In October 1992, a middle-aged man from Hong Kong arrived at Beijing Sport University, and his purpose of this trip was to select an actor who could "fight" for the movie "Fang Shiyu", this middle-aged man is very familiar to everyone, he is a member of the famous "Seven Little Blessings", always keeping in mind the "safety first" director Yuan Kui.
This trip, Yuan Kui is not far away, is entrusted by the "Fang Shiyu" production company "Zhengdong Film" boss Jet Li, at that time, Jet Li's nickname in addition to the "Kung Fu Emperor", the Hong Kong entertainment industry for him consensus is "will lay golden eggs of the hen", and in this year, Jet Li set up a company to prepare to launch "Fang Shiyu", he decided to lay himself a golden egg.
And the year before, that is, in 1991, an 8-year-old martial arts student at Beijing Sport University, 19-year-old like a Harbin boy who suddenly opened his mind, won the "National Martial Arts Championship, Aerobics National Champion" in a row, and was also elected as a national martial arts athlete, his name was Zhao Wenzhuo, and later starred in "Fang Shiyu" as an impressive villain: The Nine Gate Admiral Ordo.
Zhao Wenzhuo, who can't even understand Cantonese, was selected by Yuankui because what Zhao Wenzhuo showed him at that time was a fierce and domineering tongbei fist, and it turned out that director Yuankui's vision was indeed very poisonous, and in "Fang Shiyu", Zhao Wenzhuo showed the suppression of tongbei fist to the fullest.
At the same time, in terms of height and age, Zhao Wenzhuo has more advantages than Jet Li, but the Nine Doors Admiral Ordo, more like the starring actor, like the following stills, Zhao Wenzhuo can ask Jet Li: "Do you guess that I am loose left hand, or loose right hand?" ”
At the end of 1992, Xu Ke and Yuan Bin, another member of the "Seven Little Fortunes", were preparing to shoot the fourth "Wind of the King" of the "Huang Feihong Series of Movies" that was fired by Jet Li at that time, and the story continued the "Lion King Battle" in the previous part, but Jet Li, who had already set up another portal, had long been in a relationship with Jiahe Company, and even Huang Feihong's actors were gone.
The shelving of the sequel shooting plan left Xu Ke and Yuan Bin at a loss, at this time, yuankui, the director of the "Fang Shiyu" crew next door, introduced Zhao Wenzhuo, who performed well, to Xu Ke, which was the first meeting between Zhao Wenzhuo and Xu Ke, and this was also the beginning of a family man, who was pinned high hopes, and Zhao Wenzhuo's "two-sided life" began from then on.
The so-called "two-sided life" does not mean that Zhao Wenzhuo has two faces, but that his screen image is completely different from his life, and even his step into the entertainment industry is a bit "misguided".
There is a saying: It is already doomed in the underworld! At that time, Zhao Wenzhuo did not know how to act, director Yuankui let him squint at people to increase the momentum, so he played the villain in "Fang Shiyu" at night, and played a hero in "The Wind of the King" during the day, Zhao Wenzhuo squinted at people for a while, and looked at Cangsheng squarely for a while, and fate seemed to hint at his entanglement and swing.
In the same year after filming "The Wind of the King", Zhao Wenzhuo cooperated with director Xu Ke in the movie "Green Snake", in which Fahai, played by Zhao Wenzhuo, was in a world like the Hong Kong entertainment industry at that time, and the demons were inseparable, and his heart was full of contradictions and entanglements.
When the time came to the end of 1994, after Zhao Wenzhuo finished filming the fifth part of the "Huang Feihong Series" "Dragon City Fighter", the Hong Kong film circle has begun to use the "Zhao martial arts style" to promote him, but at this juncture, Zhao Wenzhuo obeyed his parents' arrangement and chose to go back to the school to teach.
Seriously speaking, in that era, actors and stars are difficult to count as a profession, the older generation generally believes that it is a performance of not doing a good job, far less than in a stable job to be realistic, but after all, Zhao Wenzhuo is only in his early 20s, has seen the world of flowers and flowers in Hong Kong, he was bored for 3 months as a teacher, and then went south to Hong Kong again to pursue his dream of filming that he had just started.
After returning to Hong Kong, Zhao Wenzhuo, the first drama filmed was called "Jinyu Mantang", the film also has another more familiar name "Man Han Quan Xi", in this movie, Zhao Wenzhuo met Zhang Guorong, according to Zhao Wenzhuo's later recollections, Zhang Guorong took good care of him at that time, every press conference, will pull him to stand in the middle of the interviewed actors to accept an interview.
But compared with the care of these predecessors for the younger generations, Zhang Guorong's "hint of promotion" to Zhao Wenzhuo is more important in our opinion, Zhang Guorong said a word to Zhao Wenzhuo: "Wenzhuo, you are a good person, that is, you are too upright!" Indeed, with Zhao Wenzhuo's personality, it was very difficult to develop in the Hong Kong entertainment industry at that time, but it was a pity that Zhao Wenzhuo did not seem to understand the meaning of Zhang Guorong's words.
And just when Zhao Wenzhuo filmed "Golden Jade Mantang", another thing was also developing synchronously, "Broken Water Flow Master Brother" Lin Guobin, because of the outside world's rumors, he was "raised" by his girlfriend Mei Yanfang, forced to choose to break up under pressure.
Zhang Guorong, who happened to be in the same crew as Zhao Wenzhuo, and Mei Yanfang were friends, and after Zhang Guorong's introduction, Zhao Wenzhuo and Mei Yanfang came together, perhaps because of the lessons of the previous relationship, Mei Yanfang and Zhao Wenzhuo belonged to a secret sister-brother relationship, which was not exposed until 1995.
It is not too much to say that "Zhao Meilian" is a good story, at that time Mei Yanfang was already suffering from cancer, zhao Wenzhuo's appearance gave her great hope, but because she could not stand the pressure of rumors similar to Lin Guobin, the two broke up, and later Mei Yanfang once said publicly that she hoped to become Mrs. Zhao, Zhao Wenzhuo also said that she hoped to be a divine doctor, but in the end they did not come together again.
From this incident, we can also see that Zhang Guorong said that Zhao Wenzhuo's "too upright" personality problem, the Hong Kong entertainment circle at that time and the "Green Snake" in the world of demons are inseparable, all kinds of gossip, malicious slander everywhere, Zhang Guorong himself is an example, Zhao Wenzhuo immediately broke up with Mei Yanfang after the sister-brother love was exposed to show that it was "too upright".
The end of a relationship is unclear, but the friendship between Zhao Wenzhuo and Mei Yanfang is still continuing, or in 1995, Zhao Wenzhuo and his noble director Xu Ke, once again joined hands to shoot the famous "Knife", the film also has another name "Broken Knife", its story is based on the famous "One-Armed Knife", Zhao Wenzhuo as the protagonist in the film, the performance is good.
However, the so-called "good performance" here is more of the audience's perspective, for director Xu Ke, Zhao Wenzhuo's performance in the film is indeed very good, but his performance on the set can only be described in two words: bad heart! (This article is original by "Sharp Film Review", and reproduction without permission is prohibited!) )
Xu Ke later in the "Knife" interview tidbits, bluntly commented on Zhao Wenzhuo: he (Zhao Wenzhuo) is not the kind of person who feels close, he is never on the shooting scene (when there is no scene), he always holds his hand phone, it is a bit ridiculous, I did not care about him, but I am very dissatisfied with this, I do not support, I have tried my best, in the rest of the shooting, he can only face the difficulties by himself.
Here we also don't know who zhao Wenzhuo who is on the set can't let go of his heart, but according to his personality, he won't have many friends in Hong Kong, combined with Xu Ke's previous evaluation of Zhao Wenzhuo, "not too self-motivated (ambitious), is a family man", maybe you can guess one or two.
No ambition, family man, people are very upright, such a Zhao Wenzhuo, indeed not suitable for the Hong Kong entertainment industry at that time, but he is also a person with high hopes, like Jackie Chan has publicly said: a Zhao Wenzhuo, a Wu Jing, and one or two other (actors), I think it should be me and Jet Li their successor.
So Xu Ke said that in the final analysis, or full support Zhao Wenzhuo, in 1996, Xu Ke switched to the popular digital shooting at that time, with an investment of nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars, enabled Zhao Wenzhuo to shoot the TV series "Huang Feihong New Biography", which is divided into five units: "Eight Heavenly Kings", "Shaolin Story", "Headless General", "Xinhai Revolution", "Ideal Era", which is a good memory of a generation.
From the beginning of Huang Feihong, and finally Huang Feihong, Xu Ke and Zhao Wenzhuo finally got together and dispersed, and in those years, because Jackie Chan, Jet Li and others have successively gone to Hollywood to develop, and are still focusing on the "chivalrous" Hong Kong film industry, there has been a short gap period, and Zhao Wenzhuo, who has the title of "Zhao Wuxia Style", has become the best candidate to fill the gap.
However, this is a very embarrassing period, unlike the blank space after Bruce Lee's sudden death, when Hong Kong movies were already in decline, and the audience had serious aesthetic fatigue with a large number of kung fu films mass-produced in the past few years, that is to say, the opportunities encountered by Zhao Wenzhuo hid the challenges, kung fu movie action films began to take the fashion route, and Zhao Wenzhuo needed to step out of a new personal style.
Unfortunately, on the road of this transformation, one is that there is no good script, and the other is zhao Wenzhuo's family man personality, he will only follow the requirements step by step, among which "Blue Blood and Blue Sky", which is known as the "Hong Kong version of the wolf" today, is actually a variant of Jet Li's "Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai", and Zhao Wenzhuo is not like Wu Jing, trying to find a breakthrough in the role.
After that, through the TV series "The Great Husband of China", Zhao Wenzhuo directly embarked on the road of filming TV series, strictly speaking, the drama was directed by Xu Xiaoming, escorted by Martial Arts stars such as Baozhao Kurata, Liu Jiahui, Li Saifeng, Chen Hao, yuan Jieying partnered Zhao Wenzhuo as a couple, and Zhao Wenzhuo's start in TV dramas, as well as in movies, can be described as very high.
But now that time has passed, many people do not know this 1998 star-studded TV series, remember its audience, may remember the "wind and rain thunder" four kings, Onizuka, Ten Guards and other people, as well as the collapse of the thunder palm and other moves, as for the protagonist Zhao Wenzhuo's performance in the film, most of them are very vague, it can be seen that he has no breakthrough.
Here we need to emphasize that Zhao Wenzhuo from the film to the TV series period, in fact, there is also a hidden crisis, in the early years of film and television mixed up in the era, many stars have filmed TV series, but with the market division more and more detailed, to Zhao Wenzhuo to shoot TV series in the era, this random switch is actually a kind of harm to the actor, the transformation failure often means that the previous achievements are abandoned.
One of the more famous examples is Zhang Ziyi, who was unemployed for a period of time after Zhang Ziyi became popular, and was ready to accept Zhang Jizhong's invitation to shoot Li Yapeng's version of "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", and later Zhang Yimou stopped her, otherwise there would be no later international chapter.
Interestingly, after turning to TV series shooting, for Zhao Wenzhuo, who has the foundation of "international superstar" but does not have that ambition, it is not a good choice, the TV series shooting cycle is long, everyone slowly gets along, and that feeling is more suitable for Zhao Wenzhuo, a family man.
On the contrary, with his personality to enter the fiercely competitive film circle, it is easy to get into trouble if he is not careful, as he said himself: I have not worn a mask, just because I have not worn a mask, so I have offended many people.
In the past few years, Zhao Wenzhuo is still insisting on making TV dramas and online movies, and this year he also directed his own "Counterattack", which was also promoted by the good things website, titled "Wolf Warrior 3", and directed a oolong, netizens were in an uproar.
Finally, we would like to say that many netizens hate Zhao Wenzhuo for iron or steel, and sigh that he is not as fiery as his predecessors, as mentioned above: The upright Zhao Wenzhuo is not an ambitious person, his experience is just a yin and yang wrong storm meeting, when he really shows his fists, it is not the righteous Zhao Wenzhuo that we are familiar with.
Just like today's Zhao Wenzhuo, he often shares his fitness experience on the short video platform, and will record the training process for everyone to see, and will also teach netizens the basic boxing techniques such as back fist, he behaves more like a family man, as for the high hopes that were once placed, it is an unforgettable experience for Zhao Wenzhuo, and for us, it is a good memory.