Text | Sister Yi (Zhou Guiyi) Ye Ziyao
These days, Michelle Yeoh has become a spiritual totem.
She made history by winning the 95th Oscar for Best Actress with "Instantaneous Universe". She became the first Chinese and Asian actress in Oscar history.
Even the award ceremony on that day was full of highlights of "female power".
Michelle Yeoh's group photo with two actresses, Halle Berry and Jessica Chastain, side by side, is the footsteps of women of different colors to the world, and has become a moving historical moment.
After hearing Michelle Yeoh take the film, Wu Zhuoshan, who became popular all over the world with "Killing Eve", was even more excited at the scene than Michelle Yeoh herself.
and Michelle Yeoh's still energetic acceptance speech.
She shouts to boys and girls like her, don't let anyone define that your peak is over, never give up!
She wants to dedicate this Oscar to her mother and all the mothers in the world, who are the real superheroes.
Looking at the 60-year-old Michelle Yeoh, who spent 40 years walking here, holding the Oscar trophy with those arms full of muscle lines, at that moment, I couldn't help but sigh: Michelle Yeoh's life is itself a multiverse.
In so many inflection points in life, if she is not firm enough, she may not come to this day.
In the movie "Instantaneous Universe", Michelle Yeoh plays a middle-aged Chinese mother, "showing her strength" in countless parallel worlds, female chefs, female stars, martial arts masters... ..Presenting countless possibilities in life.
And the heroine's choice is still to protect her daughter and family in the dilemma of life full of chicken feathers.
In real life, Michelle Yeoh was originally in the N parallel world and had different versions of her life.
Our sister Yi watched the movie and wrote that Michelle Yeoh was born into a wealthy family and had a prominent family.
His grandfather was the father of Malaysian transport and his father was a lawyer who was canonized as Dato' Dato. Michelle Yeoh is a typical "rich second generation" + "official second generation".
From elementary school dance, temperament and appearance, marrying a wealthy family as a wealthy family and being an elegant wife and godson is also a logical path.
But Michelle Yeoh no, practicing dance hurts her spine and can't continue to realize her ballet dream, so she will participate in beauty pageants and dream of showbiz.
At that time, beauty pageants were just a springboard for many women to marry into wealthy families, but not for Michelle Yeoh.
Michelle Yeoh became an actress, and she could have made a less hard "vase" in the world of light and shadow, playing a female role that needed to be protected.
But Michelle Yeoh no, she doesn't want to just wear beautiful clothes and wait to be saved by men, she wants to be able to fight like a man, and be a hard and dangerous female star.
On the set, she watched Sammo Hung and Lin Zixiang do actions, just like a complete choreographic work, and she was eager to try it and felt that she could too. The important thing is that she really took a step forward and volunteered to try.
She joined the Hong family class, practiced martial arts every day, and endured hardships seriously. She knows what kind of determination and effort she needs to put in to have a place in that male-dominated field.
Jackie Chan was afraid that she would be hurt and said that he would protect her. Michelle Yeoh refused, "Want me to stay in the kitchen to wash clothes and cook?" Think beautiful".
Not only does she not accept protection, but she also has to challenge difficult stunts.
In her first martial arts movie "Royal Senior Sister", she chased speeding cars, hit her head on glass, and staged various tough battles. , a dozen became famous.
Not only does she not need to be protected, but she also insists on not using a stand-in, going into battle herself, and even challenging more difficult stunts.
Michelle Yeoh said: "I don't accept others doing my work."
Well, the gap between people, sometimes that's it. Some people do not accept others to do their own work, and some people always worry that others can do their own work. This matter, all around us, is also everywhere.
On Michelle Yeoh's way to becoming the "first kung fu actress", she was injured countless times.
Broke artery, dislocated right shoulder, jumped from an 18-story building, broke ribs, fractured calf, was thrown out by the car, almost caused irreparable results....... In short, in Hong Kong, Michelle Yeoh was directly blacklisted by insurance companies.
Michelle Yeoh once had a marriage to Hong Kong wealthy businessman Pan Disheng, and several movies when she first debuted were shot by Pan Disheng.
Female celebrities who are rich and wealthy after receiving both fame and fortune are also the envy of others, but Michelle Yeoh, who does not accept to marry a woman, is not willing to accept this "gift of fate".
Get married and have children, and then the mother depends on the son? No, life is sea, Michelle Yeoh knows that the rich purdah is not her shore.
Three years of marriage, divorce ended, Michelle Yeoh returned to the film industry again.
She could have continued in the regions and fields she was already familiar with, but Michelle Yeoh was not, she was not satisfied with this, and wanted to go to the bigger world.
Go shoot 007 and be a "Bond girl"; Go to film Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and practice literary drama outside of martial arts.
I want others to know that Michelle Yeoh can not only make action movies and martial arts movies. She also did hand over films such as "Memoirs of a Geisha", "Aung San Suu Kyi" and "Star Quest".
In the face of Hollywood's stereotypes of Asian actresses, as she gets older, she can either accept thin supporting roles such as mother-in-law and mother, or choose to leave another battlefield, but Michelle Yeoh does not, she chooses to stand there, keep exercising, continue to shine, and wait for opportunities.
Until waiting for "Instantaneous Universe", waiting for this role that she has been looking forward to for too long.
"Instantaneous Universe is an opportunity I've been waiting too long for to show my talents, be funny, be real, or be sad."
This is also why the heroine who works for her family in the movie is herself very different from Michelle Yeoh's life, but she loves this character very much.
She can fully express herself in this way: a woman, no matter how ordinary and ordinary she seems, can still have the strength to protect her family, protect her loved ones, and realize some seemingly unattainable daydreams at any age.
The core of the character is actually very consistent with Michelle Yeoh's past life.
Michelle Yeoh has come to this day, naturally unable to jump some "time and place are favorable".
For example, her family background allows her to not have to carry the burden in the entertainment industry, and she is not so eager to achieve quick results in wealth and fame.
Don't marry a wealthy family, don't become a Hollywood star, and there are also wealthy family properties waiting to be inherited back.
Her upbringing and language environment allow her to travel more freely in different film and television markets, Hong Kong, mainland China, Hollywood, and her oriental face and international vision allow her to switch barrier-free, integrate and look for opportunities.
But I think the most important thing is that Michelle Yeoh has a stable core and a heartfelt acceptance of herself, and from beginning to end, she is not held hostage by social conventions.
She does not accept her husband and children, and pampering is a winner in life; Don't think that choosing to divorce and leaving a wealthy family is a failure in life; It is not bound to traditional intimacy and parent-child relationships.
She did not remarry, but had a boyfriend who had been in love for 19 years and accompanied her to witness the moment of making history;
She did not give birth, but often had a child in the daily life she shared, no matter what kind of relationship, she did not entangle or define, just enjoy it.
Back then, she dared to directly shut up Jackie Chan and let Jackie Chan say that "women should be married and teach their children, except Michelle Yeoh";
Now she dares to shout on the spot at the Golden Globes in the face of music urging her to hurry up and end her speech: "Please shut up, otherwise I will beat you, I mean it."
Not all wealthy people will go to "ask for their own hardships" or completely get rid of the meaning that secular marriage imposes on women.
Looking at the entertainment industry, female stars with well-off families, Guan Ying and Sun Yunyun are all married early, married and have children, and stepping into the entertainment industry is also a ticket;
Hong Kong's "last princess" Chen Huilin, although she will also come out to participate in activities now, but after getting married and having children, she spends more time and energy at home;
The mainland's "third generation of red" Han Xue and Zhu Zhu, with their own superior conditions, perform some urban dramas that are familiar with it, receive some variety shows or endorsements, and take some fashion resources, which is enough to support the façade of a "female star".
There is really no one who comes from a thousand gold background to "fight" Michelle Yeoh like this.
Look at the predecessors who debuted as the same "kung fu actress" as Michelle Yeoh.
Zheng Peipei, the first female in China, married a wealthy businessman Yuan Wentong at the peak of her career, moved to the United States, gave up her acting career, became pregnant eight times and miscarried four times for giving birth to a son, and the last seventeen years of marriage ended with a clean body out of the house, and then came back is already Mrs. Hua in "Tang Bohu Points Autumn Fragrance".
Hu Huizhong, who became famous for the "Overlord Flower" series, looks like Lin Qingxia, got married and had children at the age of 40, married ophthalmologist He Zhiping, and completely stopped filming. In 2017, her husband was arrested in the United States on suspicion of corruption and bribery, she sold her mansion to save her husband, and He Zhiping was released from prison three years later. In the 10th anniversary performance of "Dream Like a Dream", 64-year-old Hu Huizhong played the elderly Gu Xianglan.
In comparison, Hui Yinghong, who suffered too much when she was young, has rarely been popular until now, active on the screen, but has long ceased to "fight". In 2017, Hui Yinghong, then 57 years old, filmed the action film "Mrs. K" with a recurrence of old injuries, announcing that this was her last action movie.
Only Michelle Yeoh is still flying on the screen, fisting to the flesh, personally going into battle, and crossing the multiverse.
In the past 40 years, how determined and self-controlled a woman must be to avoid so many temptations and shortcuts and come to this parallel world where the Oscars are held today.
And it must be said that to be able to stand firm to the age of 60 to realize the dream, beyond the golden period, and win over her peers, it is very realistic that Michelle Yeoh's strong physical strength and energy.
This is thanks to the fact that she has been honing her body all year round, and the muscle lines on her arms are all memories.
"The effect of physical weakness can be seen not only in academic careers, but also on a person's state of mind, spleen and stomach, and even outlook on life, which inevitably causes many pathologies."
This quote from Zhu Guangqian applies to any era.
It's hard to expect a physically bankrupt person to break out of the cage, cross barriers, break through the confinement... This has nothing to do with willpower, it is really more than enough and insufficient strength.
After all, when people are physically fragile, they will only think "forget it, life is just like this".
I think this is also Michelle Yeoh's firmness, and she did not leave any reason for herself to get by.
She deserved to win this one.
No matter which universe it is in, it is Michelle Yeoh's year.