Huang Bo: My success comes from soft persistence

On November 28, 2009, the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards was announced. Actor Huang Bo won the Golden Horse Best Actor Award for his wonderful performance in Bullfight, which was the second mainland Golden Horse Best Actor award after Liu Ye. It is a difficult gap to cross from karaoke hall to Golden Horse Actor, but Huang Bo said: "Actually I am not a particularly strong person. My success comes from my soft persistence. When one way fails, I will change another way."

1 Lonely singing dream

Born in 1974, Huang's parents were both division-level officials in Qingdao. Huang doesn't fight or make trouble, but his unrestrained pranks make teachers and parents miserable. Others take water to water flowers, he used vinegar, just want to see if the flowers out of the sour taste; Catch an ant, can play all afternoon. The pushy mother was often called to school by the teacher. Huang's mother graduated from Qingdao No. 9 High School, a prestigious local high school. My mother was very good at school. Like his mother, Huang's uncles excelled in school, and one of them became a member of the American team that mapped the human genome. Huang Bo himself knows that his poor study has become his mother's biggest regret.

Although Huang is not good at studying, he often wins awards for his school or honors for his class in singing and dancing. His earliest musical enlightenment came from the single-cassette recorder at home. He could not stay at his desk for a moment and could listen to a song on a cassette tape in his room all day. At the New Year's party held by the school in the second year of junior high school, Huang Bo became a celebrity in the school with his performance of "Looking Back Again". Later, he participated in the "Longcheng Cup Student Karaoke Competition" on behalf of the school and won third prize. During this competition, he met his good friend Gao Hu, a young actor who plays Xu Zhu in the mainland version of Tian Long Ba Bu.

As if overnight, karaoke became popular across the north and south. In those days, a new dance hall would open every three or five days in the city, which was Huang Bo's first commercial performance venue. On a hot day, Huang Bo, a middle school student, earns 15 yuan a night singing red bean popsicles. Knowing that Huang Bo was singing outside, his parents naturally disagreed. Like all aspiring parents in China, the school years are a dangerous distraction. "Every time I go back and open the door at the end of a show, it's kung fu. The door always opens with a sound. You have to open the door quickly, then slowly put it back, pull it, wait, then come back, then tighten it up again. Always in silence, then turn back and shut the door." Of course, almost every time Huang Bo locked the door and turned around, there was a figure waiting behind him, and then he was beaten.

Since then, when Huang returned to sing in a karaoke hall, he approached the manager and offered to save money for a single performance. At the end of the month, when he got his services, he asked for as much change as possible. Back home, in front of his parents, Huang slowly pulled out a thick wad of cash from his pocket. At that time, a monthly salary of only three or four hundred parents realized for the first time: this stubborn child obsessed with singing, maybe later really can support him!

In addition to being a singer, he had a part-time job as a dance instructor. After watching Mr. Huang imitate a breakdance routine in one of his performances, the principal of a local Qingdao school that runs dance classes approached him and offered him a part-time job. After teaching the two imitations in less than two months, Huang bought videotapes and taught himself. After that, he went on to teach students. This part-time dance instructor career lasted for seven years, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. three days a week.

Life as a singer at night has continued, and as his fame has grown, Huang has formed a group: Blue Wind Sand. His fee rose from 15 yuan to 150 yuan, and when his hometown in a small coastal town finally stopped him from challenging, Huang began his first tour in Guangxi.

In an open part of the town, a large greenhouse is erected with loudspeakers trumpeting crowds, simple hand-painted posters featuring eye-catching images of two-headed snakes and beautiful women, and gaily dressed young women sitting at the entrance selling tickets. Starting from Guangxi, Huang Bo has spread to all provinces except Tibet, Xinjiang, and Gansu. The collective appearance fee later reached a minimum of 800 yuan, after getting the money, each person was sent back to the family in 2000. The rest of the money was spent on sharing food, lodging, and travel. During this period, he was cheated and starved, but even in the most difficult situation, Huang Bo still made a hungry vow: the difficulties at hand are nothing, we must keep on singing dream!

Besides singing, he likes writing songs. One of the most popular songs at that time was the Four Kings of Hong Kong, which wrote songs for Aaron Kwok and Jacky Cheung. One of the songs for Aaron Kwok, "Lonely Kingdom," was picked up by someone close to him. When the person offered to buy it, Huang said, "No, this is for Aaron Kwok." However, these songs can only lie quietly at home in the bookcase.

Later, Huang Bo came to Guangzhou, and after the southern drift, he went to Beijing to do the northern drift. North and south, he sang with famous singers. Former companions are popular one by one, and he has not been able to open the door of the record industry.

2 Left and right

After struggling on this road for so long without success, is it necessary to continue to persevere? Huang had doubts about his earlier choice. Time passed so, the calendar took a piece with the toilet to flush down, Huang Bo felt flustered.

When Huang returned to Qingdao, he was a small boss. As the Chinese representative of a South Korean shoe mold and machinery factory, Huang Bo began his foray into the industry.

On a business trip to South Korea, Mr. Huang took his machine to a large shoemaking company with tens of thousands of people. Without his engineers, Mr. Huang had to edit his automated procedures to demonstrate. At that time, in front of a dozen senior Korean experts, Huang Bo used his "one-finger Zen" to sweat programming there. When he was finally finished, Huang pushed the test button in anticipation, and a shoe popped out of the machine like a cannonball and disappeared. The scene, in retrospect, looks like a comedy movie starring him, but at the time, it was his life.

Although being a small boss made some money, other money did not bring him happiness. Inspecting goods every day and telling people about stainless steel, bearings, and other things is a hard time for Huang, who loves music. So when Huang got a call from a friend asking him to perform, he left the factory where he had worked for nearly two years and returned to Beijing.

In Beijing Piaozhong, Huang Bo's main source of life is to sing in bars, but he has small savings after years of business. For his accompaniment is zero point band, bar notice he temporarily replaces Man Wenjun sing half a month. But Man Wenjun never returned there after that. Because Man Wenjun participated in the CCTV young singer competition, sang the song "understand you", overnight fame.

Huang Bo still sings in bars. He was performing in Xi 'an when he received a call from his good friend Gao Hu. Gao Hu told him that there was a play and asked him to come and play a part. Huang returned from Xi 'an after learning that he was the leading actor. It's a TV movie by the Movie Channel called Get In, Let's Go.

"Get In the Car, Let's Go" took more than ten days to shoot. Huang Bo, a first-time actor, often went under the camera to pick up things during the performance. To the puzzler of director Guan Hu, Huang often shouted, "Stop!" while acting. So all the departments stopped working, and Guan Hu's bewildered face poked out from behind the monitor and asked, "What are you doing?" Huang Bo said, "I don't think that was good. I have to start over!" Guan Hu finally couldn't help it: "Not so good is also I say, I say not good is not good! Only the director can say stop, you know?"

The scene of sending Mr. Huang's character home from Beijing was filmed at the Beijing West Railway station. Huang has memorized the work discipline that stops only when the director says so. From the start, Huang Bo kept walking to the station, further and further away. Huang Bo kept walking from the outside of the station to the station, but did not hear the cry "stop". "If we don't stop, we'll hit the wall!" Huang looked back through the glass. The crew was already loading the car. He did not hear the director shout stop, inexperienced he also did not know to go to a certain distance, the telephoto lens has been unable to shoot.