About 20 hours ago, Lin Jiadong won the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
He stood on the stage naturally and gently, which reminded me of many past events. I have watched almost every award ceremony of the Hong Kong Academy Awards, and Lin Jiadong is a frequent visitor to the award ceremony. It used to be like this:
Lam Ka Tung
Fans who are familiar with Hong Kong films, especially Galaxy films and gangster films, should think that Lin Jiadong is good, just like Zhang Zhaohui and Lin Xue. But to be honest, most people don't associate him with the winner. The halo produced by the Milky Way always falls on Liu Qingyun, Andy Lau, Yam Tat-wah and Louis Koo. At best, Lin Jiadong is a green leaf that is not eclipsed.
As an actor, Lin Jiadong didn't win any individual awards before 20 17, and the closest one was the TVB Stars Awards Ceremony in 2000. At the annual meeting of this company, his role won the first place in "My Favorite Hero of the Year", but the winner was a man named Fang Youwei in Tea is My Hometown, not the actor Lin Jiadong.
Tea is Hometown. Lin Jiadong plays Fang Youwei.
The Hong Kong Academy Awards has a history of 36 years, and no winner can be found. His starting point is so low, and his resume is relatively unattractive. As far as difficulty is concerned, Lin Jiadong's road to performing arts can be called the difficulty level of hell.
Not only can he not be compared with Chow Yun Fat, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Andy Lau, Stephen Chow and Jet Li, but he has never been regarded as an old actor like Zheng Zeshi, Ceng Zhiwei, Tony Leung, Ren Dahua and Liu Qingyun. Nick Cheung, who has been suffering for many years, is close to him, but Nick Cheung has starred in a lot of movies since 1990s, which is beyond Lin Jiadong's reach.
Lin Jiadong was born in 1967 and will be 50 years old soon. Debut for 30 years, first TV play 14 years. At the age of twenty-one, he quit his job as a clerk and was admitted to the legendary wireless TV training class today. It has been seven years since he finally got an important role through a series of processes, such as failed re-examination, walk-on body double and passers-by. This period of time entered Taiwan Province several years earlier than Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and became popular several times longer in two or three years.
Lin Jiadong is not ugly at all. His broad face and deep smile make him honest and treacherous, so he plays many disciples, beggars' gangs and the king of cold jokes. For example, he is Yin Zhiping in The Legend of the Condor Heroes in Athena Chu and Chile.
Lin Jiadong plays Yin Zhiping in The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
In the late 1960s, the television industry in Hong Kong gradually entered a state of self-restraint. Like movies, pop music and other fields, it overdraws its existing resources, making the flow of metabolism relatively difficult. Some people think that the "Four Heavenly Kings" in the 1990' s marked the beginning of a single idol and aristocratic star in the entertainment circle in Hong Kong, and also marked the decline of the quality of popular culture.
For Lin Jiadong at that time, perhaps the meaning was just the opposite. 1995 Played Cai in the light comedy The Artist, imitating Jacky Cheung, who was at the peak of his popularity at that time, squeezing his eyes slightly and shrinking his neck, and even showed his acting skills for the first time in A Far Away She.
Some pretentious spoony eyes and relatively frozen movements give people an illusion that it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. This series widely alluded to people from all walks of life in Hong Kong's politics, economy and entertainment circles at that time, and the role of Cai was particularly prominent, becoming his personal and even a representative role on Hong Kong TV in the 1990s.
"Entertainment Implant" Lin Jiadong imitates Jacky Cheung.
Lin Jiadong, the originator of the drama, continued to play various roles in the end of the century, and eventually became a first-line niche of TVB. More classic and contrasting character sequences include Li Ding in New Shanghai:
Lin Jiadong plays Li Ding in the new Shanghai Beach.
Wen Zhiming in "Four Great Talents" wears a golden dress;
Lin Jiadong plays Wen Zhiming in Four Talents in Golden Clothes.
Sword stained with royal blood Yuan Chengzhi:
Lin Jiadong plays Yuan Chengzhi in Sword with Royal Blood.
And the above-mentioned Fang Youwei's "Hometown Tea":
Tea is Hometown. Lin Jiadong plays Fang Youwei.
However, the mass production and stereotyped role of TV stations made Lin Jiadong doubt and introspect his performance career, and finally he jumped out of the TV station system after the contract with TVB expired and became a signing artist of Andy Lau Company. In the next ten years, Lin Jiadong has been famous for his supporting roles in Andy Lau films, such as Love You Like a Dream, which was nominated for an Oscar.
Love you like a dream
However, Lin Jiadong is not a green leaf, just hidden behind the protagonist's aura. Whether in Andy Lau's films or in a series of works led by Du Qifeng, Lin Jiadong has been constantly shuttling between various types of roles, and the repeated tempering in the TV era has also made him familiar with the film field.
In Infernal Affairs, Lin Guoping, an anti-bone undercover policeman, in the star-studded performance lineup, Lin Jiadong retired and slowly evaporated the potential energy of the role in a low-key and leisurely manner.
This policeman doesn't have many scenes in the whole film, but if you look back and watch the film again, you will find that the director has laid some foreshadowing on this role, and Lin Jiadong's handling is quiet and dull, until the rooftop looks quite normal at last, which completely violates the ever-changing style of the TV drama era, making the last shot burst into 100% shock in Tony Leung Chiu Wai.
Infernal Affairs Lin Jiadong plays Lin Guoping.
"Low-key" is Lin Jiadong's general impression in public, and it is also his attitude in most film performances. In Underworld directed by Du Qifeng, Dong Guanzi, a simple and ruthless character, was portrayed as a double-faced man by Lin Jiadong. On the one hand, this character is thin and taciturn. On the other hand, in the scene of chasing Lin Xue, we can still see the inner part of the character from the contrast of his calm behavior and sharp eyes.
Dongguan boy in the underworld
Hong Kong actors can easily form a "supernatural" performance solidified by self and entertainment ecology, while Lin Jiadong is performing a "semi-natural" performance. His role-building, the appearance looks similar, but the inner psychology of each role will be presented through some subtle details.
The strength of the omelet in Let's Go is a weak boss who seems to have no personality. However, in the Du Qifeng-style pause scene with clear boundaries between light and dark, his stagnant expression can make people see his inner solid desire.
"Let's go." Lin Jiadong plays omelet.
The same example also includes Kuang Zhili, a policeman in Chill, who is almost the same as Infernal Affairs in weakening the sense of existence, but has an explosive scene in the final Tiantai drama.
In "Chill", Lin Jiadong is always in a state of intense performance, which is applied to the highly nervous group drama characters in the film. It is in a predetermined situation-the police officers are on high alert, which is not much different from other similar characters.
"Let's go." Lin Jiadong plays omelet.
Staring at each other's eyes at the critical moment of confrontation on the roof has released quite a few signals of personality and secret existence, which is very different from the previous state. By grasping the details of different movements and expressions in the lens that lasts for several seconds, it conveys the changes of the characters' own situation and the complex situation changes in the background of the play.
Lin Jiadong is used to fine-tuning and keeping quiet during the performance. In The Storm, Tao also skillfully used this powerful elastic explosive force of natural convergence, and interpreted Tao's bandit spirit and loyalty, whose identity and personality were severely torn. In a dramatic sense, this role is actually equivalent to a quasi-hero competing with the protagonist played by Andy Lau.
Lin Jiadong plays Tao Chengbang in Storm.
20 16' s "Catch the Wind from a Big Tree" made Lin Jiadong the leading role, although it was only one third of the leading role.
In the film, he plays Wang Zhiyi Ji Zheng Xiong. The three thieves look for each other in different time and space. Ruthless and decisive, he is a calm listener and a steady and capable old driver murderer in the film. Faced with the aggressive questioning of old friends, Taishan still collapsed in front of him, and his face did not change color. Only when he hesitated several times in the close-up of his face did he realize that blinking conveyed his mind at the moment.
Lin Jiadong plays Ji Zheng Xiong in Catching the Wind from a Big Tree.
In the traditional sense, on the rooftop of "catching the wind with one tree", the opponent's play has almost failed. What Ji Zhengxiong has to face is a more complicated and uncertain river and lake than the people in front of him.
Compared with the propaganda of the other two thieves (Richie Jen and Jordan chan), Lin Jiadong's performance in this film is just the opposite. All emotions are hidden under the static appearance. This interpretation may not be perfect, but it is obviously in tune with the other two groups (directed by different directors) and has a tacit effect that is suitable for both motion and static.
With this film, Lin Jiadong was named the best actor by the Hong Kong Film Critics Association at the beginning of the new year. This familiar face finally ushered in the late spring of the film performance.
Lin Jiadong plays Ji Zheng Xiong in Catching the Wind from a Big Tree.
For Lin Jiadong, who knows his destiny, a golden idol who was born at the right time naturally praised his 30 years of hard work and struggle, and also showed us the most important charm of Hong Kong film stars like a textbook: Maybe God didn't care about food at first, so you walked on, but as long as you persist in accumulating a lot of money, you can finally reach the peak of the entertainment circle.
There have been many film emperors and superstars on this road, and now there is Lin Jia Dong.