#compare to now where im p sure most ppl are either nepo babies or industry plants (or both!) and it's like... ugh.

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gun to my head i could not name a single hk actor in their 20s rn and perhaps 1 in their 30s (william chan, but i know him from mainland dramas so...) but the immense influence golden age hk actors and filmmakers in general have had on cinema (this INCLUDES hollywood btw! action movies would not look like they do now without john woo, ringo lam, herman yau, yuen woo-ping, etc...) is so insane like. even if i werent obsessed w andy i wld know his name as well as most of his contemporaries! and quite a lot of them had v humble beginnings the only thing they have in common is that generally they were in tvb acting classes but during that time that was p much the only place where you could go to acting class unless you were in a theatre troupe (like the lucky seven/seven little fortunes; u might know yuen biao, sammo hung, j*ckie chan, etc who were its members)

#like obvi not to make this abt andy but he was Poor-poor when he was growing up lol #compare to now where im p sure most ppl are either nepo babies or industry plants (or both!) and it's like... ugh. #yes tvb dramas arent as good as they used to be like youre not getting another the bund or return of the condor heroes #but it's so sad that the state of the entertainment industry has come to this where most ppl arent GOOD at what they do #nor are they Passionate abt it #not hk related but this is also why i adore zhao liying bc unlike Some People shes actually genuinely good at her craft #''despite'' growing up in a rural town n facing sooo much backlash for that (still salty abt that btw) #ling.txt