Where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there will be controversies.
Although Zhang Guorong has been gone for 18 years, his existence as a benchmark in the entertainment industry, the debate about him, seems to have never stopped.
Zhang Guorong's road to fame is quite tortuous, so it is an inspirational old saying left to Hong Kong people, "Even Zhang Guorong will stay up for 8 years"!
Zhang Guorong, who survived the head, stepped onto the peak of his career step by step, and the opponents he encountered were all of good strength. Among them, there are 4 people, which can be called the "four fierce enemies" in his life.
In Zhang Guorong's "four fierce enemies", Tan Yonglin, who had competed with him for hegemony, could only relegate to the second place, and his ultimate opponent deserved it!
The fourth Chen Baiqiang
Zhang Guorong, Chen Baiqiang, Paul Chung, the famous "Three Princes of Central" at that time, almost everyone in the Hong Kong entertainment industry knew everyone.
Among them, Zhang Guorong and Chen Baiqiang, who have developed in the music world, are the most widely known. Zhang Guorong and Chen Baiqiang are not only good friends, but also competitors in their early careers.
The two of them debuted in the same year, With Zhang Guorong winning the second place in the Asian Singing Competition and Chen Baiqiang being the winner of the Yamaha Electronic Keyboard Competition in Hong Kong.
After their debut, the situation of the two is very different.
Chen Baiqiang broke through with his first solo album. The famous song "Tears Flow for You" was shortlisted for the annual top ten Chinese golden songs, which laid the status of Chen Baiqiang in the song world in one fell swoop.
Zhang Guorong was not so lucky. His early singing style was contrary to the mainstream of the song world, and some people even described his singing as "duck calling", so he was cold in the song world at the beginning of his debut.
How unpopular was Zhang Guorong at that time? His records were sold cheaply for a dollar, and once he threw his hat offstage at the scene of the performance, and even the audience who picked it up threw it back.
Compared with Zhang Guorong, who was unlucky, Chen Baiqiang was highly sought after by young people at that time. The popularity of the song, coupled with his gentle and elegant image and elegant taste, Chen Baiqiang became the most popular idol singer in the music world.
At the beginning of their debut, Zhang Guorong and Chen Baiqiang both ate the bowl of "idol" rice, and Chen Baiqiang was obviously more popular.
The inflection point came in 1983. Chen Baiqiang launched "Partial Like You" to continue to be popular, and Zhang Guorong caught up with the famous song "The Wind Continues to Blow".
The idol market in the Hong Kong music scene has entered a short stage of "three emperors and one stand together", followed by the well-known "Tan Zhang Battle".
In fact, Chen Baiqiang was indeed a fierce rival in the music world in the early days of Zhang Guorong's debut, but the "fairy friendship" between them diluted the competition and became a good story that people relished.
The third Liang Chaowei
There is no doubt that Liang Chaowei is a fierce rival of Zhang Guorong in the film world.
To this day, Liang Chaowei, who has debuted for nearly 40 years, has won 3 Golden Horse Film Emperors, 5 Golden Statue Film Emperors, and once Cannes Film Emperor, such good results are enough to make him proud of the Chinese film industry.
In the face of the award, many top-level male actors are much inferior to Liang Chaowei, of course, Zhang Guorong is the same, but this does not delay the competition between them.
As the two mountains of the Hong Kong film industry, Zhang Guorong and Liang Chaowei have many similarities in terms of acting skills, from temperament to charm, they are different from leung Ka Fai and Liu Qingyun, who are first-class actors.
Director Wong Kar-wai commented on Cheung Kwok Wing and Liang Chaowei, "Drunken flowers are suitable for daytime, drunken snow is suitable for night, are two different tastes, and it is my luck to meet them." ”
To a large extent, their acting skills start from Wong Kar-wai's films.
In 1990, both Cheung Kwok-wing and Liang Chao-wei appeared in Wong Kar-wai's "The True Biography of Ah Fei", zhang Guorong won back the golden statue of the emperor with his arrogant prodigal son, and Liang Chaowei, who only retained a combing action at the end of the film, found the trick to perform.
In 1997, Cheung Kwok Wing and Liang Chaowei co-starred in Wong Kar-wai's "Spring Break", and their acting skills were different, but in the competition for the Golden Statue Emperor, the two were shortlisted at the same time, and Liang Chaowei was favored by the judges.
To borrow Lin Qingxia's words, Liang Chaowei is perfect, and Zhang Guorong is a stroke of God.
The second Tam Wing Lin
The "Tan Zhang Controversy" set off by Tam Wing Lin and Cheung Kwok Wing ran through the Hong Kong music scene in the mid-to-late 1980s, and the two of them basically monopolized the large and small music awards in the Hong Kong music scene.
The battle for the position of the "hegemon" of the rival music world is even more exciting than the competition of the four kings in the 90s.
Together, Tam and Zhang pushed the Hong Kong pop music scene into a period of heyday and glory, and left an indelible mark in the history of Chinese pop music.
Tan Yonglin, who flew solo from the Wenna band, went to Taiwan to shoot love literary and artistic films for a period of time, and then made up his mind to specialize in the development of the music scene.
After he successively launched the "Love Trilogy" of "Mist Love", "The Root of Love" and "Love Trap", he quickly surpassed the veteran singer Xu Guanjie and laid the status of a superstar in the music world.
Zhang Guorong, who started late, began to rise from the launch of "The Wind Continues to Blow" in 1983, and the hit "Monica" launched the following year also made him successfully crown a superstar.
In the competition between Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong, two heavyweight singers, in the entertainment environment at that time, the fans of the two sides were intolerant of water and fire, and the situation of fighting each other was even more frequent.
In 1987, Tam Wing Lin announced at the award ceremony that he would no longer receive competitive awards, and a year later, Cheung Kwok Wing announced that Feng Mai would quit the music scene.
To this day, although Tan Zhang's battle has long been turned into a cloud of smoke, everyone seems to have abandoned the displeasure in it and is even more fascinated by the past.
The first Andy Lau
The comparison between Andy Lau and Zhang Guorong in the music world and the film world seems to have never stopped. For a moment, they are also the strongest opponents between each other.
Zhang Guorong is 5 years older than Andy Lau, and many people will see them as two generations, that is, Zhang Guorong is the senior, and Andy Lau is the junior. In fact, there is no problem in treating them as peers.
Although Zhang Guorong debuted a little earlier, when he became famous in 1983, it coincided with Andy Lau's "wireless five tigers" among TVB, and he also officially embarked on the road to fame.
In the 1980s, Zhang Guorong's fame was even more prominent, and after the four heavenly kings became an army in the 90s, Andy Lau's reputation grew.
Both of them took the integrated route. When "Tan Zhang contended for hegemony", Zhang Guorong, who was far behind by Tan Yonglin, was far behind by Tan Yonglin, but he had a film and television achievement bonus. Similarly, Andy Lau is the "comprehensive heavenly king" among the four heavenly kings.
In terms of film, Zhang Guorong's winning fortune is relatively poor, and there is only one golden statue in terms of awards, which is incomparable with Andy Lau's three golden statues and two golden horses, but his works are expensive in almost every one of them is a classic, so the influence is protracted.
Andy Lau's works are very large, and the number of bad films is not in the minority, which invisibly also covers his light.
In the direction of the music world, Zhang Guorong won the Golden Needle Award, a hall award representing the supreme honor, very early on, and if there is no accident, Andy Lau should also get the Golden Needle Award.
Their similarities also lie in the fact that they are all the "millennium old two" of their respective eras, Zhang Guorong can not compete with the same period of Principal Tan, Andy Lau was suppressed by the song god Jacky Cheung, but in combination, they are all "invincible" existence.
Therefore, Andy Lau is the ultimate opponent of Zhang Guorong, which is well deserved.