Handsome but bumpy
In the golden autumn of 1933, an ordinary couple in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, welcomed their only son, Wang Yi. Despite the constraints of life, the hopeful parents chose a bold name for their son.
Wang Yi was born handsome and talented, which made his parents happy. However, the good times did not last long, Wang Yi dropped out of school at the age of 16 and joined the Nanjing Military Region Art Troupe as an actor.
In 1958, when Wang Yi learned that Beijing's famous Bayi Film Studio was casting actors from all over the country, he resolutely decided to go to audition. When the good-looking 25-year-old appeared in front of the interviewer, everyone was on the lookout.
In the end, Wang Yi was selected as he wished and became a newcomer to Bayi Factory, and his beautiful film career began. At the beginning of his debut, Wang Yi was positioned as a "handsome young student", and he was neck and neck with the popular movie star Wang Xingang, and the two were incompatible.
At first, Wang Yi won many leading role opportunities with his handsome appearance and excellent acting skills, and he became famous for a while and had a bright future. However, this dazzling light was fleeting, and Wang Yi was soon reduced to a supporting role under Wang Xingang, who could only circle in the galaxy around him. With the advent of the Cultural Revolution, Wang Yi's acting career was interrupted, and he returned to the countryside, where his future was uncertain and his heart was like ashes.
The transformation of Nanteng is coming back
In 1972, Wang Yi lived a long and boring six years in the countryside. In the past 6 years, his love for the performing arts has always supported his belief in survival. One day, a phone call interrupted Wang Yi's work, and it turned out that it was Zhuying Studio, a famous film studio in Guangzhou, who threw an olive branch to him and sincerely invited him to join.
The invitation on the other end of the phone was like a spring thunder stirring in Wang Yi's heart, making him burst into tears for the first time in a long time. In the early morning of the next day, Wang Yi hurriedly packed his bags and came to Guangzhou, thousands of miles away.
came to Zhuying Studio, Wang Yi put down his position as an actor and started his career as a director. At first, he chose to shoot traditional revolutionary subjects, such as his 1976 masterpiece "Red Plum in the Mountains".
Through continuous exploration, Wang Yi gradually found his sense and successfully transformed.
In the mid-80s, with the rise of action movies, Wang Yi keenly seized the opportunity, decisively adjusted his strategy, and directed a number of fighting action films, such as "The Heroine of the Melon Shed", which received rave reviews for a while.
Although the box office was not ideal, Wang Yi found his place in this brand-new field. He has the courage to innovate, constantly try new genres, and unswervingly pursue the dream of film.
Old should be a strong tree
In Zhuying Studio, Wang Yi's first important position was as the director of the TV department. Although he is only the director of the department, Wang Yi is diligent and responsible.
Under his leadership, the TV Department has cultivated a large number of outstanding film talents, injecting a steady stream of new blood into Zhuying Studio. Wang Yi often takes the lead, works tirelessly, and fights side by side with young people on the front line of filming.
Once, in order to catch up with the filming schedule, Wang Yi worked for two days and nights in a row until he fell to the ground from exhaustion and was carried to the hospital by his colleagues. But he soon returned to the set the next day to get back to work.
After the 90s, Wang Yi gradually retreated to the second line and became an elder in the film industry. Whenever a descendant comes to visit or ask for advice, Wang Yi will unreservedly pass on his experience and experience.
He often earnestly teaches young people to persevere in their dreams in order to go further. It is precisely because of the teaching of old-timers such as Wang Yi that Chinese films can be full of vitality and vitality at the turn of the century, showing a good situation in which a hundred flowers bloom.
Today's Wang Yi is an old man with a long beard, but he has never given up his love and dedication to the film industry. The 50-year friendship with the film still creates the most precious spiritual wealth in his life.
epilogue
Wang Yi's life has gone through ups and downs, but in the end, he has completed a gorgeous turn with a transformative attitude. The "handsome little student" of Bayi Film Factory back then, after the baptism of the Cultural Revolution, bloomed again in the south.
He has the courage to change and innovate, transforming from a movie star to a director and then to a leading figure in the film industry. Although the first half of Wang Yi's life was full of ups and downs and misfortunes, under the arrangement of fate, he finally created a legend and glory, and made important contributions to the Chinese film industry.
For the rest of my life, look back on the past, drink a pot of sake, and laugh and talk about my life.