It's April 1 of another year.
Green Peach is not a fan of Zhang Guorong, but when I saw Zhang Guorong's memorial news this morning, I first returned to God: Oh, another year.
As in previous years, today's Weibo and circle of friends have once again staged collective "performance art", whether sincerely or falsely, wave after wave of people telling their thoughts and admiration for that person.
I have no intention of judging this "mourning wave", but I can't help but sigh that his death day has become a kind of time measure, spanning mountains and rivers, year after year. Very few of the chinese people are remembered in this way.
Zhang Guorong has many faces, a singing voice that amazes the world, a pure and sincere heart, a lifelong passion for charity, a heart to promote future generations, and a lifetime of love...
These will not be repeated today, and there will be humanity elsewhere. We only talk about movies, after all, in the hearts of many people, Zhang Guorong is first and foremost an actor.
Green Peach picked ten works, and a few stills of each work are classics that have been repeatedly praised.
On this special and ordinary day, I hope to share my brother's bose fireworks with you through a few photos.
"Farewell to the Overlord" – 1993
The restored version of "Farewell to the King" was originally scheduled to be re-released in South Korea on April 1, but it was postponed to May due to the new crown epidemic. This is not the first time the film has been released in South Korea, first in 1993 and second in 2017.
Not only in South Korea, the beauty of Cheng Dieyi shocked the world. Once released, "Farewell to the King" was hailed as one of the "100 Greatest Movies" of the twentieth century, and was also named the first of the "Top Ten Favorite Movies" of the Hong Kong people.
The elder brother himself won the Special Contribution Award of the China Film Performing Arts Society that year, the Best Actor of a Foreign Language Film by the Japan Film Critics Association, and the title of Film Emperor at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
He loves the world and is loved by the world.
The True Biography of Ah Fei – 1990
In the 60s, between the cities of Hong Kong, there was a "rootless bird" - Ah Fei, who lacked maternal love, so he behaved debauchery to every woman he met in life, and the conductor Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung) and the dancer Mimi (Liu Jialing) made him feel warm, but they were just duckweed.
"Ah Fei" is like Zhang Guorong himself, and he is charming between his hands and feet. He danced in a cramped environment, constantly brushing his hair, looking narcissistically at himself in the mirror, decadent and indulgent.
Some people say: From Ah Fei's lonely eyes, we can read three words: there is no love.
But it was also Ah Fei who said, "Sixteenth, April Sixteenth." You were with me one minute before three o'clock in the afternoon on April 16, 1960, because you and I will remember this minute. We're friends for a minute from now on, it's a fact that you can't change it because it's already in the past. I will come back tomorrow. ”
Rouge Buckle – 1987
The cooperation between Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang, when the two were young and prosperous, but they interpreted a decadent and sad love story.
Before Ruhua turns into a ghost, she is a red-card prostitute who falls in love with a stupid boy Twelve Youngsters (Zhang Guorong). The identities of the two are very different, the marriage is strongly opposed, and in desperation, they use rouge to make love and swallow opium together. Fate tricked people, twelve less were saved by people, and they stole their lives. Ruhua was heartbroken, returned the rouge buckle, and returned to Hades to reincarnate.
The most unforgettable scene of the green peach is when the two recline together, the smoke is swirling, the eyes are flowing, and the handsome men and beautiful women are for a glimpse.
"East Evil and West Poison" - 1994
"East Evil and West Poison" is destined to be named in the history of photography, Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia, Liang Chaowei, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Liang Jiahui, these names will be brought out separately in the future, all of which are golden signboards.
When I was a child, watching this rather nonsensical film, I felt more funny, and when I personally experienced some world events, and then looked back, I found that Wong Kar-wai had already said it clearly: even if he was as dashing as a hero, he would also be trapped in love and hate, and fell into the pain of attachment.
Decades later, Ouyang Feng is no longer the bright teenager with long hair. His eyes were as dark as water, and he turned a thousand times: "In the past forty years, there are always some things you don't want to mention again, and there are some people you don't want to see again..."
Golden Branches and Jade Leaves – 1994
Privately, "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" is a very good love guide. The famous musician Gu Jiaming (played by Zhang Guorong) and the most popular female singer Rose (played by Liu Jialing) are a pair of ordinary couples. One day, Lin Ziying (played by Yuan Yongyi) became a male newcomer to the company (actually dressed as a woman), and her innocence attracted both Jiaming and Rose, and both fell in love with Ziying.
Pretty boy in love, mortals shed tears. However, Jiaming and Zhang Guorong's own love attitude is the same: I care whether you are a man or a woman, and I love your unique soul.
Ghost of a Woman – 1987
For the Chinese, it seems that the story of Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian will never be tired of hearing, but many favorites are Zhang Guorong and Wang Zuxian's version. People and ghosts fall in love, love but can not, this fantasy drama becomes the love enlightenment of Green Peach's youth.
The teenager who holds an oil-paper umbrella and nibbles on steamed buns in the rain is by far the most standard portrait of a scholar in people's hearts.
Fairy Tales of the Stars and Moons – 1999
Many of Zhang Guorong's films explain how important the word "fate" is, and "Star and Moon Fairy Tale" is even more so. After her fiancé Tatsuya (Cheung Kwok Wing) died in a traffic accident in Hong Kong, Hitomi (Takako Tokiwa) was in a terrible condition and had difficulty continuing her life. One day, she met a person who looked exactly like Ta, the Hong Kong policeman's family treasure.
The first time we met, the first thing he said to her was: I've been waiting for you for a long time. You say it's not fate, what is it?
New on the Beach – 1996
Shanghai Beach is also a story that has been said to be rotten, but compared with the TV drama version, Zhang Guorong and Andy Lau's "Shanghai Beach" actually made a drastic adaptation that year, and the character and story are different from the original, and now it seems that it is full of courage.
Xu Wenqiang, played by Zhang Guorong, is never neatly dressed, and the corners of his mouth are always smoking, which is less cold and more wild. Only some actors have such a talent: you always feel that he is not playing a role, but living in a role.
Heroes 2 – 1987
The above picture appears in the opening of the god-level Korean drama "Please Answer 1988", and the young girl in Shuangmendong was moved to tears by the scene of Zijie's phone call, and their fascination with Zhang Guorong was the best epitome of Asian film fans in those years.
In the first part, the spirited police academy teenager grew up to be a man who could stand alone in this part, and had an elegant temperament. Unfortunately, fate caused him to fall suddenly due to an accident.
Lemon Coke – 1982
Compared with the first nine famous movies, "Lemon Coke" is not known to so many people. Zhang Guorong, a high school teenager in his twenties, is full of aggressive handsomeness and sharpness.
At that time, Zhou Xiulan was also invincible in youth, standing with Zhang Guorong, and the starlight of the two was enough to cover up the mediocrity of the film itself. It's just that now that the teenager has passed away, and the girl is also old, people sigh. But fortunately, there is such a film that records their flying youth. Although the world is imprisoned in time, those memories of youth will not fade.
After a circle of plates, the green peach seemed to have drunk some small wine, dizzy, obviously just looked at some pictures, but it seemed to fall into a universe called [Zhang Guorong], and time and space were attached to his unique breath.
But the pictures are still not enough, never enough.
If you want to feel the charm of Zhang Guorong, you still have to drill into the image. His smiles, his hands and feet are all preserved in the movie.
The use of the word "preservation" seems to be lacking, and it should be said that Zhang Guorong will always live in the movie.