As the number one actor in Hong Kong, Tony Leung won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Who dares to be dissatisfied?
Tony Leung Chiu Wai is a great actor, everyone recognizes him. But to say that everyone is convinced is not true. At least Lin Baoyi and Huang Zihua, who were among the nominees for the 42nd Academy Awards, expressed dissatisfaction.
" Goldfinger " is a bad movie. Both the story and the acting skills are extremely mediocre. Even Tony Leung, the god of acting, only contributed one job, which is not embarrassing or embarrassing, but very mediocre. However, it happened that the Academy Awards awarded the Best Actor to Tony Leung. Probably because Tony Leung felt that holding five statuettes was not heavy enough, and one more would be fine.
This is very funny.
Tony Leung's acting skills are really good and are recognized by the world. But upon closer inspection, the credit lies in his ability to select scripts and co-directors. Wong Kar-wai alone has contributed to four of the five previous Academy Awards ("Chungking Express", "Happy Together", " In the Mood for Love ", "2046" "), and then got one in " Infernal Affairs ", the screenwriter is Zhuang Wenqiang.
The director and screenwriter of "Goldfinger" this time is Zhuang Wenqiang again. These are two people, Wong Kar-wai + Chong Man-keung, who brought six Academy Award statuettes to Tony Leung. "Infernal Affairs" makes sense, Tony Leung's performance is very strong, and it's worth it. But Tony Leung Chiu-wai in "Goldfinger" is obviously not in his best state, showing his age and being too exaggerated. His fatigue and laziness are written on his face. There are only a few scenes in the whole film where his acting skills shine, but he does not hide his flaws. The entire film was clearly out of place. Just like that, he actually won the Academy Award? What's going on with
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Huang Zihua in "Snake Lawyer" is very impressive, and Lin Baoyi's subversive performance in "Under the Day " is not worthy of an Academy Award.
Academy Award This is the rhythm of playing yourself to death.
If you don't want to die, the Academy Awards should die as soon as possible. What is the value and meaning of existence?
Does Hong Kong cinema still have a future?
At the very least, there is no hope for the Golden Statue Award. It's not that Tony Leung doesn't deserve the award, but the way the Academy Awards was done is despicable.
Of course, this does not mean that Huang Zihua and Lin Baoyi definitely deserve the award. Huang Zihua's performance in " Vicious Lawyer " lacks depth and is superficial, relying entirely on lines to support the scene.
As for Lin Baoyi, he can definitely win an Academy Award for his crazy performance in "Under the Day". If I have to say something wrong, it is that his role is not enough, and his role in the play is more of a supporting actor. Just like "Kung Fu" recommended "Charterer" Yuan Qiu as a nominee for Best Actress at the Academy Awards, and her co-star "Charterer" Yuanhua was honestly nominated for Best Supporting Actor . As a result, Yuanhua won the award, but Yuanqiu did not.
Being nominated for the lead role based on a supporting role is at a disadvantage.
Lin Baoyi's performance is amazing, but the Academy Awards won't open her eyes. With Lin Baoyi's identity and status, there are not many opportunities to get such an explosive role. If you miss it this time, you will miss it for life.
The Academy Awards have long been accustomed to awarding awards with the nature of consolation and encouragement. If it is awarded to Lin Baoyi this time, and his worth and status are improved, it may bring a new main actor to Hong Kong movies, otherwise it will always be It's Andy Lau, Lau Ching Wan, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung and other familiar faces thrown around. It's really boring.
Zhang Jiahui and Lin Jiadong were originally second-tier supporting actors. It was not because they won the Academy Award for Best Actor that they were promoted to starring roles and contributed many masterpieces. Although Lam Baoyi is not young, his presence in Hong Kong movies is very low. Taking advantage of the opportunity of winning awards to be promoted to a celebrity status is actually beneficial to Hong Kong movies. Including Huang Zihua, the same is true. The Academy Awards have always been good at lining up and dividing the show, but this time they didn't do it that way. It felt like they had taken the wrong medicine and were crazy.
Awarding the Academy Award to Tony Leung Chiu-wai once again is meaningless to him, has no motivating effect at all, and has no significance in stimulating Hong Kong movies. What effect does such behavior have? God knows.Even Wong Jing said that Tony Leung should make a statement that he would never accept awards again to demonstrate his high moral integrity.
Having said that, the scene at the Academy Awards is the current situation of Hong Kong movies in 2023.
There are some bad ones in the field of commercial films, such as "Goldfinger", " stealth ", " anti-drug 3", " rage ", "The Spirit of Dragon and Horse", "Breaking Point", "Assassination Storm", "Disconnected", "When the Wind Rises Again", None of these films like "Storm" can be beat. The time gap is less than a year, how many people still remember them now?
The field of literary and artistic films is also not very good. In previous years, there were literary and artistic masterpieces such as "Drifting on Turbid Water" and "Young You". In the past year, there were only "Under the Sun", "Diary of a Youth", "May You Live Longer" and " Don't Call Me "God of Gamblers" and other limited films, obviously lack of impressive films.
Only two movies, "The Vengeful Lawyer" and "The Murder Case", are worth watching, but the stories are still heavily clichéd and lack new ideas.
Choosing a general among cripples, "Under the Sun" is already the best Hong Kong movie in 2023. It has relatively high scores and is worthy of a dozen.
Except for Lin Baoyi who failed to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, actress Yu Xiangning won the Academy Award for Best Actress, Jiang David won the Best Supporting Actor, and Liang Yongting won the Best Supporting Actress. They almost swept the performances of this year's Academy Awards. Awards, but they are all well-deserved, and their outstanding performance fully deserves these awards. This is a film with all the actors acting online.
However, it is not possible to say how good "Under the Day" is. As a complete film, it is very fragmented and inconsistent.
A movie either tells people or tells stories. There has to be an inclination. "The Vengeful Lawyer" is a movie about people. All the focus is on the evil-tongued lawyer played by Huang Zihua. The character is very outstanding and the story is very ordinary.
The first half of "Under the Sun" seems to be a storytelling film, using the perspective of an undercover reporter played by Yu Xiangning to uncover the loopholes in Hong Kong's care system for people with disabilities. Most of the time, it seems that this is a movie comparable to " focuses on " and "The Washington Post". It even has the feeling of "Exposed" and "All the President's Men", which is to expose the scandal and criticize the Hong Kong government. It is to promote social progress.
However, in the last 30 minutes of the film, the camera suddenly switched and focused on the director of the disabled home played by Lin Baoyi, and it became the story of how he was exposed for raping a mentally retarded girl. The entire film has also suddenly transformed from criticizing the social system to specifically criticizing a certain well-dressed beast. Although the film looks better and Lin Baoyi's acting is so good, as far as the film is concerned, the front and rear are suddenly torn apart, and the concept has changed drastically. It gets smaller, but gets worse.
As a rival, Lin Baoyi performed well, but Yu Xiangning's role also changed. The film changed from telling stories to telling people, focusing on Yu Xiangning's personal choices.
Lin Baoyi's presence was obviously lacking in most of the first part of the film. Only in the last 30 minutes, when it was time to expose his crime of rape, his role increased and his acting skills began to explode, making people itch with hatred. In terms of this performance alone, he is fully worthy of an Academy Award for Best Actor, but when divided into the entire film, his role is not enough and he can only be regarded as a supporting role.
In fact, "Under the Day" can be made into two parts. The upper part only talks about the previous part, how to uncover the loopholes in Hong Kong society. It is enough. It can be arranged into a wonderful news media series. The movie was made into "Spotlight" and "The Washington Post" in Hong Kong. Then the second part will tell the truth that was not discovered in the previous part, and further explore the story of the dean played by Lin Baoyi. This way, it will be better.
The current state of the film makes it difficult to say that the effect of the film is outstanding. It can only be said that the actors performed well, and that's all.
The biggest achievement of "Under the Sun" is that David Jiang finally realized his dream of winning an Academy Award. At such an old age, I was finally shortlisted for the grand prize for the first time and won, which is really great.In some scenes, when David Jiang laughs, he still has the charming and unruly look when he was young.
May the old man live a long life!
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