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If it were not for some special opportunity, Liu Ye would rarely be mentioned today.
In the past 2021, Liu Ye's "Island Keeper" has gained a good reputation.
Based on a true story, the film tells the story of Wang Jicai and his wife who dedicated their youth to the coastal defense cause of the motherland for more than 30 years, relying on each other and guarding Kaishan Island.
Compared with those cool films, this serious biographical theme is obviously not a box office darling, but Liu Ye likes this pure creative state.
The conditions on the small island are harsh and the materials are scarce, in order to maximize the restoration of life on the island, the crew has been stationed here for nearly half a year.
In the isolated environment, the distractions of various moods have been reduced a lot, and Liu Ye has also felt the sense of solidity of shooting a shot for a morning and dozens of times.
With this film, Liu Ye was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor and eventually won the 34th Golden Rooster Award for Best Feature Film, 23 years after he was last nominated for the award.
At the time, he was 19 years old and played a simple village postman, and coincidentally, it was also a story about perseverance.
In the 1980s, in a small mountain forest on the western border of Hunan Province, a father and son and a dog walked.
The father is a postman in the village, over the years of overwork, leg and foot inconvenience, is about to retire, Liu Ye played by the son just failed the college entrance examination, it is natural to take over the father's work.
This is the son's first time to send a letter, the father is not at ease, insisting on following, the son's heart is a little awkward, in his memory, the father has always been outside for many years, the family gathered less and more.
During this trip, the son gradually realized the hardships of his father's life outside, the difficulties of life, and the responsibility and significance of this job.
This is the 1998 film directed by Huo Jianqi ,That Mountain That Man That Dog", starring Liu Ye just 19 years old, is a sophomore student in Chinese opera, the results are not good, once wanted to quit school, so there is no talk of acting skills.
Perhaps this state of ignorance is just right, and Liu Ye in the shot shows an unadorned sense of youth, as the film critic said: he walks on the road, the road is pure; he walks at the water's edge, the water is pure.
With this film, the fledgling Liu Ye was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award, which also made him fall in love with acting from the bottom of his heart.
When he was first admitted to the Chinese opera, Liu Ye was the youngest student in the class, because he was not good at socializing, nor did he have the experience of attending an art school like most of the students in the class, Liu Ye was always inferior and sensitive, often running to Shichahai alone in the middle of the night to cry, he felt that he was particularly useless.
When the class teacher Chang Li saw him like this, she was both distressed and funny.
In the eyes of the teachers, Liu Ye is recognized as a good seedling, and he will definitely come out in the future, because almost every director who picks an actor will look at him and say that he has a special temperament.
His eyes were as if they had never shone in the sun, always gloomy, sad, and damp, and under his long eyelashes seemed to be a layer of wet vapor, fragile with a faint sense of exhaustion.
When he was about to graduate from college, Hong Kong director Kwan Kam Peng decided to go out and shoot a gay movie "Lan Yu".
By chance, he saw a photo of Liu Ye when he was 17 years old, and his heart was shocked: the weakness in the child's eyes actually had the style of Liang Chaowei when he was young.
"In 2000, this consciousness was too advanced." Liu Ye struggled for a long time.
What finally convinced him was the director's powerful aura.
"Ruan Lingyu, Rouge Buckle, Red Rose White Rose... All of them are first-class works, and it is certainly not wrong to follow such a director! ”
Partnered with Liu Ye is His brother Hu Jun, who is nine years older than him, and the two northern masters are going to love to death in the play, and Liu Ye is a little helpless.
Guan Jinpeng said to him: "When you shoot this scene, you must fall in love with Hu Jun, you must be fascinated by him." ”
With the continuous polishing on the set, the two gradually entered the play, and Lan Yu, who was gentle on the outside and tough on the inside, was interpreted by Liu Ye to score three points.
On February 10, 2001, "Lan Yu" was completed. That night, everyone was singing and drinking together, planning not to get drunk, Hu Jun pulled Liu Ye and said, "Hey, you sing a song for me!" ”
Liu Ye instinctively said the line: "I can't sing." ”
Hu Jun insisted: "Just sing what you often sing, 'The person who loves you the most is me'!" ”
Liu Ye didn't hold back and burst into tears. Everyone at the party cried a lot, and no crew had ever eaten like this.
Stills from "Blue Yu"
Later, Hu Jun said: "After filming, we rarely contacted each other, and if we wanted to get out of this scene as soon as possible, I would deliberately not call him, and he also understood and did not call." ”
A few months later, the Golden Award for Best Actor was announced, and Liu Ye won back the trophy, becoming the youngest Golden Horse Award film emperor in film history.
On the way back, Liu Ye and Hu Jun and Guan Jinpeng had a car, and unlike the laughter and laughter when they came, everyone was silent, from beginning to end.
The huge aura came overnight, and the road ahead seemed to deviate from the established track, and Liu Ye felt ecstatic and sad.
In 2002, Liu Ye collaborated with Zhou Xun and Chen Kun on a film "Balzac and the Little Tailor", what a landscape it would be for three people with special temperaments to walk together.
The embarrassing thing is that every time they walk on the street, the fans just surround Zhou Xun and Chen Kun, and they don't know who Liu Ye is.
"I'm just waiting there, they don't even look at me, buddy made so many good movies, it can't withstand a big tv series." 」
Soon after, director Zhao Baogang sent a script "What to Save You, My Love", after careful consideration, Liu Ye abandoned the affectionate, decent, rich and handsome Handing, and chose Long Xiaoyu, who was poor, murderous, and scumbag.
Stills from "What To Save You, My Love"
This role is not pleasing, but Liu Ye's gloomy temperament gives the character a different sense of vulnerability, making people love and hate dilemmas.
Worthy of the film emperor-level acting skills, Liu Ye's first participation in the TV series has become a household name, and since then he has walked on the street, and he has also become the most eye-catching boy.
Netizens' comments on Liu Ye's role
Under the fame, Liu Ye was afraid, and he had achieved such a high achievement just after graduation, so that he did not dare to fall down from the beginning.
In order to win more opportunities, he has never loved socializing, he began to mix meals frequently, afraid that he was not active enough, he always came up to do three cups first, and after drinking and floating, there were more words, and maybe chatting and chatting could bump into opportunities.
In this way, in 2003 alone, he made 5 movies and 4 TV series, squeezing himself to the point where there was no time left.
On weekdays, Liu Ye always carries a pen and a small book with him, and when he has time, he huddles around to write and draw, and he calculates how to use the limited time to seize more opportunities.
However, the world is like this, when God chases you to feed you, you have to eat, but when you insist on chasing in turn, you will stage a praise father chasing the sun.
In 2004, Liu Ye partnered with Shu Qi to shoot a "Beauty Grass", Liu Ye played a Zhiqing, and the role of Qingshu and simple was already familiar to him. Although this work allowed Liu Ye to win the Golden Rooster Award again, the surprise he brought to the public was far less than that of "Lan Yu" that year.
It seems like a decent farewell, in the more than ten years after that, although Liu Ye was busy, he never came up with any decent works, and his melancholy image has completely become a thing of the past.
The advent of the blockbuster era has caused many literary and artistic youth to fall into confusion and struggle, but Liu Ye did not, and he actively caught up with the tide of the times.
In 2004, Liu Ye hitched a ride on Chen Kaige's "Wuji" express train and officially entered the commercial film, in which he was no longer a refreshing teenager, but a mysterious ghost wolf with a strange shape and half a black face.
This sudden transformation did not bring surprises to the audience, but encountered an overwhelming insult, which was a huge blow to Liu Ye, who was accustomed to being touted and appreciated.
He was anxious to find an exit, but the results were getting worse and worse, almost out of control.
In 2006, Liu Ye was busy with Zhang Yimou's "The Golden Armor in the City", while collaborating on "Dark Matter" with film queen Meryl Streep in the United States.
During that time, he frequently traveled between Chongqing and Los Angeles, and for more than a dozen hours on the plane, he could not rest for a moment, and could only rely on alcohol and sleeping pills to fall asleep every day.
In addition to the panic in his career, it is the endless bitterness after the loss of love, and there is a natural romance in his bones.
With a delicate and sensitive mind, he became more and more unable to see the road ahead, lived in great pain, had insomnia all night, and even had violent tendencies.
This life has been going on for three or four years, and Liu Ye doesn't know where the head is, until one day he meets Anna at a party of friends.
She loves to laugh and be funny, lively and cheerful, and exudes the lazy romance characteristic of French girls.
Like a beam of light, she shone into his heart like this, and his melancholy just happened to poke her, he was so beautiful and fragile.
In order to help Liu Ye out of the predicament, Anna dragged him out on a long journey, they set off from southern Norway, all the way north, stop and go every day, do whatever they want.
Liu Ye and Anna
Liu Ye still needs sleeping pills to fall asleep, Anna said, don't eat it, I will accompany you to tell stories until dawn if you can't sleep.
That night, Liu Ye fell asleep steadily, and woke up the next day, as if he were born again.
He used to be afraid of losing any chance, spinning like a top, obviously he had a lot, but he felt as if he had nothing.
Anna said: "When you were a child, your whole family was crammed into a house the size of a sofa, and no matter how bad we were, we would not be worse than then, so don't be afraid, we are enough." ”
At that moment, Liu Ye suddenly wanted a home.
In 2009, they held a wedding ceremony in Beijing's Ditan Park, and everyone envied that this girl must have saved the galaxy in her previous life.
But Liu Ye said dotingly: "Anna is my angel, she saved me." ”
Liu Ye walked down from the altar, starting from being too close to the people.
Out of depression, he once had a kind of release madness.
When Weibo rose, Liu Ye became the "President of Huohua", grabbing the sofa and writing paragraphs on Weibo, as long as he moved his fingers, he could respond to everything, and received far more attention than the hard work of acting.
The reality show is on fire, Liu Ye has not fallen, with his son Nuoyi on the camera, he is also red.
When his peers complained about the market downturn and the lack of job opportunities, Liu Ye could enjoy all the roles: great man, tough guy, comic... Decent villains, literary jokes, he has acted over and over again.
There is no doubt that Liu Ye is lucky.
In his early twenties, he achieved success that many people could not have in their lifetime; when he was in his thirties, he married his beloved girl and had both children; when he was not confused in his forties, he no longer pursued perfection, no longer coveted the peak, and found the original heart of the actor in a down-to-earth manner.
On the other hand, Liu Ye's grounding now is not so much a transformation and compromise as it is a kind of maturity and return.
After a storm, Liu Ye found his lost self, and his only regret was that he had lost some aura.
If so, it's a pity.
Resources:
"Very Quiet Distance" Interview with Liu Ye
Author: Liu Dudu, a signed author of the reader character. There is Kunlun in the heart, there are vicissitudes in the eyes, and the martial arts dream that cannot be realized, the words are found in the wine.
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