From Zeng Jiang

Recently, the actor Zeng Jiang passed away suddenly. Because he had an accident in a hotel room during the quarantine period when he was returning to Hong Kong, it caused many speculations. In addition, his acting career spanned decades and different media. He is a familiar figure to everyone. Very sorry.

After that, many people posted a lot of photos and interview clips on social media, and even some of them were recently done, and they could claim that it might be the last interview in his life. I watched some and deepened my understanding of him. I agree with what an internet station host said, Zeng Jiang's interview shows that he is a man of insight and has his own unique views. His background and education should now be quite clear to everyone, and it also explains why he is often hired to perform in Hollywood movies, because a long time ago, Hollywood movies were already recorded live, and the dialogue was very demanding. At that time, there must be not many Chinese actors who were competent.

In the interviews I have watched, there are two points that I feel particularly impressed. In fact, some people may have mentioned them, but no one really did it seriously. Zeng Jiang often emphasizes that he is an actor, not a star. There should be many people who say the same, but they really don't do much. He once mentioned that filmmakers often rely on the taste of the audience and only make movies of the genre that the audience likes. In the business world, it is understandable. However, they are afraid of failure at the box office. They build their own comfort zone and do not easily seek breakthroughs. Over time, everyone was exhausted. He specifically mentioned that everyone did not educate the audience to improve their viewing attitude and appreciation skills. In fact, I have heard someone put it up, but things are really difficult to handle. Film companies are commercial establishments, and few people feel obligated to do educational work. And the government will not invest too much resources in this area. It is very basic to hold some film festivals or lectures and workshops. Over the years, the effect is obvious to all.

Looking at music, over the past few decades, many children have been pushed to learn an instrument, mainly piano, in order to optimize their portfolio and maintain a competitive advantage. Many people can take the certificate test, and there are many people in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades, that is, many people have a certain level of skills. In the music world, people who can create and play musical instruments are indeed more diverse than before, but those who are popular and those that can hit the pop charts seem to come and go about the same thing. It seems that the audience is still stagnant, and even some older people are always indulging in nostalgic hits. If so many people go to learn music from generation to generation, in the end they still can't cultivate more listeners with a higher level, then there is really nothing to say. I remembered a time when a radio host introduced a new singer and asked the audience for their support. The main reason was because the new singer was very filial! Am I missing something?

In fact, some people have put forward this point, but it is far from enough, and as a general audience, you should spontaneously increase your self-esteem, but most people think that film music and other arts are leisure activities and do not need to be taken too seriously. If you can't change this mentality, it will be futile to invest in more hardware. Of course, in recent years, local awareness has been on the rise, and more people have praised local movie theaters, but there have been some cases of too blind support, and even criticism is not allowed, and their sincerity cannot be questioned. How can such an extreme attitude improve the producer? And the quality of the audience, the balance in this regard may also be the reason for not advancing or retreating.

Another point, when he was interviewed by his alma mater newspaper, he mentioned that people need freedom and self-discipline. Freedom is something that everyone agrees with and desires. People who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s naturally yearned for freedom, even if the next generation or even those born after the reunification, no matter how much pro-government or even crooked If you are in a hurry, you will always play the trump card of "I have freedom of speech". Hong Kong people really often talk about freedom, although everyone should agree that freedom does not have a bottom line, and you cannot do whatever you want.

Self-discipline is really rarely heard of. If freedom is limited, then we must learn self-discipline, but it seems that we all ignore it. If I want to make a simple statement, I will consider "the gentleman does what he does and what he does not do." A person who knows what can (should) do and what cannot (should) do is basic self-discipline. Or, we often refer to the Japanese, for example, even if there is no car, never cross the road at a red light; or on the stairs that go up and down to the right, never go backwards. But for self-discipline to be effective, most people also need to have self-discipline, so self-discipline also takes care of oneself and others.

Freedom and self-discipline should complement each other. Only freedom, you may lose control, only self-discipline, you become tied, and you even know how to obey without knowing why. In the middle school, there were always many societies, some of which were academic and seemed to be a continuation of disciplines, such as the Geographical Society and the Physics Society. Some extracurricular activities are of a nature, such as guitar learning and chess learning. It even seems to play more than learn, such as the football society, the track and field society and even the radio society and so on. The most important thing is that these societies are organized from the bottom up, starting with a few students, looking for consultants, designing lectures, preparing handouts, arranging activities, and even going to off-campus activities. The school does not have any funds and does not interfere much. Students can use the classroom to do activities after class. Sometimes they will interfere with exhibitions to show their achievements in the school, and may also interfere with school activities. The most important thing is all of this, the school is willing to let the students do it on their own, and what they learn from it is not something that can be learned from books or classrooms. To operate successfully, it requires everyone's participation and self-discipline, and these societies are free to organize and participate, and the students must be more responsible and more responsible.

Whether it's completely different today, I haven't really experienced it, so I can't be sure. However, the school should dominate a lot of directions, and there will not be more spontaneous projects from the bottom up than before. Besides, not only the school, but also the parents, from small to large, have already arranged everything for their children properly. How to have autonomy? Freedom is more about self-discipline. To this day, even the student union of the university has been forced to disband one by one. In this environment, what kind of talents can be cultivated? Therefore, Zeng Jiang's departure this time, especially around all kinds of absurd factors, is especially sad and sad. The sad thing is that this city is getting worse and worse, but fewer and fewer people see it and dare to speak out. .