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Author | Luo Facai
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Before walking into the cinema and watching Lou Ye's new film "Lyceum Theatre", I had already preset 1,000 times how beautiful Gong Li could be this time.
At the end of the film, at the end of the curtain, her performance was once again beyond my comprehension, in such a thrilling way.
This time she plays a highly charismatic and ambitious actress, but also a calm spy.
She was fascinated not only by men on the screen, but also by women.
Lou Ye is too good at shooting desire and confused feelings, and the scale is just right, so that it can smoothly walk on the big screen and present it in front of the audience in a relatively complete way.
Face the woman.
Gong Li drank a glass of wine, and gradually approached Huang Xiangli, who was lying on the bed with only black underwear and already confused, coaxing her, murmuring a sound, fingers across her hair, over the collarbone, all the way down...
When she woke up, she was wearing only her nightgown and lazily leaning against the window, and she was a big sister who saw through everything.
Huang Xiangli just wanted to cling to her feet, hold her, and live for her and die for her.
Turn around and face the men.
She is the most attractive actress in Zhao Youting's eyes, relying on the posture of smoking a cigarette by the window of a stage, which makes him short of breath.
In this moment, men become "love brains".
The next second, she whispered in front of Oda's hospital bed against his face.
Obviously, there is no restriction on the lens, and it also makes people blush and beat.
This is 55-year-old Gong Li.
Once again, it proves that the charm of a woman has nothing to do with age, that is, the sexual tension that black and white pixels cannot limit.
Many people say that Zhang Yimou's vision is poisonous, and Gong Li is undoubtedly a discovery he has made in the sea.
Before filming "Red Sorghum", the original work was incomprehensible, why Zhang Yimou chose this girl, he repeatedly said that she was not suitable.
But when the film came out, that pungent and bold energy, that pair of disobedient eyes, finally made Mo Yan say:
"I'm wrong."
Gong Li and Zhang Yimou achieved mutual success and became famous.
In Zhang Yimou's early works, Gong Li played Jiu'er, who was forced by the patriarchy to marry a bad old man, played Ju Dou, who was used as a tool to continue incense, and was bullied and bullied;
Song Lian, who fell into the compound after marrying into the compound, and Qiu Ju, who had no way to appeal...
But these women, faced with such a fate, they can't tell themselves to go against the grain.
In the rise and explosion, a hymn to the power of women was composed.
Her excellence makes Zhang Yimou's works not only complete, but also have a soul, and Zhang Yimou is also deeply in love with him.
Their feelings are a good story and a lifelong sigh.
Did Zhang Yimou ever love Gong Li?
The answer is yes, even more than that.
He can shoot the beauty of Gong Li that no one else can photograph.
For example, in "Alive", her eyes are gentle as water.
In "The Big Red Lantern Hangs High", she wears a cheongsam and leans against the waist of the door.
And in "Memoirs of a Geisha", a tear just hangs on the lower eyelashes, and it wants to fall but there is nothing.
In "Red Sorghum", she completes a rehearsal of her own desire in the field, and on the way back, the wind blows the poles, just like her mood.
Zhang Yimou shapes a beautiful individual for her, and also creates a beautiful atmosphere for her.
"Sister, you boldly go forward, go forward, don't look back."
She walked without hesitation on the road he shaped.
Zhang Yimou is her adolescent education, which includes not only acting, but also feelings.
It is not unusual for her to fall in love with Zhang Yimou, he understands her beauty, and her talent also makes her admire.
She fantasized about marrying Zhang Yimou before the age of 30.
At first, he was not accepted and insisted on being with him, and after 8 years of love, Zhang Yimou was unwilling to marry her.
In love, most women seem to be braver than men, and they will fall in love with people they admire but can't control.
And most men tend to shrink back in the face of women they can't control, shrinking into a safe area that they can control.
It is a pity that even the big directors are not exempt from vulgarity.
Compared with Gong Li, whose eyes were full of enthusiasm and ambition, he flinched and chose an ordinary woman.
In 1996, Gong Li was reluctant to marry Zhang Yimou and married The Singapore tobacco king Huang Hexiang in a huff.
A love affair that eventually came to an abrupt end.
Recall Gong Li's most famous three tears.
First time, 1996. Reunited at the Cannes Film Festival a year after the breakup.
During the interview, the reporter asked whether the two would cooperate, Zhang Yimou was silent, but Gong Li did not hold back tears.
At that time, she had not yet put it down.
Second time, 2006. Eleven years after the breakup, the launch of "The Golden Armor in the City".
Zhang Yimou remembered that 14 years ago, he had made a wish on the Great Wall, and he must let Gong Li play the empress once.
She cried again, love and hate dissolving in her tears.
The third time, in 2014, nineteen years after the breakup, "Homecoming" was launched.
Finally able to reunite calmly, she laughed with tears in her eyes.
It turns out that many things, once owned, are enough.
Gong Li's marriage did not come to an end.
It was just a helpless choice she had made impulsively and thought was opportune.
At 30, she looked around and felt that women should get married.
After getting married, in the face of ordinary and trivial chai rice oil and salt, she realized that what she really wanted was not such a life.
She soon divorced Huang Hexiang, and slowly realized that love seems to be not a metaphor for life, at best it is just a seasoning.
She still has many, many dreams to realize and experience more aspects of life.
Many people are addicted to Gong Li's aura and forget that she is a multi-spelling actress.
When filming "Red Sorghum", she was rooted in Gaomi, and in order to play the role of a woman carrying water, her shoulders were full of blisters.
In the filming of "Memoirs of a Geisha", she threw fans more than 2,000 times a day for five months, and finally she was able to play with three fans at the same time.
In fact, many people envied her for relying on Zhang Yimou's big tree, but completely ignored this flower itself, how competitive it was.
So she later acted in some movies that were not optimistic, and was ridiculed for not being able to walk out of Zhang Yimou.
Some reporters even provoked the topic directly:
"In the movie, Gong Li can never get out of Zhang Yimou, and in the emotion, Zhang Yimou can never get out of Gong Li, what do you think?"
Gong Li calmly put aside the next sentence:
"I don't know, I don't have any ideas, just say it."
At the same time as saying these words, she understood that being herself was much more comfortable than being whose muse.
It turned out that the aura was given by him correctly, but it was lonely and lonely, too.
Since then, Gong Li seems to have suddenly become able to act again.
She ran to Ningbo Beilun to watch the Chinese women's volleyball team training, three games in three days, one down, and frantically took notes on the sidelines.
In "Win the Championship", her Lang Ping made countless viewers exclaim "This is simply Lang Ping".
The appearance is too similar, and even the tone and voice are mistaken for Lang Ping's voice.
Even now, in his 50s, he is more dedicated than too many young people.
In "Lyceum Theatre", a M1911 is held up, and the arm is not moving.
Her beauty finally jumped out of what Zhang Yimou had discovered and began to have her own life.
Gong Li once said something like this in an interview:
"My confidence, my pride, my whole sense of security comes from my work."
She clearly revealed why 99% of contemporary stars can no longer act well.
They seem to only want the job to show their beauty and handsomeness.
They think that the job of an actor is to show beauty, not to interpret drama.
The baggage of traffic that cannot be released, the stiff forehead of excessive medical beauty...
Under the big screen that only respects freshness and strength, this pale young beauty runs counter to "beauty" and goes farther and farther.
In fact, Gong Li has also experienced many different periods.
When I first met Zhang Yimou, the brittle eyes, the young and tight skin, the beautiful figure, with a hint of youthful arrogance.
Later, this flower became more and more brilliant, dedicating itself wholeheartedly, that sense of desperation, for the cause, for the feelings, for life, stepping on the top of the sky, the aura was fully open.
50 years old back, free to wander in black and white paintings, a few eyes in the messy hair, an action, only evocative sexy.
Did she find herself again, did she find herself?
When Zhang Yimou found one "Mou Girl" like Gong Li, many people wanted to ask him:
Missing Gong Li, do you regret it?
And now, she probably doesn't care about that answer at all.
She would even thank him for his kindness in not marrying.
I'd rather think about it – he didn't let her spend her life in chai rice oil and salt, and eventually became the wife of a well-known director, rather than a well-known actress Gong Li.
It turns out that some "misses" can become "fulfillment" through our own efforts.
He gave up and fulfilled her current blue sea and blue sky.
Probably in addition to love and hate lust and unwillingly repeatedly asking the past, what is more meaningful is what kind of self you become.
The 55-year-old Gong Li is so charming simply because she has spent many years understanding:
You don't have to be a flower that patiently supplies nutrients on a tree and cultivates.
The flower will eventually be thankful, herself, and she is a tree.