Before visiting, first watch the opening movie of the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival " July and Ansheng "... Entry is a must, at least you need to understand why 36-year-old Zeng Guoxiang is nominated for the Golden Horse Awards and best directors in the Golden Horse Awards, and how did the father and son nominated for the Golden Horse Awards in the same class ( Zeng Zhiwei nominated for the Best Supporting Actor for " One Thoughts and Ignorance ").
Interestingly, at the age of 15, he was determined to be a director and officially entered the industry at the age of 21. Zeng Guoxiang loved movies from Wong Kar-wai . He started to come into contact with movies from Chen Kexin . However, his father Eric Tsang had almost no influence: "That era was the period of fighting in his career. He tried for the longest and didn't meet him for two years. In addition, I simply resisted watching his movies. You know, it was a difficult time to see his father always be beaten and bullied in movies when he was a child..."
was invited to direct "July and Ansheng" at the beginning of last year. Zeng Guoxiang's fate has since been rewritten, and his name has become the number one hot item in the film industry.
may be the sweetest words I have ever heard, from a father. When I heard that Zeng Guoxiang was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Director, Zeng Zhiwei said, "I have used up all my life and I have to buy a prize for my son!" Of course, this is a joke, but if I cross the screen, I can not only feel the comfort of my son's father by nature, but also imagine that I have to say with disdain and contempt, "It's not relying on my father's embrace!" I think Rome was not built in one day, and Zeng Guoxiang has come to this day, but it is not just relying on his father every day. To be fair, 15 years of hard work will not be easy for anyone.
I received a call from Chen Kexin at the beginning of last year and was invited to direct the novel "July and Ansheng" adapted from the mainland "Internet celebrity" Annie Baby. Zeng Guoxiang's fate has since been rewritten. Since the release of the movie in September, the mainland box office has accumulated over 200 million yuan and was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Awards, making his name the number one hot item in the film industry.
In "July and Ansheng", Jiaming deals with the situation between July and Ansheng at the same time, and Zeng Guoxiang has not experienced it.
"I received calls from my boss and producer almost every day, saying that I had a script in my hand and hoped to ask me to direct it. Not only in the past few days, but since the release of this movie, I have been at a high point in my life and career."
Zeng Guoxiang said, "The more I listened to the more phone calls, the more I told myself that I must choose my next work carefully, and I must not shoot it for the sake of "food and housing". I am not the kind of person with pine hair and pine wings. After all, I have worked hard for 15 years to get to where I am today."
years, the most important thing for my sister
has been in the industry for 15 years. In fact, this movie dream is far more budding. "My family is not a cultural atmosphere, and my father is often away from home. It was when I really started to grow up and receive information at the age of 13 or 14. My sister (Zeng Baoyi) taught me which director to watch movies and which writer to read if I like books. Rather than saying that, my sister is the most important person for me during the "child" period."
The 1980s and 1990s when Zeng Guoxiang grew up was the most vigorous day when Hong Kong film development was developed. In those 20 years, Zeng Zhiwei filmed more than 150 movies, but Zeng Guoxiang tried to avoid his father's works as much as possible.
To be honest, as a second-generation star, it is easier to start than others, but what is really difficult is the path you need to take after starting.
Zeng Guoxiang said, "Many people say that my "July and Ansheng" is the girl version of " Two Cities Story ". "
" When I was a child, I even resisted watching the scenes he filmed. You also know that in that era, he filmed all the same as the Sakura guys, bullied, and Wu Jun Shao... It was Wong Kar-wai, who was regarded as the enlightenment teacher in the movie. I watched "Spring Light" and knew that Chinese directors would one day go to Kangcheng and get the director award; I watched PT Anderson's "Magnolia" and knew that even a young director who was only 27 years old could portray human nature so heartless. It was not that I could do it, but these two people told me that I could do it.”
So at the age of 11, he immigrated to Canada with his mother and grandmother. After completing his bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Toronto at the age of 21, Zeng Guoxiang returned to Hong Kong alone and started in the film industry.
"To be honest, as a second-generation star, it is easier to start than others, but the real difficulty is the path to take after starting." Because of his father, after Zeng Guoxiang graduated from university, his first job was to join Chen Kexin's film company and take on chores.
"I rarely saw my father when I was a child. I lived in Hong Kong. Later, I didn't see him once in two years. I have always been used to him being around him. It's rare to go home once. Suddenly there was a patriarchal person around me, and everyone was not at ease. When I was a child, I blamed him for not thinking about us or caring about us. It was not until I entered the industry that I realized that this industry could really be so busy."
Even if I was Zeng Zhiwei's son, Zeng Guoxiang's monthly salary was only 8,000 yuan at the beginning of the industry. Most of his work in the first two years was pouring tea, handing water, making coffee and ordering takeout.
monthly salary is 8,000, starting with miscellaneous work
monthly salary is 8,000, which seems not much. In fact, 24 hours a day, no matter how much you eat or sleep, you are paid in the film company. There are not many opportunities to use money; working hours are free, but in other words, there is no time to get off work. Even Tsang's son spent most of his time pouring tea, handing water, and ordering takeaways in the first two years of his entry into the industry. "In addition to making coffee and ordering takeaways, the movie was still shot with films at that time. I remember that the most I did was to do errands, and delivered to major theaters in Hong Kong and Kowloon New Territories; and then the most time was spent waiting for films and waiting for computers to digitalize films one by one. Two years later, Chen Kexin began to hand over the MV to me, so that I could start with the movies. The first movie to join the director's team to do a movie. I still remember it was "Home 3 Third Update: ".
Zeng Guoxiang followed Chen Kexin as soon as he entered the industry and learned from him to make movies seriously. "What makes him most amazing is that he is particularly good at communicating with actors."
chapters, the literary young man who dreams of being a director, the first time he is a director of the scene was the master Chen Kexin, and one of the male protagonists was his father, Eric Tsang, and these opportunities...
"And indeed, I am lucky than others. The one who brought me into the industry was Chen Kexin. When I was a child, I liked watching movies. When I was a child, I realized that when I was a child, I was lazy and literary youth. I was too unrealistic for others. In fact, I have to learn a lot of movies, and it is even more difficult to shoot movies in Hong Kong. I think what Chen Kexin is most worth learning is that he and his partner Xu Yuezhen are serious about making movies, and every detail of making movies is produced. Every level of the festival is done by myself. At the filming scene, Chen Kexin’s most amazing thing is that he is particularly good at communicating with actors. In the studio of "Going Home", I watched him talk about the opera in Yuan Liqi (who plays the role of , Liming in the film), and tears will fall whenever he says something, and what he says is about to cry, and what he says is about to cry. I still enjoy what I learned in those three years. In those three years, I never felt that I had to work hard or have no end. Instead, I felt that I had to learn too much and not enough time."
Dad didn't care much about us since he was a child. To some extent, it was to make us less popular in this circle and grow up like a normal child. I don’t know if the unhappiness when I was a child can be regarded as a kind of thanks. Other boys have father issues and they will inevitably collide with their father. And in my most rebellious era, because I rarely met him, I didn’t even have the chance to collide or explode.
Zeng Zhiwei, a father who didn't go home very much, is a loyal girl outside; Zeng Guoxiang only realized that as Zeng Zhiwei's son, he could be very honored.
rebellious times, and there was no collision even with
Since entering the industry, people have been saying that they rely on their father's conscience, and have been going to the Golden Horse Awards today. Some people say that he relies on Eric Tsang. Zeng Guoxiang said that when he was a child, he really felt that the role of father was too strange and had hardly participated in his life. After entering the industry, he was criticized for this and was very wronged. However, it is also because of entering the industry that my father's image and influence became three-dimensional and vivid, and I realized that as Zeng Zhiwei's son, he could be very glorious.
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Dad didn't care much about us since he was a child. To some extent, it was to make us less popular in this circle and grow up like a normal child. I don't know if it was a kind of gratitude when I was a child. Other boys have father issues and they can collide with their father. And in my most rebellious era, because they rarely meet him, they don't even have the chance to collide or even have that sudden explosion."
What's more, this father who doesn't go home and doesn't care much about his wife and children is a distinctive image outside. He has been a loyal girl and a big brother who has been doing for decades. He loves to help others and takes on other people's affairs the most.
Only in the past few years did I start to understand him
"Since entering the industry, my father and I have a common circle and topic; it is also during the years of entering the industry, when I go, I always meet someone coming over and holding my hand and telling me that I want to be favored or helped by my father back then; when I watch my father filming on the set, I found that the sincerity and enthusiasm of that generation of actors were born behind the scenes, so I am particularly good to the behind the scenes... Only in the past few years did I start to understand and admire my father, and then I see the scenes he has filmed, and I feel very proud to learn to appreciate them. In fact, many people say that my "July and Ansheng" is the "Two Cities Story" for girls."
Return to basics, Zeng Guoxiang one-on-one, and his girlfriend Wang Minyi are happy to stay at home with big eyes and thin eyes.
chapters about "July and Ansheng", in addition to the two heroines, Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun , there is also the new male actor Li Chengbin selected by Zeng Guoxiang personally interviewed. Because the facial features and facial shape look too similar to Peng Yuyan and , Li Chengbin has been criticized for this since the release of the movie. Because he won the starting line innately, he was struggling to move forward after the fight. I believe Zeng Guoxiang has the most empathy.
"Living in the shadow of others, this statement is too serious. At the beginning, I was greedy for fun and had no achievements. I was criticized as "resistance."
He said, "Actually, he is a new actor, and I am also a new director. Everyone has just started, and there is still a lot of room for improvement. Sometimes you don't have to think too much, don't think too much, do your duty well, and one day, someone will appreciate you."
like this but can't let go of that. Zeng Guoxiang has tried it, "It's actually a very painful thing..."
postscript to youth
chapters say "resistance" a dark history of being criticized was 6 years ago, when Zeng Guoxiang was accused of "stepping on three boats with one foot." In the movie, Jia Ming deals with each other between July and Ansheng at the same time. Zeng Guoxiang becomes more powerful and has three models at a time. I asked Zeng Guoxiang, no one knows Jiaming's worries better than you, right?
"Of course I tried it, saying that it was not a lie to you... You can criticize others from a moral high ground, but the parties may not be able to control it. I was not indecisive at the time. I wanted to say that it was actually a very painful thing to like two people at the same time. While hurting others, I was also wandering in the state of loving two people and knowing that I did something wrong, and it was not satisfying at all."
This father, who was drunk and studying hard, would be drunk and be carried out by someone, and would like three models with the same appearance at the same time. Now he likes to stay at home with his girlfriend Wang Minyi. Even on the night when the Golden Horse was announced, he gave up having a party with his senior class friends, but instead had a simple meal with his girlfriend to celebrate. I can only say, who has not missed it, and who has not been young?
