What does the golden age of an actor mean?
High popularity, hard works, live long, or are popularity and works high and hard?
If the high popularity is measured purely, then the first generation of traffic, the second generation of traffic and the third generation of traffic have all had a golden period.
But the traffic was like a shooting star, once shining in the starry sky, but it flashed by, leaving only a vague shadow, and there was no clear appearance.
If the standard is simply based on the hardness of the work, this has to be said.
In the six Mesozoic Dynasties, Huang Bo, Wu Jing, Xu Zheng, Shen Teng, Wang Baoqiang, and Deng Chao, most of their excellent works are in the past.
Such as Huang Bo's "Crazy Racing", Wu Jing's "Taiji Grandmaster", Wang Baoqiang's "Soldier Assault", Deng Chao's "Burning Heart", Shen Teng's "Charlotte Troubles".
Even Xu Zheng's "I Am Not a Medicine God" was a work from three years ago, and Deng Chao's last starring movie was "Galaxy Tuition Class" two years ago.
If you simply live a long time as a measure, then Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Zhou Runfa, Li Xuejian all belong to this category.
There are also some so-called old drama bones, which are only old, because Guo Degang said: "As long as you live long enough and die your peers, you are an artist." ”
It can be seen that these three standards are not in line with the taste of the public, so on the whole, it is more accurate to use popularity and high and hard works as the standard.
If measured by these two criteria, most of the people mentioned above can be selected.
Such as Andy Lau, Zhou Runfa, Jackie Chan, Li Xuejian, the six major Mesozoic generations, then why can they have both super popularity and good works?
One is to have looks.
Appearance can be very handsome, such as Andy Lau, Zhou Runfa, after all, the façade is a stepping stone, the first time to be remembered actors are more likely to be popular.
And they are also more convenient to receive the play than some actors with poor "face", and even become the main actor faster, which is the importance of looks.
Of course, the appearance can also be very ugly, but it must be ugly and characteristic.
On this point, Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo must appear to say that neither of them is a handsome man in the traditional sense, and they will not be looked at more in the crowd.
But they are ugly, Wang Baoqiang laughs very thickly, Huang Bo laughs very funny, this is the label they are remembered.
In the same way, the appearance can be very ordinary, but it must be popular with the audience.
Audience popularity is a very mysterious thing, not easy to define, such as Wu Jing and Deng Chao, not handsome, not ugly, belongs to the characteristics of the very ordinary.
But they are loved by many people, and the reason is because they have an audience and can mingle with the audience.
The second is to work hard.
It's a cliché, but very few people do it, and it's been the same for decades.
There is such a sentence to describe Andy Lau, can be red for one or two years, there is luck; can be red for one or two decades, there is a way; can be red for thirty years, called Andy Lau.
Jackie Chan started as a martial artist in 1971, to 1978 because of "Drunken Fist" and "Snake-shaped Executioner", and then to 2017's "Blood of the Machine", Jackie Chan played for fifty years.
The reason why they are still on the front line is because of their hard work and persistence, and some actors are not even willing to shave their hair, let alone the word "effort".
Even if it was originally popular with people, it must continue to be maintained, otherwise the halfway house will collapse, and the road to acting may stop.
Just as the so-called "do not stop, but become a gentleman", this sentence is the most suitable to describe Andy Lau, but also in line with the high-quality idol of the Wang surname before the collapse of the person.
Third, there must be opportunities
Yu Hewei, who is almost 50 years old and only red, can best prove this.
Previously, he had also acted in the TV series of the fire, the Ancient Monument in "The Sky of History", Liu Bei in "The New Three Kingdoms", and Cao Cao in "The Alliance of Military Teachers".
However, he acted for decades, gave up in the middle, and prepared to change careers, until he encountered the era of short videos, and through the magic ghost animal of "then playing music, then dancing", he became a big uncle idol.
There is also Zhou Runfa, before playing "The True Colors of Heroes", Zhou Runfa was a box office poison, and few directors were willing to use him.
After "The True Colors of Heroes" swept the Hong Kong box office market in 1986, Chow Yun-fat got rid of the title of box office poison and became a big star with a reputation in the three places across the Taiwan Straits.
Fourth, we must know how to choose.
Wu Jing became popular with a "Tai Chi Master", but when he became popular, in order to pursue action dreams, he gave up everything in the mainland and went to Hong Kong alone to develop.
However, Hong Kong films are declining, Chinese action movies are also thinning, and in those days when Hong Kong was crawling, Wu Jing could only play some supporting roles, and the future seemed very slim.
If he had been sticking to the traditional Hong Kong-style action movies, Wu Jingcheng would not have been able to become him now.
Without starring in "I Am Special Forces 2" and not insisting on making the "Wolf Warrior" series, maybe Wu Jing is a second-line actor.
It will not be the main theme benchmark now, the first of the six major Mesozoic generations, the highest-grossing actor in Chinese films, this is the importance of choice.
Fifth, we must have strength.
A face can only be red for a while, and only with strength can it be red for a long time.
Like Jackie Chan, many people only know that his action comedy is very powerful, and he also won the Oscar lifetime achievement award.
But few people know that Jackie Chan has become the first actor to win the Golden Horse Award for film emperor with "Police Story 3" and "Serious Crime Team".
As an action actor, Jackie Chan can also have good acting skills, which is itself a manifestation of strength.
For example, Zhang Jin, when he starred in the childlike heart in "Water Moon Cave Heaven", his acting skills were really unsightly, and later he acted more and his acting skills also grew, which won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The sixth is to have a well-known classic masterpiece, and more than one, because the height that has been reached determines that the downhill road can be walked for a long time.
Such as Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Zhou Runfa, Huang Bo, Wu Jing, Xu Zheng, Shen Teng, Wang Baoqiang, Deng Chao, their representative works are more than three, like Jackie Chan such bugs, even can be counted out more than ten.
However, there are not many actors who can have these six qualities at the same time.
As for how long can the golden period of actors last? This problem is difficult to define, some actors have become popular very early, and they have also made representative works, such as Xu Zheng and his "Eight Precepts of the Brilliant Spring Pig".
Some actors have representative works very early, but they became popular very late, such as Yu Hewei and his "Sky of History"; some actors became popular very late and have representative works, such as Li Youbin and his "Bright Sword".
It is uncertain how long an actor's golden age will be, but it is clear what a good actor looks like.
Liang Jiahui once said: "Some actors are a star in the eyes of the big director, you don't need to be able to act, the camera is placed here, you take five steps back, look directly at the camera, give me a look, you are the emperor of the film."
But the path I pursue is different, and I want to know why I need this back? What is expressed in this look of return?
What am I going to explain to the audience? I'm going to go through what this character has been through, rather than bluntly speaking out the dialogue. The actor's path I wanted was this, to walk into his emotional world through a role. ”