Preach in words. - Don Tears
Aaron Kwok's glow is gradual.
After the box office explosion of "The World dominated by the storm" in 1998, he seemed to be stuck in the quagmire of acting.
Four consecutive films were all lackluster or even regressive.
Many people's impressions of the force and extroversion of his performances may come from this period.
In particular, "Thunder X-Men" has a great impact.
It's almost the lowest point of his big-screen career.
Fortunately, he quickly realized the problem.
In 2003, in Lin Chaoxian's mediocre work "Charging Forward", he walked out of the confused state of performance, no longer had the previous excessive extroversion and expression jumping phenomenon, and the performance began to adduction.
In 2004, in the "Judo Dragon and Tiger List" that cooperated with Du Qifeng for the second time, he fully entered the state, playing Tony inheriting the drunken martial arts and indomitable side of Zi Sanshiro, with a clean breath, sunny and pure.
In 2005, after "Heavenly Love 2 Days and Long Days", he cooperated with Chen Musheng again, this time in the movie "Three Forks".
A policeman, a killer and a lawyer, which is a typical three-line narrative and three main structures, they have their own stories, but they are tied together by the hand of fate, and in the end the killer and the lawyer are reduced to foils, and the police take away the light with extreme emotional tension, in contrast, everyone else is eclipsed.
This is Aaron Kwok's first outbreak in the public eye, leaping into the Golden Horse Film Emperor.
This outbreak won the favor of director Tan Jiaming, who was hand-picked to star in his new work "Father and Son".
At that time, there was news that investors liked Leung Ka Fai or Andy Lau to play this role, but after Tan Jiaming watched "Three Forks", he decided that Aaron Kwok was the best choice for the role, and he may feel that Aaron Kwok may bring some unexpected sparks.
A news piece in 2004 confirmed this, "In the famous director Tan Jiaming's "Father and Son Thief", Andy Lau will play "Thief Daddy". Wong Kar-wai's teacher, Tam Ka Ming, has been preparing for the film for many years and is currently working on the script. This film is different from previous police films, and the deep feelings between father and son will be the main theme of the film."
"Zhou Changsheng does not love his wife and children, but he is impulsive and does not know how to reflect, and he has no power at all, just like a child." The cause of the tragedy is the incongruity between his spirit and body; his instinctive reactions and physical continuance are still out of control despite his consciousness; and later in the film, he expresses his state of degradation with Zhou Changsheng's lame inability to move."
"The development of the ending and the fate of Zhou Changsheng have no religious significance, but I don't think it is necessary to 'crucify' a person. He gradually woke up and regretted that he had been bitten when he saw the floating grass on the river, leaning on the tree, weeping bitterly, and even begging for his son's forgiveness (in the state of a "beast"). Or leave him a way to live, give him (hope) to rely on. As long as the audience observes carefully, they can get a deeper interpretation."
This is the interpretation of the original words from the big director.
Aaron Kwok did bring an unexpected surprise to Director Tan, "He shows a primitive explosive force in the film, its roughness and violence, brutality and cowardice, which directly affect the audience's emotions and the pulse of the plot."
Lian Zhuang Golden Horse Shadow Emperor soared into the sky.
At this time, Aaron Kwok actually did not completely let go of his identity as a singer.
Two songs from two movies, one called "Three Forks", the other called "Lonely Say You Forgot Me", the singing skills have been profound.
In fact, for the king-level singers, the route of sending songs while filming movies is very good and complements each other very well.
Next, he made four movies along the way: "C+ Detective", "Silver Empire" and "Storm 2" and "Murderer".
Throughout the second half of the 000s, six films were made, seven film nominations and two film emperor awards were made, which is perfect.
But this stage is only the exploration and prelude to the explosion of his acting skills.
In 2010, he cooperated with director Chen Musheng for the third time, the commercial film "Whole City Alert", and then made three films: "B+ Detective", "Favorite" and "Centennial Floating City".
Although this "City alert" has the birth defect of the script and the director's ability to control the science fiction genre itself, it also exposes the shortcomings of Aaron Kwok's inability to perfectly control commercial films at that time, and the success of the other three films in the same period confirms that the performance of his literary niche genre films is becoming increasingly handy.
And the first quenching of his acting career is coming.
The first match against Leung Ka Fai.
Released in 2012, "Cold War" is a landmark work in the Hong Kong police film genre.
This is also the first formal cooperation between Aaron Kwok and Leung Ka Fai.
Taking the idol route in the early days and focusing on niche literature and art after the transformation, such a film road will hardly intersect with Hong Kong film celebrities such as Leung Ka Fai.
Until this "Cold War". In response to Leung Ka Fai's weight-lifting and astonishing explosion, Aaron Kwok did everything in his power to calm down and reach his peak performance in commercial films, but still lost half a chip.
Lost on the acting experience. Unlike niche literary one-man shows and self-immersion, commercial shuangxiong films need an extended aggressive performance to stimulate stronger dramatic tension, which can be seen in Infernal Affairs's Liang Chaowei.
The so-called quenching is not just "stealing" from the opponent.
The ensuing Academy Awards were not even nominated, which was a heavy blow to Aaron Kwok, who had been the Emperor of the Golden Horse Film.
Thankfully, he is incredibly tough.
Buried his head in "Accomplice", helped his good friend Yang Caini to support the scene to shoot "Christmas Rose", took over the non-line "National Witness", and also filmed a pure commercial production "Journey to the West: The Great Haunting of the Heavenly Palace", starring in the three giants model of Zhen Zidan and Zhou Runfa. These films have thickened his performance accumulation, such as the roles of prosecutor Tong Tao and bull demon king, all of which have a kind of pressure atmosphere.
There are two works that are very outstanding, one is Chen Kaige's "Taoist Descending the Mountain", and the other is Weng Ziguang's "Treading Blood and Finding Plums", in which he shows almost no flaws in the control of the role.
By the time of "Cold War 2", his performances are more mature and sophisticated, but he still lacks a stunning ability to play outside of conventional performances, such as his shocking tearful scene genre in "The Favourite", which also shows that he has not yet reached an interchange with the ability of the literary genre with commercial film performance.
It is necessary to wait until the arrival of the second quenching.
This time it was Zhou Runfa.
The absence of awards is not really the biggest problem.
An actor's efforts and dedication in performance will actually fall in the eyes of others in the industry.
For example, director Zhuang Wenqiang, the "Father and Son" of that year has made him feel that Aaron Kwok can control extremely difficult roles, and then "Treading Blood and Finding Plums" has allowed him to see that Aaron Kwok's acting skills have been tempered to a certain extreme, so he took the "Peerless" script as an invitation to invite Aaron Kwok.
And "Peerless" is of great significance to Aaron Kwok.
It is not that he starred in another film that grossed more than a billion dollars, but it symbolizes that his ability has broken through a tipping point.
It is like a sword, after thousands of hammers and hammers, it has already shone with a cold light, just waiting to be opened.
If we talk about the state of acting ability, "Taoist Descending", "Stepping on Blood and Finding Plums" and "Breaking the Game" and even "Journey to the West" Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences are actually not inferior to the performance of "Peerless".
But there is still a lack of the last glimmer of opportunity, so that he can complete the final transformation from the inside out, from the whole to the details.
This needs to be mentioned again by what Director Zhuang said, "Patting Brother is like driving a Ferrari."
The symbolic meaning of this sentence is the ultimate degree of the actor's performance ability, such as the precision computing ability of the supercomputer and the performance response of the speed of light.
As I have said repeatedly, Aaron Kwok's creativity in "Peerless" is very amazing, and his performance can be called the best in the whole film, but he has not had Chow Yun-fat's impeccable performance ability before.
After the battle of "Peerless", its performance has taken a qualitative leap.
Officially arrived in the camp of the top acting school bosses in the Hong Kong film industry.
It has truly reached the point of precision, nature and unfathomability, and has also opened up the performance barrier between business and art genres.
On this point, we can refer to the two films "Mai LuRen" and "Secret Visitor".
His subsequent works, which have not yet been released, show a kind of lightness and freehand.
For example, the epic "When the Wind Rises Again", "Sweeping Poison 3" in pursuit of new characters, and the black humor movie "Temporary Robbery" that is being filmed.
Talented, unremitting efforts, and good at drawing on the strengths of others.
This is the truth behind an actor's growth.
More than ten years.
Aaron Kwok uses his works as a ladder.
Step by step.
It's legendary.