Chapter 1401: Are You Interested?
Leonardo and Tom Hanks were particularly engaged.
Rarely watching Chinese movies, they were really attracted to a Chinese movie for the first time.
Every time Liang Chaowei's acting skills broke out, Leonardo was almost reluctant to blink, he observed Liang Chaowei's acting skills in every moment, and at the same time substituted himself into such a role, he felt that the role played by Liang Chaowei was very plump, this character not only runs through the entire story line, his personality and psychological complexity are also very testing of the actor's acting skills.
Liang Chaowei plays this role, he is a good person in his bones, but because of the implementation of important tasks, he has been mixed with criminals all the year round, and his undercover career for many years has brought him great pain and psychological pressure, he wants to quit countless times, but every time the task is needed, he can grit his teeth and insist, he has been guarding the secret of a good person for a long time and being a bad person, the more this is the case, the more the secret in his heart wants to find an opportunity to blurt out, just like a pressure cooker full of secrets, whenever it reaches a critical value, it must break through the valve to release some pressure, otherwise it will cause an accidentγ
And Liang Chaowei can only tell this secret in a joking way in front of the psychiatrist, when he rarely smiled and told the psychiatrist that he was actually a policeman, his expression had an unprecedented lightness, and it could be seen that this character was desperately eager to have the opportunity to say this sentence in his heart, and when he said it, the whole person seemed to have been redeemed.
And the psychiatrist knew that he was a gangster, and instinctively thought that he was joking with himself, which was also the result that the character of Liang Chaowei wanted, telling the secret that he could not tell to a person who was most unlikely to believe, relieving his pressure, and at the same time there was no risk of leaking, which shows that this character's heart has been tormented because of undercover.
For actors with strength and pursuit, their favorite is such a difficult and challenging role, and Leonardo is even more so.
He originally had countless easy ways to succeed, for example, he could have relied on a face to hit the world all over the world after "Titanic", but he didn't, he no longer accepted the role of the protagonist of "Titanic", but since then, the serial series of movies has not been filmed, and he has begun to look for various breakthroughs everywhere.
Gangs of New York, Blood Diamond, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, Inception, The Great Gatsby, Operation Wilderness, ...... This man is like a magnet for finding challenging roles, and he plays all kinds of roles to the fullest.
Leonardo's courage not to make sequels is almost unprecedented in Hollywood, Tom Cruise is very popular, one "Mission Impossible" has made six films, Matt Damon is also very popular, "Spy" has also made five films, Vin Diesel has made even more powerful films, and one "Fast and Furious" has made eight films.
In Hollywood, it is the most cost-effective errand for an actor to make a sequel movie, because making a sequel represents the success of the previous work, and the actor does not need to challenge a new role again, let alone take the risk of the new role not being loved by the audience, he only needs to continue the acting style that he has been familiar with in the previous work, and continue to interpret the character in the previous work to easily achieve success.
Even if 10,000 films are filmed in "Mission Impossible", Tom Cruise's performance style in it will never change, and it does not need to change at all, the only thing that has changed is that the plot of each part is slightly different, and Tom Cruise challenges some new extreme sports in each part, this one climbs the Burj Khalifa, the next one picks up a transport plane, and maybe in the future, he will ride an intercontinental missile and a space meteorite, but it is just a new bottle of old wine.
However, as long as Tom Cruise continues to play the dogtail mink, he will be able to make a huge fortune with this movie endlessly, until one day the audience is really tired of the series and the character.
As for Vin Diesel, as long as he keeps his face like a dick and continues to sit in various sports cars and slam on the accelerator, "Fast and Furious" can continue to be filmed, and he can easily make tens of millions of dollars a year.
Whether it's Johnny Depp or Robert Downey Jr., none of these Hollywood bigwig-level actors with high salaries dare to give up sequel movies and constantly challenge themselves, and the only one is Leonardo.
It is precisely because Leonardo has such a drive to constantly challenge himself that when he was attracted to "Infernal Affairs", he instinctively hoped to have the opportunity to play the role of Chen Yongren in the play.
When the movie ended, Leonardo and Tom Hanks both breathed a sigh of relief, and the two looked at each other, and each saw the sadness in each other's eyes.
At the end of this movie, it was indeed a little unexpected, and I thought that Liang Chaowei would be able to complete the task in the end, find his police identity, and return to the sun after suppressing the whole film, and then the bad guys were sanctioned and had a happy ending, but I didn't expect that just when both of them thought that Liang Chaowei had seen the dawn of victory, a sudden bullet ended his life, making this character end in the most tragic way after being depressed for a hundred minutes.
What's even more fucking is that at the end of the original Hong Kong version of "Infernal Affairs", the character played by Liu Dehua was not arrested by the police, but continued to be his policeman, completely escaping the punishment of the law.
In the mainland version of "Infernal Affairs", Liu Dehua was arrested by the police when he walked out of the elevator, and then the movie ended, but in the original Hong Kong version, Liu Dehua showed his ID when he got out of the elevator, said I am a policeman, and then got away with it.
Then, it was the accidental discovery of Chen Yongren's file that revealed Chen Yongren's identity, so the police made up a funeral for him, at the funeral, the psychiatrist played by Chen Huilin, and Chen Yongren's ex-girlfriend played by Xiao Yaxuan were all present at the scene, and Liu Jianming, played by Liu Dehua, also wore a police uniform to salute Chen Yongren.
Finally, the scene flashes back to what an instructor of the police academy said to other students when Chen Yongren was expelled from the police academy: "If you don't follow the rules, you have to get out of the way like him, is anyone willing to exchange with him?"
Liu Jianming, played by Liu Dehua, suddenly replaced Chen Guanxi in the crowd back then, he lowered his head and said: "I want to change with him." β
Subsequently, the whole play ended......
Leonardo buried his face in his hands, and after a moment he took a sharp breath and said, "I'm still looking forward to finally him putting on a police uniform and going to the psychiatrist......"
Tom Hanks smiled knowingly and said approvingly: "The script is so cruel to the character, he gave so much, almost nothing, first lost a few years of good time, was tormented by the pressure of dual identity, then lost the person he trusted the most, and finally lost his own life." β
Spielberg on the side said: "The character of Chen Yongren is actually a martyr, for such a character, it doesn't matter what he gets in the end, but what he defended by martyrdom." β
Leonardo said: "It's too cruel for the audience, he died too suddenly, and he didn't give him a respectful ending, the only thing that is still a little human is that the screenwriter gave him a policeman's funeral, which can be regarded as a little comfort to the audience." β
Tom Hanks nodded: "Fortunately, the psychiatrist was also present at the funeral, so that at least let her know that the poor man had told him the deepest secret in his heart, but unfortunately, in the end, the dirty policeman who went undercover had nothing to do, and he went to the funeral scene to pretend, and finally played sensationalism, as if he was whitewashing the dirty policeman, I personally feel that this is a failure." β
Leonardo said very approvingly: "That's right! That's so right! Forgive me for talking dirty Tom, but you said it to my heart! I really don't understand what the screenwriter thinks, this policeman has been helping drug dealers sell countless drugs* to the market for many years, and I don't know how many people and families have been indirectly poisoned, and he also killed Chen Yongren's boss. maliciously erased Chen Yongren's file and indirectly killed him, and in the end, the guy who shot and killed Chen Yongren was his comrade-in-arms in the true sense, and it was he who shot Chen Yongren to save this policeman from the abyss, and this policeman shot his comrade-in-arms and his life-saving benefactor in a blink of an eye!"
As he spoke, Leonardo said with some devotion: "So what do you see what he has done? Help sell drugs, kill two policemen, and kill life-saving benefactors! Whether it is the opposite person or the people around him, he leaves no room for ruthlessness, he is completely a person who has committed a heinous crime, and it is okay to let a person with a heinous crime get away with it in the end, I can understand the cruelty of reality, but what does that last fragment mean? This dirty policeman actually said from the bottom of his heart that he wanted to exchange with Chen Yongren? Could it be that the screenwriter is whitewashing this heinous man?
Spielberg said: "So this is the difference between our Eastern and Western film cultures, Eastern film culture advocates the rendering of human nature, and they feel that no matter how evil people are, there is also a good side in their hearts." β
"I can't accept this idealized rendering. Leonardo shook his head and said: "I respect reality more, in reality, an evil person like Liu will never have good thoughts in his psychology, because you can see from what he does, a person can do these things, it is impossible to have good thoughts, on the other hand, a person with good thoughts will not do so many heinous things, so I can't accept this kind of ending, a heinous person, but in his heart he wants to be a good person??? TF! Gates said he wanted to be a pauper who couldn't eat!"
Tom Hanks didn't expect Leonardo to be so emotional, and hurriedly comforted him: "Leo, it's just a movie, don't be too angry." β
"I'm sorry Tom. Leonardo said apologetically: "It's me who is too involved, and this ending really makes me feel too depressed!"
Spielberg patted him on the shoulder and said: "Hong Kong directors and screenwriters have their own mode of thinking, which should be different from Hollywood, in most cases, we still advocate a happy ending, even if there are times when we need to leave some regrets, but the ending is also hoped to be better than regrets, if Hollywood screenwriters jump out of the plot of this movie and only use its setting, it may be like you said, in the end, Chen Yongren did not die, but came together with the psychiatrist." β
"Shit!" Leonardo sighed: "Aside from the ending, I really like this role, and this Hong Kong actor is also very good and impressive." β
Spielberg looked at Leonardo and asked him, "Leo, if we remake this movie, would you be interested in playing the role of Chen Yongren?"