This year is the 18th year of the death of "The Queen of Change" Mui Yanfang, Hong Kong made a movie "Mui Yanfang", inviting 32-year-old model Wang Dani, who is 1 meter 79 tall, to star, and Gu Tianle played Mui Yanfang's friend and friend - Liu Peiji. However, this movie is not simply about Mei Yanfang herself.
Today, the film was screened in Advance in Guangzhou, and after watching it, the editor found that the film not only reflected the background of the times in Hong Kong at that time, but also exposed some unknown history of the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
Mei Yanfang's legendary life, many viewers are not strangers: 4 years old on stage to sell singing to support the family, in 1982 with a cover of Xu Xiaofeng's "Season of the Wind" fame, in 1987 with "Rouge Buckle" "like a flower" role to win the Golden Horse Film Queen... But in addition to reflecting these in the movie, there are some "dry goods" that outsiders are not familiar with.
1. Mei Yanfang and Zhang Guorong, the status of "brother" is far less than that of "Sister Mei".
In the movie, Mei Yanfang sang in the nightclub, switching between Chinese, Cantonese, and Japanese freely, Zhang Guorong sang with a boo, Mei Yanfang also comforted him not to be discouraged, and Xu Guanjie was also booed that year. You know, Zhang Guorong is 7 years older than Mei Yanfang, according to age, he is definitely Mei Yanfang's predecessor, even in the hearts of many people in the audience, they are also equal Hong Kong superstars, but in this movie, Mei Yanfang's coffee position directly crushed Zhang Guorong.
In addition, Mei Yanfang sang and You ze acted, Guan Jinpeng found Mei Yanfang to shoot "Rouge Buckle", but did not decide on the "Twelve Less" candidate, and as a result, Mei Yanfang directly asked Zhang Guorong's play by name.
There is a scene in the movie, Zhang Guorong's actor Liu Junqian, holding Mei Yanfang's actor Wang Dani wearing the costume of "Rouge Buckle", lying on the kang, Zhang Guorong said that his role was increased, which is the credit of Mei Yanfang.
Mei Yanfang did not want her brother to lose face, so she praised her "brother" for acting well. Although the painting style is very harmonious, it is not difficult to see that in the director's heart, Mei Yanfang's status is far more than Zhang Guorong's.
2. Mei Yanfang KTV was slapped and avoided Thailand for more than half a year.
Before the return of Hong Kong, the underworld was rampant, and only we passers-by knew about the gossip news such as the kidnapping of Liu Jialing, the robbery of Zhang Ziqiang, and the fact that Yuan Yongyi was blackmailed and had no drama to film. In this film, there are gangsters who want Mei Yanfang to sing in the nightclub, and Mei Jie refuses to sing and is directly slapped.
Due to the strong background of the big brother of the underworld, Mei Yanfang had to flee to Thailand for refuge, accompanied by Ah Ben, played by Yang Youning.
Once we all thought that Mei Yanfang's beating was anecdotal, and now it has been confirmed by the movie, which also exposes the dark curtain of the Hong Kong entertainment industry at that time, it seems that the stars at that time had a bright appearance, and they could only be human flesh in front of the big guys, without dignity.
3. The inner volume is serious, and the slightest carelessness will be excessive.
In the film, Mui Yanfang returned to Hong Kong after the limelight, and her status at this time was much worse than before. She was a guest show, and the host asked her a lot of tricky questions, such as emotional failure, career failure, and questioning her doing public welfare in order to wash white for a comeback, but Mei Yanfang had no choice but to smile and respond awkwardly.
In the film, the host mentioned that Lin Yilian (Sandy), Ye Qianwen (Sally), and Guan Shuyi (Shirley) are in the limelight and have surpassed Mei Yanfang. Mei Yanfang was unwilling and had to make a comeback again in order to save the lost ground. Because when she was in a retreat in Thailand, she already knew that her love was the stage and her career.
Therefore, after Mei Jie returned to Hong Kong, she adjusted herself and made every effort to fight for her career while also taking into account the public welfare. Before her sister Mei Aifang died of uterine cancer, she reminded her to do regular physical examinations, but Mei Yanfang was too busy to pay attention to even if she found herself with a tumor, and finally deteriorated in 2003, and finally died of incense.
Back to now, we always complain about the hard work of 996, but more than 20 years ago, Mei Yanfang had already endured these pressures. In addition to the tragedy of Mei Yanfang in the movie, it is also described that Zhang Guorong was depressed and depressed, couldn't sleep all day, and finally chose to jump off the building to end his life.
The movie "Mei Yanfang" is not touching not how good the actor's acting skills are, but Mei Yanfang's own story that hits people's hearts. Many scenes can still be felt to the present. At present, the mainland entertainment industry is in a period of change, and all kinds of black history of the entertainment industry in the early years have also been exposed one by one, pulling gangs and factions, standing on the mountain, hua dan pulling flowers, as well as tax evasion and tax evasion, cheating and splitting legs, and so on... In the movie "Mei Yanfang", it also reflects that when artists cannot openly love, underground love will be discovered, career and family dilemmas and so on.
After Mei Yanfang became famous, I believe that many artists have also experienced it at present, but the career of these artists has not reached the height of Sister Mei, and it can be said that it is not even as good as Sister Mei.'
To tell the truth, this film is not particularly outstanding, Andy Lau and Zhao Wenzhuo's line is completely absent, and the "vampire" mother Qin Meijin and his two indisputable brothers have not appeared.
But the audience after watching it will still feel moved, perhaps because the background of the era revealed by the film seems to happen to us. Some of the ugliness of the entertainment industry can still be seen now. Of course, Mei Yanfang's spirit of being a person with great righteousness and dedication to her career is worth learning from each of us.