I know there is a question about "What is a good-looking Asian boy in the eyes of Europeans and Americans?" The number of likes, which ranked top 1, has exceeded 23,000.
The person nominated in this answer is the "Asian Continent Grass", who was selected by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People", a generation of gods - John Lone.
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To this day, we can often see the figure of Zun Long in the Weibo hit, netizens have sighed, such a face value is really "Nuwa showmanship", the human world can not be sought.
Some people commented that on the zunlong, there is a kind of declining aristocratic temperament, and all hands and feet are cold and relict.
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Bow your head and smile, warm as jade.
A glimpse of the horror, dignified and domineering.
The style is unique, the temperament is also good and evil, and the beauty is indistinguishable between male and female. A side face is enough to turn all beings upside down.
Throughout the life course of Zun Long, there are not many works, but they are classics. A god face, excellent temperament, with superb acting skills to break into Hollywood, and by the mainstream culture of the United States recognized and accepted, but also the first Chinese actor nominated for the American Golden Globe Award, and the only Chinese actor to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award twice.
It is said that when Chen Kaige was looking for the role of "Cheng Dieyi" in "Farewell to the Overlord", he had issued an invitation to Zun Long, but in the end he regretted missing it.
Looking at Zun Long's life history, although he is noble, he has no father and no mother, is lonely and wandering, sensitive and stubborn in temperament, and extremely insecure.
His life was brilliant but his life was lonely, he longed for love but would not love, and luck and misfortune were intertwined.
Fatherless and motherless, wandering in a foreign country
Zun Long was born in Hong Kong, China in 1952. As soon as he was born, his biological parents put him in a basket and abandoned him at the door of a hospital. Abandonment happened quietly, and no one knew who Zun Long's parents were, including himself.
Because the Hong Kong government at that time would issue a certain subsidy to the adopted orphans, Zun Long was picked up by his disabled adoptive mother and raised.
Growing up eating soy sauce rice, he could occasionally have half a salted duck egg.
The adoptive mother has a strange personality, often scolding him for small things, and even always thinking of throwing him away again.
Once, the adoptive mother tried to abandon him at the bus stop, and the two looked at each other in pairs, but the adoptive mother finally couldn't bear it, sighed, and led him home.
In this way, Zun Long grew up to 8 years old, and his adoptive mother felt more and more that the child he had picked up was "not ugly", so she sold him to the Spring and Autumn Opera Society in Hong Kong to study Peking Opera, and worshiped the Peking Opera Wudan Pink Chrysanthemum as a teacher.
For an 8-year-old child, life in the drama team is not easy. What awaits the dragon is a day-to-day, inhumane training. From singing and dancing to martial arts, every day takes turns to fight, and life is very hard.
And because of his childhood encounters, Zun Long at that time was silent and taciturn, his personality was lonely, coupled with no father and no mother, his appearance was European, and he seemed to be a little out of place in the collective life, and the brothers in the society always bullied him. Zun Long still had a scar on his head, which was left behind when he was fighting with his brothers.
Zun Long, who was bullied in the drama team, did not think of leaving. But every time he planned to escape, he would eventually be caught and beaten by his master.
Fortunately, master Pink Chrysanthemum attached great importance to this taciturn child, she taught him to sing opera, teach him kung fu, Zun Long immersed himself in hard training under endless torture and patience, and finally practiced a skill, becoming one of the top horns in the drama team.
After becoming famous, Zun Long often returned to Hong Kong to visit his master
If Zun Long continues to learn so steadily, he may become the second Jackie Chan or Hong Jinbao. However, beautiful people always seem to be unwilling to settle for the life they already have.
When Zun Long was 13 years old, he became interested in "Jinshan" (the name of the United States in Guangdong and Hong Kong at that time) and the "dream factory" Hollywood. For Zun Long in his youth, the United States is prosperous and hopeful, and it is a different world.
At the age of 17, he went to perform with the drama class, and was lucky enough to meet an American family that was willing to take him in, and decided to sponsor him to go to the United States.
At this point, Zun Long finally left the drama class and went to the United States, thus starting a magnificent life.
Eight years of dragon set, shining Hollywood
Upon arriving in the United States, the American family sponsored him to attend Santa Ana Community College in southern California, giving him the opportunity to continue his studies in acting, dance, mime and swordsmanship.
It was also at that time that Zun Long changed his English surname to "Lone", which was in harmony with the "dragon" in the Chinese and indicated his orphan's "lonely" identity.
For the helpless dragon, it is not easy to survive in a foreign country. In addition to going to school, he made ends meet by selling pancakes and sodas and serving plates in restaurants. Because he did not understand English, Zun Long, who had a busy day, had to go to night school to learn English at night, for three years, rain or shine.
No matter how difficult life is, Zun Long has never given up the dream of being an actor in his heart.
After graduating from Santa Ana Community College, Zun Long was admitted to the Los Angeles Branch of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in close proximity to Hollywood, with excellent skills and hard work, while accumulating experience in cameos in different theater troupes, while waiting for the opportunity to enter Hollywood.
At the beginning, as an Asian-American Zun Long, the actor's road was not smooth, because the appearance was too "Peugeot", too oriental beauty, and Hollywood directors could not even give him a small role as a villain.
It wasn't until 1976 that the 24-year-old Zun Long made a cameo appearance as a servant in John Gillemin's King Kong, appearing less than a minute later.
Being able to have such a handsome male servant is also a winner in the life of a fan
In the entire eight years since, Zun Long has not received a decent role, and he is active in Hollywood show business as a dragon set.
He seems to be very close to the brilliant and beautiful Hollywood, but in fact it is very far away, and this torn state makes Zun Long fall into depression for a while. In the silence he told himself again and again: "Keep going, hold on!" One day, we will be able to wait for the dawn. ”
In Forty Thousand Years of the Iceman,
Zun Long played a "wild man" who could not see his original appearance at all.
In 1985, Michael Simino, who had won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, filmed a film about a Chinese gangster, "Year of the Dragon", and Zun Long was invited to play Zu'er, a Chinese gang leader in Chinatown.
This ambitious character seems to be born to belong to the dragon, suit and leather shoes, fierce, handsome facial features can not hide the domineering, as soon as it appears, it is not surprising to attract everyone's attention.
Even the American media can't help but praise "the most handsome gangster boss ever."
Soon after the film was released, there was a sensational Chinese gangster rush in the United States, and the coincidence and tragedy of real life made this Hollywood film that just depicted Chinese gangsters gain unprecedented attention.
In this fierce battle of public opinion, Zun Long won the nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 1986 Golden Globe Awards for this controversial role, setting a precedent for a Chinese actor to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award.
Because of this role, Zun Long successfully let the Western world see the charm of the East.
In 1987, the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci found Zunlong and invited him to star in the film "The Last Emperor", which depicts the life of China's last emperor Puyi.
The extraordinary Zun Long was born with a strong melancholy atmosphere and aristocratic temperament, and when he stops there and does not have to do anything, you will know that he is indeed the "emperor".
From being forced to separate from his relatives and enter the palace as an emperor when he was young, to becoming a puppet of puppet Manchukuo, personally forcing his beloved empress Wanrong to die, and then to criticizing and insulting in the ten years of catastrophe, Puyi's role spans a huge span of age and psychology, and it is not easy to grasp.
In order to play him well, Zun Long once said: Playing Puyi, the director took away all my internal organs, and I could only shrink, leaving only a shell.
At the 60th Academy Awards ceremony, "The Last Emperor" won 9 awards such as Best Picture and Best Director, and Zun Long himself was once again nominated for best actor at the Golden Globe Awards, becoming the only Chinese actor in the history of American cinema to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award twice.
For a time, Zun Long became the hottest Chinese superstar in Hollywood, and his film remuneration once exceeded that of many American film stars.
Indifferent to fame and fortune, eager to return to China
Many people know "Farewell to the Overlord", but do not know "Butterfly King", only because the latter's story content is too shocking, and the critics have been mixed and mixed.
In the film "Butterfly Jun", Zun Long played a drama celebrity with a boy's daughter's heart, "she" and the French ambassador knew and fell in love, but in the end, as a man, he confronted his former lover in court and denounced him for leaking state secrets...
Under a similar theme, "Farewell to the Overlord" released in the same year won numerous awards and glory because of Zhang Guorong's excellent performance. In contrast, the ending of "Butterfly King" is somewhat bleak.
However, the public opinion of the outside world cannot hide the genius-like acting skills of Zun Long. The "Butterfly Jun" he plays, the posture is charming, the face is charming, and there is a style between the hands and feet, which is amazing.
Along with Zun Long, it is a multi-faceted mystery, and every time the audience sees him, it is a completely different image, but they feel that behind each variety of character images, it is him.
Complex, simple, pure, the oriental beauty he possesses is no longer a single martial arts image, but a very changeable beauty.
In fact, since the filming of "The Last Emperor" first returned to the motherland, he has been nostalgic for his hometown, he does not care about the Hard-won Hollywood status, but longs to return to the motherland.
In order to return to his homeland to act in movies, he pushed back almost all the film contracts, including the "Lover" that achieved Leung Ka Fai; gathered together in Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi's "Memoirs of a Geisha", instead returned to China to shoot the lonely and unknown "Qianlong and Xiangfei", and returned to Hong Kong to send his adoptive mother to the end of his life...
But it is such a gentle and grateful person, under the rumors of the media, was questioned for playing a big name, poor acting skills, slandering him for hating his adoptive mother, ungrateful, smearing him for coveting money before returning to China to find gold...
At that time, Zun Long was working hard in China, there was no brokerage team to help him maneuver around, only an assistant, and he himself did not understand the intrigues in interpersonal communication: "I am not particularly good at being a person, I have no home, no parents, no name, no reading, no childhood, and I do not understand the relationship between people." ”
Rumors were rife, but Zun Long never paid attention to it and could not explain it. He said: "I can be more famous and richer, but I am satisfied and do not worry about food and clothing. ”
However, who can understand this pure heart?
In the past decade, Zunlong has gone from the peak of the scenery to slowly falling silent, the flowers and applause of the old days have stopped, and people have turned to stigma and denigration.
Perhaps discouraged, perhaps looking down on fame and fortune, Zun Long began to gradually fade out of the entertainment industry, except for the occasional small role that did not matter, or came out to get a few awards, in addition, basically living alone in Canada, living a reclusive life.
What kind of imprint has the homeland left on his heart? I'm afraid that no one can understand it except Zun Long.
Lost loved ones, lonely all your life
From childhood to youth, Zun Long has always been a person. He has no family, no friends, is afraid to face the noise of the outside world, and the only person he can hug is himself.
Even though his career is endless and he has won one award after another, back in the hotel, he is still a lonely teenager with nowhere to share happiness: "I have no parents, I have learned to be my friends, to be my father and mother." 」 ”
Zun Long is not without love.
When filming "The Last Emperor", he fell in love with Chen Chong, who played "Wanrong", but the ending of the prince and princess did pass by: "Although I am an artist, I am also a human being, I will also be vulnerable, I also have needs." 」 I've always liked Chen Chong very much, she's my angel, but she's married someone else. Because I didn't use it, I let her run away. ”
Along the way, there are also many actresses who are attracted by Zunlong's handsome appearance and unique temperament, hoping to accompany him for a lifetime and have children, but Zunlong has refused one by one.
He says he's a very insecure person, and people like him may not know how to truly be loved and loved: "I really need to be alone, I can't accept sleeping with people." ”
Coming from loneliness and going to loneliness, for Zun Long, the self that cannot be approached has become the last line of defense of life.
After retirement, Zun Long had two dogs, and he went out for a walk with the dog when he had nothing to do, away from utilitarianism, and his heart was very peaceful.
Compared with the enviable road of superstardom, he accepted the ordinary and peaceful life more naturally: "I have the most intimate feeling for nature, I have adopted two thousand-year-old trees, I call these two trees grandfather and grandmother." 」 I could be moved to tears as I watched them. ”
In the first half of his life, Zun Long experienced ups and downs, breaking through the sky in the stormy Hollywood, and was extremely brilliant; and in the second half of his life, he longed to return to his hometown, but he was not accepted, and finally left lonely and returned to loneliness.
In one of Zun long's few interviews, he mentioned that when he saw children in orphanages, he would not hesitate to buy the gifts they wanted most, and when he saw these children dancing, he would inexplicably shed tears.
Perhaps, from these orphaned children, he saw a little shadow of his own beginning, and doing his best to take care of the homeless children also became a wish in Zun Long's heart.
Zun Long's life has shortcomings and fulfillment. Even the second half of life that chooses to retire is completely out of the heart. Do not argue, quietly emit their own light.
Perhaps for a legendary actor who has done wonders, this is the best way to end the curtain.
Mr. Zun Long, the rest of your life, may you be happy.
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