At the age of three, she begged on the streets of Wan Chai; at the age of eight, she worked as a black worker in a textile factory; at the age of fourteen, she worked as a dancer in a nightclub; at the age of seventeen, she received her first play; and at the age of twenty-two, she became an Academy Award-winning film queen.
Later, she was not willing to be trapped in "beating women" forever, inferiority, resentment, depression, and at the age of forty-four, she almost said goodbye to this world. Life gave her torment and pain, and she was born again from a desperate situation.
She used five years to stand on the stage of the Golden Horse Awards again, becoming the only "four golden queens". Life of ups and downs, what kind of opportunities make Hui Yinghong turn against the wind?
Born, a bad hand
When is your earliest memory? Three years old? Four years old? Hui Yinghong said, "My earliest memory comes from being more than two years old. ”
At that time, the wooden house where the family lived was made of wooden planks that my parents had picked up. The hut was on the hill, and in order to keep out the beasts, Dad had made a ring of barbed wire around the perimeter of the house.
Hui Yinghong's earliest impression of this world was to watch her brother and sister crying through the barbed wire, and was "picked up" by several strangers. When she grew up, she learned that her family was so poor that she couldn't afford to raise so many children, and she had to "give" to the local drama class. Therefore, she was obviously the fifth oldest, but later became the "big sister" of this family.
After the age of three, in order to survive, she began to go to Wan Chai to beg for food. A little older, start selling gum to American sailors.
As a child, she learned to look at her face and eat. Because, if you accidentally meet a person who is not easy-going, it is likely that you will be kicked.
As a child, Hui Yinghong seemed to have exhausted all her strength just by being alive. However, Heaven also gave her a little warmth, which made her work so hard in the future, remembering someone, she could also grit her teeth and persevere.
At that time, when selling chewing gum, she became acquainted with an American water army, and when she was not busy, the soldiers and Hui Yinghong often got together and talked about the world, at that time, she did not know what love was?
Until one day, the soldier told her, "I will go to Vietnam to fight in the war, and I don't know when I will be back." ”
Suddenly, the two fell silent, and the soldier asked softly, "I love you, what do you say with Chinese?" Hui Yinghong carefully spat out the three words "I love you", and for countless days and nights after that, she fantasized that one day he would come back and marry her.
But until she was sixty years old, she did not receive the slightest message from this soldier. Later, recalling the man, she choked up and said, "Maybe he was already dead on the first day he arrived in Vietnam, or maybe he was still alive." No matter how old he is, to this day, I am willing to marry him. ”
Hui Yinghong's misfortune is innate, but her miserable birth also forced out her stoic character, and it was the character formed at the age of three that became the salvation of her life.
The flip begins, "I want to be a star"
One day, when a typhoon crossed and Hui Yinghong's wooden house was overturned, it seemed that at that moment, she suddenly realized that asking for food in Wan Chai would never change her fate.
So, at the age of fourteen, she became a Dancer dancing Chinese at a Wan Chai nightclub.
Dancing always has a lot of basic skills training, and leg pressing is one of the focuses. The other members of the regiment pressed ninety degrees, and Hui Yinghong asked herself to press one hundred and twenty degrees.
During the performance, she not only has to remember her own position and movements, she also has to remember the positions and movements of everyone. In three years, she went from a small accompaniment dancer to a pillar of a nightclub.
At this time, Hui Yinghong, looking at the small stage at her feet, fell into contemplation, she knew that she did not belong here.
Looking at the poster on the outside wall of the movie theater, her mind suddenly became clear, and she told herself, "My stage is a movie, and I want to be a star!" ”
Fulfilling the dream, the most successful woman in the Hong Kong circle
Under the discovery of the scouts, Hui Yinghong joined Shaw as she wished. Her first work was the 1977 version of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", in which she played the obsessive and tragic Mu Nianci, a role that seemed to become the proverb of her later life - beating women, infatuation, regret.
After stepping into the show business as a beating woman, she did not dare not fight hard, and she was injured in every place on her body. Once, because of shooting a shot that fell from a high place, the ligament was directly broken. Her ankles were immediately swollen like buns, but she didn't dare to tell anyone and forced herself to finish the shoot.
Another time, it was necessary to shoot a shot of Wei Ya jumping down from the sixteenth floor, and the stand-in did not dare to go up, and in desperation, the director found Hui Yinghong, "Or are you on it?" You can do it. Although it was a question, Hui Yinghong knew that if she did not go on this time, she might be like those actors who entered the industry at the same time, and there would be no day to emerge.
Perhaps, fate always favors those who insist, Hui Yinghong won the Hong Kong Academy Award for Best Actress as a beaten woman with her first film "The Elders". At that time, she did not know the weight of this award, but it was a pity that the trophy was not golden and there was no way to exchange money.
Fall to the bottom
Hui Yinghong, who won the award, began to be unbalanced in her heart. For her, her film remuneration is all in exchange for her life, but the actresses who paint delicate makeup are paid five times higher than her. Why?
Perhaps for the sake of gambling, she went to France at her own expense to shoot a set of sexy photos despite the opposition of the agency, and she wanted to prove that she was also beautiful and gentle, but the consequences of this directly led to her breaking up with her boyfriend at the time.
And her acting path has also begun a cliff-like slippery slope. The word "beating women" gave her status and reputation at that time, and also became the biggest obstacle for her to turn around later. Hui Yinghong is not willing, she has an image, has acting skills, why can only desperately?
I don't know whether it was a bad situation at that time, or a pathology caused by illness, but in the next four years, Hui Yinghong suffered from depression, once committed suicide, but fortunately was rescued.
On the day she was rescued, she slowly raised her eyes, and the first thing she saw was her mother, who was crying and swollen.
At this point, she understood that death would never solve the problem. Since she had fallen to the bottom, every step after that was uphill, and she had to come out on her own.
Headwinds flip
Forty-four Hui Yinghong returned to TVB, at that time she could not move, but also in order to change the drama road, she had to start from the 8-line artist.
At that time, even the makeup artist who made her hair looked down on her, and whenever she asked, she would be choked, "Who do you think you are?" ”
Hearing this, Hui Yinghong burst into tears, but she never accepted defeat, and for six years after that, she has been "running dragon sets" on TVB and has become a "golden green leaf". But she's far from stopping there.
With her own efforts, she participated in "Heart Demon" and the subsequent "Blood Guanyin", which were also these two films, which brought Hui Yinghong back to the top and became the unique "Four Golden Film Queens" in the entire Chinese-speaking region.
Once, in an interview with the domestic media, Hui Yinghong stood on the streets of Shanghai with the host.
On the wall of the building on the bank of the Huangpu River, hanging the poster she had just finished shooting, looking at herself in the poster, the corner of Huiying's red mouth rose slightly, she said, "I am really proud of myself."
Now she has no love, although she has some regrets, but she is very happy, she enjoys the feeling of being needed by others now. She said, "If the last 3 seconds before the end of life, I will really review life, I will not regret it, because everything I have experienced, I have tried my best to do well." ”
epilogue
The wrinkles on Huiying's red face tell the story of the vicissitudes she has experienced. But the years could not affect her beauty, she was the little woman who would wash her hands and make soup for her friends, she always carried a sewing kit, she loved to do everything related to beauty.
Maybe she had regrets emotionally, or maybe she was really waiting for the soldier who said "I love you" to him, but never returned. However, her life is still wonderful, in her words, "I am grateful to myself, grateful for every moment I want to give up, and pay a little more perseverance." ”