Many Shanghainese actors have one thing in common: after gaining fame and fortune, they are more willing to put life in front.
Xi Meijuan, Wang Zhiwen, Lu Yi, Ma Yili. After becoming famous, they all behaved calmly, did not lose themselves, and did not come out in a hurry to make quick money.
Hu Ge, who was born in Shanghai, is also an actor who is "indifferent to fame and fortune", of course, Hu Ge has greater ambitions - to be a top actor who cultivates both inside and outside.
It's a pity that it backfired, and he was on the road of another "idol", going farther and farther.
Some time ago, "County Party Committee Compound" was launched, and many people went to Hu Ge, but they were attracted by a group of supporting actors.
After Hu Ge, who had high hopes, "drained", he once again made a "wedding dress" for others, which was his dilemma and embarrassment in reality.
There is no shortage of praise, no lack of awards, and no shortage of masterpieces, seeing that Hu Ge is about to be among the top actors, but every time he kicks the door, it seems to be kicked on a steel plate.
Hu Ge and top actors, and even superstars, are almost one step away from each other, and they are all close to the door.
Before answering this question, let's take a look at what a real superstar, or a top actor, looks like.
Superstar actor, Tony Leung is very representative, and he is also the direction that Hu Ge has been working towards.
Both of them have climbed all the way from idol Xiaosheng to become superiors. They are also actors with their own gloomy aura, and many people also regard Hu Ge as "the next Tony Leung".
40 years old, should be the first age of an actor, Hu Ge is at this juncture. But looking back at Tony Leung's 40 years old, the gap comes out.
Tony Leung was 40 years old when "Infernal Affairs" was released, and he won the Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards twice with the role of Chen Yongren, and repeatedly defeated Andy Lau, who played opposite him.
Not to mention that he has previously held heavyweight works such as "In the Mood for Love", "East Evil and West Poison", "Chongqing Forest" and "City of Sadness", and has won numerous awards.
The age is different, the experience is different, and the soil is different. So it is biased to simply take the age ratio, but the 40-year-old Tony Leung has long lost his idol spirit, and Hu Ge has obviously not faded this halo.
Let's talk about the top actors in the mainland.
Duan Yihong is a well-known drama maniac, and the phrase "I am willing to be a slave to the drama" is not a lie for Duan Yihong.
In "Scorching Sun", he experienced life with the police, and when he went out to the police, he was mistaken for plainclothes by the prisoners, and the director Cao Baoping praised him for "having the possibility of becoming a great actor" to the extent of fakeness.
Just looking at this oblique action of sipping a cigarette, you can see that there is a "mixed up" behind the righteousness.
His creepy movie "Xi Wei".
Hatred, helplessness, sadness, pity and other emotions are mixed together, Duan Yihong plays an ogre to make people feel a trace of pity, this is the foundation, but also the strength.
Liao Fan, the "Berlin actor" who has cooperated with Hu Ge, also always gives unexpected performances.
There is no acting skill that opens and closes, but he can always hit the subtleties with one hit.
Like his dancing scene in "Fireworks in the Day", lonely, lonely, and sad. Without words, just through a back or an action, the audience can feel the emotions of the leading actor through the picture.
The strength of top actors does not need to be too violent to express themselves, and the emotions, emotions, and attitudes they want to express do not even need to be expressed directly to the audience, and the audience can experience it deeply.
Hu Ge does not have such acting skills at present, and he still has an unfading idol temperament. Hu Ge, who has high hopes, wants to break free from the shackles of his idol personality, and he is also going farther and farther on the road of another idol.
Objectively speaking, Hu Ge's acting skills are not bad, but his own limitations, or the limitations of his works, to a large extent, he draws the ground.
1, first "The Pretender" and "Langya Bang" lit him a "fire", but unfortunately the works are still not hot.
In 2005, a "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" made Hu Ge among the thrones of ancient puppets in the mainland, it is true that Hu Ge has always had his own pursuit of acting, but until 2014, he was still addicted to idol dramas.
In 2015, Hu Ge finally ushered in the pinnacle of his career in the true sense, which was impressive.
This year, with the explosion of a "Pretender" and a "Langya Bang", Hu Ge became a hot actor in domestic entertainment.
The outbreak of the two dramas is just right, which not only draws an end to his previous idol drama era, but also Hu Ge's accumulation of long-term acting skills.
Facts have proved that these two dramas have put Hu Ge on the altar, and he has become a representative of the acting school among actors.
From the Magnolia Award to the Golden Eagle Award, the "Best Actor" award was in the bag, and the endless applause and praise everywhere he went seemed to prove Hu Ge's success.
The Pretender" and "Langya Bang" have almost become Hu Ge's most important masterpieces so far.
However, time has passed, and now that these two works are back, the audience's attitude does not seem to be as good as before.
"The Pretender" is a spy war film that adds the element of "traffic star", and has also become a reference object for many "spy puppet dramas".
Just talking about this **, no matter how good the narrative is, no matter how good the actor's appearance supports, it can't hide the cloak of a spy war drama, but it is actually the inside of a Mary Sue idol drama.
In other words, "The Pretender" is too powdery.
In terms of pattern and core, "The Pretender" is not the best work among spy war dramas compared with dramas such as "Latent" and "Cliff".
In the eyes of the audience, "The Pretender" is not the same as the latter.
As a work of Hu Ge's transformation from an idol drama to a partial drama, his performance has obviously not gotten rid of the acting method of idol dramas.
Hu Ge's performance is in line with the setting of the "spy puppet drama" of "The Pretender", but it cannot be defined as a leap in acting skills.
This point can also be seen from everyone's discussion of the "three brothers of the Ming family" at that time.
Jin Dong and Wang Kai ushered in the peak of their careers with the play, and Hu Ge's flawless performance really made a "wedding dress" for the brothers.
If "The Pretender" is the pioneer of Hu Ge's acting transformation, then the significance of "Langya Bang" to him is obviously more important.
Once "Langya Bang" was broadcast, it almost formed a phenomenal grand occasion, especially the "Mei Changsu" played by Hu Ge, which further established his status as a first-line actor.
Like "The Pretender", "Langya Bang" is also a cool drama with a big male lead, especially compared with other historical conspiracy dramas of the same type, the weight of "Langya Bang" is always so much worse.
On the historical thickness of "Family and Country", classic dramas such as "Langya Bang" and "Ming Dynasty" and "Yongzheng Dynasty" are not in the same dimension.
Pulling the banner of the heart of a child, the characters are seriously faced, and the scheming that is blown out of the gods is like a child's play.
In short, watching "Langya Bang" at that time would make your heart surge, but if you watch it again after many years, you will find that the pretending to be a profound conspiracy and the suspended plot can't help but be scrutinized.
This is also why Hu Ge has many masterpieces, but in the long river of time, the works are obviously not enough, and the weight and quality cannot support him to enter the ranks of top actors.
2, the transformation work "The Party at the Southern Station" still did not make Hu Ge stand up.
When the literary film "The Party at the Southern Station" was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, it received a four-minute round applause from the audience.
Hollywood director Quentin also did not hesitate to praise me: This is the most beautiful movie I have seen in recent years.
This is the first time that Hu Ge has stood on the stage of an international A-class film festival as a leading actor, and this is also the closest Hu Ge has come to a superstar.
It's a pity that he returned home.
Hu Ge played a desperate bandit "Zhou Zenong" in the film, but after watching Hu Ge's performance, the audience will inevitably raise a question: "Why did you choose Hu Ge to act?"”
This is probably the most fugitive in history that looks like a fugitive.
In order to play this role well, Hu Ge grew a beard, grew his hair long, and learned a Wuhan dialect.
The whole person exudes decadence and sloppiness, and the audience can feel that he wants to break through his previous role and vent the ruthlessness and anger of "Zhou Zenong".
However, Hu Ge's efforts failed, his eyes were too clean, and he was more like a depressed writer than an outlaw.
Hu Ge worked very hard to interpret a complex role on the big screen, but he couldn't do it.
It's like a punch on cotton, and half of the power of the explosion is unloaded at the moment of performance, so that it is difficult for this character to convince the audience that he is a bandit from beginning to end.
A tense and infectious role like "Zhou Zenong" is easy to shine, but it is easy to miss if the acting is not in place, and the actor's acting skills are easy to be suppressed by the content and become a tool for the role.
Liao Fan also played a gangster in "Children of the Rivers and Lakes", and the loose appearance of holding a cigarette in different scenes can show a different attitude of a big man.
Even if it's just an incense action, the calm expression still can't hide the hormones that are bubbling out from the inside, and there is no need to deliberately show the ruthlessness of the characters, but it can make the audience feel the big guy style of the people who talk about the rivers and lakes.
In fact, director Diao Yinan also considered swapping the roles of Hu Ge and Liao Fan, but when Hu Ge plays this role, there will be a strong contrast, so that the audience can feel that the feelings of this character are more complex, not just the opposition between good and bad.
Hu Ge's performance can actually be better, it's not that the vicissitudes of life can show his acting skills, his emotional expression is still lacking, it is difficult to move if he is not smart, and his fluttering acting skills have no sense of existence.
At the beginning of the movie, Hu Ge, who didn't say a word, did have a bit of an aura of rivers and lakes, but as the plot extended, this aura weakened, and no matter how he acted, it was difficult to fit the temperament of the characters themselves.
Even Hu Ge's performance is not as good as the supporting role "Brother Ma" in the play, when "Brother Ma" comes out, without acting, the audience knows that this is a gangster who is wandering in the streets and alleys, and his eyes are full of chaos.
Hu Ge's role is not as aftertaste and aftertaste as Liao Fan in "Fireworks in the Day", twisting and struggling are mixed into a kind of resonance, trying to stimulate the responsibility and ruthlessness of the character of "Zhou Zenong", but the further you go, the weaker the strength.
This is Hu Ge's understanding of "beauty", and it is also just like Chen Luyu's sentence that described him: "He may be rebellious for the rest of his life, but he can't be rebellious for a lifetime." ”
He tried to prove that he grew up and was changeable by creating a ruthless character who was completely different from the previous ones.
But Hu Ge's acting skills are too stable and too light, so that his performance is expected by the audience, and such acting qualities lead to his not only being unable to break through himself in his works, but also being easily compared to supporting roles.
3. This is the case in "The Party at the Southern Station", and it is also the same in "The County Party Committee Compound".
The performance obstacle that Hu Ge has never been able to jump out of is that he can play roles, but he is not good at acting in life. This is also the reason why Hu Ge has always distanced himself from top actors.
Just like the finished "County Party Committee Compound", the audience has very high expectations for Hu Ge's return after five years, but after actually watching it, they vaguely feel that Hu Ge's performance is nothing more.
It is not difficult to see from the comments of netizens that "acting skills do not pull the crotch" and "can be seen or not"...Some people even say that this is "Mei Changsu of "Langya Bang" was reborn in "County Party Committee Compound". ”
The secretary of the county party committee played by Hu Ge always feels that there are shortcomings, and what is missing is probably "like".
Playing who is like whom" should be the most basic quality of an actor, Hu Ge's "dislike" has a lot to do with his own temperament, whether it is holding a conference or borrowing money, sometimes I feel that this image is a bit "floating".
To put it simply, Hu Ge acts like he plays everything.
And Gao Xin, who also played the secretary, in "Spring Breeze and the South Bank of the Green River", is obviously much more down-to-earth and more "like".
Seeing this, it also reminds people that Hu Ge said that he had made a lot of determination to take over this drama before taking over the filming of "County Party Committee Compound".
He admitted that his life is very different from that of "Mei Xiaoge", and he is worried about whether he can play this role well and ask the audience not to act.
Now it seems that Hu Ge's worries are not superfluous, and the group drama of "County Party Committee Compound" is undoubtedly a success.
In terms of Hu Ge's personal performance alone, even if his performance is better than Huang Lei, Liu Tao and others in the same play, he is still crushed by the supporting roles in the play in terms of handling the minutiae of acting skills.
is like "Qiao Shengli" played by Wang Xiao, when he was scolded by his uncle, he bowed his waist slightly, smiled slightly embarrassed at the corner of his mouth, and looked aggrieved and flattering.
Just looking at this cross-waist action, the image of a grassroots cadre who broke his leg and broke his heart stands.
Look at the village director "Sanbao" played by Ren Chengwei, who performed his pride with a clove of garlic.
There are no small roles, only small actors", the real test of an actor's acting skills is precisely these tiny places, and Hu Ge also happens to be not detailed enough in these places.
As we mentioned earlier, Hu Ge almost has the favorable factors to become a superstar, but every time he kicks the door, it seems to be kicked on the steel plate.
The looming idol temperament on his body, as well as those "one-off" works without thickness and depth, have become stumbling blocks for Hu Ge to become a superstar.
Having said so much earlier, of course, we are not here to "sentence" him for the sake of singing and denying Hu Ge.
As a well-known "missing person" and "deserter from Vanity Fair" in the entertainment industry, Hu Ge's character and artistic virtues are beyond reproach.
He has a sincere heart for the pursuit of art, and he rarely appears in front of the public except for acting.
He escaped from Vanity Fair again and again, and when faced with the glitz and glitz of the entertainment industry, he chose to study abroad and act in dramas to polish himself.
His attitude of cherishing feathers and rejecting variety shows alone is more than one rank higher than those of "Running Man" and "Extreme Man Gang".
Acting seriously and being innocent, there are fewer and fewer such "clear streams", and domestic entertainment needs such actors.
Now Hu Ge plays the leading role in "Flowers" directed by Wong Kar-wai himself, from his thirties to his forties.
The highly anticipated "Flowers" can help Hu Ge take another step towards superstardom, we will wait and see!
This time, I hope he can kick the door open completely and become one of the superstars.