She said: "I know I'm not pretty, because no one has ever praised me since I was a child, especially my mother was afraid that I was sad and didn't take pictures of me when I was a child, afraid that I would be sad when I grew up." ”
Born on July 3, 1968, Wu Qianlian is not a beautiful embryo in the eyes of the "snow bright" masses, and even she herself often laughs at herself for being "not beautiful enough", and if she debuts today, I am afraid that even the 108-line actress is not enough. But instead of opening the corners of her eyes, cushioning the bridge of her nose, enlarging her breasts and buttocks, she maintained a simple, natural, and kind look, just like the little sister of the neighbor's family when she was a child.
Du Sir, who had a unique vision, fell in love with Wu Qianlian's "differentness" at a glance, so this little-known Taiwanese girl actually partnered with Liu Tianwang, who was popular at the time, and starred in the gangster romance film "Heavenly Love" (1990), produced by Du Sir and directed by Chen Musheng, and became a hit and took root in the Hong Kong film industry. To this day, I still can't forget the tearful running picture of Wu Qianlian dragging a white wedding dress barefoot on the highway (it is really running wild with tears), and the touch of "Heavenly Love" to my "pure love boy heart" definitely belongs to the unforgettable level!
"Hua Di and JOJO" is one of the most successful screen couples in the history of Hong Kong cinema, because the CP setting is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and since then, Andy Lau and Wu Qianlian have collaborated on "Supreme II" (1991), "The Great Adventurer" (1995), "Jianghu" (2004) and many other films. In 1996, Du Sir personally directed the "Heavenly Love flame lady" was released, although it was a completely independent new story, but Wu Qianlian once again made me cry, from not afraid of people to drive the ox cart tow the plane, to the lonely to clean up the airport runway, the country girl Xiaohe's loyalty to feelings was vividly interpreted by Wu Qianlian.
Wu Qianlian was frank and frank, and even Liu Tianwang, who was famous for his good popularity, admitted that his cooperation with her was very comfortable. The personality is so, so is the role, so a detailed count of Wu Qianlian's screen image, dare to love and dare to hate female characters abound, the most heartbreaking of which is probably Du Yunyan in 1995's "Midnight Song".
Du Yunyan not only lost Song Danping, but was also forced to marry the bully scumbag. Abandoned, ridiculed, humiliated, and foolishly waiting to be reunited with her sweetheart. Ten years later, when Song Danping, who was completely unrecognizable and indistinguishable, finally appeared in front of Du Yunyan, she did not panic or grieve, and still caressed the other party's face as she did ten years ago, telling infinite love. It turns out that love is extreme, and there is really no world in the eyes, only each other.
▲ Song Danping and Du Yunyan in "Midnight Song".
Wu Qianlian is still very frugal, which became the secret weapon of her true appearance in 1995's "Dumb Guy Bai Shou". You can't guess how much I liked the show — there was a time when there was no internet or no TV, and I used this movie almost every day as a pastime (not without other options), and I've seen it dozens of times. Ice cream stalks, catwalk shows, stinky tofu about, such as a number of family treasures have not!
This play is funny but not vulgar, romantic but not pretentious, the true and false life choices that revolve around the heroine, the fine and silly philosophy of life around the male protagonist, the cycle of fate around the cause and effect of the villain, and when you think about it, it is not simple at all.
▲ Adi and Afu in "Dumb Guy Bai Shou".
The Hong Kong film industry is the most commercial in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, if you want to gain a foothold in the Hong Kong film industry, it is the most basic requirement not to be stereotyped, to put it bluntly, you can perform both sad and happy dramas, in order to eat both men and women. Wu Qianlian from Taiwan has not shown obvious "dissatisfaction with the water and soil" in this regard, she can not only play treasures in commercial comedies such as "97 Happy Events" and "Nine Stars annunciation", but also control the adaptation of famous works such as "Half Life".
"Half Life" has many characters, the age span is also very large, the difficulty of adaptation can be imagined, Xu Anhua's version is not good enough to see the opinion, but one thing must be admitted, the two heroines in the film - the Gu family sisters - are quite well chosen. Gu Manzhen's stubbornness and independence, Gu Manlu's helplessness and dust, under the interpretation of Wu Qianlian and Mei Yanfang, all awakened from Zhang Ailing's writings. Such a connotative and tacit performance card division, I am afraid that I will never find it again.
▲ Gu Manlu and Gu Manzhen in "Half Life".
Wu Qianlian's higher-scoring literary masterpiece is "Eating Men and Women" by Ang Lee in 1994. This movie has a lot of content, and it is inconvenient to unfold them here, but I really did not expect that the topic that everyone talked about most was "Ruya Li An was driven crazy by Wu Qianlian".
In fact, the scene that made Ang Lee angry, about NG 6 times, is not so amazing, the most critical problem is that the props of the whole scene (full of meals on the table) are very troublesome, time-consuming and laborious. In "Ten Years of a Movie Dream", Ang Lee said it very clearly - "When shooting the last line, Wu Qianlian was more nervous and more screws" - that is, it is not that Wu Qianlian does not care, but her tension is excessive. Many things are always like this, the more you care, the more nervous, the more inevitable it is to make mistakes.
▲ Zhu Jiaqian, the able and independent second daughter in "Diet Men and Women".
In addition to commercial films and literary films, the free conversion between good people and bad people is also difficult for Wu Qianlian. Du Sir has produced many dark monster films at the beginning of the founding of Galaxy Image, if the female killer played by Wu Qianlian in "32 Degrees Celsius" (1996) is still quite sentient, then the female murderer in "Horror Chicken" in 1997 is a completely antisocial personality. "Horror Chicken" is not only violent and cold-blooded, but also extremely perverted and murderous, dare to take this kind of drama, and can play it well, 20 years later, there may not be several actresses to do it.
▲ The female murderer in "Horror Chicken".
Wu Qianlian's personal life is very low-key, even so, searching for related news is still inevitable to find some "sensationalism" or even "sensationalism", such as what is "the ugliest little dragon girl", "ten years of domestic violence", "the four kings have loved her", "Andy Lau's marriage proposal was rejected", "the goddess tragically changed into a big mother" and so on.
Wu Qianlian's version of the little dragon girl in black is indeed very subversive, but if you seriously read the novel of "Divine Eagle Hero", you will find how close its "indifferent to impersonal" character interpretation is to the original; whether Wu Qianlian and Yu Zonghua broke up because "the man has a tendency to domestic violence", I don't know, I only know that Wu has never smeared his predecessor in public; "The four kings have loved her" refers to only on-screen cooperation; "Andy Lau's marriage proposal was rejected" is just an impromptu performance at the concert; as for "The Goddess Tragically Changed Mother", There is no other meaning than to prove that we are deeply ingrained in discrimination in terms of gender, age, and appearance.
▲ In 1994, Wu Qianlian cooperated with Fa Ge in the "Citi Shaolin" stills.
The Chinese film and television circle has always favored sons over women, with relatively few outstanding female themes and female roles, and the mandatory actor regulations in the co-production policy have further encroached on the living space of Hong Kong and Taiwan actresses. So active or passive, in short, Wu Qianlian gradually faded out of people's sight. All I know is that she fell in love with backpacking, participated in the filming of environmental documentaries, and when the news came, she was already a mother, living a peaceful life with her husband outside the circle. Pity? One thing, of course. It's just that unfortunately, we, the audience, don't have the opportunity to see a better performance, and Wu Qianlian is always herself.
But I think she is quite beautiful, although single eyelids, small eyes, but small eyes have a spirit, feel charming, although the chest is not large, the hips are not upturned, but exquisite, graceful and colorful.
Wu Qianlian, with her pure appearance and stubborn eyes, she has charmed countless men.
At the age of 22, she was still a second-year student at the National Academy of Arts in Taiwan, because a photo was photographed by Du Qifeng, and she was asked to cooperate with Andy Lau in the movie "Heavenly Love", which became a hit.
"Heavenly Love" tells the love story of a rich and beautiful girl and a gangster, because of its unique style and fresh temperament, sad love and beautiful interludes, touched countless audiences.
Stills from "Heavenly Love"
Wu Qianlian played by the rich girl JOJO, well-behaved and cute, pure and kind, leaving a deep impression on the audience, she wears a wedding dress, barefoot, running desperately on the highway, is an indelible youth image of many people.
Since "Heavenly Love", I fell in love with her, and she has been dating since then, in addition to Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Dawn, Jacky Cheung have all partnered with her to shoot films, the four heavenly kings she has cooperated over and over again.
Stills from "Heavenly Love"
▌ The tear-jerking clip of "Heavenly Love" is offered, BGM is Yuan Fengying's Cantonese version of "Dream Chaser".
Not only that, Wu Qianlian has also cooperated with Zhang Guorong, Liang Jiahui, Ge You and other first-line superstars on "Midnight Song", "God of Gamblers 2", "Endless" and other films, and its popularity can be seen.
Stills from "Midnight Song"
The movies she starred in, Dao Chang's favorite, in addition to "Heavenly Love", there are also "Half Life" with Dawn and "Dumb Guy Baishou" with Liu Qingyun.
I admire the director of "Half Life" Xu Anhua, the casting is so consistent with the original work, Dawn is, Huang Lei is, Ge You is, Wu Qianlian is also, and the people in the crew say that Wu Qianlian is already Gu Manzhen without acting.
Stills from Half-Life
Writer Wang Anyi read "Half Life" and said: "My feeling about Wu is that her appearance is very malleable, her eyebrows are light, and she has very much leeway, very beautiful, very upright. Some actresses' faces are too beautiful and too characteristic, and that's not what I want. ”
"Half Life" is good, but it is too sad, every time I see Man Zhen being raped and cry out with all my strength, I feel sad and sad, and every time I see Shi Jun say to Man Zhen: "I'm not good, I only hope you are good", I can't help but burst into tears.
Fortunately, these pains and sorrows have been diluted in "Dumb Guy Bai Shou", in this funny film that is full of madness and overheating, Wu Qianlian and Liu Qingyun have dedicated their outstanding acting skills, and those classic dialogues in the film should not be forgotten by those who have seen it.
"I'm not a fool, I'm Afu."
"I like silly hats."
"Then I'm a fool, not a foo."
"To laugh is to like."
"I like you, so I smile at you."
Many people don't know that in addition to acting, Wu Qianlian can also sing, and the episode "He is laughing" of "Dumb Guy Baishou" is sung by her.
She has published a total of four solo records, and her first album "The Prodigal Son of the World Is Not Alone" released in 1994 won the Gold Award for the Most Promising Newcomer in the Top Ten Chinese.
Stills from "Dumb Guy Bye Shou"
Such a woman should be loved by many people, right? It is said that when Andy Lau invited Wu Qianlian to be a guest at a concert, he once proposed to her on one knee, and he did not know whether it was a joke or a real thing.
The most well-known is her 12-year love affair with Yu Zonghua, a Taiwanese actor whose name may not be familiar to everyone, but he is an old drama bone who has been practicing for many years.
He is in the movie "Burning Island" starring Jackie Chan and Andy Lau, he is in "Man Forty" starring Jacky Cheung, and he is also in "Color Ring" starring Tang Wei.
Stills from "The Color Ring"
Unfortunately, this relationship ended in a breakup, Yu Zonghua may not forget Wu Qianlian's love, and later when he cooperated with Tang Wei to shoot "Color Ring", he said that Tang Wei was very similar to Wu Qianlian.
After the end of the relationship, Wu Qianlian did not bear the anger and sorrow, and went wandering alone with a backpack, and her footprints traveled through Greece, Hungary and Spain.
In 2007, 39-year-old Wu Qianlian and Pat Drag's boyfriend of 3 years registered to get married in Las Vegas, the husband grew five years old and three thick, but gentle and considerate to her, 2 years later, 41-year-old Wu Qianlian gave birth to a son, a family of three happy life.
This former first-line actress, because of her low-key behavior, has slowly faded out of people's sight, a few years ago, there were reports that she met her family of three on the plane, although she was emaciated, the temperament was still good, but the clothing was simple, and there were many white hairs.
Who hasn't been young? Who doesn't get old? She just left her best years in the 90s, but that era is no longer coming.
Occasionally I think of her, think of jojo she plays, think of Ah Di she plays, and think of Ah Di who said: "Laughing is liking, I like you, so I smile at you." ”
In the past, I have also spoken to the voice of love in my heart in the past
It's like the next world expects to regain everything of the day
In this lifetime, he briefly turned around and walked through the space that had been braked
Just look at it and let the fire of love burn forever
Youth, please come back and stay with me for a while
"Short tenderness, enough; short tenderness, unforgettable", Ah Hua's life is coming to an end, bleeding and JOJO held a wedding in front of the church. Just like the name of the song, even if it is gentle and short, I have never regretted it. (End)