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Hello, everyone. I am Neo Yau.

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And before I start,

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I have to apologize to all of you

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because I speak
really, really bad English.

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(Laughter) (Applause)

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I kept asking the organizers
if I can speak Cantonese today,

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and they told me

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that some of you cannot
understand Cantonese very well.

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Who cannot understand Cantonese here?

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(Laughter)

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Oh my god.

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So it's you, you, you, you bastards

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(Laughter)

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who makes me suffer for the last weeks
for an English script, okay?

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Okay, let's get started.

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Okay.

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First of all,

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I would like to know
the name you guys put on me.

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Any of you know me before today?

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Okay, thank you.

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So, any of you know me

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because of watching the movie
"She Remembers, He Forgets,"

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"哪一天我們會飛"?

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Okay, thank you.

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How about the "Ten Years"?

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Thank you.

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How about the online videos,

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such as the "Mocking Jer" and "CapTV"?

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Okay, okay.

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So, what does that make me?

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An actor?

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A short film producer? Or what?

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I don't know.

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I will talk about it later.

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I would like to make today's event,
the speech, meaningful.

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So I'm going to talk about something

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that I don't usually talk
to the magazine or the newspaper,

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such as the relationship
between me and the "100Most"

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that nobody knows, okay?

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So,

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the first name they put on me -

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or the first name they put on all of us -

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what's that?

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I would say a student.

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When we were a student,

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it means that we have lack of experience.

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When we were a student,

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we can try, we can fail,

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we can be reckless,

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we can be anything.

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And we are always forgiven

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because we are still studying.

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Back in my days in secondary school,
when I was a student,

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actually, I didn't spend
a lot of time to study.

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(Laughter)

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But instead, I spent my time
on swimming and basketball,

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video games

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and girls.

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(Laughter)

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Girls are very important, you know,

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for school.

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I can't imagine how do boys
live in a boys' school.

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(Laughter)

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So, and more important,

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is that I made short films.

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I made short films,
and I acted in my own short films.

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And also I played in dramas,

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which is the thing I really loved.

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It turns out,

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my academic result was not that bad.

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But not bad means not good enough -

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I'm not good enough
to get an offer from the university.

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And it was really, kind of,
the end of my world

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at that moment,

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because my family wanted me
to study in university

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and I didn't really consider
any other choices.

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So, what can I do?

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I became a repeater.

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I repeated studying Form 7.

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And one year later,

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I got one grade better,

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which is in Use of English.

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How ironic.

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(Laughter)

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I actually got a B in oral.

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(Laughter)

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Okay, so,

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one year later,

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I got an offer from PolyU

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for a degree

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which studies about some mechanics,

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calculators, science, etc,

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something that -

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[No clue WTF to study]

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(Laughter)

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I have no clue what it is.

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But there's also another way,

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which is The [Hong Kong] 
Academy for Performing Arts,

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APA, 演藝學院.

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I applied for two courses:

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the drama school and the film/TV school.

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Actually, drama school 
was my first priority,

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but when I get to the second
audition in drama school,

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I actually don't dare
to take it very serious.

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I got zero preparation for that audition.

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Why?

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Because I don't want to have any hope.

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Because I don't think my family 
will allow me to get there.

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When you study in APA,

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you're not considered
as a college student.

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But actually, it is a degree course.

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So, the second audition in drama school

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became the most embarrassing
performance in my life so far,

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which is really, really bad
because zero rehearsal.

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So, as a result,
I got into film/TV school.

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(Laughter)

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But don't get me wrong:

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I get passion in both
behind the camera and acting.

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So, what does that make me become?

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A filmmaker, actor,
director, scriptwriter?

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No, not yet.

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I became a film-making student.

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In that four years,

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what I most benefit from, in my opinion,

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is that I got the chance
to act in my classmates' films -

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in acting in my classmates' short films.

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It gave me the opportunities 
about camera acting.

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And four years later, I become a graduate.

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And I know most of you think
that I was a YouTuber:

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I make some online videos,

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and one day, I don't know why,

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a director picked me up on the street

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and took me to the movie industry 
to act as a leading role,

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right?

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I was a YouTuber,

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and I turned to a movie actor -

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which is not true.

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It actually never happened
in Hong Kong history.

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You can ask Tommy.

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(Laughter) (Applause)

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It never happened.

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So, what did I do after I graduate?

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When we graduate,

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it means that we are hopeless.

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(Laughter)

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We are hopeless for our future,

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and we are hopeless in our industry.

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We got twenty students in my class,

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and only seven students
studied major scriptwriting -

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I am one of those.

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And only one out of seven students

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are actually working in the industry -

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and that's not me,

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(Laughter)

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because I'm not doing
a scriptwriting job, right?

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So, that is what I mean, "hopeless."

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So what did I do after I graduate?

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I was very lucky

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because there were two movies,

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got a public audition,

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which is, you all know it,

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"哪一天我們會飛" -

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"She Remembers, He Forgets,"

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and another movie, "Weeds on Fire" -

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"點五步,"

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a baseball movie, which was actually
produced by your school,

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and I applied [for] both auditions,

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and I actually earned both leading roles

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in these two movies.

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But they don't want me to act 
at the same time in two movies,

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so I have to choose.

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But I like Adam Wong a lot -

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I like his last movie, "The Way We Dance."

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So, actually, I got no choice.

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So I chose to act
in "She Remembers, He Forgets."

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It turns out, I think, 
it is really, actually, a wise choice

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because this movie ["Weeds on Fire"],

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it still hasn't released.

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(Laughter)

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Don't get me wrong:
it may be a good movie.

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I believe it would be a good movie,

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but I would not be standing here
to share with you,

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because I would still be nobody.

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Nobody means no money.

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(Laughter)

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So after I shot this film
["She Remembers, He Forgets"]

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but the movie needed to prepare
for the post-production,

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so I got some money in my pocket,

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but I was still nobody.

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So what should I do?

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That was 2014.

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In 2014, we all know
what happened in Hong Kong:

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the Umbrella Movement.

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It gave me a lot of impact 
and a lot of ideas.

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So I started to gather my crew,
my friends and my classmates

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to make my first online videos.

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We established
the organization Mocking Jer,

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but it was barely an organization,

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because we have no money, 
no income, nothing.

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We are just some friends
gathered together.

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And we started to make
our first film with zero budget,

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the film named "陳浩南教書篇."

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That video

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became the top video of the week

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in Hong Kong YouTube.

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It gained 200,000 views in one week.

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So the magazines, the newspapers
started to interview us,

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and we were encouraged.

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We started to make another film
and another film, with no money.

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So we are happy to make our own films,

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but the problem is still there.

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I got no income.

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I barely lived with my freelance jobs.

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So what's next?

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At that time, our savior comes out:

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the boss of "100Most,"

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(Cantonese) Roy Tsui.

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He called me.

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He gave me a phone call
and asked me to work in "100Most,"

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which is - actually,
I was the supervisor for "TVMost"

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before it launched.

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Why?

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Because, actually, I did
lots of the funny TV news online,

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(Cantonese) "Most News."

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Actually, I did a lot for a month.

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Every day I did this news,

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but it was never published,
because we had to test,

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and before the day
"TVMost" launched, I quit the job.

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I think there are many
talented youngsters in the company,

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and I like to work there,

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but somehow,

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we are not on the same track
of making films -

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I mean, me and the bosses -

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so I have to leave there.

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So a few months later,

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CapTV find me to make
other funny videos online.

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And a few more months later,

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(Cantonese) "She Remembers, He Forgets"

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finally released.

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(Laughter)

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And the movie released,
it means that I'm relieved,

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because, finally, someone
knows me by the movie,

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and they started to call me an actor,

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and I started to have
a more stable income.

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So,

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here's today's moral of the story:

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I was not a YouTuber first 
and turned to movie actor.

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Actually, there's no door.

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There's no door for any YouTubers
to become movie makers or movie actors.

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There's no door.

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And, in my opinion,

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there is no door for youngsters
to get in the industry, any industry.

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It is very difficult nowadays.

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So I'm telling you today:

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you will never make it.

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Whatever your dream is,
you will never make it.

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Does that sound evil?

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(Laughter)

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You will never make it.

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Why?

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Even as lucky as me,

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I got the chance to move
into the movie industries,

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but I have not got a bright future,

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as you've seen.

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I still have not got many opportunities.

266
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So, why would that happen?

267
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In my opinion,

268
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there are too many old men
in the industries.

269
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(Laughter)

270
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They just simply cannot
understand our situations.

271
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They think we are
(Cantonese) "waste youth";

272
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they think we are "rubbish youngsters" -

273
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I don't know how to translate this term.

274
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It is really difficult to translate, okay?

275
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(Laughter)

276
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Because back in their days,

277
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they work hard, they get paid.

278
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They can move in their own flats.

279
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We cannot buy our own flats -

280
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it is, as you said,
"mission impossible," right?

281
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We are barely living on our own.

282
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In their eyes, we are rubbish:

283
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"Why would you do that?

284
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Because you are not hardworking enough.

285
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That makes you rubbish."

286
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They are not willing to open the door.

287
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They keep the door shut,

288
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without which the youngsters 
cannot get into the industry.

289
00:16:35,917 --> 00:16:39,464
Every time I see some young actors,

290
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like me or even younger than me,

291
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they are as talented as me or even better,

292
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but they are still being unseen

293
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because there are no platforms
for them to show up,

294
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and that really breaks my heart.

295
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So, that's why I am telling you:

296
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whatever your dream is,
you will never make it.

297
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To the big bosses

298
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(Laughter)

299
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today -

300
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I don't know if there are
any big bosses sitting here -

301
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I am telling you:

302
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so, please, give out opportunities 
to the youngsters

303
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or we will kill you.

304
00:17:23,531 --> 00:17:25,436
(Laughter)

305
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Just kidding.

306
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And to the youngsters,

307
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like me, and all the students here:

308
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you will never make it,

309
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but that's not your fault.

310
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Even you will never make it -

311
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please tell yourself
you'll never make it, prepare for that -

312
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but please, still try your very best
to achieve your goals.

313
00:17:49,982 --> 00:17:52,240
So, that's what I want to say:

314
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please walk your own way.

315
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Because nowadays in Hong Kong,

316
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we don't know what will happen tomorrow.

317
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In every aspect, it is such a mess,

318
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especially the politics.

319
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We all know it.

320
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So walk your own way.

321
00:18:13,774 --> 00:18:16,917
And we have to stand together.

322
00:18:17,274 --> 00:18:20,353
We have to stand by each other 
for our new generation.

323
00:18:20,565 --> 00:18:24,870
If we cannot get in the door,
we create our own door.

324
00:18:26,098 --> 00:18:27,987
We create our own generations.

325
00:18:30,125 --> 00:18:32,312
There's a sentence in Chinese,

326
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(Cantonese) a misfortune
may be a blessing in disguise,

327
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which means -
I'll try my best to translate -

328
00:18:38,219 --> 00:18:39,477
(Laughter)

329
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which means

330
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if you lost something,
you may be able to get something back.

331
00:18:47,906 --> 00:18:49,694
But in the way I see it,

332
00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:55,208
we must - we must be able
to get something back.

333
00:18:57,308 --> 00:18:58,633
In my case,

334
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I wasted a lot of time 
in my secondary school.

335
00:19:03,430 --> 00:19:08,301
But I did try many aspects, many things,

336
00:19:08,773 --> 00:19:12,042
which is really good for my actor career

337
00:19:12,609 --> 00:19:15,457
because I need to play
different roles, right?

338
00:19:16,290 --> 00:19:19,331
And I failed to get to university,

339
00:19:20,664 --> 00:19:24,055
but I got the chance
to study what I loved.

340
00:19:25,022 --> 00:19:27,568
I failed to get in drama school,

341
00:19:28,551 --> 00:19:32,906
but I got a chance to know
more about the camera acting,

342
00:19:34,194 --> 00:19:38,200
and for the scriptwriting majors, 
I can write my own stories,

343
00:19:38,576 --> 00:19:41,134
I can write my own films,

344
00:19:41,454 --> 00:19:43,052
and that's what I got.

345
00:19:43,350 --> 00:19:47,016
And the camera acting experience
didn't make me fail

346
00:19:47,990 --> 00:19:52,034
for the public audition
of the feature-length films.

347
00:19:52,442 --> 00:19:56,024
So, you never know
what you've got from your past,

348
00:19:56,172 --> 00:20:00,539
so don't regret for what you did
or what you didn't do.

349
00:20:00,980 --> 00:20:02,552
It's never too late.

350
00:20:03,390 --> 00:20:06,554
Don't think that
if I did this or did that,

351
00:20:06,752 --> 00:20:08,886
didn't do this, didn't do that,

352
00:20:09,012 --> 00:20:11,243
maybe I can be better.

353
00:20:11,265 --> 00:20:12,409
Don't think about it,

354
00:20:12,409 --> 00:20:15,901
because that's just some assumption
which never exists.

355
00:20:16,612 --> 00:20:18,597
So think about it:

356
00:20:18,983 --> 00:20:21,346
the way you walked is always the best way,

357
00:20:21,616 --> 00:20:22,833
that's what I think.

358
00:20:27,298 --> 00:20:29,323
And we have to stand together.

359
00:20:29,323 --> 00:20:31,041
You will never make it,

360
00:20:31,041 --> 00:20:32,539
but please,

361
00:20:32,539 --> 00:20:34,476
try your very best to achieve it.

362
00:20:35,342 --> 00:20:38,636
Because we are in such a messy society.

363
00:20:40,057 --> 00:20:44,340
Do I still got time for a short story?

364
00:20:45,152 --> 00:20:47,154
(Crew: Cantonese) Let's save it for later.

365
00:20:47,154 --> 00:20:49,389
Okay. Thank you very much.

366
00:20:49,389 --> 00:20:50,736
(Cheers) (Applause)