Just now, the 40th Academy Awards Film Emperor was announced.
Xie Xian won this year's movie emperor with "Kill a Dusk"! Yesterday we predicted that Xie Xian would win the prize, and really bet on it!
In the industry for more than 70 years, this is the first time that Xie Xian has won the Academy Award!
While being happy for the fourth brother, there is still a little regret: Wu Zhenyu has run away with him again.
Since Wu Zhenyu's debut, he has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor 6 times, without exception, all of which ended in defeat.
I don't know if he was already discouraged by the Academy Awards, so he didn't even come to the award ceremony this time.
Just as tragic as he was, he participated in the movie "Turbid Water Rafting", which was 0 of the 11 nominations this time.
Many netizens are unhappy online for Wu Zhenyu and for the movie "Turbid Water Drifting":
Looking back on his running career over the years, it is simply a capital letter of "handsome and strong".
1
I want to be a little white face
Wu Zhenyu's family is not well-off, his father is a cook, his mother is a fisherman, and the family lives in a public house.
Looking at the newborn Wu Zhenyu, his parents with low education level casually gave a name: "Called Zhiqiang good."
Wu Zhenyu is the eldest in the family, and from a very young age, he began to take care of his younger siblings.
In the year of graduation from junior high school, her mother told Wu Zhenyu that she could read and write and quickly return to earn money to support her family.
Of course he was not happy, and his mother asked him what he wanted for the future. The real thought in Wu Zhenyu's heart is "find a rich woman to support me."
But in order not to be scolded, I still put it another way: "I want to find a job that doesn't have to get up early every day, doesn't have to go to work on time, and has a high salary." ”
The mother replied to him angrily: "Think beautiful! Why don't you go and be a beggar!" ”
So there was no way, even if he was unwilling, Wu Zhenyu still embarked on the road of part-time work.
It should have been the age of "teenagers who don't know the taste of sorrow", but Wu Zhenyu ran all day for his livelihood. The only thing he could relax was to go to the Broadway Theatre in Kowloon City to see a movie.
The ticket price is not expensive, and Wu Zhenyu stayed in the theater for a whole day. In just a few hours of film, it can interpret so many different wonderful lives.
At that time, it was just in time for the hong Kong TVB artist class enrollment, and most of the graduates would become professional actors.
Wu Zhenyu thought that this career is good: "I thought that the actor was the superposition of 'beggar' and 'little white face': like a beggar, he didn't have to read a lot of books or punch in to work; like 'little white face', girls like it, they can have money." ”
At the age of 19, he tried to apply for the artist training class for the first time, but unfortunately the miracle did not happen, and he certainly did not enter the examination without any acting foundation.
After that, he went to take the exam twice. Or rejected because the lines are not read smoothly and the expression is not vivid; Either because the performance is too strong, it becomes a "cockfighting eye" and is rejected.
Wu Zhenyu, who had been defeated repeatedly, was a little discouraged, so he simply shaved his hair and went out to practice.
However, he was still not reconciled, and when the annual artist training class began to recruit students again, Wu Zhenyu went to the interview with a newly hot ring scar.
When the examiner saw him, he thought, "How can it be you again!" Seeing his monk style again, I couldn't help but want to embarrass him, so I asked, "What do you think is the connection between being a monk and acting?" ”
Wu Zhenyu, who had been influenced by Buddhism for several days, was anxious and wise: "We must forget our own existence." ”
When the chief examiner listened, he felt that this post-life was not very old, and his consciousness was still quite high, and he was a malleable talent! So Wu Zhenyu was admitted out of the box.
Wu Zhenyu accidentally hit and bumped into a member of the eleventh session of the wireless artist training class in 1983, along with the later famous Liang Chaowei, Zhou Xingchi and Ouyang Zhenhua.
Wu Zhenyu, who was full of ambition, was ready to do a big job, and secretly swore in his heart: "I want to be a big star!" ”
But how easy is it to stand out from so many actors?
2
Dead runner dragon set
When Liang Chaowei in the same period quickly became popular with Wei Xiaobao in "Deer Ding", Wu Zhenyu, Zhou Xingchi and Ouyang Zhenhua were still making "human flesh background boards".
In the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Archery Hero", Zhou Xingchi and Wu Zhenyu, the brothers who are difficult brothers, also run dragon sets together.
The dragon set actors do not have the aura of a star, and they make a living between the various crews, and receive a box lunch after filming.
Once on the set, Wu Zhenyu was called "Dead Runner" by the martial arts instructor.
Wu Zhenyu had a hot temper, and immediately asked this martial finger for an explanation: no matter how small the role is, it is also a role, why do you look down on us?
Perhaps "heroes cherish heroes", Zhou Xingchi later made "The King of Comedy", inspired by This experience of Wu Zhenyu.
Wu Zhenyu treats even small roles, and will also carefully ponder the psychology and personality of the characters, and strive to do the best. Even many times the camera never stayed on him.
In just a few years, Wu Zhenyu has run dozens of TV dramas in the dragon set, and the number of plays he receives in one year exceeds the workload of others in three years.
It is gold that always shines. In 1985, Wu Zhenyu got a more dramatic role in TVB's "Journey of Life", the main villain Du Langxian.
This role has a great contrast between before and after, but Wu Zhenyu's acting skills polished for many years have made the character change very naturally.
TVB executives paid attention to Wu Zhenyu, from the beginning to let him be a "villain professional" in the TV series to mix eyes, and later in "Gray Net", "Kara House Enterprise", "Public and Private Sandwich" also played a lot of positive roles.
Wu Zhenyu's popularity has increased a lot, but his salary has not risen much. And even if you act in a movie, because you signed a contract with TVB, you have to hand over a part of the film remuneration to the company.
Wu Zhenyu, who has passed the age of establishment, feels that his "star dream" is difficult to realize in TVB, at this time, the Hong Kong film industry is thriving, he decided to end the contract with TVB and enter the big screen.
In 1993, Zhou Xingchi, who had run a dragon set with Wu Zhenyu to play a dead body, was already the male number one in "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", and Wu Zhenyu could still only make a cameo appearance in the flashing "Wen Zhengming".
It was also this year that Wu Zhenyu's two friends in the circle, Liu Qingyun and Huang Qiusheng, were competing for the Academy Awards.
Seeing that his companions had achieved a lot of achievements, if Wu Zhenyu was not in a hurry, it would be false.
Wu Zhenyu is still a newcomer to the film industry, no director dares to directly let him be the protagonist, he can only play around in the circle of major villains and supporting roles.
It is not easy to know that playing a villain is not an easy task, but Wu Zhenyu has achieved the role of a villain.
In 1996, "Ancient Puzzle Boy" turned out to be a scene, "Liang Kun" appeared, the voice was hoarse, the expression was fierce, the eyes were arrogant, and Wu Zhenyu played a gangster who did nothing evil.
So many years later, when people see Wu Zhenyu, they still think of the fear of being dominated by "Liang Kun".
The reason why "Liang Kun" can become a classic is not only because Wu Zhenyu is good at the role of Zhang Crazy and fierce, but also because he spent a lot of energy to observe the real gangsters before playing this role.
He once said that once when he went to sing K and met a big guy with a flower arm, he liked to stare at people with squinting eyes. People in the underworld have not left tobacco and alcohol for many years, and Wu Zhenyu has deliberately suppressed his voice to a low and hoarse voice.
In addition to being arrogant and uninhibited in the play, Wu Zhenyu's own personality is also a bit "crazy".
3
Uncrowned Shadow Emperor
After so many years in the show business circle, Wu Zhenyu has his own understanding of the role, which makes him often in conflict with the directors he cooperates with.
As early as the time of acting in "Gray Net", Cheng Hao, played by Wu Zhenyu, was about to be hanged, and the director made him cry to tears.
Wu Zhenyu felt that this was illogical, and asked many people whether the real death row prisoners cried before they died. Even a harsh sentence: "Do you want to see me cry, or do you want to see the audience being moved to cry?" ”
In the end, the director could not help him, Cheng Hao did not cry, but the audience cried a lot.
This is the director who met the good talker. Later, he cooperated with Du Qifeng to shoot "The Birth of a Word" and "Gunfire".
Director Du is a person with a temperament, and when his temper comes up, he will point at the other party's nose and scold, and Wu Zhenyu will do the same.
But it is this insistence on questioning all illogical performances that makes Wu Zhenyu.
Wu Zhenyu, who played more perverts and villains, simply replaced himself with an inch, saving the trouble of modeling, and at the same time, he had a new nickname - "Nerve Knife".
The maverick hairstyle caught the attention of a man: "You make yourself like this, not afraid that no one will come to you to shoot a scene?" ”
Wu Zhenyu replied casually: "It doesn't matter, I am not an idol faction anyway." What he didn't expect was that this man would become a nobleman in his career.
The man who asked was the director Ye Weixin, in 1999, he directed the "Burst Police" was released, Wu Zhenyu still played the violent character Mike, the difference is that this time there is actually a kind heart under the grumpy appearance.
The death of Mike in the ending is more tragic, and the audience finds that Wu Zhenyu can be so delicate in addition to playing a neurotic pervert.
Sure enough, this role made Wu Zhenyu nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the first time. Wu Zhenyu won the ticket and even prepared the acceptance speech.
But the film emperor of that Academy Awards was Andy Lau in "Dark War".
When the other nominated actors hugged the winners, Wu Zhenyu just sat quietly, his expression hard to hide his disappointment.
The following year, Wu Zhenyu continued to work with Ye Weixin, this time in the literary and artistic romance film "Juliet and Liang Shanbo", which tells the story of two small characters redeeming each other.
There is a bridge section in the film that Jotun played by Wu Zhenyu "complains" about the vending machine: "You are a soda machine, I have invested two coins and you have swallowed!" ”
In fact, at the end of "Burst Police", there was also such a vending machine. Mike tossed a coin as he lay dying, and finally waited until the soda fell before he gasped.
At this time, the narration of the movie is: "I put in the money, I should have a can of soda, in fact, I want to do it as simple as that."
However, winning a prize is really not as simple as a "vending machine".
At this Academy Awards, Wu Zhenyu lost to Liang Chaowei in "Fancy Years".
No way, "Fancy Years" is directed by Wong Kar-wai, and it has been nominated in Cannes and palme d'Or overseas, which is really hard to fight.
Unable to break through in the film circle, Wu Zhenyu simply returned to TVB to shoot "Rushing into the Clouds". This time, he did not play the villain, but became the love Saint Tang Yichen who gained a large number of girls' hearts.
However, this does not mean that Wu Zhenyu gave up his film career.
At the 2004 Academy Awards, Wu Zhenyu returned with a film called Infernal Affairs II.
With the pearl jade of the first "Infernal Affairs" in front, "Infernal Affairs II" is slightly inferior. The most eye-catching thing is actually the villain Ni Yongxiao, played by Wu Zhenyu.
Although they are both gangsters, Ni Yongxiao and "Liang Kun" are two types. Ni Yongxiao is a "Sven scum," wearing a suit tie with gold wire glasses, and under the polite appearance, he is fierce.
But this is different from "sinister and vicious", Ni Yongxiao is a villain full of "justice", he is saddled with the mission of revitalizing the family, but this family is a gangster.
Ni Yongxiao is a tragic figure with a great sense of contrast and fatalism, whether it is a smooth maneuver between the gangster family and the police, or knowing that he was betrayed by his brother and died without looking at it, Wu Zhenyu has a good grasp.
Many fans believe that Wu Zhenyu's performance can be comparable to Al Pacino in the Italian gangster film "The Godfather", and even the Hong Kong media bet that Wu Zhenyu can become the film emperor of this Academy Awards.
Wu Zhenyu himself was no exception, wearing a pink Chinese robe to attend the award ceremony.
As a result, "Ni Yongxiao" was still inferior to "Liu Jianming" (Andy Lau's role in "Infernal Affairs"), and Wu Zhenyu lost to Andy Lau for the second time.
The anticipation of the crowd is worse than not being nominated.
The audience did not understand, and some even thought: this is simply the biggest shady scene in the history of the Academy Awards!
Wu Zhenyu also did not understand, he spoke straight: "Hong Kong's entertainment industry, talk about luck, talk about connections, talk about audience popularity, but do not talk about strength, strength is placed very far behind." ”
One sentence offended the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry, and Wu Zhenyu did not even have an Academy Award nomination for more than a decade.
The "number one villain" Wu Zhenyu is also very grumpy in private, and once reported a scandal of fighting with people in 2010, because the other party and his wife had an argument.
In the end, Wu Zhenyu paid a fine of 10,000 yuan for his impulse. Although it is certainly wrong to beat people, it can be seen that Wu Zhenyu is very protective of his family.
This is also reflected in Wu Zhenyu's relationship with his son, who took his son Feynman to "Where Daddy Goes", and the interaction between father and son is funny and loving.
Feynman was injured because of his mischievousness, and he first coldly let everyone leave him alone, and then he hugged his son in pain and comforted him. Behind the moodiness, in fact, the old father of the "steel straight man" does not know how to express his feelings.
In 2017, Wu Zhenyu returned to the Academy Awards with "Peeling Daddy".
In the movie, the father played by Wu Zhenyu returned to his old age, from the age of 60 to the age of 19, fading the "old skin" layer by layer.
In reality, he was not reborn because of this transformation, and still regretted defeat and lost to Lin Jiadong.
Many of the plots of "Peeling Daddy" have the shadow of Wu Zhenyu and his son Feynman getting along, and Wu Zhenyu's "Uncle Against the Current" in 2019 is more like a portrayal of his own "mid-life crisis".
When I was young, I just wanted to make a "salted fish" to lie flat, but in middle age, I had to be rolled up against the current. However, he still lost to his old friend Huang Qiusheng.
This time, he simply did not even attend the award ceremony, and walked around the Forbidden City leisurely.
This time, he lost to 85-year-old Xie Xian.
In 20 years, six film emperor nominations, and six more hopes were disappointed. In the past 20 years, Wu Zhenyu has changed from a "big villain" to a down-and-out low-level uncle.
Many people say that "the Academy Awards owe Wu Zhenyu a trophy", and many people say that "Turbid Water Drifting" is the best film of the year in their minds.
On the road of the movie, there are not only flowers and applause, but more of the loneliness endured alone, and the lonely and nameless heartache.
Wu Zhenyu, who does not like to play cards according to the routine, is such an out-of-place "lone brave".
But many years ago, he answered the examiner's "be an actor to forget yourself", he has already done it.
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