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In the past few months, the volume of "Hong Kong" in the film and television industry has been slightly higher.
[Tomorrow’s War] has been extended, and the aftertaste of [Detective War] is still there. Today, Huang Zihua’s [still think you’re the best] reputation has exploded, and the dark horse’s posture is strong.
It has to be said that the appeal of Hong Kong actors is still there.
Not to mention the play, the scene outside the play can also set off a wave of enthusiasm.
I’m sure everyone has seen this picture.
Liu Qingyun was filming at the scene, but no one recognized him. Everyone thought he was a real lunatic. Even many passers-by watched and saw him rush over to avoid subconsciously, with confused eyes.
[Detective Battle] After three months of filming, Liu Qingyun only had one script in his hands. Sometimes he got impatient and even picked up the camera phone…
No one has ever seen Liu Qingyun use a mobile phone on set.
38 degree weather, arrived at 6:30, put on makeup 8 hours in advance and started work, which left a deep impression on Tan Kai who was playing –
"His state is very quiet, not impulsive at all."
Actors in Hong Kong, China, are famous for going out for filming.
People in their 60s, 70s, and even 80s have been consecrated as Buddhas by word of mouth –
The fourth brother, Xie Xian, 80 years old, continued to shoot for 288 hours without stopping; Jackie Chan never wanted a double in a play, and was blacklisted by the insurance company.
The younger generation in their 40s and 50s gradually became the benchmark in the amazement of young people –
Zhang Weijian was willing to be entangled by a real snake in the filming; Yang Yi was slapped and the corners of his mouth were red and swollen in the play; Wang Haoxin slapped 19 times in the play and entered the play madly.
In Cantonese, this is called "de".
Mandarin is to be able to endure and persevere.
Translate again, that isDedication…
Every time domestic audiences see these clips, they are envious and curious – how did this tradition come about?
Sure.
Today I will unfold, flatten, and use magnifying glass for you to see.
Let’s start with a name that you may not be familiar with.
"Uncle Shrimp" Guan Haishan.
More famous than him is his apprentice, Wu Mengda.
Senior figure.
But he’s just a supporting actor –
There is a saying in Hong Kong, China that the protagonist is called brother or sister, and the supporting actors are called uncle and aunt.
"Uncle Shrimp", the supporting role is undoubtedly, but in the end he still won the Lifetime Achievement Award given to him by TVB.
There is also such an interesting story between Guan Haishan and his apprentice Wu Mengda:
When Wu Mengda’s life was at its bleakest, his master gave him the book "Six Lectures on Acting". Later, the book went to Wu Zhenyu, Liu Qingyun, Zhou Xingchi and others.
In the end, the book "Self-Cultivation of Actors" that appeared in the hands of "Dragon Set" Yin Tianchou was based on this.
Going around, the professionalism is passed down from generation to generation, just like a stone thrown into the water, causing circles and ripples.
His apprentice Wu Mengda is a good example –
Not only can it cooperate with Zhou Xingchi’s nonsensical expressionism,At the same time, it can also learn from the experiential method school without falling behind.
In the early days, Wu Mengda accepted all plays in order to support his family, but he was never perfunctory.
After a long time, in various small roles that are different in the world, he has the ability to quickly grasp the role of the character and understand the effect of the character in the play.
Wait until it’s time for the performance.
This person’s life has long been thoroughly understood by him and condensed into the camera.
Why is this possible? Explain in one of his own habits – without a script.
I didn’t pay attention to the plot and dialogue at the scene, this is all done in advance.
At the scene, I will watch the opponent’s performance, how to make the opponent play better, or play each other out, there can be some special places, places of spark.
It’s not that I don’t look.
But it has long been memorized and thoroughly understood.
Zhou Xingchi told a story.
When he first worked with Wu Mengda, Wu Mengda was reading the script in his hand, and there was only one page. When Zhou Xingchi went out to eat and came back, he was still reading the page in his hand.
There are only three lines above:Hello, good morning. Bye.
Zhou Xingchi is curious, do you need to watch the three lines of dialogue for so long?
Wu Mengda said there is.
"I play every role as the protagonist."
Inside the shell of a snail is a dojo,In the limited performance space and scenes, complete the arc construction of your own exclusive characters.
Other supporting characters only hope that green leaves will be lined with red flowers; and he must be, a little green among the thousands of flowers.
One obvious manifestation of the dedication of Hong Kong actors is:true…
Real fight really eat, real knife real gun, regardless of role priority and status.
[Losing an orphan] is considered to be the peak of Andy Lau’s acting skills, and the scene in which Andy Lau was slapped was a real hit.
Don’t be a substitute, the sound of every sound is clear to the ears through the screen.
Director Peng Sanyuan stood beside him, covering his mouth the whole time, his eyes unbearable.
Wang Jing once shook his head in public and said that Andy Lau’s life was not lived by people, and he had not eaten rice for ten years.
Chow Yun-fat must have seen the famous scene of beating 12 eggs with one hand in [Tiger Out], and then swallowing it raw with his neck raised.
Lu Yu once mentioned this scene in an interview.
I don’t care how big my stomach is, Chow Yun-fat said. Maybe I will vomit after eating. At that time, the director said "camera" and swallowed it. It’s that simple.
In [Anti-Black Passenger A].
The scene of Jiang Jiamin being buried alive was suffocating.
She lay in the deep pit in this state for nearly half an hour.
Chen Baixiang and Zhou Xingchi filmed [Tang Bohu Dot Autumn Fragrance] and there was a scene where ink was splashed.
Later in a program, Chen Baixiang revealed that the ink splash went directly to his nose, but he endured it in order not to delay the progress.
After the performance, he washed the ink for more than four hours.
In Xiao Zhengnan’s [Great Eunuch], the swill he ate was the real swill prepared by the crew.
Grabbing food from beggars, the chicken thighs fell into the sewage and were also picked up and sent to his mouth.
Because in the play, he is starving and cold.
Speaking of the truth, I have to mention the martial arts actors in Hong Kong, China.
Male Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen to Liu Jiahui, Zou Zhaolong, Yuan Biao, etc., female Hui Yinghong, Yang Ziqiong, Hu Huizhong…
In order to make his debut or become famous, he almost used his life as a prop.
Jumping off a building, falling straight, crashing, skyscooters, human flesh sandbags…
Those intense and even dangerous scenes once became the film’s biggest selling point, laying a solid foundation for the prosperity of Hong Kong martial arts films and an important weight for going global.
CCTV’s cultural documentary "Screening Room 10: Legends of Chinese Film History" dedicated to kung fu, telling the stories behind the scenes.
How far is it really?
In Hong Jinbao’s words, he dared to do anything. In Yuan Wu’s words,That was exchanged for life.
No exaggeration.
When Yuan Wu was filming [Five Lucky Stars], the ambulance was prepared in advance. In his scene, he first fell out of the glass window, then fell on the road, and finally landed on his head.
After filming, he went straight to the hospital.
Even foreign colleagues come to visit the class and feel incredible: Do you dare to do this?
Qian Jiale, one of the martial arts actors, recalled that shouting "click" was not to call it a day, but to save people.
Beyond the scope of ordinary people and ordinary people, it is almost insane.
Later, everyone’s understanding of that group of actors was finally revealed by Tsui Hark’s words:
"What they did in the past, no one will be able to do in the future."
Of course, now we don’t need to use our fists to vent our emotions and support justice, punish evil and promote good. That era will eventually become a thing of the past.
Some people may ask, is this really necessary?
For a talented actor, it may be debatable. But in a short period of time, truth is undoubtedly the fastest way to get into the play, the only shortcut, and the only way to make up for the shortcoming and "deceive" himself and "deceive" the audience.
In [Save Mr. Wu], Andy Lau’s role of being strangled requires the feeling of suffocation and blue veins bulging.
So what do you do?
Come on.
In the Star Talk interview, the director revealed a detail:
"That actor, after Andy finished speaking, he still didn’t dare to strangle him."
Later, it was Andy Lau who persuaded him again and again, and the scene was successfully filmed.
To what extent? His eyes were bloodshot and he stuck out his tongue.
That was the scene.Only then did Andy Lau realize that when he was strangled by the neck, his tongue would fall out by itself.
For actors, it is not surprising that controlling their bodies and organs is a very common means of performance.
But against the backdrop of peers, it appears increasingly rare and valuable.
Do you still remember Ren Jialun’s plastic muscle clothes in "Meeting Junchu", which were pulled out and repeatedly "whipped corpses"?
You know, a year ago, Hong Kong actor Zhang Zhenlang lost 18 kilograms of weight and trained for a year to produce a pair of washboards in order to star in Hai Zhenglan, one of the male protagonists in [The King of Boxing].
Not to mention the fact that less than a minute into the ring in the first season, 56-year-old Lai Yaoxiang lost 9 kilograms in two months.
Of course, this is invisible to the parties involved. Huo Jianhua was fortunate enough to witness it with his own eyes once.
Shooting "Odd Man Yizhi Mei" is almost done, and there is a scene that needs to fall to the ground. Liao Qizhi has been shooting for almost 20 hours in a row for this scene.
At the scene, there were still all kinds of hard falls.
At that time, Huo Jianhua thought to himself, so dedicated. But when the character "died", Liao Qizhi fell to the ground with a snap, because he was old and his physical strength was difficult to support.
At the same time, Huo Jianhua also accepted a solid dedication class.
The TVB training class still uses Liao Qizhi’s improvisation as a teaching material –
In the 1980 version of "Shanghai Beach", Zhou Runfa played Xu Wenqiang with a severed finger, and there was a scene of eating with a severed finger. Zhou Runfa temporarily played it: the cut on the severed finger was painful, and the bowl in his hand fell.
Liao Qizhi, who was in the play, immediately responded: Reach out to take the bowl and read the dialogue.
The bone-turning palm will eliminate the crisis invisibly.
A seemingly brilliant reaction is inseparable from long-term and solid training.
Wang Zulan once took a group of TVB artists on a show "go LIVE! Sitcom", and the "Infinite Training Class" crew they formed presented many TVB classics, but also expressed the hardships behind the actors in Hong Kong, China.
TVB actors who hold up half the sky from Hong Kong TV, everyone has gone through the stage of unforgettable walk-on.
Zhang Zhenlang revealed in the show that the previous scene was filmed at 4 am, but he received a call saying that there was a role to be played at 7 am. But that role was just a stand-in.
Hearing this, Yingda, the guest present, opened his mouth in shock.
However, this is the norm at TVB.
Before Liu Qingyun became famous, he also ran the dragon trap for nearly 10 years. He said that in those years, he was so depressed that he didn’t have time to go home to sleep or fall in love. He felt like a prop rented to the movie studio.
Chow Yun-fat worked around the clock, and even slept on the set… Zhang Jiahui was beaten and cried when he was a martial artist, and was even teased as "the king of dragon traps".
Hu Xinger said that she had been filming for more than 20 hours a day on TVB. Unhappy under high pressure lasted for ten years.
What’s more poignant is that Stephen Chow [King of Comedy] is completely realistic in his tragic struggle.
A few years ago, at the press conference of Xingye [New King of Comedy], Wang Baoqiang recalled the sadness of his pre-fame. Xingye, who stood by the side, listened carefully and focused.
Finally, he sighed with emotion: Anyway, the two of us "dead guys" are the same.
In a cutthroat competitive environment, acting is a disenchanted profession from the outset.
It is no different from other professions, it is just a livelihood to support the family. Everyone must start from a novice, play a supporting role, and then become a high-profile protagonist.
Just like fighting monsters in the workplace. There will be no less hardships and mistakes that should be suffered and made.
When Leung Ka Fai played tricks on Chow Yun Fat, the action he designed was scolded by the director "Who do you think you are, Napoleon?"
Before being nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor, it took Xue Lin 20 years to reach the threshold of acting.
He even said,One-third of his salary is earned by being scolded.
After the transformation of the TVB training class, those who enter the training class learn not only acting, but also dubbing, hosting, vocal music, image management, market management, martial arts, and even lighting, receiving people and things, and writing scripts.
There is an exam every three months, and if you fail, you will be eliminated. Near graduation, there are also exams, but if you fail, you will not be able to graduate.
Although the training is hard, the competition is still fierce. In the glory days of TVB, the number of applicants for the training class can be as high as 6,000, and only more than 40 people are selected.
In the hard training day after day, professionalism has long been internalized into self-discipline –
Punctuality, focus, extreme…
But strangely, almost no one complained when they left, because they knew that without TVB, no audience would know them.
Professionalism is most reflected in Hong Kong, China –
In the streets of Hong Kong, you can meet the best actor at any occasion.
Chow Yun-fat, who seemed to be alone on the subway, Zhou Yun-fat, who bargained for food in the vegetable market; Liu Qingyun, an enthusiastic citizen who was interviewed; Gu Tianle, a pretty boy who traveled by battery car;
As well as Huang Rihua, who was met by Lu Yu and Zhou Runfa when traveling in a low-key manner.
In the eyes of Hong Kong people, an actor is just an identity and a job. If you leave this job, you will return to the life of ordinary people.
For example, many actors who have changed careers but are still dedicated and low-key.
Paul Che, who plays a master in a number of costume movies, was working as a supervisor in a vegetable market when he received the news that he was competing for the best actor at the Taipei Film Festival with [The Old Man and the Dog] at the age of 59.
The daily work is not on the set, but handling customer complaints, water, electricity, transportation, and catching thieves.
After receiving the news, he was happy for a while, and then he began to struggle with the situation: how to thank and how to meet people. Finally, he didn’t want to. "Waste your energy, go to bed, and get up at four o’clock tomorrow morning to start work."
The news of the competition for the best actor entered the vegetable market, and the owner congratulated: "If you win, I will give you a grouper."
Fish is the biggest and most sincere compliment that stall owners give to dedicated actors.
Zhang Aijia’s apprentice, Yang Qi, once nominated the golden horse female match. Later, he worked as a security guard in the university and even worked part-time as a flower seller to help the chef.
But she still persists in practicing her acting skills, in order to ensure that one day "she will not be too rusty and too nervous."
Acting don’t think too much of yourself, don’t belittle yourself when you leave the spotlight, and straighten your mindset.
And Hong Kong itself strongly advocates this professionalism.
Koo Ming-wah, a thousand-year-old hero, joined the industry in 1990 and was nominated for Best New Actor at the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards for his role as a groom in [Mong Kok Racecourse].
He spoke about the unexpected nomination in a talk show.
Everyone wonders how anyone could be nominated.
"Because no one knows the nominee."
Gu Minghua himself knew that this was a third-class film in the eyes of others, and it was inevitable that it would be put on colored glasses. Of course, it lost. The nominee was Yuan Yongyi [Yafei and Yaji].
The opponents also include Zhu Yin of [Truant Dragon 2] and Zheng Xiuwen of [Flying Tiger Elite Human Love].
But the reason for the nomination is simple:
There you go.
In 2018, at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, an award called "Professionalism Award" was won by a grassroots employee named Yang Ronglian.
No star, no background.
When she took the stage to accept the award, the leaders of the Hong Kong film industry stood up collectively, and everyone applauded enthusiastically.
Jackie Chan said that she is a very important person and would not be used to it without her.
Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, Louis Koo, Nicholas Tse… Almost everyone who has filmed in Hong Kong has enjoyed her meticulous service.
Yang Ronglian is illiterate, and the eating and drinking of hundreds of people in the crew is a big problem. If you can’t read, you will memorize your name, and almost everyone’s preferences will be recorded.
Is it difficult to make tea?
"It’s not that simple. It doesn’t mean just passing water. You have to see if the actors are free and if the directors are free."
At the right time, serve delicious refreshments. Sister Lian has done the tea work to the extreme.
The crew started work at 6 o’clock, and she had to get up at 4 o’clock. She worked for more than ten hours a day and could only rest at night.
One time, she did the Gu Tianle version of "Condor Hero" and Andy Lau version of [Machine Boy’s True and False Weilong] ([Dragon God Prince]). She didn’t go home for seven days and seven nights.
Dedication, no less than any professional actor.
See the stitches for meticulous service, this honor is well deserved.
Coincidentally.
2009 University of Hong Kong. An aunt who worked as an assistant chef and cleaner for 44 years was named an honorary fellow.
She didn’t have much earth-shattering or outstanding contributions, just an ordinary worker who couldn’t be more simple.
When she passed away, people from all walks of life in Hong Kong, China, mourned her.
The media published articles to mourn;
Madison, the president of the University of Hong Kong, said that she has left a glorious tradition for the University of Hong Kong.
The University of Hong Kong specially produced a short film for her and updated the homepage of its official website: I will miss you forever, Third Sister-in-law.
Like Sister Lian, this third sister-in-law, Yuan Sumei, also achieves dedication to the extreme.
In order to soften the sago, in the days when there was no pressure cooker, you had to stand in front of the stove for two hours; run to get medicine for sick children; in order to let students eat delicious horse bean cakes, you had to cook them on slow heat for an hour, and keep stirring during the period…
Many children studying at Hong Kong University have been carefully cared for by the third sister-in-law. And she is never ostentatious and works hard.
Later, she was compiled into the university’s orientation textbook and written into the dormitory song that freshmen must learn:
There are three treasures in the university hall: the rotating copper ladder, the four unlike sculptures and the three sisters-in-law.
The ceremony was conducted entirely in English, and because she used Chinese, she deliberately read the praise in Cantonese.
If said.
The dedication of an actor comes out of it.
It is a survival move that does not invest, there is no food to eat, and it is a hard-working and tenacious survival force that is "forced".
Then, the dedication of these grassroots workers is more like an interpretation of the fighting spirit of Hong Kong, China.
Regardless of occupation, try your best to do your job well, be hard-working and forging ahead.
This dedication has helped Hong Kong, China, to take off and thrive, and has also become a valuable asset and spiritual portrayal that has been passed down for generations.
Nowadays, careers are changing, the environment is changing, and so are people.
The only thing that hasn’t changed is the tacit understanding between the two generations –
There is sweat, there is food.
The pictures in this article are from the Internet
Editorial Assistant: Yimou not emo
