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People who like Zhao Wenzhuo say that he is upright, low-key and introverted.
Zhang Guorong once commented on Zhao Wenzhuo: "Being a person with integrity is not suitable for development in the entertainment industry." ”
But some people also say that Zhao Wenzhuo has no representative works, people and movies are tepid, and there are many black materials.
Zhao Wenzhuo is such a very controversial person, and all this stems from his personality.
It is said that character determines fate, and Zhao Wenzhuo's upright character must start from his father.
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In 1972, Zhao Wenzhuo was born in an ordinary working-class family in Harbin, and he was the third child in the family.
Zhao Wenzhuo's father served as the chairman of the trade union in the factory and was responsible for the cultural and sports activities in the factory.
He usually loves to practice martial arts, and he especially likes to teach others two tricks, and over time he has become a well-known martial arts instructor.
And Zhao Wenzhuo's mother is also a woman who does not let her eyebrows be shaved, and she was once a very good track and field athlete.
He once broke the 100-meter running record in Heilongjiang Province.
In such a family atmosphere, it is difficult for Zhao Wenzhuo not to follow his father on the road of martial arts training.
Other people's children, parents are afraid of falling and afraid of melting.
However, Zhao Wenzhuo's parents firmly believe that to strengthen their health, they must start from an early age, and the more protective the child, the more squeamish they will be.
Therefore, when other people's children were still unstable in walking, Zhao Wenzhuo was either carried by his father to punch two sets of punches or followed his mother to exercise.
Maybe he was born to eat this bowl of rice, and Zhao Wenzhuo, who was young, did not feel hard, and even felt very funny.
When he was 8 years old, Zhao Wenzhuo's father sent him to learn martial arts from a teacher.
With the teacher, he not only learned a variety of boxing skills, but also danced well with swords and spears.
Since the age of 12, Zhao Wenzhuo has been participating in various competitions, winning the Junior Championship of the Chinese National Championships, and has been pinned high hopes on by his parents.
In 1990, Zhao Wenzhuo was admitted to the Martial Arts Department of Beijing Sport University.
This year he won the National Championship Junior Championship, and the following year, he took the national martial arts champion into his arms with lightning speed.
It was this title of national martial arts champion that became his ticket to showbiz.
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The early 1990s was the golden age of Hong Kong martial arts films, when there was a dazzling new star who was shining on the big stage of Hong Kong movies, and this person was Jet Li.
In 1993, director Yuan Kui prepared to shoot "Fang Shiyu", and set the protagonist Jet Li,
However, it was delayed in selecting an actor who played a role with Jet Li.
So he personally went to Beijing Sport University to cast a cast, and Zhao Wenzhuo, who was studying at Beiti at the time, did not pay any attention to this matter.
That day he was resting on the bed in the dormitory, and his classmates ran into the dormitory and threw him to the scene and punched him.
Zhao Wenzhuo's neat body style and upright appearance were favored by Yuan Kui.
In this way, Zhao Wenzhuo confusedly opened his own acting path, and followed Yuan Kui south to Hong Kong to work hard.
However, the process of filming is not so smooth, because he knows nothing about filming, and Zhao Wenzhuo is "like a wooden chicken" in front of the camera.
Coupled with the fact that he had just arrived in Hong Kong, he did not understand the language, and often scolded Yuan Kui angrily.
Fortunately, he has a good understanding and is also very studious, and slowly adapts to the rhythm of the crew.
In "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu", although Zhao Wenzhuo played the villain "Nine Doors Admiral",
But with the neat play, it surprised the audience and let everyone see a rising martial arts star.
It happened that Jet Li had a conflict with Jiahe because of the contract problem.
Jet Li seems to be convinced that he is irreplaceable, and even confronted Xu Ke through a strike.
But Xu Ke is not a vegetarian, and when Jet Li is still secretly competing with him,
He had long set out to find Jet Li's successor.
Soon, he set his sights on Zhao Wenzhuo, who had also won the national martial arts championship.
Originally thought that Zhao Wenzhuo could replace Jet Li who was in the boycott, but Jet Li did have the capital to be arrogant and proud.
Because the leap from real kung fu to film art cannot be practiced overnight.
Zhao Wenzhuo's real knife and real gun moves, put in front of the camera, it seems too blunt,
Maybe the actual combat is great, but it does not have the ethereal and smooth beauty of Jet Li.
Xu Ke could only reluctantly compromise and then invite Jet Li back.
Zhao Wenzhuo, who was "returned", was very frustrated and did not understand where he was.
But Xu Ke did not intend to give up Zhao Wenzhuo at this point, and also signed him to his studio.
Iron heart to cultivate a second "Jet Li".
In 1992, after Jet Li completely ended his cooperation with Xu Ke,
Xu Ke immediately shifted the focus of his work to Zhao Wenzhuo, making him the protagonist of the fourth and fifth series of "Huang Feihong".
You must know that Jet Li completely gained a foothold in Hong Kong with this "Huang Feihong".
However, although Xu Ke intends to praise it, the brilliance created by Jet Li still cannot be surpassed, and Although Zhao Wenzhuo has performed very well.
However, these two films are somewhat unsatisfactory in terms of box office and word of mouth.
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In 1993, Xu Ke directed a subversive "Green Snake", which became a turning point in Zhao Wenzhuo's acting career.
Fahai, played by Zhao Wenzhuo, and Xiaoqing, played by Maggie Cheung, the rivalry between the two can be described as wonderful.
Although controversial after its release, the film received rave reviews and managed to win three nominations at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards.
It was this drama that pushed Zhao Wenzhuo's career to the peak, and countless eyes converged on him, and he finally understood the taste of overnight fame.
This year, he also starred with Zhang Guorong in Xu Ke's annual New Year blockbuster "Full of Han",
This is the annual Chinese New Year blockbuster carefully prepared by Xu Ke and the pinnacle of Hong Kong food films.
It was also this movie that he made two friends, Zhang Guorong and Zhong Zhentao.
For a time, Zhao Wenzhuo was in the limelight, and everyone believed that he could become the second Jet Li.
In 1995, Zhao Wenzhuo once again starred in the martial arts literary film "Knife" directed by Xu Ke.
The film not only received two nominations at the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards,
It also became one of the Chinese film observation works at the 1996 Taiwan Golden Horse Awards.
Logically, this is undoubtedly a dazzling achievement, but it cannot hide the fact that "applause is not popular".
The problem was not entirely with Cho Man-cheuk, but because the entire Hong Kong film market had begun to decline at that time.
After struggling for several years without success in the torrent of Hong Kong cinema's fall, Cho had to face the fact that the entire Hong Kong film market was depressed.
Cho man-cheuk caught up with the last glory of Hong Kong cinema.
But he couldn't change the trend, and before he could fully rise, he fell with the decline of Hong Kong cinema.
During that period, not only did the film not improve at all, but he was also deeply involved in emotional disputes with Mei Yanfang and was troubled by public opinion.
He had placed infinite expectations on this land, but now he was left alone and helpless.
In the end, he could only leave Hong Kong with a body of illness and exhaustion.
After returning to the mainland, Zhao Wenzhuo had to follow the market demand to lower himself and switch to TV dramas to start his own transformation road.
But I have to say that he made a very correct decision, because the beginning of the fall of Hong Kong films was the budding of the mainland film and television industry.
In 2002, he starred in the famous martial arts drama "The Wind and the Clouds Dominate the World".
This drama was a steady ratings champion that year, and it also made Zhao Wenzhuo's real image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In 2003, he and Jia Jingwen starred in the costume court drama "Supreme Red Face".
The role of the white-haired "Li Junxian" played in the play is still a screen classic.
However, what Zhao Wenzhuo did not realize was that although these works did bring him heat and popularity,
But step by step, he also washed away the kung fu label he had always been proud of.
In this way, Zhao Wenzhuo has been in the TV drama industry for more than ten years.
In the decade between 2001 and 2010, he hadn't made a single film.
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Until 2012, Zhao Wenzhuo and Zhen Zidan cooperated in "Special Identity", which was exposed to the news of playing a big name, which can be described as a stone stirring up thousands of waves in the entertainment industry.
This is not only a dispute between Zhao Wenzhuo and Zhen Zidan, but a confrontation between mainland artists and Hong Kong and Taiwan actors.
A group of Hong Kong movie stars represented by Dawn and Shu Qi quickly kicked off the team for Zhen Zidan.
Mainland actors represented by Yang Mi and Jing Tian also stood behind Zhao Wenzhuo.
Although the Hong Kong entertainment industry had declined at that time, Hong Kong stars still had a very large influence.
With the statement of Shu Qi and others, Zhao Wenzhuo was pushed to the cusp of the storm, and later the storm gradually subsided, and he had the opportunity to reveal the truth.
It turned out that when he received the script that year, he and Zhen Zidanben were the setting of "double males".
After entering the crew, Zhao Wenzhuo found that without informing himself, the script was changed to the setting of "one good and one evil".
In order to highlight the aura of the protagonist, his original role was rewritten into a villain who was unforgiving, and such deception made Zhao Wenzhuo very angry.
He is not dissatisfied because he gives Zhen Zidan a foil, he loves acting and respects the role.
But this time, no one seemed to respect him.
Zhao Wenzhuo was furious in the crew, and soon this scene was recorded by people with hearts, and when it was circulated on the Internet, black and white had long been reversed.
He ended up with a reputation of not being willing to match Zhen Zidan and playing a big name.
In fact, it is not only Zhao Wenzhuo, many mainland artists at the beginning of their development were inevitably crushed by Hong Kong artists.
Wu Jing and Zhen Zidan also had a very unpleasant time when they cooperated in the filming of "Kill the Wolf".
However, most people choose to calm things down, but Zhao Wenzhuo is not willing to swallow his anger, and he is determined to make this unfair phenomenon public.
"I'd rather quit the circle, I'll say it!"
Although the director of the film later told the truth and proved Zhao Wenzhuo's innocence, Zhao Wenzhuo's life seemed to have been pressed back.
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Zhao Wenzhuo paid the price for his true temperament, from "box office poison" step by step to "the king of bad films", and finally fell to the point where no one cared.
Until this year, a "Brother with Thorns" program made Zhao Wenzhuo re-enter everyone's sight.
The audience found that he had never left the entertainment industry and was still sticking to his kung fu movie dream.
Someone once said that if Zhao Wenzhuo's two major backers in Hong Kong were still there, perhaps his end in Hong Kong would not have fallen to this point.
One of them is Zhang Guorong, a good friend he met when filming "Golden Jade Mantang",
The other is his former lover, Hong Kong Diva Mui Yanfang.
When he was still studying at a university in Beijing, by chance, Zhao Wenzhuo was in the dormitory of other classmates.
Hearing a song by Mui Yanfang's "Please Split the Iceberg", it was the first time he knew about this star standing at the top of the Hong Kong music scene.
Only once, Zhao Wenzhuo was deeply attracted by her music.
When there was no training, he often ran to the dormitory of his classmates to listen, and he was a little bored with his classmates, but he enjoyed it.
At that time, he would not have dreamed that he would one day be able to become a close lover with Mei Yanfang.
Zhao Wenzhuo and Mei Yanfang first met at a party held by Zhong Zhentao.
Although the difference was huge, the two naturally chatted at first sight.
Immediately after the development can be imagined, the two people are in agreement, and the romantic relationship is naturally determined.
In May 1995, the Hong Kong magazine Next Weekly took a photo of Zhao Wenzhuo and Mui Yanfang vacationing together in Malaysia, and their relationship was completely exposed.
This hugely different relationship caused an uproar almost as soon as it was made public.
Even after suffering countless criticisms and malice, the two did not hide their desperate denials, but generously and frankly showed their feelings to the world.
Mei Yanfang even publicly brought Zhao Wenzhuo to her birthday party and showed her little boyfriend to fans very generously.
When singing "Intimate Lover", the audience shouted Zhao Wenzhuo's name,
This made Mei Yanfang, who had always been grinning, also have a rare hint of shyness on her face.
And Zhao Wenzhuo is also immersed in the sweetness of love and can not extricate himself, Xu Ke has expressed many times in public, dissatisfied with Zhao Wenzhuo's delay in work because of love.
Xu Ke said that when he was with Mei Yanfang, Zhao Wenzhuo was like a little fan, and he threw himself into love and did not have the heart to shoot at all.
When I arrived on the set, I also spent all day with Mei Yanfang on the phone, often calling until the mobile phone ran out of battery, and I had to find someone else to borrow a battery to play.
Xu Ke is an extremely meticulous and strict person who treats his work, he can't stand Zhao Wenzhuo's work attitude, and he almost gave up Zhao Wenzhuo in one breath.
But Zhao Wenzhuo was only momentarily carried away by sweetness, and he knew that although he had a little achievement in the film, he still could not compare with Mei Yanfang.
Faced with the gap between identity and status with Mei Yanfang, Zhao Wenzhuo also felt unprecedented pressure.
Fortunately, Mei Yanfang is very sympathetic to the mood of her little boyfriend and will never put up a star shelf in front of him.
The two are like an ordinary loving couple, Mei Yanfang will even wash the clothes of her beloved like many girls, go shopping together and eat roadside food stalls together.
Different from ordinary couples, because the aura of the two is too prominent, even if it is low-key, it will attract many passers-by to watch.
In addition to her little boyfriend in life, Mei Yanfang also wants to do her best to promote Zhao Wenzhuo at work.
Considering Zhao Wenzhuo's situation as a foreigner in Hong Kong, Mui Yanfang often took him to her own friends' gatherings and wanted him to integrate into this large group.
Things did not develop in the direction that Mei Yanfang imagined, although she herself did not care about the so-called status gap.
However, the friends around her have always been quite critical of Zhao Wenzhuo, and these words reached Zhao Wenzhuo's ears, and unconsciously changed their taste.
That year coincided with the overall decline of the Hong Kong film industry, and Zhao Wenzhuo's career development was also seriously frustrated.
In the face of the growing gap between himself and his lover, the thorn in Zhao Wenzhuo's heart also became deeper and deeper.
Mei Yanfang is well aware of the imbalance and loss in Zhao Wenzhuo's heart, and is very accommodating to him in all aspects.
But the young and vigorous Zhao Wenzhuo did not understand his girlfriend's painstaking efforts.
The long-accumulated mental imbalances erupted during that time, leading him to take the wrong approach to the relationship.
What was once sweet was ultimately destroyed by rumors and misunderstandings.
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In early 1996, Mei Yanfang mentioned her feelings with Zhao Wenzhuo in an interview and couldn't help but shed tears, saying that the two had been in a cold war for more than a month.
She waited for Zhao Wenzhuo's phone call every day, but she couldn't get a response, and now she was completely discouraged by this relationship.
As soon as this interview came out, a stone stirred up a thousand waves, looking at Mei Yanfang, who was once so glamorous,
Now that Zhao Wenzhuo has been wronged here, the Hong Kong people who feel that Zhao Wenzhuo is not worthy of Mei Yanfang can still sit still.
For a time, fans and the media attacked Zhao Wenzhuo.
What Mei Yanfang didn't know was that when she was still immersed in the loss and pain of the breakup.
Zhao Wenzhuo also struggled in this misunderstanding, but Zhao Wenzhuo was born with a stubborn temper, and he refused to ask Mei Yanfang for verification, unwilling to ask her to explain clearly.
So I chose the most wrong way, which is to end this relationship with coldness and alienation.
Zhao Wenzhuo, who came from a martial arts family, naturally carried the pride of a martial arts practitioner.
Although he loves Mei Yanfang deeply, his heart in his bones is proud and arrogant, which makes him always have a grudge against the "strong woman and weak man" mode of getting along.
Coupled with the fact that the Hong Kong media has always been good at making a big fuss about the feelings of men and women, this has become the last straw that crushed Zhao Wenzhuo's sanity.
Years later, Mei Yanfang recalled those years and sighed:
"If I could turn back the clock, I would definitely explain the misunderstanding to him and save that relationship." If I did that, maybe I would already be Mrs. Zhao."
Mei Yanfang said at her last concert that she wore a wedding dress many times, but none of it was her own wedding dress, which is the regret of her life.
She was so expecting a happy marriage, a happy family. But God not only did not give her this, but even stripped her of her life.
On the day of Mei Yanfang's death, the whole of Hong Kong fell into sadness and silence.
On that day, the major media, celebrities posted articles to mourn, but Zhao Wenzhuo completely disappeared all day.
On the day of the funeral, he returned to Hong Kong and sent his last words to Mei Yanfang: "The love of this life, all the way to go"
After the predecessor planted the tree, the person was cool, and experienced Mei Yanfang's unforgettable feelings, Zhao Wenzhuo regretted not being at the beginning, and he also matured a lot in the face of feelings.
Once in an interview, the host tried to ask, what was the big misunderstanding between him and Mei Yanfang in the first place?
Years later, when he heard his former lover's name being mentioned again, Zhao Wenzhuo still couldn't help but burst into tears.
He said: "Since I love this woman, I will keep all the secrets between us. ”
The divine wound flowing between the words was enough to make the audience present moved.
And when he told this paragraph, his wife Zhang Danlu sat quietly under the stage, looking at her tenderly.
If Mei Yanfang is still alive, Zhao Wenzhuo's feelings for her may be diluted with the passage of time.
However, Mei Yanfang's departure left Zhao Wenzhuo with a pain that could never be released.
It is after experiencing those life changes and separations that he has learned to cherish now.
In addition to the change in his attitude towards feelings, his behavior in the world has also changed a lot more than before.
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In the "Brother with Thorns" program, when two rappers in the same group protested the lyrics given by the program group, they were ruthlessly rejected by the program team.
Zhao Wenzhuo told his teammates: "If you think there is a problem with the lyrics, you will change it according to what you want, and the program team will not agree to say it separately."
This move suddenly made the teammates feel extremely warm, and when others questioned their unreasonable trouble, Zhao Wenzhuo firmly supported them and respected their ideas.
This is probably why, as the captain, he can always convince several "rebellious" team members.
Many netizens have lamented Zhao Wenzhuo, with his own strength to break the audience's view of the middle-aged greasy uncle, although the debut time is very long, but never pose as a predecessor.
Although he looks like a serious tough guy, he is very open-minded and humorous, and he can still maintain that purity and authenticity in middle age.
Iron Man is tender, powerful and tolerant, which is the reason why Zhao Wenzhuo is loved.
Kung Fu cinema is an integral part of the history of Hong Kong cinema, with countless glories and accolades since Bruce Lee.
Jet Li continued to write brilliantly, and Jackie Chan Zhen Zidan and others also wrote countless legends in it.
Only Zhao Wenzhuo, who had high hopes, rose and fell in this vast ocean and eventually indulged.
However, with Jet Li And Zhen Zidan and others retiring from the rivers and lakes with their own scenery, Zhao Wenzhuo has never stopped filming even if he is not popular.
When many people first saw Zhao Wenzhuo in "The Brother Who Cut through thorns", people in a trance only thought that he was a predecessor who had been in the shadows for many years.
When I found out, it turned out that he was still in the corner of no one, continuing his own kung fu dream.