01
At Anita Mui's birthday party, Leslie Cheung sent a video:
"Remember you told me that if I don't marry when I'm forty, will you marry me?"
They are intimate and both regard each other as the most important people.
Leslie Cheung was asked: "Who are the three best friends in this industry?" ”
He blurted out without hesitation.
"Anita Mui!"
Anita Mui said: "In my heart, (Leslie Cheung) is the only good friend in the circle. ”
They were all very popular.
The number of artists they have worked with is innumerable, but they are the only ones in each other.
In Anita Mui's words: "Our relationship is so close that it cannot be expressed in a few words, and he has put a mark on my heart." ”
02
Leslie Cheung is six years older than Anita Mui and debuted earlier.
She saw him on TV and thought he was "so handsome."
Later, I joined the same company, but I just met and nodded at each other.
Anita Mui thought, this person is a little cold.
Until one time, the two went to Kuala Lumpur to sing together.
Leslie Cheung unexpectedly contracted tracheitis. Anita Mui spent several hours practicing the song overnight and took the stage on his behalf.
After this rescue, Leslie Cheung was impressed with this junior sister.
"She didn't really want to do it for me. But she is very righteous and a rare friend. ”
At that time, the two had not yet survived.
When you go abroad to fly economy class, you always hide in the last row, pull your hands up and sleep. One person sleeps on the chair, one person sleeps under the chair, and takes turns to sleep on the voyage of twenty hours.
Staying in a hotel should save the budget, and two people sleep in the same cubicle.
The grievances suffered during the day are told to each other at night, and often chats all night.
Anita Mui later recalled that time: "If we weren't in the same company, I would be lonely. ”
They never compete for the limelight.
Anita Mui in Leslie Cheung's eyes is perfect.
And Anita Mui believes that Leslie Cheung is a genius.
"Leslie Cheung is different, he is a genius, really a genius. He learns things as soon as he touches them. ”
They are the best partners.
I have never rehearsed in advance, but when to move and when to hug, I can often understand each other by one look.
"I always have to say that I do this business, sing stage movies, and have the most tacit understanding with Amei."
The relationship is so good, no wonder the Hong Kong media always put them together.
But love never belongs to them.
Their relationship is more far-reaching than in love.
03
What is a relationship like?
If you insist on saying one, it is more like brother and sister.
They are all people with weak family ties.
Anita Mui lost her father at an early age.
At the age of four, she was thrown on stage by her mother to make money and used her as a cash cow.
I want her to sing until she is old and sing to death.
Anita Mui is lonely, disgusted by guests and family, and can only lick her wounds.
Leslie Cheung too.
He is luckier than Anita Mui and comes from a rich background.
Of the ten children in the family, he was the youngest.
His father had a large number of wives and concubines, and he could not take care of him.
As for the mother, she was anxious all her life and competed for favor for a lifetime, and never set her sights on her son.
Like a transparent man, he went to England to study alone at the age of thirteen.
After the two met, it was like a lonely boat meeting late autumn.
They can read each other's suffering.
It is not easy to feel sorry for each other.
Anita Mui treats Leslie Cheung as a brother. Her family couldn't give her a sense of security, so Leslie Cheung gave it to her.
They went to the United States for concerts.
Once, Anita Mui's room broke into a black man in the middle of the night.
Leslie Cheung arrived at the first time and blocked in front of her.
At night she was afraid of the dark, and he would coax her to sleep.
Later, Anita Mui said: "Only in front of my brother, I can completely be myself." To be a girl, you don't have to pretend to be very tough, because he protects me. ”
She never told her family.
With a boyfriend, only bring it to Leslie Cheung.
Leslie Cheung said yes, she was relieved, said "Ma Ma Di" (not good), and deducted points for that person in her heart.
And Leslie Cheung mentioned Anita Mui, and the word he said the most was "pain".
Like his brother, he cares about all aspects of Anita Mui.
In 1985, he held his first concert and invited Anita Mui as a guest.
The media asked him if he was afraid of Anita Mui stealing the limelight.
What he thought in his heart was that Amei would also come to the concert in the future and let her come to watch.
He and Anita Mui have different personalities.
Anita Mui is outgoing and loves to make friends.
He is at home and doesn't like tossing.
But although he didn't like it, he sent Anita Mui over every time.
"She has a group of friends who are not very suitable for me, I think, you and this group of friends are very happy, you will go, send you to their door."
For a while, Anita Mui fell out of love and was in a bad state.
Li Bihua asked her to shoot "Little Star", which is about a sadomasochistic love affair and the plot is tragic.
After Leslie Cheung found out, he specially asked Li Bihua and said: "Amei herself has a hard life, and she should act out some happy scenes." ”
Later, he pulled her to shoot the joyful sequel to "Golden Branch and Jade Leaf".
They also suffer from gains and losses.
In the early nineties, the two had less contact.
Anita Mui thought that Leslie Cheung had no her in her heart, and she was sad for a while.
After a long time, Leslie Cheung discovered that his sister wanted to coax.
"Anita Mui misunderstood me all day, and I had to explain, but after each explanation, the feelings will be deeper."
She is possessive of Leslie Cheung, and even at the press conference, he and Maggie Cheung and Cecilia Cheung said two more words, and did not pay attention to her in time, she would be unhappy.
But Leslie Cheung didn't mind at all.
"It means she's nervous about me and wants to be with me."
Until Leslie Cheung was seriously ill, what he thought in his heart was Anita Mui.
Zhong Chuhong said, chatting with him, three sentences do not leave Anita Mui.
Worried that she would be cheated at work.
Worried that she will be bullied on the emotional road.
Worry about what her life will be like if she doesn't sing and doesn't perform.
Feelings go both ways.
Leslie Cheung has also said countless times that Anita Mui loves him very much.
In the early years, he had a bad temper, and Anita Mui coaxed him.
Once so sleepy, he lay on her lap and slept for hours. And Anita Mui has been motionless in order to let him sleep peacefully.
Between them, no blood is better than blood.
Not love but more than love.
04
Leslie Cheung's first film with Anita Mui is called "Fate".
The theme song is also called "Fate", which is sung by two people.
Every time they are on the same stage, they will sing this song.
The last time was in Anita Mui's concert in 2002.
She didn't invite any guests, but in the last show, Leslie Cheung suddenly appeared.
Both were seriously ill by then.
Leslie Cheung was depressed and was taking medicine, and Anita Mui took three injections before taking the stage.
But when they saw each other, they were still smiling like summer.
That day, the two sang the song "Fate" again.
It is obviously a bad song, and when it is performed again, it seems to have been injected with new life.
There is no enthusiasm when I was a teenager, and I am a little more indifferent and reluctant. Still with tears in his eyes, he was angry.
After singing, Anita Mui took Leslie Cheung's hand and said, "My brother is my only good friend. ”
Leslie Cheung was afraid that she would offend people, so he helped her find amends, "Amei has many good friends. ”
Anita Mui insisted, "Yes, but we are like a family." ”
This was the last time they sang together.
A year later, Leslie Cheung jumped from a tall building.
When Anita Mui learned about it, she was in pain. Attending the funeral, she struggled to maintain decency.
But when cremated, he still couldn't help but collapse and cry.
Repeatedly shouting: "Why? Why is this so? ”
She has been abandoned too much in her life, her relatives are ruthless to her, and her lovers have left.
It was hard to find his relatives and walk side by side for more than 20 years, but he left.
How could she stand it.
But Leslie Cheung can't help it. He was in so much pain.
A few months before leaving, my stomach was acid refluxing, my whole body was shaking, and I couldn't even hold the cigarette.
Nightmares when you sleep, opening your eyes is like a sword piercing.
Later, she was afraid that he would not be good in another world, so she dragged her sick body and copied a handwritten copy of the Jizo Bodhisattva Sutra for him.
Obviously, she was also very ill, but the 120-page scripture, word by word, was neat.
On the day of Leslie Cheung's commemorative concert, Anita Mui also came.
It's still the song "Fate".
"How far apart you and me, you can imagine that day that year..."
Once they flew on both wings and were peerless in the music scene. Now she is left alone, reminiscing about the past, sighing about old love, and singing sorrowful songs alone.
After singing this song, a few months later, Anita Mui also left.
One after the other, the legend came to an end.
05
Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui once collaborated on a movie called "Rouge Button".
Anita Mui feels that she is very similar to Ruhua.
Just as hard.
The same lust for love.
She said that after her death, she used Ruhua as her last photo. It is also said that Leslie Cheung is somewhat similar to Twelve.
It's not like being sentimental, but being merry.
Leslie Cheung also said that he liked "Rouge Button" very much, "because he can act with Anita Mui." ”
The two met because of songs, bonded because of drama, and were in love for twenty years, and finally both went away.
Unfortunately, in the play, the first to go is Ruhua.
She left a code, twelve young and searching.
And that line seems to be more appropriate in reality.
It's just that the reality is the opposite, Leslie Cheung goes first.
"Three eight one one, I'm waiting for you in the old place."
The lights dimmed, and the figure of the superstar on the stage gradually blurred.
But even if they fall, the fireworks they once burst out are still dazzling, marking a trajectory in the air, stunning the world, like a rainbow.
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