Six years after the public apology, Wang Baoqiang's "one, two, three, four" does not need to be concealed this time
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An embarrassment
Recently, Wang Baoqiang encountered an embarrassing scene.
In the backstage of the Shanghai film event, 41-year-old Wang Baoqiang met 62-year-old Fei Xiang for the first time.
The two talked happily and were interviewed together.
"The First Part of Fengshen starring Fei Xiang" will be released on July 20.
The staff on the side suddenly asked Wang Baoqiang to call for the movie, and the scene froze at once.
Because Wang Baoqiang's self-directed and self-starred "In the Octagon Cage" will meet the audience on July 6.
In other words, the two movies are direct competitors, and calling the opponent is a bit unjustifiable.
Fei Xiang wanted to resolve this embarrassment, and quickly said in the circle: "It's better to say goodbye today." ”
But Wang Baoqiang hesitated a little and took the initiative to publicize to the camera: "On July 20th, watch "The First Part of Fengsheng". ”
After hearing this, Fei Xiang busily said thank you.
Wang Baoqiang also added:
"When filmmakers are together, the power of film is the greatest."
In just two sentences, Wang Baoqiang's pattern came out.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this is a small thing, but the audience who know Wang Baoqiang knows that it is not easy for him to do so.
In the past 6 years, he has been holding his breath.
In 2016, his ex-wife Ma Rong cheated, which is a huge humiliation that a man can suffer.
However, Wang Baoqiang took the initiative to blow himself up, causing a storm of public opinion, and the popularity once exceeded that of the Olympic Games in the same period.
His experience won everyone's sympathy, and he also made a marketing for his first directorial debut "Big Trouble".
In the Spring Festival of 2017, "Big Trouble" was released, and everyone walked into the theater to support Wang Baoqiang, just don't want to see honest people being bullied, and don't want Wang Baoqiang to lose.
Ironically, Ma Rong is the producer of this movie, Wang Baoqiang is inexperienced as a director for the first time, the comedy has become a farce, and the Douban score is only 3.7 points.
Even so, this bad film still got 750 million at the box office, overdrawing Wang Baoqiang's reputation.
At the Golden Broom Award that year, "Big Trouble" became the most disappointing movie of the year.
Wang Baoqiang felt very uncomfortable, but he still plucked up the courage to accept the award, and he also became the first A-list star on stage in the 9 years since the award was set.
Wang Baoqiang's "acceptance speech" is very frank, he must personally accept everyone's criticism, he respects the film and the audience.
Everyone forgave Wang Baoqiang, but the subtext behind forgiveness is: act well, you are not the material to be a director.
Wang Baoqiang heard this voiceover.
In the next 6 years, the identity of "director Wang Baoqiang" was actively hidden by him, a person who has suffered since childhood is the most knowledgeable to read people's eyes.
During this period, he filmed the "A Good Show" and "Tang Detective" series, and also appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, but he never moved the idea of becoming a director again, which seems to be some kind of consensus reached between him and the audience.
But Wang Baoqiang kept telling himself in his heart, I owe the audience a good movie, and I want to prove myself again.
"In the Octagon Cage" is a product of this ordeal.
From the early script creation, to the later deep selection of actors in the mountains, to the actual hard shooting, Wang Baoqiang was all hands-on.
It can also be seen from the behind-the-scenes footage that Wang Baoqiang on the set said all the vernacular when he was in charge, and a lot of experience came from his feelings when he was an actor.
This allows the film to retain its grassroots atmosphere, but it also adds a certain uncertainty.
On Wang Baoqiang's birthday last year, "In the Octagon Cage" was officially completed, and this year's birthday, "In the Octagon Cage" has reached the publicity period before its release.
41-year-old Wang Baoqiang has waited too long.
When director Wang Baoqiang re-entered the public eye, our feelings were familiar and strange.
That expectation remains the same, even if you know that he is a rookie director, even if he has failed him once.
But the call "I don't want Wang Baoqiang to lose" is still rising one after another.
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Two "plagiarism"?
Objectively speaking, Wang Baoqiang's directorial talent is very poor, and the two films he has directed so far are all suspected of "plagiarism".
The difference is that others copy works that cannot be beaten, and he directly copies them from the people around him.
His directorial debut is essentially copying Xu Zheng's "囧 series".
The story of "Big Trouble" takes place in India, the structure is no different from "Thailand", and it can be renamed "Yin".
However, Wang Baoqiang and Xu Zheng both got one thing wrong.
When filming "Tai Yan", Wang Baoqiang received a salary, and Huang Bo received dividends.
As a result, the box office was a big hit, Huang Bo directly earned 50 million, and Wang Baoqiang, who had more scenes, could only get a few million in salary.
When filming "Hong Kong", he also wanted to follow Huang Bo to get dividends, but Xu Zheng refused.
Xu Zheng feels that Wang Baoqiang can be replaced, and the fool in the film can be played by anyone.
So he found Baober, and we all saw -
Bao Bell, who was born in Koban, turned the fool into a talker and a nasty ghost, and the entire "Ji series" collapsed in an instant.
Wang Baoqiang switched to Chen Sicheng and filmed the "Tang Detective" series.
Tang Detective is actually an upgraded version of the "Tang series", which adds case-solving reasoning on the basis of comedy and is a great success.
Wang Baoqiang felt that he could leave Xu Zheng and Chen Sicheng and create his own "Ji Series".
As a result, he only learned the skin, not the essence.
Although Xu Zheng's "Ji Series" is noisy, it has a core theme - midlife crisis.
Chen Sicheng's "Tang Detective Series" is more noisy, but there is also a core wrapped in the coat of genre films - reasoning and judging cases.
Wang Baoqiang's "Big Trouble Tianzhu", as its name suggests, there is only farce, no core, the farce is over, and the chicken feathers are all over the place.
This "plagiarism" ended in failure.
The essence of Wang Baoqiang's new film is still "plagiarism", and "In the Octagon Cage" is copying Xu Zheng's "I Am Not the God of Medicine".
Both movies are based on real people and true events, telling the story of "tainted heroes".
In "I Am Not the God of Medicine", the owner of the Shenyou store played by Xu Zheng originally wanted to make a sum of money by buying Indian medicine, but he became the medicine god in the hearts of countless leukemia patients.
The prototype story of "In the Octagon" is the "Embo Fighting Incident".
The martial arts coach played by Wang Baoqiang originally wanted to adopt a group of orphans and train them to become fighters to participate in commercial performances to make money, but once became a lifesaver who changed these children.
You see, the story is almost identical.
But the difference is that Wang Baoqiang is by no means a clumsy imitation this time, but uses a lot of brains.
Wang Baoqiang has previously filmed "Blind Well" and "Hello! Mr. Tree" and "Destiny" are masterpieces of realistic themes, and he has the ability to pick out the big beams in these movies.
So this time in the choice of subject matter, he very pragmatically returned to the creation of realistic themes.
On the one hand, he has acted in this theme and has experience, on the other hand, "I Am Not the God of Medicine" has achieved a double harvest of box office and word of mouth, and can be directly referenced.
Wang Baoqiang is very familiar with the mental journey of the people at the bottom climbing up step by step.
He also went to Sichuan, where the "Enbo Incident" took place, to experience life, learn dialects, and further feel the psychological changes of the person involved in the incident, Enbo.
He admits that for a long time, he lived in the midst of this news event, as if he and Embo became one.
This experience allowed him to grasp the core of the film - reality.
And when creating, it will be true to the end.
In the play, the coach played by Wang Baoqiang adopted hundreds of orphans, taught them martial arts, and led them to change their lives against the sky.
Outside the play, Wang Baoqiang also went to the mountains and selected a few good seedlings from more than 1,000 poor children, taught them acting, and also helped them change their fate.
In and out of the play, Wang Baoqiang and Enbo become two sides of a story, and it is difficult not to move the movie made with life experience.
Don't forget that Wang Baoqiang was a rural child from a grassroots background, who was selected by directors Li Yang and Feng Xiaogang to change his fate.
He confessed that from these children, he can see his shadow back then, and the two behind-the-scenes footage can explain everything.
After filming, the 6-year-old actor couldn't bear to lose half of the steamed buns.
Wang Baoqiang looked at the side with teary eyes, remembering his former self.
In the second half of filming, the crew came to a few city children, all of them bright and beautiful, and those rural babies suddenly showed inferiority and couldn't raise their heads.
Wang Baoqiang keenly captured this and immediately comforted the rural children.
With a real background, "In the Octagon Cage" avoids the flashy fatal wound of "Big Trouble".
The film has been screened at the Shanghai Film Festival, and the first wave of word of mouth has an excellent reputation.
Boxing king Zou Shiming and his family watched the movie and spoke highly of the film, and pointed out that the movements of the two actors were very professional, and they had really practiced martial arts at a glance.
Chen Sicheng's evaluation was that "In the Octagon Cage" surprised him, and the whole film was extremely complete.
This is a very restrained assessment.
In the eyes of more professional film critics, this film has superior audiovisual language, and elements such as passion, inspiration, and social issues are perfectly fused in one furnace.
Sometimes interspersed with funny plots, making people relaxed and moving, it is a rare realism masterpiece in recent years.
In a word, Wang Baoqiang has survived these 6 years, which is worth it.
There is more direct evidence.
The film was only released on July 6, but the film side began a large-scale screening as early as the Dragon Boat Festival, which was bold enough and confident enough.
Wang Baoqiang has started roadshows in 21 cities, and his first stop is in his hometown of Xingtai, Hebei.
At the roadshow scene, Wang Baoqiang was embarrassed and cried bitterly while holding his father, which shows how many grievances he has held over the years.
Wang Baoqiang is not a film genius, and his talent in directing is even more limited.
But he is like a hard working student, imitating other people's things if he can't make a name for himself, failing once and doing it again.
"In the Octagon Cage" will never be that kind of breakthrough work, but it must be a neat and down-to-earth work.
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Three metamorphosis
Wang Baoqiang's ambition can actually be seen from his performance.
In the impression of many people, Wang Baoqiang is a "fool professional", who can only play a fool, and has come all the way to the present.
This is the biggest misunderstanding about him.
In the early years of "Blind Well" and "No Thief in the World", Wang Baoqiang performed almost all of his true colors, and the performance was completely adjusted by the director.
But over the next decade, he completed at least three metamorphosis.
Once was "Soldier Assault".
Xu Sanduo is "stupid", but there is more tenacity, and the spirit of "not abandoning and not giving up" has touched countless people.
It is said that many people enlisted in the army because they watched "Soldier Assault".
After the explosion of this drama, Xu Sanduo became a symbol of the times, and Wang Baoqiang really proved himself with his acting skills.
The second time was "Hello! Mr. Tree".
At that time, many people watched this movie as a comedy, and as a result, the movie was buried for a while.
But in the following ten years, more and more people re-watched this film, felt the taste behind it, and gave birth to infinite sadness and embarrassment.
There has long been a category of people in rural China.
They have a humble status in the village, but they have a warm heart, and they can be seen helping at any happy event, working hard, and mingling with the people around them.
People often take fun of them, but they look down on them in their hearts.
In the past, such people were speechless and could only be unspeakable.
But now this kind of people, with a common title "Mr. Tree", Wang Baoqiang performs the pitiful and pathetic of this type of person very well, which is a milestone in his performance history.
The third time is "One Man's Martial Arts".
In this film, he completely lost his stupidity, played a martial idiot Feng Yu Xiu, with a hideous face and fierce shots, and the sentence "both divided and low, but also decided life and death" made people shudder.
After watching this film, who still said that Wang Baoqiang can only play a fool, that is, he opened his eyes and said nonsense.
Similarly, in "Destiny", Wang Baoqiang played a killer, with very few scenes, but the main one is stable and ruthless.
Wang Baoqiang's use of this type of role proves that his drama path is extremely wide and malleable.
Through these three transformations, Wang Baoqiang has proved that he plays a fool and can perform different layers.
The baby in "Thailand", replaced by someone else, will definitely be annoying.
But Wang Baoqiang can act hilarious and likable.
Tang Ren in "Tang Detective" is even more exaggerated, Wang Baoqiang analyzed that this role can only be let go of the performance, can not have a little gain, the whole role is pompous and greasy.
But the strange thing is that it still makes the audience like it, which is the embodiment of acting skills.
Even if he doesn't play a fool, plays a normal person, plays a killer, and plays a ruthless role, Wang Baoqiang has proven himself.
It is no exaggeration to say that in addition to the overbearing president, there is no role he can't control, and among the post-80s actors, he is already the actor with the strongest box office appeal.
Being an actor can be so successful, I believe that Wang Baoqiang, who has become a director, will also open up a new world.
"Big Trouble" is a necessary trial and error, and "In the Octagon Cage" may be the real beginning.
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Four mentors
Not long ago, at a platform movie night, Wang Baoqiang became the "annual attention director" with "In the Octagon Cage".
Wang Baoqiang thanked the four directors on the podium.
They are Feng Xiaogang who took him to shoot "No Thief in the World", Xu Zheng who took him to shoot "Thailand", Chen Sicheng who took him to shoot "Detective Chinatown" and Chen Kaige who took him to shoot "Taoist Priest Down the Mountain".
The thank-you message won a full house, but later caused controversy.
Thanks to Feng Xiaogang, no problem.
Wang Baoqiang is well known to the people of the whole country, it is by relying on the stupid root in "No Thief in the World", and his ability to star in "Soldier Assault" is also the result of the painstaking persuasion of his mother Xu Fan.
Thanks Xu Zheng, no problem.
As mentioned earlier, Wang Baoqiang's two directorial works are all stolen from Xu Zheng, and in comedy performances, he and Xu Zheng are also golden partners.
Thanks to Chen Sicheng, no problem.
The most difficult time for Wang Baoqiang was when Chen Sicheng called him 3 million without saying a word, and encouraged "brothers to come on".
The "Tang Detective" series is tailored for Wang Baoqiang, this time Wang Baoqiang celebrated his birthday, Chen Sicheng flew from Beijing to Shanghai to celebrate his brother's birthday, and the friendship between the two can be seen.
But thanks to Chen Kaige is debatable.
"The Taoist Priest Descending the Mountain" is Chen Kaige's mediocre work, and it is not prominent in all of Wang Baoqiang's works, and from a rational point of view, it seems that there is no need to thank him.
But don't forget that in this film, Chen Kaige found Guo Fucheng, Zhang Zhen, Fan Wei, Wang Xueqi, Lin Zhiling and other big coffees to match Wang Baoqiang.
The release of this film marks that Wang Baoqiang has a real coffee position in the industry, these big coffees are all people who carry the sedan chair, for Wang Baoqiang, the meaning outside the movie is important.
Taking a step back, even if Chen Kaige is not so important, on that occasion, thanking Chen Kaige is also a high IQ embodiment of Wang Baoqiang.
But immediately some people refuted, they felt that Wang Baoqiang should be most grateful to Li Yang, the director of "Blind Well".
This is Wang Baoqiang's debut novel, which is of great significance, Wang Baoqiang thanks Chen Kaige, but does not mention Li Yang, which is somewhat snobbish.
And after filming "Big Trouble" "kneeling" many directors, director Li Yang was still present at that time, how did he forget this time?
This is another misunderstanding of Wang Baoqiang.
"Blind Well" is good, but it is a sensitive movie after all.
Thanking director Li Yang in public is likely to set himself on fire and cause unnecessary trouble to his mentor.
True gratitude should be deeds.
And we are also pleased to notice that this time in "Octagonal Cage", Wang Baoqiang specially invited his mentor Li Yanglai to make a cameo role.
Li Yang also said in the interview that he was very happy to see Wang Baoqiang's results today, and he had a sense of disbelief, which was why he was chosen to play "Blind Well" that year.
Therefore, don't look at Wang Baoqiang and be stupid, he has thought it all.
When it should be said with practical actions and what can be put on the table, he has long been familiar with it.
The former fool, after experiencing betrayal, has also transformed into a mature filmmaker.
After 6 years of "disappearing", Wang Baoqiang returned as a director, and as soon as he returned, he was the top stream, playing a pair of Wang Fried, which injected a shot of strength into the slightly silent film market.
Wang Baoqiang has become a symbol in the entertainment industry.
Behind the accumulation of hair, is his ten-year persistence, is his adherence to the bottom line, is his simplicity without missing the old grace, 41-year-old he has passed the age of no confusion, ushered in the golden age of actor.
I believe that in the future, Wang Baoqiang will take off the hat of "fool professional" and bring more surprises to everyone in the movie, this time, he is one step closer to becoming a superstar, looking forward to his transformation again.
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