The most anticipated movie on May 1st is none other than "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City". The film very delicately recreates the "Three No Matters" Kowloon Walled City in the 1980s. At the same time, the film is also very hard-hitting. The box office has declined for three consecutive days, and now the box office has exceeded 300 million.
It is undoubtedly the most suitable for Louis Koo to play the role of "Tornado".
In reality, he is the president of the Hong Kong Performing Arts Association and the boss of Tianyi Film Production Company. He has supported many Hong Kong filmmakers over the years; in the movie, he is more like the "parent" of the Kowloon Walled City, doing nothing. Protecting the entire walled city, "You can sleep until dawn, not because of the walled city, but because of the people in the walled city."
Even in the end, the tornado did not hesitate to sacrifice. He used his own body as a door lock to hold Wang Jiu back, allowing Xinyi and the others time to take Chen Luojun away, leaving the chance of survival to the younger generation.
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Whether on or off screen, Louis Koo is the defender.
Louis Koo entered society at the age of 15 and did many low-level jobs. The one that impressed him most was washing dishes in a restaurant.
Because of his low-key personality, Louis Koo has always felt that he is ordinary. If Daniel Wu is said to be "ordinary-looking", then "unremarkable" refers to Louis Koo.
Louis Koo, who is ordinary, had a youthful and rebellious period. He lived in a high-pressure family since he was a child, and he was once a real "young and Dangerous boy".
During a robbery planned by a friend, Louis Koo was responsible for the lookout. Because of his loyalty, he helped his brothers take all the blame. While he was living a hard life in the high wall, not only did his so-called brother not come to visit, but his girlfriend also left with his brother.
In anger, Louis Koo started fighting in prison, and his sentence was increased to two years. But fortunately, the prodigal son can never change his fortune.
After Louis Koo entered TVB, because he was not well-known, he was doing a side job for a long time, and was even regarded as a field manager by Zhou Huimin.
was later spotted by Leslie Cheung, who was appointed as Ziweixing, and was also introduced to Huang Baiming. In 1994, in a talk show, when Leslie Cheung talked about which newcomers he was most optimistic about nowadays, he said that he could pay attention to Louis Koo.
Soon, Louis Koo filmed "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and became a popular star of TVB. At that time, it was true that the first sight of Yang Guo made him miss his life.
Although Hei Gu is also attractive now, when he was young, Bai Gu, with his fair and handsome face, and tenderness that made him squirt, would instantly outshine many of today’s young talents.
The reason why "white ancient" became "black ancient" is because he didn't want to wear makeup and didn't want the smell of rouge.
At the peak of his acting career, Louis Koo had nearly 200 film and television works. In addition to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", there are also familiar ones such as "Pet Love", "Criminal Investigation Files", "Xun Qin Ji" and so on.
Over twenty years later, Louis Koo has never disappointed Leslie Cheung. After being able to give back to the society, I have been blogging for more than ten years, influencing others and spurring myself.
announced in July 2020 that the blog will stop updating, and Sina Weibo will continue to update. But soon the blog would be updated again, and no matter how late it was, he would insist on writing his thoughts and insights.
A theme and some essays reveal an old-school romance.
As the president of the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association, Louis Koo is always ridiculed as the "King of Bad Movies", but he has been guarding Hong Kong movies for ten years, like the gatekeeper of Hong Kong movies.
has low pay or even no pay. As long as he can continue to develop Hong Kong films, he will do it. Including "Under the Sun", the most popular Hong Kong film of the year, the director spent 5 years in preparation, but the most difficult part was to find investors. He found five of them. In the end, the script went to Louis Koo's Tianyi, and the film started shooting smoothly.
Er Dongsheng also joked that there is a joke in the film industry that the story of the film is not important now, the most important thing is Louis Koo (Louis Koo).
In today's so-called "Hong Kong film is dead" environment, Johnnie To is willing to call him "Hong Kong's last star".Louis Koo will do his best in Hong Kong movies and charity. As he said, "Because if I can say it, I can definitely do it."
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Every year, some people say that Louis Koo's character has collapsed, but every year I am not surprised. , because I’m used to it.
It is well known that Louis Koo loves to do charity. Therefore, even passers-by agree, "The only thing in this world that can defeat Louis Koo is really the sun."
The 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake caused heavy casualties. Many people lost their homes, relatives, and were displaced. News reports about children, especially, attracted him. Very sad.
In August of the same year, Louis Koo established a charity foundation. He hoped to help people living on the edge of pain. It was at that time that the "school-building mania" began, and his enthusiasm for donating to build schools was buried in his heart.
Louis Koo has never actively publicized his charity donations to schools in public places. Even if a reporter asked specifically about it, he would just shake his head and say not to talk about it.
It wasn’t until Er Dongsheng posted on Weibo in 2014, and the Weibo table recorded the list of some of the schools Louis Koo had donated from 2009 to 2013, that the public gradually came to know that Louis Koo’s donations were not just one or two schools.
In one episode of "Happy Camp", the program team invited the principal and students to be guest speakers. Louis Koo was very shocked because he had never mentioned the charity he had done. Therefore, local students all thought that Louis Koo was a fat grandfather in his 80s.
Some people say that if you are low-key, you will not name the school after yourself. Louis Koo has responded to this question very early: "The school uses my name so that if there is any problem, it is easier to find me."
I remember that a few years ago, Louis Koo was scolded on hot searches. Some netizens accused him of setting things up to gain fame and reputation, thinking that he was doing this. Surface charity. The cause of the incident was that a primary school donated by Louis Koo many years ago was left idle and abandoned. The classrooms were left unattended, dust accumulated everywhere, and overgrown with weeds.
This Hongguang Louis Koo Primary School in Guizhou was jointly funded and constructed by Louis Koo and the local government in 2009. After it was put into use in 2010, it has educated 447 students. It was not until 2014 that the number of students decreased and the school was idle. The next step is to transform it into a rural mass medical and elderly care project.
Before the official response, there were many scoldings directed at Louis Koo on the Internet, even saying that he used other people's money to build a school but put his own name on it, and doing charity was just "superficial".
"More than a hundred rural primary schools were built blindly."
"Using your own name to name something is not self-promotion?"
"It's just using charity to advertise and make more money."
Louis Koo has always been low-key in his charity work. He has personally donated and built more than 100 schools, so he is also known as the "school building maniac".
From another perspective, rural primary schools are idle and abandoned because they have access to better educational resources. Now this school has completed its mission, made good use of materials, and transformed it into a retirement project for continued use or replacement. suitable.
In fact, naming the school after "Louis Koo" was not because of the so-called "high profile" or "wanting to make money", but because he had to go through the "Hong Kong Mercy Society" to make donations to impoverished mountainous areas in the mainland.
"Hong Kong Charity Society" has regulations that individual donation projects must be named after the donor's name. When it comes to good deeds, he always believes that being low-key is the best, and the most important thing about charity is that it can help more people.
Even during the epidemic, his income was affected, but he was still able to donate and build 4 schools in a low-key manner.
From 2009 to 2020, he donated and built a total of 137 schools.
Even if they are able to achieve this level of charity, they can still be accused and reviled. The only way to describe these network keyboard warriors is as "the evil of human nature". When using high morals to kidnap others, please first check whether you have such morals.
Goo Jai had no goals in building a school, and he didn't want to talk about money. He always felt that building a school was a good idea, and he was willing to spend 70% of his income on charity.
It is precisely because all his income is used for charity, Louis Koo has become a "model worker" for Hong Kong entertainers.Even if it is called a "bad movie" by fans, even if its popularity will decline, he is still willing to accept it, including some weird game advertising endorsements.
In public, reporters have asked Goo Jai countless times about marriage and donations, and he would always say "no response." Anyway, I won’t tell you, and I definitely won’t tell you.
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In addition to being an actor, Louis Koo is also the president of the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association. He will always lend a helping hand when the bottom film and television practitioners are in trouble.
Due to the epidemic, Hong Kong movies have been affected. When Hong Kong's lower-level artists had no income, he launched a support plan to raise funds from various sources, distributing an anti-epidemic fund of HK$9,000 to each unemployed artist.
There was a shortage of masks at the beginning of the epidemic, so he donated another 1.3 million masks with only one request. That is to say, priority should be given to patients and some low-income families who live in low-income families.
Louis Koo actually has very little time left for himself. Everyone is looking forward to when Louis Koo will get married and have children as soon as possible, but now it seems that Louis Koo’s girlfriend is just for work.
Although he also invites actresses to dinner, and every year on the third day of the Lunar New Year, he will come as promised. She is an old drama star: the movie queen Roland.
Roland is single and unmarried all his life. In Louis Koo's heart, he treats Roland just like his biological mother. Goo Jai will tell her to come to him as soon as possible if anything happens.
In 2011, Hong Kong artist Cheung Tat Ming suffered from nasopharyngeal cancer. When Louis Koo found out about it, he blamed himself very much and thought it was due to his negligence in his work.
After visiting Zhang Tat Ming, he also provided financial assistance for Zhang Tat Ming's medical expenses. Louis Koo also did not forget to support Zhang Tat Ming during his comeback after fighting cancer.
In 2018, the 77-year-old actor Lu Haipeng needed surgery due to cardiovascular blockage. Faced with the high operation fee of 200,000, he hesitated. Fortunately, Johnnie To and Louis Koo reached out to help, and Lu Haipeng was saved.
In 2018, Lan Jieying passed away, her relatives lost contact, and there was no one to deal with the matter after her death. Louis Koo also took the initiative to stand up.
Including the flood disaster in Henan, after discussion, Eric Tsang and Louis Koo decided to make a film to cheer for Henan.
In fact, Louis Koo's principle of doing things is very simple. When he has the ability, he hopes to help more different people. Unfortunately, there will always be some unfounded remarks directed at him.
It is not easy to do a good deed, and it is even more difficult to persist for more than ten years. From the establishment of the charity foundation to the present, Louis Koo's persistence in doing good deeds is enough to defeat those who slander him.
Some people are willing to be good people, but there are also people who dare not be good people. This does not mean that they do not have a good character or have a problem with their thinking, but that it is difficult to be a good person and even more difficult to be a good person.
When a good person does a lot of good deeds, as if doing good deeds is his duty, he will be unable to step forward if something happens one day, and he will be easily blamed.
Tolerate the bad and seek perfection for the good. There are too many lessons like this. Human relationships are as thin as paper, and world affairs are like new chess games. It is not difficult to find that good people seem to have to be very pure and flawless to avoid being criticized.
Louis Koo's philanthropic path has never been questioned or reviled. He is always said to live a luxurious life and buy charity.
1. Zhuo Wei once broke the news that the school was actually donated by a beverage group in the name of Louis Koo, and he was scolded as a "fraudulent donation" back then.
2. I spent 50 million to buy myself a yacht and was criticized as extravagant.
3. Nowadays, the school is idle, and it is accused of being a charity just to gain fame.
First of all, every expenditure of Louis Koo's fund can actually be checked. Zhuo Wei's revelations back then are simply untenable. Louis Koo's original intention is to keep a low profile and do good deeds, so public opinion can avoid deifying him. He is just an ordinary good person.
's deification of good people is actually a kind of moral kidnapping. Once it is placed at the highest point of morality, it will become difficult to move forward.It is easy to create a god, but who will stop the destruction after the deity collapses?
Liang Qiuyang said in "Qi Pa Shuo": "We like to see good people sacrifice for everyone, because that has a sense of beauty." Only by doing so can more people be good people. "
We cannot demand perfection from anyone. Being picky about the kindness and morality of good people will only make the goodwill in society less and less.
Only when kindness is treated with gentleness, society will be less "afraid to help", "unafraid to help" and "afraid of causing trouble". We also hope that "being a good person" will not be forced to become a difficult task.
Louis Koo never uses charity as a publicity stunt. His charity heart is precious. It is not easy to maintain his original intention. His contribution to the film industry is also from the heart.
Idols are not necessarily dazzling. The real value of "idols" may be to quietly set a good example.
Louis Koo is very concerned about the future of Hong Kong movies. In recent years, he has continuously invested in new movies and launched an apprenticeship program for new screenwriters, in order to make Hong Kong movies full of vitality. Just as some netizens commented after watching "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" that the tornado played by Louis Koo is the soul of Hong Kong that will never leave.
In fact, the same is true for Louis Koo in real life and Hong Kong movies. After watching the movie, my first feeling was: People really fall in love with Louis Koo over and over at different ages.
