Original from singing ＂Little Apple＂ to 8 billion box office actors, Chen Sicheng’s vision is really accurate

If the name "Shawn" is mentioned alone, there may still be many viewers who are vague about his appearance. Admittedly, he doesn’t have an idol actor’s face. If he talks about his appearance alone, he will even be drowned in the crowd.

Recently, the box office of the movie manslaughter 2 starring him has broken 700 million yuan. To my surprise, this data brings another news: the total box office of Shawn movies has broken 8 billion yuan.

I calculated that the 8 billion box office was basically squeezed out, not counting the 4.523 billion guest films such as Tang Detective 3.

Included in the accumulation is 824 million "Tangtan 1" in 2015; In 2016, 658 million "Love Saint"; 3.38 billion "Tang Detective 2" in 2018; 1.33 billion Sheep Without A Shepherd in 2019; 761 million "Crowd" in 2023; There is also "manslaughter 2", which is being released, totaling 7.653 billion, and "The Old Boy Raptors Crossing the River" with 211 million, plus the sum of several fragmented movies, it has a box office of 200 million.

Shawn, who feels as quiet as a mouse, is really close to the "Billion Box Office Actor".

In other words, after only six films, he almost won 8 billion box office. It’s hard to avoid being amazed that Shawn is so good at picking plays, isn’t it?

You know, Shawn didn’t major in singing, and he didn’t come from an actor’s class. How can an actor who plays with tickets become a "box office hit" by two songs, old boys and Little Apple?

Since 2010, when his self-directed and self-directed film old boys was released, in the past 11 years, "old boys" Shawn, born in 1980s, has refreshed people’s understanding of "market judgment" again and again. Personal talent is one aspect, but he can make it step by step, from filming a micro movie to singing a divine comedy "scalpel" to choosing songs and scripts. Surely there is no lack of expert guidance behind it?

01 "old boys" won 80 years later, and "Little Apple" won 60 years later, who is the master behind it?

Shawn, born in 1980, originally dreamed of being a painter.

In 2001, he graduated from the middle school attached to Central Academy of Fine Arts and was admitted to the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Film Academy, majoring in film and television planning and directing.

After becoming famous, someone asked him why he didn’t go to the director department in the first place. Shawn said:

"Mainly for tuition."

The implication is that it is easier to draw illustrations and shoot plans. Therefore, from the freshman year, Shawn was named "Work King" by his classmates because of his many jobs.

"I started painting to earn money in high school. When I went to college, I was embarrassed to ask for it from my family. I also boasted to my mother that you should leave the tuition alone."

During the planning of the work shoot, Shawn met Wang Terry, who was running a cultural company at that time. In a variety show, Shawn personally said that Wang Terry was his client.

Although the difference between them is 10 years old, one can make a film and the other can arrange music, so they started thinking about doing something they like together.

In 2007, a funny music short film "Memoirs of a Male Geisha" appeared on the Internet. In the film, the song "Bless Your Dear" was written by the chopsticks brothers, and the song "Flowers Blooming on the Earth" by the foreign group Da Pump was covered. The appearance of this music short film almost won all the Internet video awards in that year, and since then, the "Chopsticks Brothers" group was born.

Three years later, the micro-film old boys was released, and the Chopsticks Brothers used stories and songs to awaken all the memories and dreams of the post-80s generation, which has remained at 8.4 points on Douban.

Especially the song "Thank you" adapted from Takuya Ohashi (a foreign creative male singer), and "old boys" re-written by Wang Terry could be heard in all the streets or in any KTV at that time:

"Life is like a ruthless carving knife, which has changed our appearance."

"Dreams are always out of reach, should we give up?"

Such lyrics won all the hearts of the post-80 s!

Micro-movies became popular, as did "Chopsticks Brothers" who sang "old boys" and Xiao Dabao played by Shawn.

In 2014, Chopsticks Brothers released the first cinema film "The Old Boy Raptors Crossing the River", which won 211 million yuan at the box office.

Shawn also won the Best Newcomer Director Award at the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival for this film.

Although word of mouth is not as good as old boys, it has brought them an unexpected harvest. The movie propaganda song "Little Apple", which was composed by Wang Terry, went viral and was named "The First Divine Comedy of 2014". He also won almost all the 60s and became the originator of "Square Dance".

To what extent did this song make the chopsticks brothers popular? Later, Shawn said on the show more than once that at that time, people looking for them came in an endless stream every day, and suddenly there were 10,000 things coming in, so he went to see a psychological doctor to adjust his mentality.

At this point, you may have noticed that the short film Memoirs of a Geisha, the micro film old boys and the cinema film The Old Boy Raptors Crossing the River, from short film to cinema film, step by step, without proof, Shawn, as a screenwriter and director, is very talented.

However, we have to admit that the spread of the three images is actually inseparable from the songs, and even the spread of songs far exceeds the film itself.

Therefore, the master behind Shawn’s "Chopsticks Brothers" stage is Wang Terry.

Two songs, old boys and Little Apple, one adapted and the other original, are enough to prove his judgment in choosing songs and his wonderful, simple and simple creation, but they are deeply rooted in people’s hearts and widely spread.

It can only be said that Shawn prefers to work in front of the stage, while Wang Terry, who looks less idolized than Shawn, is too low-key and never shows his face. Even after the fire, he just wants to continue to work in front of the stage.

Mentally speaking, this is a superior person.

While Shawn has attracted much attention, the audience are curious about where Wang Terry has gone. Why did you disappear? In fact, Wang Terry just moved behind the scenes. At the beginning of this year, they also sang the theme song of the movie Crowd.

Recently, at the premiere of "manslaughter 2", Wang Terry call the brother platform at the scene, and Shawn, who saw Wang Terry, also said happily: "My hometown is coming." It contains the deep friendship between the two people, and the long-lost picture of the same frame has also moved many audiences on the scene.

Shawn’s talent is also recognized. In 2014, he went to Hollywood for further study with a group of equally talented young directors under the official arrangement, where he also saw a broader and more suitable world.

More importantly, I met another master and started to really set foot in the film and television industry. Shawn’s road of "8 billion box office actors" is about to begin.

Who is the master behind the movie "A Fire"?

Shawn, Luyang, Ning Hao, Chen Sicheng and Frant Gwo were among those who went out to study this time.

After coming back, Frant Gwo filmed The Wandering Earth, who ranked fifth in the box office list in China, Luyang filmed Embroidered Spring Knife series and A Writer’s Odyssey, and Ning Hao filmed Crazy Alien as the producer of Dying to Survive, almost all of which became the explosions of that year. And Chen Sicheng’s "detective chinatown" series opened a "detective genre film" for China film industry, which became a super explosion and a well-known IP.

In 2015, the release of detective chinatown refreshed the audience in China.

Kuntai, the supporting role played by Shawn, was not concealed by the light of Wang Baoqiang and Haoran Liu, the protagonists "Detective CP", but stood out. Shawn brought this role to life by being speculative, smooth, greasy and cute, and was rated as the best acting in the whole film by many netizens.

Chen Sicheng’s evaluation of him is:

Shawn is a diversified and well-known actor. He can see pleasing sophistication and the wisdom of ordinary people, and he is not very easy to be fixed.

Chen Sicheng is very accurate as a director, and Shawn is particularly good at portraying small people, which seems to make people laugh, but it is unfathomable.

So in "Detective Chinatown 2", Shawn was directly promoted to the leading role, and Song Yi’s funny, deep and mysterious people were just right. At first glance, I didn’t change the funny road, but in the second half, I quietly turned to "blacken", which made many viewers finally surprised in a cold sweat.

The film finally won the box office of 3.38 billion yuan, which can be said to be a peak of Shawn’s actor road and a new beginning. Next, according to the characteristics of Shawn, as a producer, Chen Sicheng almost tailored the film Sheep Without A Shepherd for him.

When filming Sheep Without A Shepherd, there was a scene of getting caught in the rain. Shawn was filmed in the rain for three or four days in succession, and it was more common to roll in the mud, be beaten by a group and climb the sewer.

As Li Weijie, he shows us an ordinary man, father and husband who tried his best to protect his family. He was even called "Song Kanghao of China" by netizens.

This film also won Shawn the nomination for best actor in the 33rd Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award in 2019.

At this time, his movie box office has exceeded 6 billion, and he has changed from a supporting role to a leading role in the film, and he has completely washed away his identity as "online celebrity who sings the Divine Comedy", which has really been recognized by the audience, and has also made the audience more fully understand this "old boys" born in 1980s.

Of the five young directors who studied in Hollywood in those years, only Shawn didn’t direct any works. I wonder if he reached a certain consensus with Chen Sicheng. In short, Xiao Yang, as an actor, plunged into the movie world laid out by Chen Sicheng. And let the audience see, what strength will an actor who has studied directing in Hollywood be?

In "manslaughter 2", which is now being released, Xiao Yang has handed over the wonderful role of Lin Rilang.

Therefore, whether it is Tang Tan and Sheep Without A Shepherd series, which account for the largest proportion of the 8 billion box office, or Kun Tai, Song Yi, Li Weijie and Lin Rilang, these characters make the audience unforgettable.

At this stage of film actor, Shawn is inseparable from the director, screenwriter and producer of Sheep Without A Shepherd series of "Tang Detective" and "master" Chen Sicheng.

03 the third master behind Shawn.

Shawn is definitely a "go out" person.

At that time, Shawn gave all his fortune to make micro-movies, which led to the great success of old boys.

When I was a singer, the MVs of Memoirs of a Male Geisha and Little Apple dared to "break out" the most wonderful shapes.

When he was an actor, he was even more "clear" and had to go out to ponder and throw himself into the role. In the movie "Crowd Surging", there is a scene in which Andy Lau slaps Shawn. In pursuit of authenticity, Shawn asks Andy Lau to slap more than 30 times in a row.

Even, he said on the show that he has a "masochistic tendency":

"I always want to put myself in a dangerous situation, uncomfortable environment, get out of my comfort zone and stimulate greater potential. “

Therefore, the role played by Shawn is ridiculous, fantastic in shape and enchanting in posture. He can "clear" himself.

And this mentality of being able to "clear up" himself also allowed him to conquer the audience with his acting skills of "one person with thousands of faces". Maybe we can really look forward to it, and the next winner is him.

Clear out Shawn himself, is also a real master behind him!

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