© Deep Sound Original · The author | Hong Yuhan
It all came a little suddenly.
Guan Yunpeng did not expect that his advertising ghost animal would appear in the WeChat group of his college roommate, and the next second, he received a private message from his roommate, which was the fourth old man who had a very iron relationship with him, and sent Guan Yunpeng's crooked mouth emoji - "Nike Face", saying that he was on fire in the ghost animal area of Station B.
Guan Yunpeng didn't believe it, saying that there was no fire, and no one knew him when he went out, and as a result, on the third day, someone recognized the Dragon King on the road.
It was really on fire, Guan Yunpeng realized.
But this is an embarrassing thing for everyone - engaged in the profession of actor they love, ten years of obscurity, even no work to do, had to change the road, did the inner resistance of the livelihood, and became famous overnight.
Although it has not yet reached the level of household name, for him, the current fame and fortune are enough to digest for a while.
The first short video released by Guan Yunpeng on station B reached 9.15 million hits and 946,000 fans, approaching the top stream of station B - million UP masters. These data are his achievements, and they also force Guan Yunpeng to drive into the fast lane.
The traffic was roaring in, and he wasn't ready. The heat whistled by, and he would worry about whether he was short-lived. Experiencing all this accelerated and amplified, Guan Yunpeng must once again be patient, charge, and change like the Dragon King, in exchange for a real leap in fate.
<h1>Start with humility</h1>
Although the video series of his son-in-law has been played more than 20 million times on Station B, guan Yunpeng did not notice the movement when he walked into the café we had agreed to. He took the initiative to shake hands, and his smile deepened two distinct wrinkles, the two that would be excessively squeezed when he smiled.
"If I go out on the fire now, I really have to wear a mask, I think I'm on fire." Guan Yunpeng smiled, "But it has not yet reached the point where everyone knows." The agent then added, "The fire is also the role of the Dragon King." ”
This is indeed a point that bothers Guan Yunpeng, tens of thousands of bullet screens of "see the Dragon King" in the video of Station B quickly flashed out and then disappeared, but few people know or care about who the actor behind the role is. Even before, Guan Yunpeng has participated in many positive dramas broadcast on various satellite televisions.
Source: Guan Yunpeng B station video screenshot
"I love acting, I've loved it since I was a kid, and my elementary school classmates' dream of being an actor is to be an actor." Guan Yunpeng said: "Although I didn't know what an actor was at that time, everyone wrote about being a doctor, being a policeman, being a scientist, and so on. ”
In 2006, Guan Yunpeng, a second-year junior high school student, participated in a small film shoot at a film studio in Henan Province, which was his first filming. But when he graduated from high school, he succumbed to the stereotype that "acting does not have a stable job" and chose the broadcast hosting profession that his family thought was relatively stable.
Guan Yunpeng deceived himself - "It is all shown in front of the camera, the TV station is also OK, and many TV station hosts will also shoot some small scenes, so that I can also turn again, which is equivalent to saving the country by the curve." ”
But in fact, he could not save the country. Entertainment is a circle, and like most actors who "have no way out", there is nowhere to find the stepping stones, let alone enter the door. The brightness in front of the stage is always rare, and there is too much humility and cruelty under the water.
Fortunately, Guan Yunpeng is not a character who is willing to wait, he was an event host and wedding host during college, and occasionally he was lucky enough to receive some small promotional films and advertisements, and even served as an broadcast teacher for art examinations during the holidays. "At that time, I didn't give myself a very accurate plan, saying that I must develop in which direction I must go in the future, and I can only say that I am walking and watching."
Guan Yunpeng high school and university ID photo source: Guan Yunpeng Weibo
The opportunity came suddenly.
In his senior year, Guan Yunpeng, who was preparing for graduate school, saw the group news of the "Student Soldier" crew, and he did not think much about it before he went to audition and unexpectedly received the first official role in his life. "There were a lot of people sitting there. Actors, directors, producers, I don't know who is who, let me audition, after the performance, the boss said, find him another paragraph, find four, or five paragraphs, after the trial, let me sign the contract on the spot. ”
The contract was in front of him, and Guan Yunpeng only had two minutes to think.
Before coming to audition, he had just applied for the host competition held by Henan Television, and had entered the second round, and the time was also in July, which conflicted with the time of filming. "People say that if you sign a contract to shoot a movie, you can't take time off." That's when I realized I had to choose my future career. Guan Yunpeng did not call home this time, "Those two minutes, only I was thinking about what kind of life I wanted, what kind of work." ”
For two minutes, Guan Yunpeng chose to shoot.
Guan Yunpeng played Qian Gang in the TV series "Student Soldier"
Filming this road is not easy to walk, Guan Yunpeng has not systematically learned to perform, the action is broken, and often brings the recitation habits during broadcasting to the performance, and being scolded in the "Student Soldier" crew is the norm. Until a filming, Guan Yunpeng Yuguang saw that the camera was blocked, he unconsciously moved half a position, and then the director praised him for being particularly good and learned to "find food to eat", Guan Yunpeng sighed: "After being scolded for half a month, I finally opened my own tricks." ”
After filming "Student Soldier", Guan Yunpeng became a contracted artist of the producer Fang Tianmu Film Company, and later followed director Zhang Dongdong to shoot "Battle Wolf" and "Fourteen Years of Blood".
<h1>Lows and dormancy</h1>
In 2018, Guan Yunpeng terminated his contract with the company, lost the support of many insider resources, and only one agent was left with him, but the agent somehow did not take him to see a crew. One after another of bad news, Guan Yunpeng's mentality has changed.
"I was panicked and anxious. That anxiety, I don't know what words to use to describe, is like the feeling has disappeared from this world. Including the voice of family members, the voice of friends, their own financial ability is not, and then pay back debts. Guan Yunpeng's life at that time was extremely simple, sleeping, watching movies, cooking, in addition to insisting on going out to exercise every day to maintain his body shape, Guan Yunpeng basically did not leave the residence.
Say that it is a residence, in fact, it is a small partition outside the East Fifth Ring Road in Beijing, the next room talks, you can hear it clearly, six people share a whole room, better than the rent is cheap, more than a thousand. "At that time, I thought that there would be a play and then move a little better, but there was no play." Fortunately, Guan Yunpeng's room has a window, you can see the opposite Beijing Second Foreign Chinese College, sitting on the small bed in the partition and looking out the window, watching the sunset fade a little bit, Guan Yunpeng knows that another day has passed.
Once, Guan Yunpeng was very uncomfortable, and called a friend to say that he was about to persevere, "How much I want to hear him say, if you can't hold on, you will come back, there we are." "As a result, my friend said to him, then you should insist on it." This kind of encouragement is a kind of torment for Guan Yunpeng.
In this small year in Beijing, Guan Yunpeng did not take a play and did not have a single income. There was no hope, and he had no confidence to stay any longer.
Source: Guan Yunpeng Weibo
In June and July 2018, less than a year later, Guan Yunpeng returned to Zhengzhou from Beijing. "I sent a small car to pull my things, and everything was pulled away and pulled to the house."
Life still has to go on, after returning home, Guan Yunpeng began to be cheeky, calling the director who had worked in Zhengzhou before, saying that he had returned to Zhengzhou.
Since leaving here in 2016, it has been nearly three years, Zhengzhou film and television circle is not large, before Guan Yunpeng had a small reputation in it, and after he left the film and television circle in Zhengzhou, many newcomers filled in. In 2018, when Guan Yunpeng went back again, many people did not know who he was.
Guan Yunpeng can only do non-stop running crew, Beijing opportunities he did not give up, if you want to go to Beijing to audition, Guan Yunpeng will buy the previous night Zhengzhou to Beijing hard seat ticket in advance, and then rush to the crew after arriving in Beijing in the early morning, to the evening, and then take the hard seat back to Zhengzhou, which is equivalent to saving two nights of accommodation in Beijing.
For Guan Yunpeng, this is a familiar arithmetic problem, Zhengzhou to Beijing K-head hard seat ticket, 93 yuan a piece, the early morning carriage is relatively quiet, he can also seize the time to take a nap, once you go back, the cost of the audition in Beijing can be controlled at about 200 yuan.
The only thing that bothers Guan Yunpeng is that the hard seat seats are crowded and the smell is also very large, and after arriving in Beijing the next day, the clothes will be wrinkled and the hair will be strangely oily, so Guan Yunpeng usually wears a vest slippers and pants to take the train, and finds a bathroom to change into clean clothes in the bag after arriving in Beijing.
Other problems have been solved, washing hair is the difficulty of this trip, early to the audition site nearby, Guan Yunpeng will search for barber shops on the mobile phone, he will see if there are small alleys around, old communities, where the small shops are usually opened by nearby residents, the price is lower. "There is an aunt in her 40s in the alley, she washed her hair and said it was 15 yuan, I said auntie like this, I wash it myself, I don't need you to help me, I also brought shampoo myself, 5 yuan can I?"
It was Guan Yunpeng's most embarrassing period, a twenty-four or five-year-old person, without any income and savings, unable to see the future of work, and even survival became a problem.
"I didn't dare to open my mouth to ask for (money) with my family, but said that when I got home, my parents said to add something to you first, I said no, just let it go, and the second time I will not let it again." Just say that it is for you to call it, silently catch it. Including borrowing friends, as well as borrowing at that time on a long-term installment. Later, as long as it is filming, I will quickly pay it back first. ”
The difficulty is not only in economic life, but also the pressure of friends, the worries of family members, Guan Yunpeng often wants to not give up this profession and go back to work as a broadcast host. His college classmates either worked as hosts and reporters in local television stations, or were admitted to civil servants to go to public institutions, and there were few broadcast hosts in their own business, let alone actors.
Under the pressure of all aspects, Guan Yunpeng even went to the civil servant examination once, "My hometown is Anyang, we have a Sui and Tang Grand Canal, it has a docent, recruiting broadcast host professionals." Guan Yunpeng did not get in, "I was admitted, and I don't think I will go." At that time, when your parents talked, you couldn't refute it, you didn't have grades, and you really couldn't get things out of your own. ”
We asked him why he could carry it down, and he replied: "Actors are something to be boiled, at least I have to stay up until my peers don't do this, I'm not the best among my peers, I survive to forty, those people don't do it, I don't come out at forty." At that time, it was a force, and I had to work hard. Even if you do something else, it is a state of boiling. ”
The second time he took over the scene was in June and July 2019, guan Yunpeng made two films in a row, both of which were production companies in Zhengzhou. These two plays gave Guan Yunpeng the ability to repay part of his foreign debt.
<h1>Here's your chance</h1>
At the end of 2019, in-information flow ads with the labels of "cheap", "fast" and "rapid iteration" came.
When he first started to contact the information flow, Guan Yunpeng had some resistance in his heart.
In the first TV series filmed, it was considered to be the male number three, or the audition was tried, and the starting point was relatively high. However, when he returned to Zhengzhou to shoot information flow advertisements, he found that many actors were part-time students, and the equipment and environment of the scene were not as formal as the traditional film and television industry. "I have not been exposed to such shooting, I have been exposed to traditional film and television shooting and then here, there must be a gap in my heart."
Guan Yunpeng just wanted to stop filming at the beginning, but the actor took a job to have a mouthful of food, since he chose to return to Zhengzhou, the current state, he can only learn to accept and integrate.
"All I thought was to make money quickly, save money, and one day I could shoot again." Guan Yunpeng said, "It is from a state of helplessness and forced acceptance, to later to integrate and slowly adapt." You have to enter the working state, be responsible for this film, everyone will recognize you, and there may be more opportunities to find you in the future. "
The shooting pace of the in-feed advertisement is very fast, due to the limited funds and manpower, the actors also need to bring some of their own costumes and makeup, help carry props, and light up. The time to familiarize yourself with the lines and script is also very short, waking up at 5 a.m. and resting late into the night.
Because of the short advertising time, a one-minute film must attract attention – so the "slap" scene that can make people look sideways becomes a great traffic tool. There will be about four or five slaps in a minute, although there will be a borrowed position when shooting, but Guan Yunpeng needs to go through the close-up, close-up, and panorama, and then take it again when shooting the other party's close-up and panorama. As soon as the number of times is more, it is easy to make mistakes, and the real slap is slapped.
The daily remuneration is only a fixed few hundred yuan.
From November to January, Guan Yunpeng stayed in the first company to shoot the information stream for three months. At that time, Guan Yunpeng did not shoot much, only four or five days a month to live, and the "top stream" in the circle, shooting 30 days a month.
"At that time, I was envious of others, how could I take so many jobs, and at that time, it was said that whoever took more pictures was the living king."
On the B station, many netizens commented on Guan Yunpeng's acting skills in the information flow advertisement: "Acting skills are online, stronger than traffic stars." Perhaps because of this, by the end of the year, several information flow advertisements taken by Guan Yunpeng began to "explode". After the epidemic, Guan Yunpeng's life is more and more, unconsciously, Guan Yunpeng has also become the "living king" in the mouth of his peers, after which, Guan Yunpeng began to systematically shoot a series of advertisements for the Dragon King's son-in-law.
<h1>Return to Beijing</h1>
The next story is what everyone sees - the Dragon King's son-in-law series of advertisements has become popular.
In the story, Guan Yunpeng plays a male protagonist who is dressed in shabby clothes and is constantly humiliated, but in the second half of the video, he will stage a shocking counterattack, and the real identity is revealed, he is a divine doctor, a dragon king, a god of war, and the heir of a top wealth family.
"I know that the group of fans, the proportion of men is more. In fact, you said that the son-in-law, and everyone in our daily life, there are many places closely related, are a hidden tolerance, including work is not willing, or life is not happy, are in such a stage. Everyone wants to have a counterattack and reversal stage, and then fantasize that they have such a scene, so everyone will feel that this is very cool. Guan Yunpeng analyzed the reasons for the role's popularity.
Jumping out of the awkward drama, Guan Yunpeng's experience is actually very similar to that of the Dragon King - a long-term dormancy, a one-day outbreak.
Guan Yunpeng smiled, "I am the Dragon King myself." This state of the Dragon King, before the lows, finally reversed. What is different is that the Dragon King in the play knew that he was a very powerful identity at that time, and I guan Yunpeng outside the play did not know that there might be a red day in the future. "
The character was on fire, Guan Yunpeng's phone and WeChat continued, "Once called me, called until four o'clock in the morning, I went to sleep, slept until six o'clock, and then began to have WeChat." "Most of them are MCN companies, and they contact Guan Yunpeng to cultivate their internet celebrity direction."
Guan Yunpeng rejected all MCN companies and eventually chose to return to Beijing and sign a contract with Golden Media, a traditional film and television company.
"When someone comes to you, I wonder if I'm worth the money you give me. Because Internet celebrities are only temporary, it will be difficult to slowly turn to film and television. Let me live streaming goods, to do some things of Internet celebrities, and I want to be an actor is contrary to, all MCN companies, I am grateful for your kindness, but I still want to go to the traditional film and television industry. "
He is very sober, but also has a calm beyond his peers, he claims to be a person who has experienced a low, Guan Yunpeng knows that the audience's memory is only a few seconds, and he may face the dilemma of no one after a wave of traffic disappears.
<h1>Go again</h1>
The Dragon King is just a terrier. Crooked mouth is also just an action.
The material of the ghost animal area of Station B has been updated, and there is never a shortage of eye-catching people in the traffic era. Ma Baoguo, Ding Zhen... The Dragon King never had to worry about no one to follow.
Even in the barrage, there are many "people who understand" who are blunt - "When the comments are all rat tail juice and don't talk about martial arts, not √√√√√, I know that the times have changed" "You are indeed very interesting, but I will forget you if I brush a few more videos" "Even pineapples will expire, let alone stems?" Is there anything in the world that won't expire? "
Many netizens advised him not to consume the Dragon King's stem all the time, otherwise it would be like the meme of the Prince of Pleasure's "Rain Girl Without Melon", excessive consumption. But the reality is that other types of videos released by Guan Yunpeng have far lower clicks than the Dragon King's son-in-law series.
Guan Yunpeng's B station homepage, the video playback volume dropped significantly
"I am an actor, now just through this way there is a certain degree of heat flow, the Internet celebrity replacement so fast, this let everyone like me for a short time, and then, everyone likes which one does not know." But film and television works are not the same, maybe this everyone does not like, but you have been shooting, there is always one will be better. ”
In Guan Yunpeng's hometown of Anyang, there is a traditional custom of "three years", three years after a person dies, he will do the last white thing, and after that, few people pay attention to the deceased anymore. Guan Yunpeng said: "I want to leave some things after I am gone, whether it is my works, the spirit I represent, or someone who likes me, who can continue to stay in this world." "
When the traffic favored Guan Yunpeng, he probably had the answer in his heart.
Now Guan Yunpeng is busy again, as an actor. One audition after another, day after day.
Of course, all of Guan Yunpeng's experiences are put into the actor's big pool, which is actually nothing. At the top, most actors can do their best to achieve nothing in their lifetime, and it takes strength and luck to find a place in this career path where interests have long been established.
Good luck to this young actor.