[Instant Universe]Yang Ziqiong was re-recognized by the younger generation in the year when he was about to turn 60.
It turns out that she is not only an action star, but also so cute and funny.
In this film, she plays an ordinary Chinese-American mother, who is in deep crisis of middle age.
But the painting style took a sharp turn for the worse, and she suddenly learned that there were countless parallel universes outside her world.
In the parallel world, some of her are big stars, some are cooks, and some have sausage fingers, all of which are more successful than her.
However, it happened that only she could save countless parallel worlds at this moment.
Because, only she, at every important turning point in life, has made the wrong decision-the worst person is in the most chaotic state and has the greatest potential.
Back in Yang Ziqiong’s universe, if there is such a turning point in her life, it should be her five scars and a tear.
Injury time: 1980
Pain-type spinal injury
Injury level ★★★★★★
Yang Ziqiong, 18, was shattered by the injury on his back.
She crossed the ocean at the age of 15, from Malaysia to England, and came to the Royal Dance Academy to study ballet. Now it has been three years.
In these three years, her dream is to be a great ballerina like margot fonteyn.
Dance classics like Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake, and even open a ballet school one day.
But at the moment, the principal of the Dance Academy said something comforting in front of her.
What do you mean, "Dance also has many levels, not just dancing",
What do you mean, "We can definitely find a place where you can continue to engage in the dance industry without dancing",
It takes a lot of time to recover, but your back will get better in the end.
But Yang Ziqiong only felt that "a mirror was broken before my eyes".
She hurt her spine by practicing dancing, so it is impossible to dance ballet again.
With the help of the principal, she turned to study creative arts and minored in drama.
A dream was broken because of this injury, but another dream began because of this injury.
God made up his mind to send her to another fate with the injury on her back.
For Yang Ziqiong, the next few years were changeable.
First, her mother signed up for Miss Malaysia. She was reluctant to participate, but she won the championship all the way.
Then in China, a friend of Yang Ziqiong had dinner with a producer named Pan Disheng.
Pan Disheng said that he was short of an actress, so the friend took out a photo of the new Malaysian lady.
This cooperation was quickly promoted, and Yang Ziqiong flew to Hongkong, China, and filmed two watch advertisements.
She was partnered by Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, who had become superstars at that time.
Then, the Pan Disheng took out a contract and asked Yang Ziqiong to join the Debao Film Company that he and Sammo Hung had just jointly organized.
A brand-new road of performing arts was paved in front of Yang Ziqiong almost overnight.
This is a road she never thought of.
Her family is well-off, her grandfather is the "father of Malaysian transportation" and her father is an elite lawyer. If she stays in her hometown, she can continue to be loved by thousands of people.
And now this road is to travel alone in a strange land and go to a strange business.
She showed the contract to her father in fear and trembling, hoping that his father would agree, and perhaps hiding a little bit of hope that he would stop her.
This decision, after all, is too big.
But when my father looked at the contract, it turned out that it was just an occupational disease attack and helped her modify the unfavorable terms-she didn’t even have the last reason to back down.
Father finally said, when you get there, you have to rely on yourself.
Counting, it’s been four years since the spinal injury, and my back is probably gone.
But this old wound has pushed Yang Ziqiong to the road of being an actress forever, and will also bring more wounds to her.
Injury time: 1985.
Pain type congestion
Injury level ★
In 1985, director Yuan Kui always thought that Yang Ziqiong’s elbow was so dirty on the set of [Royal Teacher Sister].
This doesn’t look good on camera He called his heroine and wanted her to clean up.
But when I got closer, I found out that it was congestion. And this 23-year-old girl didn’t say a word.
This is Yang Ziqiong’s first action drama, and it is said that it is the first time to open the film and television atmosphere of policewomen with guns.
Sometimes she chased after the speeding car, and sometimes she flew between the corridor fence and the beams and columns two stories above the ground.
She didn’t have to suffer this.
A year ago, when she first arrived in Hong Kong, China, Debao Film Company built her according to the most popular Hong Kong-made female stars at that time.
The first movie was called [Owl and Dumbo].
Her role in it, as she later said, was"girl in distress"Waiting for the heroes to come to rescue, laughing is gentle and pleasant, crying is like crying pear flowers with rain.
In the future, when people talk about Hong Kong female stars in the 1980s and 1990s, they will always mention them."Xiayu Fanghong"(Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Cherie Chung), all of them are such glamorous types.
But Yang Ziqiong didn’t want to take this route. I’m afraid there is more than one reason.
She said that her Cantonese was not good, so when she hit a woman, she gave a beating, and she talked about fist and fist kung fu, so there was no need for so many fancy and difficult lines.
Coupled with years of dancing skills, Yang Ziqiong’s flexibility and flexibility are very good. Being an action actor seems to be a natural thing.
On the other hand, I’m afraid she doesn’t want to squeeze a track with the girls after seeing Hong Jiaban’s gang fight with their fists.
Sammo Hung hesitated at first. Can she, a beauty pageant champion and darling daughter, stand the pain?
But Yang Ziqiong may have put his father’s sentence when he left home"on your own"I kept it in mind, practiced hard for half a year, kicked my legs and sandbags every day, and did various physical training, which made people sit up and take notice.
She held on to a belief:"Girls can fight as hard as boys."
In the [Royal Teacher Sister], Yang Ziqiong and the ballerina who came across the sea to Xiangjiang are already two people.
She trimmed her short hair with skill, and every trick was simply biting. She threatened the bad guys with a heroic dry cloud and beat the criminals with a trick to death.
This film also completely subverts the image of policewoman in previous Hong Kong films, and is no longer used as a funny ornament or a pure "ornamental".
It is the first time for many viewers to see such a romantic figure.
Those bruises on her arms symbolize her first experience as an action actress.
In fact, compared with many injuries after her, they are nothing at all.
But these scars are a new beginning, and they witness her transformation.
The saying that "scar is a man’s medal" has long been old-fashioned. Yang Ziqiong has started a new era of beating women with bruises.
Injury time: 1992
The type of pain is almost concussion.(but not)
Injury level-
Time came to 1992.
The whole set, ran towards Yang Ziqiong in a panic, check her injury.
The mirror just now looked terrible. Yang Ziqiong fell to the ground awkwardly, and it looked very painful.
Strictly speaking, Yang Ziqiong didn’t really get hurt this time, but it was a close call.
This is the set of [Police Story 3: Super Police]. The action to be filmed is that Yang Ziqiong jumps off a moving truck and onto a convertible that Jackie Chan is driving.
The windshield will break at this time, and Jackie Chan will stretch out his hand to give her a buffer and let her slide along the front of the car to the ground to stop.
When you can shoot, almost no step happens as planned:
The prop device failed, and the windshield didn’t break. Jackie Chan failed to give Yang Ziqiong a reverse resistance. She fell off the front of the car and rolled all the way along the inertia, far behind the car.
Many years later, she recalled that if Jackie Chan hadn’t tried to get her in a panic, she would have landed on her head.
But at that time, Yang Ziqiong said to the staff who rushed to her circle, I know what to do. Let’s have another one.
There’s a reason why she can spell it like this.
Yes, a few years ago, she was the "most beautiful woman" and the audience went crazy for her.
[Chinese warrior]
But in 1988, she married Pan Disheng, the producer who discovered her, and announced her retirement.
The marriage lasted only three years, and she returned to the screen after divorce.
But the film industry, especially the Hong Kong film industry in those days, is changing rapidly. You can change an idol in three days, and who will wait for three years?
And [Police Story 3: Super Police] is Yang Ziqiong’s comeback.
For her, this movie is either successful or dead.
Even at that time, Yang Ziqiong’s stunt in [Police Story 3] was crazy in the frenzied environment of Hong Kong action movies.
She rode her motorcycle to the top of the train car that was running at full speed. Under this impact, the motorcycle also flew out and fell to the ground.
Her hard-working spirit even brought trouble to Jackie Chan.
What should I do? After all, this is a Jackie Chan movie. Big Brother can’t be compared, can he?
In order not to be overwhelmed by Yang Ziqiong’s flying stunt, Jackie Chan had to hang himself from a helicopter to do stunts.
He reluctantly asked Yang Ziqiong:"You don’t want to kill me? ！”
In those years, the two of them, together with Jet Li, were the three injured giants who were shut out of the insurance industry.
The wound will live up to you.
[Police Story 3] Still a great success, the audience still loves Yang Ziqiong as if she had never left.
Then, it was [heroic trio] [tai chi zhang sanfeng] [Wing Chun] …
She was covered with scars, and got up again and again, proving again and again that only she could do Yang Ziqiong.
Injury time: 1995
Pain-type whole body fracture
Injury level ★★★★★★★
Yang Ziqiong was put on the sofa by the staff, and the whole person was supported by external forces. Almost all of her body was broken, and three ribs were broken, and she was put in plaster from her neck to her body.
Supposedly, she is having a good rest now and doesn’t see any guests, but at the moment, a guest comes from America and sees only three people.Jackie Chan、Jet LiAnd Yang Ziqiong.
This friend is too enthusiastic to persuade again and again, and it seems that he can’t get rid of it.
Moreover, he has a lot of connections-he won the Palme d ‘Or award with [Pulp Fiction] two years ago.Quentin Tarantino.
Visible on the surface, Yang Ziqiong’s injury, but let her even turned to look at Quentin.
This injury is in[Ah Kin](1996) fell on the set.
Akin in this film is a stuntman who makes a living in China and Hong Kong film industry.
In that scene, Ah Kin is going to jump off a 30-meter-high overpass and land squarely on an approaching truck.
During the shooting, the van was fake, so Yang Ziqiong didn’t have to jump at the right time. She would land on the mat under the bridge, but the 30-meter-high overpass was real.
When she jumped, the angle of fall was not good, and the whole person fell on the mat in a very twisted posture, with her legs completely broken and twisted over her shoulders.
On the way to the hospital, even if the ambulance just bumped slightly, she would go into shock with pain.
Later, when [Ah Kin] was released, a subtitle was left at the end of the film:
"On October 13th, 1995, Yang Ziqiong fell from a height when he appeared in the action scene of [Ah Kin’s story], and was seriously injured …
Only this film pays tribute to Yang Ziqiong and Wu Xing who has made great contributions to Hong Kong films. "
This line is of course good, but it can’t relieve pain.
After this serious injury, Yang Ziqiong began to seriously consider changing his career.
Why do you want to be an actor? Is it worth it? What if I get seriously injured again?
These questions haunted her mind.
But the guest in front of him didn’t care about this. Like the most enthusiastic little fan, he began to tell how much he liked her movies.
"I have seen every movie of yours."
To Yang Ziqiong’s surprise, the Hollywood guest began to dictate the shots of her action scenes frame by frame.
Including how she jumped on the fence on the second floor in one breath, hung the gold hook upside down, hooked one calf on the railing, and one bent down and broke the glass.
Like catching chicks, I picked up two minions who wanted her dead and threw them downstairs.
This is the first scene of her first action movie.
Yang Ziqiong probably remembered the feeling of that year. She really likes acting and acting too much. She can’t just give up.
At about the same time, she received a film contract for "Empire of Tomorrow 007".
This person who has not been knocked down by scars will become "bond girl on a par with Bond" in Hollywood’s eyes.
He will also go out of China and Hong Kong to become an international action movie star, and will continue to lay a broader foundation with his fists and fists in Hollywood movies such as [Sun Catastrophe] and [Mummy 3].
After that, there will be many universes such as [Star Trek], Marvel Comics, [Devil Hunter] and [Avatar].
Injury time: 1999
Traumatic ligament rupture
Injury level ★★★☆.
Yang Ziqiong’s injury this time has made the nice guy Ang Lee feel a bit "outspoken":
"Why is she? She is the only one who can fight! "
This is the set of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which is supposed to be much safer than the overheated industrial environment of Hong Kong films.
However, experienced traffic police will tell you that accidents are not easy to happen on rugged and narrow mountain roads, and the most dangerous is often the seemingly Ma Pingchuan avenue that makes old drivers take it lightly.
Veteran Yang Ziqiong, planted in an ordinary roundhouse kick:
The leg bones collided and both major ligaments in the left knee were broken. The doctor said that he had to rest for a month or two.
But as soon as Yang Ziqiong finished the operation, he began to recover.
This film is not only important for director Ang Lee, but also of great significance to her.
According to Ang Lee’s words, Yang Ziqiong is an actor in acting."special case".
She has acted in many movies, but most of them are fast-moving consumer goods born under the Hong Kong film flowing water industry system, which is rich in big stars, but it is difficult to forge good actors.
(In other words, you can practice quick wits and reflexes, but your grasp of details is slow.)
Besides, most of Yang Ziqiong’s plays are action movies, and most of her plays are "played" rather than "performed".
Ang Lee is amazed at this and thinks that she is a rare one who still holds on to acting."naive"and"Curious"The big star.
For such a Yang Ziqiong, [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] is also a rare opportunity to ponder the role.
The injury caused by playing opera can’t stop her from thinking about literary drama.
She didn’t rest. After the operation, she returned to the set. Her injured leg was put up and moved out of the frame.
Ang Lee still remembers the scene of Yu Xiulian and Li Mubai’s life and death parting:
"Her cry is not a fake cry, it is really heartbroken."
"I know that she is crying not only about Yu Xiulian’s grievances, but how bitter she is!"
The pains and wounds in and out of the play have made Yu Xiulian [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] and Yang Ziqiong a leap in acting.
Many commentators believe that she bid farewell to the period of "beating women" and started her own "actress" era.
In addition to those big action movies in Chinese and Hollywood, she is also acting more and more "quiet" movies with richer levels.
Tears in 2022
Types of tears shed tears of joy.(or a little sad)
Don’t cry no matter how painful it is.
Yang Ziqiong understood this truth very early.
When she decided to practice martial arts with Hong Jiaban, she knew that,
"If you cry every time you get hurt, you’d better stay in that corner and cry all the time."
After all these years, you seldom see Yang Ziqiong shed tears unless you cry.
She seems to be always calm and carefree, always the wind of generals.
But in 2022, in an ordinary interview, she talked about the script of "Instant Universe" and suddenly burst into tears.
She said that two directors, Dan Guan and Daniel Scheinert, gave her the script, and she read it carefully.
She can’t remember how long she hasn’t read this script.
The role of Xiulian was written based on her, and the director decided that if it weren’t for her, the film wouldn’t have been made at all.
Xiulian has complicated feelings, trapped in traditional family life, but somewhere in her heart, she still hides a little self, hidden desire and rich levels.
She is a comedy character, with countless doppelgangers and unlimited space to display all kinds of acting skills.
"This is the script I have been waiting for for a long time, but I can finally show my fans and family how capable I am.
Can be interesting, can be sincere, can be sad. Finally, someone finally knows that I can do it. "
On the set, two directors are die-hard fans of her films. Stephanie Xu, who plays her daughter, grew up watching her films, and this role almost completely released her potential.
It’s like the last 50 years of life, the choices of going around, the scars that have been healed and added, all for today.
There must be other universes. In those universes, there are Yang Ziqiong, the chief actor of the ballet company, Yang Ziqiong, who spends his life with her husband and teaches children at home, and Yang Ziqiong, who chooses to retire quickly.
But only Yang Ziqiong in our universe, covered with scars, never gave up, and the blood that flowed will eventually be rewarded with tears of joy.
