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Without Jackie Chan's miss, Michelle Yeoh's success this time would not have been possible

The Chinese actress who has attracted the most global attention this year is Michelle Yeoh!

With her role as Evelyn in "Instantaneous Universe", she has won many awards such as the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, and the National Review Institute Award for Best Actress. Recently, she became the first Chinese actor in Oscar history to be nominated for "Best Actress", which attracted much attention.

Without Jackie Chan's miss, Michelle Yeoh's success this time would not have been possible

Not every actress will play until the age of 60. For example, Maggie Cheung quit the film industry at the age of 40 at the peak of her performance. And 40-year-old Michelle Yeoh just acted in the martial arts film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee, playing the female number two Yu Xiulian.

Michelle Yeoh, born in 1962, insisted on it for another 20 years after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and finally waited for the movie "Instantaneous Universe" that completely belongs to her, which is really a heavenly reward.

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What's so good about "Instantaneous Universe"?

Before watching the movie, Yi Bloomjun has always had a question: Why did this superhero film featuring the "multiverse" blow a whirlwind in the film industry? Can Michelle Yeoh's acting skills really support it?

After watching the movie, I understood it at once.

Although "Instantaneous Universe" is under the banner of "superhero movie", its essence is an "anti-superhero film", the core of the story is family affection, is the reconciliation and relationship reconstruction between family members. In other words, this is a family ethics film with elements of the superhero genre, which is reminiscent of classic films such as "The Kramers" (1979) and "The Golden Pond" (1982) shot by Hollywood in the last century, but the film absorbs some fashion elements that are popular now.

The film involves the hottest social topics such as mother-daughter conflicts, husband and wife conflicts, native families, and parent-child education. The biggest villains Evelyn faces in the film are her daughter Joy and the villain Chub Tubaji in the "Multiverse". The former is unambitious, opinionated and homosexual and exhausts his mother Evelyn, while the latter creates a "bagel black hole" to destroy the universe. Although the end of the story is a bit old-fashioned, Evelyn finally resolved the contradiction with love, released her deep paranoia, and accepted her daughter's mediocrity, but overall, the film is a relatively profound reflection of the current various family problems, which is still very touching.

Besides, Michelle Yeoh's performance, in fact, just look at the number of close-ups of her appearance in the film. It's rare to see a movie that uses close-ups of an actress so often, and only really powerful actors dare to fully reveal themselves on the screen like this.

Michelle Yeoh's performance lived up to expectations!

It is a face exhausted by the torment of daily tedious life, full of haggard and tired, but with the strength to struggle and cry out in silence.

In fact, from Yu Xiulian in "Crouching Dragon, Hidden Dragon", you can see Michelle Yeoh's temperament, gentle, understanding, forbearing, and wise. There are many scenes of Evelyn's emotional communication in the face of her father, husband and daughter, almost all of which use close-ups, which require actors to use facial expressions to show the inner world of the characters, and Michelle Yeoh has done quite well.

Don't forget, the focus of "Instantaneous Universe" is on the play part. Michelle Yeoh's action scenes are still crisp and neat, and the clouds are flowing. It is also rare that her figure has remained so slim for so many years.

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To play Evelyn is a great gift

"Instantaneous Universe" cost $25 million and currently exceeds $100 million at the global box office.

The role of Evelyn was originally male, and the film invited Jackie Chan to star, but Jackie Chan was filming "Pioneer" at the time, and he couldn't spare time, and finally fell on Michelle Yeoh.

Jackie Chan texted her after learning of her award, "Congratulations! You know your character came to me first," Michelle Yeoh replied: Thank you, buddy, you did me a big favor.

At the Golden Globes ceremony at the beginning of the year, Michelle Yeoh, who received the trophy, recalled her hardships when she first went to Hollywood and was still very excited, "When I first came to Hollywood, I was told that you are a minority. I thought to myself, oh yes? I don't believe it. Some people were surprised that I could actually speak English, and I said yes, I came here for 13 hours on a plane, and I learned it on a plane. ”

"Time flies so fast, I turned 60 last year. I'm sure the women here understand that as you get older, you seem to have fewer and fewer opportunities to perform. Sometimes I say to myself, hey, you've had a great career, you've worked with so many great directors, it's already brilliant... Until I met "Instantaneous Universe", which is a story about the relationship between an ordinary immigrant mother and her daughter, it is a great gift to play such a role that is deeply empathetic to everyone. Because no matter what universe she is in, Evelyn fights for love and family. ”

She added, "This award goes to every giant who has ever stepped on the shoulders of me, to all the pioneers who are similar to me, and to all those who will embark on the journey of the future with me." ”

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The struggle from beating women to acting

Michelle Yeoh was born into a well-to-do family in Malaysia. When she was a child, her dream was to become a ballet dancer, but unfortunately she injured her spine while practicing and her dance dream was shattered.

At the age of 21, she signed up for the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant and finally won the championship, which also made her favored by the Hong Kong film industry and got the opportunity to shoot advertisements with Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat.

In 1984, 22-year-old Michelle Yeoh starred in her first film "The Owl and the Dumbo", in which she played a female teacher.

Without Jackie Chan's miss, Michelle Yeoh's success this time would not have been possible

Soon, her athletic talent found room in the film. In 1985, she starred in "Royal Senior Sister" and became a hit. She played Senior Inspector Wu Luoxian with short hair, quick hands, and jealousy, which quickly swept the film industry.

But Michelle Yeoh chose to marry Pan Disheng, the founder of Debao Company. Unfortunately, this marriage only lasted 4 years.

Without Jackie Chan's miss, Michelle Yeoh's success this time would not have been possible

In 1992, Michelle Yeoh returned to the film industry and filmed "Police Story 3: Super Police" with Jackie Chan, which was also a great success.

Without Jackie Chan's miss, Michelle Yeoh's success this time would not have been possible

In 1995, while filming "The Story of Akin" directed by Xu Anhua, she jumped off a bridge more than ten meters high, and as a result, an accident occurred, resulting in multiple fractures in her body, 3 broken ribs, and almost paralyzed for life.

In 1997, she participated in "007 Tomorrow's Empire" and became the first "Bond Girl" in the East. She plays agent Lin Hui in the film, good at fighting, familiar with firearms, plus flying cornices, allowing global audiences to see the style of oriental actresses.

Without Jackie Chan's miss, Michelle Yeoh's success this time would not have been possible

In 2001, she played Yu Xiulian in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee, and Ang Lee's evaluation of her was: This role can only be played by Michelle Yeoh, and no one else.

Without Jackie Chan's miss, Michelle Yeoh's success this time would not have been possible

Since then, she has also starred in films such as "Memoirs of a Geisha", "Aung San Suu Kyi" and "Children of Yellowstone", performing well.

It is worth mentioning that in 2010, she starred in the martial arts film "Sword Rain", although it did not perform well when it was released, but as time went by, the evaluation of this film became higher and higher, and some people even thought that the film was "the best martial arts film since the new century". Michelle Yeoh played another identity "Zeng Jing" after the plastic surgery of the killer "Xiaoyu" in the film, showing her strength in acting.

In recent years, Michelle Yeoh has mostly played supporting roles, such as playing a strict and traditional mother in "Crazy Rich Asians".

Without Jackie Chan's miss, Michelle Yeoh's success this time would not have been possible

In "Last Christmas", he plays a owner who runs a Christmas decoration shop and likes to fight with poisonous tongues.

If you don't forget, there will be an echo! Being able to persist for so many years shows that Michelle Yeoh really loves acting. Congratulations also to her for finally fully demonstrating the charm and acting skills of an actor in "Instantaneous Universe", and I wish her good luck.

Reporter and editor of this issue: Wang Jinyue

Executive Producer: Jia Wei

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