Uncle Bo has talked about many strange women in the Republic of China period, most of whom are scholars and scientists, and today we will talk about art.
In the above photo, there are the top ten movie actresses before liberation, from the left:
Gong Qiuxia, Luo Lan, Sun Jinglu, Chen Juanjuan, Chen Yunsheng, Hu Die, Zhou Xuan, Li Lihua, Bai Guang, Wang Danfeng
Among them, the little spinaches have also heard of Hu Di, who is still messed up with the secret agent leader Dai Kasa scissors, and Zhou Xuan, who is known as the "golden voice".
Most of them are typical of traditional Chinese women, gentle and idyllic, chuchu and pitiful, but one of them has a very prominent style.
She is the white light known as "a generation of demons".
The image of white light is very recognizable among the top ten actresses, because she is not a traditional beauty.
With a large face, a large mouth, long and curved eyebrows, and a plump and tall figure, this image is doomed to her life is unable to take the jade girl route.
In fact, she is indeed not a well-known girl with a deep family, but a second-generation official.
On June 27, 1921, Bai Guang was born in Beiping, and his original name was Shi Yongfen. Her father was originally a bannerman of the Qing Dynasty, and after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, she changed her court and became the quartermaster of the Kuomintang troops.
The comfortable and wealthy family environment makes Bai Guang very assertive from an early age. She loves art, and in middle school, she participated in the Beiping Salon Theater Troupe and performed Cao Yu's famous play "Sunrise". When he was young, Bai Guang once believed that art could save the country.
My brother and I were in school, doing theatrical events and discussing state affairs, and we had ideals at that time. We believe that there are many, many ways to save China, and we believe that we can put ... China is brought to the road of light.
In 1937, at the age of 16, Shirako went to Japan to study art at Tokyo Women's University in Japan, where he studied vocal music under Miura Kan, the famous "Lady Hu Die".
After five years in Japan, In 1943, Bai Guang returned to Shanghai and began her "Screen Road", taking the stage name "White Light", which means a white light projected onto the screen.
Because of its distinctive image, the role of white light in the movie can be summed up in one word, that is, "charming and cheap goods".
In "Tao Li Zheng Chun", she and Chen Yunsheng played a rival and played the villain. In the film, her sophisticated and mature to lascivious image adds a touch of color to the same quiet and pure female image in previous films.
Some media comments wrote:
Bai Guang played the villain female character in the play to make people love and hate, that Gu Pan Shenfei's eyebrows were touching, and the low chant of the soul was intoxicating, in a word, enough taste!
She also sang the theme song in the film, and her voice was even more amazing.
Because of her fame and talent, she has developed a unique low, seductive mezzo-soprano voice. Mezzo-soprano is actually very uncommon, Xu Xiaofeng and Cai Qin are two people who are more familiar to everyone, and Xu Xiaofeng was called "Little White Light" when she first debuted.
At that time, in the Shanghai Beach song scene, there were female singers such as "Golden Voice" Zhou Xuan, "Silver Voice" Yao Li, "Nasal Song Queen" Wu Yingyin, and other female singers, and there were many masters. With its wild and spicy, decadent and wandering physical language and its low and lazy magnetic voice, baiguang stands out in a field of warbler song and soft language warmth.
She has a famous song that has been sung to this day: "Without You". Xu Xiaofeng and Cai Qin have both covered the songs, but they only listen to them, and they all lack the melancholy and uninhibited taste of the original song.
Bai Guang is an amphibious star of film and song, and every piece must be sung. It's hard to imagine that those beautiful and melodious movie theme songs, the dreamy, mesmerizing singing voices, came from a "big villain".
In the subsequent films, the image of white light was fixed. The uneasiness of "The Wall" is in the room, the self-abandonment of "Slut's Heart", and the simply impenetrable rape, fornication, slut, and poison in "Blood Stained Begonia Red".
Although every role is vividly portrayed by her, it is not a good thing for an actor.
Not all audiences will consciously distinguish between inside and outside the play, because the woman who always plays lascivious and vicious, Bai Guang has become popular all the way, but also encountered a scolding.
Why didn't she want to tap into the diversity of the character's inner world and create more different characters?
In 1947's "Murder House No. 13", Bai Guang played four characters in four roles, and the four characters had different personalities, all of which were portrayed by her clearly, unambiguously, and also included 4 interludes in the film.
Unfortunately, this is her first and last attempt at a different role, the audience still likes to watch her play "riot goods", the director and screenwriter only see her appearance, afraid that she will not be able to play other roles.
In 1950, Bai Guang went to Hong Kong to participate in the movie "A Generation of Demons", which became her pinnacle, and "Generation of Demons" became her code name, and on the road of charming and cheap goods, she was going to the end.
The audience both loved and hated her.
The famous director Li Hanxiang recalled that when he was a child, he inadvertently hummed Bai Guang's "False Canon", and was beaten by his second uncle.
Why? Just look at the lyrics and you'll see.
False canon, false canon
Your eyes are already slipping over
Slipped over again, sneaking a peek
Embarrassment, embarrassment, what is called embarrassment
Want to love me, love me
You'll be happy with the table
……
This song was too unorthodox in the eyes of the upright gentleman at that time, and the person who sang this kind of song was certainly not a serious person.
White light is such a existence, many adults like to listen to her songs, watch her movies, but also forbid their children to touch her works, for fear that she will spoil the children.
The real white light, like the lyrics of this song, reveals the mask of hypocrisy of people, those decent gentlemen, who hate her for being "dirty" in their mouths, but can't help but like to watch her movies.
Although in the movie, she is a very troubled, wave, and mean woman, on the surface, she is a sexy goddess white light who gives and takes, and relies on her own likes and dislikes, in reality, she cannot control her life.
Her personal female secretary, Mao Li, once said:
Sometimes, the white light will be overwhelmed by the harsh environment, so that she will desperately smoke, drink, and fool around... But when she woke up, she was still a sentient being.
The white light outside the play is just a woman who longs to live the life of an ordinary person.
It may be that she often plays the role of "bad woman", and the love road of white light is very bumpy.
Soon after arriving in Japan, she fell in love with Jiang Wen, a musical talent known as "Taiwan Chopin", and the two quickly became engaged. However, due to the entanglement of Jiang Wenye's ex-wife, the relationship between the two eventually broke down and they had to cancel the marriage contract.
Later, Bai Guang could not withstand the fierce pursuit of the rich second generation Jiao Kegang, and made a private life with him, but the Jiao family's parents did not recognize Bai Guang, in order to force the two to break up, Jiao Kegang's parents cut off his living expenses.
Bai Guang had to go to the nightclub to sing and beg for a living, and the money earned had to pay for the living expenses of the two people, and it was also for Jok to smoke opium. The white light that fell into love was nothing more than a fainted woman.
In this marriage, which was not blessed by his relatives, Bai Guang gave birth to a pair of children. She tried to change the jiao's parents' opinion, but to no avail, and Jok had just become more addicted to opium, and finally she chose to divorce because she did not want to admit her fate.
Later, the Japanese Yamaga Hiroshi began to pursue white light, and the two lived together. Soon after, however, Yama was arrested by the Japanese government for "collaborating with the enemy and pro-China" and sentenced to ten years in prison. The white light ran around fruitlessly and could only return to China.
It wasn't until 1951 that White Light met true love again.
At that time, she had just finished filming "A Generation of Demons", red and purple, but at this time, she announced the end of the film and held a wedding, and her husband was the American pilot Eric.
In order to chase love, she stopped all her work and settled in Tokyo with her lover. Haku hikari used his savings to open a nightclub in Ginza, Tokyo, and the business was booming.
I thought that my love career was double harvested, but I did not expect that the flash marriage was still unreliable, and the true face of her husband was revealed day by day.
Eric is only interested in white light money, enthusiasm is ebbing, he is not only idle, but also has a tendency to domestic violence.
Being willing to be bland does not mean that Bai Guang is a woman who is easy to compromise. Once again, she chose divorce.
This failed marriage made Bai Guang exhausted, and she said that she no longer believed in love:
I am a person who has failed, offended many friends, married badly, and along the way, I have never met a person who really loves me... Marriage almost destroyed me, for the love of marriage with men, to speak of conscience, I have lost faith!
However, fate is always unpredictable.
In 1969, Bai Guang performed on stage in Kuala Lumpur and met Yan Lianglong, a loyal film fan 26 years younger than her. I thought that my heart was like ashes, but I didn't expect to be overwhelmed by Yan Lianglong's thoughtful and sweet offensive of care.
Maybe the love road in the first half of her life was too bumpy, and even the heavens couldn't look at it, so this time I sent her a "true destiny".
They were not married, but they lived together for 30 years.
In 1999, the 78-year-old Bai Guang died of cancer, and when he was dying, he still held his lover's hand tightly...
Yan Lianglong followed Bai Guang's will before his death, and the funeral was handled in a low-key manner, and only her sister and her husband's relatives attended the burial. But he carefully designed a "qin tomb" for Bai Guang, and engraved the score of Bai Guang's beloved song "Without You" on the tomb.
Although Bai Guang has the code name of "sexy" and "demon", her sexiness never relies on "exposing flesh", and she never wears revealing clothing in the film. Her sexiness and charm seeped out of her bones from a smile.
However, behind her demon image, there is a hidden true disposition, full of love and tenderness.
Jiao Xiongping, a veteran film critic in Taiwan, once lamented, "In the past hundred years of Chinese cinema and music, there has never been such a maverick special thing as her, and the vicissitudes of sophistication and loneliness in the paper drunken gold fans only appeared in Shanghai in the 1940s." ”