My brother is not at home and does not sell alcohol today.
"Beauty of The Beauty of Jiangshan" of "Drama Phoenix"
[Why did Lin Dai, a 30-year-old four-time Asia-Pacific film queen, commit suicide? What is the grudge with the Golden Horse Film Queen Leti and Li Lihua? 】
On July 17, 1964, Hong Kong Shaw film superstar Lin Dai committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills and gassing her Happy Valley apartment at the age of thirty, and her body was buried in a Happy Valley Catholic cemetery.
Since 1957, at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, the only international film festival in the Asia-Pacific region, Lin Dai has won four best actress awards. This honor record has not been broken so far. [In 1992, Stephen Chow won his first film emperor title with "The Inquisitor", which was the Best Actor at the 37th Asia-Pacific Film Festival. 】
Lin Dai debuted for 12 years, starred in nearly 50 movies, not only outstanding acting skills, created countless box office miracles; but also beautiful flowers, exquisite figure, film fans and admirers are numerous. Therefore, after the news of Lin Dai's death came out, it shocked the global Chinese society at that time; on the day of the funeral, countless Hong Kong film fans took to the streets to send her off, and the alleys were empty.
Li Hanxiang, a famous director of Hong Kong Shaw films at that time, said sadly: Lin Dai's suicide is the biggest loss in the Chinese film industry after Ruan Lingyu, and she is a star that the Chinese film industry cannot find for decades.
Mr. Zhang Daqian, a leading master of the Chinese painting world in the 20th century, made an exception and painted a Chinese painting portrait for Lin Dai.
On May 14, 1985, Hong Kong actress Weng Meiling, who became famous for her role as Huang Rong in the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", committed suicide. On the day of Weng Meiling's funeral, countless fans sent her off, and hundreds of policemen needed to be used to maintain traffic order.
At that time, the media's evaluation of Weng Meiling's funeral was: 20 years after Lin Dai's death, the most sensational star funeral in Hong Kong!
Many netizens know that
Weng Meiling committed suicide because of love, and Lin Dai, who was once a four-time Asian film queen, was only 30 years old at the time, had just been married for 3 years, her son was only 1 year old, and her acting career was still at its peak. Why did Lin Dai choose to commit suicide so decisively at this time?
[Lin Dai] Her life is very prominent. Her real name is Cheng Yueru, the milk name monk, and the stage name Lin Dai is a transliteration of her English name LINDA. Born on December 26, 1934 in Nanning, Guangxi Province, Lin Dai attended junior high school at Nanjing Huiwen Girls' High School, and then settled in Hong Kong with her family to continue her studies at New Asia College.
Lin Dai's father, Cheng Siyuan, was a wise man of the Gui clan, who settled in Beijing with Li Zongren in 1965, and was later elected to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress several times, swimming with Chairman Mao; his mother, Jiang Xiuhua, was Cheng Siyuan's original match.
On 12 February 1961, Lin Dai and Long Shengxun were married at the Rose Hall in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Long Shengxun was the fifth son of Long Yun, the former governor of Yunnan Province, known as Long Wu.
In such a life, Lin Dai is not a star, but also can become a celebrity in Hong Kong's high society. However, her untimely death was also closely related to her family origins.
There are rumors that there was a blockbuster movie at that time, and the female number one originally scheduled for Lin Dai was replaced by someone else. In addition, after giving birth, the state and figure are not as good as before, and they are also insulted by a director in public on the set. Frustrated, Lin Dai returned home, quarreled with her husband because of some small things, and committed suicide in sadness.
At that time, the film in which Lin Dai was changed was Li Hanxiang's version of Huang Mei's film "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" in 1963, and Lin Dai was replaced by Shaw's famous classical beauty Lottie. Lottie became the queen of the second Golden Horse Awards with the role of Zhu Yingtai in this film; Ling Bo, a newcomer who opposed Liang Shanbo, won the Special Award for Best Actor.
First of all, it is unreasonable in terms of time, because this time the role is changed more than a year after Lin Dai's suicide. In addition, Lottie was also a popular flower Dan that Shaw was holding at that time, and her origin was also quite prominent, and she and Lin Dai were also like girlfriends in private.
A key timeline is that on April 6, 1963, Lin Dai's son was born in the United States, and Lin Dai only launched one song and dance film "Flowers" throughout the year, and did not participate in the shooting of new films.
Therefore, Lin Dai's suicide has nothing to do with Lottie; on the contrary, because of Ling Bo, a newcomer who is not at the forefront of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", Lin Dai feels threatened. Later, when filming the mythological feature film "Pauline Lantern", Lin Dai kicked off the anti-string male protagonist Ling Bo, starring Zheng Peipei, who played the roles of Agarwood and the Three Ladies of the Virgin Mary herself.
In fact, Lin Dai, who came from a noble background and was proud of her heart, was not the first time she had committed suicide.
Because her father was not in Hong Kong, when she was 18 years old, in order to escape the pursuit of local tycoons, she tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills, which was saved by director Yan Jun.
In 1951, Lin Dai was favored by the boss of the Great Wall Film Company for a photo, took her to be selected, and helped her take Lin Dai's stage name. However, at that time, the Great Wall had red stars such as Li Lihua and Xia Meng, and Lin Dai was not used heavily in the Great Wall, but she and Yan Jun began a relationship.
Soon, the two jumped to Yonghua Film, Lin Dai played the female lead for the first time in the film "Cuicui" adapted from Shen Congwen's novel, Yan Jun starred in the male number two, and served as a director for the first time.
In 1953, "Cui Cui" made Lin Dai a hit, and then she starred in a number of blockbuster films of various styles, and gradually became a popular star in the Hong Kong film industry.
In 1957, Lin Dai won the Best Actress Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival for the first time with the literary and artistic romance film "Golden Lotus" of the Mao Mao Company, becoming the first Chinese international film queen.
In 1958, Lin Dai was personally poached by Mr. Run Run Shaw with a check to shaw films, starring in the costume film "Sable Cicada", which won the Asia-Pacific film queen and broke the Hong Kong box office record. "Sable Cicada" is known as Shaw's pioneering work, setting off a wave of Huangmei tone movies, Li Hanxiang is the grand master of Huang Mei tone, and Lin Dai is the first star of Huang Mei tone movie.
1959's "Beauty of Jiangshan" helped Shaw open up the international market, not only pushing Lin Dai's career to the peak, but also pushing Huang Mei's film to the peak.
However, at this time, the relationship between Lin Dai and Yan Jun had changed drastically.
The first is that Lin Daihong is too fast, and the other is Lin Dai's consumption habits of rich women who spend money like water, and it is difficult to commune with the frugal Yan Jun, and soon broke up.
After the breakup, Yan Jun married Li Lihua, who was also divorced, in 1957, and went to the United States to have a child in 1959, and later joined Shaw.
It was at this time that Lin Dai also went to the United States and studied drama at Columbia University for several months. Dragon Fifth, who originally knew Lin Dai, happened to study at Columbia University and began to formally pursue Lin Dai.
At that time, the first sister dispute in the Hong Kong film industry was basically between Lin Dai, Li Lihua, Lottie, You Min, Xia Meng, etc., and Lin Dai's real opponent was only Li Lihua, who was also in Shaw's.
With "A Thousand Charms" and "No Love", Lin Dai won the Asia-Pacific Film Awards again in 1961 and 1962, and married on February 12, 1961; Youmin and Lottie became the first two queens of the Golden Horse Awards in 1962 and 1963, respectively, and Youmin also won the 1959 and 1960 Asia-Pacific Film Queen.
Therefore, Lin Dai, who was 10 years younger at that time, was more beautiful than Li Lihua.
You Min married in 1964, and Jin Yong's dream lover Xia Meng also immigrated in 1966; Lottie left Shaw after the expiration of the contract in 1964, but died suddenly in 1968.
After Lin Dai's death, Li Lihua won two Golden Horse Awards in 1965 and 1969; and lived to the age of 93, and in 2015 and 2016, she won the Golden Horse Award and the Golden Horse Awards for Lifetime Achievement, becoming an evergreen in the classic film industry. [Won both the Golden Horse Award and the Golden Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, only Li Lihua.] 】
If Lin Dai hadn't ended her life early at the age of 30, would her film achievements have been higher than Li Lihua's? The chances are great.
The most evil thing is that on the day Lin Dai committed suicide, July 17 was Li Lihua's birthday, and Li Lihua and his wife, who also believed in Catholicism, also attended Lin Dai's funeral.
In fact, in the Hong Kong film industry at that time, the competition between major film companies, especially the strongest Shaw and Denmao, was very fierce.
In 1964, after Lin Dai's death, Li Lihua and YouMin also filmed a "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" for Dengmao; You Min and Zhao Lei made a "Baolian Lantern".
Lin Dai has played Sable Cicada and Wang Zhaojun, Li Lihua has played Xi Shi and Yang Yuhuan; Lin Dai has played Dai Ji, Li Lihua has played Wu Zetian; Lin Dai has played Bai Suzhen, and Li Lihua has played Guan Shiyin.
If you talk about the competition in the movie alone, it is really wonderful.
It's just that Lin Dai didn't lose to others, but to herself. The higher the requirements for yourself, the more cruel you are to yourself, and maintain a girly figure of 34-24-35 and a thin waist of 18 inches all year round, which is not something that ordinary people can do.
Lin Dai left two suicide notes before committing suicide, one of which read: If you really want to save me, please don't send me to the public hospital, because then all the newspapers in Hong Kong will be published like a joke! Can only find a personal doctor, thank you.
Doesn't seem to be really asking for death, just an operational error?
Film superstars like Lin Dai always want to live in the spotlight and care most about the eyes of the world.
After Lin Dai's death, Long Shengxun became the sinner referred to by the thousand husbands, and he responded to Lin Dai's true feelings with a lifelong non-marriage. Long Shengxun has been living in the villa where Lin Dai committed suicide, and has kept the room in the same state as when Lin Dai left, and the magazines, cosmetics, and letters on the dresser have remained intact. Including at that time, in order to rescue Lin Dai, the broken door was not repaired.
After Long Shengxun's death in 2007, his son Long Zonghan made everything public.
In 2008, the Hong Kong Film Memorial lent the furniture of Lin Dai's former residence to the public, which also allowed the world to see the more authentic nature of Lin Dai's life.
In his memoirs, Lin Dai's father, Cheng Siyuan, summarized Lin Dai's tragedy and also revealed the psychological roots of his suicide:
Standing tall in it, the mood is very proud... From an early age, I have developed a kind of "empty eyes" attitude.
The higher Lin Dai's status on the silver altar, the more isolated her ideology will be, and the more her psychological development will be disconnected from modern society. Over the years, she has been driven by the pursuit of wealth and the maintenance of honor, and her inner tension has greatly affected her family life.