Text | Li Xiaobai
In 1993, a "Farewell My Concubine" was born, and Chen Kaige was "aponized" in the film industry. He was 41 years old this year.
How powerful is "Farewell My Concubine"? These honors are the best proof. It was selected as one of the "100 Best Films in Global History" by Time Magazine, the first Chinese film to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in France, and the only one. At the same time, he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival and the American Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in Chinese.
Even though 26 years have passed, it still ranks second in the movie list on Douban, where fans gather.
Stills of "Farewell My Concubine"
Chen Kaige's movies are not only "Farewell My Concubine", his films "Yellow Earth", "King of the Child" and "King of Qin Jing Ke" are all classic films. Even if he made controversial blockbusters like "The Promise", "Taiping Wheel" and "The Legend of the Demon Cat", not many people would deny his professional ability as a director.
He has made few movies in recent years, but the public can still see his professional ability as a director in variety shows. He once commented on "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" performed by Hu Xianxu and Xu Jiao on the inspirational variety show "I Am an Actor" in acting competition. During the performance, the character played by Hu Xianxu was slow to like "Jade Dragon" played by Xu Jiao. "Jade Dragon" played by Xu Jiao was actually afraid of bandits. Their performance did not match the rhythm and identity of the characters in the movie. Faced with the immature performance of the two, the judge Zhang Ziyi said that they did not understand the role, and Wu Xiubo bluntly said that they were imitating. However, Chen Kaige's comments can reach the core. He asked Hu Xianxu: When did you like Yujiaolong? I asked Xu Jiao again: Why would a lady of heaven like Yu Jiaolong hide when she sees bandits?
Two simple questions, Chen Kaige pointed out the inherent problems in the performances of Hu Xianxu and Xu Jiao.
arrived on the stage of "Actors Please Take Place" in 2019, and his comments are still professional and sharp. There was a stage where Ming Dao and Chen Ruoxuan performed a scene about how "Li Fei" faced after the death of "Li Fei"'s father in the TV series "Icebreaker". But "Li Fei" played by Chen Ruoxuan, faced such a situation, but seemed calm. When the performance was over, Chen Kaige pointed out that Chen Ruoxuan’s “insufficient expression” problem, but under his guidance, when Chen Ruoxuan performed for the second time, his acting skills had a sense of hierarchy, which impressed the audience, and this was undoubtedly The proof of Chen Kaige's strong director ability.
Chen Kaige's achievements in the film industry and his performance in variety shows have made the public think that he is a great film director who can make movies. But compared to making movies and training actors, Chen Kaige is best at chasing girls. How good is he chasing girls? The goddess Xu Qing, Ni Ping, and Chen Hong of countless people were successfully taken down by him, and he also succeeded in taking down the Kochi female Hong Huang. It can be said that Chen Kaige is a veritable "girl chaser".
In 1984, Chen Kaige made a literary film "Yellow Land". This film was a great success. It won the Silver Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the London International Film Festival, and the Kurosawa Akira Award at the Tokyo Film Festival. And other awards. While this film brought honor to Chen Kaige, it also attracted the attention of Hong Huang who was far away in the United States.
Hong Huang
Hong Huang likes "Yellow Earth" very much, she even went back to China to go to Chen Kaige's crew to explore with her husband. After coming and going, the two became familiar with each other. After getting acquainted, what did Chen Kaige do? Once they attended the party, Chen Kaige took Hong Huang's hand and kissed Hong Huang. Facing the proactive attack of the talented Chen Kaige, Hong Huang couldn't stand it. She divorced her American husband and chose to marry Chen Kaige. Chen Kaige also got the US green card with the help of Hong Huang.
However, their marriage only lasted 4 years. During these four years, Hong Huang found that Chen Kaige was quite attractive to women. There were so many Yingying and Yanyan around him that Hong Huang, who had always been well cultivated, was a little bit jealous.
is jealous. After all, the two are legal couples. It is not easy for outsiders to move the position of "wife". What Hong Huang didn't expect was that Chen Kaige actually hooked up with the big beauty Xu Qing in the filming of "Walking and Singing".
This time Hong Huang was no longer jealous, but felt betrayed. She and Chen Kaige quarreled several times, but to no avail, so she resolutely divorced Chen Kaige.
Xu Qing
divorced Chen Kaige did not expect himAnd the great beauty Xu Qing also failed to "get married with lovers." Without Hong Huang and Xu Qing, Chen Kaige still "sit firmly on the Diaoyutai", and he used his "fascination" to provoke Ni Ping. At that time, Ni Ping hosted "Zhengda Variety Show" and hosted the Spring Festival Gala, and was a popular host. However, Chen Kaige asked Ni Ping to cook for him, wash clothes and take care of his daily life. After the two lived together for three years, Chen Kaige enjoyed Ni Ping's kindness to him with an attitude of "no rejection, irresponsibility". Even the death of his old father was Ni Ping's work after his busy schedule. In order to stabilize Ni Ping's heart, he promised that Ni Ping would marry her, but he said sweetly, but his actions were very slow.
Ni Ping when he was young
only made Ni Ping not expect that after a year of living with her, Chen Kaige and her 16-year-old beauty Chen Hong secretly crossed Chen Cang, and the two began an underground romance under her nose. How did Chen Kaige provoke Chen Hong? At that time, Chen Kaige was planning to make the film "Wind Moon", and of course an actress was indispensable to make a movie, so Chen Hong ran over to interview the heroine. But the day before the interview, Chen Hong was too tired at work and didn't have a good rest. So in the styling stage before the interview, she secretly closed her eyes to rest while the staff was doing her styling. But when her eyes were closed, she always felt weird. As a result, when she opened her eyes, she found that Chen Kaige was looking at herself in a mirror while he was looking at herself in the mirror seriously. The eyes broke when Chen Hong opened her heart. She said: "At that time, I felt a stunned and unclear feeling in my heart."
, as a "girl chaser", Chen Kaige can naturally Feeling the change of Chen Hong's status, the two had a close relationship, and Chen Kaige boldly made Chen Hong pregnant.
Chen Hong's pregnancy is a big deal. After all, he is still with Ni Ping. What should I do? Chen Kaige chose to abandon Ni Ping, who took care of him like an "old mother". He said to Ni Ping: "She is pregnant. This is no way."
When Chen Hong
Chen Kaige could say such brazen words, Ni Ping was also surprised. . Deeply hurt, she finally had to agree to break up. Later, Ni Ping wrote in a book called "Days": "If someone asks me now, what do you feel most about such days? I will say no. A little dignity, if someone asks me a thousand times, I will tell him a thousand and one times that there is no dignity." She said that it was a period of "extremely sad and sad" days.
Chen Kaige's strength is that he just broke up with Ni Ping on the front foot, and in the next second he ran to Vancouver to propose to Chen Hong. Chen Hong also knew that there were too many women around Chen Kaige, so she told Chen Kaige to get married first, and then get divorced. It turned out that Chen Hong’s "retreat for advancement" approach subdued Chen Kaige. Chen Kaige said on the spot that he could not do it. He said: "This time I made up my mind to get married and want to live with this woman for a lifetime. You have to promise me, If you are married, you are not allowed to divorce. This is the only condition for me to marry you."
Seeing that Chen Kaige is so sincere, Chen Hong agreed to him and gave him two handsome sons, Chen Yuang and Chen Feiyu.
Later, there were rumors that Chen Kaige was too old and couldn't play. It is also rumored that Chen Hongyu's husband has the skill to govern Chen Kaige well.
Chen Kaige, who used to be a "girl chaser", just disappeared. But his legend still circulates in "Chasing a Girl".
