I remember when the nominations for Best Actress were announced for this year's Golden Rooster Awards, we all looked at a series of nominated movies and actors, and had vague speculations in our hearts -
The only veteran veteran actress, Zhu Xijuan's The Empty Nest, hasn't even been released yet, not to mention that, as the inaugural Hundred Flowers Film Festival queen, she has already won the 2018
Ren Sushi's Half Comedy and Liu Yan's The Beneficiary are not well known, and have received mixed reviews since their release last year. As a commercial film, they are qualified, but if the actors can be honored for them, I'm afraid that they are a bit lacking.
The only ones left are Tan Zhuo, nominated for the critically acclaimed "Manslaughter," and Zhou Dongyu, from "The Young You." Coincidentally, the 35th Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Actress at the end of September was also a competition between the two of them, and it turned out that Tan Zhuo lost to Zhou Dongyu.
So this time, countless people predicted that Zhou Dongyu will also win the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress, and eventually become a Chinese film "three gold" Grand Slam actress.
It is important to know that before this, this "three gold slam" winner, the entire Chinese actors only Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi two people, they took this honor when they were 35 years old and 34 years old, and now really realize the grand slam of Zhou Dongyu is only 28 years old.
But can Zhou Dongyu really be compared to them?
Ten years ago, Zhou Dongyu, still in her senior year of high school, because she likes dance, ready to participate in the arts examination as a dance student, went to Nanjing to take the exam, she accidentally met the assistant director who was preparing for the casting of "Love at the Hawthorn Tree", was invited to Beijing to audition.
"I just thought it was dangerous, and I thought to myself that it might be a fraud." Zhou Dongyu, after all, is still young, afraid of encountering a scam, hesitation and half a time to drum up the courage to decide to let go, until see Zhang Yimou himself was relieved.
The first audition, she was very nervous, coupled with the heart is still thinking about the examination, hastily shot a few shots were not selected by Zhang Yimou, the discerning assistant director of the gold quite persistent, persuade her to audition for the second time, only to get Zhang Yimou's affirmation, "she is the most suitable, face, eyes, are particularly pure."
So we see the innocence and vividness of 18-year-old Zhou Dongyu in the movie, and her Jingqiu doesn't necessarily fit the original, but it certainly fits the atmosphere of this story about young first love.
This was the first time anyone had seen Zhou Dongyu's acting, and under the tutelage of a great director, she was so dynamic that she won several Best Newcomer awards.
Zhang Yimou's standard for choosing a "girl" has not changed much, and when he met the 19-year-old Zhang Ziyi for the filming of "My Father's Mother", he also implemented the label "simple, pure and dynamic".
But Zhang Ziyi's first exposure to film came even earlier than that, when she starred in the 16-year-old drama Stars and Lights, which was based on a true story and brought to life a resilient young woman who had her leg amputated at a young age but stayed on to teach at a school.
After this debut, she was admitted to the Chinese opera, and although she was at the bottom of the professional class, the potential in her attracted Zhang Yimou.
Strictly speaking, My Father and Mother and Love at the Hawthorn Tree belong to the same type of movie, both of which are pure love stories in the context of a special era, but I don't know if it's related to the in-depth kernel of the movie, but the evaluation of the two films is extremely different.
At about the same age, Zhou Dongyu won a series of newcomer awards, while Zhang Ziyi has already won the 23rd Hundred Flowers Film Prize.
Compared to them, Zhou Xun's movie path was a lot rougher, but it was at the age of 17 that she was discovered by director Xie Tieli, who made her screen debut in Tomb Raider.
A pair of bright eyes in the film, any who look at it not to praise this is a spirit of overflowing little fox, but unfortunately, he did not have the ambition to go back to school to complete their studies, and then for the love of the North, mixing with the bar to sing, and then into the world of show business, is 21 years old, from the beginning.
This is the first time that the three of them have touched the movie, green, tender, in fact, can not see much difference, if you have to pick a frontrunner, I am afraid that is not a clear goal of Zhang Ziyi belongs to.
Time negligence and over, before the birth of "July and Anson" 4 years ago, 24-year-old Zhou Dongyu has spent a long period of low.
Having missed the college entrance exam that year because of the filming of Love at the Hawthorn Tree, she scrambled to get into the Beijing Film Academy the following year with a score of 286 on the college entrance exam, through Zhang Yimou's recommendation.
After that, Zhou Dongyu even acted in the "Xiangjiang River to the north", "Love in a Fallen City" two movies supporting roles, and then hitched Yu Zheng starred in the movie "Palace Lock Sinking Fragrance", but in it was playing the villain Zhao Liying suppressed the light, the performance of mediocre, she was scolded for lowering her own value.
It was not easy to find the right path, partnering Lin update starred in the movie "you at the same table", harvested 456 million box office results, became the first box office over 400 million of the 90-year-old flower, the results of her into the "stereotype" of the controversy.
In order to break through, Zhou Dongyu to the director Ning Hao Maosui, starred in the "heart" in the "girl", but only won the audience evaluation of "hot eyes", and then, starring in the "stormy Detective", "glacier", "lies Sicily", etc., did not turn up any water splash.
Few achievements on the movie, favoring the TV series also aired a stagnant performance of "Sparrow", suddenly her acting skills are highly questionable. Luckily, July and Anson came out of nowhere and rewashed everyone's opinion of her.
Before filming, the role originally set for Zhou Dongyu was the well-behaved July, but she insisted on playing the rebellious Ansheng: "Because all the roles I've played in the past have been gentle and virtuous, so I told the director this time that I would suffocate if I didn't play Ansheng."
Her breakthrough was noteworthy, but when she stood on the Golden Horse stage with her co-star, Ma Si Chun, people wondered if this unprecedented double-yolked egg wasn't enough to make it worthwhile.
On the other hand, the 24-year-old Zhou Xun has just returned to the acting world and has been welcomed with a lot of praise. She has appeared in TV dramas, whether it is Shen Pei, a drug addicted teenager in "The Red Prescription", or the ghostly "Xiaotai Ping" in "The Legend of the Palace of the Ming Dynasty", which was favored by Li Shaohong, and has wowed the audience in one fell swoop.
On the other hand, she has indulged in a variety of literary films, whether it is the two roles of "Suzhou River" or the spontaneous "If There Is No Love", she polished her acting skills and immersed herself in it, and Jia Hongsheng and Park Shu fell in love with each other over the course of the movie.
And 24-year-old Zhang Ziyi is now gearing up for a Hollywood push, because after her role in My Mother and Father, she starred in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee, which has been frequently featured on the international film festival circuit.
Meanwhile, she continued to work well with Zhang Yimou, and her performances in Hero and Ambush on Ten Fronts allowed her to try out two new roles, as a loyal maid and a vengeful courtesan, both of which were critically acclaimed.
This year, Zhang Ziyi won the 24th Golden Rooster Awards for her triple role in Jasmine Blossom.
Immediately afterward, she became the Queen of the 24th Academy Awards for 2046, but her award was tainted with controversy because Gong Li and Liu Jialing were ahead of her in the film.
This is the age when everyone is trying to make something of themselves, but it's a matter of how early or how late.
28 years old, because of a "teenage you", Zhou Dongyu get awards to get soft, she played in the film suffered from bullying high school students, whether it is repressed crying or bitter smile, are extremely rich sense of hierarchy, harvesting the acting skills of the affirmation of the movie itself, but the adaptation of the original is full of "melting terrain" non-sense.
In May, she will be the golden statue trophy into the arms of the many discordant voices, because her Golden Horse, golden statue of the two post works are Tsang Chi-wai's son Tsang Kwok-cheung directed by Tsang Chi-wai and the golden statue of the president of the Awards, a wide range of connections, compared to the accompaniment of seven times did not win the awards of the Cheng Xiu-wen, more or less difficult to convince the public.
But Zhang Ziyi, who is also a "girl scout", was the first to send her congratulations to Zhou Dongyu, who typed the words "well deserved", which undoubtedly represents her own genuine recognition.
Zhang Ziyi in the 28-year-old year, not so smooth sailing Zhou Dongyu.
She was still looking for ways to break into the international movie scene, after a successful attempt with Memoirs of a Geisha, but then her career stalled, and she fell in love with Time Warner shareholder Avi Nino, who was 13 years older.
They donated to the Wenchuan earthquake together, and then announced their engagement in a high profile, until the triple gate of "racy photos", "inking", and "fraudulent donations" broke out, and the marriage was canceled. The Hollywood dream was shattered.
"Because often the roles they [Hollywood] give to Asians are just very superficial, but where there's a little bit of substance, they'd rather give it to black actors. And a lot of times, Hollywood is bullying Asian actors and the money gets cut in half, so why should we become cheap labor?"
Fortunately, this downturn didn't last long, and in 2013, the release of The Grandmaster helped Zhang Ziyi win the Golden Statue and Hundred Flowers again, and in the process, she also made up for the only vacancy at the Golden Horse Awards.
At 34 years old, Zhang Ziyi has become the second person in the Chinese movie "three gold" Grand Slam. As for the first person, it is Zhou Xun.
Zhou Xun, who was distracted by the TV series, belongs to the "late bloomer" category of actors in the movie awards world, and it was at the age of 28 that she won her first weighty domestic movie awards - the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress for her work in Smoke and Rain.
In 2006, she was 32 years old when she won both the Golden Horse and Golden Statue awards for the movie If You Love.
But she played an unscrupulously ambitious starlet in the movie, with a plot spanning ten years, and with both of her roles in place, the two awards went uncontested, and everyone was convinced.
In fact, two years ago, Zhou Dongyu starred in "later we" and "if - love" is very similar to the heroine at the beginning of the gold-worshipping vanity in the naivety, ten years later to become vicissitudes and maturity.
Zhou Xun can put these two states of natural conversion, Zhou Dongyu can only master the early, may be the lack of life experience, she is still in the latter part of the eyes full of tough teenage girl demeanor, if not Liu Ruoying clever black and white hues to deepen the difference, her performance seems very weak.
In 2009, at the age of 35, Zhou Xun contributed to the classic "Li Mi's Guess", which won the best actress at the 27th Golden Rooster Awards, and she was cheered by the crowd as she ascended to the first "triple gold" post-film grand slam throne.
The year before, in addition to "Li Mei's Guess", she also failed to win awards, but the reputation of the "Painted Skin" and "Sound of the Wind".
This was the year when Zhou Xun was at the height of her development, the year when Zhang Ziyi was at her worst, and the year when Zhou Dongyu was about to have a twist of fate.
The Golden Rooster queen of the movie, Zhou Dongyu is actually more of a whip, anyone can see, not to say and Zhou Xun, Zhang Ziyi comparison, she with a few masterpieces step by step, sweeping the awards is also very difficult to convince the public.
Zhou Xun, Zhang Ziyi and others to become a Grand Slam winner when the age is not very big, but also later than Zhou Dongyu six or seven years, they starred in more than 20 movies before this, interpretation of the role of the type can be described as all kinds of.
And Zhou Dongyu it, debut ten years, starring in 17 films, most of which have not yet jumped out of the tender girl student box, I hope she can see each award as a motivation for progress, and then shoot more good works, to prove to everyone as an actor's own, worthy of any title and honor.
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