More than a hundred years after the birth of the film, the world film industry has shone many admirable movie stars, especially the gorgeous female stars have become the object of people's after-dinner talk.
One of them is very special, special in her appearance and personality that can be admired by people in different cultures in the East and the West, and even now there are still many young actresses who take pride in imitating her as the most similar, which is very rare, she is Audrey Hepburn.
Hepburn-style elegance inverts all sentient beings, male or female, and even harsh critics will not question her as beautiful and clean as an angel, but most people only see her beauty, but do not know the continuous trauma and deep loneliness behind her ordinary days.
Where is Hepburn's pain?
Hepburn
For young children, their parents are their whole world, it is difficult to imagine how lonely and helpless a child without parental care is, and his father, who ran away from home when Hepburn was six years old, is the incomprehensible confusion and difficulty of Hepburn's life.
Hepburn's father, Hepburn Ruston, was born in Bohemia, a well-bred englishman who grew up to be a high-class man with his social skills, and then entered the international financial world with a love of money.
From 1923 to 1924, Ruston was the Honorary Consul of Sumatra, Java, where he met and fell in love with Hepburn's mother, Ella.
On May 4, 1929, they gave birth to little Hepburn in a spacious and comfortable house in Brussels, and the birth of a child brought great joy and vitality to the house.
Young Hepburn with his mother
Hepburn's mother, Ella, is a famous lady who attaches great importance to Hepburn's education, not only cultivating her artistic talents in music and dance, but also devoting herself to the construction of her daughter's spiritual world. Ella admired hard work, self-discipline and empathy, and taught Hepburn from an early age to be an active, hands-on girl.
However, although he was cared for by his parents, little Hepburn still heard the discordant voices in this seemingly warm family, Ella and Ruston both have similar personalities, they are very confident and strong, and they often solve problems through quarrels when they have different opinions, at this time, little Hepburn often hides under the table and thinks about whether he has done something wrong?
In the 1930s, when fascism was on the rise and developing, Ella and Ruston became more and more opposed because of their different political tendencies, and in 1935, Ruston left his family and left to join fascism.
Hepburn, who adored his father since childhood, was heartbroken, thinking every day that his father could come back, but he never came back to visit his family, until 1939, when the international environment became more turbulent, and Ella had to call her ex-husband to help send her daughter back to the Netherlands for the safety of her daughter.
Hepburn with his mother
Hepburn and his family, who flew back to the Netherlands, never imagined that Holland would also become a purgatory on earth. After being occupied by the Germans, all the wealth of the Ella family was confiscated, but what was more terrible than becoming a destitute population was the horrific killing.
Hepburn and his mother saw the elderly, women, and children being trucked like cattle and slaughtered in concentration camps, the sky in Arnhem was terrifying and oppressive, everyone was living like street rats, and Hepburn's family was also tragically killed.
In 1942, Hepburn's uncle was assassinated by the Nazis, which eventually made Ella an active member of the resistance to the fascist war, and Hepburn became a small volunteer of the Dutch Resistance Movement under the direct influence of her mother, who used her passion and talent for ballet to bring comfort to the feared Dutch people and used the proceeds of the performance to fund the resistance organization.
As a young girl unlikely to arouse the suspicion of the Germans, Hepburn also acted as an intelligence transmitter, helping members of the Allied and Resistance groups pass on information documents, and even bravely hiding a British pilot.
In September 1944, the Battle of Market Garden nearly wiped out the Allied forces, and the city's residents fled, and In order to escape the bomb attack, Hepburn and his family had to hide in the basement of their apartment.
Wreckage after the war
There was no daylight for many years, and even the water and food needed for survival were not prepared, and Hepburn was bracing herself in that desperate wait, and her body was increasingly emaciated and malnourished, which was one of the reasons why she had to give up ballet after the victory of the war, and the extreme lack of food made her jaundice and almost died.
At this time, Hepburn's eldest brother and second brother were captured by the enemy and heard nothing, and the picture of her beloved uncle and cousin being shot and killed was still haunting her mind, and she already understood how cruel human nature was at a young age.
She found a book written by a little girl of her age and had a similar experience, "The Diary of Anne Frank", to escape reality and place her soul, but she never dared to open it in the basement, fear and despair are psychological demons that she never dared to face.
In 1945, the German army finally collapsed on all fronts, and the British army took over Arnhem in May of the same year, and the heroic Dutch people finally regained their freedom, at the age of 16.
After the war, Ella used the money to save money to take Hepburn to London, she first let her daughter study ballet, but due to physical reasons, Hepburn had to give up her dance career, and then in order to solve the family's financial pressure, Hepburn decided to work part-time as a model, and participated in some song and dance troupe performances to earn extra money.
In 1948, Hepburn was discovered by star scouts to star in her first film "Seven Lessons in the Netherlands", she was impressive at the beginning of her career, so she got a lot of shooting opportunities, in 1952 Hepburn became popular with "Roman Holiday", and the whole world was touched by the innocent Princess Anna.
Hepburn in Roman Holiday
Hepburn was very eager for marriage and family, and in 1954 she married Mel Feller at the age of twenty-five, Andeyler was fourteen years older than Hepburn, and the young Hepburn was almost a little girl in front of Feller, growing up happily under Feller's love and guidance, and her career was in full swing.
However, Feller has always been stagnant in the status of second-rate directors and actors, and gradually, Feller's mentality began to be unbalanced, he not only increased Hepburn's workload, but also made it difficult for Hepburn to breathe, and even began to mess with the outside, and the marriage gradually faded away from the original beauty and showed its hideous face.
In the fourteen-year marriage with Feller, Hepburn was overwhelmed and had three births, each of which was a painful blow to Hepburn, who liked children and loved the family, and finally ended the pain rationally in 1968.
After the divorce, Hepburn was in a bad mood, and met the psychologist André Doti during a trip to Greece, the two talked very happily, it was difficult to give up, so they married in spite of the age gap, and after marriage, Hepburn learned the lessons of the previous marriage and simply focused all his energy on the family.
But Dotty is not an easy person to satisfy, he will not be grateful for Hepburn's sacrifice, but he will intensify his fight with many women outside, on the grounds that this is the common nature of Italian men, Hepburn should not be jealous of this, Hepburn's hopes for a better life are once again shattered, and bravely choose to end.
Feller and Hepburn
Finally, she meets Robert, the spiritual companion who has accompanied him throughout his life. Robert, who has experienced the pain of bereavement, is more mature and sophisticated, and once said to Hepburn: "I hope that my love will not burden you." Because I love you, I will love freely. ”
A man who can say such confident and inclusive words is probably the one who can stay with her, and sure enough, Robert snuggled up with Hepburn in his later years, and they did a lot of meaningful things together, traveling, donating to the public welfare, visiting poor children... He gave her the best love memories.
The goddess of elegance stumbled and experienced so much human hardship, and finally found the ideal love destination, which is inseparable from her naïve and always upward positive personality. No matter how much trauma she suffered in this absurd and dark world, she always believed in love, went the right way, loved more people, and was as holy and selfless as an angel.
Robert and Hepburn
As her son Sean said, "There is one emotion that has accompanied her throughout her life and has affected her whole life: sorrow." But what mother believes in most is love. "Hepburn is the one who chooses love and light in any situation, and isn't love the most tangible wisdom in walking the world?"