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"I am originally a boy, and not a girl" a generation of classic gods, Leslie Cheung's "Farewell My Concubine" can be described as the pinnacle of the Chinese film industry, he carved his own style and peerless strokes into the bones of Cheng Dieyi, when the moment he put on the costume, every smile and every move is elegant.
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Leslie Cheung said "I don't want to be Cheng Dieyi, because I am much happier than him", in fact, when casting at that time, the director first looked at Zun Long who played Puyi in "The Last Emperor", his unique temperament and life experience are very suitable for the role of "Cheng Dieyi", because it is too similar, so that Zun Long is unwilling to play his "life" again.
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Zun Long has the appearance of "Asia's first beautiful man", is the first star to meet the aesthetic standards of the East and the West, and is also the second Chinese star to go to the world after Bruce Lee.
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His handsome long connection Lin Qingxia was fascinated, and when filming "The East is Undefeated", Lin Qingxia had to stay up late to play mahjong with Zun Long regardless of the morning show the next day.
At that time, he was the "fragrant food" of the entertainment industry, and major films and television programs were vying to invite him to shoot movies or magazines, and the movies shot by Zunlong have always been the most unique existence in the history of television, and his reputation has long become legendary.
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He is the reality version of "Cheng Dieyi", and even a little worse, Zun Long is a generation of superstars, but behind the glamorous screen is a lonely gray shadow.
"I don't know how to be a person, I haven't read books, I don't have parents to raise, I don't have a home, everything is out of me step by step" This is Zunlong's evaluation of himself, it is difficult to imagine that people with a luxurious temperament on their bodies, but their childhood life is hungry and abandoned many times.
"Abandoned Superstar"
A weak baby cry came from a corner on a street in Hong Kong, the noise of the street overshadowed his voice, seeing the baby crying more and more quietly, then a lame woman slowly walked towards him, the woman saw a baby curled up in the corner crying breathlessly.
There was only a torn cloth on the baby, there was nothing around to write his identity, the woman picked him up, the baby seemed to feel warmth, rubbed in his arms and stopped crying, the woman stared at the baby thoughtfully, thought for a while and took the baby home.
The woman is disabled, and the family is also poor and can't open the pot, but she still took the baby home, and gave him a name called Wu Guoliang, and he is the future Zunlong, just look at this woman so kind, it is simply "Our Lady on Earth".
In fact, in that era of hunger, where were there so many well-wishers, this disabled woman was just for the money subsidized by the government, and naturally it would not be much good for this picked up child.
Since he can remember, he has never eaten enough, only a bowl of white porridge with clear soup and little water a day, and in his consciousness he has never known what new clothes look like, only a rag covers his body in summer, and it will be better in winter at least a complete outfit.
The most important thing is that his adoptive mother either beats or scolds him whenever something unpleasant happens, and even thinks that Zunlong's thin bone frame hurts his hands, so she hits him with tools, and the young Zunlong can only grit his teeth and endure, because he knows that if it were not for this woman, he would have become a ghost.
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The adoptive mother wanted to leave him halfway several times, and once left Zun Long in the station in Hong Kong, and the two looked at each other for a long time, perhaps because the adoptive mother couldn't bear it, and finally took Zun Long's hand and returned to the small broken house.
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Later, Zun Long recalled: "The most important thing in my life was not movies or wealth, but I often thought of my adoptive mother and shed tears for her." ”
Although Zun Long was thin because of malnutrition, he looked good from the facial features, and his adoptive mother could naturally see it, so he sent the ten-year-old Zun Long to the Spring and Autumn Opera Society in Hong Kong to learn Peking Opera, and his teacher at that time was Ms. Dao Madan Pink Chrysanthemum of Peking Opera.
At that time, the adoptive mother had not yet named Zunlong, because he looked a bit like a mixed race, and everyone in the opera class called him "little mongrel, wild child", and this unspeakable name accompanied his entire youth, and the phrase "ten years of work on stage and off stage" is not just talk, the young Zunlong has a deep experience.
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His master is notoriously harsh, and if he can't learn to practice well, he can only score with a whip, which is the pain of the whip on the body, and several times Zun Long wanted to escape home, but this time he was caught by the master, and the result can be imagined, the whole garden is full of Zun Long's screams, and others are indeed used to it.
Only harsh whips and ugly insults accompanied by Zun Long in the theater class, this memory he can not forget for the rest of his life, the process is painful, but Master Yan is not unreasonable, under the master's stick Zun Long will soon be able to take over the business performance by himself, at that time there was a company to sign a ten-year contract with him, but Zun Long did not want to be trapped here for the rest of his life, so he directly refused.
The first half of Zunlong's life was simply gray, fortunately, God still favored him, an American couple traveled to Hong Kong, met the performance of Zunlong, the two were very optimistic about the teenager at that time, and decided to fund him to study in the United States.
Zunlong who came to the United States is not familiar with life, the most troublesome thing is the language barrier, but since he was a child, he has suffered everything, he is not afraid of this difficulty, first found a job that covers food and housing, the language barrier to observe the surrounding people's speech slowly imitation, this is not a way, when he got his first salary, he immediately signed up for an English class.
He kept changing jobs, but his studies did not fall behind, and he applied for more and more music, ballet, and English, just because he saw those bright stars on the poster, he seemed to have found hope in life, and only by working hard to climb up could he get out of this muddy swamp.
"Rise of the Superstars"
Zun Long, who aspires to be an actor, was finally admitted to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts through his own efforts, and he continued to take performances to hone his skills during school, and also received a lot of tricky movies, in the movie "King Kong" he played a Chinese chef, appearing in less than a minute.
At this time, he changed his name to Zunlong, English name "John Lone", after becoming famous, many directors are curious about Chinese actors, Huang Yumei is one of them, his artists have entered Hollywood, business ability is very strong, so he found Zunlong to recommend himself as his agent.
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In the presence of an agent to open the way, Zunlong's acting road has become smooth, he played a primitive man who can't speak in "40,000 Years of the Iceman", dark skin, rough hair and yellow teeth, no one can see that this is the handsome Zunlong, for Zunlong, appearance is just an auxiliary tool for acting, this movie has brought him a high popularity, so resources continue to find him.
In 1985, the "Year of the Dragon" crew found Zun Long and let him play the arrogant Chinese gangster boss, superb acting skills and handsome faces, so that he won a lot of applause, with this movie he won the 43rd Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in the United States.
This is also the first time that a Chinese actor has won this award, and the media at that time rated him as "the most handsome gangster boss in history", and Zunlong's popularity was very high, and he was fancy by the director of the "Last Emperor" crew, and immediately found Zun Long to let him play "Puyi".
The graceful and luxurious temperament of Zun Long in the play directly captivated audiences from the East and the West, this film directly allowed the director and actors to win awards and get soft, Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director and other nine awards, which directly made the two big characters of Zun Long popular around the world.
This made Chen Kaige, who was far away in China, fancy Zunlong, and wanted him to play the role of "Farewell My Concubine", but it can only be said that Zun Long is similar to this role but has no chance to play.
was not filmed into "Farewell My Concubine", Zun Long took over "Butterfly Jun", in which he played an indistinguishable Peking Opera celebrity Song Liling, although not as stunning as Leslie Cheung's Cheng Dieyi, but it also made him enter the hearts of the Chinese people.
So he stayed in his motherland to shoot movies and shoot many movies such as "The Dragon in China" and "Amusement Himself", but his achievements were far less than "The Last Emperor", perhaps tired, and decided to quit the show business when he was 60 years old.
At this time, he was already "old", no one told in the glory time, and now people are unaccompanied in their twilight years, he then claimed two thousand-year-old trees, and every day he would look at it and stop for a long time with moist eyes, and at that moment no one knew what he was thinking, perhaps lamenting his life.
Zun Long once said frankly: I am like a fallen leaf, fluttering with the wind, falling in the river and going with the current, and people like me die and no one is buried. He spent his whole life healing his numb heart, but he could never experience the warmth of human fireworks.
Lonely all his life, he likes to visit the children in the orphanage, listen to their laughter, see their immature faces, and perhaps he also longs for someone to accompany him.
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People who were unhappy in childhood are more eager to transform, and this is the case with Zun Long, as is the case with "Confused Boy" Chen Xiaochun.
Chen Xiaochun
"Locked Childhood"
To talk about "Confused Boy", the first thing that comes to mind is Chen Xiaochun, his ruffled temperament plays the role of "mountain chicken" to the fullest, in the play Chen Xiaochun is a little big brother with many friends, and he will start working without saying a word, so arrogant and domineering that the audience especially likes it.
And behind his "arrogance" there is a childhood locked by "iron chains".
Chen Xiaochun's family was very poor when he was young, as the eldest in the family, he has been helping his parents work since he can remember, but the poorer the parents, the more babies they make, his father is like a money-making tool, he gets up earlier than a chicken and sleeps later than a dog, and he returns home without saying a word, and after many years, Chen Xiaochun knows that his father is tired to the extreme and does not want to talk.
At Chen Xiaochun's lively and playful age, he was chained to the door by his father in order to make him concentrate on his younger siblings, and at that time he was full of resentment towards his parents and felt like a "watchdog".
When he was older, he helped the family with farm work, but because of malnutrition several times fainted in the farmland, seeing that the family was more and more unable to open the pot, Chen Xiaochun's father decided to give the youngest brother in the family away to collect more than 3,000 yuan, and the family's situation improved.
But this money can not get rid of the poor life, life is still living as usual, different from the past is that there is one less person in the family, Chen Xiaochun's father can not bear this poor life, so he led the family to Hong Kong, carried a bag and moved into a slum.
I have to say that this choice is right, and it also opened the way for Chen Xiaochun to become a star, that is, the process is very painful, Chen Xiaochun said that he dropped out of school when he came to Hong Kong at the age of 13, and did all kinds of work, and the deepest memory is working as a waiter in a restaurant, when a guest made it difficult to say that there were flies in the dish.
The boss apologized to the guest in a low voice, turned his head and spilled his anger on Chen Xiaochun, not only gave him a mouthful, but also forcefully let Chen Xiaochun eat the fly, could not stand such humiliation, Chen Xiaochun took the salary and left.
Later, Chen Xiaochun continued to film after he became popular with "Confused Boy", and after stabilizing, he was most worried about his brother who was sent away, but he kept looking for no results.
epilogue
Although Chen Xiaochun's childhood was also very unfortunate, he still had his family by his side.
Chen Xiaochun's family
And Zun Long has been abandoned again and again, and his heart has become numb to home, and now his attitude towards life is "life does not bring death, do not bring away", and even said that he did not want any kind of funeral after death, nor did he want a tombstone.
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As for his childhood, Zun Long simply said: "When I was poor, I didn't eat meat or sugar, but now I am grateful because my blood is clean and I have good teeth." ”
Zunlong's life is like his English name "Lone", lonely and self-redeeming.
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