Showing scars to others is often a tragedy, because it is not necessarily all doctors; showing a smile to others often invites jealousy, because it is not necessarily angels.
Although the two experiences are not the same, the life of the experiencer is surprisingly the same at some times, and it is not the experiencer himself who decides all this, but the attachment behind them and the environment they experienced at that time.
Now, let's talk about a woman.
Huang Liushuang (January 3, 1905 – February 2, 1961), born in Los Angeles, Guangdong Province, was a Chinese-American actress.
In 1919, he participated in his first American film "Red Lantern". In 1922, he starred in the American film "The Sea Passing". In 1924, he starred in the American film "The Thief of Baghdad", in which he played the role of a Mongolian slave. In 1929, he starred in the British film "Dream of Prosperity in Chinatown"; with his performance in the play, he was invited to attend the British royal banquet.
In 1932, Huang co-starred with Marlene Dietrich in the American film Shanghai Express, which grossed $3.7 million in the United States. In 1936, he first arrived in China for a nine-month journey to find his roots and shoot a documentary. In 1951, she starred in the American TV series "Lady Willow's Gallery", in which she starred under her real name. In 1960, as the first Chinese to stay on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the United States. In addition, she became a statuetteer of the "Hollywood Silver Four Lady's Belvedere" with Dorothy Delio, Dorothy Dandridge, May West and Marilyn Monroe.
In 1961, Huang Liushuang died of a heart attack at the age of 56.
Now, let's talk about a man.
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), formerly known as Li Zhenfan, was born in 1940 in San Francisco, California, China, with his ancestral home in Jun'an Town, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China, the world's martial arts reform pioneer, martial arts martial arts fighter, martial arts philosopher, father of mma, martial arts master, founder of kung fu films and founder of truncation, Chinese martial arts film actor, the first global promoter of Chinese kung fu, the first Chinese protagonist in Hollywood. He broke several records three times in four and a half films in Hong Kong, including "Raptors Across the River" broke the Asian film box office record, and "Dragon Fight" with Hollywood reached a total global box office of $230 million.
In 1962, Bruce Lee opened the "Zhen Fan Guo Shu Gym", in 1967 he created his own boxing, and on July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong at the age of 33. In 1979, the City of Los Angeles designated June 8, the opening date of the remake of "Game of Death," as "Bruce Lee Day" (July 8 was a mistranslation). In 1993, the 20th anniversary of Bruce Lee's death was released in the United States, and the Bruce Lee commemorative star emblem was laid on Hollywood Boulevard; in the same year, it was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In November 1998, he was awarded the "Wushu Film Superstar Award" by the Chinese Wushu Association.
We copied their resumes like this to tell people that their essence is the same, they are all acting in movies, although the content of the performances is different, but they are all acting in China, and the personal endings are the same. Therefore, we believe that Huang Liushuang should be called "Female Bruce Lee", who does not know martial arts, but plays hard in China. Both became the tragedy of that era, Chinese acting in American films, or Chinese epitomized in The United States.
Bruce Lee's story is basically a household name, and we'll skip it here. Only say yellow willow cream.
Huang Liushuang is the third generation of Chinese immigrants to the United States, and the first generation of his family to the United States is Huang Liushuang's grandfather, who is the earliest generation of Chinese workers to go to California to pan for gold. Huang Liushuang's father, Huang Shanxing, opened a laundromat near Chinatown to make ends meet. Mothers mainly help fathers take care of the family. Huang Liushuang has a total of eight brothers, and she is the second oldest.
Inside the male protagonist, outside the female protagonist, there are many children, and the business of the small shop is general, which is destined to have a bitter childhood in the land of a foreign country. When she was in elementary school, because her classmates in the Chinese class always loved to bully her, and because the family opened a laundromat, people always liked to throw ink on her body, and said that it was convenient for her to wash clothes anyway, and it was quickly washed up.
It is precisely because of this experience that Huang Liushuang does not like to go to school and often skips school behind his family's back. Once, when her mother asked her to deliver washed clothes to a customer, she received a tip from the customer, which she did not give to her family, but used it to watch the first movie in her life. How fun, like a real person, if I could act. Since then, Huang Liushuang has been fascinated by movies.
At that time, Los Angeles was the center of film production, and what was Huang Liushuang, who was skipping school, go to the shooting scene on the street to watch the filming. Although she was only 9 years old, Huang Liushuang decided that she would be able to make a good movie, and in addition to asking various questions to the film crew and actors, she also begged the director to let her participate in the performance.
The family found that Huang Liushuang skipped school to go to the set, it was too late, and her father said to her bitterly: "We are Chinese, we have no power, no money, you like to make movies, how can it be so easy to be famous?" "Huang Liushuang can't listen to it at all, and she is still obsessed with the movie." Her father watched Huang Liushuang grow up day by day, and he couldn't change her, so he wanted to find someone to marry her. Huang Liushuang did not dry, or endlessly chased the set, while seriously "learning" from the shooting staff and actors, hoping to move the director and give her a chance to perform, even if it was just to show her face.
In 1919, Huang Liushuang's "opportunity" came, and the film "Red Lantern" began filming, because the plot needed orientals, who were the mistresses of an Englishman. The director said that getting a mass actor can be obtained, but because the role is not good, the mass actors are rarely done. Huang Liushuang came on, and she introduced herself and said to the director, "I can." ”
The director looked at Huang Liushuang and thought it was not bad, thinking that he could do it, anyway, such a nameless and nameless person, who can act. This is a big thing for Huang Liushuang. Although there were not many shots and few lines, she began to practice "entering the scene" desperately, and the result was "very satisfactory to the director".
As an actor, even if it is a mass actor, "making the director very satisfied" means that there are still plays to be performed, and it can even be said that there is hope for development. But what we have to say is that because the role is not good — a doll under 15 years old plays someone else's mistress — after that, most of them are prostitutes, slave girls, or the mistresses of white men, dressed in revealing sexy clothes, not to mention sexy, but also often play abused and bullied roles in the film. These, although Huang Liushuang became a movie star at that time, but showed a lot of "bad" and "Chinese images" to others, becoming the "enchanting Chinese dolls" in European and American fashion magazines, and at the end of the role, they will become the objects of salvation by white men.
Although this is only a movie, it is also an important way for Americans to understand the Chinese at that time, and Huang Liushuang's doing so is undoubtedly equivalent to presenting the "scars" of Chinese to Americans. Although, her defense is very reasonable: "That is not my choice, even if I don't act, there will be other actors to play, and I will lose the only chance to 'Chinese play Chinese'!" However, at that time, many Chinese did not see it this way, they thought that huang liushuang's films were "insulting Chinese films", many overseas Chinese protested against this, and even held popularity, through the government to negotiate, and some people in China also believed: "Huang Liushuang, a Chinese doll, interprets The sleeping dragon of China too weakly, too flattering, and will only play a role like a prostitute to insult the image of the motherland." ”
Even, Huang Liushuang was "banned" by Song Meiling. From 1942 to 1943, during Song Meiling's visit to the United States, he delivered a speech on China's anti-Japanese resistance, which caused great repercussions in all walks of life in the United States. But on the hollywood podium, many stars are clustered around Song Meiling's side, that is, there is no only Chinese film star Huang Liushuang. This is because in Song Meiling's view, Huang Liushuang represents the old Chinese image of only laundromats, restaurant owners, gangsters and coolies. Moreover, it is also a "thigh pie" on the screen. Therefore, Song Meiling refused to meet Huang Liushuang, in her heart, China has a well-educated elite, and it should be these people who represent the image of China, not the like of Huang Liushuang.
Huang Liushuang's fate at that time was very similar to the diary written by a writer during the epidemic today, and its reputation was very large, but it was not optimistic.
The fact is that Huang Liushuang has also done some "positive" things, such as: she has returned to China to visit, was entertained by celebrities such as Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, film queen Hu Die, and saw the magnificent rivers and mountains of the motherland and the long and splendid culture, as well as the warmth and love given by her compatriots, she said with great excitement: "My roots will always be in China!" In 1942, she starred in the anti-Japanese propaganda films "Burma Bomb" and "Lady Chongqing" broadcast in the United States, and she donated all the proceeds of these two films to the United Relief Society of China.
Perhaps because she wanted to get rid of the image of "Chinese dolls", Huang Liushuang basically had no "drama" after that, and gradually faded out of the film world. But the film's impact on her is more than that, as a woman, it is necessary to be loved, but her life is lonely, and there is no experience of being loved. Her first love was a filmmaker thirty or forty years older than her who could be her father in terms of age, Mickey Neeland. But this person is a spender, always holding the attitude of breaking up after playing with her.
Nelan is a famous playboy in the circle, very abusive, after Huang Liushuang met him, the empty heart was quickly controlled by him. Huang Liushuang very much hopes to enter the palace of marriage with her, but he has spent Huang Liushuang's remuneration. Huang Liushuang proposed marriage, and he told Huang Liushuang that the law in the United States at that time prohibited Chinese women from intermarrying with white people.
Later, Huang Liushuang had a relationship with the BBC reporter Eric Maschwitz, who wrote a love song for her, "These Foolish Things", in which these sentences were passed down: cigarettes with lip prints, romantic travel tickets, if my heart has wings, let these stupid things take me in your direction... However, this relationship did not survive in the end.
Without a career, without love, there is no happiness, in the bitter and depressed life, Huang Liushuang began to choose to use alcohol to numb himself. This eventually led to his death on February 2, 1961, when he suffered a heart attack. On her tombstone, there was nothing but her mother's name. It is said that when she died, she said that when she died, she wanted her epitaph to read: "She died a thousand times, that is my life story." But after she left, no one wrote these words for her, and no one listened to her story of "dying a thousand times."
We can't change history, but we have the ability to interpret experiences.
At this point, it seems that Bruce Lee can be said to be able to talk about Bruce Lee, and it is said that Bruce Lee has the same ending as a filmmaker as Huang Liushuang - Bruce Lee's cemetery in Seattle, USA, is regarded as a holy place by martial arts enthusiasts all over the world. Bruce Lee's tombstone is crimson and features a photograph of him, his English name "brucelee" and Chinese original name Li Zhenfan. The tombstone also states that he was the founder of Trunct Boxing – but, after his death, in 1988, his wife Linda remarried with his friend and student, writer Tom Brick. In 1991, Linda remarried to stockbroker Bruce Cardwell. In 1993, his son Lee Kwok-ho was shot in the abdomen by a real bullet shot from a prop gun while filming the film "The Crow" in the United States, and unfortunately died at the age of 28.
Some people say that Bruce Lee's greatest contribution to society is twofold: one is to save Cantonese films in a period of critical survival and rejuvenate Hong Kong films; the other is to export culture to Hollywood, telling the world that Chinese are not the sick men of East Asia, let alone the flattering villains in traditional Hollywood movies. But has Bruce Lee's success affected the impression of some American filmmakers on the Chinese? The answer, of course, is no. Similarly, Huang Liushuang acted Chinese into a "Chinese doll", Chinese really became a "Chinese doll"? The answer, of course, is no.
We say that the image cannot be performed by film, it can be changed, the reason is very simple, it is only a movie and not reality. If you want to change your image, you have to speak with strength and fists, not movies. Until now, has the perception of Chinese changed in some Americans? The answer is: No. Not all the time. This is the environment that Huang Liushuang and Bruce Lee experienced at that time, and the environment that still exists now.