Since the beginning of this year, Hong Kong's major and small actor awards have been won by Lam Ka-tung one after another, from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award, Hong Kong Film Directors Guild Annual Award to the that all Hong Kong actors dream of. The Academy Award Best Actor was all collected by Lin Jiadong.
At this time, Lin Jiadong has entered middle age, 49 years old, although he is younger than Aaron Kwok, who won the Best Actor at the age of 51 last year. But Aaron Kwok has been a protagonist for most of his life, and Lin Jiadong's journey as a protagonist has just begun.
For a long time, Lam Jiadong's impression on the audience in Hong Kong movies has been classified as Lin Xue, Ng Meng-tat and other golden supporting roles. It is difficult to be linked to the protagonist or even the best actor. In addition, there have been very few tidbits about Lin Jiadong over the years. In the early years, 's suspected "broken love" with Andy Lau was occasionally brought up by the media to make a fuss. However, after Andy Lau's marriage, this topic also suddenly disappeared. And stopped.
Started from imitation
The recently released Hong Kong movie "The Toxic Commandment" brings together Liu Qingyun, Louis Koo , Lam Jiadong, and Zhang Jin, making the movie attract more attention. This is also the first movie released after Lin Jiadong won the Best Actor Award. In the film, Lin Jiadong once again gave us his superb acting skills. It is definitely a highlight of the movie, and it also makes people pay attention to this new star. Golden statue of actor.
Lin Jiadong, who made his debut in 1987 through the wireless artist training class , has been working in the film and television field for 30 years. He has played small roles in passers-by A, B, B, D, officers and soldiers, waiters, etc. In 1997, he finally gained the attention of the audience and TVB executives by imitating Jacky Cheung in " Entertainment Transfer Student " and singing " Faraway She ", and he began to be praised as the leading actor. At that time, even Jacky Cheung himself praised Lin Jiadong's imitation after watching it on TV.
came out when he was the most popular
Although Lin Jiadong is not good-looking, he is very malleable. When he was in TVB, the roles he played could be loyal or treacherous, serious or funny, and his acting career was very broad .
At that time, Lin Jiadong's career in TVB was considered smooth. always had leading roles, and the TV series he starred in also received high ratings. The finale of the masterpiece "Tea is Hometown Strong " has a ratings of over 90%, and the scene of Hong Kong audiences watching the drama is comparable to a packed house. can also perform Taiwanese celebration dramas. It is not impossible to continue to be a "TV brother" or become a TV star.
But Lam Jiadong left TVB when his television career was at its peak and joined the sluggish Hong Kong film industry .
Why do you need to leave the safe island of TVB and go to the film industry where the future is uncertain?
TVB's quantitative production of drama series gradually made Lin Jiadong, who was full of enthusiasm for acting, confused. The TV station's lack of emphasis on quality restricted the progress and development of Lin Jiadong's acting skills. In order to break through himself, he would rather take risks in the broader film world. After all, the depth and development space of movie characters are much greater than those in TV series .
It took three years to wash away the "television smell"
After breaking into the film industry, "爱君如梦" made Lin Jiadong nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the first time, but of course he failed. Lin Jiadong himself also said, "At that time, I didn't even know what my acting skills were, so I should be not to win the award."
Later, in order to wash away the "television smell" on his body, Lin Jiadong took a three-year gap period to make himself forget the acting formula of the TV series, and thus transformed into the acting method of the movie. In the past three years, I have not filmed any film or television dramas. I only live on the monthly salary paid by Andy Lau's company.
Under the arrangement of Andy Lau, who is also a teacher and friend, Lin Jiadong also appeared in supporting roles in many classic movies. . The big B in "Infernal Affairs" changed the entire ending with one shot. In "A World Without Thieves", he was cut off because of his youth and competitiveness. The four eyes of Finger , and the neurotic investigator in "Dragon and Phoenix Fight" all made the audience have an impression of Lin Jiadong in terms of movies.
In addition to Andy Lau's keen eye for Lin Jiadong, Lin Jiadong also met Johnnie To, this talented person.
In the Galaxy Image movie, Lin Jiadong's performance was obviously more sophisticated after being trained by Johnnie To. In "Underworld", the Dongguan boy was thin and frivolous on the surface, but in order to be the talker, he was ruthless and would kill the gods when he met them. , Encounter the Buddha and Kill the Buddha, making the audience feel the chilling aura of the character.
The Macau gangster Omelet Qiang in "Exiled" seems incompetent, but Lam Jiadong uses details to show the character's arrogance and arrogance.
There is also the "Detective" which is comparable to "Inception". The villain played by Lin Jiadong requires various personality changes and facial expressions, all of which are accurately displayed by Lin Jiadong .
"Lin Jiadong" will be remembered by more people.
Johnnie To has promoted Andy Lau to the best actor throne twice, but failed to give Lin Jiadong the best actor crown . But in the end, it was " The Tree Da Zhao Feng " directed by three newcomers from Galaxy Image that made Lin Jiadong the best actor. Although Lam Jiadong's role in "The Big Tree Catches the Wind" only accounts for one-third, he is definitely the best performer among the three protagonists.
In the past, when Lin Jiadong often played a supporting role, people would think that his role was not enough and not eye-catching, but when you appreciate his performance with your heart, you will definitely find how attractive his role is.. It is precisely because there is no personal trace of "Lin Jiadong" in what he plays, so the audience often only remembers the character but not the name Lin Jiadong..
Lin Jiadong has long been a familiar face in Hong Kong films and even Chinese-language films. Nowadays, Lin Jiadong has more and more opportunities to be the protagonist or take on important roles. No matter whether he is a Hong Kong film before or after, you will definitely see him often. I saw Lin Jiadong, the movie king Lin Jiadong , who is not very good-looking but has good acting skills.
text/Liu Zhuen
