Finally, this event that worries the whole people has settled down and has a happy ending. In 2014, Xiao Li was nominated for the Oscar for the fourth time for "The Wolf of Wall Street", and finally lost. I posted a sentence on Weibo at the time: "Forget it, although it hurts, he really shouldn't take it this year." A friend who wrote a comment asked: "Why do you all like Xiao Li?" I replied: "Because once Handsome boy."
That handsome boy appeared in "Titanic", which swept the world that year. In the small county town where I grew up, I walked into a boutique store by the roadside, surrounded by music boxes, notebooks, vases and other exquisite gifts, and a black and white photo was framed in a conspicuous place on the glass counter. So bright and moving, no matter how many years the wind can't blow away, it will stay in my mind forever.
Xiao Li, who quickly became popular, was only twenty-three years old, and what we saw in "The Revenant" was Xiao Li in his early forties. His vicissitudes and despair are like a walking dead, and he is as steadfast as a rock. You can see the wrinkles on his face, the traces of blood, tears and wind and frost. But it never stopped his pursuit.
This is a poetic film that looks as beautiful as a painting from a distance, but is suffocating when seen up close. The pain of losing a loved one, the anger of a friend's betrayal, walking on thin ice between life and death, the despair and fear of death, and the yearning for life. That kind of tenacious will for revenge, before his death, he was a familiar traveler, like a chivalrous person in the snow; after a catastrophe, he came back to life, struggling step by step, like a dead living person. Xiao Li acted hard and at the same time. The extreme use of natural light lenses on the real snow field makes the scene cool inside and out.
Directing, cinematography, and leading actor, "The Revenant" has all deserved its three Oscars. The film uses brutal poetic footage to describe a revenge story. Some people say that revenge stories tend to lack depth, so works like The Count of Monte Cristo can only be classified as popular literature. But I always feel that in such revenge stories, there are happy and enmity, some hearty, there is opposition between good and evil, and there is survival in danger. In such stories, we can see the survival of human nature, a way of living that does not follow the crowd, and a tenacity that pulls with reality. When you are struggling, you can still save yourself. This may be profound on another level. Human nature is always in common, and the common human nature can always bring tears to people's eyes, and then regain their innocence.
Hollywood has the most mature film industry system in the world. In such a system, it is difficult for a bad film with a bad reputation to get a good box office, and no matter how high-quality a literary film is, it is difficult for it to explode at the box office. The literary films starring Xiao Li have been successful at the box office one after another. "The Revenant" is his tenth North American box office masterpiece with a box office of over 100 million. Of course, there are truly tragic injustices in the history of Oscars, and there are still better first-line Hollywood actors who have not won Oscars. Xiao Li is the only one among these superstars who does not rely on his body, does not exercise muscles, does not star in a commercial series of giants, and is ridiculed endlessly every year. He is one of the few actors who has become a national idol in both China and the United States. He sometimes appears in various jokes because of his out-of-shape body, sometimes he appears on red carpets everywhere, and sometimes he occupies the entertainment page because of his hot romance.
But he never speaks with his works. This is when he is in the red.
Nineteen years ago, a handsome young man called himself a "prairie tramp in the wind" to his beloved girl on the deck, stood against the wind at the bow, and shouted "I am the king of the world". I have a netizen who is a doctor from Peking University. She has watched "Titanic" sixty or seventy times, and she knows every English line by heart. This classic film, which was judged by film critics as having excellent visual effects, rich details but insufficient connotation, clichéd plot and mediocre lines, is really worth watching like this?
I would say, it's really worth it. Such a popular movie history pearl has been rare for decades. The last one was "Gone with the Wind" and the other was "Titanic". I don't know when the next one will appear. Although I watch it less than one-sixth as many times as that netizen, I am willing to be a lifelong fan of it and watch it over and over again for the rest of my life. It shines in the depths of my soul with an immortal light.
Nothing lasts forever, except the youth sculpted by the camera in the world of light and shadow. Years and years will always go farther and farther. In front of us, it is no longer the Jack who wasted his youth and gave his life for love. He is the revenant hunter Glass who never changed his true nature to fight back with the Jedi. He once became famous overnight because of his "beautiful beauty". Now, is he still that Xiao Li? In the Vanity Fair of Hollywood, he walked slowly and without fear of the erosion of time. Where snowflakes are flying, no longer when I was a teenager. The person who accompanied us growing up, when he picked up the trophy, I wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes and wanted to call him "Old Li" affectionately.
Today, he finally won the Oscar for leading actor. He is the hero of the world.
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