How do you evaluate actor Chow Yun-fat?

Chow Yun-fat is definitely a unique presence in the Chinese entertainment industry.

In the entertainment industry, there are probably only two stars who are willing to be called brother: Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung.

So, why does Chow Yun-fat have such great charm?

Top-notch acting skills

There is no doubt that Chow Yun-fat's acting skills are top-notch in the Chinese entertainment industry.

Chow Yun-fat was born in Lamma Island, Hong Kong in 1955. He helped his mother do odd jobs to supplement the family income since he was a child. Although his life was hard, he enjoyed it.

In 1989, when participating in "Undefended Tonight" hosted by Huang Zhan, Ni Kuang and Chua Lam, Chow Yun-fat compared Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's famous "Once Upon a Time in Childhood" with his own childhood.

Chow Yun-fat, who had just entered TVB, was developing very smoothly. After only a short period of supporting roles, he was given the opportunity to star.

In 1975, Chow Yun-fat played a supporting role in the film "The Kid", followed by "The River". In these two dramas, he stood out.

In 1980, TVB broadcast 25 episodes of the TV series "Shanghai Beach", which achieved extremely high ratings. Chow Yun-fat played the contradictory, hesitant and cold Xu Wenqiang in this drama.

Hui Wenqiang has also become one of the most classic screen images played by Chow Yun-fat.

In 1986, he played Brother Mark (Brother Ma) in the movie "A Better Tomorrow" directed by John Woo. The film broke the box office record of Hong Kong movies and created a trend of gangster hero movies. Became an idol among movie fans. Chow Yun-fat also won the first Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Award.

In 1987, Chow Yun-fat won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for his film "Autumn Fairy Tale". The film won the Best Film Award at the Academy Awards and ranked fifth at the annual box office. In the same year, he collaborated with director Lin Lingdong on "The Legend of Dragon and Tiger". Lam Ling-tung won the Academy Award for Best Director for his film; another collaboration with director Lam Ling-tung, "Prison" and "Prison 2: The Fugitive", in which Chow Yun-fat plays Chung Tin-Ching, with Tony Leung Ka-fai, Cheung Yiu-yang, Ho Ka-kui, and Wong Guang-liang Cooperation, it was also nominated for best film and ranked second among the year's top-grossing films.

At the 1988 Hong Kong Film Awards, Chow Yun-fat was nominated for Best Actor at the same time for three films: "Autumn Fairy Tale", "Dragon Tiger" and "Prison", for three different roles. After competing with each other, he finally won the role of Gao Qiu in "The Legend of the Dragon"; the American Film Institute also awarded him the Asian Outstanding Actor Award for this film, and his total box office score this year reached HK$130 million. In the same year, "Eight Star Announcement", co-written with Johnnie To, won the box office championship of the year. Chow Yun-fat played the role of a sissy who shakes his head and tail. Together with "Diary of a Real Man" and "Lucky Star Gongzhao", he became a favorite classic comedy of Chow Yun-fat among movie fans.

In 1989, "God of Gamblers" was released. "God of Gamblers" is another screen character created by Chow Yun-fat. The role of God of Gambling Gao Jin, together with A Lang in "A Lang's Story", became the two characters nominated by Chow Yun-fat for Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 1990. He won the Best Actor for the third time at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

The release of "God of Gamblers 2" in 1994 brought a successful end to the Hong Kong and Taiwan gambling film craze in the 1990s. Among them, "Dirty Detective", a collaboration with John Woo, was rated as "the 9th most influential action movie" and "the 18th best cult movie" by the American "Entertainment Weekly". Chow Yun-fat's role in the film was also rated as "the 33rd greatest movie character".

In 2000, for the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he received ten Oscar nominations and won four awards. Chow Yun-fat himself was once again invited to serve as an Oscar presenter for his role as Li Mubai in the hero. He won the second Asian American Film and Television Award for Best Actor and the Special Achievement Award from France's Deauville Film Festival, becoming "People" magazine's sexiest star in the world. , also appeared on the cover of "Time" and "Entertainment Weekly".

Looking at Chow Yun-fat's many years of acting experience, we can find that the difficult life experience in his early years and the experience in the lower class society will have a huge impact on his future acting career. This kind of experience is very important for today's actors in drama schools. Difficult to learn.

So Chow Yun-fat’s first-class acting skills are not accidental.

Good character

Chow Yun-fat is not only top-notch in acting, but also has a very good character.

When there was a typhoon in Hong Kong in 2017, some netizens photographed Chow Yun-fat cutting down trees on the street despite the typhoon. Because the branches broke and collapsed on the road, passing vehicles detoured and drove in the opposite direction. The traffic conditions were very dangerous. Chow Yun-fat was preparing to take a ride home when he saw a tree on the road, so he got out of the car and helped take away the branches so that everyone could pass.