In Hong Kong films, countless supporting roles have supported the golden age of Hong Kong films.
It can be said that the acting skills of these golden supporting roles are not inferior to any film emperor, and even have higher skills.
One of the supporting characters, who debuted at the age of 47, became a "diamond-level supporting role" in Hong Kong movies.
What he plays like with a person with a thousand faces, and the right and evil make people unable to distinguish, and people give the title of "a thousand faces as it comes".
He is the most underrated old drama bone Liu Xun.
Because of the ever-changing characters he plays, his name may be unfamiliar to everyone, or even ignored.
But as soon as he mentions the classic roles he played, memories will immediately come to mind.
The eunuch Gu Gugufu in "Laughing at the Rivers and Lakes";
Liu Yongfu in "Huang Feihong's One Hero";
Purdue Cihang in Ghost of a Woman 2;
White Cloud Zen Master in Ghost of a Woman 3;
Grandpa Gan in "Nine Pin Sesame Officer" and so on.
For the role he played, there is even a saying in the jianghu called "beard is loyalty, no beard is adultery." ”
Don't lose any of the old drama bones of the film emperor Liu Xun, do you remember him?
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Liu Xun was born in Beijing in 1939 and is not a Native of Hong Kong.
At the age of six, Liu Xun began to study Peking Opera and entered a class specializing in teaching Peking Opera.
Because there was no formal school at that time, I could only learn the art from the master.
During his studies of Peking Opera, he was taught by Li Wanchun, Shang Heyu, Gai Mingtian and other predecessors of Peking Opera.
Liu Xun, a talented and passionate about Peking Opera, also represented the Chinese Art Troupe to perform around the world at the age of 14.
After graduating from school at the age of 19, Liu Xun was assigned to teach at the Peking Opera House in China.
Since then, Liu Xun has begun his career as a Peking Opera teacher.
However, at the age of 41, Liu Xun chose to go south to Hong Kong for his artistic development.
He went to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts as a lecturer, where he not only taught Peking Opera, but also had an in-depth study of Cantonese Opera.
Later, like many Cantonese opera actors were his students.
The most famous is the Tang monk Luo Jiaying, who sang "only you", who was his proud student.
Therefore, Liu Xun was a well-known Peking opera and Cantonese opera master in the Pear Garden Shop in Hong Kong.
Immersed in the drama industry for half a lifetime, Liu Xun only began to fully contact the film and television industry at the age of 47.
Since then, the diamond-level supporting roles of the Hong Kong film industry have appeared on the screen and become the memory of an era.
In 1986, director Xu Ke prepared to shoot the movie "Dao Ma Dan".
In this film, there are a large number of Peking Opera performance elements.
Therefore, Xu Ke, who had a unique vision, found Liu Xun, a famous Peking Opera artist, as an opera director.
Because of Liu Xun's many years of theatrical performance skills, Xu Ke let him make a cameo appearance in the film as a Peking opera actor who spoke a few lines.
Since then, Liu Xun has formed an indissoluble relationship with Xu Ke and officially stepped into the film and television industry.
This year, Liu Xun was already 47 years old, and he was late in life.
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After contacting film and television because of the movie "Dao Ma Dan", Liu Xun's acting career was out of control.
In 1987, in the movie "Zombie Supreme", Liu Xun played a Maoshan Taoist who was fierce and fierce.
It was also his first film.
Three years later, Liu Xun ushered in an outbreak of acting career.
In the film "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" directed by Xu Ke, Liu Xun was invited to play the villain leader eunuch Gu Gufu.
This murderous eunuch who did not blink, vicious and vicious, was disguised by Liu Xun into the wood three points, full of drama.
Not thinking that it is really the embodiment of "eunuch", Liu Xun is also known as the most authentic actor who plays a eunuch.
With textbook-level acting skills, Liu Xun was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards.
The up-and-coming Liu Xun began to completely attract the attention of many directors, especially becoming Xu Ke's royal golden supporting role.
Later, he played Xiang Qingtian in "Smiling Proud of jianghu 2 Oriental Undefeated"; in "Oriental Undefeated Comeback", he played a transfigured Oriental undefeated.
In 1991, director Xu Ke prepared to make a series of films by Huang Feihong.
In the first film, "Huang Feihong's One Of the Heroes", Liu Xun played the role of Liu Yongfu, the commander of the Black Flag Army, a decent person who worried about the country and the people.
In the movie "Huang Feihong's Three Lions Battle", Xu Ke added a role to Liu Xun, who appreciated it.
He played Huang Feihong's father, Huang Qiying, and successfully created a classic old man who was open-minded, majestic and lovely.
Liu Xun, who does not play the villain, plays a decent person who is also awe-inspiring and heroic.
Later, he successively starred in "Huang Feihong 4: The Wind of the King" and "Huang Feihong 5: Dragon City Fighter".
Liu Xun has once again become the most classic "Huang Qiying" in the audience's impression.
In addition to playing a huge span of positive and negative roles in Xu Ke's two heroic martial arts dramas.
When it came to the "Ghost of a Woman" series of movies, Liu Xun's role contrast reached the extreme.
In "Qiannu Ghost 2: The Way of man", Liu Xun played a "Purdue Cihang" with boundless mana.
As soon as he appeared on the scene, he brought an evil qi of his own, which instantly made people feel that the demon qi was oppressive and suffocating.
In particular, his appearance of "Suo Life Sanskrit" has become a lingering shadow in the hearts of fans.
This role has also become one of the most classic roles in Liu Xun's acting career.
In "Qiannu Ghost 3: Dao Dao", Liu Xun changed the role of the evil faction again and became the "White Cloud Zen Master" who descended the demon Voldemort.
If you don't look closely, you really can't tell that this was originally played by Liu Xun alone.
It is also good and evil, and the positive and negative factions are at ease, and Liu Xun has also gained the reputation of "a thousand faces like this".
It is also in response to that sentence: "Bearding is loyalty, and not having a beard is adultery." ”
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In addition to dedicating one classic role after another in the films directed by Xu Ke, Liu Xun's acting skills continue to climb.
In 1992, in the costume action movie "New Dragon Gate Inn", Liu Xun once again played the role of a eunuch.
Jia Ting, one of the four major stalls of the East Factory, an old treacherous giant, was played by Liu Xun to the fullest, and many movie emperors were suppressed.
This role makes Liu Xun's role carved into the audience's heart and never forgets.
In 1994, Liu Xun played Li Lianying, a great eunuch at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in Wang Jing's "Nine Pin Sesame Officials".
A bullying and yin-yang-weird grand eunuch, once again played by Liu Xun, is pure and complex.
Every move, every word and deed is acting, and at this time, the eunuch played by Liu Xun has reached the peak of perfection.
Liu Xun has once again become a "eunuch household" in the hearts of movie fans.
Later, some media commented that:
"Liu Xun switches freely between the right and evil sides, acting like anything, there is no similarity, the play road is as wide as the sea, especially the role of a eunuch is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people."
In the same year, Liu Xun played the villain role in "East Evil and West Poison" and had two fight scenes.
In addition, liu xun's other classic roles can also be said to be ever-changing.
The role of Uncle Shi in "Invincible Anti-Fighting Star";
The old monk of Jinshan Temple in "Green Snake";
The butler in Liang Zhu;
Feng Jingyao's butler in "New on the Beach";
Yan Zhen in "Gambler";
The main villain in "The Heroic Nature of Water Margin" is Gao Li;
Master Jueyuan in Taiji Zhang Sanfeng;
Ming Dynasty eunuch in "Shangtan Gambling Saint";
Master Zunsheng of mount Wutai in the Tale of Shu Mountain;
There is also one of the most classic characters in recent years, Mr. Rui, a martial arts master in "A Generation of Grandmasters".
Since then, Liu Xun has gradually faded out of the show business circle, and no classic roles have appeared.
More than 30 years after his debut, Liu Xun has also become the most admirable diamond-level supporting role in Hong Kong movies, leaving a youthful memory of an era.
Now 81 years old, Liu Xun has dedicated half to the Peking opera and Cantonese opera stages, and half to the movie screen.
This 47-year-old artist has been pursuing performing arts all his life, and his achievements have crushed all kinds of drama bones and movie emperors.
Such a super old drama bone should not be ignored and forgotten by us.