Preach in words. - Don Tears
This topic is interesting.
One is the most successful model of the Chinese film industry taking the idol school as the starting point and transforming the powerful actors.
The other is the legendary idol who has maintained the peak of popularity in the Chinese film industry for the longest time.
For young actors, no matter which one they become, they can be regarded as a great success in their careers.
But if you filter out the fan perspective.
Who is the ideal model for young actors?
Or who do you most want to be?
At the 33rd Golden Rooster Awards, Huang Xiaoming won his second Golden Rooster Film Emperor.
I remember an article at that time, titled "Huang Xiaoming, who won the Golden Rooster Film Emperor twice, the acceptance speech is so humble, he must follow the path that Aaron Kwok has walked."
And what is Huang Xiaoming's acceptance speech?
He said, "Directors, please use me, what I'm going to do is be a century-old store."
The article said, "The key is how to become a century-old store?" There is only one answer, take the road that Aaron Kwok has walked, and completely abandon the burden of idols."
In terms of age, Aaron Kwok, who is twelve years older than Huang Xiaoming, is indeed qualified to be a senior.
And the road of Aaron Kwok mentioned here is to let go of the burden of idols and be with the characters.
Of course, the road to acting skills is long, lonely and arduous, far from the so-called "letting go of the burden of idols" to achieve the goal.
Aaron Kwok in the 1990s was an out-and-out idol.
He was radiant as soon as he debuted, if it were not for the advantage of appearance, it is difficult to imagine who could become popular with an advertisement of tens of seconds, and even the hairstyle is named after him, almost swept the entire Chinese-speaking world. In turn, three consecutive albums sold more than one million copies, and after only two years, it became one of the top kings of the Hong Kong music scene.
At this time, he had released only three Mandarin records, a collection of old songs, and a Cantonese album.
In 1992 and 1993, the company helped him take over ten commercial films.
Since then, although he has made great achievements in the music world and begun to selectively take over films, he has always regarded himself as an idol.
Years later, Aaron Kwok, who had just finished filming the movie "The Murderer", talked about the old events of the first "Wind and Cloud" in Zheng Danrui's interview program.
For the performance at that time, both people were described as "nervous", very reserved, and considered the pressure and image of the company.
Ten years later, when the second film was made, it began to relax and lift weights, Aaron Kwok said that he would take the initiative to find Yi Jian to chat, everyone formed a real brotherhood, and then put it into the movie, which can make the audience really feel.
Perceptions and attitudes towards movies are very different.
Around 2000, Aaron Kwok, who began to plan to fade out of the music world, was still wandering in confusion as far as the film world was concerned.
The meticulous hairstyle in "Thunder X-Men", played in "2000 AD" and "Romantic Sakura", are all youth idols, and the requirements for him are to be a good-looking idol, try to play well, dance well, and as for the problem of acting, it is impossible to talk about.
But through "Three Forks", he learned to "have no fear of image", and then to Tan Jiaming's teaching in "Father and Son" to "seek more difficult roles" and "pay attention to the details of the film", he suddenly grew.
He began to put the experience gained in each film into the next work, and found the joy of the film, and the things that seemed hard and difficult to others became his willingness.
In the past three decades, his yield rate has been rising, and these trends can be seen from the nominations of the Golden Statue and Golden Horse Awards, awards and box office performance, and the reputation of the audience, and he has almost achieved his promise of "quality assurance".
From the pure idol faction at the beginning, to the exploration and attempt of performance, to the final entrance to the performance hall.
Of course, this is not the so-called "effort" to get to the current level.
In the words of his predecessor Chow Yun-fat, "Aaron Kwok is, you can see his progress in every play."
Zhuang Wenqiang said, "Aaron Kwok's performance exceeded my needs and that of the film."
Aaron Kwok's box office appeal in literary and art genre films still needs to be enhanced, which is the drawback brought about by his too few commercial films.
Andy Lau's initial performance did not actually have the idol light of Aaron Kwok.
He also did not show a purely "idol" side in his early works, regardless of appearance or performance style.
The early stages of the music scene did not go well, and the sales of the debut album were dismal.
But at this time, his resilience played a role, and two years later, he attacked again in the music world, gradually gained a foothold, and won the Most Popular Male Singer Award for three consecutive years from 1990, which naturally ascended to the throne.
The film industry has begun to change since he met Wang Jing, and a large number of commercial entertainment films have been included in his filming list.
From 1986's "Magic Emerald" to 2017's "Chasing the Dragon", Andy Lau and Wang Jing have cooperated a total of 23 times, without exception, all of which belong to commercial entertainment films.
For example, the "Best Friend" series, "Chasing Girls" series, "Trickster Expert", "Gambler", "God of Gamblers Tycoon", "Super School Overlord", "Dragon in the Jianghu", "Gambler 1999", "Gamblers vs Las Vegas" and "Future Police", the common point of these movies is not to talk about the connotation, but the viewing pleasure is very strong, simply put, most people will find it good.
Although it did not bring him a reward for the quality of his work and acting skills, the advantage was that most of the box office was extremely impressive, and with it came a sustained surge in popularity.
Therefore, although he was not as good as the double week in the film industry in the 1990s, he can be called the "fifth superstar".
At the same time, due to the status of the king of the music world, the popularity effect after the superposition of the two is more powerful.
Although there were Zheng Yijian and Gu Tianle after that, they were almost completely consistent with his route.
But the overall achievement is not enough.
After the 1910s, Andy Lau also began to show caution about the script.
Although it is still dominated by commercial scripts, it has also begun to try some niche films, such as "Sister Peach" and "Lost Orphans".
As far as acting is concerned, the inertial influence of commercial films is obvious to him, and the depth, detail and creativity required by literary or niche films are slightly difficult for him. Therefore, "Sister Peach" performed very well under the supervision of Xu Anhua, but "Lost Alone" and a "Rescue Mr. Wu" did not reach the ideal.
Overall, he has always been an actor in commercial films.
Commercial works have "Heavenly Love" and "Dark War", "Disciple" and other high-quality works, the disadvantage is that the homogenization of performance and works is more serious, this problem is of course a side effect of the commercial route.
But the popularity has nothing to say, it has always been at the top.
Therefore, any route choice will always have two sides of the impact.
Big waves.
Today, both are among the top idols in the Chinese film industry.
Aaron Kwok is still looking for new attempts.
Andy Lau began to integrate into mainland films.
The title "Who is the ideal model" is actually just a metaphor.
Everyone is a proud and unique soul.
The path of the predecessors.
For reference and reference only.