yukicorn:

Six Stories on Han Geng

Foreword:

On February 9, Han Geng had his 28th birthday. Twenty-eight is a sort of awkward age. (I) asked him what kind of person he would like to be? He was silent for quite a while, and said that he hoped not to set a supposed-to-be image of himself. Meanwhile, he would not want to omit(skip) all the human feelings, all the ups and downs a person should experience. No distress, of course does not mean you don’t care. As the happy representative of 2012 anti-depressant movement of Trends Health, Han Geng was invited to go to Italy for the photo shooting and shared six stories of himself, about giving up, facing things, self-expression, growing up, pursuing happiness and the secret of life.


Story III  My Kingdom

When the film “My Kingdom” was released, a reporter asked me, “How do you think of the movie for fans?” I asked him, “Have you watched the film?” He answered, “Nope.” Then I retorted, “Then why did you say this is a movie for fans?” He said, “Everybody says so.”

“Everybody says so” — this kind of take-for-granted attitude is terrible. So there are some so-called “opinion leaders”, who would like to stand out and talk about other people’s lives volubly with indiscreet remarks and criticisms. In fact they are not the persons concerned, so they shall never know how much efforts the parties have made or how the parties feel. Moreover, they just act on assumptions without any communications in most cases. As a newcomer of the cinema world, I should bear all the pressures any newcomer should bear, I should also make the greatest efforts to work hard on the things I should do, but I would not accept this kind of assumptions.

So I told the reporter, “Sorry, would you mind watching the film first before interviewing me?”

One of my friends’ father and mother filed for divorce when they were old. The judge asked them why. The old husband said, “I hate poached eggs all my life. But she would prepare one every morning for me, making me eat it all my life!” The old wife cried, “You looked as if you enjoyed it very much and ate it up every time, I thought you only like it.” It even sounds a little funny, but it is somewhat a sad thing. I believe that not only because of the poached eggs, but also many other accumulated misunderstandings for the lack of communications and expressions between the two, happy couple became unhappy ones in the end and wasted all their life.

There was a scene in “My Kingdom” about how to break out in the end of the character “Erkui”. I was not a major of acting, so before the shooting, I went to talk with Da S, Wu Chun, Brother Sammo Hung and Director Gao Xiaosong on how to present it so that the character will be more life-like. We tried many ways and shooted, but it seemed that none of them is what I wanted. At last we decided to use the simplest way to decide it—if I were Meng Erkui, what would be my first reaction? Angry, yelling, crying, very direct way to express emotions. Then (the shooting of) the scene was just what we wanted.

So during the past two years, I learned more and more about how to express myself, (such as) tell others what I want, what kind of person I am. It’s not by words, but by action.

For example, many people thought I would certainly go to play idol TV dramas, or sing with dance music, then I was determined to do in a different way. I like jazz, I like rock and roll, then I just gonna express my attitude in my music. For example, I have been dreamed to be a good actor, but not a good singer, I won’t cover up and pretend to be determined to make remarkable achievements in music field.

Short cut is never the road I want to choose. This is the third story I want to tell.


Story IV  Twenty-eight Year’s Old

“After going on the stage of Spring Festival Gala, did you feel that you are more popular now than before? So all the hard work has finally paid off, right?” This is a question I have been frequently asked recently during interviews.

My answer is: actually I don’t feel anything about it, I never feel that I am a “motivational God” or something. The happiest thing for me now is that I can do what I like to do, I can choose what I want to do, I am freer on my personal development. Actually there wasn’t a hardest time, I am quite lucky anyway, many people had much harder times than me. Besides, this is just a beginning for me now, there are many more challenges for me to meet in the future. I shall be steady in doing every thing and try to do it correctly and thoroughly.

Might it be too official? But I do think that time is the best medicine for the solution of all problems.

I was already twenty eight on February 9. It might be an awkward age. Talking about how mature I am, even the staffs complain that I am too childish sometimes. But could I really only be a small child? Eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy, cry when unhappy and forget all when happy. Children might be the happiest group, and for us who have grown up, where has all the happiness gone?

In the VCR of one of my songs “Because of Dream” broadcasted in my concert, I said, “I always think that I am a simple person, but, it seems that, I did not choose a simple road. ” Just like I really don’t like birthday celebration thing and there is no particular reason. I just felt that it is an excuse for people to gather together for a drink and party and all. Without birthday, we may also play like that. Maybe as I am an introverted person, I don’t like to exaggerate things.

During our visit to Italy, we were asked to the small room for the examination at Customs for quite a long time. Many people may be irritable at that moment, but I do not think it’s unlucky or something. They need the procedures, then go to prepare them. It’s quite normal. You only did not get the convenience of “going through the customs smoothly”. According to the normal and whole procedures, you was supposed to be examined and questioned. You should simplify complicated life, but not magnify it. In this day and age, human’s feelings and desires have been greatly exaggerated.

So at the age of twenty eight, if you ask me what is the biggest gain for me? It might be this: the more the crowds hail, the cooler I hope myself to keep. I need to find out by myself what I want exactly. As for the question of what kind of person I will become in the future, I’ll let nature take its course. Just let it be.

I don’t have extravagant hopes that one day when people thinking about me and said, “You mean Han Geng? Well, he is a good guy.”

To be continued„„

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yukicorn:

Six Stories on Han Geng

Foreword:

On February 9, Han Geng had his 28th birthday. Twenty-eight is a sort of awkward age. (I) asked him what kind of person he would like to be? He was silent for quite a while, and said that he hoped not to set a supposed-to-be image of himself. Meanwhile, he would not want to omit(skip) all the human feelings, all the ups and downs a person should experience. No distress, of course does not mean you don’t care. As the happy representative of 2012 anti-depressant movement of Trends Health, Han Geng was invited to go to Italy for the photo shooting and shared six stories of himself, about giving up, facing things, self-expression, growing up, pursuing happiness and the secret of life.


Story I  Luo Fa Zhi Yi (Hair cut and Clothes Changing)

In the Buddhist Scriptures, there is a story about Shakyamuni before he became a Buddha, called “Luo Fa Zhi Yi”. When he was still prince Siddhartha, he cut his hair with a sword in order to make a determination, saying, “Today I shave and hope to cut all the distress, bad habits and karma. I shall concentrate on the transcendental meditation and hope to learn the truth soon.”

Cut hair to Ming (make people palpable), one must cut the hair relentlessly, which needs a little bit courage. So when knowing that the first thing to do of the schedule is to cut hair, I felt a little bit uneasy, as I hadn’t done that for years.

To appear with a totally new image, will it leave more space for others and myself to grow?

During the trip to Italy, many fans went to visit us. Some are Chinese students studying abroad,some are Chinese Italians who can not speak Chinese,there were native Italian girls as well. They were waiting outside the hotels from morning until night, just waiting there—-My first reaction is, in such freezing cold weather, if their parents knew it,how much their hearts might ache. Then I will think, who am I，or what shall I do without disappointing so many people of the world,for their love to me. This might be a question for many artists and stars to face with.

Of all the awards I have been achieved, the ones related to fame took the majority part. I wondered sometimes, for I did not know what to do to fulfill the image of “Han Geng” in their hearts—-every time I denied or changed a little, they would be more determined and said, “No no you should be like that” At some moments, I even found it was quite funny: who on earth is Han Geng? You or me? Although I am an idol, that does not mean that I should be unreal, the truth is I smoke, drink, sometimes lose my temper. I hope that what other people see and feel about is the real me, but not a skin of an idol.

Actually the more you care, the more careful you will become and then you might lose yourself and the result might turn out to be the opposite. Then I just stood back simply and asked for the peace of mind. There was a certain time, I was eager to play in a play,almost crazy about it, any roles will be OK. But for some reason, I couldn’t. I would feel it was such a pity and be entangled about it, keep asking why it’s not me. When I did not think about it and accepted the fate, there were about seventy or eighty plays sent to me—-it looks like a joke (of life). And the fact is the state of mind later was much more abundant than before—-people can see what you’ve got.

So what I’d like to talk about in the first story is not hair cut, but giving up, knowing when and where to give up.


Story II The Little Snail

There is a song “Tourbillon”, witten by Huang Weiwen for Eason Chan: “Without any expectation, the Autumn is there. Looking around I’ve got everything people longing for: wine, sports car, camera, and gold watch.” It might be tacky on the use of words, but it do reflects kind of different feelings.

When I am on the stage as a singer, all the spotlights are shone on me, the harsh lights make me barely could open my eyes. It is such a light world beyond your imagination. Even myself will be very excited, with all the blood pumping and quite a high spirit. But after three minutes when you get off the stage and walked to the corner, it’s such a dark place also beyond your imagination. In fact my real life is just like the moment of getting off the stage, that is what my life is like. All the glamorousity and cries of the crowds come from the shining image (mask) on the stage. But when I went home alone, maybe I just have a bowl of fried rice noodles or a hometown meat pie, nothing different from all of the other people.

I have passed the most entangling time of my life before the termination from SJ. Most of the time, I dared not to look at myself in the mirror, just muddling along and kept escaping, hoping that situation might become well and things might turn for the better, until the bottom-line had been crossed. In fact, my mind was already full of holes during the escaping.

I had read a small story before: a little snail asked his mom, ” Mom, why are we born with this hard and heavy shell?” Mom said, “Because we don’t have skeleton to support our body, we can only creep and can’t creep fast.” The little snail asked, ” Sister caterpillar also don’t have skeleton and can not creep fast, why doesn’t she have the hard and heavy shell?” Mom said, “Because sister caterpillar will become butterfly and the sky will protect her.” The little snail asked again, “But little brother earthworm also has no skeleton and can’t creep fast, can’t become butterfly, why doesn’t he need to carry the hard and heavy shell on his back?” Mom said, “That is because little brother earthworm can drill soil and the land will protect him.” The little snail cried and said, “How pitiful we are! the sky won’t protect us and the land won’t protect us either.” Mom snail comforted him, “So we have our shells! We neither depend on the sky nor the land, we depend on ourselves.”

So, nothing is a big deal. If anyone liked me, I would try my best to fufill the wonderful performance of the few minutes. Some day when no one likes it, I am left alone, that’s OK. If I felt lonely and boring, I just go to find some friends for a dinner or a drink, or playing table tennis together. If I was lovelorn, I would feel sad and glum, and go to get drunk and cry “Why doesn’t she care about me?” If I saw something I like very much, I would buy it if I can support it. All of the human emotions and desires, just face it. Escaping doesn’t solve any problems.

This is the second story I want to tell.

To be continued„„

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