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After six years of hard work, Wang Baoqiang's second film "In the Octagonal Cage" has become the new box office champion in Chinese film history with a box office record of over 400 million yuan.
and in just 9 days, the total box office exceeded 1.2 billion.
The praise of Wang Baoqiang on the hot search is about to overflow the screen.
Even Zhou Xingchi, who has always had his eyes above the top, commented in tears on social platforms, bluntly saying that Wang Baoqiang is one of the best actors he has ever seen, and even the best director.
Cheng Qingsong, the founder of the "Golden Broom Award", also posted a post praising: This is the true masterpiece of Wang Baoqiang's career as a director.
and urged Wang Baoqiang to return the golden broom to him.
The "Golden Broom Award" is also known as the "Worst Chinese Film Award of the Year". The first film "Havoc in Tianzhu" directed by Wang Baoqiang once won this award.
Six years ago, we experienced the bitterness of abandonment by thousands of people; six years later, we ushered in the glory of thousands of people.
This is just a microcosm of Wang Baoqiang's life.
From a Shaolin disciple to a walk-on, from a leading actor to a director, he has been breaking the circle, and has been working hard to break the invisible "octagonal cage" on his body.
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Not resigned to fate
A fan commented, "Looking at Tenghui gave me an illusion, as if Wang Baoqiang, who was in his forties, engraved his life experience on the screen, depicting an epic scene of the destiny of a small person." Cage, teach them to practice fighting, and constantly increase the intensity. As long as you are not exhausted, practice to death.
Outside the play, it's Wang Baoqiang's hard training in Shaolin Temple, his hard work in acting, and his never giving up if he doesn't go crazy or survive.
"In the Octagonal Cage" talks about growth and breakthrough, and it also talks about Wang Baoqiang's own life script.
Wang Baoqiang was born in a poor rural family in Hebei. He went to Shaolin Temple to practice martial arts when he was eight years old. At the age of twenty, Bei Piao wanted to be an actor.
Fate arranged a bad hand for Wang Baoqiang: 1.6 meters tall, ugly looks, mediocre qualifications...
No one thinks that he can play any tricks at the entertainment table.
An assistant director once taunted him to his face and said: You can't even speak Mandarin well, you look like this, your height, you want to be an actor?
But Wang Baoqiang is on the fence with fate.
In order to be able to play a few more tricks, he squatted in front of the Beijing Film Studio and introduced himself with a smiling face to each crew.
When he had nothing to do, he went to work as a cleaner in the building, earning 25 yuan a day, which was used to develop photos and send them to the crew.
Others hit him and said: Don't be stupid, no one will see your photos.
He said stubbornly: Maybe you can't see the 100th picture, but you can see the 101st picture.
He is always the person who remembers the lines best.
"Kangxi Dynasty" crew had a short eunuch role, because he memorized the lines best, so he was the first to be recommended.
He is always the one who fights the hardest.
In order to win a chance to stand in, he was willing to fall off a very high ladder, and he fell several times in a row.
When the director called to stop, the blood on his elbow had already stained his clothes red.
After that, the whole studio knew: "There is a stand-in named Wang Baoqiang, he is not afraid of death, and he really falls when others flop."
The male number two was scared and fled.
Wang Baoqiang resolutely stepped up to the top, and won the Best Newcomer Award at the Golden Horse Awards for this role, thus making his mark.
There is a scene in "In the Octagonal Cage" that I remember very deeply. When the children left the fighting arena, they screamed:
"Have you ever been hit by water? We are that rock. No matter how hard you shake it, we will eventually sink. This is our fate."
But Wang Baoqiang has taught us a lesson: My fate is up to me, not God.
Although humble as weeds, but I don't accept my fate, even a prairie fire can't burn it out.
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No limit
Many people first met Wang Baoqiang from the movie "A World Without Thieves".
He plays a simple, kind, and somewhat silly migrant worker "Silly Gen".
His classic line: "The wolf on the mountain will not harm me, can people be worse than wolves?"
But, does Wang Baoqiang really only play fools?
When Wang Baoqiang became the best actor of the Asia Pacific Film Festival, he said in his speech: I want to completely abandon Wang Baoqiang.
There are some actors who rely on a type of role to eat for a lifetime.
But Wang Baoqiang doesn't want to be solidified in the frame, he keeps trying various types of characters, and constantly broadens the way of acting.
in the literary film "Hello! In "Mr. Tree", he played the sensitive Mr. Tree to perfection.
As a non-smoker, he smoked several packs of cigarettes every day, thinking about how to smoke to fit the character of Mr. Shu, and finally his smoking scenes were selected into the Beijing Film Academy textbooks.
In Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin", he played the role of the killer San'er who was born in the countryside.
In order to find the character's rural game, he went back to his hometown to do farm work three months before starting the machine, talking to himself in the rice fields.
In order to find the murderous look of the characters, he tried to figure it out repeatedly, without using lines, but only relying on eye movements.
Before he killed someone, he only had to stand silently for a few seconds before his face was filled with murderous intent.
When filming the comedy-style "Detective Chinatown", he was shy, and in order to make a good run in women's clothing, he hypnotized himself in his heart: You are Tang Ren, not Wang Baoqiang. It's Wang Baoqiang, you can't do this.
In an interview, a reporter once asked him:
10 years have passed, how did you become a killer, a drug lord and a baby from a silly root and Xu Sanduo?
He replied: It's not that I deceived the world, it's that the world really knows me.
Lying on the existing achievements and holding back, it is tantamount to drawing the ground into a prison; if you are afraid of difficulties, you choose to shrink back, and you will miss opportunities. The essence of
's growth lies in updating and restarting, and in actively tearing apart the comfortable cocoon.
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non-stop
what is an octagonal cage?
It is an octagonal enclosed large iron cage surrounded by barbed wire, and it is an arena for mixed martial arts.
contestants entered inside, the bell rang, and it was a gladiator-style bloody fight.
You have to know how to punch and elbow, lock and twist, and try your best to knock down and subdue your opponent before you can leave the cage.
For Wang Baoqiang, life itself is an octagonal cage, and the only way to remain invincible is to constantly strengthen yourself.
When he was an actor, he did not have a diploma to catch up on cultural knowledge, but he did not have a professional background, he worked hard to study his acting skills.
Wang Baoqiang has never read a book, and he can't talk about any topics involving culture, history, and science.
But he upholds a point of view: the improvement of cultural literacy is essential for actors to develop in the long run.
When he was filming, he would carry a dictionary with him, and when he encountered a word he didn't understand, he would turn it over.
He made up for his lack of cultural knowledge by reading scripts.
Wang Baoqiang's acting skills were also explored all the way by himself, without a teacher or teaching materials.
played the blind A Bing in "The Plot". He plucked his eyebrows, lost ten pounds, and practiced Mandarin with a newspaper every day.
He summed up in his autobiography: When smiling, squint your eyes a little, and you will appear more honest; if you lower your head slightly, look up, and reveal the whites of your eyes, you will be more sympathetic.
There is a saying in "The Black Swan": The only thing standing in front of you is yourself.
As long as a person is willing to work hard, mountains can be moved and seas can be filled; as long as he persists in improving himself, he can always carve rough jade into beautiful jade.
Wang Baoqiang once said:
After "Havoc in Tianzhu", I reviewed, reflected, and settled. In the past few years, I have another understanding of movies, all in "In the Octagonal Cage".
At the beginning, when Wang Baoqiang directed "Havoc in Tianzhu", he followed his past experience and created a "four different" movie.
Faced with overwhelming negative reviews, he was not discouraged, but learned from the pain.
In the past six years, he turned down many big dramas, learned from major directors, and calmed down to learn how to make a good movie.
In order to make "In the Octagonal Cage" well, he learned how to write scripts, how to tease actors, how to edit and review films, and how to coordinate and arrange various departments. These are Wang Baoqiang's blind spots.
Action Director Zhuang Yuanzhang sighed, if I were to sit in his position, I would definitely collapse, because the problems I face every day are too difficult.
From the audience to the stage, from being suspected to being chased by thousands of people, behind the brilliance is the hard work of the day.
I understand from Wang Baoqiang that the meaning of life lies in pioneering rather than sticking to it.
For those who are desperately struggling, their fate will always give way.
Life is a game of breaking circles.
From the comfort zone to the freedom zone, one must first go through the fear zone and the learning zone.
These are the two painful periods that we have to go through when breaking the circle.
The children in "In the Octagonal Cage" practiced fighting desperately, suffering and shaping.
It is difficult to break free from the cage of life without getting into the octagonal cage to defeat the opponent.
This is the children's story, it is Wang Baoqiang's story, in fact, this is our story too.
Only by persisting in polishing ourselves and breaking the inherent boundaries can we connect to a wider world.
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