People familiar with Korean films should know the "Chungmuro Troika", as the benchmark figure of Korean films, Choi Min-sik, Song Kang-ho, Xue Jingqiu, three 50+ uncles, won the three major Korean film festival film emperors The actual achievements of the film emperors far behind the descendants several streets.
Today I want to talk about the "busy inside" in the troika, uncle Xue Jingqiu, who is the youngest and relatively less well-known (just relative).
Compared with Uncle Cui's "Old Boy", Uncle Cake's "Memories of Killing" and "Parasite" and other internationally renowned works, some of Uncle Xue's classic works may not have so much influence.
The first two days in a row, I watched his two films, "Western Front" and "Zishan Fish Recipe", the former is a mediocre work that barely passes, and the latter is a popular masterpiece that won the Baeksang Film Award.
Of course, in these two movies, Uncle Xue's acting skills are impeccable.
Interestingly, in the farcical war movie "Western Front", it became vivid and interesting because of Uncle Xue's excellent acting skills. (Zhen jiu's younger brother can also catch the play)
"Zishan Fish Recipe" because the level of choreography and directing is too good, but can not pay attention to the acting skills, no wonder Bian Yaohan, who wants to nominate for the best actor, lost to Liu Yaren by one vote.
It seems that acting skills are the best in the snow, not the icing on the cake.
There are many good movies of Uncle Xue, such as "Real Tail Island", "Unforgivable", "Sweatless Party", "The Killer's Memory Law", "The Voice of that Guy", etc., the score is basically above 7 points, some are indeed of high quality, and some rely on acting skills to raise the score.
I have written a series of filmmakers who are the most able to pick the script before, and most actors with strong business ability will add points to the performance if they pick the right script.
But at the level of Uncle Xue, there is basically no need to pick the script, and their own acting skills will achieve the script.
The reason why they can be called "troikas", in addition to having two brushes in their business capabilities, I think the most important thing is that their performances have unique colors, self-contained systems, but they are not stereotyped and do not give people the same feeling.
Although these three people act like nothing, the three still have their own outstanding characteristics, such as Uncle Cui is a domineering side leak type, Uncle Cake is particularly suitable for sleek small people in the city, and Uncle Xue is a kind of harmless type of bag, just like a line in the western front, "Looks like a general, but is actually a useless little soldier."
Uncle Xue's most popular work on Douban is "Suyuan" (the director is Director Li Junyi, who shoots Zishan and Si Mourning), but in the more than a dozen movies that I have watched Uncle Xue, my favorite is "Mints" and "Oasis", both of which are the works of Director Li Cangdong, which perfectly fit the bag characteristics of the low-level small people in Uncle Xue.
"Mints" can be said to be Uncle Xue's canonized god in Korea, and he won the first Green Dragon Film Emperor in his life and the Best Newcomer Award of Baixiang and Dazhong.
This literary and poetic film shows the 20-year flashback life of one of the most ordinary low-level men in South Korea, watching time erase the original appearance of his face.
The plot of the movie is not clearly remembered, but he stood in front of the train and shouted "I want to go back", which has become a classic picture left in film history.
"Oasis" is still the cooperation of Uncle Xue and Wen Suli, this one is more heartbreaking than mints, it focuses on marginal people who are more vulnerable than ordinary low-level people, and there is a scene that shows the imagination of Oasis, which is really cruel and romantic.
Before seeing that Uncle Xue is Korean Ge You, I think he is more handsome than Uncle Ge, haha. He also has a famous nickname is Korean Bell, because he has repeatedly gained weight and lost weight for the role in a short period of time, and the level of dedication is the same as Bell.D.
What is rare is that actors like Uncle Xue, Uncle Cake and Uncle Cui, who have reached such a status, are still constantly seeking to play themselves, not lying in the comfort zone and repeating themselves, and they are worthy of leading the troika of the Korean film circle.