The movie "Peerless Master" will be released on July 7th, and the director and male protagonist in the credits are all one person - Lu Zhengyu. Half of the people expressed fat gut expectations, and the other half expressed doubts about the expectations of the first half, who is this person? Why is there suddenly a domestic comedy movie that is not an international director who wants to see so many people? On-demand ratings of 8?
I don't know who Lu Zhengyu is understandable. After all, when the number of hits to his short film broke records that year, most post-90s movie consumers may still be burying their heads in the air today. And also when Youku made a comedy short film called beast Yi Xiaoxing fire all over the country, Lu Zhengyu disappeared. This kind of disappearance is not a tragic story abandoned by fans, but he himself quit arrogance and impetuosity, and learned from Xingye. Speaking of Xingye, the entanglement between these two people can probably start from Lu Zhengyu's childhood.
Lu Zhengyu was born on September 23, 1983 in Anhua County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province. Lu Zhengyu in his childhood was at best one of the millions of Chow Sing Chi's film fans. I rented a film from a video store, read it over and over several times, and then smirked in front of the TV. But because he wanted to watch Star Ye's movie and fight with his father, he was the one who fought with his father. According to his own recollection, his father would always rush up to turn off the TV when he was most interested in watching it. When you encounter this kind of thing, can you not be as aggrieved as Lu Zhengyu to run away from home?
At that time, Lu Zhengyu had the heart to become an actor. However, studying multimedia design at Hunan University of Technology does not seem to have any boundary with an acting career. There is no "remember, there will be an echo", some are just "do what you want". Therefore, Lu Zhengyu used a digital camera to remake "Infernal Affairs" one by one. Although this method may seem childish and stupid, it may progress faster than four years of college and only nibbling on knowledge in movie books. But the difficulties of the process can be imagined, Lu Zhengyu's ambition is not small, and his perseverance is also large. But whenever asked about this imitation, the Virgo director is shyly waving "not worth mentioning."
The training and passion in filmmaking led to the birth of his first short film, The Master (2005). In 2006, the film won the Outstanding Drama Short Film Award at the 13th Beijing University Student Film Festival. The following year, "Mo Xiaobai's Diary of a Water Monster" (2007) won this award again, and it was also toured and screened as an excellent youth film many times because of its excellent reputation. This film made with DV is quite beautiful and the scene of the countryside is full of nostalgia but indispensable to Lu's humor.
However, at that time, there was no first youth film festival that could give Lu Zhengyu the opportunity to make feature films. He tossed and turned into short films, such as "Return to Glory", "The King of E-sports", "Genesis", "One And a Half", "Wishing Painting" and so on. But it is a Douban scorer "Return to Glory", which has not yet received enough ratings, but in 2007 it set a record of 8 million online hits.
Years of experience in making short films gave him the opportunity to shoot a "Our Story" for Stephen Chow's "Yangtze River Seven" as a fan representative in 2008. This short film was praised by Xingye during the screening of "Lu Yu Has An Appointment", and Lu Zhengyu also successfully took a photo with Xingye. The clever Lu Zhengyu immediately gave Xingye a collection of his existing works at that time. In fact, according to common sense, this collection of stones is more likely to sink into the sea. At that time, Lu Zhengyu must have thought the same thing. So he didn't just wait.
Although Lu Zhengyu has always wanted to be a film director, you have to say that the opportunity you gave him to make a web drama is a "timely rain". But you can also say in reverse that Lu Zhengyu is like a "thunderstorm", so that countless works have begun to break through the barren web drama land. Yes, it is the originator of Chinese web dramas - "Hip Hop Quartet" (2009).
To put it bluntly, "Hip Hop Quartet" is a commercial film, but Lu Zhengyu and producer Guo Xiaodan (that is, his wife) added a plot to it. Each episode is only a few minutes, but it makes every character deeply rooted in people's hearts and has a laugh point in minutes. Lu Zhengyu plays the role of the manager of a company whose employees do not work, and is obsessed with the company's beautiful employee Xiao Qiao. The endorsement product of the first season is green tea, so Lu Zhengyu is called "Kang Shihu"; and in the last season, the products have changed several generations, and the manager's name has really become "manager". Until now, lu Zhengyu has a large group of fans behind him called "manager" and "manager".
Although Lu Zhengyu may prefer to hear fans call himself "Lu Xiaoyu". Because this is the name of the protagonist (who starred in almost all of his later works). The only exception is Lu Zhengyu's first theatrical feature film, "A Dog's College Life" (2010), but this feature film did not make Lu Zhengyu famous, and his situation was like xue Zhiqian, who starred in this movie and became popular many years later.
But he was destined not to be buried. In 2011, the assistant director of "Journey to the West to Descend the Devil" found the little famous Lu Zhengyu and wanted him to audition for a role. Lu Zhengyu was terrified, afraid of losing this opportunity. After that, he received a phone call, but this time it was Stephen Chow who personally invited him to participate in the creation of the script.
It turned out that nearly four years ago, Lu Zhengyu stuffed those short videos that He had given to Xingye, and he had watched them and remembered him. This time, as soon as he got Lu Zhengyu's information, he remembered this talent who was almost left behind.
Lu Zhengyu saw Xingye and said, "Mr. Zhou, can you let me play a role?" It's okay to play a dead body in your movie." Zhou Xingchi naturally would not let him play a dead body. So Lu Zhengyu became Shu Qi's "big fire", that is, the Korean brother (the left one in the picture below), and also served as one of the screenwriters. The meme of speaking Korean has also appeared in his previous short films. I don't know if you have noticed that Lu Zhengyu at this time has lost dozens of pounds compared to the time of "Hip Hop Quartet"! Good to know the secret of slimming.
Unexpectedly, the short film prepared at the beginning made Lu Zhengyu a true Tianzi No. 1 fan of Zhou Xingchi. What I didn't expect was that after Lu Zhengyu filmed "Descending Demons", he actually ran back to shoot short films. Because the more he watched, the more he felt that he was inexperienced. So he spent two years polishing three short films known as the "hip-hop trilogy" — "Wedding Photos" that made people burst into tears after laughing, "UFO Witness" that was a bit brain-burning, and "The Peerless Master" that imitated Shaw's films.
It was from this time that Lu Zhengyu began to create his own brand role "Lu Xiaoyu", and the characteristics of the film were also concentrated on nonsense, reversal and occasional "retro". At this time, Lu Zhengyu's lens language has been quite mature, and these three films have become the works with the least regret in Lu Zhengyu's heart.
In 2014, Lu Zhengyu took advantage of the victory to pursue, and during the New Year, he cooperated with Hunan Jingshi to launch "Lu Xiaoyu of the World's GreatEst Master" on Youku. It is festive and fun, and the "Bear Child" chapter is even circulating on the Internet.
In 2016, Xingye came out of "Mermaid" again, and Lu Zhengyu naturally participated in the screenwriting and played "Mr. Liao" in the film. In addition to studying under Xingye and his occasional short film practice, Lu Zhengyu did not continue to shine in the road of online dramas like Yi Xiaoxing, who was also from the same web drama, but has always been obscure, because he has always wanted to direct a feature film with his own style and play the main role himself.
So there was "Peerless Master".
Some people say that In 2017, Lu Zhengyu will inevitably detonate the Internet, and even more, Lu Zhengyu is "the next king of comedy" and "the successor of Xingye".
None of this matters, however.
The important thing is that "even I have realized my dreams, you must be able to do it," said Lu Zhengyu, a small-town youth whose appearance is not proud (in fact, he is quite handsome from a certain angle). The moment when Lu Zhengyu's dream came true, there were probably real fans who said to him, "Is it okay for me to play a dead body in your movie?" "It's exactly like he was back then."