Stars can be packaged, can be changed stubble by stubble, but Andy Lau is different, looking at the entertainment industry, it is difficult for us to find another star like him, shining for 40 years without bleakness.
On July 29, the live broadcast of The 40th anniversary of Andy Lau's debut was opened as scheduled.
This one-and-a-half-hour live broadcast attracted more than 100 million online viewers, and the influence of the public proves that Andy Lau, who debuted 40 years ago, is still an unprecedented "top idol".
The intimate Andy Lau turned off the function of brushing gifts in advance. There is no chicken soup, no sensationalism, and no selling in the live broadcast, but it is as warm as an old friend's reminiscence.
As he said, "It is not to celebrate a person's 40 years of redness, but to celebrate a person's 40 years of serious work."
When Andy Lau became popular, there was no concept of "traffic" and "love beans", but he was still the most popular star in the past 40 years, and he had also become a representative symbol of the Chinese music scene and the film world.
The reason why Andy Lau has flourished for a long time is not accidental.
Even he himself can be called "the best counterexample of all chaos in the entertainment industry."
In Andy Lau, we really see that traffic and strength are not incompatible, appearance and acting skills can also echo each other, and the sought after Uranus superstar can still be approachable.
Andy Lau, a "stupid kid" who has been working hard for forty years, does not know how many "unscrupulous artists" have been hurt in the face.
Stars, idols, traffic, these keywords in the entertainment industry, under the public's attention, have become the "high-risk crowd" of frequent "house collapse".
The people of stars and idols collapsed, from the initial "wolf coming", to now everyone has stopped the water, and it is not strange to see the strange.
Actors are out of character, idols are out of character, and artists who have lost their morality have become a force to be reckoned with in the show business circle.
A few years ago, a new group of showbiz emerged – digital actors. In front of the camera, they only open their mouths to say numbers, not to the lines, which makes the dedicated actors and voice teachers collapse.
Spicy irony or resolute resistance, but for the real identity of these digital ladies and digital gentlemen, the people in the circle are secretive and point to the end, so that the audience can see it in a hurry.
"Old drama bone," Wang Jinsong said, "memorizing lines is the gun you went to the battlefield." Andy Lau also said, "Remembering lines is the basic quality of actors."
The existence of digital actors has become the group portrait and normal in the entertainment industry. In fact, this is the actor's disqualification, and even the loss of morality.
As for the disqualification and loss of morality of traffic idols, it is even more commonplace and commonplace.
To dali, top idols such as Zheng Shuang and Wu Yifan have successively "thundered", and unscrupulous artists who trample on public order and good customs have emerged in an endless stream.
To a small extent, the establishment of people, speculation, high film remuneration, bad acting skills, etc., this is the pass of the times - the thinking that traffic is king has led to the blind pursuit of profits by brokerage companies and behind-the-scenes platforms, and immature artists have been pushed to the stage.
But in the final analysis, this is more of a personal problem of the artist, who cannot focus on his own job, is unwilling to pay diligently for it, and will finally get nothing if he wants to get it for nothing.
Artists who have lost their morality should all know the story of Andy Lau.
Unfortunately, they only hope that they can become an idol like Andy Lau, but they have never used Andy Lau's way to restrain themselves and sharpen themselves.
Andy Lau's song sings: "God loves stupid children." ”
However, God has never given a preference to stupid children, fate will push the opportunity to everyone fairly, Andy Lau just used his own efforts and diligence to seize the opportunity again and again.
In a short video he posted, Andy Lau said that "the years have changed but I have not changed", which is a lyric of the single "Seventeen Years Old" released when he was forty years old.
This song is written from the age of 17 to Andy Lau's 40 years of age, and now, 20 years later, he has reached the age of 60, and in Andy Lau's view, he has still not changed.
Andy Lau seriously thanked his fans, time is merciless, and Andy Lau, who is a year of flower armor, cannot escape.
The dyed hair could remain dark and shiny, but the wrinkles had crawled down his neck to the corners of his forehead, and what remained unchanged was the piercing eyes and the still firm gaze.
For Andy Lau, the past forty years of brilliant stars are not only a glorious past and full of glory, not only a superstar road with flowers and applause, but also an ordinary person who has worked seriously for forty years.
This calm and peaceful, I don't know how many disqualified artists are ashamed of it.
Superstars don't start out as superstars.
In 1981, Andy Lau officially signed a contract with Hong Kong TVB and officially debuted as an actor.
He always said that he was stupid, that he had to be meticulous and conscientious in everything he did to do well, and that what others could easily accomplish sometimes he had to repeat many times in earnest.
Like countless newcomer actors, Andy Lau has to constantly interview and run dragon sets in various crews, looking for roles that can be played by himself, playing passers-by and playing corpses are common things.
Even if it is a small role that flashes in the camera, he also has to carefully ponder and carefully design, and surprisingly, this seriousness has been insisted on by him for forty years, and he has also achieved the well-deserved King Andy Lau.
At that time, there was a blackboard inside the company, which was a notice bar specially used by the training class to record the work tasks of students.
Andy Lau is usually the one who gets the most tasks, and his name is on the list almost every day.
The dragon set is not easy to perform, not to say, but also always have to suffer from the nest.
In one shooting, Andy Lau wanted to play the little brother behind Zhou Runfa, and originally had only one line: "Yes, Brother Long." ”
However, in order to play this role well, Andy Lau "added drama" with a toothpick in his mouth and an aggressive expression.
Such a self-assertion angered the on-site director and was scolded fiercely.
This not glorious period was not forgotten by Andy Lau, but he wrote this period into his single, which is the song "Seventeen Years Old".
"Stars also have training classes, just one year is too fresh, remember the fourth brother, Fa brother have already met"
If you compare the star training class of that year with today's talent stage, there are indeed many similarities. The results after the draft are very different.
Compared with Andy Lau, who is young but can play steadily and work hard, today's young talent artists are particularly impetuous.
Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared.
In 1983, Andy Lau was given the opportunity to perform Jin Yong's martial arts drama "Divine Eagle Hero", and his role of Yang Guo was handsome and uninhibited, becoming a TV drama classic, not to mention, and also made Andy Lau a hit, becoming one of the "Five Tiger Generals" who were praised by Wireless.
When acting in a TV series was the most smooth, Andy Lau made an unexpected decision - he wanted to act in movies.
You know, Andy Lau's old owner TVB focuses on TV series, and the film business is very small.
Andy Lau's move is tantamount to directly tearing his face with the old owner.
For the sake of the movie dream, Andy Lau refused to renew his contract with TVB, so he was banned and hidden.
It was not until Mr. Run Run Shaw came forward to mediate that Andy Lau successfully left wireless and started his film career.
1989 was the year when Andy Lau broke out in full swing.
In this year, 16 movies in which he participated were released, the most notable of which was his cooperation with Zhou Runfa in "God of Gamblers", in which he played Zhou Runfa's apprentice.
Directed by Wong Kar-wai and starring Andy Lau with Jacky Cheung and Maggie Cheung, "Carmen in Mong Kok" made Andy Lau nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards.
Perhaps it was the experience of being hidden by the snow that made Andy Lau have a sense of crisis, and while entering the film industry, he also opened his own singer career.
In 1985, Andy Lau joined Huaxing Records and released his debut album "Only Know That I Love You At This Moment".
Andy Lau won awards with gold songs such as "Goodbye", "If You Are My Legend", "Can You Please" and won the Golden Melody Award for The Most Popular Male Singer many times.
In the early 1990s, together with Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok and Li Ming, he was named the "Four Kings" of the Hong Kong entertainment industry by the media.
Singing and you write, and the first song written by Andy Lau, "Love is So Stupid", was published, and the famous lyricist Huang Xia deliberately wrote an article to criticize Andy Lau's masterpiece fiercely.
Huang Said Bluntly, "I've never seen anyone who writes so stupidly."
This scolding is three years, Andy Lau privately met Huang Xiadu and said, "Uncle Xia, don't you scold me so hard?" ”
It was not until 1997 that Andy Lau wrote "Ice Rain" that Huang Xia, the talented son of Xiangjiang, looked at him with admiration.
"Ice Rain" does not have much gorgeous writing skills, but it makes people feel that Andy Lau renders that helpless and sad and tearful emotion.
Together with singing, Andy Lau did not have any talent, but his young voice made him hit a lot of walls on the road to entering the music world.
He did not lose heart, but worked harder to practice singing, while learning to improve his musical strength, while analyzing his own voice conditions, practicing a strong vibrato, forming his own unique style, so that his music and voice have formed a high degree of recognition.
There is no gorgeous voice, and some people describe him as "using the method of acting to sing", and each of his songs is poured with the fullest emotion.
In this way, it is not difficult to understand why the current artist collapse and star disqualification have become the norm in the show business circle.
Traffic is like a hormone, quickly ripening the idol industry, under the guidance of the concept of "ripening, short-term, and making fast money" in the domestic cultural and entertainment environment, when punctual, reading scripts, and memorizing lines can become advantages, the mentality of practitioners has also changed.
They are like frogs soaked in the warm water of the flow, losing the motivation to improve their business ability, and they cannot see the crisis after the warm water is boiled.
Just in response to that unearned gain, when they can get fame, status, money and fans without having to pay hard, how willing they are to give up a comfortable life, get out of their comfort zone, and go to a new field to start from scratch.
In this way, it is natural to see more and more unqualified artists who are not worthy of morality and lack of artistic ability, and like the four kings of Hong Kong, it is difficult to find artists with comprehensive development of film and television songs.
In the first decade of Andy Lau's debut, he participated in more than 60 works, including "Carmen in Mong Kok", "God of Gamblers", "The Biography of Inspector Leiluo" and other popular masterpieces.
In the four decades since Andy Lau's debut, he has participated in more than 160 film works, including classic works such as "Infernal Affairs", "Disciple", "Sister Peach" and other classic works, of course, there are also many bad films of Thunderman.
However, no matter which director he is with, how small the actor is, and what kind of crew he is in, Andy Lau is always like a newcomer who has just debuted, maintaining a reverence and diligence for his work.
Even if he is already a top actor who can say one thing or another in the crew, and even choose from tens of millions of people, he just keeps his true nature and seriously does what an actor should do.
Starred in "God of Gamblers", he went to the casino to worship the master, and specially learned a series of difficult playing card actions such as "pulling cards", "palm changing cards", "fancy cutting cards" and so on;
Starring in the movie "Cast Name", there was a scene to pull a large iron chain, Andy Lau was too involved in filming, the little thumb was twisted by the chain and fractured, and there was no way to straighten it;
"Rescue Mr. Wu", the scene where Wang Qianyuan, who plays the robber, tears up the ticket and strangles Andy Lau with a wire is completely real, just to present the most real effect on the screen.
He is well aware of his great influence, has always used a positive image to show people, and even reluctant to play a bad person for this reason.
In an event, Andy Lau mentioned: "I don't play the bad guys, even if I play the bad guys, I must die in the end." ”
What the idol baggage brings to Andy Lau is not a pretense, but a deep sense of social responsibility.
Dedication is a valuable quality, and it is also the professional ethics that everyone should have.
What makes us feel admired is not his dedication, but his ability to take his work seriously for forty years, even if he is already a superstar known in the Chinese world.
Andy Lau himself did not think so, "it is not that I am dedicated, but the current actor standards have changed", Jackie Chan brother also had similar feelings.
On the other hand, some young artists at present do not expect them to develop in all aspects of film and television song and dance, but only expect them to perform a sense of truth when acting, not to fake singing when singing, and to be able to keep up with the beat when dancing.
Nowadays, it is out of reach to expect certain artists to achieve a simple integrity that is consistent with the general public. Whose reason is this?
It is not that the years have changed and Andy Lau has not changed, it is the entertainment circle that has collapsed and broken, making the diligence and dedication of Andy Lau and the like have become rare treasures.
Xiaohong relies on praise, dahong relies on life, and Andy Lau's "life" is in his own hands.
He can become a "stupid child" favored by God only because he has figured out the law of good luck distributed by god--the heavenly reward.
Being a top stream for a while may depend on praise, but behind the success of forty years of top stream is forty years of hard work and a high degree of self-discipline.
Andy Lau, an ordinary person who works hard, is happy forty years after his debut, and looks forward to your more wonderful forty years!