This bad news immediately exploded in the whole China society. Many fans of Leslie Cheung and more people who love Leslie Cheung felt heartbroken and expressed their dissatisfaction.
Because it was April Fool's Day, many people heard the news and thought it was a prank for a long time. It was not until the cold reality hit that people burst into tears and accepted the reality.
At the memorial service a week later, Leslie Cheung's old friend Anita Mui burst into tears. Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, men who have never shed tears in public, have also become tearful.
Since then, every April around 1, many cities, including but not limited to Hongkong, Shanghai, Chongqing, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris, Manchester, new york, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Rotterdam and so on, have activities to commemorate Leslie Cheung, some in the form of concerts, some in the form of film festivals and photo exhibitions, and so on.
Except offline, in the world of Internet, the commemoration of Leslie Cheung has never stopped. Especially on April 1 day every year, many fans and fans in Leslie Cheung send this commemoration to every corner of the network. From forums to video sites, from Weibo to official WeChat accounts, we can see people expressing their grief for Leslie Cheung in various ways.
So, have you ever wondered why there are so many famous artists far away from us, only Leslie Cheung, and a large number of people spontaneously commemorate him every year?
When we commemorate Leslie Cheung, what are we commemorating?
Today, we will try to explore the answers behind these two questions.
Speaking of Leslie Cheung, the most intuitive feeling comes from his face value. Then, let's talk about his face value first.
Although Leslie Cheung's facial features are not as three-dimensional as ChristianRandPhillips, they are friendly and conform to the aesthetics of the East, which explains the word "able to bear looking" well.
In the film, this face has made many classic characters in China film circle, from the shy and affectionate Ning in Ghost Story, to the rebellious, willful and naive He Baorong in Spring Day, to the crazy infatuation in Farewell My Concubine, and the face value can be said to complement each character.
Among the many characters created by Leslie Cheung, you can read cuteness, unruly, blurred, fragile, decisive, willful and arrogant from his bright eyes.
Therefore, it can be said that Leslie Cheung's facial features are attractive, while his eyes are spiritual. His eyes and eyebrows always have a touch of amorous feelings. Charming but not enchanting, affectionate but not frivolous, this temperament produced by the extension of Yan value has been organically integrated into his Yan value.
Among the famous film actors of the same period, Leslie Cheung is unique. Whenever Leslie Cheung appears in a movie, he hardly needs to talk, and that face will naturally talk; The light from those eyes can reach people's hearts directly. It can be said that after he left, the word "absolute beauty" didn't belong to much.
Secondly, talk about grades.
The most intuitive reflection of Leslie Cheung's achievements is that all kinds of awards are soft. In the music world, he won many awards in the music world and was praised as a living legend. In the end, he was crowned with "Lifetime Achievement Award" such as the Golden Needle Award and the Most Outstanding Artist Award in Asia.
In the film industry, in 199 1, Leslie Cheung became the best actor with The True Story of Teddy Boy, and in 1993, he was nominated as the best actor in the 46th Cannes International Film Festival. He also won the Special Contribution Award of the 4th China Film Performing Arts Society and the Best Actor Award of Tokyo Film Critics.
Perhaps these awards, friends who don't know, don't quite understand their weight. Let's explain it with the Golden Needle Award. The Golden Needle Award is a lifetime achievement award in Hong Kong's music industry. Apart from Leslie Cheung, only Jacky Cheung and Alan Tam won this honor.
Teresa Teng and Danny Chan won this prize after their death.
Leslie Cheung was the only person who won such awards before his death, and he was the god of the film industry.
It can be said that his acting is better than his, and no one can sing well. Better than his singing, not as good as his acting. But this is only a theoretical description. In reality, that is, no artist can surpass Leslie Cheung in music and film at the same time, and more artists may not achieve one of his many achievements all their lives.
Then talk about personality.
Once, at the Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, a senior was the ceremony coordinator. Leslie Cheung and his assistant arrived at the scene, but there was no parking space in the parking lot. They were in a dilemma. The senior helped Leslie Cheung move out of a parking space. Leslie Cheung bowed his thanks to him. The next day, I arranged for my assistant to send this senior an autographed thank-you card.
Leslie Cheung's appearance is mild, but his heart is full of magnanimity and a sense of justice. When he was filming Farewell My Concubine, there was a female makeup artist in the crew who often suffered domestic violence from her husband. After the film was finished, the husband of the female makeup artist also attended the celebration banquet.
Leslie Cheung, who has always been good-natured, was extremely angry. He said to the man, If you hit her again, I will let my friends in Hong Kong punish you.
Brigitte Lin recalls Leslie Cheung in her own book: We filmed "Ashes of Time" together and always took the company minibus to the set together. Once, he asked me how I was doing. Without saying a few words, big tears rolled down. He put his arm around my shoulder and said, I will be good to you. From that moment on, we became friends.
Lin Chi-ling once had a memory of Leslie Cheung. Many years ago, she was still modeling. At that time, she participated in the filming of a MV in Leslie Cheung. At the same time, there is a deaf-mute girl. In order to achieve the same lip-synching effect for all actors in the MV screen, Leslie Cheung took the initiative to teach girls how to lip-synch, and repeated rehearsals like others, showing considerable patience.
Although we only stayed together for one day, Leslie Cheung's thoughtfulness, sincerity and modesty left a deep impression on Lin Chi-ling. From then on, she regarded Leslie Cheung as a model of good people.
These four things are not big things, they are very small things. But the so-called micro-knowledge, a person's personality and cultivation, will be reflected in the daily dribs and drabs. Only when the heart is full of goodness can we hate evil; Only when you understand things in your heart will you know how to be grateful. This shows Leslie Cheung's character.
In addition to respecting the predecessors and peers, Leslie Cheung also actively supports the younger generation and gives them all kinds of help as much as possible. He once advised a young man to smoke less in the corridor, saying it was bad for his voice.
The young man really listened to him and later achieved great success in music. His name is Eason Chan.
He once said to a young man who returned to Hong Kong from the United States for development: You can stay in my house if you are not used to hotels. Teach the young man a lot of acting skills.
This young man is called Wang Leehom;
He brought a new female artist to play with him and praised him in front of the media. Later, when the woman was injured, he went to visit and gave him his amulet. The girl's name is Cecilia Cheung.
There are many examples like this. It can be said that many Hong Kong music and film backbones have been helped and supported by Leslie Cheung.
Leslie Cheung is such a perfect person in all aspects, but such an infinitely near-perfect existence chooses to go to another world because of depression.
People haven't stopped thinking about him since he left. At a shallow level, people can't forget Leslie Cheung, a man with great value, achievements and excellent character. But that's it?
Leslie Cheung was born in 1956, and his struggle began in 1970s and 1980s. At that time, a generation of Hong Kong people, inspired by the "Lion Rock Spirit", worked hard.
And Leslie Cheung, it is the embodiment of this spirit. He doesn't come from a rich family, but he has achieved great success with his own efforts. From him, we can see the spirit of hard work and self-improvement of that generation of Hong Kong people.
"Even Leslie Cheung has to endure eight years" has become a mantra for many elders to warn the younger generation who just want to take shortcuts.
It can be said that Leslie Cheung is the youth of a generation, and his death is tantamount to making that generation of Hong Kong people, who grew up listening to his songs and watching his films, suddenly feel the collapse of their inner spiritual totem.
Today, in commemoration of Leslie Cheung, besides commemorating himself, I think it is also commemorating the Pearl of the Orient, which once had no troubles, no roadblocks and a prosperous economy.
In the era before Leslie Cheung's death, there was no deep interest binding between the entertainment circle and the Internet, and the game of spending money on hot search and taking small fresh meat with its own traffic did not appear. "Literary and art circles" was also the common name of that era, instead of being called "entertainment circle" helplessly now.
In the new generation of artists, there is a lack of high-quality idols. Today, Leslie Cheung's near-perfect existence is even more precious, and people are more willing to remember the dead. Therefore, you can't imagine many fans who are still after 95 or even 00. To achieve this step seems to be called "eternal life."
His face value makes people feel like spring breeze; His achievements inspire every enterprising person to keep forging ahead; And his cultivation can make people feel the comfort in the depths of the soul. The closer you get to him from the spiritual level, the more you will feel the beauty of life, and you can even forget the usual nagging "This world is not worth it."
You were born before I was born, and I was old when I was born. Hate is not born at the same time. Hello every day.
The Sri Lankan has passed away, but his legend still exists in the rivers and lakes.
If you use one sentence to evaluate Leslie Cheung, Zhi Shu thinks this sentence is the most appropriate:
Compared with his talent, his appearance is nothing to mention; Compared with his character, his talent is nothing.
Why do we still remember Leslie Cheung today? Perhaps, it stems from our helplessness and demanding of the present, our yearning and nostalgia for the past.
We remember Leslie Cheung, probably because he lived as we expected, and wrote a nearly perfect life with hard work and sincerity.
This kind of worship, reflected in reality, may become an inspiring force.
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