Wei Xiang is the real version of king of comedy.

Time editorial department | Yinyin

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From the second day of New Year’s Day, the comedy "This Killer is Not Too Cold", which was not optimistic at first, broke through at the box office.

On the screen, Wei Chenggong, a walk-on, became addicted to first hero’s drama.

Off-screen, this is the actor Wei Xiang, who is the leading actor for the first time in 24 years.

This is a role almost tailored for him. In the Spring Festival, this popcorn movie became the runner-up in the Spring Festival box office, with a cumulative box office of over 1.7 billion yuan in 10 days.

The most touching scene in the whole film is that Wei Xiang holds flowers in the ending egg with tears in his eyes. He bowed deeply and said, "Thank you all for helping me complete the first first hero in my life." At that moment, the actor’s real experience was highly coincident with the story of the role in the film, which made people confused whether it was in or out of the play. Today, Time Jun wants to talk about Wei Xiang and the story of Yin Tianchou in the realistic version of king of comedy.

This killer is interesting.

Wei Xiang is one of the meritorious actors of the Mahua FunAge team. When it comes to Mahua FunAge, people are familiar with Shen Teng and Mary, and they also remember the tall Allen, which is thin and often far away. But who is Wei Xiang?

He has an ugly "drama face", and he always feels a little familiar when he sees him. Before that, his most famous role was the coach who could swallow "three pigs" in "The Richest Man in Xihong City".

This magical scene is simply unforgettable. Wei Xiang has acted in drama for 12 years, participated in CCTV Spring Festival Gala twice, and so far participated in 38 film and television dramas, all of which are basically supporting roles, and many of them are guest appearances. He has been waiting for more than twenty years since he was a little man in first hero. Until I met "This killer is not too cold" (hereinafter referred to as "killer").

This film is adapted from Kôki Mitani’s Magic Moment, in which Wei Chenggong, a walk-on actor played by Wei Xiang, studies his performance hard, but he has never been able to meet his talents. When he was chosen by Milan, the female star played by Mary, he was told to play a killer in a movie.

He was very surprised, but he didn’t know that everything was a conspiracy. He thought he was acting, but in fact, the other side was all real gang bosses. His life hangs by a thread, and he will be killed if he is not careful.

The classic comedy structure of "identity dislocation" brings the laughter in the first layer of the film, while the laughter in the second layer focuses on the actors’ performances. Wei Chenggong has to switch back and forth between the cool killer and the humble little actor.

On the one hand, we should exaggerate, but we should not be too grandiose and embarrassed. On the one hand, he is a bit silly, but he has the value of sticking to his dreams.

It’s hard to handle this "stupid and ignorant" state, but Wei Xiang’s performance is just right, which endows the role with an irreplaceable appeal. Wei Xiang’s comedies are self-released, and he is good at exaggerated expressions and body language. This film has brought his specialty into full play.

For many years, he has been crawling on the stage of "Twist" drama, making the audience laugh, and he can easily get it. For example, Wei Chenggong has to solemnly open his voice before each "shooting" in the film, and all kinds of fancy ventriloquism make the audience laugh in the cinema.

For example, playing with the mop, the mood is also coming, and I kissed it hard.

Body language is needless to say, the first time I met a gangster, it almost became the hero’s one-man show. He picked up a dagger and licked it to make a cruel gesture, and dared to hit the boss in the skull with his middle finger, which shocked everyone.

The top killer was taciturn, but Wei Chenggong tried his best to add drama to himself. He always pretended to be a bluff, but he would break the work in a second. The film is also interspersed with many tributes to classic old films.

From Godfather, fistful of dollars to Shanghai Beach and God of Gambling, the smooth transition between different roles made Wei Xiang addicted to drama.

In this play, the performance starts at any time, and everything is a stage. As long as the director doesn’t shout "card", he will continue to perform. All this is false, only Wei Chenggong thinks it is true. The more he tried his best to carve the performance, the more serious he was about it, and the more ridiculous the audience felt.

A good comedy is always full of laughter and tears. This part of the tears, Wei Xiang also completed very solid, and freely.

In his eyes, we can see the joys and sorrows of the little people. In the film, Wei was successfully "dismissed" by Milan, and he cried alone at the seaside.

Wei Xiang has no physical performance.

He watched the crab try to get ashore, but it was swept away by the waves again and again. He couldn’t help roaring and cheering for the turtle, as if he saw himself unwilling. The sunshine in the distant horizon is trying to squeeze out thick clouds. Can a walk-on actor really turn over? This reminds people of Yin Tianchou, played by Stephen Chow in king of comedy, who shouted "Work hard, struggle" to the sea.

From the behind-the-scenes tidbits, I know that this paragraph is actually a non-physical performance.

Wei Xiang faced a dot on the green screen, and completed the emotional turning point step by step. The whole scene was passed in one go. There is also a scene in which Wei Chenggong realizes that the lie will be debunked. "There is no such thing as filming, is there?" Are you lying to me? "

He stare big eyes, trying not to let tears flow, corners of the mouth shaking a subtle wry smile. This is a bitter smile and disillusionment. When Wei Chenggong finally got the approval of another director, he saw that a scene with Mary was actually made into a sample film. He completely ignored his own image and burst into tears. Finally, someone saw this "drama idiot" who was willing to give everything for acting.

There is also the tribute scene in Singin’ in the Rain, which is quite excellent. It is hard to imagine that Wei Xiang, who looks five big and three thick, can dance so lightly and flexibly. The rain kept washing, and we seemed to see the actor and the role merge into one. On the screen, it is Wei Chenggong, Wei Xiang, his initial performance and dreams may come.

Wei Xiang’s Supporting Role Life

"I have been waiting for people of insight like you. What have you done long ago?"

This heartfelt line in "The Killer" is half fun and half Wei Xiang’s real thoughts.

What will the life of a supporting role be like?

Wei Xiang spent the first half of his life as an actor, dealing with supporting roles.

Hi, Mom

His experience is far more complicated and bumpy than we thought. He was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy twice. On the first time, the security guard told him, "You are in the wrong line, classmate. This is the performance department." Even the security guard thinks that he really doesn’t like to learn acting.

Later, Wei Xiang became the first batch of literary and art soldiers of Chongqing Armed Police, and also became the captain of the actor team of the Art Troupe. His actor’s heart is still alive, and he retired and retaken the exam, and finally he was admitted to the higher vocational class of Beijing Film Academy. After graduation, he was selected by Mahua FunAge and became a drama actor. From "I’ll give you a twist if I want to eat" and "Unlucky Xiang", he has played more than 1,300 plays in 12 years, but unfortunately he is still unknown.

For many years, he was Shen Teng’s younger brother.

In fact, their birthdays are only one day apart, and they once shared the same house. Shen Teng said, "Now that Wei Xiang is angry, it is time to expose this matter." Because of her unattractive appearance and unobtrusive figure, Wei Xiang has been willing to be a green leaf and has played countless supporting roles in variety shows, TV dramas and movies.

He even learned many dialects. Sometimes there are several people in a scene, and the easiest way to distinguish the characters is the accent-the jargon is "backward mouth". If you want to play seven people, Wei Xiang will design four "inverted mouthparts", three of them will speak Mandarin, and then distinguish them by personality habits and behavior habits, so as to give each person a performance characteristic. He feels that "if I can break six or seven characters in a scene, the memory in my mind for shaping the character will be much larger."

No wonder he can switch between different characters so smoothly in Killer.

The exercise of playing a supporting role is enormous. There is a famous saying in "Self-cultivation of Actors": There are no small people, only small actors.

In The Ascension of the Living Buddha in the Legend of Jigong, Wei Xiang plays the role of Master Guang Liang, whose speech is enchanting and charming, and he has contributed a wide-spread expression pack.

In "The Happy Comedian", he and Allen played a supporting role in Xiaoqing, always shaking out the burden that made people laugh.

Ma Daxiang, the coach of the football team in "The Richest Man in Xihong City", has a "Mediterranean" shape on his head, which was designed by Wei Xiang on his own initiative.

In the first two years of the Spring Festival, he appeared in the popular films "Flying Life" and Hi, Mom, but there were too few scenes and the degree of play was limited.

In addition, he also played the role of Wei village head posing as Mendeleev in My People My Homeland, the driver of a hearse in Warm Hug, and the dispensable emperor in Li Mao for Prince.

My People My Homeland

Warm Hug

Li Mao for Prince

Wei Xiang is a lonely man. He has played so many roles whose names are vague. Even after 24 years as a supporting actor, he still retains his love for acting and takes the supporting role as the protagonist.

Some people compare him to "Ng Man Tat" in the Mainland. Uncle Da has played a supporting role and clown all his life, and always faces the camera with a humble smile, but it is these that people really remember and are unwilling to forget.

Wei Xiang said that Ng Man Tat was the creator who was born, and he was deeply influenced by it as a younger generation. But he doesn’t think he is Ng Man Tat 2.0. As an actor, he prefers to make people feel that "Wei Xiang is Wei Xiang". After many years of debut, his former friends have already made their mark in the film and television industry. Wei Xiang finally waited for his "Killer".

After the film was released, he was so nervous that he often stood alone in the last row of the cinema and secretly observed the reaction of the audience. Although it is a late bloomer, fortunately it is not too late.

Shen Teng has said, "Wei Xiang is my biggest threat. When you watch a movie in the future, you will see if there is any volume. " But Wei Xiang himself is sober. "The Killer is a summary of my 24 years’ work, but it doesn’t mean that I have to play first hero in the future. I am willing to continue to play a supporting role." As the movie says: Success only persists once more than "unsuccessful".

For a serious actor like Wei Xiang, the definition of success is to create more characters that move the audience. Whether it’s the protagonist or the supporting role.