Recently, the Shanghai Library joined hands with the International School of Chinese Language and Culture of East China Normal University to carry out a series of lectures on theater reviews, inviting famous actor Wang Zhiwen, and scholars Sun Ganlu, Wu Jun, Zhou Yijun, Mao Jian, Zhu Kang, Luo Meng, Huang Ruijie , Ding Xiongfei, and Chen Qi, discuss his film and television image together, and approach "the 'madman' of our era" together.

Wang Zhiwen

Wang Zhiwen was once hailed as a textbook of line performance. At the age of 34, he won three TV drama awards: Golden Eagle, Feitian, and Magnolia. He is the youngest Grand Slam winner. Also regarded as the most rebellious public figure. The madness outside the play and the extreme state in the play make him a rare scene in the history of contemporary Chinese film and television. For more than 30 years, Wang Zhiwen has starred in hundreds of film and television dramas. In his characterization, he can always see the thinking and grasp of "typical character". He completes the role and deconstructs the role. He contributes the model for the performance, and then breaks through himself for the next performance.

The host Mao Jian regards the appearance of Wang Zhiwen as "a single new wave phenomenon that occurred in the 1980s in Chinese film history" and as "our response to the famous actors in the new wave of global film": "Wang Zhiwen is our screen The "Chinese madman" on the Internet is the peak of the spirit of the times, and when the aesthetics of the times are transformed, it is shaped on an actor." She said that this kind of representative actor image of the times will appear when the country develops to a certain stage A "madman" image, "this image is a political image, an economic image, an aesthetic image, and a cultural image when the upper and lower buildings communicate."

Screenshot of "Have a Fun"

Film critic and translator Chen Qi pointed out that the dialect character played by Wang Zhiwen in "Passionate" is a classic image in the history of Chinese TV dramas. The love depicted in "Pass the Addiction" has influenced a generation of Chinese young people. Zhu Kang, a humanities scholar, mentioned that Wang Zhiwen starred in many love-themed film and television dramas in the 1980s and 1990s, most of which depicted the protagonist looking for the inner perfect self in a crowded city. Emotional communication, but it is precisely the search for a perfect self in the heart, which makes the love expressed in this song have a feeling of self-estrangement, which has a qualitative difference with the romantic love in the 1980s and 1990s. difference."

Scholar Zhu Kang believes that at the end of the last century, due to the development of modern metropolises, everyone is in a commodity-style "show-off", so the emotions between people continue to form a substitute chain, and then There is also no so-called eternal emotion that romantic love hopes, and it becomes a constant replacement between lovers. "The crowded city constitutes the external space for the romantic disintegration of the era, and it is also the internal reason for its disintegration." Combining the love narrative film and television dramas that Wang Zhiwen participated in, "we can see the emotional changes of people in the 1990s. Uncertainty, in the end, is the replacement of reality for dreams, and the replacement of predecessors for predecessors. From this relationship, people experience self-alienation. In short, in the 1990s, we discovered and encountered the crisis of love, self-alienation People who experience a variety of possibilities in love eventually face the risk of emotional uncertainty.”

Chen Qi also said with a smile, "Wang Zhiwen has contracted the image of Chinese intellectuals in different ages and fields." Documentary director and writer Zhou Yijun believes that intellectuals are not a fixed role, but a background color, which has become a characteristic of Wang Zhiwen’s works and roles. “The people he played lived in the environment of that era. However, he always has a sense of alienation from the environment.” Intellectuals have also become a lingering temperament in Wang Zhiwen, permeating the various characters he interprets.

On the Internet platform, Wang Zhiwen and many of his works have been re-discovered, recreated, and evaluated by young audiences today. His excellent line skills have been praised by the entire network, and he has been praised as the "master line teacher". Wang Zhiwen responded to this at the scene. He laughed and said that everyone said he was like Lin Chong. Words and sayings, "It's my job as an actor." "Try to improve the two things of 'reciting' and 'chanting' as much as possible, to make yourself more comfortable, to make the listener more pleasing to the ear, and to be worthy of work. If you keep slack on your part of the ability, then change career, don’t do this job.”

Screenshot of "Black Ice"

In addition, classic TV series such as "Heavenly Way" and "Black Ice" many years ago are now very popular among young people on the Internet. Many of these lines are regarded as "success" or "philosophy of life" by young people today. Wang Zhiwen said that it is his honor to be able to get the choice of young audiences at the moment, "The two dramas should be said to be a long time ago. If I can still get their choices on some young people's websites, I would like to thank them." He Specifically mentioned Mr. Zhong Daoxin, the screenwriter of the TV series "Black Ice", who has passed away. "He is a very outstanding writer who I respect very much. After we decided to make this drama, we asked Mr. Zhong to help us. How can we make this script more interesting? Mr. Zhong is very concerned about the whole "Black Ice" The help and dedication in the play is unforgettable for every member of our crew, the audience may not know this name, but please remember the name Zhong Daoxin, he has many good works for everyone to share, thank you.”

Some audiences asked questions at the scene. The times are changing too fast, and everyone will be confused, "What do you want to stick to? Or change something?"

Wang Zhiwen said frankly, "For more than 30 years, nearly 40 years, I have been doing (acting) this thing, just for the problem you mentioned just now. I think it can make regrets less. If you focus on one thing, enjoy it, constantly feel it, and expand it, you won’t be confused.”