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preface
In January 2023, with the birth of the anti-black drama "Crazy", many actors who were previously tepid ushered in a beautiful turnaround battle and quickly became popular.
For example, Gao Qiqiang's actor Zhang Songwen.
This old actor, who has been in the entertainment industry for many years, but has never made much of a name, successfully relied on the typical role of an honest person to become bad, became popular throughout the country and became popular in the entertainment industry.
However, the hurricane was difficult to hold, and soon after the sudden rain, it took Zhang Songwen only eight months to go from becoming popular throughout the country to being beaten back to its original shape again.
So from obscurity to popularity, and then back to the original, what has Zhang Songwen experienced?
From the best tour guide to the dream showbiz
In 1976, Zhang Songwen was born in Shaoguan, Guangdong, and is a Hakka family.
Because his father was a soldier, when the army was transferred to a major job in 1987, he received preferential treatment from the government, and the family was able to connect to Xinfeng County from Tang Village, Huilong Town.
In the 890s of the 20th century, it was the peak stage of China's sea wave, although Zhang Songwen's father did not make a lot of money in this wave, he still made some money through business, so that Zhang Songwen could receive a good education.
It's just that Zhang Songwen hasn't liked reading much since he was a child, and he is often naughty in school, and his grades can only be regarded as average.
Especially in the third year of junior high school, after Zhang Songwen's mother died, he was away from home for a long time, unable to take care of Zhang Songwen's father, let alone Zhang Songwen's studies.
Therefore, in the end, Zhang Songwen did not enter high school after graduating from junior high school, but chose to go to vocational high school.
In fact, it was not bad to go to vocational high school at that time, because the vocational high school in the written exam would teach students professional worker skills, and after graduation, they would also be assigned jobs, which was also an iron rice bowl.
In 1994, Zhang Songwen was sent to work in a printing factory after graduating from vocational high school, but he was not happy for a few days before he served himself an iron rice bowl.
Along with the country's education and enterprise reform, Zhang Songwen was laid off by the printing house.
After losing his job at the printing house, Mr. Chang's father went bankrupt due to poor management and the state's crackdown on undesirable market practices such as speculation.
Suddenly, Zhang Songwen's family changed from well-off to poverty.
Fortunately, Zhang Songwen is still strong, doing odd jobs to earn money to support himself, from beverage salesman to air conditioning installer, from restaurant bowl washing to hotel front desk.
In this way, in one job after another, Zhang Songwen gradually matured, and relied on his own efforts to become the manager of a hotel step by step.
But God seemed to want to toss him twice, and not long after Zhang Songwen turned over, his hotel collapsed because of losses, and he himself was saddled with huge debts.
Well, it's no big deal, it's just starting all over again.
This time, Zhang Songwen set his sights on the tourism industry again.
With the deepening of reform and opening up, the city of Shaoguan, Guangdong, soon became a well-known tourist attraction in China.
This allowed Zhang Songwen to see an opportunity to make a fortune.
Of course, at this time, Zhang Songwen, because he was still carrying debts, did not engage in those tourism businesses that required costs, but became a tour guide.
Don't, relying on a sharp mouth and rich life experience, Zhang Songwen's tour guide quickly became famous, and was once evaluated as the best tour guide in Guangdong Province.
It was also during his time as a tour guide that he received a lot of Zhang Songwen, who was shooting insiders in the film and television industry, and had the idea of entering the film and television industry.
Therefore, Zhang Songwen, who paid off his debts in 2000 and saved some assets, decided to apply for the Beijing Film Academy and successfully entered the high vocational class of the acting department and began his own film and television road.
So can Zhang Songwen, who is a monk halfway, be able to make a breakthrough in the film and television industry?
Zhang Songwen's road to promotion in the entertainment industry
Speaking of which, Zhang Songwen's acting road is really full of twists and turns.
During the period in Beiying, Zhang Songwen relied on his outstanding performance to successfully stay in school after graduation, which can be regarded as a good start for himself.
Subsequently, in 2003, Zhang Songwen was invited to star in the TV series "The Price of Love" on his hometown Shaoguan TV, which was Zhang Songwen's first appearance on stage and a fairly successful beginning.
It is said that because the TV series was so popular, it was rebroadcast three times on Shaoguan TV that year.
With such a good start, after that, Zhang Songwen's acting career looks like smooth sailing.
In 2005, Zhang Songwen was invited to star in the sitcom "The Dragon Riding Monster", and the following year, Zhang Songwen was invited by director Wei Hantao to participate in China's first Northern Wei historical costume drama "Empress Feng of Northern Wei".
In 2007, Zhang Songwen starred in "Huo Yuanjia", in which he played Nong Jinsun.
And in 2008, Zhang Songwen, who had accumulated some contacts, also left the Beijing Film Academy and established his own international performance studio, and starred in "The Second Side" in the same year.
Since then, Zhang Songwen has cooperated with many well-known stars such as Huang Qiusheng, Yin Tao, Huang Xiaoming and so on, participated in many excellent works, and was nominated for Best Young Supporting Actor in 2018 for his brilliant performance in the movie "Summer of Xixiaohe".
In 2020, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in China's Top 100 TV Series at the 29th Huading Awards for "Hidden Corner".
It stands to reason that after participating in so many well-known works, Zhang Songwen's status in the entertainment industry should be good.
However, the fact is that after more than ten years of acting, Zhang Songwen's sense of existence is really pitifully low.
To put it mildly, before the broadcast of "Crazy", when it comes to Zhang Songwen's name, it is estimated that the vast majority of people do not know anything.
Speaking of which, Zhang Songwen is indeed quite aggrieved, he wants acting skills and acting skills, and works have works, obviously he can crush those small fresh meat, but he just can't be popular.
Fortunately, a "Crazy Race" in 2023 finally made Zhang Songwen, who has not been popular for 10,000 years, ushered in a fire, relying on Gao Qiqiang, an honest fishmonger, blackened into a classic legend of a generation of gangster bosses, and Zhang Songwen finally became popular all over the country.
But what he didn't expect was that the fire that had been waiting for more than ten years was only eight months old, so why was this?
Rapidly disappearing popularity
After the broadcast of "Crazy", Zhang Songwen, who knew that the iron was hot, launched the movie "More than Endless" starring him in that year, and won the Best Supporting Actor Award at this year's Panda Award for this work.
It seems that Zhang Songwen's glory will be continued.
But soon, Zhang Songwen overturned.
There are two main reasons for the rollover, the first is that he found the wrong partner.
On August 15 this year, the official announcement poster of the movie "Volunteers: Heroes Attack" congratulating the National Day was just posted on the Internet, which immediately aroused people's anger!
Because there is such a picture on the official announcement poster, a Chinese child, wearing a clown suit in white, and there is a red sun graphic in the center of the white clothes, like the military flag of the Japanese army invading China!
What does that mean?
The photograph was taken of the volunteers who resisted US aggression and aided Korea to defend their homes and defend the country, but they issued such a poster, and their hearts are damned!
Moreover, in the list of actors who participated in the movie, people were surprised to find that Chen Kaige, the director, actually arranged Chen Feiyu, the son of his bad deeds, who had been in prison in the United States and cheated on married women many times after returning to China.
What a joke, to let such a person play the volunteer army is simply an insult to the martyrs!
For a while, Chen Kaige, an already controversial director, fell to the point where everyone shouted, and that "Volunteers" became a rotten egg that everyone avoided.
It stands to reason that the director's excellence generally does not affect the actor, but before that, in order to be able to get a good role in this movie, Zhang Songwen published a lot of words praising Chen Kaige on the Internet.
This is a muzzle.
Here, I can only say that Zhang Songwen is indeed an unlucky bastard who meets people.
In addition to encountering Chen Kaige, some netizens felt that Zhang Songwen's acting skills also had problems.
In many film and television works that Zhang Songwen has starred in before, Zhang Songwen has done a good job of controlling the character's expression, which is natural and smooth.
But what does Zhang Songwen say? He has a good grasp of the details, but neglects the shaping of his overall character.
To put it simply, Zhang Songwen has never been able to leave a deep enough impression on the audience, and there are no distinctive characteristics.
For example, when we mention Hu Jun, we will think of the domineering and exposed Qiao gang leader.
Mention Jiang Wen, we will think of that Zhang Mazi.
The representative roles of these actors are full of aura, heads, and a sense of substitution.
But Zhang Songwen obviously failed to do this, he played many roles, but these roles were all mixed together, but he lost himself.
But some netizens are opposed, they think, now mention Zhang Songwen, don't everyone think of Gao Qiqiang?
For Zhang Songwen's short-lived moment, it is the current atmosphere problem in the Chinese entertainment industry.
Today's Chinese entertainment industry, traffic is supreme, full of countless small fresh meat with a handsome face but no acting skills.
So that the current actors, idols account for the majority, but there are few powerful people.
Most groupies only recognize faces, so for these powerful actors who want to have acting skills and works, they will only be popular for a period of time because of a drama, and after the heat passes, they will be "beaten back to the original form".
Netizens can't stand it: isn't this the same as Zhang Xiaofei!
Zhang Songwen's popularity plummeted, which is a pity, and it is also worth pondering for each of us.
epilogue
Speaking of which, Zhang Songwen is also a rather sad character.
Everyone knows his acting skills, and everyone recognizes his efforts.
However, because of the current atmosphere, this excellent actor with resources, experience and ability, with an acting career of nearly 20 years, is not as well-known as those little fresh meat that is touted.
It's embarrassing.