The movie "Red Sorghum" is the 33rd anniversary of its release.
In 1988, Gong Li and Jiang Wen agreed to come to the Beijing International Film Festival in 2021 to present awards. 33 years later, the two arrived as promised, accompanied by the classic "Sister You Boldly Go Forward" soundtrack to the stage.
Along with them, ge you and Chen Daoming also presented the award.
Chen Daoming ridiculed Gong Li on the spot, saying that she was "the most honored person in the whole field". Because, her three "husbands" - Jiang Wen, Ge You, and Chen Daoming were all present.
Gong Li's love affair with the three "husbands" was concluded in Zhang Yimou's three films, "Red Sorghum", "Alive" and "Return".
Her honor depends on the drama.
Gong Li is very poisonous.
Talking about the entertainment industry, she said: "What is the entertainment industry? I don't understand that people who want to be entertained can go to the casino, and the cinema can't give you entertainment. ”
Talking about the tears of the movie, she said: "Is good crying the standard of a good movie and a good actor?" The standard for the audience is also too low! ”
Talking about the box office and ratings, she said: "The box office of a movie does not prove the quality of a movie, but it just means that there is a good movie, and I hope that more audiences can see it." As for this flap and that eye, those who rate movies are unfair to filmmakers and the film industry. ”
Stills from "Lyceum Theatre"
Gong Li is also very unique.
"If there is no new drama, it is rare to see Gong Li." This is almost the unanimous evaluation of Gong Li in the media circles. Over the years, she has always kept her distance from the entertainment industry and rarely appeared in entertainment news.
Except for acting, Gong Li had no time to take care of anything.
She has no Weibo, does not participate in reality shows, does not go to variety shows, does not go to any talent shows as judges, never walks the red carpet without works, and does not even open a personal studio.
All the ways that the outside world sees as "coming quickly" and "earning fame", Gong Li does not touch them.
She only asked herself to shrink the circle of life to the minimum of her ability.
"As a public figure, sharing my film is enough. I don't care how much I endorse, how much exposure I have, what I care about is what kind of impression I leave on the screen. ”
She likes to separate life from work.
At work, she is wholeheartedly committed to creating a perfect environment. In life, she is a very simple and quiet person who likes to live a relaxed life.
She believes that "ease" in life is conducive to storing energy that can be completely exploded into work.
"It takes me 6 to 7 months to make a movie, 2 to 3 months to experience life, and 3 to 4 months to act in a movie, and the year is gone."
Gong Li photographed the cover of the magazine Jia Ren
At this year's 11th Beijing Film Festival, she not only served as the "Chairman of the Jury of the Temple of Heaven Award", but the organizers also set up a "Retrospective Exhibition of Gong Li's Works".
Scheduled for October 15, the new work "Lyceum Grand Theatre" with Zhao Youting, Zhang Songwen, Wang Chuanjun and others appeared as the closing film of the film festival.
A 56-year-old sister in the Chinese film industry, she has always been "poisonous" and "exclusive".
But, everyone just loves her. Love her beauty, dedication, confidence, professionalism, and strong aura.
When everyone is still discussing how to define independent women, Gong Li has spent 30 years and used 33 movies to explain to everyone what a real independent woman should look like.
The name of this person is called "Gong Huang".
The 11th Beijing International Film Festival
If you want to choose an actor to represent the image of Chinese women, Gong Li may be the best candidate.
On October 10, 1988, "Red Sorghum" premiered in China. Like a wild, never-extinguishing torch, the film burned all the way to the Berlin Film Festival, winning the Golden Bear Award in one fell swoop, becoming the first Chinese film to win this award.
That year, Gong Li was 23 years old, and her international status as a first-line actor was laid, and she was a star that the people of the country talked about.
She became one of the "old three things of China" (Tiananmen, the Great Wall and Gong Li) among the Western population, and was called the "Pearl of the East" by foreign journalists.
Her looks, acting skills, dress, movie clips, and 10-second "sky-high" advertisements, each of which will be singled out for judgment.
But as many people as there are obsessed with her, as many people are keen to talk about her gossip.
Among them, the most talked about is the love between her and director Zhang Yimou, which is 15 years apart.
Zhang Yimou & Gong Li
Talented directors, sharp actors, the two are both lovers in life and golden partners in work.
Zhang Yimou, as a director, once said: "She is the actress who has cooperated with me the most, and she has a special charm. It's not good to have a second person. It's kind of like the only meaning. ”
The two have cooperated in many excellent works - "Alive", "Ju Dou", "The Big Red Lantern Hangs High", "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit", "Returns", "Full of Golden Armor" ...
In order to play with Gong Li, Zhang Yimou even took the initiative to put down the artist's body to star in the commercial film "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Figurines".
In "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Figurines", Zhang Yimou plays with Gong Li
In the movie, the two have a lot of intimate scenes. This was a "blatant sweetness" for the two people who were in an underground love affair at the time.
For 8 years, they have been in love.
He divorced her, and she said to him, "If we get married, I'll be a housewife at home and have three or four children for you." ”
In 1995, after filming the last shot of "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge", Zhang Yimou announced to the outside world that "from now on, this woman has nothing to do with me."
8 years of love and long-distance running, officially ended.
That year, Gong Li was 30 years old and Zhang Yimou was 45 years old.
Gong Li & Huang Hexiang
The following year, Zhang Yimou married his wife Chen Ting, who was 31 years younger than him, and Gong Li turned around and married Huang Hexiang, a Hong Kong businessman who was 11 years older than her.
Since then, the gossip surrounding Gong Li has been escalating.
After ending her 13-year marriage with Huang Hexiang, she was rumored to have an affair with Sun Zhou, the director of "Pretty Mother", and also worshipped her Sun Honglei as a goddess because of her participation in "Zhou Yu's Train", and some people said that she really did it with Zhang Zhen through "Eros"...
Internationally, her lace news has never stopped.
Kissing and kissing The Young Hannibal cinematographer Chang; having a fiery fight with Hollywood actor Colin Farrell; having a two-hour night party with producer John Cusack...
In contrast, now, except for one film work per year, no one knows what Gong Li is doing.
People don't know what her home looks like, who she usually interacts with, where she travels, and which brands she likes.
People can't even remember his husband's name.
What everyone feels more is that she is a "SHE" in the history of film that can be capitalized as "HE", and is a unique cultural label and benchmark in the international film industry.
Her acting skills, honed over decades, have allowed her to create a series of classic roles and win more than thirty gold medal awards at home and abroad.
Gong Li & Zhang Guorong
Internationally, she is the first Chinese film queen at the Venice International Film Festival ("Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit") and the first Chinese actress to appear on the cover of Time Magazine.
At the same time, she was awarded the Order of Literature and Art by the French Minister of Culture and was selected as one of the 16 artists who have influenced human culture and art.
She has starred in films that have won the highest awards at three major European international film festivals in Berlin ("Red Sorghum"), Venice ("Qiu Ju Fights the Lawsuit"), and Cannes ("Farewell to the King"), and won the Best Actress Award and the World Film Artist Achievement Award at the Montreal International Film Festival.
She was included in People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful women in the world and was chaired by the jury at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival.
And, at the Cannes Film Festival, she set the highest courtesy of the red carpet of the opening ceremony of the Chinese film star - clearing.
The gossip of the past, with the passage of time, in the long river of Gong Li's 30 years of film history, is like the sand under the vast starry sky, so small and not worth mentioning.
Gong Li has been repeatedly named the sexiest and most beautiful woman in the world.
Columnist Hong Huang commented that Gong Li's beauty belongs to the movie. "She's not very thin, her head and face are not very small, but she is beautiful, and she has always been beautiful."
But Gong Li herself believes that beauty is worthless.
Compared with others praising her beauty, the affirmations of Spielberg, executive producer of "Memoirs of a Geisha", Wong Kar-wai, director of "Eros", and singer Fei Xiang obviously make her more useful.
Spielberg said: "After watching 'The Red Lantern Hangs High', I decided that I must cooperate with her, and now it has finally happened! ”
Wong Kar-wai said: "Shooting for 48 hours in a row will be a very anxious thing, but Gong Li is just the opposite, not only does she not have the slightest tiredness on her face, but she looks more and more spiritually beautiful." She just has the ability to attract the camera 1,000 times, and among the actors I have worked with, I think she is the most talented. ”
Fei Xiang said: "Gong Li's performance swept the entire screen, and with her exit, the film began to become boring. ”
Even Andy Lau, who is 6 years older than Gong Li, called her "Gong Li Sister".
Gong Li & Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi's idol when he was young was also Gong Li.
According to Zhang Ziyi's classmates, when she was studying, others praised her for being particularly like Gong Li above her mouth, and she was happy to blossom in her heart, and she also pasted a large photo of Gong Li wearing a duck tongue hat on the wall of the dormitory, looking at her all day long.
Years later, they met at a film festival. Zhang Ziyi once again verified that her admiration was worthy of it- "She is particularly polite and graceful. ”
Whether others praise Gong Li for being beautiful or sexy, she doesn't care. She always felt that all this must be linked to her own work.
Gong Li's nude lips attended the event
When attending the event, Gong Li was basically naked lips.
In the face of netizens' doubts, she said bluntly: "I will not go with the flow, others make a big red mouth I also want to get a big red mouth, thank you for the netizens to remind, but I will not do that." It's my style. Of course, I can try, but on important occasions, I still have to show myself. ”
In daily life, Gong Li is always questioned for being fat. But as soon as she faced the camera, she was back.
"In life, I am an ordinary person, I don't need to demand perfection everywhere, I am an actor, I am only responsible for the work." 」
When Yang Lan asked Gong Li if her beauty would allow a girl to have everything, she directly vetoed it.
"It's a very naïve idea. A girl must show her worth in society, if there is no ability, she will soon wither. ”
The profession of actor has left Gong Li in a state of wandering for a long time.
Crews run all over the world all year round, and her suitcase is always open. "Wash the clothes and put them straight away, and don't use things that will never be taken out." Because I always leave after a few days, going home is like going to a restaurant. ”
This life can sometimes make her feel monotonous, but she never feels insecure.
When asked by the media, "Will this make you lose a traditional family life, and will you be entangled", Gong Li did not want to answer: "I have long been prepared." I will only be a good actor, it is the love of my life, indispensable. ”
Gong Li under Wong Kar Wai's lens
Today's Gong Li, self-confidence comes entirely from work, not from feelings and marriage.
"Marriage is only a guarantee for society, a guarantee for one's own heart. But in fact, it is just a piece of paper, and having a piece of paper does not mean that you can grow old from white head, and emotions still need to be cared for and maintained by people and people.
Women have a different division of labor in the family and society, and men and women do not need to save each other, but help each other. Men will not be unable to live without women, women will not be unable to live without men, just mutual understanding. ”
"Isn't marriage just a piece of paper?" Why do you have to value this piece of paper? This sentence that Zhang Yimou used to hurt Gong Li was now completely dissolved by Gong Li.
She knows that women's creativity is to find their own position, find the goal they can achieve best, go in this direction, and go all the way to black.
In this life, Gong Li is destined to grope in the world of movies.
Gong Li began acting at the age of 18, and her lifelong wish is to be a good actor.
A while ago, when she was shooting the cover of a magazine, she suddenly shed tears silently.
The shoot focused on her most familiar set routine, presenting her familiar script, figuring out the characters, and performing under the camera.
"Every time I see a familiar camera, I am touched and awestruck."
The camera records Gong Li's dedication and dedication to her work. As an actress, she has always had a spirit of ingenuity – "I am an actor, and acting is the only thing I can do." ”
"Farewell to the Overlord"
She describes her love of acting this way: "I haven't given up on any shots, not even half a second. ”
During the filming of "Farewell to the Overlord", Gong Li's sister died of breast cancer, and the crew only gave her a day off. She had to adjust her state the next day, rush back to the crew, and continue to shoot the scene where Ju Xian, played by her, and Xiao Lou, played by Zhang Fengyi, got married.
In the shot, the fireworks woman calculates to marry a celebrity, which is the most proud moment of her life. When she kissed, she lifted her own hijab and kicked open the rolled red carpet.
After returning to the hotel, Gong Li stuck on the bed and cried bitterly.
The media asked Gong Li: "After experiencing a major crisis and still filming, will there be a feeling of being torn apart?" ”
Gong Li replied: "After filming, how to go home and how to cry is your own business." I can't vent my emotions on the lens that film history will keep forever because of myself. ”
Lyceum Theatre
This time, when filming "Lyceum Theatre", Gong Li played the role of a spy who would use a long gun with great recoil.
She practiced hanging a sandbag on her arm for 2 months until she reached the point where she could shoot several shots with one hand and her arm wouldn't move.
For a certain scene in the movie, she desperately practiced dismantling the rusty gun, and her hands were all worn.
Finally, that shot was cut.
Gong Li did not feel any regrets. "That shot is really not necessary, but the actor needs to build confidence by learning the character's skills."
When filming "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit", Gong Li and her partner Liu Peiqi went to buy medicine for the assistant director. On the way, a person selling turnips recognized Gong Li and wanted to ask her for an autograph, but unfortunately did not have a pen and paper at hand.
The man struggled to find a ballpoint pen, and when he saw a very dirty cigarette box on the ground, he was disappointed and embarrassed to pick up the cigarette box.
At this time, Gong Li squatted down, picked up the cigarette box, wiped it flat, and then signed his name and gave it to the man who sold turnips.
This detail is often reminiscent of a series of exemplary female figures in Modern and Contemporary Chinese history.
They are able peasant women, gentle and virtuous wives, aunts who struggle to survive in feudal houses while competing for favors, female college students who pursue independence and self-reliance, Qinglou women who have beautiful bones and do not lose their proud bones, laid-off female workers and beautiful single mothers...
Either one has the tenacity and tolerance of "Mother Earth".
Red Sorghum
This tenacity and tolerance extends to real life, and it translates into piety to performance, and full respect for those who love their performances.
Even in many male-dominated films, Gong Li's strong, independent image still adds a lot to herself, and until now, perhaps some people have defeated her, but no one has really posed a threat to her.
As an actor, Gong Li holds the principle of dedication and professionalism, and has consistently and carefully interpreted each role for thirty years;
As a judge, she maintains the grace and grace of authoritative women, upholds justice and hard bones, and with her, fairness is there;
As a woman, she is affectionate and open-minded in her life and emotions, breaking through traditional female values and practicing the calm beauty of being loyal to herself.
In the public discourse system, she is committed to modern women's rights.
In the eyes of world moviegoers, she is the face of indomitable China, representing 1.3 billion Chinese and launching it around the world.