One is the first beautiful woman in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and the other is an international superstar who started as a girl, Guan Zhilin and Gong Li are the top beauty actors in the entertainment industry.
The two are compared together, and it is difficult to make out a high and low for a while, each has a heroic posture, and the coffee acting skills are not different.
Oh man! Once you have fame and status, you like to compete for strength and competition.
This is not Gong Li and Guan Zhilin have been in a fight for a role, so that the two have a bond, more than 20 years have not been in contact.
It turns out that their stories are far more exciting than we thought, why is this?
In 1994, Hong Kong Dragon Film Company invested in the filming of "West Chu Bawang", directed by Xian Qiran, with Lu Xiaohe and Shi Yangping as screenwriters, and Zhang Yimou as the artistic director.
Zhang Fengyi, Lv Liangwei, Gong Li, Guan Zhilin, Liu Xun, Wu Xingguo, Xu Jinjiang and other big stars were also invited to sit in the town.
In order to be able to make an influential and well-sold work, the director team also took pains to determine the role.
In order to conform to the image of the character, some objective factors such as the appearance and temperament of the actor must be taken into account, so as to better restore history.
The male lead actor fixed the role, and the director team quickly finalized it, played by the handsome and domineering immortal god Lu Liangwei as "Xiang Yu", and the strong Zhang Fengyi played "Liu Bang".
However, when the female lead actor fixed the role, she encountered many problems, and the role of "Lu Yan" was difficult to decide.
Because the role of "Lü Yan" is more attractive, Gong Li and Guan Zhilin both want to play this famous empress in history, and neither of them will let anyone for this role.
Before the film was planned, Guan Zhilin was invited by the director and friend Xian Qiran to play the role of "Western Chu Bawang".
Because of the appointment of good friends, Guan Zhilin gladly agreed, but the two did not agree to play any role, resulting in poor roles in the back.
At that time, Guan Zhilin and Xian Qiran were good friends who were also relatives and friends, and Xian Qiran was the director, so Guan Zhilin thought that the title of "heroine" would fall on her head.
So he didn't talk to Xian Qiran clearly, and he planned to arrange what role he would play.
As a result, when the shooting began, Guan Zhilin found that the heroine had been intercepted halfway.
This caused Guan Zhilin's strong dissatisfaction, looking for Xian Qiran's theory in the crew, striving for the role of "Lü Yan", and directly speaking to Xian Qiran and not "Lü Yan" and not acting.
However, the director team had already arranged "Lü Yan" to Gong Li, and Gong Li was one step ahead of Guan Zhilin, took a fancy to the role of "Lü Yan", and determined with the director team, and the director group also agreed.
To the mouth of the duck, Gong Li naturally will not let it out?
Gong Li was in the limelight in those years, and her career was quite brilliant, and she won many large and small awards at home and abroad.
"Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit" won the Venice International Film Golden Lion Award, and "Farewell to the King" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the trophy was soft.
The fame in the mainland can be described as better than Guan Zhilin, coupled with the support of Zhang Yimou in the back, there is no cowardice to Guan Zhilin.
Although Gong Li is famous in the mainland, Guan Zhilin does not feel that she will pose a threat to herself, after all, it is a film made by a Hong Kong film company, plus she is the top actress in Hong Kong, Guan Zhilin still has a sense of superiority. Therefore, I dare to "confront Gong Li's director group head-to-head" more aggressively.
Such a fuss, the director Xian Qiran also has no way to take them, these two are the top stars in the entertainment industry, but they can't afford to offend.
Because of the dispute between the two people, there was no way to start the camera, and the director team had to appease the two, hoping that someone could make concessions.
Who knows that neither of them will deal with each other, soft and hard will not eat, and neither of them will make concessions. This made the director team anxious, and the stalemate was one day, and it was necessary to start the machine one day late.
As a director, Xian Qiran was also very anxious, so he thought of such a way to deal with it.
Xian Qiran hurriedly called Shangguan Zhilin and Gong Li to the bath, let the two of them have a Mandarin duck bath to try it out, who can make him see the heartbeat, who will play "Lu Yan".
Guan Zhilin listened to trying to take the Mandarin Duck bath, and her heart was very confident, she glanced at Gong Li and felt that she had a chance to win. After all, the enchanting and feminine piece of Gong Li is naturally inferior to Guan Zhilin.
Gong Li herself also knew in her heart that Guan Zhilin's beautiful and exquisite face and proud figure, which man was not moved to see it?
Gong Li was very bottomless in his heart, so he found director Zhang Yimou.
Regarding the relationship between Gong Li and Zhang Yimou, I think everyone knows it!
After a Mandarin duck bath, Xian Qiran and Zhang Yimou already had the answer in their minds, and Xian Qiran announced: Gong Li played "Lü Yan" and Guan Zhilin played "Yu Ji".
This result is a bit unexpected, xian Qiran gave the reason is very simple, Guan Zhilin looks too beautiful, not aggressive, not suitable for "Lu Yan" vicious and scheming, but suitable for playing the gentle and beautiful "Yu Ji".
I have to say that Xian Qiran's move is really high, both sides are not guilty, and Guan Zhilin, who is exaggerated, can only give up in this way.
Although the roles of the two were finally decided, Guan Zhilin and Gong Li still had a grudge, and they did not care about each other when they met, and even secretly competed.
When filming a certain scene that required two people to be in the same frame, Guan Zhilin came to the set early, but Gong Li did not appear for a long time.
This made Guan Zhilin very angry, and naturally felt that Gong Li was posing in front of her, and went directly back to the hotel to rest in one breath.
Who expected that Guan Zhilin's front foot had just left, and Gong Li's back foot had arrived, so that this scene was not filmed, and finally led to the deepening of the contradiction between the two.
After more than 3 months of shooting, "Western Chu Bawang" was finally finished, which was a thing worth celebrating, and as a result, Guan Zhilin and Gong Li pinched up again.
However, this time it is not for the characters, but for the theme song of "Western Chu Bawang".
In order to suppress Gong Li, Guan Zhilin, who has rarely sung, offered to sing the theme song of "Western Chu Bawang". Guan Zhilin said to the director Xian Qiran, "Lu Yan" I have already given in, and the theme song will be sung by me.
Gong Li was naturally unconvinced, she was obviously the heroine, why let a supporting role sing. Gong Li came up and crossed the bar and also sang the theme song.
The two became more and more fierce, and Xian Qi, who was sandwiched between the two women, went to Find Zhang Yimou to support him. Zhang Yimou thought of a compromise solution,
The theme song Chinese version sung by Gong Li, and the Cantonese version was sung by Guan Zhilin, which dispelled the anger of the two.
After filming this scene, Guan Zhilin and Gong Li also formed a deep grudge.
As the saying goes, a mountain is difficult to tolerate two tigers. The two are competing for a high position inside and outside the play, and in the end they did not exchange heads to become sisters.
"Western Chu Bawang" has such a good show of this relationship. Yu Ji and Lü Ji bathed in the same bath, because Yu Ji was afraid of rats, so Lü Ji pretended to have rats to scare Yu Ji, and as a result, Yu Ji was frightened not lightly, and her head fell into the water. Lü Yan picked up the head pliers for Yu Ji, and the frightened Yu Ji walked away unhappily, and said, "Give it to you, I don't want it." Lü Yan said triumphantly, "According to the rules of our Pei County, the exchange of heads will become sisters." In the end, Yu Ji turned around and took back the head from Lü Yan's hand.
In order to ease the relationship between the two, good friends also broke their hearts, lu Liangwei, who played "Xiang Yu", immediately invited Gong Li and Guan Zhilin to shoot his next movie together after the movie was finished.
In order to resolve the contradiction between the two, I hope that the two will release their previous suspicions. As a result, Lu Liangwei's hot face was pasted on their cold butts, and the two resolutely refused to work together on the same stage again.
In order to be a peacemaker between the two, Liang Chaowei set up a banquet at home to invite the two to be guests, but they both refused one by one, and in the end, to no avail.
The relationship between the two has reached an intolerable point.
In the end, the film was released, and the result was unsatisfactory and the response was mediocre.
It only received 15.74 million at the box office in the film market, and this achievement was far less than expected!
The two competing beauty stars finally made a profit and did not bring them any results.
However, from the perspective of the later movies, Xian Qiran and Zhang Yimou's fixed angle is confirmed to be not wrong.
Gong Li's "domineering" temperament is very much in line with the "Lu Yan" personality. And Guan Zhilin's bright temperament is more suitable for the gentle "Yu Ji".
The performance of the two in the film also left a deep impression on the audience.
In the end, everyone thinks that if Gong Li and Guan Zhilin swap roles, will it be more brilliant?