Tony Leung won the award again.
With the role of Cheng Yiyan in "Goldfinger", he won the Best Actor of the 2024 Hong Kong Film Directors Association.
In the film, the most unexpected thing is that Cheng Yiyan used 100 Hong Kong dollars to achieve a counterattack in life and become a financial tycoon.
He is like having the ability to turn a stone into gold, he can have whatever he wants.
Wearing a designer suit, smoking a cigar, and a beautiful secretary followed.
However, he started out as a failed builder and was heavily in debt.
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In order to escape the creditor, Cheng Yiyan decided to try his luck and took a boat from Malaysia to Hong Kong.
His first job was pure "swaggering".
In order to assist the young master of the Zeng family, Zeng Cambridge (played by Ren Dahua), to sell a plot of land with no water, electricity and no roads, Cheng Yiyan pretended to be Datuk Hami and shouted high prices, wanting to use the anchoring effect to set up the buyer Brother Song.
For this performance, he received a salary of 100 Hong Kong dollars (at that time, 100 Hong Kong dollars could be exchanged for more than 1,000 yuan).
On the way back, Cheng Yiyan found that Brother Song's car had been tailgating, so in order not to show flaws, he asked the driver to drive to a high-end hotel to continue the performance.
He sat down at the high-end restaurant on the first floor, ordered a cigar and brandy, and then gave the waiter a tip of the only HK$100 he had.
The shot was so generous that Brother Song, who saw this scene, completely believed in his identity.
Sure enough, Brother Song took the bait.
Cheng Yiyan's performance made Zeng Cambridge earn more than 1 million.
After that, Zeng Cambridge recognized Cheng Yiyan as his "younger brother" and took him to make money and fly him.
In less than three years, Cheng Yiyan earned the first million in his life.
Do what you are good at.
Cheng Yiyan took the million to open a company, from one to dozens.
On the surface, it looks like a business, but in fact, it is for the appreciation of the stock "Jiawen Century".
Who would have thought that stocks should be spent as money.
Cheng Yiyan really did it.
Subsequently, Zeng Cambridge also brought Cheng Yiyan into high society, and played more and more with his sons.
Anyway, everyone earns money together, and Cheng Yiyan has become "Brother Yan" in everyone's minds.
Nowadays, the stock "Jiawen Century" is even worth more than money!
Cheng Yiyan has become a real winner in life, and everyone looks up to him.
Cheng Yiyan played by Tony Leung, with precise performance and delicate feelings, is really worthy of the ceiling of acting skills.
Tony Leung in the performance shines like a light bulb, but in reality he is introverted and socially phobic.
It all started when he was a child.
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For as long as he can remember, Tony Leung hated his father.
He drank and gambled all day long, and when he came home, he was angry with his mother.
In the midst of the quarrel, the young Tony Leung could only go back to his room and lock the door, cover his ears with pillows, and cry silently.
Tony Leung recalled painful childhood moments in the documentary:
"It was winter, the windows at home were iron, and even the smell of rust was cold, and I still remember the temperature and smell. ”
It wasn't until one day that his childhood changed.
At that time, Tony Leung was not yet ten years old.
After his father ran away from home, his mother took Tony Leung and his young sister to move in with his uncle.
Although the uncle is not thin on their mother and son, he has always sent people under the fence, and his life is not easy.
As Tony Leung grows up, the more he understands that it is good to keep his voice in his heart, and he doesn't need to trouble adults.
His heart began to become mature and withdrawn, and he used his studies to numb the bleakness of life.
From the eyes of outsiders, he is a child of someone else's family with excellent grades.
At the age of 15, he decided to give up his studies to ease his mother's burden.
He delivered newspapers, sold various electrical appliances and clothing, and worked as an accountant.
Anyway, I can do it wherever I can make money, and I never have any dreams.
Fate can bring friends, and friends can also bring different destinies.
By chance, Tony Leung met Stephen Chow:
At that time, Stephen Chow told me every day how good acting was, and then he tried it. ”
Stephen Chow and Tony Leung met to apply for the artist training class, and the 20-year-old Tony Leung began to move towards the road of actors.
I don't know if I don't try, it's amazing to try.
Acting is like a girl who can make him fall in love at first sight, so that he is willing to love and spoil her for the rest of his life.
Because during the performance, he feels comfortable and can release the pent-up emotions in his heart.
He said:
"I like acting for a very selfish purpose, it's all because I feel like I can find an outlet to vent, and for me, acting is a balance in my life. ”
Tony Leung's unfortunate childhood is also over, but its pain is like a thorn but still pierces his heart.
Only acting can erase Tony Leung's pain.
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Outside of acting, Tony Leung likes to be alone.
Even though he was married to Carina Lau, he still chose to settle in Japan for more than 20 years.
Here, instead of learning a word of Japanese, he enjoys not communicating with people.
One person drinks coffee, one person eats, one person rides a bicycle, one person listens to the sound of a train passing by......
Here he has no one he knows, and no one who knows him.
This kind of life makes him feel at ease.
Someone asked him if he didn't feel bored doing the same thing every day.
"It's not boring, I think every day is different.
I surf every day, but the waves are different, my mentality is different every day, the weather is different, how can it be the same?"
Obviously, in his daily life, Tony Leung is knowing himself, returning to his heart and being aware of life.
Like a philosopher, he has a different understanding of life.
Transparent, free, and rushing.
If Tony Leung hadn't had these ups and downs in his childhood, maybe he wouldn't be who he is today.
Therefore, even if life is against you, it does not mean that you should give up on life.
Because, behind every uncontrollable thing, there will be controllable ingredients.
Find the controllable part and try to get it right.
In this way, life can become in control.
Create beauty for your own life.