The recent "Squid Game", which has been constantly talking about, has really made Lee Jeong-jae, who starred as Cheng Qixun, angry again.
Lee Jung-jae was once hailed in South Korea as the best actor to act in romantic romance.
He exudes a natural nobility, gentle and elegant, the kind of trait that you feel at first glance, but the more you look at it, the more fascinated you are.
But the miracle that really made him a first-line box office male star actually started from playing a villain.
He is a man of good and evil, and his versatile acting skills have made him highly recognized, and he is also recognized as a national treasure actor in South Korea.
Today we will talk about the silent samurai Lee Jeong-jae, who is getting worse and redder.
Without further ado, let's get started.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" >, the decline of the family</h1>
In 1972, Lee Jung-jae was born into a wealthy family in South Korea. Grandpa was a famous doctor, and Grandpa's family had several wineries in the area.
Before going to elementary school, he lived like a rich young master, but with the defeat of his grandfather's four-time election for congressmanship, the family's economic situation was getting worse and worse, and his parents worked day and night to pay off their debts.
He was scolded by the teacher because he often could not pay the tuition, which made him feel very wronged when he was a child, and his personality became more and more inferior.
Because his parents were often absent from home, he had to take care of his congenitally autistic brother in addition to class, which made him more precocious than children his age.
To ease the burden on his family, Lee is dropping out of school to start working after graduating from high school.
Because of his handsome appearance, he was recommended by the coffee shop owner of his part-time job to audition at an advertising company, and in his spare time, he patted advertisements to earn extra money.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > second, debut is the peak</h1>
In 1993, he debuted in the SBS TV series "Mr. Dinosaur", appeared in front of the screen for the first time, and also played some small roles in different plays.
In 1994, he starred in "Young Man", directed by national director Pei Changhao, which depicts the story of an amateur model who wants to soar and use different women to ascend to power but leads to tragedy.
Perhaps it is that the protagonist setting has many similarities with him at that time, which makes him interpret it very naturally, and even swept the best newcomer award of the three Korean acting awards of the Year: Qinglong, Dazhong and Baixiang.
The following year, he starred as a crush heroine in the SBS topic TV series "Hourglass", protecting her bodyguard like a brother.
However, because the female protagonist is between the two male protagonists, he simply pays in the play, and finally sacrifices himself.
The tv series, set in the Gwangju incident, caused a sensation in South Korea after its broadcast, and the highest ratings once reached a staggering 64.5%.
Although Lee Jeong-jae is only a supporting role, his affectionate and dedicated image of love has made him more popular, winning the SBS and the Newcomer Award of the Baeksang TV Drama Department that year, becoming the first actor in the history of the Baeksang Art Awards to arrange the Best Newcomer Award in the Film and Television Category.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > three, from rapids to the top of the movie</h1>
After suddenly becoming a super newcomer in the spotlight, Lee Jeong-jae was tired of a life that he had hardly rested since his debut, and resolutely decided to enlist in the army as a soldier.
Unexpectedly, the extremely competitive Korean showbiz circle had already changed color when he retired from the army, which did not leave him too many opportunities and also made his financial situation problematic.
In order to live a life, even if it is a repetitive role of rolling in the pile of women, the agency can only help him take over the role regardless of her wishes when there is no choice.
Despite this, Lee Jeong-jae was not discouraged, but instead had the idea of improving his acting skills even more. He entered the Department of Drama and Film at Dongguk University and studied all the way to a master's degree before graduating.
In 1998, he co-starred with Lee Mi-sook in his bedroom in a relationship ten years apart. In this film, which is likened to a Korean version of Paradise Lost, Lee Jeong-jae shows a gentleness that contrasts greatly with his tall appearance, like a sponge that can contain all the pressures of life, quietly accompanying the heroine.
This feeling of not being accepted by the world haunts a faint sadness, causing a wide range of echoes, and also allowing Lee Jeong-jae to be shortlisted for the Qinglong Award for the first time.
In 1999, he met his lifelong best friend, Zheng Yusheng, and the two played a pair of friends with different backgrounds but similar fates in no sun (sunrise city).
Hongji, played by Lee Jeong-jae, is a young man who is full of dreams, but can only make a living at the bottom. He shows the emotion of not wanting to succumb to fate through delicate body movements and facial expressions, which makes people feel sympathy for his suffering. The wonderful performance made him only 26 years old when he won the Emperor of the Green Dragon Award, becoming the youngest winner in history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="34" > Keanu Reeves has also remade his work</h1>
The following year, he collaborated with Jeon Ji-hyun on "Untouchable Lovers", which pushed his popularity to all of Asia. You may not have heard the name Lee Jung-jae, but you will definitely have an impression of the cottage by the sea and the mysterious mailbox.
This pure love film has a remarkable box office and word of mouth, and was also remade by Warner Bros. in 2006 as a love letter that jumped through time and space, "Untouchable Lovers", with Keanu Reeves playing the role of Lee Jung-jae.
If the two versions are hard to compare, the Korean version is more like a small and fresh pure love film, emphasizing the loneliness faced by two people,
In many places, you have to understand what the director wants to express through the intention and brain supplement.
The American version is handled very clearly in all aspects, and it is a warm romantic film with a high degree of completion.
In fact, which one is more recommended depends on personal taste, but friends who like Lee Jeong-jae must choose the Korean version.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" >5, crazy villain</h1>
Although Lee Jung-jae gradually came out of the low tide after retiring from the army, the financial burden from his family still overwhelmed him.
He had taken over six films in two years, and even had to pay off his family's debts by paying off three films in advance at a time.
For the next decade, he had movies or TV series released almost every year. In addition to his specialty in love scenes, there are occasionally other types of works.
However, in the process of accumulating strength, if he swept the Newcomer Award in the past and his seniority as the youngest Qinglong Award Film Emperor, he actually did not have a particularly impressive performance.
There was once a saying that if an actor wants to prove his plasticity, he must play a villain who makes people hate it.
Perhaps Lee Jung-jae thinks the same way, since 2010, he has actually played villains in five consecutive movies.
In "The Next Girl", he carries his pregnant wife and has sex with the maid played by Jeon Do-yeon. After the East Window incident, he coldly used the money to send it off.
In "The Great Thief", he puts his birth and death accomplices together because of his jealousy.
In Dark New World, he indirectly kills his buddies who see him as a brother, and cold-bloodedly disposes of the chieftain who accompanies him along the way.
In "The Storm of the Destruction of the Master of Appearances", he was bad from the first appearance to the end, and also showed what is called the face of a jackal-like thief.
In "Dark Sha", he is a traitor who falls with the wind on the wall, and he falls to which side it is advantageous.
Although Lee Jeong-jae during this period is still very handsome, in him, you can no longer find the shadow of the melancholy and warm man in his past.
He could command the maid to serve him in a high posture, or he could deftly and greedily instigate a plan to eat black, and his domineering exposure overwhelmed the whole field, and the demon-like momentum made everyone present submit.
Although the face is calm, just one look can send people on the road.
From the age of 20 all the way to the age of 60, people have been taken to court, but he stands up with his chest and righteously guides everyone to do something for the country, even if the reason for each villain's blackening is different, he can take it for granted.
In order to reinforce the differences between the characters, he added a variety of subtle small movements, interpreted different voice tones, and in order to perform the old state of the wind, he lost 15 kilograms to loosen the muscles that were originally proud, and even had a record of not sleeping for 48 hours.
Under all kinds of efforts, I have completed the big devil who let the major movie emperors rise up and play, like this kind of demonic villain with good looks and stature and acting skills, can you not admire?
Lee Jung-jae's performance of the villain's films almost all set record-breaking box office results.
His presence as the main villain in the play is certainly indispensable.
But if you think about it, the actors he partners with are all box office monsters like Song Kang-ho, Jeon Ji-hyun, Ha Jeong-woo, and Kim So-hyun, or Kim Yoon-seok, Hwang Jung-jeong, Choi Min-sik, kim Hye-so, who are big names like the film queen.
So what should be counted as a success in his transformation? Or just happened to catch the train of success of luxury cass movies, welcome to leave your opinion at the bottom of the film!
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Perhaps it is related to the fact that he began to take care of his own agent, since 2016, Lee Jung-jae has changed from evil to righteousness, and the film genre he has played has also begun to move closer to commercial films.
He has successively cooperated with actors from different countries to broaden his popularity in the international market, and his works have begun to become rich and diverse, even stepping into online platforms.
Among them, in the assembled "Walking with God" by Zhu Jixun, Ha Jeong-woo, Cha Tae-hyun and Ma Dong-seok, the Yama King he played was powerful and very stylish, and his long flowing hair made me think that I was filming a shampoo advertisement, completely subverting our ordinary people's impression of the King of Yama.
Although it is only a friendship cameo, the eye-catching presence is not lost to the protagonist group, adding many points to the popular movie "Walking with God", which has set off a topic.
In 2019, Lee Jung-jae returned to the small screen. You should know that for a movie café like him who has proven himself, there must be a reason why it is difficult to refuse to pick up a TV series that also needs to be cooperated for a long time.
And JTBC's "Auxiliary Officer" attracted him because of the pin-to-the-point script and the production team that gathered various elites.
The Zhang Taijun he played was originally an assistant officer of a certain parliamentarian, that is, the role of the camera secretary and so on.
Through his point of view, the audience sees the darkness of the political world and the deceit of human nature, and any personal grudge, love and hate, as long as it can achieve the goal, can all be put aside.
There are no eternal enemies in this world, and there are no friends who will never betray you, and the plot of "Auxiliary Officer" is interlocked, the rhythm is bright and smooth, and the hook-and-arrow power game is dazzling, which is simply a movie-level level.
Coupled with the golden cast with very strong overall acting skills, it has set a new premiere record after the start of the broadcast and received rave reviews, which is definitely qualified to become another peak in Lee Jung-jae's acting career.
Lee Jung-jae's story is talked about here, I believe many friends who are familiar with him are already knocking on the bowl. Why didn't he introduce his "Qingtan Cave Love Song" with Zheng Yusheng.
In fact, it is not that I do not want to introduce, but it is precisely because of the interaction between these two, there are too many things to talk about, I will talk about their brotherly love after talking about Zheng Yusheng.
Okay, that's it for today. If you like this article, please don't forget to help me like it, and you are also welcome to forward it to your friends who like Lee Jeong-jae, we will see you next time!