Man is the sum of all social relations.
The story of one person and the other constitutes the life of this person.
(Zhang Guorong, who debuted in 1977.) ）
(In the early 1980s, Zhang Guorong's Mandarin Duck Dancing King style was avant-garde.) ）
First, 1999 was the most depressed period of Hong Kong cinema, with a brain drain, piracy, and fewer and fewer people watching movies.
The box office champion of that year was Stephen Chow's classic "The King of Comedy", which only grossed 29.84 million.
In order to save the market, Zhang Zhiliang and Er Dongsheng and 20 other directors formed a "creative alliance", planning to direct one film per person, and then concentrate on selling them at a low price in order to create more high-quality films, and "Meteor Language" is one of them.
Cheung found many Hong Kong first-line actors, but only Cheung Kwok Wing agreed to star in the film, and symbolically only charged one yuan for the film.
(Ye Jinglan, Zhang Guorong, Qi Qi in "Meteor Language")
In "Meteor Language", Zhang Guorong and 4-year-old Ye Jinglan play father and son, Zhang Guorong takes great care of Ye Jinglan, and the two have formed a deep friendship. The brother put all his fatherly love for the rest of his life on this child.
Second, Zhang Guorong's most important movie "The Legend of Ah Fei"
Zhang Guorong's acting skills are beyond doubt, but his film emperor fate is not good, he has to live some less well-known "little film emperors",
In 1991, Zhang Guorong won the Best Actor Award at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for "The Legend of Ah Fei", and is his only real film emperor.
It's just a pity that he was in Canada at the time and didn't personally receive the trophy on the spot, which is also a regret in his life.
In 2005, the Hong Kong Film Awards selected "100 Most Representative Chinese Films", and "The Biography of Ah Fei" ranked third
(The classic footage of "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" solo dance.) ）
"The True Biography of Ah Fei" is a milestone for Zhang Guorong to truly discover himself and consciously refer to himself by the standards of an artist.
(Classic line from "Ah Fei Zheng Biography": One minute friend.) ）
(Classic lines from "The Legend of Ah Fei" are often used to describe his life.) ）
Third, although Zhang Guorong and the Cannes Film Emperor lost their arms, Zhang Guorong became internationally famous.
"Farewell to the King" has won a total of 38 international gold awards, and is the only Chinese film to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 2005, "Farewell to the King" and three other Chinese-language films were selected as one of the "100 Best Movies in Global History" by Time Magazine in the United States.
(Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, Zhang Guorong, who were full of spirit at that time)
Zhang Guorong lost his hand with the Cannes Film Emperor by one vote.
There are two main reasons: 1, "Farewell to the King" has won the Palme d'Or, the highest honor at the Cannes International Film Festival that year, and the jury hopes to award other important awards (Cannes Film Emperor) to other outstanding films;
2, an Italian judge named Claudia Cadinal insisted on voting for Best Actress for Zhang Guorong, because she felt that Cheng Dieyi and Yu Ji's performances exceeded all other actresses.
(Yu Ji played by Cheng Diyi in "Overlord Farewell")
Zhang Guorong is extremely serious about acting and pursues perfection.
1, in order to look like a male Hua Dan in the image, the crew shaved his eyebrows, because it was too thick and too straight; to maintain a emaciated body shape, the result of perennial fitness Zhang Guorong in "Overlord Farewell" thin the whole person is thin.
2, extreme hard work, before the filming of "Farewell to the King" began, he went to Beijing to live for six months, not only carefully watched the layout of the Mei House, but also bought the book "Mei Lanfang Stage Life for Forty Years" to carefully study, and also studied the program terminology of Peking Opera performance.
During the period when he was studying drama, he would go to the North Film Studio every morning to practice for four hours, and then go back to the hotel to continue practicing. Even when everyone was eating together, he was thinking about the action. Even the fever reached thirty-eight degrees nine, and he was still insisting on pressing his legs.
(During filming, Zhang Guorong raised his hands and threw his feet like a male Hua Dan who spoke delicately and laughed sourly)
Zhang Guorong was so engaged in drama and professionalism that a Peking Opera actor substitute prepared by Chen Kaige did not come in handy in the end.
3, Zhang Guorong will always pay for the staff to eat when filming, "Farewell to the King" is no exception, it was the middle of summer, he also arranged the fruit and cold drinks of the crew, and when there was no role for him, he also took watermelon to the set to comfort.
Without Zhang Guorong, there would be no "Farewell to the Overlord" - Chen Kaige.
"Tao Li does not speak, the next is his own", whether in terms of acting skills or personality, Zhang Guorong is a great actor.