Bourne Anderson was once hailed as "the world's most beautiful teenager" and captivated and conquered thousands of movie fans.
His flawless face, as if he had been kissed lightly by God, made the world endlessly envious.
But Bourne Anderson's life was famous for beauty, but it was also ruined by beauty.
As expressed in the movie "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily".
It was as if his beauty was an original sin that caused his life to be bumpy and gradually sinking.
He once complained, "I can't wait to go to heaven, I was born with such a face, but I can't ask God why." ”
How did this "world's first beautiful teenager" who amazed the world be "destroyed" step by step?
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In 1955, Bern Anderson was born into an ordinary family in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
Bourne Anderson was born with a unique appearance, but lost a good childhood.
When he was 5 years old, his father abandoned his mother fiercely, and after running away from home, he never heard from him.
So the young Bourne Anderson and his mother depended on each other, and life was difficult.
At the age of 10, his mother suddenly committed suicide again, and Bourne Anderson became a poor orphan.
Desperate and helpless, Bourne Anderson had to live in his stepfather's house.
He recalled: "The first time I entered my stepfather's house, I felt uncomfortable. ”
The stepfather was withdrawn and shy by nature, and basically did not communicate much with Bourne Anderson, nor did he ask about his life.
Lonely and sensitive, Bourne Anderson had to use music to relieve his inner bitterness.
He was particularly fond of guitar and piano and was obsessed with the songs of The Beatles.
So, when I was young, Bourne Anderson's only friend was music.
Bourne Anderson, though he doesn't like to talk, has a stunning look that makes his neighbors love him.
They all thought Bourne Anderson was so handsome that it would be a shame not to shoot.
Later, at the instigation of his neighbors, Bourne Anderson's life was completely transformed.
So he began his first audition and successfully played a motorcycle teenager in "Swedish Love Story".
After successfully starring in the film, Bourne Anderson completely fell in love with filming, and he was more determined to become an actor in the future.
Subsequently, Bourne Anderson auditioned for the film "Soul Break Venice" to win the role of "Tadzio".
At that time, the moment the crew saw Bourne Anderson, they were instantly amazed by his face.
The director thinks that he is the embodiment of "Tadzio", and this role is none other than him.
This year, Bourne Anderson was only 15 years old and had a teenage erection.
With the movie "Soul Break Venice", 15-year-old Bourne Anderson stunned the film world in one fell swoop and was hailed as "the world's first beautiful teenager".
Overnight, Bourne Anderson reached an unattainable peak in life and has since been immortalized in the film as "the world's most beautiful teenager".
But what made him helpless was that "Success is also Xiao He's defeat." ”
Although this movie brought him the highest honor, it also opened the nightmare of his life.
It can be said that the role of "Tadzio" made him and destroyed him at the same time.
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Because of the perfect performance in the movie "Soul Break Venice", it has become a shackle in his life.
People began to use movie characters to misinterpret his real life, labeling him "gay".
Bourne Anderson, who was too handsome to look, began to suffer endlessly, and his life fell into a quagmire.
At that time, many older male fans began to harass him non-stop, making him miserable.
What is even more helpless is that the young and ignorant he was also used by the director, so that he completely fell into the abyss of despair.
"I was just getting famous at the time, and if I went against the director's wishes, I would have been sentenced to death for my career..."
Visconti, the director of Venice, and many members of the crew are gay.
When the film was exhibited in Cannes, the director took the underage Bourne Anderson to a GAY club in order to create momentum for the film.
Bourne Anderson later recalled:
"I didn't get considerate care, the waiters were very upset, they all stared at me as if I were a delicious dish, and I knew that I couldn't resist at that time, and that would ruin the future."
For a time, people's misunderstanding of Bourne Anderson began to deepen, and gossip kept ringing around him.
Slander and jealousy filled Bourne Anderson's life every day, making him unable to bear and resist at a young age.
What happened next was a blow to Bourne Anderson's life.
Director Visconti's lover, Helmut Berg, is unhappy that the role of "Tadzio" has been snatched away by Bourne Anderson, and is even more unaccustomed to the director's intimate care for him.
The jealous Helmut Berger began to slander Bourne Anderson in front of the media.
He spread rumors that Bourne Anderson had died in a car accident, an air crash, drug abuse, a chaotic private life.......
This made Bourne Anderson, who had just become famous, instantly fall into the whirlpool of public opinion, and his image plummeted.
But the house leaked overnight, and in 1976, Bourne Anderson was inexplicably involved in a "murder case".
Since then, Bourne Anderson has changed from a beautiful teenager who is infatuated by thousands of people to a "bad boy" who is disgusting and spurned.
He began to fall from the peak to the bottom, his acting career was hit hard, and his reputation collapsed.
Later, Bourne Anderson, in order to get rid of people's bad impressions of him, began to refuse to make "gay" movies.
But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't reverse the impression he had been overwhelmed.
Because people only want to pay attention to his gorgeous appearance, they will not understand his inner world at all.
The efforts became futile, and the disappointed Bourne Anderson began to choose to escape, and gradually disappeared in the film world.
A pure and beautiful teenager, just destroyed and withered.
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Frustrated in the film world, Bourne Anderson picked up his favorite music again.
He once studied with a piano teacher and tried to apply for a conservatory, but in the end he had no choice but to give up because of filming.
After quitting the film industry, he went to Japan alone to pursue his musical dreams, but also to survive.
During this time, Bourne Anderson has released two EPs with a total of 4 songs, but it has not made much waves.
Because the world still only wants to pay attention to his reverie-filled face, not to his talent.
Later, in order to live, he began to take on photographs and advertisements, and many Japanese manga images at that time were created based on his appearance.
"I was born with a perfect face, I get watched everywhere I go, I don't get attention inside, sometimes I just want to hide, but wherever I am, I'll be recognized."
At the time, Bourne Anderson had only one desperate thought, which was to make himself grow old quickly.
"I'm probably the only one who wants to get older quickly, I started thinking about how old I looked when I was 20, and I even wanted to speed up the process of getting older."
Bourne Anderson, who did not improve his music, also tried to return to show business, but he has long lost his former glory.
In 1983, Bourne Anderson, on the cusp of the storm, suddenly married the poet Suzanne.
The world gradually understood that the previous gossip about Bourne Anderson was nonsense.
After the two married, they had three children, a girl and two boys.
Bourne Anderson gradually regained the happiness of life from the haze of life, and everything went towards the good.
But the good times did not last long, and Bourne Anderson once again suffered a human setback and collapsed.
After 3 years of marriage, the first son died of infancy, which devastated the two.
The death of his eldest son plunged Bourne Anderson into the darkest time of his life, and his career and feelings also fluctuated.
Shortly after the death of his eldest son, Bourne Anderson had a conflict with his wife's feelings and finally regretted his divorce.
Born full of despair, Bourne Anderson began to reject all performances and completely quit show business.
For many years thereafter, he took his two daughters alone, lived a low-key and quiet secret life, and gradually grew old in loneliness.
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In 2004, Bourne Anderson, who had not appeared for many years, gave an exclusive interview.
At this time, he was nearly 50 years old, and after the baptism of years, he had long lost his face and had become vicissitudes.
He lives with his two daughters in an apartment in Stockholm and has a few cats and hamsters.
He sighed and said: "Many people wanted to find me and see the shadow of the beautiful teenager in me, but I became the oldest teenager in the world. ”
A few years ago, Bourne Anderson took another set of photographs.
In the photo, he is full of white hair and emaciated, completely devoid of the spirit of his youth, which makes people sigh.
He once said: "My life reached its peak at the beginning, and then all that awaited me was the continuous decline, which was too lonely."
Over the years, he has never fought against aging, but he has been fighting loneliness, fortunately, everything has returned to calm.
"My career started at a peak and then slid back into the trough at a rapid pace.
It's just that now that I can finally stop relying on my former fame, I feel happier. ”
In his later years, Bourne never gave up on the music he loved in his youth, and now works as a keyboardist in a band.
Speaking of the movie that made him mixed up, he said this:
"If when I was 15, I knew life was going to turn out like this, I think I would refuse."
But life can not be repeated, beauty eventually became a lingering nightmare in his life.