Someone once asked Maggie Cheung, which of so many works are you most satisfied with? Maggie Cheung replied, "It should be Ruan Lingyu."
With this film, Maggie Cheung won the Taiwan Golden Horse Award for Film Queen, Berlin Film Festival, and Cannes Film Festival. To date, she is the only actress who is internationally acclaimed and has won performance awards at three major European film festivals at the same time. However, during the filming of this work, a letter pushed her to the cusp of the storm, making her almost collapsed.
On September 20, 1964, Maggie Cheung was born, and she moved to the United Kingdom as a child, because of the different skin tones and looks of her classmates, she was reticent from an early age, just an ordinary little girl. Until she returned to Hong Kong to visit her relatives when she was 17 years old, she was excavated by star scouts and opened the road of advertising modeling. Maggie Cheung loves living in Hong Kong and decides to pursue an acting career.
In 1983, she took a shortcut to the road to acting, participated in the "Miss Hong Kong" beauty pageant, and with her outstanding appearance and temperament, she successfully won the runner-up and signed a contract with Hong Kong Wireless.
Although she wears the title of Miss Hong Kong and has participated in many wireless film and television works, Maggie Cheung's performance has always been based on the elf and eccentric little girl as the main screen image, which is a complete vase role in the eyes of the audience, until she filmed "Ruan Lingyu" directed by Guan Jingpeng on the street.
When she received an invitation from director Guan Jinpeng, she casually said that Ruan Lingyu's name also has a "jade" word, maybe this is also fate, and Ruan Lingyu is also from a vase to a big star, that is not very similar to me. Unexpectedly, fate overlapped the figures of these two women.
On the set of Ruan Lingyu's shooting, Maggie Cheung worked hard to devote herself to the role every day, but for Maggie Cheung, it was still very difficult to perform the style of the Chinese silent film era and to figure out Ruan Lingyu's psychology, so she was very sad every day. Until one day, she saw the news in an entertainment magazine, and in an instant she broke down and cried.
It turned out that Maggie Cheung was breaking up with her American boyfriend Hank, who had been in love for several years, but Hank did not agree, and he carefully planned a farce, he sold the love letters and even intimate photos written by Maggie Cheung to her during the love period to a Hong Kong magazine reporter, under the exaggerated rendering of gossip magazines, Maggie Cheung became the talk of people after dinner, and some people began to accuse her of typos in her letters, too low culture, not as good as junior high school students.
Under the fermentation of such public opinion, Maggie Cheung was forced into the vortex of "fearsome words", but unexpectedly intertwined with the situation of Ruan Lingyu in another time and space. Ruan Lingyu died in the era of Chinese silent films, under the "fear of people's words". Also under the magnesium lamp suffered a heavy blow, forced to smile, also under the pressure of public opinion, overwhelmed. In the darkness, it made Maggie Cheung have a deeper understanding of Ruan Lingyu in another time and space.
In the film, Maggie Cheung left us with a lot of classic shots, in the pointing of the crowd, the angry look between her hurried glances and her cold temperament contrasted sharply, lying on the hospital bed with tears in her tears shouting "I want to live" despair.
This is the story of Ruan Lingyu, but also the story of Maggie Cheung.
With this film, Maggie Cheung shined and won the Hong Kong Film Awards, Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, and berlin film festival. Since then, she has been playing a big role, familiar with the role, and successively starred in the "New Dragon Gate Inn" and "Green Snake" directed by Xu Ke.
In the New Dragon Gate Inn, Maggie Cheung plays the innkeeper lady who is spicy and rolls up her sleeves to sell human meat buns.
In the Green Snake, Maggie Cheung plays the charming and feminine alternative XiaoQing. A classic line in the film is still being played. "You say that there are sentient beings in the human world, but what is love? Ridiculous, even none of you know it. ”
In Sweet Honey, she plays the little character female Li Qiao. In the film, Li Qiao sits on the back seat of Li Jun's bicycle and sings "sweet honey" has also become the most touching bridge in the film.
In the fancy years, she played Su Lizhen, who wore various types of cheongsam and played a woman's grievances gracefully.
Although Maggie Cheung reached the peak of her career, her emotional life was not smooth, and several failed loves made her extremely sad, and slowly she faded out of the entertainment circle and disappeared from people's vision.
Maggie Cheung, a woman with a delicate temperament, cold and noble, exudes unique charm, more than thirty years of shadow experience is like breaking a cocoon into a butterfly, from a vase to an international superstar, reborn again and again, honing out her own charm, showing a thousand kinds of fanghua on the screen, thousands of styles.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong was known as the Hollywood of the East, and in the next period we will continue to take stock of the female stars in our memories.