The old man's shirt, big shorts, slippers, and his back were loosely stretched and he stood there, his stomach bulging outward, and his eyes were sluggish and cowardly.
This is not a middle-aged greasy male picture book, but the former Qinglong Award Film Emperor, Liu Yaren.
Liu Yaren gained a full 30 pounds, all for the role in the movie [silent].
Such a fat and scruffy young man with a pestle there, still a dumb man who did not say a word, the audience even thought he was "sexy".
"Closing your eyes and blowing" is not in the minority:
"In general, Liu Yaren's acting skills can go straight to the Green Dragon Award."
In [Silent], the character TaiRen played by Liu Yaren is deceived by the little girl he saved and flees
"First-rate subject matter and actors, third-rate scripts and directors. White blinded Liu Yaren, really. ”
The old mother broke her heart for Liu Yaren
Liu Yaren is Liu Yaren, and movies are movies.
So double standard?
Looking back at the first half of the year, Liu Yaren's zombie film [alive] that is very crotch-pulling in all aspects has received countless complaints.
Released in June 2020, [Alive], Douban scored 5.6
The protagonist is set up in a cliché, the plot is full of bugs, and there is no way to exaggerate it!
While letting the director and screenwriter come out and be beaten, everyone is sad that Liu Yaren has such a bad movie on the stall.
"Yaren, Yaren, why are you wasting your acting skills to take this?"
Soul Torture: Why did Liu Yaren act in this film? Why should I watch it? “
It is simply an old mother with hard work and bitterness sighing to educate her son who does not seek progress, and hates iron and steel.
Forget it, give Liu Yaren a sympathy score. Five stars.
No matter how bad the movie is, The one who praises Liu Yaren's acting skills will never be absent.
What is the charm of this man?
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In fact, I don't blame these "old mothers" for their true feelings, they are all caused by the roles played by Liu Yaren.
Liu Yaren's first TV series debut was KBS TV's "Yulin Growth Diary 1" in 2003.
The character Heren played by Liu Yaren is tender enough to pinch out the water
A 63-episode TV series, until today, the audience is going crazy.
But at that time, everyone was played by Liu Yaren, who was a high school student and was extremely gentle with the people he liked, and he was confused.
What a great handsome guy!
Many actors who have just debuted have been so praised, and it is too late to be happy, but Liu Yaren has begun to screw up.
What does it mean to play such a beautiful teenager? Can a handsome man always eat as a meal?
From the beginning, he refused to be an idol.
Everyone should pay attention to their acting skills, not their looks.
Two years later, he appeared on the big screen as a decadent who had been idle all day.
[We Don't Have Tomorrow] is Liu Yaren's first film work
Fatherless and motherless, doing the work of washing cars is humble and meticulous.
Fantasizing about taking a gun and becoming a hero to save others, after accidentally getting involved in the gang, he trembles and hugs his brother, constantly repeating "I am afraid I am afraid".
Liu Yaren is still a teenager, only this time.
This teenager is no longer a cool and obedient boy next door who does not understand the world, but a low-level tragic figure who cannot see tomorrow.
Starting with the movie "We Don't Have Tomorrow" (2007), everyone began to find that Liu Yaren really had something in addition to being handsome.
He also admitted that he could not refuse the "innocent and kind" juvenile character by nature, and even a little addictive.
The loneliness, poverty, wandering, and confusion in the hearts of these unfortunate teenagers are all too understandable to Liu Yaren.
It was like looking in the mirror.
When the teenager he played, Shu De, complained and shouted "Why do you want to do this to me", everyone felt that this was Liu Yaren himself.
[Teenage Shude] (2011), the protagonist Tao Yunde, played by Liu Yaren, has no friends and no love around him, and only relies on his own fist to solve everything.
Only Liu Yaren, who is melancholy and even looks a little sad, can control this role.
At this point, 10 years have passed, and Liu Yaren is still on the road of "youth".
The teenager went farther and farther, and finally ushered in an outbreak in 2015.
When he lowered his head and played the piano, he was an obsessive teenager in the [secret meeting] who fell in love with a female teacher who was more than twenty years older than himself, and completely conquered the other party with only one song.
When he lifted his head and sprayed hairspray, he was the bastard son of the chaebol boss in [The Old Man].
The basket he poked out could not end, so he beat the dog he was carrying with him to vent with a stick.
When someone else says a few words that he doesn't like to hear, he's about to pinch someone's throat.
It is black and white, and it is extremely vicious.
When it came to [Si Mourning], Shizi, who originally liked to dance swords and swords, was pampered and sunny and kind, and was "PUA" by his father all day long.
Under the long-term suppression, Shizi gradually went to a mental breakdown, and he held a sword on a rainy night in an attempt to kill his cold and vicious father.
But the teenager's panic, inferiority and helplessness suppressed his anger.
In the end, he was locked up in a rice cabinet by his father for 8 days, starved to death, and when he was buried, he could not even stretch his limbs.
The repressed teenager eventually died in a dramatic way.
It was also this extremely tragic role that made Liu Yaren, who was called "film emperor transfer student" by the media at that time, defeat the old predecessor of Chungmuro all the way and won the Best Actor Award at the 36th Korea Blue Dragon Film Awards.
It's incredible!
How can there be an actor who has only played one type of role and can even get the "Oscar" in South Korea?
Even Liu Yaren himself has been asked this question, "Why do you always play that kind of gloomy, a little mournful teenager?" ”
As he said in his acceptance speech, "I am more ashamed, shy and disliked to stand up than happy, happy and proud." ”
This is not a scene.
In Liu Yaren's personality, almost all the characteristics of teenagers are condensed.
Playing a teenager has long been fate.
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In the movie [Burning], the character Zhong Xiu, played by Liu Yaren, does not like to talk, and the whole person looks intimidated and looks bullied.
He walked and swayed, always feeling that he would be cheated out of the money in his pocket the next second.
Liu Yaren was also like this when he was a child.
Going to a relative's house made him very uncomfortable, and he wanted to go to the toilet but he didn't dare to say it.
I would only tell my mother very quietly, "I want to go to the toilet." ”
I was so shy and timid.
But no matter how timid a child is, there will always be a rebellious day.
Liu Yaren studied fine arts in high school and had studied well, but suddenly one day, he decided to drop out of school.
He felt that this was not what he really wanted to do, and it seemed good to be a glamorous entertainer.
After studying, he went to Seoul alone with a passion for blood and beautiful fantasies about artists.
As a result, he did not break out of the famous hall, and he did not learn yet, and Liu Yaren simply regretted dying.
Even for a while, as long as he saw the child wearing a school uniform, Liu Yaren couldn't help but cry.
What a strong and hot-blooded teenager, in the face of reality, is not yet an inferior and reckless and fragile child.
Until he really became an actor, this personality did not change, but "intensified".
At the 2015 Qinglong Award Ceremony, Liu Yaren, who was suddenly told that he had won the Film Emperor, had "overwhelmed" written on his face.
Squeeze your eyes, scratch your forehead, touch your ears, and don't know where to put your hands.
At the SBS awards ceremony that same year, he would cover himself with a hearty laugh because of excessive nervousness and embarrassment.
"Hahaha, I don't know what to say."
When he began to speak, he nagged again, did not play cards according to the routine, and said some words such as "foxes" and "monsters" that did not know what to do.
In fact, Liu Yaren has a serious "stage phobia", and the acceptance speech is simply a "public execution" for him.
Every time before he came to power, he had to take a pure heart pill to "save his life".
After saying that, he immediately reflected on himself, "Why do I say that? "
In the YouTube review, everyone has become accustomed to Liu Yaren's stage fears
He always seemed to be the inferior and timid teenager who had just arrived in Seoul, never able to cope with the flash and the crowds.
The more he disguised himself, the more clumsy he became.
How can such a character be an actor?
Then just don't hide it.
Liu Yaren put his inferiority, cowardice, sensitivity, loneliness... Put your mind on the character.
The temperament created by inferiority and loneliness has become a characteristic that he cannot copy.
[Parasite] Film Emperor Song Kanghao commented on Liu Yaren, "an actor who performs with his nature."
[Burning] director Li Cangdong saw a "distinct sense of self" in Liu Yaren.
Liu Yaren once described his role in the [secret meeting] as "the essence of juvenile sex".
"Along the way, the 'type of performance' I wanted to do can be fully displayed in this character."
In all kinds of teenagers, he has played his personality to the extreme.
Because in his heart, Liu Yaren felt that he was a small child.
At the age of seventeen, he was very reluctant at the thought that he was about to become an adult at the age of eighteen.
When he kept nominating, winning awards, gaining a firm foothold in the film industry, and having the ability to move into a three-story mansion, he not only did not enjoy it, but was particularly sad -
"It's as if I have to grow up and no one is protecting me anymore."
Liu Yaren, who does not want to grow up, has no scruples and honestly interprets various juvenile images with instinct.
This unreserved and naïve personality also allows him to have a rare "thorn head" spirit in the entertainment industry in real life.
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Liu Yaren is probably the most popular person in the entertainment industry to write long articles.
Whatever didn't look good, he had to boldly open the wheat and say it well.
This is the beginning of a thousand-word essay.
Some TV station directors posted after the award ceremony: How can the current actors not act as soon as they stand on the stage, and the award speech is not as good as Liu Yaren.
Pulling and stepping, Liu Yaren couldn't sit still.
"If you want to see your acting skills, why don't you go to the drama and go to the award ceremony?" I don't even know this, no wonder the ratings of my show are so poor. “
How dare you!
When the "Shelly Incident" was making a lot of noise on the Internet, it was more polite than other entertainers.
Only Liu Yaren sent a long eulogy calling Shirley a "hero" and calling on everyone to stop online violence.
He even described himself as "despicable", regretting why he hadn't spoken out sooner.
When [Kim Ji-young, born in 1982], was released, some Korean netizen men almost sprayed the artists who supported the film to the skin.
"Does this garbage have to be cinematic too?"
"Zheng Yumei, you can roll now!"
Liu Yaren didn't care about these, and just watched the trailer and immediately recommended this movie.
"I hope that through mutual sympathy, we can feel that we are together, beyond gender and difference."
This ideological awareness is too high!
On the topic of "women's rights" that all artists can't hide, Liu Yaren rebelled again.
He wrote a long article stating, "I'm a feminist."
Because he had observed from a young age that when his family was sacrificed, only women were bending down to prepare meals, busy from beginning to end, while men only needed to pull the screen away.
For such an unfair "role-playing game", Liu Yaren always feels very uncomfortable.
He had to say it to be nice.
How can such a person be mixed up in the entertainment industry? Sooner or later, you will suffer a big loss.
Liu Yaren admitted that when he was in his early twenties, in addition to acting, his private life was "lonely like death" all day, so he could only "brush up on the sense of existence" by writing articles and intimidating people.
Liu Yaren has repeatedly been caught in the storm for speaking on social media, saying in an interview that he "wants to eliminate SNS accounts"
Now that he is in his thirties, he will calmly express his thoughts, but the energy that is not afraid of the sky has not been lost.
When asked by a reporter about the online controversy caused by the publication of the feminist article, he paused for seven or eight seconds and finally said:
"For this type of person (internet troll), I don't feel the need to give in to them and apologize, and now it's the same."
He always strode forward like a fearless child.
Can't get used to me? Then it doesn't matter if you don't like it.
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Most of the teenagers liu Yaren has played are not very good.
They are either poor and decadent, struggling with depravity at the bottom;
Or inferiority and loneliness, in the forbearance to the destruction.
Even if he played a bad boy like Zhao Taihui in [Veteran]."
But as soon as you see that face full of blood and unwilling to admit defeat, you will think that he is not so hateful.
Liu Yaren gives people the impression of a stubborn and fragile and sensitive child who always lives in the troubles of adolescence.
But in fact, his ideological baggage is heavier than anyone else's.
Others on the variety show shake the clever, make the audience laugh, he can't do it.
Fifteen years after his debut, the first variety show he received was a historical and cultural talk show.
"Hanza Yaren Goes to The Five Directions" is a KBS "knowledge variety show" hosted by Korean philosophers Han Hank-jin Yongwo and Liu Yaren.
What are we talking about? North-South Korea issues, beliefs, spiritual myths...
When Liu Yaren said that he could not find the value of life and always harshly rebuked himself in his heart, the scene was quiet, and even the philosopher who co-hosted with him was in tears.
A young actor as serious and profound as he is, it is really too rare.
However, thinking about these topics all day long also made him misunderstand himself:
I am a person who has been born to understand what maturity is.
Through those juvenile roles, Liu Yaren constantly recognizes his heart, and it turns out that he is rampaged by intuition, not mature.
Besides, is there such a clear distinction between mature and naïve?
He no longer struggles with what he calls a "typed" actor who can only play teenagers.
Attending fashion parties and setting up art studios helps young artists realize their dreams, and he is always on the lookout for freedom.
But he was self-critical every day, unwilling to show his face frequently, so lonely that in the middle of the night he braved the rain to run to the gazebo near his home to lie down for a while, and then went home to eat and watch the rain.
His sense of youth, indeed like those characters, has a heavy undertone.
And this is precisely Liu Yaren's most fatal attraction.
In his body, he pins on the truest independence, adventure and vulnerability of the teenager.
He does not have to abandon the intertwined inferiority sensitivity, and the frivolous energy of reckless conflict, and become a mature and stable adult.
Everyone is looking forward to it, next time, what kind of teenager will Liu Yaren show?
The 34-year-old Liu Yaren seems to have grown up, and it seems that he will always be a teenager.
Even he felt that way.
Which of Liu Yaren's works do you like the most?
Thumbs up, we're teenagers too