Preach in words. - Don Tears
Not long ago, Andy Lau had a "Crisis Route" just announced the start of the machine.
It wasn't long before "The Wandering Earth 2" was officially launched, led by Wu Jing, Andy Lau and Zhang Fengyi.
Aaron Kwok recently ended the filming of "Sweeping Drugs III".
Taking stock, he has five movies to be screened, including two commercial blockbusters "When the Wind Rises Again" and "Sweeping Drugs III.", two literary and artistic small-cost "The Secret of June" and "Daddy is a Rich Man", and a new theme attempt "Disconnected".
The other two kings were almost gone.
And the king's film confrontation actually came earlier than the music world.
It began in the 1980s and continued into the 10s, spanning decades.
Seventeen films were involved in total.
In 1988, Wong Kar-wai made his debut film Carmen in Mong Kok.
He found Andy Lau and Wan Ziliang, who were already quite senior in the film circle, and then found Jacky Cheung, who was popular in the music world, with the young Maggie Cheung.
The film tells the story of two young people who are wandering the streets, wandering for days without knowing tomorrow.
Both are serious about love, one is steady, the other is jumpy, and both end in tragedy.
Jacky Cheung debuted in the film industry as soon as he appeared to be relaxed, almost giving him any role can be easy to come by, the other side without idol baggage is the outstanding role modeling ability and good understanding, whether it is ghost films, comedies or police action, all show strong adaptability. Relatively speaking, Andy Lau's creativity is relatively lacking.
The film received ten nominations at the Academy Awards the following year, but unfortunately it did not win much, Zhang Shuping won the best beauty finger, and Jacky Cheung won the best supporting actor award for the role of the black fly.
Jacky Cheung beat Andy Lau.
Two years later, Wong Kar-wai shot again, this time in "The True Biography of Ah Fei".
This film is considered by Tam Ka Ming to be one of Wong Kar-wai's best works, which is of course quite a matter of opinion.
This time Zhang Guorong shined, Maggie Cheung and Liu Jialing, a pure and dusty, two future kings, Jacky Cheung's humble Andy Lau lonely, Liang Chaowei's silent film performance of two and a half minutes, making the end of the movie become another beginning, bringing out a kind of reincarnation meaning.
Jacky Cheung later said that when this play was filmed, a head-up action was done more than sixty times, but until the end he did not understand what Wong Kar-wai wanted, and Wong Kar-wai gave him a sentence, forget it.
In fact, in terms of performance, Jacky Cheung and Andy Lau have a lack of place, that is, the depth of performance, this problem can not be solved through the director's play, can only rely on the actor's understanding and thinking, to help the role sublimation, and Zhang Guorong and Liang Chaowei are obviously good at this kind of performance, or in other words, this is the difference between business and literature.
Both men are shallow, tied endings.
In the same year, Aaron Kwok was on fire in Taiwan and quickly became popular throughout Asia.
Andy Lau, who has been in the film industry for nearly a decade, has soared in ambition and founded Tianmu Productions.
Tianmu's entrepreneurial work is called "91 Divine Eagle Heroes", Andy Lau invited Aaron Kwok to play the number one villain, in addition to Mui Yanfang, Liu Jialing, Zhong Zhentao and Ye Yunyi to join, the film script is said to be jointly written by Wong Kar-wai and Liu Zhenwei, whimsical, gags, paraphrasing the title of Jin Yong's book but in fact there is nothing to do with the two.
The film was released in 1991 and grossed 20.47 million Hong Kong dollars.
Several senior actors are doing their best to fool around, but the two new actors are particularly serious.
Aaron Kwok not only crushed Andy Lau with his appearance, but even his self-groping performances amazed the industry, and the cold iron blood and heavy love of the killer Silver Fox were interpreted exquisitely and prominently, and he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards the following year.
Aaron Kwok beat Andy Lau.
In the same year, another film cooperated by the two was released, "The Legend of Inspector Leiluo II.
Aaron Kwok, who debuted, is still a supporting role.
Andy Lau's commercial performance model has actually matured about five years ago, and since then he has continued to shuttle in various commercial films, polishing his "Fahrenheit performance" model to a more mature degree, raising his eyebrows, turning around, smiling and swinging his arms, any role is very "Andy Lau", in other words, he plays any role based on himself, and the rest is the harmony with the plot.
This way allowed him to quickly form his own brand, but also absorbed a large number of fans who like this performance model, of course, for the performance is also a double-edged sword, on the one hand, the performance is relaxed, on the other hand, the convergence of the character's face.
In this play, Aaron Kwok, because the role design has no room to play, on the other hand, it has not entered the creative level, so it is only a performance of light and light, and the weakness of the newcomer's experience and lack of skills is fully revealed.
Andy Lau pulled back a city, and the two scored 1:1.
In 1992, the four kings ascended the throne.
This year, there were four films related to the four people, Li Ming and Jacky Cheung cooperated in two films, Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok cooperated for the third time, and cooperated with Li Ming for the first time.
On May 21, the first to be released was "Bright Moon Shines on the East".
Many people say that Jacky Cheung will only play small characters, that is, he has not seen this movie.
The "prince" played by Jacky Cheung, arrogant, domineering and slightly perverted, the aura bursts, in contrast, the dawn second changes passers-by, and the coffee position of that year is also a xueyou greater than the dawn, which is a double male drama treatment.
Especially at the end of the film, Jacky Cheung bleeds from his nose and mouth, and he drives into the river with a bomb, and his eyes interpret the character vividly and unforgettable.
Jacky Cheung wins the dawn.
On June 5, "Dragons And Seas" was released.
Big Fei Brother, Andy Lau and other roles in his works are estimated to be counted a dozen, handsome, funny and moral, Dawn cameo played by the killer is stylish, the performance is also very explosive, let people shine.
Dawn beat Andy Lau.
On June 12, "Dragon God Prince", also known as "Machine Boy Boy's True and False Weilong".
The play is still produced by Tianmu and is co-produced by two other kings.
Andy Lau plays two roles, one is a dwarf nine-striped dragon, the other is a genius idiot Li Xiaolin, and Aaron Kwok plays the bodyguard "Ah Zhong".
As far as the performance is concerned, Andy Lau returns to the familiar routine and plays a low-minded and silly play, while Aaron Kwok appears to be dignified, playing a bodyguard who is extraordinary, loyal to the community and big brother.
And Aaron Kwok's appearance at this stage was indeed amazing, and Liu Tianwang was crushed miserably.
At the end of the year, "Demon Beast City" was released, with a strong lineup, Li Ming, Jacky Cheung, and Li Jiaxin and Li Ruotong.
This sci-fi action movie led by Xu Ke is full of strange imagination and has also tried a lot of special effects production, the scene is hot and fragrant, but the final effect is not satisfactory. Whether it is the plot or the characters, they are all shallow, and the hard performances of the two kings cannot rival the beauty of Li Jiaxin.
Tie the finale.
In 1993, Wang Jing filmed "Super School Bully".
Many people said that this was Wang Jing preparing to gather the four heavenly kings to praise Zhang Weijian, but to tell the truth, Zhang Weijian was not so big.
The opening subtitle is very clear, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok, including qiu Shuzhen's names are before Zhang Weijian, and this movie Aaron Kwok is only a cameo performance with very few scenes.
And this kind of funny film where stars get together, there is no need to talk about the level of acting skills.
In 1998, Xi Zhongwen's first film "Anna Madeleine" was released.
Jin Chengwu starred with Aaron Kwok and Chen Huilin, Aaron Kwok played the unruly "bad boy" nomad, which is a good attempt, and Jacky Cheung made a cameo appearance as a policeman in it, which is rare and incomparable.
In 2003, Infernal Affairs III was released.
Andy Lau and Dawn met for the second time on the big screen, with the usual Andy Lau protagonist, Dawn playing a weaker role and playing three supporting roles.
But this movie especially does not want to do evaluation, although Andy Lau won the Affirmation of the Golden Horse Award with this performance, and the film continues the reputation of the first part of "Infernal Affairs", but the plot is always far-fetched. This series can really be described as the peak of debut, the second part joins the mainland actor Hu Jun, the third part finds Chen Daoming, but the plot is weaker than the other.
Especially the third part, obviously for the needs of the lineup, casually counted, gathered six major movie emperors.
At the end of the first part, the characters of Liang Chaowei, Huang Qiusheng and Zeng Zhiwei are dead, it doesn't matter, live in the memory, solve it in reverse order, add the shadow emperor Dawn, place a promising young police superintendent, and add a mainland senior film emperor Chen Daoming, and the mainland police participate in the investigation.
Interesting? The plot is inverted, and even Andy Lau's role itself is insane, it is said that Chen Daoming described his role as a bullshit plaster, and at the end of the film, a bunch of police officers in the police station rounded up a gangster who exposed his identity, senior superintendent Yang Jinrong was actually shot in the head by Liu Jianming, and then Liu Jianming was shot to the ground, and then committed suicide.
In addition, many people say that Dawn is the best performance in the film, but in fact, at this time, his performance has been very solidified.
Let's count as a draw.
In 2012, "Cold War" came out.
The direction of "Cold War" has been very different from the old-fashioned police films, and the film is not entangled in the perspective of the individual, nor is it a "power struggle" as traditional views. In the film, the vision of the police force's top brass is always to put public safety as the front, ushering in the "new police era" of Hong Kong cinema.
Leung Ka Fai is responsible for the dramatic conflict of the film with "Odd", while Aaron Kwok defines the grandeur of the film with "Positive".
The two actors are said to be "equal".
And because the movie "Tianji: Fuchun Mountain Jutu" and "Cold War" started on the same day, So Andy Lau also took time out of his busy schedule to help guest appearances in "Cold War", compared with the two kings, Andy Lau's role is too small, and he will not make comparisons.
Others such as "Little Policeman" pure cameo, "October Siege" Jacky Cheung only a few shots, "Golden Rooster 2" scenes are also seriously unbalanced, "Macau Storm III. " This genre does not matter whether it is superior or inferior, "Jianghu" This movie has not been interested in watching, and it is skipped.
The winner-loser is not exactly what it means to win or lose.
There are a large number of commercial entertainment films in Andy Lau's works, so when it comes to the problem of acting competition, it is actually a loss.
Therefore, as far as the four people are concerned, Aaron Kwok's route choice may be the best.
Business and literature intersect in parallel.
On the one hand, the acting skills have been polished more and more excellent, and on the other hand, the box office performance is also quite eye-catching.
The follow-up performance continues to be bullish.
Andy Lau is indeed old and strong, and the resources are still bursting.