In the spring of 2015, at the Beijing International Fashion Week, a 79-year-old man appeared on the catwalk bare-chested.
Wearing large northeast cotton pants, he walked on the catwalk for 11 seconds.
Pulled the other models far away, out of a heroic and magnificent momentum.
This person's name was Wang Deshun.
After the video spread, Wang Deshun's hormone-bursting figure, calm and calm look, and dashing pace impressed countless netizens and was called "the coolest grandfather of fashion week".
He also quickly became popular online.
This time it became famous, very unexpected.
It is because my daughter randomly swiped her mobile phone for two or three seconds when she was at work.
The colleague glanced at the interesting old man on his phone, so he found him and asked him to try to walk the catwalk.
Originally, he was dressed, but when the director saw his beautiful muscles, he immediately changed his mind.
This has led to Wang Deshun's bare-chested catwalk.
Like most art seekers, Wang Deshun has been busy with art all his life, but the exposure is far less than this time.
He probably never imagined that it would only take a few seconds to become popular these days.
In 1936, Wang Deshun was born in a poor rural family in Shenyang, and it was difficult to eat millet.
Growing up, he worked as a conductor at the Shenyang Tram Company and later as a worker in the Shenyang Military Factory.
But unlike others, Wang Deshun has never been satisfied with the status quo, and he always feels that he has a relationship with performance.
In his spare time, he reported the courses of the Shenyang Workers' Cultural Palace.
Drama, vocal music, recitation, because it is free to learn, he participates in everything.
In 1960, Wang Deshun was 24 years old and was already a soldier.
When he was shopping, he passed by the Shenyang Anti-Enemy Drama Troupe, and when he saw people, he asked: Do you recruit actors?
The people in the group also thought that he was transferred, and only after asking did they know that Wang Deshun had no acting experience at all, only a heart of love.
Since he was selected to join the drama troupe, he was extremely capable of acting, and soon became a formal actor from the field manager, and even became the main actor in the troupe.
The theater leaders watched him perform particularly hard, but also very hard, and also held a special meeting to study and buy him supplement cocoa powder.
However, Wang Deshun did not live up to the trust of the leader, his performance was persistent and hardworking, if there was a scene of fainting in the play, Wang Deshun would definitely pass out, and he could not wake up no matter how he called.
Just when his acting career was going well, fate played a little joke with him.
He was diagnosed with a "autonomic disorder" and was only one step away from psychosis.
The doctor said that this had a lot to do with his obsession with acting, and if he continued to act like this, it would only aggravate the development of the disease.
In order to treat his illness, he did not have contact with theater for more than a year, and his work was changed to the administration of the theater.
But Wang Deshun was not reconciled.
How to rekindle his artistic life is a question that Wang Deshun has been thinking about.
Many times, people tend to succumb to fate's arrangements.
But Wang Deshun does not think so, he has been telling himself that he just wants to stand in the center of the stage and become the protagonist of life.
The opportunity finally came.
Once, an expert from the Central Academy of Drama came to the Changchun Drama Theatre to give a lecture, and Wang Deshun suddenly found his own direction after listening to it.
In the past, I always struggled with emotions, but now I can show the characters with actions, and I don't have to be really so painful or really so cheerful.
He began to combine his own performances with pantomime.
In 1983, Wang Deshun went to Chinese opera to participate in the International Brecht Symposium and performed his first pantomime "Man and Snake".
The performance, which lasted only ten minutes, was very successful and also attracted the attention of the German Embassy, inviting him to the German Pantomime Festival.
The first time he tried, he had such achievements, which further strengthened Wang Deshun's confidence in engaging in pantomime.
In 1985, he cooperated with his wife to choreograph more than a dozen pantomimes such as "Twilight Year", "Life", "Death", etc., but the response was mediocre, and even some plays could not pass the theater's review process.
This year, Wang Deshun was 49 years old, and he thought very clearly:
Since there is no art market in Shenyang, and there is no audience that can understand their own programs, let's go to Beijing to develop.
He packed up and prepared to go to Beijing, and many voices of incomprehension came from around him:
You have ten years to retire, when you have health insurance, you have retirement pay, you have a house, you want what you want, and you don't have to worry about the second half of your life. You go now, you can't live you!
"This man is crazy!"
But Wang Deshun left everything he had and resigned to Beijing with his family.
Where can you afford to live up to your dreams?
Wang Deshun thought that some people will definitely understand his art, especially those who have a strong ability to accept new things.
With this thought, he immediately had a target group.
Wang Deshun positioned the target group as college students, and he chose to perform in colleges and universities with a strong cultural atmosphere.
There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Beijing, and they have run these colleges and universities over and over again in a year.
At first, it was Wang Deshun's wife who ran to contact the school, and then slowly got the affirmation, and the school would come to the door by itself.
The performance venue is also very simple, sometimes in the canteen.
The family is a troupe, the wife helps him write and rehearse the play, the daughter helps him play the piano, and the son helps him to light the curtain.
But the meager income is simply not enough for a family to live.
A dozen pantomimes were performed for about two hours or so, and they could only get one or two hundred yuan.
At that time, renting a house in Beijing was illegal, and there was no money to live in a hotel, so the family had to borrow it to live at a friend's house.
But moving became commonplace, moving almost eight or nine times a year.
Later, with the help of the director of Chinese opera, they lived in the Chinese opera guest house and could also owe money on credit.
However, the daily bed fee of the family is 40 yuan, which is also a big expense, and the life is stretched.
The road to pursuing dreams is extremely arduous, if you give up halfway, Wang Deshun will not be today's Wang Deshun.
Fortunately, he held his breath and persevered.
In front of the children, Wang Deshun is always happy, but in fact, he is also very anxious in his heart, so he has to write his heart in a diary.
This day without landing lasted for two years.
In 1987, Wang Wasshun was sent by the Ministry of Culture to participate in the International Pantomime Festival in Germany.
This time, Wang Deshun was pleasantly surprised to find that his beloved art originally had a market.
Moreover, China's pantomime is still in the leading position in the world, and Wang Deshun instantly feels that everything he has paid is worth it.
He was 51 years old, and finally waited for the spring of his career.
But then, Wang Deshun was restless again, and he set his sights on something else.
As he grew older, Wang Deshun found that his physical strength was somewhat unable to keep up with when acting in pantomime.
When playing "Death", he played a person on the front and a ghost on the back, and when the god of death was fighting, he had to put his hands behind his back to fold, which often made his arms sore.
Just like the scene of "Killing Chickens and Taking Eggs", which shows the chickens dying and struggling, Wang Deshun has to lie on the ground on all fours and then use the strength of his back to bounce his body up.
He felt overwhelmed.
After seeing the Rodin sculpture exhibition, Wang Deshun was moved, and invigorating sculpture became his new goal.
In order to be able to perform the feeling of sculpture, he ran into the gym every day and worked out frantically for 4 hours.
For 3 years, he developed a strong muscle, every line on his body was full and clear, and after applying oil paint, it was a living sculpture.
The difference between this kind of performance and mime is that you have to paint yourself with bronze and perform on the same stage as the sculpture, the sculpture does not move, and relies on human movements to interpret the theme.
But every movement is carried out very slowly, and it stays for a long time after an action is completed, and the audience can hardly feel the breath of the actor when watching.
This creates the illusion that the sculpture is alive.
This puts forward higher requirements for actors.
In order to achieve such an effect, Wang Deshun has been breathing with his back during the performance.
After the show was put on the stage, it was a great success, and the Italian cultural candidacy that watched the performance was deeply moved, and asked with admiration:
How can you practice like this?
Wang Deshun smiled:
I was forced to be helpless, and I must not let my statue gasp on the stage.
Do one line, specialize in one line.
Wang Deshun has done his performance to the extreme every time.
Among them, there is an element of love, and more is the respect for the performance career and the audience.
In the New Year of 1996, Wang Deshun changed his diary.
This year, he was 60 years old.
He wrote in his diary: "I am not looking forward to your arrival... It symbolizes my maturity and also predicts my aging. Fortunately, I don't serve the old age. ”
Wang Deshun was still on the restless road, constantly tossing and turning.
In 2001, at the age of 64, Wang Deshun began to star in TV dramas.
The Jade Emperor of the Famous Sword Mountain Villa in "Young Zhang Sanfeng", the Jade Emperor of Heaven and Earth in "The King of Kung Fu", and Zhang Sanfeng in the new version of "The Dragon Slaughtering in the Heavens", each character is so brilliant.
His level of engagement made everyone on the crew sigh.
Wang Deshun once came up with a book to bring together his years of acting experience to provide professional guidance to students who love acting.
But twenty or thirty years ago, his idea was rejected by the publisher, and people thought he wore too little.
Times are different now, and in 2011, he found the People's Fine Arts Publishing House again.
The editor takes into account that the reader's interest will certainly not be here, more will stay in the 80-year-old state why it is so good, how to have such a figure.
The book has not yet been published, and Wang Deshun has to accept this reality.
In June this year, the 85-year-old Wang Deshun walked into the flight academy and wanted to fly a plane.
The doctor saw him fluttering, thought he wanted to learn a driver's license, knew that he wanted to fly a plane, and was stunned: "You died this heart." ”
Until the results of the physical examination came out, the doctor still couldn't believe it:
You really don't have a problem.
Three months later, Wang Deshun broke through many hurdles and obtained a flight driver's license, setting a new record for the highest age of Chinese pilots.
Wang Deshun said that he still has dreams and pursuits, and he is still tossing and turning on the road of life.
Life is like this, when you give it up, it will also give up on you.
But when you do not succumb to fate, constantly looking for intersections, breaking through yourself, it will also give in, willing to cooperate with you, so that you become the most dazzling protagonist.
Wang Deshun is now swimming, fitness, skating, filming, living freely, and he has been doing what he likes to do all his life.
In order to become the protagonist of life, Wang Deshun has been preparing for 60 years, and not a single day has been slack.
He finally did it and got what he wanted, what about you?
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Author: Grain of rice
Resources:
Sanlian Life Weekly: "80-year-old catwalk star Wang Deshun"
Zhihu: "Wang Deshun: Born in the countryside, 34 years old became mentally ill, 50 years old naked resignation north drift, 79 years old became a supermodel"
A lecture: "The Outlaw in Pursuit of Freedom"