Liang Chaowei has always been on the top of the pyramid of attractive mature men since he got rid of his youth. Low-key, melancholy, restrained, deep, the halo blessed by countless classic characters, and the contrasts intertwined with all kinds of shyness, social fear, and willfulness make this now 60-year-old man even more charming.
Tony Leung on the red carpet. Figure @Hong Kong Movie Bar
At this year's Busan Film Festival, the greatest glory and presence of Chinese films belongs to Tony Leung. As a filmmaker who was awarded the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award this year, at the opening ceremony of the Busan Film Festival, the organizing committee said that "this award is given to the great actors of our era".
Korean actress Han Yili said in the award speech prepared for Tony Leung: "Even when he is not speaking, he keeps telling stories to the audience. While his figure is blank, he also interprets unpredictable sadness. Many directors Through him, I continue the movie dream. He has projected countless lives on the big screen, and he is a perfect, beautiful, moving and tenacious actor at any time. In front of his acting skills, I became the most simple audience, and I became delighted to discover what I wanted Colleagues who look like him."
These perceptual and erratic words are probably so appropriate and appropriate when used in Tony Leung.
He once said, "Life is too short, I'm not very aggressive, it's another day to read books, see the sea and see the clouds, people think I'm crazy, but the clouds are so beautiful, the water is so beautiful. If you have time, watch it every day. A movie." The "social fear" Liang Chaowei left many "cute and turn the audience" moments at the Busan Film Festival, such as the bluntness and small awkwardness of doing heart-to-heart movements on the red carpet, and was asked to order one on the spot. One fan nervously closed his eyes while interacting, and Lu Yu fan sat in the car chatting with others, and he was too long-winded to talk about fans, "send" him and quickly "bye bye"... Facing the flash and a group of fans, Reporter, the moment when he was slightly at a loss was captured by the camera, it became the classic "Reuters" picture of Busan that movie fans talked about.
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
At this Busan Film Festival, Tony Leung faced the media and talked about the process of his encounters with some works and characters in recent years. For example, when he was filming "Shang Qi", he didn't know the specific content of the script. He just had a phone call with the director and felt that the other party was a sincere and reliable partner. At the same time, as an actor, I also hope that through Hollywood's globalized film industry, more people can see my performance. Cooperating with Aaron Kwok "When the Wind Rises Again" reminded him of many memories of old Hong Kong when he was a child. Maybe "No Name", which will meet the audience soon, was originally due to the new crown epidemic in 2020. I wanted to travel and the whole world was in "blockade", so I had a chance to shoot...
It is said that Tony Leung is serious in filming, and after playing a role, he is immersed in it and can't get out. It seems to happen from time to time. When facing the media's curiosity about how he prepared for the role, he said, "Before doing a role, I will spend a lot of time doing some data collection, or creating things that a role needs to do, such as reading some reference books, or in daily life. See if there is a similar person in your life, and then try to imitate him. Basically, I usually prepare a role, which takes at least three months."
Having played various roles, Tony Leung also talked about his expectations for the roles he wants to try in the future. For example, he wanted to play the villain, a real bad guy. This impulse came from watching Lars von Trier's film "I Made This House" a few years ago. "In my acting career, very few people asked me to play the villain, but I am really interested in playing it. It is not necessarily evil, but I think it is some more complicated role. In fact, I have thought about playing a serial killer, I don't know if there is any Opportunity." Liang Chaowei also mentioned in particular that he talked about this idea with director Weng Ziguang when filming "When the Wind Rises". "But it's scary thinking about it, because it's going to be scary to act."
Tony Leung, Hirohwa Shieda, Song Kangho
Liang Chaowei, who has already entered Hollywood, is very popular in South Korea this time. Fans gather everywhere he goes, and he posted a group photo with Song Kanghao and Hirokazu Shire. Will there be any new actions?
In this regard, Tony Leung said frankly that he has always admired Korean movies and is a frequent visitor to the Busan Film Festival. He has admired Korean actors such as Song Kanghao and Jeon Doyeon for a long time, and is looking forward to cooperation, but he is more or less worried about the language barrier. "If there is a movie in the future that plays a deaf-mute like in the previous "City of Sadness", the language may not be a problem." Liang Chaowei said, "I have no special plan to enter where. It is a fate to make a movie. When fate appears, it's not necessarily Hollywood, or even Japan and Korea, when the right fate appears, it will be filmed."
In addition to the small vision of cross-border cooperation, Tony Leung, who has only been active on the big screen these years, also revealed that he wants to re-try the idea of returning to the field of dramas next. "I don't know why, but recently I really want to go back to filming TV series, because I started on TV myself. My acting work started with TV series at first. Now at this stage, I really want to try and do TV series again."
Tony Leung, who was born in TVB's wireless artist training class, was once a popular young student on the Hong Kong screen of the same era, and was called "TVB Five Tigers" together with Huang Rihua, Andy Lau, Miao Qiaowei and Tang Zhenye. Looking back now, this period of time has been gilded with gold, "I think along the way, if I debut in a TV series, follow my audience, I believe they will be very happy to see me making a TV series again, to this At this stage, I can try a little more mature roles."
Just 4 days later, his wife Carina Lau shared a photo of Tony Leung and "Squid Game" director Huang Donghe chatting in the same frame on social platforms, with the text: "Are you ready to participate in "Squid Game"?" Then he updated the text again. : "Let's play "Squid Game" together!" Although the drama team denied Tony Leung's joining later, the future possibility of the acting god has opened up a greater imagination space with this trip to Busan.
Huang Donghe, Liang Chaowei
Huang Donghe (middle) with Tony Leung and Carina Lau for a group photo
Liang Chaowei talked about his cognition of his own state at this stage, saying that he has also entered a new stage, "I think actors have different stages. If I was learning and absorbing in the first 20 years, then in the next 20 years, it should be Give full play to what you have learned and absorbed. Now it should be a later stage, more enjoyable, easier, and more stress-free to make movies. So I think you can play more mature roles, but also fun ."
As a "great actor", at film festivals, speaking with movies is the last word.
This year's film festival has specially set up the "In the Mood for Love of Tony Leung" unit, which will show 6 films selected by Tony Leung himself. "East and West", "Dark Flower", "Breakthrough", "In the Mood for Love", "Infernal Affairs", and "2046" come from different periods of his acting career, with different styles and each charming.
The scene of the outdoor symposium of "In the Mood for Love of Tony Leung".
In the film list, Wong Kar-wai's films account for half of the country. Wong Kar-wai has photographed all the big stars in Hong Kong, but only a few big stars have appeared in his films and can prove that they are real stars, not being overshadowed by the director's brilliance, and complementing each other with good directors and good stories to live up to each other. His movies are hall-level, and Tony Leung is always the strokes, rhymes, and branches of his magic.
At the official press conference of the film festival, Tony Leung explained his original intention of choosing these six films, "I chose these six films, hoping to show the audience some different types of my own film career. The directors of the six films are all I appreciate it very much. For example, director Wong Kar-wai, director To Qifeng, and director Lau Chun-wai, who is very good at making comedy in Hong Kong." He also revealed the truth, "There are still some movies I want to choose, but I couldn't find a copy in the end. He also mentioned in particular that he went to Taiwan for the first time to shoot "Sad City", "I want to bring a new generation of audiences, so that they can have the opportunity to see my early films."
So, let's take a look at how classic Tony Leung's carefully selected films are.
Tony Leung
"Golden years"
The restored version of "In the Mood for Love" has just been released, and its re-screening in many regions around the world has evoked countless feelings.
You said that this man and a woman were just walking around on the street, but they made people want to cry when they saw it. It was probably the magic power of Wong Kar Wai. There is no one who is more suitable for the role of Zhou Muyun than Tony Leung. There is infinite emotional space in his silence, and the subtlety in Wong Kar Wai's films is just a choice, returning to those ambiguous areas in life, obscure, not enjoyable enough, but with a long aftertaste, which is the most suitable temperament for Tony Leung. Compared with straightforwardness at a glance, being invisible is a higher level of precision. Many years later, it still makes people feel uneasy, Su Lizhen, if there is one more ticket, will you come with me?
"Breakthrough"
This movie, called "Happy together" in English, didn't see any happiness, but it was a "road movie" in which a pair of partners who were trapped in place consumed each other. Liang Chaowei and Leslie Cheung, who were half-coaxed to take over the film, interpret the lingering lingering warmth that transcends gender and social metaphors, and is also a kind of self-fulfillment under passivity and powerlessness. Homosexuality is a label, and the core of the discussion is still Wong Kar-wai's keen interest in revealing the nature of loneliness in life through subtle push and pull in the relationship between the sexes.
"2046"
"2046" continues the obsession with love and memory, and is recognized as an obscure one in Wong Kar-wai's films. Everyone who goes to 2046 has a purpose, to retrieve lost memories. Liang Chaowei is still the man named Zhou Muyun. He has three short-lived relationships with Hei Spider, Bai Ling, and Wang Jingwen. He was always the man who was rejected by the one he loved, then refused to fall in love with another, and lost the chance to start over. The wounded who indulged in sensuality and sensuality responded to the unwillingness and perseverance from "The True Story of Ah Fei", "Chongqing Forest", "Dong Xie Xi Du", "In the Mood for Love" in the lingering and returning again and again.
"Dark Flower"
This dark film produced by Galaxy Impression at the end of the last century failed at the box office, but it was the most underrated gangster film in the minds of many Hong Kong film fans. Tony Leung and many Hong Kong stars have made a legend of two heroes, and this "Dark Flower" cooperating with Liu Qingyun is a model that interprets the emotional and psychological space in genre films to the extreme.
Dark flower refers to the bounty offered by the underworld to take people's lives. Because it belongs to the underground rules, it is called "dark". A Chen, played by Tony Leung, performs brutal actions such as nails and smashing his palms in the film. The reversal from "hunter" to "prey" makes a chess piece seem free, but is actually controlled by fear, cowardice and survival. Desire and despair are excavated to the extreme.
"Infernal Affairs"
The classic of "Infernal Affairs" and the milestone significance of this film to Hong Kong and even Asian films hardly need to be repeated. Although it is a police and bandit genre film, it burns human nature from the depth of philosophy, and the greed and selfishness that arises out of one's self is a hell that can't be born. Chen Yongren always kept secrets and had words of suffering. The only contact who knew his true identity, Huang Sir, was killed. In the final rooftop duel, Liu Jianming said, "You are a policeman, who knows?", which adds to the tragic nature of the role. At the moment when the guns were aimed at each other, Tony Leung had mixed grief, helplessness, daze and despair in his eyes. Aggression, concealment, and disappointment all flourished in the "eye" technique, which finally made the film's sadness and silence.
"East and West"
Seeing that Tony Leung chose this movie himself, I couldn't help but laugh. It turned out that he was unwilling to always leave a melancholy and deep impression.
From "Deer and Ding Ji" at the beginning of his debut to "Unparalleled World", this man who was always dubbed melancholy actually had a lot of nonsensical moments. The birth of "East and West Achievement" was purely accidental. Because "Evil and Poison in the West" could not make money, the original crew of the same team made a funny work with a very different temperament on the spot. The reproducible film history classics can be called the existence of "the originator of fine points".
Liang Chaowei himself once admitted in an interview that he was a little bit overwhelmed between the sausage mouth and the blind swordsman at that time, and straight and the people around him were depressed and complained, "I don't know who I am anymore."
However, Ouyang Feng, who was wearing a sausage mouth and a pig-headed embarrassment, is still active in many people's expression packs, and the deep Tony can be regarded as carrying the banner of the entertainment spirit of Hong Kong movies.
Tony Leung's own selection of six films
