"I am a fool, and I don't think of myself as a fool." - Sar Singh, "The Fool's Treasure"
Singer's Jimbo, who has been dealing with suffering all his life, even plays with self-abuse as a kind of pride.
In Taiwan, there is also a "Jin Bao", his name is Jin Shijie, and Taiwanese theaters are accustomed to calling him Jin Bao.
Remember that in "The Leftovers Are King", the words that the father played by Jin Shijie said to his daughter Shu Qi touched countless people.
In just 3 minutes, not a single word of love was mentioned, but the words were heartfelt, showing the father's selfless love for his daughter to the fullest. It was also through this performance that was brushed countless times that he really caught fire in the mainland.
However, in the entertainment industry for 40 years, the 70-year-old Jin Shijie can be said to have been uninhibited and loves freedom for half a lifetime, and has asked for something for his son. The public's evaluation of him has also changed from thousands of people to mixed praise.
Yes, Jin Shijie's attitude towards the world has changed, and he is no longer the enemy of the world, because he has his own weakness.
Pig farmers from their villages
Born in 1951, Jin Shijie, like Wang Weizhong, the godfather of television, is also a villager. In that era when he was not rich, the life of the village was naturally poor, but there was a southern accent and a story of heaven, south and north, which also constituted the most colorful part of Jin Shijie's childhood memory and the starting point of his literary and artistic dream.
The Jin family has a total of 4 children, and Jin Shijie is the second oldest. At that time, the family could not afford to buy a television set, and he was accompanied only by a simple house and an empty yard.
However, at an early age, Jin Shijie showed his own difference. Other children like to wear new clothes, but he prefers to wear old clothes; other children are mischievous, but he likes to go under the big banyan tree in the village, quietly listen to the adults tell stories, or make up stories in their own minds.
Moreover, every day after dinner, Jin Shijie would run to talk to everything in nature. For example, if he looks up and sees a cloud in the sky, and the cloud is close to him, he tells his story to the cloud; or when he sees an ant on the ground, he will tell the little ant about the interesting things he encountered today.
This kind of self-written and self-acting plot is what he likes to do most every day. At that time, he was already a proper literary and artistic youth.
Compared with his peers, Jin Shijie, who has been more well-behaved and docile since childhood, will never do anything to cross the line. However, in the era when everyone was proud to be able to produce college students at home, he refused the college entrance examination to escape the academic pressure.
For the sake of the ideal pastoral romanticism in his heart, he resolutely entered the Animal Husbandry Department of Pingtung Agricultural College, which did not require an examination, and learned breeding techniques.
After graduating, he was assigned to work on a farm in southern Taiwan and became a professional pig farmer.
At that time, Jin Shijie's greatest hobby was to wander in the sea of books, and everything else was floating clouds. Even in the farm every day to feed the pigs, cleaning the pigsty life, he has never given up reading and learning and his own pursuit.
With a young dream, he went to Taipei alone to find his dream
After a year and a half of dealing with pigs on the farm, Jin Shijie suddenly realized that this was not the life he wanted.
He took care of each piglet like a child, played guitar for them at night, but eventually watched them being sent to the slaughterhouse one by one.
Whenever he recalled, Jin Shijie said: "The pastoral romantic psychology that I had before was suddenly shattered." ”
So, at the age of 27, he quit his job on the farm.
The dreams of his youth are still stirring in his heart, and he is still eager to tell more people stories, to be a screenwriter or a performer.
In this way, Jin Shijie went to Taipei alone from his hometown in Pingtung and began a dream-chasing journey. At the age when people of the same age were married and had children, his life had just set sail.
In order to support himself and at the same time have time to create, Jin Shijie went to Taipei and found a job as a porter and warehouse keeper.
Because he regarded his head as "sacred, in the dead of night, he had to go home to write and write." So during the day, you can only allow yourself to do some rough work that does not use your brain very much.
Day after day, Jin Shijie did all kinds of low-level hard work.
Later, he became a warehouse manager, and in the sweltering warehouse, he had to move and order goods. At night, in the dormitory, others were talking, playing cards, drinking, watching TV, but he ignored no one, did not ask anything, just a blank piece of paper spread out, writing his own script.
For ten months, Jin Shijie put all his energy into ushering in his first play in life, "Performance".
But the script came out, and it still needed BoLe. But the first thought of the "strange man" Jin Shijie was that he did not want to be seen, he said: "I did not think of anything else, I think its task is to put it in the drawer, and it is not ready to be shown to the second person in the world." ”
Fortunately, Jin Shijie, who was a literary and artistic youth at that time, and his friends formed a book club, and in the chat, he inadvertently revealed that he wrote the script, which allowed "Performance" to see the light of day.
Set up the "Lanling Opera Workshop", no money to do stage plays
Jin Shijie, who showed his talent, was naturally supported by his friends around him. After being introduced by a friend of the art troupe, he won 2 roles in the stage play "Heshi Bi".
At this point, the talented Jin Shijie finally officially stepped onto the drama stage.
However, how could Jin Shijie, who has always been different, be willing to run the dragon suit like this and be pushed forward? Not to mention that he still loves the theater art, and he is determined to do his favorite drama.
In 1980, he took a group of friends who loved theater to set up his own troupe, which is also known as the "Lanling Opera Workshop". It was also the first experimental troupe in Taiwan.
But the biggest feature of this troupe is "poor". Most of the students in it are doing odd jobs while performing gratuitous performances in troupes, and they call themselves "beggar troupes".
All the drama actors are supported by a passion, in order to support the troupe's performance, Jin Shijie will also take some cameo roles in the TV series to supplement the daily expenses of the troupe.
From the beginning of the establishment of the troupe to the present, Jin Shijie has also followed a principle: the time outside the troupe will only go to the film, mainly the troupe.
Therefore, at that time, even if he was so poor, Jin Shijie did not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, in his words: I kind of regarded my poverty as my pride.
He just didn't believe it, so why did he have to have money to do a show? The sky is the roof, the earth is the stage, and he wants to prove that he can do stage plays without money.
"Jiangbin Willow" became famous in the first world war and went to the peak of drama
After several years of poverty, the brothers of the repertory troupe also sewed and mended their costumes for another three years. Can't afford makeup artists, they are vegan on the stage, Jin Shijie with the "beggar brothers" to try various performance forms.
What made Lanling Opera Workshop really famous in one fell swoop was "Lotus Pearl New Match", which was also written by Jin Shijie.
This is a driver and a young lady "cheating in deception" story, as an angry youth, Jin Shijie took this opportunity to ridicule the environment that everyone wants to dream of getting rich, but unexpectedly caused a great response, for a time, flowers applause followed.
And what really made Jin Shijie famous was "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden". In 1986, Jin Shijie was invited to star in the drama "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" directed by Lai Shengchuan, playing the elderly bedridden male protagonist Jiang Binliu.
Even if the partner was the goddess Lin Qingxia, it did not cover the light of Jin Shijie. With his superb acting skills, he has become the eternal Riverside Willow in people's hearts.
Jin Shijie, who has been in the Taiwanese drama industry for many years, has the blessing of "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden", and he became famous for a while.
At that time, he and Gu Baoming and Li Liqun were jointly known as the "Three Treasures of Taiwan Theater", and Jin Shijie was praised by the media as the leader of Taiwan's small theater, with a very high status, it can be said that in the field of drama that Jin Shijie loves the most, he has already reached the peak.
It was not until 1992 that Jin Shijie officially set foot in the film and television industry and began to star in film roles.
The first film was the film "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden" co-starring him, Li Liqun and Lin Qingxia, which was adapted from the drama. His performance in the film is still an insurmountable classic.
After that, Jin Shijie began to brave the film and television industry, with his superb acting skills, he created a series of classic roles.
For example, Wei Zhongxian in the movie "Embroidered Spring Knife"; this role made him directly nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor;
There are also Zheng Shan'ao in "Master", Mr. Yan in "Detective Chinatown", and Wuye in "Generation Grandmaster".
Of course, the most praised by the audience is what we mentioned earlier, his wonderful monologue performance in "The Leftovers Are King", which has always been regarded as a "textbook" kind of divine acting.
Old and old, open the door to meet the customs
Before the age of 50, Jin Shijie dedicated his youth to performance. His acting career has gradually moved towards glory, but his love life has not been so smooth.
Jin Shijie, who is devoted to performance, only had a relationship before the age of 58, and he only began to fall in love in his forties.
In 1997, Jin Shijie and actor Ye Wen became friends because of their cooperation in "Between You and Me and Love" and fell in love. This relationship is ten years, although it is not a husband and wife, but it is like a husband and wife, and each of them regards each other as the most important person in life.
In 2006, Ye Wen unfortunately suffered from depression. Suffering from illness, she finally chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.
At that time, Jin Shijie was 55 years old, and he was also devastated. Not only at Ye Wen's funeral, he wrote the "last love letter" affectionately, but also vowed not to marry for life.
But life is always full of many unknown accidents. At the age of 58, Jin Shijie met an angelic woman, his student Tu Guping.
Tu Guping gave him a lot of companionship and helped him get out of the painful memories, and the two had a long-term relationship and finally entered the palace of marriage.
It was this marriage that made Jin Shijie in his later years controversial.
Because Tu Guping is a full 25 years younger than him, in the eyes of the world, the year-old love is often not so blessed.
But he is a "strange man" Jin Shijie, how can he care about the world's vision?
After the two married, they were sweet as usual, and Tu Guping gave birth to twins for Jin Shijie in the year of Hua Jia.
Gradually, everyone was also touched by this loving couple and sent full of blessings.
However, after marriage, Jin Shijie began to become less worldly: in order to make milk powder money, he began to make a lot of TV series and movies; in order not to be recognized as the grandfather of the child, he began to wear new clothes; for the convenience of the child's travel, he went to take the driver's license...
Yes, now this old Wenqing has changed, he has become like a normal person.
At this time, some people said that in order to make money, Jin Shijie also began to pick up bad films, everywhere there was him, and he took over any role.
In this regard, Jin Shijie said that he only had a new understanding of life and death. He wanted to try something different, and he had to learn to be a responsible father.
I think he is Jimbo himself, and the world laughs at him foolishly and foolishly, only he knows that he lives soberly and simply.
Whether it is praise or depreciation, it is undeniable that Jin Shijie's original intention for the theatrical stage has never changed, and he has long been recognized as a gold medal actor in the industry.
After thousands of sails, he does not need to cater to anyone, he only needs to do what he wants to do and love the people he wants to love.