"The eyes overflow with peach blossoms, and the whole body hides beautiful bones", these ten words are the most appropriate annotations to Shan Liwen.
The "Ximen Qing" he portrayed in Hong Kong films is almost a childhood memory of a generation. Perhaps Shan Liwen played the mercurial, evil and crazy Ximen Qing too much, so since he first played "Ximen Qing" in 1989, there have been various prejudices and misunderstandings around him for more than thirty years.
No, a recent oolong message sent him to the news headlines, saying that he "Ximen Qing took too many pictures, resulting in infertility."
To this ridiculous rumor, Shan Liwen was not annoyed, but responded to the media with a good temper: It is not so easy to get pregnant and have a child, and my wife and I (Hu Beiwei) look at it with a normal heart and believe in going with the flow.
Above: Shan Liwen and His Wife Hu Beiwei
Compared with the exaggerated imagination of his private life by the outside world, in fact, Shan Liwen can definitely rank in the top three among the Hong Kong stars who have "underestimated their acting skills".
As a rare "demon and evil charm" beauty man in Hong Kong films, Shan Liwen has been an actor for more than thirty years, and may never have won an award such as a film emperor or a video emperor, but he has acted a controversial legend to the extreme, which is almost difficult to surpass.
Luo Zhuoyao, the first director with unique insight to choose Shan Liwen to play Ximen Qing, later she was nominated for the Best Director of the Golden Statue for Chen Chong's starring role in "Seducing the Monk".
The stand-alone textual person, to some extent, is really quite similar to Ximen Qing: tall and tall, handsome and handsome, charming eyes, informed and polite, gentle and romantic.
Born on March 17, 1959, Shan Liwen is an uncompromising musical talent, and before becoming an actor, he was the best bassist in the Xiangjiang music scene.
This stemmed from his family's influence: his father was a lover of classical music, his mother liked to sing and dance music, the eldest sister was a piano player, and the second sister was a ballet dancer.
In 1983, at the age of 24, Shan Liwen joined the heavy metal band Chyna, after which the band disbanded, and in 1986 he formed the band "Blue Jeans", also known as the Blue Warrior, with Huang Liangsheng and Su Dehua.
Above: Now also "Girl Killer"
Although "Blue Jeans" was dissolved after only four years, it left Shan Liwen with several unforgettable friendships: one was to become friends with Huang Jiaju of "Beyond"; the other was to compose a brief love song with Mei Yanfang in the "Bad Girl" period.
"He is romantic and handsome, we used to walk on the beach together in the middle of the night," Mei Yanfang once mentioned in an interview that the five most important men in her life were Shan Liwen.
This love song, only half a year to sing hurriedly, and then was asked the reason for the breakup, Shan Liwen felt that it was because they were busy with work, too little time to get along, plus at that time Mei Yanfang, as a newly popular singer, could not open the relationship, so it gradually faded and broke up in a friendly way.
Also in the year of the establishment of "Blue Warrior", Shan Liwen began to enter the big screen for the first time, invited by Liu Zhenwei to play "A PAL" in the movie "Overlord Female Fortune Star" starring Wu Junru, which he directed.
Heavy metal rock singer fan, a long hair, with "semi-permanent" black super, this style is the true color of the ah!
In 1989, the movie "Pan Jinlian's Previous Life and Present Life" became Shan Liwen's first appearance in "Ximen Qing".
Now it seems that the casting of this movie is absolutely perfect: Wang Zuxian plays Pan Jinlian, Zeng Zhiwei plays Wu Dalang, Lin Junxian plays Wu Song, and Shan Liwen plays Ximen Qing. The screenwriter is the famous Li Bihua.
Above: Wang Zuxian is so beautiful
The bassist of the heavy metal band, dressed in white, has become an ancient beautiful man without any violation: sword eyebrows, high noses, and a pair of talking eyes.
The same is to take the lover's shoes to seduce the sister, Shan Liwen performance is like this:
Chen Xingxu's performance in "New Shooting Eagle" is like this, I have no fluctuations in my heart and even just want to sigh: Mu Nianci's feet are really big!
In this movie, Shan Liwen, who has no acting experience, almost by instinct, interpreted Ximen Qing's "evil charm madness" and "wandering" in place, and he also won the "Best New Actor" nomination at the Academy Awards that year.
Some people say: "After Shan Liwen, there is no Ximen Qing in the world."
But beyond Shan Liwen was himself.
Two years later, Shaw's director Li Hanxiang came to the door and let him start thinking for the first time about what kind of person "Ximen Qing" really was. How should an actor act?
In 1991, when Li Hanxiang filmed "Golden Bottle Wind Moon", he often scolded Shan Liwen on the set to make his dog bloody.
Above: "Golden Bottle Wind Moon"
Many big stars who have worked with Li Hanxiang have been scolded by him, such as Liang Jiahui.
Liang Jiahui once said that when he and Li Hanxiang filmed "Burning the Yuanmingyuan", they could not act at all, and it was Li Hanxiang who taught himself to read his lines sentence by sentence, so he filmed this drama, and the second time he cooperated with Li Hanxiang in "Hanging Curtains and Listening to The Government", he took a movie emperor.
Li Hanxiang is also the same acting leader for Shan Liwen, and the director's scolding of him on the set has opened his mind.
"Li Hanxiang taught me a lot of knowledge, he opened it layer by layer like peeling an onion to show me the level of Ximen Qing, taught us how to act, and helped me to three-dimensional Ximen Qing's character." Especially after shooting every day, he told me to go to the editing room, and while he scolded him, he studied on his own; after his modification, it was much better. Later, I thought I was Ximen Qing. ”
Indeed, Shan Liwen's performance in "Golden Bottle Wind Moon" is full of multi-faceted and layered, peeling off the complex "layers" of the characters.
For example, the emotional transition from "anger" to "emotion" in the picture below is natural and smooth, and the connection between volcanic eruptions and trickles is not abrupt.
Li Hanxiang was also satisfied with Shan Liwen, and found him to make two films in a row: "Golden Bottle Wind Moon" (1991) and "Young Girl Pan Jinlian" (1994), and even let Shan Liwen boldly challenge for the second time, and played the roles of Ximen Qing and Wu Song at the same time!
After pasting on the beard, Shan Liwen not only changed his appearance into Wu Song, but even his eyes changed: loyal and straight, and Ximen Qingju ruo.
Above: Wu Song
Didn't expect that? Shan Liwen alone played three roles in "Water Margin": Ximen Qing, Wu Song, and Gao Yanei ("The Heroic Nature of Water Margin").
The villain role of Gao Ya Nei was played by Shan Liwen to the bone.
Shan Liwen and Wang Zuxian can also be regarded as playing the "four lives and four lives" of a pair of classic CPs on the big screen:
From Ximen Daguan and Pan Jinlian in "Pan Jinlian's Previous And Present Lives", to Gao Yannei and Lin Chong Niangzi in "The Heroic Nature of Water Margin", to Ah Nian and The Flower Thief Xiong Yan in "Ah Nian", and Hui Xiang and cousin of "City Hunter"... It's just that the roles they play are almost all tragic endings that are "unattainable".
Ah Baby and Xiong Yan
Hye-heung and cousin
After Li Hanxiang's two films, Shan Liwen later starred in Ximen Qing several times, as many as seven times before his return to the music scene in 2007.
He also successfully branded "Ximen Qing", a figure from the legend of the ages, with his own brand.
Some people have to ask: there are so many "Ximen Qing" on the big screen, why is the unique Shan Liwen deeply rooted in the hearts of the people?
In addition to Shan Liwen, there are more than 20 male actors who have starred in "Ximen Qing" on the screen, such as the mainland version of "Water Margin" in 1998, and Li Qiang has starred in Ximen Qing;
Above: Li Qiang and Wang Siyi starred as Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian respectively
There is also the 2001 mainland version of "Water Margin", Du Chun once starred in Ximen Qing, and I remember that the big flower on his head was spit on crazy;
However, the reason why Shan Liwen can become an irreplaceable "Ximen Qing" in people's hearts is not because of the number of times, but by the exquisite and exquisite performance.
What kind of person is Ximen Qing? Although in the twenty-fourth episode of "Water Margin", "Pan Donkey Deng Xiaoxian" is described as such, Ximen Qing, played by Shan Liwen, captures the three most important characteristics: greed, evil and cruelty.
Greed is greed for money, greed, and greed. Evil is evil charm, evil charm, evil charm. Fierce, fierce, fierce, cunning.
He plays Ximen Qing, not superficial, but very good at using details to portray the complexity of the characters in addition to adultery, he is greedy and cunning, but also handsome, he is vicious, but also has a fragile and soft side.
Some viewers said: After watching Ximen Qing, who played Shan Liwen, he finally understood why so many women love him in addition to having money.
In addition to Ximen Qing, Shan Liwen has also created many amazing supporting roles in his acting career.
The arrogant Six Princes in "Legend of the Fire Cloud", the crazy cramps in "The Ultimate Hunt", the lawless Hussein in "The Gambler", and the domineering and cool Sheng Shi Qin in "Chitose Lover".
The Gambler
"A Baby"
However, the villains played a lot, Shan Liwen himself and his family, so he underwent tremendous pressure of public opinion, especially in 1990, he was "tricked" by Cai Lan to make the first large-scale film after the hong Kong film implemented the grading system.
It was also fresh meat
When the film was released, he wandered outside the cinema, never daring to go inside to face himself on the big screen, when he first understood: "As an actor, sometimes you have to completely break your dignity."
Heroes are easy to play, but it is not easy to play the villain with a thousand faces, because playing a is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Shan Liwen has also been banned by the media as a man originator.
However, Shan Liwen in life is an uncompromising gentleman, he takes good care of his partners who shoot together, and his peers say that "Pal Brother is rough in appearance, but in fact he is kind and gentle".
When he makes slightly larger films, he has a bottom line: you must take safety measures, reduce contact with each other, and make the actress feel safe.
Shan Liwen's career as an actor took a turn after the last film related to Ximen Qing in 1996, "New Golden Plum Bottle":
After that, he did not make a movie for eight years, but tried to return to the music scene, and played supporting roles in TVB dramas such as "Criminal Investigation File 4" "Xu Will", "Top Gun Sister 2" and "Zhang Shuming".
Shan Liwen and Hu Beiwei
Later we also know: in 1996, Shan Liwen and Hu Beiwei began to fall in love, she was born in 1971, a whole round of small him, the two fell in love because of music, but also made Shan Liwen want to start again in the music world.
On March 28, 2008, the two held a wedding, and the bridesmaids were Hu Dingxin, Li Yanan, Chen Fara, Han Junting, etc., and Eason Chan and Cai Zhuoyan attended the wedding.
The two have been married for 12 years, although there are no children, but they have always been very sweet, Shan Liwen is even more "showy wife crazy demon", at every turn will be exposed to their sweet daily life with their beloved wife, envy others!
Many celebrity couples such as Liu Qingyun and Guo Aiming, Liang Chaowei and Liu Jialing, like Shan Liwen and his wife, have been married for many years without children, but who can say that marital happiness can only be judged by children?
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
In Hong Kong films, there are two actors who are good at playing "Wanderers", one is Ren Dahua and the other is Shan Liwen.
In contrast, after Ren Dahua starred in large-scale movies in the 90s, he was reused by Du Qifeng, thus winning the Golden Statue Film Emperor with his superb acting skills, and recently became the first Hong Kong TV emperor in the history of the Golden Eagle.
Shan Liwen makes people feel a pity, film and television songs, acting skills are pure, if he had not stopped and returned to the music scene when he was in the film circle, would he have already regarded the emperor and the film emperor as Ren Dahua?
Li Hanxiang not only sent newcomer Liang Jiahui to the throne of the film emperor, but also sent Chen Ping, the actor of "Pan Jinlian", to the throne of the queen, but Shan Liwen's Ximen Qing has become a rich and fragrant shadow in the audience's memory, although he has not won the Academy Award, he has long been deeply rooted in his heart.
The stand-alone writer, to such a hypothetical question, took on the example of his heavy metal band bassist and replied lightly:
"My life is my own choice, and instead of wasting time thinking about what I wanted to do, I would do a little more of what I need to do now." Even if I go back in time, I will still look forward, do my own thing, and find a sense of the times. ”
Sub-non-fish, anzhi fish pleasure? Shan Liwen, 61 years old, is now in Hong Kong dramas such as "Happy Express of Love Home" and "Stepping Over the Boundary 2", the parents who play small characters are short and appear as bassists at the concerts of the Queen of Heaven from time to time, which is happy for him, and it is enough.
Today's main writer: A knife.
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