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international superstar. It is suave and unsafe at night-this is the gossip story that people love to hear.
In the rumors about this superstar, there have been many eloquent narratives:
In 1992, Chen Kaige invited him to play the role of Cheng Dieyi in "Farewell My Concubine" (that is, the role played by Leslie Cheung later), and he asked for " "The sky-high remuneration" also requested that his pet dog be transported by air. Chen Kaige yelled after learning about it and switched to another person. At the time when
was the most popular, he already had a family and he violently pursued the young Chen Chong, which made Chen Chong miserable; after many years, Chen Chong's scenery remained the same, but he was already downcast to play some bad film money and repeatedly hyped this relationship to Strike your eyes.
When he was 60 years old, he and Fan Bingbing filmed "The Concubine Yang", not to mention that he was late for being a big name, and "the old cow eats tender grass", eating Fan Ye's tofu, but was abandoned by the crew.
...... What a wretched and downright image of
.
Zunlong shook his head. He really couldn't understand: Back then, he returned to China from Hollywood with enthusiasm, in exchange for such a chicken feather. The news above
is of course false, but it reflects the dilemma of being used and deceived by others in his later years.
may be because he is so handsome and makes people jealous. The silhouette of the Westerners, the elegance of the Easterners, and the aristocratic air between the eyebrows.
may be because his achievements are unmatched and make people jealous. The first Chinese actor to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award, and the most beautiful male star in Asia, starring in "The Last Emperor" won 9 Oscars and was praised by the Western media as "the philosopher emperor of the performing arts country."
Zunlong, Chen Chong, and Wu Junmei have greatly increased their popularity due to their roles in "The Last Emperor". The film also won 9 Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Except for Kung Fu stars like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, no Chinese actor can surpass his status.
But after all, the moon of a foreign country can only circle in a foreign country, and the patriotism of overseas wanderers is also extremely warm.
The imminent return of Hong Kong in the 1990s was annoying. Zunlong, who is the "light of the Chinese", took the lead in expressing his position. When Hong Kong returns, he will definitely be in China and book a hotel early in order to see the five-star red flag in Victoria as soon as possible. Rising over the harbor. The heart of
boxing is embodied in his career, and it is his long-term wish to let more Chinese people know him. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why he would return home without hesitation when the domestic film and television drama invited him.
It's a pity that the gorgeous halo on the top of the dragon's head stepped into the mainland performing arts circle, but he accidentally got muddy water.
, who could have been a god, made a mistake in his later years and lost all the games.
Or in other words, he is too tolerant to the world, and the world treats him too harshly.
01
Hard years
The world has never treated him well. If it were not for a disabled woman from Shanghai who fled to Hong Kong, Zun Long would have starved to death on the street. It was 1952. He was just born in a bamboo basket by his parents and abandoned on the streets of Hong Kong. The disabled woman in Shanghai who passed by
took him in, not out of good intentions, but "adopted children can receive government subsidies."
The adoptive mother is very old, disabled, and has a bad temper. It is common practice to beat and scold Zunlong. Because he was too poor, Zunlong used cold rice and dough to fill his hunger when he was a child, and being able to eat a bowl of soy sauce rice is a huge gift.
Many years later, he recalled when he was a child: "When I was young, I had a bowl of rice, half a salted egg, and a basket where I slept. I was very satisfied."
Once a slum in Hong Kong-Kowloon Walled City
Even such a small satisfaction was almost lost. The life at the bottom is getting harder and harder, and the adoptive mother has to consider abandoning Zunlong—just like her biological parents once did.
One day, the adoptive mother took Zunlong to the bus station in Hong Kong, and then left, leaving the few-year-old alone in the crowd. How could the sensitive child not understand the meaning, but he didn't cry, just stood there and watched the adoptive mother leave. The last time the adoptive mother turned around, the two happened to look at each other.
met in an instant, and his eyes were full of profound meaning. In the end, the adoptive mother was still soft-hearted and took Zunlong back home.
just stayed up to 10 years old, and the child gradually grew longer. The adoptive mother saw that Zunlong looked good with thick eyebrows and big eyes, so she sent him to the theater troupe to learn opera. sixtyIn the 1950s, Hong Kong enthusiasts of Peking opera set up many opera troupes to cultivate talents, and the trainees could include food and accommodation. From the perspective of the adoptive mother, she can learn a skill without spending money, and she will not starve to death when she enters society in the future.
made up his mind, and Zunlong was sent to the Spring and Autumn Drama Club of the troupe master Fan Juhua. The adoptive mother never asked Zun Long's opinion-the society gave the poor too few roads, Zun Long had no choice. The life of
troupe is hard and sad. Because he has no parents and his appearance is relatively European, Zun Long is often bullied by his seniors, calling him a "wild bastard." He was so angry that he fought with others. He was beaten up and had no money to go to the hospital, so he went to a tailor to sew 8 stitches on the wound. It hurts terribly when I think about it, let alone a child.
training hard every day, Zunlong tried to escape several times. After being beaten by the master again and again, he made up his mind to escape, and regretted it halfway through the run, because he suddenly realized that even if an orphan like him ran outside, where would he have a place? The fate of
is nothing more than this. He had to return to the theater troupe and apologize to the master, in exchange for a few loud slaps.
Master Fenjuan respects the dragon, teaches him how to sing and teaches him kung fu. Once, because of his good performance, the master rewarded him with a piece of braised pork. How could he think that there was not a little bit of oil in the belly of the dragon who grew up from snacks, cold rice and dough, and he vomited it out as soon as he ate a piece. The master was very annoyed, and another beating and scolding.
All these, desperation and tenderness in extreme poverty, constitute the sensitive and lonely background of Zunlong's character. Many years later he read the story of "Farewell My Concubine" and the story of Dieyi Yi, and he couldn't help blurting out:
, "Isn't this my autobiography? When I was sensible, I kicked and sang a big pot of rice with Fenjuku, and everything I lived and lived. Rage, sorrow, love, hatred, and hatred are all from the Beijing opera."
"Little Bean" Cheng Dieyi studied in "Farewell My Concubine"
, but Zun Long is not a person who holds grudges, and time makes him and the embarrassment of the past one by one. reconciliation. The suffering of the
troupe has long been turned into wealth. He is grateful that this experience helped him lay the basic skills of acting; he no longer hates the abandonment of his adoptive mother. "When I grow up, I gradually learn about the pain of the old lady and understand her My various behaviors, she is uneducated, and she wants to raise me again, which is great.”
Zunlong and Master’s pink chrysanthemum
As for the piece of braised pork that was spit out, it also became a blessing in disguise evidence:
“Every day when I was young Eating dough, no meat, no nutrition, but I am very grateful now, because of this, my blood is very clean, there is no fat or oil, and my teeth are also very good, because I didn’t eat sugar when I was young."
"You see, there is no one. This thing is completely bad."
02
Unchosen Road
17-year-old, Zun Long’s life is the first time he has a choice. After the
troupe came out, Shaw Films offered a 10-year martial arts contract.
Shaw is famous for being stingy, but for the helpless orphans, what is more important than a stable job? This is also a more certain way to success. Jiang David, Ti Lung, Zheng Peipei and other popular Hong Kong stars at the time all developed step by step from martial arts. On the other side of
, it was Zun Long who had a chance to go to the United States for development. He received a financial commitment from an American family. But after arriving in the United States, everything has to be on your own. There were two roads in the
forest, he chose the one with fewer people, and changed the path of his life.
In 1969, Zun Long chose to take a steamer bound for San Francisco.
When talking about why not stay in Hong Kong, he replied like this:
"I know that I will become popular in Hong Kong very quickly. They pay attention to the surface, as long as they are born beautifully, look stylish, have a little brain, and don't need too much... Then I have watched a lot of Hong Kong movies at that time, but they have no commemorative value... I am not underestimating Hong Kong movies. Hong Kong movies have inherent restrictions and cannot accept too rigorous movies.”
He was 17 years old that year and determined to become a great Actors.
, like most Chinese who are new to the United States, Zunlong works and studies, washes dishes and sells soft drinks during the day to save tuition, and goes to evening school to learn English at night. He never went to school, and started learning English from scratch. For two or three years, he has been at the bottom of American society, doing high-intensity work with a basic salary. Under the harsh living environment of
, he has never given up on performance research. Zunlong is in the club whenever he has free timeThe district school continued to learn performance and dance. He even passed an exam for a theater company. The other party only admitted two people in the United States, but was willing to sign a three-year employment contract with this Chinese boy with no background. After thinking about it for a long time, Zunlong refused. Just as he rejected Shaw's 10-year contract, his purpose of learning acting has never been just for a job.
Soon after, Zun Long was admitted to the Los Angeles campus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and received formal performance education. The school is close to Hollywood. While studying, he kept accumulating experience in the theater, waiting for the opportunity to enter Hollywood.
can't wait for opportunities. Under the long-term default chain of discrimination, it is too difficult for Chinese actors to stand out in Hollywood. They can only play some scraps or villain roles, full of stereotypes about China. What's more, Zunlong is so good-looking that it is difficult to even pick up the villain. It wasn't until 1976 that he was 24 years old when he played the role of a Chinese servant in the movie "King Kong: Legend Rebirth": he nodded and shook his back and squeezed his shoulders to the American hero protagonist. The total playing time was less than one minute.
"King Kong: Legendary Rebirth" in the dragon role
has a talent and a beautiful skin can not be displayed. In the following 8 years, Zunlong still played the role of the best in various dramas, Hollywood is so close to him, but so far away.
During this period, he also "curved to save the country." He met Asian directors and screenwriters who appreciated him, played on Broadway, and later wrote and directed himself. In just a few years, he won the highest award in American theater-the Obi Award for Best Performance, and became The first Chinese to receive this honor. With the outstanding performance of
in the theater industry, Hollywood had to reconsider this handsome Chinese actor.
At the age of 32, Zunlong ushered in the first movie protagonist in his life-a savage in "Forty Thousand Years of Iceman". Even for such a role that there is no dialogue and no one else is willing to play, the director still thinks that the dragon is too handsome and looks primitive enough, until he is moved by his perfect acting skills.
Zunlong played the wild man (right)
This may be the absurdity of life, obviously has the most exquisite appearance, but always tired of it.
At this time, it has been 15 years since Zun Long crossed the ocean from Hong Kong to the United States to fight.
Fortunately, the dawn of success is already ahead.
03
The rootless emperor
Zunlong finally had the opportunity to show off the charm of the Oriental.
In 1985, he waited for the movie "Year of the Dragon". This is still a stereotype that discredited the Chinese, but Zun Long almost relied on his own power to portray his role as the Chinese gangster Joey Tai into one of the most classic gangster images in movie history. The quality of the
movie itself is not high. Relying on his hard power, Zun Long was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globe Awards that year.
has a perfect profile and a wicked and confident look. The 1.72 meter tall Zunlong performed a 2 meter imposing manner. American audiences who have seen the movie call him "the most handsome gangster ever."
Because of this movie, Zun Long began to show off in Hollywood.
Soon, he ushered in the most important movie in his life-"The Last Emperor".
's last drama filmed in the Forbidden City has won 9 Oscars. The film is unparalleled in brilliance. Zun Long also perfectly performed the ups and downs of Puyi's life. When the Italian director Bertolucci selected the actors, Zun Long was the first to audition. When he appeared on stage wearing a dragon robe, the director was shocked: Isn't such an emperor's temperament the person he was looking for?
But Bertolucci doesn't believe that he is so lucky and that he can meet a satisfactory candidate for the first time. So he spent another 9 months, tirelessly recruiting many actors to audition, and suddenly looking back after the trials, no one can compare to Zunlong. Wu Junmei, who plays Wenxiu, once said that the most impressive thing in the filming of "The Last Emperor" is the appearance of the dragon. The first time she saw Zunlong was in the Forbidden City of Novosibirsk, she saw him sitting far away at a large table, and when she saw the wife in the film, she smiled brightly at her.
allure with a smile. Wu Junmei sighed, how could anyone in the world smile so beautifully. Chen Chong, the actor of
Wanrong, commented on Zunlong: "He is a very good and very enduring actor. He is an insiderThe heart is very sensitive and concealed, so when acting, he can carry infinite secrets in the flash of his eyes. "
Even the goddess Brigitte Lin and Joey Wang are also fans of Zunlong.
When Brigitte Lin was filming "Unbeaten in the East", she should have gone to bed early for the next day she played the movie, but she actually played Zunlong all night. All night mahjong, just to look at him more; Wang Zuxian met Zunlong at an awards ceremony, looked straight at the house, and admired. The charm of
Zunlong and Wang Zuxian
Zunlong need no further details The Japanese media said he was the "most beautiful oriental man", and when the American "People" magazine first selected "the world's 50 most beautiful people", he was also selected.
But no matter what kind of praise the outside world gave, Zunlong was still wrong in his life. Times.
"The Last Emperor" has won numerous awards, but as the male protagonist he failed to get any honor. The film's artistic achievements are undeniable, but it is still the "other" China from the Western perspective, with a strong colonialism Meaning.
Puyi represents the East in chaos, and the emperor Johnston from the West rescued him from ignorance: teaching him to ride a bicycle instead of a sedan chair is the West leading the East to the modern age; to resist public opinion and put Puyi with glasses, it is the West who let him go. The emperor of the East opened his eyes to see the world.
Take a look at the most important works of Zunlong's life, from the Chinese gangster villain in "The Year of the Dragon", Pu Yi in "The Last Emperor", and later the male disguised as a woman in "Butterfly" and played as a French lover Song Liling, who claims to be a "slave" in front of him, cannot escape a certain imagination in his role-a Western fantasy of the East, an image of the weak from the perspective of the strong.
The dragon
in "Butterfly" unless it is Kung fu stars, otherwise, even with such achievements as Zunlong, there are still not many opportunities in Hollywood. Westerners do not need a rich and three-dimensional oriental image. Behind the prosperous
, the warm and cold are self-knowledge. This is the limitation of the times. It is also the sorrow that Zun Long cannot get rid of. The difficulties of
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seeking roots and betraying
abroad may be the reason why Zun Long decided to return to China. Due to various factors, many of Zun Long’s films abroad have not been released in China. He hopes Acting in more Chinese works, let more Chinese people know him.
But waiting for him is time and again misunderstanding and betrayal.
"Farewell My Concubine" originally invited Zun Long to star in Cheng Dieyi, Zun Long did not hesitate to do so. Since the cut of 300,000 US dollars in remuneration, he also rejected another great work-later "The Lover" starring Liang Jiahui, as well as other commercials and invitations to stage plays.
But unexpectedly, the film's creative team later felt respected Long looks masculine, and it’s not appropriate to play Cheng Dieyi, so I want to go back. Moreover, Zunlong was very popular at the time, even if the pay was reduced, it was still too expensive.
happened to be at this time, Zunlong made a request, hoping that there will be a film shooting. Accompanied by pet dogs, this just gave the crew the reason to replace him: playing big cards, overlord terms.
Zunlong has nowhere to rely on his life, only the dog is always accompanied by his great It’s understandable to put forward such a demand for brand identity, but the result is being used and slandered.
later "Farewell My Concubine" was so successful that many years later, people who were not familiar with the matter would still laugh at Zunlong "because a dog lost a chance to enshrine the gods".
After 2000, Zun Long returned to China for filming with the mentality of wanting to be familiar to the Chinese, but he encountered many unsuccessful encounters. After "The King of Hype" Deng Jianguo had insight into his ideas, he had been so hard for many years, saying that there were a few dramas that Chinese audiences would love to watch, and invited him to appear. Under the bewilderment of
, Zunlong appeared in "Qianlong and Xiangfei", "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview 5" and other TV series with poor reputation. In order to play these TV series well, he refused the invitation of classic movies such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Countess" . During the period, Deng Jianguo also concocted fake news such as "Zunlong scolds Chen Kaige, regrets Chen Chong for marrying others" to hype. All of the above behaviors of
have caused others to wonder whether Zunlong is short of money? Still out of breath? Of course
cannot be short of money. In the 1980s, when the average monthly salary of Chinese people was less than 100 yuan, Zunlong's salary had already exceeded 10 million, and any real estate endorsement could earn tens of millions. Of course,
is not too angry. While returning to China to film these bad films, CNN also made a special trip to China to make a documentary for him. Yang Lan invited him to conduct an exclusive interview, and the China Film Museum also invited him to keep his hands.Printed.
But these requests were rejected one by one by Zunlong. He was born to be playful and innocent, even if it was a bad movie, he devoted himself to it.
plays a farmer in the movie "Entertaining Yourself". In order to figure out his role, he gathers with local farmers every day, visits the village to eat, chats from house to house, and does not perceive that the outside world treats him with money or playing big names. "The report has already turned a lot of noise.
In "Entertaining Yourself", Zun Long plays a farmer, and Coco Lee's partner
and other Zun Long reacted. These rumors have already exhausted his reputation.
He is innocent, enthusiastic, and has beautiful illusions about the motherland, but he does not know that others are just using him to get what he needs.
This may be the biggest flaw in Zun Long, as he said when he evaluated himself: "I am not very good at being a human being. I have no family, no parents, no name, no school, no childhood, the relationship between people. I don't know much." When
was 60 years old, when he was once again slandered by the crew of "Yang Guifei", he finally decided not to act anymore and said goodbye to China.
Rootless wanderer, he could not find the root all his life. Just like the words Leslie Cheung said:
"I haven't done anything bad in my life, why is this?"
Zunlong has not lived up to this era, it is the era that has failed him.
05
Today's Zunlong lives alone in Vancouver, walking his dog, drinking afternoon tea, and walking in the forest.
He claimed two thousand-year-old trees in Canada's lush virgin forest, and he called them grandfather and grandmother.
Others asked why this was the case. He said that in front of the old tree, he, an orphan, would feel that he was rooted. When he was sad, he would hold them, and he would feel that his soul had sustenance and no longer felt the previous pain.
Someone once commented that Pu Yi's life, that is, the life of Zunlong, was glorious in the first half of his life and bleak in the second half.
In "The Last Emperor", Pu Yi once yelled "open the door" twice. One time was the day when his 13-year-old biological mother passed away. He wanted to walk out of the palace. The scarlet door was closed and he was mercilessly rejected. The noise and sorrow outside the door seemed to have nothing to do with him;
another time was thirty years later He has become the puppet emperor of the Puppet Manchukuo. Wanrong, who was addicted to drugs, was sent out of the mansion by the Japanese. Pu Yi ran all the way on the snow to chase him. The same stalwart vermilion gate once again separated him from his lover forever.
Zunlong also wanted to open that door in his life. When he was 17 years old, it was a young man who went abroad alone with him; later, it was a wanderer who looked at this shore of the sea and looked forward to returning.
Open the door. The door has been opened briefly.
Zunlong's old age is not so bleak, he still has old trees and his dog as company. If someone meets him in Vancouver, please say hello to him: Hello Mr.
, I wish you good morning, good afternoon and good night.
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