The contrast between low-key, melancholy, restrained, and deep, the halo of blessings from countless classic characters and the intertwined cuteness of various shyness, social terror and willfulness make this man who is now 60 years old more charming.

Hao Xu

Tony Leung Since he got rid of his youth, he has always been a charming mature man on the top of the pyramid. The contrast between low-key, melancholy, restrained, and deep, the halo of blessings from countless classic characters and the intertwined cuteness of various shyness, social terror and willfulness make this man who is now 60 years old more charming.

Tony Leung on the red carpet. Photo @Hong Kong Movie Bar

At this year's Busan Film Festival, the greatest glory and presence of Chinese films belong to Tony Leung. As a filmmaker who won this year's Asian Filmmaker Award, the organizing committee said at the opening ceremony of the Busan Film Festival that "give this award to the great actors of our era."

In the award speech prepared by Korean actress Han Yili for Tony Leung, he said: "Even when he didn't speak, he kept telling stories to the audience. While his figure was blank, he also performed incomprehensible sadness. Many directors continued their dream of movies through him. He has countless lives on the big screen, and is a perfect, beautiful, moving and tough actor at any time. In the face of his acting skills, I became the simplest audience, and a colleague who was happy to find that he wanted to look similar to him."

These emotional and erratic words are probably so appropriate and suitable for Tony Leung.

He once said, "Life is too short, I'm not very enterprising. It's another day to read books, sea and clouds. People think I'm crazy, but the clouds are so beautiful, and the water is so beautiful. If you have time, watch a movie every day." Tony Leung, who is "socially terrified", left many "cute" moments at the Busan Film Festival, such as the stiffness and awkwardness of doing heart-like actions on the red carpet. He was asked to call a fan on the spot to close his eyes and point his eyes nervously when interacting. When he met a fan sitting in the car and chatting with people on the road, the fans were all nagging, and "sent" him quickly "worship"... Facing the flash and a group of fans and reporters, the camera captured the moments he was slightly at a loss, and they all became the classic "Reuters" scenes of Busan that movie fans talked about.

Tony Leung is in love with his heart

At this year's Busan Film Festival, Tony Leung also talked about the process of meeting and accompanying some works and characters in recent years. For example, when he took on "Shangqi", he did not know the specific content of the script, but just called the director and felt that the other party was a sincere and trustworthy partner. At the same time, as an actor, I also hope that through , Hollywood 's global film industry, more people can see their performances. The collaboration with Aaron Kwok " When the Wind Rises Again" reminds him of many memories of his old Hong Kong when he was a child. " Unknown ", which may be about to meet the audience soon, was initially due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and the world was under "blockdown", so I was vacant to have the opportunity to shoot...

says that Tony Leung is serious in filming, and after playing a role, he can't get out of it. It seems that things happen from time to time. When facing the media, he was curious about how he prepared a role, he said, "Before I was working on a role, I would spend a lot of time collecting some information, or creating what a character needs to do, such as reading some reference books, or seeing if there are similar people in daily life, and then trying to imitate him. Basically, I usually prepare a role, which takes about three months."

has played various roles, and Tony Leung also talked about his expectations for the role he wanted to try in the future. For example, he wants to play the villain and play a real bad guy. This impulse comes from watching the video " This room is my home" by Las von Till in the past few years. "In my acting career, few people asked me to play villains, but I am really interested in acting. It may not be evil, but I just think it is a relatively complicated role. Actually, I have thought of playing a serial killer, and I don't know if there is a chance." Tony Leung also specifically mentioned that when filming "When the Wind Rises Again", he talked about this idea with director Weng Ziguang. “But thinking about it makes me scary, because it will be scary to act."

Tony Leung, is Koreedo Yuwa, is Koreedo Yuwa , Song Kanghao

Tony Leung, who has entered Hollywood, has become very popular in South Korea this time. Fans gather everywhere he goes, posting a photo with Song Kanghao and Yuwa Koreedo, which also makes many movie fans say that the lineup is too dreamy, and they are curious whether he will have new achievements in the Asian film map in the future.

In this regard, Tony Leung admitted that he has always admired Korean movies and is also a regular visitor to the Busan Film Festival. He has admired and admired Korean actors such as Song Kanghao and Jun Duyeon for a long time, and is looking forward to cooperation, but he is more or less worried about language barriers. "If there is a movie in the future, like in " Sad City " before, language may not be a problem. "Tony Leung said, "I don't have any special plans to enter where to go. Making movies is a fate. When fate appears, it may not be Hollywood, or even Japan and South Korea. When the appropriate fate appears, it will be filmed. "

In addition to the small vision of cross-border cooperation, Tony Leung, who has been active on the big screen over the years, also revealed his idea of ​​trying to return to the drama field. "I don't know why, I really want to go back to film TV series recently, because I started on the TV station myself, and my acting work started from TV series. At this stage, I really want to try it and do a TV series again. "Tony Leung, who was born in the wireless artist training class of

TVB, was once a popular young actor on the Hong Kong screen in the same era. He is known as the "TVB Five Tigers" along with Huang Rihua, Andy Lau, , MIO QIU , Tang Zhenye . Looking back now, this period of time has been covered with a layer of gold. "I think along the way, if I debuted in a TV series, I would follow my audience. I believe they would be very happy to see me film TV series again. At this stage, I can try more mature characters. ”

. Just 4 days later, his wife Carina Lau shared a photo of Tony Leung talking with director Huang Donghe on social platforms, and wrote: “Are you ready to participate in 'Squid Game'? "Then the caption was updated again: "Let's play "Squid Game" together! "Although the drama later denied Tony Leung's joining, the future possibility of this great acting master has opened up a larger space for imagination with this trip to Busan.

Huang Donghyuk, Tony Leung

Huang Donghyuk (center) took a photo with Tony Leung and Carina Lau

Tony Leung talked about his current understanding of his own state and said that he has also entered a new stage at the moment, "I think actors have different stages. If I was learning and absorbing the first 20 years, then the next 20 years should be using what I learned and absorbed. Now it should be the next stage, so you can enjoy it more, relax and make movies more stress-free. So I think it would be fun to play more mature roles. "

As a "great actor", speaking with movies is the hard truth at the film festival.

This film festival specially set up the "Tony Leung's Years of Love" unit, which screens 6 movies selected by Tony Leung himself. " The East is Becoming the West ", " Dark Flowers ", "Spring Light" "Flowers in the Mood", "Home in the Mood", " Infernal Affairs ", "2046", from different periods of his acting career, with different styles and charming each.

"Tony Leung's Years of Love" outdoor symposium The meeting scene. Among the

film list, Wong Kar-wai films account for half of the world. Wong Kar-wai filmed all the big stars in Hong Kong, and only a few big stars came to his movies to prove that he is a real star, not being overshadowed by the director's light, and reconcile with good directors and good stories. His movies are palace-level, and Tony Leung is always the pen tip, rhyme, and the trunk of a masterpiece.

At the official press conference of the film festival, Tony Leung explained his original intention of choosing these six movies, "Choose these six movies, I hope to show the audience more different types of my own film career. I admire the directors of the 6 movies very much.For example, director Wong Kar-wai, director Johnnie Joey Wong, and director Liu Zhenwei, who is excellent in comedy filming in Hong Kong. "He also didn't forget to reveal the truth, "I want to choose some movies, but I can't find a copy in the end. "He also specifically mentioned the first time he went to Taiwan to film "The City of Sadness", "I want to bring a new generation of audiences so that they can have the opportunity to see my early movies." "

So, let's take a look at how classic these movies carefully selected by Tony Leung himself are.

Tony Leung

"The Mood for Love"

Just released the restored version of "The Mood for Love". It has previously been re-released in many regions around the world, which has evoked countless feelings.

You said that this man and a woman were just walking around the streets, but after watching it, it made people cry. It was probably the magic that only Wong Kar-wai had. It is impossible for someone to be more suitable for weeks than Tony Leung The character of Mu Yun . There is infinite emotional space in his silence, and the implicitness in Wong Kar-wai's movie is a choice. Returning to the ambiguous areas of life, obscure and not satisfying enough, but the aftertaste is long, which is the most suitable temperament for Tony Leung. Compared to being straightforward at a glance, not showing off is a more advanced precision. How many years later, it still makes people feel uneasy. Su Lizhen , if there is an extra boat ticket, would you follow me?

"Spring Light"

This movie is called "Happy" The movie "Together" didn't see any happy, but it was a "highway movie" that was trapped in the same place. The afterglow of the perverted and obsessed by Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung, who were half-coaxed and tricked into taking this film, transcending gender and social metaphors, and being passive and powerless, is also a kind of self-fulfilment. Same sex is a label, and what is discussed in the core is Wong Kar-wai's passion for using subtle push and pull in the relationship between the two sexes to reveal the essence of life's loneliness.

"2046"

"2046" continues the obsession with love and memory, and is the public in Wong Kar-wai's movie.

"2046"

"2046" continues his obsession with love and memory. The obscure one. Everyone who goes to 2046 has a purpose, in order to find the lost memory. Tony Leung is still the man named Zhou Muyun, who has had three short loves in Black Spider, Bai Ling, and Wang Jingwen. He is always such a man, rejected by his loved one, so he refuses to fall in love with another person, and loses the opportunity to start again. The injured person who indulges in love with dogs and horses, in his repeated lingering and retracement, responds to the unwillingness and persistence that has been going on in " A Fei's True Story ", " Chongqing Forest ", " East Evil and West Poison ", "Spring Light" and "Flowers in Love".

"Dark Flower"

This dark movie produced by Galaxy Impression at the end of the last century failed in the box office that year, but it is the most underrated gangster film in the minds of many Hong Kong film fans. Tony Leung and many Hong Kong stars have achieved the legend of the two heroes. The "Dark Flower" co-starred with Liu Qingyun is a model for interpreting the emotional and psychological space in the genre film to the extreme.

Dark Flower refers to the bounty that the underworld wants to take human life. Because it belongs to underground rules, it is called "dark". Achen played by Tony Leung, the cruel movements such as stabbing his nails and smashing his palms in the film are outrageous, and from "hunter" to The reversal of "prey" has digged the fear, cowardice, desire and despair that seem to be free, but is actually manipulated to the extreme.

"Infernal Affairs"

"Infernal Affairs"

"Infernal Affairs" classic and the milestone significance of this movie to Hong Kong and even Asian movies, there is almost no need to repeat it. Although it is a police and gangster film, it deeply burns human nature from the depth of philosophy. The greed and selfishness that arises from the body cannot be reborn. Chen Yongren always carries secrets and has trouble saying it. The only contact person who knows his true identity is Huang Sir, was killed. The final rooftop duel, Liu Jianming said. “You are a policeman, who knows? ", adding to the tragedy of the characters. The moment when the guns were facing each other, Tony Leung was mixed with grief, helplessness, confusion and despair. Invasion, hiding, and disappointment were all erupting in the "eye" skills, which ultimately made the sadness of the movie silent and majestic.

"Everything is the best"

could not help but be happy when he saw Tony Leung chose this movie himself.It turned out that he was not willing to always leave a melancholy and deep impression.

From " The Deer and the Cauldron " at the beginning of his debut to " The Unparalleled in the World", this man who is always depressed has actually had many nonsensical times. The birth of "East and West Become" was purely unexpected. Because "East and West Poison" could not make money, the original team of the same team made a funny work with a very different temperament. It was actually circulated and became an irreplicable film classic, which can be called the "original originator of the simplicity".

Tony Leung himself once admitted in an interview that he was a little unrestrained between the sausage mouth and the blind swordsman at that time, and he complained to the people around him that he "don't know who he is."

But Ouyang Feng, who was as embarrassed as a pig's head, is still active in many people's emoticons. The deep Tony can also be regarded as the banner of Hong Kong's film and entertainment spirit.

Six movies selected by Tony Leung himself

This issue's senior editor Xingtan