When it comes to Zhang Shi, many people don't necessarily know who he is.
But mentioning the TV drama version of "Mythology", the one who shouted: "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!" "Everyone must have been impressed.
Zhao Gao is played by Zhang Shi, who vividly performs Zhao Gao's ambition, desire, humility, hatred, unwillingness and pain, and this wonderful performance has also been included in the textbook of the Beijing Film Academy, setting an example for countless latecomers.
In addition to Zhao Gao, he is also the lustful and kind-loving Gong Xi in "Pink Girl"; he is the traitorous villain Tian Feng in "The Emperor of Han Wu" who attacks his heart and uses conspiracies and tricks to climb up.
Zhang Shi plays in humble small supporting roles, but his three-point performance makes each role deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, known as "drama essence", and his acting skills do not lose any first-line popular actors.
Zhang Shi has won the Best Supporting Actor Award three times
As a representative actor who is not popular in the drama, Zhang Shi's fame is seriously unworthy of his acting skills.
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Zhang Shi was born in 1966 to a Taiwanese military family to a military father.
Because he is an old man, Zhang Father is very spoiled for him, and has also created Zhang Shi's lively and rebellious personality.
Zhang Shi's childhood and adolescence was a "chaotic demon king", a typical rebellious boy. It is not good to go to school and read, to get into trouble all day, to fight and skip class.
His father saw that he was really naughty and mischievous, and there was no way but to send him to the Guoguang Drama Art Experimental School to let him learn a specialty, so that he would not be without food in the future. It turns out that Zhang Father's choice is correct, and Zhang Shi is naturally suitable for eating the bowl of rice of actors.
In 1983, Hou Xiaoxian's film "The Man from the Wind Cabinet" began filming, which told the story of the growth path of several rebellious teenagers by the sea.
As the star of the movie, Niu Chengze immediately thought of his good friend Zhang Shi, and recommended him to the director, Zhang Shi entered the group in a confused way and starred in the first play of his life.
He was seventeen years old.
Perhaps the role of the rebellious teenager is too similar to himself, and Zhang Shi's performance is natural and effortless.
This film makes Zhang Shi's talent in acting fully displayed, and Zhang Shi's success in shaping the role has been recognized and praised by the audience.
It was also the act that inspired Zhang Shi's inner potential love for acting, who had previously known nothing about acting and aimlessly, but at this moment he found his goal:
Become an actor.
Rebellious, he began to sink his heart and polish himself.
After 66 years of serious tempering, in 1989, Zhang Shi cooperated with Andy Lau and Lu Xiuling in "Soaring City", playing a horse boy and began to emerge.
In the same year, he filmed the movie "Banana Paradise" directed by Wang Tong, perhaps from a military family and the experience of staying in the army with his father, Zhang Shi played the inner struggle and helplessness of the veteran "Li Desheng", and this role won him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The 23-year-old Zhang Shi became famous in Taiwan and became popular in the film industry.
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Zhang Shi, who has been playing a supporting role, finally ushered in the first male lead script after getting the Golden Horse male supporting role.
In 1990, Zhang Shi starred in the movie "First Date".
The film was released in the American Commercial Theater and set an excellent box office record, and Zhang Shi was also recognized for his film being invited to participate in various important film festivals in the world, such as the New York Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the Toronto Film Festival.
This magnified his confidence and dreams, and he had the idea of breaking out of the world on the higher and greater stage of the United States.
So he chose to give up everything he had to go to the United States to shoot movies when his career was booming, and this walk was two years.
And the cruel reality gave Zhang Shi a slap, no fame, no connections, no resources Zhang Shi in the United States is facing a situation of no drama to shoot, in order to survive he even went to the restaurant as a dishwasher, this strong gap also made Zhang Shi also began to think about whether his choice is correct.
In 1993, in the United States, he received an invitation to perform in Huang Jianxin's historical drama film "Five Kui". Just like before he went to the United States without hesitation, Zhang Shi received the script and after several thoughts, he returned to Taiwan to participate in filming without hesitation.
It turned out that Zhang Shi's choice was correct. With this film, he not only won the Golden Horse Award nomination for Best Actor, but also won the Rotterdam Film Festival Audience Vote for Best Actor.
This year, Zhang Shi was 28 years old, and he was able to win these awards at a young age, which shows his superb acting skills.
Then Geng's Zhang Shi offended the company Huashi, which was signed at the time, for speaking, and was banned for six years, and Zhang Shi, who had just reappeared in the audience's field of vision, was silent with his works for another six years.
In 1999, Zhang Shi was nominated for the Golden Bell Awards for his self-directed unit drama "Listen to the Sound of the Rainbow", and won the best unit drama, best screenplay, best actor, best music, best cinematography and other awards.
At this point, Zhang Shi returned to the public eye again, and his acting career was back on track. At this time, he had a new thinking about his acting career, and he decided to develop in the mainland.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > to the mainland and ushered in the peak</h1>
Although Zhang Shi is a shining star in the Taiwanese film industry, he lacks popularity in the mainland.
He came to Shanghai in 2000 and acted in unknown dramas in his first two years on the mainland, until 2003, when his role in "Pink Girl" opened up popularity for him.
"Pink Girl" exploded, and he played the nosy, somewhat lustful, and kind landlord Gong Xi in the play, not inferior to a group of handsome men and beautiful women, but won the attention of the audience with his superb acting skills.
In 2005, Zhang Shi was hand-picked by CCTV to play Tian Jie in "The Emperor of Han Wu", and only two Taiwanese actors were used in the whole drama, Empress Dou used Gui Yalei, Tian Yu used Zhang Shi, and in front of Chen Baoguo, Jiao Huang and Gui Yalei and other powerful actors, Zhang Shi's acting skills were not inferior.
Zhang Shi plays Tian Jie, who is scheming, good at drilling camps, and likes to climb up with intrigue and trickery, to the real and expressive, and his performance is precise and natural, making Tian Feng's historical figure jump on the screen.
In 2010, Zhang Shi ushered in his "fengshen god" work "Mythology".
Zhang Shi's performance of Zhao Gao is a tragic character to the extreme, but also a character that people can't hate, Zhang Shi portrayed Zhao Gao in the play as flesh and blood, so that the audience hates him and tickles his teeth at the same time, but also can't help but pity his suffering and grievance for him.
"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!" In this performance, Zhang Shi vividly performed Zhao Gao's ambition, desire, humility, hatred, unwillingness and pain, and this wonderful performance was also included in the textbook of the Beijing Film Academy, setting an example for countless latecomers.
Later, Zhang Shi played the role of yellow coat in "County Order Yellow Horse Coat". In 2008, Zhang Shi starred in the TV series "Maltese on the Balance", which was nominated for the male lead of the 44th Golden Bell Awards drama program.
Since then, Zhang Shi has starred in many dramas, but none of the works out of the circle can overshadow the name of "Zhao Gao". Zhang Shi fell into the embarrassing situation that the drama red man was not red, everyone knew the bad Zhao Gao, but did not know that the actor's name was Zhang Shi.
He disappeared from the viewer's field of vision for a long time.
Why can Zhang Shi play each role so well?
He mentions:
"You just have to look at the scripts I've made."
"I never just draw a few lines with highlighter, usually it's densely packed with words, and the script is turned to tatters."
"No matter how much I play, I will treat it with the mentality of 'I am the male protagonist', even if it is only one sentence, I will take it seriously." 」
Because of the heart.
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.
In an interview last June, he mentioned that his current low-key life is because his wife wants to return to the mountains and forests, so he bought more than 900 pyeong of land in Hsinchu to grow vegetables for his wife.
As for the audience's expectations of his return to the screen, he just said "everything goes with the flow".
Throughout Zhang Shi's acting career, he always rises and falls in the peaks and valleys, and in "in the red and not red", he learned to face it calmly, and he also used his own talent and efforts to interpret a sentence very well: only small people, no small actors.