A few days ago, I was warmed by a group of old photos of Hong Kong dramas and a comparison chart of a new Film of the Spring Festival released on the first day of the Chinese New Year.
In 1978, Andy Lau, who came from a poor family, signed up for a star training class with 7 friends, and only Andy Lau was admitted. Because of his good grades and handsome appearance, he just entered the training class and got a wireless "strong support" - he was taken to the set to run the dragon set, and ran for three years.
In 1981, he played a student in Huang Rihua's "Passerby". A second later, another girl stepped forward and blocked him.
In the same year, together with Leung Ka Fai, he played the mountain thief in the martial arts drama "Peerless Spectrum", which was too bamboo in the beard shape.
The coolest one was to play the little brother next to Zhou Runfa in "The Thousand Kings Heroes" with Leung Ka Fai. Because the scene play added a few actions to himself, he was scolded by the producer on the spot and could not lift his head.
Because Andy Lau was the little brother of the barbershop before, he shaved the heads of many stars on the set that year.
42 years later, the younger brother Andy Lau, who shaved his head on the set, was 59 years old, and he returned to the set and once again became the most familiar dragon set when he was young. Shanghai, minus 5 degrees, was splashed with ice water 6 times in a row, and finally the staff who splashed water could not go on, apologized to him, Andy Lau is too familiar with our generation, of course, he will in turn gently comfort the staff: it's okay.
This new film that brings Andy Lau back to the Spring Festival file of the dragon set career is #Filmmaker Crowd Surge#.
The director is Rao Xiaozhi, a director who has filmed a dark horse at the box office of 1 billion, which is also his first entry into the Spring Festival file.
In this Spring Festival comedy, Andy Lau, the old king who has been popular for 40 years and recently has 50 million fans of Douyin, joined hands with the national laughterist Xiao Yang, plus Wan Qian, Cheng Yi, Huang Xiaolei, Lei Jiayin, Guo Jingfei, etc., to play a story of a middle-aged man exchanging lives, Andy Lau played two extremely familiar roles in his 40-year acting career, one is an ace killer, and the other is a dragon set.
Following this bloody and absurd comedy story, we seem to be with Andy Lau, through his 40 years of acting life, and finally I found out: 40 years, the entertainment industry is surging with people, or this old king, it is best to cry.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > this absurd comedy, but it is about life</h1>
As many people probably already know, this movie is adapted from "The Key Thief" in Japan, which won the Japan Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and starred in "Naoki Hanzawa" Yan art group Masakazu Sakai and Teruyuki Kagawa.
The film was selected as one of the "Top 10 Japanese Films" of that year. South Korea has also remade a version of "Lucky Key", which broke a number of box office records for Comedy in Korean film history after its release.
Wonderful story, how to shoot will look good, but in the hands of Rao Xiaozhi, who wrote "The Unknown Generation", it will definitely make this story very different.
For example, he changed the position of the two actors in the Japanese version in the adaptation version: the japanese version plays the killer with the mediocre-looking Teruyuki Kagawa, and the dragon set is played by Masato Sakai.
In the adapted version of this story of exchange life, Andy Lau played a suit and leather shoes, a fierce technique, and a killer who won five-star praise in the industry.
Xiao Yang's work did not improve, his girlfriend ran with someone, and the hanging also failed, simply go to take a big bath first and then continue to kill himself in the group of fallen chen Xiaomeng.
Until one time, after Zhou Quan finished a ticket, he was upset by traffic jams and temporarily decided to go to a nearby bathing center to take a bath.
Unexpectedly, I slipped by a piece of soap and fainted on the spot. And his hand card happened to fall at Chen Xiaomeng's feet.
Chen Xiaomeng didn't know how to get confused and exchanged the keys between the two.
Fate forked.
Chen Xiaomeng, a group of waste firewood, lived a rich life with money on one wall.
Live in a mansion, drive a luxury car, and use all the money to easily pay off the debts you have owed. But instead of other people's lives, he also had to do other people's work, incarnate as a killer, and let him taste the "stimulation of life in dreams".
After Zhou Quan woke up, because of the brain trauma temporarily lost his memory, he had to passively accept Chen Xiaomeng's identity, returned to Chen Xiaomeng's home to see, and lamented that his life was too a failure, no wonder he wanted to commit suicide.
Then he took over Chen Xiaomeng's lonely dragon set career struggling at the bottom, one moment was the background person running back and forth, one moment was the prop special effects actor who could not appear in the final stage, and the other was the passerby A who was chased and beaten by the group actor...
Both the producer played by Lei Jiayin, who found a hat to cover his "head circumference", roared,
It is also difficult to be harassed by the landlord played by Guo Jingfei.
The problem is that the running dragon set does not run well, at most it is a failed dragon set that Yin Tianqiu usually has a sad life.
But the killer did not do a good job, and in minutes he would expose his whereabouts and be killed to the doorstep of his home.
In order to preserve the surprise of the story, let's not spoil the key plot first.
It can only be said that the story has both comedic humor and suspenseful crime films, and even more tense and exciting moments than "The Unknown Generation".
Especially in the second half of the story, it is simply a reversal and reversal, if the first half of the comedy setting can still see the traces of the Japanese version, then entering the second half can be said to have become Rao Xiaozhi's own story, but also reminiscent of the style of "The Unknown Generation".
The last second was still a moment of life and death, and the next second was a funny passage in which Zhou Quan taught Chen Xiaomeng how to get rid of the exaggerated acting skills of squeezing his eyebrows and making his eyes. Throughout the movie, the audience may go back and forth between hahahahahaha and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Of course, you can also guess that Rao Xiaozhi, who wrote "The Unknown Generation", will never be satisfied with telling a crime comedy story of exchanging lives, but he will actually talk about how to "live his own life".
What is interesting in the movie is that Chen Xiaomeng stole the identity of Zhou Quan, but the trajectory of his life did not move in the ideal direction, and when he became a killer, his life was still a mess.
After Zhou Quan has become a group performance, he can still find new goals to continue to move forward: when the dragon set, learn to perform, and grasp the theory and practice together. He also gained unexpected love and met Wan Qian, a beautiful single mother who was the editor-in-chief of the self-media.
No wonder he even took the initiative to say to Chen Xiaomeng after retrieving his memory: My things belong to you, but your life belongs to me.
Yeah, let me choose between a room of money + top killers and a life with WanXi, and I also choose Wanxi.
But life is not satisfactory nine times out of ten, two people who exchange life, the danger to be experienced, far beyond imagination. But no matter how difficult it is, you must also live the life you have chosen.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the nameless Andy Lau laughed and cried</h1>
The most interesting role in the movie is still Andy Lau's comprehensive transformation from a killer top stream to an eighteen-line dragon set.
It's like andy Lau in "Full-Time Killer" suddenly became Yin Tianqiu in "The King of Comedy".
The so-called "adult collapse occurs in silence", and the nameless generation played by Andy Lau is not the epitome of those middle-aged men who face the pressure of life.
However, watching Andy Lau play the dragon set, it is really funny.
When the background wall, the dead body, being scolded by peers, and Hua Tsai recited with a mouthful of Hong Kong Pu," the artillery is afraid to touch the pacesetter, the pacesetter is afraid of touching the artillery artillery.
They all remind me of the Andy Lau who acted in comedy with Stephen Chow in "Gambler" 30 years ago.
The funniest paragraph is still the paragraph where Andy Lau strives to mix from an eighteen-line dragon set to a first-line dragon set in order to improve his acting skills, and learns to perform with the camera.
After seeing what he learned, I knew why Rao Xiaozhi was looking for Andy Lau to act.
Saying that the director is not Andy Lau iron fan I do not believe, you see Andy Lau's action scenes, is not from the 1991 and Andy Lau starring in the movie "Five Tigers Will Break", he played the male protagonist thief boy a shot of throwing a gun?
Look at him imitating the character to play cool, saying the phrase eat you!
Can you and I not see that it is the emoji shot of Jacky Cheung in Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung's debut film "Carmen in Mong Kok"?
But this performance is funny, and I can't help but shed tears, where is the Zhou Quanxue performance, it is basically the director who took us back to Andy Lau's young age and went to ride a round of Hong Kong film classic roller coaster.
With the development of the story, Andy Lau's performance has also brought out more changes, from the meticulous professional killer at the beginning, to the group performance of the only promise, to the retrieval of memory, and back to the fierce thoughtfulness, but after several opponent plays with Wan Qian, you can perceive the solid ice in his heart, slowly melting under the infection of the other party's kind character, and the sharp eyes also continue to release silk softness, and even show a slight smile.
The change of role also conveys the positive values that the director wants to convey.
At first glance, the character changes identity, but what the character is really looking for is what kind of life to live.
The difficulty of thoughtful shaping is to present the complex thickness of middle-aged life in a seemingly calm and single state, and Andy Lau successfully captures the subtle and delicate differences of the role in the film, which also achieves his most relaxed performance in recent years.
When he appeared on the scene, he wore a suit and shoes and did not smile;
After changing identities, at first restrained and flustered; after feelings, the small flame of love that cannot be hidden will make the audience laugh impatiently.
There is one shot in the film that can be described as the most poignant shot of the year, and it is also very fanatic.
It is Andy Lau, who is facing the dilemma of life and death, who re-drives his own fiery chariot and incarnates as the Hua brother in "Heavenly Love", only this time, he is no longer carrying Wu Qianlian, who is dressed in a wedding dress, but Xiao Yang.
At that moment, I had a little wandering in my mind, as if I had traveled into the past time and space, the picture was 59-year-old middle-aged Andy Lau, and outside the picture was a middle-aged me, but I seemed to follow this fiery chariot and returned to the era of "Heavenly Love", the era when Andy Lau and I were still young.
Some people say that middle-aged people can lie a lot, but who they have loved cannot lie.
And our generation, who has never loved Andy Lau.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > is really lucky, living in the era of Andy Lau as an idol and a dragon runner</h1>
From last year to this year, we seem to have been meeting with this labor model, not only the movie, he sent three videos on Douyin, easily broke 50 million fans, everyone said, now you can see who is the real top stream.
But in fact, under the title of "labor model", there is admiration and there is also doubt.
Admiring his diligence and sincerity, what is questioned is whether Andy Lau was talented at that time, and whether Andy Lau is now outdated.
Yes, Andy Lau's set, of course, is no longer popular.
Today's top stream, which is still used like him, shoots 12 plays a year at the peak of the red time, and sleeps no more than two hours a day.
Even if Hong became the King of Heaven and the five-story city tower jumped down, he still personally went to battle, and finally his left foot was fractured, and his ligaments were strained...
In the filming of "The Storm", he hangs himself in the car in a hunting and hunting down gangster scene.
When filming "Full-time Killer", he insisted on not using a stand-in in a scene with the speeding subway, and finally the smashed head was bleeding.
When he had not yet won the film emperor, he said: "I don't think they (big directors) will look for me to shoot in this life, thinking that my acting skills are bad and I can't act." ”
Later, he spent more than 20 years convincing all those who did not believe in him and did not like him. It is true that he is not talented, but his stupid method, shooting one scene after another, and every minute must be worked hard.
In 2018, Andy Lau fell off his horse while filming an advertisement in Thailand and rested for half a year before standing up.
Qiu Litao, who filmed "Sweeping Drugs 2", said that at that time, Andy Lau told him that the director, dangerous actions can not be filmed, and then the injury is very serious.
But less than a year later, it was Qiu Litao who came to shoot "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", and said that Andy Lau, who could not shoot dangerous scenes, jumped off the building, jumped out of the car, what dangerous action scenes, not on his own?
What to do? It is such a man who has always used his life to prove the actor's sense of faith, which has moved the audience for 40 years.
And this is also the most valuable place for Andy Lau. It shows people not the life of a genius, but how an ordinary person like you and me can work hard for 40 years in one go.
In the end, all of this together forms the vitality of this actor.
One scene in the movie tidbit is: The staff asks the 25-year-old Andy Lau what he is doing? Andy Lau laughed and couldn't remember.
Hua Tsai, let me tell you that you, who have become the five tigers of the wireless from the dragon set, participated in a TVB "Star-studded Competition" program.
The show is also a gathering of stars. But most people's talent shows are on stage.
It's your turn, you're performing a "flying car", driving a high-speed car, crashing directly into rows of cars, duang with a loud bang, you take off your hood and smile.
It is difficult to buy a sound, and this sound is decades.
In fact, most people do not work hard enough to fight for talent or face to live a good life, Andy Lau's life is the life that most of us can learn from.
In the movie, Guo Fan, the director of "The Wandering Earth", cameo specially to make a cameo, playing himself, and wearing a T-shirt with the four big characters of "The Wandering Earth". Andy Lau acted in a special effects group performance, without a single shot, and finally director Guo Fan gave this group actor a big hug and said: Thank you for your contribution to Chinese films.
And I want to say to Andy Lau: Thank you for letting our generation experience an era of idols and dragon runners, all called Andy Lau.
Then, the surging Spring Festival stalls, it is better to go into the cinema together to see this "Surging Crowds" and spend the New Year with Hua Tsai.