 2018, Zhang Songwen starred in the film "Summer of the West Creek" and won an award at the Busan International Film Festival, but there was little discussion in China.
It wasn't until "Stormy Clouds" a year later that he really entered the public eye and showed a small sharp edge in the Chinese film industry.
Although the evaluation of this film is mixed, the audience's feelings about the role of Don Sr. are very consistent:
"It's a really good show!"
In 2020, a "Hidden Corner" exploded.
The 43-year-old Zhang Songwen really "went out of the circle" and became a "high-quality actor" in the public's mouth.
It had been exactly twenty years since the afternoon he had left Shenzhen.
03 Silly, voluntary
It is said that the reason why Zhang Songwen's play is good comes from the fact that he has no "performance traces" at all in his acting.
It is not easy for an actor to have this trait, in addition to having talent, it is also necessary to have the accumulation of observation of life over time.
Zhang Songwen is a person who loves life, and he never skimps on social platforms to show this.
As early as the era of blogging, a single bamboo plant can make him feel a lot.
He would feel warm from the interaction between the group girls and the geese.
A plastic butterfly in the air outlet of the hotel's air conditioner.
Record yourself with poplar grove for ten years of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
When this meticulous observation habit is applied to acting, the authenticity of the role is naturally one point more than that of careless people.
"Drama is not about more, it's about precision."
The answer to how precious this mentality is in today's fast food era is self-evident.
In Zhang Songwen, people can always see an actor's original and fiery sense of faith, supporting him to do one crazy thing after another.
Just like in "Stormy Clouds", in order to fit the role, he once gained thirty pounds a month;
It's like the red marks on the neck in the "Revolutionary" tidbits, and the suffocation again and again.
Some say actors like him are the dumbest.
I will not judge the situation and make more money, obviously I have stayed up for so many years to get ahead, but I am still abiding by the duty of being a "good actor".
Just like exquisite egoism never understands why love can withstand years.
If such an ingenious artist can be evaluated as "stupid", then I sincerely hope that there will be more and more such "fools" in the Chinese film industry.