Zhang Yimou's first attempt at the spy war film "On the Cliff" was released on May 1, and sure enough, the reputation was stable, Douban scored 7.7 points, and the box office rushed to 150 million in two days.
This is a less Zhang Yimou film: no sensationalism, no mood, full of heartbeat stimulation and tit-for-tat confrontation, telling a story about the 1930s, four agents formed a task force to infiltrate the northeast and carry out a secret operation code-named "Utra".
The cast is too luxurious, Yu Hewei, Zhang Yi, Qin Hailu, Zhu Yawen, Liu Haocun, Ni Dahong, Yu Haolei, Li Naiwen... Each one can be called a rare good actor in the domestic film and television circle.
With a good story and a large number of actors who can carry it, it is not surprising that the reputation of "On the Cliff" has exploded.
Yu Haolei, a supporting role villain, once again gained a sense of existence with vivid acting skills.
He has acted in many plays, and his acting skills have nothing to say, but he is old and people can't remember his name, and he is often mispronounced by name - simply we read it here: Yu Hao (ai, read two voices) Lei.
People familiar with this actor may know that this time in "On the Cliff", he plays a supporting role similar to the past, cruel, treacherous, and has a small nine-nine in his heart... The audience was even more unexpected that Yu Haolei, who performed the villain's ambition, actually contracted the biggest laugh in this film.
The role he plays is somewhat similar to the "hit worker" in the villain, at the critical point of being "fired", but because of the human setting, it directly affects the plot of the entire movie.
Yu Haolei's performance in "On the Cliff", the details are worth recalling, worth the ticket price, but unfortunately, when people are still unsatisfied, the director set him a "box lunch" (not spoilers) in the whole film, so that many viewers who have watched the movie hate and pity him, calling him a "back pot man".
Regardless of the number of scenes, in recent years, Yu Haolei, who has galloped the film industry as a "god supporting role", has achieved the reputation of zero bad reviews when he appears.
After more than twenty years of practice, the appearance is limited and forced to become a "villain professional" in the circle, but Yu Haolei has always insisted on not repeating his acting skills, even if the role type is the same, if he does not have the confidence to perform freshness, he would rather not take the role.
In his own words, acting "don't think about becoming a master, but be a craftsman who competes with yourself."
Perhaps because of this, Yu Haolei has always been very discerning in choosing scripts.
Not good-looking, after graduating from nortel training class, Yu Haolei worked as a dragon set for several years before he ushered in his first starring movie "Summer Warm Yangyang" in 2001.
In the film, the driver Dezi who chases after his love wantonly turns around and finally finds that he is actually the little person who was abandoned by the times... Yu Haolei won the best actor nomination at the 8th Beijing University Student Film Festival for this film.
However, a starring role does not mean that his fate on the edge of the entertainment industry has changed, and after that, Yu Haolei can only play soy sauce in TV series such as "Six Groups of Serious Cases", "Chase You to the Sky", "Halfway Couple" and so on, and most of the time he can't get a job at all.
At the most embarrassing time, he only had 4 cents left in all his belongings, and even his teachers persuaded him to change his career as a director. But he still carried it down. Many "drama masters" are outliers in this industry, torturing themselves more fiercely than anyone else, and pursuing the persistence and purity of the so-called actors.
In 2006, Yu Haolei did a group performance in the blockbuster film "Cast Name" directed by Chen Kexin, others are going to make money, but he only wants to see how the real drama is filmed.
Yu Haolei blew himself up, originally his role should have died in 20 scenes, and as a result, more than 60 scenes were filmed in a row, which made Jin Chengwu, one of the male protagonists, laugh at him: When can he die...
Not handsome but acting well, in the end, Yu Haolei relied on his strength to let himself live to the end.
He is frequently questioned, but he still believes that he can meet the needs of some viewers. Actors who can go a long way need to have Yu Haolei's sobriety, have long-term goals, and insist on acting well for decades.
In 2014, Yu Haolei portrayed a criminal police officer Xiao Wang who would stop at nothing to pursue the truth in the movie "Daytime Fireworks", and was familiar to many audiences as an actor.
It is said that after watching the movie, some policemen even thought that he was the person who walked out of the police system, and Yu Haolei also won the nomination for the best supporting actor at the 12th Changchun Film Festival for his superb performance in this film.
He said that playing a supporting role is sometimes more difficult.
Since then, Yu Haolei has been frequently active in various movies, and even once because the supporting roles were too brilliant, it was evaluated to create an exclusive outbreak period of Yu Haolei.
In 2015's "Rescue Mr. Wu", he is a powerful robber who transitions from inferiority to cold-bloodedness.
In 2017, Yu Haolei re-played the killer in "Detonator", although he is a character full of tragic colors, he has a completely different interpretation of the entire plot direction.
Comparing the performances of Yu Haolei in the two movies, we know that his "god" is by no means embarrassing.
A careless hand but a fierce attack.
A silent one also makes people sweat and stand upright.
Interestingly, often when Yu Haolei does not play the villain, the roles he receives are all good cops in the movie. There are not many scenes, and even the character settings are biased towards a niche, but Yu Haolei can always bring a sense of surprise with a calm performance.
After director Zhang Li collaborated with him on the TV series "Young Marshal", he ridiculed Yu Haolei for writing a memoir after saying that he "devoted his life to the shaping of villains." ”
I have to say that whether it is the big screen or the small screen, the reason why so many directors extend an olive branch to Yu Haolei, who is not "red" enough, and even sometimes give him a role of male number three or so, is because of the precision of Yu Haolei's role.
There are unobtrusive supporting roles in order to set off the charm of the starring role.
The brutal husband portrayed in "Shouting • Mountain", with a face of drama, has aroused many viewers to call out to an ann jiahe, which is comparable to the shadow of childhood, which makes people uncomfortable but cannot help but admit that he has acted perfectly.
In fact, the villain label has also become the biggest misunderstanding in Yu Haolei,After acting through all kinds of treacherous tricks and old calculations, he can also afford to be a high-ranking monk in "Yunshui".
Not fighting drama, not proud of the drama bone, this is a hidden label of Yu Haolei. In addition to acting, it is almost impossible to see Yu Haolei participating in variety shows or attending events, and even in the movies he participated in, publicity, and premiere releases rarely appeared in his figure.
In recent years, because Yu Haolei has brought a lot of good works, more and more audiences like him, and I think this is also the greatest affirmation of his actor's strength.
For many viewers, this may still be a familiar face that cannot be named; for Yu Haolei, the familiar face is already reflecting his value as an actor.
He is a good proof of "only seeing the role, not the actor", but it should also be red.
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