Louis Koo , which was released in 2019, has now become the core figure of Hong Kong films.
This man, who is nicknamed by netizens as "only the sun can be black" seems to have two faces.
He is not only the "king of bad movies" and a veritable actor.
He is both a "white ancient" with a crown of jade, and a masculine and grand "black ancient".
He is both a dull "Mr Cool" and a humorous comedian.
Lou Tianle seems to be able to tolerate so many two sides in the world.
Just like his life that combines movement and stillness.
started with an accident, finally loved
Louis Koo's acting career began with an accident.
1991, Louis Koo was also a model agent.
Because of his outstanding appearance, he couldn't find a better model, so he had to appear on the screen and shoot the MV by himself at the request of the client.
After the modeling company went bankrupt, Louis Koo defected to TVB, which had been inviting him, and began to play supporting roles on TV.
Later, because of the Leslie Cheung 's "optimistic" in the program, the Hong Kong entertainment industry was moved and began to pay attention to this newcomer.
1995, Louis Koo played the role of Yang Guo in the TV series "The Return of the Condor Heroes".
"As soon as you see Yang Guo, you will miss your life", and as soon as you appear, it amazed the world.
For Louis Koo, at first he just regarded acting as a job, but later he gradually fell in love with it.
Since 1996, Louis Koo has maintained the output of four to six movies almost every year. Whether it is a bad movie or a blockbuster, whether it is the protagonist or a supporting role, he does his best to perform.
When he was filming, he was beaten to his hands and feet, his right hand was cut, his eyes were scratched, and he had also changed his neck bones due to injuries.
In the movie " With You All the Way ", he plays the role of a truck driver. To experience the character, he follows the real van driver to deliver goods. During the filming of "The Disciples", in order to understand the daily life of the addict, he also specially contacted drug addicts to chat.
Along the way, from accident to love, Louis Koo has become a well-known "model worker" in the industry.
fell in the false and found the real existence
Louis Koo has now become the mainstay of the Hong Kong film industry.
But in fact, behind the star aura, Louis Koo has always lived a real life.
He is almost fifty years old and is still a big boy who loves home.
Louis Koo once mentioned in his autobiography "The Book of Searching for Music" that his experience in prison at the age of 20.
He was young and didn't know the right and wrong. He once robbed a woman with a group of unemployed friends. After the incident, he chose to fight against all charges by himself and finally served his sentence at the juvenile guardianship office.
That dark time was like a lie to him, but his blood was false. In his regret and struggle, he began to miss the peaceful life of the past.
life's reality and illusion, some people can only see through it after falling.
After he was released from prison, he felt like he was reborn. And what is most worth cherishing is the inseparable family affection.
At the beginning of his acting career, he was always nervous, afraid that someone would dig out his immature past.
Finally, he chose to tell the past story when he was very popular in Yang Guo.
He knew that this might ruin his future, but he still wanted to break the remaining lies with his own hands and let the stone in his heart fall to the ground.
He has lost and reborn before he began to find the most real and important thing in his life - family.
In addition to filming, he chose to eat, chat, watch movies with his parents at home, and sometimes travel around with them.
In such a plain life, he can truly experience the true warmth.
chose to persist because he was needed
Nowadays, people mentioned Louis Koo, in addition to the model workers in Hong Kong films, he also silently donated more than 100 schools.
In fact, as early as 2003, Louis Koo had already begun his journey of charity.
At that time, Taiwan suffered a storm disaster, so Louis Koo actively donated materials and funds to help the victims.
In 2007, Louis Koo was appointed as the "United Nations Children's Fund Ambassador".
After the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, Louis Koo not only donated money to help with post-disaster reconstruction, but also went to the disaster area in person.
And he donated not only schools, he also donated money to build many medical centers and water cellars in Guizhou and other places to improve local living standards.
This great love has been persisted until now. He spent most of his filming income on charity.
Even when he was morally kidnapped, what he cared about was that the other party was really in need of help.
In 2018, Louis Koo participated in a charity event. There was a woman at the scene holding a large poster with the words "Thank you for your gratitude" to treat her illness, hoping that Louis Koo would lend her 1 million yuan.
Many people are dissatisfied with him, but he admitted that he often receives similar messages for help. If it is true, you will still choose to help.
When he was questioned why he took on so many bad movies, he just replied, "Many people need me."
It is precisely because of this need that he has been taking action and almost never stops. Don’t care about returns or gains or losses.
Lou seems to be always running around for what he loves and insists on. He sowed into forests where people could not see it, and people saw it with a glance, often only part of what he did. But this part has already amazed the world.
He seems to have filled his life, but in fact, except for these three points of truth, three points of love, and three points of persistence, he also left a gap in his life.
Chinese paintings emphasize a kind of aesthetic of leaving blank, "the ink is divided into five colors, and white is considered as black". In fact, the same is true in life.
If a person keeps acting, he will appear "too full".
The point that Louis Koo left blank for himself was his quiet side.
He honed his acting skills but did not compete. 25 years later, he was only waiting for his actors when he was 48 years old. It was his quietness to not compete.
He does charity without talking about charity, and it is also his quietness.
Zeng Guofan once said,
"A gentleman thinks more and more and more and keeps quiet, and more talent is better than accumulate virtue."
A life with depth must be a combination of movement and stillness, doing things in a high profile, and being a person in a low profile.
So how can you have such depth of life?
01: Choose the reality in front of you, and choose the future you love
Many people have said that they have "difficulty in choosing".
This choice is difficult not only for behaviors during shopping. It also includes their thoughts on the path of life.
Some people want to be a generous and good person, but they often feel resentful of their lost interests. Some people want to choose to be unrestrained, but they are often indecisive.
Everyone’s troubles mostly come from the inability to choose and the contradictions arise from the inner self. Making a choice seems to be a very difficult thing.
In fact, the principle of choice is nothing more than truth and love.
One is visible, the other is the yearning for the heart.
in the movie "No Ask About the West" mentioned that choosing "reality" will make people have a kind of peace and joy that is filled with the depths of the heart, without regret or shame.
Louis Koo once chose the loyalty and indulgent youth of youth and indulgent youth. It was not until his life was subverted that he began to choose to live a real life. A stable job and a warm family are real to him.
After he found out that he fell in love with performance, he chose this love. In today's bleak Hong Kong movies, he is still working hard for them.
When he won the Academy Awards and Best Actor, he mentioned that
"The most important thing for a person is to have the support of his family. Just like Hong Kong movies, it will be better if he has the support of Hong Kong people."
He chose reality and love, so he will not feel regret or regret because of the choice of giving up.
02: Persistence means breaking down the goals and continuing the actions
Louis Koo once wrote a remark about "Tianshi" on Weibo.
He said, "Find a duty is a continuation of the work in front of you." The right and wrong of the current work can become a duty in the future, but it actually depends on whether you persist.
But many people often fall on sticking to this step. The reasons for failure are mostly attributed to insufficient self-control.
But in fact, self-control is only based on a certain moment, and persistence is a long-term behavior.
To persist, you need to behave in line with your own values, and it is always difficult to persist in things that go against your will.
and we must continue to obtain positive feedback from the process of persistence. In this step, the goals can be broken down in stages, making the challenges of each stage feasible.
Louis Koo persisted on the road of charity for a long time because this was done with the heart. Even if charity has no end, there are still many corners in the world that cannot be shined in. But he believed that shooting more advertisements would allow more schools to be built and more children would see hope.
divided the goal into steps, and he felt very down-to-earth.
The best persistence is to obtain immediate positive feedback in the stage based on conforming to the original intention, so as to let yourself enter the positive cycle of action, and thus develop habits.
Therefore, to stick to one thing, we need to constantly deepen our inner love and downplay our external motivation.
Chuyuan Director once told Louis Koo, "A good actor cannot give up", and this has become Louis Koo's requirement for himself. Behind the "model worker" is his unwillingness to give up on the film industry and his persistence in acting.
03: Those with deep desires have shallow secrets, and those with heavy external desires must be clumsy internally
In psychology, there is a phenomenon called " over-defense effect" . Everyone has internal motivation and external motivation that work together in their behavior. But external motivation may reduce internal motivation.
In other words, if the internal motivation for doing something is interest and love, then when you pay too much attention to the fame and fortune and rewards brought by external things, you may reduce your love for the thing itself.
But fame and fortune can only be a temporary motivation, but love is the motivation for long-term persistence.
Mencius said:
"Nothing good at nourishing the heart is to few desires."
This "desire" refers to external motivation.
In Miyazaki 's " Chihiro and Chihiro ", it seems that the desire of human nature has been mentioned. Whether it is Chihiro's parents who lost their human nature and became pigs because of their appetite, or the faceless man who swallowed too much material and forgot their original intentions, they lose their innermost pursuits because of their uncontrollable external desires.
Chihiro, who is still a child, has always remembered his name and survived the temptation of desire. This name is actually everyone's true intention.
Lou's inconvenience or not, it is precisely because he knew why he worked hard and lived a quiet and desireless life. This is his blank space for his life.
Lin Yutang said,
"Seeing the clouds in autumn, it turns out that life should not be too crowded, have time to get empty."
A life with depth is always a combination of movement and stillness. Louis Koo has always chosen what he loves and insists on what he pursues, and still leaves a quiet place for himself outside of his actions.
