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Byrne Anderson
In 1970, late bloomer Luchino Visconti wanted to make a film of German writer Thomas Mann's famous novella "Broken Soul Venice".
The German composer Aschenbach came to Venice and met a Polish boy, Tachio, in a hotel. The boy's face like a Greek sculpture made him fall in love with him. Then, Aschenbach suddenly found that the city of Venice had been shrouded in the plague, and he did not try to escape like the others, but in order to see Tachio more, he was willing to contract the plague and die here...
The story is not complicated, but Tazio's actor is not easy to find, he needs to have the handsome face of Naxos in Greek mythology, bright and amorous eyes, golden curls like the sun god Apollo, ivory neck and plump lips. Anyone who saw him would be captivated by his outstanding beauty and mesmerized by him.
Lucchino Visconti
Visconti traveled all over Europe, from Norway to Sweden, from schools to gyms, searching for a Tachio actor, and finally found a 15-year-old Swedish teenager Bern Anderson who was auditioned by his grandmother in a grand casting.
Byrne Anderson
When Visconti saw Anderson for the first time, he decided that this was his Tachio, because the boy had a characteristic "death-scented beauty".
"Beautiful!" Visconti yelled, "Tell him to undress." The casting director next to Anderson immediately left the boy naked, and the cameraman quickly focused the camera on Anderson, who was only wearing underwear.
Byrne Anderson
"You stare at the camera now and walk around the room at will." Visconti issued a new directive.
The boy was a little confused, his face showing a muffled confusion, fear, shyness, and a little excitement.
Byrne Anderson
Visconti couldn't help but say, "Hey, he's an angel of death!" Obviously, the male lead of this film has been found, and the unknown teenager Bern Anderson was selected, and will forever be remembered in the history of world cinema.
Byrne Anderson
But Anderson didn't expect that the movie would also open up a nightmare that would last his life.
01 Unloved children
To this day, Anderson does not know who his father is. His greatest wish for many years was simply to see his father with his own eyes. "I hope to see him in just five minutes."
Bern Anderson as a baby
Some say he died, others say he abandoned the family, but even his mother's best friend doesn't know who Anderson's father is, and the mother herself is silent.
For as long as Anderson can remember, he has lived with his mother, sister and stepfather. The younger sister Anneco is only 1 year different in age with him, and the relationship between the two siblings has been very close since they were very young.
Anderson with mother and sister
Her mother, Pablo Anderson, was a very elegant woman. When she was young, she worked as a Dior model for a while, liked to write poetry and paint, and held exhibitions of her own works.
Anderson with mother and sister
In the few family photos that remain, she always smiles warmly and cares for her two children, but in fact, this young and beautiful mother has been suffering from depression. Trying to keep smiling may have drained her, so when Anderson was 10 years old, his mother suddenly disappeared from his life.
The police searched for a long time, but what they found was a cold corpse, and Pablo Anderson committed suicide.
Anderson and sister Nicole
"I am an unloved child." Byrne Anderson returns to his stepfather's home, but the chains that hold him to the family are broken, leaving him at a loss every day. Frankly speaking, his stepfather treated him well, at least in material life, but spiritual emptiness spread throughout his life.
Junior Anderson
Anderson with his sister Nicole
He immersed himself in music, as if only music could wrap his fearful self tightly. Anderson fell in love with music at a very young age, and with the support of his mother, he studied music theory with a piano teacher from the age of 3. The little boy once shared his dream with his mother - to form a band with like-minded friends and then play around! However, the man who could share the dream left, and my grandmother had a different view of his future. Such a beautiful and lovely grandson, what an honor it should be to stand under the magnesium light!
Pablo Anderson
The old man took his grandson around auditioning, and before Visconti found him, Anderson had already played a small role in the "Swedish Love Story" film.
Then, the audition at the beginning of the article happened. Visconti didn't speak Swedish, Anderson didn't speak Italian, and the two couldn't communicate and communicate at all. Anderson was blankly urged by the assistant director to take off only a pair of underwear, and then was directed to walk around the venue. Take a picture, take a picture or take a picture ... Anderson doesn't know how many shots he's been filmed for, and he hasn't reacted from his confusion to get the role.
Byrne Anderson
Visconti later said at the end of the documentary In Search of Tazio: "Now he is Taccio, just Tarchio, a truly beautiful creature. " ”
02 Director Visconti
With the development of modern society, people are becoming more and more tolerant of homosexuality.
Same-sex love has existed since ancient times, but it has been kept secret because it violates the teachings. In Western societies, where Christianity is the dominant religion, homosexuality is mostly seen as a manifestation of sickness and evil, and in the Middle Ages it was punished with long imprisonment, hard labor, burning at the stake, hanging and so on.
Gay logo rainbow flag
With the development of modern science, the decline of homosexuals from sinners to the level of patients has somewhat alleviated the situation of this small group, but it is still a capital crime that can be avoided, and a living crime is difficult to forgive.
Wilde and Posey
In 1895, the famous literary magnate Oscar Wilde was convicted of indecency and sentenced to 2 years in prison for his "love" with Alfred Douglas (Posey), a sentence that was warmly welcomed by the public. Wilde went from a high-profile playwright to a morally bankrupt youth, his wife and friends left him, his books were never published again, and he eventually died of poverty.
Alan Turing
In 1954, Alan Turing, a British mathematician and the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, was found by British police to be guilty of "obvious indecency and sexual inversion". After receiving chemical castration, that is, injecting female hormone therapy for more than 1 year, he chose to eat an apple containing cyanide and died of poisoning at the age of 42.
Homosexuals have always wanted to be treated the same way, to have the same rights. However, the road is long, and they can only subtly use various means to seek power and resist oppression, which they consider to be liberation.
Lucchino Visconti
Lucino Visconti, born in Milan, Italy in 1906, is a famous Italian film director, screenwriter and producer.
Visconti was born into the Modrone family, one of the prominent families in Lombardy in northern Italy, and was the seventh child of the duke. As an aristocrat, he was influenced by literature, art, and opera since he was a child, and it was not until he was 30 years old that he chose to enter the film industry and became a maverick director with his unique aesthetic.
Visconti with Alain Delon
As an actual homosexual, Visconti was secretive about his sexuality, insisting that he was bisexual, but in fact all the people he was close to were of the same sex.
Helmut Berg
For example, Alain Delon became a hit after starring in Visconti's "Locke and His Brother", and later participated in several Visconti films in a row. According to Alain Delon in his autobiography, he had an almost platonic spiritual relationship with Visconti. However, the handsome Alain Delon is not Visconti's lover, and Helmut Berg followed Visconti until the director's death after the director's work "Big Dipper" was a trick. In 1998, Berg published his autobiography, "I", referring to his relationship with Visconti as "marriage" and referring to himself as the "undead" of the other, "from then on, there was no joy in life".
Byrne Anderson
Some people think that Visconti filmed "Broken Soul Venice" to foreshadow his life: attracted by the beauty of the same sex, and finally put aside the tangled heart, put aside the worldly ethics, and bravely welcome pure love.
Anderson has no idea about the fight for homosexuality and the director's mental journey, he is just a 15-year-old teenager, he has not yet developed a love for men and women, and he does not know that he is about to step into the crew, most of whom are gay.
03 "Broken Soul" Cannes
As soon as the novel "Venice with Broken Souls" was published, it caused great controversy in society.
Byrne Anderson
No matter how beautifully the writer describes this encounter, in essence, this is a male version of "Lolita". An old man falls in love with a beautiful boy at first sight, tailgating, peeping, lustful... Unlike the complex inner changes of the character of Aschenbach, Tarchio brings people a beauty impact, but everything he does stays at the level of beauty, although there is no catharsis of lust, but everywhere embodies the symbol of same-sex love.
Visconti didn't build Anderson as well as he did with Berg.
Byrne Anderson
What he fancy is Anderson's androgynous beauty, the boy's undeveloped youthful and fragile carcass and his pale and delicate face.
He didn't need to hone the boy's acting skills, he just said to the boy: "Yes, go over, stop, and turn back." "Anderson was like a tool man from start to finish, just walking around in front of the camera, turning around, looking up, smiling, and so on. What kind of emotional mining, what kind of expressive physical movements, all are not needed.
Byrne Anderson
Only when the boys were noisy and scrambling in the sun would Visconti sink his face and make Anderson stop immediately.
"No football, no sunbathing, no swimming!"
Visconti looked the boy in front of him up and down, as if looking at a beautiful vase. He loves the vase, but never respects a "tool".
Byrne Anderson
Anderson was happy, he followed the director's instructions and completed the action over and over again, just like a normal, serious child working during the school holidays. At that time, Anderson did not know what an actor and star was, but it was a summer job that brought him a lot of income.
Byrne Anderson
It wasn't until 1971, when "Venice was broken" was released at the Cannes Film Festival, that Anderson knew what kind of film he was participating in. Even more ridiculous, Visconti dropped a large portion of the publicity on the teenager's fragile shoulders, which is not fair to a 16-year-old.
Visconti constantly praised Anderson's looks, putting the title of "the world's most beautiful boy" on his head.
Byrne Anderson
The nickname soon spread like wildfire on the prairie, and Anderson seemed to be held high. But on the other hand, Visconti openly said frivolously in front of the media: "He (Anderson) has grown a year older, he has grown taller, he is not so beautiful anymore..." Even though Anderson was just a fledgling 16-year-old, he could see that he was being used.
But what about knowing?
Byrne Anderson
The helpless little lamb is swept up by a well-known director and rushes into a living nightmare... To promote the film, Visconti and Berg took the entire crew, including underage Anderson, into a gay club.
Byrne Anderson
It took much longer for Anderson to recount the experience: "I wasn't taken care of, the waiters upset me, they all stared at me as if I was a delicious dish, and I knew that if I couldn't resist at the time, it would be tantamount to ruining the future..."
Anderson with the crew in Cannes
The naked gaze brings a lot of trouble to the sensitive and introverted boy. He stiffened his body and kept dodging, but he was still poured with alcohol by someone... For many years after that, when he dreamed back at midnight, he would wake up and sit up, hoping that everything would exist only in the dream.
04 Ten years from now
This is just the beginning.
Visconti's lover Helmut Berg was afraid of a new "favorite" around the director, and he seemingly inadvertently revealed false information such as the chaotic private life of the teenager in front of the media and the habit of abusing drugs, which made Anderson's reputation plummet.
Helmut Berg
Movie themes and deliberate marketing, Anderson was labeled "gay". He is like the beautiful young woman Marina in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", chased, stalked, and spied on by men who love the same sex.
At first, the boy was unaware, and some people approached him with bad intentions, but he thought that these people were good fans and friends, but he did not expect that those people were covetous.
Byrne Anderson
Wealthy male admirers invited him to dinner and stuffed him with a large number of expensive gifts. "The others are so nice." Anderson couldn't help but think. When he received the gentleman's love poem the next day, Anderson noticed something strange. He finally realized that these people saw him as a chase, and they walked beside him, pulling him, as if showing off the "world's most beautiful boy" in their arms.
Byrne Anderson's trip to Japan
In August 1971, Anderson visited Japan with the crew to promote the upcoming "Venice of Broken Souls".
Japan is perhaps the country that loves beautiful teenagers the most. Every few years, there will be one: "beautiful boy at the end of the century", "beautiful boy without gender", "beautiful boy once in a millennium". Perhaps the general public feels that the adult world is too realistic, has lost its dreamy beauty, and can only have a pure and flawless face and heart in adolescence.
Griffith in Kentaro Miura's "The Legend of Sword Wind"
Gilbert, the protagonist of Keiko Takemiya in "Poems of Wind and Wood"
The Oscar of women dressed as men in Riyoko Ikeda's "The Rose of Versailles"
So, when Bourne Anderson appeared in front of the Japanese people, he directly broke the Japanese defense with his amazing beauty.
First, the manga artists broke their defenses, and Kentaro Miura spent the beautiful Griffith based on Anderson in "The Legend of Sword Wind".
Gilbert, the protagonist of Keiko Takemiya 'Poetry of Wind and Wood", is a slender and fragile beautiful boy with blonde hair.
The Oscar of women dressed as men in Riyoko Ikeda's "The Rose of Versailles", certified by the cartoonist himself, was entirely based on Anderson, and he is a sample.
Byrne Anderson
There are even avid fans, holding small scissors and squeezing through the crowd to Anderson's side, wanting to cut off a strand of his blonde hair...
Anderson was a little overwhelmed by the fanatical behavior of fans, but he still flew to Japan twice at the urging of his agent, recording records, shooting commercials, shooting magazines, signing books... The overloaded work has overwhelmed the introverted boy, and the gossip has hurt his body like a bone scraper.
Byrne Anderson
While Anderson was busy working overseas, all kinds of gossip did not stop, and he "died" in car accidents, air accidents and drug abuse. The media doesn't care what the facts are, people like classical tragic stories and break good things for others to see.
Byrne Anderson
In 1976, Anderson was inexplicably involved in a murder case. Although the final investigation proved that he had nothing to do with the matter, his reputation had been completely ruined, and he had changed from a beautiful boy sought after by thousands of people to a disgusted "bad boy".
Byrne Anderson
No one understood him, no one cared what he thought, and at this time only the gay community stood by his side and defended him. Anderson should be relieved, shouldn't he? But it was clear to him that the GAYs supported their own group, not Bern Anderson himself. As for those ulterior motives of comfort and support, he is heterosexual and absolutely impossible to respond.
Byrne Anderson
Hollywood directors extended olive branches to him, but these people's interest was limited to his appearance and figure, and they wanted to invite him to participate in same-sex movies, which he avoided. Anderson hated this circle, he felt like a piece of fat, chased and coveted by countless pairs of eyes in the dark. His identity has been taken away and he has become a commodity, an aesthetic to be consumed, which has left him in a deep depression.
Byrne Anderson
"I want to be an adult right away, and then age and die quickly."
When all the efforts became in vain, the extremely disappointed Anderson chose to disappear from the entertainment industry.
05 Beauty is not guilty
Anderson chose to return to his hometown of Stockholm to become a music teacher.
Bourne Anderson, who loves music
These were rare peaceful years, and the outside noise seemed to have nothing to do with him anymore. He cuts his hair, picks up music again, and meets a beautiful poetess: Susan.
Susan loves music as much as he does, and when it comes to music, both of their eyes sparkle with the same bright light.
"She loves me, not this pathetic skin, but my heart!" Anderson and Susan quickly fall in love.
Anderson and Susan
In 1983, Anderson married Susan, and rumors about his sexuality were dispelled.
After that, Susan gave birth to two daughters, and his happy family life seemed to heal the boy, allowing him to gradually come out of the shadows, hold the child, and hold his wife's hand towards the sun.
Anderson's family of three
However, fate did not give him a good life, and in 1986, his son was born, but he died of sudden infant death syndrome 9 months later.
The child died suddenly, but Anderson blamed everything on himself.
Anderson's family of three
Susan struggled to get out of the pain of losing her child, and she kept reassuring her husband: "Don't blame yourself, you're an amazing dad." But it didn't work at all, Anderson was like being dragged by a mysterious falling force towards the abyss of hell, and no one could stop it.
Middle-aged Byrne Anderson
He was diagnosed with depression, began to drink heavily, and then his marriage to Susan came to an end.
The depraved life lasted for several years, locking himself up in a small, dilapidated apartment, allowing alcohol and cigarettes to erode his natural beauty. When he reappeared in people's sight, he was already unrecognizable.
Today's Bourne Anderson
With long silver-gray hair, eyebrows and beard are completely gray, it seems that he can play the elderly Dumbledore as long as he changes into a robe. His cheekbones were towering, and he couldn't wait to poke through the thin flesh and rush out, poking two holes in his skinny face. Years of tragic experience also left deep ravines in the corners of his eyes and cheeks, time has taken away the beauty that the boy once had, and now it has become his executor, and the never-ending clock is eating away at his value.
Visconti with his lover Beg
Visconti, who lifted him to the top and knocked him to dust, is dead, Helmut Berg, who trampled him into the mud, and Bern Anderson is no longer the Tachio in "Broken Venice", he is a septuagenarian old man. He muttered in a low voice: "There is nothing more impure in this world than old age".
Today's Bourne Anderson
He played supporting roles in movies, was a musician, and even if the invitation to perform came from a small restaurant, he would gladly go. He has performed in theatres, dramas, uninvited times, even part-time jobs in shops, and worked as a jailer at Stockholm State Prison...
His apartment remained dirty until his girlfriend came to clean it up.
Elderly Byrne Anderson
But now Anderson can face the experience of being objectified as a teenager, acknowledging the huge shadow cast on him by his father's absence and his mother's disappearance and suicide. He no longer marries and only hopes that his daughters will not go through the stories he experienced when he was younger. He entertained his grandchildren and regarded them as treasures...
Byrne Anderson with his granddaughters
Occasionally on the street, he is recognized by past fans, and Anderson has been able to shrug calmly: "Everyone still wants to see the 'most beautiful boy' through me." And the truth is that I became the 'oldest teenager' in the world. ”
Byrne Anderson with short hair
A piano, a cat, a dog and a hamster, two lovely grandchildren accompanied him, which may be the stability and happiness Anderson wants.
Bourne Anderson as a teenager
Anderson was finally able to put this sentence into his mouth: "Although my life has had ups and downs, I believe that beauty is not wrong." ”
Of course, beauty is not guilty, but if there is no power to match, it is really dangerous for people who only have beauty to walk in the world.
Not only beautiful women will be called red face and bad water, but even beautiful men are also walking on thin ice.
Byrne Anderson
Writing here, I suddenly understood Alain Delon, known as "Jalan". He has failed countless people in his life, making countless tears sad for him, but he has never failed himself for a moment. With the same natural beauty, Alain Delon is at ease among all parties. The same Muse of Visconti, but Berg never managed to get half a cent of the favor in his hands... Alain's life was noisy and unleashed, but he always firmly held his fate in his hands.
Byrne Anderson
Bourne Anderson is different, he is pure, vulnerable, innocent... His early life was too simple, and he suddenly fell into the big dye vat of the entertainment industry, and after several struggles, he still became a "loser" swallowed by chaos. escaped from the big screen, but could not escape the tragic fate, can only sink and struggle in confusion.
Byrne Anderson
People want to like the most beautiful boy in the world, but this boy wants to grow old as soon as possible, because only when he gets old can he return to the original rhythm of life.
Byrne Anderson
Byrne Anderson is old, and he has finally regained his peaceful years.