Countless netizens left a message below: "This is the most outstanding role of Wang Baoqiang in acting."
However, Wang replied, "I think what can best show my acting skills is actually another role."
This role is the "tree" in Hello Mr. Tree.
In the film, Wang is deified and written into a textbook just to smoke. This film has not only won many awards at home and abroad, but also been called the most underrated film in the circle by film critics.
What is the virtue and skill of this film? How can it get such a high reputation?
20 12 Some netizens found a unique beggar on the roadside. With his handsome face, tall and straight posture, melancholy temperament and a beggar's costume, the beggar became popular on the Internet overnight and was called "Brother Sharp" by netizens.
At this time, Han Jie, although he also made several works, received a mediocre response and was thrown into the film and television circle, unable to splash a few flowers.
On a trip three years ago, Han Jie came across a photo after the rural relocation. The cold breath and the dilapidated old house are all desolate.
Only a few old trees at the entrance of the village always stand proudly and bend slightly, exposing the roots of the soil, like a huge palm, grasping the soil and desperately absorbing the last drop of nutrition to ensure that they can survive.
Although it was winter, the faint green on the branches was so out of place with the whole picture.
Seeing this, Han Jie suddenly had an idea in his mind. He wants to make a film about wandering between ideal and reality. Until the appearance of Brother Sharp, he suddenly seemed to open his second pulse as governor, and inspiration came in an instant.
Taking advantage of this momentum, I created the script in one breath and gave it to director Jia, hoping to help him complete his own shooting through his "wing-adding plan".
Before the script was passed, Han Jie couldn't wait to start looking for a shooting location.
He wanted to build one himself, but the house smelled of cement and there was no primitive desolation. After almost traveling all over the Northeast, Han Jie finally chose a place.
This place is like Han Jie's imaginary scene, the only fly in the ointment is that there are no trees at the entrance to the village.
The tree at the entrance of the village is the soul of the whole movie.
So Han Jie specially let people transplant a tree from a distance, but after the transplant, it was embarrassing.
So Han Jie waved his hand and said, "Don't want this place, keep looking."
Only in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province, found a suitable small mountain village near Pinggang Mine. Although Han Jie doesn't like the overall situation of this mountain village, the tree at the entrance of the village is very suitable for this scene.
On the set, Jia personally acted as the producer, and invited those who had filmed Infernal Affairs and Initial D to be responsible for filming.
It is said that Li Yaohui has just finished filming "bodyguards and assassins" and "Mr. hello Tree", and has been rushing to the cast of "The Grandmaster" non-stop.
Han Jie knows that if a movie is compared to a banquet, all the staff are just appetizers, and the actors are the main course.
As for the soul figure "Tree" in the film, Han Jie pulled it in the film and television circle. It seems that no one is suitable except Wang.
When Wang learned about the role, his first reaction was surprise, because the role was very distinctive and very personal, which was very different from his previous roles, so he immediately accepted the film.
But after I agreed, I was informed that the shooting of my other play "Xi Feng Lie" was postponed, and it coincided with the shooting cycle of "hello Tree".
Wang thought for a moment, decisively pushed off "West Wind Spreading to the East", but chose to cooperate.
Later, Wang said to him, "The role of trees is too personal. I can't lose him. "
The tree in the movie is a slovenly farmer who likes smoking and drinking. He has been wandering on the edge of society, desperately trying to integrate, but he has never been accepted.
Wang has a taste of farmers. If he changed his role, it is estimated that he would not be able to play such a taste.
In the movie, the role of the tree is an old drunkard and a heavy smoker, but Wang himself hardly drinks or smokes all his life, which makes Wang very embarrassed.
Wang, who had hardly drunk alcohol before, would bite the bullet and drink it even if he didn't want to drink any more in the first few months of film preparation.
By the time the film was finished, Wang's capacity for drinking had been practiced, so it was not a problem to drink a little.
In order to reflect the role of Mr. Shu as a heavy smoker in the play, he not only smokes while eating and drinking, but also smokes three packs of cigarettes a day when he is free.
At that time, everyone in the crew laughed: "The whole crew's tobacco and alcohol were contracted by Wang."
Learning to smoke and drink is a trivial matter, but the most embarrassing thing for Wang is the passionate scene between him and Tan Zhuo in the movie.
If this matter had been put on other actors, it is estimated that they would have readily agreed, but it is different here.
After Wang debuted, from Blind Well to world without thieves, and then to Soldier Assault, he followed Yishui's grandfathers in filming, and never made an emotional scene at all, let alone a passionate scene.
When Wang learned that his blood was boiling, he was dumbfounded in an instant.
So I told the director about it and suggested whether the passionate drama could be deleted.
The director thought for a moment and said, "This shot can't be deleted. This is a symbol of this tree's insanity. "
So the director went to discuss with Tan Zhuo, the heroine, and then decided that the play was passive by the tree and active by Tan Zhuo.
Before shooting, Tan Zhuo was also nervous. After all, this is the first time to cooperate with Wang, so they are not very familiar with it. So they got tired of half a bottle of Erguotou, and we saw the scene of Tan Zhuo working for the king on their wedding night.
A good work is always a real scene, and only with a serious director and an actor who is dead in acting can a long-lasting film and television masterpiece be put on the screen.
20 1 1 The 40-day-long film Hello Mr. Tree was officially released.
After its release, it not only won the Best Director Award and Best Actor Award at the Vladivostok International Film Festival in Russia, but also won the Best Director Award at the Shanghai Film Festival. However, the reputation of this film is not as good as expected.
The audience called it a bad film and said, "I don't understand." "What is this?" In the end, the total box office of this movie was only 2 million.
If you invest in a commercial film, the producer estimates that the short film will have to pay.
But is this movie really that bad?
No, it shouldn't be like this.
Jia has been investigating this film and has been busy with it. Wang has been deified in the film and television circle 10 has only one scene of smoking.
10 years later, when this movie reappeared on the internet, the people who once scolded this movie apologized:
"It's a godsend."
"It's not that the movie is bad, but I can't understand it."
"I seem to see myself."
Good works are like fine wine. The more you brew, the purer you become. Every time you watch a movie, good film and television works can get different feelings from it, just like a Chinese Odyssey and the Ming Dynasty 1566.
It can make film critics change their ideas one by one, from criticizing it for nothing to praising it to the peak. What is this movie about? Maybe we can find the answer from his hero, Mr. Shu.
"Tree" is a sloppy old bachelor in a mountain village. No matter adults or children, they will call him Brother Tree when they see him. As for whether he is a brother or not, no one has ever considered it.
He wears an old suit that he thinks is the most decent every day and always has a cigarette in his hand. No matter who he sees, he can say hello, and others will respectfully call him "Brother Tree" when they see him. As for whether he is sincere or not, only they know.
And he is like an excluded person, desperately trying to integrate into their circle, but others never accept him.
In the village where the tree is located, most people have moved away because of demolition, but the mother is unwilling to move away. My brother has come back many times to persuade my mother to move in with him. My mother just smiled and said, "Your second brother (that tree) is still there!"
When the tree was fired by the boss and wandered in the street, it met Xiao Gaopeng and the village chief's brother-in-law Jules. When the group saw the tree, they had to go to the pub to drink with him one by one.
However, on the wine table, Jules always runs in the tree, saying that he has no ability and can't do anything, so he can only watch the door with others.
The tree couldn't refute it, but picked up the glass and drank to ease the embarrassment at this time, while the two pigs were laughing. At this time, the lonely smile on the tree's face is in sharp contrast with the unscrupulous smile on the pig's face. Obviously not a group of people, but sitting together, more and more out of place.
The tree from the pub fell in love with Xiaomei at first sight. As a result, when I went to Xiaomei's house to see her, Xiaomei explicitly refused the tree.
Unfavorable career and emotional obstacles made the tree more confused, and what happened at Gao Peng Jr.' s wedding became the last straw to crush him, which also made him fully aware of his position.
At Gao Peng's wedding, the tree accidentally stepped on Jules' foot, and Jules insisted that the tree kneel down and apologize. At the small wedding, under the eyes of the public, the tree knelt at Jules' feet and completely trampled on its dignity in the mud.
So the tree made up her mind to escape from the city, so she got on the south train and went to find another good friend, Chen Yixin.
So there is a very interesting thing in the movie, that is, no matter what happens in front, you can hook up with the plot behind.
Before Shu decided to look for Chen Yixin, he was wandering alone on the hillside outside the village when a car passed by the street in the village. At the end of the film, the same scene appeared, and the car was still running in the street.
What happened in the middle is only the imagination of the tree, but everything that has appeared in front must have something corresponding to it, and the result is just the opposite.
After growing up, Chen Yixin is a successful person in the eyes of the tree, with a successful career and a happy family. However, the tree found that Chen Yixin was not having an affair as he imagined. So in the dream, after Chen Yixin's extramarital affair was known by his wife, he had a big fight and eventually ended in divorce.
At this time, Xiaomei, who had rejected herself, took the initiative to send a text message to the other party and agreed to her pursuit. Finally, she married herself, and everything was self-centered after marriage.
At the wedding, Shu was forced to kneel in public, completely trampling on his face and dignity. When there was an accident at the bottom of the mine, Shu had become a respected feng shui master, only kowtowing in front of him, but he still knelt down willingly.
Jules once laughed at the tree for being worthless and only gave it to others to watch the gate. As a result, when the mining industry reopened, the boss personally asked the tree to cut the ribbon and kindly asked him about his future cooperation. At this time, Jules can only clap desperately below.
Before long, my mother and my brother went to live in the city and took my brother's car. My mother didn't say a word, just tried to wipe away tears.
As the old saying goes, people live when they move, and trees die when they move.
On the surface, I live in the city from the countryside. If the roots are in the countryside, can the trees live if they move to the city?
At the end of the film, the tree seems to see the workers in the factory coming home from work, but at this time, the sky slowly turns from white to red.
When the tree was working in the garage, his eyes were burned. At this time, his sky turned red. Without exception, it no longer proves that he has completely fallen into his own world and can't pull it out.
At this time, in the village, the car passed by the street again, exactly the same as last time, proving that everything was just his personal imagination.
In real life, he is a loser. In imagination, he is a winner.
When Mr. Hello Tree was promoted, it was said to be a black comedy. However, after it was released, the audience discovered that it was a magical surrealist film.
Not because we couldn't understand the film, but because we were too young to know what the film was about.
Just like a tree walking at the crossroads of a street, with "renmin street" on one side and "Freedom Road" on the other, where should it go?
Nobody can tell us.
Many years later, each of us finally became the most annoying appearance, always wandering on the edge of this society, desperately trying to integrate into it, but what greeted us was a beating from society.
I didn't know what I liked in the song at first, but I was already in the song after listening.
Let's just say that this movie was released 10 years ago. If it is released now, it is definitely not the original situation.
However, is this really the case?