As actors, almost all have been exposed to the role of tragic , but I don’t know if they can use the word empathy when they are interpreting the tragic role itself?
Francis Farmer, Hollywood A beautiful actress in the early 20th century, should be the most qualified to talk about this topic, because her life itself was a tragedy, even more so than an artistic tragedy.
What Francis Farmer most couldn't imagine was that the person who put himself in a tragic state turned out to be his respectful mother.
Famer has never given birth in his life. It is unknown whether she can understand the inner hope of being a mother. Anyway, everything she suffered was given by her mother as the guise of "wishing her daughter to become a phoenix".
Famer's mother herself is very ordinary, but she has a very strong ambition.
When Farmer was attacked by the group because of the topic of "God is dead", her mother immediately saw the opportunity to make her daughter famous.
What is it to be cursed by someone? What's the point of being kicked off? Farmer's mother didn't care. What she cared about was that her daughter's remarks could arouse different feelings from the world. could become the person who accepts recognition, doubt, affirmation, and curse in the spotlight.
It’s a pity that Farmer disappointed her mother. Perhaps, it should be said that the current situation at that time disappointed her mother. Farmer’s speech soon became a product that was backlogged under the dust of the times.
But Farmer was relatively stable. She never thought of sensationalism because she hoped for her efforts compared to becoming famous like that.
Soon, she became a journalism student at the University of Washington.
But this did not satisfy the mother. On the contrary, because of the tuition fee, The mother thought that her daughter wasted her great resources: beauty. She always believes that her daughter is so beautiful that she should become a star admired by everyone.
It was under the repeated urging of my mother that 9-year-old Famer gave up his journalism major and changed to drama major .
Sure enough, Farmer's beauty is too dazzling, she quickly had several performance opportunities and got the benefits of traveling to Moscow .
Although my mother was reluctant to let Farmer go there to perform. But she can't fight against her adolescent daughter's rebellion.
Until 1935, when Farmer returned from Moscow, the mother began to hold on to her daughter.
Famer, with her good acting skills and beauty, quickly signed a 7-year contract with a Hollywood film and television company. made her mother extremely happy. She seemed to see her daughter's great success.
can be used against Farmer, but this is the beginning of bad luck.
Company requires her to be obedient, dress, dress up according to their needs, and even make vases. For this reason, Farmer had a lot of trouble with the company, so that she had no plays to play in the company.
After the mother's repeated efforts, the company decided to repackage Farmer, , but the premise is to create topics through marriage . Farmer was not in love at the time, so the company arranged a male actor as her future husband.
Of course, Farmer disagreed with this, but the reason given by the company was: "It doesn't matter whether you love it or not. Only when you marry the person we arranged can you continue to survive in this circle."
Farmer could only succumb to it, and after getting married, cooperating with the company to show love and happiness to the outside world, in order to create a romantic character. After
, she successfully participated in the drama "Golden Boy" and got to know screenwriter Odds.
All this is a bad fate. If Farmer has no feelings for her husband arranged by the company, But Odez has feelings but can't give her people, because he has his own marriage partner.
This incident had a big blow to Farmer. Originally, she thought that only work was fake, but she didn't expect that feelings were fake. There was nothing in life that was real, and being an actor was too hypocritical.
Because of the unsuccessful life, Farmer began to express his feelings to drink to relieve his sorrows.
940, Farmer, who made two movies, suddenly disappeared in the circle. The media said: She was hurt by love and was mentally ill.
But Farmer appears again a few years later, which has caused fanatical tracking among the media paparazzi. After all, reporting on the misfortune and privacy of a female star is more interesting than reporting on a movie.
Soon, Farmer became a "abandoned" woman and was hurt because she fell in love with someone else's husband. In short, female celebrities have a very bad life. They have abandoned each other in their relationships, and being abandoned is a statement to Farmer.
This made Farmer very sad. She hid in her room and dared not go out. The company believes that she has no value for reuse and directly terminated the contract with her, and her husband also filed a divorce application.
Obviously, Farmer suffered a series of blows, and her daily life was almost always with wine.
Once, she drove into the wartime restricted area while drunk. She was absent-minded and did not know where her car was driving.
Soon, Farmer's car was stopped by the police. When she saw it was Farmer, she was ruthlessly ridiculed. Maybe those words made out of nothing stimulated Farmer again, and she couldn't bear it and punched the police.
Driving while drunk and beating the police, Farmer's name once again became the headlines of major media.
Of course, she was also banned by the entertainment industry because of this, and no one is willing to use such a female star with "bad record".
When Farmer returned to his house with injuries, he discovered that his mother had already demolished her house and took away all her savings.
Farmer, sweeping by pain and despair, once again drove on the road and was caught without surprise.
Her mother did not abandon her. In order to bail her, she issued a certificate of paranoid schizophrenia and mania.
This time, Farmer's tragedy cannot escape.
She was sent to a mental hospital by her mother, where she was injected with medicine, soaked in cold water, and even ate feces.
It's okay, Farmer's friend saved her. A friend advised her to stay away from Hollywood and leave her mother. However, the law defaults to the mother who still loves her, and she cannot abandon her mother.
Back to Seattle, Farmer began to impress his mother with family affection: I won’t act anymore, I will accompany you, let’s live together...
But her words were only regarded as a madman by her mother, because she always hoped that her daughter would become a big star and the money tree in her heart.
Faced with his mother's determination and indifference, Farmer could not accept it, and had a big conflict with his mother, and was slapped by his mother.
Angry, she pushed her mother down and even grabbed her neck: "If this happens again, I will kill you."
Famer slammed the door and left, but he didn't know that what was waiting for her was another arraignment from the court. 's mother sued her, and the judge believed that she should continue to be imprisoned in a mental hospital.
Just like that, Farmer was sent to a mental hospital again, was handcuffed to the bed every day, and had to be electrocuted and sedative.
What she dared not imagine the most was that she became a female star who could sleep once for $20.
Of course, all the money fell into my mother's pocket, she was just the "crazy" in the mental hospital.
This kind of life lasted for 11 years, until the end, at the request of her mother, Farmer was removed from the frontal lobe and became an obedient "living dead".
At this point, Farmer was released, and it was already 1958. Her mother still did not give up on the hope of making her a star and began to look for opportunities everywhere to let her appear.
However, when people see Farmer on the screen again, she is no longer the beauty with ideas and thoughts: The eyes are empty and the language is dull, and she can do whatever others say.
Some people say that Famer finally forgave her mother and support her in her old age.
I'm afraid this is because of the operation, right? If it weren't for the operation, who could still talk about forgiveness when facing such a tragic life?
Famer later converted to Roman Catholicism. When she wanted to write her tragedy into a book, she died of esophageal cancer.
This may be a relief for her, but for the world, what a sad encounter and ending it was!
