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Wen 丨 Yu Huan
Editor丨虞晞晞陞陞Huan
When you think of Maggie Cheung, what comes to mind?
Is it the enchanting and glamorous, glamorous "most photogenic Miss Hong Kong"?
Or Ruan Lingyu, who is full of sorrow and despair, and the green snake that shows charm in her hands?
Or the pure and lovely A'e, the charming and spicy gold-encrusted jade, the heartbreaking Li Qiao, and the mysterious and amorous Su Lizhen?
Since Maggie Cheung engaged in the film industry, she has made 81 films in 20 years, won 24 queen trophies, and swept various awards at home and abroad.
Today, Maggie Cheung has been out of film for 19 years, but she used to be in the film industry, and she actually pedaled a bicycle and wore cheap stalls to shuttle through the slums.
As a generation of film queens, why did Maggie Cheung choose Xiying at her peak?
What happened in the past nineteen years?
From Hong Kong sister to vase
In the 80s of the last century, "Miss Hong Kong" can be said to be synonymous with beauty, and almost all girls want to have the aura of "Hong Kong sister", and Maggie Cheung is the same.
Despite her mother's objections, Maggie Cheung signed up for the Miss Hong Kong pageant that year, and surprisingly, Maggie Cheung passed five levels and cut six generals all the way to the final.
In the end, Maggie Cheung was second only to Yang Xueyi and won the runner-up of Miss Hong Kong that year, although she was not the champion, she became the "most photogenic Miss Hong Kong" of that year.
Taking this opportunity, Maggie Cheung successfully signed a contract with Hong Kong Radio and began her acting career.
In an interview show called "No Defense Tonight", when asked about this by the host, Maggie Cheung replied very frankly: "I just covet vanity to participate in the beauty pageant."
Maggie Cheung, who is so calm and faces her desires, is really difficult for people not to love.
In her second year as a Hong Kong sister, Maggie Cheung starred in her first movie "The Frog Prince".
Maggie Cheung, who has the blessing of Hong Kong sister's halo, was the protagonist in her first play, and in the same year, Maggie Cheung collaborated with Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui in her second play "Fate".
With this film, Maggie Cheung was also named the "Most Promising Newcomer Award" at the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards.
Although Maggie Cheung's starting point is very high, she even won the "Most Promising Newcomer Award" one year after her debut,
But this does not solve the problem that she is not from a scientific background and her acting skills are exaggerated and blunt.
Various doubts came along with praise, and some people commented on her: "Empty beauty, no acting skills."
With a good-looking skin bag, but no interesting soul, it is fitting to describe Maggie Cheung in this period.
In the face of doubts, Maggie Cheung, who is so strong, is also quite unconvinced in her heart.
From vase to powerhouse
Maggie Cheung's outstanding appearance not only brings her opportunities, but also limits her development to a certain extent.
In 1984, director Yang Fan planned to remake Yishu's novel "The Story of the Rose".
Before the remake, Yang Fan specifically asked Yishu if there was a suitable candidate for the heroine "Rose" in her heart.
Yishu blurted out "Maggie Cheung" and bluntly said, "I don't care if she can act or not, as long as she comes out, I want to watch." ”
Under Yishu's strong recommendation, Maggie Cheung successfully got the role of "Rose".
But some people also questioned that Maggie Cheung, who has a pure and lovely appearance, has always played some young and delicate girls.
Young and immature, she is very different from the mature intellectual rose, can Maggie Cheung really play this role well?
Sure enough, the skepticism is not out of nowhere, and "The Story of the Rose" is indeed somewhat unsatisfactory.
However, surprisingly, Maggie Cheung's acting skills have improved significantly.
In order to fit the role of Rose, Maggie Cheung cut her long hair short, polished off the iconic tiger tooth, and had much less flesh on her face.
Compared with Maggie Cheung's previous pompous and blunt acting skills, the rose she played has some more thinking about the role and begins to slowly inject soul into the character.
If Maggie Cheung's acting skills are truly affirmed by the audience, it must be Wong Kar-wai's "Carmen in Mong Kok".
Regarding this movie, the film industry commented as follows: "Maggie Cheung met Wong Kar-wai, it was the most beautiful encounter in the film industry. ”
Under the guidance of Wong Kar-wai, Maggie Cheung completely substituted herself into the role, as if she was the lonely, helpless, but strong and fearless A'e.
Maggie Cheung under Wong Kar-wai's lens is charming but elegant, showing Maggie Cheung's beauty to the greatest extent.
In order to allow Maggie Cheung to perfectly play the role of Ah E, Wong Kar-wai asked Maggie Cheung: "If your boyfriend wanted to leave you, what would your reaction be?" Maggie Cheung seemed to have been opened to Ren Du's second vein at once.
When Andy Lau's boyfriend said goodbye to Maggie Cheung, her brows were wrinkled, her eyes were discolored, the corners of her mouth trembled slightly, and tears flowed down her lonely cheeks, raising her head to hide her sadness.
The performance of this scene directly sealed God, and the actors who worked with Maggie Cheung were shocked, and Maggie Cheung's progress was really shocking.
This play made Maggie Cheung nominated for the Academy Awards for the first time, and it was also the starting point for Maggie Cheung's serious performance.
24-year-old Maggie Cheung finally got rid of the title of "vase" through her own efforts.
After being consecrated as a god, he chose to rest the shadow
After "Carmen in Mong Kok", Maggie Cheung ushered in the peak of her acting career.
From 1988 to 1993, in just six years, Maggie Cheung made 57 films and won 11 trophies.
The most representative work of this period is "Ruan Lingyu", which was originally tailored for Anita Mui, but was accidentally "picked up" by Maggie Cheung.
Perhaps it was fate, the role of "Ruan Lingyu" made Maggie Cheung, and Maggie Cheung also made the movie "Ruan Lingyu".
A "Ruan Yuling" made Maggie Cheung win 7 awards, and this film received dozens of nominations of various sizes, and won countless awards.
It is also since the movie "Ruan Lingyu" that Maggie Cheung's drama path has become wider and wider, and the characters created have different personalities and very changeable images.
From her debut in 1984 to 1993, Maggie Cheung's film production in the past decade accounted for more than four-fifths of the total production so far, and the most she made 12 films that year.
Probably because the frequency of filming in the previous decade was too high, in 1994, Maggie Cheung decided to stop filming, which was also her first time to stop filming.
Until two years later, Maggie Cheung returned to the film industry, her development direction gradually changed to the international field, Maggie Cheung, who had precipitated for two years, began to continue to slow down the frequency of filming, and her acting skills improved again.
From 1996 to 2004, a total of 10 films were made in these 9 years, but won 18 awards.
With the French film "Clean", she became the first Cannes actress in Asia, so far Maggie Cheung was crowned a god and was affectionately called "Manshen" by fans.
Although Maggie Cheung's works during this period are not many, they are all excellent, such as "Sweet Honey" and "In the Mood for Love", etc., all of which have achieved great success.
However, after 2004, Maggie Cheung almost did not appear in the film industry again, and once again entered the film period, until today.
According to statistics, Maggie Cheung has won 10 titles such as Cannes, Berlin, Hawaii, Golden Horse, and Golden Statue in the 20 years she has been engaged in film, with a total of 24 trophies.
Today, Maggie Cheung, as the first best actor at the three major European international film festivals in Chinese film history, is still the most awarded film actor in the Chinese film industry, although she has been out of film for 19 years.
The road to love is bumpy
From the beginning of her debut until she stopped filming in 2004, Maggie Cheung's acting career can be described as quite smooth.
It is probably that the good fortune of Man God has given to the career, and there is no point left for love, so Man God's love road is extremely tragic.
At the age of 19, Maggie Cheung's love began to open and she fell in love with her hairstylist Eric, and soon the two lived together.
Until Eric's ex-girlfriend came to the door, Maggie Cheung was angrily accused of being a mistress and meddling in the relationship between the two.
Maggie Cheung then knew that when Eric lived with him, he had been entangled with his ex-girlfriend.
This made Maggie Cheung very angry, decisively ended the relationship, and then turned around and devoted herself to the career.
Maggie Cheung's second relationship is with a Korean named Kim, who is also a hairstylist.
When the two are in love, they will write love letters to each other, and once Maggie Cheung shared the love letter with a journalist friend, but the reporter changed hands and exploded the love letter.
It may be that the two people are not very serious about this relationship, and because of the "love letter incident", Maggie Cheung and Kim have been separated and merged many times, and finally ended the relationship.
Later, at the birthday banquet, Maggie Cheung met Er Dongsheng, and the two fell in love at first sight and quickly patted each other.
Friends around him also reminded Maggie Cheung that Er Dongsheng is a typical machismo and is not suitable for Maggie Cheung. But Maggie Cheung, who was carried away by love, couldn't listen to it at all.
Because of their incompatible personalities, the two frequently quarreled, and Er Dongsheng, who was tired of this kind of life, still proposed to break up, and Maggie Cheung also tried to keep it, but in the end, it didn't work.
In 1991, Maggie Cheung fell in love with art director Hank while filming "A Tale of Two Cities" in the United States.
In her spare time from filming, Maggie Cheung will write love letters to Hank, but Hank doesn't really like Maggie Cheung. It's just a love for Vanity Cheung's identity as a queen of the shadow.
He published Maggie Cheung's love letter to him in a magazine, hoping to blackmail Maggie Cheung.
This move attracted a lot of ridicule to Maggie Cheung, and the queen would even say such a blushing heartbeat.
Maggie Cheung, who was very shocked, hurriedly ended the relationship and resumed being single.
Maggie Cheung met Hong Kong real estate developer Song Xueqi after the first retreat, and the relationship between the two was very good, and there was once news that they were going to get married.
In 1995, when Hong Kong's real estate crisis put Soong Hak-kei's company on the verge of bankruptcy, Maggie Cheung took out all her savings to help him get through the difficulties, but despite this, Soong Hak-kei's company went bankrupt.
What's worse, Song Xueqi even betrayed Maggie Cheung and turned around and threw himself into the arms of a rich family.
At this time, Maggie Cheung is not only gone, but also her boyfriend, and our Manshen really can't look at people.
The following year, French director Assayas invited Maggie Cheung to France to shoot "Lost Robbery" because he appreciated Maggie Cheung's performance in "Three Heroes of the East", and the two fell in love with each other when they cooperated.
Not long after, Maggie Cheung announced that she and Assayas had registered their marriage in Paris, and this marriage is Maggie Cheung's only marriage so far.
I thought that Assayas was Maggie Cheung's true son, but who would have thought that when Maggie Cheung went out filming, Assayas had an affair with another woman, and the marriage ended after only more than three years.
However, dramatically, after the two divorced, they also collaborated on "Clean", and it was this movie that made Maggie Cheung win the Cannes actress.
epilogue
After the second retreat, Maggie Cheung also had several relationships one after another, but they all ended in failure as before.
Now Maggie Cheung is 59 years old, she has no husband and no children, and she is happy to live alone.
Some time ago, Maggie Cheung was exposed, dressed plainly, riding a bicycle to and from the "slums".
After breaking up with her last boyfriend, Maggie Cheung moved to an ordinary residential building, which is really chilling compared to other celebrities' palatial villas.
However, Man Shen, who has always been free and free-spirited, does not care much about material needs, and she lives alone when she is not active.
Walking her dog in the community, buying vegetables in the vegetable market, even if she is recognized, Maggie Cheung just smiled generously.
Maggie Cheung once said: "I just like acting, I don't like to be a star." ”
More than halfway through her life, she has enough strength in her heart to confidently do what she likes.
She has long looked down on all the glitz, she just wants to be herself obediently, no matter how many injuries she has suffered, no matter how old she is now, Maggie Cheung will always walk on the road Maggie Cheung wants to take.