Just when "The Wandering Earth" is constantly refreshing its box office figures in China as a dark horse, there is also a dark horse movie in South Korea, with a small-cost comedy posture, defeating the "Battle of Mingliang" to maintain a five-year record for the box office champion in the history of Korean films and ascending to a new championship throne.
The Korean film, titled Extreme Occupation and renamed "Fried Chicken Strike Force" after being introduced in Hong Kong, China, will be released tomorrow , March 28 in Hong Kong, China. It is worth mentioning that the male protagonist Liu Chenglong, who is also the protagonist of "The Battle of Mingliang", had been unlucky for five years before he achieved this self-transcendence.
For Liu Chenglong, Chinese audiences are certainly no strangers.
Born in 1970, the 49-year-old is the cute father in "The Gift of Room Seven", the omnipotent fan of "Everything About My Wife", and the sinister Guozhang in the popular Netflix series "Kingdom", the actor who debuted from the theater stage and is one of the "tens of millions of actors" in Chungmuro.
(Editor's note: South Korea's film achievements are often counted by the number of moviegoers, and tens of millions of actors and tens of millions of movies refer to the number of moviegoers reaching the level of tens of millions.) ）
△ Liu Chenglong in "The Gift of Room Seven".
In "Extreme Occupation", Liu Chenglong plays a "drug control team leader" who can never be promoted, a "small strong person" who is in adversity but never accepts defeat, and will never be defeated in the face of a strong enemy.
In the words of Li Bingxian, director of "Extreme Career", "This role is none other than Liu Chenglong", because "he is not only a busy and tired little citizen, a parent who cares for his daughter, but also has a leadership temperament, such an actor is only Liu Chenglong." ”
△ Liu Chenglong in "Extreme Occupation".
"Extreme Occupation" and China's movie "Lobster Police" both use the same Korean screenwriter written by the book, the result of one shrimp and two eating, is that "Lobster Police" smashed the box office, but in South Korea has achieved the opposite results -
Released in South Korea on January 23, not a high-cost commercial film, but "small and big", with a "non-ordinary comedy police film" viewing experience, mobilized 16.1 million viewers into the theater. Although the number of viewers of "Extreme Occupation" is second only to "The Battle of Mingliang" with 17.61 million visits, due to the increase in ticket prices, the box office has surpassed the 135.7 billion won of "Mingliang Naval Battle" with 137 billion won in early March, and has become the top box office in the history of Korean films.
What's more worth mentioning is that this is the second time that Korean comedies have crossed the 10 million mark after 2013's "The Gift of Room Seven".
△ "Extreme Occupation".
For Yoo Seung-yong, "Extreme Occupation" is his fourth 10 million film, which also makes him return to the peak of Chungmuro after five years of silence.
Yoo Seung-yong's career as an actor can be described by the four words of "late success", when he was in college, he studied in the drama department of Seoul National University of the Arts, and was classmates with An Jae-wook and Hwang Jeong-min. In 1986, when Ahn Jae-wook had become a "Hallyu" star, Yoo Seung-yong began his stage play career.
Nowadays, Korean tourism must be a war: the famous stage play "Nanda", And Yoo Seung-yong is the elder member of the play.
△ "Random Fight" poster, the second from the left is Liu Chenglong.
Speaking of "Random Fight", it is necessary to mention that Liu Chenglong once had a rare meeting with Zhang Guorong.
It is said that in 2000, when Zhang Guorong was touring Japan, he happened to meet actors such as Liu Chenglong, who was also touring Japan, and other actors of the "Random Play Show", so he left this rare group photo.
△ The second from the right is Liu Chenglong, and the third from the right is Zhang Guorong.
Chinese audiences who have watched "Extreme Occupation" will be impressed by the theme song of "Hero True Color 2" used in the police and bandit battle at the end of the film - Zhang Guorong's "Love of the Year", and at the same time, this "domineering sofa after the protagonist group fights" also pays tribute to "Hero True Color 2", which is also the common feeling of Liu Chenglong and the director!
Although "Nanta" was successful in that year, Liu Chenglong was a person who did not like to stay in his comfort zone for too long, because "Nanda" was a silent performance drama, so he was determined to be an "actor with lines", and then found his college predecessor Director Zhang Zhen, who first appeared on the big screen in "Courtship Coffee House", when he was 35 years old.
After filming films such as "Rapids Retreat" and "Great Genealogy" with Zhang Zhen continuously, Liu Chenglong starred in the film for the first time, which was "Don't Believe in Hell" in 2009. In 2011, the year of Liu Chenglong's outbreak, he not only had four movies released: "Pyongyang City", "Children", "Highland War", "Final Weapon: Bow", and won the "Best Supporting Actor Award" at the 32nd Green Dragon Film Awards with "Final Weapon: Bow", this year, he was 41 years old.
△ Played a Manchu sharpshooter in "Final Weapon: Bow".
Liu Chenglong's winning fortune has been unearned since the beginning of "Final Weapon: Bow".
In 2012, he starred in "Everything About My Wife", which won the "Best Supporting Actor" at the 33rd Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards, the "Best Supporting Actor" at the 4th Korea "Film of the Year Awards", and the "Best Supporting Actor" at the 49th Korea Baeksang Arts Awards.
In the same year, he starred in "Guanghai, the Man Who Became king", which won the "Best Supporting Actor" award at the 49th Korean Film Grand Bell Awards, and was also the first "10 Million Film" of his career.
△ The mesmerizing of "Everything About My Wife".
Liu Chenglong's extraordinary ability to control the character, the steady and steady line skills, the shuttle between various roles, and the actor image that has almost never been "solidified" have not only opened up the award luck for him, but also won the audience's popularity -
In 2013, he starred in the comedy film "The Gift of Room Seven" for the first time, playing a mentally handicapped father who loved his daughter deeply, which was tear-jerking and invincible, not only becoming the only movie in South Korea with more than 10 million viewers in 2013, the eighth film in South Korea to enter the "10 Million Club", but also winning the 49th Korea Baeksang Arts Awards and the 50th Korean Film Grand Bell Award "Best Actor Award".
△ The mentally handicapped father in "The Gift of Room Seven".
In 2014, after "The Battle of Mingliang" starring Yoo Seung-yong won the box office championship in Korean film history, he himself reached the top with a cumulative number of viewers of 64.971576 million viewers.
This figure was counted by the South Korean media in 2015, and Yoo Seung-yong ranked second among South Korean actors, with three "tens of millions of movies", second only to Song Kanghao, ahead of Xue Jingqiu, Huang Zhengmin and Ha Zhengyu.
In the United States, there is a saying that after taking the Oscar, it has declined for three years. For example, Denzel Washington and Nicole Kidman were unfortunate enough to fall under this "law" that year.
Liu Chenglong is also, when "Mingliang Naval Battle" won the Korean film history box office champion, he was unlucky for five years, the films "Guest", "Peach And Plum Flower Song", "Nian Li" and "Seven Years Of Night" in these five years were not only not well received, but even he himself was also plagued by the black material of "big changes after becoming famous, changing the phone number", before the transfer, he once wanted to quit the circle, fortunately he got out of the predicament.
△ Liu Chenglong played the Japanese "One Piece" in "The Battle of Mingliang".
In the days of being misunderstood by the outside world, he even doubted the fun of the performance itself, and the successive failures at the box office made him confess: "Let me lose the happiness that the performance brings me, and even have doubts about it." ”
When he went from the drama stage to the big screen, Liu Chenglong was out of his yearning for "that realm of no self, that kind of enthusiasm and challenge like a fountain of inspiration", which made him feel very accomplished, but after being "kidnapped" by the label of tens of millions of actors, he felt out of the original intention of acting.
In the past few years of deliberately fading out of the actor industry and taking "decline", he has encountered the death of his sister and mother-in-law one after another, and between life and death, he has realized: "Life will not be as you wish, you must learn to accept and face, the process is more important than the goal." ”
Fate is so wonderful, when Liu Chenglong was caught off guard, he pushed him to the peak, and after the peak was the trough of 5 years. Five years later, Liu Chenglong returned with "Kingdom" and "Extreme Profession", and inadvertently climbed to the top again.
At that time, he was criticized by the "black material" because of the agency, and Liu Chenglong has now terminated his contract with the agency and become a free actor.
△ "Kingdom" is widely acclaimed, and the second season has begun filming.
At present, among the three most cost-effective movies in South Korea, Liu Chenglong starred in three seats:
"The Gift of Room Seven" has the highest cost performance, 15 times the income.
·"Extreme Occupation" ranks second in terms of cost performance, with 14 times the income.
"The Battle of Mingliang" followed closely behind, with 7 times the revenue.
Even though he has already been added to the film emperor, people will still say when they mention Liu Chenglong now: the underrated Chungmuro actor.
And the five years that were "lost" were probably only known to Liu Chenglong himself, what that meant.
For people who do not have the word "give up" in the dictionary, there is no eternal trough in life.
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