On October 22, Villeneuve's version of "Dune" was released, and the general audience was very happy.
Because --
It's easy to understand.
The David Lynch version doesn't understand, and the jumping editing and chaotic narrative are confusing.
It's complete.
After all, Jodulovsky had a fight with the producer, and his "Dune" had no money to make it.
It is "Palace Fight".
In a sci-fi setting, it's an epic of struggle between the nobility and the royal family.
But hardcore dune powder is anxious.
In the original work, the intersection of religion, military, ecology, philosophy, ethnicity, culture and other disciplines constructed a grand universe, but Villeneuve reduced it to a "Revenge of Prince Paul".
This cannot be blamed on Villeneuve, after all, he still has the ardent expectations of investors to save the market.
Warner's $165 million investment in Dune is expected to take $400 million or $500 million to return the money.
Villeneuve knew that if he wanted to continue to make Dune 2, he would have to attract the audience with the greatest common divisor and prove himself at the box office.
This requires a simple and straightforward narrative, but also to attract an important part of the global film market – the Chinese market.
The use of Chinese lines in "Dune" and zhang zhen playing an important role can be seen as a gesture to the Chinese market.
But then again, the use of Zhang Zhen is based on commercial considerations, but more importantly, Zhang Zhen is the "face" of Chinese art films.
Villeneuve did not look at the wrong person, and Zhang Zhen's performance can be described as amazing. He presents dr. Yue's unique mysterious oriental temperament, contradictory and tragic character traits.
In the film, in order to eliminate the increasingly powerful Ertridi family, the Galactic Emperor divides the important energy strategic base to them, and then borrows a knife to kill people, using the hand of the villain Haknen family to eliminate the Ertridi family.
Dr. Yue, played by Zhang Zhen, is the imperial physician of the Erridi family. Because his wife was captured by Baron Hakenam, he had to choose to betray and become a historical sinner in the destruction of the Ertridi family.
Two details can see the accuracy of Zhang Zhen's grasp of the character.
First, when he was dying, he reached out and straightened his hair, indicating that he still had the dignity of life.
Dr. Yue is a traitor, but he still has the last loyalty and conscience, and intends to die with Baron Haknam.
At this moment he walked towards the other side, with dignity towards the disillusionment of life.
In the second detail, when Dr. Yue actually faced Baron Hakenam's huge body, he knew he was going to die, so he trembled uncontrollably.
Zhang Zhen played the fragility of Dr. Yue's body.
The tragedy of Dr. Yue's fate lies not only in the dilemma of loyalty and love, but also in the ephemeral personal powerlessness and sense of fatalism when the edifice is about to fall.
The pain and suffering of personal choice, the tension of human conflict, the fear and tragedy of death, Zhang Zhen all performed.
All along, Zhang Zhen has been loved by many big directors with his down-to-earth efforts and unique personal temperament.
On the road of Zhang Zhen's films, Yang Dechang is the guide, Wong Kar-wai is the refiner, Hou Hyo-hyun is good at using it, and Kim Ki-deok understands him.
Among these big directors, I always think Kim Ki-duk uses Zhang Zhen best.
Resentment and trauma accumulate in the heart, and in silence they erupt into extinction. No lines, only actions and expressions, Zhang Zhen can show it.
Kim Ki-duk had always wanted to tailor a script for Zhang Zhen, so he had 2007's "Breathe".
The protagonist he plays, Zhang Zhen, was betrayed by his wife and killed her, and then sentenced to death. Desperate inside his cell, he tried to commit suicide and ended up being a mute.
A strange woman, Yan, discouraged by her husband's cheating, chose Zhang Zhen, who was also betrayed by love, and often came to visit him and snuggle with him for warmth.
Zhang Zhen's heart trapped in despair is ignited by passion, and he kisses and makes love to Yan passionately.
But later, When Yan's husband chooses to return to the family, Yan has no reason to visit Zhang Zhen again, and Zhang Zhen's hope is once again tragically extinguished...
Speaking of which, although not as thorough as Kim Ki-duk, Yang Dechang, Hou Xiaoxian, and Wong Kar-wai also knew how to use Zhang Zhen to expose the blade of this knife.
In Yang Dechang's "Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street", Zhang Zhen was "trained" to become a gloomy and introverted little fourth, who fell in love with the precocious girl Xiaoming, and after experiencing a series of changes such as gang beatings, persecution of his parents, and his own withdrawal from school, he became suspicious of the world.
When he confessed to Xiaoming and was rejected, he stabbed Xiaoming six times in a row. Zhang Zhen's father, Zhang Guozhu, always recalled later that "The Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street" took away the cheerful Zhang Zhen.
Hou Xiaoxian let Zhang Zhen shuttle between drunkenness and waking up in dreams in "The Best Time", from sweet to painful.
In the first life, he was ignorant of pure love, obsessively in love with a girl;
In the second life, he was a progressive young man who fell in love with a geisha, loved but could not, and suffered for life;
In the third life, he played the delicate and subtle crush to the slightest.
The emotions of each lifetime are delicately different.
In Wong Kar-wai's "Hand of Eros", Zhang Zhen played a small tailor, making a cheongsam for Miss Hua, played by Gong Li, and reacted to hearing Miss Hua's moans when she made love to the guests.
Miss Hua let him take off his pants, provoked him, helped him complete the sexual enlightenment, and the budding and secret desire flowing in his body could arouse the deep resonance of the audience across the screen.
Of course, Zhang Zhen has also played some extravagant roles, or stubborn, or good and evil.
For example, in Yang Dechang's "Mahjong", Zhang Zhen appeared naked and used his sexual charm to seduce women. But behind the paranoid personality is an empty soul.
Whether it is a deep and introverted type, a well-behaved and stubborn type, he can control it.
Zhang Zhen's strength is obvious, but - he is a "movie emperor" with no real name.
Although he has won the Best Actor award in the Chinese Film Awards, he has been nominated for 4 Golden Horses and 3 Golden Statue nominations, and he lacks the coronation of a heavyweight "Chinese Film Emperor".
Fate gave him the most important gift of "Juvenile Murder On Mulling Street", and his debut work was nominated by the Golden Horse. At that time, he was still a fifteen-year-old boy with an unopened mind.
But fate also seems to be a trick, after which Zhang Zhen began a thirty-year-long career of "accompanying running" at the Golden Horse Awards and The Academy Awards.
Why did Zhang Zhen lose the Chinese award?
There are two major reasons for not winning the award, one is the role restriction of "people" and the other is the bad luck of "Tianshi".
Let's start with role restrictions.
Three Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor nominations, the 17th Academy Awards "Spring Break" Zhang Wan, the 20th Academy Awards "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Luo Xiaohu, the 29th Academy Awards "Chibi: Decisive Battle of the World" Sun Quan, are all roles that do not have much room to play.
Zhang Wan, in "Spring Breaks", has a vague sexual orientation and is silent;
Sun Quan in "Chibi" is very ambitious, domineering and repressive;
Luo Xiaohu of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" pinned on YuJiaolong's romantic imagination of the jianghu, but after Yujiaolong returned to Beijing, he had long forgotten Luo Xiaohu, the "tool man".
These roles are few, and Zhang Zhen wants to play a good literary drama, and needs to spread longer character clues, but the director did not give him more freedom.
Bad luck again.
In 1991, the 28th Golden Horse Awards, the competition was unprecedentedly fierce.
Zhang Zhen was nominated for Best Actor together with Lang Xiong of "Pusher" and Zhang Guorong of "Ah Fei Zheng Biography".
Lang Xiong's performance is heavy, and Zhu Lao, who plays him, grasps the friction and anxiety of the father and son, and gently preserves the dignity of his father. Emperor Ying gave Lang Xiong, very deserving.
In 2005, the 42nd Golden Horse Awards.
In "The Best Time", Zhang Zhen played very well, and his acting skills had a great breakthrough.
Helplessly, Aaron Kwok tore off the mask of the idol star alive and conquered the judges with the decadence and infatuation of the police.
The best actor was given to Aaron Kwok, which somewhat rewarded the meaning of "latecomer".
At the 43rd Golden Horse Awards, Zhang Zhen starred in "Wu Qingyuan", but because of the problem of the film's attribution, he could only participate in the competition and could not participate in the competition, and regrettably withdrew.
In 2014, at the 51st Golden Horse Awards, Chen Jianbin won two awards for best actor and best director with "A Spoon", creating a miracle of the Golden Horse.
Is it possible for Zhang Zhen to win the next Chinese film emperor?
No one can say for sure about this.
At the 58th Golden Horse Awards this year, Zhang Zhen was nominated for Best Actor for "Soul Hunting".
In order to make a film, Zhang Zhen lost 24 pounds in 3 months, and the physiological limit brought a visual impact.
In the film, he drags the sick body in extreme fatigue, and throws a stare like a hungry wolf, which is also impressive.
However, the biggest competitor who entered the shortlist with him is Wu Zhenyu in "Turbid Water Rafting".
Wu Zhenyu interpreted a tramp with a different explosive acting skill than before, and many media speculated that Wu Zhenyu may be the film emperor of this session.
Speaking of which, Zhang Zhen does not care about the title of "Shadow Emperor".
At the 51st Golden Horse Awards, he also took his pregnant wife to walk the red carpet, hoping that the baby would bring him good luck.
His fans were more anxious, hoping that Zhang Zhen would quickly take down a Chinese film emperor and become a god.
However, in contrast, Zhang Zhen's enthusiasm for acting must exceed his enthusiasm for awards.
There was a paragraph before that Zhang Zhen filmed "Deep Sea Searching", passed the padi diving qualification certificate, filmed "Wu Qingyuan", and suppressed the professional three paragraphs of Go.
He went to the interview with "Lu Yu You", and clarified that these were "too exaggerated".
He said he didn't get a diving license and couldn't even win Go with the master's daughter.
Only the "Eight Pole Quan" is true, he practiced with his master Wang Shiquan in Beijing for three years, and won the national championship of eight pole quan in Changchun.
So, I like Zhang Zhen because he only speaks with his works.
Live more, market less. Non-essential, not propaganda.
He's just an actor, a sincere, quiet actor.
How rare it is.