Speaking of the legends of the film and television circle in the last century, everyone's first reaction is Zhang Guorong, and when it comes to Zhang Guorong's masterpieces, everyone's first reaction is to overlord Bieji. It is true that the style of Cheng Dieyi in "Farewell to the Overlord" is vividly expressed by Zhang Guorong, but few people know that at the beginning, director Xu Feng's favorite thing was not Zhang Guorong to play Cheng Dieyi, but Zun Long.
Zun Long was born in 1952, this year should have a 69th birthday, heroes will grow old, beauty will be late. Zun Long is now also gray-haired, the corners of his eyes are full of wrinkles, it is difficult to imagine that he was a handsome and beautiful man when he was young. Therefore, there are many people on the Internet who think that the two major regrets in his life are that he did not participate in "Overlord Farewell", and one is to miss Chen Chong.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > "Overlord Farewell" and "Butterfly King"</h1>
Xu Feng was full of ambition when directing the movie "Farewell to the Overlord", because the original author Li Bihua was a very talented female author, she was already well-known in the literary world at that time, and as soon as this book came out, countless fans were paying attention to the candidates of Cheng Dieyi.
Because Cheng Dieyi is described in the original work as a very beautiful man with a temperament that is not crazy and does not live, he is inseparable from his role in the play from the outside world itself, so because of his obsession with drama, he fell in love with Bei Xiaolou, who played Xiang Yu.
To play such a man with a variety of styles. Of course, it was to find an actor in the film industry at that time, who had very good appearance conditions, and Xu Feng's first reaction was Zun Long. The appearance of Zun Long is very handsome and exuberant.
But after seeing Zun Long, Xu Feng had some regrets. Because although Zun Long's appearance conditions are very good, but the lines of his face are very tough, from a distance seems to make people feel satisfied, but in fact, if you look closely, you will find that when he performs Cheng Butterfly, there will be a kind of male heroism in it, and he cannot show the feminine flattery that belongs to Cheng Butterfly.
So Xu Feng thought of another actor, Zhang Guorong, but at that time, Zhang Guorong's agent was very difficult and opened many conditions for him. Xu Feng thought that such an agent was not worth cooperating with, so he gave up Zhang Guorong and went back to Find Zun Long.
But Zun Long's conditions were also very strange, first he had to return home on the plane of his best airline in the world, and he had to return in first class with his dog. Xu Feng was even more angry at Zun Long's unreasonable request, believing that he was teasing himself.
The follow-up of the matter is also very simple, that is, Zun Long completely missed the appearance of the overlord Bieji because of this one condition. And Zhang Guorong, with his outstanding performance in the overlord Bieji, has become the white moonlight in the hearts of countless movie fans.
Although the overall condition is very outrageous, but from the analysis of the behavioral motivation behind it, we can find that he is actually testing Xu Feng's sincerity to him, because at that time Zunlong already had a proud work, and the theme is similar to that of the overlord Bieji, that is, "Butterfly Jun". Probably because of the concern of whether he can play similar roles, Zun Long actually does not want to take this drama in his heart, and he also feels that Xu Feng is not very satisfied with his conditions, so he rejects Xu Feng by relying on this method.
Although Zhang Guorong played the role alive in the overlord Farewell, it also caused pain in the hearts of fans. Because many fans believe that he integrated emotions and roles too thoroughly in the overlord Bieji, it was difficult to get rid of the influence of this drama, which led to his subsequent fall to his death.
As for whether Zun Long himself regretted not acting in "Overlord Farewell", he also gave a clear answer, that is, he did not regret not acting in "Overlord Farewell". Because Zhang Guorong interpreted Cheng Butterfly Yi very well, he himself is not sure that he can perform better than Zhang Guorong; the second point is that his performance in "Butterfly Jun" is no inferior to Zhang Guorong.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > Zunlong and Chen Chong</h1>
In fact, compared with the film "Butterfly Jun" played by him, the audience is more familiar with Puyi, who he played in the last emperor. Puyi's excellent appearance and elegant demeanor have made everyone have a deeper good feeling for Zunlong, and it is Chen Chong who plays Empress Puyi in that drama. The two in the play can be described as a talented woman, the same frame of the shot, really like the picture as beautiful, naturally let many viewers in the play think that the two should be together.
There are also some gossip rumors in the market, saying that when the two were filming "The Last Emperor", they became a pair of close friends because of the drama, and when Chen Chong got married, Zun Long also half-jokingly asked why he didn't wait for him, Chen Chong joked that I waited for you for three years is not enough? And Zun Long also said to himself that he was useless and let her run away.
In fact, this statement is just the wishful thinking of the public, because first of all, in the filming of this drama, Chen Chong is in the first marriage, Mr. Zunlong's quality is very good, he will not have a non-division of thoughts about the married woman, and he is a clear attitude outside the play, will not bring feelings into real life, there is no such statement. It is normal for the relationship between the two to have a good relationship, because in fact, this is not the first time they have worked together, and the two have cooperated in "Paper Angel" in the United States.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > indifferent life</h1>
Now if you mention the movie stars of the last century, everyone will rarely think of Zun Long, but Zhang Guorong is missed by many people. In fact, Zun Long himself is a very powerful actor, he won 9 Oscars after starring in "The Last Emperor", and was quickly accepted by the mainstream circle in Hollywood.
However, among the actors in the upper world, the first is Zhang Guorong, mainly because it is very sudden, which makes everyone feel uneasy, followed by Zun Long. After 2000, he did not appear in any very good scripts, but on the contrary, he also acted in some bad films, resulting in rarely hearing his name. Some people say that the big name that went to play "Overlord Farewell" that time made him ruin his future, but it was not quite right.
Because Zun Long then politely refused the interview of CCTV, and also politely refused the BBC's request to make a documentary for him, when a person came inland to listen to the star concert, he was also too low-key to be low-key, for fear of letting others recognize. After 2007, it is equivalent to saying that after he has pride and glory, he already has the idea of quitting the film world, which is his personal choice.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > Summary:</h1>
Mei Yanfang and Zhang Guorong died, Lin Qingxia married, Wang Zuxian retired from the circle, and the showbiz circle of the last century has withered away. Zun Long may have looked at the script of things as human beings when playing "The Last Emperor", and finally when he was old, he found the crickets he put in his youth under his throne, and he already had the idea of quitting the show business circle, because he had seen the future of the decline of the Hong Kong film industry.
Although he grew up as an abandoned baby and grew up in the United States, he has always been attached to the mainland in his heart, and he came inland to act in bad movies, just to desperately integrate into the mainstream cultural circle. He still has the figure of his hometown in his veins, he is a dragon, a man who is equally beautiful in appearance and heart.