People don't decay for a lifetime.
Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, strange talk, there are always a few unlucky eggs on the list. In the history of Chinese cinema, there is also such a character, who wants to have acting skills and works, but he will always play the male supporting professional household of "Ten Thousand Years Old Two" - Zhang Yi.
That has changed, though.
According to the current point of view, Zhang Yi can also be described as a "moral and artistic double Xin" drama bone, there is no "old drama bone", because it is in a good year, so it is not called an old drama bone.
From Jiang Xijin in "Golden Age", to Zhang Jinsheng in "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers", or Yang Rui in "Red Sea Action" in 18 years, and Qu Songlin in "The Climber", to Zhang Xianchen in "On the Cliff".
Most of Zhang Yi's screen images are upright and responsible, although a few of them also have the time to be confused and commit small adultery, but they are within the tolerance range of human nature.
But in the film we want to talk about today, the image of Zhang Yi's interpretation is very different from the past. Changing the status of the past "ten thousand years old two", in the black humor crime film of "The Pursuer", a multi-line narrative, he can also be regarded as one of the protagonists of the entire film.
Maybe this is the strength of the actor, the drama throws the face is what it looks like. In the past, he played a soldier, performed integrity and blood, and now plays a killer, and is also a "five-star killer", Zhang Yi also performed the unique image temperament of this killer.
The role of Dong Xiaofeng is paranoid and cruel, and he loves money and is also affectionate. He has a baggy image that the killer does not have, and he also has the unique killer's fierce hand. From the moment he kept trying to recover the suit jacket in Wang Youquan's hand, he knew that this person was not simple.
He was such a detail-oriented and well-known man who had to do dirty business at the same time. When he was spinning up, even a suit jacket had to be painstakingly searched, although there were many important items in it.
But his heart was also really big, and he actually directly mistook the target of the task to be murdered, so as to kill innocents by mistake and kill again and again, killing red eyes.
But his "killing" red eye is not the traditional radical madness to catch who kills whom, but in the breath and breathe easily and casually take a human life without hurrying to tidy up the clothes and then continue to pursue his original goal.
It was as if there were not many more lives, and there were not many less lives, killing madness to a level of numbness. It was as if the white knife in his hand was not a human life, but a pig that only needed to be sharpened.
The four big words "Grass and Human Life" were vividly interpreted by him with two living human lives.
When Zhang Yi himself described Dong Xiaofeng, he said, "This killer is somewhat similar to the silver case, but at that time, he could not find a reference, he was kind on the outside, and there were demons living inside.
When the inner demon was released, he was the "five-star killer" who killed people without blinking. Being fierce and fierce is the performance of his killer identity, but this does not prevent him from being the affectionate and sincere good lover in the face of the woman he likes.
His gracious appearance can only be shown to people he trusts. When facing Sister Ping, he is an ordinary man who has given all his love and at the same time shouldered all the pressure.
Putting aside the killing itself, Zhang Yi performed Dong Xiaofeng as a sentient being under the world, and when squatting, he would accidentally be burned when eating noodles twice, and when tracking the target, he also landed on Waterloo several times, either riding a motorcycle and falling into a puddle, or the mobile phone rang and missed the opportunity, or the high-altitude projectile threw a lonely, people did not hit, and the stone pier fell a mess.
And when the three targets appeared at the same time, they did not react in time, and they broke their noses in vain. It is simply "carelessly losing Jingzhou" and "losing the lady and folding the soldiers".
He was clumsy and unlucky as if it were you, me, any ordinary person in the world. Under the image of such an "ordinary person", he can deserve the title of "killer". Let you feel that which is Dong Xiaofeng, Dong Xiaofeng should be like this, not divided, with Zhang Yi's unique personality charm, is the product of the most real complex human nature.
Zhang Yi portrayed the character of Dong Xiaofeng so three-dimensionally and vividly. It's not all his own fault. It is said that if there is no opponent, there is no drama. Song Lao'er, played by Liu Ye, as one of the protagonists of this movie and also the target of Dong Xiaofeng, naturally undertook a large part of the opponent scene.
Dong Xiaofeng repeatedly wanted to find an opportunity to kill Song Lao'er and make up for his mistakes, but just like the first mistake, one wrong step, one wrong step. And Song Lao'er approached the truth step by step unconsciously.
Liu Ye has also had a lot of good works in recent years, and this time in "The Pursuer" and Zhang Yi's opponent play can be called a confrontation between two powerful actors, which can be said to be full of expectations.
The image of Song Lao'er is slightly thick and even a little silly in the first two chapters, even when he is wronged as a murderer, he can only be angry and scold the wife of the victim, but seeing her tears and panicking, he can only throw things out of anger.
I thought that the image of this bag would be enriched, but in the later chapters, it seems to be a simple tendon, just blindly doing things, without trying to understand why these things are done. Just like a diode, it is not that he has been wronged, or that he has put a hat on Wang You's whole head and robbed the pigs in other people's homes.
He went straight and straight, suddenly, so suddenly that people couldn't understand what he was thinking, how he suddenly took this step, just running after him confused. He lit the bowl of noodles, and then asked someone to grab the pig, and suddenly understood that the cat brother was a ghost for the dead, and those people really wanted his life, and the reason was because he refused to move the grave.
His character trajectory is always broken from time to time. Only in the treatment of that white suit has a new side, it feels as if something is also planned.
Liu Ye can't say that this image of Song Lao'er is not vivid enough, after all, his stupid gengzhi is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but perhaps it is precisely because of this that the characters themselves are not rich enough to stand up perfectly, and they always feel that there is a little less finishing touch that makes people shine.
Compared with the various classic roles he played in the past, Song Lao'er was just unsatisfactory.
The whole film, whether it is black humor or laughter, falls on Zhang Yi's Dong Xiaofeng. It is a pity to see the previous expectations of the two powerful actors facing each other.
In general, "The Pursuer" is also one of the classics of multi-line narrative crime films, and I personally believe that it is also the first masterpiece of Zhang Yi's breakthrough in the "ten thousand years old two" male supporting pattern to make a big stride towards the big screen male number one, which is worth watching.
Since "The Pursuer", there have been few masterpieces on Liu Ye's big screen in recent years. On the other hand, Zhang Yi is a variety of blockbusters one after another, only in 2020, there are nearly 4 masterpieces including "King Kong Chuan" and "Eight Hundred", and nearly 10 films to be broadcast in the next two years are being produced.
After 7 years of watching "The Pursuer", I found that Liu Ye's ending was already doomed, and Zhang Yi's future had just begun.