Many people have misunderstandings about Wang Baoqiang.
Some people say that he can only act in lively comedies, and some people say that he has no acting skills, but only takes advantage of the dividends of his birth.
There are thousands of Chinese comedians, but there are only a few Mr. Tens of billions, and Wang Bao occupies a seat. There are countless grassroots actors, why is only Wang Bao powerful and popular and well-known to the people of the whole country?
Most people actually misread Wang Baoqiang.
This Spring Festival file, Wang Baoqiang monopolized two films, the first is the "Detective Chinatown 3" that we are familiar with, and the other is the "Legend of Debao of Shaolin Temple" jointly broadcast by the three major video platforms.
Wang Baoqiang on the retro poster posed his most familiar and handsome pose, and the lower left corner was printed with the eye-catching director's name: Tang Jili in red font.
The director of wu and the actor who learned martial arts met in "Shaolin Temple".
Today, when kung fu films are declining, it is rare for directors and actors to mention our interest in the word "kung fu" at the same time.
The difference is that director Tang Jili has cooperated with Jackie Chan many times and has not cooperated with Wang Baoqiang before. Wang Baoqiang, a lay disciple of the Shaolin Temple, has a good kung fu. This collision is destined to be full of sparks.
Wang Baoqiang has played many classic roles, but when it comes to "Shaolin Temple", it is perhaps the movie he is most willing to participate in and most want to participate in.
More than thirty years ago, a small rural area in Xingtai, Hebei Province, put on an open-air movie, Jet Li's "Shaolin Temple". An eight-year-old boy saw the film and decided to learn martial arts in Shaolin.
Neither his father's scolding nor his mother's advice could overcome him. A child who should be in the first grade, so he packed his bags and went far away to Shaolin to learn kung fu.
He is Wang Baoqiang.
The Shaolin Temple is the place where Wang Baoqiang's dream began, and this place cultivated Wang Baoqiang's most resolute character with the quietness of the Buddha and the agility of martial arts, and also gave him a spiritual background that ordinary people do not have.
Practicing and studying, the 6 years of Shaolin Temple were boring and tedious, but now looking back, Wang Baoqiang is full of sweetness.
It was the purest day, and it was also Wang Baoqiang's pedal from an ordinary person to a film and television superstar.
Wang Baoqiang, who spent 6 years in the Shaolin Temple, went north to find his career because of a word from his master.
Squatting on the cold bench every day to nibble on steamed buns, Wang Baoqiang ushered in his own Bole at the age of 18. Director Li Yang invited him to star in "Blind Well".
In "Blind Well", Wang Baoqiang almost played himself in the movie. Born in the countryside, he was humble and simple, and his natural performance helped him win the first bucket of gold in his life: 500 pieces of remuneration.
It also helped him get something more valuable than money: honor. With "Blind Well", Wang Baoqiang became the best newcomer in the 19-year-old Golden Horse.
Many people have not seen that Wang Baoqiang in "Blind Well" has begun to show his acting talent.
"Blind Well" is a narrative-based film, the pace is very slow, each shot is like a documentary without any emotional color, and the acting skills of the actors are very demanding.
The fledgling Wang Baoqiang does not know what acting is, he has only one reason: how the director says, I will act.
The scene in the hair salon is the most classic in "Blind Well". The ignorant Wang Baoqiang's face had the ignorant curiosity of a teenager, and there was a strong uneasiness, and the nervous emotions on his face suddenly made people look very real.
Later, when he learned that what he had done was contrary to social morality, the screen suddenly turned into his guilt and guilt.
The Golden Horse Awards are not of a caring nature, Wang Baoqiang's performance in "Blind Well" is very outstanding, natural, he appears with full emotions, and all viewers can be infected and driven by him.
And all this is just the beginning of this 19-year-old.
A single Golden Horse is only the starting point, and Wang Baoqiang was promoted from a group performance to a stand-in.
In 2001, director Lu Xiaopin's "Bus Detective", Wang Baoqiang had the opportunity to be a stand-in. More than 2 meters high fire ladder, he needed to fall down over and over again.
The other group performances were all fake falls, only Wang Baoqiang was stunned by the real fall, and finally fell blood and soaked out of his sleeve.
In 2003, director Feng Xiaogang saw "Blind Well" and decided to invite Wang Baoqiang to participate in his "No Thief in the World" after watching it.
Although there are not many scenes, the first time to participate in a blockbuster, and an empress-level actor like Andy Lau Reu Ying, Wang Baoqiang opened his eyes.
After performing "No Thief in the World", in order to thank Feng Dao's appreciation, Wang Baoqiang gave him a bag of rice from his hometown.
After "No Thief in the World", Wang Baoqiang began to make films continuously, and what made him a household name was the national-level TV series "Soldier Assault".
In fact, when Wang Baoqiang read the script, he was very moved. He said that he wanted to cry, but he couldn't cry, and he couldn't laugh, but he couldn't laugh, that is, the strength was held in his heart, and he couldn't go up and down.
"It's like touching my heart."
The decision to participate in "Soldier Assault" is one of the most important decisions in Wang Baoqiang's life. Because of the role of "silly root", he has great wisdom about his own drama path: in the future, he will shape this kind of straight character, because he fights with the stars for acting skills and resources, and he can't fight.
The secret of Wang Baoqiang's success lies in "repeating the right things", he uses other people's free time to play time to do what he thinks is meaningful, and the characteristics of the rural soldiers' thickness, simplicity and one-sided recognition of death are vividly and flexibly played by Wang Baoqiang.
Before filming, Wang Baoqiang was sent to the military camp to experience life.
One day when everyone was eating, the company commander temporarily shouted ,"Xu Sanduo, lie down", Wang Baoqiang immediately fell to the ground, and crawled forward in the restaurant, ignoring the surrounding gaze.
At that time, the director knew that he had found the right person. Also because of this drama, Wang Baoqiang became popular in the country.
For a long time after filming, he even felt that he was a lot.
There are many discussions about Wang Baoqiang's popularity, whether it depends on acting skills. By 2010's Hello! Mr. Tree" this discussion came to an abrupt end.
In this movie, Wang Baoqiang contributed his best acting skills, and also used his strength to punch everyone who questioned him in the face.
The director's evaluation of Wang Baoqiang is as follows: that kind of entry into the drama state, a bit like Chaplin in the silent film period. "His comprehension, his way of handling, and his ability to judge movies are actually better than his acting talent."
When the tree was running wild in the wilderness, Wang Baoqiang suddenly shouted to stop.
He said that now he could run to lift the soil, too fast, and that the tree was a madman, and should be aimless, stop-and-go, looking ridiculous and maddening.
With "Mr. Tree", Wang Baoqiang got the Asia-Pacific Film Emperor.
For him, this may not be the end, but the starting point of another departure.
In the ten years after "Mr. Tree", we see that Wang Baoqiang not only re-plays the role of "stupid", but in Jia Zhangke's "Destiny of Heaven", he is a killer.
In "One Man's Martial Arts", he is a martial artist.
In "People on the Road" and "Tai 囧", he became a baby again and became a comedy optimist that the people of the whole country are happy to see.
He can switch from comedy to drama in one second, and for more than thirty years, he has long become an "old drama bone" who can grasp the role at will.
But the teenager from the countryside was far from the same.
He is still shy and simple, modest and sincere. Filming the Spring Festival national film "Detective Chinatown", he played the lewd and lustful Tang Ren.
In one of the women's costume running scenes, he wants to hypnotize himself repeatedly: you are Tang Ren, not Wang Baoqiang, it is Wang Baoqiang, you can't do this.
Now sitting on many titles, Wang Baoqiang still has not forgotten Shaolin.
When he had nothing to do, he would go back to the Shaolin Temple, lie on the stone steps of the temple, and look up at the dream when the sky was once there.
On the first day of the Chinese New Year, Wang Baoqiang finally realized his dream, he could participate in "The Legend of Debao of Shaolin Temple" with his achievements, and he could also accept the words and deeds of the world's most famous martial arts instructor and director Tang Jili.
I think for Wang Baoqiang, this is something he has always wanted to do in his heart, but he has not done.
About kung fu, about martial arts, about Buddha-nature, about Cangsheng, the movie "The Legend of Debao of Shaolin Temple" has a lot to see.
As a "teenager" who returned from school, this is Wang Baoqiang's greatest reverence and respect for Shaolin in his heart.