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Save the unhappy with a movie
On the day that "Sister Lang 4" was launched, Xie Na's "Dragon Fist" quickly rushed to the hot search.
Everyone's ruthless movements and pretending to be cool expressions made the audience feel a touch of exaggeration and deliberateness. One of its members, Liu Yase, also caused a lot of controversy on the Internet because of "oil".
Image source @ Arthur Liu
Netizens called her too hard and greasy temperament, and she performed the stage of "Dragon Fist" as a punk.
As a newly promoted Academy Award actress, Liu Yase probably did not expect that she was out of the circle in "Sister Lang 4" because of "oil".
Last year, when the 33-year-old Arthur Liu walked onto the podium of the Hong Kong Film Awards, the public was even stranger to her.
The audience is wondering who she is, and the media uses "upset" to describe the birth of a new actress.
With the role of Wang Tao in "Wisdom Teeth", she defeated Gong Li ("Winning the Championship") and Wang Danni ("Anita Mui"), who were very popular at the time, and won the Academy Award.
Like Chunxia, who also won the Academy Award, she is not from a professional class, and she has a spirit of not admitting defeat. But they are completely different.
Liu Yase's "strength" can be summarized as - savage, direct, and a little clumsy.
"Urgency" visible to the naked eye
Participating in "Sister Lang 4", Liu Yase's current owner, the Emperor, gave enough noodles.
Agent Huo Wenxi specially summoned the emperor's big coffee, including Hui Yinghong, Nicholas Tse, Twins, Chen Weiting, Li Keqin, Gu Juji, etc., to call Liu Yase.
Xu Jingyun, who also fought on behalf of the emperor, did not have such treatment at all.
Liu Yase, who was endowed with expectations and blessings, showed his "urgency" from the beginning.
First, in the catwalk materials of "Sister Lang 4", he staged pulling his collar and tilting his head to kill; When she officially appeared, she combed her big back, put on a black suit, a white shirt, and put her hands in her pockets, and almost wrote "sister is the most handsome" on her face.
Image source @ Arthur Liu
This is not the first time Liu Yase has given the impression of "force".
In 2019's "Actors Please Take Position", Liu Yase played "Get Out!" Xiong Don, the protagonist of "Tumor Jun", recreates a clip of her last words.
This clip is the climactic passage in the movie, conveying Schonton's optimism in the face of death and his reluctance to live.
But Liu Yase's performance at that time was very chaotic.
In order to play this role, Liu Yase mobilized the traumatic memories of accompanying her mother to fight cancer to make herself understand the protagonist's feelings in the face of death.
In order not to let this emotion run away, Liu Yaser even refused to rehearse before the official shooting. By the time of the live performance, Liu Yase had been in a state of collapse and crying, and when he came up emotionally halfway, he simply lay down directly on the ground.
Because the whole state is too "crazy", Guo Jingming commented that she was "out of control" and "has no aesthetics for performance".
In fact, Guo Jingming pointed out an objective fact: the audience's patience is limited for performances where actors exhaust their mental strength but lack progressive levels.
However, Liu Yase did not fully agree with this assessment.
After winning the Hong Kong Film Awards, Arthur Lau mentioned that experience of the show. She feels that believing in her role and letting others believe is the most important thing.
Arthur Liu in "Wisdom Teeth"
If every performance has to be designed, it can show that the actor is skillful, but perhaps the performance is not sincere enough.
This is not Liu Yase's conclusion out of arrogance, but the true knowledge that she has found over the years that only applies to herself.
Nearly twenty years after her debut, she can come to the front of the stage, which is a bloody road that she has "touched" for her career by relying on sincerity.
"Clumsy" savage growth
In many interviews, Liu Yaser said that he could not act.
When he made his first film "Thirteen Paulownias" in 2006, Liu Yase was not yet 18 years old.
Director Lv Le feels that Liu Yase and the protagonist He Feng are very similar, mixed with a sense of rebellion and vulnerability.
At that time, Liu Yase was just starting out, and she just listened to the director's request and gave her most natural reaction. Since then, she has felt that acting depends on feelings and experiences, and skills can be slowly accumulated.
"Thirteen Paulownia" won the "Special Jury Award" at the Tokyo Film Festival, and Liu Yase's performance was also seen by everyone.
But in the next 7 years, Liu Yase only received 4 plays, and regardless of whether the scenes were heavy or not, the 4 plays themselves had little memory at that time.
The tomboy Zhu Xiaobei she played in "To Youth", like He Feng back then, has a sense of youthful pain.
Zhu Xiaobei's family was poor, his parents died, and he and his sister depended on each other. I was finally admitted to university and got the opportunity to study abroad, but I was falsely accused of stealing in the school supermarket and was expelled miserably.
In retaliation, she made a big fight at the supermarket.
In this scene, Liu Yase showed a strong explosive power. In reality, like Zhu Xiaobei, she was forced into a corner by life, and she deeply experienced Zhu Xiaobei's self-esteem and stubbornness, and the anger with bitter words.
After this, Liu Yase finally found a little sense of existence in the film and television industry and had the confidence to persevere.
Soon, she received some film offers one after another.
played the simple and straightforward female college student "Li Blood" in "Waiting for the Wind" starring Ni Ni; There is also the cool girl Seven Seven in "That Year in a Hurry".
Then she signed a contract with Tang Ren and played Su Xi, the son of the fox fairy, in "The Legend of the Green Hill Fox".
These lively and cute and eccentric characters have won a certain favor from the audience.
However, Liu Yase, who was anxious to survive at that time, did not have time to consider the impact of homogeneous characters on him, and began to face the embarrassment of "not being able to open".
Use instinct to make a way out
Liu Yasser is not short of luck.
In 2004, 15-year-old Liu Yase won the third place in the talent show "Star Academy".
She has never learned to sing, and she has no musical talent, but everyone just liked this little fart who was happy to be herself on the stage, running out of tune and running emotions. Everywhere he went, he was flocked, and he also started a concert tour in Hunan Province.
That may have been the first time she felt the highlight of her life.
It's just that this kind of popularity without the blessing of strength is destined to not last long, and her luck will soon run out.
She tried to return to the talent show twice. In 2007, he participated in "My Type Me Show", and in 2009, he participated in "Happy Girl", but unfortunately he didn't even touch the threshold of the finals of Fast Girl.
Until the age of 30, Liu Yather came across the Hong Kong crime movie "Wisdom Teeth", and this time, Liu Yather steadily caught this luck.
By chance, a friend who was not familiar with her pushed her a group message, which only had brief character information, but Liu Yase was immediately attracted by the introduction.
The crew asked her to record a sample of the audition, but she refused. She thinks that the sample can't represent herself, and she wants to meet the director to fight for it in person. After squatting for two months, she finally waited for director Zheng Baorui.
Director Zheng Baorui
The two interviewed for half an hour, Zheng Baorui did not tell her what kind of film it was, nor did she audition, but simply talked about her past experience, and finalized Liu Yase's role as the heroine of "Wisdom Teeth" Wang Tao.
The character of Wang Tao is both pathetic and pitiful. In order to atone for his sins, he encountered a series of extreme events. But even in such a desperate situation, she will still shout "I don't want to die", and the desire to survive is terrifyingly strong.
Liu Yase saw his own shadow in Wang Tao, they were equally adrift, lonely, struggling to survive, but always stubborn and unyielding. In this play, Liu Yase's "too much force" has a suitable place.
There is a running scene in the movie, she is chased and killed by Lin Jiadong by car, running wildly, running from the narrow alley to the main road, and then running into the tunnel.
This scene was filmed for 3 days, and she also ran for 3 days, running until her thigh muscles were strained.
Every day after filming, Liu Yasser was constantly injured. She was in the garbage heap, chased and killed, beaten violently, and splashed with swill, which is the norm for Liu Yase in the crew of "Wisdom Teeth".
Every day when she returned to her room at the end of work, there were always some new bruises and scars on her body. Liu Yasser felt very satisfied, she felt that every mark was a proof of her dedication to this role.
"Mai Roadman" relay
This kind of self-torture regardless of the carelessness, the investment that put himself unreservedly on the verge of collapse, allowed Liu Yase to play Wang Tao. In a scene where "Wisdom Teeth" is about to be completed, Liu Yase lies on his side on the hospital bed, his eyes empty.
This sense of nothingness is not only the hollow of Wang Tao after experiencing too many disasters, but also Liu Yase's confusion to separate from Wang Tao and temporarily bid farewell to the movie.
She thought of those days when there was no drama to film, and she was afraid that she would repeat the same mistakes in the future.
After cooperating with "Wisdom Teeth", director Zheng Baorui was very optimistic about Liu Yasser and directly recommended her to the crew of "Mai Roader".
In "Mai Roader", Liu Yather put away her previous explosive power and played a poor and downtrodden single mother.
Under the hardships of life and the expectations of her children, she has always remained kind and infinitely forbearing. In the end, she portrayed this single mother as extremely gentle and pyrotechnic, and won the nomination for Best Actress at the 39th Academy Awards.
This can't help but surprise people, it turns out that she has so many changed sides.
Recall that in "Actors Please Take Position", Chen Kaige praised her as a "joke idiot" and will definitely make a difference in the future. This sentence, which sounded like a scene in the show, finally came true.
It's just that she has been working hard for too long, standing on the reality show stage of "Sister Lang 4", she doesn't know how to relax herself, and can only clumsily deal with those "greasy" accusations.
However, "Sister Lang 4" is only an episode in her acting career after all.
After becoming an artist of the Emperor, the Emperor provided her with good resources, such as the new action film "Customs Front" by Qiu Litao to be screened, and "Stealth" directed by Kwan Chi Yiu, all of which are cooperating with big coffees such as Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Nicholas Tse and Lin Jiadong.
When filming "Sneak", Andy Lau also specially prepared a birthday cake for her to celebrate.
Liu Arther forged a fate with Hong Kong films
In and out of the play, Liu Yase began to jump out of the previous disorderly state, there was filming, found a route that suits him, and met very good seniors, and there may be more performance possibilities in the future.
If nothing else, let's look forward to the "Customs Front" cooperation with Nicholas Tse.
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