If you go to see "Sniper" and "Miracle" this Spring Festival file, then you will definitely see Zhang Yu's figure.
In "Sniper", he is the legendary sniper Liu Wenwu on the battlefield. Under the blood of the remnant sun, even if the strength is weak, he will not miss the opportunity to die with the enemy.
In "Miracle", he is the cold-faced foreman Yue Brother. When it is found that the people under his hands are injured at work, the split head and cover the face are a scolding, but when settling the salary, they will stuff a few more red paper bills, typical knife mouth tofu heart.
Two characters with very different styles and very different performance styles have been played by Zhang Yu just right, and even exceeded expectations.
Whether it is the filming of "Sniper" or the re-cooperation with the crew of "I Am Not a Medicine God" in "Miracle", he can follow the character itself and figure out the inertial expression that only that character has.
In "Sniper", Liu Wenwu has a line that pokes the audience's tears, "Take you out of your hometown, Lao Tzu can't take you home now." According to director Zhang Yimou, this sentence was added by Zhang Yu himself. All the responsibilities, regrets, unwillingness, and even self-blame of being a squad leader all emerge in this sentence.
In the set tidbits of "Miracle", there is a scene of Yi Qianxi and Zhang Yu admitting mistakes, and what is expected is Zhang Yu's relentless reprimand, which is the character portrayal written by the script early, and outside the script, no one will think that Zhang Yu on the scene will suddenly throw something at Qianxi, which is the character's anger instinct and the three-dimensional details that Zhang Yu injected into it. This impromptu performance also aroused the performance instinct of the opponent Qianxi, giving a performance that made director Wen Muye praise. Later, in Qianxi's recollection, this scene was particularly profound, "Teacher Zhang Yu can give you energy." ”
This kind of contemplation of performance is Zhang Yu's performance habit as always, and it is often the "surprise" in the performance. When filming "I Am Not a Medicine God", "Huang Mao" played by Zhang Yu and "Cheng Yong" played by Xu Zheng had a seemingly simple dialogue at the pier, but it was very touching in the performance scene.
Cheng Yong asked Huang Mao, "Do you look down on me?" ”
Huang Mao's answer was "yes", but it was followed by a sentence: "It used to be." ”
This moment that makes the touch extremely resonate and move is actually the improvisation of Zhang Yu and Xu Zheng.
Before taking over the scene, Zhang Yu will have his own understanding of the characters and the script, maybe this understanding is not necessarily correct, but he will reach a consensus with the director before starting the camera. Only when this consensus is established can they create. If he did not meet his previous expectations, Zhang Yu would be very frustrated and regretful. "I especially like money. Film is my profession, I have no family property, no side business, I can only rely on my business to make money. But some books were sent to me to see, this character really can't understand, can't understand me can't act. ”
Movie "Calm Wind and Waves"
Zhang Yu as Song Hao
Everyone who has seen Zhang Yu's works should have this feeling, he has a lot of energy, that is only for the performance of the stubborn, but also the reason why he can finally succeed. As he said: "Every character will have a point that touches me, and I think that point is attractive, even if it is small, it will arouse my desire to create." I can't guarantee that every one of my works will be good, but from before to now, I've never been fooled when I treat that part of myself. ”
In terms of success in the secular sense, "I Am Not a Medicine God" is definitely a play that promotes the process of Zhang Yu's performance.
Four years ago, when filming "I Am Not a Medicine God", director Wen Muye still did not know who Zhang Yu was, it was Ning Hao who recommended Zhang Yu to Wen Muye, and it became a "yellow hair" classic.
There was also a common doubt between the industry and the audience overnight - who was the actor who played the "yellow hair".
Four years later, Wen Muye directed "Miracle" and worked with Zhang Yu again, and his name has become one of the reasons why audiences go to see the movie.
"Many powerful factions have joined", and Zhang Yu is one of the powerful factions.
On the day of the nomination for the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor with "I Am Not a Medicine God", Zhang Yu was undoubtedly happy, and almost no one would refuse his efforts to finally be affirmed, but for Zhang Yu, it was only limited to happiness. In the face of the swarming of interviews, he chose to refuse one by one, especially video interviews. Even to this day, interviews are something he would actively avoid.
Movie "Elephant Sitting on the Ground"
Zhang Yu as Yu Cheng
Too much attention made him feel flustered and suffocated, "it seems that all the people, all the information suddenly came to me, overwhelmed, and even felt that they would be overwhelmed by those things, there was a feeling of suffocation." 」 I could only start isolating, isolating, isolating, isolating, isolating, and slowly adjusting. ”
Stills from the movie "Calm Wind and Waves"
After the adjustment, it was his rational view of the sudden "fire" of the matter. "In the past, you needed to feed yourself candy, that is, you did something that others couldn't see, but you had to tell yourself that this thing was very beautiful, for example, there was a movie that couldn't be released in China, many people couldn't see your work and your efforts, and everyone couldn't discuss your good or bad." However, after "Medicine God", suddenly everyone stuffed you with sugar, which at first felt really sweet, but after a long time, it will be snored. ”
Stills from the movie "The Elephant Sits on the Ground"
Although Zhang Yu does not like to be interviewed, and the outside world has not explored him much deeply, from all the information he has known so far, it is not difficult to find that his life itself is full of drama.
In the year of Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games, Zhang Yu wrote a sentence in his diary: In 2008, I should be in Beijing.
It was this sentence that made the later Zhang Yu instantly break free from the boring work life, give up the job of the drama troupe that everyone envied, write a bloody resignation letter, and go all the way north from then on.
Zhang Yu, who came to Beijing, had a bad time, the drama was not much acted, and there were problems in life. Eating and paying rent became his primary problems. For him, life may have been a chicken feather, but everything he has experienced has finally become the nourishment of his creation, and the opportunity to see himself again. "I knew I could be an actor. No drama or good, can be relaxed. As the old saying goes, kung fu is outside the play, and it is about how you usually allocate your energy and handle your life. In fact, the bigger topic than work is life, how to face life, face the most unbearable, embarrassing, anxious self in life, this is the biggest subject. In times of greatest embarrassment, you may see yourself more easily. ”
In Zhang Yu's imagination when he was a child, he should have a helicopter at the age of 30. This was his definition of success — having money, having money to drive a helicopter.
But now Zhang Yu said, "I'm almost 40, and I don't even have a motorcycle now." ”
It's just that no one can judge whether he is successful or not, including Zhang Yu himself.
Zhang Yu, who has used his unique performance tension, has become an indispensable part of the powerful actors.
Edit: Sibe
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