In the past few months, the amount of "Hong Kong" in the film and television circle has been slightly higher.
"Tomorrow's War" extended release, "Detective Wars" is still in the aftertaste, today Huang Zihua's "still think you are the best" reputation has exploded, dark horse posture is strong.
I have to say that the appeal of Hong Kong actors is still there.
Not to mention the play, the off-play tidbits can also set off a wave of enthusiasm.
Sir, I believe everyone has seen this picture.
Liu Qingyun filmed on the spot, and no one recognized it. Everyone thought it was a real lunatic. Even many passers-by watched, seeing him rushing over to subconsciously avoid, his eyes confused.
"Detective Wars" was filmed for three months, Liu Qingyun only had a script in his hand, and sometimes he waited impatiently, and even the camera picked up his mobile phone...
No one has ever seen Liu Qingyun use a mobile phone on set.
The 38-degree weather, arriving at the scene at 6:30, and starting work with makeup 8 hours in advance left a deep impression on Tan Kai, who played the play.
"He's in a quiet state, not impetuous at all."
Hong Kong actors are famous for being open-minded about filming.
Sixty or seventy or even eighty years old, he has been canonized as a Buddha in word of mouth.
The fourth brother Xie Xian was 80 years old and shot for 288 hours without stopping; Jackie Chan never played a stand-in and was pulled into the blacklist by insurance companies.
The younger generation of forty or fifty years old has gradually become a benchmark in the amazement of young people.
Zhang Weijian is willing to be haunted by real snakes when filming; Yang Yi was slapped wildly on the corner of his mouth and was red and swollen; Wang Haoxin slapped himself 19 times in the play, crazy into the play.
In Cantonese, this is called "surviving".
Mandarin is to be able to survive and persist.
To translate again is to be dedicated.
Whenever domestic audiences see these clips, they are envious and curious at the same time – how did this tradition come about?
Yes.
Today Sir will unfold, flatten, and show you with a magnifying glass.
01
Let's start with a name that you may not be familiar with.
"Uncle Shrimp" Guan Haishan.
More famous than him was his apprentice, Wu Mengda.
Elder-level figures.
But he's just a supporting character.
There is a saying in Hong Kong that the protagonist is called brother or sister, and the supporting characters are called uncle and aunt.
"Uncle Shrimp", the supporting role is undoubted, but in the end he still won the lifetime achievement award award awarded to him by TVB.
There is also a funny story between Guan Haishan and his apprentice Wu Mengda:
When Wu Mengda's life was at its bleakest, the master gave him the book "Six Lectures on Acting". Later, the book passed through the hands of Wu Zhenyu, Liu Qingyun, Zhou Xingchi and others.
In the end, the book "Self-Cultivation of Actors" that appeared in the hands of "Dragon Set" Yin Tianqiu was based on this.
In the middle of the roundabout, the professionalism is passed down from generation to generation, like a stone thrown into the water, causing ripples in circles.
His apprentice Wu Mengda is a good proof.
It can not only cooperate with the Zhou Xingchi style of nonsense expression, but also compete with the experiential method school, and it will not fall behind.
In the early days, in order to support his family, Wu Mengda took every play, but never perfunctory. Over time, in a variety of small roles that are not the same in the south of the sea, he has the ability to quickly grasp the role positioning and understand the role effect of the character in the play.
Wait until it's time to perform.
This person's life has long been eaten by him and condensed in the camera.
Why is this possible? To explain it in one of his own habits – without a script.
In the scene is not to pay attention to those plots and dialogue, this is done thoroughly in advance. On the spot, I watched the performances of the opponents, how to make the opponents play better, or play out to each other, there can be some special places, sparks.
It's not not to look.
But it has long been memorized and eaten thoroughly.
Stephen Chow told a story.
When he and Wu Mengda first cooperated, Wu Mengda was reading the script in his hand, and there was only one page. Zhou Xingchi came back from dinner, he was still reading the page in his hand.
There are only three lines on it: Hello, morning, bye-bye.
Zhou Xingchi was curious, did the three sentences of dialogue need to be read for so long?
Wu Mengda said yes.
"I play every role as a protagonist."
Do the dojo in the shell of the snail, and complete the arc construction of your own exclusive character in the limited performance space and role.
Other supporting characters only want green leaves to be lined with red flowers; And he must be, a little green in the kaleidoscope.
02
One obvious manifestation of the dedication of Hong Kong actors is: true.
Real fight, real knife and real gun, regardless of the priority of the role and the level of status.
"Lost Alone" is considered to be the peak of Andy Lau's acting skills, and the scene in which Andy Lau was slapped is a real fight.
Don't stand in, the sound of the moment is clear across the screen.
Director Peng Sanyuan stood next to him, covering his mouth the whole time, and his eyes were unbearable.
Wang Jing once shook her head in public and said that Andy Lau's kind of life is not a human life, and he has not eaten rice in ten years.
Zhou Runfa must have seen the famous scene of beating 12 eggs with one hand in "Tiger Out", and then swallowing a drink on his back.
Lu Yu once mentioned this scene in an interview.
Zhou Runfa said, I don't care how big my stomach is, maybe I will throw up after eating, just at that time the director said "camera", just swallow it, it's as simple as that.
In "Anti-Black Roadman A".
The scene of Jiang Jiamin being buried alive is suffocating to watch.
She lay in this state in the pit for nearly half an hour.
Chen Baixiang and Zhou Xingchi filmed "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" and one of the scenes was splashing ink.
Later, in a show, Chen Baixiang revealed that the ink splash went directly to the nose, but in order not to delay the progress, he has endured.
After the performance, he washed the ink for more than four hours.
In "The Great Eunuch", Xiao Zhengnan eats swill water that the crew prepares.
And beggars grab food, chicken legs fall into the sewage and also fish up and send to the mouth.
Because in the play, he is hungry and cold.
Speaking of truth, we have to mention the martial arts actors in Hong Kong.
Male Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Zhen Zidan to Liu Jiahui, Zou Zhaolong, Yuan Biao, etc., female Hui Yinghong, Yang Ziqiong, Hu Huizhong...
Debuting or famous for playing, he almost used his life as a prop.
Jumping off buildings, falling straight, crashing cars, aerial motorcycles, human flesh sandbags...
Those fierce and even dangerous scenes once became the biggest selling point of the film, laying a solid foundation for the prosperity of Hong Kong martial arts films, and also an important weight to go to the world.
CCTV's cultural documentary "Screening Room 10: Legends of Chinese Film History" dedicated a kung fu chapter to tell the story of the front and backstage of the stage.
How far is it really?
In Hong Jinbao's words, dare to do anything. In Yuanwu's words, it was exchanged for life.
No exaggeration.
When Yuanwu filmed "The Five Lucky Stars of Strange Schemes", the ambulance was prepared in advance. In that scene, he first fell out of the glass window, then fell onto the road, and finally landed on his head.
After the shooting, go straight to the hospital.
Even foreign colleagues who came to visit the class felt incredible: Do you dare to do this?
Qian Jiale, one of the martial arts actors, recalled that shouting "click" was not to finish work, but to save people.
Beyond the scope of ordinary people and ordinary people, it is almost crazy.
Later, everyone's cognition of that group of actors was finally explained by Xu Ke's words:
"What they did before, no one will ever do."
Of course, now we don't need to use our fists to the flesh to vent our emotions, promote justice and punish evil and promote good. That era, after all, became a thing of the past.
One might ask, is this really necessary?
For talented actors, it may be debatable. But in a short period of time, true, is undoubtedly the fastest way to enter the play, the only shortcut, but also the only way to make up for the shortcomings, "deceive" themselves and "deceive" the audience.
In "Rescue Mr. Wu", Andy Lau's scene of being strangled in the neck requires the feeling of suffocation and green tendons.
What to do?
Come really.
In the "Star Talk" interview, the director revealed a detail:
"That actor, after Hua Tsai finished speaking, he still didn't dare to strangle."
Later, It was Andy Lau who repeatedly persuaded that the scene was successfully filmed.
To what extent? The eyes are congested and the tongue is spit out.
It was in that scene that Andy Lau knew that when he was strangled in the neck, his tongue would fall out on its own.
It is not surprising that the domination of the body and organs is a very common means of performance for actors.
However, under the background of peers, it appears to be more and more rare and precious.
Remember the muscle coat full of plastic flavor in "Acquaintance with Junchu", who was pulled out and repeatedly "whipped corpses"?
You know, a year ago, Hong Kong actor Zhang Zhenlang lost 36 pounds in order to play one of the male protagonists in "The King of Fighters", lost 36 pounds, practiced for a year, and practiced a pair of washboards.
Not to mention the less than a minute of boxing matches in the first season, 56-year-old Li Yaoxiang lost 18 pounds in two months.
Of course, this is something that the parties cannot see. Huo Jianhua had the privilege of witnessing it once.
Filming "Strange Man a Branch of Plum", it is almost finished, and there is a scene that needs to fall to the ground. Liao Qizhi has been filming this scene for nearly 20 hours.
At the scene, there are still all kinds of fierce falls.
At that time, Huo Jianhua thought to himself, so dedicated. But when the character "died", Liao Qizhi snapped and fell to the ground, because he was older and physically unstoppable.
At the same time as his heart was full of mixed feelings, Huo Jianhua also accepted a solid dedication lesson.
The TVB training class still uses an improvisation of Liao Qizhi as a teaching material.
In the 1980 version of "Shanghai Beach", Xu Wenqiang, played by Zhou Runfa, was cut off his finger and had a broken finger eating scene. Zhou Runfa made a temporary play: the wound on the broken finger hurt, and the bowl in his hand fell.
Liao Qizhi, who was playing, immediately reacted: reaching for the bowl and reading the dialogue.
Turn the bones into palms and dissolve the crisis into invisibility.
The seemingly flashy reaction is inseparable from long-term solid training.
Wang Zulan once took TVB artists on a program "Start Broadcasting! Sitcoms", their "Infinite Training Class" crew presents a lot of TVB classics, but also tells the hardships behind hong Kong actors.
Up to the TVB actors of half the sky of Hong Kong Television, everyone has gone through the stage of running dragon sets that cannot be looked back.
Zhang Zhenlang revealed in the show that the previous scene was filmed at 4 a.m., and he received a phone call saying that there was a role to be played at 7 a.m. But that character is just a stand-in.
Hearing this, the guest Indah was startled to open her mouth wide.
However this is the norm at TVB.
Before Liu Qingyun became famous, he also ran a dragon suit for nearly 10 years. He said that in those years, he was depressed, had no time to go home to sleep, did not have time to fall in love, and felt like a prop rented out to the movie studio.
Zhou Runfa ran the dragon set day and night, and even slept on the set... Zhang Jiahui cried when Wu Ti was beaten, and was even teased as "the king of the dragon set".
Hu Xing'er said that she had filmed for more than twenty consecutive hours a day at TVB. The unhappiness under high pressure lasted for ten years.
Even more poignant, Stephen Chow's "King of Comedy" is completely the tragic struggle of the dragon set.
At the launch of Xingye's "The King of New Comedy" a few years ago, Wang Baoqiang recalled the heartache of his former dragon set before becoming famous. The Star Master who was standing on the sidelines listened attentively and intently. Final sigh: Anyway, our two "dead running dragon sets" are heart to heart.
In a brutal competitive environment, actors started out as a disenchanted profession.
There is no difference from other occupations, just a livelihood for the family. Everyone has to start with a novice, running a dragon suit, playing a supporting role, and then to the protagonist who is in the limelight.
It's like fighting monsters in the workplace. There will be no less mistakes to make.
When Liang Jiahui gave Zhou Runfa a dragon suit, the action he designed was scolded by the director, "Who do you think you are, Napoleon."
Before Lin Xue was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor, it took 20 years to touch the threshold of an actor.
He even said that a third of his salary was earned by scolding.
After the tvb training class was restructured, the people who entered the training class learned not only performance, but also dubbing, hosting, vocal music, image management, market management, martial arts, and even lighting, picking up people and things, and writing scripts.
There is an exam every three months, and if you fail, you are eliminated. Near graduation, there are also exams, but you can't finish your career.
Despite the hard workout, the competition was fierce. In the glory days of TVB, the number of students enrolled in the training course could reach as high as 6,000, while only more than 40 people were selected.
In the hard training day after day, professionalism has long been internalized into self-discipline.
Punctuality, focus, extreme...
But oddly enough, almost no one complained after leaving. Because they know that if there is no TVB, no audience will know them.
03
Professionalism is most reflected in Hong Kong.
On the streets of Hong Kong, you can meet the Emperor of Shadows on any occasion.
Zhou Runfa, who has no one next to him on the subway, zhou Runfa, who bargains with vegetables in the vegetable market; Liu Qingyun, an enthusiastic citizen interviewed; Gu Tianle, a beautiful boy who travels by battery car;
And, the low-key travel was met by Lu Yu and Zhou Runfa Huang Rihua.
In the eyes of Hong Kong people, an actor is just an identity, a job. When you leave this job, you return to the state of life of an ordinary person.
For example, many actors who have changed careers but are still dedicated and low-key.
Che Paul, who played the master in many costume movies. When he changed careers at the age of 59, when he received the news that he was competing for the Taipei Film Festival with "The Old Man and the Dog", he was working as a supervisor in the vegetable market.
The daily routine is not on the set, but dealing with customer complaints, water and electricity traffic catching thieves and other trivial matters.
After receiving the news, he was happy for only a while, and then he began to make trouble coping with the scene: how to thank you, how to meet people. Finally, I didn't want to. "Waste your energy, go to bed, and get up at four o'clock tomorrow morning to get up and start work."
The news of the competition for the emperor spread into the market, and the shopkeepers congratulated: "If you win, I will give you a grouper." ”
Fish is the biggest and most sincere praise of the stall owners for the dedicated actors.
Zhang Aijia's apprentice, Yang Qi, was nominated for the Golden Horse Female Supporting Actress. Later, he worked as a security guard at the university and even worked part-time as a flower seller and helped cook.
But she's still practicing acting, in order to make sure one day "it won't be too rusty and too nervous." ”
Acting does not think too highly of itself, and it is not arrogant to leave the spotlight, and it is not arrogant to correct the mentality.
Hong Kong itself strongly promotes this professionalism.
Koo Ming Wah, Millennium Dragon Set, entered the industry in 1990 and was nominated for best new actor at the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards for his role as groom in "Mong Kok Racecourse".
He spoke about the unexpected nomination in a talk show.
Everyone wondered how anyone could nominate anyone.
"Because no one knows the nominee."
Gu Minghua himself knew that this was a tertiary film in the eyes of others, and it was inevitable that he would be wearing colored glasses. Of course, the result was defeated, and the winner of that nomination was Yuan Yongyi's "Yafei and Yaji".
Opponents are also Zhu Yin of "Truant Weilong 2" and Zheng Xiuwen of "Flying Tiger Elite Human Love".
But the reason for the nomination is simple:
Well acted.
In 2018, at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony, an award called the "Professionalism Award" was won by a grassroots employee named Yang Ronglian.
Not a star, no background.
When she took the stage to receive the award, the leaders of the Hong Kong film industry stood up collectively, and everyone warmly applauded.
Jackie Chan said that she is a very important person, without which she would not be used to.
Zhang Guorong, Gong Li, Zhou Runfa, Liang Chaowei, Gu Tianle, Xie Tingfeng... Almost everyone who has filmed in Hong Kong has enjoyed her meticulous service.
Yang Ronglian is illiterate, and the eating and drinking of the crew is a big problem. The form of a rote name if you can't read, and write down the preferences of almost everyone.
Is it difficult to work in tea?
"It's not so simple, it's not that the water is just handed over, you have to see if the actors are free, the director is free."
At the right time, hand over a delicious refreshment. Sister Lian has done the tea and water worker to the extreme.
The crew started work at 6 o'clock, she had to get up at 4 o'clock, work for more than ten hours a day, and rest until the evening. Once, I filmed Gu Tianle's version of "Divine Eagle Hero" and Andy Lau's version of "Dragon God Prince". She hadn't been home for seven days and seven nights.
The level of dedication does not lose to any professional actor.
See the meticulous service of sewing needles, this honor is well deserved.
Coincidentally.
The University of Hong Kong, 2009. An aunt who has been an assistant chef and cleaner for 44 years has been named an honorary fellow.
She did not have much earth-shattering and outstanding contribution, but was just an ordinary worker who could not be more simple.
At the time of her death, people from all walks of life in Hong Kong mourned her.
Media publications to mourn;
HKU President Ma Feisen said she has left a glorious legacy for HKU.
The University of Hong Kong specially produced a short film for her and updated the homepage of its official website: I will always miss you, third sister-in-law.
Like Sister Lian, this third sister-in-law, Yuan Sumei, also achieves dedication to the extreme.
In order to cook the sago soft, in the era when there was no pressure cooker, it was necessary to stand in front of the stove for 2 hours; Give sick children special runs to catch medicine; In order for students to eat delicious horse bean cake, it is necessary to simmer for an hour on a slow heat, during which time it must be stirred continuously...
Many children studying at HKU have been carefully cared for by their third sister-in-law. And she never showed off and worked diligently.
Later, she was included in the university hall welcome textbook and written into the dormitory song that new students must learn:
The university hall has three treasures: a rotating copper ladder, a four-not-like sculpture, and a three-sister-in-law.
The ceremony was held entirely in English, as she used Chinese and deliberately recited her praise in Cantonese.
Say.
The dedication of the actors is rolled out.
The act of survival without investing in food and standing unsteadily is the hard work and tenacious survival force that is "forced" out.
Then, the dedication of these grassroots workers is more like an interpretation of the spirit of struggle in Hong Kong as a whole.
Regardless of the size of the profession, try your best to do your job, work hard, and forge ahead.
This professionalism has forged Hong Kong's once soaring and prosperous life, and has also become a precious wealth and spiritual portrayal passed down from generation to generation.
Nowadays, occupations are changing, the environment is changing, and people are changing.
The only thing that has not changed is the tacit understanding of two generations.
There is sweating, there is food.
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Editorial Assistant: Yimou not emo