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Preface
There has always been a saying among the people that "you can't be rich for three generations".
In the entertainment industry, it has become "famous for only three generations".
After all, what the second generation of stars have done now is too outrageous.
In recent years, the second generation of entertainment stars has caused too many troubles.
Playing big names, cheating, and even violating women, etc., so for a long time, "second generation star" was a not very good word.
But in the second generation of stars, there are also a group of people who give their celebrity fathers a long face.
Moreover, one is better than the other.
01
The first is Zeng Guoxiang.
When you first hear this name, you may not be impressed.
But if you mention "July and Ansheng" and "Young You", you must know.
That's right, Zeng Guoxiang is the director of these two films.
And his father is even more "famous".
He is Zeng Zhiwei.
In fact, Zeng Guoxiang has always been a very resistant attitude towards the fact that his father is Zeng Zhiwei.
Of course, not only because Zeng Zhiwei's reputation is not very good, but more importantly, Zeng Guoxiang believes that his father's aura covers himself.
Zeng Guoxiang is actually a very independent person, so independent that he hopes that in the eyes of others, he is just Zeng Guoxiang.
The first thing he didn't want others to say when he saw him was: This is Zeng Zhiwei's son.
But this is not possible.
The Hong Kong entertainment industry is so big, Zeng Zhiwei is a "big brother" level figure in it, it is difficult for anyone to look at Zeng Guoxiang with an independent eye.
Fortunately, Zeng Zhiwei also noticed his son's pain.
So, he provided his son Zeng Guoxiang with a good place to go.
That day, Zeng Guoxiang was taken to a room by his father, and a person inside had been waiting for a long time.
He is Chen Kexin.
Zeng Zhiwei knew that with Chen Kexin's temper, it was impossible to treat his son favorably because of his face, and he could just see how persistent his so-called independence was.
In this way, the "torture" belonging to Zeng Guoxiang began!
Just like his father expected, Chen Kexin showed no mercy to his subordinates.
Carrying tea and water to carry the machine, pushing the rail in the backpack to supplement the lights, thinking of dirty work and tiring work, the first name Chen Kexin shouted was Zeng Guoxiang.
At first, Zeng Guoxiang was really hard, but gradually, no one called himself "Zeng Zhiwei's son" but "Guoxiang".
Zeng Guoxiang has been doing this for five years.
Chen Kexin realized that Zeng Guoxiang really wanted to be a director and really wanted to achieve a career.
So, he decided to come to "teach each other", as for how much Zeng Guoxiang can absorb, it all depends on his own efforts.
02
In the following years, Chen Kexin taught Zeng Guoxiang how to be a director.
In 2010, Zeng Guoxiang decided to start his career as a director, but because it was the first time to be a director, many things were already "unexperienced" even if they were taught by their master before.
So, he pulled in another director, Yin Zhiwen, as a co-director.
And the name of this work is "Lovers' Whisper".
Of course, after the release of this movie, there are still some people who have raised doubts.
Because people have found out, why are all superstars in this movie?
For example, Eason Chan, Peng Yuyan, and his father Zeng Zhiwei.
Therefore, some people say, don't you rely on your father's fame?
But in fact, it may be a prejudice.
You must know that Zeng Guoxiang has been an assistant under Chen Kexin for ten years, and he was diligent and diligent before these ten years, so he was naturally able to accumulate some of his own contacts.
As for his father Zeng Zhiwei, it is more understandable.
The so-called "no father and son on the battlefield", and naturally there is "no family affection at all" on the set.
Don't say that you are a father, you are a grandfather, as long as your grandson is a director and you are an actor, you must be obedient.
Of course, from this movie, it can also be seen that Zeng Guoxiang has some "caution".
In fact, from the structure of "Lover's Whisper", it can be seen that Zeng Guoxiang is very smart, and it can even be said that he is very clear about his positioning.
He knows that he is a director for the first time, and even if he has been dormant for ten years, he still can't avoid the shortcomings of his "lack of experience".
So, he was clever enough to make a segmented movie.
The so-called segmented film is to divide a movie into five stories, so as to avoid the collapse of the plot caused by the inability to control the "overall logic".
Sure enough, that year, Zeng Guoxiang won himself a nomination for "Best New Director" with his careful thinking.
However, four years later, he disappeared again!
03
Until 2015, Zeng Guoxiang was "forced out" by his master Chen Kexin.
In fact, in the four years from 2011 to 2015, Zeng Guoxiang has been "accumulating strength" and waiting for the next outbreak.
At this time, Master Chen Kexin received a script called "July and Ansheng".
Originally, this book was supposed to be directed by Chen Kexin, but he chose to refuse.
In Chen Kexin's view, the emotions expressed in the movie are closely related to the director's emotions.
If you ask an elderly and mature director to make a youth film like "July and Ansheng", you can shoot it, but there is a high probability that there will be a "sense of separation" that does not match your age.
Therefore, Chen Kexin thinks that young people's movies should be left to young people.
So he stuffed the script to Zeng Guoxiang.
As a result, Zeng Guoxiang won both the "Golden Horse Best Director Nomination" and the "Academy Best Director Nomination" for "July and Ansheng".
Since then, Zeng Guoxiang has opened the life mode of "the sky is high and the birds fly, and the sea is wide and the fish jumps".
In 2020, Zeng Guoxiang won three awards with "Young You"!
Among them is the Golden Horse Best Director Award.
And the Netflix version of "The Three-Body Problem" will also be directed by Zeng Guoxiang, which can't help but make countless people look forward to it.
epilogue
Looking at Zeng Guoxiang's past life, you will find that he is lucky.
Why?
Because in reality there are too many children like him, they are ashamed of their parents' resources.
Even when I was in school, I would feel guilty about eating a bowl of noodles for fifteen yuan outside with my living expenses.
This is actually a sign of excessive independence.
Sometimes, it doesn't really have to be so tiring to live.
As long as your actions don't hurt anyone, it's a reasonable behavior to sleep in and order a big meal.
This is also the secret of a happy life, that is, not to put too much pressure on yourself.