Borrow money to pay taxes, speak out for fighting orphans, receive the Golden Broom Award: Wang Baoqiang, the "sweeping monk" in the entertainment industry
In 2018, Wang Baoqiang's bank statement in 2016 was made public by Ma Rong.
Ma Rong was going to prove that he had not transferred the other party's property: "Look, we also left 200,000 yuan for the baby. But everyone only saw Wang Baoqiang's "misery".
Two days after Wang Baoqiang's divorce, Chen Sicheng borrowed 3 million yuan from Wang Baoqiang. Wang Baoqiang used the money to do the first thing (the first expenditure of the account) - pay taxes.
The "stupid things" Wang Baoqiang has done are not only "borrowing money to pay taxes".
In 2016, his first film won the "Golden Broomstick" (Most Disappointing Director).
Other directors can't hide from this award, but he rushed to the scene to receive the award (this is also the only director in history who came to receive the "Golden Broom Award"). Wang Baoqiang said:
"I also know that this award is a shameful award, but it can spur you to improve, and I have to personally accept everyone's criticism." This time, I owe the audience once. ”
In 2023, Wang Baoqiang became a director for the second time, and the film won the "Annual Expectant Film Award" and the "Annual Focus Director Award" before it was released. The audience is so hopeful that Baoqiang will succeed, 68,000 netizens commented:
"I really can't see him lose."
20 years ago, Wang Baoqiang, who just entered the industry, had no money, no background, no education, and no good looks, but now Wang Baoqiang really wants something! Is it his noble luck that is too good?
No, if you read Wang Baoqiang's history of struggle, you will find that people like him are destined to meet nobles along the way.
Li Yang and Feng Xiaogang took a fancy to his "stupidity", and there were too few "simple eyes" in the city
At the award ceremony, Wang Baoqiang thanked the four directors who achieved his "film dream":
"Thank you for making my movie life a good one."
In fact, Wang Baoqiang's nobles are not only these four people.
Jet Li should be his first nobleman, because he watched "Shaolin Temple", a 6-year-old boy born in an ordinary family in Xingtai City, Hebei Province, who made up his mind to go to Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts. In 1988, not every family had ambitions for their children to go to university, and if they could learn martial arts, they might be able to learn martial arts in the future, and the parents agreed to Xiao Wang Baoqiang's request.
As soon as he went up the mountain, Wang Baoqiang was accepted as a lay disciple: running at four or five o'clock every morning, running from the mountain to Dengfeng City and back, learning cultural classes and martial arts in the afternoon, and for 6 years, Wang Baoqiang has never cried and made trouble.
Since he took Jet Li as an example, Wang Baoqiang naturally wanted to act and enter the "martial arts".
So, he came to Beijing to wander. But where is "martial arts" so easy to enter? Zhang Jin, who won the title of national martial arts athlete, will have to find a stand-in job for 3 years after he is discharged from the army, not to mention Wang Baoqiang.
Therefore, Wang Baoqiang mixed in the group performance pile to find work, while going to the construction site to move bricks, waiting for the "place to be used".
But in just 3 years, Wang Baoqiang's opportunity came.
Once, someone else introduced him to a certain crew to interview for "starring" (I heard that this is a story adapted from the 1988 case of the three largest mining cave fraud and murder gangs, and you need to find an amateur to star). When he arrived at the scene, he regretted it, most of the people who came to the interview were handsome, after all, they were the starring actors, and he wanted to flee the scene in a hurry.
But the god of luck came at this time - director Li Yang caught a glimpse of Wang Baoqiang, who was confused and helpless in the crowd, and his eyes were a little silly and a little innocent.
In Li Yang's eyes, this is the male protagonist! A 16-year-old boy Yuan Fengming, who was deceived after his father disappeared and had no money to go to school to work, and was taken to the mine!
After Li Yang hammered the sound, Wang Baoqiang spent 300 yuan to buy a second-hand mobile phone in order to let the crew contact him, and he was robbed by three men after buying it. He fought desperately with those three people and snatched the phone back - this phone is not a mobile phone now, it is his life...
After acting in this movie, newcomer Wang Baoqiang won a lot of authoritative film awards and earned 2,000 yuan in salary - his first pot of gold.
Wang Baoqiang got 2,000 pieces of music crazy, at this time he did not know that the god of fate would continue to favor him.
Because of his performance in "Blind Well", Feng Xiaogang, who was preparing to shoot "No Thief in the World", took a fancy to him and asked him to play "Stupid Root".
When he entered the crew of "No Thief in the World", Wang Baoqiang couldn't even use the sensor faucet, and Andy Lau taught him.
Because Andy Lau often guides himself cordially and treats himself equally, Wang Baoqiang has no gratitude and kneels directly.
The first time he acted in a crying scene and couldn't cry, Liu Ruoying took the role to say to him:
"Silly root, this drama will end soon, we are about to separate, after the film is released, everyone knows that you and I are brothers and sisters."
"Silly Root" cried out wow, Wang Baoqiang was so "true" at that time.
The story of Wang Baoqiang and Feng Xiaogang is not over: during that time, Feng Xiaogang had a bad stomach and often had diarrhea during filming.
After the finalization, Wang Baoqiang carried more than 100 pounds of millet from his hometown in Xingtai and sent it to Director Feng's house.
"Brother, millet nourishes the stomach, this is millet planted by my father, pure natural, better than the supermarket, you will know it after eating."
Feng Xiaogang accepted Xiaomi, and later "Rally", "1942" and "Private Customization" all found Wang Baoqiang, and recommended him to Lan Xiaolong and Kang Honglei.
From Xu Sanduo to Mr. Shu, he "defeated" Chen Sicheng, Zhang Yi and Duan Yihong
In 2006, Wang Baoqiang, who played "A Bing", had some fame and recognition, and he said to his peers: I want to shoot martial arts scenes, and there is such a role to introduce me.
Just at this time, "Soldier Assault" found him, Wang Baoqiang was a little hesitant, or Xu Fan ordered him:
"After you play Xu Sanduo, you will no longer be a fool."
Xu Fan means: although it is not a martial arts drama, it can broaden the path of drama.
Wang Baoqiang then got the hang of it, took the role, read the script, and actually cried:
"I am Xu Sanduo, and this script is simply written according to my heart."
"When I was a child, I was often bullied, why do those children love to beat me? I look like I'm being bullied, for no reason. Why is Xu Sanduo bullied? There is no reason, just be honest and do not like to talk. ”
After performing Xu Sanduo, Wang Baoqiang became a hit, and everything was natural.
But Wang Baoqiang didn't know that Lan Xiaolong and Kang Honglei were also nobles chosen by heaven for him.
When Lan Xiaolong's script was written to recruit foreign troops, Chen Sicheng wanted to act, and the director said: "You are too shrewd to do it." Zhang Yi wrote a 3,000-word letter to recommend himself, and the director also refused, giving him the role of "squad leader".
"Xu Sanduo this person has to look like a bully, be kind, laugh with big white teeth, preferably with an accent."
This role can only be Wang Baoqiang.
Director Kang said: "It is too difficult for China to find two actors with such simple eyes, more difficult than catching spies. It's harder to find another one who laughs so brightly and so innocently. ”
After performing "Xu Sanduo", Wang Baoqiang met "Mr. Tree" again.
The director of "Mr. Tree" is Han Jie, a student of Jia Zhangke.
Han Jie personally wants Duan Yihong to play, but firstly, the old Duan has no schedule, and secondly, Jia Zhangke has a fancy for Wang Baoqiang.
After Wang Baoqiang got the script, he didn't understand it at first. Don't think he will miss the opportunity, Wang Baoqiang's advantage is that the culture is not high, but the intuition is first-class, he knows that this movie is not simple:
"It's not interesting to understand the script at once, and it's interesting if you can't understand it."
So persuaded himself, he took this unprofitable movie.
"Mr. Tree" has undoubtedly achieved the peak of Wang Baoqiang.
Although Duan Yihong did not act in this movie, he later watched "Mr. Tree" seriously, and he said:
"Wang Baoqiang dumped a professional actor 108,000 miles with a smoking action."
Is Wang Baoqiang really weak? Maybe he is really a "sweeping monk" in the entertainment industry
Humble, embarrassed, confused, amateur, when he first debuted, Wang Baoqiang's survival depended on "background" - in the entertainment industry, he was once the "lowest existence" regardless of his appearance or resources. Especially after being pitted by Ma Rong, stupid, simple, and vulnerable groups seem to have become synonymous with him.
But is he really weak?
Huang Bo once said:
"Wang Baoqiang is not the stupid root we imagined at all, but it is as simple as purity and kindness."
Huang Bo may not have praised or disparaged, but only described the characteristics and ambitions of Wang Baoqiang as a person.
Looking back at the first 40 years of Wang Baoqiang, you will see a real Wang Baoqiang:
1. Clear goals from an early age. He went to Shaolin to study martial arts for 6 years, but he did not return home for a year.
2. Can eat the suffering that ordinary people can't eat, and doesn't care about the eyes of others. At the age of 20, he went to Beijing to wander, working at the construction site while looking for opportunities in the crew.
3. Extremely smart and good at seizing opportunities. What the directors want to let themselves play, Wang Baoqiang knows very well. Realistically, these industrial filmmakers "need" the sympathetic, pitying, embarrassing, and struggling parts of him.
Wang Baoqiang is very smart, Yuan Fengming, Silly Gen, A Bing, Xu Sanduo, Mr. Shu, half-truth, he came to the whole performance, of course, there is an element of talent.
4. Know how to plan and understand marketing. After Mr. Shu, Wang Baoqiang began to act in comedy movies, and after the comedy film created his box office of 15 billion, he transformed into a director. The first time the director failed, it doesn't matter, he went to receive the Golden Broom Award to move netizens, everyone feels that Baoqiang makes a movie again, no matter what, he must be encouraged... Baoqiang really takes "marketing" to the extreme.
5. The most important point: Wang Baoqiang's pattern is the top in the circle, and humility is only the appearance.
When he borrowed money to pay taxes, netizens believed that Wang Baoqiang could not be found among 10,000 artists. He went to receive the "humiliating award", and the audience was more convinced that he would not be a good director.
He knelt to Andy Lau when he was a "cucumber egg", and after becoming famous, he knelt to the director who helped him - when he was unknown, he knelt to see him, and when he became famous, he knelt to know gratitude.
Now, he has done another big thing: make a movie of "The Orphan Incident of Embo's Fight". After 6 years of preparation, he returned to the "background" and paid attention to the fate of orphans at the bottom. He said:
"Why I made this play, it's closely related to my experience. I've been through so many ups and downs. None of them destroyed me.
My hardest time was when I went to work on the construction site while running tricks, why did I persist. Because persistence is hopeful, if you give up, you can no longer have anything to do with the movie.
Others can't see my future, and to be honest, I can't see it, but I lied to myself that I have to see the future.
I have persisted for so long to see the light, this play is the same, the children will definitely see the light! ”
The feeling of hearing this - don't look at the sentient beings in the entertainment industry, but there are not necessarily a few who can catch up with Wang Baoqiang!
In 2008, Wang Baoqiang wrote an autobiography, which included a chapter called "I dreamed that I had become Jueyuan." ”
Perhaps in another 20 years, we will find that Wang Baoqiang is really the "sweeping monk".