Preach in words. - Don Tears
The previous article separately talked about three of Aaron Kwok's early masterpieces.
They are his self-speculation on his performance ("The Hero of the 91st Divine Eagle"), his true color performance ("Accompany Me"), and the famous director's guidance ("Barefoot Boy").
If you have a heart, you can see the difference in performance in the middle.
Self-speculation is actually unstable, the true color of the performance is easy to rigidity and repetition, only the guidance of the famous director is the fastest way for actors to improve their ability.
This, of course, also refers to actors with acting talents.
Other actors who are neither talented nor diligent enough, even if they have famous director resources, are actually in vain.
The analogy is still taken here against Leung Ka Fai.
For example, his first film on the big screen was to cooperate with the big director Li Hanxiang.
What is the Grand Guide? They have a subtle control over the scene, including the stride they walk, the angle of their heads, the scale of their expressions, and the brightness and darkness of the light, which is also as Leung Ka Fai later recalled, everything was arranged, and he was just a marionette in the director's hand.
Although there is an element of self-humility, it may not be a true portrayal of the time.
And throughout the 1990s, how many times did Aaron Kwok cooperate with famous directors in twenty-two works?
One Liu Weiqiang, one Chen Jiashang, and one Du Qifeng.
Among them, he has cooperated with Liu Weiqiang twice.
And Dawn, who became popular with him almost at the same time as the king, made twenty-eight films in the nineties, and well-known directors can make a long list.
Counting at random, there are Xu Guanwen, Xu Ke, Liu Zhenwei, Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kexin, Xu Anhua, Du Qifeng and Zhang Wanting, and others such as Chen Xunqi, Wei Jiahui, and Ma Dangxiong can not be included.
Jacky Cheung is also close to Dawn and has cooperated with many famous directors.
This situation only illustrates one problem.
That is to say, Aaron Kwok has always been on his own way of thinking about the way to mix the true color of the performance.
Therefore, in the process of growing up his acting skills, sometimes the situation is good and bad, and in some works, there will indeed be cases of excessive force.
But his cooperation with famous directors is very easy to rub sparks.
From 1994 to the end of the century, exactly six years.
Aaron Kwok has only made five films, involving five genres: comedy, school themes, fighting action, love fairy tales and anime adaptations.
Among them, no works were released in 1997 and 1999.
Leaving aside the comedy "LunWen Shu Old Point Liu Xiankai" and the green leaf "Xianle Fluttering".
The other three works are all remarkable.
In 1996, the inspirational boxer-themed movie "Romantic Storm" was released, and the box office exceeded 10 million.
The film was produced by Wu Yusen and directed by Hong Jinbao.
The new director Liang Baijian became a hit.
He invited Aaron Kwok to star, and also opened up Aaron Kwok's ambition to develop into the field of action movies.
The realistic action style of the film leaves a strong impression, and the professional boxer played by the stout Aaron Kwok is particularly convincing.
But action is only a shell, and the real core of the movie is why it is necessary to do one thing.
As long as your pursuit is valuable, you will die without regrets.
This touches the ideological level, and is extremely positive, specific to the performance in the movie, which is "to win glory for the People of China".
The male protagonist used it to get rid of the depression of love, regained his strength after decadence, fought with tenacity, and finally defeated the Japanese boxer to win the title of Asian boxer.
Regardless of the literary and martial arts, Aaron Kwok has made up enough weight.
Looking at the film industry at that time, of course, the acting skills were stronger than him, but if we talked about the comprehensive conditions of acting, appearance, muscle and body proportions, the entire film industry could not pick out a second person who was more competitive than him.
It is regarded as the choice of the golden statue emperor of that year, and this alone is actually enough to explain the success of his performance.
Of course, for Aaron Kwok, at this time, the reputation in the song world is growing, and the film world is only like playing tickets.
Nominated or not, he may not have cared at the time.
This year, Aaron Kwok joined hands with Hong Kong Jiahe.
Boss Zou Wenhuai personally attended the signing ceremony of the two sides.
In the words of the media, Aaron Kwok at this time "made comrades crazy", and began to gradually peak in both fields of song and film.
Signed a two-year contract with Jiahe to fulfill four heavyweight films, and tried to take over the class of action superstar Jackie Chan with great ambition.
He then won TVB's Most Popular Male Singer Award for two consecutive years.
Working with Pepsi is radiant.
However, the first drama to be filmed in cooperation with Jiahe was not an action blockbuster, but a romantic light comedy with a more literary style.
In 1998, Anna Madeleine was released.
The film once again joined hands with Chen Huilin and cooperated with Jin Chengwu for the first time, with cameos by Cheung Kwok-wing, Yuen Wing-yee and Jacky Cheung.
There is a film review in Douban that is ten years away from now.
He said that "Aaron Kwok's acting skills have not improved for ten years", and added a prefix, if there is acting.
He also said, "Today's Guo Tianwang is very serious about positioning himself as an actor, and every time I think of his kind of weightlessness, I feel so sad that everyone can see the way I perform "I am acting". ”
He also said, "Although the Hong Kong film industry has declined, there are still a lot of good actors, but they are really good, always golden supporting roles, and always lining the protagonists who are either like wood or act like fierce children are very funny and embarrassing." ”
Finally, a sentence was added, "Mr. Zhang Guorong's cameo in this situation is not so much a cameo as it is only he who can press the line." ”
Its fan perspective is actually understandable.
But is Aaron Kwok really as bad as he says?
In the entire Hong Kong film industry, only "Aaron Kwok" has been "acting", and other acting schools are truly "alive"?
not necessarily.
Life always has ups and downs, in other words, who is not "acting"?
Acting itself is a problem that originates from life and is higher than life, is living like an ordinary person a magical acting? Obviously not either.
Understanding the performance in this way will also deviate considerably.
And deliberately watched the film review time, at that time Aaron Kwok and Zhang Ziyi starred in the movie "The Favorite" has been released, in this play, Aaron Kwok outside the camera a look can make Zhang Ziyi cry, what degree of skill is this?
But it doesn't really matter.
There are not a few people like this audience's perspective and closed state.
They may all belong to the group of people who deliberately maintain self-awareness, and it is normal not to see the changes and progress of others.
At that time, Aaron Kwok was naturally inferior to Zhang Guorong.
Or it can be said that Zhang Guorong himself was a figure at the top of the pyramid of the Acting School in Hong Kong film at that time.
With Aaron Kwok's seniority, it is not as normal as Zhang Guorong, and the control of the three protagonists at that time is obviously insufficient.
So once there is a need for dramatic and exaggerated performances, it will seem that there are too many small movements and too large amplitudes, but other scenes about youth throbbing are really good.
Therefore, the actors and the movie are equally obvious in terms of advantages and disadvantages, and they can also be regarded as a kind of arrangement in the dark.
After so many years, the deepest scene about this movie is a fight scene between the stout Aaron Kwok and a glasses man, and I was thinking at the time that this glasses man must be miserable, and sure enough, the glasses man's nose and blue face are swollen.
As actors who were still growing up in the younger generation, the performance of Aaron Kwok and Jin Chengwu in this play should be remarkable.
It is a young memory in the hearts of movie fans.
In 1998, Aaron Kwok stood at the pinnacle of the two fields of song and film.
The first is the Most Popular Male Singer Award of Lianzhuang Hong Kong Wireless.
This is a rare record, at least in the process of the four heavenly kings fighting this is the only time.
The other was to win the Hong Kong Film Of the Year Championship.
Since the rise of Bi-Zhou Cheng, this is also the only breakthrough initiative.
And this "Domination of the World" is only the twenty-second and thirteenth protagonist films taken over by Aaron Kwok.
Speaking of this movie.
Some clichéd topics are expected to be brought up again.
For example, about who is the first male protagonist, the rumors of singing the theme song, and who holds whose thigh, the box office is based on comic book basics and computer special effects.
Realistically, based on the concept of "Wind and Cloud", it is naturally a double male protagonist setting, but whether it is a poster or a movie title, it is unmistakable that Aaron Kwok is the first male protagonist.
As for the theme song of the competition, Zheng Yijian also continued to exert efforts in the film industry in the song world in those years, and it is normal for the agency to compete for resources, and the last opening and ending, and then the middle interlude is counted as a balance.
In 1996 and 1997, Zheng Yijian entered the top ten box office rankings with four ancient puzzle boys films, which was a temporary hit.
Previously, Aaron Kwok also had a box office record of more than 10 million single male protagonists.
So in fact, just like the words of the mud bodhisattva in the movie, Jin Lin is a thing in the pool, and when it encounters the storm, it will turn into a dragon.
As far as film roles are concerned, Aaron Kwok and Yijian Zheng are the only two choices in the entire Chinese film industry.
The use of the Wind and Cloud comics and computer effects was, of course, an important part of the film's success.
But special effects must not be the main reason for the box office explosion.
What's more, with the development of technology, countless films, including Hollywood, have been attacked for having special effects, fancy and no substance.
So a good movie is a good role for various factors.
As far as "Wind and Cloud" is concerned, the success of the two-protagonist performance is beyond doubt.
This is the truth.
Let's talk about acting.
Bu Qingyun in the movie is a person who lurks with hatred around his father's enemy.
Kong Ci was his only light, and his ten years of stoicism were largely due to his love for Kong Ci.
In the face of the hegemony of the martial arts world, he chose to bow his head in disguise.
Practice martial arts hard, and have a cold temperament.
Overnight, the city was slaughtered and the grass was cut down.
And when the male bully makes a move, his stubbornness appears, which echoes the scene at the beginning of the film where Bu Jiazhuang is destroyed by the world.
Snatch Kong Ci on the spot and say the classic line: I love someone in a panic, I don't need a reason.
In contrast, Nie Feng was too weak and indecisive.
After that, the coffin alone broke into the tomb of the hero king and seized the thousand-year-old ice dragon, which can also be seen in the tyranny of the step frightening cloud.
Re-placing Kong Ci in the houling shows deep affection.
Aaron Kwok interprets the coldness, affection and stubbornness of Bu Qingyun's characters one by one.
Aaron Kwok in 1998.
At the same time, standing at the peak of the music world.
It's a bummer.
But he will soon face a years-long downturn in his career.
Even with the performance, it became rigid and confused.
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There is a word called boom and bust.
This may be the norm of life, and the unchanging rules of the world.
postscript:
Is Aaron Kwok's acting skills good?
First filter out some people who have no sense of appreciation and judgment at all.
There are also two points of view.
One view is like a Zhang Guorong fan mentioned above, who feels that Aaron Kwok has no acting skills and acts for the sake of acting.
The other is the opposite, feeling that Aaron Kwok's performance is subtle and stunning, and it is amazing.
Which of these is right?
Actually, both are true.
Because first, Aaron Kwok's works are small, coupled with different styles, some of them are even more biased themes.
So most people have only seen a smaller part of it.
Second, as mentioned before, Aaron Kwok's acting skills have a very obvious growth period.
For example, if you happen to have watched "Thunder X-Men" and "Romantic Sakura", but have not seen the later "Father and Son", "Favorite", "Breaking the Game", "Peerless", then naturally you will have a negative attitude.
Seek new ground and keep trying.
As a result, his performance is unstable, just like his singing track.
So it's hard to generalize whether Aaron Kwok is a singer who sings love songs.
Or maybe you can't decide which film genre Aaron Kwok is suitable for.
This kind of bone is willing to do a new attempt to pursue.
It is an excellent trait in terms of personal career.
But it's not really friendly to fans and movie fans.
Because everyone has a preference tendency.
I'm used to seeing you dressed up and open and closed.
It may not be easy to accept the sudden unruly and shrunken incompetence.
For example, take Zhou Xingchi as an example.
Most people were used to his early nonsense performances.
And he suddenly gave up almost all the comedic elements of the performance in "Yangtze River Seven".
Some people think it is boring.
But even so.
Also always felt.
For actors, it is better to change than to remain unchanged.
Single-mindedly seeking change, the future can be expected.