As we all know, the highly anticipated film emperor and film queen, the winners are Zhang Yi and Zhang Xiaofei respectively.
The two actors gave their acceptance speeches on the stage with excitement, and Zhang Xiaofei was even more red when he said that he was emotional.
And the matter of winning the award has always been that some people are happy and some people are "sad".
In particular, several popular candidates predicted before, such as Yu Hewei and Zhang Zifeng, and Liu Ye, the youngest film emperor winner in the history of the Golden Rooster Award.
In 2004, the 26-year-old Liu Ye won the Golden Rooster with the role of Liu Simeng in the movie "Beauty Grass", 17 years after the next nomination for the award, that is, this year.
Further back in 2001, he won the Golden Horse Film Emperor and was also nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor that year.
Gong Li said: Acting, who will Liu Ye be afraid of?
Jiang Wen was very surprised to see him as his successor, and the audience at that time did not hesitate to praise him, seeing him as "liang chaowei's successor in the interior".
It is true that Liang Yingdi can control various roles, but most viewers still think that his performance in literary and art films is the most outstanding.
Liu Ye, who is regarded as his successor, is the same, and in literary films, he is regarded as a genius actor of the "Purple Micro Star Descending".
(i)
In 1998, Liu Ye starred in the first movie in his life, "That Mountain That Man That Dog", in which he played a simple and innocent country boy, the first time "electrocuted" but there was no trace of performance.
Especially the pair of clear and moving eyes, it can be said that it firmly grasps the hearts of the audience.
And he also won the nomination for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor award that year with this film, the so-called "debut is the peak", which is so.
In 2001, after graduating from university, Liu Ye received a filming invitation from Hong Kong director Guan Jinpeng.
However, considering the setting of the character's sexual orientation, Liu Ye did not intend to pick up at first, and later with the encouragement of the director and his friends, he agreed.
After that, this film became one of the most important masterpieces of his acting career, and also allowed him to sit firmly in the position of the chief Xiaosheng of mainland literary and art films at that time.
Liu Ye, who was not yet 23 years old at the time of filming, has reached a state of human-drama integration with "L Yu" in the film.
Without lines, he can show all kinds of emotions such as shyness, affection, obsession, trepidation and heartache through a pair of eyes.
The fragile, sensitive and melancholy Lan Yu on the screen is the deepest impression that Liu Ye left on most viewers.
After this, Liu Simeng in the movie "Beauty Grass", Ma Jianling in "Balzac and the Little Tailor", and Long Xiaoyu in the TV series "What to Save You, My Love" and other characters have these qualities.
And the audience also recognized and loved these characters one by one.
Wu Yanzu, an actor he has worked with, "sighs to himself" and sighs:
God is really unfair, like Liu Ye's looks, big eyes, long eyelashes, even if you don't open your mouth, your face is already a play.
And I had to rely on my lips and body language to infect the audience. On set, he was the most jealous actor.
For Liu Ye, however, these awards and praises did not have much positive impact, but made him feel self-doubt and anxiety.
(ii)
After getting the Golden Rooster Emperor, the 26-year-old Liu Ye began to prepare for "transformation", and he did not want to continue to present the "feminine" image of the past.
The TV series "Blood Romance" is his first work after the "transformation", and it can be regarded as the most successful one.
In the play, he plays the role of Zhong Yuemin, who is very moralistic and a little poor,but he is still a sensitive and melancholy Wenqing in his bones.
And this degree of transformation obviously can't satisfy Liu Ye, so he simply doesn't take over the role of those melancholy little students, and often asks the other party: Is there a little bit of cruelty?
For example, director Guan Jinpeng of Bole once invited him to play Gao Juexin in Ba Jin's novel "Family Spring and Autumn", Liu Ye pushed it away, and he did not want to play such a cowardly and obedient role.
Compared with many young male actors in China today, Liu Ye, who is not yet 30 years old, is obviously very courageous to take such a resolute transformation action in terms of performance.
But how the audience reacts is another matter.
In 2005, Liu Ye starred in Chen Kaige's "Wuji" and Zhang Yimou's "Full of Golden Armor", and these two films are obviously the quality of the two famous directors.
Not only that, because he played the role of the fierce "ghost wolf" in "Wuji", he also suffered a wave of serious Internet violence.
The cowardly prince in "Golden Armor" also bothered him quite much, and many viewers equated the role in the film with himself.
In the works he played at that time, although these two characters were rare villains or negative characters, they were more than enough and fierce enough, and they still could not completely get rid of the "feminine" image.
Therefore, Liu Ye decided to make a complete "turnaround", in his own words, that is, "the buddies have changed their ways".
And this time of transformation, he set his goal on the "tough guy".
In the following time, he handed over tough guy characters such as The leader of the international criminal organization In "Keep Calling", the "anti-traditional hero" Lao San in "Tough Guy", and Lu Jianxiong, an officer in "Nanjing".
Not only that, these movies are almost all commercial films, and the literary label on Liu Ye seems to have begun to fade.
However, he has not become a representative actor of the "tough guy" type, and in the eyes of the audience, Zhang Hanyu, Hu Jun and Duan Yihong and other "tough guys" are impressive.
What is more serious is that many viewers believe that the "aura" in Liu Ye's body has gradually disappeared.
This is evidenced by the fact that since 2007, Liu Ye has rarely appeared on the shortlist of mainstream film awards.
In the 17 years between 2004 and 2021, he did not find this person at the Golden Rooster Awards.
The actor, who held several heavyweight awards at a young age, seemed to have "drained" all his luck in the first 10 years of his debut.
However, on the road of transformation, Liu Ye also has good works from time to time, such as the patriotic youth in "The Cook's Drama" and the brave and warlike policeman in "Rescue Mr. Wu", all of which are very well interpreted characters.
What made him return to the mainstream award film nomination again was 2016's "Pursuer Also", which won him the Golden Jubilee Award for Film Emperor that year.
However, the "aura" of Liu Ye is still the focus of many people's discussions, and the biggest impact on this is his performance in TV series and variety shows.
For example, in the play, "No War in Peking" was performed by a group of old drama bones.
There is also "Old Boy", which is said to be acted very casually.
and "In the Distance", which has a spicy eye "noodle kiss".
Coupled with the gag-like speech in "The Birth of an Actor", many viewers can't help but ask: Liu Ye, how did you become like this?
People can no longer associate him with the L Yu who "charmed the audience with a pair of big flashing eyes", and instead described him as "greasy" and "too hard".
But if you really want to criticize his acting skills, it seems that he is not very objective, because he can hand over works such as "Rescue Mr. Wu" and "The Pursuer" in terms of movies.
Therefore, if you want to summarize Liu Ye's business ability, "elastic" acting skills are probably the most appropriate description.
As an actor with a partial experience, Liu Ye relies heavily on the overlap of personal temperament and role in interpreting the role and the effect presented.
Looking back at the years when he had the most "aura", with just one look, he can interpret the sensitive, fragile, and gloomy characters in literary and art films just right.
This is obviously inseparable from his own hardware conditions, and at the same time, it is also closely related to his personal personality traits.
(iii)
In 1996, 18-year-old Liu Ye was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama and became a member of the "star class" with well-known actors such as Zhang Ziyi, Mei Ting, Yuan Quan, Qin Hailu, Zeng Li and Qin Hao.
Liu Ye, who came to Beijing from the northeast to study, not only needed to adapt to the environment of a foreign land, but also brought him a lot of pressure to his classmates who had their own long skills.
Not only him, but also the students of class 96 are usually sullen.
Liu Ye, who was originally silent, swallowed his heart into his stomach and often vented outside the school, or cried or shouted.
After graduating from filming, although he won awards continuously, he was always in a state of anxiety.
In the process of filming, he was fully committed to the role every time, and he entered the scene very deeply.
It is precisely because of this that he can present such an infectious role.
At the same time, Liu Ye is also full of fear for the showbiz circle that is changing rapidly, so he has been taking over the drama uninterruptedly.
This is also as his agent Chang Jihong said: Liu Ye's sins are all because the starting point is too high, he is afraid of falling, and he always forces himself to die.
During the filming of "Dark Matter" and "Full of Golden Armor", the anxiety and uneasiness reached a peak, and Liu Ye had to rely on sleeping pills and alcohol to fall asleep.
It wasn't until the appearance of his wife Anna that it helped him gradually change these habits, and also made his state greatly relaxed.
After the two got married and had children, Liu Ye's mentality changed completely.
He is no longer as competitive as ever, there are not so many emotions to vent through the camera, and the number of films has decreased a lot.
Earlier, the most fascinating traits of Liu Ye,those that were fragile and frustrated—were already hard to find.
But for him personally, the change is clearly more fortunate.
In addition, it must be admitted that the audience's expectations of Liu Ye are quite high, after all, he has been recognized as a natural actor since his debut.
The audience not only demanded him, but also pursued performance surprises.
For example, Lu Yi, a young student who was at the same time as him, was also dissed at the bottom of his acting skills for starring in "The Name of the People", but it was far less controversial than Liu Ye's "No War in Peking".
Because he is Liu Ye.
But in the heart, as an actor, it is normal that his business ability will sometimes be questioned, and actors who have achieved more than Liu Ye in the show business circle will also "overturn".
The key is whether the quality of his subsequent works and the level of interpretation of his roles have improved, and what kind of attitude he has towards acting work.
(iv)
On the road of transformation, Liu Ye not only needs to risk not being recognized by the audience, but also undergoes a rebirth-like change in image.
When filming "Wuji", he was painted with chemical paint all over his body, and he insisted on not using a stand-in, and the scenes where he was on fire were also personally involved.
Before entering the group movie "Tough Guy", in order to get closer to the role, he first gained weight crazy in a short period of time, and then quickly lost weight.
This left him with sequelae and he felt very unwell for a long time.
The movie "The King's Feast" was filmed for eight months, and the shooting environment was already very harsh, and Liu Ye still had to stick his beard every day, itching to the point of fainting.
In "The Pursuer", he drove a scrapped truck with a failed handbrake on the winding mountain road in Yunnan, and he was calm from beginning to end.
In Liu Ye's view, this is what should be done as an actor, and he believes that there is no need to use "dedication and hard work" to describe his job.
In 2019, Liu Ye took over the film "Shoudao Man", before the film began, he first went to the island with the crew to experience life.
In order to be closer to the role of Wang Jicai, played by him, Liu Ye smeared salt water on his face and body, and then exposed himself to the beach, and after returning, his skin was peeled off several layers.
In addition, he was covered with all kinds of bruises, bruises and mosquito bites.
Don't say it's Liu Ye, I really don't recognize him.
In this film, Wang Jicai, played by Liu Ye, needs to go through an age span of more than thirty years, and the director requires him to present a "no-performance" performance.
When filming first began, Liu Ye had a shot that was reshot 27 times, which also allowed him to discover some problems that he had not noticed in his previous performances.
When the final film was released, an ordinary and brave "island keeper" was presented to the audience, and Wang Jicai's more than 30 years of island keeping was truly and vividly portrayed.
And Liu Ye's delicate interpretation of the inner emotions of Wang Jicai's character is also easy to think of the simple and innocent mountain village boy in "That Mountain Man That Dog".
Such a return to basics performance is undoubtedly the most infectious.
Liu Ye has also been shortlisted for several film emperor awards, including the Golden Rooster Award, for this role, and he has won the Best Actor Award at the Changchun Film Festival just past.
Although he ultimately failed to stand on the stage of the Golden Rooster Awards, the "Island Keeper" he starred in this time also won the Best Feature Film Award, which is also an honor.
Regarding Liu Ye, everyone has the lament of "hurting Zhongyong", the regret of "no more aura", and the feeling that the former "melancholy little student" has become grounded.
But for an actor, if he does not retire, his acting career is a lifetime.
Whether it is literature or art, or business, in the final analysis, it is the performance itself.
And Liu Ye's performance in the movie "Shoudao Man" this time can be said to be a major breakthrough in his previous performance style.
It is precisely because of this that the result of his rubbing shoulders with the Golden Rooster Film Emperor this time has also made many netizens feel very sorry.
However, as a talented actor who is very serious about acting, I believe that Liu Ye will not wait for 17 years the next time he wins the Golden Rooster Film Emperor.
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