Yes, I'm talking about Wu Zhenyu.
Perhaps everyone will be more familiar with Wu Zhenyu. He is indispensable in a series of Hong Kong classic underworld films such as "Gunfire", "Infernal Affairs 2", "Breaking Criminal Police", "Cracking the Sky" and "The Birth of a Preface". I haven't watched the new movie "Exiled". Since there are Lao Du and Wu in charge, it should be worth looking forward to.
Among all his roles, my favorite is Ni Yongxiao from the Infernal Affairs series. Wearing gold-rimmed glasses, a gentle accountant, transformed into a fierce fitter. Remember those eyes? With a little compassion and a little compassion, a murderous intent appeared in the turn, and then he lowered his eyelids very quickly, supported his glasses, gave orders, and the killing began. Ni Yongxiao's eyes are restrained and mad, and they are abnormally beautiful.
But Wu Zhenyu played a gangster who attaches great importance to his family. What we see is a typical old-school man, everything he does is nothing more than starting from the family, for the father, for the mother, for the brothers and sisters. So I used all means, cruelly soft and hard, to deal with the police and win step by step, but he died in the end, in the arms of his own brother. He probably didn't expect that his younger brother, who was in the same blood, would deceive himself from the beginning, right? The shock of pulling the letter from Yongren's arms before dying accompanied him to leave the world.
Tragic character. To kill for the family, but betrayed by the family. He tried his best to do it, but the whole family died tragically in the end. Just like when he killed other people's relatives. Come out and mix, sooner or later, you have to pay it back. This is the rule of the game, so Ni Yongxiao, who values his family, is actually not a qualified player, because he is not for power, for money, but for his father and for his family. I have to say that doing cruel things for the sake of his family, I just think he is extremely naive.
The most memorable scene in Infernal 2 is the big gear that Yongxiao used to go to during his father’s death. He said in a low, slow, and calm manner: "I will always remember this day." The cigarette in the meal splashed. The beer on the ground, the hand holding the empty glass high, in my opinion, is a tragic ceremony, announcing the beginning of revenge.
I think he is an actor who uses voice, eyes, and body to act, and every cell in his body is immersed in the role. So that the people standing next to him, their existence is very vague. Wu Zhenyu dominates the screen.
Similarly, Johnny Depp gave me this feeling. People say that Wu Zhenyu has made a lot of bad films, and JD has also made many bad films. But JD also has so few outstanding characters, let the world remember him forever. If it were now, everyone would say it was Captain Jack Sparrow. There is no doubt that this smoky-eyed orchid refers to the braided captain and is definitely a unique screen heresy. But what impressed me the most was his interpretation of the CIA agent who was both righteous and evil in "My Past in Mexico". People who are neurotic, behave abnormally, and don't think through are always my favorite characters. But not everyone can control such a role. Can you imagine Tom Cruise? No, no, he lacks the charm that can make the audience unable to look away just by standing still and just using his eyes, so he just keeps playing Mission Impossible. When taking elective courses, the foreign teacher once said that JD has a blank characteristic, blank, and the role can truly reflect himself in him. In "Edward Scissorhands", he is a monster. Even if he is fragile and injured, there is not much fluctuation on his face, because he may not know how to respond to grief. This is how the alien should be like this. The human emotions are completely for him. A new and unknown realm. So he only has blankness and hesitation on his face, still puzzled. Then the injury became more and more deep, and he began to realize that he was different from ordinary people, and he began to be unable to control himself, so that the situation worsened, and finally resorted to violence, ending in death and separation. This is a sad fairy tale, enough to make the audience remember the blank actor.
Such two people, one Chinese and one West, but they have many similarities.
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