In 1985, Cai Fenghua's comment to Zhang Guorong at the awards ceremony of the second season of Jinge Golden Melody was banned, "A moment of brilliance does not mean eternity", and then in the following years, he was once poor and even rumored to have mental problems. --Headline Encyclopedia
36 years ago, "a moment of brilliance does not mean eternity" ruined Cai Fenghua's life, this sentence was interpreted as "satirizing" Zhang Guorong when he was popular, what is the truth? The former young man Lang Cai Fenghua, who appeared at Zhang Guorong's funeral in a low profile, has become fat and old, and is invisible to everyone.
Here is the Leisure Bubble Hall, and the owner of the church today takes you back to the friendship years of Cai Fenghua, Chen Baiqiang and Zhang Guorong, and their fate that has been lamented later. The behind-the-scenes story of the momentary brilliance has to start from Chen Baiqiang and Zhang Guorong.
Chen Baiqiang and Zhang Guorong
Mei Yanfang once said: "She has two confidants in her life, one Zhang Guorong and one Chen Baiqiang. "As two of Hong Kong's top kings, the two have too many similarities. All were born in rich and noble families, did not inherit the family business but entered the entertainment circle, are Virgos, from appearance to works to personality, are called golden branches and jade leaves, but also the same kind, sensitive.
The difference is that behind Chen Baiqiang's brilliance is more inferiority and cowardice, while Zhang Guorong has more flying self-confidence.
As we all know, he Chaoqiong's lifelong love is Chen Baiqiang, and He Hongshen strongly opposes it. However, unlike his dislike of Chen Baiqiang, He Hongshen's preference for Zhang Guorong was great, and he also matched Zhang Guorong and He Chaoqiong. Ho Hongshen's attitude towards the two people may have already seen through the differences in their personalities.
This has to start from the original family, when Hong Kong was still able to have three wives and four concubines. Chen Baiqiang's mother is not a regular room, so he has always been very inferior and rarely disobeys his father's thoughts. In order to let his father support him in learning music, Chen Baiqiang specifically went to learn Cantonese music, and also won the first prize in the Hong Kong Yamaba Electronic Organ Competition, and was signed as a formal singer by TVB in 1977.
Chen Baiqiang
Although Zhang Guorong's mother, Pan Yuyao, did not give him a good childhood, she was a righteous room. It was also in 1977 that Zhang Guorong, with the help of the maid Liujie, had the money to sign up for Li's TV station's "Asian Amateur Singing Competition", and finally won the second place.
Zhang Guorong and the sixth sister of the maid
In 1978, Zhang Guorong was having dinner with a friend at a restaurant one day, and a boy came up to him and said, "Some people say that I look a lot like you!" "This boy is Chen Baiqiang, and this is the scene of the first acquaintance of the two people." Although they did not belong to the same company at the time, they have been friends ever since.
A year later, Cai Fenghua also debuted through the "Asian Amateur Singing Competition" and became Zhang Guorong's disciple. The bond between the three people officially opened.
Cai Fenghua
Among the three people, the first to emerge was Zhang Guorong, who also took good care of his two younger brothers. Cai Fenghua just entered the industry and did not understand anything, Zhang Guorong taught him some knowledge on the set by hand. And Chen Baiqiang, not long after, signed the same agent with Zhang Guorong, and the relationship between the two people became more and more familiar.
Cai Fenghua, Chen Baiqiang, Zhang Guorong
Since then, Chen Baiqiang has more obviously embodied restraint and introversion, sometimes even unnoticed. Once, during an interview, Zhang Guorong saw that the reporters put Chen Baiqiang aside, and while taking the initiative to introduce this younger brother to the reporter, the reporters also made an interview with the young singer who had not yet become popular.
At that time, Chen Baiqiang would also give Zhang Guorong a sample of the new song he had recorded. Zhang Guorong listened to the song that he liked the most with the sound of the phone. That song was later "Tears for You", which won the 1979 Hong Kong Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Award.
Personable, singing deeply, Chen Baiqiang became a hit and became a high-quality idol in the hearts of thousands of young girls.
The second to become popular was Cai Fenghua, who won the Best Newcomer Award in 1980. His performance of the episode "Qianying" in the TV series "Youth Trio" won five awards including the Golden Melody Awards of Hong Kong's Top Ten Chinese, and from October of this year, he hosted the pivotal Hong Kong music program "Jinge Golden Song".
"Youth Trio" Left: Cai Fenghua Right: Paul Zhong
And Zhang Guorong's road was not as smooth as that of the two younger brothers. Hong Kong people have a saying, "It will take ten years for Zhang Guorong to have today." "During that time, his records went unnoticed, he was sold for one dollar, and he was bought back as a pot pad. The first public performance, it was booed by the audience, the most humiliating thing was to throw the hat to interact with the audience, and the hat was thrown back.
In the face of all kinds of cold treatment, Zhang Guorong could only hide in the bathroom and cry, but the next day he picked up his spirits and came backstage to greet everyone, and any joke could be made, as if nothing had happened, and the wind was light.
At that time, the youth film "Cheers" found Chen Baiqiang and Zhang Guorong at the same time. Chen Baiqiang, who has no acting experience but is just popular, is the male protagonist, a positive role, while Zhang Guorong can only play a villain with only 13 shots.
The entertainment industry is so realistic, the company wants to support Chen Baiqiang to go to a higher level, and Zhang Guorong can only obey and cooperate. Sure enough, Chen Baiqiang, who had not made a movie, did not perform well on the set, and even the post-dubbing was done by the filmmakers.
On the contrary, Zhang Guorong's performance made director Cai Jiguang praise him, saying that he "overshadowed the light of the protagonist" and sincerely recommended this young man to other crews.
After perceiving his shortcomings, he who did not like to talk sometimes stayed in the corner alone, but Zhang Guorong, who had a cheerful personality, preferred to go up to him at this time to tease him, Chen Baiqiang sometimes responded with jokes, and sometimes he would silently walk away, sulking like a child.
"Cheers" was a huge success, grossing nearly HK$3 million at the box office, and the comparison between the characters followed. With comparison, there will be a sense of competition, and the friendship between Chen Baiqiang and Zhang Guorong will begin to crack. According to Zhang Guorong's recollection, at that time, some people were optimistic about his film performance, and some people felt that Chen Baiqiang surpassed himself in singing. All in all, they really didn't fit in quite well during that time.
In 1981, the original team of "Cheers" was arranged to start filming another movie, "Unemployed Student". At the press conference, Zhang Guorong unilaterally and officially announced that he would no longer cooperate with Chen Baiqiang.
Although a few years later the two appeared on the cast list of the movie "Merry Christmas" at the same time. But director Gao Zhisen said that in order not to meet each other on the set, the same frame scene was completed with a stand-in.
He also wrote in the "Oriental Daily" in 2006 that once Chen Baiqiang was praised for his good skin, he said that he did not wear makeup, and the grinning Zhang Guorong directly touched his face, exposing him, so that Chen Baiqiang, who has a strong sense of self-esteem, could not come to the stage in public, so the two would ask for "different scenes in the same play, not to see each other."
In the years when the competition between Chen Baiqiang and Zhang Guorong was put on the table, Cai Fenghua hosted the "Golden Song of Jinge", tirelessly launched his own works, and the development was good, and he had more contact with Chen Baiqiang. The two not only often appear together at awards ceremonies such as "Miss Hong Kong" and "Golden Disc", but also dance together at TVB celebrations.
Cai Fenghua and Chen Baiqiang celebrated the dance dragon at TVB Station
When Chen Baiqiang was a guest on Cai Fenghua's show, Cai Fenghua still thought that the three of them were still good friends, and did not avoid discussing Zhang Guorong because of discord.
In 1983, Chen Baiqiang won the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Award for "How Precious Tonight Is". This year, Zhang Guorong became popular with a song "The Wind Continues to Blow". By 1985, a song called "Monica" allowed Zhang Guorong to climb to the first peak of his career. At this time, nearly 10 years have passed since his debut.
"Monica" allowed Zhang Guorong to climb to the first peak of his career
At the award ceremony of the third season of "Golden Song" this year, Zhang Guorong won 3 songs. After Zhang Guorong finished singing, he improvised: "I am here to say a word, really what I feel about Chen Baiqiang." I was very upset with him because the songs he wrote were good, but he never had a song written for me. Making movies is always, he does loyalty, I do adultery. ”
Cai Fenghua, who has hosted the Golden Melody Awards Ceremony for 5 years, thought that he was attacking Chen Baiqiang, and suddenly said something surprising: "When I first saw Zhang Guorong's concert, I also sincerely congratulated him and got three golden songs." But a momentary brilliance is not necessarily eternal..."
When the female host saw that the momentum was not right, she quickly interrupted Cai Fenghua and let the director cut the advertisement. At that time, TVB was trying to win the popular Zhang Guorong, and Cai Fenghua's "gaffe" obviously stirred up cooperation.
Afterwards, Cai Fenghua was suspended by the wireless high-level "Jingge Golden Song" host work, followed by a song copyright lawsuit, the situation is getting worse and worse, once abusive drugs, once to his friend Zha Xiaoxin frankly "ate 12 sedatives", not only lost the only remaining late-night program at hand, but also crazy words and deeds.
Later, Cai Fenghua was jokingly called "Cai Crazy Hua" and "one of the Four Crazy Kings of Hong Kong", becoming the laughing stock of the entertainment industry, TV programs imitated how he made trouble in public, wang Jing arranged for Zhang Jiahui to be tattooed "I love Cai Fenghua" in the movie to express the plot of the character being insulted.
"King of a Thousand Kings 2000" spoofs Cai Fenghua
At the 15th anniversary of Zhang Guorong's death, Cai Fenghua also came to the scene to commemorate, he said: "Some people say that 'a moment's brilliance does not mean eternity' has made me go downhill, wrong, in fact, there is a heavenly king who has been helping me, that person is called Zhang Guorong." ”
After Zhang Guorong heard Cai Fenghua's speech, he once helped him explain: "Don't blame him, he is the kind of person who doesn't know what he is talking about when he speaks, and he only knows about the crashing board after he has spoken; I used to be like this, he was actually very cute." And Chen Baiqiang knew that Cai Fenghua's "words were not inferior" for himself, and after the award ceremony, he was very worried to remind him to be more careful, and he had publicly encouraged him.
Chen Baiqiang and Cai Fenghua
The story of three good friends defending each other is completely in the opposite direction in the fermentation of the media and the confrontation between fans.
Now it seems that competition is of course one thing, but the so-called "discord" between Chen Baiqiang and Zhang Guorong is more like two small partners making a mistake and joking, and they are angry, not to the point of turning their faces and not recognizing people, while the media is catching the wind and catching shadows, the more they write, the more exaggerated they are, and the more they write, the more they write.
In fact, in the years when they did not make the most fierce trouble with the rumors, the relationship between Zhang Guorong and Chen Baiqiang was even closer. Chen Baiqiang gave Zhang Guorong a concert guest, and they embraced the chorus on stage;
When Zhang Guorong held a concert in London, Chen Baiqiang, who was on vacation in Europe, paid for it out of his own pocket to support, and the fans on the stage found Chen Baiqiang and constantly reminded Zhang Guorong, but he pulled Chen Baiqiang to the stage.
The good interaction between the two people was selectively forgotten by the media, and only for the two people to have a bad book, perhaps because during the time when Zhang Guorong broke out, Chen Baiqiang just encountered a low point, until 1989 with a song "What to Ask for in Life". Worshiping the high and stepping on the low, falling into the well, once again makes people feel the reality and cruelty of public opinion.
In 1986, it was another award ceremony, "Tan Zhang Zhengba" was pushed to the extreme in the mutual scolding of fans on both sides, and the tired Zhang Guorong announced his withdrawal from the music scene at the end of 1989, followed by his birthdays in 1990 and 91 and Christmas were spent with Chen Baiqiang.
In 1991, Chen Baiqiang said frankly in an interview with Hong Kong Weekly: "Zhang Guorong and I are really good friends, and we will spread it with others!" Zhang Guorong also said with emotion: "In this world, only Chen Baiqiang will not harm me"! The lord's speech finally prevailed, and reports of discord between them slowly diminished.
Unfortunately, the gossip has deeply hurt the parties concerned, and Chen Baiqiang is deeply depressed and cannot be relieved. In 1992, Chen Baiqiang also announced that he was about to say goodbye to the music scene after three concerts, and in this year, Chen Baiqiang swallowed a large number of sleeping pills and was sent to Mary Hospital.
During the 17 months of Chen Baiqiang's coma, Zhang Guorong tried to wake up his former friend, but he could not get a response. When Chen Baiqiang died, Zhang Guorong was in Canada. When Chen's mother dialed the transoceanic phone, Zhang Guorong was far away from the mountains and seas, and said to Chen Baiqiang: "If you really want to leave, go happily, don't worry too much!" "Ever since, there has been eternity between heaven and man.
Soon after, Zhang Guorong's relationship with Tang Hede was criticized, and he suffered for nearly 10 years. On April 1, 2003, Cheung jumped from the 24th floor of Mandarin Hotel, Hong Kong, and his last stop was also Queen Mary Hospital.
Cai Fenghua appeared at Zhang Guorong's funeral in a low profile
In 2012, Cai Fenghua held a concert at the Hung Hom Stadium, on which day he sang Chen Baiqiang's "Star" and Zhang Guorong's "Love of the Year".
"The loss of the Hong Kong music scene is because it is fought every day. Everyone is a singer, and there is really no way to do it for the cause, so they staged a dragon fight. Cai Fenghua said. That night, there was an old photo of him and his friends on the screen, and he not only tearfully sighed: "I have been lonely and lonely in the past few years, and now I am the only one standing here." ”
Time goes back to the beginning, Cai Fenghua, Chen Baiqiang, Zhang Guorong three people are in the age of ignorance, after work often out of the appointment to play, everyone has no money, but never care, one by one rush to pay. A time of youth with nothing but joy, but so it is. They also have countless visions for the future, looking forward to the day when they will be popular.
Three promising young people, starting together and striving for their own goals, no one expected the ending to be so lamentable. They are gone, they have fallen, no one cares, the golden age of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, or perhaps the most brilliant years of their lives, just bowed to the curtain.