In one's life, are there any shortcuts to success? Don’t tell me, there really is! There is no need for a sugar daddy or winning the lottery. Meeting a celebrity is an excellent way for a person to achieve success.
There is an example right now. He is a young man from the Northeast. His name is Jiao Haihua. He is well known because he looks exactly like the Hong Kong and Taiwan superstar Andy Lau. After becoming famous, he performed everywhere to make money, and even became famous. More than Andy Lau himself.
So how did you succeed in teaching Haihua? What are the characteristics and experiences of what he did after becoming famous? Please continue reading below.
Jiao Haihua: An ordinary northeastern rural boy, uneducated and unskilled.
Jiao Haihua was born in Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, Northeast my country in 1985. He was a child raised by an ordinary rural family. When Jiao Haihua was a child, his family's financial situation was not good and he had little interest in going to school. He dropped out of school before finishing junior high school and went to the county town to work alone.
During the first few years of working, Haihua worked as a temporary apprentice in a hotel, as a waiter in a bar, and also drove a taxi for a few days. He suffered a lot and did not earn much money. Just barely making ends meet.
In daily life, Jiao Haihua’s biggest hobby is singing. When he was at home and herding cattle in the mountains with his father when he was a child, Jiao Haihua would sing his voice from time to time, and his voice was relatively deep at a young age.
Later, when he was working as a waiter in a bar, Jiao Haihua often appeared on stage as a guest singer. He became famous in Jixi, where he often won loud applause from the audience and accumulated many repeat customers. What people didn't expect was that this ordinary hobby of teaching Haihua would actually help him become a big star in the future.
While singing in the bar, more and more people told Haihua that he looked like the king-level singer Andy Lau. Day after day, Haihua subconsciously began to imitate Andy Lau.
At that time, Jiao Haihua took advantage of his youth and wanted to stand out. He also worked very hard to imitate Andy Lau. He had to work to make a living during the day, so he spent his evenings watching videos of Andy Lau's various performances. In the second half of the night, I rehearsed every detail repeatedly and persisted, never slacking off.
Just like this, after a period of time, from hairstyle to figure, from singing songs, singing voice to stage movements, Jiao Haihua's imitation of Andy Lau is almost 360° without blind spots. He sang "Forgetting Water" and "Ice Rain" The songs also received numerous praises from the audience and highly restored Andy Lau's stage performance.
Face is a stepping stone, but talent is what makes him popular
In 2000, the life of 15-year-old Jiao Haihua ushered in a critical turning point. This year, Jiao Haihua went to participate in the National Young Singer Competition held in Harbin, Heilongjiang. His appearance that resembled Andy Lau was deeply engraved in more people's minds, and he won the best image in this competition. Award and officially entered the entertainment industry. After the successful debut of
, the young Jiao Haihua focused his work mainly on commercial performances. He was successively invited by TV stations in Mudanjiang, Shenyang, Dalian and other places, and has collaborated with mainstream stars such as Yang Chengang, Pan Changjiang, and Qi Qin. Over a period of time, Jiao Haihua's stage performance has been improved to a certain extent, which also laid the foundation for his future success in the entertainment industry.
In the following years, China's domestic economy developed rapidly after the reform and fashion. Major foreign well-known brands came to China, and a copycat culture represented by the "Putian style" spread rapidly in the country.
In 2006, the China Shanzhai Star Art Troupe was officially established. This company was specially established to discover folk artists in the category of "shanzhai stars" and organized this group of actors to participate in imitation shows, stand-in performances and other activities. After the establishment of the company
, it quickly signed the well-known Jiao Haihua. Jiao Haihua also had his own agent team and obtained better resources to help him go further in the entertainment industry. In the days that followed, Jiao Haihua never stopped packaging himself and started a journey to make money in commercial performances.
He performs in bars and nightclubs in major cities across the country. Every time he goes to a city, many fans come here, and the venues are always packed. Later, Jiao Haihua even had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong to see Andy Lau himself.
The two people standing together look like they were carved from the same mold, especially Jiao Haihua's aquiline nose, which is basically the same style as Andy Lau. Even Andy Lau himself was very surprised. He said that Jiao Haihua was his long-lost brother, and he invited Jiao Haihua to act as his stand-in in several movies he participated in.
Time came to 2008, Jiao Haihua once again completed a grassroots counterattack and landed on TV in one fell swoop. In some programs, he shared the same stage with top stars such as Jacky Cheung, Chow Yun-fat, and Jackie Chan, and was treated the same as Andy Lau.
He participated in the "Dream Theater" super imitation show hosted by the well-known TV host Bi Fujian, and won the championship for two consecutive years in 2008 and 2009. Jiao Haihua's success in winning the championship also proved his strength in the entertainment industry.
For Jiao Haihua, his face is a stepping stone and his first step into the entertainment industry. However, his success does not only rely on his face, but on his personal strength in art. In the show, Bi Fujian gave Jiao Haihua the nickname "High Imitation Andy Lau", and "High Imitation Andy Lau" became popular. When
later taught Haihua to imitate Andy Lau in his acting career, such an interesting incident happened. That was in 2009, Jiao Haihua starred in a Huayi Brothers movie-"Chasing Shadows" with stars such as Wu Peici, Jaycee Chan, and Xie Na.
This movie is a very exciting action movie, in which Jiao Haihua has a lot of fighting and running scenes, and a lot of scenes.
's performance in the movie showed his innate acting talent, and his expressiveness is as good as Andy Lau.
At that time, the Internet was not as popular as it is now. People could not find actor information on the Internet. After watching Jiao Haihua's performance, they thought Andy Lau starred in this movie. They came to watch Andy Lau one after another, which led to the final box office success. .
Under the enthusiastic pursuit of people, Wu Zhenyu, the director of "Chasing Shadows" could not stand it. He publicly issued a statement saying that the starring role in the movie was not Andy Lau, but was known as a "high imitation of Andy Lau" The audience suddenly realized Jiao Haihua's performance, and at the same time praised Jiao Haihua's superb acting skills that were as good as a king.
A grassroots star who has been in drought for a long time, his style and appearance fees have skyrocketed.
As the saying goes: People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong. This sentence is also very suitable for Jiao Haihua. Andy Lau was born in Hong Kong, a metropolis with highly prosperous material culture, and became famous very early. This also allowed Andy to be well-informed and develop a humble and low-key character.
's character also allows Andy Lau to still have a high reputation in the hearts of Chinese people and remain popular even though he has been in the industry for more than 40 years. But Jiao Haihua cannot imitate Andy Lau at this point. Although the two people look similar in appearance, their growth experiences and environments are completely different.
Jiao Haihua was born in a poor rural area and received little education. He lived at the bottom of society for a long time when he was young. After suddenly becoming famous, his income soared, and more and more people worshiped and followed him. The contrast in his life was too huge.
Faced with such a huge change, Jiao Haihua had no ability to control it and could only let his own desires control his behavior, so his life became very high-profile and extravagant. So what are the extravagant manifestations of Jiao Haihua? After
became famous, the popularity of Jiao Haihua skyrocketed, even faster than the increase in the number of his fans. In subsequent commercial performances, Jiao Haihua's appearance fees increased rapidly, reaching over one million yuan per performance. When he goes out, he has a great pomp. Not only does he have his own performance team, but he also has several bodyguards accompanying him, which is very impressive.
At the same time, Jiao Haihua also has a very bad attitude towards fans. He rarely interacts with fans and has a very high attitude, which has changed from his approachable life style when he was not famous. Under such circumstances, people at the time began to question Jiao Haihua, believing that a person who became popular by imitating celebrities was not qualified to put on such a pomp and was not worth such a sky-high appearance fee.
In the days that followed, such doubts were further spread. There will be a day when the audience gets tired of everything, let alone those who started by copying others. After 2016, Jiao Haihua's acting career took a turn for the worse, and he could basically only play minor supporting roles.
Jiao Haihua's singing career has always been tepid. In order to break through this bottleneck, he personally went to Beijing to invite famous music teachers for guidance. However, the results were minimal. The two new singles released later, "New Forgetting Water" and "Salute to Andy Lau" still did not break away from Andy Lau's shadow, and people did not pay enough attention to these two songs.
Now, Jiao Haihua has basically faded out of the entertainment industry, and it is difficult to receive some heavyweight performances, so he can only return to ordinary life.
In fact, the experience of teaching Haihua exactly reflects the current situation of "copycat artists", which is to rely on the skills of imitation and the influence of fans of famous celebrities to become popular quickly, taking a shortcut to success. But after success, he was always in the background of a star, and it was difficult to break through this barrier. It also made it difficult for his subsequent career to develop well, and he eventually disappeared from everyone.
This phenomenon can also be summarized by a common saying, that is: success is also a failure, and failure is a failure. After Jiao Haihua became famous, his soaring style and appearance fees caused people's impression of him to drop sharply, and objectively promoted him to become mediocre, which is lamentable.
Think about it on the other hand, if Jiao Haihua could continue to keep a low profile and focus more on his career development after becoming famous, he might not have ended up like this!
