Just yesterday, the movie "Calm Wind and Waves" starring Huang Bo as executive producer and starring Zhang Yu and Song Jia was released. During the film warm-up phase, some say this is the most anticipated crime film of the year.
Some people may feel unfamiliar with the name Zhang Yu, but if you mention his classic role - Peng Hao, the "yellow hair" in "I am not a medicine god", many people may suddenly realize: it turned out to be this boy, he has good acting skills!
"This is the most tragic role I have ever played, worse than Huang Mao."
In "Calm Wind and Waves", the character Song Hao played by Zhang Yu is a student bully who was sent to college because he was impersonated. In the rainy night, he found the other party's door, but accidentally became involved in a murder. After a fierce inner struggle, Song Hao chose to go far away and started his 15-year fugitive life.
The bright future of genius came to an abrupt end, and Song Hao became a rat in the gutter in the stone carving factory in the south.
It was not until 15 years later, when Song Hao's mother passed away, that he dared to return to his hometown. At this time, he has long lost the spirit of his youth, and has been polished by life into a numb, gloomy cold-faced person.
On the way back to his hometown, Song Hao accidentally meets his old classmate Pan Xiaoshuang (Song Jia). This goddess who accidentally broke into life made Song Hao's life dark for 15 years, shining a ray of sunshine for the first time.
The ambiguous breath of love grows savagely between the two.
However, the good times did not last long, and Song Hao found that there was another hidden plot in the murder case that year, and a conspiracy slowly unfolded in front of him, pushing him into the abyss again.
After the film was released, Douban scored 6.8, and the performance was not outstanding. Many viewers think that it is a problem of the screenwriter, and there are hard wounds in the plot that do not make sense.
Just one high-praise comment is enough to sum up the film:
"First-class acting, second-rate director, third-rate screenwriter."
The one who contributed first-class acting skills is naturally the lead actor of this play - Zhang Yu.
"I'm going to act Out Song Hao into a black hole, and he won't react to all the stimuli of the outside world." Even if light comes in, it will be absorbed by the black hole. He had been carrying original sin for 15 years, and his shell was too hard! This is Zhang Yu's understanding with the director during the shooting.
In fact, Zhang Yu did it, without any body language, without exaggerated facial expressions, just a pair of bloodshot eyes, he could be like a black hole, and all the hidden tolerance, pain, and strength of the characters could be intertwined.
Obviously there are no lines, but you know his emotions at the moment. Like a repressed volcano, it will erupt in the next moment, but in the end it will calm down, and the greatest pain will always be buried deeply. Such a spiritual performance deserves the praise of the audience's "first-class acting skills".
Just like Song Hao fled for 15 years, Zhang Yu has also acted for 15 years.
Zhang Yu, whose original name was Zhang Xin, was born in Guizhou Province in 1982, and like countless children, Zhang Yu's greatest ambition as a child was to become a scientist.
In his youth, Zhang Yu's life trajectory is still ordinary, like to dress mature in front of girls, wear adults' trousers and shirts, and have to cross a backpack to look elegant.
Zhang Yu likes to sing, and went to the vocal music department in his third year of high school, but he was not admitted. It just so happened that the performance department on the side was recruiting people, and Zhang Yu casually passed the exam.
After graduation, Zhang Yu entered the Guizhou Repertory Theatre, and performed some plays with the main theme in the countryside every day, and most of the audience was some slow and steaming old people. These people are outdated in their thinking and are particularly critical of the seriousness of the actors.
Zhang Yu is naturally not a perfunctory actor, every time he performs, he really falls, and he feels that only in this way is the respect for the audience.
Just like that, one by one, he fell for three years.
At that time, Zhang Yu, in the system, could play the male number one, and also had a rich salary every month, and his life was plain.
But he stubbornly believed that he was an artist. No artist can tolerate performing the same thing over and over again. He had a gushing inspiration in his heart, a thirst for creation.
He once consulted with the actors who played the role whether they could adapt appropriately according to the local situation. As a result, people are very dismissive: you don't have toss it, it's useless!
So still acting over and over again, Zhang Yu felt that he was about to throw up, from psychology to physiology, every cell in his body was resisting.
One day, Zhang Yu flipped through his diary, which he wrote on the day he announced the 2008 Olympic Games in China: In 2008, I should be in Beijing.
It turned out that he was once an artist full of idealism, Zhang Yu felt so.
It was 2008.
Zhang Yu took a long vacation, picked up his backpack and went straight to Beijing. The original unit urged him to go back several times, but Zhang Yu ignored it, and half a year later, Zhang Yu was directly expelled.
Zhang Yu looks ordinary, and when he first arrived in Beijing, he has no connections, and it is even more difficult to have a play to act. He and his friends partnered to open a restaurant, named Erwa Hotel. Saying that it is a restaurant, in fact, Zhang Yu and his friends cook their own food, what they want to eat and do, and the hotel naturally sells what. If you are too lazy to do it one day, you will lie to the customer that it is sold out.
After 10 years of drifting in Beijing, Zhang Yu has successively acted in some literary and art films, but there is no splash and no personal appearance.
Until 2017, director Hu Bo invited Zhang Yu to star in his own work "Elephant Sitting on the Ground", Zhang Yu took the script, only read two pages and decided to star. At that time, the crew was so poor that even the actor's salary on the contract did not dare to write, Zhang Yu simply did not sign the contract, and acted as a star with zero remuneration as a friend.
The film lasted nearly 4 hours and won the Film Critics Award at the Berlin Film Festival, and Zhang Yu also came to prominence.
Unfortunately, director Hu Bo committed suicide 4 months before winning the award. It is said that the reason is that the producer wanted to cut some content because the film was too long, and Hu Bo resolutely refused and almost lost the right to sign the film.
Hu Bo is the director and Zhang Yu's friend, and the death of such an idealist makes Zhang Yu unable to let go for a long time. He wrote a long article for his friend Hu Bo, which he placed on Weibo as a tribute.
In 2018, the opportunity for Zhang Yu to wait for finally arrived. When Xu Zheng had a headache for the candidate for "Huang Mao", Ning Hao recommended Zhang Yu to him.
Zhang Yu, who has leukemia and kills pigs for a living, and wears a yellow hair, only used 11 lines to interpret the bitterness and bitterness of this small role to the fullest.
At the film conference, Zhang Yu wore a shirt with the words "wild dog" written on it, and he felt that when he was young, like the yellow hair in the movie, he was a wild dog who was mixed in the street and fought fiercely for a mouthful of food.
In the same year, Zhang Yu starred in "The Unknown Generation" as a thief Hu Guangsheng, a vulgar sentence "I love you ma sell twist love", so that his face is still active in various funny short videos.
3 masterpieces a year, Zhang Yu, an unknown little person, is completely on fire.
However, the attention outside the screen made him feel anxious. After he was on fire, he had to meet all kinds of people and deal with various occasions. He said: In the past, you used to feed yourself sugar, but now others feed you sugar, and at first you feel sweet, and you will be hungry after eating for a long time.
In "Medicine God", they met Wang Chuanjun, and the two became good friends. In the summer of 2018, two big masters ran to Qilian Mountain, grabbed the yak dung on the side of the road and licked it, wild and messed up.
You may feel surprised or even nauseous. But if you know Zhang Yu, you know that this is just his routine operation.
Flipping through his social media accounts, you will even sincerely sigh: this product is not an actor at all, it is an artist!
Write down "prophecies" about 2021, and the tombstones are engraved with wifi usernames.
Rough-looking, he actually plays the violin and often takes pictures of his own Aegean.
On the Weibo account, it is jokingly written "widowed". Wang Chuanjun specially ran out to explain: My brother is actually single!
Often send out some shocking things, and do not regard yourself as a public figure at all. Someone commented to remind him, but he said: What is sold on the table should be the work, as for me, don't sell it!
Because the painter's friend's masterpiece was too powerful, Zhang Yu was impressed in his heart and directly knelt down to his friend.
He is also very fond of small animals and will lean down to kiss his kittens.
On the shared bicycle, you dare to put it on the Internet, without the slightest fear of being called ugly.
Occasionally the mood is good, swing a wave, the style immediately comes up, cool and sassy.
"Most of the time, I'm a social idler." Zhang Yu walked and stopped in the most ordinary, lowest human world, to observe, to experience.
Art is like a roundworm, parasitizing in your body, absorbing your perception of life. In the end it's white and fat, and your face is yellow and skinny.
You no longer live for the sake of living, you are willing to give your life to it.
Zhang Yu is such a person, fierce and alive.