On May 23, 1996, the rich man Li Ka-shing received a phone call, and the other party said straight to the point: "Your eldest son Li Zeju is now in my hands, if you want to save his life, you will come to see me with two billion, otherwise I will tear up the ticket!" ”
Li Ka-shing was flustered when he heard that his son had been kidnapped, because it was no one else who blackmailed him, but Zhang Ziqiang, the famous "Thief King of the Century" in Hong Kong.
As early as 1991, Zhang Ziqiang robbed 7 million gold and silver jewelry worth by robbing gold shops, and in the same year he robbed a cash truck and robbed 160 million.
Because of the huge amount of money looted, it was also included in the Guinness Book of World Records. Judging from Zhang Ziqiang's past cases, this is definitely an outlaw who wants to "do big tickets".
In the face of Zhang Ziqiang's lion opening his mouth, Li Ka-shing, who loves his son, can only choose to give in.
Zhang Ziqiang's fierce and vicious eyes were vicious, and he knew that Li Ka-shing did not dare to do anything with him for his son, so he not only ran to Li Ka-shing's home with a big wave, but also took more than a billion yuan of tying up money.
After Zhang Ziqiang was punished by law, his story was filmed and televisionized, and many people on the screen have interpreted this plot, including many old drama bones such as Ren Dahua and Chen Xiaochun, but the one who really portrayed this role is "Hao Brother" Zhao Yanguozhang.
A sentence "I don't want to listen to any romantic love story, I just want to make money" made Zhao Yanguozhang popular, and also made him change from a poor boy who could not afford to go to school to a famous actor who bought a villa and married a foreign wife, Zhao Yanguozhang seems to be successful, but a careful understanding of his life story will find that Zhao Yanguozhang is "a rich brother, a defeated brother." ”
It is not difficult to see from the name of Zhao Yanguozhang that he has an inseparable connection with the land of Yanzhao, Zhao Yanguozhang is a native of Xingtai, Hebei Province, he was born in a standard peasant family: the family depends on farming for a living, and there are many brothers and sisters.
In addition, Zhao Yanguozhang's family has a total of five children. Among them, Zhao Yanguozhang is the most loved by his parents, because he is the smartest child with the best grades in the family.
In the school, Zhao Yanguozhang was called a "genius" by the teacher, and after only four years of primary school, he jumped into junior high school, and mastered the knowledge in the textbook not long after entering junior high school, and obtained the qualification for further education two years later.
When taking the high school examination, Zhao Yanguozhang achieved the second place in the county, and it is reasonable to say that as long as he continues to study in high school, it is not a problem to change his fate by entering a prestigious university, but Zhao Yanguozhang gave up his studies at this time.
Because high school tuition is expensive, it is a heavy burden for their peasant family, Zhao Yanguozhang took the initiative to find his parents to explain his idea of not going to high school: "There are many children in the family, if I go to high school and college, my younger siblings will not have money to study, or let them go to school first." ”
His mother looked at him with guilt, and Zhao Yanguozhang comforted his parents: "Everyone says that the cold door is out of the noble son, I believe that even if I don't take the road of exams, I can break through the world." ”
Hebei popular a song art called Hebei Zizi, Zhao Yan Guozhang was later admitted to the county troupe, learning is the Hebei Zizi.
He has a very good voice, is deeply loved by teachers, is recognized as a "horn" in the troupe, and Zhao Yanguozhang loves to read, and always likes to ponder the plays he has learned in his spare time.
As the saying goes, knowledge changes fate, this is not false at all, the difference between the cultured Yan Zhao Guozhang and other colleagues in the troupe soon appeared: he sang well and understood the drama, knew what plot should develop, and also knew which words should be sung to best reflect the feelings of the characters, and the colleagues in the troupe were those who could sing and did not understand the drama, so they lacked a real understanding of the opera.
At that time, movies and television were introduced to China, and audiences preferred to watch things with a fresh feeling, so traditional opera was snubbed.
The efficiency of the troupe is not good, many people have thought of changing careers, but Zhao Yanguozhang is not willing to be defeated in this way, he began to create his own opera, and strive to carry forward the tradition, but also bring the audience a sense of freshness, write a good script and then carefully polish, and take into account every detail of each play.
After creating a new opera, Zhao Yanguozhang took the troupe's people out to perform together, which was an extremely risky thing at the time, but the leader believed that Zhao Yanguozhang could not sell tickets the most time, and would not bring great losses to the troupe, so he went.
No one can think that Zhao Yanguozhang's move is actually a great success, xiqu originally has a strong audience base, after Zhao Yanguozhang's processing of the plot is even more curious and fresh about the opera, the audience is very eating this set, in a circle of performances in a surrounding city, he brought more than 200,000 ticket revenue to the troupe.
At this time, Yan Zhao Guozhang did not expand the scale of the performance as people expected to continue to make money, but handed over the money earned to his family and continued his own path of study.
He first studied dance in Hebei for four years, because he frequently won awards in dance competitions and debriefing performance competitions and received the attention of his teachers, after graduation, Zhao Yanguozhang was assigned to the Baoding Cultural and Labor Troupe as a choreographer, and got the iron rice bowl that everyone envied.
But this iron rice bowl was not praised by him for a few years after all, in the process of work, he fell in love with acting in modern drama, had the idea of being an actor, so he decided to apply for film school to study acting.
This idea is destined not to be understood by people, a poor boy from a cold door, he could not even afford to study in the early days, and now through the struggle there is a formal establishment of course should be cherished, but Zhao Yanguozhang was born with a spirit of daring to fight and dare to break through, he gave up the stable and comfortable life of the literary troupe, resolutely applied for the university, because he studied opera and dance in the early years, his voice and physical condition were very good, he was admitted by Chinese opera and Nortel one after another, and finally Zhao Yanguozhang chose Nortel, and he was admitted with Xu Qing and Jiang Wenli.
Zhao Yanguo zhang was evaluated by the professional class teacher as soon as he entered the school: "Your appearance can only be used as a supporting role, ugly and not ugly enough, handsome and not handsome enough, stuck in the middle of the play road is very restricted." ”
He was very unconvinced when he heard this, and Zhao Yanguozhang thought to himself: "I have good grades in school, singing is the horn in the troupe, dancing is not less than winning awards, what line of work is praised as a genius, how to act is restricted?" ”
He studied acting harder, and after graduation, Xu Qing and Jiang Wenli became famous one after another, while Zhao Yanguozhang was not assigned because he missed the opportunity to be accepted by Hong Kong.
Until 1994, he had the opportunity to shoot, played a small role in the TV series "Mei Lanfang", and then starred in film and television dramas such as "Tibet Storm" and "Hedgehog Qin", acting skills are pure, but people are never famous, perhaps really like the teacher said, his image is too limited, it is difficult to find the right role. Although it was difficult, Zhao Yanguozhang still found it.
In 2000, director Ye Hongwei put Zhang Ziqiang's story on the screen, after the script was written, he began to look for a male lead, the director chose to choose to feel that Zhao Yanguozhang was the most suitable actor to play the role of Zhang Shihao, so he decided to play "Hao Brother".
The director's decision is successful, Zhao Yanguozhang simply played this unscrupulous bandit, "Brother Hao, dry tickets" and other lines have become classics, and there are many people who have played Zhang Ziqiang, but why is Zhao Yanguozhang the most classic one?
There is a scene in the play where Zhang Ziqiang goes to the rich man's house, and the other actors focus on the arrogance of this gangster, but Zhao Yanguozhang performs this character with a little panic, he said: "After all, this person is from a poor family, and when he goes to the home of a rich man, he will definitely be weak-minded, which is due to his nature." ”
With such a point of contemplation of the role, it is no wonder that Zhao Yanguozhang will be very successful.
After becoming a famous actor with a masterpiece, Zhao Yanguozhang had the idea of being a director, he spent money to shoot "Qia Classmate Boy", but at that time, because of SARS reasons, it could not be released, the distributor made this film into a DVD in order to make money, and secretly poked and poked that this was a "restricted film", in fact, there were almost no shots of tertiary films in this movie, and it was Zhao Yanguozhang's painstaking effort, he was not willing to let his film be so bad, and sued the distributor to the court, but the damage caused could not be recovered.
After that, he filmed many police films as an actor, but there was no drama as explosive as "Wings Can't Escape", and there were always people in the audience on the road who had to call him "Hao Ge Hao Brother", but few people knew his real name.
Although her career was frustrated, Zhao Yanguozhang was very proud in the love field, he married a Swedish beauty named Anna, Anna worked at the Swedish Institute of Biological Sciences, was a beautiful and talented intellectual, Anna's mother remarried to a Greek aristocratic man when she was a child, living a high-society life.
In this way, Zhao Yanguozhang also became the son-in-law of the nobles and settled in Sweden after marriage.
Anna gave birth to a daughter for Zhao Yanguozhang, both husband and wife hope that the child can learn the language of their own country, Zhao Yanguozhang feels that her daughter should also learn English, so the daughter learned to Chinese, Swedish and English at a young age, and speaks quite fluently.
Zhao Yanguozhang's only regret is that he did not shoot a work beyond "Hao Brother", he can write and direct the performance, and he is the strength faction in Yongmei's heart that "the script will be polished to a higher level after he polishes", but he has never been able to wait for the opportunity to prove himself.
Zhao Yanguozhang has a 500-square-meter house in Beijing, when filming the movie, in addition to this house did not sell the other money in his hands basically all smashed into it, "the house price has now risen ten times, more money than making movies", Zhao Yanguozhang is always so self-deprecating.
There are inevitably regrets in life, but the most important thing than the unfinished is what he has, as an actor Zhao Yanguozhang has still brought works to the audience over the years, it is not difficult to see his love for the director. There are masterpieces, beautiful wives, and sensible daughters, these three things are enough to make him a winner in life, although he did not surpass "Hao Brother", but achieved "Hao Brother".