told Ming Dao that you might not be able to play the male number one again.
39 years old, 15 years of acting experience, Ming Dao, known as the "Idol Drama Brother" and "The Originator of Overbearing CEOs", starred in the 7-minute "Ice Breaking Operation" clip in the variety show "Actors Please Get In", which he performed this year The first scene.
Mingdao appeared on the scene of a director casting reality show, and netizens swiped "Long time no see" in the barrage.
Indeed, he has not aired a new drama for two years. After moving to the movie market, he starred in a 20-minute science fiction short film and took it to foreign film festivals.
He originally didn't want to participate in "Actors please take their place". In his opinion, acting is his own "guy who eats", not trivial, "I don't like to joke with the guy who eats, I feel very shameless."
But he still came and added his favorite Director Chen Kaige's team, in the first competition, he lost to the 14-year-old rookie actor and entered the pending seat.
"to be determined" means to be selected, suspended, or even denied to some extent. But sitting at the poker table must follow the rules of the game. "I'm not that optimistic, I feel uncomfortable. I haven't done anything successfully in the past few years, and I look down on myself a little bit."
Mingdao
became popular in 2005 with "The Prince Turns into a Frog", Mingdao still has time to accompany his mother back to the vegetable market to set up a stall. That was the golden age of Taiwan’s idol dramas. This idol drama that combined the elements of strong men and weak women, domineering CEOs falling in love with me, amnesia, car accidents, and wealthy fighting elements, became popular throughout Asia. The summer file of the following year, Anhui Satellite TV introduced " "The Prince Turns into a Frog" once drove the entire day's viewership share to exceed 2%.
"The Prince Turns into a Frog" made Ming Dao the most popular idol actor in Taiwan overnight, completing the transformation of the frog into a prince. He is no longer the young Lin Chaozhang who sells vegetables in the vegetable market, and he does not have to worry that the whole family will have no food the next day.
Mingdao starred in the idol drama and became a hit. "The prince turns into a frog" stills
Ming Dao felt that he was rich for the first time, because he had 150,000 Taiwan dollars (about 30,000 RMB) in his account, and he felt at ease. He also invited 7 friends to eat 50 per capita. Don’t worry about adding oil to the block of barbecue, you can fill it up. When
stood at a high position in Vanity Fair, he never avoided his origin. Since the age of 12, he has been selling sweet potatoes, dried fish, and clams in the vegetable market, constantly screaming, weighing, and collecting money. The vegetable market made him feel at ease, squatting on the ground, watching people coming and going, listening to the uncle selling pears at the stall next to him chanting "My pears are sweet enough to sing", thinking in his heart, as long as he finds a way to sell these goods, one day The income is predictable.
Mingdao bid farewell to childhood and break into the adult world. After school and during winter and summer vacations, Ming Dao sells dried fish at the vegetable market to supplement his household. He doesn't have a fixed booth, and he sells goods at different markets close to his mother and brother, and his father is responsible for the transportation. He smiled and interacted with the aunt who came to buy dried fish. If he encounters a client who seems to be in need, he will boldly catch a lot of small dried fish, collect some money symbolically, and feel like a knight walking the rivers and lakes, helping the poor.
Someone once asked him, would a child feel unhappy when he went to the vegetable market to sell vegetables?
In his concept, selling vegetables at the vegetable market is his way of life. He felt very happy at the time because the stalls next to him would also If a child is selling vegetables, he will not think he is special. Now recalling his childhood experiences, he feels very proud. The years in the vegetable market laid the foundation for him to get along with people and see the world in the future. Only one exception is
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One weekend morning when he was 17 years old, Ming Dao rode his bike to the vegetable market. Suddenly, he noticed that many motorcycles appeared, all of them were teenagers who were going to socialize. The bus was also carrying a shy female classmate. Ming Dao deliberately slowed down and rode his bike among them, imagining that he was one of them and could have the same happy time as them.
reached the fork in the road, Ming Dao had to turn, he had to go back to the vegetable market to sell vegetables. He stopped for a long time and watched these teenagers go away one by one. "It is more meaningful to set up a stall than to go out to play. This is my choice." He quickly returned to reason.
Adventure King
became Ming Dao, an adventure of young Lin Chaozhang. At the age of 22,
faced the first major choice in his life, whether to enter the entertainment industry.
After thinking about it for a week, he decided to take over the job of the outdoor travel reality show "The King of Adventure" and become the location host. "This is the first major decision in my life. I didn't love acting since I was a kid. The reason I entered the industry was that I needed to work and I wanted to make money." Before
went abroad to record the show, his former agent hurriedly gave him a new name -"Ming Dao". The agent who has successfully created a series of idol artists believes that his original name, Lin Chaozhang, is too much for the market to become popular. Ming Dao means a bright road, which has a good meaning and is loud. The first time
spoke to the camera, he needed to introduce himself to the audience, "Hello everyone, I am Ming Dao, and my current location is in Bangkok, Thailand!".
At that time, it was difficult for Ming Dao to find more accurate words than "embarrassed" to describe his embarrassment and panic. Even the blink of an eye would feel that he had done something wrong and was inconsistent from head to toe. This passage was recorded 12 times, of which 1 The second time it became "Hello everyone, I am Bangkok, Thailand!" During the two years that
recorded "The King of Adventure", Ming Dao went to more than 30 countries and he collected all the boarding passes from the first stop in Bangkok, Thailand. On his last stop in New Zealand, he ate with the king and the refugees, stayed in a six-star restaurant, and stayed in a temple in the wild. The most dangerous time, in Alaska, Mingdao was sitting in a truck transporting ice. After getting on, the car braked suddenly and the 3 and a half tons of ice slipped down, almost pressing Mingdao under the ice.
"I will never forget this journey, because he will change my destiny from now on." This is Ming Dao's lines in "The King of Adventure" and a portrayal of his true life. ""Adventure King" is the root of my whole person and the source of all my thoughts, experiences, feelings, and abilities." Mingdao said, "Because of the growth environment, I am used to looking at the world from a low angle, standing at the bottom From the top, every time I stand down, the world I see is a bit bigger, and there are a little more people in it. There are nobles, commoners, some who live in villas, and some who live in thatched houses. They let me see that I don’t think it is. There, I understand what I didn’t understand. Through every pair of eyes I met, I saw countless worlds."
Shan Junhao
In Ming Dao’s chess game of life, "The Prince Turns into a Frog" is the one that cannot be bypassed. In this drama, Shan Junhao, played by Ming Dao, is considered by netizens to be one of the most classic images of a domineering president. The show premiered in Taiwan in June 2005, with an average rating of 7.09% and a highest rating of 8.05%, breaking the record of 6.43% of the highest ratings maintained by "Meteor Garden". The scene of
most fans talked about was the long shot of Shan Junhao’s first appearance. He was dressed in a black suit and wearing sunglasses. He walked out of the car, walked through the door of the hotel, strode to the front desk, and the staff stood there. Bow in a row to say hello. Some netizens said that other domineering presidents are at most department managers in front of Ming Dao.
Stills of "The Prince Turns into a Frog"
Recalling the filming of this scene, Ming Dao is still impressed. Shan Junhao’s appearance is very important for shaping the image of this person. He must be very aura when he walks. He strode all afternoon. Finally there is the picture that the audience sees now. The movie
that made him popular was actually not intended to use him as the male number one. After the great success of "The Prince Turns into a Frog", the director told him that because his skin is too dark, it is very unconvincing to play rich people. "In that era, which noble son have you seen with black skin?"
"The Prince Turns into a Frog" has become a youthful memory in the hearts of a generation of audiences, especially when Shan Junhao and the heroine Ye Tianyu fell into the pit and waited Rescue, Shan Junhao said to Ye Tianyu, if you don't give up at a critical juncture, despair will become hope. Ming Dao later heard many fans say that this sentence gave him strength.
Ming Dao didn't have much acting experience at the time. "When you know nothing, you will show it to others." He thinks whether the actor is sincere, the audience can feel it.
However, the aesthetic fatigue of the audience is always faster than the theme innovation of TV dramas. The glorious moment of Taiwan idol drama created by the popular broadcast of "Meteor Garden" in 2001 did not last long. After 2008, more and more. Taiwanese artists choose to go north to find more development opportunities in the mainland.
In 2007, Ming Dao moved to the mainland. The Republic of China drama "Dream Paradise" was the first TV series he collaborated with the mainland crew. It was the same team as "The Family of Golden Noodles", but he failed to replicate the good results of "The Family of Golden Noodles". After that, he also tried to act in 3 costume dramas, but the same responsevery few. Chen Mingzhang, the director of
"The Prince Turns into a Frog" once told the media, "Back then (everyone) thought idol dramas were very foreign, but now idol dramas are derogatory terms. (Everyone) feels (in idol dramas) a group of people who can't act. "Mingdao said frankly, "There are many things that are not bad, but that many people do it badly, so this thing has become bad, I admit it."
Mingdao opposes the use of simple labels to define people, "but The public likes to be categorized, I don’t like it very much.” When he played Shan Jun-ho, he didn’t have the concept of overbearing president in his mind. He was just acting on many aspects of a person. “I was annoying for a while. Where is the overbearing? No, although I am willing to use this method to make it easier for everyone to understand, I still hope to convey more detailed ideas to everyone."
When recording "The King of Adventure", Ming Dao once interviewed the king of India At that time, he was standing on the observation deck of the Indian castle. The king said to him, although I have no power now, I am still rich. The places you can see and the sun can see are mine. "As long as I copy that person's appearance, I will be the overbearing president. The overbearing president we played is smaller than this. It is only in one company." Ming Dao told China News Weekly.
change
We saw him at the scene where Mingdao took photos for the magazine. He was wearing a suit and posing different looks to match the photographer. Today, his identities are diverse. He has been an actor and established his own studio. He has successively signed several young actors and added a new boss status. His male artist Xu Kaicheng has acted in many idol dramas. , Gradually became popular.
Xu Kaicheng described to China News Weekly that Ming Dao in his eyes has three key words: "serious, manly, and veteran". When he was filming before, as long as Ming Dao had time, he would teach Xu Kaicheng how to perform. Now he is starting to slowly Let go. Ming Dao remembers that there was a media meeting. He stood with the actor from the same company. He was the shortest. "I will face this with the boss's mentality. Very good, very good."
is on the interview show In the middle, Ming Dao revealed that there are only 10 phone numbers in his mobile phone, "Frankly speaking, I can't get along with most people." The way of getting along between people he yearns for is like in martial arts dramas. When I was in distress, my old friend suddenly had difficulties more than ten years later. I immediately rushed to save you, "I have that kind of feeling in my heart, but I found that in this world, it seems that I am the only one who has this kind of feeling."
Huang Zhiwei and Ming Dao became friends because of the shooting of "Sakurano 3+1", but they did not meet often. In his eyes, Ming Dao was always "on schedule, not impulsive, but thinking about it and knowing what he was doing." .
His long-time friend An Yixuan said that Ming Dao lives in a 60-year-old man. Ming Dao laughed and said, "My soul may be a thousand years old." Chen Qiaoen also thinks that Ming Dao is a person who can speak with confidence. He can listen very well and has a particularly good memory.
He has a good memory and director Liu Guoquan feels the same way. Ming Dao never read the script at the scene. He had already learned the lines very well before coming.
"Do you believe in idol drama?" This is the curiosity in my heart.
"I believe that my life is just that. I was shopping at the vegetable market. After half a year, I am the leading actor in Taiwan's most popular idol drama. Isn't this an idol drama?" Ming Dao said.
However, the rules of survival in the entertainment industry are realistic and cruel. There are no splashes in several dramas, and no popular and popular movies. There is a constant influx of fresh blood in the market, and it will inevitably disappear from the audience's vision.
Ming Dao clearly knows his current predicament. The impression of him in the industry is roughly divided into two types. Some people think he is still acting in idol dramas, while others think Ming Dao is old, but he thinks, "I am now. As an actor’s best age, I remind everyone that I’m still here.”
He realized that he had to make changes and that he had to transform, but “I’m not sure what to do and where to go. This thing makes me very anxious. ". In the process of trying to transform
, he led the company's team to shoot a 20-minute short film "Program Lovers" in which he played the male number one, a designer designing the city of the future. He injects his own thoughts on the current society in the film, whether intelligent people will integrate into human society as a legal identity in the future? How is the communication of human society evaluated?The price of the other party? Ming Dao hopes that someone will be interested in this story, so that they can collaborate to make a feature-length movie together. He added, “I won’t make a film by myself. It’s too risky.”
This is the first film produced by the Mingdao team. Before that, his team produced the idol drama "The Price of Victory" and "If I Love you". Ming Dao, who has acted in more than 10 idol dramas, still believes in idol dramas. "My experience is like an idol drama. I live my life with the mentality of an idol drama." Perhaps the change of Ming Dao has already happened, imperceptibly and unconsciously. Maybe nothing has changed.
