When it comes to Ma Xiaoqing and Jia Hongsheng, today's mainstream audience probably does not know who they are.
After all, Jia Hongsheng had jumped from his own window 10 years ago and chose to bid farewell to the world in this decisive way.
And Ma Xiaoqing has long faded out of the film and television circle, and more than half a hundred years old are invisible to everyone.
But in the 1980s and 1990s, they were the best of the young actors, a generation of film elites.
The two intersected in 1990 in a domestic film "Beijing, You Are Early" directed by Zhang Nunxin, a talented female director who died of cancer at the age of 55.
In the film, the two play a couple who experience separation and finally achieve positive results.
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"Beijing, You Are Early" tells the story between a driver and two conductors on the Beijing No. 99 bus, showing the inner wandering and fate faced by a generation of young people during social change, with a Douban score of 8.1 points.
The film reflects the atmosphere of the times with the fate of small people, the theme is profound and thought-provoking, the tone is fresh and deep, and after its release, it won the Top Ten Chinese Film Award of the Year at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the 1989-1990 Excellent Film Award of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television.
The film starred Ma Xiaoqing, Wang Quanan and Jia Hongsheng, three newcomers who had just debuted.
Yes, the one in the middle is Wang Quan'an, who later directed the movie "White Deer Plain" and did not let zhang Yuqi, a special object in the world, who could not let him close his heart.
However, in the film, he is still a thin and inconspicuous young man.
Wang Quan'an (right)
Gossip goes back to business. In the film, Wang Quan'an plays the bus driver "Master Zou" who has a secret affection for Ai Hong, played by Ma Xiaoqing, and Ai Hong does not look at him, but falls in love with Chen Mingke, a rock youth played by Jia Hongsheng who fights for her righteousness.
Ma Xiaoqing was round and jade at that time, and Jia Hongsheng was tall, thin and handsome, and the two had a good sense of CP.
Because she is a rock youth, Ai Hong is also "literary" under the influence of Chen Mingke, and the two hum a few words of Cui Jian's "False Monk" from time to time.
In the Chinese music scene at that time, Cui Jian and his songs were almost unified, and they were the favorite of the vast number of literary and artistic youth.
Jia Hongsheng and Ma Xiaoqing, who were members of the youth at that time, believed that they would not be unfamiliar with this song, but they did not expect that this classic song of Cui Jian, which was hummed by them from time to time in the film, some of the lyrics strangely foreshadowed their future fate.
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Jia Hongsheng was born in Siping, Jilin in 1967 and was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama in 1985. Big stars Gong Li and Shi Ke are his classmates, and later developed a romantic relationship with Wu Yujuan, one of the "Five Golden Flowers" of the Chinese opera, and Wu Yujuan has a deep affection for him.
Jia Hongsheng has outstanding talent and good star luck, and is the first to debut at the 85th level of Chinese drama. In 1990, after filming Li Shaohong's debut film "Silver Snake Murder" and Zhang Nunxin's "Beijing, You Early", he quickly became the most high-profile and most idol young actor of that era, roughly equivalent to li xian now.
Subsequently, he successively starred in a number of high-quality literary and art films such as "Weekend Lover", "Extreme Cold", "Suzhou Creek" and so on.
Jia Hongsheng is tall and handsome, and has his own handsome literary and artistic style and cold idol aura, not only Wu Yujuan, Zhou Xun has also been emotionally addicted to him.
His future is limitless if he wants to.
But at the rehearsal site of Zhang Yang's drama "The Kiss of the Spider Woman", he came into contact with something that should not be touched, the hallucinogenic substance that can make people lose their thinking and even sell their souls.
Hell has since fallen, struggling between madness and death.
He had longed for redemption and tried to save himself, and in 2000 he collaborated with Zhang Yang on a film based on his own real experience, "Yesterday".
But "yesterday" was always the shadow that could not be shaken off, and at about 6 p.m. on July 5, 2010, Jia Hongsheng jumped down from his home on the 14th floor of an yuan beili community in Beijing's Chaoyang District, wearing a bathrobe.
I inadvertently discovered that the trajectory of his life had some strange correspondence with the lyrics of "The False Monk.".
I'm going to go from south to north, and I'm going from white to black
I want people to see me, but not know who I am
Jia Hongsheng did go from south to north, from sunny white to bottomless black. He did let people see him, but no one knew who he really was, what kind of unknown inner world he had, and how he had been in pain, despair, and struggle to save himself.
He is an insoluble mystery to everyone, including his biological parents.
I want all of this, but don't hate and regret it
If you want to fall in love with me, don't be afraid to regret it, one day I will go far away and fly high
I don't want to stay in one place and I don't want anyone to follow
In essence, Jia Hongsheng is a person immersed in the spiritual world of art and self, he is eager to explore everything and get everything, so he runs fearlessly, even if he loses his way, until he falls into the abyss, not hating or regretting all his choices.
It does take courage to fall in love with such a person, because you can never see through and eventually can't get him.
He didn't want to stay in one place or have anyone to follow.
So he finally "flew away" and went where he wanted to go.
After Jia Hongsheng's death, his family commissioned his former work unit, the National Theatre of China, to issue a statement: "A realm that Jia Hongsheng pursues may be that none of us can give him." He went looking for it, let's quietly help him go well..."
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Ma Xiaoqing was born in 1968 in Shanghai to an intellectual family, and at the age of 11, he was favored by director Xie Jin to star in Xiangzhu, a small nurseryman in "Ah, Cradle", and starred in seven consecutive films, becoming one of the most high-profile child stars of that era.
At that time, Ma Xiaoqing was still very thin, the little girl's performance was full of spirit, and the shot of slowly falling down after being shot was unforgettable.
In 1986, she was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy despite her family's objections.
However, in the third year, she made another shocking decision - to withdraw from school.
There are two reasons why Ma Xiaoqing made the decision to withdraw from school: one is that director Mi Jiashan of E Film Studio asked her to star in the movie "Stubborn Lord", but the school did not let go; second, she was admitted to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Art in the United States, where the other party provided a scholarship of 9200 US dollars a year, but the school did not agree to study abroad for students.
In fact, the real deep reason is that Ma Xiaoqing, who has a well-behaved face, is willful and rebellious, originally she did not agree with the teaching method of the school at that time, felt stereotypical routine, encountered the obstruction of the school and simply dropped out of school, and created the Beijing showbiz circle alone.
She is still talented, participating in "The Obstinate Lord" and was the only nomination for best supporting actress at the 1989 Golden Rooster Awards.
In 1997, she won the 17th Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress with her outstanding performance in the movie "I Also Have a Father", becoming the most popular female star at that time.
The role of "Ning Ning" in "Beijingers in New York" is also fresh and flexible, which is impressive.
But her emotional path was not smooth. In the years when she first came to Beijing to struggle, she and Lu Xue, the director of the Beijing circle, had a long relationship and lived together for a long time, but there was no chance to hold hands, and finally ended up breaking up.
In 2014, Lu Xuechang died of illness at the age of 49. It is said that when he was seriously ill, Ma Xiaoqing was always by his side to take care of him.
After 2000, Ma Xiaoqing gradually faded out of the film and television circle and left Beijing to return to her hometown of Shanghai. In 2002, Ma Xiaoqing wrote and directed the film "Flower Shop", but it was not made in the end; in 2006, he directed his film debut "Girl", but there was no response.
Her golden age is long over. For many years, it has been a single shadow.
In recent years, Ma Xiaoqing has "made a comeback" on social networks, not only gaunt and thin and the previous image of the two people, but also with the picture Qingqi painting style has changed dramatically.
Seeing that this female star she once liked became so strange, I couldn't help but think of the "False Monk" she sang.
I just want to see you look beautiful, but I don't want to know that you're suffering
I want to get the waters of heaven, but not your tears
These two lyrics invisibly seem to correspond to Ma Xiaoqing's real life.
When she was young, Ma Xiaoqing was beautiful enough and lucky enough, but what kind of road she has walked over the years and what vicissitudes she has experienced, I believe no one knows, and no one can understand. But what is certain is that under the appearance of the once glorious, she is also suffering, suffering from the same sins that we are born to suffer as human beings.
Maybe the wound was deeper, the pain was stronger.
In the middle of the night when no one was there, there were tears that no one could see...
I am hateful, welcome to pay attention