Some time ago, I wrote 40 years ago, the five top male stars who are online, there are many netizens who leave a message, saying that I did not write the first handsome guy in their hearts?!
Confused, I carefully looked at the "first marshal" mentioned by netizens, I think it is true that I am shallow, such a big handsome guy under the eyelids I have never paid attention to, but this fact also shows that I am still very young! Why, you ask? Because this handsome guy is 89 years old this year.
There may be some netizens who we are talking about today, he is the idol in the hearts of female audiences in the 60s and 70s - Wang Xingang.
And he, not only because of his handsomeness, has been favored by many female audiences...
Wang Xingang, born on January 1, 1932 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, his father had high hopes for him, hoping that he could engage in finance, but he had been dreaming of the stage since he was a child.
At the age of 17, Wang Xingang, who had grown into a burly and handsome young man, participated in the literary and art backbone training class held in Shenyang when he was about to graduate from middle school.
Soon after, he joined the Northeast Military Industry Bureau's Cultural and Labor Troupe (later changed to the Anti-Enemy Drama Troupe) and became a drama actor.
In 1950, he was conscripted into the army, became a member of the 38th Military Cultural and Industrial Corps of the Northeast Military Industry Bureau, and followed the troops to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
After entering the drama troupe, Wang Xingang did not become a "horn", but ran a dragon set for several years, and he had never played a leading role before he starred in the movie. Although he has never been a protagonist, Wang Xingang has worked every supporting role he plays, and every day he is studying how to play each character well.
Until 1956, when the Changchun Film Studio was preparing to start filming the film "Silent Mountain Forest", deputy director Guangbu Dorji came to the Anti-Enemy Literary troupe with the director's casting criteria.
"First, the image must be good, and the second must be a military temperament", Guangbu Daoerji saw Wang Xingang at a glance and felt that this person fully met the director's requirements for the protagonist.
Someone was chosen, but the problem came again: Wang Xingang was reluctant to play the role. For this reason, the leader of the cultural and labor troupe deliberately found Wang Xingang to talk to him and asked him why he was unwilling to act in movies. Wang Xingang said bluntly: "The film has to be filmed section by section, and it is not yet possible to communicate with the audience, so it is better to act in dramas." ”
The leader simply cried and laughed: "Whether it is acting in a drama or making a movie, it is a work need, this is the organization's arrangement, you must obey." After you go, you must do your best to complete the task! ”
With a "mission" mentality, Wang Xingang devoted himself to the filming of the film, what he did not expect was that this film not only opened the door to a new world for him, but also made a huge change in his career and life.
After the release of "Silent Mountain Forest", Wang Xingang's military image was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and then he starred in the movie "Son of a Shepherd".
To say that Wang Xingang's appearance is bound to be inconsistent with the current young aesthetics, but as Xiaobian once wrote, today's aesthetic is like the history of small feet or ghost face makeup, floating for a few days and scattered. For five thousand years, the chinese people's standards for beautiful men have always had standards: the face should be handsome, the eyebrows should be starry-eyed; the figure should be handsome and the jade tree should be windy; the demeanor should be charming, the posture should be elegant, and the instruments should be lofty.
These requirements were put on Wang Xingang, and several requirements such as handsome face, handsome face, and Ji Yu Xuan Ang were all up to standard, and most importantly, Wang Xingang had a healthy face, which was very in line with the characteristics of that era.
Because of his good image and good acting skills, bayi film studio transferred him to work in beijing bayi factory in 1958, but the first role he received in his new unit was a big villain: Yao Wei in "The Eternal Electric Wave".
The movie is very good, but the audience can't accept Wang Xingang playing such a role. Therefore, later Wang Xingang played almost all positive roles in the movie.
Three years later, Wang Xingang was photographed to star in "Sea Eagle", and the director even avoided the audition.
And Wang Xingang's performance also lived up to expectations, in order to play this role well, he stuffed cotton in his mouth to make the character look fuller, in order to make himself walk better, he carried a very heavy suitcase to practice walking... In the end, he played this naval role, and since then, the navy in the audience's mind has a real appearance. In 1962, Wang Xingang was selected by the Ministry of Culture as one of the "Top 22 Movie Stars in New China".
Although he is already a big star, but Wang Xingang is still simple and modest in life, taking the train to shoot in other places, he not only sits on a hard seat like everyone else, but also helps the conductor on the train to wipe the ground and pour boiling water; when starring in "Red Lady Scout", the shooting conditions are very difficult, even the food costs are not enough, the actors are often hungry, but the crew is dirty and tired Wang Xingang has to help do it together; in order to play a fisherman, he will really go to get along with the fisherman for two days and two nights, in order to maintain the body shape, he only eats half full for a long time. Every day he swims or runs, or practices horizontal bars, parallel bars...
As for the need for him to play a supporting role, he never refused, when Yan Jizhou filmed the new movie "Brothers Are Good", when the male and female two have been set, but the lack of supporting role instructors, he hopes that Wang Xingang will play this role, but he is worried that Wang Xingang will "suspect" this role, did not expect that when he just tentatively asked, Wang Xingang directly replied to him "no problem". Friends think that he takes this kind of role "bargain", but Wang Xingang said, "I am an ordinary actor, a little bit of fame is also the result of everyone's support and audience support, how can I use it as a weight to calculate the protagonist and supporting roles?" As a person, you must have a fixed star in your heart and set the balance of your life at any time. Don't take yourself too seriously! ”
Regardless of the size of the role, in those years, as long as Wang Xingang had time and energy, he never rejected any role for no reason. The above reasons are probably why Wang Xingang became the director of the Bayi factory in 1973 and won the approval of everyone.
However, in order to focus all his energy on acting and honing his acting skills, Wang Xingang resigned as the director of the factory after only 2 years in office.
Of course, Wang Xingang is not a god, and he also has his own life.
At that time, there was a saying called "men look at Wang Xingang, women look at Wang Xiaotang", which means that the images of these two people are in line with the aesthetics of most people at that time. And because the two people have played couples many times and have a masterpiece "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City", many viewers have mistakenly thought that these two people are two people for many years. Wang Xingang's friendship with Wang Xiaotang was also quite deep; when Wang Xiaotang was driven to the forest farm to work, Wang Xingang directly suggested when the inspection team went to the Bayi Factory to listen to their opinions: If the Bayi Factory wants to get the feature films up, Wang Xiaotang should be taken back from the localities. Wang Xingang believes that Wang Xiaotang is a good actor, she can not only act well, but also work as an acting teacher in the Bayi Factory Actors Troupe and teach new actors to act.
Wang Xiaotang was thus recruited from the countryside back to bayi factory, and during that period, very few dared to speak for others.
However, friendship is always friendship, in fact, Wang Xingang's lover is named Yang Zhaocai, who is Wang Xingang's colleague in bayi factory.
Yang Zhaocai was originally a member of the army propaganda team, participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and after returning to China, he entered the Bayi Film Studio as an actor. Shortly after Wang Xin entered the scene, he fell in love with Yang Zhaocai. A year later, the two married, and after marriage, Yang Zhaocai gave birth to a son and a daughter for Wang Xingang, and retreated behind the scenes for the family, working as a music editor in bayi factory.
With the support of his wife and the stability of his family, Wang Xingang's career has moved forward step by step, and in 1982, he also won the Best Actor Award at the 5th Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films. Because of the low profile of family life, many female viewers have written courtship letters to him. The most time, Wang Xin just received more than 200 courtship letters in one day. However, Wang Xingang himself has never spread gossip, which makes me think of Dillon again, because the hero plays more, he always demands himself with the standard of "big hero", Wang Xingang always plays a variety of decent roles, whether he is also affected by this.
Wang Xingang is introverted and taciturn, and when he is not filming, he reads at home or exercises. Director Xie Jin once commented on Wang Xingang: Wang Xingang is a very good and very low-key actor, he never promotes himself, does not shoot advertisements, and does not come out to participate in activities.
So when the 55-year-old Wang Xingang chose to take a picture in 1987, although people may still have some doubts, they do not understand the reasons for his early retirement.
It turned out that as early as 1972, Yang Zhaocai committed suicide by a girlfriend, and she was deeply stimulated, resulting in some mental disorders. Wang Xingang and his wife ran all over Beijing's large and small hospitals, and also wrote letters to friends in Guangzhou, Tianjin, Henan, Shanghai and other places to find traditional Chinese medicine remedies. Not only to take his wife to the disease, but also to take care of a pair of children, Wang Xingang was exhausted.
After many years, his wife's illness finally gradually improved, probably realizing the importance of family and the yearning for a stable life and the inadequacy of the body as he grew older, Wang Xingang quit the show business early.
Later, he said to reporters: I have been working as an actor, through the light of those old films, I am very grateful that everyone remembers. I used to think that career was the most important, but now I feel that family and wife are what I want to cherish now.
Although he left the show business early and chose family, people have not forgotten him.
In 1995, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of world cinema and the 90th anniversary of the birth of Chinese cinema, Wang Xingang won the "Chinese Film Century Award".
In 2005, Wang Xingang was awarded the title of "National Film Artist with Outstanding Contribution" by the Ministry of Personnel and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
In 2009, Wang Xingang won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the 12th Academy of Film Performing Arts Awards.
In 2012, Wang Xingang won the "Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Cinema" from Asian performing arts celebrities.
In 2014, Wang Xingang won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Film.
In 2005, he was awarded the title of "National Film Artist with Outstanding Contribution" by the Ministry of Personnel and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and was awarded the title of "National Film Artist with Outstanding Contribution" in the same year.
In 1990, Wang Xingang, who had been in hiding for many years, was invited to participate in the film "Bethune: The Growth of a Hero" co-produced by Bayi Film Studio and Canada, serving as a Chinese director, and Bethune was played by Canadian actor Donald Sutherland. But the well-known foreign actor found that whenever they appeared, all the onlookers would flock to Wang Xingang.
Donald Sutherland was very puzzled, and even a little jealous, the people next to him were afraid that he would misunderstand, and did not know how to explain, and finally simply said to him: Wang Xingang is China's "Gregory-Pike"!
Wang Xingang's sons and daughters are not engaged in the entertainment industry, but they are successful in their careers and are worth hundreds of millions. And Now 89 years old, Wang Xingang, about the same as then, does not regard himself as a "wrist", live freely and freely. People live a lifetime, the most important thing is not to lose their hearts, and when they are old, it is probably Wang Xingang who looks like this.