The biggest "lie" of this century:
Sammi Cheng is 450 years old.
This state.
This waist.
This muscle line.
is still the king of the next door. It hits the point: "Her 50th birthday is in this state, how many little flowers are panicked when they see it"
There is such a fashionable colleague, Sir doesn't have to bite the bullet and talk about how Sister Sammy becomes the queen and shines with confidence.
Her red hair, her Nike eyebrows, her eight-kilometer check-in...
All the details, one article tells the legend of Sammi Cheng's voice and color.
Is there anything else that Sir can be said? Of course there is
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Don’t forget the cannons fired by Johnnie To in 2019, diss Hong Kong Film Awards:
did not give Sammi award, I was angry for 10 years! Really, it's been 10 years! Fuck Film Awards .
So angry, the deep affection of the beloved general overflowed the words.
No wonder, the two have worked together on the following works: " Lonely Man and Widowed Girl ", " Slimming Men and Women ", " Zhong Wuyan ", "My Left Eye Meets Ghost", " Hundred Years of Good Friendship ", " High Altitude Love 2", " Dragon and Phoenix Fight ", etc., a total of 8 movies.
In 2000, "The Lonely Man and Woman" kicked off the "Golden Triangle" cooperation between Johnnie To & Sammi Cheng & Andy Lau .
It can be said that 22 years have passed, and this combination is still the "ceiling" of Hong Kong romance comedy, and no one can compare with it in terms of box office or influence.
, and Sammi Cheng, who made Du Dapao's feelings difficult for ten years, thought:
is very different from Maggie Cheung , Anita Mui . She is the only icon that can show the love and hate of Hong Kong girls in dense office buildings and modern apartments, gathering and dispersing openly. She is the uncrowned queen of the actress. Her performance is as delicate as a button in the gorgeous costume, and the power of a needle tip that chucks through the false.
01
Men have Andy Lau , and women have Sammi
Hong Kong, the former "Oriental Hollywood", the most solid foundation of Hong Kong films is actually not the word-of-mouth "crazy, all over the fire" century commentary, but the earliest realization of industrialization, the first to explore and develop into a complete local film "big factory" in imitation.
Almost every best-selling film has a superstar cast.
police and gangster gun battle movies watch Zhou Runfa , action stunt movies watch Jackie Chan , comedy spoof movies watch Zhou Xingchi .
What about urban romance movies?
Before 2000, this type of Hong Kong film did not occupy the C position, but three people changed the situation.
One is director Johnnie To, who started fighting with each other from this year.
The police and gangster film that beats the author's style, likes to use tough guys such as Liu Qingyun , Louis Koo , Wu Zhenyu ;
, and the other hand, just like a big man who goes east, can also turn around and draw good eyebrows, and shoots urban love comedy, and his first appearance is "One Man and Widow Girl".
The second one is Andy Lau, who was once scolded by him for pretending to be handsome. The Diamond King Wu is like him even if he doesn't act, and he is full of handsome fans who make them grit their teeth.
He recommended the third person to Johnnie To, Sammi Cheng, who had already gained a foothold in the music industry at that time, because she had a special sense of humor in her ". Andy Lau's words are so easy to leak, and his emotional intelligence is high.
In fact, this special sense of humor is the kind of nervous and vulnerable that Sammi Cheng was nervous and guarded at that time, and that she was easily criticized by external information. In the eyes of Andy Lau, although she was fashionable in appearance, she was still a little girl.
This is a contrast that a veteran can see.
This is not what Andy Lau saw alone. His brother Leslie Cheung once said that in his heart, there are two Hong Kong girls who are very beautiful, one is Li Jiaxin , and the other is Sammi Cheng.
is like the brother praises Lin Yilian's little eyes are very sexy.
Andy Lau and his brother have an unconventional perspective that looks at the bones and emotions.
At that time, Sammi Cheng was the queen of the world, but under her golden body there was still a shock that was troubled by the world. This feeling was a very natural and good qualification in love movies.
Andy Lau has said a lot, and there is another sentence. He said that there are two people who are most comfortable in acting against him since the film industry, one is Rosamund Kwan , and the other is Sammi Cheng.
Guan Zhilin takes the word "beautiful", and it is pleasing to the eye with Andy Lau. The four words "Golden Boy and Jade Girl" can be thrown to the audience with a hard way.
In contrast, Sammi Cheng is the word "love". "Lonely man and widow" is a good story tailored for them by Johnnie To. It is a tacit understanding of each other from arrogance and prejudice, encounter loneliness, and achieve a tacit understanding of love and friendship through quarrel and laughter.
The chemical effect of the two people stunned the Hong Kong Film Market back then, becoming the box office champion in 2000, 35 million HKD .
Sammi Cheng won the first time she won the Best Actress Award for the Hong Kong Film Awards, and eventually lost to Maggie Cheung's "In the Mood for Love". Okay, forget it this time.
Johnnie To's confidence and creativity in this pair of CPs are full.
The second year, the two starred in "Slimming Men and Women", Sammi Cheng also starred in "Zhong Wuyan", and " Zhou Muyun " Tony Leung co-starring Ma Weihao's work "College Friends" was shortlisted for the Film Awards three films, but they lost to Sylvia Chang's "Long Time". Okay, this time the vote count is small.
Johnnie To held back her anger and continued to pull Sammi Cheng to shoot.
Then the 32nd "Love at High Altitude 2" lost to Miriam Yeung "Five Kids".
What made Johnnie To most reluctant was the 33rd session, because he finally got together a CP that he had not worked with for many years, especially Sammi Cheng, who almost stopped filming because of his depression. He mustered up the courage to star in "Blind Detective" with his familiar partner.
The result was still lost to the harder Chapter Ziyi "The Grandmaster".
Of course, in addition to Johnnie To, Sammi Cheng also has other directors' works, so I won't go into details about the schedule and results.
But aside from the glory of the crowning of the award, no one can challenge Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng's CP in Hong Kong romance films.
Sir dares to say this, first, the output of the "Golden Triangle" is amazing, second, it superimposes box office and market influence, third, it uses film to lead songs, today, there are people humming "Emotional Online", "Lifelong Beauty", "Loveless Love", and other Zheng Hong Kong Music Golden Songs, which undoubtedly spread the movie scenes they sang again and again.
Another reason is that "Oriental Hollywood" objectively no longer has the grand scene, and filmmakers have gone north and merged.
There are fewer and fewer casts of pure Hong Kong filmmakers. After all, Andy Lau is going to star in "The Wandering Earth 2".
In May 2020, the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards ended.
This is Sammi Cheng's solo, nominated for the Best Actress Award for the 9th time. Two movies " Pepper Flavor " and " San Jose Murder " were shortlisted at the same time.
But the result seems to have long predicted that it is the popular Week Dongyu " Youth of Boys ".
Sammi Cheng probably knew that she was still running with her and posted on Weibo (delete later). She wrote this way:
Don’t expect a life without difficulties. Life itself is difficult. If your life has always been easy, it may be that God is particularly good to you, so let’s just accept it. I have lived for 47 years and believe in my middle-aged wisdom.
When Sammi began to believe in middle-aged wisdom, perhaps it was her hand in hand with Andy Lau and Du Dapao to weave the tail bus for the legend of urban love.
Because what is needed in love is not sober, but full commitment.
The trustees get love
Sichter Zheng's Weishui history also said that it is time to talk about her acting skills as an actor.
In the 1990s, Sammi Cheng's career and love went smoothly. She rushed forward and encountered the green light.
has become popular to a certain extent, so naturally some people develop her film and television value.
Before "The Lonely Man and Widowed Girl", Sammi Cheng had actually started to star in urban romance comedy, which was mentioned from time to time. The one who is very beautiful is "100% Feeling" (directed by Ma Weihao) who collaborated with Ekin Cheng and Gigi Leung and Gigi Leung . It is estimated that many people will sing its interlude, and Sammi Cheng sang "No Delay, No Own" sang.
At that time, Sammi Cheng was a singer acting. Her character was relatively flat and easy to summarize. She was all ordinary little people, with a cute and cute market spirit.
But there is a small feature that I am afraid Sammi Cheng himself did not realize, it was the "neurotic" in his personality, so he let it follow his instinct and hit the audience if it hits it.
You can see some clues from the first movie she starred in. " Flying Tiger Elite: Love in the Human ", a collaboration between
and Jacky Cheung , for which she was nominated for the best new actor of the Hong Kong Film Awards. In the movie
, although Sammi Cheng has a baby fat face, she appears as soon as she appears in a black leather jacket, with braids and large metal earrings, and watches lizards in a pet store.
There is such a scene in the movie.
Sammi Cheng plays the daughter of a gangster. She was left in the police station to record her confession because of an explosion.
Bored, she finished cutting a bunch of matches. After all, just scratching one match was too boring for her.
Finally, she made a little "neurotic" move: in the ashtray, she lit the cigarette with a whole cube of flames.
Sammi Cheng's "neuroticism" can be said to be a singer's instinct that pursues the instinct of speaking on the stage. She must have the courage to be outstanding and the cleverness to be outstanding.
sings like this, and the same is true for the styling, just like Sammi Cheng's Nike eyebrows.
is digging in. Sammi Cheng vows to lose weight and say goodbye to baby fat . She would rather be pork ribs 's spirit, which is squeezed out by inferiority complex.
Fortunately, she was recommended by Andy Lau and met Johnnie To.
"The Lonely Man and Widowed Girl" and the first film to form the screen CP with Andy Lau.
Ming Yi, an office worker played by Sammi Cheng, is usually a "good lady". She is honest and can't resist. She is often stuffed into her own life by her colleagues.
But why she is so "honest" is also because she feels guilty: in the office, she will "go crazy" from time to time and consciously cause trouble to her colleagues.
Whenever her boyfriend affects her emotions, she will scream, be anxious, and try her best to "clean up".
and regardless of occasion.
In the office, she cleans the bathroom.
In the car, she frantically took tissues to wipe the windows.
When walking on the road, after your emotions are affected, you will subconsciously wipe the headlights of passing vehicles.
If you have watched a movie, you should never forget a famous scene of "bad fun". Hua Shao, played by Andy Lau, ordered the bullwhip noodles he liked. After Mingyi learned about it, she immediately reacted physically and became disgusted.
This design actually means that Hua Shao will use his fireworks that have been immersed in the love scene for many years to destroy the other party's love defense that has finally been built.
. Are the attackers and defenders necessarily men first and women first? This may not be true.
The more neurotic Ming Yi played by Sammi Cheng, the more vulgar the Hua Shao is, the more vulgar the Yingying and Yanyan surrounding him. It depends entirely on routines, and it arouses more complex male feelings such as interest and pity.
drama is here.
In this movie, it can be seen that Johnnie To has put his heart into it and must use an obvious and abnormal design to break away some of the characteristics of singers.
The second year "Slimming Men and Women" is a pursuit of victory. The Minimo, played by Sammi Cheng, has an extraordinary existence with her body shape and amazing perseverance in losing weight.
Fat man started to "do destruction", destroying items, destroying his body, and destroying his life.
"Zhong Wuyan", she was cursed. As long as she fell in love with , Qi Xuanwang , a large red spot will appear on her forehead, turning into an ugly woman, and being disliked by Qi Xuanwang.
She has a lot of skills. When King Xuan of Qi was suffering, he was the first to think of her; when King Xuan of Qi enjoyed his happiness, he was the first to think of his favorite concubine Xia Yingchun .
"If you have something to do, you will be happy in the summer."
or above works are directed by the director.
But with more collaborations, the actors' consciousness has also emerged, such as this "Dragon and Phoenix Fight" (Sir's somewhat unsatisfactory work, I think Douban scores are low).
The thief has a wealthy family, good looks, and high IQ, but he has the bad habit of stealing things.
is not caused by any trauma, but is just a hobby.
And the thief seems to have no moral burden for this, and what he cares about is the other party's love.
This is a plot that can be seen on the surface, and it is also Johnnie To's trick. At the beginning, it was to let the audience watch the fun and smile.
But later, the audience with life experiences savored the feeling of sadness. It turned out that the thief was already terminally ill. In order to make the divorced thief feel a happy and refreshing life again, he played with her.
And the thief woman also found that she could never get out of the thief’s game again, where she lived like a willful and beloved woman.
The so-called dragon and phoenix fight is a dragon playing with phoenixes, and it is a dream of a mandarin that is superficial and realistic. If you even taste it again, you may even suspect that it is a handwritten love letter from Johnnie To to the golden age of the city of Hong Kong, which is just so exaggerated and gorgeous.
There is a detail that also indirectly reflects that Sammi Cheng can quickly get what Johnnie To wants. There is a scene where the thief husband and wife meet and tell the love of the past.
But director and photography always feel that the picture is a little wrong. At this time, the fashionable girl Sammi Cheng suddenly remembered and suggested taking a scarf to wrap it around, so she felt it immediately, and the decency, elegance and sadness of old money were all indifferent.
As a classic icon for Hong Kong films and Hong Kong women, Sammi Cheng's eyes are her hardcore business.
No matter what clothes she wears, what makeup she puts on, or what kind of character setting the character is, she will keep her eyes pure.
Use her song title in recent years to describe it as: Those who believe in it receive love.
She looked at the audience and the male lead, all of which were stubborn and certain.
knows exactly what you want.
is very simple, love.
In " Marry a Rich Man ", Sammi Cheng has the most vulgar goal in the world, but strangely, even if she shouts to the valley, "I want to marry a Rich Man", you won't think she is vulgar, but pure.
The reason is also eye contact.
It seems that her goal to marry a rich man is not because of the material life behind it, but just because of the "rich man".
This is the girlish anger that is not washed away by age.
Only girls can regard love as bigger than the sky.
Only girls can find the most romantic fun in the most secular mediocre things.
Only girls can be naturally forgiven after destruction.
During the time of suffering from depression, Sammi Cheng relied on writing a column in Ming Pao to communicate with the outside world.
She wrote a short poem, two of which are: I just want to eat a kilo of pumpkin ice cream wantonly, and I just want to love you fiercely.
is what Mingyi, Minimo and Zhong Wuyan can do.
Because of the belief that even if you deliberately and perversely design it, the audience will feel that it will be natural.
Her character is a bit nervous, but when I think of her, Johnnie To never scolds her and protects her gentleness.
Andy Lau said that if he could play with her until she was 80 years old - the reason for Sir's guess is probably that only Sammi Cheng's partner can provide the audience with a lasting and stable feeling of candy.
Because they all trust each other, they can get love.
03
Not to hate the song of eternal regret
Wang Anyi award-winning novel "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", tells the ups and downs of a Shanghai woman Wang Qiyao in the troubled times, and has been highly expected since the filming began.
First-class team: Kwan Jinpeng, his old partner screenwriter Yang Zhishen, Zhang Shuping, actors Tony Leung , Hu Jun, Daniel Wu .
is a good cake.
Everyone is waiting to see if Kwan Jinpeng can continue the glory of "Rouge Button", and also see if Sammi Cheng can become the second Anita Mui.
This film that made Sammi Cheng turn down all her work, quickly gain weight and lose weight, and wear a thin cheongsam in the middle of winter caused asthma . After its release, it lost both reputation and box office.
Invested 40 million, and the box office was 12 million, less than one-third of the investment.
The heroine Sammi Cheng's unstandard accent has been criticized. Although she has tried hard to practice, she is still a Hong Kong general.
, along with her acting skills, was also said to be useless.
This also means that her attempt to get rid of the "girl" and move towards "deep" failed.
Sammi Cheng looked back at her acting career. She had clearly tried her best and had suffered so much, so why can't she do it?
Is it true that I really have no acting skills or ability?
The career with green light suddenly turned into a red light.
The side effects of "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" are the stagnation of Sammi Cheng's two-year vacation, which also amplified her emotional illness.
Many people think that Sammi Cheng's big failure in "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" is the trigger for her depression.
is actually not. Before "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow", her emotions were already wrong.
In that environment, I no longer have the courage to go on. I don’t have the strength to brush my teeth at home. My whole body seems to have collapsed and I don’t have the courage to do things.
The workaholic of that year, a person who gave up years of love for his career and said, "I was only in my 20s at that time, and everyone who blocked my career would die." He stopped all his work.
"turn off the light".
During the time when Sammi Cheng disappeared, there were new rumors about her jumping off the building, saying she cut her wrists, and saying she was seriously ill.
Later I explained that I was just not interested in life at that time, my emotions did not fluctuate, nor did I reach the point of self-harm, but I was desperate to wake up every day.
She can not take a shower for a week, not look in the mirror for a month, and pull up the curtains in the room during the day, and do not speak, fearing the sun and embracing the moon.
In Sammi Cheng's own words, "just like a mouse " .
In 2007, Sammi Cheng finally started to come out and hold her comeback concert.
She read a letter to herself on the stage:
I know you are back
More importantly, your courage is back
She is back.
In 2013, she and her old partners Johnnie To and Andy Lau re-engineered "Blind Detective". The three of them made countless fans excited and shed tears on the appearance of the Venice Film Festival.
And this movie can also be said to be the culmination of previous works of the "Golden Triangle".
has some details that will make fans smile, for example, Andy Lau likes to eat stinky intestines this time, which echoes the bullwhip from afar.
and Andy Lau are still good at being a teacher. Teaching Sammi Cheng how to be 如晓 in a Macau casino is to break the protective shell of women's reserve.
There is also how to pretend that you don’t care about your sadness and don’t look back.
The young police officer played by Sammi Cheng is secretly in love with detective Johnston (played by Andy Lau), thinking it was a private date between the two.
But when I arrived at the location, I realized that I was just a driver who sent him to see his dream lover.
When she turned and left, her eyes slowly dimmed.
A similar scene also appeared in "The Lonely Man and Widowed Girl". Simply put, it is just two words: jealous.
Frankly speaking, Sammi Cheng's performance in "Blind Detective" may be similar to the other two partners' ideas. She pays more self-respect than innovation, giving the audience a sense of emotion.
Therefore, the reputation of this film is also divided into two polarities. People who are familiar with them can't stop, and those who lack this kind of movie viewing interest feel a little out of line. Compared with Johnnie To's other school of noir movie , they complain about being childish and funny.
Sir, I think this time Sammi Cheng is really back.
, and her performance has become calm, no longer obsessed with awards and influence, and has also acted as an art film where she is not confident and has suffered setbacks.
As of now, only "The Taste of Pepper" has been released, claiming to be the Chinese version of "Haijie Diary", with a box office that is not good, with only more than 1.8 million.
Sammi Cheng still tries her best to do her homework in her own part.
is inside, and she also has a scene of crying in front of the camera.
The scene at that time was a bit complicated. Rushu finally understood his father after a series of events and knew who he loved the most. At the same time, he successfully restored his father's exclusive hot pot base .
Excited, regretful, indifferent, understanding, unwillingness...
Sammi Cheng's performance must convey so many emotions in one look.
Did she do it?
Sir won't say much, just read it yourself.
After "The Taste of Pepper", there are three art films to be released, "Her in the World ", "Her in Eight Women in One Drama ", and "Midnight Slow Train".
The art film that Sammi Cheng most hopes to act is slowly realized when she is not in a hurry.
Now, she has a little calmness in her face in everything.
If there is anything that is the best birthday gift.
That is to embrace her aging, her maturity, her experience and the courage to start over.
-If there is a movie
Similar characters ("Song of Everlasting Sorrow")
Will you dare to try it
-How, everything will be done
-How to do it, everything will be
Sammi Cheng walked out of "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" and did not resent "Song of Everlasting Sorrow". This is what moved and moved Sir the most as an actor.
Whether it is a novel or a movie, the dead cycle of "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" is that the heroine Wang Qiyao never knows what she wants. Whether she was young or middle-aged, she always chased the illusion of life at that time, but when she fell, she thought it was a tease of fate and was powerless.
The difference between Sammi Cheng is that whether she is a singer, a lover or an actor, she has been hurt and enjoyed glory, but she can always examine her soul in a timely manner, face the truth, accept it calmly, and act and change without hesitation.
This reminds me of her lines in the movie "Zhong Wuyan":
Love is dominance, destruction, and destruction! In order to get the other party, they will do whatever they want to make the other party sad. If necessary, they will be dispersed and the jade will be burned.
This is not resentment, not ruthlessness, but a brave and resolute cry deep in the hearts of women.
Only Sammi Cheng can change Sammi Cheng.
I am destiny, destiny is me.
The pictures in this article are from the Internet
Editorial assistant: Kitano Martial Arts Master
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