The box office broke 3.1 billion, which is just the beginning! 52-year-old Xu Zheng is about to set off a new wave of climax this year

Pippi Films said

2024-06-19 17:14Published in Jiangsu film creators

Xu Zheng is a man who is careful about his calculations.

In the past 52 years of his life, he has experienced at least three major entanglements.

Xu Zheng's first entanglement happened at the age of 20.

That year, he suffered severe hair loss.

"There is no way for the countryside to surround the city, and the hair in the middle has become an island."

Xu Zheng prepared all kinds of hats, except for green hats, there are all kinds of hats.

Once, he was riding his bicycle at an intersection waiting for a traffic light, and a gust of wind blew off his hat.

His hair was instantly messy in the wind, and the eldest brother next to him was so frightened that he fell to the ground with the car.

Xu Zheng remained silent, got out of the car and picked up his hat, his heart was already shattered.

At that time, Xu Zheng was a sophomore at the Shanghai Theater Academy, and baldness was a catastrophe for an actor.

Xu Zheng can usually pretend to be calm, but the gust of wind on the side of the road became the last straw that crushed him.

Xu Zheng's second entanglement occurred at the age of 30.

The hair loss crisis did not destroy Xu Zheng, he accepted the reality, shaved his head, and pushed open a new door.

After graduating, he has been honing his acting skills in the drama industry and won the Magnolia Drama Award for Best Actor.

At the age of 30, he starred in "Criminals" directed by Cheng Er, which is considered to be the best graduation work of Beijing Film, and Xu Zheng became famous in the industry.

In 2000, he became a well-known star with "Spring Splendid Pig Bajie", and he also fell in love with the double actress Tao Hong during filming, and his love career was bumper.

At that time, Xu Zheng's acting skills were already becoming more and more sophisticated.

Especially in 2002's "Li Wei as an Official", the original cast of "Yongzheng Dynasty" played him, Xu Zheng's performance stabilized, and he did not fall behind in the old drama like Jiao Huang.

Some people commented that Xu Zheng is the best candidate for Wei Xiaobao, and it is a regret for all Jin Yong fans that he did not appear in "The Legend of Deer and Ding".

But under the fame, it is actually difficult to deserve.

The role of Zhu Bajie made him and imprisoned him.

No matter how good his acting skills are, what the audience remembers is that pig.

Once, when he went to the counter to withdraw money, the teller politely called him Mr. Xu in person, and told his colleagues behind his back that he would give Zhu Bajie 20,000 yuan.

Later, Zhou Libo publicly made fun of him, saying that he "looks like a pig and is embarrassed to play a person." ”

There was a lot of such cynicism, and Xu Zheng became entangled again.

He was forced to step out of his comfort zone and move from television to film, only to break out of a new world.

He has starred in works such as "Love Call Transfer" and "Nightclub", and his reputation is good.

But the Bole who really made him reborn was Ning Hao.

Ning Hao filmed "Crazy Stone" and called Xu Zheng, "If you want to come, I can only give you a red envelope, I really don't have any money." ”

Xu Zheng said: "Don't mention the money. ”

He was paid zero and won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actor.

When Ning Hao filmed "Crazy Racing", there was originally a fixed script for the section of the sale of houses in the mourning hall, but when Xu Zheng performed, he did not act according to the script, and the smile was surprisingly good, and "underground CBD, the back garden of life" became a golden sentence.

When Ning Hao was filming "No Man's Land", he originally wanted to invite Andy Lau to participate, but Andy Lau missed the schedule, and Xu Zheng came up as a substitute and performed his own taste.

There is also "Heart Flower Road", which is also full of Xu Zheng's inspiration.

There is a plot about Xu Zheng calling Huang Bo and asking Huang Bo and Zhang Li to pick him up.

The script of this scene is incomplete, and there is not a single laugh.

Xu Zheng improvised on the spot, took out a sword, tied it to his mobile phone, and climbed a tree to find a signal.

A series of actions directly amused the entire crew, and after the release, it became a famous scene that everyone talked about.

Subsequently, Xu Zheng acted and you directed, and a "Thai Embarrassment" broke the box office record of domestic films, and also laid the root cause.

Xu Zheng's third entanglement occurred at the age of 43.

Because of his "shrewdness", he lost Wang Baoqiang.

"Thai Embarrassment" is a big hit with a record-breaking trend, and the role of the "Iron Triangle" combination is self-evident.

But in the next "Hong Kong", only Xu Zheng is left to support alone.

There are different opinions about the reasons behind the scenes.

At this time, his old friend Chen Sicheng handed Wang Baoqiang an olive branch.

Chen Sicheng wrote the script of "Detective Chinatown" specifically for him.

After he broke a bone and was injured, the whole crew stopped work and waited for him alone.

This true feeling completely moved Wang Baoqiang, who was born in the countryside.

On the other hand, the "embarrassment series" that lost Wang Baoqiang quickly collapsed.

Although "Hong Kong Embarrassment" sold 1.5 billion, it overdrafted this IP.

"Embarrassing Mother" was directly sold to the Internet for 630 million, triggering a collective boycott of the theater chain, and this IP has completely come to an end.

Chen Sicheng, who got Wang Baoqiang, created "Tang Detective Universe" in just a few years, and also snatched the honor of the highest-grossing commercial film director from Xu Zheng.

Xu Zheng was entangled again.

Just like his "Embarrassment Series", the core is the mid-life crisis, Xu Zheng put the middle-aged man in the nest and performed the flowers.

But the audience is tired of watching.

In 2017, at the commendation conference of the China Directors Film Association, Xu Zheng laughed at himself and said, I have no chance to win the Young Director Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award will be thirty years later.

When the entanglement turned into self-deprecation, it represented that Xu Zheng and his heart had completed the reconciliation, and Xu Zheng quickly found a new breakthrough point.

In 2018, "I Am Not the God of Medicine" starring Xu Zheng was released, with a box office of 3.1 billion and a Douban score of 9.0 points, making it the best domestic film in the past decade.

This movie, based on a true story, tells the story of Cheng Yong, played by Xu Zheng, who buys Indian anti-cancer drugs for leukemia patients.

Xu Zheng won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor with this film, in addition to contributing superb acting skills, Xu Zheng is also the producer of this film.

This film is the pinnacle of elegance and common appreciation, and the audience can gain an unsolvable problem while being moved: who is wrong in the whole incident?

Cheng Yong paid money to buy generic drugs to save people, there is nothing wrong;

There is nothing wrong with the police and the courts arresting and sentencing people in accordance with the law;

There is nothing wrong with the prescription that has been issued to maintain its own R&D costs;

Patients can't afford to buy genuine drugs, and there's nothing wrong with taking generic drugs in order to survive.

No one makes a mistake, which is precisely the most memorable part of this film.

It's a pity that the film stopped here and didn't dig any further, and Xu Zheng missed another opportunity to become a god.

Looking at Xu Zheng's three tangled moments, it can be seen that he is a particularly contradictory person.

On the one hand, he has the shrewdness and prudence unique to Shanghainese, and he writes scripts and has a solid logic of commercial films, which makes him always achieve box office success.

But he often puts interests first, and he also cuts off his own back road.

"stole the teacher" and filmed "Thai Embarrassment" with the idea of "People in Embarrassment", which was infamous;

For some reasons, he lost Wang Baoqiang and lost a big IP.

630 million sold "Embarrassing Mother", which offended the theater chain.

was involved in the case of Zhang Ting and his wife, and almost couldn't go ashore.

Once on the Hunan stage, Huang Bo contacted Xu Zheng on the spot in front of He Jiong and others, pretending to want to share the money.

Xu Zheng replied on the phone, "I think that's the case, Huang Bo has gotten enough through this movie." ”

Although it is a joke, Huang Bo's expression still makes people think about it.

But on the other hand, Xu Zheng's artistic taste far exceeds the audience's expectations.

He knows what a good work is, and when he made a lot of money, he modestly said that he wanted to cooperate with an art film director like Lou Ye the most, but he was afraid that the other party would think he was vulgar.

He mentioned in "Thirteen Invitations" that he had filmed "Criminals", and he also sighed for a long time, which was his artistic ideal, and now it is gradually drifting away.

But the two qualities collide together, and it is impossible for Xu Zheng not to be entangled.

He has a deep ability to reflect, but he does not have a strong ability to execute.

He needs drastic changes in the outside world, and dangers lurk in order to be forced to make changes.

Just like his name, the years are glorious, and it is better to draw it slowly.

After "I Am Not the God of Medicine", a monument has been erected, and Xu Zheng knows that it is almost impossible to surpass this classic.

So he didn't rush it, but seemed to be careless and made a niche literary film "The Myth of Love".

Don't underestimate this film, it hides Xu Zheng's ambitions.

The director is a young director, and he is a producer, so he has enough right to speak and easily handle the director.

The whole film uses Shanghainese, and the hilarious part ends there, setting a certain threshold and making literary attempts, while not giving up the expression of realism.

His arrogance is there, and the original intention of making a movie is still there, but he is not a warrior, he is a Shanghai man who looks gentle from afar and Gao Jun from a distance, and understands the truth that things need to be slowed down and cannot be achieved quickly.

With the foreshadowing of "The Myth of Love", in August this year, after 6 years, Xu Zheng made another big move.

His new work "Retrograde Life" will land in theaters nationwide on August 9.

People who don't understand Xu Zheng feel that he is repeating himself again.

This movie is still about a midlife crisis.

The middle-aged man played by Xu Zheng became a leftover of society overnight because of the changes in his life, and when the social tide was rushing forward, this man chose to go retrograde in life, became a delivery man, and set off again to find the meaning of life.

Two trailers have been released for the film.

The first version is the "Zhengdu Jiadu" version of the trailer.

Internet meme + homophonic stalk + a cliché joke.

In the trailer, Jia Bing asked Xu Zheng what he did, and Xu Zheng said that he had recently worked in a large factory, and his colleagues alone had several million, mainly doing professional B to C delivery, which was the basic living materials of human beings.

It sounded unclear, but Xu Zheng blew it for a long time before he said, I delivered takeaways.

Jia Bing said, we are peers.

It's a very cliché.

But the rhythm of the performance of the two people is very good, and the laughter is full of fruit.

Especially Xu Zheng, the eyes, expressions and small movements are too in place, especially when pronouncing the English words business and consumer, there is no trace of deliberate performance, but people can't help laughing.

Xu Zheng's performance is still the lower limit of his films.

The second version of the trailer is the finalized version of the trailer.

A standard chicken soup for the soul story, middle-aged proud, encountering a crisis, falling to the bottom, regaining his strength, and taking off again.

It is said that when filming this film, Xu Zheng asked the actors to experience the life of a delivery boy before they could join the group.

The old Mo Fengbing, who sells fish in "Hurricane", was met by passers-by when he was delivering food in Shanghai.

Pico has no doubt that this film will once again create a new box office myth after 6 years, after all, we haven't seen a masterpiece of good realism in theaters for a long time.

What Brother Pi is most concerned about is whether Xu Zheng can make up for the regrets in "I Am Not the God of Medicine" this time.

This theme also stepped on a pain point in this era.

There is a flood of delivery workers in the city, and many delivery workers often go on a rampage, run red lights, hit passers-by, and even go against the grain for the convenience of food delivery.

The delivery man is the camel Xiangzi of this era, and he is also the "terrorist" of this era.

Who is to blame for this chaos?

As a food delivery person, of course, you want to deliver more orders in a limited time, and there is nothing wrong with that.

As a consumer, of course, you want to get the takeaway in the shortest possible time, and there is nothing wrong with it.

As a takeaway platform, of course, there is nothing wrong with eating at both ends to pursue profit maximization.

It seems that no one is wrong, but the transportation system of the entire city has to pay for the "retrograde life" of the delivery man.

This is another classic accountability problem in "I Am Not the God of Medicine".

If Xu Zheng can make a breakthrough this time, dig out these sharp social issues behind the inspiration, and show the section to the audience like a scalpel, "Retrograde Life" will most likely become another realistic masterpiece after "I Am Not the God of Medicine", and even complete transcendence.

Whether it is a superficial taste, or a bold move, Xu Zheng, who has been entangled for half his life, this time it is time to give the audience an accurate answer.

Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: A chicken

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