In 2006, the sitcom "The Legend of Wulin" came out.
This "Daming version of the sixsome" has captured the hearts of countless viewers, although the ratings on the first day of broadcasting were only 1.95%.
But the next day it soared to 4.26%, which finally became the rating myth of the year.
As of 2021, more than 390,000 people on Douban have scored a hall-level score of 9.6.
It is hailed as one of the two pinnacles in the history of Chinese sitcoms.
Six characters of different ages and personalities have achieved a unique "pop comedy culture" in a small town inn.
When "the son once knew", "sunflower point hole hand", "overwhelming the sea", "forehead drop god" became the buzzwords in the mouths of young people in the streets and alleys.
Such a grand occasion has not been seen after "Journey to the West".
Because of this drama, some netizens are even willing to "fold their lives" and live in "Seven Heroes Town" (Seven Heroes Town is the place where the story of "Wulin Wai biography" takes place)
"The Tale of Wulin" is the same as the American drama "Friends", which looks at life.
Laughing is life.
But the favorite is still the six characters in the play:
Thief St. White Exhibition Hall.
Mo Xiaobei, the head of Hengshan.
Tong Xiangyu, CEO of Tongfu Inn.
Marquis Lü Qinghou of ziyue.
Guo Furong, the second generation of Daming officials.
Seven Heroes Town Executive Chef Li Dazui.
How are their actors doing now?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > Tong Treasurer Yan Ni</h1>
Before starring in "The Legend of Wulin", Yan Ni was in the trough period of her life, divorced, living alone with her young daughter, in her early thirties, still running dragon sets.
There is only one reason for choosing to star in "The Legend of Wulin": as long as it is a female lead, it can act in anything.
But Yan Ni interpreted the female treasurer with a variety of styles, into the wood three points, a Shaanxi accent of the "exhibition hall", called the old white bones are crisp.
"The Tale of Wulin" also became a turning point in her acting career.
Since then, the elderly actress seems to have opened up her own second vein of Ren Dou and ushered in the highlight scene of her acting career.
Starring with Xia Yu in "The North Wind That Blows", she played niu huahua, a thick and simple captain, which is the only female character to be included in the annals of Chinese TV drama history, and this drama also made Yan Ni win the Chinese TV Series Feitian Award and the Golden Eagle Award.
In the same year, she participated in Zhang Yimou's film "Three Guns Shooting Surprise" and became the oldest "Mou Girl".
And "Young Pi" has achieved Yan Ni's Golden Eagle, Feitian, and Magnolia TV Series Awards Grand Slam.
But she and Hu Ge starred in "Life Apocalypse", but was madly dissed by the outside world, mocking her for her old appearance and looking like a dirt girl.
At this point, Yan Ni finally began to reflect on her appearance.
In addition, she has missed many roles because of image problems, so she made up her mind to change her image.
When she reappeared in the public eye, her reborn figure amazed everyone:
Tong Treasurer, you learned "bad"!
Know how to reveal your beauty just right.
Slender and beautiful back, clear collarbone.
Sporty waistband, sexy vest line.
Chao Sister decadent retro fan.
Walking comes with goddess wind.
Even the look in his eyes became thrilling, chasing Xu Qing directly.
Many people are asking, is this the Tong treasurer? Inverse growth?
Middle-aged rebellion is the most "deadly".
Yan Ni, who starred in "The Legend of Wulin" that year, also showed a slightly low breath, so in recent years, Yan Ni is a fresh and energetic taste.
If you use the words of Tong Treasurer to describe Yan Ni today, it may be: Mei Di is very, Mei Di is very.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="235" > Guo Furong Yao Chen</h1>
In "The Tale of Wulin", the enthusiastic and wayward Guo Furong is a jianghu woman who is eager to fight the sword and go to the end of the world.
Her family is prominent, her father is a generation of "giants", and her mother is an anti-theft expert.
The role of Guo Furong earned Yao Chen the most popular actress at the 18th Beijing University Student Film Festival.
But what really transformed Yao Chen and opened up a new world was the explosive drama starring her and Sun Honglei - "Latent".
Cuiping, a dark-faced and rustic country maid, became a representative role of Yao Chen's transformation.
At this point, she began to gradually get rid of the label of a comedian and fade the brand of Guo Furong in "The Legend of Wulin".
Although she has achieved success in her career, "Guo Girl" has suffered a waterloo in marriage.
In 2011, Yao Chen ended his 7-year marriage with Ling Xiaosu.
The following year, Yao Chen and Cao Yu, a well-known photographer in China, re-entered into marriage.
After marriage, Yao Chen focused on the family and gave birth to two children in a row.
The agency team is also on holiday, which is not a good thing for a middle-aged actress who is already in the ascendant period.
In the following years, the dissatisfaction in life was combined with the swallowing of public opinion, and Yao Chen experienced the darkest moment of life.
When she came out to act again, she found that she had passed.
De Beauvoir once said, "Women are not born, women become." ”
Faced with the dilemma, Yao Chen chose to take the initiative.
A company called Bad Rabbit Pictures was formed, and it began to have more identities - producer, entrepreneur.
"Bad" means breaking the conventional barriers, and "rabbit" is her husband Cao Yu's nickname for her.
Yao Chen's first film as a producer and starring, "Find You", grossed 285 million at the box office.
In the same year, the TV series "All Is Good" began filming, and she became popular with the role of Su Mingyu in the play.
In 2018, Tencent invited Yao Chen to be a guest in "Starry Sky Speech", and the topic she participated in was "the embarrassment and confusion of a middle-aged actress".
Yao Chen prepared for this for a month, when others asked her how to balance career and family, she did not create a perfect person for herself, but said bluntly: it is difficult to balance the two.
In the speech, the 39-year-old Yao Chen exposed his midlife crisis to the public and called for more job opportunities for "middle-aged actresses".
As soon as the speech was released, many artists spoke out in support.
By 2021, "Guo Furong" Yao Chen will be 42 years old.
Although the "Xiao Guo" of the Tongfu Inn is no longer the only role label on her body, the feeling of dreaming of fighting the sword to go to the end of the world is still there.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="264" > Bai Zhan Tang Sha Yi</h1>
How hot was Sha Yi?
It is said that his fans often crowded the studio.
He also recalled the past in the "Spit Conference": "The degree of my redness in those years was equivalent to today's Wu Yifan + Lu Han." ”
However, he did not rely on "popularity" to eat, and at the height of his fame, he chose to transform, from comedy to drama.
Chen Hanlin in "New On the Beach", Xu Xingliang, who is gentle on the outside and sinister and cunning in "Green Blind", Han Yang, a high-caliber student who silently guards his lover in the TV series "Sweet Honey", as well as Sun Ce, the little bully king in "New Three Kingdoms", and Xiao He in "The King's Feast".
New Three Kingdoms Sun Ce
But unfortunately, whether it is an emotional drama or a spy war film, as a leading actor or a supporting role, Sha Yi's impression on everyone is still the same: "Isn't this old white?"
Unlike Yan Ni and Yao Chen, he still did not come out of the audience in the role of "Wulin Wai Biao".
This kind of situation was not until the hit "Little Joy" that Sha Yi had a signature line other than the sunflower point cave hand: "Ying Zi, open the door, Daddy." ”
Qiao Weidong, played by Sha Yi, is a typical middle-aged greasy man, but he single-handedly "degreased" for him, and even performed a little playful.
Netizens sighed: "If it were not for Sha Yi's performance, Qiao Weidong would definitely be scolded to death." ”
However, because the inherent impression of the past role was too deep, Sha Yi's path as an actor became narrower and narrower, so he began to participate in variety reality shows frequently.
"Extreme Challenge", "Longing for Life", "Run Brothers", "Where Daddy Goes".
Pick up the stem, throw the stem, and mass produce countless emojis.
Even "Ace to Ace" must arrive every season from the second season to the fifth season, which can be called the "nail household" of the show.
And riding on the east wind of the actors collectively opening restaurants, Sha Yi also went to the sea to start his own hot pot restaurant, and opened a flagship store in Chongqing, the capital of hot pot, with great fanfare.
To some extent, this is also a kind of "sadness" of actor Sha Yi, because he is gradually drifting away from the profession he once pursued.
Watching Sha Yi play ugly in the variety show, and then think about the shocking glimpse of the saint thieves.
Laughing and laughing, sorrow came from it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="286" > Lu Xiucai Yu Entai</h1>
Useless is a bookworm?
No! Poetry books never fail!
You can even "dominate" martial arts -
Some people say that there are two famous doctors in the entertainment industry: one is Zhai Tianlin, a "fake doctor" who does not know the network; the other is "real doctor" Yu Entai.
It is said that before filming "The Tale of Wulin", Yu Entai asked the director what to pay attention to the role of "Lu Xiucai", and the director thought about it and said: You go to read books, until before shooting, you read books.
Although in the play, Lü Qinghou is a down-and-out show talent who has repeatedly failed the examination, in real life, he has read the Golden List Yuanlang: a master's degree in opera performance, a doctorate in directing; a doctorate in Chinese opera performance and directing art studies, and has taken a full scholarship from Oxford University to study Shakespeare's plays.
Netizens sighed: I originally thought it was a bronze, but I didn't expect it to be the king.
Zhang Ailing said: "Fame should be early. ”
The friends of the same drama of "The Tale of Wulin" have hit the iron while it is hot and grasp the drama.
In 2001, Yu Entai and "Peerless Sister" Ni Hongjie co-starred in a "Big Talk Stock God" that chased the hot spots of the stock market that year, but the response was flat.
Later, he chose to return to campus to pursue a doctorate.
In the meantime, he pushed out more than a dozen plays, including "Breaking into kanto" and Ang Lee's "Color Ring".
He has only starred in one drama, Lai Shengchuan's "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden".
It was not until after graduation in 2009 that he officially took on a large number of plays - "The Vertical and Horizontal of the Great Qin Empire", Zhang Yi of the Qin Dynasty Zongheng family; "Hotpot Hero", the greasy male Wang Pingchuan who opened a hot pot restaurant.
The reality is so cruel, Yu Entai's popularity is high, still stuck in the "Wulin Wai Biography" period, people see this face and think of the most is the lu Xiucai who is nagging.
In The Sound of Presence, we see Yu Entai dubbing a monologue from Shakespeare's play Henry V in English.
This is arguably the hardest part of Shakespeare's play: the dialogue is not only long, but also complex, and the emotions are extremely explosive.
Yu Entai's degree of completion is excellent, which is the embodiment of an actor's own qualities.
However, the strength of the hard core did not bring him more.
The six-person group of "Wulin Wai Biao" even Jiang Chao turned red, and Yu Entai was still waiting for the character who could surpass Lü Qinghou to appear.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="331" > Li Dazui Jiang Chao</h1>
Jiang Dazu in the Tongfu Inn is kind, impulsive, and gluttonous.
Because the role is too deeply rooted in people's hearts, many people mention Jiang Chao, and will use "Li Dazui" instead, and forget his real name.
After the broadcast of "The Tale of Wulin", Jiang Chao classified himself as a "well-known person in the doorway" - everyone in his house knew him.
Many people have repeatedly asked Jiang Chao, the actors he has cooperated with have become popular, only he is still playing supporting roles and small characters, do you mind being compared?
Jiang Chao never shyed away from the question: "What do you mind?" Sister Yan Ni, Yao Chen, and Sha Yi are very good, 'fire' is the right thing to do, and I am happy for them from the bottom of my heart. ”
But in order to break through the bottleneck of his career, Jiang Chao is still very honest, and he has challenged multiple villain roles in order to change the personality left to him by Li Dazui.
For example, the fraudster "cousin" in "Huge Call", the gloomy and cruel King of Chu in "Assassin", etc.
But these scenes are either not hot or obscured by decent characters.
Like Sha Yi, asking for rain is not successful, Jiang Chao has also turned to the variety show industry,
"Every Day Up" and "Run Brothers" all have his figure.
But it was even worse than Sha Yi, and he couldn't even participate in the variety show.
From a well-known person in the doorway to an unknown person.
In addition, he also participated in dubbing, planning, producer and other behind-the-scenes work, but still failed to break through in the fiercely competitive entertainment industry.
Jiang Chao was completely cold.
However, he was much luckier than Sha Yi and Yu Entai.
When the "Longling Labyrinth" crew found him as Wang Fatzi, who played one of the "iron triangles" of touching gold, Jiang Chao's only remaining spark of stars was re-ignited.
As soon as this move came out, the most successful title of "Wang Fat Zi" in history was sealed.
Wang Fatzi, who he played, got the "stamp certification" of book fans, and even poured into his Weibo to blow up the "rainbow fart": "Don't say more, Wang Fatzi must be Jiang Chao"
Jiang Chao once said in an interview that after so long of stumbling, it is enough to get this role.
From Li Dazui to Wang Fatzi, although what remains unchanged is the body shape, compared with the old Bai and Xiucai of the "Tongfu Inn", Jiang Chao has completed his gorgeous turn.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="355" > Mo Xiaobei Wang Sasha</h1>
In the Tongfu Inn, Mo Xiaobei, the leader of the Hengshan Sect, is a bear child who does not want to go to school.
But in reality, Wang Shasha "counterattacked" to become a master.
Wang Shasha is a child actress, and before "The Legend of Wulin", she also had a brilliant performance in "Little Soldier Zhang Ga".
After the popularity of "The Legend of Wulin", Wang Shasha's determination to be an actor was strengthened.
After that, she starred as a silly girl in the 08 version of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", but this role was quickly forgotten.
In 2011, she was admitted to the Department of Drama And Acting, and she was promoted all the way to graduate school.
Like many child stars, the biggest spell on Wang Shasha's head is to fade the cuteness of childhood, and after coming to the adult world, her appearance has become a stepping stone for an actress.
Previously, she applied for the Beijing Film Academy, but let the examiner brush it off on the grounds of "not being photogenic".
After graduation, I also ran into walls everywhere, and there were few works.
In February 2020, a web series called "Love the Chef Next Door" was launched, with a total of 12 episodes of 30 minutes each.
Wang Shasha had a work of being a heroine, or a youth idol drama.
But there is no existence on the douban, and I feel that the score cannot be brushed out.
The most profound role wang Shasha gave people after graduation was to play a mother in the hit drama "Mountains and Seas"-Xiu'er.
She also has her own understanding of this: "I didn't play that kind of beautiful woman, which made the audience uncomfortable." I'm just an average looking actress. But I don't think I'm so ugly, and I hope that my other qualities will be paid more attention to. ”
In fact, in the entertainment industry, like Jia Ling and Jin Jing, they are not big beauties, but they have excellent audience popularity, and finding their own way may be the most important.
As the saying goes, gold always shines.
In addition to the "Tongfu Liuqiang", there are also Xing Yutou, Yan Xiaoliu, Zhu Wushuang, and the money treasurer next door.
Relatively speaking, Bai Zhantang's "pro" sister, Zhu Wushuang, who almost became a pair with Lu Xiucai, was more like the seventh person in the Tongfu Inn.
At that time, after becoming popular with the role of Zhu Wushuang, Ni Hongjie could have picked up the book and received the soft hand.
But at that time, she ran to Yunnan to open an inn for a few years and lived a life of poetry and far away.
In fact, several of the main actors in "The Legend of Wulin", except for Yan Ni and Yao Chen, most of them have been popular after a while.
In the first eighty times, they performed for the audience in the play, with joys and sorrows, sorrows and joys;
After eighty times, it is their respective lives, such as people drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge.
Watching "The Tale of Wulin" is like seeing ourselves.
At first, I felt that I was different, being a hero, marrying the boss, being a kitchen god, and taking the name of merit.
Later, these fantasies were awakened by reality:
You may be just a miscellaneous servant who cannot punish adultery and eliminate evil; you may just be a cook, and it is difficult to become the center of the world no matter how you practice.
But true heroism is to love life after seeing the truth of life.
Who doesn't get knocked down and not accept defeat at the same time?
Behind you are a group of people who love you, who give you the sincerity and courage you have lost, and who will accompany you day after day doing a stupid thing called "life".
When Sha Yi participated in "The Great Challenge", there was a task for him to find two friends to complete together, and the people Sha Yi was looking for were Lao Xing and Xiao Liu, who had not been seen for a long time.
When Yao Chen had a big belly, he pulled Yu Entai to eat hot pot together, and the two of them rushed to open the live broadcast.
They also have a WeChat group, Yan Ni said, everyone often chats, Xiucai always sends some sour poems in the group.
And the "Rotten Bamboo" have always believed that in another parallel space, there really is a "Tongfu Inn".
Text/Porco Rosso Watch Movie Editorial Department: Mo Xiaomo
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