Preamble:
He once single-handedly created the iconic image of "Wen Zhaolun", a film and television star, and now his return to his own deity can also bring a burst of time and space repercussions?
How did an unknown boy grow into a sensational film and television superstar in the vicissitudes of time?
The counterattack of the young Wen Zhaolun
On a cold winter night in 1964, a new life was born in a hospital in downtown Hong Kong - this boy was named "Wen Zhaolun" by his parents.
Like this name, his life is destined to be "warm", but there are countless inspirational and legends behind it.
Born in a grassroots family, Wen Zhaolun was not wealthy when he was a child.
Because the room in his home is only 30 square meters, he jokingly calls himself the "hall chief".
However, the cramped environment did not restrain the boy's dreams, music became the whisper of his heart, and the desire to show his singing voice became his greatest vision.
The musical dream of the "director".
The young Wen Zhaolun is extremely obsessed with music, which is inseparable from his uncle.
His uncle had formed his own band and had been in contact with music with him since he was a child, so he also deeply influenced Wen Zhaolun.
Whenever his uncle pulled him to listen to the latest Western pop songs, watching his uncle and his fellow bandmates Xi and talk and laugh with devotion, Wen Zhaolun's heart ignited infinite longing - he also wanted to be like them, to be one with the music and drift with the trend in his heart.
When he was in middle school, Wen Zhaolun actively participated in the school's singing competition and never missed any opportunity to show himself.
His singing voice is sweet and beautiful, and he is always carefully prepared, so he has repeatedly won the top three good results, and has been praised and encouraged by his teachers.
However, a few small awards in the school are just appetizers for him, and he knows like a mirror in his heart that it is not enough to shine in the entertainment industry.
He has to go further and dream bigger.
In 1982, at the age of 18, Wan Zhaolun signed up for the song creation contest organized by Radio Television Hong Kong, which was the first time he officially faced the challenge of the social stage.
He was well prepared for the competition and was confident that he wanted to make a splash, but he didn't expect to stop in the preliminary round.
The taste of defeat made the teenager depressed, because he knew that his strength was no worse than those who made the cut.
The successive failures did not discourage his determination, but made Wen Zhaolun's bloody and strong heart even more stubborn - since he has not yet succeeded in singing, then open a breakthrough in other aspects and continue to chase his dreams!
So in the same year, he participated in a competition for a large-scale local talent show.
What Wen Zhaolun didn't expect was that there was also a superstar who later became popular with half the sky and exploded in strength - Anita Mui.
In the end, Anita Mui won the championship, and Wen Zhaolun only entered the top 30.
This is undoubtedly another blow to Wen Zhaolun, because compared with Anita Mui, he is more aware of how inadequate he is, and he is too far from the level of a professional singer.
However, there was no chance to make contributions on stage, but Wen Zhaolun's handsome appearance and typhoon under the stage have attracted a pair of eyes - a female choreographer of Hong Kong TV discovered this young player with both strength and appearance and unlimited potential for the first time at the recording site.
She took the initiative to invite Wen Zhaolun to audition, and successfully persuaded her superiors to give him a chance.
The dark horse among TV rookies
Wen Zhaolun did not hesitate to make a move, successfully passed the interview and entered the TV station, and began to host a weekend sports news program.
The new field of television was full of infinite attraction and challenges for him, and Wen Zhaolun worked hard to learn Xi and quickly integrated into the new environment.
Two years later, he was already a popular sports host and began to gain a small range of popularity.
However, Wen Zhaolun was not satisfied, and the position of host was completely unable to give full play to his musical talent and emotional interpretation ability.
After being introduced by a friend, he left the TV station and joined the radio station to take up a new job as a DJ.
The professional music playback and commentary platform can undoubtedly stimulate his enthusiasm for singing and desire to explore.
In 1985, after spending two years on the radio, Wen Zhaolun finally had the opportunity to sing and perform at the company's annual gala, showing his outstanding singing strength, and the executives present were deeply impressed.
The following year, a talent scout from a major record label recruited the hidden DJ and prepared to sign a contract to build it.
In 1986, 22-year-old Wen Zhaolun released his first solo album "Before the Snow" as he wished.
The album's style is predominantly lyrical folk and rhythm and blues, fully showcasing Wen's unique magnetic and penetrating voice.
At the same time, Wen Zhaolun also passed the interview with his handsome appearance, successfully entered the film and television industry, and participated in the first TV series "City Story".
He successfully played the supporting actor "Xu Lizhi" in one fell swoop, and with his innate acting talent and charm, he quickly stole the scene and succeeded, making the audience's eyes shine.
Xu Lizhi's role as the big brother next door has also become Wen Zhaolun's iconic masterpiece, and the audience affectionately calls him "Cousin Wen", and his popularity quickly rose to the position of a popular student.
Taking advantage of the TV series, Wen Zhaolun soon released his second album "Love Story" the next year.
This is an album of urban love songs, and the title song of the same name depicts the longing and expectation of young people for love.
However, the market response of this record was average, and it did not let Wen Zhaolun fight his way out of the lyric music scene at the same time.
However, Wen Zhaolun was not discouraged.
In the next few years, he continued to accumulate works and experience in the film and television industry, from TV series to movies, broadening his popularity and acting breadth, and when the time is ripe, he can achieve a breakthrough in transformation.
Until 1989, the TV series "Intolerable" was broadcast around the world, in which Wen Zhaolun tried the role of a villain for the first time, playing the role of his twin brother "Ding Youkang".
It was one of the most challenging roles of his life.
In order to interpret the cruel and sinister villain image with a sense of reality, he not only carefully figured out the psychological characteristics of the characters, but also lived a "dark life" with a very different personality from himself before and after filming, and devoted himself wholeheartedly, and finally succeeded in bringing this vicious villain to life, which was deeply imprinted in the hearts of the audience, and also pushed his acting skills and performance charm to an unprecedented new height.
However, the reversal of the dark power also brought risks and harm to the young man Wen Zhaolun - some people threw stones at him in the street to vent their anger.
All this proves that he has successfully ignited the life and soul of this sinister character in the play, and the "Ding Youkang" he played is like his own incarnation, cruelty and ruffian state leap onto the page.
A new level of popular fried chicken
The super popularity of the TV series "Intolerable" has set off a heat wave in the industry, and Wen Zhaolun also ushered in the second important highlight moment of his life in such an east wind.
This time, he finally stood in the wind and had the opportunity to try out the protagonist.
In 1990, he played the leading role "Qi Haonan" for the first time in the hit drama "I am Kind".
This is a character with a complex personality and difficult to determine the positive and negative roles.
In order to make this contradictory character more plump and three-dimensional, Wen Zhaolun once spent time in contact with some gangster youths to understand their living conditions, psychological activities and survival rules, which provided great help for him to enter the role.
In the end, Wen Zhaolun successfully created Qi Haonan, who is cool and multi-faceted, with a charming personality, sometimes upright and sometimes cunning, which is elusive, and this kind of positive and negative contradiction brought by the identity of both the underworld and the righteous policeman is enough to attract countless fans to go crazy.
The line "I am kind" in the play has put a very personal and iconic acting label on Wen Zhaolun.
At that time, many critics and audiences believed that without Wen Zhaolun's joining and super-standard interpretation, there would be no Qi Haonan, such a plump textured and classic TV legendary character.
It can be said that the reason why the screenwriter was able to write such a classic character like a sculpture is due to Wen Zhaolun's superb interpretation, and this time, he almost directly restored this charming man alive.
In the eyes of industry insiders, the broadcast of "I am Kind" is not only the icing on the cake, but also the highest point of Wen Zhaolun's acting career.
He successfully got rid of the shackles of the youthful image of the past through this drama, fashion and maturity coexist, and he is very charismatic.
What makes him even happier is that at the peak of his career, he also released the highest-grossing solo music album - "After Without You".
The gentle and healing and rich and profound style of this album perfectly fits Wen Zhaolun's acting transformation, and directly pushes sales to the double platinum award, as his most dazzling representative achievement in the music industry.
The beautiful return of the "ageless male god".
In the early 90s, standing at the double peak of career and achievement, Wan Zhaolun was undoubtedly the most dazzling new star in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
He not only represented the benchmark of the most handsome and handsome male god at that time, but also surpassed the crowd with his excellent acting skills, which was irreplaceable.
It can be described in this way that if there is no "Wen Zhaolun", the entire Hong Kong film and television industry will lack something.
And now that time has passed, although that era has passed, the memory of Wen Zhaolun's dazzling figure on the TV screen is still deeply integrated into the blood and emotions of a generation.
This nostalgia comes not only from his handsome and charming appearance back then, but also from the unique lightness and surging rhythm of that era.
When this ageless male god returned to the big screen through the camera again in "Flowers", playing the role of himself when he was young, everyone seemed to have traveled through a time tunnel and returned to the years of Wen Zhaolun's gorgeous bloom 30 years ago.
The 59-year-old stood in the center of the stage, his demeanor and posture did not change at all, and he still made people look at it intently, with a sense of familiarity.
This reunion across time and space is like a dazzling light and shadow that illuminates all those who have deep emotional memories and nostalgia for that era.
In their hearts, Wen Zhaolun is not only a film and television superstar, but also a synonym and symbol of youth.
The legend of life never fades.
From an ordinary teenager, to a popular idol, to an "ageless male god" who is still dazzling, this is Wen Zhaolun, and it is also his innate charm.
When all his light and heat are sprinkled to the world again through the long river of time, we seem to see the high-spirited young man who fought for his dreams again - he never stops, and his talent never fades.
No matter how the years go by, the classic characters and obstacles created by Wen Zhaolun will always be engraved in the memory of the audience and the industry.
Epilogue:
Looking back on Wen Zhaolun's acting career, we can clearly see that since he was a teenager, he has been constantly trying new possibilities, forging ahead in many fields such as music, hosting and performance, and has always been able to complete key leaps at important historical nodes.
For example, the successful performance of Ding Youkang, a vicious villain, made him suddenly promoted from a secondary role to the position of the leading actor in Hong Kong dramas; And Qi Haonan is the pinnacle of his acting skills.
In the contemporary entertainment industry, there is no shortage of artists like Wen Zhaolun who dare to constantly surpass themselves.
They may not always be smooth sailing, but it is precisely this reincarnation of setbacks and breakthroughs that gives them more tenacity and dazzling acting skills under the test of time.
Among them, the most typical predecessors such as Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Zhao Wei and other predecessors still occupy a place in the film and television industry and still exude brilliance.
Therefore, the real artistic charm and performance spirit do not simply rely on external conditions, but are more composed of internal challenges and enterprising.
Wen Zhaolun is the best proof of this.
When all his light and heat are sprinkled to the world again through the long river of time, we seem to see the high-spirited young man who fought for his dreams again - he never stops, and his talent never fades.
No matter how the years have changed, the color of this legend has been forever sublimated.