No one expected that "Anti-Corruption Storm 5" would end so sloppily.
The box office is good, but the word of mouth is very poor.
Lu Zhilian, chief investigation officer of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, played by Gu Tianle, eventually died with the criminals, and many viewers thought that this ending was "really unnecessary" after watching it.
Not only is the plot slightly far-fetched, the most important reason is that the images of Lu Zhilian and Gu Tianle have long overlapped and bound.
One is a 100% positive figure who is "determined to be incorruptible", and the other is a "man who can only be black by the sun". Lu Zhilian's sacrifice and how much scolding he has suffered are enough to prove everyone's reluctance and love for Gu Zai.
However, why is Gu Tianle, such a "model film emperor" and praised by Du Qifeng as "the last star of Hong Kong", always making bad films?
NetEase News once had a special topic: "We analyzed 16,000 movies and found out the king of bad chinese movies" - Gu Zai successfully ranked at the bottom and won the title of bad film emperor.
Gu Tianle, don't you really know how to cherish your feathers?
The rebellion of the "Eagle Hero"
Jin Yong described Yang Guo in the book as follows: "Long body jade standing, eyebrows clear eyes, sword eyebrows into the sideburns, phoenix eyes are threatening." ”
The young Gu Tianle seems to have been born for this role: casual, cunning and elegant. His appearance makes the phrase "once Yang mistaken for life" full of persuasiveness.
The moment the mask was removed in the restaurant, I don't know how many young girls were thrilled.
In fact, what is the similarity between Gu Tianle and Yang Guo? They are all the same person with their own personality and their own attachments – once they have decided something, they will never waver.
After the fire of "Divine Eagle", Gu Tianle became synonymous with the beautiful man of the Hong Kong circle flower. The praise of the handsome male god and the cream boy is still in the ear, and Gu Tianle has not hesitated to choose "self-destruction" - he cut the board inches, trained his muscles, and the skin became darker and darker, and since then he bid farewell to the "white ancient" era.
In the entertainment circle of looking at faces, he left a huge advantage in appearance without a word. Because what he wants to become is never a "Pan An" with bright eyes and red lips and white teeth, but a "cool man" with style and style, crisp and neat.
He values his own preferences and wishes more than the audience likes them or not.
Facts have also proved that after the tanning of Gu Tianle, the drama road is indeed wider, and it can interpret some complex characters who are both good and evil.
Ah Bai of "Fire Ambition", Zhang Zili of "Genesis", and Xiang Shaolong of "In Search of Qin" are all classic characters of Hong Kong opera.
No matter how many viewers prefer themselves in the "Baigu" period, Gu Tianle has never thought of going back, but has become darker and darker. From the wheat color to the bronze color, stubborn to this point, you can more or less see the rigidity in his temperament.
As early as before his debut, Gu Tianle worked as a porter, waiter, and manager of a modeling agency, and he was repeatedly photographed by scouts. Faced with the opportunity to become famous, he seemed very impatient, and waved a big hand: Don't me.
He has his own rhythm of life and does not want to be disrupted by others. Until the closure of the modeling agency, in order to make a living, Gu Tianle reluctantly signed a contract with TVB.
Vanity Fair's struggle for your own and the division of interests are the things that Gu Tianle is most tired of and disdainful.
The reason why he is willing to stay in TVB is entirely because of the manager "Bajie" who helped and promoted him in the past. Later, as soon as Bajie resigned, he left decisively.
In Gu Tianle's bones, there was a kind of "chivalrous spirit" that was common to Yang Guo.
In his opinion, praising fame and fortune, sought after by thousands of people, is not the coolest.
A promise of thousands of gold, a grateful picture, my own way, and adhering to these ancient jianghu righteousness are the coolest.
There was once a fan who left a message hoping to learn about Gu Tianle through the blog. He has been updating every day from 08 to 2020, rain or shine, for 12 years.
How strong and powerful such a self-controlled and terrifying person is in his heart can be seen.
Even if he is over 50 years old, today's Gu Zai is still the same, except for the works, no explanation, no wording, no eye-catching, no hype and exaggeration.
He never catered to the so-called "rules" and "gameplay" of the entertainment industry, nor did he cater to what the audience wanted to see him like.
He is himself, a rebellious, little-talking "chivalrous" man with his own ruler and precepts in his chest.
Ordinary and ancient Tianle, what is it insisting on?
After filming "In Search of Qin", Gu Tianle bid farewell to the television circle and started his long film career.
Although "ordinary and strange ancient Heavenly Music" is a ridiculous sentence, his achievements in the film circle seem to be really unremarkable.
In 2007, his old partner Liu Qingyun won his first trophy after eight Academy Award nominations; the following year, Zhang Jiahui, who had played a supporting role for himself, also stood on the podium for best actor.
Only Gu Tianle, empty pockets. He was like a hard-working child, still waiting for his approval.
Finally, after 24 years of debut and more than 100 films, he won the Academy Award in 2008.
This year, Gu Tianle was 48 years old.
We can't help but guess that if he could take care of his feathers, make fewer bad films, and carefully pick the script, this award may not come so late.
Gu Zai's acting skills are obvious to all, the paranoid Cai Timming in "Drug War" and the fierce and tender Li Zhizhong in "Kill the Wolf and The Greedy Wolf" are all portrayed in three points, very subtle.
Even in the word-of-mouth "Anti-Corruption Storm 5", Gu Zai's acting skills are still remarkable.
It is almost certain that if he shoots fewer and more refined works, he will be closer to the film emperor. But for Gu Tianle, what is more important than glory is that "there are many people who need me."
This sentence is not an egocentric, false sense of moral superiority, but really many people need him.
For example, the Hong Kong film industry. With the collective fading of the older generation of filmmakers, the decline of Hong Kong films is irreversible, and many young and middle-aged actors have gone north and come to the inland to develop.
And Gu Tianle has been holding his ground. He continues to output with an average annual workload of 5-8 films, 90% of which are the works of Hong Kong directors.
From the newcomer of the past to the "old man" of today, Gu Tianle has a sense of responsibility for reinvigorating Hong Kong films on his shoulders. Of course, this also means: relatively speaking, lower film remuneration, greater workload.
It can be imagined that if one day, Gu Tianle, Liu Qingyun, and Zhang Jiahui also gave up making Hong Kong films, and that golden age would really end.
The more you shoot, the less the average score of the work will inevitably be. Gu Tianle's lack of pick on the script actually reflects the habit of veteran Hong Kong stars to treat actors as ordinary professions: if there is a work, it is good.
Moreover, he needs money to do more important things.
Even when the reputation was the lowest, Gu Tianle never spoke up: there was a group of children who also needed him.
It was not until 2014, when director Er Dongsheng revealed on Weibo that Gu Tianle had been donating to primary schools, and his good deeds were not known.
In the face of his friend's revelations, Gu Tianle was very annoyed, because he didn't bother to explain the endless questions: Why did you do this? What do you think? Why not let everyone know?
All questions about charity, he responded with one sentence:
"I don't want to talk about this matter, I just want to help others when I have the ability."
Since the Wenchuan earthquake, Gu Tianle has donated more than 100 school buildings, 18 medical rooms, 1 small water conservancy project, and 750 mouthfuls of water.
The remuneration of the Hong Kong circle is not too high, it can be said that these public facilities are all filmed by Gu Tianle all year round, one by one.
But he has never been vocal, let alone selling his reputation and reputation, or using charity as an excuse to make up for his "bad films".
He is just doing what he thinks is worth doing, "film emperor", "good reputation", "good actor" of course have weight, but there are many things, far more valuable than these.
What really matters is not whether you can get round after round of applause, but in the face of the uncertainty of honor, you still dare to summon up the courage to move forward.
Gu Tianle's persistence has never been unremarkable.
From the prodigal son of the past to the mainstay of today
Gu Tianle has acted in many of Du Qifeng's gangster films, and what few people know is that he himself was an authentic ancient puzzle boy when he was young.
Because of his family's poverty, he dropped out of school early to work, entered the society, and got acquainted with some small. At the age of 18, he was sentenced to prison for helping the robbery brothers, leaving a case.
This incident also became the only black material on Gu Tianle's body.
After being released from prison, he found that his girlfriend had been dug into a corner by a good brother, and since then he has seen the true face of the group.
For a long time, he worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant. One day, the boss handed him a black plastic bag and asked him to wash the ingredients inside.
When I opened it, I saw a skinned, bloody snake.
In his autobiography, The Quest for Fun, Gu Zai said, "(I) really washed the snake all day, and that fishy smell will never be forgotten for the rest of my life." ”
Gu Tianle will always remember the nausea, panic, and humiliation that surged up from his intestines.
After experiencing the disaster of imprisonment and the hardships of working hard at the bottom, Gu Tianle knows better: how important education is to a young child; a good deed is likely to change the trajectory of a person's life.
A lost teenager who grew up in the "jianghu" and went to prison, but eventually became a good person praised by everyone, Gu Tianle's identity change seems surprising, but in fact it is not surprising.
Because only by deeply experiencing the darkness of taking the wrong path can you better understand the taste of life being illuminated.
You see, his kindness and responsibility are always present in the third-person narrative of the news:
Huang Wenbiao, an old drama bone, fell to selling fish to survive, and Gu Tianle invited him to participate in his own film version of "Searching for Qin";
Lan Jieying, who died suddenly, was left unattended, and Gu Tianle held a decent funeral for her;
In his later years, the gold medal supporting actor Lee Shau Kee, who was plagued by illness and had a poor life, was determined to give up treatment, and it was Gu Tianle who kept providing him with medicine and financial support until the death of the other party.
As the president of the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association, when the new crown was raging, he first joined forces with a number of companies to make public welfare films, and used all the box office to create the "anti-epidemic fund", giving each low-level actor 9,000 Hong Kong dollars in living expenses. If the funds are insufficient, they will make up for it out of their own pockets.
At the height of the masks, he procured 1.3 million masks worldwide through his charity foundation and distributed them throughout Hong Kong, and even street scavengers repeatedly told the team not to fall behind.
I think that's why people are always so tolerant of Gu Tianle's "black material".
In 2021, he was first questioned that the primary school he donated had long been abandoned, and then it was revealed that he had a child in secret marriage and had a divorced melon. But Gu Zai did not need to explain anything at all, and he had already gained people's understanding and trust.
From the prodigal son of the past to the mainstay of today, Gu Tianle has seen too much darkness and unbearable along the way, but he is still kind and persistent, and his pure and virtuous heart has not changed.
This is a cool guy who competes with fate and has a full personality, and is also a mature man who is introverted and heavy, and tender like water.
Someone once asked Gu Tianle why he insisted on the daily more blog.
His answer was like his signature, all the way through to the end, until he wrote the circle outside the poster: "It's hard to stick to one thing, and if you can stick to it, then other things can be done." ”
The life force that never stops, always working against the frustrated reality.
I think this is the most attractive trait in Gu Tianle.