Name: The Thousand Faces of Michelle Yeoh | Video Essay
Uploaded: 2022-05-27T11:45:05.000Z
Duration: 15 min 59 s
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Everything Everywhere All at Once is a remarkable movie 

Densely packed with comedy, action, and drama

In the film, an ordinary working-class mother

Is tasked to save the world from being destroyed

From different versions of her across the multiverse

And, in the role of the multi-dimensional mom

Was originally meant to be a Jackie Chan movie?

You can definitely see how that would work

Because in most movies, Jackie is just acting as himself 

Sometimes, her characters are so different from each other 

There's no other actress who embodies the multiversal kung fu mom

Today, let's take a look at the career of this living legend 

She entered the film industry as a pageant queen

Which means she was already typecasted as a pretty woman

Just like most women in action cinema at the time

And actively requested to be in fights, just like the men

"We should get the equal opportunity to be where they are" 

Luckily, the then newly formed D&B films needed something new 

To set their films apart from the competition

And began producing a female lead modern action film

With her background in dancing and sports 

Michelle proves to others that she can not only do it 

With slick actions performed by not one but two women

Let's, instead, take a look at Michelle's character

In the film, she plays a cocky police inspector 

This is her first starring role, 2 years after her pageant victory 

And she already looked nothing like her commercial appearance 

She was in her 20s, and she was already a chameleon actress

Launching the career of both its starring actresses

Michelle would continue working with D&B films

Rocking the same short hair look in Royal Warriors

From ballet dancer to a Gatling gun-wielding badass 

Michelle actively fought against stereotypes

And prove to the world that she can be whoever she wants

This, however, could've been Michelle's entire career 

For Hong Kong actresses to get famous in the industry

Retire early, marry young, and have children

She married the head of D&B films in 1987

But as we all know, that's far from the end of the story

Say, if you are an actor with career aspirations

You are going to need a website from Squarespace

It's truly the best way to show yourself off to the world 

Because, unlike social media, it doesn't require logins 

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