Whoever dominates me in fate struggles every day inside the sea of people. Sighing in my heart is like water flowing for years, I can't keep yesterday. The appearance has changed early, the situation has changed, the feelings have not changed...
- "Like a Year of Flowing Water"
In the 1980s, Huang Xia, Ni Kuang, and Cai Lan interviewed Gu Meihua in "No Defense Tonight". The three asked in unison:
"'Like a Year of Flowing Water' can gain your popularity and the audience recognizes you, so why did you stay in the Hong Kong film industry for so short?"
Gu Meihua ignored the question and did not answer it positively. Because everyone knows that Gu Meihua chose the film industry, but missed this industry...
Who is Gu Meihua? She is the golden jue ying who defeated Zhang Ziyi, the shrewd female editor next door to Maggie Cheung in "Rolling Red Dust", the sister of Wang Zuxian in "Beautiful Shanghai", the mainland female engineer who criticized her mother Gui Yalei in "Daughter Red", and the female drug lord in "Police Story" who wears silk clothes, wears handcuffs, sits on the roof of the train and calmly says the code...
Why did Gu Meihua choose the movie, but miss the movie? Because of what Gu Meihua has experienced in this life, you really can't think of it...
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In 1981, the famous Hong Kong editor and writer Yan Qingshu died of illness in Beijing at the age of 62. He dedicated most of his life to the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and it was not until he was seriously ill that he could return to his roots and be buried in the interior.
His son was Yan Hao, one of the famous directors of the New Wave period of Hong Kong cinema, and Tsui Ke, Hui Anhua was a colleague of the TV station. In 1984, Yan Hao missed his father, and he had the idea of making a movie to commemorate him.
The story was shown to Xia Meng, who was very satisfied, and she flew to the mainland with good wine to find the shadow queen Sichengova and asked Teacher Sichengova to play one of the roles.
Another female role that is also heavily valued, Yan Hao hopes to be played by an experienced, vicissitudes actress, but has not been able to find the right person.
In 1959, after an unprecedented famine and social unrest, a family in Shanghai went to relatives in Hong Kong with two small flowers and jade. Two girls, one 7 years old and one 1 year old, their names are Gu Meihua and Gu Lihua.
Leaving the family business in Hong Kong, Meihua and Lihua's families are not too wealthy. Therefore, at the age of 19, Gu Meihua married someone and gave birth to her eldest daughter not long ago.
"When someone chased after the birth of the year, plus she was pregnant, it was logical to get married, and I thought it was love."
After marriage, Gu Meihua lived a very light life.
Buy vegetables and cook rice, laundry and cleaning, day after day. Mr. did not pay attention to his daughter, Gu Meihua also suffered silently, the best title for women in that era was a certain wife, who lived like a single mother, gu Meihua blamed everything on the lack of sons.
"Fight a boy, just have a boy."
It's just that the second oldest fell to the ground, or a daughter.
The days passed like a pool of stagnant water, Gu Meihua still swallowed her anger, although the husband and wife had not had spiritual communication for a long time, she still did not have the courage to break everything in front of her.
The idea of divorce has been swirling around for a long time, but the day it really came was a word.
One day in an argument, the ex-husband said, "Don't think you can rely on yourself, you will starve to death when you go out." ”
It was this sentence that Gu Meihua never looked back. She asked a lawyer to fight a custody lawsuit with her ex-husband, spending tens of thousands of yuan, who knew that the other party did not intend to rob the child with her.
After paying her lawyer's fees, she was running out of food.
Finding a job has become an urgent need. Someone recommended her to be an entertainment journalist, and someone recommended her to audition.
"Be a journalist and shoot others, be a star and be photographed, you pick yourself."
Gu Meihua chose to shoot the scene, and she went to interview the crew of Yan Hao, who was looking for a new face.
As soon as Yan Hao saw Gu Meihua, he knew that he felt right, and it was she who was looking for her. And Gu Meihua, when he heard the film remuneration of 20,000 yuan, immediately clapped, signed a contract, and acted!
This play is "Like a Year of Flowing Water", starring Sichengova and Gu Meihua. At the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards, it won 6 awards – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Newcomer, and Best Art Direction.
"Like a Year of Flowing Water" was the big winner of the year, and Gu Meihua won the Academy Award for "Best New Actor" in his first work, at the age of 32.
The style of Yan Hao's films is elegant and timeless, and Gu Meihua, who has not received any training, is evaluated by Yan Hao as "acting as if there is nothing", which sounds as unpredictable as the six-veined Excalibur.
This seemingly innocent acting skill makes Gu Meihua's performance appear particularly real and sincere, and people will always remember the faint, heartfelt and progressive Young Hong Kong Woman Zhang Shanshan.
The theme song of the movie "Like Water Flowing Year" sung by Mei Yanfang is still a classic work to this day.
This work is Yan Hao's famous work, and it is also the beginning of Gu Meihua's entry into the film circle.
This year, Zhang Yimou was filming "Yellow Land", Zhang Guorong acted in "For Your Love", and Chen Peisi Zhu Shimao performed a sketch called "Shooting Movies" at the Spring Festival Gala.
The spring of filmmakers is coming!
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After Gu Meihua won the award, he did not come to the film as expected.
Her ex-husband only gave Gu Meihua 1,200 yuan a month in child support, and she urgently needed money to support her family. Gu Meihua went to tv stations to shoot TV series, all kinds of roles were played, and her life was still unstable, good and bad.
Everything about her was seen by her sister Gu Lihua.
Gu Lihua chose to marry Feng Chaoze, a businessman engaged in construction. After marriage, Gu Lihua's economy was more secure, so Gu Meihua's second daughter grew up next to her aunt.
Years later, Gu Meihua talked about her second daughter, "They cherished her very much, and her aunt gave her pocket money, and her growth environment was not as independent as her sister's"...
It can be seen that the feelings of the Gu family and the two sisters have always been deep.
With her sister's helper, Gu Meihua's film road never looked back. She worked very hard in the 1990s, playing Miss Gu in "Telling Your Heart", Mrs. Gu in "The Man Who Doesn't Take Off His Socks", Stella in "Man in New York", Venus in "The Queen of Temple Street"...
Some of the characters don't have names.
"Thief A Xing" as a Vietnamese killer, "Rolling Red Dust" as an editor, "The Night Feast of the Giants" as a photographer, "Gang Head Fu Xing" as Huang Ruying, "Peerless Double Pride" as Black Widow.
For ten years, she played supporting roles for ten years, and even ran dragon sets.
Gu Meihua has always been a marginal person in the film circle, but Yan Hao especially loves to use her, and every play has a role for her, and the jianghu once circulated a scandal between the two.
When filming "Rolling Red Dust", Gu Meihua, who only had a few minutes of footage, and Lin Qingxia, the two heroines, and Maggie Cheung got along very well.
"Rolling Red Dust" celebration banquet, Gu Meihua did not win, but also participated in the celebration, she dressed very fashionably, first-class taste.
Yan Hao loves her, probably more of a tone that belongs to an old-fashioned Hong Kong woman, with style, thin and tough, always indifferent on the face, always with a kind of imminent look, which makes people unpredictable.
Gossip, they all denied.
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Gu Meihua has worked hard in the circle for ten years, and the stars he has cooperated with include but are not limited to Lin Qingxia, Maggie Cheung, Qin Han, Jackie Chan, Zhou Runfa, Zhang Guorong...
Big names.
Only she, tepid, at that time the market sought after female stars with a stronger sense of impact on their appearance, Guan Zhilin, Zhang Min, Qiu Shuzhen, Li Jiaxin, and there was no market for second-eyed beauties.
In a number of commercial films, Gu Meihua's own literary and artistic atmosphere can not find a way out, and she is not particularly good at communication and competition, so she has gradually become an invisible person in the show business circle.
Everyone has seen her in various movies but can't say her name. Fortunately, she always has her own tone, whether it is career or family.
The eldest daughter has always been with her, and when she asked her mother to help with her homework in the second grade of primary school, Gu Meihua said: "My mother is illiterate and can't help you." ”
The daughter was so anxious that she was sweating profusely and had to find her own way.
Gu Meihua can calm down and make a full set of dramas, she said: "It is really miserable for girls to rely on people, just like me, 20 years old to get married but never rely on people, it is better to rely on themselves." ”
This mother not only does not have a chicken baby, but also does not provide normal assistance. But the daughter went all the way to a prestigious school, graduated from Columbia University, and received a full scholarship.
Should people believe in fate?
In 2004, when Gu Meihua was 52 years old, she had another chance. Xu Feng, chairman of the board of directors of Tomson Group, made a movie called "Beautiful Shanghai" and invited Wang Zuxian to lead the starring role.
Zhao Youliang, Feng Yuanzheng, Gu Meihua, and Wang Zuxian play four brothers and sisters. The eldest sister played by Gu Meihua is divorced, the daughter is rebellious, the work is humble, the worst mix, her performance is real and natural, and it is completely impossible to see that she is a Hong Kong actor.
That year, because Wang Zuxian was famous, everyone was unanimously optimistic about Wang Zuxian's impact on the award. The Shanghai Film Festival recognized the pearls and gave the film queen to Gu Meihua, and the film in the competition in the same year also included Zhang Ziyi's "Jasmine Blossom".
Gu Meihua after 20 years from the film, Xi Ti heavyweight award Golden Jue Film Queen.
During the interview, the media asked her: "What do you think stand out for?" ”
She replied calmly: "Maybe people think that this person is so old, he still comes out to act, there is no merit and there is hard work." ”
After this movie, Wang Zuxian left For Canada, and Gu Meihua faded out of the entertainment circle again.
Four years later, Gu Meihua's name appeared again in the entertainment headlines, but it was a murder case. The deceased is her sister Gu Lihua, who has been helping her raise her young daughter.
Gu Lihua's husband Feng Chaoze became the general manager of the listed company Hong Kong Taisheng Group in 1994, and the family environment is getting better and better. They bought a thousand-foot mansion on the top of the hill, had a driver's nanny at home, and had two children.
Gu Lihua's daily life, like many housewives, is to take care of the children, worship the Buddha, and go to a massage from time to time to relax.
At the end of 2007, Gu Lihua began to feel that Mr. Gu was unusual. At first, there were a lot of phone calls, and he felt very strange when answering, and later, the weekly magazine also published a scandal about the general manager of Taisheng.
The third person involved in their family was also a person with a name and a surname. Her name is Wu Tingxin, and she won the fourth place in Miss Hong Kong in 2004. Atvecta hit drama "Love In the Night Central" and "French Open Heroes" She has starred.
More than half a year before Gu Lihua's death, one day, Gu Meihua came to her home and she was depressed, and showed the weekly magazine to her sister, "It is this woman who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to buy a car and a watch." ”
That was the first time Gu Meihua knew that her brother-in-law was cheating. But her sister chose to turn a blind eye, Gu Meihua has also experienced such a thing, she knows the pain, and can only choose to accompany her sister.
When their elderly parents learned of this, their weight plummeted by more than ten or twenty kilograms.
But Gu Lihua's forbearance did not make Wu Tingxin and Feng Chaoze restrain by half a point.
Xiao San Wu Ting called her arrogantly and shouted, "The most important gift I want to receive on my birthday this year is your death!" "He (Feng Chaoze) has promised me to be Feng Tai, and you will quickly move your position!"
Gu Lihua asked Mr. Feng Chaoze if it was true.
Cowardly men will only bow their heads and say, yes.
Asked why, Feng Chaoze said: "She has been pregnant with my child three times, she is a devout Catholic, she has made a terrible mistake in having an abortion for me, and I am responsible for her." ”
Gu Lihua had an emotional breakdown, "What about me and our children?" Who is responsible. ”
The man bowed his head and said nothing, that was the first time Gu Lihua had the idea of taking his own life.
She was found rescued after taking an air shot to commit suicide.
After that, Feng Chaoze knelt in front of her and said that he was willing to return to his family. Gu Lihua believed him again and accepted him.
It was this indecisiveness that killed her in the end.
After Feng Chaoze intended to repair, he consulted with Gu Lihua, and the third party, Wu Tingxin, was very pitiful and lost his job, after all, he wanted to help the woman for a while.
Gu Lihua foolishly agreed, and from then on, Xiao San Guangming Zhengda called home to find Feng Chaoze. At most once, 50 calls a day.
Looking at Feng Chaoze's phone that had been vibrating all night, Gu Lihua collapsed again.
This time, she chose to hang herself at home. It was her 12-year-old son and workers who found out that she had done something stupid and immediately sent her to the hospital, but they were unable to return to heaven.
Sister Gu Meihua cried: "The child is only 12 years old, when I saw him, he was scared and couldn't cry!" Why, why a man for the sake of happiness, the third party for the sake of material, they did something harmful, the consequences have to be borne by us! ”
The story is far from the worst.
After the death of her sister Gu Lihua, Gu Meihua was in a depressed state, but what was more sad was the second elder in the family.
Parents white-haired people sent black-haired people, could not withstand this blow, both fell ill. The family's feelings are so deep that the father and mother who suddenly lost their young daughter were like breaking a wing and dying within a year and a half.
Before the old mother died, the tears flowed.
After losing three close relatives in two years, Gu Meihua could not be calm, she relied on drugs to fall asleep night and night, and the chicken feathers of life made her unable to think about her career anymore.
Just to be alive is to exhaust one's strength.
At its worst, "The doctor said my blood pressure was so high that I could die at any moment." ”
This year, Gu Meihua is 56 years old, Hong Kong movies are gradually declining, and she has no intention of fighting again. Not everyone is Hui Yinghong, who can fall down again and again and start again.
Gu Meihua formed a family again, the other party is an outsider, and the two live a peaceful life. She takes her grandchildren with her in her spare time, her eldest daughter has three grandchildren, and the younger daughter has never been married.
She rarely asked about the marriage of her daughters, she knew too well how difficult it was to get married, and after losing so much, she cherished everything in front of her.
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In December 2020, Ma Junwei arranged a stage play "After Death" to commemorate his deceased mother, and invited Gu Meihua to play the role of mother in the play.
The 68-year-old Gu Meihua is in an amazing state, she is not a strange immortal goddess, but with a calm aura to hold time.
At the end of the stage play, there is a monologue:
"It's hard to accept your mother's departure, cry if you want to cry, and let it hurt if you want..."
It's a time of sadness, and many people are experiencing parting. Sometimes, we don't even dare to say which is more terrible, life or death.
But, no matter what, if you want to hurt, let it hurt, tomorrow there will be sunshine, may this true story give you thinking and strength!