Some people say that admiring Andy Lau initially began with appearance, then fell into talent, and finally respected character.
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In 2021, Andy Lau will be sixty years old. I have no doubt that he would be red for another sixty years if possible!
Just so-called: one idol a year, a hundred years and Andy Lau.
Since the film, Andy Lau has shot and starred in more than 100 films, portraying a variety of characters: fashion, costumes, decent, villains, police, lawyers, drivers, boxers, catchers, thieves, chivalrous, gangsters, martial monks, tough generals, gu puzzle boys, bomb disposal experts... Starting from his film debut "Caiyun Qu" in 1981, for a full forty years, Andy Lau has won the Hong Kong Film Awards three times with a variety of colorful and brilliant role images, two Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, and one Huabiao Awards.
Andy Lau's status and achievements in the "Four Heavenly Kings" should undoubtedly be ranked first, although and now Andy Lau's acting skills can control any role, but there are always some role types that are particularly suitable for him, such as policemen and lawyers in the uniform department, gangsters in the costume department, and there is another type, which is also particularly suitable for Andy Lau, that is, the killer.
So when Andy Lau encounters a "top killer", what kind of chemical reaction will occur?
When we carefully reviewed and checked the catalog of films in Whichver Lau has participated in forty years, we found that this actor who "has good looks and acting skills" and "idol and strength coexist" has only played the role of "top killer" in the true sense three times, one of which is still in the latest movie in 2021.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > (1) The Killer's Fairy Tale (1994): In fairy tales, there are always princes and princesses</h1>
"The Killer's Fairy Tale" is a film that has been overlooked by many people, and its position in Andy Lau's film sequence is quite awkward. But in fact, from the perspective of Andy Lau fans, this film is a very good commercial film, because it is almost tailor-made for Andy Lau.
Movie "The Killer's Fairy Tale"
In 1994, Andy Lau's own most important and most eye-catching film was "Heaven and Earth", which was a commercial blockbuster invested and produced by his own Tianmu company, with high cost, strong cards, full of sincerity, but unfortunately the audience did not buy it, and the final box office was dismal, both inside and outside the film was a "untimely" lament.
Half a month after the release of "Heaven and Earth", "The Killer's Fairy Tale" was released, and Andy Lau played the top killer Gao Shou nicknamed "Judge" in the film, which is a killer who is somewhat similar to the lone traveler Jeff played by Alain Delong and the killer Leon played by Jean Reno, he is lonely, arrogant, unruly and handsome, and Leon in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", Gao Shou's life is also very boring and monotonous, when there is nothing to do, he goes to the beach to fish alone, and when he can't catch a fish, he shoots with a pistol. After catching the fish, the fish is grilled and fed to the stray cats. Ru Feng, played by Yuan Yongyi, is an orphan raised by the church and is also a killer, but although she is a killer, she will donate the money she earns to the orphanage every time she completes her mission. Gao Shou and Ru Feng gradually become happy enemies after several encounters, and they have feelings for each other, to some extent, this film is the origin of the Hollywood movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", because Ru Feng did not know that Gao Shou was a killer at first. Later, because Gao Shou failed to complete the task in order to save a child during an assassination operation, coupled with the fact that the leader of the killer group who had a crush on Gao Shou discovered the relationship between Gao Shou and Ru Feng, he sent another killer Wang Chang to kill Gao Shou out of jealousy and hatred, so Wang Chang held Ru Feng hostage, and Gao Shou died to save Ru Feng, and finally Ru Feng and Wang Chang died together.
Andy Lau and Yuan Yongyi in "The Killer's Fairy Tale"
"The Killer's Fairy Tale" is a typical Hong Kong commercial film in the 90s of the last century, from the names of the male and female protagonists, it can be seen that the film does not have too deep philosophical discussion, like Zhang Yimou's "Hero", the high shou harmonic "master", such as the maple harmonic "like the wind", are freehand to take the civilian route of the ancient dragon style.
When filming "The Killer's Fairy Tale", Andy Lau was 33 years old, Yuan Yongyi was 23 years old, at that time Andy Lau still had Aaron Kwok-style middle score, heroic, Yuan Yongyi was pure and bright, the color can be poured into the city, it should be said that this is a more standard, decent commercial film, very suitable for holding a cup of coffee in the afternoon when you don't know what to do, take it out to see, the movie is very smooth, completely relying on hua Tsai and Liang Liang, who were at the peak of their appearance at that time, to support the entire façade, they are like the name of the movie, It is a handsome prince and a beautiful princess in a fairy tale.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > (2) Full-Time Killer (2001): The most maverick and wanton "Du Qi Feng" movie in the Galaxy image</h1>
"Full-time Killer" is Andy Lau's most famous killer movie, in which he and Japanese personality actor Takashi Antimachi (Matsushima Naoko's husband) cooperate, two large men staged a duel between two males, coupled with sexy actress Lin Xilei hot to join, such a combination is very eye-catching.
Movie "Full-Time Killer"
Director Du Qifeng is very satisfied with the "Full-time Killer", because most of his ideas, including the magical realism of Peng Haoxiang's original work, the production level of pan-Asian films, mixing seriousness, absurdity, literature, commerce and paying tribute to various classic bridges, his own film style, experimental exploration, etc., have been realized in the film.
Zhang Jiande, author of "Du Qifeng and Hong Kong Action Movies", described the film as Du Qifeng's "most conceited and wanton work" in the chapter "Full-time Killer: Scattered Killer". The word "wanton" is apt.
Indeed, "Full-time Killer" is very stylized, and it is very different from Du Qifeng, Wei Jiahui and Galaxy Images such as "Dark Flower", "Gunfire", etc. It is like a cyberpunk version of the Cologne movie, Du Qifeng's flamboyant personality, spray thin talent and Wei Jiahui's deep creativity and ingenious mind are perfectly integrated, Du Qifeng once again said "NO" to the market and the audience after catering to the market's "Lonely Man and Widow", like an adolescent rebellious teenager who once again fiercely "willful", His "Full-time Killer" did not consider the acceptance of the audience at all, but immersed in his own crazy beats and endless ideas, simply put, watching "Full-time Killer", the audience should adapt to Du Qifeng, rather than watching how Du Qifeng pleases the audience. Among other things, the soundtrack in the film that combines the extremely Chinese Dong Zhen, erhu and extreme Westernized orchestral music has formed a not low threshold for watching the film, which is not something that ordinary people can appreciate.
Of course, the "Du Sir", who has stood firm in the film industry for decades, naturally will not completely abandon the market, and the reason why he chose Andy Lau to play the male protagonist in such a film full of European literary and artistic film temperament is to fully consider the box office factor, and later he also admitted in an interview: "The success of this film in Hong Kong (box office) is due to Andy Lau, he is a big star, and the audience likes him." ”
Different from "Dark War" in Which Du Qifeng wants Andy Lau to forget his "style" and "handsomeness", in "Full-time Killer", Du Qifeng wants Andy Lau to play handsome all the time, all the time in the concave shape, which is closely related to the overall temperament of the film, Du Qifeng defines the temperament of the film as a "sense of fantasy", at the end of the movie, Ren Dahua's role gradually occupies the center point of the narrative from an inconspicuous secondary position, on the one hand, Du Qifeng likes the multi-angle narrative of Peng Haoxiang's original work very much. On the other hand, it was a bold experiment and deconstruction of the film: "What if the whole thing is fictional? "What if all we've been seeing is a novel written by this crazy protagonist?" This is Du Qifeng's interpretation of the "sense of fantasy" of the film, because this "sense of fantasy" is also true and false, so Andy Lau's extroverted interpretation is very harmonious with the overall expression of the film.
Andy Lau in "Full-Time Killer"
"My name is Thor, and my profession is killer. In my spare time, I like to watch movies the most, especially action movies, whether it is a big production or a small production, a foreign language film or a Chinese film, the most important thing is not to be bored. And the most important thing is to have new things to show me. ”
In the movie, Andy Lau wears a leather jacket, wears sunglasses, rides a motorcycle on the green road, and when he performs the task, he wears a mask, holds a sniper rifle, is flying, full of spirit, and the camera angle is sharp and wild, which is the highlight moment of Andy Lau's killer image.
In "Full-time Killer", the bloody duel between Andy Lau and Takashi Anti-Machi, Du Qifeng still maintains a consistently high standard in male dramas, especially the changing light, camera movement, editing and splicing, as well as the "Gunfire" style of standing and slow motion, still rich and colorful, gorgeous and brilliant. What is even more rare is that the female role in the film is also very colorful, bright and clear, there is the shadow of Japanese and Korean movies, and Lin Xilei is no longer a vase, which is very impressive.
The most memorable and Saidy Lau said to Lin Xilei: "Do you want to be a killer woman? And the sentence "You wait for me for fifteen minutes, I'll kill a few people." Such a forced line, it seems that only from Andy Lau's mouth does not appear pretentious, the same way, the windy red leather coat, the exaggerated and seductive body movements, the cool handsome smile of the evil charm, placed on some stars who are accustomed to playing the "domineering president" is incomparably greasy, but there is no sense of violation on Andy Lau, no way, this is the charm of the king.
Eventually, the killer dies in the midst of brilliant fireworks, and Lee Kam-fu, played by Ren Dahua, begins by saying, "I'm writing a book with no ending." Finally, he said:
"The story has to have an ending, and after adapting it into a movie in the future, it also needs an ending." Now there is an ending in front of me, it is indeed an ending, how much of what Xiao Qin said is true, how much is false, what does it matter? ”
Some people say that in fact, the killer Thor (Andy Lau) and the killer O (anti-machi Takashi) are two sides of a person after schizophrenia, perhaps, true or false, it really does not matter.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > (3) "Crowds" (2021): Identities swapping between top killers and lonely group actors</h1>
In 2021, Andy Lau returned to the king again with the top killer Zhou Quan in the movie "Surging Crowds". This film is supervised by Andy Lau, directed by Rao Xiaozhi, the director of the blockbuster "The Unknown Generation", starring Andy Lau, Xiao Yang and Wan Qian, the production lineup is very strong, and the sales are very gratifying.
In order to promote the "surging crowds", 60-year-old Andy Lau opened a Douyin account, 5 short videos in 15 days crazy circle fans more than 54.3 million, even the official media "CCTV News" with 110 million fans also left a message for him, netizens commented: "Red is called Internet celebrity, red is called star for a few years, and red is called Andy Lau for a lifetime!" On February 7, Andy Lau sat in the Douyin movie live broadcast room to cheer for "The Crowd", while the number of online users reached a staggering 32 million, creating a record for the live broadcast of Douyin movies.
Movie "The Crowd"
Twenty years later, Andy Lau played the killer again, the years seem to have never left a trace on him, the years seem to have always favored this Justice of the Peace who can best represent the "Hong Kong spirit", the movie "Surging Crowds" integrates funny, hot blood and many other elements, there is a bridge section in the film, it is the director of "The Wandering Earth" who hugs Andy Lau and says, "Thank you, I will definitely put your name on the end credits." "This scene, people who have seen "The Wandering Earth" will definitely smile. This time, his killer image is more complicated, and Li, played by Wan Qian in the trailer, wants to say to Zhou Quan, played by Andy Lau: "Don't change Oh, you are so good, simple, kind, and so hard." "It's definitely full of expectations.
In recent years, Xiao Yang's development in the film has become better and better, especially in the outstanding performance in "Manslaughter", the double label of the national laughter and the powerful male star has made Xiao Yang one of the male stars with extremely high cost performance, more and more loved by investors, and there is no doubt about his acting skills. In "The Crowd", Chen Xiaomeng, played by Xiao Yang, said: "It is not easy to have a chance to be a starring actor, and I have to cherish it." The master said to himself, it seems that he is also a true portrayal of his own experience from "Old Boy" to now "Crowded".
Rene Liu's ending song "In the Crowd" sung for the movie sang like this: "In the crowd, meet you, fortunately, meet you." ”
The small people "turned the tide", the big people "returned to the peak", and the theme of the film "change the way of life" made people can't help but speculate about how these two people would live a miserable middle-aged life. In the absurd experience, the killer re-examines love, the group performance reshapes life again, the story is absurd, there are jokes and blood boiling. "Crowds" is worth watching!
"After waiting for a long time, I finally waited for today, and finally realized my dream after a long time." After waiting for a long time, I finally look forward to today, endured for a long time and finally realized my dream. ”
Those unchanging wind and frost, those successes or failures that have long been tired or tired, have finally condensed into the brightest star in the night sky.
Andy Lau in "The Crowd"
Star Andy Lau, he is indeed a real star.
Crowded, we hurried past, not afraid of loss. The crowds are raging, it's not you, what's the point.
Having seen the killers Gao Shou and Thor played by Andy Lau, I have really looked forward to this killer for too long and too long.
"It's crowded, thank you for meeting you."
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