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Not long ago, at the Busan Film Festival in South Korea, Tony Leung, who had not been seen for a long time, became a talking point and was awarded the "Asian Filmmaker Honor Award".
A series of welcome activities followed, highlighting the great influence of this veteran Hong Kong actor.
Tony Leung's popularity in South Korea is not surprising, which is not unrelated to the strong export of Hong Kong films to the Korean market in the eighties and nineties.
However, when we take this opportunity to re-examine this "electric-eyed male god", we will be surprised to find that he connects the rise and fall of the entire Chinese film and television industry from the early eighties to the new century.
This year, it also happens that Tony Leung is entering the age of huajia, will he break through the acting ceiling in future works?
Unexpected acting genius
Similar to many Hong Kong actors, Tony Leung, born in 1962, also comes from a poor family.
The gambling father, the deepest imprint left on Tony Leung's memories as a child, one was arguing with his mother all day, and the other was his early absence after his mother filed for divorce.
Tony Leung as a child
In order to support his family, Tony Leung entered society early to work to earn a living. After dropping out of school at the age of 15, Tony Leung worked as a newsboy, a clerk, and sold electrical appliances, as long as he could help his mother, he was not picky about what he did.
It was also during this period that he met his nemesis Stephen Chow. Similar family environment and the same introverted personality make Liang Tuesday talk about everything and become friends.
Tony Leung and Stephen Chow
At that time, as long as he had time, Stephen Chow pampered Tony Leung to the top of the mountain to "act", one played a good guy, the other played the villain, Tony Leung began the initial performance under the enlightenment of the drama idiot Stephen Chow.
As the days went by, of course, Stephen Chow was not satisfied with entertaining himself, and when he learned that TVB's acting training class recruited artists, he quickly took Tony Leung to interview together.
Just when Stephen Chow thought that he was definitely selected, it was his friend Tony Leung who got the admission notice. And this contrast on the star journey is not only the beginning of the two, but also continues until 1990.
"Wireless Five Tigers"
In 1982, Tony Leung entered TVB, and after only about a year of actors, in September of the following year, together with Huang Rihua, Andy Lau, Miao Qiaowei, Tang Zhenye and other four people, he was named by Run Run Shaw - "Wireless Five Tigers", and began to become popular in the field of TV dramas.
1984's "Lu Ding Ji" and "Senior Brother Xinzha" made Tony Leung popular throughout Southeast Asia, and the role of Wei Xiaobao in the former was evaluated by Jin Yong as the version that best matched his heart; The attention attracted by the latter made Tony Leung star in "The Sequel to Senior Brother Xinzha" and "Senior Brother Xinzha 1988" in 1985 and 1988.
Not long after, Hongyun came to Tony Leung again. In 1986, "Underground Love" directed by Kwan Jinpeng made Tony Leung nominated for the first Academy Award for actor.
Immediately after, Er Dongsheng's "People's Hero" and Tan Jiaming's "Killer Butterfly Dream" made Tony Leung score twice and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice.
In addition, Tony Leung even shone in the international film industry in 1989 with Hou Xiaoxian's "Tragic City".
The successive successes in the film field made Tony Leung give up his way of working in both film and TV series.
After untying his old club TVB in 1990, he finally embarked on a new journey, and soon after joined Wong Kar-wai's Zedong Film Company and became its artist.
Throughout the nineties, Tony Leung was a fish in water in Hong Kong-style genre films, including big productions such as John Woo's "Blood Street" and "Hot Detective", as well as fast-selling products such as Ke Shouliang's "Yafei and Yaji" and "The Genuine Wei Xiaobao's Devotional Gouge Girl";
On the other hand, under the tutelage of Wong Kar-wai, he has continued to exert efforts in the field of literary and art films, winning four Academy Awards with films such as "Chongqing Forest", "Spring Light", "In the Mood for Love" and "2046".
Tony Leung after the new century is like a business card handed to the world cinema by the Hong Kong film industry, so bright and dazzling, so charming.
But Tony Leung himself has always kept a distance from the entertainment industry and the public, and the most rumors about him are his almost "monotonous and boring" daily life in private and his indifferent relationship with stars in the circle.
In 2003, at Leslie Cheung's funeral, Tony Leung was criticized by countless good people for being cold-blooded and ruthless because of his restrained expression and no tears. In fact, Liang Zhang has a very close personal relationship, and Tony Leung is just an introvert and does not want to show his true feelings in front of the public.
According to Carina Lau, when Tony Leung heard the bad news of Leslie Cheung's death, he fainted and fainted, and then closed his door for a long time and was grieving.
This is Tony Leung, an actor with high achievements in the professional field but extremely closed in his private life, the two seem to contradict each other, but in fact they are extremely reasonable.
Who uses who is smooth
Compared with many male stars in the Hong Kong film industry, Tony Leung has a very unique image texture.
Jackie Chan, who is good at action comedy, is essentially a style pioneer, and acting skills are more for him to serve the hunt for curious fights; Similarly, Stephen Chow has a deep understanding of nonsensical comedy forms and the psychology of the little people at the bottom, and he often carries out an authorial video writing in a crazy performance way.
Others, although Chow Yun-fat has experienced hundreds of battles and has good acting skills, he exists more as a superstar, with a dashing and happy feud that can be seen through at a glance. Thousand Faces actor Leung Ka-fai, according to the acting skills, no one can beat it!
However, the image limitations and the methodist way of performing make it less distant from top superstars.
As for the image limitation that Liu Qingyun is only suitable for a certain type of role, Andy Lau's enlightenment too late and his acting skills are deliberately talented, which also makes them much narrower in the spectrum of performance.
The difference between Tony Leung is that he is not only well versed in the performance routines of Hong Kong commercial genre films, but also can find a very personal image expression in addition to the prescribed actions.
The TV series "Lu Ding Ji" that made Tony Leung's first debut is a typical Hong Kong-style comedy, which requires the actors' body movements to be exaggerated and their expressions to be exposed. The narrative conflicts and character emotions in each scene can be directly expressed through the actor's tool.
This point was carried forward to the extreme in the later "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: East into West", Tony Leung's Ouyang Feng and Jacky Cheung's Hong Qi, in that classic "courting death" bridge, like two wanton children, interpreting "death" without heart and lungs for jokes.
But a little earlier, Er Dongsheng's "The True Story of the Crazy Man" unearthed a richer performance mine from the 24-year-old Tony Leung. The psychopath played by Tony Leung makes people feel a kind of personal pain when the bottom people suffer, and can also glimpse the bitterness and helplessness of their psychological repression.
And a similar sense of incompleteness and depression is interpreted by Wen Qing, played by Tony Leung, in Hou Xiaoxian's "Tragic City", which has a diametrically opposite touch. Bright, elegant, gentle, and kind, Tony Leung is like a light in the film, piercing that dark and imprisoned era.
In Wong Kar-wai's films, he found another identity position, especially in "In the Mood for Love" and "2046", where he played a rare yuppie role engaged in writing work, which was almost never seen in Hong Kong films in the past.
The attention to appearance and clothing, the obsession with ambiguous emotions, and the thinking about the blossoming of flowers have all become "Zhou Muyun", an extremely iconic screen figure in the Chinese film industry.
Therefore, whether it is well-known directors such as Wong Kar-wai, John Woo, To Qifeng, Chen Kexin in Hong Kong, or Hou Xiaoxian and Ang Lee in Taiwan, Zhang Yimou, one of the fifth generation standard-bearers in the mainland film industry, and even Vietnamese literary film director Chen Yingying, have all cooperated with Tony Leung.
Alain Delon
The reason why this male star who uses who is easy is so favored is both from his superstar temperament, such as James Stewart, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon and others; It also comes from the mysterious aura on his face.
Tony Leung's mysterious aura is interpreted by many people as melancholy and sadness, but it actually comes from the impenetrable emotional self-reserve.
The prodigal gambler in "A Fei's True Story", 663 in "Chongqing Forest", and the blind samurai in "East Evil and West Poison" all hide the other side that you can't peep into.
Why Tony Leung met Wong Kar-wai to become a dragon is rooted in the delicate richness of his emotions, which can only be developed by relying on the ambiguous background in Wong Kar-wai's movies.
Tony Leung's "eye skills"
Regarding Tony Leung, the most talked about by fans is naturally his affectionate eyes.
Dou Wentao once exaggerated that Tony Leung could make subtle adjustments with his eyes even when shooting commercials.
Therefore, when Tony Leung was filming "The Wind Listener", he specially bought insurance for his eyes because he needed to wear special "beautiful pupils" as a blind man.
Indeed, if the most exquisite part of Tony Leung's acting skills is extracted, it is his "eye skills".
In "Killer Butterfly Dream", Tony Leung's underworld brother falls in love with Wang Zuxian, and when Chung Zhentao entrusts him to Tony Leung, the latter needs to show unusual affirmation.
When Tony Leung performed this part, he did not simply agree, but verbally promised, lowered the left eyebrow, and slightly widened the socket of his right eye.
And when he saw Wang Zuxian snuggled on Zhong Zhentao's chest, he was first depressed under the moonlight, then raised his head, and then helplessly looked away, expressing relief. This process is smooth and unpretentious
The most classic is that when he bid farewell to the couple, he suddenly kissed Wang Zuxian and revealed his heart
And in "Blood Street", when the gangster A B played by Tony Leung saw his brother being beaten for his wedding, try to see his eyes under the blue night.
Staring forward guiltily, after blinking, the lower eyelids twitched slightly.
When B was threatened by soldiers and forced to shoot and kill, the anger, fear and powerlessness all merged between Tony Leung's eyebrows.
The most sophisticated "eye skill" is Mr. Yi in "Lust Ring".
When he first saw Wang Jiazhi, Mr. Yi took advantage of the gap in playing mahjong to look Wang Jiazhi in front of him up and down.
Later, when dating, Mr. Yi began to skillfully seduce Wang Jiazhi, palms against his lips, blinking his eyes one after another, his focused flirting style, not many people can resist
And when it shows that he returned to Shanghai and his personality became more gloomy and terrifying, the camera showed Mr. Yi's gaze in the mirror
I saw that after he took off his hat, his eyes rose, fierce and fierce, staring at himself without blinking.
Tony Leung's series of "eye skills", also under the polishing of the years, has become more and more abundant and elusive, if it is said that "Killer Butterfly Dream" in the eighties still has an innocent background;
Then in the nineties, "Chongqing Forest" and "Spring Light" were more confused and lost;
After the new century, whether it is the broken sword in "Hero", Mr. Yi in "Lust Ring", or Ip Man in "A Generation of Grandmasters", they all convey a few wisps of obscure bitterness and gloomy that cannot be shaken.
Will Tony Leung make more changes in his "eye skills" in his next works? I believe this is still possible, even if he just repeats the work of the eighties in "European Raiders", "The Ferryman" and "Monster Hunt 2".
But after all, in the two unreleased films of Cheng Er's "Nameless" and Weng Ziguang's "When the Wind Rises Again", Tony Leung will play a more complex and gray character.
From the early eighties to the twenties of this century, Tony Leung used solid acting skills to achieve a legend of an actor.
Author丨Guo Yuanchao
Movies are never more far-sighted than life