She is known as "China's Ingrid Bergman".
Regarding her superb acting skills, the actress Hu Die said, "A Ruan can play the role I have played, but I can't play the role she has played."
Director Sun Yu once said, "Genius acting is the pride of the Chinese silent film era."
She is one of the 100 most outstanding film actors in the history of Chinese films in the century.
When her coffin was removed from the Funeral Home of the Wanguo, the funeral line was lined up in a long queue. Wherever the hearse passed, there were thousands of people empty alleys, and there were as many as 200,000 people seeing off the road along the way.
She is one of the four beauties in the Republic of China, the most box office appeal movie actor, the legendary movie star Ruan Lingyu.
Ruan Lingyu, as long as he hears the four words "people's words are fearful", these three words are the first to come into his mind. When I was a child, I heard my grandma tell the story of Ruan Lingyu. When I was young, I had actually forgotten the plot of the story, but for some reason I always felt that this name represents sadness and heartache. So I didn't dare to touch Ruan Lingyu's story for a long time, because I never like tragedy. After watching a tragedy movie or a tragedy novel, I would be sad for a long time, so I subconsciously reject all people and things related to tragedy.
After growing up, she mustered up the courage to open up Ruan Lingyu's past and still felt deeply distressed about her experience, but after feeling distressed, she felt inexplicably angry, angry at her weakness. If she could be a little stronger, she might have a different life. After carefully reading his experience, I couldn't help but sigh. Ruan Lingyu's tragic ending was actually destined from the beginning.
01 The experience since childhood was destined to a generation of movie stars’ weak personality, and personality determines her tragic fate
1910, Ruan Lingyu was born in an ordinary family in Shanghai. Her father was a worker at the East Asian Oil Stack. However, when she was 6 years old, her father died of illness, and the pressure of life was all on her mother. As a last resort, my mother had to take her to a large mansion named Zhang as a servant.
Because this master named Zhang is a director of the school, in order to allow Ruan Lingyu to change her destiny by studying, her mother no longer worked hard to help others with servants like her, so she tried hard to ask the master of the Zhang family to study. Finally, she entered the Chongde Girls' School in Shanghai with a "half-fee preferential treatment" for tuition. At that time, her name was "Ruan Yuying". Her mother's wish was good, but unfortunately her fate was a mess. Although she entered the school, the subsequent development trajectory was contrary to her wishes.
Ruan Lingyu has been well-behaved, sensible and filial since she was a child. In order to prevent her from being bullied in school, her mother repeatedly told her that she could not tell her that she was a maid’s daughter and never dared to visit her daughter at school. Because her mother is a servant of the Zhang family, and she herself is the servant's daughter, she is naturally also a servant. Such a "lowly" identity is known by other students in the school to laugh at her. Her background like made Ruan Lingyu feel inferior since she was a child.
In that era, there was a clear boundary between servants and masters, and social morality was insurmountable. This was also a truth that Ruan Lingyu understood since childhood by her mother and the masters of the Zhang family mansion. Xiao Ruan Lingyu felt sorry for her mother and often skipped classes to help her mother, hoping to reduce the burden on her mother.
The humble background and obvious class differences made Ruan Lingyu develop a weak and timid personality since childhood, but this personality is the most fundamental reason why she eventually goes to the tragedy of fate, and the rest are just incentives.
02 The first love begins, a person who really misunderstood her life tragedy
As Ruan Lingyu grows up, and through her study in school, she has become charming and extraordinary in temperament. A woman who cultivates both inside and outside always has an indescribable charm.
When helping mothers do things, such an outstanding young girl naturally inevitably attracted the attention of Zhang family's fourth young master Zhang Damin , who has been familiar with since childhood.
At this time, Zhang Damin never expected that the "ugly duckling" in his eyes would become a "white swan" that he could not forget under the baptism of time, so he began to pursue love for Ruan Lingyu.
He often takes Ruan Lingyu, who comes home from school, for a walk, and then waits in the Kunshan Garden that Ruan Lingyu likes to go to, pretending to encounter by chance, creating a romantic encounter. I heard that Ruan Lingyu likes dancer Duncan , so I went to the bookstore to buy a Duncan book for Ruan Lingyu. When Ruan Lingyu was not at home, he often visited and took care of Ruan's mother and asked about her well-being.
For Ruan Lingyu, who lacked fatherly love since childhood and who depended on her mother for life, Zhang Damin was the first person in her life except for her mother, and she was also a noble "master" young master. She catered to herself in such a "worry and mercy" way, which made the girl's feelings rippled and rippled.
Just as Ruan Lingyu said herself: "I am too weak, I can't stand others being kind to me. If someone treats me well, I will really love him like crazy!"
Ruan Lingyu began to be moved by Zhang Damin, accepted his love, and began to fantasize about being able to marry Zhang Damin, take good care of her mother, and live a happy life. Although she was educated, she still could not completely get rid of the shackles of feudal ideas. Her inferiority complex as a servant daughter made her feel that women must rely on men to live a good life, otherwise it would be an imperfect life. This idea is the root of her thoughts that caused her subsequent tragedy.
However, dreams are beautiful, but reality is always cruel. In 1925, Ruan Lingyu's mother was suddenly fired by the Zhang family, and she herself had no choice but to be forced to drop out of school. It turned out that the wife of the Zhang family found that her son fell in love with the servant's daughter, so she naturally could not accept this reality. She attributed everything to Ruan Lingyu seducing her son, scattered her anger on Ruan Lingyu and her daughter, and drove them out of the Zhang family.
Zhang Damin, however, arranged Ruan Lingyu and his daughter in Hongqingfang, North Sichuan Road, despite the opposition of his family, and began to live with Ruan Lingyu.
The story always starts with sweetness, but there will always be a turning point. This is fate, and the same is true for the happy life that Ruan Lingyu thinks is self-deserving. After a happy but short period of time, Ruan Lingyu likes quietness, and Zhang Damin's disagreement of personality slowly revealed in life. As a young master in a big mansion, Zhang Damin's character began to show his character. He fell in love with gambling, often completely ignored the place of sensuality, completely ignoring Ruan Lingyu's bitter plea.
Despite this, Ruan Lingyu still feels that Zhang Damin loves her. It is because she leaves the Zhang family, so she cannot control her emotions in this way. She is still looking forward to being able to marry the serious Mrs. Zhang and live a peaceful life.
Because Zhang Damin was addicted to gambling, his family was almost out of business. At this time, belongs to Ruan Lingyu's life turning point has appeared.
Zhang Damin's eldest brother Zhang Huichong is the leader of Ruan Lingyu's entry into the film industry. In 1926, on Zhang Huichong's introduction, Ruan Lingyu applied for the Shanghai Star Film Company and filmed the Virgo "The Nominal Couple". In that era of silent movies, without the support of line music, Ruan Lingyu perfectly created the heroine with her facial expressions and body language expressiveness, and became a hit.
From then on, her acting career began to gradually climb to the top. "Wild Grass and Flowers", "The Ancient Capital Spring Dream" and "The Peach Blossoms and Blood" were released one by one. conquered the audience with her superb acting skills and became a household name in Shanghai at that time. Any movie starring her will definitely be full of scenes.
The success of a career cannot resist the failure of love. At first, the affectionate and infatuated Zhang Damin was gone forever, but now there is only one gambler who ruthlessly sucks Ruan Lingyu's "blood". Although Ruan Lingyu had her own income at this time, she could not withstand Zhang Damin's waste.
In order to bet, Zhang Damin also borrowed usury and forced Ruan Lingyu to pay back the money. After Ruan Lingyu refused, she slapped her twice. Domestic violence was only divided into zero and infinite times. After that, Zhang Damin would hit Ruan Lingyu as long as there was something unpleasant.Ruan Lingyu, who had been completely independent of the economy, could have left Zhang Damin, but she chose to surrender and give in. The inferiority and weakness of began to play a role, and this personality also led her into a deeper abyss and gradually went to death.
03 I thought it was new hope, but it turned out to be despair. I fell into the abyss that I could never climb out
When I saw through Zhang Damin's nature, I hated this "vampire". When I tried my best to get rid of it but felt powerless, Ruan Lingyu, who went to Hong Kong to take refuge in 1932, encountered a self-conceived turning point in her life - Tang Jishan .
Tang Jishan is a famous tea businessman in Southeast Asia and a major shareholder of Lianhua Film Company where Ruan Lingyu was located at the time. He fell in love with Ruan Lingyu at first sight, and even though he knew that there was Zhang Damin, he also pursued Ruan Lingyu. Ruan Lingyu initially refused the famous slutty young man in this circle, but compared with the extreme disappointment with Zhang Damin and Tang Jishan's unremitting pursuit of the queen, Ruan Lingyu's heart was unbalanced.
After all, compared to Tang Jishan, the meticulous care made Ruan Lingyu's heart that was already hurt by Zhang Damin and felt unprecedented care. I think even though she knew in her heart that this kind of care might be short-lived and false, she was willing to let herself indulge in this imaginary happiness. Although he was a slut, he might be sincere to himself. Why not bet once? Maybe the goddess of luck will come to her.
This is the same as many women in today's society. They fall in love with someone they know they shouldn't love, but they still deceive themselves that they are unique to them. Unlike other women, they will definitely accompany them and will do whatever they want for themselves. However, the ending is often the same as Ruan Lingyu's ending, and they can only gain despair.
After Ruan Lingyu and Tang Jishan lived together, Zhang Damin lost the money tree and cut off his source of life, which naturally made him unacceptable. Tang Jishan found a lawyer, and Ruan Lingyu terminated her cohabitation relationship with Zhang Damin and regained her freedom by paying Zhang Damin 100 yuan a month for two years.
people are afraid of red-eye disease. Zhang Damin looked at Ruan Lingyu who was getting more and more popular. He was jealous and kept biting himself. He couldn't bear it. Finally, he accused Tang Jishan of adultery with Ruan Lingyu in a criminal lawsuit because the parties to the criminal lawsuit must go to the end, and in this way, Ruan Lingyu must come to court to face all kinds of questions and publish all kinds of things involving personal privacy to the public. This is such a painful thing for the fragile and honor-oriented Ruan Lingyu.
The incident of Zhang Damin and Tang Jishan competing for Ruan Lingyu was disclosed by dozens of newspapers and magazines in Shanghai, causing a sensation in the entire Shanghai and became the most popular lawsuit at the time. Major newspapers, especially some gossip tabloids, described this grand occasion in various unsightly words "expressively", and slandered Ruan Lingyu's reputation and put her in dire straits.
The real culprit is still scrambling to fight for Ruan Lingyu. They are not for Ruan Lingyu's goodness, but they are just interested in her ability to make money, and even a little bit of "ownership" for the so-called man. In their eyes, Ruan Lingyu is just an item that can be snatched around. No one really pays attention to Ruan Lingyu's heart and her reputation, and this is why he directly killed Ruan Lingyu's real murderer.
Ruan Lingyu, who was unable to bear the attacks of these messages, finally chose the path of no return that made everyone sigh.
Some people say that Ruan Lingyu has to worry about her reputation and has her own necessity. To put it bluntly, it is a matter of "face", but it is precisely because of this nihilistic "face" that in the end she gives her life. Did he really leave Zhang Damin? Even if everyone knows about her and Zhang Damin, and the master-servant relationship is made public, the audience will not like her? I can't see it. And even if I don’t like her, so what? Starting a new life again. Even if I don’t act, I can support myself as a servant like my mother. It’s better than following a scumbag and ending up losing my life.
Director Bu Wancang once commented on Ruan Lingyu: "She is like she will never express her sadness and is lovely."Ruan Lingyu's sadness may be created by her experience. Life is already sad, and sadness in the movie is naturally revealed.
Although her tragedy is due to the times, the most root cause is her own weakness in character. The big star friend of the same period Hu Die also has similar experiences to Ruan Lingyu. She also encountered a scumbag husband, but she bravely stood up to confront the other party in court and maintained her own interests. Even if she was questioned by various shameful questions in court, she exposed her privacy to the public. Next.
The strength of personality allowed Hu Die to spend the most difficult time and finally gained the happiness of her life at the age of 81.
basically the same experience, one fights with fate, the other surrenders to fate; the other is sad, but never self-harm, and the other is sad, and finally chooses to hurt herself and leave regrets for the whole world, and the difference is only the difference in personality.
Ruan Lingyu can be stronger and less inferior, and it is more like the one she filmed in "New Women" The new woman who promotes her may have a completely different ending.
Summary:
Someone said: Some people make themselves more miserable in suffering, while others make themselves stronger in suffering. Although people say that they are terrifying, it has been like this from ancient times to the present. People say that they kill people, Ruan Lingyuan in front and Shirley in the back, and I don’t know if there will be other people in the future.
only hope Don’t have such a tragedy again.
Although people are awesome, they also hope that they can be stronger in their hearts. In life, suffering and happiness are always with us. I hope we can face suffering bravely, rather than make things difficult for ourselves.
For women, it may be nothing to meet a scumbag or two in life. The important thing is to learn to stop losses and never place the hope of life and the hope of pursuing happiness on others. But rely on yourself alone, then no one has the right to take away their own happiness.