Are Andy Lau and Leslie Cheung comparable?

In Zhihu, question: Who is more influential, Leslie Cheung or Andy Lau?

The answer comes from: NealDie, actually you don’t know what you are agreeing or opposing

In the Mainland, it must be Andy Lau. Andy Lau has limited talent. Whether it is singing or acting, he is far from talented. The gap between the best Leslie Cheung is so big that even hard work cannot make up for it. However, Andy is good at making use of his reputation and lacks talent. He uses hard work, humility, charity, etc. as his selling points. In addition, he is handsome. When he was young, he mainly used to show off his handsomeness, and he was very popular in the mainland. In particular, he is good at catering to the public (as is Jackie Chan in this regard) and has appeared in the Spring Festival Gala several times. Jacky Cheung has never attended the Spring Festival Gala due to his unwillingness to lip-sync and other reasons. Leslie Cheung was even semi-banned in the mainland because of his sexual orientation. Of course, this approach also causes him to lose his personality, but a good singer or actor must have personality, so we can praise Andy as a hard-working artist, but a wink from Leslie Cheung's Cheng Dieyi is enough. It surpasses all the roles he played in the past ten years.

Around the world, Leslie Cheung is definitely the most influential. It is a reason for people to travel to Hong Kong. This is called a cultural symbol. In addition, some people say that it was because Zhang died early that he had a big impact. I can tell you with confidence that if Andy died early, based on his popularity in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, there would not be so many big names giving him ten years later. Anniversary taboo.

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This is an answer from more than two months ago. There has been no movement since the answer until Today, I don’t know if it’s because @GayScript master clicked the thank you button, which attracted a group of people to comment on this answer. Later, I saw that the teacher @生为梦生, who I have always respected, agreed with the answer of @王赓, who was opposite to me. , so I would like to make a supplement to this answer.

First of all, I want to admit that, as some students in the comments said, when I originally answered this question, I had a strong subjective color. Looking back at this answer now, some of it is too much. Absolutely and without any basis, I despise the person I was two months ago.

In fact, this question is very interesting. The question itself has a strong subjective color. Leslie Cheung and Andy Lau are both very representative stars. This question is like asking: talented geniuses and Among the hard-working model workers, who has more influence? And we can see that there will be similar representatives in all walks of life, and they will all have a group of supporters, and no one among the supporters can convince anyone else, because in the hearts of the supporters, they are all irreplaceable and have huge influence. characters. I have thought about it for a long time, and my personal answer is: the influence of genius lies in depth, while the leadership of model workers lies in breadth - and usually the fate of genius is tragedy.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, this comparison is like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Who do you think has more influence? I believe the final result will be another controversy. Some students’ answers later said that the comparison of the influence of these two people may not have any results for a long time. I think there should never be any results, because both of them are good enough and so good that we will always remember them. They can never be ignored. We should strive to be like them instead of trying to compare with their influence.

If you ask me now, who is more influential, Leslie Cheung or Andy Lau, I will still choose Mr. Zhang without hesitation, but if you insist on saying it is Andy Lau, I think you are right.