Jim Carrey (born January 17, 1962 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-American actor, screenwriter and producer. —— Quoted from toutia encyclopedia
China has Stephen Chow, and Hollywood has Jim Carrey.
People seem to have been keen to dwell on this kind of question: "Stephen Chow and Jim Carrey, who has the greater influence?" "'Hollywood's Stephen Chow' or 'China's Jin Carrey', which sentence is closer to the facts?" ”
As two Eastern and Western comedy giants of the same era, Stephen Chow and Jim Carrey were both born in 1962, but one was born on June 22 and the other on January 17. However, Stephen Chow became famous a few years before Kin Carrey – in 1988, Chow starred in his film debut "The Wind Catcher"; in 1990, Stephen Chow officially established his nonsense performance style with the comedy film "A Comic Book Breaks the World". It was not until 1994 that Jim Carrey became a Hollywood A-list comedy star for starring in comedies such as Detective Planehead and Stranger in Disguise.
But because Hollywood films are much more influential in the world than Chinese-language films, Jim Carrey is thus smeared, and the film influence he has participated in is naturally greater than that of Stephen Chow, and it is much easier for Jim Carrey to win Western-dominated film awards such as the Golden Globes than for Good Star Chi.
As for which of the two has the greater influence, that is, the question of the benevolent and the wise, I will not delve into it here, and we will return to the truth.
Jim Carrey belongs to the kind of person who appreciates food, he is born with a clear skeleton, the flexibility of facial nerves is dozens of times more than ordinary people, and the two eyeballs can be rotated in different directions.
Jim Carrey has loved acting since he was a child, and is determined to become a brilliant actor in the future, when he was in elementary school, he often performed some small performances in the class, in order to amuse his mother who was sick in bed, he often imitated various exaggerated expressions and gestures. "I wanted to do something to make her feel better, so I mimicked the look of a praying mantis in front of her, and other weird things. I also pretended to pop off the wall and fall on the stairs to make her happy. In an interview, Jim Carrey said.
In 1981, Jim Carrey joined american television as a comedy role and later began to devote herself to the film and television industry. In 1988, Jim Carrey was well known to audiences for starring in the comedy film "Alien Adventures", and in 1994, he ushered in the first peak of his life - a comedy film "Detective Airplane Head" made him a complete hit in the United States. In the same year, he starred in the cartoon comedy film "Stranger in Disguise", which broke the weekly box office record at its premiere, and the record remained for ten years.
Since then, Jim Carrey's acting style has no longer been a single comedy, but has begun to play various types of roles: there are starring legendary comedian Andy in the biopic; there are male protagonists in horror films; there are also small staff members who starred in crime films Dick... A 2008 "Mr. Good" raised his status as the king of comedy to a level that almost no one in the United States could match. At that time, no one expected that this comedy king who laughed at the whole world would have something to do with depression.
In 2015, Kathrina White, an ex-girlfriend who had been in love with Jim Carrey for many years, committed suicide by taking poison during a breakup and chose to take poison.
"Even though it's been three days, I still don't believe you've left me and I can continue to mend my broken heart, but I don't have the willpower this time."
It was as if Jim Carrey had aged 20 overnight. He began to refuse to appear in the film, began to retreat, faded from the public eye.
Later, Jim Carrey was exposed to be plagued by depression. Some media filmed that Jim Carrey often went in and out of the psychotherapy clinic, and would also be sent home by the crew to rest because of her sudden madness on the set.
In a 2017 interview on the New York fashion red carpet, Jim Carrey first circled the host a few times before grabbing the microphone: "Everything here is very meaningless, I participated in one of the most boring things in history." 」 "People suddenly realize that The Jim Carrey, who laughed the whole world, was depressed in his own world.
That same year, the six-minute documentary "I Need Color" came out, and the number of hits exceeded 10 million that day. In the documentary, Jim Carrey holds a paintbrush and generously discloses his depressed life, describing how he came out of the trough of life through painting and re-experienced and enjoyed the taste of life.
"You can see my presence in the darkness of my paintings, and the bright side of the paintings shows what I want." The brush in Jim Carrey's hand never stopped, "Let you down, I'm not a happy clown." I act in comedy because of despair. ”
Unfortunately, the master of comedy suffered from depression; fortunately, he completed his redemption by painting.
Years after Jim Carrey disappeared, when he reappeared in the public eye, he had transformed into an artist. His paintings are very bold in color, rough but delicate, just like his inner world. 、
"Painting gives me liberation and liberation: liberation from the future, liberation from the past, liberation from regret, liberation from troubles."
Shakespeare once said: "When a theatrical character goes to tragedy, he cannot blame the external environment, he should be responsible for himself." ”
What is comedy – comedy is laughing and tearing tragedy apart for people to see.
The world doesn't seem to be friendly to comedians. In their world, life is mostly unsatisfactory, but due to the particularity and sensitivity of their profession, they can only choose to "smile and face", and they also need to learn to capture the slightest fun from the pain, and then laugh and show it to the audience friends. In the long run, it will make a person incomplete and unable to look directly at his own life, which is probably the reason why many comedians have to die - in addition to Jim Carrey has been deeply suffering from depression, such as the famous Hollywood comedian Robin Williams, the comedy king chaplin of the silent film era, "Mr. Bean" Rowan Atkinson, the Chinese comedy master Zhou Xingchi, etc., also suffer from depression.
There are also cross-talk actors that we all know, who are muttering on stage, but in private they are all taciturn masters.
Guo Degang, the head of the Deyun Society, once confessed in a program: "I refuse to communicate with strangers and make friends, in my spare time at home, I can watch a pot of flowers, I have been watching like this, I can see the sunset from noon on the West Mountain." ”
Guo Degang is very introverted in private and not good at talking, and his spare time basically stays in the study, making tea, reading books, and writing. Yu Qian said that he was actually a bit introverted, staying in a room with Guo Degang, and the two of them did their own things without saying a word. Hou Zhen once complained about Guo Degang in the show: "He is a very boring person. ”
"Silent, little to say." This is the general evaluation of Yue Yunpeng by people who have been in contact with him.
Comedians who speak wittily on stage may be introverted in life to the point where they are unwilling to say a word.
As excellent comedians, in order to play a role well, they must thoroughly enter the life of the role and learn to empathize, so that they can play the role vividly, so that the audience can make them laugh, and because of this, their experience of the mixed life is more profound and pessimistic.
When you watch Stephen Chow's comedy movies when you were a child, you will definitely laugh a lot, but when you grow up and watch his comedy movies, you will be surprised to find that you can't laugh out, or how do you laugh and laugh and tears fall? In fact, while comedy brings us joy, it also silently expresses the helplessness of life.