When she was young, Lin Qingxia did not hesitate to stay up late to play mahjong with him, and even ignored the next day's work, just to be able to get close to this man who was known as "Asia's first beautiful man". And Wang Zuxian has been watching him at the much-anticipated award ceremony, looking forward to his favor.
He attracted the favor of two Hong Kong goddesses with his charming temperament, but in the end he only fell in love with Chen Chong.
This man of the year turned out to be alone, and he never married in his life!
16 years later, someone happened to meet him in the hotel and found that he had changed drastically, what was it that made Zunlong go through such a huge change?
In 1992, Chen Kaige planned to shoot "Farewell My Concubine", but he didn't know that this movie would become his pinnacle, nor did he know that this play would become Leslie Cheung's most brilliant work.
Chen Kaige originally did not plan to invite Leslie Cheung to play Cheng Dieyi, but first contacted Zunlong!
At that time, Zunlong had a prominent reputation in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, unparalleled, not only with excellent acting skills, but also with amazing appearance.
His appearance is like a mixture of Chinese and Western, his facial lines are sharp, his aura is 2.8 meters when he walks, and he always maintains an indifferent attitude, so he has many fans.
Zunlong lived in the theater when he was young, and this real experience is very consistent with the plot, as countless creators said "Cheng Dieyi", and even Zunlong himself deeply loves the script of "Farewell My Concubine", thinking that it seems to be tailor-made for him. More importantly, this makes the characters in the play more lifelike.
However, things didn't go as planned!
In order to be able to star in "Cheng Dieyi", Zunlong pushed away the foreign scripts and advertisements he found at that time, and even lowered his salary by 300,000 US dollars. It was originally a story of sacrificing other opportunities for the sake of art, but in the end, it was tormented by rumors of "playing big names".
What exactly did Long Zun accomplish?
Zunlong once paid attention to "Farewell My Concubine", and often asked the crew leader about the script and progress. However, the producer complained in an interview that Zunlong was "very troublesome".
In order to finalize the time, Zunlong personally called Chen Kaige **, but the two began to fight each other!
He originally planned to inquire about the time of the crew, but he didn't expect Chen Kaige on the other end of the ** to question him.
Do you know what time it is?It's already two o'clock in the morning!
After hearing this, Zunlong felt uncomfortable in his heart, because he felt that the other party's tone was very unfriendly and seemed to hate him. In addition to the ** incident, the "air dog" incident also made Zunlong controversial and troubled him.
It is rumored that before the filming of the movie started, Zunlong asked the crew, hoping to take the same flight with his dog, arrive at the crew together and live together.
Because this request caused dissatisfaction among the crew, Zunlong was finally unable to participate in "Farewell My Concubine"!
Our "elder brother" Leslie Cheung replaced Zunlong.
Leslie Cheung was famous for his performance in the movie "Farewell My Concubine" at that time and won many awards. At the same time, Zunlong loses his beloved script, but receives an invitation to perform in another drama called "Butterfly King", which also revolves around Peking Opera singers, which gives Zunlong new hope.
Song Liling, a famous Peking Opera singer played by Zunlong, is full of aura, she is tender and resolute, both in appearance and performance.
However, it is a pity that despite her excellent performance, she still can't compare to the influence of "Farewell My Concubine" after its release!
Since then, the negative ** of the dragon seems to have reached its climax.
He was rumored to be playing a big name and being proud all over the street, but he chose to laugh it off and face these rumors.
Many years later, when Zunlong recalled the events of that year, he did not argue with reason, but said something thought-provoking, which made people feel emotional.
I wasn't very good at interpersonal communication, I didn't have parents since I was a child, I didn't have a formal education, and I didn't know anything about relationships. Since there was no one to protect me, I had to rely on myself to protect myself, and over time I became reluctant to open my heart.
What did Zunlong go through in his life?
He is handsome in appearance, but behind it lies a tragic life experience that is enough to spend his whole life **.
In 1952, a disabled woman was on her way from Shanghai to Hong Kong when she stumbled upon an abandoned baby on the side of the street. Without hesitation, she opened the basket and found a baby boy lying inside, so she carried the baby home.
Perhaps it was out of loneliness, or out of a hint of compassion, that led her to behave like this. However, the reality is often the most brutal.
Because there was a policy in Hong Kong at that time, as long as the person who adopted the abandoned baby could get the first subsidy, so she would bring the abandoned baby home.
Zunlong is the baby who was abandoned back then!
Zunlong is considered lucky because he has at least one adoptive mother to rely on, even if he is abandoned.
However, the reality is that his life is not satisfactory and can be said to be very miserable!
The adoptive mother had a good temperament and was physically disabled, and while she worked hard to support him, she often scolded him loudly or beat him.
At that time, it was very difficult for a disabled woman to raise a child alone, and it was even more difficult to make money. Living a hungry and full meal has become the norm, and being able to enjoy a simple soy sauce bibimbap is regarded as a "human delicacy".
It wasn't until Zunlong became famous that he recalled his childhood with emotion: "When I was a child, a bowl of white rice, half a salted duck egg and a basket were enough to make me feel satisfied and happy!".”
Even though he is already fairly easily satisfied, there may still be times when he is abandoned.
Because life was so unsustainable, when he was a child, his adoptive mother took him to the bus stop and tried to abandon him on the bus.
Despite his young age, he had accumulated quite a lot of experience as a person under the fence, so how could he not understand what his adoptive mother meant?He didn't dare to speak, so he had to stand quietly.
When the adoptive mother got out of the car, she looked back and saw his pitiful eyes, and when she looked at each other, the adoptive mother was still moved.
In the end, his adoptive mother was unable to make up her mind, got back in the car, took him home, and raised him until he was 10 years old. When he was ten years old, Zunlong experienced the darkest moment of his life!
When the boy grows up, he needs to master a craft, and his adoptive mother finds out that the Peking Opera class is recruiting apprentices and providing room and board, so she decides to send the boy to the troupe. The boy had no choice but to resign himself to fate.
He's having a harder time in the troupe!
Because he looked a bit like a half-breed and had a more introverted personality, he hadn't even picked a name yet, so the troupe gave him the English name Johnny.
He was often bullied by his brothers and sisters, and because he did not have the love of his parents, he was always scolded as a "wild seed", and he was very angry about this. Although he fought many times, he was always seriously injured in the face of many opponents.
He had been so badly struck that his skin was torn open, but no one called a doctor, so he hurried to the tailor's shop and begged the tailor to stitch him eight stitches
Zunlong was not only bullied in chanting and meditating, but also experienced a lot of suffering. The life of Peking Opera performers is full of hardships, and they often have to get up early and practice kung fu greedily. Even if you make a slight mistake, you will be punished by **!
Perhaps because God had mercy on this unfortunate child, at the age of 17, he graduated from the drama troupe and inadvertently ushered in a turning point in his fate!
He said goodbye to poverty completely, but unfortunately he didn't know this!
Zunlong's stature attracted Shaw Brothers Films, and they hoped to collaborate with him on a film. At the same time, an American family took a fancy to Zunlong's resilience and hoped to support him to pursue further education in the United States.
He seized the opportunity to study in the United States and gave up another opportunity.
After arriving in the United States, he actively devoted himself to part-time work and language learning, and was successfully admitted to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts a few years later. For the future direction, he is determined to become an actor.
Initially, he was only able to play minor roles, such as playing an Asian chef in the movie King Kong and making a cameo appearance in a stage play. Gradually, his life became better, and his career also accumulated a certain number of works.
It wasn't until 1981 that he finally won the Best Show Award at the 25th Obi Awards on Broadway in the United States, and that was the year he decided to change his name!
He changed his English name to "John Lone", a suffix that reflects his orphan background on the one hand, and is a homonym for the Chinese character "dragon" on the otherThe Chinese name is derived from the homonym of the English name, named "Zunlong".
Because of his excellent acting skills and appearance, he has attracted the attention of many foreign people, including a Chinese female agent - Huang Yumei.
At that time, Huang Yumei had a lot of means, she successfully launched a large number of Chinese actors such as Lucy Liu and Chen Chong, and it was with her help that Zunlong was able to open the door to Hollywood movies!
In 1984, Zunlong did not have a single line in the movie "40,000 Years of the Iceman", but played the role of a wild man who couldn't speak, and his outstanding performance broke the previous image, became famous in one fell swoop, and attracted everyone's attention!
His career skyrocketed after that, and in 1985 he took over the action film "Year of the Dragon", in which he played a Chinese gangster boss.
His unruly state and handsome shape made him stand up at once!
Even American film critics commented that Zunlong was known as "the most handsome gangster boss of all time".
In 1987, Zunlong changed his acting direction and participated in the filming of the movie "The Last Emperor", which unexpectedly brought his career to a new peak!
In the film, Pu Yi played by Zunlong showed a cold, stubborn and tragic image, which amazed many viewers with the handsomeness of the Oriental face and inspired countless people to understand the history of the East.
Zunlong has won numerous awards for this film, including 9 Oscars!
* There are reports about Zunlong everywhere, and he is known as "Asia's No. 1 Beautiful Man". After the fire, his life was uncontrollably affected, and the most regrettable thing is that he was involved in an emotional scandal!
In "The Last Emperor", the relationship between Zunlong and Chen Chong is embarrassing, beyond the scope of drama, and many people also think that they are a match made in heaven, but the reality has not contributed to the long-term companionship of the two.
In public, Zunlong himself has also mentioned:
Chen Chong is someone I particularly like, I am good to her, she is also good to me, and our personalities and hobbies are very similar. It's a pity that she ended up choosing to marry someone else, because I couldn't keep her!
We can't know what happened to the two, but unfortunately, Chen Chong has married someone else, and Zunlong has never reported emotional news since then, nor has he entered the marriage hall. This miss is destined to be a thing of the past forever.
After "The Last Emperor", Zunlong has always been eager to return to China to develop and shoot some domestic film and television works, but unfortunately, he always encounters bad interpersonal relationships and is taken advantage of.
Farewell My Concubine** shows a scene, because"Play big"As a result, Zunlong was speechless.
He gave up many foreign blockbusters in order to play some less eye-catching roles in China, but the result was that his works were criticized by many as "bad movies".
After the outside world made malicious accusations of "playing a big name", "bad character" and "collecting money" against him, he smiled, but he was indifferent in his heart.
Because he has already been worth more than 100 million abroad, and he returned to China to make films only because he missed his hometown and longed to return to China to work, not for hundreds of thousands of salaries.
In 2007, after the release of "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview 5" and "Ranger", Zunlong made the decision not to take over the acting, thus fading out of the showbiz.
After he left the entertainment industry, he did not live a leisurely life, but went to Hong Kong to take care of his adoptive mother until her death.
His youthful resentment towards his adoptive mother had long since vanished, and now that she was old and had lost all her teeth, he began to understand the hardships of a disabled woman raising an abandoned baby.
Zunlong accompanied his adoptive mother to get her dentures fitted and took care of her daily life until her death.
He also expressed his gratitude for his experience in the opera troupe as a teenager, and he was grateful for the harsh criticism he received at that time, because without that strict teaching, he would not have the excellent acting skills he has today.
Always optimistic, he often jokingly recalls his difficult childhood, because he couldn't afford to eat enough meat at that time, so he kept in good shape.
He never has tooth decay because he has never eaten sugar, and a good tooth is very photogenic!
He has no family, only a dog and lives alone in Vancouver, Canada.
Deep in the woods, he sees two ancient trees as his grandfather and grandmother. Whenever he was feeling down, he would go to worship the pair of trees.
Although he did not have children of his own, he regarded the children in the orphanage as his own, and never slackened off in providing financial support, establishing schools, and engaging in charitable activities.
* Asked Zunlong about the handling of matters before his death and the choice of epitaph.
I don't leave a tombstone, and I don't need any epitaphs. Zunlong smiled faintly.
Life is full of ups and downs, but that's all.
Once, he was charming, fame and fortune, and wealthy, but everything was fleeting.
When he first came to earth, he had no parents, and he didn't even have a name at the beginning, but his adoptive mother raised him.
After he grew up, he experienced the warmth and coldness of human affection and saw the hot and cold of the world, and finally achieved brilliant achievements in middle age. However, when all the glitz and glitz dissipated and he returned to his true nature, he had no children and chose to spend the rest of his life alone.
Some people may say that Zunlong's life is not happy, because his life experience is extremely miserable, and he is lonely in his later years, however, everyone knows their hardships, life has never been smooth sailing, perhaps Zunlong has found a reconciliation between reality and ideals.
In the lonely and bustling city, he found a way to live in harmony with himself, let go of fame and fortune, and returned to the basics, perhaps this kind of life is his ideal ending.