The first time I saw Zhang Shi's play, probably in 1994, I was originally running to "Gone with the Wind", but the film did not arrive, and a movie that had not heard of the actor's name was released - "Five Quills".
At that time, I was very young, and I didn't know much about appreciating this type of movie, but I remembered that it was a movie set in the yellow land, a stupid ugly man, and a little daughter-in-law who died without passing through the door, the little daughter-in-law wore a big red jacket like fire, combing the signature bun of the old women of Qiliuhai, simple and hot focused on this young woman, the ugly looking little-eyed male protagonist was always very stuffy, but for the love and desire in his heart, he eventually became his most hated bandit.
At that time, I was still lying flat in the pit of Hong Kong stars and refused to see the scenery outside the pit, and I did not squint at all the stars outside Hong Kong, and the Taiwanese actor Zhang Shi, who played Wu Kui, was really ugly, so that because of his ugliness, I actually remembered him, and because of his extremely tense performance of the contrasting personality of Wu Kui in the film, I actually had such a feeling for the first time: a man who can focus on love one hundred percent. It turned out that it was possible to completely ignore his appearance and perceive his masculine beauty.
Many years have passed, I have only seen zhang shi's film once, although many of the pictures in it are too similar to "The Red Lantern Hangs High", I can still clearly remember the face of the man with small eyes, which belongs to Zhang Shi's face full of inner patience and resistance and game emotions, and only Zhang Shi can play the unwillingness and helplessness of small people to the extreme.
Many years later, in the fragment of "Mythology", I saw this emotion again, and it was Zhang Shi who armed Zhao Gao, who was sealed in the history books, with emotions.
"I want to be Zhao Gao, I just want to climb to the top step by step, I want to be Zhao Gao above ten thousand people under one person!" Zhang Shi's small eyes were full of ambition and desire, while his face and mouth revealed a lingering humility. What Zhang Shi is best at is to write two extreme emotions on his face at the same time, so that this emotion can fill the character he wants to shape. This performance was selected by Beiying as a teaching material for performance.
Zhang Shi's face has never been suitable for playing the main role, but he has made his big actor with small characters. Tian Jie in "Emperor Wu of Han" is said to have been hand-picked by CCTV at that time to play Zhang Shi. The whole drama only uses two Taiwanese actors, Empress Dou gui Yalei, and Tian Feng uses Zhang Shi. All the actors in the play have standard Mandarin, only Zhang Shi speaks a Taiwanese accent.
When the play was first broadcast, Zhang Shi was questioned because of the accent problem, but with the deepening of the plot, Zhang Shi played Tian Shi, who was scheming, good at drilling camps, and liked to climb up with conspiracies and tricks, to the real and expressive, his performance was precise and natural, changing the sense of distance between the historical drama characters in the past and the audience, as if Tian Shi was standing in front of the audience, as if he was a certain traitor in the current era.
In the handsome entertainment circle Zhang Shi belongs to the typical clown, he graduated from the Taiwan art school from the dragon set, with acting skills all the way from Taiwan to the mainland, his appearance of Zhang Shi every hair is a play, helplessly limited by looks, he is not popular every time.
Mentioning "Myth" will inevitably think of Zhao Gao, mentioning "Emperor Wu of Han" will definitely think of Tian Jie, mentioning "Pink Girl" will inevitably think of the poor mouth Gong Xi who wears black-rimmed glasses and dangles around The Milk Tea Liu Reuying....
He is very unremarkable, but as long as you have seen his plays, you must be impressed by him, you think that the unknown Zhang Shi is just a small supporting role, in fact, his acting skills are not lost to any first-line popular actors, and can even be listed in the first echelon of Chinese film and television actors:
Zhang Shi may have been born a little earlier, or he was born in Taiwan, if he was born ten years later, born in the mainland, just in time for the ugly star, if with his professional ability, squeezed into Huang Bo's queue, it will not be abrupt.
Zhang Shi's most recent work is a small role in "Tang Detective", but it is still outstanding. He is now basically in a state of half-shadow, enjoying a happy and uneventful home life.
Zhang Shi, with his own talent and efforts, interpreted a sentence very well: there are only small people, no small actors.