After 5 years, actor Liu Ye won the Golden Deer Award again with "The Guardian of the Island", and the "Four Golden" film emperor is well deserved.
In recent years, the presence of actor Liu Ye has gradually decreased, and the works left over from his early years have slowly been forgotten.
Around him, in addition to love, is the identity of father and husband.
However, through the movie "Shoudao Man", we can see Liu Ye's strength as an actor and see Liu Ye's attitude as an actor to polish his works with heart.
Looking back at Liu Ye's debut to the present, he has experienced the transformation of exploding popularity, falling through the trough, being healed by his family, and returning to his works again, and he has to introduce deep thinking: only works are eternal.
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01
That wind and water for six years
In 1999, Liu Ye first entered the film world with the role of a small postman in "That Mountain That Man That Dog".
Between the mountains and the water, a dog walked in front, the little postman carried a backpack in the middle, and the father followed at the end with a cane.
On a trip up the mountain met a villager carrying firewood down the mountain, he did not know how to give way, in order not to affect the villagers normal descent, he gave way sideways and almost fell.
The father instructed afterwards: "When you meet someone again, go to the right side."
The little postman and his father didn't talk much as they walked, so he just walked forward.
During a walk, he walked too fast to find that his father had not followed for a long time, often looking back and continuing to walk, his face anxious and overwhelmed.
After taking a breath, he hurried back until he saw his father slowly come over.
He was nervous when he saw the living, and his father introduced him to the villagers and nodded with a smile, green and shy.
It can be said that Liu Ye's image and soft acting skills have added a lot to "That Mountain That Mountain That Dog", and he also won the Golden Rooster Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor with this role.
Perhaps it is Liu Ye's youthful and pure temperament that makes him stand out frequently in the casting of directors.
When he was about to graduate, Liu Ye received an invitation from director Guan Jinpeng to play a gay man in "Lan Yu".
For such a forward-looking subject, Liu Ye had hesitated, but considering that this was an invitation from a big director who had filmed classic masterpieces such as "Red Roses and White Roses", he decided to give it a go.
Lan Yu in the film is a boy from a poor, simple and humble family, who often has a sense of gloom on his face.
Lan Yu is forced to sell his life in order to make up for the tuition, but in the transaction, he falls in love with the game love field brother Chen Handong, and the whole process is full of hope, despair, and rebirth.
After Lan Yu and Chen Handong made their first trade, they saw each other again after 4 months, and Lan Yu's eyebrows were cautious and full of joy.
Lan Yu wore the scarf given by Chen Handong to the appointment, sitting at the table, Chen Handong smoked a cigarette, Lan Yu happily ate melon seeds, and the two laughed.
Chen Handong drove Lan Yu home, and Lan Yu sat in the co-pilot and ate chestnuts happily like a child.
When Chen Handong confessed to Lan Yu that he wanted to marry Miss Lin, Lan Yu's expression of death, despair and helplessness made people feel sad.
After Chen Handong's divorce, he was eager to confirm whether Lan Yu already belonged to his heart, and Lan Yu only said that his lover was studying abroad, and he was unwilling to mention his past with him again.
Lan Yu, played by Liu Ye, was simple and melancholy during his youth, happy and humble after meeting Chen Handong, despaired and helpless after being abandoned, and became mature and reborn after being released.
In 2001, Liu Ye won the Best Actor Award at the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for "Lan Yu", which is well deserved.
Subsequently, Liu Ye played continuously.
Participated in "Balzac and the Little Tailor" with Zhou Xun and Chen Kun, became popular in "What to Save You, My Love", starred in "Blood Romance" with Sun Li, and won the Best Actor Award at the Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Film in the movie "Beauty Grass".
Whether it is the simple and simple village postman, or the melancholy and humble Lan Yu, or the sunny and evil Long Xiaoyu, they all represent the irreplaceable Liu Ye.
Kobe Bryant said: "Talented, but also do your best."
In the 6 years since his debut, Liu Ye has created a number of full roles, brought a number of classic works, and his actor career has flourished.
02
Insomnia and depression have become the norm
The fame of a teenager is a gift, a favor of fate, and a deep cause of misfortune.
Lan Yu's melancholy and humility, Long Xiaoyu's sensitivity and fragility, are the effects of Liu Ye delivering souls to the characters, and also deprive Liu Ye of the soul of character shaping.
For Liu Ye, the mind in his early twenties has interpreted so many characters with rich and complex hearts, in addition to the superficial brilliance, behind his back, he must silently bear the dark negative emotions of these characters.
Long Xiaoyu pulled the sensitive fragility in his bones into the sun, and when he was young, he often cried when he was criticized, and his nerves were tense at all times.
Chang Jihong said: "He is afraid to go down, always feel that it should be better, and force himself to die." ”
In 2005, Liu Ye broke up with his girlfriend of many years, causing his negative emotions to surge.
The agent said that Liu Ye himself is a person who likes to hold his emotions in his heart and never expresses negative emotions to his family. Occasionally, when the work is stressed, I just call my mother and cry.
To reduce his negative emotions, he spends more time at work.
Liu Ye took over Chen Kaige's "Wuji", cooperated with Yuan Quan in "Lake", and then "Full of Golden Armor" and "Dark Matter" followed.
365 days a year, Liu Ye only rests for 3 days.
However, it seems that the drama is continuous, but in fact, it has also ushered in a career bottleneck.
Liu Ye's previous drama path is biased towards literary and artistic film youth, he wants to try tough roles, so he began to transform, but he did not grasp the degree of integration of the role and himself, and the picture violated the sense of serious harmony.
The third elder played by Liu Ye in "Tough Guy", who should have the extraordinary courage and strong physique of a soldier, was brought out by him with a feeling of fitness coach, which caused extreme discomfort.
With Gu Tianle and Zhang Jiahui starring in "Keep talking", the leader of the international criminal organization Huo Deneng should have been a ruthless outlaw, but Liu Ye showed a blank and soulless empty shell.
After that, most of Liu Ye's roles are equally rigid.
Liu Ye himself once said: "The more anxious you are, the more there is no drama, relying on alcohol and sleeping pills to survive, let alone have good works." ”
Good works evolve in a good process, and the more demanding, the more hopeless, the more expected, the more disappointed.
Frustration in the love field, frustration in the workplace, in the end the starting point is too high, can not withstand a lot of pressure, for Liu Ye, insomnia, depression has become the norm.
03
The family drove away his haze
Ding Limei said: No matter how hazy the sky is, the sun is always there, not here is there.
In 2006, after 4 years of insomnia and depression, Liu Ye met his sun on the reverse side.
At a friend gathering, Anna fell in love with liu Ye, who was handsome and mixed with melancholy, and a beautiful encounter began.
At that time, Anna did not know that Liu Ye was an actor, and she was surprised to find Liu Ye's identity in a French embassy because of the reporter's shooting of Liu Ye.
As the two get to know each other deeper, Anna knows that although the man in front of her has a tough appearance, inside he is a child who is suffocating by pressure and work.
Anna said, "After my husband leaves his mother, he will find a woman like his mother."
Anna takes this lost boy on trips, diving, vacations, games, mountaineering...
It is Anna's tenderness like water, all kinds of tolerance and understanding, giving Liu Ye more sense of security, like the sun shining on him, he no longer sleepless night.
Liu Ye said: "It may be that she gave me a sense of security, as long as the two of us are together, she shouts one, two or three, I will sleep breathlessly." ”
In 2009, the three-year love period ended, and Liu Ye Anna entered the palace of marriage.
Anna once said that she decided to marry Liu Ye because he had a sense of responsibility for the family that French men do not have.
With the successive births of sons and daughters, the sense of family responsibility is vividly reflected in Liu Ye, and there has been a huge change in personality and life attitude.
Liu Ye once said: "Thirty and standing, you have to take on this family, you are the husband and father, is the role that makes the wife and children reliable."
He began to work seriously, participating in major variety shows such as "Where Daddy Goes", "Actors Please Take Place", "Planet Alliance" and so on.
In "Where Daddy Goes", Noy's well-behaved image and handsome face were well known to the audience, and soon set off a Weibo boom.
"Now Noyi's popularity is higher than mine, and fans on Weibo are clamoring to see him, and I am very happy that he is loved by everyone."
So Liu Ye began to interact with the audience through Weibo to convey Noy's message.
"On Weibo, people can't meet, but they can get closer through text. The Internet makes people see more of me on the other side, and people will feel that I have changed a lot. ”
After that, he also created his own Huohua Society, active in Weibo all year round, and grabbed the sofa with fans.
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Over the years, Liu Ye has obviously been much happier.
"Getting married, having children, understanding that many things are not what you think you can have, and after the maturity of the mentality, I am not so attached to awards." 」
Don't dwell on the present, don't worry about the future, sleep well, have a good dream, leave time for the work to precipitate.
For Liu Ye, the family is his sun, illuminating his world, driving away his haze and filling his dissatisfaction.
04
The "Four Gold" movie emperor is back on track
Zhou Guoping once said: True maturity should be the formation of a unique personality, the discovery of the true self, the spiritual results and harvest.
This sentence is most suitable to describe Liu Ye.
Having experienced a hit, falling into a trough, fortunately being healed, and now that I have matured, it is time to focus on my work again.
Liu Ye once said: "Now I am more inclined to a good role mentality, and I am still a focus on acting, which has never changed." ”
In 2015, Liu Ye filmed "The Pursuer Also".
This time, he is no longer a tough guy, no longer a shell, but integrates himself with the character.
When Song Lao'er confirmed seeing the murderer Huang Mao in the stone wall, he immediately jumped off the stone wall and rushed down to try to catch him, shouting "stop" while chasing him half a village.
Until the "murderer" in the mouth of the murderer attracted the villagers, he did not forget to explain to the villagers about seeing the murderer.
Song Lao'er was tied up by the villagers and caught in front of the police, while struggling to untie the rope on his face and body, he also shouted to the police, "Lao Tzu has found the murderer", and the hair in his eyes revealed the strength to see the murderer desperately to catch it.
In addition to acting itself, it is the attitude of acting.
One of the most memorable shots was when he drove an old car that didn't even have brakes, and when he stepped on the accelerator, he was running on a mountain road at an altitude of 4,000 meters, and the slightest carelessness would cause death.
There are many extremely dangerous shooting scenes like this, and even the agent said: "He shot the scene of "The Pursuer", and he was terrified. ”
Emperor Tian did not live up to his hard heart, and the following year Liu Ye won the Golden Jubilee Award for "The Pursuer".
He waited for this award for 12 years.
In the filming of "My War", he also personally fought, never used a stand-in, and his face was burned by the explosive gunpowder star when shooting, his feet were injured in hand-to-hand combat, and it was common to "hang up the color" in the smoke of the fire.
Sun Beichuan and the soldiers peed under the train wheels, and when they first saw the female relatives of the army, they followed the soldiers blindly. Then, provoked by Sanxia's disobedient response, he came up with a sentence of "Lao Tzu is a horse, who fights", which deduces the vulgarity of the role.
In addition to vulgarity, there is hidden the kindness of the character's heart.
When clearing mines, he asked Comrade Sanxia to go first.
In the trapped mountainous areas, let the people of their troops stand where they are, and personally lead people out of the mountains to break through.
In 2020, Liu Ye accepted the invitation of the movie "Island Keeper" and went to the island with the filming team to explore and experience the real life of the island keeper.
During the filming process, it was often wind and sun, and Liu Yeren was often injured.
When filming the first scene, Liu Ye acted 27 times.
At first, he was a little confused, but then he quickly understood the director's intentions.
This play should be performed like a documentary, to be restored naturally, rather than designed specifically with the technique of acting.
With the professionalism and belief of the actors, Liu Ye and the team filmed a 4-month location in a difficult environment.
In June 2021, "Island Keeper" was released, we saw the real island environment, saw Wang Jicai, who was full of family and national feelings, and also saw the powerful actor Liu Ye.
In December of the same year, Liu Ye won the Golden Deer Award.
The effort will not be disappointed, the strength cannot be questioned, and the worst result is that it comes later.
Liu Ye, the film emperor of the "Four Golds", returned to the right track and told everyone with his achievements: Only works are eternal.
Text/Tang Ling