"Ah Mei is very bold, and rarely meets a woman like her who has no jealousy in the entertainment industry, and knows how to appreciate others, which is very rare." Maggie Cheung, who has been in the Hong Kong showbiz circle for many years, once commented on a generation of singers Mei Yanfang, and the latter is also one of the most admired artists in the circle of Maggie Cheung, not only that, but also the two are relatively close, whether they are tall and thin, or maverick, spontaneous, and self-personality.
In fact, the fate of Maggie Cheung and Mei Yanfang, who is one year younger than Mei Yanfang, has a long history, as early as 1984, Mui Yanfang played the female number two Anita in "Fate" (Anita is also Mei Yanfang's English name), as soon as she appeared, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the film was co-starred with Maggie Cheung, and this is the second film starring Maggie Cheung and Mui Yanfang, and it is also a commercial film that is easy to be ignored by each other and fans. But it is like a coffin judgment on the lives and destinies of the two people.
Obviously, the first cooperation of Mei Yanfang, has been slightly better than Maggie Cheung in the aura, charm and aura, but the bold and persistent Anita played by Mei Yanfang in it has lost to the confused and wandering Monica played by Maggie Cheung in the love field, in fact, Mei Yanfang's role in the film is like her own image portrayal, and this image has been strengthened and amplified again and again on the subsequent stage, so that it has become a "big woman" without compromise.
In 1985, Mei Yanfang launched the record "Like the Year of Water Flowing", in which the handsome suit style, coupled with her thick, deep voice, seems to be a complete "boy", heroic, agitated, and stylish, and the other record of the year, "Bad Girl", is the avant-garde, bold dress and performance to the extreme, so, as Lin Yihua said, Mei Yanfang has become a "queen" projected by some gay men who are eager to be women, although she continues to create a gorgeous and changeable image, but, Mei is still Mei, "no matter how feminine (Mei Yanfang) Fu shi is, many people still don't think that Mei Yanfang is a 'woman'. "Doesn't Mei Yanfang know it?" But it has become a fixed situation, why not? In 2002, at the "Mei Yanfang Extreme Dream Concert", Mei Yanfang was even more entangled and twisted on stage with male and female fans or dancers, as if self-deprecating, further confirming the name of "Queen".
In fact, Mei Yanfang is the most distinctive and prominent artist in that generation of stars, whether on the stage, or in life, whether in the image, or in the emotion, Mei Yanfang has achieved a certain extreme, she is like a string that is always tight, straight forward, and it is like a plum blossom that "Ling Han blooms alone", people are lonely and arrogant, and people are lonely after, and now, Fanghua's peerless, heroic and benevolent "big sister" has long been extinguished, and this is like another fate, after all, If it is too strong, it is easy to crunch.
Of course, Maggie Cheung is also spontaneous and self-ego, such as the willfulness and determination from Hong Kong to Paris, and even likes neutral dresses such as suits, but the personality and self of Maggie Cheung and Mei Yanfang have parted ways in two different dimensions, paths and levels, one is to bravely go forward without hesitation, one is to turn backward without hesitation, and between these attachments and let go, Zhang and relaxation, advance and retreat, but it is the fundamental division between a "big woman" and a "little girl": one is free, vicissitudes, One is elegant and delicate.
As we all know, it was "Ruan Lingyu" that made Maggie Cheung take her acting career to a higher level, but Ruan Lingyu, a world-famous celebrity, originally belonged to Mui Yanfang, and the director of the film, Guan Jinpeng, said, "According to the original script, this is actually Mui Yanfang's play, not Ruan Lingyu's play, but Mei Yanfang happened to play an actor named Ruan Lingyu, which triggered many things she did not know." Although it cannot be said that it is Maggie Cheung who plunders the beauty of people, but now, this is the regret of Mei Yanfang's life, but it is an indisputable fact, but the difference between the two versions can also be seen where Mei Yanfang's dominance and strong aura lie.
"Which man can marry her?" She is The Global Chinese Mei Yanfang, it is difficult to be exclusive to a certain man. Mei Yanfang's royal stylist Lian Shiliang said, and believes that the reason why Mei Yanfang has stayed in the middle of the word all her life is because no man can really marry her, but this may not be what Mei Yanfang is happy to see, but she does not let the powerful aura of Su Mei be enough to make a group of male admirers prohibitive, and once the love scene is blocked, life leaves Mei Yanfang with only that side of the stage, so we see a Mei Yanfang who is strong everywhere more and more "obstinately" on another stage.
Suffering from cancer and dying on the brink of death, Mei Yanfang still worked hard, and at the end of her life, she tragically draped a white wedding dress that she had never had the opportunity to wear in real life, and closed the curtain on the stage of the Red Pavilion in Hong Kong, and fixed a stubborn, lonely back forever in front of the eyes of those who liked her, "looking at the sea, full of weariness, no tears and no words; looking at the sky, only feeling emotional chaos." My heart was like a small wooden boat again, nowhere to be seen, but still moving forward. ”
Whether it is a red face and a short life, or a jealous talent, but the haggard Mui Yanfang bid farewell to her beloved stage forever, at the same time, Maggie Cheung, who has also achieved fame, is from Hong Kong to Paris, and then from Paris to Beijing, talking about love, dancing, taking the subway, visiting the vegetable market, enjoying the beauty of the sudden turn, and then, living elsewhere, leaving a leisurely and dashing back for those who are nostalgic for her, its excitement is comparable to another midnight movie.
Although Maggie Cheung's emotional world will also have a fate, ups and downs, points and combinations, and her marriage will also fail, this does not prevent Maggie Cheung from quickly plunging into the next sister-brother love, continuing to wander between love and life, enjoying herself, harvesting the beauty of calmly letting go and turning away, or regaining the ideals of her youth that are full of warm memories, such as painting, design, and music.
As a star, Maggie Cheung undoubtedly lost to Mui Yanfang, whether it is Mei Yanfang's unparalleled aura, maverick temperament, or her gorgeous and changeable style, Maggie Cheung is undoubtedly slightly inferior, but as an authentic woman, Maggie Cheung has completely won over Mui Yanfang, and now, Maggie Cheung does not have to learn from the beauty of Late Lin Qingxia resolutely married into the high wall of the magnate, nor does she have to be like Xu Niang's half-old Guan Zhilin always between the voices of the rich and the businessman, and Maggie Cheung can be a bird to rely on people. Lingering in one casual love after another, or doing charity in a glamorous and beautiful way, reliving the old dreams of my youth, or discovering another world outside of the movie, "I like to travel, there are many countries I haven't been to now; I still want to learn to paint, although I know that painting is difficult." 」 Usually, when I have time, I like to go to the exhibition, and I am particularly interested in pondering the eyes of the characters in the paintings and the author's state of mind at that time. ”
In fact, Maggie Cheung, who has gradually faded out of the film world, has gained another more real and sensible dashing and wonderful outside the big screen within a few feet, such as Maggie Cheung's spontaneous, mixed-and-match dressing style that fans and media are talking about, her aesthetic taste and taste of the increasingly sophisticated environment, which makes her a style of Fashion Icon, and her praiseworthy "slow life" in and out of the subway, kitchen, and vegetable markets. It's another, more striking label she has after she's off the screen.
In fact, not only are they artists, those strong women in the workplace and the mall, but also the same, know how to stop at the right time, take a break, and then look at the scenery along the way, so that life is calm and calm, and this is undoubtedly a kind of cultivation of wisdom, even the eight-sided exquisite Wang Xifeng may not be able to penetrate, just as Qin Keqing's words at the time of his death are long, "You are a hero in the fat powder team, even those men with crowns can't pass you, how can you not even know two sayings?" It is often said that 'when the moon is full, it loses, and when the water is full, it overflows', and the Tao is 'if you ascend high, you will fall heavily'. ”
(Written in 2010)