There are two famous Tony Leungs in the Hong Kong film scene, one is Tony Leung who is described as "excellent luck for awards", and the other is Tony Leung who is described as "the road is wide and endless". He has won the trophy of the 9th Golden Statue, and the Golden Statue has only been 38 years.
If Tony Leung is the "king of literary and artistic films", Ka Fai Leung is the "King of a Thousand Faces". Hong Kong films have been born for more than a century, and Ka Fai Leung has participated in almost all film types (characters).
From 1983 to 1986, his most famous role was "Emperor", playing Xianfeng twice and Puyi once. Among them, the soft and weak "Xianfeng" in "Changing Lianhe" won his first golden trophy.
From 1987 to 1991, his most famous role was a variety of marginal people with different personalities and ill-fated, with husbands, police officers, prisoners, and killers. Among them, in "The Season of Love in Another Country", he was eager to emigrate. Zhao Nansheng, once again won the first Golden Horse trophy for him.
In 1992, French celebrity director Jean Jacques Arnault took a fancy to Liang Jiahui's "decadent and weak aristocratic temperament" and invited him to play the role of the rich young master Tony in "Lover", making him the favorite Asian actor of French women. ".
In the same year, Leung Ka Fai subversively played a happy "sissy" detective Lu Qi in "92 Black Rose vs. Black Rose" (hereinafter referred to as "Black Rose"), and brought him the second With a golden trophy for the actor, the door of comedy movies has since opened to him.
In 1997, Liang Jiahui met "Black Gold", a noble niche in a literary film, and a happy male god in a comedy film, and instantly turned into a "leader brother" in a gangster film. Eight years later, he won three trophies with his big D in "Underworld".
In 2012, Leung Ka-fai, who hadn't played his eldest brother for many years, "abandoned the dark and cast the light", and relied on the role of Li Wenbin, the chief of police in "Chill", and became the emperor four times.
From tragedy to comedy, from literary film to commercial film, from decent to villain, from emperor to common people, for those who have a skill, we have a saying-"God enjoys rice", but like Liang Jiahui, you can turn to all This kind of movie type and role can only be said to be a "natural actor". The most rare thing is that this kind of "fighting" is not just a taste and friendship, but a victory with absolute advantage. When
played a comedy for the first time, he defeated the "King of Comedy" in the BGM of "Star Lord".
Speaking of the "King of Comedy" in Hong Kong movies and even Chinese movies, Stephen Chow deserves it.
has established a unique "nonsense" comedy style from "A Manga Toward the End" in 1990, to 1992 Hong Kong's annual box office rankings and the top five films were all performed by him. If we say that Hong Kong in the last century The nineties of the film industry belonged to Zhou Xingchi, so the nineties of the last century were the peak period of the "king of comedy", and the masterpiece of this peak period is "The Dead Officer". Why does
say that? Because "The Trial Officer" not only broke the box office record in Hong Kong with a box office of 49.88 million Hong Kong dollars, and won the annual box office champion of Hong Kong films. Stephen Chow also won the best actor award at the 37th Asia Pacific Film Festival for this film. He also won The first award for acting.
In 1992, the Hong Kong Film Awards announced the nomination for the "Best Actor" award. Stephen Chow was shortlisted with a hot trend and "did off" with Leung Ka Fai, who played the comedy for the first time.
said "Black Rose" is Leung Ka Fai's first comedy, I am afraid it is not rigorous enough.
There is a famous saying in Hong Kong, "Yina, the movie emperor failed for three years", which was originally used to describe Leung Ka Fai. In 1983, after Liang Jiahui won the Golden Statue for the first time, his career fell into a trough and there was no drama to film. Three years later, with the help of director friends such as Li Hanxiang and Er Dongsheng, he gradually got out of the predicament. Leung Ka-fai, who has been offered a play again, is willing to play any role. Of course, there are many comedies, such as romantic comedies "Cousin, Hello" and "Marriage Story", action comedy "Wong Feihong Laughter" and so on.
However, "Black Rose" is indeed Leung Ka-fai's first comedy in the true sense, because first, he is the number one male; second, he adopts a comedy performance method; third, he established a unique comedy performance style; , He created a comedy character. It is very different from the previous small trials in various comedies.
in "Black Rose",Leung Ka Fai plays a somewhat "sissy" sheriff Lu Qi, which is hilarious.
In order to get rid of the influence of the "preconceived" concept, Li Sir asked three simple questions. The first question, speaking of "sissy", which pose do you think of first?
A. Orchid Finger B. Enchanting posture C. Covering his mouth and giggling
want to choose?
The second question, speaking of the sheriff, which posture do you think of first?
A. Raise the orchid finger B. Twist the body enchantingly C. Cover your mouth and giggle and laugh
is wrong?
The third question, the sheriff is not only a "sissy", but also talks about love. Which pose do you think of first?
A. Turning up orchid fingers B. twisting the body enchantingly C. covering his mouth and giggling
with a dumb look?
Let's take a look at Liang Jiahui's handling.
First, perform "subtraction" of body movements.
Just like the three poses mentioned in the previous question, people have many fixed impressions of "sissy". Under such circumstances, if the actor's performance does not involve the actions inherent in the audience's impression, the audience will not have a strong sense of substitution, and it is difficult to quickly generate emotions for the characters. On the other hand, if an actor’s performance involves too many small movements in people’s impressions, the traces of the performance will be too obvious, and the whole character will appear very noisy, and it must be untenable in the movie. (For details, see the early Xiao Shenyang)
"subtraction" of body movements, one is to reduce the number, and the other is to reduce the amplitude.
Feng Yuanzheng plays Jianguo in "If You Are the One" with a cheek and a smile, and you immediately realize that this man is extraordinary. The
article in "33 Days of Broken Love" plays Wang Xiaojian's lipstick and hand cream, and you immediately get his uniqueness.
In "Black Rose", Leung Ka-fai played Lv Qi as soon as he appeared without a word, but you can have a concrete impression of him-oily noodles, contrived temperament, orchid fingers, in your heart.
Next, facial expressions are added. As
said earlier, the "sissy" with too rich body movements will not only appear to be exaggerated, but will also make an audience disgusted. Especially in "Black Rose", Lu Qi is not a villain, but a sheriff with a sense of justice. This requires him not to act too overly and can only steal the show quietly.
Facial expressions are "addition", first, there is a play in the facial features, and second, the micro-expression is rich.
picked up the key to the heroine's house, and from the first thought to return it, and later planned to use the opportunity to return the key to see the heroine one more time, the changes in his mind were all in a flow of eyes from left to right.
was forced to become a bridegroom, and when he saw many martial arts masters at the wedding scene, his expressions of horror and dare not to speak out, and a strong smile made people laugh.
Finally, details are the key.
"sissy" does not mean feminine. The most significant difference between "sissy" and the average adult male is that both movements and intonation are relatively gentle and gentle. If the actor's actions and tone deliberately imitate women, then this role must be "smashed". An adult male with a "sissy" in reality must be caused by habit, and he himself does not realize it. Therefore, when an actor plays a "sissy", he has to be in it all the time, using details to achieve habit.
Lu Qi washed the lime off his head with water and made a motion of reaching for a towel. Pay attention to this movement of reaching out. Liang Jiahui’s fingers are slightly open, and the little finger is tilted up. The movement is very gentle. ↓
Lu Qi wipes the cement off his head with his hand. Pay attention to this wiping action. Men usually use the palms of their hands and women usually use the palms. On the back of the hand, Leung Ka-fai used the tiger's mouth↓
to push Lv Qi away, and Lv Qi used her hands to protect her chest. This is a funny method used in Hong Kong movies. However, Liang Jiahui added a chest action to express Lu Qi’s "weakness" through a comedy ↓
Compared with Stephen Chow’s consistent funny in "The Trial Officer", Liang Jiahui in "Black Rose" obviously has more The meaning of creativity. His performance has created a brand new classic comedy character-a serious (from non-fancy body movements), full of joy (from rich facial expressions), feminine (from the softness of details) and face. Lv Qi, the sheriff of Peach Blossom (from the affection at the eyebrows). Innovate, subvert, and never fail, no wonderIt can defeat the "king of comedy" in its heyday and take away the "actor".
Recently, Leung Ka Fai participated in the variety show "Growing All the Way", revealing a lot of old filming news of the year. He said that the "Double Flying Swallows" with Leslie Cheung in "East as the West" was an impromptu performance. Improvisation is certain, I am afraid it also means tribute. Look at the weird dance of Lu Qi's hairstyle with the senior sister in "Black Rose". Does it make you familiar?
"tragically died" in the hands of Hua Ge, and "snatched" Hua Ge's trophy outside the play. If
is to select the top three Hong Kong gangster films, "Underworld" must have a place. "Underworld" discards the large paragraphs of violence, blood, and brotherhood in previous gangster films, and focuses on the struggle for power within the underworld. In the words of director Du Qifeng, it is a "artistic gangster film." The in and out of the movie
is also very interesting. In the
play, the two big brothers of the society-A Le and Big D-fight to the death and death for the supreme power of the society. Outside the play, the actors of the two characters-Ren Dahua and Leung Ka Fai-were nominated for the 25th Academy Awards at the same time, vying for the throne of the "actor", and the struggle within the play extends beyond the play.
In all fairness, Ren Dahua's character "A Le" is more "actor-like". The character of
Ale has many facets, and every facet is very distinctive, and the actor has a lot of room to play. On the one hand, he is a good dad who buys groceries and cooks himself, and on the other is a cruel boss of the club. On the one hand, it is the "Brother Le" who emphasizes love and justice in the eyes of the younger brother, and on the other hand, it is the "Lone Wolf" who will never allow others to covet.
Compared with Le Ge, the character of Big D itself is slightly thinner, and with limited roles, it is similar to many gangster roles played by Liang Jiahui before, and it is easy to make a face. The most important thing about
is that Big D finally died in the hands of Brother Le in the play, which seems to indicate something.
However, for a good actor, it is just a bad role, and there is no "bad" role. In the limited time, Liang Jiahui vividly showed the big D's arrogance, irritability, and bravery. Every scene is crushed.
jumped up twice in one shot, Big D is not ordinary irritable↓
was handcuffed by the police and taken out, facing the reporter's camera, yelling unconvincedly, Big D is not ordinary arrogance↓
sees the enemy, extremely blushing and his face Sudden change, fierce gaze, big D is not the usual fierceness↓
thinks that he will eradicate the opponent for Ale, and he has contributed a lot, and asks to be equal with Ale. A Le pretended to agree, and Big D couldn't restrain his inner ecstasy. As a result...
can tell that Liang Jiahui's performance is quite delicate. Being grumpy is the most notable feature of the character of Big D, but if you only show the grumpiness of the character by throwing tables and kicking chairs, it is equivalent to acting instead of a person. In addition to the irritability, adding other factors in the character such as unconvinced arrogance, vengeful viciousness, insufficiency, etc., the hateful big D eventually died tragically under the hands of Brother Le, which turned out to be the most embarrassing in the movie Fragments.
is Liang Jiahui's performance. Once the big D "lives", the audience will be moved with emotion at the end of the big D.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to "Underworld", Cheng Shilu played by Liang Jiahui in "Everlasting Regret" was also involved in the battle for the "actor" that year. In the end, Liang Jiahui's "Big D" not only defeated Ren Dahua's "Brother Le", but also defeated his best "literary middle-aged", which shows how popular the big D is.
Hong Kong film was born a century ago, and there are countless movie kings. There are really few "thousand-face movie kings" who can freely shuttle between movie genres and flexibly enter and exit between movie characters like Leung Ka Fai.
Carina Lau once said half-jokingly that the Hong Kong movie emperor was either named Liang or Jiahui. Indeed, Tony Leung and Tony Leung are two Hong Kong actors who can be called together, and in terms of the number and specifications of awards, the latter has to surpass the former. But when it comes to the types of movies and characters, Leung Ka Fai is definitely above Tony Leung, "Thousand Faces" is not a fiction.
Last year, Ka Fai Leung’s "Asura" starred in a loss. This year, Ka Fai Leung’s self-directed movie "Late Night Cafeteria" was not well received in word of mouth and at the box office. Some audiences began to question whether Brother Ka Fai was “old”. .
In fact, this question is meaningless to Liang Jiahui. In the beginning, age was not his advantage. Now, age is not his disadvantage. A goodActors can not only hone their acting skills in the long river of time, but also enrich their experience in the changes of roles. How big you embrace the movie, the movie will give you the big stage. The value of Liang Jiahui does not need a certain movie to prove, let alone a certain role to complete, because he and the movie have long been inseparable.
