01
On a whim, I re-clicked "To a Windy Place" and watched it again.
I still remember that when it was broadcast last year, it was completely regarded as a promotional film in Dali, Yunnan, and every time the picture switched to the blue sky and green fields, Cangshan and Erhai Lake, I would always savor it frame by frame, as if I was experiencing a spiritual trip away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
There is a very moving line in "The Wind": "Birds go to the south for the winter." When people feel tired and cold, they also need to move to warm places. Find the power of joy, the power of happiness, the power of beauty, or rather, the power to start anew. ”
In March, when energy was scarce, with nothing to do, I turned out this long-lost drama again, clicked on an episode casually, and curled up in the corner of the bedroom tiredly and watched slowly, vaguely trying to find the strength to start again.
It's just that this time, what makes me savor frame by frame is no longer the scenery, but Liu Yifei, who gives the heroine Xu Hongdou fresh and abundant. Suddenly, there was a new sense of beauty, no matter how beautiful the scenery was, it was no match for her existence and leisure.
02
As we all know, Liu Yifei is an adjective.
With a look, he will always have a place in the ever-changing entertainment industry, and every time he appears in the public eye, he can attract widespread attention and discussion.
Aside from her role, Liu Yifei is beautiful and smiling when she attends public events. In the private life that the public can glimpse, Liu Yifei, who has more of a breath of life, is also leisurely and soothing, elegant and calm. A high degree of unity is maintained inside and out.
With such a graceful and graceful woman, with the world's ugly opinions, it is difficult for you to imagine what troubles and pains can be bred in her life?
Therefore, when you see her breezy and leisurely, you will take it for granted that this is exactly what a person who is favored by fate should be.
In fact, once a public figure is out of the "freshness" protection period of the audience, the more significant the advantage in a certain aspect, the more vulnerable it is to the harsh judgment of the public.
Talented directors will often be sung down, actors with outstanding acting skills will often be questioned for not being worthy of their names, and stars with outstanding looks will often be criticized for being "unrecognizable".
Every once in a while, we can see the gossip with the title of "Sister Fairy Falls from the Altar", you don't need to click on it to know that the protagonist is Liu Yifei, the content is similar, and the pictures are some close-up photos with over-sharpening or strange angles.
Of course, there is no shortage of leisure netizens looking for defects and changes in its body, buckteeth, slopping shoulders, hunchback, fat fat, and cheeks...... If the public attaches the title of "fairy sister" to Liu Yifei, there will be a small number of people who "claim justice", trying to find out the flaws in her that prove that "people and immortals have different paths".
A storm of public opinion about the level of appearance has been staged tirelessly over the years, I don't know if Liu Yifei has been affected by it, in short, after a while, you will see her outstanding figure occupying the front page hot list, generously letting the pursuers continue to pursue and let the admirers continue to appreciate.
Beauty is a talent for Liu Yifei, so she has an effortless beauty. And she knows this very well, so she never praises it and never argues with it.
03
The public's harsh judgment starts from appearance, but it is not limited to appearance.
Although "Shen Yan" cannot convince all audiences, there is no doubt that it can bring a steady stream of opportunities to Liu Yifei.
In 2002, 15-year-old Liu Yifei was admitted to Beijing Film Academy, and in the same year, she played the role of Bai Xiuzhu in "The Family of Gold Powder".
After the completion of "The Family of Gold Powder", Liu Yifei seamlessly connected and quickly entered the crew of "Dragon Babu". Even Mr. Jin Yong praised: "You played Wang Yuyan, and the audience knew that I didn't talk nonsense." After this role, Liu Yifei became the "fairy sister" in the minds of netizens.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Yifei gained super popularity and attention with the two well-known works of the Xianxia drama "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and the martial arts drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and was in the limelight for a while.
Since 2008, Liu Yifei has shifted the focus of her acting career to the big screen, and with the Hollywood movie "The King of Kung Fu", she became the first Asian actress to top the IMDB movie newcomer list.
Of course, fame comes with endless scandals and rumors.
After starring in the Little Dragon Girl, Liu Yifei became completely popular, and the public figure at the time, Song Zude, publicly stated that Liu Yifei was transgender, this kind of nonsense is extremely ridiculous today, but it caused a lot of public opinion turmoil, and Liu Yifei reluctantly appeared on "Today's Statement". Even though Song Zude has not found this person now, the damage to Liu Yifei's image caused by the transgender incident has been done.
In addition, there are also funny incidents such as "chasing Lang Lang backwards", as well as malicious speculations such as "the main force of gold" and "the owner of gold was cut off".
In 2015, after the filming of "The Third Love" was completed, Liu Yifei and the starring Song Chengxian officially announced their relationship, and at the same time, their career suffered a waterloo, and the works released in the following years received mediocre responses.
The Disney movie "Mulan" released in 2020 has made a comeback, but it has been questioned by mainland audiences because of its Chinese-American status.
Also at this stage, there was an endless stream of condemnation about Liu Yifei's declining appearance. And celebrity marketing groups and fan groups that take pleasure in "glamorous pressure" often encounter porcelain, thinking that they can help a certain female star ascend to the throne of "Tianxian".
Until 2023, the two dramas "Menghualu" and "Going to a Windy Place" will be broadcast one after another, and the popularity and word-of-mouth will push Liu Yifei to the hottest spotlight again, and the public will begin to know Liu Yifei again, or rather, the public will begin to know a new Liu Yifei.
04
Such a graceful and ceremonial woman in the painting, with the world's ugly opinion, you regret that her life will also have troubles and pains. Reality will not be easily bought by appearance.
Stefan Zweig wrote in "The Guillotine Queen" that all the gifts of fate have been secretly priced.
The beauty of the dust can help Liu Yifei get the opportunity to be envied by everyone in the entertainment industry, but it can't help her block rumors, let alone help her immune to harm. On the contrary, those rumors and injuries are the price of opportunity, and even the opportunity itself is a price.
became famous at a young age, and became an undesecrated "fairy sister" in the hearts of thousands of men and women with a childish face, which seems to be glorious, but in fact it is a kind of imprisonment.
Liu Yifei once said frankly in an interview: "At that time, I was young and my heart was not pure enough, and I felt that the opportunities given by others were very important, but I had fewer opportunities to face myself." But when you recognize yourself, you will find that it is never others and opportunities that really make you what you are, but yourself. A person really has to know himself enough, otherwise it is likely that what others say to you is what it is. ”
In order to get rid of the stereotypical image of "Heavenly Immortals", Liu Yifei constantly challenges herself, the soul seduction banshee in "A Chinese Ghost Story", the cold-blooded killer in "The Four Famous Catchers", and the scale-breaking sexy scenes in "Dew and Red Face", all of which are trying to subvert the past. Whether it was successful or not, it was difficult to judge at that time.
Today, if you look at her again, you can find that those positive or negative acting experiences are slowly grinding and precipitating on Liu Yifei as an actor, so that now she can bring us a unique Xu Hongdou with a Liu Yifei-style acting skills.
05
"I've always tried to be an actress who puts all her heart and soul into her creation. 28-year-old Liu Yifei is saying such things, and 37-year-old Liu Yifei is still working hard for it.
Filming a movie for a year and a half, not participating in reality shows, rarely attending commercial activities, and the rest of the time is in a state of rest. When I was young, I probably tossed for my dream of stardom, but now I am conscientiously cultivating the way of female actors.
The identity of a star is more like a part-time job for her. And being an actor is just a profession for her, but this profession is what she loves. At the same time, she also genuinely loves life.
So through Xu Hongdou, you can see a real sense of existence from Liu Yifei. She is seriously present in life.
You think she is a mirror flower and a moon, and this flower has her own vivid swaying, and this month has her own vitality. You're seriously playing a spectator, but she's seriously experiencing life. There is no distinction between superior and inferior, there is no superior opinion, but I am inexplicably touched by this seriousness.
At the same time, through Liu Yifei, you can see the leisure she gave Xu Hongdou. She walks leisurely through life.
From the impetuous and prosperous capital to the quiet and peaceful countryside, drinking tea, meditating, wandering aimlessly, seriously being a tourist to the world, temporarily advancing the process of fate to the stranded riverbed, carefully healing, and accumulating the strength to start again.
And this desirable leisure is so natural and real, it is not interpreted out of thin air through imagination, but seems to be taken from Liu Yifei's own practice in life.
Liu Yifei, who constantly switches between stars, actors and herself, Liu Yifei, who is always alone under scandals and rumors, cameras and remarks, in the long days and nights when she is not infinitely loved, understood and praised, she stranded herself in the unknown riverbed, accumulating strength little by little, the power to resist rumors, the power to heal, the power to fight against wind and rain, the power to become herself, and the power to start again.
When they meet again, this existence that cannot be ignored and the seemingly innate leisure are laid out in front of the audience. What should I congratulate? Follow with my eyes.