Preach in words. - Don Tears
Some people say that an actor must control the subject matter in all genres to be a good actor.
Can act in the right drama, can also act in comedy, can play police action, can also play niche literature and art, or can play a big gangster high-ranking official, can also play a small character, of course, this is not only acting, but also able to act well.
Especially when a lot of people mention comedy.
They believe that being able to master comedy is a testament to the actor's skill.
But this statement is actually very nonsensical.
There are no real all-genre actors in this world, at least the strength of the work cannot be balanced.
And if there is no work of sufficient strength, how to prove that it is a full type of control?
But you can peep into the leopard.
So let's talk about comedy, but not about the actors who are full-time comedy.
A few mentions of commercial actors who occasionally appear in comedy.
First of all, let's talk about Leung Ka Fai.
His comedy films include "The Legend of Huang Feihong's Laughter", "92 Black Roses to Black Roses" and his sister works "Rose Rose I Love You", "Nerve Knife and Flying Cat", "The Supreme Thirty-Six Schemes of Stealing The Day" and "The Legend of the Eagle Hero".
And these films are actually the standard nonsense Hong Kong-style comedies of the early 1990s.
Regardless of the famous and non-famous actors, more or less have made some such films, and those who have not been filmed may be embarrassed to say that they are actors, but only one Zhou Xingchi really stands out.
Leung's concept of a thousand faces has failed in the field of comedy.
The performance of these six films is based on the addition and subtraction of meanness and leprosy, some are more "feminine", some are more "rogue", but any one can not see the difference in performance.
So on this level, I don't think this kind of performance represents the concept of "height" of acting.
Including the film "92 Black Roses vs. Black Roses" that he won the Golden Film Emperor Award.
And measured from another angle.
None of the above six films can achieve the quality of film history.
How to understand the skills of actors?
Of course, it is not a full-time comedy in itself, and it does not have to be harsh.
The second lecture is Jacky Cheung.
As soon as he debuted, he made "Thunderbolt Horn", and he hooked up with comedy.
In addition, there are "Best Son-in-Law", "Eight Stars annunciation", "Fuxing Linmen", "Curry Pepper", "Ah Fei and Aki", "Nerve Knife and Flying Cat", "Legend of the Eagle Hero", "Super School Overlord", "Seventy-two Tenants", "Macau Storm 3", a total of 11 films.
He can be very slippery, he can also be very "mother", and he can occasionally be cold, unlike Liang Jiahui, who slips to the end.
For example, "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" and "Nerve Knife and Flying Cat" are the most popular, and the other parts are more measured.
So if you look at the comedic style, it feels like Jacky Cheung may have more changes than Leung Ka-fai.
And from the perspective of works, he and Chow Sing-chi, Chow Yun-fat, Leung Chao-wai and Leung Ka-fai have all had opponent plays without falling behind.
Therefore, if Jacky Cheung specializes in comedy, he may have unexpected results.
But after his comeback, he went all out to study the performance of the main drama, but it seems that it is not as talented as the comedy genre.
His fans like to say a sentence called "Jacky Cheung is a movie emperor who is delayed by singing", in fact, it is better to say "Jacky Cheung is a comedian who is delayed by the main drama".
Compared with the first sentence, the probability of the second sentence being reliable is relatively large.
Let's talk about Andy Lau again.
As a typical representative actor of commercial entertainment films, Andy Lau naturally cannot escape the "claws" of Hong Kong-style comedy.
To remove some miscellaneous comedies, it should include "Gambler", "Trickster Expert", "91 Divine Eagle Hero" and "Dragon God Prince", "Ninety-Two Divine Eagle Heroes' Obsessive Long Love Sword", "Supreme Thirty-Six Schemes of Stealing The Day", "Super School Overlord", "New Year's Wealth", "Blind Detective", and of course, there is also a "Macau Storm 3", and even including "Surging Crowds".
The same number as Jacky Cheung.
But Andy Lau does not have the ability of Jacky Cheung, first of all, he can't catch Chow Xingchi's baggage, and he can't slide to the end like Liang Jiahui, and his cold side seems to be more stiff, for example, it is to tell jokes to people, he didn't laugh for half a day, but others didn't laugh.
This, of course, is not to deny his abilities, each actor has his own characteristics.
Among these comedy genre films, especially "The Crowd" is the most unsuccessful, which is a semi-finished product that cannot be up and down.
If you think about it from another angle, just like when filming "91 Divine Eagle Heroes", a group of people followed the director's blind nonsense, leaving Aaron Kwok a new person to seriously play a cold-faced killer, but there is no effect, so if "Surging Crowds" transposition thinking, give all the laugh points to Xiao Yang, let Andy Lau play a serious gangster, maybe there will be surprises.
The conclusion, of course, is that he is not suitable for comedy.
In view of the fact that some people said before that Aaron Kwok could not act in comedy, so let's also talk about Aaron Kwok's comedy movies.
In "The Nine-One Condor Heroes" and "Dragon God Prince", he actually has no comedic component, and the "Super School Overlord" is only a cameo appearance, so his comedy movies should be "Laughing Man Chu Liuxiang", "The King of a Thousand Faces" and "Rogue Champion", as well as "Breaking the Game", or there can be a "Journey to the West" Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences.
In fact, to some extent, Aaron Kwok and Andy Lau are not adapted to the nonsense Hong Kong films, similar to Andy Lau's embarrassment in his funny comedies, Aaron Kwok's deliberate funny in "The King with a Thousand Faces" is not pleasing, but his slightly restrained funny in "Laughing Man Chu Liuxiang" and "Rogue Champion" is remarkable.
And this characteristic was put into 2016's "Journey to the West: Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences", Aaron Kwok and Feng Shaofeng's back-and-forth, inadvertently humorous, the deliberate funny of Xiao Shenyang and Luo Zhongqian was embarrassingly embarrassing, and then to 2017's "Breaking the Game", finally saw his humor talent, this movie is actually worth talking about separately.
Compared with nonsense Hong Kong-style comedy, black humor may be the next threshold he will unlock, and the "Temporary Weapon Robbery" that is starting to shoot has some expectations.
In other words, most nonsense comedy performances, as long as the actors are "put" enough, the director can receive the goods.
It is more fearful of being ugly than who is.
But the vast majority have not been able to rise to the level of sublimation due to absurdity.
The audience may find it funny, but after the funny, is there something deeper accumulated?
Therefore, this may just be a carnival of "not doing the right thing".
And if you take Zhou Xingchi as a reference.
If he hadn't metamorphosed from "The King of Comedy" and "Shaolin Soccer" to "Kung Fu" in the later stages, he would have been just a good comedian.
But with Kung Fu.
He leapt to become a master of the great masters.