As once the top stream of Taiwan, the 40-year-old Ming Dao only has a layer of childhood filter left.
Ming Dao, formerly known as Lin Chaozhang. Later, when he debuted, he used Ming Dao as his stage name, which symbolized the Bright Road.
However, he did not usher in his own bright road in the end, the prince of the vegetable farm is not the frog prince, and the prince will eventually change back into a frog.
Turn bad cards into good cards
Ming Dao was born in 1980 to a poor family that sold dried fish in a wet market and carried a huge debt of 5 million.
"African refugee" is the most vivid name for the Ming Dao as a child.
In order to save some milk powder, Mingdao's mother constantly reduced the dose of milk powder to extend the use of milk powder, resulting in severe malnutrition in Mingdao.
Later, the older Mingdao suffered from muscle weakness and had difficulty walking, and it was his brother who carried him every day, held him, and took care of him, so that Mingdao always loved his brother very much.
Mingdao, a 19-year-old model, had an opportunity in 2002 to be invited to be the host of "King of Adventure," but it was a life-threatening adventure show.
Mingdao, who was 22 years old at the time, thought about the family's huge debt of 5 million yuan and gritted his teeth and then took this job.
In the past two years, Mingdao has traveled to 20 countries and recorded 100 episodes of the show, each of which is as thrilling as "Bell Goes on An Adventure".
A team of six people, they dared to do anything. Jump over bottomless cliffs, lie through minus 20 degrees of snow, cross the vast Sahara Desert, climb towering volcanoes, sink into swamp mud, catch cobras, and challenge yourself to extreme sports.
The difficulties and hardships can be imagined.
But at that time, the fledgling Ming Dao stood up and broke out. "Adventure King" was well received, and Douban is still 9.5 points.
At the age of 24, he won the "39th Golden Bell Award" Cultural and Educational Information Program Host Award for "The Adventure King", becoming the youngest Golden Bell Award winner.
It was his first highlight moment.
Since then, his acting path has begun to be smooth.
In 2004, he played the male second Cheng Hainuo in "The Wedding Dress of Heaven", and his first idol drama made him gain many fans and win many good feelings.
In 2005, he starred with Chen Qiaoen in the idol drama "The Prince Becomes a Frog", playing the gentle and understanding domineering president Shan Junhao, breaking the ratings of the idol drama "Meteor Garden" that was popular in Asia at that time.
Ming Dao had no difference in scenery for a while, and until now he still had the reputation of "in front of Shan Junhao, other domineering presidents are like department managers".
This is the second highlight of The Ming Dao, and this aura continues until now.
Put the good cards back into the bad cards
"The best film in Taiwan is probably the Golden Horse Awards ceremony."
Nowadays, people always ridicule the Taiwanese film and television industry that is constantly moving from the peak to the slippery slope, and Ming Dao is the conformist of this general trend, he has not been able to "go up against the current", can only "go down the river".
The result, naturally, is that like Taiwan's entertainment industry, it has completely lost its own market.
When it should have been transformed, it was still a dead idol drama, when it should have been turned to the mainland, it was still clinging to the Taiwan market, and when it should have maintained its figure and appearance, it was at ease with the encounter; when it should have planned its career well, it developed extensively, and Mingdao, who originally turned bad cards into good cards, turned good cards into bad cards.
Mingdao's acting career became a mess.
Adding insult to the worse was his vampire-like brother Lin Minghong.
"Brother, wait a minute, brother will come and hold you."
This sentence is the childhood warmth that he has never forgotten, and it is also a heavy burden for him later.
His brother pushed him into the abyss of debt.
In order to take drugs, to gamble, to speculate in stocks, his brother was out in the name of Mingdao and owed a huge debt.
"I can't afford it yet, but Ming Dao won't leave it alone." I'm his brother. ”
That's it, Ming Dao carried everything.
Not only did he have to buy property, vehicles, regular living expenses, and arranged weddings for his brother, but he also had to be subject to his brother's debts and even asked to go to a press conference.
Before and after, Ming Dao helped his brother pay off more than 6 million debts.
"I saved money to give my brother a gamble."
This is the helplessness of Mingdao, and it is also the responsibility that Mingdao cannot unload and the pain that cannot be spoken to others.
Even more desperate, gambling is a bottomless pit.
When Ming Dao served in the military, his brother still did not change, and even stole his motor vehicle driver's license and the family's account to borrow usurious loans, tens of millions of dollars before and after.
In the end, the mess still had to be paid for by Mingdao after retiring from the army.
With the lack of time for his own career, Mingdao, who had been conniving with his brother, gradually became powerless, and directly and publicly said: "I will no longer be responsible for this in the future." "Although he still pays his brother for living expenses.
Later, Lin Minghong, who was unable to repay his debts, took his wife and children to the mountains to die.
He strangled his wife and 10-year-old son with his own hands, and then hanged himself.
After the incident, Mingdao was also kidnapped by unknown people:
"Your brother has been forced to die." You're so rich, why don't you help? ”
The poor stand on the cross street and play with ten steel hooks, and they can't hook the flesh and bones of their relatives; the rich people play with knives, guns, and sticks in the deep mountains and old forests, and they can't beat the unrighteous guests.
Leave a sigh in vain.
Ming Dao is such a bad luck all the way.
Participated in "Actors, Please Take Place", lamenting that he had not filmed for many years, but became the first actor to be eliminated.
But despite this, it stirred up a little splash.
But the good times did not last long, and Mingdao took 5 million shares in Zhang Ting's company, so with the decline of Zhang Ting, Ming Dao may also become a leek that was cut.
Going around and around, whether it was active or passive, Ming Dao had broken up his cards that had been so hard to play.
Don't forget your original intention, you have to be consistent
Don't forget the original intention, Fang must always, this sentence is placed on Ming Dao's body is incomparably appropriate, but also incomparably ironic.
Throughout the entertainment industry, he is the one who does not forget his original heart.
He is a person who pays great attention to feelings and knows how to be grateful.
For the person who promoted him in the first place, he was full of gratitude and never changed his agent, even if the agent could not keep up with the development of the times;
Never forgot where he got rich from, has not been shy about growing up selling dried fish, and will accompany his mother to the vegetable market to sell after becoming popular;
Even if his brother has always regarded him as a cash cow, in order to repay the kindness of his childhood, he has been feeding back and giving back, and he has done his best to be kind and righteous;
Zhang Qingzi, a producer he has worked with, has a car accident in his family, and he does not only greet him, but directly asks: "How much money is needed, I will give it to you." ”
Do not forget Ben, know how to be grateful, kind and helpful, in the entertainment industry this big dye vat, he is still as clear as the new white paper.
Ironically, he did indeed "have to always be".
From bad cards to good cards to bad cards, he did return to the original point.
Maybe all along, he always lacked a little luck.