Performance of the actors is an important part of movie, the quality of which directly influences the movie's artistic expression. However, even an excellent actor's performance will vary on different conditions. Generally speaking, the directors play the most important role in an actor's performance career. Different directors have different characters and varied artistic requirements, which will exert direct impact upon the actors they are cooperating with and lead to different performance of the same actor in different works.Tony Leung is a benchmark of Hongkong movie stars. He has successfully cooperated with many directors in movies of diversified styles, and has demonstrated his versatile performing skills and profound artistic achievements. If we take a close look at the 67 movies stared by Tony Leung, we will easily find two types of contrary characters and performing manners. One type is extravert comedy, which might even be "mow ley taw", while the other is represented by the introversive and melancholy tragic roles which left deep impressions to the audience.In Tony Leung's movie career, he has successfully cooperated with several well-known Chinese directors including Hou Xiaoxian, Wu Yusen and Wang Jiawei, and has created a series of well-received tragic characters that will be recorded in the movie history forever. Through these experiences, he also greatly improved his performing skills. In his cooperation with Xu Ke, Liu Zhenwei and some other directors, he demonstrated his very stylistic comic performing manners. With his brilliant performing achievements, Tony Leung fully demonstrates that the performance of an excellent actor can be varied, rather than monotone when cooperating with different directors in different movies. |