In 1999, Ren Xianqi was 33 years old.
This year, he was the hottest. At the beginning of the year, he sang his "famous song" "The Girl Opposite Looks Over" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Then, he won the "Asian Charm Singer" award in the 6th Channel V Chinese Chart.
Then, in June, he released his first collection of selected works, "Serious Selections". In this album, 2 songs are included, "Give You Happiness" and "Candlelight".
It was the theme song and interlude he sang in the August movie "Star Wish".
In August that day, Ren Xianqi not only acted in a movie with Cecilia Cheung, but also sang a song "Warmth" with Chow Huajian and released his first Cantonese EP "Tight".
And this year, Ren Xianqi not only starred in this movie with Cecilia Cheung, but also had 2 other films.
One is the romantic comedy film "Glass Bottle" that follows Jackie Chan, Zhou Huajian, Liang Chaowei and Shu Qi. One is the love story film "Brave New World" that "plays" with Tao Hong, Jiang Wu and Wu Bai.
However, we are talking about "Star Wish" in this article.
Because this movie is Ren Xianqi's first time as a male protagonist, although he still has to desperately grab a "lover" Cecilia Cheung with Su Yongkang.
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The movie "Star Wish", about the blind and dumb onion head (played by Ren Xianqi), after confessing to the crush nurse Qiu Nan (played by Cecilia Cheung), but accidentally died.
But he returned to the human world for five days as someone else, and after all the difficulties, he met and said goodbye to Qiu Nan.
The director is Ma Chucheng.
It seems that the popularity is not high, he is a Hong Konger, and Er Dongsheng, Wen Jun, Wan Ziliang and other directors and actors are the same age, all born in 1957.
Ma Chucheng
He didn't come from a class, he wasn't an actor, and he didn't enter the film industry until he was 26 years old.
At first, he did chores on the set, starting from drama and miscellaneous work, and was eager to learn to be a lighting engineer. Three years later, at the age of 29, he worked as a photographer in Zhang Aijia's self-written and directed romance film "The Favourite".
He began to make a name for himself, because he was nominated for the Best Cinematography Award at the 23rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for this film.
Since then, "Seasons of Love in Other Places" and "Yoshiko Kawashima" have asked him to be a photographer. As a result, he was nominated for the Best Cinematography Award at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 1993, Ma Chucheng had the opportunity to become an "assistant director" for a while, or zeng Zhiwei starred in the romantic comedy film "Remember... When the bananas are ripe".
Subsequently, he worked as a photographer in "Red Fan District" starring Jackie Chan and Mei Yanfang, and "Sweet Honey" starring Maggie Cheung and Li Ming.
In 1998, after becoming a photographer in the romance film "City of Glass" starring Dawn and Shu Qi, he vowed never to be a photographer again.
And that same year, he directed his first film, Phantom Attack.
Subsequently, in 1999, he directed the love fantasy film "Star Wish" co-starring Ren Xianqi, Cecilia Cheung and Su Yongkang.
Unfortunately, although this film was eventually nominated for the Best Picture Award at the 36th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, Ma Chucheng personally did not get the Best Director Award as desired.
This film alone was nominated for the Best Cinematography Award at the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Haha, another nomination, another photographer.
Unfortunately, director Ma Chucheng is now in his 60s, directing only 30 films, but none of them have won awards, not even nominated.
Isn't that a bit miserable?
But to be honest, his "Star Wish" is still very good.
His approach to the love story of "Star Wish" is beautiful and romantic, and the accuracy and heat of the romantic color poured out through the plot and picture are very outstanding, which makes people cry.
He filmed a touching and sincere feeling under the simple structure, especially the climax of the male and female protagonists watching the meteor shower together, which was enough to make people cry.
To tell the truth, this film establishes the fresh and pure style of Ma Chucheng's picture, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a dark horse in the 1999 Hong Kong literary and artistic romance.
Although he really didn't get an award personally.
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The director of "Star Wish", although not very famous, but the actors are all famous.
The first Ren Xianqi needless to say, although this movie is the fourth film he starred in, it is also his first film to be a male lead.
But his popularity has long been famous for its songs "Heart Is Too Soft", "Sad Pacific", "Waves of Flowers", "The Girl Across the Face Looks Over", etc.
Therefore, some people say that Ren Xianqi's acting in a movie is just playing.
The other male protagonist, Hong Konger Su Yongkang, is 1 year younger than Ren Xianqi.
Su Yongkang is also a singer, once at the age of 18, participated in the fourth rookie singing competition, and won the second place.
After signing with Huaxing Records, he launched his first solo album "Insomnia" at the age of 22, although the sales were OK, but the whole person did not know whether it was because he looked "ugly" or for some other reason.
There has been no development.
I had to "change my career" to become an actor and eat mixed food.
In 1995, 28-year-old Su Yongkang released his first Chinese album "Men Should Not Let Women Shed Tears", gradually entering the Taiwan market.
Unexpectedly, 3 years later, he went to participate in the TVB TV series "Magic Hands and Benevolent Hearts", playing a doctor and singing the interlude in the play, which seemed to have a little fame again.
In the same year that he participated in "Star Wish", he also held his first solo concert at the Red Pavilion in Hong Kong, and won super popularity with the song "The More You Kiss, the More Sad".
Also get the prize to get the soft hand -
Won the Top Song Award and My Favorite Song Award in the Pop Chart of the Music Scene, and the Breakthrough Big Gold Award for The New Town Hot Singer breakthrough and the Hot Singer Breakthrough Big Gold Award.
Su Yongkang
The 21st Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards Global Chinese Supreme Golden Melody, Excellent Pop Singer Award, Leap Male Singer Gold Award, and so on, 345678 awards.
There is no one left.
And just after he finished acting in "Star Wish", he and his girlfriend Feng Liqing from Singapore held a wedding. Unexpectedly, 4 years later, the two divorced again.
It's hard to understand.
In "Star Wish", Su Yongkang plays Dr. Hu, and the unrequited love of Cecilia Cheung plays Qiu Nan. He is staffed by a caring ophthalmologist in the hospital.
So, he asked Onionhead, played by Ren Xianqi, to volunteer.
He also joined a project to study the treatment of blind people, and he also played the saxophone, and he liked and cared for Akio very much, and pursued her vigorously.
Unfortunately, Qiu Nan did not love him, but he was reluctant to be gentle.
Some people say that Su Yongkang's biggest contribution in the play is the love triangle chasing composed of doctors, which brings everyone a sense of joy and a trace of competition (vinegar).
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In "Star Wish", the only female protagonist is Qiu Nan, played by Cecilia Cheung.
She was a strong and tender little nurse, her compassion was bursting, she regularly cut the hair of the "deaf and dumb" patient onion, and often told him her joys and sorrows.
Cecilia Cheung, Qiu Nan
Let Onionhead misunderstand her true feelings, but it also stimulates his love.
Therefore, a special affection gradually developed between Akio and Onionhead, and after Onionhead's death, Akio finally realized that she still loved him deeply.
This film, which was introduced to the mainland at that time, was all videotape.
It can be said that every video hall is named to watch, and the film is played 24 hours a day.
My brothers had opened a video hall in the first place, and I helped in it, and I relied on this videotape to attract many young boys and girls from nearby schools to come day and night to punch in.
Therefore, to this day, I will not forget Cecilia Cheung singing "Star Wish" hundreds of times again and again, tears flowing down her face, and her heart aching...
Cecilia Cheung's acting skills are more than 10,000 times stronger than the two big men Ren Xianqi and Su Yongkang.
Therefore, the actor's bowl of rice is not something that anyone can eat, like Cecilia Cheung, who is destined to eat this bowl of rice.
A year ago, 18-year-old Cecilia Cheung had just returned to Hong Kong from Australia, and was discovered by the talented director Stephen Chow, starring in the comedy film "The King of Comedy", with the role of Liu Piaopiao, it was easy to relax -
He was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Moreover, "The King of Comedy" was also the box office champion in Hong Kong that year. Cecilia Cheung's name, overnight, was like the sun in the sky.
Therefore, she can take over the love literary film "Star Wish" directed by Ma Chucheng, which really gives the heavens a lot of face. It is said that it is the line led by Zeng Zhiwei.
Because Zeng Zhiwei also has an important role in "Star Wish".
Playing a big brother named Zhen Baozhu, he is an old friend of onion head for more than ten years, who runs a grocery store in the hospital and has a daughter who has passed away.
Although he is often frightened by the onion head and mutters when he drinks too much water and adds too much salt, he is actually very concerned about the onion head.
Cecilia Cheung's appearance in "Star Wish" and the previous year's "King of Comedy", heaven and earth, came to a 180-degree reversal.
From a young sister, she directly became a pure and feminine female nurse.
He also showed his singing voice and sang the vignette "Star Wish" in the movie, singing everyone who heard it, all of them shed tears. Not only singing, mainly she can cry, but also very good at crying.
When she cries, others cry, and I don't know if it's because she sings to make people cry, or if she cries to make people cry?
Anyway, at that time, as long as she cried and sang this song, there was no one in the video hall who could not cry, even I, the "hard heart" boss who listened to it dozens of times a day and listened to it hundreds of times in total——
Every time there were tears, everyone else, of course, was not spared.
After the release of "Star Wish" in Hong Kong, the box office exceeded 10 million, and Cecilia Cheung also really won the Best Newcomer Award at the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards with this film.
It's no longer the last nomination, so she should thank director Ma Chucheng a little more than Stephen Chow.
"Star Wish" can be said to be the best and only good movie in the resurgence of romance films around 1999. It makes people who do not believe in love understand the amazing tenderness -
Being able to melt the heart that does not believe in true love the most.
Years later, Ren Xianqi and Cecilia Cheung appeared on the show together, recalling the original performance of "Star Wish". Cecilia Cheung cried again into tears, and laughed into "tears" again.
Crying and laughing, still so much in love with onion heads.
Although, she has had a baby, divorced, no longer believes in love, and no longer marries...
The world is always so cruel that people who believe in love cannot get love; let those who get love cannot keep love.
And love is the meteor shower that Onionhead and Qiu Nan have seen together, for a moment, love it comes, a blink of an eye, love it is gone again...
If you don't believe it, how can you have the most beautiful love in the world?
If you don't work hard, how can you keep the most precious love in this world?
Love is what it is, you believe, it has, it will come; you work hard, it will stay, it will not go. Forever dwelling in the hearts of you and your loved ones, shining brightly, brightly—
Shine brightly for a lifetime.