Golden Horse Award for Best Actor.
This year's Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards experienced a scene of "Meng Mengda". The night of the Golden Horse Awards on November 25 lasted from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., and before it was halfway through, the cameras captured the images of Tus sleeping with their eyes closed. Who would have thought that when his closed eyes were on Weibo, Tu Men won the Best Actor Award. According to the jury, when the judges first voted, he had already passed more than half of the votes, and the winning advantage could almost be said to be "crushing".
Tus
Tu has acted in many TV series, won some awards, but is not a "red" actor, before that, his label was "Steppe Prince Professional Household", he was the emperor Genghis Khan in "A Generation of Heavenly Pride Genghis Khan" and "Stop Killing Order", the arrogant and domineering Jieli Khan in "Zhenguan Long Song", and the extraordinary Wang Ye in "Gadamerin". Audiences who like to watch martial arts dramas should remember that he is Zuo Lengchan in "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" and Zhao Min's father Ruyang Wang in "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon".
Tu said that he was once tired of being stereotyped, but when he came to play the role of the prince of the grassland, he refused to be able to hold various relationships to find the door. "The approval of you by others is sometimes quite cruel." Tu said.
Tu, a native of the Evenk, is from Hulunbuir, and his happy time on horseback during his childhood and adolescence allowed him to play the grassland theme to master it. Domineering for a lifetime, the role that made Tu men win the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor was completely different. The old Yang in "Old Beast" is a low-level small person, although he has become rich when he was young, and some of the upstarts are arrogant, but in his twilight years, he is a real Loser. Compared with the previous positive hero image, Tu's interpretation of this time seems to be "instigated" a lot.
Director Zhou Ziyang gave Tu a "old scumbag" appearance, the original name of the film was "Old Bastard", this old bastard took care of Xiao San, sold his friend's only financial source camel, stole the operation fee of his wife who was seriously ill in bed. The relationship with the children is a mess, and the children are kidnapped and taken to court. Behind all the representations is the hopeless struggle of a man with strong self-esteem in the reality of the dilemma.
Stills from "The Old Beast"
Zhou Ziyang, the director of "Old Beast", is a newcomer to the film for the first time, but the script immediately reassures Tu. After the first meeting, Tu sent Zhou Ziyang to the airport, Zhou Ziyang was still waiting in line to check in, Tu said "your ID card to me", and then directly took Zhou Ziyang's certificate to cut in line - because Lao Yang would not queue. This made Zhou Ziyang sure that he had "chosen the right person" because "he began to speculate on the psychology of the characters from that time on." ”
【Dialogue】:
Obligation to live with roles
The Paper: The character of Lao Yang is quite divided, do you think he is a good person and a bad person?
Tu Men: He's a good guy, but he just messed up his life. He did do a lot of things that didn't seem so good to everyone, and he had some vices. It is the kind of class that has no culture, reform and opening up, overnight wealth, everywhere in the country, he paid attention to material life, money, and neglected spirit during this time, so he caused a threat and neglected the family relationship in his own home. So he's still a tragic figure, and in fact he's trying to get everything right, and it always ends up messing up.
So this film is about the ups and downs of your economy, in fact, the impact and judgment on human nature will have some impact.
The Paper: I heard that the first time you met the director, you went directly to the queue to do things, so the way you figured out the feelings of the characters was to bring the characters into life?
Tu Men: You have an obligation to study his behavior. This person is not high IQ, emotional intelligence is not high, can fight with the vegetable market vendors of this kind of person, greedy little cheap ah, I think these things he may do out, so this is also an attempt, I and director Zhou Ziyang joked about the study of the character.
With the feeling of characters in life is a must, for example, his language, is Ordos Mandarin, is influenced by Shanxi and Shaanxi shaanxi dialect to form a unique accent, so during that time I also talked about this kind of "Epu" in my life, others think it is quite interesting.
The Paper: In fact, for the performance of the lust of the elderly, it is rare in Chinese movies. Is it a bit of an accident that I have played a "passion play" back when I am old?
Tu Men: I used to act a lot of princes and nobles, and I had a lot of roles with actresses, not worse than their young actors. It's just not up to the scale of "Old Beast". Just like you said in the past movies, there are not many works that show the lust of people of this age. I think as long as it is real, it goes to the heart of the character and combines. The completion of the character shaping, everything is reasonable.
The Paper: For actors of your generation, you will be more accustomed to the setting of some roles in the past, that is, more good and evil, right? Is it difficult to grasp such a role?
Tu: Yes, so that's why I liked the script. In the past, many of our characters were too stylized, like Lao Yang, we are not uncommon around, and there are still many words to observe life, so I am also willing to put my observations into the performance.
The professional household transformation of the grassland prince, the next step is to break away from the old beast
The Surging News: The domineering Wang Ye General who has played for a lifetime, this time it is quite "instigated" quite bitter, it should feel very different, right?
Tu: How do you say that? It is very different, but in fact, historical figures are more difficult, because you have to look at a lot of historical materials, to examine the evidence, to imagine. However, as long as a character like Lao Yang observes life and has accumulation, it is easier to play.
I think I used to be framed by those princes, and the movies were ruthless, and after he categorized you, you usually couldn't escape. For a long time, others called me a prince and noble professional household, a steppe prince professional household, and finally to what extent? That is, I didn't want to go on, others still want to trust the relationship, so that they can say evil things, say "you are suitable", which means that only you can act, others can't act. In fact, people say this to make you happy, but when I hear this, I can't be happy.
Poster of "A Generation of Proud Genghis Khan".
The arrogant and domineering Jieli Khan in the "Long Song of Zhenguan".
The Paper: Maybe after "Old Beast", you can become an "old rogue professional household".
Tu: Yes, so I said I was going to "say goodbye to Genghis Khan" before, and then I was going to "say goodbye to the Old Beast" next. Like before, after I finished "Farewell", all kinds of cancer patients (roles) came to me, and I didn't pick up. Now there are also some old bastard characters coming to me, and I also want to break free of the position of the old beast. I have been "stereotyped" once before and do not want to be stereotyped again. I still hope that my play path can be more extensive.
The surging news: "Sleeping and waking up the shadow emperor", is it just squinting to be photographed, or is it really asleep?
Tu Men: I was really asleep. I nominated three movie emperors this year, got two, nominated more, and there is a process of habituation, which is "getting used to". Anyway, the nomination, then sit and wait, and the Golden Horse Awards are so grand, so many people, we went in at four o'clock that day, the red carpet queued, into the seat. And I was shooting my own film for a while. For more than a month I was in a state of lack of sleep. So, out of adaptation to the nomination, I took a nap. It is also a bad thing to become a good thing, it was quite embarrassing to be a thing, let everyone pay attention to this movie, that is also very good.
The Paper: Is there anything different about life after taking the Emperor of Shadows?
Tu: It's no different, maybe there are more congratulatory calls. Because I don't live in Beijing. I've always insisted on working in this circle, but not living in this circle. It turned out that I was in Hohhot, and in 2009 I moved to Hulunbuir. In Beijing, you are living in a fixed circle. If you are in Hulunbuir, you may not see a person who engages in movies for a month, and the people you should meet are specially here, and the work is more targeted.
The Paper: What is the theme of your own film?
Tu Men: It is a national story that takes place in Inner Mongolia in the historical theme of the late Qing Dynasty. That's a story I have to tell. Now that the shooting is over, I am ready to do the post-production.