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"Goldfinger" will be released next year in 2022, starring Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei.
The director is Zhuang Wenqiang, who came from a screenwriter background, and his "Infernal Affairs" of that year and "Peerless" in previous years were very good.
This film is also the second cooperation between Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei in 18 years since "Infernal Affairs", costing 350 million yuan.
Today, Zeng Xiansen will talk about the performance of the two.
In his early years, Liang Chaowei had more advantages than Andy Lau.
In 1994, Liang Chaowei won the Best Actor Award at the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards and the 31st Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for the first time with "Chongqing Forest".
He was only 32 years old.
After that, the honor of 5 Hong Kong Film Awards film emperors and 3 Taiwan Golden Horse Awards film emperors also compared Andy Lau.
But Andy Lau is only a fewer than Liang Chaowei, you should know that at present, he has also won 3 Hong Kong Film Awards film emperors, 2 Taiwan Golden Horse Awards film emperors.
However, the traditional professional media prefer Liang Chaowei more, and in terms of fans and audience love, Andy Lau has more advantages.
Who is good? The best comparison, of course, is to see the cooperative movies, who wins and who is inferior is the most direct.
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The two have collaborated on a total of 6 works so far.
But some of them do not have direct opponent plays, such as "The Legend of Ah Fei", we will not say, the protagonist is Zhang Guorong.
Some are early comedy commercial genre films, and there is basically no greater room for discussion about acting, such as "The Five Tigers Break Up", "Hero of Central", and "Anti-Fighting Horse".
What can be discussed, of course, is the classic "Infernal Affairs 1" from 2002.
The script of this movie seems quite exquisite today, and the classic double male setting is also quite elaborate. No wonder, after being remade by Hollywood, it can win an Oscar. And the performances of Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei in this film can also be said to be quite wonderful.
Andy Lau's Liu Jianming in a suit and leather shoes, heroic, energetic has always been his public image.
Liu Jianming is very much in line with his personality. Linked to Andy Lau's "marriage concealment" incident that year, and the consistent healthy and upward image, his undercover life is the same as his own.
The scenery in front of people is infinite, and the mask is particularly fake; after people, they cannot guess and hide it.
And the undercover Chen Yongren played by Liang Chaowei is a gloomy introvert and a good person who hides deeply.
This can also fully show the character of Liang Chaowei, who is always an introverted shadow emperor hiding behind the role.
In this story, the ghosts in the two lines are placed on both sides of the police and bandits, and suspicion and mutual calculation become the driving force of suspense in the movie.
The contrasting character traits coincide with the atmosphere. In the end, this wrestling competition, Liang Chaowei defeated Andy Lau at the Academy Awards with a deeper introverted acting skill.
Two years later, he once again won an Academy Award for Film Emperor with his superb acting skills in "2046" directed by his old partner Wong Kar-wai.
In the early years, every time in the competition for the emperor of the film, Andy Lau always lost to Liang Chaowei.
Until 2004, with "Infernal Affairs 3" and Liang Chaowei PK again, at the 41st Golden Horse Awards ceremony, when he was predicted whether he could win the film emperor, Andy Lau made a bitter smile, looked at Liang Chaowei under the stage and said: "No, he is coming, he is coming." This caused a burst of laughter from the audience.
But in the end, it was Andy Lau who defeated Liang Chaowei and became emperor for the first time at the Golden Horse Awards.
However, it should be known that Liang Chaowei still had a stunning performance in those years.
In 2000, he won the Cannes Film Emperor with the movie "Fancy Years", becoming the second person in the entire Chinese film circle, and this record Andy Lau, and even whether the Chinese can catch up in the future, can be a question mark.
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The changes in the performances and word-of-mouth of the two men have occurred in recent years.
It may be that he is accustomed to playing too many literary, gloomy, and deep roles, and Liang Chaowei has thrown himself into the embrace of commercial films in recent years.
But, sadly, he chose the least flattering genre on the market today: comedy.
In 2016, he performed the 4.1-point comedy "The Ferryman", which was a big surprise.
A failure may be forgivable, in 2018 he performed a 4.9-point "Catch the Demon 2", Zeng Xiansen even if he chose the wrong project.
However, in the same year, he joined forces with a certain traffic Wu Moufan to once again star in the 3.5-point comedy bad film "European Raiders"!
The third comedy, three times and small fresh meat, can we forgive again?
You know, his next movie, but "No Name" with another small fresh meat King Yibo.
Once he took the most movie emperors, now he may have lost his reputation!
On the other hand, Andy Lau, who is very commercial and "idol", has been recognized for his acting skills in recent years.
In 2015, he played the kidnapped star in "Rescue Mr. Wu" and won the second Silk Road International Film Festival.
In 2016, he played a farmer in "Lost Orphans" and won the Huabiao Award for Film Emperor in the mainland.
Last year, he returned to the commercial film to act in "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", and the interpretation of the role of Pan Chengfeng was even more tearful.
Obviously, Goldfinger is a cop film based on commercial quality rather than comedy, much like the director's previous Infernal Affairs and Peerless.
Therefore, I hope that Liang Chaowei will not disappoint Zeng Xiansen this time.
Liang Chaowei and Andy Lau have both debuted for nearly 30 years now, fought for nearly 30 years, and have not cooperated for a long time, but zeng Xiansen is looking forward to this "Goldfinger" more.