Wang xianzhai

Wang xianzhai

He once set up an ophthalmic clinic, and later abandoned medicine to take a film. Because the ophthalmic clinic is adjacent to star film company, we have been able to get to know many filmmakers. Later, Zhang Shichuan introduced himself into the film industry and shot the story of the Funny King in Shanghai. Later, he starred in the film "the orphan saves his ancestors" and became famous for his successful role as a villain. He is the first famous film star in the history of Chinese film who is famous for playing villain, and is known as "the first villain" and "rogue specimen". At that time, the public opinion circle commented that "Wang xianzhai is the only one who plays the villain role in today's film industry, who is proficient in acting skills and has reached the level of" perfection "

Personal profile

Wang xianzhai (1900-1942), formerly known as Wang Youting, was born in Vladivostok, Shandong Province, in a family of overseas Chinese living in Russia.

He spent his childhood in Harbin and later moved to Shanghai with his family. He opened an ophthalmic clinic after graduating from Hujiang University and worked as an optometrist in China's oldest Jingyi glasses company.

In 1922, due to a chance to be appreciated by Zhang Shichuan, Zhang Shichuan urged him to abandon his career and join the film industry, so he entered the star film school and became an actor of the star film company. He played a supporting role in the first film of "Funny King in Shanghai" produced by "Star" and starred in the film "Zhang Xinsheng". After he entered the film world, he soon showed his acting talent and successfully shaped the villain role in the orphan to save his ancestors.

Since then, he has played an important role in many films, such as the soul of jade pear, the last conscience, the singing girl red peony and wild current. Among them, the nouveau riche in the last conscience, the rogue husband in the song girl red peony, the ruffian in the peach blossom after robbery, and the zither player in the marriage between crying and laughing are the most influential, and they have become famous actors specializing in villains in early Chinese films. At that time, the public opinion circle commented that "Wang xianzhai is the only one who plays the villain role in today's film industry, who is proficient in acting skills and has reached the level of" perfection " The nickname of the first villain resounded throughout the film world.

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he took part in the Shanghai Film troupe and went to Sichuan to perform plays. In 1939, he returned to Shanghai and worked in Huaxin, Huacheng and other film companies to film the queen of the night, the legend of the White Snake, GE nenniang and other films. He once starred in Guan Yunchang's loyalty for thousands of years. In 1941, he died of illness after shooting "soul back from heaven".

Life experience

Change to film

Ophthalmologists obsessed with movies

Wang xianzhai was born in Vladivostok and can speak Russian. At the age of 17, he moved to Shanghai with his family and entered Hujiang university to study medicine. After graduation, he opened an ophthalmic clinic to practise medicine. In the early 1920s, there were few people proficient in western medicine in China. This is an enviable profession. Interestingly, Wang xianzhai himself was deeply myopic, with a thick bottle bottom on the bridge of his nose.

In 1922, star film company was founded in Shanghai. Wang xianzhai often went to see the excitement, and soon he was attracted by the new business of making movies, and entered the star movie school to study. At the beginning, he played some small roles and lied to his family that he could earn money from making movies. In fact, instead of receiving salary, he also took home furnishings to the studio as props. Wang xianzhai's obsession with movies is unbelievable to people around him.

In the initial stage of film, movie actors were regarded as ordinary actors, considered as disgraceful, despised and even misunderstood by people. Wang xianzhai is making a movie without telling his family. His mother is really angry when she learns about it. Wang xianzhai always laughs and doesn't say a word. He allows his mother to lose his temper until his mother is tired and angry. He pours tea for his mother and pleases her with good words. Her mother gradually lets it go. However, she always disapproves of Wang xianzhai's abandoning his serious career to be a dramatist. She never makes movies that Wang xianzhai plays Look.

Wang Wei, Wang xianzhai's daughter, doesn't exclude her father from making movies like her grandmother. What she gets is that she can see a test of the latest movie. She confides in her neighbors and classmates about the plot of the movie and shows off her convenience. But when her friends asked her, did your father play a good or bad role in the movie? Wang Wei blushed and hesitated to play a good man. She was embarrassed by the fact that she lied and that her father played the bad guy. Wang xianzhai often bought sugar for her daughter in order to make her an alliance. She was not allowed to tell her about making movies in front of her grandmother. In fact, her daughter thought that if her father didn't play a bad man but a good man instead, she would rather buy sugar for her father and blackmail her father several times. If she insisted on playing a bad man, she would report to her grandmother.

Behind the screen

Wang xianzhai's popularity as a villain is due to the release of "the orphan saves his ancestors". "The orphan saves his ancestors" has brought out tragic actress Wang Hanlun, child star Zheng Xiaoqiu, and villain Wang xianzhai. The film has received a warm response. Wang xianzhai has become famous at one stroke and has become a villain specialist ever since. Wang xianzhai's thin face, crooked nose and skillful acting skills make him the upstart in the last conscience, the rogue husband in the song girl red peony, the ruffian in the peach blossom after robbery, and the zither player in the cause of crying and laughing. He was rated as "the specimen of rogue" and "the symbol of human sin". Hong Shen, the screenwriter, praised Wang xianzhai and set aside an important role suitable for him in many films. Hong Shen contributed a lot to Wang xianzhai's success in the film world.

Because of his severe shortsightedness, Wang xianzhai always wears glasses, but he never wears glasses when filming. Every time the director is ready to shout "Kamala", he slowly takes off his glasses. Others are worried that if he forgets one day, he will be reprimanded by the director. Sometimes after shooting a few scenes, the director asked him if he had taken off his glasses just now. He pretended that he had forgotten, which scared everyone. Then he said with a smile that he was joking. After 20 years of filming, Wang xianzhai never forgot to take off his glasses, which caused him to waste film.

Wang xianzhai on the screen has "bad deeds". In his life, he is a modest gentleman and a well-known "good gentleman". Sometimes there are a lot of scenes, but Wang xianzhai's name is very small in the performance staff list. If he is someone else, he would have to negotiate with the company long ago. He is the only one who has never had a red face fight. He just devoted himself to acting, leaving the rest behind.

Wang xianzhai has a commemorative book, which collects many famous inscriptions. Hu die has a wonderful sentence: "Mr. Wang, you are a fake villain." Lu Xiaoluo, a film critic, wrote: "people think that brother is a top bad man. This is your success." Director Zheng Zhengqiu's topic is, "no matter how bad the people in the society are, it's hard to escape your charm and make the bad guys have no escape."

A wife in need

Wang xianzhai's portrait of Lu Wenqing in true and false gold

His first wife died soon after his marriage. Wang xianzhai had been living alone as a widower and was determined not to continue. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he took part in the "film Troupe" and performed in the mainland. He once fell ill in Chongqing. At the most difficult time, a woman accompanied him and took care of him. She was yuan Zhuru, an actress who used to be called Yuan Lili when she was filming in the star company. After the dissolution of the film troupe, Wang xianzhai took the new lady back to Shanghai.

Wang xianzhai is not only active on the screen, but also a frequent guest of stage plays. Her daughter, Wang Wei (born of her ex-wife), was taught by her father's words and deeds, and also embarked on the road of drama. Once, Wang xianzhai played Lu GUI in the drama thunderstorm. The actor who played "four phoenixes" was ill, and Wang Wei took part in the battle temporarily. In the first scene of the first act, Lu GUI and her daughter Sifeng talk about ghosts. Wang xianzhai is very good at telling ghost stories, and they are real father and daughter. They have a tacit understanding of one eye and one action. Under the dim light, Wang Wei is frightened and completely integrated into the role and stage atmosphere. After the performance, everyone praised their father and daughter for their perfect cooperation.

Later, Wang Wei officially became an actor and began her career in stage drama. It's 12 o'clock after the night show, and the alley home is dark and dark. Wang Wei feels gloomy and terrible. She always runs to her home like a hundred meter sprint at the entrance of the alley. As soon as Wang xianzhai heard his daughter's footsteps, he would get up even if he fell asleep. He opened the window and cried, "Wang Wei, go home!" Hearing this cry, the daughter had the courage to rely on it and was relieved not to run fast. Wang xianzhai's love for his daughter is touching.

But he died

"Life is death"

At the age of 42, Wang xianzhai passed away in a hurry, and everyone lamented. Overworked work is the ruthless killer of his life.

During the shooting of silver gun robber, Wang xianzhai, who was originally weak, wanted to perform a difficult action, jumping from a high place, while others jumped on him. As a result, Wang xianzhai fell heavily and was heavily pressed by several people. It is said that he was injured in his stomach. Because the film was in a hurry to be released, Wang xianzhai went to the studio again after seeing it by the traumatologist. He didn't care to have a rest and was shooting all night. Weak, he was infected with wind cold again. At first, it was only a slight disease, but he was always very busy and had no leisure, let alone rest. Sometimes I shoot two films at the same time. I travel back and forth between the two studios every day. When I get home, I look pale and fall asleep. Typhoid fever is getting worse and worse, and it's even worse.

Wang xianzhai's last film is called "the road to life". The film is finished, but his illness is extremely serious. The death of a veteran of the film industry who has been in the film industry for 20 years caused an uproar in Shanghai, and many newspapers published large-scale reports. Xu Shenyuan, a famous actor who plays China's "Chen Chali detective", wrote a few elegiac couplets, which vividly outlines the real life track of this "screen villain". The first couplet "see the wizard under the lamp, the performance is lifelike,

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