1. Outstanding achievements: Li Weilong's wonderful acting career
From an unknown newcomer to a hot star, Li Weilong has composed an exciting movement of acting struggle with firm belief and unremitting hard work.
What is amazing is that in 2016, at the age of 22, he stepped into the film and television industry as a role actor, working hard and accumulating valuable experience in one work after another. In the years that followed, he was given many opportunities to play small roles, whether it was a man in debt or an enthusiastic barbecue stall owner, he played it vividly and deeply imprinted in the hearts of the audience.
Until 2023, 30-year-old Li Weilong stood out in the TV series "Wind Chaser" and successfully created the role of Arwen, an important role. He vividly showed the tragic fate of this ordinary person to the audience, especially the shocking suicide scene of jumping off the building, which made people cry.
With the popularity of the series, Li Weilong, a powerful new star, was instantly overshadowed by Wang Yibo's bright light and became the focus of attention.
From no one knows to much attention, this is the fruitful result of Li Weilong's 8 years of hard work on the road of acting. With firm belief and unremitting struggle, he composed an ordinary and extraordinary song of struggle, and finally ushered in the dawn of his career.
2. Arwen's tragic experience
The story began in the early 90s of the 20th century, when Awen (Wen Youtian) had a vision and expectation for a better life. As an ordinary worker, he looks forward day and night to be able to buy a brand new rickshaw and live a happy life of his own.
In order to realize this dream, Ah Wen resolutely rejected the advice of his friend Wei Ruolai, pledged his income for the next 10 years, borrowed a large amount of usury, and fully invested in the construction bonds issued by the government.
He is confident in this investment and firmly believes that as long as he waits patiently for the bond to appreciate to $100 and then sells, he will be able to earn enough principal to buy his favorite rickshaw.
Unexpectedly, a government order caused the entire bond market to collapse in an instant. Shen was forced to sell all the bonds in his hands, causing bond prices to fall sharply.
Seeing that the price of the bond was much lower than his purchase cost, Arwen instantly fell into the abyss of debt from which he could not extricate himself, and was burdened with a huge debt of hundreds of oceans.
His dreams of the past turned into a bubble, and all the wealth he had accumulated through a lot of hard work and the expectation of being in debt to buy a car came to naught in an instant. Arwen's heart was filled with endless despair, and he gradually realized that he was no different from the common people, just a poor person in that cruel and unforgiving society.
Those who spread false information to mislead the public, those who embezzled people's hard-earned money, were the culprits who ruthlessly destroyed his last glimmer of hope.
3. The scene of Arwen jumping off the building
Anger, despair, helplessness...... The complex emotions in Arwen's heart reached an unprecedented peak at this moment. He chose a tough and extreme way to vent his inner frustration - he decided to commit suicide by jumping off a building, using his life to shock the greedy and corrupt people and provoke an angry army.
Hearing the bad news that his best friend Ah Wen wanted to jump off the building, his friend Wei Ruolai was so frightened that he was in a cold sweat. Aven's desperate face kept flashing in his mind, and the thought of the imminent death of this once energetic confidant surged with great pain and helplessness in his heart.
He ran desperately to the top floor of the central bank building, only to see Arwen standing there, lonely and determined.
"Arwen! Please calm down! Come down, we can have a good talk! Wei Ruolai called out loudly, grabbing Arwen's arm tightly, expecting to be able to pull him back from the brink of life and death.
The determination on Awen's face had never been so firm, making Wei Ruolai feel as strange as a world away for a while.
"Let it go! Wei Ruolai, you can't compete with them! Arwen roared angrily, in his opinion, Wei Ruolai has always been a kind-hearted but too naïve person.
Seeing this, Wei Ruolai immediately comforted: "Don't be impatient, we must bring these villains to justice and give us justice!" ”
"There's nothing you can do! Someday, you'll be their prey too! Arwen almost fell into a frenzied yelling, his forehead bruised and saliva splashing from his mouth.
His frantic expression made Wei Ruolai creepy, and his originally cheerful and optimistic friend seemed to be a different person at the moment, and the fear and despair in his heart indicated the inevitability of this tragedy.
"Awen......" Wei Ruolai called helplessly, tears rolling in his eyes.
With the last glance at Wei Ruolai, a sad smile hung on the corner of his mouth, and then he turned around decisively, leaping from the top of the towering building, his life withering silently like a flower.
In this dramatic scene, Wang Yibo and Li Weilong, two powerful actors, played Wei Ruolai and Ah Wen respectively, presented us with a classic rivalry that made us sigh.
Wang Yibo's sincere and touching acting skills have won warm praise from the majority of netizens, and they have said, "It's so moving!" At this moment, he seemed to be incarnated as a crazy shouter in Lu Xun's pen, tears swirling in his eyes, and the whole person seemed helpless and vulnerable.
When Wang Yibo witnessed Ah Wen, played by Li Weilong, resolutely jumping from the roof of the building, the muscles on his face even twitched and trembled irrepressibly, vividly showing a person's final struggle in extreme grief and despair.
The audience seems to be able to empathize with Wei Ruolai's deep pain and sorrow, as well as the endless helplessness and deep self-blame for the death of this former best friend.
And Li Weilong's profound interpretation of the role of Arwen is equally breathtaking. He accurately grasped the complex psychological changes in Arwen's heart from longing to anger and then to despair.
When he heard Wei Ruo say that he wanted to bring all those villains to justice, the muscles on Li Weilong's face were instantly distorted, and his eyes flashed with unprecedented fanatical light, making the audience deeply feel that Ah Wen had completely fallen into a desperate situation and was desperate.
And when he stared at Wei Ruolai for the last time before jumping off the building and gave a poignant smile, Li Weilong's eyes seemed to be full of countless vicissitudes and emotions, as if telling Awen's insignificance and helpless melancholy about life.
Throughout the clip, Li Weilong's emotional expression and detailed handling of this character are perfect, making the audience almost mistakenly think that he is the ill-fated but frank and sincere ordinary person in the play.
In fact, this is not the first time that actor Lee Wai Lung has interpreted such a deep and hard-fought little character with amazing talent. Back to earlier, for example, in the TV series "Big River" and "To a Windy Place", he successfully created a character image that is very similar to the character Awen.
Every time he performs, he can vividly express the core spirit and emotional details of the characters, as if the characters in real life are vividly displayed in front of us, because of such a superb performance that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and the infinite dedication and pursuit of acting career, actor Li Weilong finally shined in the TV series "Wind Chaser", winning high praise from industry insiders and the audience.
5. Actor Lee Wai Lung has a deep insight into the deeper symbolism of Ah Wen through the character of Ah Wen.
In his eyes, Arwen is just a microcosm of the many ordinary people in the context of that turbulent era, a typical representative of countless people who had a glimmer of hope and ended up falling victim.
Arwen's life trajectory has long been doomed to a tragic end, but his existence allows the audience to get a glimpse of the purest and most vivid side of that turbulent era.
It is based on a deep understanding of the inner world of the characters that actor Li Weilong can show Ah Wen's physical and mental state as vivid and interesting as a rattle, so that the audience can see not only a vivid individual, but also a true portrayal of the broad masses of people in that era.