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Playing bad cards out of "King Fried", Michelle Yeoh embarked on another path of "Chinese actress"?

Text | Ling Hu Boguang

The 2023 American Film Independent Spirit Awards were awarded, and Michelle Yeoh's "Instantaneous Universe" won seven awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The Oscars will be held on March 13, "Instantaneous Universe" has become the biggest hit, Michelle Yeoh has won two Preview Awards, this time is expected to win the Oscar.

If you win Michelle Yeoh, you will set a record for a Chinese actor, to be precise, a yellow actor.

After Michelle Yeoh won the award this time, a large number of blessings appeared on the domestic network, and then reflected on how domestic actresses were, and even the remarks of Chinese films.

If you want to ask my evaluation: Of course, congratulations to Michelle Yeoh on her achievements in the development of Hollywood, after all, it is difficult for Chinese movie audiences to avoid Michelle Yeoh, but what honors Michelle Yeoh has won in Hollywood, and then what honors of Chinese actors, and then to scold Chinese actresses, the sadness of Chinese films will not be on the line.

I don't know if you found out, this time Michelle Yeoh won the award in the United States, and the domestic Internet public opinion is very similar to a person, that is, Tang Wei won the award in South Korea last year with "Determination to Break Up". Well-known Chinese actresses develop overseas or win awards (to realize personal value) = Chinese actresses sad (domestic film garbage).

To put it bluntly, these people do not really care about them winning awards, but use them to win awards to ridicule domestic actresses and the domestic entertainment industry. If you really care about or know a little about the industry (and these two actresses), you'll find it neither realistic nor meaningful to learn from.

The personal achievements of these two actresses, you can only congratulate them on their personal achievements.

After winning 2 films, one step away from the Oscars? How Michelle Yeoh dominated "Hollywood"

Chinese audiences you can really only congratulate Michelle Yeoh, although Michelle Yeoh is active in the Hong Kong film industry, but she is actually Malaysian, her identity is different from Chinese actresses Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, and the later generation of Zhang Ziyi and Li Bingbing.

The only actresses who have really developed through the Chinese film and television industry and then went to Europe and the United States to develop are they (Chinese are different, and you can't always count Jing Tian).

Maggie Cheung's peak is still in Hong Kong films, in Europe and the United States in the small-cost film "Chinese Box", as well as the French film "Clean", Maggie Cheung won the 57th Cannes Best Actress with this film, a veritable Cannes queen, and then "2046" retired.

"Clean" is a French literary film, forced to have but limited commercial dissemination, and limited world popularity.

Gong Li's development in Hollywood is more commercial, and at the beginning "Memoirs of a Geisha" is a commercial art that kind of work, and the movie box office is good, but Zhang Ziyi is the heroine, Gong Li and Michelle Yeoh are almost there, so only Zhang Ziyi has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

Later, Gong Li's "Miami Vice" and "Young Hannibal" are all oriental style fringe heroines in commercial films, not only did not win any awards, but also had limited influence, and did not help the so-called Chinese image, and since then Gong Li has also reduced production and half retired.

The furthest in the world before is indeed Zhang Ziyi, who began to successfully shine a picture of Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and Jackie Chan's "Rush Hour 2" became famous, and these two foreshadowings were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Memoirs of a Geisha".

Zhang Ziyi's last protagonist in Hollywood development was "Knight", which is also a small-cost movie, but the quality of this film is worse than winning an award, after which Zhang Ziyi returned to the Chinese film industry, and then later "Cloverfield Paradox" and "Godzilla 2" played the next borderline heroine.

Li Bingbing took the path of commercial films, and Sino-US relations were good at that time, many of which were Chinese and American films. She started as the culmination of "King of Kung Fu", then "Iron Man 3", "Resident Evil 4", and finally "Megalodon".

It is a pity that it was silent for several years, and even "Megalodon 2" with the participation of Wu Jing was pushed.

In fact, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, and earlier Chen Chong, Wu Junmei and so on. The actresses of that era developed to the peak through Chinese films, and then went to international cooperation with foreigners, married foreigners, then changed nationality, and finally gradually retired.

This time, Michelle Yeoh won the award, and many people on the Internet said that they surpassed Gong Li and Maggie Cheung. I think the main thing is Gong Li, after Maggie Cheung came to that step, there was no pursuit in her career, Maggie Cheung should be completely gone.

Gong Li later not only accepted the work of "Winning the Championship", but also she rarely got on the Golden Horse because of Li An's invitation, and the result was that Gong Li's attitude showed when that happened. You said that even if Gong Li is acting, it proves that she still cares about this market and public opinion, and at least is willing to act, right.

Zhang Ziyi once also found a foreign boyfriend (and also had a public opinion incident), and almost came to that step. But in the end, it came back to the development of the Chinese language. I think she and Gong Li think the same, and there have been many interviews with Zhang Ziyi.

Probably because Hollywood gives them a very fixed role, the remuneration is not enough to suppress you, and Zhang Ziyi has chosen to come back to develop, naturally have to worry about the various stereotypes of Chinese characters in Western works, this kind of thing is transmitted back to China, do you still want to develop in China?

In fact, Europe and the United States do have stereotypes of Chinese characters, and "Shang Qi" and "Mulan" have been talked about so far with huge controversy, which are all movies that Hollywood thinks he is already currying favor with the Chinese market.

PS: At that time, Hollywood only had kung fu films from Hong Kong to Hollywood to develop, and then to Hollywood to shoot East Asia, and then to oriental style characters, and before "Crazy Rich Asians" in 2018, a new round of Chinese film trends did not come.

Surpassing Maggie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi in one fell swoop? Why Michelle Yeoh can be "closed" in Hollywood?

Although Michelle Yeoh developed behind Hong Kong films, she showed her face in Hollywood through "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and later "The Legend of Tianmai", "Sun Catastrophe", "Memoirs of a Geisha", etc., you will find that they are all commercial film borderline heroines, the peak at that time was the heroine of "007", how did Michelle Yeoh stand out?

First, Michelle Yeoh is a Malaysian identity, and relies on Hong Kong films to rise. She is Chinese can act, Southeast Asian can act, Chinese can also act. If it is Chinese actresses such as Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Li Bingbing, there will be scruples.

Like Michelle Yeoh acted in a movie called "Aung San Suu Kyi" in 2011, this role for a Chinese actress has to think.

Michelle Yeoh is very marginal after this movie, and the role is not picked at all, not only the commercial film borderline heroine, but also a large number of other unimportant roles, such as everyone only knows the brilliance of this "Instantaneous Universe", before in addition to "Crazy Rich Asians" and "Shang Qi" many people know.

In the past ten years, Michelle Yeoh has taken over more than 10 works with less important roles, such as soy sauce in "Guardians of the Galaxy 2", and others such as "Morgan", "Gunpowder Milkshake", "Last Christmas", "Mechanic 2", etc., and also dubbed the animated film "Minions 2".

There are also a lot of American drama characters, some of which are more important, such as "Marco Polo", "Strike Back", "Star Trek", "The Witcher" and so on.

In the end, over the years, Michelle Yeoh has not picked roles, does not pick coffee positions, it seems that as long as it is a role, it is completely a job, without any scruples, concerns and additional factors. Chinese actresses such as Zhang Ziyi must also be important female roles in blockbusters, and they must also care about the image of Chinese characters.

Second, Michelle Yeoh is the first sword in Hong Kong movies, the drama path is much broader, some people ask the action actor is not the drama path is more fixed? That's not it, the most successful male actors have a more fixed path, because they don't buy it from other audiences.

Actresses are similar to Zhang Ziyi , Michelle Yeoh, including Li Bingbing, who became famous by relying on a bunch of Dao Ma Dan characters, and their own literary and acting skills are not bad, so the drama path is much broader.

Michelle Yeoh is a knife horse dan action movie can act, ordinary works can also act, but the drama road has opened.

In the end, I don't know if you found out, Michelle Yeoh's rise this time relies on the rise of Chinese works in the new era; First relied on the Chinese works of "Crazy Rich Asians", and then the success of this Chinese-themed film of "Instantaneous Universe", but at the same time, a bunch of Western works and oriental characters were filmed.

The actor who is currently developing similar to Michelle Yeoh seems to be Wu Yanzu, who went to Hollywood from Hong Kong to develop. On the contrary, it is quite interesting that native Chinese actors, whether male or actress, have not yet been recognized by the mainstream of the United States (commercial films and literary awards).

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Playing bad cards out of "King Fried", Michelle Yeoh embarked on another path of "Chinese actress"?

Finally, Michelle Yeoh's development has nothing to do with Chinese actresses, which is further away from Tang Wei. Tang Wei is a Korean daughter-in-law, although the development style is similar, but it seems that she will return to the development of Chinese.

But even Tang Wei Chinese actress can't learn and marry a Korean again? Do you still have to be able to play Ang Lee's "Color Ring"? And then to act in a literary film in the Hong Kong film industry?

Today's Chinese actresses can't learn Michelle Yeoh and Tang Wei. The same model of Gong Li, Maggie Cheung and Shuangbing of Four Dan cannot be learned. Because they all rely on the springboard of Hong Kong films in the peak era to the world, and another is the model of foreign film festivals in literary and art films of the fifth generation of mainland directors.

Now Chinese movies, since Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 2" and then to the "Wandering Earth" series. This discussion is more about the rise of Chinese heavy industry blockbusters, especially the 2023 Spring Festival file "The Wandering Earth 2" has begun to discuss counterattacking American blockbusters. What we need to think about is whether it is a war action film represented by "Wolf Warrior" or a Chinese sci-fi blockbuster represented by "The Wandering Earth".

The participation of female directors and actresses in this is very low, for reasons I will not repeat it here.

Many netizens want to use this to ridicule a handful of domestic films and entertainment industries, the fact is that in addition to ridicule, there is no change in the development model, and the possibility of learning from it.

Finally, Michelle Yeoh at this stage can rejuvenate worthy of congratulations, the achievements of actors still rely on the thickness of the work and acting skills, after all, Hollywood is very difficult for Asians, especially Chinese, to win awards, and Chinese nationality is even more impossible.

The reason why the Golden Globe Awards, the Oscars have high gold content, not to say how much it emphasizes the acting skills, how high the film art, the main thing is that it is run by the United States, the influence of the United States in world pop culture has achieved the influence of this award, before Maggie Cheung interviewed that she probably felt that the script given by Hollywood could not move her, Zhang Ziyi also said that the role did not feel respected.

Therefore, like Michelle Yeoh's step-by-step development to Hollywood now fire, it is also worthy of respect and admiration, to some extent Michelle Yeoh won the award, just like the rise of Chinese in the new era. When you say that you spread Chinese culture, you are indeed countering the stereotype of Western definition.

But there is no need for Chinese audiences to go online about Chinese culture or the rise of Chinese actors, or to scold Chinese actors and culture.

The simplest truth: let's not mention that Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian, and the main creators are all Chinese or foreigners. Even if the movie "Instantaneous Universe" is about Chinese families, it's normal if you can't get it, can't you get it without appreciation? It doesn't make sense.

Now that China and the United States have a lot to do, Michelle Yeoh's development has reached its peak, and there is no need to prove anything.

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