Cheers to Tony Leung's eyes|face
Elephant News Reporter Zhao Dan Special Contributor Qu Sanzhe
Tony Leung cried, at the Venice Film Festival's awards ceremony.
In the broadcast video we can see, Tony Leung's first wipe the corners of his eyes is an interesting story on the set mentioned in director Ang Lee's award speech to him. The director, who has worked with Tony Leung for many years, still remembers that on the filming set of "Color Ring", he collapsed because of the filming of an emotional scene, Tony Leung walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and whispered: "Director, we actors are honest with each other in front of the camera, and you exposed something else, you have to take care of yourself." ”
On September 2, Tony Leung received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement Award at the 80th Venice Film Festival in the hands of director and friend Ang Lee, who has been working with him for many years, becoming the first Chinese film actor to win this award.
"Ang Lee, I knew you were going to make me cry." In his short acceptance speech, Tony Leung thanked his wife, family, friends, fans around the world and Hong Kong films that nourished him, "I want to share this award with everyone who has worked together in the past 41 years and dedicate it to Hong Kong films." ”
Before this, Tony Leung's three films had won the Venice Golden Lion Award, and before the award ceremony, he shared with reporters that he always wanted a Golden Lion Award, "and it belongs to me alone, I don't need to share it with others." ”
"A dream choice for all directors"
In the award speech of more than five minutes, Ang Lee emotionally gave a highly condensed evaluation of his long-time friend and partner, "Tony Leung is the dream choice of all directors. At the beginning of his speech, he used a lot of space to talk about the charm of Tony Leung's eyes, "His eyes will be uplifting, I am not talking about his electric eyes or acting skills, but the soul seen in it." He can express more with one look than many actors can use an entire monologue. It is a soul that can tempt you to dream and imagine through him. ”
In the documentary "This Moment, Tony Leung Says to You", his mentor Lin Lizhen mentioned his impression when he first met Tony Leung, "His eyes are so beautiful, his eyes are full of curiosity and sincerity. ”
The eyes are the symbol of Tony Leung and the "epitome" of his acting skills, and the audience seems to be able to see all the possibilities of the story in his deep, elusive and playful eyes. His eyes also changed due to the change of role.
In the two rooftop scenes of the movie "Infernal Affairs", Tony Leung's use of eyes is almost subtle. The first scene is the undercover policeman Chen Yongren played by Tony Leung and the superior Huang Zhicheng played by Huang Qiusheng on the rooftop, "three years and three years, almost ten years boss." In that rooftop play, Tony Leung's eyes were helpless and confused, which played the struggle of undercover policeman Chen Yongren in this life without light and the urgency to escape. In the scene that followed, when Chen Yongren saw Huang Zhicheng who was thrown from a tall building and died without blindness, Tony Leung's eyes added a touch of panic and despair to the rooftop. In the second rooftop scene, on one side is Liu Jianming, an undercover underworld agent who entered the police force, struggling with his dual identity; On the other side, Chen Yongren sharply unloaded Liu Jianming's bullets and handcuffed him with Liu Jianming's handcuffs, and the "banter" in Tony Leung's eyes was revealed to Chen Yongren - for an undercover police officer who went undercover for "three years and three years" and lost the only contact on the line, only when facing Liu Jianming, Chen Yongren clearly knew that he was a policeman, a policeman that Liu Jianming could never become.
90 points of self-cultivation
But the eyes are not the whole of Tony Leung's acting skills.
His secondary creation of characters has created many classics. At the beginning of the movie "Infernal Affairs", Chen Yongren, a policeman who wants to get out of his undercover life, said to his boss Huang Zhicheng on the rooftop: "Obviously three years, three years later and three years, three years later and three years, almost ten years boss!" It was Tony Leung's second creation, director and screenwriter Zhuang Wenqiang shared in an online screenwriting class for young filmmakers, his original monologue to Chen Yongren was "an undercover agent for ten years". "In addition to making a plain line very bright, Tony Leung also opened up something I never thought of." After returning home, Zhuang Wenqiang redid the lines of the entire script, and now, this has become his habit, "I have always looked for 'three years and three years' opportunities in my lines. ”
Director Wong Kar-wai continued to cooperate with Tony Leung on "2046" after filming "In the Mood for Love", and Wong Kar-wai's request was that although he played the same person, he hoped that Tony Leung's performance in "2046" would seem like playing another person. Tony Leung made his own suggestion to the director, sticking a mustache on Zhou Muyun's face, "At least I feel different from Zhou Muyun when I look in the mirror." But in Wong's view, Tony Leung doesn't need these small objects to assist "like another person." After the film was completed, Wong Kar-wai, who saw the finished film, recognized Tony Leung's suggestion, "He told me, it's still you right." ”
"As soon as I get in front of the camera, I give at least 90 points." This is Tony Leung's self-cultivation that he thinks he has 90 points as an actor. Such a "90 score" comes from his high dedication to completing the role and completing the film.
In this year's movie "When the Wind Rises Again", Tony Leung plays Hong Kong Inspector Nanjiang, in which he needs to play three piano songs, one of which shows Inspector Nanjiang playing jazz with a cigarette, while another inspector played by Kwok Fucheng, Leile, performs tap dancing on the side. In order to master this jazz piano piece, Tony Leung only had two months to practice piano playing, and in order to master this jazz piano piece, he went to the teacher's house twice a week to practice the piano for 8 hours a day, and even when filming in Guangzhou, he also put the piano in his room to practice continuously.
In his award speech for Tony Leung, Ang Lee mentioned that Tony Leung's talent and natural appearance were his gifts, and he shared this talent in a kind way. In different breaks between filming, Tony Leung did not go to his RV, but chose to watch others work on the set to see what he needed to help. At one point, photographer Rodrigo Prieto needed to complete a close-up of Tony Leung's face from the open door to Tony Leung, which was technically very difficult, and the photographer came to Ang Lee with tears in his eyes, saying that Tony Leung asked him, "Where should I stand?" In the long career of a photographer, an actor has never asked him this question, "People often don't know how difficult this shot is." Tony Leung feels that movies are like dancing, where everyone completes a dance together, "You don't step on me, I don't step on you." Everyone works together to make things the best they can be. ”
The life of the "social fear" actor is halfway up the mountain
On January 30 this year, Tony Leung explained his eyes in his first short video on a social platform, "Tony Leung, in fact, there is nothing special, occasionally in a daze, occasionally hide yourself, you think my eyes can speak, maybe because I am not good at expressing myself in words, I will be nervous when I first meet, I will be overwhelmed when there are many people, and I have a lot of words I want to share with others, but I don't know how to speak." ”
"Social terror" is Tony Leung's impression left on the audience in many public places.
At many award ceremonies, Tony Leung, who did not appear in front of the camera as a role, was cramped and panicked, revealing the feeling of "wanting to get off work" everywhere. He likes to be alone, like to go skiing in Japan for more than 20 years, but deliberately does not learn the local language, "because I don't want to talk to people at all." This is the self described by Tony Leung in a short documentary 40 years after his debut.
In the documentary "This Moment, Tony Leung Says to You", he sits in a coffee shop next to the tracks of a train in Japan, enjoying the time when he can be unnoticed and listen to the sound of the train passing by at will.
Tony Leung seems to have a sense of separation from the surrounding environment, acting is the connection between his inner self and the external world, at the beginning of contact with acting, Tony Leung found that this is an effective channel that can blatantly vent his emotions, "Acting is to vent all my repressed emotions, no one knows that it is me, everyone thinks that I am playing that role, but in fact, that is some of my emotions in it." ”
The documentary "This Moment, Tony Leung Says to You" is the second cooperation between Tony Leung and director Weng Ziguang, one day after the two collaborated on "When the Wind Rises Again", Tony Leung suddenly called Weng Ziguang, hoping that he would complete the documentary of the 40 years since his debut, "Don't use anything, only bring a mobile phone, the two climb and ride together, drink and chat, and soak in hot springs." In Weng Ziguang's view, this is Tony Leung's great trust in himself. Trust in the director is an important factor in Tony Leung's selection of scripts. In the documentary, Tony Leung confessed that he is not a person willing to leave his comfort zone, he has cooperated with Wong Kar-wai for more than 20 years, and has also cooperated with directors such as To Qifeng, Hou Xiaoxian and other directors for a long time, and the young Tony Leung is afraid of failure, afraid of losing, and rarely cooperates with new directors. Until 2021's "Shang Qi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Gang", Tony Leung began to feel that he should leave those fears behind and bravely try halfway up the mountain.
The same is true of "When the Wind Rises Again" with Weng Ziguang. At the beginning of the cooperation, he took the script to find Tony Leung, who was filming in Shanghai, and after talking, Tony Leung, who "felt good", proposed to see the director's last play. After watching "Stepping on the Snow and Looking for Mei" directed by Weng Ziguang, Tony Leung immediately decided to take on the script of "When the Wind Rises Again". "Leaving your comfort zone, your life is really beginning."
Next, Tony Leung will also participate in Hungarian director Idiko Enyedi's new film "Silent Friend", playing a neuroscientist in the film, he will spend eight months preparing for the role, in the "halfway point of life" where he can calmly jump out of his comfort zone, Tony Leung did not give his career a plan, "I never plan what to do next, I think fate will hold people together, when something should happen, it will happen, just like my next movie." ”