Chapter 280: The Actor's Imagination (Alliance Leader Plus 7/10)
Guo Ziping is recognized as the first actor of the Mesozoic generation in the entertainment industry of Dragon Kingdom!
His performance in many aspects really lives up to the title of "first person"!
Among the actors of the same era, he is the first to win the crown of "Emperor of Vision", the first to have a single box office of more than 5 billion, and the first to win the "Best Actor" at the three major film awards ceremonies in the Dragon Kingdom!
Although Zhao Zhenghao already has two film works with a box office of more than 5 billion, there is still some gap between him and Guo Ziping in terms of influence in the film and television industry.
When ordinary people see Zhao Zhenghao, their first recognition of his identity is first of all a singer, an internationally renowned "God of Songs", followed by a director, actor, and screenwriter.
And singers are still inferior to actors in the entire entertainment industry system, especially "actors"!
Although in terms of making money, in this world where copyright protection is very in place, top singers are much more profitable than top actors, but in the eyes of ordinary people, top singers are still not as good as top actors!
Therefore, even if Zhao Zhenghao surpasses Wang Bangmin, Wu Hai, and Guo Ziping in front of him a lot in popularity and value, he still has to maintain a basic respectful attitude in front of them.
Fortunately, Wang Bangmin, Wu Hai, and Guo Ziping did not despise Zhao Zhenghao because of his idol background and cross-border identity as a singer, and their exchanges with each other remained in an equal position.
With Guo Ziping's current status and prestige in the circle, he is the person who has the most scripts, not to mention a medium production like "Infernal Affairs" that costs only two or three hundred million, even those actors who shoot super productions with a cost of more than one billion are also at his disposal.
Guo Ziping's image, acting skills, and status in the circle are all the best candidates for the leading actor in "Infernal Affairs".
In order to increase his attractiveness, when Zhao Zhenghao handed over the script, he made it clear that the two male protagonists of the movie, Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming, recognized Guo Ziping as the choice, and Zhao Zhenghao himself played the one he picked the rest.
In Zhao Zhenghao's heart, Guo Ziping will have a greater probability of choosing to play Chen Yongren, which is his inherent impression after watching the original version of "Infernal Affairs".
In the original version of "Infernal Affairs", the role of Chen Yongren was played by the most successful actor of his generation, Liang Chaowei!
Liang Chaowei, who became famous in Zhao Zhenghao's previous life in the 80s in Xiangjiang, although he also debuted as a TV drama actor, and later crossed over to the music scene and sang according to the atmosphere of Xiangjiang actors at that time, but in the end, he chose to be a pure actor unlike other superstars who became famous at the same time!
He did it successfully!
In his career as an actor, as of Zhao Zhenghao's crossing, he has won a total of five Academy Award Best Actor trophies, three Golden Horse Award Best Actor trophies, and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Trophy, which is the most successful actor of his generation!
He won the double actor of the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for his role as Chen Yongren in "Infernal Affairs"!
From this point of view, the role of Chen Yongren is even more brilliant in "Infernal Affairs"!
Because, when Liang Chaowei won the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for Chen Yongren, he directly defeated the emperor superstar Liu Dehua who played Liu Jianming!
Among them, of course, more is due to Liang Chaowei's brilliant and delicate acting skills, but the likability of Chen Yongren's role also has a certain degree of bonus.
In fact, the most difficult thing to portray in "Infernal Affairs" is the character of Liu Jianming! His fate also directly corresponds to the name of the film!
In the film, Chen Yongren, the undercover agent of the police, finally ended in death, which can be regarded as a liberation from life and got rid of the torture of Infernal Hell, while Liu Jianming, an undercover agent of the underworld, survived, corresponding to the origin of the title of "Infernal Affairs" - "Infernal Life is a catastrophe in Infernal Hell"!
For Liu Jianming, being alive is the greatest torture for him!
Therefore, from the perspective of the inner interpretation of the characters, Liu Jianming's role is more difficult!
When Liu Dehua played Liu Jianming at that time, his acting skills had been honed to a certain extent, and his performance was also very good, but compared with Liang Chaowei, who had the best acting skills of his time, he was still slightly inferior, and he lost in the competition for the best actor at the Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
Zhao Zhenghao can't guarantee that if he plays Liu Jianming, his performance will be better than Liu Dehua, but as long as Chen Yongren played by Guo Ziping can reach the level of Liang Chaowei, with this role, there is still a lot of hope for him to win one or two actor trophies at the three major film awards ceremonies in the Dragon Kingdom.
And Zhao Zhenghao himself, as long as he relies on the movie "Infernal Affairs", he can be shortlisted for the five best actors of the Dragon Kingdom Film Awards Ceremony, and he is already satisfied!
In the words of the film industry, being able to be shortlisted for the best actor at the level of the Dragon Country's three major film awards ceremonies has been able to prove your acting skills, as for whether you can get the actor trophy, the ingredients other than acting skills should account for more.
The "ingredients other than acting" here refer to the so-called public relations behavior!
Therefore, Zhao Zhenghao's ultimate goal in filming "Infernal Affairs" is to win the "Best Director", "Best Actor", and even "Best Film" at the three major film awards ceremonies of Longguo, but the more practical goal is to be shortlisted for these three awards first, and whether he can win the award in the end depends more on the public relations ability of "Zhenghao Studio".
Guo Ziping invited Zhao Zhenghao to sit down in the reception room of his studio, and asked the staff to serve a cup of hot tea, Guo Ziping took out a box of cigars, like Zhao Zhenghao signaled, Zhao Zhenghao waved his hand and declined, Guo Ziping knew that his main business was a singer, and the world tour called "Legend" was underway, and he was about to go to Europe to start the second round of performances, and he wanted to protect his throat and not be poisoned by tobacco, so he did not force him.
Guo Ziping took out a cigar himself, trimmed it with a special cigar cutter, lit it, took a deep breath, and sighed, "Ah Hao, you should be deeply touched, people like us, in front of people are beautiful and glamorous, but behind the effort, who can see it? Like me, after a year, there are only a handful of opportunities to smoke a cigar leisurely like now, and the time I can spend with my family every year is at most half a month, and there are two years when I don't even have a week!
Zhao Zhenghao is deeply touched by this now, from his heart, what he wants to do most now is to put off all work, accompany Yu Yabin, and join her to welcome the arrival of the little life that is being conceived in her belly!
However, the reality forced him to turn around continuously, and now he has to work hard for the preparation of "Infernal Affairs", and then he has to perform the second phase of the "Legendary" World Tour while improving the preliminary preparations for "Infernal Affairs", and when the interval between the concert tour comes, he will immediately devote himself to the filming of "Infernal Affairs".