Fan Wei is not actually called "Fan Debiao", it is just the most classic and craziest of many roles he has played.
He was born in 1962, one year younger than Andy Lau, but he looks like Hua Tsai's uncle. Fan Wei is always fooled clearly on stage, but not at all in private. Shy, introverted, and afraid to resist after being beaten up, the most rebellious thing I have ever done is to write "Down with Fan Chengye" in chalk on the wall in front of the house. This is the real Fan Wei.
Later, Fan Wei secretly erased this sentence, fearing that his father Fan Chengye would see it. Fan Wei used to be a cross talk actor of Tieling Folk Art Troupe, under the tutelage of Chen Lianzhong. From the age of sixteen to twenty-six years old, he talked about cross talk for ten years, and he had the power of a boy. During the ten years of
as a cross talk actor, Fan Wei has been worried for more than half of the time, especially after he was admitted to the Shenyang Opera Troupe. The colleagues of
competed one by one. There were only two screenwriters in the troupe, but there were ten actors, and it was impossible for Fan Wei to take the stage for good or bad writing. As a last resort, Fan Wei, who was not well-educated, began to write his own writing, tinkering with his debut novel "The Diary of a Factory Manager." After the writing of "The Diary of a Factory Manager", Fan Wei premiered in front of his colleagues. After reading it, none of my colleagues in the background laughed, and said directly, "You are a tragic cross talk." The old leaders of the
troupe were refreshed, and asked Fan Wei to send this piece to Beijing to perform it in front of the editors of China National Radio. The sincere stripping performance of
made the radio editors very satisfied. They praised Fan Wei as "definitely worth training." After the trip to Beijing, Fan Wei's status in the regiment has been improved, and praise from the outside world has made him less depressed for the time being. In the 1993 National Cross Talk Competition, Fan Wei stood out. He won the Golden Rose Performance Award of the first Cross Talk Festival of the Ministry of Culture. That tragic cross talk became the starting point of Fan Wei's road to comedy. Although Fan Wei is already well-known in northern Liaoning, he feels that he is not a very good comedian. Because "a good cross talk actor must be easy to play in life", but Fan Wei is not the case.
is introverted and sensitive like him, knowing where he is short. As a result, the "sad" comedian Fan Wei wanted to switch careers. Speaking of Fan Wei's career change, one has to talk about Zhao Benshan. Before officially becoming partners, the two had a brief intersection. In 1982, when Fan Wei's Tieling Folk Art Troupe needed an actor to save the scene, Zhao Benshan was seconded. When the members of
had dinner together, Zhao carried Tieling Laojiao around the table to toast. He persuaded the wine to have a set of words, "One cup is raw and two cups are cooked, and three cups and four cups are friends." This made Fan Wei very envious, because he was not drinking well, and he did not dare to take the initiative to socialize in crowded occasions. Regarding Fan Wei's drinking capacity, the actor Wang Zhiwen who worked with him gave him the nickname: "Fan Xiaoyi". It means that a small sip, at most a glass of beer, is served immediately.
Seeing his famous colleagues, Fan Wei is full of envy and longing, but he is also quietly finding some spiritual sustenance for himself, such as writing a small article in the single dormitory. This is Fan Wei, a doer with a big head and a thick neck.
In 1993, Fan Wei "formally contacted" Zhao Benshan for the first time. Cui Kai, the head of the Tieling Art Troupe, who has known the two for many years, said that Zhao Benshan was preparing a new sketch and wanted Fan Wei to play a supporting role. Fan Wei, who was 31 years old at the time, was very excited. He felt that the fate that had passed by before finally met at this moment. After all, Zhao Benshan has already become famous. People call him to support him, and no one will refuse.
Fan Wei's first Spring Festival Gala journey was actually very bumpy. At that time, Zhao Benshan's sketch originally had a supporting role, but he was more optimistic about Fan Wei, so he asked Cui Kai to throw an olive branch. However, Zhang Ziyang, the director of the Spring Festival Gala, felt that it was too risky to make a replacement, so he didn't let go. The two sides rehearsed and "mediated". Unexpectedly, on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, the director still disagreed with the substitution, and Fan Wei, who rushed to Beijing for a long time, fell flat.
's wish fell through and he didn't make any noise or trouble, but on a snowy night two days before the Spring Festival, he left the Media Center alone. After the incident, Zhao Benshan looked at Fan Wei, who was insulting, "is the partner I want."
In 1995, Fan Wei officially changed his career. During the Spring Festival Gala that year, there was a popular sketch called "Uncle Niu Tigan", in which the flattering and shrewd secretary of the agency was played by Fan Wei. Except this time, Fan Wei and Zhao Benshan performed on stage 8 times in the spring evening.
are the 1996 "Three Whips" and 199"Red Sorghum Model Team" in 7 years, "Happy New Year" in 1998, "Selling Abduction" in 2001, and "Selling Car" in 2002. There are also "Heart Disease" and "Waterman" in 2003 and 2004, and the last sketch "Kung Fu" in 2005.
From Xiao Wu, the bullying driver, to the enchanting art director Fan Teacher, to winning three million, he drew the big money from the past... and later was arranged clearly by the big fool , Had to buy a pair of cut pier chefs to keep safe.
Fan Wei's transformation has taken a full decade. With more than a dozen or so silly characters played all the way, Fan Wei, who used to consider himself implicit, finally learned one thing: rewind and play freely. No matter how good the green leaves are, it can't overshadow the scenery of red flowers. This is Fan Wei's survival guide when he was an actor. In the past ten years of cooperating with the booming Benshanzi, Fan Wei has gradually gained his reputation, but the spread is far less than Zhao Benshan. This "tilt" of
was a sign when the two first met in the early years. At that time, the screenwriter would restrict Fan Wei's role, telling him that there were only three lines at most. Fan Wei was puzzled, so he asked why. The other party said, "If you are too pushy, people will come to see him." After that, Fan Wei understood it, and made the green leaves with peace of mind, and set the lines accurately for Big Brother Benshan, and there would be no major problems. Fan Wei, the gold medal supporting role of
, was really noticed after he played the skits "Selling Crutches" and "Selling Cars". At that time, his lines and performance rhythm became more and more comfortable, and every move revealed the market gas that little people should have. The audience in the audience gradually woke up: It turned out that besides Zhao Benshan, the other big head also performed well. It's like the protagonist of "Selling Crutches" is a big flicker, but people like to cut Dun'er's cook. The medicine box in "Liu Laogen" is a supporting role, and finally he counterattacks and becomes the second male number.
At that time, Zhao Benshan, who was on the stage, was so vigorous. The seemingly humble Fan Wei always had a way to come back. When the two sang a harmony, they could also bring a full house.
In 2003, Fan Wei encountered the first literary film in his career, "July of Watching Car People". Although he is in the limelight on the sketch stage, this play is actually lowered to ask for it. At that time, he called the director and said that he wanted to try the male number one scene, and the other party said "chat back" without saying anything.
It was not until the two officially met on the set that the director let go of his prejudices. He felt that Fan Wei had not spent much time thinking about the role and was appointed to play well. This movie allowed Fan Wei to win back the trophy of the film king of the Montreal Film Festival. It also gave him some kind of "rebellious" idea: why not be a serious actor? After the two big and small screens bloomed, Fan Wei, who was active on the sketch stage, did not scream as he imagined, but fell into a dilemma.
stepped forward, he felt a lot of pressure. Because every time the Spring Festival Gala comes on stage, one has to set aside half a year to rehearse; after the rehearsal, they will be "pointed out" by the people of the whole country.
, mixed with the emotions of pressure and responsibility, gradually became an uneven knot in Fan Wei's heart. Under heavy pressure, Fan Wei ate screws for the first time. In the 2005 Spring Festival Gala sketch "Kung Fu", he said the wrong lines at the beginning, and it took a long time for him to return.
took a step back, and Fan Wei was afraid of being framed by the role he played. Uncle Fan Debiao, who is always convulsive, remembers that he is tired of the barefoot doctor's medicine box. Even when he goes out shopping, passers-by will let him "take two steps." But I just don't remember the actor who really shines behind all kinds of funny characters called Fan Wei.
After the 2005 Spring Festival Gala ended, Fan Wei and Zhao Benshan revealed their intention to break up the partnership. The kind of life he wants is far beyond the stage and popularity. There are many rumors about this "unbinding".
The first is for money. In the early years, Fan Wei and Zhao Benshan went everywhere. Old Zhao took 420,000 yuan and Fan Wei took 7,000 yuan. Gao Xiumin failed to mediate, and the two went their separate ways. The second is for fame. In the sketch universe built by Zhao Benshan in his early years, Fan Wei's performance can only be the second child of ten thousand years. Fan Wei, who wanted more room for development, was dissatisfied with this restraint, and decided to go out and concentrate on filming. The third is for the family. After Fan Wei got a son, in order to allow him to receive a better education, he promised his wife to go to Beijing as soon as possible. The mistakes in the 2005 Spring Festival Gala were just one of the incentives. The last time Fan Wei appeared in the plot world constructed by Zhao Benshan was in the third season of "Country Love". After that, the two officially broke up, and Fan Wei moved to Beijing with his family.
Fan Wei’s this time outLeaving is regarded as a kind of "betrayal" by the outside world. At that time, Ben Shanzi burst into tears, and every time the media interviewed him, he would say that the other party had cut off all contact with him. He was very angry and helpless. Fan Wei, who is not good at words, said that there was nothing like that. When he lost contact, he was filming on the crew and didn't want to be distracted by his mobile phone.
A long time later, Zhao Benshan said softly, saying that the other party was his brother, and said that the master and apprentice had to follow his words, and the brothers certainly didn't have to care about it.
However, Fan Wei didn't take the next step, because at the time he was all focused on acting in movies, and he had no intention of responding to outside speculations. What was the relationship between the two heroes of the former sketch, it became an unsolvable case.
In Fan Wei's acting career, there are two important stages. One is the period of cross talk actor and the other is the period of film actor. Both are ten years. Fan Wei, who became an actor as he wished, was at a loss at first. At that time, he often asked himself a question: "Can the audience see me having fun?" In Fan Wei's eyes, the expressions of the sketch and the movie are very different, and the previous experience simply cannot stand up to it. In the first few years as an actor, Fan Wei kept his posture to the lowest. As long as you can hone your acting skills, you can take any film.
What he did was to quickly throw away his own sketches, and take back all the exaggerated things he used to do. It's true that he was too anxious to eat a good meal. Fan Wei took a lot of bad movies at the time. Fortunately, his follow-up was so strong that he has not been criticized so far. If
did not have the original choice, Fan Wei might be a hundred times more famous than he is now, but he did not do so. In Fan Wei's eyes, he should be a relaxed actor, so after he came to Beijing to develop, his focus was entirely on literary movies. In 2006, Fan Wei and Zhang Jing first performed in a more literary film "Aromatic Journey". In order to play the role of model worker Lao Cui, he lost 18 jin without eating staple food for three months. The total box office of
is less than 1 million, but people who have watched it admire Fan Wei, saying that he is serious and sincere, and his acting skills far exceed outside expectations. Fan Wei won the first film award in his life for this film: the Cairo International Film Festival Special Performance Award. Back then, his thoracic fissure was not healed, so he just lay motionless on the plane for 20 hours before flying to Egypt to receive the award.
After the two literary films, the directors of the literary film "stared" at Fan Wei. So in 2008, Fan Wei played the little character again, this time Wang Kangmei in "Blessed Ears". Speaking of the way this character is handled, Fan Wei used the most insightful one, that is, there are no obvious body and facial movements, but every eye has a play. Wang Kangmei, a laid-off worker in the film, is full of "poorness" in every move.
He can pick up other people’s cigarette butts, suck the bones of octopus on the dinner table, and use his mouth to pick up the beer foam on the side of the cup. Perhaps he was like that era, full of irretrievable decay.
In short, Wang Kangmei reflected that era, and Fan Wei made Wang Kangmei. This film is in the same situation as all literary and artistic films, with a box office of millions of dollars, almost no one knows. But Fan Wei likes it very much, always saying that as long as he has such a book and role, he loves acting. From this it can be seen that Fan Wei is a real idiot, not even thinking about money or fame. After testing the waters of
literary films, Fan Wei began to have a choice. In addition to literary and artistic directors, some people who look for him also make commercial films. Although the roles they left out were not big, they were often "specially invited" in a flash, but Fan Wei, who had been serious for a half of his life, could still play vigorously.
For example, the robber in "A World Without Thieves", the foot therapist in "The Happiness of the Boss", the fruit grower in "I'm Not Pan Jinlian"... or the old Chinese doctor in "The Taoist Goes Down the Mountain". These characters may only have five lines, but Fan Wei must write a biography of the characters, and even read the script that belongs to him repeatedly. When others ask why, Fan Wei smiled and said "understand the role."
Fan Wei has been persevering in two things during his career in art, one is self-reconciliation, and the other is to tear off the label. After acting in a literary film, he tore off the label of Zhao Benshan's partner. After winning the international award, he tore off the label of the sketch actor. Later, Fan Wei finally started to tear off the label of TV drama actor with a popular movie.
In 2015, director Mei Feng approached Fan Wei and handed him a movie book called "The Problem That Isn't a Problem". Before that, Fan Wei didn't even know that he was one step closer to the realm of acting as a god.
Before meeting Mei Feng, Fan Wei is rareNervously. He has read Lao She's original work several times, day and night thinking about how to walk if he enters the scene. On the day of meeting in a teahouse in Beijing, Fan Wei and Mei Feng seemed to be masters. One said, "This is something with deep flowing water", and the other said, "I want to make it black and white." The two immediately hit it off.
Later, Fan Wei followed the crew to Chongqing, where he finished filming the film adapted from Lao She's famous book in 36 days. During the work, Fan Wei Virgo's fault-finding characteristics are extremely obvious. Sometimes the director says that this shot is okay, but he still wants to give a different level of performance, insisting on taking a few more shots.
For Fan Wei, "The Problem Not A Problem" is a very challenging film. In it, he played a farm director named Ding Wuyuan, a "ruthless man" who was extremely deep in the city and never leaked his words and actions. Fan Wei, who is accustomed to playing small characters, therefore has to face a difficult challenge. Take away all previous performance experience and try to figure out the words and deeds of officialdom from scratch. At the same time, Fan Wei had to overcome the problem of the audience seeing him in a play.
Later on these two problems were overcome by Fan Wei. He directly relied on this black and white film to be a god, and won the 2016 Golden Horse Award winner. On the day when he picked up the trophy, the judge Xu Anhua said of Fan Wei, "Honesty is terrible." Fan Wei had a lot of rivals in that game about the actor. Liang Jiahui, Jacky Cheung, Xu Guanwen, and even Ke Zhendong who brought their own topics, but none of them grew up savagely like Fan Wei.
Yes, he used to be a skit actor, and then he worked hard and became a god by acting. Most importantly, no one dislikes him, no one distrusts him. There is a talk about
, and Fan Wei is quite picky. He has been famous for many years, and he has a lot of money, but he still wears a suit for seven or eight years, and a pair of petty citizens full of fireworks. Once he even said that it would be nice to be a chef if he is not acting. After all, "the head is big, the neck is thick, it's either a big money or a man", Fan Wei teased himself like that.
In Fan Wei, we can hardly see the pretentiousness and fanfare of people in Vanity Fair. He has a natural sense of relaxation, he can live his life, he doesn't show up, as if he is the uncle next door. Earlier, a reporter praised him, saying that Mr. Fan, you are very popular and you are not losing to Jay Chou. Fan Wei happily said that I hope everyone will forget the past me and the fan Wei who played the comedy. After
took back the trophy, Fan Wei placed it in the small attic of his home, still looking calm. In Fan Wei, there has always been a concerto-like quality. He can be on the podium at the international level and pick up other people's cigarette butts in the movie. The two have a clear boundary, but they are extremely harmonious. It can be said that
has been acting for forty years. Fan Wei, the actor with white sideburns, has already made arrangements for himself. He is essentially a small person, and the camera is full of infinite possibilities.
Fan Wei appeared on the big screen last time in the movie "Chang'an Road". In this crime film, he rarely played a decent villain, the Tang history expert Wan Zhenggang. On the surface, this man looked gentle and polite, but inside was greasy and cunning. While setting up a situation to trap the young wife who betrayed him, he watched indifferently as his only daughter was shot and killed. The distortion of the person in the
film was completely restored to him by Fan Wei, so that after the release of the new film, many people lamented that "I can't see that Fan Wei is so bad." However, Fan Wei didn't care about being scolded because of the character.
57-year-old Fan Wei is currently a rare "good actor" in the circle. He does not provoke right and wrong, nor does he fight for fame and fortune. Even when the media asks about Zhao Benshan's grievances, he never talks much. More than ten years are fleeting, but the classic characters and scripts created by Fan Wei have become more interesting.
is like he said in his early years, "I am just simmering in the northeast of the pot. I have to boil it slowly and slurp carefully, so that it has a taste." Now that a good meal is on the table, Fan Wei and his acting skills have finally reached the time when the fragrance is overflowing. After all, "life and movies are determined by the aftertaste." In Fan Wei's world, everything is still too late.
