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Leung was born in Hong Kong, though his family came from Taishan, Guangdong, China. Leung's early childhood was punctuated with parents' quarrels and arguments about money. A mischievous boy in his early years, Leung's personality changed when his father, a chronic gambler, left the family when he was eight; he and his younger sister were brought up single-handedly by their mother.
Leung became a reticient, quiet child; his childhood experiences made it difficult for him to trust in marriage and paved the way for his acting career, which allow him "to express my emotions without me getting embarrassed. I can cry or smash things on the set, but no one knows that's just acting or that's how I am really feeling." "After my father left me when I was eight, I became afraid to talk to other people. In school, when other children talked about their parents, I would get very embarrassed. I didn't want to mention my father, so I seldom talked to others".
His childhood has had a lasting effect on Leung's personality. "I am very restrained, very suppressed, very quiet. I don't like to talk too much because I don't know what to do in front of an audience. Actually, I don't know how to communicate with others because of my background and I am scared".
Leung's mother worked hard to keep him attending a private school, but even so, Tony had to quit school at the age of 15 due to financial difficulties. As an adolescent he behaved himself and remained very close to his mother. During a DVD interview on the making of Hero, he says that he sees his mother as his definition of a "hero[ine]" for having brought up two children alone.
Above fragment, about Tony Leung's biography is quoted from wikipedia.
Hmmmm.....bad (read: traumatic) experience usually leaves a permanent scar to a person's soul. This scar, realized or not, affect the person's character, behavior and perception towards life or about that certain issue (ie marriage). Example: Chandler. I like him because he's very witty and he's very good in using humor and jokes as self defense mechanism. He's one very funny (and smart) guy.
In Tony's Leung case, he's using acting as a disguise. It (the acting) really gave him the freedom to do things while concealing his true feelings. It's not easy, some were born with the talent, some had to train themselves. Why do we need to hide our true feelings? Maybe because we did not want other people to know our feelings (because it's embarrassing? or it's too personal?) and reacted the way we didn't want them to. It's not easy to do so, it's tiring. Sometimes we might get tired and need to take off the disguise for a while and show our true feelings. It's even nicer if we had someone we can confide in.
Anyway...there's a song from Blink 182, about working things out in a marriage, staying together for the kids. It's good if the parents are trying, but what if the differences are too big to resolve? If they stay under the same roof, but fighting everyday, is it good for their children? Isn't better if they just split, save their children from needless emotional tortures. Their children might have better chance to grow up normally. Staying together is not always the best approach. In some cases, it's better just to split.
If my memory serves me correctly..the beginning of the video clip was this line:
50% of American households are destroyed by divorce
and it was ended with:
50% survive
Blink 182 - Stay Together For The Kids
It's hard to wake up, when the shades have been pulled shut
This house is haunted, it's so pathetic, it makes no sense at all
I'm ripe with things to say, the words rot and fall away
My stupid poem could fix this home, I'd read it every day
So here's your holiday,
hope you enjoy it this time, you gave it all away.
It was mine, so when you're dead and gone,
will you remember this night? twenty years now lost.
It's not right.
Their anger hurts my ears, been running strong for seven years
Rather than fix the problems, they never solve them, it makes no sense at all
I see them everyday, we get along so why can't they?
If this is what he wants, and it's what she wants, then why is there so much pain?
So here's your holiday,
hope you enjoy it this time, you gave it all away.
It was mine, so when you're dead and gone,
will you remember this night? twenty years now lost
It's not right.
So here's your holiday,
hope you enjoy it this time, you gave it all away.
It was mine, so when you're dead and gone,
will you remember this night? twenty years now lost.
It's not right
It's not right
It's not right
It's not right
Leung was born in Hong Kong, though his family came from Taishan, Guangdong, China. Leung's early childhood was punctuated with parents' quarrels and arguments about money. A mischievous boy in his early years, Leung's personality changed when his father, a chronic gambler, left the family when he was eight; he and his younger sister were brought up single-handedly by their mother.
Leung became a reticient, quiet child; his childhood experiences made it difficult for him to trust in marriage and paved the way for his acting career, which allow him "to express my emotions without me getting embarrassed. I can cry or smash things on the set, but no one knows that's just acting or that's how I am really feeling." "After my father left me when I was eight, I became afraid to talk to other people. In school, when other children talked about their parents, I would get very embarrassed. I didn't want to mention my father, so I seldom talked to others".
His childhood has had a lasting effect on Leung's personality. "I am very restrained, very suppressed, very quiet. I don't like to talk too much because I don't know what to do in front of an audience. Actually, I don't know how to communicate with others because of my background and I am scared".
Leung's mother worked hard to keep him attending a private school, but even so, Tony had to quit school at the age of 15 due to financial difficulties. As an adolescent he behaved himself and remained very close to his mother. During a DVD interview on the making of Hero, he says that he sees his mother as his definition of a "hero[ine]" for having brought up two children alone.
Above fragment, about Tony Leung's biography is quoted from wikipedia.
Hmmmm.....bad (read: traumatic) experience usually leaves a permanent scar to a person's soul. This scar, realized or not, affect the person's character, behavior and perception towards life or about that certain issue (ie marriage). Example: Chandler. I like him because he's very witty and he's very good in using humor and jokes as self defense mechanism. He's one very funny (and smart) guy.
In Tony's Leung case, he's using acting as a disguise. It (the acting) really gave him the freedom to do things while concealing his true feelings. It's not easy, some were born with the talent, some had to train themselves. Why do we need to hide our true feelings? Maybe because we did not want other people to know our feelings (because it's embarrassing? or it's too personal?) and reacted the way we didn't want them to. It's not easy to do so, it's tiring. Sometimes we might get tired and need to take off the disguise for a while and show our true feelings. It's even nicer if we had someone we can confide in.
Anyway...there's a song from Blink 182, about working things out in a marriage, staying together for the kids. It's good if the parents are trying, but what if the differences are too big to resolve? If they stay under the same roof, but fighting everyday, is it good for their children? Isn't better if they just split, save their children from needless emotional tortures. Their children might have better chance to grow up normally. Staying together is not always the best approach. In some cases, it's better just to split.
If my memory serves me correctly..the beginning of the video clip was this line:
50% of American households are destroyed by divorce
and it was ended with:
50% survive
Blink 182 - Stay Together For The Kids
It's hard to wake up, when the shades have been pulled shut
This house is haunted, it's so pathetic, it makes no sense at all
I'm ripe with things to say, the words rot and fall away
My stupid poem could fix this home, I'd read it every day
So here's your holiday,
hope you enjoy it this time, you gave it all away.
It was mine, so when you're dead and gone,
will you remember this night? twenty years now lost.
It's not right.
Their anger hurts my ears, been running strong for seven years
Rather than fix the problems, they never solve them, it makes no sense at all
I see them everyday, we get along so why can't they?
If this is what he wants, and it's what she wants, then why is there so much pain?
So here's your holiday,
hope you enjoy it this time, you gave it all away.
It was mine, so when you're dead and gone,
will you remember this night? twenty years now lost
It's not right.
So here's your holiday,
hope you enjoy it this time, you gave it all away.
It was mine, so when you're dead and gone,
will you remember this night? twenty years now lost.
It's not right
It's not right
It's not right
It's not right
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