Author: Max
A promotional video directly triggered a large-scale collapse in the entertainment industry.
You guessed it – today we're going to talk about Nicholas Tse.
Nicholas Tse, a famous chef and singer in the entertainment industry, released a promotional video of a wonderful action clip in 2023.
When this video was first released, it quickly became a hot search, and the entertainment industry, which had been criticized for a long time, was once again ruthlessly ridiculed by netizens: Just this action, how many people can do it now?
Fans have always used "hard work" to justify their favorite stars, but compared to Nicholas Tse, who was 43 years old at the time, but he still fought neatly and smoothly, the "efforts" of the actors who found stand-ins in martial arts, broke their skin and went to the hospital, hung Weiya like a helicopter, and even relied on special effects and fast and slow cameras.
There is no harm if there is no comparison, whenever an excellent actor comes out for business, the entertainment industry has to collapse once.
Not having talent is not the original sin.
But if you don't have talent, you can't work hard.
In fact, for this once talented circle, lack of talent is also the original sin.
Those who do not have talent but can occupy good resources are even more guilty.
For example: Nicholas Tse.
On August 29, 1980, Nicholas Tse was born in a family of artists in Hong Kong.
His father Xie Xian was a smash hit star from the 60s to the 80s, known as the fourth brother, Andy Lau once sang in "17 Years Old" that he "remembers that the fourth brother and the fat brother have met".
Mother Deborah was the first Hong Kong sister champion in the 70s, and was respectfully called Lagu.
Born in such a family, Nicholas Tse was already surrounded by the spotlight when he was still in his mother's womb, and his first cover magazine was born just a week after he was born.
Not only did the magazine set the record for the youngest cover of a Hong Kong magazine, but it has not been broken even now.
Nicholas Tse's traffic and resources at that time can be imagined.
At a time when many people are still honestly playing the showbiz in a realistic version of their dreams, Nicholas Tse's starting point is already their end.
In 1997, Nicholas Tse, who was still an underage, participated in his first movie "New Troubled Boy: Youth Fierce Fight", in which he played the young Chen Haonan.
This movie directly won him the Best New Actor Award at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In that era when Hong Kong actors were frantically chasing the Academy Awards, this honor must be described as precious.
But even so, Nicholas Tse still did not gain the recognition of the audience, and the car accident in 2002 broke out again, which made his reputation drop to the extreme.
What surrounded Nicholas Tse in those years was black powder, except for black material.
When he sang on stage, the audience booed him, and some people even threw glow sticks directly.
He made a movie and won an award, and the media said that he was a resource coffee and ridiculed him for being a vase.
The young Nicholas Tse once wanted to get rid of his father's aura to prove himself.
The Hong Kong Film Awards for Best New Actor made him particularly ambitious, and on the night of the award, he went home and put the trophy on the table in front of Xie Xian, and said proudly:
You often tell me that you've made hundreds of movies, made hundreds of hours of TV series, but you haven't won an Academy Award.
He just won the newcomer award, thinking that his future was as golden and shining as the trophy in his hand, but the reality gave him a slap in the face.
He thought he was radiant.
The audience will always think that he has borrowed someone else's light.
The young Nicholas Tse once made an outrageous suicide manifesto:
Make enough money and die.
He is not afraid of death, but he must make enough money and prove himself before he dies.
This is probably the reason why Nicholas Tse can play a beautiful counterattack battle, since he is not afraid of death, what else can't he do?
This coincides with the concept of the fire of Hong Kong action actors back then: as long as you are not afraid of death, you will be able to come out sooner or later.
In that golden age of Hong Kong, which was full of talents, Sammo Hung , Jackie Chan , Donnie Yen , and even Wu Jing and Zhang Jin from the mainland became so popular.
Nicholas Tse is no exception.
Even, he was even more desperate to die.
As early as in the movie "New Crazy Boy: Youth Fierce Fight", which he participated in for the first time, Nicholas Tse exerted his spirit of "not afraid of death".
In a group fight scene, Nicholas Tse was accidentally pierced through the foot by an iron fence.
At that time, he was chatting with Liu Weiqiang, but suddenly found that his white sneakers were red, Nicholas Tse took them out and found that the shoes were full of blood, and the wounds on his feet could directly see the white bones.
The director immediately decided not to shoot and went to the hospital.
Nicholas Tse pointed to the group performances full of performances and asked: If you come back, can it still be these 100 people?
Of course, this is not possible - so, the stubborn Nicholas Tse stayed and continued filming, and did not rush to the hospital until 5 hours later, where doctors immediately warned him that it might require amputation.
But even so, Nicholas Tse is not ready to "take it away".
We all know that because of the perennial "jumping off the building" and "jumping out of the car", Jackie Chan has been blocked by major insurance companies.
But who knows that Nicholas Tse is also a blacklist user of major insurance companies.
Because, as soon as he started filming, he really didn't want to die.
In "New Police Story", in order to film this scene well, Nicholas Tse was strangled by a rope at a high altitude until he almost fainted, he was also knocked around like a bouncy ball between two cars, and he even fell from a building dozens of meters away.
In "The True Colors of a Man", Nicholas Tse received a flying kick from Wu Jing on the rooftop, and fell to the sidewalk with his back. His finger was broken as a result, and he still can't fully straighten it.
It is said that if he landed a little more off, he would be completely disabled.
He just gave his life out to shoot one by one, year after year, and then he finally became a powerful actor from a vase.
In an interview with reporters, Nicholas Tse was once angry, he said:
Some people say that you are really desperate to play "Counter War". I said, you can watch 1997's "Crazy Boy" and 1999's "SWAT New Humans", I've been working so hard. It's just that you've been talking about Faye Wong and Cecilia Cheung, and you've ignored that I haven't changed for more than ten years. It's only now that I've broken so many bones that you start to say that you're working so hard. I don't care about you.
He did wait a long time before finally waiting for the audience's recognition.
But he fought beautifully enough.
At the 30th Academy Awards in 2011, 31-year-old Nicholas Tse defeated Chow Yun-fat, Jacky Cheung, Leung Ka-fai, and Cheung Ka-fai with "The Informant", and won the actor in one fell swoop.
So far, Nicholas Tse has set another project record: he has become the first actor born in the 80s in the history of the Academy Awards.
- The first record in his life was because of his father Xie Xian, but this time he relied on himself.
At the awards ceremony, Nicholas Tse faced the camera and apologized to Xie Xian seriously for his unashamed words when he won the newcomer award when he was 17 years old:
I hope you forgive a child who is so ignorant and impolite that day, you can raise such a troublesome child, and still greet everyone with a smile, you are the best actor, Dad, I'm sorry!
He finally reconciled with Xie Xian, and also reconciled with the thorny self.
Every time I write actors like Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, and Wu Jing.
In fact, we also have this kind of thinking, do we have a special filter for the actors of that era, otherwise why do we always think that they are the benchmark that cannot be surpassed in today's entertainment industry.
They're not perfect.
Even Nicholas Tse, there was not a lot of black powder and black material history around him back then.
But when he is an actor, a singer, or even a cook, we can see something called "Jin".
Even, it is this energy that moves us and makes us willing to favor him.
This kind of strength is a kind of tenacity that does not admit defeat.
When he first became an actor, he was ridiculed as a vase and had no acting skills. In "New Police Story", he was strangled in the air until he rolled his eyes.
But after "New Police Story" became popular that year, everyone remembered the villain Wu Yanzu, at that time, everyone was playing the meme "Azu, stop it, it's all Jackie Chan outside", and Nicholas Tse became the background board.
But he was not discouraged, and continued to work hard for a few years, and then finally became an actor.
This kind of strength is also a kind of courage to swim against the current.
When he was a singer, he was also targeted by all the audience, he sang on stage, the audience booed and even threw things offstage, and when tens of thousands of glow sticks smashed at him in the audience, the host even ran faster than him.
He just sang like that while dodging glow sticks.
Then he wrote "Thank You for Your Love 1999", wrote "Living Viva", and wrote "Yellow Race", which can be sung by all of China, directly breaking the monopoly of the four heavenly kings on the Hong Kong music scene at that time.
This kind of energy is a kind of vitality that dares to break.
No one would have thought that Nicholas Tse would run away to become a cook, but he really did it seriously.
When he first started working as a chef, he was ridiculed all over again from his technique to taste, and there was even an association in Hong Kong that made a picture to yin and yang him.
But he has gotten better and better, and now he has successfully launched his own restaurant brand.
Isn't this kind of energy better than the so-called "effort" in the mouths of those fans today?
At least as viewers, what we need to see is the kind of energy that can really break the prejudice and prove ourselves.
Instead of claiming to work hard, the sky will fall when the skin is broken, singing a song has to lip-sync and repair the voice, acting a play has to be a stuntman and dubbing and cutting out the picture.
So I really want to say that it was not Nicholas Tse's promotional video that caused the large-scale collapse of internal entertainment, but the collapse of the house just because it was a dangerous building.
Anyway, for the audience, the collapse of the house must be a joy to see.
Because as far as they are concerned, it doesn't matter if there is Nicholas Tse in the entertainment industry, but it is important not to have those "dangerous buildings"!
Let's make the collapse more complete!