[2023.07.30] CHOW YUN FAT ATTENDS AN UNIVERSITY FORUM DESPITE RIB FRACTURE

The wounds are still visible on Chow Yun Fat's palm 

Chow Yun Fat attends the forum despite the pain from his injury
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Chow Yun Fat after earlier leading the ONE MORE CHANCE (BIT GIU NGOR DOH SUN) team to meet with an audience from poverty, gambling affected families and social welfare organizations, yesterday appeared at the Hong Kong University again to attend the Hong Kong University student development and resource center and the HKU liberal arts department's "Chow Yun Fat X Director Anthony Pun X Screenwriter Felix Chong: Conversation -- Film, Life" event and talk about his film and life with the HKU Liberal Arts Department chief planner Dr. Wong Chi Chung, university professors and students. Fat Gor had fractured ribs but still attended the forum despite the injury and said to the next generation that "the world has no miracle, only accumulation!" and won the thunderous applause from the audience.

After almost 50 years in Chinese and foreign film scenes, his rich life experience has been concentrated into a 1 hour forum. Students thought that this was a rare opportunity and fought to get tickets. The over 300 students at the event were even arranged to watch ONE MORE CHANCE at the movies before hand as a warm up for the forum. However, Fat Gor actually on the day before the forum had an accident while running. His arms and palms suffered cuts from rocks, and because he landed sideways the fourth rib on his left side had fracture. Now whether he was laughing, coughing or even breathing deep he would feel a lot of pain. The doctor has already urged him to stop running for two months. When the audience heard Fat Gor describe how he got hurt and his condition, everyone was stunned. The over 300 instructors and students in attendance applauded his appearance despite his injury to thank Fat Gor for keeping his promise.

In order to help the family, Fat Gor was unable to finish his education. However he not only did not complain but also saw his early entry into the "society university" as the most valuable lesson in life. With cultivation by the community and winning love, the grateful Fat Gor hoped and cared the most about sharing the wisdom and love that he has accumulated with the young people in front of him and return the favor to the future pillars of society. In front of the next generation, he urged everyone to think about their responsibilities to family and themselves and also learned to cherish the people in front of them. As for Fat Gor himself, he said that he would properly take care of his body, when he would turn 80 he would have the energy of a 20 year old to run a marathon. However nothing was worth being too uptight about, and remember to never think that we were big shots. Fat Gor said that in life, at work and acting it was all the same, each time would require performance with real emotions. Even with setbacks no one should retreat. Hard times could make everyone stronger and stronger, as long as they were willing to stand up again, accumulating experience and word of mouth bit by bit. As time would go on, they would find a role that would be suitable for themselves and head toward success. "The world has no miracle, only accumulation!" The comment brought thunderous applause.

Another part of the forum was live interaction with students as Fat Gor and ONE MORE CHANCE team faced the questions from students. One student mentioned, "The people before can for paying off their homes and raising a family could suffer even more without any complaint, in comparison to now, the attitude is drastically different." Fat Gor asked when was the first overseas vacation for the student. The student answered, "Around 15 or 16 with the family." Fat Gor said, "At 15 or 16 I went to work at a factory, at the time 'making a living' was my everything. No one can confirm whether their choice is correct or not, the most important is live in the now, try to grasp properly the appearance of every opportunity." Later a medical student mentioned a hospital internship assignment already. Just suffered an accident from running, Fat Gor encouraged medical students, whether they chose to be surgical, internal medicine, anesthesiology, to work hard and do their jobs well.

The hour long forum quickly went by in the blink of an eye. Although Fat Gor answered every question, it was not hard for everyone to notice that he had a hard time breathing while speaking. Even so, Fat Gor still despite his injury took a selfie with over 300 students and put an end to the forum.