Tony Leung Chiu Wai joined Fox Hunt. Can he get rid of the ＂bad film＂ this time？

Special feature of 1905 film network Tony Leung Chiu Wai, come back!In 2018, after the performance, Tony Leung Chiu Wai rested for a year and a half, and had enough fun cycling, skiing, surfing, running and vacation. He began to think of coming back to make movies.

It’s the first film, with Duan Long as the partner. After filming, it’s scheduled for 2021.

After the trailer was released, we once again enjoyed his extraordinary "eye" skills.What’s more, after three critical comedies in a row,After the European Raiders, he began to return to the drama, challenging a role that was not often played, but also good and evil.

"Fox Hunt" was prepared for 3 years, started in May, 19, and finished in September. The shooting location was in China, French and Southeast Asia.The "Fox Hunting Action" is a special action officially launched by the Ministry of Public Security in 2014 to arrest economic suspects fleeing abroad. The film is based on a real case, and the prototype of the characters comes from "China Fox Hunting Action Team".

The theme of economic investigation about "fox hunting" is also very popular. However, seeing the director and screenwriter’s previous works is — — An action movie with a douban score of only 4.7 points can’t help but pinch a cold sweat for Wei Zi.

01

Comedy, let’s go first.

It’s seven years since Tony Leung Chiu Wai last performed a drama.He played IP Man, dressed in a long gown, calm and carefree, and all his moves and styles were vigorous. In the face of Gong Er, when the feelings are deep, the eyebrows and eyes are full of tenderness and infatuation.

Zhang Ziyi won the Best Actress Grand Slam with the role of Gong Er. That year, Nick Cheung and Li Kangsheng were more popular, and Tony Leung Chiu Wai didn’t get any awards. However, no one doubted his performance.

　

Among Chinese actors, the word "Tony Leung Chiu Wai" is an insurmountable peak …

　

Ang Lee said, "He is a director’s dream"; Wong Kar-wai said, "He has become a ghost, and the aura that can be played is sucked away"; Zhuang Wenqiang even boasted that "Tony Leung Chiu Wai’s acting skills can rank among the top ten in the world".pat/flapAt that time, Tony Leung Chiu Wai was only 27 years old and directed.Hsiao hsien HouHis acting skills are too high and need to be adjusted to the average level of other actors in the same film.

"His precision, the level of bundling, Hou Xiaoxian said, is too delicate and clean, which makes him stand out from the crowd and needs to be adjusted." Screenwriter Zhu Tianwen wrote an article recalling.

　

Tony Leung Chiu Wai has made many good films and many bad films, but the problems of bad films will never be on him.As an actor, Tony Leung Chiu Wai firmly believes that talent rewards hard work. He said: "Talent is trained. During my time at the TV station,every dayThey are all acting, working almost 18 to 20 hours a day and sleeping for a few hours. After ten years of accumulation, they have established a non-.Chang JianA solid foundation. "

　

At that time, playing The Duke Of Mount Deer in TVB, he read the original novel more than 20 times, and even dreamed of Wei Xiaobao. His performance of Wei Xiaobao finally became Jin Yong’s most satisfactory version.

As an actor, Tony Leung Chiu Wai is still alive, and he can always handle the entrance and exit properly.The skill of entering the play is very delicate.The three minutes at the end of the film, onefull-length shotFrom the moment he was holding a cigarette and trimming his nails. Off-stage, it was also his first thought to enter the performance situation by manicure.

　

Carina Lau said that Tony Leung Chiu Wai sometimes came back from filming completely changed, and she knew that he was in the movie.It is not easy to get into the play, and it is also difficult to get out of the play. He said: "I have every character I have played, and I will feel who I am and who I am." It doesn’t matter later, anyway, you know who you are, so what? "

　

663, Blind Warrior, Li Yaohui, Zhou Mu Yun, Chen Yongren … Melancholy characters are difficult to play, and Tony Leung Chiu Wai relies on comedy to adjust his state.

　

He has the ability to be harmonious, whether it is serious literature or comedy, he can be competent freely. It has become a certain law that the types of works alternate back and forth between drama and comedy:

　

"In the Mood for Love" took him 15 months of energy, and then he played "Love Drinking Bubble" and; After the filming of Infernal Affairs, he ran to have a laugh and talk with Li.

　

In "A Generation of Masters", in order to interpret the image of IP Man with both form and spirit, Tony Leung Chiu Wai was laborious and frustrating. Not only did I read a lot of materials about Ip Man and Bruce Lee, but I also practiced Wing Chun for three years, during which I was accidentally fractured and injured.The highlight of the fight in the rain was elegant, ethereal and poetic. Off-stage, he suffered enough, filming for 30 nights in a row, and one person beat 30 people. He said, "The degree of pain is unimaginable."

After The Grandmaster, Tony Leung Chiu Wai decided not to take such a heavy movie for some time. Then, following the established rules, we saw three comedies: Catch the Demon 2 and European Raiders.

　

On the screen, he is relaxed and frank, joking and cursing with Takeshi Kaneshiro, Angelababy, Wu Yifan, Tang Yan and Du Fu. Off-screen fans, however, suffered three consecutive critical blows, begging Wei Zi to pull back from the brink.

"Catch the Demon 2" scored 5.0 with a box office of 2.237 billion, creating the highest box office record since Tony Leung Chiu Wai starred in the film. "The Ferry Man" scored 4.1 in Douban and 3.6 in European Raiders, but they successively created the lowest scores since he starred in the film.

　

Before the release of The Ferry Man, Tony Leung Chiu Wai said that he would make an "arbitrary door" for the audience to feel happy and hopeful after entering the cinema.This wonderful original intention has been greatly discounted three times in a row.

Tony Leung Chiu Wai knows that it is difficult to make a comedy film that is applauded and a box office. "Maybe I was lucky at the beginning and made many good movies, but sometimes I made too many types of literary films in the middle, and I suddenly wanted to make some comedies, but it may not be successful, because movies are not a person’s business."

Now, he has come out of the comedy door first, and returned to the serious theme with Fox Hunt, and there is a role worthy of his acting skills, which can be expected cautiously.But will this end his "bad film luck" in recent years? It’s hard to say.

02

The villain may be coming.

Last year, Tony Leung Chiu Wai said in an exclusive interview with a magazine, "I’m 57 this year. I don’t want to do this again. I want to make some mistakes and do more crazy things."Crazy things, including Fox Hunt. Why did you take the show? He said it was because he could play an unusual role and learn something new about economic crimes.

　

Judging from the first trailer, Tony Leung Chiu Wai may be the "fox", a high IQ financial criminal accused of greed.

Characters must be complicated. If we simply use "villains" to divide such roles, Tony Leung Chiu Wai has roughly played four times before:Ouyang Feng, a funny western poison with a sausage mouth hanging in his room.

　

There is a bad policeman Achen who is as fierce as a wolf.

Liu Zhengxi, the "gentle scum" inspector in the movie, is gentle and kind on the surface, and kills his wife and family for revenge.

　

Then there is the chilling traitor "mr. yi", which is also his biggest breakthrough since his filming. Suit and tie, sinister, murderous, heartless and meaningless.

"Wounded City" can be said to be Tony Leung Chiu Wai’s first serious performance of the villain. At first, he was not used to it, and frankly, it was uncomfortable to play.He also does not follow the normal villain routine, and enriches the emotional level of the characters with delicate eye changes.

　

As soon as he appeared, it was his trademark eyes, wearing a pair of glasses with dark brown lenses, and his eyes were hidden and unpredictable.

At the moment when he killed his father-in-law with a bronze statue, the lens was close-up, his eyes trembled slightly, and he was determined and cruel. Even Takeshi Kaneshiro said, "I don’t dare to look him in the eye when I play against him.".

At the end of the movie, he suddenly realized that he had hurt his beloved wife Before committing suicide, his sharp eyes immediately became turbid and weak.

In "Fox Hunting", we saw his eyes, which were either firm, fierce and angry, or complacent, rich, changeable and familiar.

As Wong Kar-wai said, "Tony Leung Chiu Wai can stop talking and act with his eyes alone."

　

03

Where else can I go in the future?

On June 22, 2018, the contract between Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Wong Kar-wai expired, and his wife Carina Lau temporarily served as the agent.After the news was announced, Wong Kar-wai issued a response: "Many years ago, a friend entrusted Tony Leung Chiu Wai to us, and after many years, we returned Mr. Liang to her perfectly. A glorious history, we are not entrusted, very satisfactory. "

Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Wong Kar-wai’s "Movie Universe" lasted for 20 years from the three minutes of The True Story of Teddy Boy. The glory of the past is vivid.

　

When filming In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai said to Tony Leung Chiu Wai, "You can’t be an idol forever, you have to become an actor." He did it; When filming "The Grandmaster", Wong Kar-wai said to him: "Your current challenge is to make everyone forget that you are Zhou Mu Yun." He did, too.

"He has reached a peak in performance, which is hard to surpass." After The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai left this sentence. Then, he went to shoot.Because he insisted on using actors who can speak Shanghainese, Wong Kar-wai chose Tony Leung Chiu Wai instead.HughBeing the leading actor in Blossoms Shanghai.

　

Tony Leung Chiu Wai went to make more commercial gangster films, one of which was Fox Hunting, and the other was the first cooperation with Aaron Kwok.

Comedy is hard to produce, but it will continue to be filmed.Tony Leung Chiu Wai and the director.Jingle MaWe have to punch cards all over the world together. After the "Raiders" series has traveled all over Tokyo, Seoul and Europe, the next stop is going to America. "The Legend of monster hunt" is also being prepared, and the story of the gambler killing Sigu and the monster being stupid will become the main line of the story.

When will the wind rise again in Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wong Kar-wai? This problem seems to be no longer important to him who has achieved great success.

　

Even Zhang Lijia, the director of Fox Hunt, said that Tony Leung Chiu Wai is not very enthusiastic about acting now. Tony Leung Chiu Wai also admitted that acting used to be a channel to vent pent-up emotions. As he grows older, he doesn’t like to fall in love like this. Instead, he likes to go to the suburbs to be with nature.

　

For interesting, challenging and profitable projects, he will also shoot, but now he gives more life to life itself.

A few years ago, after watching the movie, Tony Leung Chiu Wai told Wong Kar-wai that the movie was filmed for 12 years, from a child to his 19-year-old, and we should also make a Man’s Age, from now on, until he is 70.

Wong Kar-wai replied: We started filming 20 years ago, and we have filmed it now.Tony Leung Chiu Wai is 58 years old, without Wong Kar-wai. In thisLeslie CheungGo dead,Maggie CheungHe retired to play rock and roll, and it was hard for top actors to come out again. He was still on the screen, and he was still writing his Men’s Age.