After watching "Tree Trick" last year, Uncle Yu said that Lin Jiadong should win the award.
Sure enough, after four nominations for the Academy Awards, this year finally won the film emperor.
When Lin Jiadong, who is 50 years old this year, raised the trophy, Uncle Yu was relieved. Lin Jiadong has come all the way, it is simply a "film supporting role history".
Although talent and hard work go hand in hand, they can only act as green leaves or villains in the movie every time.
Before "The Great Trick of the Tree", Lin Jiadong was mostly a "royal supporting role" in Du Qifeng's works.
The most received evaluation is the word "familiar".
And this time, the "emperor" made him deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
This year's shortlist for Best Actor is not weak, in addition to Lin Jiadong, there are Also Leung Ka Fai, Yu Wenle, Wu Zhenyu, and Ren Xianqi.
He does not have Yu Wenle's handsome appearance;
Nor is it like Mama Wu has a deep-rooted audience;
Not as famous as Leung Ka Fai.
It was with a lot of hard work that Lin Jiadong finally made everyone remember him in 2017.
In "The Great Trick of the Tree", with his silent and delicate acting skills, he interpreted the coldness and suspiciousness of a thief king to the fullest.
Long before the Academy Awards, the Hong Kong Film Critics Association gave him the title of Film Emperor:
Lin Jiadong interprets an uneasy, suspicious, deep and scheming bandit into a deep and three-dimensional, thief who attaches equal importance to humanity and is rich in layers, especially carefully capturing his wary and cold personality, the use and distrust of his old brothers, and the unashamed control of this dangerous person who has disappeared.
Rome was not built in a day, and the 50-year-old Lin Jiadong's skilled acting skills did not have a sudden explosion this year.
In 1988, the 21-year-old Lin Jiadong quit his clerical job and took the exam twice, and was admitted to the 15th wireless artist training class.
The teacher of the training class saw him for the first time and sent a sentence:
"You can't look good, you have to work on your own."
Not black and not blown, his appearance has no advantage, the square face shape, slightly mature facial features, from the so-called star face is much worse.
Lin Jiadong knows this well, so he made a good plan from the beginning, relying on acting skills and hard work to break into the world.
He recalls the first few years:
I counted the worst in the class, with the least increase in salary each year. Every classmate had the opportunity to cast, but I did it for five years to cast myself.
In the first few years of TVB, he didn't mix well, and most of the time he was running dragon sets.
The choreographer of the same company is not optimistic about him, and there are even rumors that some people are secretly laughing at him as a big egg that can never be fished.
Finally, in "Criminal Investigation File II", the role of the criminal played by Lin Jiadong made the audience have a certain impression of him.
On the surface, the doctor he plays is harmless to people and animals, loves his wife and loves his children.
In fact, he is a rapist with an extremely twisted psychology, and the means of committing the crime are extremely vicious.
In the same year, due to the successful imitation of Jacky Cheung in "Entertainment Transfer Student", TVB executives noticed that this big egg that had been staying for 7 years was scattered.
Soon, under the routine of TVB commercialization, a thick male screen image was created for him.
Lin Jiadong also squeezed into the ranks of popular young students with these roles.
Yuan Chengzhi in "The Green Blood Sword";
Wen Zhengming, the talented man in "The Four Talents of Gold";
Ding Li in "New on the Beach";
Fang Youwei of "Tea is Hometown Strong";
Although these are all male protagonists, they always seem to be repeating some roles, which is not a good thing for an actor!
Therefore, Lin Jiadong made a new plan for his life.
In 2001, he made up his mind to leave TVB to move on to the film industry.
This transformation was difficult for even his family to understand at first.
It took him 7 years to become a popular student in TVB from dragon set, and now he has to play a small role again.
He has successively played a role in "Sentient Drinking Water" and "Love Jun Like a Dream", and later ushered in "Infernal Affairs".
Despite not having many lines, his performance is impressive!
However, the sharpness of Andy Lau, Liang Chaowei, Huang Qiusheng and Zeng Zhiwei is too strong, and Lin Jiadong really cannot stand out.
A huge turning point was his appearance in Underworld.
The Dongguan Boy he played was not at all inferior to Ren Dahua, Liang Jiahui and Gu Tianle, who were also actors in the film.
The agile hand, the arrogant arrogance, and the image of the brave And resourceful Dongguan Boy are vividly three-dimensionally interpreted by him.
Then, in the galactic image led by Du Qifeng, he could always be seen.
The egg rolls in "Banishment" are strong, fierce and fierce.
The pickpocket shock wave in "Wen Que" is introverted and deep.
Especially the criminal police officer Gao Zhiwei with multiple personalities in "Detective".
Uncle Yu feels that Lin Jiadong's acting skills in this movie have reached a new height.
Some people said of this film: "Ten years of the galaxy, "All in the Detective"" .
Unlike the image of the "perverted criminal" in the past, the criminal police played by Lin Jiadong in the film have seven personalities, greedy, fierce, cunning...
The contradictions and desires of human nature must be expressed in his expression and body language.
Although he is still not the protagonist, he is affirmed by the outside world and named a gold medal supporting role!
Part of the reason why Lin Jiadong can get so many opportunities on the big screen is due to one person, Andy Lau.
After he left TVB, he met Andy Lau through a friend's introduction and became the only actor signed by the film company founded by Andy Lau at that time.
It can be said that all the roles until "Underworld" were won by Andy Lau for him.
In 2004, he went north to shoot Feng Xiaogang's "No Thief in the World", and Andy Lau also brought him, so that more mainland audiences knew him.
The royal actor who can become the galaxy image is also because Andy Lau recommended to Du Qifeng:
Jia Dong is an artist from my company, you may wish to try.
Therefore, when he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and delivered his acceptance speech, he especially thanked Andy Lau.
From my debut in the actor training class, I want to thank many people, including Hua Tsai... I would also like to thank my mom, who had a lot of confusion about myself when I first debuted, thank you very much.
He also did not live up to this trust, with a golden statue of the emperor, proved that Andy Lau's vision is right, but also proved his strength.
Lin Jiadong is not the kind of actor who is the same, he can control different types of roles.
For example, in "Whenever Changes", even if it only appears for a few minutes, a gay makeup artist in gay is interpreted as a wonderful portrait.
In "Tree Trick", even if he and Chen Xiaochun and Ren Xianqi are three points of protagonist, they still become the most eye-catching roles in the whole audience with delicate performances.
From the dragon set to the emperor of the film, Lin Jiadong used it for 30 years.
It truly interprets the eternal truth of the four words "Reward for Diligence in heaven".