More than 50 years ago, there was a novel that was going to be filmed, and the hero described in the novel looked like this:
is fair-faced, well-mannered, surrounded by blond hair, has an evenly sloping nose, a lovely mouth, a charming expression and Holy sincerity, reminiscent of the Greek statues of the noble period.
This almost perfect description of the appearance, where can I find a suitable actor? The director of
really found a boy who was only 15 years old at the time, and he had an extremely perfect face:
This boy is Berne John Anderson. In the 1970s, he was called "the world's most beautiful boy" ".
The film historian Lawrence Coker even said that some of the Byrne 's film footage can be hung like art on the walls of the Louvre or the Vatican Palace .
According to the script imagined by most people, the ultimate beauty who became famous at a young age should have a very splendid and wonderful life.
But for Byrne, it seems that everything is the opposite. For a long time after that, he hated his face and looked forward to getting old and ugly every day.
why?
first talk about Bourne's road to fame.
For Byrne, being an actor was not his dream, but his means of making a living.
He grew up without a father, his mother died when he was 10 years old, and he had to find a way to make money to support himself.
Filming is just a job.
overnight fame is good, but gossip can come faster than fame and fortune.
The director who discovered him has always openly admitted that he is gay. You might as well imagine that a gay male director, and he found out with his first-hand, amazingly beautiful male lead, what would people instinctively think?
At least the melon eaters at that time thought of ambiguous and unspoken rules.
What's even worse is that the director originally had a boyfriend, who was jealous of Bourne's beauty and feared that the director would change his mind, so he went to the media to spread rumors that Bourne was a shameless mistress because of her beauty.
also said that his private life was extremely chaotic and ill.
At that time, there was no studio to protect artists, and there was no operation of sending lawyers' letters to defend their rights. The public believed what the media said. So during that time, Bern, who was only 16 or 17 years old, felt the same malice as snowflakes.
You are beautiful and popular, aren't you? But you are shameless, lewd, dirty, and will do anything to become famous.
Countless people abuse him indiscriminately every day, and most of them are men with ulterior motives who want to harass him secretly. If
just suffered a few words of infamy, in exchange for becoming a big hit in the entertainment industry, maybe some people would be willing to do it.
But Byrne soon discovered that the roles he could get later were all of the same type—the gay androgynous beautiful, or the dandy.
even asked him to shoot erotic magazines exclusively for homosexuals...
In other words, Byrne's "playing path" has been fixed, it is just a vase of obscenity.
He is not reconciled.
In order to get rid of the fate of being a vase for the rest of his life, Byrne went from Europe to Japan, sinking his heart to learn the music he really loves.
But the tree wants to be quiet and the wind is endless. His face is not only liked by Europeans, but also by Japanese.
A lot of "Japanese teenage anime" in that era bear the shadow of Bourne.
There will always be companies that want to sign him, but no company cares what he likes, they just want to continue to hype this peerless beautiful boy, let him put on shows one after another, shoot magazines, continue to make beautiful vases, and make people imagine 's talk.
They even gave him an overdose of amphetamines in order to put him through the strenuous work. From the perspective of a brokerage company,
is not difficult to understand - capital seeks profit, and there are a lot of people who can play music, but such an extreme beauty is an absolutely scarce resource.
But for Byrne, what did he do wrong?
He has dreams, talents, and willingness to work hard, but all these are not worth a face. The beauty of
turned out to be a stumbling block in his pursuit of his dream.
Eventually Byrne left show business in his twenties, perhaps the best time for other actors to shine.
But he would rather go to kindergartens, prisons, and retail stores to do odd jobs, and he would rather go incognito as a music teacher than live in the spotlight and "play" a beautiful boy all the time.
He just wants to grow old and ugly until he is forgotten.
To this day, Byrne is in his 60s. He is deliberately slovenly, with long hair and beard, and it is true that he is not as delicate as he was when he was young.
But he looks a lot happier, living with his daughter, having pets, playing guitar, and living a normal life.
, a stunning beauty with an almost perfect face, in the end, the life she pursues is actually so ordinary.
makes people feel emotional.
About the benefits of beauty, too many people (including myself) have talked about it, and if there is a choice, everyone must be more willing to be beautiful.
I have also heard some beautiful girls complain about harassment, maliciousness, and gossip because of their looks, but after reading Byrne's story, I am especially deeply aware that the troubles brought about by being beautiful can have nothing to do with gender.
being pretty is such a compelling quality that it overwhelms the rest of the person.
said that Bern, he started learning piano at the age of 3, and was praised by the most prestigious piano teacher of Sweden for his promising future.
He has also been expressing his love for piano playing in public.
But when he performed Liszt 's first piano concerto on stage, a fan was surprised and said, so you really know how to play the piano? ! The implication of
is that you are good-looking enough, who cares if you can play the piano?
Another peerless beauty Marilyn Monroe also said that people would rather pay a lot of money to buy her a kiss, but do not want to spend even 50 cents to understand her soul.
Yes, the beauty is at the level of Bourne and Monroe . Bystanders don't care if you have talent or "soul". They will tacitly accept that a stunning beauty only needs a body.
Take a look at these words again:
Beautiful writer.
beauty schoolmaster.
Beauty entrepreneur.
beauty programmer .
Beauty Judge.
will you have a very subtleThe professional label behind was seriously diluted by the word "beauty", blurred, and even dyed with a layer of ambiguous color.
beauty, how can she be a writer, scholar, entrepreneur, industry elite?
must be dipped in the "beauty" light.
Men too.
Let's go back and look at Bourne's face. Maybe we can easily think that such a good-looking person should be an actor, a star, a model, or a playboy.
But can you think of him as an ordinary and conscientious teacher?
Or a sales clerk, a clerk, someone who eats without face?
seems to have such a little sense of disobedience.
This is the impact of "beauty", it can make you completely ignore everything about the person on the opposite side, only "ta is a beauty".
So what's so bad about that?
is better to be remembered as beautiful than to be remembered as ugly, or not at all? In
emotional relationships, good looks are the advantage of choosing a mate head-on.
But career development and life planning are a completely different set of logic.
Good-looking people will be preferentially treated everywhere in life, including in the workplace, others will take care of you, make you work less overtime, and give you more invisible benefits. According to a survey by
, good-looking people in all walks of life generally earn 5% to 12% more than ordinary people under the same conditions.
If the average annual salary is 100,000 yuan, some people can earn an extra 10,000 yuan just with a more attractive face.
but that's it.
Economics recognizes the existence of a premium for beauty, and agrees that beauty will replace part of productivity to a certain extent—for example, Bourne, he did not receive professional training when he first acted in a movie, and his acting skills were not outstanding, but his peerless beauty made up for this. a little.
But the relationship between beauty and productivity of has a very serious marginal effect.
Even in the entertainment industry who cares about beauty the most, Byrne quickly became popular by relying on his face, but this can only bring him more vase roles of the same type, and cannot really make him a "good actor".
More so in other industries.
You are a salesman, you are very beautiful, others are willing to take more care of you for your face, the same list is willing to sign with you, and give you a little more profit.
This does help you make small money faster, but it's only small money.
No one would be so stupid as to give you hundreds of millions of big orders for nothing just because you look good, and it still depends on your ability to win.
Except in very few specific industries, beauty is almost exactly the same as productivity - such as modeling - which is really purely face-to-face. In other fields of work of
, the beauty of can only be regarded as an early advantage at most. It helps you catch people's attention, help you get the favor of others as quickly as possible, and get some opportunities.
To go further down the road, we have to learn from real talents.
Even like Bourne, beauty is a liability.
The stunning beauties have to put in more effort to prove that they not only have a face, but they have to tear off the label of "beauty/little fresh meat" in front of their professional attributes.
So a little smarter beauties are often not immersed in their beauty bonus for a long time.
They may monetize beauty as soon as possible, such as quickly entering the industry where beauty = productivity to make quick money,Marry/marry a rich man, etc.
Or, they'll find other survival skills and rip off the "beauty" label before the beauty bonus is gone.
There are many such stars in the entertainment industry. When they were young, they took the line of appearance and became "idols", but when they reach a certain age, they have to transform before the audience gets tired.
may study acting skills or step back behind the scenes. Anyway, there is not only one "beautiful/handsome" left.
They will also be like Bourne, deliberately sloppy and ugly, so as to weaken the stereotype of their "beautiful" .
Looking at it this way, it seems that we ordinary people will be less troubled.
We recognize that beauty is an advantage, and we will pursue more beauty within the scope of our ability, but from a long-term perspective, the role of beauty on a person as a whole does not seem to be too powerful to be immeasurable.
Beauty is advantage, effort, talent, ability, connections... aren't they all advantages?
In terms of life development, beauty is no more special than the latter advantages.
can't have the ultimate beauty, so let yourself have more advantages.
Besides, even if the city is as beautiful as Bourne, the most cherished thing in old age is the ordinary life that is not noticed after losing (most of) beauty.
can enjoy inferior blessings, which is also a kind of wisdom in life.
