This year's Spring Festival file finally ushered in a box office blowout.
The box office exceeded 1.6 billion on the first day, and the box office in the first five years has reached 5.9 billion.
Five days after its release, the box office of "Manjiang Red" exceeded 2.2 billion, "The Wandering Earth 2" also exceeded 1.9 billion, although "Nameless" encountered two poles of word-of-mouth, but the box office momentum was not weak, and it also broke 400 million, "Chinese Table Tennis Jedi Strikes Back" was finally adjusted to point screening, but the film had a good reputation.
Once upon a time, the Spring Festival file also became a kind of weather vane: the most popular or reused actors in the past two years usually appeared, such as Wu Jing, Zhang Yi, Lei Jiayin, Shen Teng, etc., and of course, veteran actors from the Hong Kong film industry, Tony Leung and Andy Lau.
Recognizing stars in the Spring Festival blockbuster has become a pleasure for ordinary audiences, but it is also an examination room for acting skills.
Whether it is a suspense comedy with a strong reversal like "Man Jiang Hong", a domestic hard sci-fi blockbuster like "The Wandering Earth 2", or a unique spy war film like "Nameless", famous actors must serve the story, so that the audience does not play, not just show their faces, and it is necessary to rely on strength to convince this audience.
From the reality of the Spring Festival file, although there is also Zhou Xun's eye-catching performance in the fine, the impressive female role of Yaoqin played by the new girl Wang Jiayi, Jiang Shuying, Zhang Jingyi, and Wang Zhi's performance is also good, but in general, this is still a Spring Festival file ruled by an actor.
Looking back on many blockbusters, I selected the "8 actors with the best acting skills", the ranking may not be accurate, and it may not be your choice, but those who can enter this list have undoubtedly once again defended the craft of "acting".
Eighth place, Sha Yi ("The Wandering Earth 2" as Zhang Peng)
Talking about "The Wandering Earth 2", many audiences first think of sci-fi concepts, shocking special effects, and other things, but the reason why "Little Broken Ball" can move so many people is that on the basis of sci-fi, it is essentially a good-looking movie, telling a good story and shaping characters.
The story of "The Wandering Earth 2" is more ambitious than the first part, showing a grand world view, Liu Peiqiang and Tu Hengyu undoubtedly occupy the main role, but Sha Yi's Zhang Peng may be the most surprising role for the audience.
Sha Yi became famous with "The Legend of Wulin", and his comedy image was strengthened to a certain extent on variety shows.
So when Zhang Peng appeared, the audience initially thought that this should be a common comedy character used to adjust the atmosphere in science fiction films. But thinking about the fact that many of the pre-historical characters in this scene did not appear in "The Wandering Earth 1", you should know that Guo Fan's character arrangement is not so simple.
Zhang Peng is Liu Peiqiang's master, but more like a nagging old father, and at Liu Peiqiang and Han Duoduo's wedding, he attended as Liu Peiqiang's parent. The master and apprentice face the unprecedented earth crisis together, and judging from the fate of the two, it also reflects a heritage.
The comedic atmosphere on Sha Yi's body is well integrated with the role of Zhang Peng, but in terms of shaping, Sha Yi's performance technique is "sense of contrast".
In the opening scene, when he talked about "mosquito cake" in a northeastern dialect, the audience felt that this was a proper joke maker. "Poke the brain door three times" should make the audience remember.
But in the film's key rescue scene, Sha Yi let this character shine with bottomless perseverance and determination.
A good emotional drama is not catharsis, but brings the audience into the scene, when joy and sorrow. Sha Yi perfectly embodied this in the scene of taking a one-way ticket to the moon to die.
When Zhang Peng said "over fifty years old", Sha Yi's performance focused not on explosion, but on "calm".
When Zhang Peng saluted and said goodbye to everyone, what was presented was neither deliberately funny nor pathotic, but precisely the calm and calm of a soldier, as if performing a logical task.
The next paragraph is Sha Yi's acting highlight moment, Zhang Peng died calmly on the moon, and before the explosion, he said "This minute is so long."
At the last minute of this long life, Zhang Peng was still thinking about Liu Peiqiang's safety, and when he finally smiled and said "Peiqiang, the earth is still quite beautiful", it is difficult not to be moved by this master-apprentice relationship.
Sha Yi's eye changes, from perseverance, to courage, and finally relief, naturally interpreted the earth-shaking changes in Zhang Peng's heart.
Of course, this role is unforgettable, as well as the three knocks on the hood, which just makes a very bright finishing touch, and also makes Zhang Peng's image easier to be frozen and remembered.
Seventh place, Zhang Yi ("Manjiang Hong" as He Li)
Zhang Yimou gathered almost all the top domestic Mesozoic generation actors for "Manjiang Hong".
The advantage of good actors getting together is that in order not to be compared to others, you must give it your all, and you must not appear to be too strong. When watching "Manjiang Hong", the actors are equivalent to competing in the same field, and if they lose, they can't afford to lose this person.
The result is to inspire the acting skills of the entire cast.
As a recognized top powerhouse at the moment, Zhang Yi can withstand scrutiny in almost every role, whether the role is the protagonist or a supporting role.
But Zhang Yi's characters have two commonalities: one is that there are many positive characters, and the other is that there are many small characters.
And this time Zhang Yi completed the most ruthless role of his acting career.
In "Man Jiang Hong", comedy is a kite, suspense is the line, and the thread is the heart of the world.
He Li, the chief of the Prime Minister's Mansion, played by Zhang Yi, with precise eyes, tone, state and trickery, performs a feeling of being behind the scenes, not only cold-blooded, but also always has an unfathomable sense of mystery.
Even the red and blue onyx knife will show this characteristic vividly.
The combination of his and Yue Yunpeng's mindlessness and unhappiness seems to be in depression and tension, coldly poking the audience at the laughing hole, but the background of the character is still gloomy, making people unable to guess what medicine is sold in this person's gourd.
This kind of Zhang translation is unfamiliar to the audience, but perhaps what Zhang Yimou needs is to make those actors you thought become what you can't imagine at all.
Zhang Yi's excellent scene is an opponent scene with Lei Jiayin, which can be called a master showdown.
He Li, who has always commanded everyone in the play, almost fell to the ground in front of Qin Huan.
This scene reveals that Zhang Dahe and the people involved have no way to survive from the beginning.
If it is not done properly, it will definitely die.
What if it's done? Also chopped.
When he finished listening to Qin Hui and was stunned, the audience could feel the critical point of his subtle change in mood, like the calm before the storm.
This also leads to a dialogue that follows him: Everyone in the game tries to leave a way back for themselves.
But this extremely intelligent person is trapped in his own unpredictable blade in the end.
The magic weapon that was once calculated by the organ ended up killing himself.
Zhang Yi acted so well.
Sixth place, Deng Chao ("Chinese Table Tennis Jedi Strikes Back" as Dai Minjia)
Like Sha Yi, Deng Chao is also a good actor who has been affected by the excessive sense of variety and the actor's image, and his active performance on the spring evening of the Year of the Rabbit is still fresh in people's memories.
But in terms of acting skills, the serious Deng Chao has never been vain.
From the meaning of film and television works, the film clearly explains a seemingly simple but difficult to explain question: why is Chinese table tennis invincible?
And the reason why this problem can be explained thoroughly, a key is Dai Minjia, played by Deng Chao.
In the movie, Deng Chao played the three faces of the character.
The first one is a handsome young face.
In the historic trough of Chinese table tennis, Dai Minjia, the head coach played by Deng Chao, appeared.
In the Italian sports world, he is known as the "godfather of table tennis" and is famous. But he was ordered to accept the invitation of the table tennis coach of the teaching country, abandoned the good life in Italy, and resolutely returned to China.
And when running for head coach, he boasted of Haikou - "won the Svethlin Cup in two years".
But the new team he created was degraded as a "remnant defeated general" as soon as it came out.
He himself has suffered from various criticisms. Brush your hair and be said to be oily and floury. Wearing a famous watch, it is said that he does not do his job.
The second face is the face of the begger who lowers his body.
The movie presents three representative matches, each of which has a very strong sense of substitution. But what impressed me more about the movie was outside the arena.
Above the arena is a miracle, and beyond the arena is life.
The head coach played by Deng Chao, Dai Minjia, has the title of manager on his head, but he often bows his head and asks for people. In order to strive for resources to lead the team, ask for leadership, ask for coaches, and also ask for the compassion of wives.
The third face is a stubborn face that has experienced defeat.
The battle with Sweden's World Table Tennis Championships championship in the film is a turning point.
Chinese men's table tennis, who had won after hard training, accidentally lost the game.
The loss and loneliness that were emptied at the moment when the other party celebrated the victory, Deng Chao acted too real.
He arrived at the airport in a daze, and one of the team members asked, "Do you really believe that we can win?" “
At that moment, Deng Chao's eyes were determined with confusion, and the good movie was not blindly showing glory, but precisely did not avoid these darkest moments.
But in the end, it was precisely this group of people who were completely unfavored that returned to the top.
Facts have proved that as an actor, Deng Chao's acting skills are still ranked first in the Mesozoic Generation, not pretending to be tender or selling old, and the character's personality, loss and sense of responsibility are vividly acted, and finally the character is completely brought into the emotions.
The movie does not create gods, but seriously talks about how a group of ordinary people who are not favored can kill a way, go out and win back when there is no time and place.
In the end, an ace coach who is ahead of his thinking, dares to think and do, full of personality and humor, jumps out!
The audience can also relive the passion and excitement of the year and feel the charm of the national ball.
In short, the movie and Deng Chao's performance are all in one word:
Sassy!
Fifth, Wu Jing ("The Wandering Earth 2" as Liu Peiqiang)
The difficulty of Wu Jing playing this role is that he plays both Liu Peiqiang and not the Liu Peiqiang familiar to the audience.
Because although the title has a "2", it is actually a prequel.
In the last part, the male protagonist Liu Peiqiang is an ironclad hero who defeated Jupiter and saved the earth for the sake of the earth and his family.
This one, however, pulls the timeline forward.
Liu Peiqiang just joined the "Moving Mountains Project", or was a second-year teenager who was constantly asked by the master to "drive slowly", until his wife was seriously ill, this character experienced growth.
The best part of Wu Jing's performance is the details of the character changes.
Especially when he was interviewed for an astronaut at 550w in a suit, Wu Jing's every body movement showed that the character did not have the absolute certainty and confidence of the past, and even fell into self-doubt again and again.
Because he can't afford to lose, if he loses, he loses the life of the whole family.
For the sake of his family, he ended up going to distant space and could not see his son for seventeen years.
If you only watch the first part, maybe Liu Peiqiang is also like Liu Qi's perspective for us, a hero who cares about the "big picture" and abandons his small family. But after watching "The Wandering Earth 2", Liu Peiqiang's flesh and blood are really clear and rich for us.
He ended up doing the feat of saving the planet precisely because of his family.
It's just that the emotional expression of our Orientals, always implicit. Silent, full of great power.
It is precisely because of this previous shaping that it also paved the way for his final sacrifice.
Wu Jing interpreted the right amount of resilience and loneliness, and this encore was a success.
Fourth place, Tony Leung ("Nameless" as Mr. Ho)
Cheng Er movies have a very important characteristic - tone.
In "The History of the Demise of Romance", Mr. Lu, played by Ge You, carries this tone.
When he slowly left the scene in the rain of bullets, although he was shocked by thunder, his face was like a flat lake, which was also decent and temperamental. With this character, Cheng Er's tone can land.
When it comes to "Nameless", it is Tony Leung who is responsible for carrying this tone.
Mr. Ho, played by Tony Leung, is indeed reminiscent of Mr. Yi in style, but the two are completely different.
Despite the vagaries of change, Mr. Ho wears a delicate suit every day, shuttles the streets of Shanghai, visits high-end bakeries, greets staff with a smile and buys a piece of Napoleon cake.
If I were to use three words to describe Tony Leung's performance in "Nameless", it would be: exquisite, elegant, and charming.
That kind of delicacy is a kind of understated elegance, but often hidden secrets.
A raised eye kill, suddenly make your heart buzz.
A tiptoe. "Snap!"
The leather shoe hit the ground, and then he turned his head and stared into the camera. It's as if you've been struck by his magic.
It can be said that every shot of Tony Leung performs a spy war atmosphere.
In one scene, inside the bomb shelter of the secret service, the message of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came. The light flickered on and off, Tony Leung gently looked up, accompanied by the change of sound effects, provoking the audience's emotions, sometimes tense, sometimes soothing.
In just a few seconds, the undercurrent surges. Light and shadow flow, pinching the characters.
Personally, Tony Leung has two performances, which are the most admirable.
First, at the beginning of the film, Mr. He, as the director of the Shanghai intelligence department of the Wang puppet government, connects with the defector played by Huang Lei, and the two have a 5-minute conversation.
At first, it was all a process, until Mr. Zhang took out a gun that belonged to Mr. He's wife.
Tony Leung was stunned, smiled again, and then continued to ask questions.
5 minutes without a single extra expression.
But Tony Leung's acting skills vividly show: less is more.
The other is the desperate fight between Tony Leung and Wang Yibo.
Tony Leung did not act in many action scenes in the past, and it was not he who played John Woo's "Hot Hand Detective" the hardest.
But this time, he gave the best action scenes to Cheng Er.
From shooting at guns, to grabbing guns, to fighting with bare hands, stabbing with sharp weapons, holding and falling, breaking windows... The fight was hearty, and the pain penetrated the screen.
But under Cheng Er's lens, violence not only creates a refreshing feeling, but also lays foreshadowing.
Martial opera singing, literary opera martial singing. Tony Leung's performance is obviously an action scene, but behind the action are all details,
The combination of the non-linear narrative of "Nameless" and the exquisite lens creates a strong sense of immersion for the audience, as if walking through a maze. Tony Leung's performance is just like the guidance of the maze, and it is no exaggeration to say that every wrinkle of his is involved in the performance and leads the audience through the maze.
Delicate requires patient carving, restrained and convergent performances, and often can depict more evocative space, and Tony Leung contributed such moments in "Nameless".
Third place, Andy Lau ("The Wandering Earth 2" as Tu Hengyu)
How important is Andy Lau's role? In Moss's words, Tu Hengyu is the only variable that doesn't match the plan.
Many scenes of "The Wandering Earth 2" are adrenaline-pumping, but what is more difficult than the thrilling grand scenes is to establish the audience's "trust" in the actors and characters in the narrative of sci-fi suspense and in the small daily details.
Andy Lau's scientist Tu Hengyu fanatically pursues digital life technology because he lost his wife and young daughter, so he wants to continue his daughter's digital life.
"Yaya's life is only two minutes, I want to give her a complete life."
The essence of what he does is love for his daughter regardless of profit.
From the character of Tu Hengyu, it also extends to many more far-reaching topics explored in the film. But first of all, this character needs to carry enough weight.
Under the role of Andy Lau, Tu Hengyu is usually tired and tired, and his appearance is not amazing.
This is the best part of this role, once Andy Lau every role was so dazzling, but now it can be completely hidden in the role, every emotion is so appropriate.
The only gratifying moment in the whole film of this character is to see his daughter come alive in the digital life, Andy Lau smiled and nodded, but it was just for a moment.
His series of performances are reasonable, emotionally delicate, and natural and fluent. Especially in the rivalry with his daughter, his eyes are full of that thick, timeless emotion, which also makes the character plump and landing.
The audience may not understand complex artificial intelligence, digital life and multidimensional universes, but fatherly love is something that everyone understands, and science fiction is integrated into reality.
The last diving scene with Ning Li was filmed in the cold winter of Counting Nine. Faced with Ning Li, who was a little nervous about not being able to dive, Andy Lau told him that he had filmed underwater scenes the day before and was safe. Just like a show, you have to be relaxed enough for everything to be at ease.
This sentence is comforting Ning Li, and also reflects Andy Lau's thinking about acting skills in the emergence stage.
Little Breaking Ball single-handedly elevated domestic sci-fi to world-class heights. Although it is a hardcore science fiction, it has a soft core.
And Andy Lau and Wu Jing's role of protecting their loved ones has achieved the most touching background of the film, and also stretches out a strong tension,
It is expected that the digital father and daughter of Tu Hengyu and Yaya will still be the highlight of the third part, which is very good.
Second place, Shen Teng ("Man Jiang Hong" as Zhang Da)
Shen Teng's performances are often accompanied by a unique personal comedy charm.
Although his joy at the beginning makes some people feel like watching a sketch, Zhang Da's character is very complete, and a few pieces can roughly know his history.
He was one of the minions close to the place of the crime, and the first few colleagues had been clicked off because they couldn't say it.
When he arrived here, he shouted vigorously that the third uncle played by Yi Yangqianxi came to save him.
After receiving the appreciation of Prime Minister Qin Hui and the token given, he could go through the whole courtyard and question everyone. This small soldier, who is not even officially organized, suddenly has confidence.
But he is only an hour old, either solve the case or cut it. In fact, the case was solved and beheaded.
The first half of Shen Teng's performance is stubborn and funny.
But anyone who has watched the mime "Where is the Thief" in the semifinals of "Happy Comedian" knows that you can't be the king of comedy without acting skills.
Every character in "Manjiang Hong" has calculated everything, true and false, false and true, but only Zhang Da, the smallest instigator, seems to be trying to find a glimmer of life in the treacherous situation, but it has become the final hole card.
As the puzzles on the characters are uncovered layer by layer like onions, the performance of finally solving the mystery is only for a moment, but the emotional tension of the bloody boy is all presented.
Shen Teng plays easily, but this ease is based on his roundness and meticulousness, and it is rare that he does not have a sense of drama, the drama is tight, his details are designed to shape the characters, there is no kind of squeezing in front of the camera, squeezing eyebrows and eyebrows, especially in a Zhang Yimou movie where any comedian will want to prove himself, such a sense of relaxation is especially rare.
In the end, Shen Teng's previous comedy label became the best smoke bomb in Zhang Yimou's hands, and also adjusted the rhythm of the film's suspenseful tension and high-density narrative, and this little character took into account comedy and suspense, ignition and tears at the same time.
A nobody, who can righteously thin the sky and let the flame of life bloom blazingly at once.
And the sacrifice of the righteous man was not to assassinate a great traitor, but to make the national spirit represented by Yue Fei endure.
In this increasingly profit-seeking era, I would like to believe in such romantic heroism, at least for two and a half hours.
First place, Lei Jiayin ("Manjiang Hong" as Qin Hui and stand-in)
Chen Kaige commented on Xin Baiqing's acting skills after filming "The Legend of the Demon Cat": Eat deeply and vomit less.
I think this is the best interpretation of Lei Jiayin's performance in this film.
When he heard that Lei Jiayin was going to play Qin Jiayin, Shen Teng said that he couldn't understand it but was shocked.
But after filming, Shen Teng was full of praise: "But when he dressed up and performed, there was no sense of violation." ”
There is more than a sense of discord.
Qin Jiayin, played by Lei Jiayin, does not have many scenes in the whole play, but there are few like him, whose acting skills have soared to 80 points at the beginning, and then soared all the way up, and only broke out at the end.
It is equivalent to Lei Jiayin's acting skills, you can't see the edge at all.
At first you see the eerie fear of the characters.
Gloomy, because he is adulterous. All scenes are separated by a curtain, looking at the shadows, which seem sinister and fragile.
Fear, four years after Yue Fei's death, it can be said that except for Jin Guo who likes him, the whole world wants to take his dog's life.
Then on the eve of the talks, the envoy of the Jin State died in Qin Hui station.
If it's just a dead person, killing a few scapegoats to explain to Jin Guo will be over.
But what he feared more was the secret letter, which was evidence of his money.
Lei Jiayin performed the panic in the character's cunning and suspiciousness, and even a little sense of innocence, and the traitor would not think that he was a traitor.
Lei Jiayin's previous performance is so appropriate, so when he recited "Manjiang Hong" at the end, the fierce emotions would make all the audience feel wrong.
If you don't think it's right, it's right.
It was this wrong performance of Lei Jiayin that made the power of the finale of "Manjiang Hong" destroy and decay, and instantly hit everyone, and only then did the audience understand why his performance was like this.
Some people intend to erase Yue Fei's existence, and some people want to pass on Yue Fei's spirit, Yue Fei is dead, but "Manjiang Red" will be passed down for thousands of years and ten thousand years.
If a suspense film is just reversed for the sake of reversal, it is not advanced, and the truly advanced suspense is as light as it is.
The ending of the movie can be called the best domestic film in recent years during the Spring Festival, the end is extremely romantic, and it makes people's blood boil. I believe that everyone who has watched this movie will have a more intuitive understanding of Yue Fei and the poems of "Man Jiang Hong", and a large part of the credit is Lei Jiayin's superb interpretation of "Qin Jiayin".
Such a performance is "eat deep, vomit less".
The above are the "8 best actors with the best acting skills in the Spring Festival file" in my mind.
There are also some performances that are short but not light. For example, the imposing speech of Zhou Zhezhi, played by teacher Li Xuejian, although he is thin, his image is tall, full of aura and strength, and he has performed Chinese has a heart for the world since ancient times.
It's straight to the heart.
There is also a performance, not even a performance, that is, the deceased Uncle Wu Mengdada, who was briefly reborn under CG technology, as if it became an eternity through movies.
When the audience saw the words "I would like to dedicate this film to Mr. Wu Mengda" at the end of the film, many people couldn't help but burst into tears.
I think that's the charm of cinema and the charm of acting.
In the star-studded Spring Festival movies, how to turn the movie into your own highlight moment is a science.
It is the so-called thirty meritorious fame dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon.
When you see that Andy Lau, Tony Leung, and Shen Teng have been famous for many years, and they will try to make their plays appear full, it is inevitable to think of the sentence: only small actors, no small roles.
The performance of a good actor is itself the best exhortation to the younger generation of young filmmakers, "Don't wait idle, white young head, empty and sad."