If you ask which version of "Fang Shiyu" is the most famous, I believe many people will recommend the Jet Li version - whether it is Fang Shiyu played by Jet Li , Chen Songyong played by Thunder Tiger, or Li Jiaxin played by Lei Ting Ting is the most eye-catching presence in the film. The funny and childlike Miao Cuihua played by Xiao Fangfang is the most outstanding character in the whole film. People often use the phrase "after Xiao Fangfang, there will be no more Miao Cuihua" to describe the extent to which she played this role in the hearts of the people. Today, let’s talk about Xiao Fangfang.
Xiao Fangfang, formerly known as Xiao Liang, was born in Shanghai in 1947 and moved to Hong Kong with her parents when she was young. Unfortunately, her father passed away due to illness when she was 3 years old. This caused the family to suddenly lose their financial resources, which also meant that Xiao Fangfang had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of supporting the family at a very young age. When she was 7 years old, Xiao Fangfang was introduced to participate in her first movie "Little Star Tears". After this movie, her mother realized that Xiao Fangfang had a very high acting talent and gave her almost any cost. After attending a training class and with Xiao Fangfang's own hard work, she was finally admitted to China United Film Company and officially became an actor. She also starred in "Lone Star Blood and Tears" with young Bruce Lee.
In 1955, Xiao Fangfang won the "Best Child Actor Award" at the Second Southeast Film Festival for her wonderful performance in the movie "Mei Gu". At that time, the American media evaluated Xiao Fangfang as China's "Shirley Temple". By the time she was 11 years old, Xiao Fangfang had become a "senior child star" and had appeared in more than a dozen movies.
In the Hong Kong film industry in the 1960s, there was a trend of shooting period martial arts films. In order to adapt to the situation and perform well in martial arts films, Xiao Fangfang studied Peking Opera under Fen Juhua and trained her skills. Later, the multiple heroine images created by her really made the audience applaud. At the same time, she also studied Western dance seriously, which greatly helped her to perform the High School Musical with ease. In the late 1960s, Xiao Fangfang had become so popular that she was also known as the "Seven Princesses of Shaw Brothers" together with Xue Jiayan, Feng Subo, Shen Zhihua, Chen Baozhu, Wang Aiming and Feng Baobao. Today, "princess" is synonymous with a vase actor, but Xiao Fangfang is not only a vase actress, but also a capable actor who is willing to challenge difficult acting skills. She once played the role of a triangle in "Girlfriend", and later in "Snitch Red Rose" "" in which one person plays ten roles, which is still talked about today.
Since she was not able to go to school when she was young, Xiao Fangfang, who was eager to learn, sent part of her film remuneration to her family, and saved part of it as tuition fees to study while performing. In the early 1970s, Xiao Fangfang, whose economic conditions had significantly improved, realized that she needed to further her education, so she temporarily gave up her acting career in China and Japan and went to the United States to study mass communication. Three years later, she returned to Hong Kong with a bachelor's degree and became the most highly educated female star in the Hong Kong entertainment industry at that time. The experience of studying in the United States also gave Xiao Fangfang a new and different understanding of acting, which also laid the foundation for her later choices of playing different types of roles.
Xiao Fangfang once fell in love with Xie Xian, but they ended up breaking up.
Xiao Fangfang married Qin Xianglin in 1974, but the marriage only lasted for 3 short years until she later met her current husband Zhang Zhengfu
Xiao Fangfang returned to the film industry. , not only began to try behind-the-scenes film production work (in 1976, she co-wrote and directed the police film "Jumping Ashes" with Liang Bochi and Chen Xinjian. This film is also said to have kicked off the "New Wave of Hong Kong Films"), but also lost her previous skills. The burden of being an "innocent beautiful girl" is revealed in the shocking "Lin Yazhen". This naive character with a mushroom head and large silver-rimmed glasses has become a classic comedy image in the history of Chinese films. Later, when Wei Jiahui filmed the nostalgic comedy "Rhapsody ", Cecilia Cheung played The Hammy Bobo is a tribute to Lin Yazhen.
Although Xiao Fangfang is not a comedian, she has demonstrated her ability to be as good as a professional comedian through her thorough and unique understanding of comedy characters. Among the most representative characters are Miao Cuihua in "Fang Shiyu", A Niu's aunt in " comic Weilong " and Huang Mei in "Enemies Don't Get Together", etc.
Unfortunately, Xiao Fangfang suffered from severe ear disease after entering middle age, and her condition worsened. Her left ear later became almost deaf, and she often had tinnitus in her right ear, which meant that she was facing the actor. During a play, it would be very difficult to follow the director's on-site arrangements without wearing a hearing aid. In a certain program, Xiao Fangfang once revealed that she had been suffering from ear disease for a long time and once thought about committing suicide by jumping off a building, but she finally survived. Under such circumstances, she still accepted the humanistic film "Women at 40" directed by Xu Anhua, and overcame various difficulties that ordinary people could not imagine, using a very life-like performance to portray a middle-aged woman at the bottom of society. A'e's portrayal was so penetrating that she not only swept the Academy Awards, and Golden Horse Awards, , but also won the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Xiao Fangfang also has another masterpiece that cannot but be mentioned, which is "Tiger Gate" based on the famous Cantonese opera master Yam Jianhui . Leng Jianxin in the film is a superstar who is loved by theater fans with her chic and free manners and heroic brows. In real life, she is a generous and generous heroine who is loved by theater fans. , some people say that Xiao Fangfang is Leng Jianxin, and Leng Jianxin is Xiao Fangfang. No matter how you look at it, Xiao Fangfang can be said to have reached the realm of "human and drama united". This film also won her the Golden Horse Award and the Best Actress Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
The ear disease was so serious that she could no longer film. After Xiao Fangfang collaborated with Zhao Wenzhu in " Sparrow Flying Dragon" in 1997, she faded out of the big screen and concentrated on treatment. At the same time, she also began to devote herself to charity work. She Not only did he create the "Nursing Fund" aimed at helping children who have been victims of violence and sexual abuse, he also often assisted the Hong Kong Association for the Deaf in its work.
From being a popular child star in Southeast Asia, to later becoming a major film award-winning actress, she worked hard to perform her role to the extreme even when she was deaf. Xiao Fangfang's professionalism is worthy of admiration. In recognition of her contribution to the Chinese film industry and her never-say-die spirit, the Hong Kong Film Awards Association awarded her the "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2009. In 2010, she was also elected by Hong Kong citizens as the "Most Trusted Filmmaker in Hong Kong" Any person".
But such a person with countless honors is so humble. At the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards, Xiao Fangfang won the Best Actress crown for "Woman 40". Perhaps because she was too excited and nervous, she accidentally knocked the trophy to the ground and faced such an embarrassing scene. , she responded modestly and tactfully, "I'm sorry, I'm so hungry." The word "hungry" actually contains a pun. On the one hand, it means that "it is a great honor to be able to attend the Academy Awards on an empty stomach." A kind of self-deprecation.
In 2014, at a charity gala hosted by Lin Yilian, Na Ying, Tanya Tanya and Zhang Huimei, Xiao Fangfang attended as the founder of the beneficiary organization "Seedling Protection Fund". She expressed her gratitude to the four people on behalf of the sponsored children. Thank you: "I don't know what language to use to thank you. Please accept my obeisance." Then he suddenly knelt down. With Xiao Fangfang's status in the entertainment industry today, she is willing to lower her profile and do such a thing for charity, which makes people admire her.
In her half-century-long acting career, Xiao Fangfang was able to achieve glory step by step despite hardships and become a pivotal figure in the film industry. This was inseparable from her own efforts and her courage and perseverance to constantly surpass herself. This is itself An inspiring story.And Xiao Fangfang's life experience also tells us that no matter how much hardship and setbacks we encounter in life, we must face reality and never admit defeat, because there will always be a bright light waiting for you on the dark and confusing road.
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