In recent years, Wang Baoqiang has appeared less and less in front of the audience, as we all know, the entertainment industry is to pay attention to heat, less exposure, that is not far from the popularity of others, it is not far.
He is an international film emperor, he is the son of a farmer, with a "silly energy" to brave the film and television circle, becoming a star of all attention.
Why did it "disappear" when it became popular, today, Shiqi will take everyone to see Wang Baoqiang's life, and may be able to find the answer.
The first time he watched the script of "Soldier Assault", Wang Baoqiang almost cried, and he "gritted his teeth" and asked the people around him: "Who is the screenwriter?" I'm going to kill him. ”
Because every line of the screenwriter seems to be written by touching his heart.
In the script, Xu Sanduo said: "Don't give up, don't give up." Live well and do something meaningful. ”
How many times have Wang Baoqiang said this to himself in the days when he couldn't eat his meal in Beijing, and only then did he carry it step by step.
01
Wang Baoqiang was born on April 29, 1982, to an ordinary peasant family in Xingtai, Hebei Province.
The old man was dark, thin and small, always bullied by the big children in the village, and every time he hated himself for being too weak.
Rural children are very free, climbing trees today and touching fish tomorrow, but their favorite activity is to watch open-air movies, even if they have to walk a few miles, they are also very happy.
When he was eight years old, Wang Baoqiang saw the movie called "Shaolin Temple", and he was terrified!
That night, for the first time in his life, he lost sleep, and his mind was repeated over and over again, all of which were like martial arts moves.
He wants to make movies and be a kung fu star like Jet Li! He thought that if he was as strong as Jueyuan, no one would dare to hit him.
The next day, Xiao Bao rushed to tell his parents that he wanted to go to the Shaolin Temple to learn kung fu.
Mother touched his head lovingly and smiled.
Father was busy and said impatiently, "Fool around." ”
"I'm not fooling around, I'm going to the Shaolin Temple."
Dad raised a hand: "Pi'er is itchy again, isn't it?" ”
Wang Baoqiang did not hide: "If you hit me, I will also go." ”
Dad's hand went down and looked at Wang Baoqiang for half a day.
During that time, in order to go to the Shaolin Temple, Wang Baoqiang tried all kinds of ways.
In his spare time, he pretended to punch and kick in front of his parents, and also helped his mother to do a lot of housework and farm work, and "talked" by the way.
His mother was grinded by him, but seeing that he was so young, where to rest assured that he could go down to Shaolin.
As the days passed, Xiao Wang Baoqiang felt that there was little hope, and he couldn't help but feel sad from it, ran to the field and cried, and fell asleep crying and crying.
By the time he woke up, he was already at home, his parents seemed to be discussing something, and he only felt disheartened.
One day half a month later, his father said to him, "Shaolin Temple, if you want to go, then go." ”
02
Facing the early morning wind, my father rode a car carrying Xiao Baoqiang from his hometown to Xingtai to take the train.
After two hours of cycling, five hours of train, and three hours of cars, Wang Baoqiang finally stood at the gate of the Shaolin Temple.
Master Shi Yanhong touched his bones and nodded with satisfaction, Xiao Baoqiang officially entered the door of Shaolin.
In the six years of Shaolin learning martial arts, Wang Baoqiang saw the most was the appearance of Shaolin at four o'clock in the morning.
Every day, dozens of miles of running, kicking, splitting legs, tiger steps, fluttering steps, horse steps is three hours.
Sometimes I was too tired to take off my socks at night, and in the morning I found that my socks had been firmly stuck to the skin by coagulated blood clots.
After three years of basic training, I began to learn boxing routines.
In "Farewell to the Overlord", it is said that if you want to be noble before people, you will suffer after people. This is especially true for learning martial arts.
Slowly, Wang Baoqiang listened to his brothers and sisters say that Jet Li's kung fu was not learned in Shaolin, it turned out that he was a martial arts athlete, which made him a little disappointed, and his movie dream became distant.
At the age of 12, after layers of selection, Wang Baoqiang was selected into the martial monastic troupe and began to follow his brothers to perform outside.
After each performance, listening to the thunderous cheers and applause from the audience, his heart was sweeter than drinking honey, and he felt that his movie dream had been revived again.
In 1998, Wang Baoqiang's sixth year in Shaolin, he had two choices: one was to stay and continue performing, or not to leave.
Thinking of the movie dream in his heart, Wang Bao gritted his teeth and resolutely left Shaolin and came to Beijing alone.
Because he heard the brothers say that Beijing can produce big stars, there is a door called Beijing Film Factory, as long as you squat every day, there will be a director to find you to shoot.
With a pure heart and carrying the five or six hundred yuan he had earned from performing in the martial monastic troupe, Wang Baoqiang began his career as a northern drifter.
03
Life in a foreign land is cold and lonely, five or six people are crowded in a shared house adjacent to the coal yard, the smell is stinking, only 20 yuan a month, every day before dawn, you have to go to the door of the North Film Factory to wait for work.
On days when there is no work, he eats potatoes every day, and when he really can't stand it, he goes to the construction site to move bricks to live in the construction site, which constitutes the main theme of Wang Baoqiang's career in the north.
Once, Wang Baoqiang played a refugee who was kicked to the ground by an officer and flipped into the ditch with a basket.
I originally thought that this foot would be "making a show", but I didn't expect that the person was a real kick.
The big scalp shoes kicked on the waist and eyes, and the person fell to the ground in pain, curled up into the shape of shrimp, and the rolling action behind it naturally could not be done.
Three consecutive shots, the director only let it pass, Wang Baoqiang's waist, after a week, there are still bruised shoe prints.
What made Wang Baoqiang a little famous in the martial arts was a movie called "Bus Detective".
He was a stand-in for the male protagonist, and he needed to climb a high fire ladder, about two meters high, and underneath it was a cement floor, without any protective measures, so he fell straight backwards.
Falling again and again, Wang Baoqiang felt that his body had been torn apart, and when he heard the director call "OK", he was already numb from pain, and the blood on his elbow had soaked his sleeves.
The scene was only filmed for two days, but Wang Baoqiang lay in bed for a week before his body barely recovered.
Since then, everyone knows that there is a man named Wang Baoqiang in the martial arts stand-in, and the person is a fake fall, and he is a real fall that does not kill.
Although he was often too poor to eat, Bao Qiang washed photos every once in a while, washing dozens of photos at a time and distributing them to the assistant director and the cave heads.
People around him ridiculed his wishful thinking, and Wang Baoqiang said: "No one saw the 100th photo, but what about 101 photos?" ”
In 2002, the film "Blind Well" began filming, the shooting site was in a mine hundreds of meters deep, very dangerous, and a collapse accident could occur at any time.
Male number two took a look, the head did not turn back and left, the director was anxious, at this time Wang Baoqiang sent the photo effect came out.
The director remembered Wang Baoqiang because his image was particularly in line with the character to be played.
At that time, Wang Baoqiang was moving cement at the construction site, and the director team called him and said, "Wang Baoqiang?" We have the Blind Well crew here. Come tomorrow for a makeup audition. ”
In this way, Wang Baoqiang won the Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer with "Blind Well".
Because of "Blind Well", Wang Baoqiang won the opportunity to star in silly roots in "No Thief in the World".
At that time, "Blind Well" won the award, and someone recommended Feng Xiaogang to watch this movie, and he noticed the character called "Wind Ming".
In "Feng Ming", Feng Xiaogang found the simplicity and warmth he wanted, which just fit the silly root.
After filming this play, Wang Baoqiang signed a contract with Feng Xiaogang Studio, and Feng Xiaogang said to him:
"You must maintain your simple nature, because in this impetuous society, simplicity is your secret weapon to defeat the enemy." 」
"Soldier Assault" is Xu Fan's next film to help Wang Baoqiang, when BaoQiang, full of thoughts, wanted to play the hero in the martial arts drama, Jet Li.d..
But Xu Fan told Wang Baoqiang: "Child, I will not harm you, rest assured to shoot it." ”
Since Xu Fan said so, Wang Baoqiang could only obediently go to the set.
The first time I watched the script of "Soldier Assault", Wang Baoqiang's heart was like being pierced by a knife, and many of the lines in it were like touching his heart.
There is a scene where the father sends Xu Sanduo to the train, and Xu Sanduo tells his father all the way: "Don't call me a turtle son when you come out, call me a son." ”
That line was so vivid that Bao Qiang seemed to see himself and his father.
Xu Sanduo said, "Don't give up, don't give up." Live well and do something meaningful. ”
How many times have Wang Baoqiang said this to himself in the days when he couldn't eat his meal in Beijing, and only then did he carry it step by step.
After reading the script, Wang Baoqiang almost cried, and he "gritted his teeth" and asked the people around him: "Who is the screenwriter?" I'm going to kill him. ”
Although many people think that Wang Baoqiang is like a stupid root, in fact, Wang Baoqiang is more like Xu Sanduo.
Wooden, dull, old-fashioned, with foolish persistence, doing what he thinks is meaningful. This is Xu Sanduo, and it is also Wang Baoqiang.
04
So, what is stupid and what is smart?
Just like Forrest Gump in the movie "Forrest Gump", his IQ is not up to standard, but he is simple in mind and single-minded.
He would only run, but run and run, throwing off those who bullied him; Running and running, becoming a nationally renowned athlete; Running and running, he became a meritorious soldier who saved his comrades-in-arms.
Only "stupid" can be undistracted and brave enough to move forward.
In recent years, Wang Baoqiang has appeared less and less in front of the audience.
The well-known divorce incident was a huge blow to Wang Baoqiang, one was his favorite wife, the other was his trusted agent, who not only betrayed him, but also calculated his property everywhere.
To make matters worse, just when Wang Baoqiang's divorce war was finally settled and he could start a new life, his mother died suddenly.
"The Son wants to be nurtured but does not wait for him", how sad.
These two things made Wang Baoqiang calm down and rethink the meaning of life.
When filming "Soldier Assault", he told himself that he was Xu Sanduo. But is he really a lot?
Xu Sanduo does not give interviews for ten hours a day, and spends most of his life on airplanes, cars, ships, and all means of transportation. Most importantly, he didn't have a scandal!
Wang Baoqiang felt that he had done a lot of unnecessary things, and he began to push off a lot of activities and precipitate himself.
Actors are living in someone else's world, but the director is expressing himself. He set his goal of becoming a qualified director.
"Big Trouble Tianzhu" was his first directorial assignment, it was very bad, and it was also awarded the "Golden Broom Award", and he said at the scene of the award: "Thank you for giving me this award, so that I can say sorry to the audience." ”
After this incident, Wang Baoqiang thought bitterly and decided to abandon the way of sensationalism, and he wanted to tell a story well.
After three years of preparation, his second film, "In the Octagon Cage," was launched this year.
It is a masterpiece of realism, based on the true event of "Fighting Orphans", telling a story that is highly socially controversial.
As for how this homework will be, we still don't know. But from Wang Baoqiang's attitude, I did see his growth.
Filming "Big Trouble Tianzhu", I think he wants to eat the dividends of the "People on the Road" series, zhuyu in front, should be able to box office sales.
But the audience's eyes are shining, and the market will not accompany you to act.
The theme of this time, the choice is more careful, not popcorn films, there are many social and even human things worth exploring.
Now Wang Baoqiang has begun to abandon those impetuous things and has the determination to sink his heart and do a good job.
The entertainment industry is a circle of fame and fortune, as a star, it is difficult to be calm, lose the opportunity to expose, and you are not far from the past stars in other people.
But "under the sun, there is nothing new", one wave of people is cold, another wave of people stand up, who can keep evergreen?
People will always pass, but good works will be left behind.
"To live well is to do something meaningful."