Some time ago, singer Yang Kun's real name diss shouted Mai 'Thunder' which triggered a heated discussion on the Internet, resulting in some of Yang Kun's earlier amazing quotations being pulled out, including his statement that "Andy Lau is not a singer in the strict sense." As soon as this statement came out, it immediately attracted a large wave of dissatisfaction from Andy Lau fans, and Yang Kun also experienced what is called the disaster, although he explained that The reason why Andy Lau is not a singer is because Andy Lau's main business is an actor, singing is a side business, but netizens do not buy it.
Of course, the "old good man" Andy Lau naturally ignores these disputes on the Internet. But he may also have a little regret that in his heart the singing career ranked in the same important position as the film is still denied by professionals, only when he is playing ticket nature. Whenever the singer is discussed, he is pushed to the actor, and when the acting skills are discussed, he is pulled back to the singer.
Over the years, many people have questioned Andy Lau's singing skills, although he is among the four heavenly kings, he has been ridiculed for acting inferior to Liang Chaowei, singing is not as good as Jacky Cheung, and dancing is not as good as Aaron Kwok. But he has his own set of Ah Q theories: I act better than Aaron Kwok, and dance better than Liang Chaowei.
In the nearly 40 years of the show business circle, Andy Lau as an evergreen tree, the secret of preservation of freshness in addition to the world, the biggest advantage is hard work. He has always been regarded as a model worker, and he has used this to prove that you say I can't do it, but I want it! He achieved a concert with 130,000 people to watch, and the film won two Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and three Hong Kong Golden Horse Awards.
But Andy Lau, who seems to be smooth sailing, actually has several troughs.
According to Tam Wing Lin, before entering the Hong Kong wireless artist training class, Andy Lau worked as a hair washer. In 1981, Andy Lau made his first film "Caiyun Song" and also began to run dragon sets in some TV series starring Huang Rihua, Ye Dexian, Zhou Runfa and others. In 1982, he officially signed a contract with TVB and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best New Actor for the movie "Run to the Fury Sea", and his popularity began to rise slowly. After the broadcast of dramas such as "Divine Eagle Hero", he began to become popular, and was once known as the "Wireless Five Tigers" with Huang Rihua, Miao Qiaowei, Liang Chaowei and Tang Zhenye.
But in 1985, when his career was in the middle of the day, he had a conflict with his old owner TVB, which was very powerful at that time, so that Andy Lau signed a 5-year contract and was rejected by Andy Lau, and he hid him, and it was more than a year. In desperation, Andy Lau had to give in and renewed his contract with TVB.
In 1991, when and Andy Lau, who was 30 years old and had a certain foundation in the entertainment industry, felt that it was better to work for others than to work alone, so he boldly entered the film industry and opened a film company, named Tianmu. The first play in Tianmu was "91 Divine Eagle Heroes", starring Andy Lau himself, and invited Mui Yanfang, Zhong Zhentao, Aaron Kwok, Liu Jialing, etc. to join, and was directed by Wong Kar-wai and Liu Zhenwei. The film eventually grossed 20 million, which was a success. The next year, Tianmu used the original team to shoot the "Ninety-Two Divine Eagle Heroes' Crazy Mood Longsword", but this one lost a bottom.
After that, Tianmu filmed three films such as "The Legend of the God of War", "Heaven and Earth", "Heaven and Earth", although they were all used Maggie Cheung, Mui Yanfang, Zhong Zhentao, these actors with excellent acting skills and audience popularity, and they were all big productions, but without exception, they did not lose their pants to the end. In five years, Andy Lau's company lost more than 40 million yuan.
Forty million in the 90s, think about it...
In order to fill this hole, Andy Lau has since embarked on a career of filming and crazy bad films for money, until he filled the loss before he began to slowly pick the script and began to pay attention to the quality of the film.
But in 1997, he took over a movie called "Love Destiny", which became one thing he regretted all his life. This year, his losses have been basically paid off, and he began to have the right to independently choose movies and pick scripts according to the situation. But when "Love Destiny" found him and offered a salary of 12 million, he still took it. He didn't like the script, didn't think it was good, just for the money, and it was the first film to pay him 12 million.
But the film is not so rich, after spending 12 million to invite Andy Lau, the operation of the crew is difficult, during the filming of the whole crew are in the group to survive, it does not look like making a movie at all. They shoot a party scene on a boat, and they can't even find a single extra on the spot.
Andy Lau regrets it very much, he knows that the crew is so poor, all because all the funds have fallen into his pocket.
The heroine of "Love Destiny" is Japanese actress Hikaru Ishida, and the supporting roles are Qu Ying, Huang Lei, Huang Qiusheng, Huang Baiming, Wu Yongwei and so on. Like its blunt name, it was a romance film with a bit of a copycat titanic, and the film was released in 1999 with a total box office of 8.89 million.
At that time, Andy Lau's salary alone spent 12 million, and the salaries of other actors were estimated to be quite large. The box office of 8.89 million is also a loss to grandma's family, not only the box office is not good, but the reputation is not satisfactory. Probably for this film, regret is not only The Andy Lau who received 12 million, but also the producer who released 12 million.