I quickly rushed back to Beijing from Shanghai and as soon as I got off the plane, I immediately went to the broadcasting station to appear on a program. Afterwards, I went to the Bird’s Nest Stadium for rehearsal. I rehearsed until after midnight and then we all went back to the head office.

When I got back to the office, I saw many friends already there waiting for me. I actually alerted quite a few friends and asked them to help me for this concert. Some friends from Taiwan formed their own group and came to Beijing; some friends were from Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. There were also some from various provinces around the country. While I spent some time chatting with them, I told them that the stress and pressures that I felt were weighing heavily on my mind. The reason I felt stressed wasn’t because of the preparations involved for organizing this large scale concert, it was because of my tight work schedule and having to do so many things in such a short amount of time. My stress resulted from a lack of time. Oh well, nothing I can do about it. I’ll just try my best and do as much as I can.

I knew that I had to go to Tiananmen Square at seven o’clock the following morning to initiate the start of the countdown to the World Expo. I also knew that two National leaders would be attending this event at Tiananmen Square; one was Wu Banggua and the other was Wang Qishan. Both are highly ranked politicians in China. I had to arrive early at the venue, so I quickly said goodbye to my friends and then immediately went back to my room to sleep.

Before I went to sleep, I kept thinking about a lot of things such as whether or not there were enough tickets issued for the concert; did I memorize all of the lyrics; what dialogue do I need to say. There were still quite a few people I hadn’t distributed tickets to and I’d forgotten to tell some people certain things, plus much more. By the time I lay down in bed, it was already past three o’clock in the morning and the more I thought about these things, the more I couldn’t sleep. I never imagined that I’d be holding a grand scale concert and I didn’t get any sleep at all. At 7:00 I got out of bed, took a shower, changed my clothes, and set off to Tiananmen Square.

Just as I left, it started to rain. I thought that it was quite strange that as soon as I arrived at the venue and got out of the car, it stopped raining. It seemed as though the heavens were on my side. When I went inside the tent to practice my song, it started to rain again. Everyone outside was holding an umbrella. Then when I went out to prepare for my performance, surprisingly the rain stopped again.

When I arrived at the venue, I saw a choir consisting of several hundred people already at Tiananmen Square. I also heard crew members tell them that they were not allowed to leave their spot, not even make a move, and they had to remember the positions that they were standing in because they were about to perform soon. When it was time for me to perform on stage, it was already past 9:00 am. After I finished my performance, I came down from the stage and then several leaders went up onto the stage and started giving their speeches. I think they spoke for about 35-45 minutes. During this time, I noticed that a young girl standing on the stage had fainted, right in the middle of the leader’s speech. I immediately asked a university student to go look for a paramedic and unfortunately, no one dared to go over and look at the young girl. I wondered whether because of the tight security measures, security staff would stop anyone who went to the stage to help. I watched while no one went over to see if the girl was okay. I also noticed the young girl looked very uncomfortable and had expressions of pain on her face. She tried her best to stand up but she had no energy and collapsed on the floor again. At that moment, I couldn’t have cared less about anything else; I went onto the stage from the back, carried the young girl off the stage, placed her in a safe area and waited for the ambulance to come and take her to the hospital before going back to my seat.

After the event ended, I made a phone call and asked about the young girl’s situation. I found out that the reason she fainted was because she didn’t eat breakfast in the morning and her blood-sugar levels were very low. Being able to help this girl when she needed help the most makes me very happy. I’d also like to take this opportunity to remind all young girls that eating breakfast is very important. You shouldn’t skip breakfast because you’re in a rush or you want to lose weight. Doing this is harmful for your body and health, not beneficial.

I’d initially planned to go back to the hotel and get a good sleep for a short while because I still had six hours before the start of rehearsals. But as I walked past the restaurant, I saw many of my friends from Singapore, Taiwan, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and they were all waiting to have meetings with me. Some of them wanted to discuss the antique houses in Singapore, friends from Taiwan also hoped that I’d donate some ancient houses there, and then there were people from the Jackie Chan Museum in Shanghai and staff from my Hong Kong company. So I met with them, one after another, until 3:45 in the afternoon. I simply didn’t have any time to take a nap so I quickly went back, took a shower, changed my clothes, and then rushed off to the Bird’s Nest Stadium.

Time went by very fast. I only managed to rehearse very quickly for one song and then it was time for me to go backstage to get everything prepared and ready. While I was backstage, I didn’t hide myself away in a room. I circulated non-stop, making sure that each artist had everything they needed and showing my care and concerns for them. When crew workers told me that I still had two hours before the concert started, it felt like there was still a lot of time. But time just slips away without you even realizing it, and when crew members came around to inform me of the time again, I only had 15 minutes left before the concert officially started and I had to go out to perform. I honestly couldn’t believe that time disappeared so quickly. I immediately changed my clothes and put on some make-up. I truly don’t know how to describe the feeling I had at the time. It’s not like I haven’t appeared on grand occasions before or that I don’t have the experience of performing at large scale events, but this time I was very nervous. Why was I nervous? The course of the concert actually wasn’t too nerve-racking; it was the people around me who made me feel very nervous. Every person who was here to participate at the concert came up to me and said that they were very nervous. Unexpectedly, I was affected by them and I started feeling nervous as well.

To me, this was just like a big party, spreading the message of love and compassion. I had invited some special guests to come along and watch this concert. They included a group of students representing 22 different schools from various areas around the country, children with eye disabilities, children from the Operation Smile program, deaf and mute children, students from special needs schools, and also many frontline workers such as the military, the armed police force, nurses assisting with disaster relief in Sichuan and others. Holding a concert like this is something very enjoyable for me and I can honestly say that I arranged this concert especially for these people. The most expensive ticket for the concert cost RMB$1680 (~USD$246) and those tickets were sold out a long time ago. I could have allocated more tickets to be sold at this price but I didn’t want to do that because I wanted to set the majority of the tickets at RMB$100 (~USD$15) so that more people from the general public could come and enjoy this concert.

Anyway, apart from entertaining everyone in the audience, I also hoped that this concert delivered a message, making everybody more aware and concerned for the children in disaster struck areas and small impoverished societies, and increasing awareness of the need for environmental protection. I was absolutely overjoyed when I saw that after the concert ended, there wasn’t even one paper ticket left lying on the ground inside the Bird’s Nest and I didn’t even see one plastic water bottle on the floor. During the concert I presented a message of environmental protection, hoping to allow young people of our next generation to learn how to protect our environment so that in the future when other large scale concerts or events take place, there won’t be a lot of rubbish or waste material lying around on the grounds after the event. I also hope that we as artists are able to make an appeal to the people who come to watch our concerts or events, not to waste and slowly develop a habit of protecting our environment. At the moment our society has developed, advanced, and is abundantly filled with materialistic things. It’s become too easy for us to put things to waste. I often see people open up a bottle of water, drink a mouthful and then put the bottle to one side. After a short while, they forget where they placed their bottle of water so they go and open another new bottle and start drinking out of it. That’s wasting a lot of water and it’s also creating a lot of garbage (plastic bottles).

I was very pleased to see that the audience was very well organized and behaved in an orderly fashion. The concert started at 7:00 pm and people began lining up outside the stadium entrance at 4:00 because security measures were very tight and everyone had to be inspected before being allowed to enter the venue. Fortunately, event organizers arranged 8,000 inspection officers for the occasion which made the inspection process fast, smooth, and successful. Apart from this, the concert was complete with security officers, inspection officers, traffic officers, anti-riot police officers, and police dogs. The security measures we had in place were exactly the same as the measures used during the Olympic Games

When I went onto the stage, I didn’t feel nervous at all because the kind of attitude I had was to have a big party with everyone. Hearing the cheers from everybody in the audience already made me extremely happy. I knew that 35 ministers and head of departments were coming to watch my concert, but I think that the most important reason for holding this concert was so that some other people could come and watch it. Can you guess who they were? Not my friends, not my fans, but the orphaned children, poor and impoverished students, and a group of people that I previously promised to take to watch a concert. It was also for the frontline workers; I bought them tickets and invited them to come watch this concert as well. I didn’t feel any pressure singing songs for them.

Here are photos of some of the children I invited to the concert:

Children from the Jilin Orphanage School and Liupanshui, Guizhou

Kids from Ordos, Inner Mongolia.

Wushenqi.

Awati, Xinijiang.

Xinmi of Henan Province

Students from Mentally Handicapped Care Center in Xinshang City of Henan Province

From Jilin Orphanage School. That's Irene with them. She is the Dragon's Heart Coordinator in Hong Kong.

Kids from Ordos, Inner Mongolia and Duyun, Guizhou

Zaozhuang, Shandong

Wenshang County, Shandong Province

From Yanbian Korean National Minority Autonomous Region

From Changchun. Their sign says "All the best Principal Jackie!"

When I stood on the stage, told everyone that there were no fireworks, no colorful ribbons, and no confetti so the concert was going to be very environmentally friendly concert, striving to economize and use things sparingly. We also didn’t give out any glow sticks so I told everyone that if they wanted to create a supportive atmosphere that was similar to waving glow sticks, turn on their mobile phones and wave the glowing screens. When the audience heard my suggestion, I immediately saw mobile phones starting to light up, and then the entire stadium of tens of thousands of people began waving their glowing phones in the air. The sight was magnificent. Officials later told me that the total attendance figure at this concert was over 75,000 people. Adding on top of that the number of security staff, backstage crew members, artists and other people at the venue, I think there were over 90,000 people at the concert.

I honestly don’t know what my singing was like during the entire event. I think I’ll leave it up to the audience to criticize and make comments. I will not dare to say that it was perfect; I can only say that I successfully completed what other people thought was a magnificent and remarkable concert. But to me, it was like spending an enjoyable evening with my friends and the general public.

Three hours of the concert went by in a flash. After the concert ended, we all celebrated at an after-party as a big group. During the after-party, everybody chatted with each other, discussing all the fine details and the things that happened during the concert. We all had a great time and were very happy performing on the stage. But off the stage, things were so chaotic it was actually a complete mess. Whether it was a mistake made with the arrangements or someone forgetting to keep the performers informed, I think that maybe the language barrier was the cause of some of the misunderstandings because a lot of artists came to Beijing from many different places. After all, the May 1st concert was the first in the stadium since the end of the Olympic Games so I think that it’s a good start. Hopefully in the future, more people will come and hold events at the Bird’s Nest Stadium because not only can it be used for its proper purpose, it will also help the country and inject funds into the economy. I think that everyone would be more than happy to do that!

I remember someone asking me if I came across any difficulties during the process of inviting so many different artists to participate at the concert. Actually, there really wasn’t anything that was particularly difficult. Nearly every time I opened my mouth and invited an artist to take part, they agreed. It’s just that there were some other problems that came up, for example when I invited Andy Lau to take part in the concert, he said he was very sorry because he already had a lot of work scheduled for him to do but he told me that one of his Malaysian friends was interested in taking part and asked if it was okay. Of course I welcomed the offer but unfortunately, the visa wasn’t granted in time so Andy’s friend couldn’t make it. And another example, Kenny G agreed to come as well but if he came, his airfare and accommodation would cost over $200,000. I had no reason for him to pay for it himself. Another issue that emerged was that the number of singers taking part in the concert kept increasing and we ended up having to cut down on some people, otherwise we wouldn’t be having a three hour concert anymore because I don’t think even six hours would be enough time for everybody to sing.

If you hold a concert and go overtime in Hong Kong, you have to pay a penalty. I don’t know if this is the same in China. But when I was doing preparation work for the concert, I’d already agreed to the police department that I would strictly abide by the rules, try my best to coordinate with public safety arrangements, and not give them any extra trouble because the main thing that concerns the police department is public safety. Anyone who doesn’t stick to the rules will become an unwelcome person and from what I understand, there are already a few artists who are not allowed to hold concerts in China anymore because beforehand, police specifically asked these singers not to go off the stage into the audience, and also asked them not to shake hands with the audience. Doing this could easily cause a disturbance because so many people were at the concert; some of the audience might get pushed over on the steps and some people might get pushed up against other people; this is all extremely dangerous. But when the singers were in high spirits during their performance, they totally forgot about these rules and regulations, and the consequences were unimaginable. As a result, the police department decided that for the safety of the public, these rule breaking singers are banned from holding a concert in China. Hence the police department asked me to try my best to stick within the time frame.

The traffic around the venue continued to be very congested before the concert finished because vehicles had to pass through an inspection process which was very troublesome. Everyone left the Bird’s Nest Stadium by foot and only specifically designated cars with a permit to transport passengers were allowed leave the stadium one car after another. Some fans wanted to wait for their idols so they stayed behind and didn’t leave the stadium. Public safety officers had to persuade them to leave and finally they slowly dispersed from the stadium. I think that everyone should know that holding a concert at Bird’s Nest Stadium requires approval from a lot of different departments before it can go ahead. For example, we needed to gain approval from the fire department, the public safety department, road traffic and transport department, and many others. On top of that, our proposal had to be examined and approved by the National Government. To tell you the truth, before we got an answer from the examination process, in my mind I kept thinking, “Don’t approve it, don’t approve it!” because at the time, it was already mid-April which meant that I only had about 20 days to prepare for the concert. Preparing a concert within this time frame would be too rushed, so I thought that not being approved would be better than being approved. As it turned out, the proposal was approved so then we just had to wait for an answer from the other departments; will the fire department and the public safety department give us consent for the concert? The result was that they all approved. At the time, the first thing that came to mind was, “I’m going to faint!” Thinking about holding a concert in such a large venue like the Bird’s Nest Stadium gave me such a headache. Towards the end of the concert I jokingly said to everyone, “See you again! Won’t hold another concert at the Bird’s Nest Stadium anytime soon!” 

After deciding to go ahead with the May 1st concert, I immediately held a meeting with the team in charge of the event and we discussed things like what needed to be done and who needed to do what. Honestly, there were so many things that couldn’t be done in time. For example, there were 1,000 volunteers who didn’t have enough time for rehearsal. My original concept for the concert was “one, ten, hundred, thousand, ten-thousand.” My idea was that at the very beginning, there would only me out on the stage performing, followed by 10 artists performing on stage, and then another 100 artists, and after that 1,000 volunteers. And then at the very end, the tens of thousands of people in the stadium would sing the song Country together. During this time, the national flags of different countries around the world would be displayed on the seven stages in the stadium because I think that the song Country is not only suitable for China, it’s actually suitable for any country around the world. But unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time to arrange all of this so there was no way to carry out my original concept. This concept of mine carries the idea of tolerance and forgiveness. I think that with forgiveness, we will be able to have a peaceful society. And if every society, every city, every village, every region, and every family in the world was peaceful and harmonious, our countries will also be peaceful. And with peaceful countries, we will have a peaceful Earth then no one would fight or have wars anymore.

When the after-party ended, I was interviewed by reporters who asked me about the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake disaster zone. A year had already past so quickly and they asked if an organization of artists had any activities planned for the area or if we had anything to express. I told them that I’m already the China Insurance Ambassador and I’m also the Disaster Zone Reconstruction Ambassador, so whether or not a team of artists have planned any activities for the area, I would still go and visit Sichuan. In fact, any artist from the entertainment industry who visits the area is actually representing all the other artists as well, so there basically isn’t any difference as to who goes and visits the area.

Reporters also asked me if I’ll be making my 100th film after I complete the work on my busy schedule. To tell you the truth, I actually didn’t realize that I was up to my 100th movie because I’ve acted and directed quite a few films already, I honestly don’t know exactly how many movies I’ve done. Ha ha!

I know that everyone has been concerned about whether or not I’ll be making another sequel to the Police Story series. Shinjuku Incident was recently released and I just finished making Big Little Soldier; the styles of these two films are both very different and the characters I portrayed were also completely different. I think that the type of film I’ll be making next will have a similar style to the Armor of God films that I’ve made. The movie will be more romantic, unrestrained, and it will have a lot more action scenes and shooting outdoors on location. As for foreign films, I’m going to be making Kung Fu Kid, playing the role as the master. The film will be shot in Beijing. Originally, I wanted to make the film Chu Bawang but at the moment, I think the start of this production will have to be delayed. Anyway, I’m going to make a variety of films with different styles, acting as different characters. I didn’t have any action scenes in Shinjuku Incident and I think that everybody who watched this film would have felt that it was quite intense. It also looks like viewers around the world have accepted my change in style and I feel that you have all confirmed my acting abilities (I only heard people say this to me but I hope that it’s all true! Ha ha!) Now I can try and explore a variety of different roles. If everyone only likes watching me in action movies and you don’t like watching me in any other type of film, then I have to say that my life in the movie industry is over.

Everyone seems to be very interested in knowing whether or not I’m going to make another film with Jaycee. I actually think that it’s going to be very difficult. The films and ideas that I just mentioned before are not suitable for me to cooperate with him; either I film it or he films it, it’s not very good if we both make it together. Initially, I did consider using Jaycee to film Big Little Soldier but in the end, I thought that it wouldn’t be good idea so I cooperated with Leehom Wang instead. I think that the film market in Southeast Asia is quite different from the market in Europe and America; it’s very difficult to make a film with family members because I think that it would be very hard to fully engage and portray a character in a movie if I worked together with my son.

As for why I didn’t arrange for Jaycee, who is skilled in singing, to perform during the May 1st concert: I did have intentions of organizing 100 people to do a tap dance together because Jaycee is very good at tap dancing. I wanted to let him lead the group of 100 tap dancers on the stage and then sing a song afterwards. But if I made this arrangement, it would make him stand out at the concert and I wouldn’t be seen as a fair person anymore and I’d lose credibility within the entertainment industry. In order to remain fair and just, at a time when we had too many artists participating at the concert and I had to remove some artists from the guest list, the first person I cut off was Jaycee. Luckily, he understood and his only request was if he could stand on the stage inside the Bird’s Nest Stadium for just a short while. I honestly didn’t know what I could get him to do. But then he suggested that I allow him to bring a guitar on the stage and present it to Jonathan Lee, and I agreed to let him do that.

To sum it all up, I put in quite a lot of my time and effort into organizing this concert. And the final result was that everybody was happy. Hopefully in the future I’ll have even more opportunities to have an enjoyable time with everyone.

Text and photos © 2009 The JC Group.

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May 1 （星期五）

北京世博立牌倒计时一周年：

     我匆匆从上海赶回北京，一下飞机马上去电台做一个节目，然后就去鸟巢彩排。彩排到晚上十二点多，我们一行人就回到工作总部。

          回到总部，已经看到不少朋友在等着。为了这一次演唱会，我惊动了不少朋友请他们帮我，有台湾的朋友自己组团来北京，有从马来西亚、新加坡、香港来的朋友，还有从不同省市来的朋友。跟他们聊天的时候，我告诉他们我的压力真的不少，不是因为筹备大型演唱会而感到压力，而是我的工作排程密密麻麻的，压力就是来自时间不够，没办法了，能做多少就做多少，我尽力而为吧。

          我知道明天早上七点要到天安门起动世博倒数。而这一次天安门的活动还有两位国家领导人出席，一位是吴邦国，另一位是王岐山，两位都是一级人马，我一定要早到现场，所以匆匆跟朋友道别，马上回去睡觉了。

          临睡前，我还在想门票够不够，歌词牢记了没有，要讲什么对白，好些人还没有给他们门票，又忘了通知某些人等等，当我躺在床上是深夜三点多，越是想睡越睡不着。真是想不到明天要开大型演唱会，我竟然没有睡觉，七点洗澡，换衣服就出发去天安门了。

          当我出门的时候就下雨，好奇怪，似乎是天助我也，我下车的时候雨就停了。我走进帐篷练歌的时候，又下雨了。所有人都撑着雨伞，我出来准备演出的时候，雨竟然又停了。

          我在现场看到几百人的合唱团已经在天安门，听到工作人员跟他们讲不要走开，动也不要动，记住自己所站的位置，因为快要演出了。直到我演出的时候，已经是早上九点十几分，我表演完毕下台后，就是几位领导上台讲话。我想讲话的时间大概是三十五至四十分钟，期间，我突然发现在站在台上的一个女孩子晕倒，正藉领导人在讲话，我马上叫一位大学生找救护员，可是没有人敢走过去看看女孩子。我想会不会是今天保安严密，如果有人突然走上台，保安就会挺身制止呢？我看没有人去看那个女孩子，我也看到她脸上的表情很辛苦，她试图站起来，却无力的又倒在地上。此时，我不管了，我从后走上台，把女孩抱下台安顿好，等救护车把她送去医院，我才站回原位。

          活动完毕后，我打电话了解女孩的情况，知道原来她没有吃早餐，血糖低了，所以晕倒。我觉得可以在这个女孩有需要的时候伸出援手，我很高兴。在这里也提醒女孩子们，早餐很重要的，不要因为赶时间或是减肥而不吃早餐，那对身体是有害无益的。

 

五一演唱会：

          我本来打算回酒店好好的睡一会儿，因为距离彩排还有六个小时。可是我经过餐厅的时候看到来自新加坡、台湾、上海、香港的朋友们，他们都在等着跟我开会。有的想跟我谈谈新加坡的古屋，台湾的朋友也希望我捐赠古屋，上海的成龙博物馆的人和香港公司的人，他们一个一个都跟我开会，一直到三点四十五分，根本没有时间睡觉。那我马上梳洗换衣服，赶去乌巢。

         

          时间过得很快，我匆匆的彩排了一首歌，已经马上要去后台准备一切了。在后台我不是闲着的，我不断的去关心每一个艺人，看看他们有什么需要。当工作人员跟我说还有两个小时演唱会才开始，我感觉还有蛮多时间的，可是时间就在你不知不觉间溜走了，工作人员再通知我的时候，已经距离正式演出只有十五分钟，真的不敢相信时间会过得那么快。我马上换衫、化装，不知道怎样形容当时的心情，我不是没有出席大场面和做大型演出的经验，但是这一次还是很紧张，为什么呢？过程不是太紧张，只是给旁边的人弄得我很紧张，每一个人来到都跟我说很紧张，我不其然的受他们影响，自己也紧张起来。

          其实，对我来说这是一个大party，传递爱心的讯息。因为这一次我邀请了一些特别嘉宾来观看演唱会，有来自各地二十二间学校的学生代表、有眼疾的儿童、微笑行动的儿童、聋哑儿童、特训学校的学生，还有很多前线工作者，例如：军警、武警、四川赈灾的护士等。所以，我举办这个演唱会是一件愉快的事情，我真的特意为这一群人而开这个演唱会的。演唱会最贵的门票是1680人民币，很早就已经售罄了，本来我可以推出更多的贵门票，可是我不要这样子，我要把大部份的门票订在100人民币，就是要让更多普罗大众去欣赏演唱会。

          总之，演唱会除了娱乐观众之外，希望带出一些讯息，让观众关心灾区的儿童和弱小社  群，还有就是环保。我很开心的看到演唱会以后，鸟巢内没有一张门票在地上，也没有一个水瓶在地上。在演唱会倡导这个环保讯息，让下一代的年青人学会环保，以后大型演唱会或是活动过后，就不会有大量的垃圾或是废物在现场了。我也希望我们做艺人的，也能够在她们的演唱会或是活动里呼吁市民不要浪费，慢慢养成环保习惯。现在社会发达了、进步了，物质丰裕，要浪费真的太容易了，我常常看到一些人一瓶水喝了一口就放下，一会儿就忘了那一瓶是自己的，又拿一瓶新的喝，那就浪费了很多食水和制造很多废物（塑料瓶）。

          另外，我很高兴看到观众也很有秩序，为了看演唱会，为了安检的原故，七点的表演，四点就要开始排队进行安检。幸好，大会安排了八千位安检人员，那安检进行得挺快和顺利。除此之外，保安、安检、交通、防暴、警犭，全都齐全，跟奥运会的保安措施一模一样的。

          由于我抱着与大家开party的心态，所以上台的时候，我完全不紧张了，听到全场观众在欢呼，这已经令到我很开心。我知道有三十五位部长来观看演唱会，可是我认为到底这个演唱会最重要是给什么人看呢？不是朋友、不是影迷、而是给一班孤儿、贫穷学生、一群我曾经承诺过要带他们看演唱会的人，还有前线工作人员，我买了门票请他们看这个演唱会。唱给他们听，我是没有压力的。站到台上，我跟大家说今晚的演唱会是没有烟花、没有彩带、没有彩纸屑，所以这个演唱会是环保的和讲求节省的，就是荧光棒也欠奉，大家希望摇荧光棒打气的话，就开着手机的灯光摇动吧。当大家听到我的提议后，马上亮起手机，全场几万人的手机亮光真的很壮观。官方给我的观众数字是七万五千多人，加上现场的保安、幕后工作人员和艺人等等大概是九万多人。

          整个过程我也不知道自己唱得怎么样，相信这些留待观众评价吧。我不敢说是完美，只可以说是我完成了别人认为是壮举的演唱会，对我来说是与民众和好朋友共渡一个愉快的晚上。

          三个多小时转瞬间就过去了，演唱会结束后，我们大伙儿去庆功。庆功宴上，大家都你一言我一语的讨论着演唱会期间的细节和发生的事情，台上大家都很开心，台下却乱得一团糟，不论是安排上的错误、忘记通知表演者，相信因为有很多艺人都从不同的地方来到北京，可能语言的障碍造成这些失误的。毕竟五一演唱会是继奥运之后的第一次，是一个好的开始，希望日后有更多人去使用鸟巢，既可以物尽其用，又可以令国家库房有所进帐，可乐而不为呢！

          有人问我，演唱会邀请了那么多艺人来参与，邀请过程有没有遇上困难？其实没有什么困难，差不多我开口邀请的都答应来的，只是有些其它问题，例如：我邀请刘德华的时候，他说不好意思，我已经有工作在身，但是我的马来西亚朋友想参加，可以吗？我当然欢迎，可是签证来不及，所以不能来。又例如Kenny G答应来，可是就是他一个人的机票住宿都要二十多万，我没有理由叫他自费吧。而且，歌星的数目越来越，最后只能够减人，要不然，不要说三个小时的演唱会，六个小时也唱不完了。

          香港开演唱会超时是需要罚款的，在国内我就不知道会不会一样的。可是，在筹备的时候，我已经答应公安部门会严格遵守规矩，尽量配合公安的安排，不给他们添麻烦，因为公安部门最担心的事情就是安全。如果任何人不守规矩就会变成不受欢迎的人，据我所知，有某些歌星已经不许在国内开演唱会，因为事前请这些歌星不要下台，也不要跟观众握手，因为人太多，这样做很容易引起骚乱，更甚有些观众从楼梯推撞倒下，有些人压着人，这是非常危险的。当歌星兴高采烈的时候完全把这些规条抛诸脑后，那后果是不堪设想的，所以公安部门为了公众安全，日后就禁止这些违规的歌星在国内开演唱会。所以，公安部门请我尽量抓紧时间，那我就配合他们，只要演唱会还没有完结，交通就会很挤塞，因为要通过安检是很麻烦的，所有人要步行离开鸟巢，有通行证的车辆待人群散去才能一辆一辆的开走，有些歌迷为了等自己的偶像，留在鸟巢没有离开，要公安劝吁才渐渐散去。大家要知道，在鸟巢举行演唱会，要经过很多部门通过，有消防部门、公安部门、交警部门等等。另外，又要国家审批。坦白说，在审批结果还没有出来的时候，心中就想不要批，不要批，那个时候已经是四月十几号，只有二十多天时间筹备演唱会，不批比批还好，因为筹备一个演唱会的话，时间实在太伧促了。可是，十几号批了，最后就等消防和公安部门是否批准了？结果，全部都批了，我当时的感觉就是：「我晕了！」。所以，在一个这么大的鸟巢开演唱会是挺头痛的，我在演唱会尾声的时候，我不禁跟大家开玩笑说：「再见了！以后都不要在鸟巢开演唱会呀！」

          决定了开五一演唱会后，我们总动员马上开大会，商讨要做这些，做那些，其实有很多事情都来不及了，譬如说有一千位志愿者来不及彩排。本来我的构思是个、十、百、千、万，一开始就是我一个人出场，随后就十位艺人出场，之后就一百位，然后就一千位志愿者，最后是现场几万位观众一起唱《国家》，在七个台分别插上不同国家的国旗，因为我觉得《国家》这首歌不仅是适合中国，任何国家都适合的，可惜没有时间，所以这个构思无法实行。我这个构思有着一个包容的意义，我觉得有了包容，就有一个和谐的社会，如果全世界每一个社会、每一个城市、每一个镇、每一个区、每一个家庭都和谐的话，那就会有一个和谐的国家，有了和谐的国家，就有一个和谐的地球，那就没有人打仗了。

          庆功宴后，记者访问我五一二地震距今快一年了，我们艺人组织有没有什么行动或是表示？我个人已经是人保基金的大使，也是重建灾区的大使，所以艺人组织有没有行动，我本人都会去四川，其实演艺界任何一个人出席都是代表我们演艺界，基本上是无分彼此的。

          记者又问我忙碌过后，是否投入开拍我第一百部电影？其实我自己也不知道是不是第一百部电影，因为我做演员和做导演的戏也不少，我真的不大清楚，哈哈！

          至于大家都关心我会不会再拍《警察故事》系列的电影？最近《新宿事件》上映，刚完成拍摄的有《大兵小将》，两部都是不同风格和角色也截然不同的，我想接下来我会拍《飞鹰计划》那一类型电影，电影比较浪漫、潇洒，有很多动作场面和外景。至于外语片有《功夫小子》，我饰演师傅一角，会在北京取景。本来我想拍《楚霸王》，现在可能会迟一点才开拍。总之，我会拍一些不同类型的电影，尝试不同的角色。《新宿事件》里我没有动作，大家也看得蛮紧张的，看来世界各地的观众都接受我的改变，感觉他们都肯定了我的演技（这是我听说回来的，希望事实也是这样吧，哈哈！），那我可以作多方面的尝试，如果大家只喜欢看我的动作戏，其它都不喜欢看的话，那我的电影生涯就完了。

          大家似乎蛮有兴趣知道我会不会跟祖名一起拍戏？我想这个是挺难的，以上我所构思的电影都不适合跟他一起合作，要不就是我拍，要不就是他拍，一起的就不太好。本来《大兵小将》也有考虑起用他的，最后都觉得不太好，还是跟王力宏合作。我想东南亚的市场跟欧美市场很不一样，很难一家人拍一部戏的，因为我觉得我跟儿子一起拍戏，很难投入戏里面的角色。

          至于为什么五一演唱会我没有安排善于唱歌的祖名上台表演？我曾经想过安排一百人一起跳踢踏舞，因为祖名跳踢踏舞跳得很好的，让他带领着一百人跳舞，然后唱歌。如果我这样安排的话，他被突显出来，可是那我就不再公正，在演艺界也不再有公信力了。我为了保持公正，在太多艺人参与的时候，我从邀请艺人名单中第一个就删除房祖名。幸好他也明白，他只是要求可否站在鸟巢的台上一会儿？我真的不知道他可以做什么？那他就提议送结他给李宗盛，我就答应他了。

          总括而言，为了这个演唱会我花了不少精神和时间，结果是皆大欢喜，希望日后我有更多的机会与众同乐。