In September 2021, Huang Bo was interviewed by this reporter at the "Annual Comedy Competition".
On the stage of the "Annual Comedy Contest", a man rushed to the medical examination center and wanted to do an induction medical examination.
In order to get the report as soon as possible, he first spent 98 yuan to become a monthly user, downloaded the APP, and bought an acceleration package to speed up the blood draw speed of the turtle speed. When taking the chest film, he looked for buttons everywhere, and had a hard time closing the pop-up advertisement of "It is a brother who will cut me", but only got a small corner of the original film. The nurse sweetly reminded that in the future, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., two new tablets will be sent to the mailbox; the director took over the conversation: If you want to see the complete chest x-ray as soon as possible, you can enjoy the advanced on-demand receiving service, 30 yuan per piece...
Huang Bo in the audience looked happy and smiled and looked up.
He has just suffered a "persecution" on the Internet, which resonates deeply. Along the way, he was doing a question IQ test on his mobile phone, 60 channels, and only finished it at the recording site, just about to see the results, "please pay" jumped out. He wanted to go to such great lengths, 18 yuan, pay it. The result is returned to the superior according to the process, and at a glance, why do you have to pay? When he was ready to continue spending money, Li Yan, who was in the same dressing room, couldn't hold back: "The IQ test has just begun." ”
The whole audience was amused by this story. Not every actor who is good at comedy has this ability. In the place where Huang Bo appeared, people have become accustomed to intercepting those golden sentences and passages, waiting for him to burn the hot field and dispel the embarrassing ironing post. Statements such as "Huang Bo's high emotional intelligence" and "Huang Bo's speaking skills" have been repeatedly mentioned by the media, and reporters are grateful for his tired face during the propaganda period, and they still remember the thoughtfulness of "is it good to write this answer".
Huang Bo laughed at himself as a "service personality". Behind those who lift heavy weights and are easy to pick up, it may be a surging pressure and a moment of restraint in the self. In August, he released a new album, including one of the songs "Take Me as an Apprentice". "Which should go with the wind, which should be carved to the bone", "which should confess their fate, which should not obey", "which should be silent, which should be angry", he asked in the song, "The long road of the rivers and lakes, who can take me as an apprentice".
"It's all about flesh and skin"
On the variety show "Annual Comedy Competition", Huang Bo came to seek a teacher.
At first, he didn't want to come. "I have difficulty choosing, I have the power to kill and die, and it is very difficult for me to control the fate of others." Huang Bo told the "Global People" reporter.
But watching comedy is also a pleasant thing. The newcomers on the stage showed a different comedic technique from the traditional sketches - Sketch (comedy sketch) that focused on only one game point, constantly upgrading, musical comedy that raped and sang and danced, comic talents who pretended to be stupid and one person complained...
Wen Wu first, Wu Wu second, Huang Bo's standard is the "flesh feeling" of the work, whether it is rigorous in structure, far-reaching in meaning, or sprinkling dog blood and shaking baggage, "do not let the brain do rational analysis, everything depends on skin and flesh." "Feel that, goosebumps, be smothered, be what you are, you can do."
He increasingly believed that "the core of comedy is comedy" and that the boundaries between high and low are not necessary. "In the past, we felt that the effect of structure, dislocation, and contrast was only advanced, and we hoped that our comedy was intriguing, wrapped in the big core of tragedy, and had a sense of power." Huang Bo said, "But in this era, not every work is meaningful. It is simple and pure, winning in form, letting people hold the phone brush to decompress. Sometimes you don't understand, how can the number of likes be so high? But I was still helplessly amused by it. ”
Huang Bo's works, from top to bottom, are stills of "Crazy Stone", "Bullfighting" and "A Good Drama".
"It's getting harder and harder to do comedy." Huang Bo sighed. A stubble of variety shows have followed, and short video platforms have staged the carnival of civilians every day, and "everyone's immunity to accept baggage is getting stronger and stronger." He wanted to touch the new exit. "The encounters and pain points in life, the joy and darkness in the heart, these things will be created when they are caught." Participating in the show, he also wants to "rub more" with young people, he is afraid that the time is long, his shell is getting thicker and thicker, "you think that is a sense of security, but it is not."
7 years ago, Huang Bo had the urge to "break the shell". It was when he was proud of the spring breeze that he participated in the film that created the chinese box office myth. From the Golden Horse Film Emperor, the "State Emperor" to the "5 Billion Emperor", under the crown, he felt that he had fallen into a bottleneck and lost interest in performance.
He misses himself when filming "Bullfighting", playing with a Dutch cow in the cold winter of minus 20 degrees Celsius. Three or five hundred meters high, a shot from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, he took thirty or forty shots, 4 months to wear out more than thirty pairs of shoes. At that time, I competed, gave a good one, and gave a better one. And when he gradually became more at ease and was able to use his acting skills to "three axes" to knock down all the characters, this happiness disappeared.
In 2014, when Huang Bo was filming "Finding the Dragon", he said to Xia Yu in the same group that after filming this, he wanted to take a break. After 3 years, he almost
I didn't take the role and became a director with all my heart.
In 2018, "A Good Drama" was released, telling the story of a company going to sea to build a team, and the result was lost to a desert island. In 100 days, there have been successive power changes in the vice president, security guards, cleaners, and finances, corresponding to the historical changes in primitive society, capitalism, and utopia.
It's not a good story to tell. Huang Bo is not without simple options, such as making a purely playful commercial comedy. But he still chose to walk into an unknown danger and polish the film at his own pace.
The script was worked out for 3 years, and the filming location was "half the world", and finally Yakushima island in the North Pacific Ocean was selected. In order to protect the ecology here, the number of people going up the mountain cannot exceed 10 at a time, and tripods and tracks cannot be used. The island rains more than 400 times a year, and the whole filming is "looking at the face of the sky". The days are even more lackluster, and visiting the supermarket has become everyone's pastime, seven or eight times a day, but I don't know what to buy. In two months, Huang Bo's belt was closed with three buckles. Every day, he shoots an average of sixteen or seven hours, carefully scrutinizing each shot. In the crew, Huang Bo believes that a certain scene has passed, and the assistant director will announce the audience on the walkie-talkie, and all the actors will applaud collectively.
The final editing took a year, a shot of the trade-off, Huang Bo often has to struggle for a day. The three huge mountains of audience, investor and market make him not only try to have fun on his own, but also take a detour between literature and commerce.
"Do I have to be so strong at the bottom?"
"A Good Drama" has the entanglement that Huang Bo only has. The next day, when I woke up in the morning, the sky was getting brighter. Huang Bo looked at the empty set of people going to the building and understood the gap between reality and ideals. "You feel like you're done, but your talent doesn't last to this point, and you have to face your own 'incompetence.'" In an interview, he described the most meaningful moment of the director's experience.
Huang Bo served as the "president" of the "Annual Comedy Competition". For the first half of his life, he often saw his "incompetence." "Some people are God's reward for food, according to their natural feelings." Huang Bo told reporters. He remembered that when he used to go around performing in the cave, some singers really had their own aura, obviously not famous, but walked from the stage to the center of the stage, smiled at everyone, bowed, and applauded "wow", "So wonderful, why?" "Others imitated him and practiced it, but it turned out to be a joke."
Since junior high school, Huang Bo has been singing in a bar in Qingdao, and the objects of "practicing according to practice" are Aaron Kwok and Lin Zhiying. He wrote his own songs, sat by the window, facing the sea, drinking beer, thinking like a fountain, and wrote two books. He also learned to dance with the MV, once opened a class to teach, taught for 8 years, peach and plum full of Qingdao.
Later, he began a cave walking career throughout the country with his combination, going south through Guangzhou and north to beijing, accompanied by Yang Yuying, Mao Ning, Zhou Xun, Sha Baoliang, and Man Wenjun.
In 2000, Huang Bo performed in Xi'an. His brother Gao Hu called him to come to Beijing to shoot a play, playing a minibus conductor who went to the city to work. This "Get in the Car, Let's Go" won the "Best TV Movie Award" at that year's Golden Rooster Awards. Huang Bo stepped on the red carpet for the first time and sat with Gong Li and Zhou Runfa. He was excited and felt absurd—10 years of singing, nothing; 12 days of filming, the aura was added.
He decided to take a different path, applied for the Beijing Film Academy, took the exam for 3 consecutive years, and entered the dubbing major of the acting department. That year, Huang Bo was 28 years old and the oldest student in the class. He loves to stir up trouble, making abalone for his classmates, and "camouflaging" abalone with shiitake mushrooms, which is enough to mess with the truth. In the rented house, the walls and roofs are wrapped in quilts, and microphones are supported inside, and everyone enters the airtight "shed" and reads "Little brother, call".
In the year of graduation, Huang Bo received an invitation to make a movie. The director's name is Ning Hao, he saw the migrant worker played by Huang Bo on TV, he was shocked, and he was worried about which construction site to go to to find the big brother who "starred in the true color".
That summer, Huang Bo rushed to the hot Chongqing and played the role that changed his fate - the "male number six" thief black skin in "Crazy Stone", speaking Qingdao dialect: "Brand, Benny Road!" ”
In 2005, the landmarks of Chinese cities were Benny Road, Pure and True Weiss. More than 10 years later, most of these "brand goods" have been forgotten in the corner of memory, but Huang Bo has recorded the changes of the times with a series of small character images. Not the "second son" of Chen Peisi in the 1980s, nor the "stubborn lord" of Ge You in the 90s, he reflects the small people in the grassroots in this era, ambitious, and anxious and confused. As the filmmaker Huang Hai said: This era has grown a yellow bo face.
This has become one of his labels, even playing Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West , Descending Demons" is also a solid realism, there is no heroic romance of "Qi Tian Dasheng", just an old monkey that has been pressed under the mountain for 500 years, pale, despondent, lonely, nervously chatting with bees and bees and spiders.
"Do I have to be so strong at the bottom?" Huang Bo laughed self-deprecatingly.
"We often think of ourselves as omnipotent and can act in anything, but in the audience's mind, actors have a fixed shape. For example, Xu Zheng is the middle class of the city, what about Huang Bo? The bottom of the city. "I've been around this group of people since I was a kid, crawling and hearing about it. The whole society is like a pyramid, with little people at the bottom of the tower, which is the strongest and deepest soil. ”
"I just want to do something I purely enjoy"
Huang Bo's performance is rooted in a long-term fight with human fireworks. He has sung in the field of tens of thousands of people, and has also stood on the wild stage, how to pinch different audiences, "play with the atmosphere between the palms", he has accumulated a set of wild experience. Acting too. "The same terrier, no cushion to say early, an excited performance, lost its measure and rhythm, that point disappeared." You have to know your body, your facial features, and even your language, and you have to know how to use these weapons. ”
In 2009, at the Golden Horse Awards celebration banquet, director Hou Xiaoxian said to Huang Bo: "Do whatever you want in the future, and the money you should earn will still be earned, but don't lose this simplicity." For many years since then, Huang Bo has insisted on taking the subway, and even developed a set of techniques, holding the hanging ring with both hands to cover his face to the maximum area.
Slowly, he discovered that everything was irreversible. In the past, in the crew, he had seen all kinds of injustices and cold treatments, but now he only felt that everyone was a good person, and as soon as he entered the door, everyone got up and gave up his seat. He tried his best to maintain his simplicity, chat with the fans who recognized the wrong person about "No Thief in the World", and then seriously signed the name of "Wang Baoqiang". For him, instead of twisting into the original pile of life, it is better to draw nourishment in the new life.
Filming "Finding the Dragon" took a long time to prepare, Xia Yu practiced magic in the next room, and Huang Bo went to the art store to bring a bunch of raw propaganda paintings. Catching up with no paintbrush in hand, poking something on a banana with a toothpick, and turning black after a while, it is also a painting. In the filming of "A Good Drama", he was so busy that he still took the time to sneak to the shore in the middle of the night to watch the annual turtle spawn.
His home has a warehouse filled with gadgets brought back from all over the world, cups made of cannonballs, paper lamps, small paintings on the street, refrigerator stickers that can be plastered all over the wall... ...... He went to the Arctic Circle, carried back a piece of ice, and the snow water was filled with two large Coke bottles, one bottle was given to his good brother Liu Hua (the brother who played Dao brother in "Crazy Stone"), and the other bottle was made of tea himself.
His latest hobby is sculpture. The other day, he ran to a place and quietly made sculptures for 10 days. Some are works of art, some are practical, and the most proud is "a very different bathtub", sometimes more and more immersed, and I can't sleep at night with excitement.
Joining the "Annual Comedy Competition" is also, he hopes to get close to the vivid life of young people, use his works to leave laughter for the audience, and bring new direction and confidence to other creators. "We can, the future of Chinese comedy is OK."
"I feel like I'm getting a little older." Huang Bo said, "In the past, there would be some unrealistic obsessions and goals, and now I just want to do something that I purely like." ”
At the age of 47, he released his first official studio album "Songs Saved for You Over the Years", and the shattered dream of a singer was finally realized. Those days of stage performances and wandering in the rivers and lakes are out of reach. In 2018, Huang Bo made a short film "Crazy Brothers". In the story, he travels back to 1994 and meets his 20-year-old self. The teenager, with his long hair, imitated Michael Jackson on stage dancing space dance, a split fork, and a cracked crotch. He covered his crotch and went backstage to get the needle and thread to mend it.
It was a true story, the most promiscuous years of his life.
In "Accept Me as an Apprentice", Huang Bo sang: The river is the river, people standing by the river are called rivers and lakes / the road is the road, people walking on the road is called the road / the wind is the wind, people walking against the wind is called grace / people are people, people help people to walk before they are called characters.