Chapter 49 It's just an opportunity that captivates the country

I often think, one day many years ago, if the video game store that Li Kangsheng frequented had a power outage, what would he be like now? He may marry, have children, get a job in some company, and go to work quietly.Or open a shop by himself, the only thing that hasn't changed is that he is still 41 years old now.But the reality is that in 1991, director Tsai Ming-liang discovered him in that video game store in Ximending.His ancestral home is in Hunan, but he was born in Taipei. After graduating from high school, he failed the college entrance examination and started working.He has done insurance and worked as a waiter, and he often goes to video game stores. It was there, in the crowded video game store, that Cai Mingliang saw him.With his introverted personality, he may feel very uncomfortable when he is repeatedly looked at by strangers. He may turn his head away, or he may give Cai Mingliang a sideways look-this is still my guess.

After meeting Cai Mingliang, he became Cai Mingliang's Antoine—no, he gave his life to the movies more completely than Antoine. He starred in all of Tsai Mingliang's movies, "Youth Nezha",,, "The Hole", "What Time Are You Over There", "The Flyover Is Missing", "Never Leave", "A Cloud in the Sky", and the latest one. In 1994, he won the Best Actor Award at the Nantes Film Festival in France.He also appeared in the films of other directors, such as Wang Tong's "Silent Hill", Lin Zhengsheng's "Spring Flowers and Monroe", and Xu Anhua's "A Thousand Words".He even has his own directorial works. In 2003, he directed "Missing" and in 2004, "Help Me", both of which won awards at film festivals.

And he was discovered at the same time as Chen Zhaorong, who was working as a part-time student in a restaurant at that time. After meeting Cai Mingliang, he starred in "Youth Nezha" with Li Kangsheng.He is now the "Native First Brother" in Taiwan's TV industry. None of this would have happened if the video game store had had a power outage that day, if that restaurant hadn't been open that day.But what I am interested in is not the chance of fate, but, when the opportunity was presented to them, they took it smoothly and were competent for it.If it wasn't them at the time, it might have been someone else who took the opportunity and rewrote their lives.I don't deny their aptitude, but there are many people with this aptitude, that is to say, in fact, anyone can, as long as their appearance and intelligence are above the standard, as long as they get a certain opportunity, even if that opportunity deviates from their usual ideals and experiences. Miles.

Our imagination can continue to spread. If the fifteen-year-old waif Truffaut failed to meet Andre Bazin, could he become the later Truffaut?Of course we know that before that, Truffaut was passionate about cinema and tried to start a film club, but what if he didn't get the chance?What if Lin Qingxia didn't go shopping on Ximending Street one day when she was eighteen? ——We all know that she was discovered by scouts there; What about getting attention for talking loudly?We also know that she later went abroad to study at Brigham Young University in Hawaii, and once hosted the school's choir concert in fluent English.

We don't know what would happen to them now if the video game store had a power outage that day and it rained in Ximending that day.But know that another person is just as qualified for the opportunities they have been given.There has never been a person who can overwhelm the country and the city. It is only the opportunity that can overwhelm the country and the city.