Preach in words. - Don Tears
In the history of the Academy Awards, there are some results that are difficult to match.
But any awards ceremony is hardly fair, so the best attitude is to treat it as a game.
I am blessed, but I am lost.
From another point of view, all nominated works and actors are at least above the passing level, that is, they are qualified.
Take Hong Kong films as a benchmark perspective.
Nominated five film emperors who have entered the arena in the field of performance, with their strongest works, one to compete.
Who is on the stage?
Unofficial, purely entertaining, with a little bit of a camouflaged professionalism, doesn't have to be taken seriously.
Chow Yun-fat took the stage with "The True Colors of Heroes" (1986).
I have not seen all of Fa Ge's works, but 90% of the movies have seen or understood the general situation, and regardless of the horizontal and vertical selection, they can still only choose the "Little Brother Ma" of "The True Colors of Heroes".
Other characters, such as Gao Qiu, Bow Ruler, Ah Lang, Gao Jin, Yuan Haoyun, as well as Li Mubai, Confucius, Huang Silang and Cao Cao, are all inferior to the "Little Ma Brother" with two guns, although the "painter Wu Fusheng" in the recent work "Peerless" is indeed very attractive, but it only stays at the level of charm.
And "The True Colors of Heroes" is indeed a timeless classic.
But frankly, without Chow Yun Fat's "Little Ma Brother", the film would have degenerated into a mediocre gunfight movie.
To further understand, the classic works and characters are from Zhou Runfa's extraordinary and powerful performances.
Chow Yun-fat's "Little Brother Ma", dashing and cynical.
The good brother was framed by other gangsters, and he was furious and went to Taipei alone, killing the leader of the other side in a gun battle, and he was seriously injured.
When his brother said goodbye three years later, he dragged a stump leg, sloppy but still proud.
In the end, he died in a fierce gun battle for brotherhood.
Such a underworld figure is interpreted by Zhou Runfa vividly and full of blood and bones.
"Little Brother Marty," he said, "I swear that I will never let anyone point a gun at my head again."
He also said, "I've been waiting for three years, just to wait for an opportunity, I want to fight for a breath, not to prove that I am great, but to prove what I have lost, I must take back." 」
This role can be called the "god of hero films", and no one can surpass it.
Leung Ka Fai appeared with "Cold War" (2012).
Many people like the chivalrous Zhou Huai'an, some people like the pompous and despicable Lü Qi, or the paranoid Wang Shengsheng, or may be the arrogant, stubborn and stoic Zhou Chaoxian, each of which has a reason, but still insists that the "Li Wenbin" of "Cold War" is the peak of Liang Jiahui's creation.
This role is a combination of talent, experience and impromptu ability in his career, the character's hawkish style is exuded from the inside out, revealing his calculating ability and unashamed temperament in the sloppy atmosphere, indeed, he is "ten times more difficult to deal with than Liu Jiehui", and the lines of the ICAC agent accurately define this role.
Bald head, glasses and beard, a straight standard suit, this style is very careful, but the shape is never the key to the actor's creative ability. If you change another person, even if you draw a tiger according to the cat, or there is a high probability that you will not be able to walk with a reclining seat, a look and a turn of the head, the character's disposition and breath, temperament, and temperament will be fully interpreted.
This is the strength of the actor himself, when Leung Ka Fai restrains the exaggeration, trickery or fierceness he shows in the general commercial entertainment Hong Kong film, a high-level figure in the police circle who looks at the wolf comes out, glances at every word, and shows the rigor and law.
"I have served the Hong Kong Police Force for 30 years, and I have met many people and offended many people. But in these 30 years, I have learned one thing: every institution, every department, every position, has its own rules of the game, whether dark or light, the first step, learn it."
Actors who are creative and able to create with their hearts should be commended in particular.
Hong Kong has only one "girder".
Aaron Kwok, Peerless (2018).
Aaron Kwok, who missed the prime time of Hong Kong movies, or one of the actors with the most controversial public impressions.
To put it simply, his shadow path is divided into three stages, the first popularity, the experience and the great success.
In the early days of popularity, he crushed many opponents with his appearance, and there were also outstanding works such as "Barefoot Boy", which had excellent skills and acting skills, and then reduced production, handing over the two masterpieces of "Romantic Storm" and "The Majesty of the Wind and Clouds".
The training period included a brief period of confusion in the early two thousand years, the high morale of Lianzhuang Jinma and the siege of the city all the way thereafter, and the "Breaking the Game" after "Blood and Plums" to go to the next level.
The Dacheng period is marked by "Peerless", with "Mai Luren" highlighting the stability of acting skills, and "Secret Visitor" showing great skill.
What is more interesting is that the owner of Huanyu hand-picked him to parachute into "Sweeping Drugs III.", during the filming he sent out a Weibo, "looking for a new movie role", which is a transformation of the state of mind, which means that the actor has entered a new realm of creation, and he sweated for Liu Qingyun and Gu Tianle of the same drama.
"Li Qing", who is crazy, divided and has both literary and artistic temperament.
On the one hand are literary and artistically focused painters, on the other side are paranoid criminals, and on the other side are pure and cowardly accomplices, whichever one you like, "Li Qing" can give you. The character is like a rubik's cube that is constantly twisting, when you think that you are about to end the statement, he turns around and reveals a completely strange side, and the "burning" section of the play is simply magical.
With the performance of this play, Aaron Kwok can catch up with the senior masters, and even more so.
Hong Kong's only big-coffee actor whose acting skills are still rising.
Liang Chaowei appeared in Infernal Affairs (2002).
He is an actor who has received enough weight and number of praises, which is enough to make other actors envious.
In addition to the praise, the strength of his performance ability is also unquestionable, the early stage of playing for Chow Yun Fat can win the protagonist's light as a supporting role, and the cooperation with Wong Kar-wai is to show his ability to perform in depth, leaving Wong Kar-wai's "Infernal Affairs" and "Color Ring" is also a technical shock, one "When the Wind Rises Again", the other two creators have praised it, Aaron Kwok more uses "philatelic" to describe this cooperation.
This is the fame of "Girder".
"Chen Yongren" who suffered in "three years and three years".
"Infernal Affairs" is actually a typical commercial police film, even if the screenwriters Mak Siu-fai and Zhuang Wenqiang put on a cloak of fate, it does not change the essence of the film.
As far as commercial films are concerned, it is actually difficult to achieve irreplaceable performances.
Theoretically, it should be understood in this way, "Zhang San" can be played, "Li Si" can still act, nothing more than the appearance and temperament of the characters are different, as long as the general requirements are met, the specific role playing, there will be no great difference.
But Liang Chaowei, with his performance, turned this role into an irreplaceable existence.
It has also made "Infernal Affairs" a Classic of Hong Kong Films.
With one look in the eye, the audience is overwhelmed.
The rest can be ignored.
Wu Zhenyuxuan, Infernal Affairs II (2003).
He is not a protagonist-type actor, mostly group plays and supporting plays, the coffee position is not high, and there are many cameos.
In the recent "Catching the Tiger and Chasing the Dragon", together with Da Liang, two actors who were originally very old, disguised themselves in old costumes to play the black police and black bandits of the old treacherous giant, which was really uncomfortable to watch.
Although the recent fringe theme "Turbid Water Rafting" has been well received, it is estimated that it is difficult to exceed the peak performance.
In this "Infernal Affairs II" that year, he became the most dazzling role in the whole film with the role of the fourth place and was nominated for the Golden Statue Film Emperor of that year.
Wu Zhenyu is like a machine with precision computing power, turning every frame into a personal stage in an extremely limited appearance time.
This ability is only possessed by a handful of actors in Hong Kong.
In this movie, he completely lost the neurotic, vulgar, or tyrannical performance mode in "Ancient Puzzle Boy", "BurstIng Criminal Police", "Gunfire", "Juliet and Liang Shanbo", and a new Wu Zhenyu came out, which is especially rare for Wu Zhenyu, who has entered the peak very early.
His performance is calm and restrained, but it is also unmatched in precision, which is called true "creation".
And the role of Ni Yongxiao, if you change a commercial actor, what you need may be just to go through the scene and point to the end.
But Wu Zhenyu replaced Liang Chaowei in the first part with a dedicated creation, and overwhelmed the audience.
Looking at the two-hour movie, Wu Zhenyu probably accounted for less than thirty minutes of it, and most of them were fragmented and group plays, with only six coherent scenes and almost no one-man shows.
The strength of acting ability is more prominent because of it.
If planned, the 40th Academy Awards will be held in the first half of 2022.
And even if all the Hong Kong films released or released in advance in 2020 and 2021 are merged, the film source can be described as dismal.
Of the five actors mentioned above, only Wu Zhenyu's "Turbid Water Drifting" is eligible to compete, and the other four have movies to be screened, Chow Yun-fat has "The Sunny Years", Aaron Kwok and Liang Chaowei have "When the Wind Rises Again", and Liang Jiahui has "Wind Forest Volcano", but these three movies have not yet been finalized.
But if five people meet with the above five works, it can be described as a lineup of gods.
Just ask, who is the seal?