Chapter 221: Wang Baoqiang
Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang chatted very happily, it seems that they have known each other for a long time, Gu Cancan remembered that the two later co-starred in Embarrassment and Thailand, and the comedy factors of the two got together, which had a hilarious effect.
Seeing Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, Gu Cancan couldn't help but think of Huang Bo, speaking of which, Xu Zheng and Huang Bo have collaborated more often, and the two have collaborated on many works that are considered classics. But I don't seem to see Huang Bo today, I don't know if he came.
Gu Cancan thought wildly in his mind, and soon Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang approached, and she took the initiative to greet: "Brother Shanzheng, Baoqiang." ”
"Cancan." Xu Zheng and Gu Cancan are acquaintances, smiling and waving.
"Gu, Gu Dao." Wang Baoqiang hesitated, scratched his head very much about what to call Gu Cancan, and simply called Gu Dao, and then showed a bright smile with sixteen teeth, very Wang Baoqiang's smile.
There are only two non-professional actors who have really risen from the grassroots to the front line, Zhao Liying and Wang Baoqiang, and it is foreseeable that it will be difficult to have non-professional actors like the two of them who are really at the bottom in the future.
In Gu Cancan's opinion, Wang Baoqiang's acting skills are very high and he is making rapid progress.
Most or even the vast majority of people know that Wang Baoqiang is the appearance of the stupid root in "No Thieves in the World", and Wang Baoqiang plays a stupid hat with good luck all the way, and everyone smoothly thinks that Wang Baoqiang is an idiot who is too lucky to be unintentionally picked up by Feng Xiaogang to play a grassroots idiot who plays in his true colors.
However, how many people know that before "No Thieves in the World", Wang Baoqiang had won the Best Newcomer Award at the 03 Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, the Best Actor Award at the 04 Thailand Golden Bird Film Festival and the Best Actor Award at the French Victor Asian Film Festival with "Blind Well".
Unexpectedly, Feng Xiaogang's guidance is mainly obtained by Wang Baoqiang's own efforts, and it is very appropriate to interpret it with that saying - "Opportunities always belong to those who are prepared".
There must still be some people who are not convinced, in fact, many people on the Internet do evaluate Wang Baoqiang as "Wang Baoqiang came all the way to succeed by acting in his true colors and acting as a fool."
This cannot be said to be completely wrong, Wang Baoqiang is indeed remembered by everyone and became popular by acting as all kinds of fools.
However, this is not his true colors, those who say that Wang Baoqiang is really stupid, first look at what circle Wang Baoqiang is mixed in. The entertainment industry, this is a circle where people are commodities, consumer goods and products are people themselves, can be killed from this circle of crowding and cannibalism, will he be a fool?
said that his stupid friend, if he really put you in this circle, he may not even be able to show you up and decline.
This is probably the kind of "I can't live more than 3 episodes" as everyone says.
always plays a stupid role, this is the path that Wang Baoqiang himself chooses and adheres to, not the play that finds him, but the play he picks.
After Feng Xiaogang's "No Thieves in the World" was born, Wang Baoqiang became popular, which is almost inevitable. Such a movie: Ge You, Li Bingbing, Liu Ruoying, Andy Lau, and even Zhang Hanyu, Fu Biao, Xu Fan, Fan Wei, Feng Yuanzheng This terrifying all-star lineup revolves around a "stupid root", coupled with Director Feng's New Year's film golden signboard and good story structure, this drama can be said to be popular as long as it is acted.
However, 99% of the people became popular for a short time, because the grassroots actors had too poor foundation, and a "stupid root" was forgotten about being listed in this fast-paced film market for minutes.
However, Wang Baoqiang is the remaining 1%.
Of course, Feng Xiaogang is as wise as a torch, and he has set a general route for Wang Baoqiang's acting career in the next 10 years: Wang Baoqiang, you are a grassroots, even if you become famous, it is temporary, if you want to stand still, you don't think that you can play any role in an acting school, only by constantly strengthening the role of a foolish root, and once you have this kind of role, you must be the only one in China, and you can stand.
It was because of Director Feng's guidance to Wang Baoqiang that Wang Baoqiang was nailed to death.
But don't think that this road is easy to take, for this road, Wang Baoqiang pushed many roles during the fire, and he only picked the roles on his line.
Please note that picking roles and scripts are all characteristics that an actor has pursuits and ambitions, which require a high degree of self-control and tenacity.
Gu Cancan asked Wang Kai to play Wang Xiaobei in "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", but Wang Kai decisively gave up the role of Wang Xiaobei after receiving the role of Xiaobei in Teng Huatao's "Snail House", does he not know that Wang Xiaobei can make him more famous? No, Gu Cancan's ability to praise people in movies is undoubted, because he thinks that the role of Xiaobei is more tense and can better exercise his acting skills. So Gu Cancan admires Wang Kai very much, he is an actor with pursuits and ambitions.
As said in "Smelling the Fragrance and Knowing the Woman", "When faced with a choice, without exception, I know which path is right, but I just don't take it, because that road is too fucking difficult."
Recognize a way, a path that suits oneself, a way to the dark, refuse temptation, never sway from side to side, this is the way for people to perfect themselves.
In fact, many ordinary people can't do this.
Therefore, Wang Baoqiang can succeed and have today's status, is this luck, is this stupid, this is the great wisdom of having a clear understanding of himself and having a clear idea of his career planning.
Gu Cancan knew that in the original time and space, after more than ten years of hard work, Wang Baoqiang made the audience firmly remember the name Wang Baoqiang, and as soon as these three words came out, people had a smirking face in their minds.
Some people may say that Wang Baoqiang can't help it, he just plays a fool in his true colors, he has no acting skills, and he can't do anything else.
It's really not like this, acting stupid, but not by being stupid, it's too difficult to be stupid.
For example, the TV series "Secret Calculation".
I don't know how many people have watched this TV series, the audience in this drama may not have much impression of Wang Baoqiang, because he is not a fool, but a blind man.
It is very difficult for a normal person to play a blind person.
is like the "Smell the Fragrance and Know the Woman" just mentioned, in which AlPacino won the Oscar by successfully playing the extremely difficult blind man.
Wang Baoqiang played the blind man vividly in this TV series, and it was very natural.
Not only that, we all know that it is easy for comedians to dance in dramas, such as the scheming emperor played by Ge You in "Night Banquet", you always have an inexplicable sense of funny.
However, Wang Baoqiang actually acted in a lot of dramas, in addition to this TV series "Secret Calculation", there are also many movies similar to "Frozen".
When Wang Baoqiang is out of comedy and stupid, acting in a drama, you won't think he is ridiculous or awkward.
Even some tragic scenes, Wang Baoqiang acted very well, and there seemed to be no time to dance.
This is by no means something that a fool without acting skills can do, this can only be done with a solid foundation of acting skills.
Gu Cancan is also a literary young man in the original time and space, and she has seen a lot of literary films, and she clearly remembers Wang Baoqiang's most representative work "Hello, Mr. Tree".
This is a niche movie, but Wang Baoqiang's acting skills exploded in this drama.
In the movie, Wang Baoqiang plays a single young man named "Tree" who is blind in the countryside, the tree is crazy in the entanglement of reality and dreams, and many things that happen in the village have verified his prediction, and the ridiculous "Tree" has become a respected "prophet" and is respectfully called "Mr. Tree".
This is not a simple fool, the role is difficult to navigate and complicated.
In order to play this "tree" well, Wang Baoqiang drinks every day, learns to smoke, and finds the feeling of decadence, malaise, nesting, and madness, and even the lighter he lights cigarettes, he insists on using the most broken plastic lighters in the past.
This kind of portrayal of three points is really enjoyable to watch.
Even when the "tree" was running around in the wilderness, Wang Baoqiang stopped the camera, saying that the camera was running too fast, he thought that the tree was a madman, and the running at this time was a kind of crazy running like raising the earth, it was aimless, and the running at this time would never be fast, it should be the kind of stop-and-go, messy, ridiculous and ridiculous and even a little cautious, people will not run fast in that state.
Wang Baoqiang's understanding of this role is too sober, too deep, and too solid, is this still called acting in his true colors?
It is safe to say that Wang Baoqiang has been honing from a grassroots point over the years, and he must be learning from the performance of the academy at the same time while maintaining the taste of the grassroots, and his acting skills have improved very quickly. In this play, Wang Baoqiang's acting skills are very strong.
In addition to "Harrow, Mr. Tree", there is also Jia Zhangke's "Destined", Wang Baoqiang played a robbery murderer in it, Gu Cancan didn't like the dark tone of this movie very much, but the acting skills of the actors in it were quite good, Wang Baoqiang did not have a trace of stupidity in it, it can be said that the murderer's ruthlessness and complex emotions after returning home are portrayed into three points, just watch the actors' performances, these two movies are worth watching.
Speaking of which, Wang Baoqiang's grasp of playing "stupid" is extremely accurate, and playing stupid is too much of a test of the actor's sense of proportion!
First of all, it's not easy to act in your true colors, for example, we have all taken ID photos in our lives, then you are yourself, enough true colors, you smile slightly, you want to appear godly, sunny, upward, maybe you are such a person. But if you look at your photos, it's not like that at all, it's stiff.
In the same way, can Wang Baoqiang act well in his true colors, it is impossible, it is all supported by acting skills.
Secondly, even if it is its true colors, movies are very complicated, and a good character is even more complicated. There are thousands of different kinds of stupidity, and there are also different ways of expression.
Wang Baoqiang has played so many fools, but each has its own taste, he is a stupid root, a Mr. tree, and a baby.
The silly roles he has played over the years are often the kind that drag down the protagonist and cause people to follow the bad luck, but the kind of role he plays is so hateful that few people hate it. He is just right, not only realistic, making people think that he is really stupid, but also knows how to grasp the role, not annoying, silly real, silly accurate, silly cute, silly rich.
Compared with Bao Bell in the same series of "Hong Kong Embarrassment", people are almost instinctively disgusted with Bao Bell's stupidity, which is to give people a feeling of urban people pretending to be stupid and cunning.
This is not graspable, Bao Bell's appearance is also very suitable for acting stupid, but he can't act well.
And with the passage of time, judging from Wang Baoqiang's works, Wang Baoqiang's signature stupidity is being endowed with more rich things by himself.
The character of Tang Ren in one of his masterpieces "Detective Chinatown", there is tragedy behind the comedy, is he a little like Stephen Chow? can make trouble and bring a bit of martial arts at the same time, is it a bit of a shadow of Jackie Chan's early comedy movies? The important thing is that this is still a little clever and cunning character, and he is not so "stupid" anymore.
And this kind of in-depth character creation is based on the sublimation of many years of acting career, just like painting, which is the creation after painting the same egg for 10 years.
In Gu Cancan's eyes, Wang Baoqiang is an actor who has a persistent pursuit of his career as an actor, an actor who improves himself step by step, an actor who seriously adheres to his own path and does not sway from side to side, an actor who is not satisfied on the professional road and is motivated with his own ideas, and a good actor worthy of respect.
She has a good sensory impression of Wang Baoqiang.
At this time, Wang Baoqiang stood in front of Gu Cancan, his height was not as good as Gu Cancan, in terms of external conditions, Wang Baoqiang really had no advantages, but he could become a popular actor, and he also had outstanding features, such as his honest temperament and super affinity.
"Cancan, you know Baoqiang, so you don't need me to introduce you." Xu Zheng said with a grin.
"No, no, Wang Baoqiang, the actor I admire." Gu Cancan said with a smile.
"Hehe, Director Gu, I also admire you." Wang Baoqiang grinned, reached out and touched the back of his head, his Nanhe Mandarin sounded interesting.
Gu Cancan couldn't help but laugh and asked, "How did you two get together, do you want to film together?" ”
When did the two of them come to be embarrassed? Gu Cancan recalled that in this world, I haven't seen anyone embarrassed in this film, so I don't know if I will shoot it or not.
In Gu Cancan's memory, the first time Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang cooperated, it should be embarrassing.
"No, just run into it, just talk a few more words." Xu Zheng said.
Wang Baoqiang smiled and said, "I really want to cooperate with Brother Xu." ”
Hearing the two of them say this, Gu Cancan's eyes lit up, saying this, people haven't filmed yet!
Gu Cancan found another business opportunity......
Jing Tian listened curiously to Gu Cancan's greetings with Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, she didn't expect that Gu Cancan's communication range was so wide, and Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang could talk.
After chatting for a few words, Gu Cancan remembered that Jing Tian was still standing next to him, and hurriedly introduced: "This big beauty next to me, Jing Tian, is the school flower of Nortel's 07th performance department. ”
"Tiantian, this is Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, you should know each other, right?"
Jingtian pursed his lips and smiled, and nodded.
"Hello beauty." Xu Zheng had already noticed the beautiful girl beside Gu Cancan, and immediately put on a gentleman's appearance, smiling brightly.
"......" Gu Cancan's expression was very subtle.
Yes, in fact, Xu Zheng has a good time, but for the sake of his acting career, he must kill his slightest ill thoughts in time.