Cover News Reporter Zhou Qin According to the Internet
On August 18, local time, the three children of French national treasure movie star Alain Delon revealed to AFP the news that Alain Delon had passed away at the age of 88.
Alain Delon has been deeply troubled by illness in recent years and once expressed his desire for euthanasia. It is reported that he died peacefully at home, and his family appealed to the outside world to respect Alain Delon's privacy.
Alain Delon is best known to Chinese audiences for his 1975 action film "Zorro". He began his acting career in 1957 and participated in films such as "The Rocco Brothers", "Black Tulip" and "You Are the Devil". In 1985, he won the French César Award for Best Actor for "Our Story" and the Berlin Film Festival Award in 1995. Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Alain Delon was awarded the Palme d'Or for Lifetime Achievement at Cannes.
Stills from the movie "Zorro"
He once thanked his mother, saying that what he is today actually comes from her. "My mother has always wanted to be an actress and thought she was born for this. But she couldn't do it, but I fulfilled her wish, so she has been very happy and proud of me."
Entering the 1980s, Alain Delon's filmmaking has slowed down, and 2008's "Heroes of Gaul vs. Prince Caesar" became the last major work in which he participated. Regarding the lack of many later works, he once said in a sharing event that for him, the movie is over: "There is a saying in the boxing world called 'superfluous competition', and I have always been deeply impressed by this sentence. I can I don’t want to play a ‘superfluous game’. My film career is already good enough, and I don’t want to make any more superfluous films.”
The Cannes Film Festival once designed an exclusive poster for Alain Delon, which used the poster of his 25-year-old star. A still from "Bodies in a Raging Sea".
In recent years, Alain Delon's physical condition has deteriorated. In 2022, Alain Delon's son revealed in an interview that his father had decided to perform euthanasia in Switzerland, and this decision was also supported by his children. According to reports, Alain Delon himself also revealed in an interview that he decided to euthanasia. The main reason was that he experienced a stroke in 2019 and could not bear the sequelae of the stroke. "Loss of vision, inconvenience in legs and feet, joint pain... I feel very bad." .”
Today, after the news of Alain Delon’s death was exposed, it also became a trending topic on Weibo. Many netizens left messages in memory: "The most handsome man in the world has passed away" and "Eternal Zorro, have a good journey."
