The hottest thing in the film industry recently is probably Tony Leung won the Academy Award for Best Actor with the movie " Golden Finger ". Regarding this matter, the Internet can be said to be booed. Some people say that even the Academy Award They also began to rank based on seniority, and some people directly said that this was a "senior pension award" given to him.
It is true that the movie "Goldfinger" is quite difficult to pick up, and we are not going to talk about it more. After all, I grew up watching Tony Leung's movies. Today I will talk about Tony Leung's movies that are worth watching.
It's the Beijing Film Festival again. Last year's most popular movie was Hou Hsiao-hsien's " Sad City ". At that time, it was hard to get a ticket, and a movie ticket was sold for more than ten times the premium. It was also in such a film history classic that many people recognized Tony Leung's acting skills. If nothing else, I was a big fan of this movie anyway.
Before that, he was Wei Xiaobao, Xiao Yuer, etc. of TVB, and also the young master Zhang Shudong of Mipu in Guan Jinpeng " Underground Love ", and the young Ah Xiao in Er Dongsheng's " People's Heroes ".
In the movie epic "City of Sadness", Lin Wenqing, played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai, reflects an entire era. From a photographer who lives in peace with the world to a person who is involved in a huge transition in his family and society, he will be a youthful man. , honesty, confusion and suffering are vividly displayed. In the film
, he is a deaf-mute and cannot express himself through lines. He can only express himself through his eyes and movements. He once said: "When I collaborated with Hou Hsiao-hsien in "City of Sadness", I played a mute, but I still know how to express myself." I need to learn a lot of historical books. After get off work, I almost always stay in the hotel room, reading a lot of literary works, Chinese, Japanese, English..."
After that, Tony Leung collaborated with Hou Hsiao-hsien on "Flowers of the Sea", from Lin Wenqing, who could not speak, became Wang Liansheng who spoke Shanghainese, but he also complained endlessly: "It's dead, dead (Cantonese), I can't recite it no matter how hard I practice." Later Hou Hsiao-hsien had to change Tony Leung's role to Hong Kong. The comprador can speak a little bit of Shanghainese, but most of the time he also speaks Cantonese.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t speak Shanghainese. In the film, with only a few lines, Tony Leung accurately interpreted the word "worldly sentiment" in a Chinese dinner in the romantic scene on the beach.
Speaking of Tony Leung Chiu-wai's movies, we have to mention Wong Kar-wai. Four of the five movies in which he won the Best Actor Award were produced by Wong Kar-wai. "Chungking Express", "Happy Together", " In the Mood for Love " and "2046", these movies have established Tony Leung's position in the film industry to a certain extent.
Tony Leung once said, "Working with Wong Kar-wai is my second birth as an actor." How to understand this sentence? In fact, Tony Leung was frustrated the first time he collaborated with Wong Kar-Wai on "Days of Being Wild". At that time, some scenes were shot by Maggie Cheung in two or three takes, but Tony Leung had to take them more than ten or twenty times. Wong Kar-wai told him that he used too many acting skills and had to throw away all kinds of ideas and start from the heart to express himself. character of. After the finished film came out, Tony Leung discovered that Wong Kar-wai really knew how to train actors, and the effect of the finished film was also very good. From then on, he decided to cooperate with Wong Kar-wai, and this cooperation lasted for twenty years.
Tony Leung said: "Wong Kar-wai and his team members are very good. It is precisely because of such a good team that I can continue to improve my performance. It also makes it possible for me to realize my dream since filming "City of Sadness" , just acting naturally like a non-professional actor. I think it takes a long time to learn and make constant corrections to achieve what I think is the most ideal state. "
We can see that they work together. In every work, Tony Leung's characters are full of vitality. He can always pass the policeman 663 in "Chungking Express", Zhou Muyun in "In the Mood for Love" and "2046", and Ip Man in " Grandmaster ". The life-like performance interprets the character's mental journey through subtle changes in eyes and facial expressions, and shows the audience his unique charm.
At this point, let’s talk about another important director in Tony Leung’s life, Ang Lee.
Before Tony Leung won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival, the person who presented the award to him was Ang Lee. The film they collaborated with more than ten years ago also won the Golden Lion Award in Venice, Italy.
On the stage, the white-haired Ang Lee and Tony Leung who were crying with joy were all moving. In his award speech, Ang Lee also said as before, "Tony Leung is a director's dream."
He said that Tony Leung's look, It expresses something better than many actors' long monologues. "That is the soul that can seduce your best and worst sides to appear, even your hidden self and fear... express your dreams through him."
Modern Express/Modern+ reporter Li Yiheng, Ding Mengsha and Zheng Wenjing
Image: Official poster
Video: Qian Nianqiu
