Speaking of the representatives of acting in Hong Kong movies, an important branch of Chinese films, Tony Leung is definitely the first to bear the brunt. 11 nominations for the Hong Kong Film Awards and 5 awards are a record that has not been broken by later generations so far. As a veteran who has been in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, Tony Leung is quite low-key outside of work, and this low-key also makes his achievements in the film industry even more commendable. Speaking of Tony Leung entering the entertainment industry, there is another interesting story. Tony Leung is the childhood friend of Stephen Chow . Stephen Chow has been particularly eager to become a movie actor since he was a child. In 1982, 20-year-old Tony Leung, encouraged by his friend Stephen Chow, went to Hong Kong wireless training class to sign up. As a result, Tony Leung was selected, but Stephen Chow was eliminated.
From this detail, we can see that in addition to his acquired efforts, Tony Leung's acting skills are also very talented. It is precisely because of this talent that Tony Leung has experienced a brief training in the Hong Kong wireless training class and started his great actor career. In his early years, Tony Leung, like many Hong Kong wireless graduates, started with a TVB drama starring in TVB. He became famous with " The Deer and the Cauldron " starring Andy Lau . Wei Xiaobao, starring Tony Leung, is still a memory of a generation. Now it seems that this brilliant beginning is more like an appetizer brought to the audience by Tony Leung's acting career. His true glory comes from a series of movies he later starred in.
Since the early 1980s, Tony Leung has participated in more than 80 movies, covering a variety of film types. In addition to the art films he is good at, it also includes comedy movies, action movies, gangster movies, etc. There are finest and of course bad movies in these films. This phenomenon seems to be the fate of Hong Kong film actors. In the Hong Kong film system, interests and box office have always been king, so no matter how famous or outstanding the actors are, they always have to compromise with capital and the public. But even such a system has given birth to a series of outstanding actors such as Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung , Leslie Cheung , Zhou Runfa , and Stephen Chow. It can be seen that business, art, entertainment and seriousness are not so contradictory.
In the early days of his film career, Tony Leung did not have an accurate positioning. Instead, he played some roles based on the needs of the market and director. In this process, Tony Leung has been looking for the best rhythm on the big screen. But in this process, he still showed his talent as an actor. In this regard, we can see from the comparison between him and Stephen Chow, and him and Andy Lau. While the rest of the people were still struggling, Tony Leung, who was silent, became famous early and soon attracted the attention of major directors.
Among Tony Leung's early films, the most popular one is the " Underground Love " co-starring him and Chow Yun-fat. This film is directed by Stanley Kwan and is a typical art film. With his outstanding performance in this film, Tony Leung was nominated for Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards that year. Since then, Tony Leung has participated in many commercial gunfight action films, including "Bloody Street" and "The Detective". In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tony Leung continued to star in the commercial film in the Hong Kong film market, and on the other hand, he also found another path of development, and he began to try to star in some literary and artistic films.
The most important one is Tony Leung’s cooperation with Wang Kar-wai and Hou Hsiao-hsien respectively. Wong Kar-wai and Hou Hsiao-hsien are masters of light and shadow in Chinese films. They play an important role in Chinese films, and being able to star in the works of these two masters is destined to Tony Leung's extraordinary journey to film. In 1989, Tony Leung first participated in " Sad City " directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. This was Tony Leung's first collaboration with Hou Hsiao-hsien and an important work in Tony Leung's film career.In this film, Tony Leung plays a mute role, and the reason why he plays a mute role is largely because director Hou Hsiao-hsien is absolutely in a bad Mandarin language and does not want to dub him, so he finally changed the role to a mute.
Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Sad City" is a very important work in the entire history of Chinese films. In this film, it received the " Small City Spring " directed by Mu, to a certain extent, and also inspired Tony Leung's later emperor-winning work at the Cannes Film Festival, and " Years of Love " directed by Wong Kar-wai. In the film, the "helpless move" of changing Tony Leung's role to a mute is cleverly in line with the themes of the film and the city, city and nature. Hou Hsiao-hsien's film uses the rise and fall of a family to spread the sadness of a city, and his iconic long shots in the film push the propositions of people, cities, and nature in Chinese films to the extreme.
This interpretation officially opened the glorious peak of Tony Leung. After this film, Tony Leung began to make efforts in the field of art films. In 1990, Tony Leung participated in Wong Kar-wai's representative work " Ah Fei's true story ". This film is a iconic work formed by Wong Kar-wai's style. This film officially started the brilliant film careers of Wong Kar-wai, Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung. Some people say that "The Legend of Ah Fei" gave Leslie Cheung the characteristics of an artist, but why did Wong Kar-wai and Tony Leung be the same? Since this film, Tony Leung has almost become the second only to Leslie Cheung in Wong's films. Even in the later stages, Tony Leung's position in Wong's films has surpassed Leslie Cheung.
is different from the intermittent cooperation with Hou Hsiao-hsien. Tony Leung and Wong Kar-wai's cooperation almost runs through the entire film career of the two people. In this process, they have collaborated with each other with many classic works, such as " Chongqing Forest ", "East Evil and West Poison", "Spring Light Suddenly", and "Flowers in the Mood for Flowers". Among them, "Spring Light" won Wong Kar-wai's Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, while "In the Mood for Love" won Tony Leung's Best Actor in Cannes.
In the 1990s, Tony Leung, in addition to his cooperation with Wong Kar-wai, also starred in a Vietnamese film. The film was called " Tricycleman ", directed by Chen Yingxiong . The film won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. In addition, Tony Leung also collaborated with Hou Hsiao-hsien on " Sea Flowers ". This film is very distinctive. The entire film is shot from the interior. The lights in the film are said to be candlelight. It can be said to be a movie shot "with lanterns". Another feature of this film is the long shots used by Hou Hsiao-hsien. In the long shots of the realistic style, the audience feels the flow of time and the sorrow of time in real scenes.
It is worth mentioning that in 1998, Tony Leung also starred in the iconic work of Galaxy Image , "Dark Flower" . This film was not written by Johnnie To , the head of Galaxy Image , but directed by You Dazhi . This film is a representative work of Galaxy Image style, typical of "black", "cold" and "cool". In this film, Tony Leung plays against the powerful actor of the Galaxy Impression 1 Andy Lau , while in another Galaxy work "Dark War", Andy Lau plays against Andy Lau. But obviously, in this film, Tony Leung's performance is more destined than Andy Lau.
By 2002, Tony Leung participated in two important Chinese works, one was "Infernal Affairs" co-starring with Andy Lau. This film is directed by Liu Weiqiang Mai Zhaohui and is known as the peak of Hong Kong films, and the other is directed by Zhang Yimou , and is known as the pioneering work of Chinese-style domestic commercial blockbusters " Hero ". Both films are very representative and are both excellent works in commercial films. Both films have achieved unprecedented success in both box office and reputation, both domestic and overseas. Being able to participate in these two important Chinese-language films shows Tony Leung's professionalism and charm.
It was 2007. In this year, Tony Leung starred in "Lust and Caution" directed by Ang Lee . In this film, Tony Leung played a traitor, Mr. Yi. Tony Leung's superb acting skills deeply portrayed Mr. Yi's complex and gloomy character. He interpreted the character's cruelty and tragic interpretation in full force. However, as he grows older, Tony Leung has significantly reduced production in recent years, and not only has his production cuts, but the quality of his works has also declined.
But judging from Tony Leung's entire career, his acting skills have been recognized by many Chinese film masters, from Hou Hsiao-hsien to Wong Kar-wai, to Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, and Yu Dazhi. Moreover, Tony Leung has performed well in all kinds of movies, which shows that Tony Leung’s natural acting skills are unquestionable.
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