Preach in words. - Don Tears
September 25, 1990.
Aaron Kwok released his first Mandarin song album "Can't Love You Enough", which sold more than a million copies in Asia.
From this moment on.
The four male singers who dominate the music scene have all been in place.
They will stand at the pinnacle together for ten years.
Outside the music world, their film world can not be ignored.
Try to work and see the ups and downs of the shadow road.
The most works are made by Andy Lau.
He is a very pure commercial actor, so the problem of homogenization of the work is more serious.
This problem also affected his performances, but he has more than 150 works, including certainly high-quality works.
Pick two movies to explore.
For example, the first part was selected in 1990's "Heavenly Love".
At this stage, Andy Lau, who has been in the film circle for nearly ten years, his personal style is close to fully formed, and he belongs to a very basic and slightly green state in his performance, and there is no so-called idol shackles in the future, which interprets the character's state from indifference to gradual warmth very accurately.
The film is helmed by Du Qifeng, and the newcomer director Chen Musheng's first work, with a box office of 12.89 million, became famous in the first world war.
In addition, many people may pick the "Dark War" cooperated with Du Qifeng in 1999.
But in fact, a "Dragon on the Edge" of the same year is the peak of his personal performance. The film is written by Wang Jing, and it does not get out of the traditional jianghu film, but from the overall performance, the aura performance is better than the "Disciple" that many people like, and the restraint, introversion and explosion of the role are very comfortable, and the actors in the film also play well as a whole, Gu Tianle's undercover, Tan Yaowen's Sven scum, are very wonderful.
However, the box office is only 8.31 million, and there are no award nominations, which is a good work.
A strange problem that has been talked about before, Andy Lau and his predecessors or peers acting actors, slightly confident and insufficient performance, such as the previous "Black Gold" and later "Infernal Affairs", but in the lineup of "Half a Billion Inspector Leiluo", "The Dragon on the Edge" and "Disciple", it is really powerful to the naked eye.
In contrast to Aaron Kwok, another heavenly king, Aaron Kwok is quite a bit of a newborn calf.
In terms of released works, Aaron Kwok is the least one.
After making a large number of commercial films that the company helped him pick up in the early days of his popularity, he began to embark on the route of both commercial and niche literature and art.
He set his own principles very early on and did not want to repeat his performance, so although his works were few, the diversity of his performances was very prominent.
For example, in 2010, he was recommended by Jiang Zhiqiang to mainland director Gu Changwei and filmed "The Favorite".
Many people think that such a fashionable artist can actually play a peasant in the mainland, and he does not violate it at all? So I think his acting skills are really good, but in fact, this cognition is only the most superficial concept.
It is indeed commendable that he went deep into the role so thoroughly, but his glory in this movie is not only this, but the results he has achieved over the years have been put into the role, from the depth of the play, empathy ability to emotional release, there is an all-round explosion, and its degree of surprise even covers the film "Father and Son" of the Lianzhuang Golden Horse Film Emperor.
If you have seen this movie, Zhao Deyi went from the smile at the beginning, to the gentleness and gradual tears in his eyes when he held Shang Qinqin's hand, to the smile that was more abundant and mixed with feelings, until finally the smile was full of tears. You can understand why Zhang Ziyi said that Aaron Kwok, who is not in the camera, makes him cry with one look.
Once this kind of performance experience matures, it will make the actor's performance ability increase geometrically, and the "Floating City" and "Cold War", "Taoist Descending the Mountain" and "Treading Blood and Plums" in the same period all show a strong control and stability of the performance.
If you want to talk about another one, it must be "Peerless".
This movie was personally invited by Zhuang Wenqiang, and Aaron Kwok's performance can be called amazing, so many people may be puzzled.
In fact, the performance of this thing, the basic skill layer, almost all actors can be through the accumulation of experimentation and experience to the point of practice, in addition to personal characteristics and preferences, there will not be much difference, but why is there a difference in the level of performance?
It's about creativity.
For example, the script says that this person walks along the street corner, just like this.
What do the average actor do? He literally just walked along the street corner, to the director shouting cards, to the end.
And the good actors? He would introduce the antecedents of the plot and ask himself, why do you keep going along the street corner? Is it happy, lost love or investment failure, what kind of physical posture should be there, how big should the stride be, should you keep your head down or should you look?
What is more complicated is the performance of Aaron Kwok burning the plot in "Peerless", which can be seen that the performance ability of an actor after thousands of hammers and hammers is indeed unparalleled.
And the level of creativity will determine whether the result is amazing or ordinary.
If Jacky Cheung is willing to shoot, he should still be able to appear on the big screen.
The last time I saw him was in 2016's Macau Storm 3.
He has had more than seventy films in his career, the most outstanding of which was 1990's Streets of Blood.
The character Hui Tsai is the most eye-catching boy in the whole film, even if Liang Chaowei's eye skills are unmatched, and Jacky Cheung uses his performance to express the character's righteousness, cowardice, fear and madness, and final relief smoothly and with great strength, throughout the film, there is no place that is not wonderful.
Unfortunately, he lost to Zhang Guorong of "The True Biography of Ah Fei" at that year's Academy Awards.
Jacky Cheung at this stage can be described as a positive drama and a harmonious drama, such as the previous play and Zhou Xingchi, Mo Shaocong a fool,The next step can play the killer to kill people without calculation, his performance of being able to retract and release, can be obscene and atmospheric, is indeed excellent, but all of this disappears with him five years after he began to disappear in 1996.
Whether it is "Man Forty", "If Love", or "Full Moon Hennessy" and "Dark Heaven", or even "Equator", the past Jacky Cheung is gone, its introverted depth is enough, but it lacks the tension of the past performance, so that the audience can watch a movie, it is difficult to remember what he expressed.
This question is the same as that of another heavenly king, Dawn.
Dawn is already hard to come on the big screen.
In fact, I have always admired the explosive power he showed when he made a cameo appearance in the movie "Dragons In the Sea", when he was still very young and there was nothing to worry about acting.
Later, he played "Urban Love", a youthful rebellious and unruly character Xiao Wu, partnering Wu Qianlian and Wu Mengda. It is estimated that the performance of this role has entered Wong Kar-wai's eyes, so a year later, there is a "Fallen Angel", and Wong Kar-wai's favorite should be this decadent and uninhibited temperament on him, and at the same time, it combines his aura as a heavenly king.
Then he made "Sweet Honey" and "Half Life", and "City of Glass", which attracted a lot of praise from film critics and the media, but in fact, looking back, it was more like a wrong way, and he slowly fell into this state.
And as he said last time in the review of the movie "Mei Lanfang", he lost the explosive tension of "Dragons and The Seas", and also lost the uninhibitedness of "Urban Love", even including the dashing handsomeness of "Fallen Angel" and the gentleman Yu Pi in Du Qifeng's work "True Heart Hero", when these were the most radiant qualities that were originally his as an actor disappeared, only Mu Ran's introversion was left.
This is the shadowy process of the dawn from radiant to fading and then to the end of the curtain, and why.
It's a pity.
Andy Lau missed the best period of acting tempering and transformation.
His performances are wrapped up in a large number of homogeneous commercial works, and now he is older, and his efforts are commendable, but it is difficult to make a breakthrough.
Both Jacky Cheung and Dawn threw away the most radiant qualities of the early days and became flat and non-prominent.
On the contrary, Aaron Kwok, who matured late, retained his original self-characteristics, and after more than ten years of unremitting acting skills, he emitted an unforceable light day by day.
This conclusion comes from seeing more than 90% of the film works of the four kings.
Their excitement along the way, as well as their falls and comebacks, are all in their eyes.
Personally.
No matter how you comment, everyone is a master.