We [Detail Attack] is a very small number, and I also love to write small actors. Today we want to talk about a big person, but the times have changed, and today she has become a "small person" that few people know.
In the past two days, the news of the "death of Shaw actress Jing Li" has spread from Weibo to the media, which has become a code word among old fans of Hong Kong movies.
Once a generation of actresses who were "high and high" of Shaw's, the undisputed "one sister", and now she has become an obscure "little person", what makes people sigh is that the entertainment industry is brilliant and silent, all of which are transformed in a moment.
Originally from Jinan, Shandong Province, Jing Li grew up in Taiwan with her parents before moving to Hong Kong in high school. Jing Li's father, Jing Miao, is a well-known film figure, and since the 1950s, he has been the most popular golden supporting role in the film. In 1963, Jing Miao joined "Shaw", the family also moved to Kowloon, Hong Kong, Jing Li was subsequently admitted to the Department of Social Education of Zhuhai University in Hong Kong, and in 1966, she was suspended from school because she signed a basic actor contract with "Shaw".
Although in her father's eyes, Jing Li is "still a little bit" and "not necessarily" and other evaluations, the final "special" especially shows the pride in the heart of this strict father, beautiful and dazzling, fresh and vulgar, Chuchu pitiful, gentle and resentful, these descriptions are not as good as the word "special" in his father's mouth.
In 2004, Jing Li was invited to write a preface in the "Shaw Light and Shadow Series" "Hundred Beauty and Thousand Jiao", she recalled the first scene thirty-seven years ago, the past is like yesterday, in order to live up to the appreciation of the great director Tao Qin, when she was twenty years old, she carefully observed the form of pregnant women walking on the street, read the script, read the original work, and did not slacken off.
(1967 Tao Qin director "Boat" played by Xiang Yi)
This is Jing Li's first film, in 1966, Tao Qin's "Boat", based on Qiong Yao's novel, she recalled: sitting with a big belly, sitting in a small café built in Shaw's studio, He Lili called Jing Li, which was my first shot in "Boat" and an important shot that dominated my acting.
(Movie "Boat" Jing Li and He Lili)
In fact, long before the movie "Boat", Jing Li's name had been published in the newspaper, and it had nothing to do with the movie, it was a list of qualified beauties who had passed the examination of the fourth Miss China in 1964 (Note: Taiwan). The release of "Boat" was very agreed by the audience and film critics, and Jing Li embarked on the road to stardom.
In the following two years, Jing Li also starred in "Excalibur Earthquake", "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", "Han Yancui" and other films, but they were all supporting roles, in 1968, or Tao Qin director selected Jing Li, let her provoke Da Liang to star in the new work "Cloud Mud", in the film she played a young girl with schizophrenia, saw her daughter's smooth journey, the father was very proud, because from signing a contract with "Shao", to now rong as the protagonist, did not rely on the help of a little father
(1967 "Excalibur Earthquake" as the lady of the Five Poisons Sect Baicao Mountain Villa)
(1967 "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness" as Ding Jia Ya Mane - Jinhua)
(1968 "Cold Smoke Cui" as little sister - Zhang Lingyun)
Director Tao Qin also commented on Jing Li: Don't think that Jing Li can only play some women who are poor and weak, in fact, she can play a soft and strong, strong and brave woman, and her future play path is very broad.
(1968 "Cloud Mud" as Xiong Susu)
"YunNi" fully shows Jing Li's acting talent, not only the directors of "Shaw" appreciate her very much, but also won the special award of "Most Promising Actress" of the Golden Horse Awards that year, in addition, the father Jing Miao also played the role of the father of "SuSu" (the name of the role in the film) in the film, and the extension of the father-daughter relationship from outside the play to the film is also rare.
(From the left in "Cloud Mud", Jing Li, Lin Jing, and Jing Miao)
At the end of the 1960s, more directors saw Jing Li's talent, and successively cooperated with Xu Zenghong, Zhang Che, Chu Yuan and other big directors to play a variety of roles, including agile, heroic and righteous heroines, lonely singers, and so on, even the father praised: "It is not that I praise my daughter, her "Unsung Hero" is lively and lively. ”
(Played by Hong Yinfeng in 1971 zhang che's "Unsung Hero", with David Jiang and Dillon)
(In 1972, Zhang Che and Bao Xueli directed "Ma Yongzhen" as a singer-selling girl - Jin Lingzi)
(Played a spy in "Ding Yishan" in 1973 - Wang Ling)
In the mid-1970s, martial arts action movies were popular, and the fights and killings on the screen made the actress play very little, but Jing Li could perform almost poetic beauty in "Meteor Butterfly Sword", her role was not necessarily heavy, but it always made people inseparable from the gaze, just like the obsession of the male protagonists in the play to fight for her.
(In 1973, Chu Yuan directed "Seventy-Two Tenants" as the adopted daughter of the chartered mother-in-law - Ah Xiang)
(Played in 1976 by Chu Yuan's director "Meteor Butterfly Sword" - Chu Die, He Zonghua)
Jing Li recalled zhang che and Chu Yuan, two directors, very appropriately described: "Director Zhang Che's work is like a splashed ink painting, adding a few strokes on the splashed ink can write affection and strong meaning", "The work of director Chu Yuan is not poetry, not neat, it is a word, beautiful and dashing." ”
(In 1972, Zhang Che played the social flower in "Qiu Lianhuan" - Xu Fang)
(In 1973, Zhang Che played Huang Zhong's wife in "Thorn Horse")
(Played by Lin Xian'er in 1973 in Chu Yuan's "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword")
In the early 1980s, the big screen "gambling" word was the word, Jing Li turned into a "female old thousand", the same outstanding performance, "The Gambling King Fighting Thousand Kings", "The Gambling King Thousand Kings Heroes", etc., in 1983, there was no renewal after the appointment with "Shaw", "Shaolin and Wudang" was her last film in "Shaw".
(In 1981, Cheng Gang directed "Gambling King Fighting Thousand Kings" as female Thousand Kings)
(1983 Chu Yuan director "The Great Hero Shen Shengyi" played - Bai Bing)
Maybe it is for the sake of family and marriage, Jing Li chose to say goodbye to the film industry, but still divorced her husband surnamed Xie a few years later, Jing Li has a very personality, but also a bit of an artist's temper, I do my own thing, high and high, do not care, do not care what others say about her, anyway, her own life in the past, even if it is such a person.
(Reference for this article: "Love Old Movie")