Text / DI
Editors / Little love letters
"Listen to what shit romantic love stories they say, Lao Tzu just wants to make money now"
In the 2002 hit crime police drama "Wings Can't Escape", Zhang Shihao's classic line has been popular for 20 years and is still a hot word on the Internet.
A still from "Wings Can't Escape"
Back then, who didn't know "Zhang Shihao", the popularity was not inferior to the current traffic stars.
But when it comes to the name Zhao Yanguozhang, it is probably a big discount.
1.
As the actor of "Zhang Shihao", Zhao Yanguozhang once followed the role of the fire. Later, he also starred in many works, but unfortunately no role can catch up with "Wings Can't Escape".
Zhao Yanguozhang, who has repeatedly suffered setbacks on the road of career development, is a less fortunate person.
Zhao Yanguozhang was born in a poor peasant family in Hebei. Because the residence status is in the historical Yan Kingdom, it was named Zhao Yan Guozhang.
In rural families in the sixties, who did not have three or five children, most of them were large with small ones, and a piece of clothing was worn "hereditarily". Zhao Yanguozhang has five brothers and sisters in his family, and his life is even more difficult.
But he was a smart kid, and he skipped only four years of the six-year elementary school curriculum. In junior high school, he studied for two years of the three-year course.
When he graduated from junior high school, Zhao Yanguozhang was only thirteen years old, and he ranked second in the county in the graduation examination, which shows that his IQ is very high.
If the family conditions are good, the child has such an ability, naturally he must cultivate well, and he cannot be buried. Poor Zhao Yanguozhang is a bitter man, it is not easy for his family to study until junior high school, and there is no ability for him to go to high school.
Children from poor families head their heads of household early. If you can't contribute to your family, you can only sacrifice. So when Zhao Yanguozhang was thirteen years old, he gave up high school and was admitted to the county theater troupe to learn singing.
Originally, the entrance examination of the troupe was not due to his interest, and at that time, he just thought that he could have a place to go, control food and control, and reduce the burden on his family a little.
One year of Peking Opera, two years of Hebei Bangzi. After studying drama for three years, Zhao Yanguozhang unknowingly grew into a teenager. In the past three years, he has practiced diligently in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and dare not slack.
The troupe often went to the countryside to perform, one stop after another, and walked for several months. When he set off, he was still wearing summer clothes, and the further back he went, the colder the weather became, and he shivered with cold without thick clothes to wear Zhao Yanguozhang.
Fortunately, the teacher loved the little old man in his group, and when he was in a hurry, he often asked him to sit next to him and get under a leather jacket like a trench coat to keep warm.
In the fourth year of studying opera, under the recommendation of his teacher, Zhao Yanguozhang was admitted to Hebei Provincial Art School to learn dance choreography. He is honest and studious, works hard in everything, and has won many awards during his dance studies, which is very appreciated by teachers.
Therefore, after graduation, Zhao Yanguozhang successfully got a job assignment - as a choreographer and director in the Baoding Cultural Troupe.
In seven years, Zhao Yanguozhang has completed the transformation from graduating from junior high school to studying art performances and then participating in work. At just twenty years old, he seems to have experienced half a lifetime.
Children who are struggling to live can finally make their own lives.
The more stable life is, the more obvious the regret in the heart will be. He was once forced not to continue studying, but Zhao Yanguozhang has always had a college dream in his heart.
So, after two years of work. He applied for an art college in Beijing, and Zhao Yanguozhang, who was only Chinese after ten years, was able to get an overtest in the cultural course exam
Take a score of eight points on the score line.
Then, the Beijing Film Academy and the Central Academy of Drama both intended to admit him out of the ordinary. Zhao Yanguozhang is a drama in his heart, but because the file delivery is not correct, he can only stay in Beiying in the end.
This should be the first time in his life that he has created a man.
2.
The acting class of the 1988 class of Hokage is also a well-known star class. Xu Qing, Jiang Wenli, Li Ting, etc., are all in the same class as Zhao Yanguozhang.
Because of the different experiences, he seemed to be much more mature among his classmates, and he served as the class president and group secretary during his studies.
Jiang Wenli also said that Zhao Yanguozhang is a very thoughtful, thoughtful and honest person.
He and Jiang Wenli were once arranged to perform together, and the two often used the evening break to rehearse in the dance studio for a while.
Zhao Yanguozhang knows how to keep a distance between male and female classmates, and even when rehearsing dances, he respects Jiang Wenli very much.
At that time, Jiang Wenli had some good feelings for this humble gentleman who knew how to measure, but Zhao Yanguozhang never responded. A young crush quietly began and then buried into the years.
"Maybe I took the initiative at that time, maybe I really didn't care about anything."
Jiang Wenli and Gu Changwei
Time flies by quickly, and four years of college are fleeting. Most of the students in the class have three choices, one is to continue to study abroad, the second is to start looking for filming by themselves, and the third is to change careers to find another way out.
Zhao Yanguozhang was not among the three choices, because at that time the school had a place sent by the country to Hong Kong, and he got it.
But when everything was ready, I learned that Hong Kong did not accept artists from Beijing.
So in the end, Zhao Yanguozhang was a public faction, and the public party did not succeed, and he missed the opportunity for graduation assignment.
This was the second time in his life that he had created a man.
Helplessly, he was heartbroken, and it was better to continue learning and wait for the opportunity. In the second year after graduation, Zhao Yanguozhang went to Singapore for further study.
In Singapore, he met Anna, a Swedish girl, a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The two impressed each other at the time. But they didn't seize the opportunity to go further, and they passed by.
Then Zhao Yanguozhang returned to China to develop, and that relationship was even more sinking.
Unexpectedly, three years later, at a party in Beijing, he met the Swedish girl again.
After talking, I learned that Anna came to Beijing to study. This time they will not miss it again, the two soon became lovers, and soon entered the palace of marriage.
For his wife Anna, Zhao Yanguozhang chose to follow his wife to settle in Sweden. His dedication touched Anna very much, and the relationship between the two has always been very good after marriage, and later his daughter Qi Qi was born, and the family of three was even more happy.
The happiness of the family brought Zhao Yanguo great comfort.
Because his career development has not been smooth since returning to China, he is a person with ideas, not only wants to be a good actor, but also like a good director and shoot a good story in his heart.
Friends in the circle said that he was a weirdo, not popular overnight, and did not chase fame and fortune.
For many years, I have been silently competing with myself, and I must shoot what I want.
3.
In 1997, Zhao Yanguozhang planned his first self-written, directed and acted film work - "Just a Classmate Boy". For this movie, he can be said to have given everything he had.
It was prepared for two years, and then it officially started shooting in 1999. Due to financial problems, the film was not fully produced until 2002.
However, during that period, the film market was depressed, and in order to seek selling points, the producer directly carved the film into a disc and packaged it into a "tertiary film" for promotion and sale.
This behavior is undoubtedly a trampling on Zhao Yanguozhang's hard work and efforts, and it is unbearable.
In a fit of anger, Zhao Yanguozhang took four units, including the issuer, to court, and was bound to recover his innocence.
The film finally won the "Best Watch Film Award" at the 13th Stockholm International Film Festival.
A still from "Just a Classmate Boy"
The first work is so bumpy, Zhao Yanguozhang is very sad.
Fortunately, after the broadcast of "Wings Can't Escape", the ratings were excellent, which brought a small peak to his acting career.
The character of "Zhang Shihao" was originally modeled on the "criminal of the century, Zhang Ziqiang", a well-known figure among Hong Kong terrorists in the 80s and 90s, who repeatedly committed major crimes and was finally arrested and sentenced to death.
Zhao Yanguozhang's superb acting skills restored this big devil to the screen. So much so that many years later, walking on the street, he was often called "Zhang Shihao" by passers-by.
In fact, after "Wings Can't Escape", Zhao Yanguozhang also starred in many film and television works.
For example, in 2006, the emotional suspense drama "Dangerous Cuckoo" filmed by director Liu Guoqing. He also plays a villain paranoid with a dual personality.
In 2009, Zhao Yanguozhang also starred in the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China in the movie "Heavy Rain is Coming".
In 2011, he directed and starred again in the movie "Positive. Youth", Wang Ziwen began to become popular in this movie.
"Positive. Youth" stills
And his second solo creation also won the Golden Angel Award at the Hollywood Sino-American Film Festival. But even so, compared to "Wings Can't Escape", these later works are actually not a big splash.
Therefore, in 2013, Zhao Yanguozhang wrote, directed and acted in the criminal police drama "The Changing Face of Wings and Flight". A tribute to the classics of the year, but in the end, it seems that the results are not satisfactory.
And in the early years, because of Sun Honglei, who played the underworld "Liu Huaqiang", a sentence "Is the melon ripe?" The same hot cross that has been on fire for decades.
He and Zhao Yanguozhang's fame is actually similar.
But now comparing the two again, it is already a world of difference. One won the award and got soft, and the other although there was occasional filming, even if he appeared on the screen, most of the audience was unrecognizable.
"Life itself is like this, there are many variables and many angles."
Some people say that Zhao Yanguozhang's "disappearance" is the sadness and loss of the entertainment industry. Whether this sentence is or not, let's not prove it.
Zhao Yanguozhang himself has always been calm about the problem of whether fire is not hot.
At the age of 56, he has experienced too many changes in his life, and his requirements for life from a humble background are just to stick to his own pursuit.
There are too many people who pursue fame and fortune, and only sticking to their hearts is the most difficult. Zhao Yanguozhang's existence in the entertainment industry, does not care about the size of the reputation, as long as there are people like him who are still insisting, he can keep the bottom line of the entertainment industry.