"I have no home, no parents, no name, no childhood.
I don't quite understand the relationship between people. Since I was a child, no one has protected me, only myself, so I closed the door of my heart.
I was like a leaf, falling into a river, letting the river wash away, not knowing that I was dead.
People like me disappear from the world and are ignored. ”
This passage comes from the mouth of the dragon who enjoys the title of "Oriental Divine Face".
Zun Long had no father, no mother and no children in his life, but he had a very attractive face.
Abandoned at birth, he lived in beatings, mockery, humiliation, exclusion, and hunger and cold since childhood.
However, he did not leave a trace of self-contempt and self-contempt.
1.
In Hong Kong in 1952, a woman with a physical disability adopted a baby boy who had been abandoned in a basket.
This baby boy is the Chinese-American actor who later stunned the entire Western world - Zun Long.
The birth of zun long is accompanied by sadness. Similarly, his adoption was not very lucky.
After all, his adoptive mother adopted him only to receive government subsidies.
In Zun Long's memory, his adoptive mother, who lived an embarrassing life and had an odd temperament, often scolded him.
He had never eaten meat in his childhood, and the most delicious food was soy sauce bibimbap.
Even so, he was grateful for the life in front of him.
You know, a person who has been abandoned is not qualified to make a choice.
This truth, for Zun Long, does not need to be remembered. The moment he was abandoned by his biological parents, he was buried deep in his mind.
So when his adoptive mother tried to abandon him again and again, he always looked like he had no desire or demand.
The most memorable one was when his adoptive mother threw him at the station, and although he was young, he quickly understood her intentions.
He didn't cry or make trouble, just silently looked at his adoptive mother.
Poor to the extreme, kindness is not worth mentioning.
Because of this, knowing that they may be in danger at any time, there will still be people with a soft heart for a moment to obliterate evil in the cradle.
Zun Long's deep eyes and the momentary gaze of her adoptive mother made her turn back.
She didn't say anything, folded back and took Zun Long's thin little hand, trembling and walking slowly through the crowd...
In the days that followed, Zun Long gradually understood his adoptive mother.
"When I grew up, I slowly learned about the old lady's pain and understood her behavior towards me. She's uneducated, she's poor, and she's going to raise me... Then I thought in america that she would still shed tears. I raised her until I died, and that was my greatest achievement. ”
That's why his adoptive mother actually abandoned him, but he still shed tears for her.
Although she was not perfect and treated him badly, without her, he could not imagine how he would treat himself as an orphan.
For whatever purpose, for Zun Long, the adoptive mother is the only close relative in this world.
2.
At the age of 10, her adoptive mother sold Zun Long to the Spring and Autumn Opera Society in Hong Kong, and took the Peking Opera Knife Ma Dan Pink Chrysanthemum As her teacher.
During those days of studying Peking Opera, Zun Long not only had to endure hardships, but also had to endure bullying and exclusion from his brothers.
Because of his fatherless and motherless, and his handsome and delicate countenance without losing the charm of the West, Zun Long was often scolded as a "wild child".
Once, the angry Zun Long fought with them. Outnumbered, he was beaten to the point of bloodshed.
He didn't have money to see a doctor, so he had to ask a tailor to help sew a few stitches.
Several times, Zun Long wanted to escape from the Peking Opera Troupe, and when he really escaped, he found that there was nowhere to go.
No way, he returned to the Peking Opera Troupe, knelt down to confess his mistake to the master, and endured a few loud slaps.
Born like an ant, but desperately crawling in the direction of light.
Zun Long is the ant, born of misery, and everywhere he sees is dark.
He could not escape, but could only grasp a glimmer of light hidden in the gap of fate in the chaos.
Finally, his persistence ushered in the dawn.
At the age of 18, Zun Long, who survived in the drama class, had the qualification to make a choice for the first time in his life.
A 10-year martial arts contract from Shaw Films and a commitment from an American family.
One is 10 years of stability, and the other is unlimited challenges. Without hesitation, Zun Long chose the latter.
Although he arrived in the United States, everything was on his own, he embarked on this doomed and difficult road without hesitation.
He never went to school, he had to learn everything from scratch, working part-time during the day to earn tuition, and going to night school at night to make up english.
In those years, he washed dishes, worked as a cook, and worked as a clerk.
Despite his exhaustion, he continued to delve into acting.
As soon as he had free time, he went to the community school to continue learning acting and dancing, and passed the test for a troupe with only two places in the United States.
You know, there was a common unspoken rule in American colleges and universities at that time, that is, priority was to admit white people.
It can be seen that Zunlong, who does not have any resources, background and money to support, how much resistance must be broken to get this college admission ticket?
3.
In today's view, entering the show business means that you will have wealth that others will not get in their lifetime.
But Zun Long learned to act, not for a stable job, nor all for money, he just wanted to act well.
Otherwise, after rejecting Shaw's 10-year contract, he would not have rejected a three-year employment contract from the United States again.
The reason is that in order to continuously improve their performance quality.
A few years later, through work-study, he was admitted to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Although Zun Long has been miserable since childhood, his vision is very long-term.
Perhaps, it is this mentality of never resting on the immediate interests that allows him to not only hone his mind in not being impatient, but also wait for the opportunity.
In 1976, at the age of 24, Zun Long starred in his first film, King Kong: Legend Reborn.
It was an insignificant character, with less than a minute to play, but for Zun Long, it was the beginning of entering Hollywood.
Everyone knows that Hollywood's discrimination against Chinese actors has always existed.
A lot of times, they'd rather have black actors than give Asian actors a chance.
Even if there is, it is a pitifully paid scrap character, or some extremely disgusting villain.
But Zun Long has become a different existence among Hollywood Chinese actors.
In 1985, after nearly 10 years in Hollywood, Zun Long's first villain role overshadowed the starring role.
A "Year of the Dragon" made him famous. Because of this film, he became the first Chinese actor to win a Golden Globe Award.
Two years later, a "Last Emperor" once again pushed his acting career to the peak.
The film won 9 awards that year, including the Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay Adaptation, and Best Cinematography.
During that time, Zun Long became a veritable international superstar, and Hollywood, which rarely accepted Chinese actors, also praised him.
For a time, he not only reaped the honor, but also did not have to live a full meal of hunger.
It is said that at that time, Zun Long's salary was the highest in the Chinese circle. But at that time, The Dragon did not care about honor and money.
4.
Since he was a child, he has no father, no mother and no relatives, and the only thing he can think of that is connected to his own blood is the motherland.
The motherland was his roots, and even though he had experienced disasters there, he still sharpened his head and wanted to return to China.
Just as at the age of 20, he gave himself the first name in the true sense of the word.
The spirit of all things is respected by the dragon, and the "dragon" is both noble and Chinese spiritual totem.
He named him Zun Long, not to show how noble he was, but only to give him life and the soil that made him grow.
However, what he did not expect was that his long-cherished wish to return to China made him fall from the peak to the bottom again and again.
When he received an invitation to play the role of Cheng Dieyi in "Farewell to the Overlord", Zun Long was greatly surprised after reading the script.
Isn't Cheng Dieyi's miserable life his own autobiographical movie?
In addition to him who has experienced all this, who else can play Cheng Dieyi to convey the gods?
To this end, he did not hesitate to reduce his salary, and also pushed away other film, advertising and stage drama invitations.
Even when he reached the peak of his life, even when he reached the peak, there was no one to complain about.
Therefore, he hopes to have his dog with him during the filming.
It is such a simple appeal, but it has been completely distorted by the media.
During that time, the negative news such as Zun Long playing big names, proposing overlord clauses, and airlifting dogs was endless.
At that time, the film creative group that thought that Zun Long looked masculine and was not suitable for the role of Cheng Dieyi just had a legitimate reason to replace him.
After that, "Farewell to the Overlord" became an enduring classic, and the Zunlong who lost his hand with Cheng Dieyi became the laughing stock of "because a dog lost a chance to be a god".
For the negative news that spread from the outside world, Zun Long has always remained silent.
As he said, he didn't know how to be human, he wasn't protected, and the only way he could protect himself was to close the door of his heart.
Failing to make "Farewell to the Overlord" is a major flaw in Zun Long's acting career.
Therefore, he took over the similar film "Butterfly King".
Unfortunately, despite the superb acting skills, this film has not been as well known as "Farewell to the King".
5.
Missing "Overlord Farewell", for Zun Long, is not only a missed opportunity to have an in-depth dialogue with himself, but more importantly, he missed the best time for the Chinese people to recognize him.
After that, Zun Long still had an obsession with returning to China to shoot a movie. And his obsession was also detected by the "hype king" Deng Guojian.
Under his many invitations and seductions, Zun Long once again refused the invitation of many classic films, and successively starred in low-quality film and television dramas such as "Qianlong and Xiangfei" and "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview 5".
In the meantime, Zun Long was surrounded by negative news such as scolding Chen Kaige, regretting Chen Chong marrying others, and returning to China to seek gold.
It is worth noting that a random aura on Zun Long's body can crush these rumors.
He was the first and only Chinese-American actor to be nominated for a golden globe twice;
He was the first Asian spokesperson for Rolex and the first Chinese guest in history to appear on the Oscars;
He was the first Chinese to integrate Peking Opera into Western stage plays;
He is the first Chinese male film star to be named "The Most Beautiful 50 People" by People magazine in the United States;
Not only has he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Capri Film Festival in Hollywood, but he has also won two of America's top Broadway Awards...
But these awards, he has never used to show off, like those unbearable rumors, he has never come forward to debunk rumors.
Haruki Murakami once said: People who were once orphans are orphans until they die.
Perhaps, Zun Long finally saw through this, and only after 2007 did he choose to quit the show business circle and live alone in Canada.
Throughout his life, he lived on the road to find his roots.
He had a glorious face that amazed the world, but he was not born with a close relative.
He came from a low place, but not a speck of dust; he stood on a high place, nor was he arrogant.
With no one to accompany him, he kept a dog to accompany him; with no roots to rely on, he adopted two thousand-year-old trees as his relatives. Call them grandfathers and grandmothers, and he will have comfort.
For him, who has entered old age, all prosperity and loneliness are no longer related to it.
What he had sought so longed for, longed to have, was like the door of the heart that he had closed, and after a brief opening, it was difficult to open again.
Finally, I still want to bless him, although he is left behind and independent, may all be well in his old age!