This is John Lone.

From 65438 to 0993, the film Farewell My Concubine was released, which caused a sensation in the international film industry and became a masterpiece in China film history.

It represents a peak of China film, and it is also the only China film that won the Palme d 'Or, the highest prize in Cannes Film Festival.

Starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and ZhangFeng yi walked down the red carpet in Cannes and became the world-famous China superstars.

In fact, Chen Dieyi's first choice was not his brother Leslie Cheung, but John Lone, the most beautiful man in Asia.

John Lone, who is handsome and has been studying Peking Opera since primary school, is like Chen Dieyi's life.

He saw his own shadow in this role. In order to star in Farewell My Concubine, he also took the initiative to reduce his salary and decisively rejected a French blockbuster, Lover, with a loss of nearly 10 million.

Even so, John Lone failed to play the role of Chen Dieyi. Later, there were various rumors that he even played big cards:

John Lone suggested that he could come to Beijing to make a film, but he had to take his dog first class.

But these are false rumors, and John Lone himself is relatively low-key and not good at dealing with the media, so the rumors spread across the country.

It is said that the real reason is that after seeing John Lone, the producer thinks his facial features are too tough and not as feminine as Leslie Cheung.

Leslie Cheung and John Lone.

Of course, missing this scene has also become a regret in his heart.

However, in the same year, John Lone got a role similar to "Cheng Dieyi" in Butterfly Song Liling.

The film is adapted from a true story. When Gao Renni, the accountant of the French ambassador to China, watched the opera Madame Butterfly, he gradually fell in love with Song Liling, a Chinese Peking Opera actor played by John Lone. This is a gay movie.

John Lone's Peking Opera Performance in Butterfly.

What Gao Renni didn't know was that Song Liling was actually a person, or rather, a China spy. The purpose of approaching him is to get information.

John Lone portrays this role incisively and vividly, which is not only stunning in appearance, but also full of charm and tenderness, which seems to have nothing to do with sex appeal.

I have to say that the most attractive people are hermaphroditic.

To tell the truth, John Lone's dress is not weaker than her brother's, but Farewell My Concubine is famous, but Mr. Butterfly has not caused any sensation. no

However, this does not affect the legend of John Lone:

"He is the only China actor who was nominated for the Golden Globe Award twice in the United States, the first China actor who won the Oscar, the lifetime achievement award at the Capri Film Festival in Hollywood, the first China person who was named" 50 Most Beautiful People "by People magazine in the United States, and the first Rolex China spokesperson ..."

But after taking off the beautiful light ring, John Lone's life experience was particularly touching.

Born in Hong Kong from 65438 to 0952. Before I could feel the warmth of the world, I was abandoned by my biological parents in a basket on the roadside.

Fortunately, he was adopted by a disabled old lady, but it was also the beginning of his misfortune.

The old lady has a poor family and a strange temper. John Lone was not adopted out of kindness, because she could get government subsidies.

John Lone suffered a lot when he was a child, and his foster mother scolded him. Because of the shortage of materials at that time, he had never eaten meat since he was a child. He eats dough every day, and the best thing is soy sauce bibimbap.

Later, when he recalled that experience, he said, "When I was a child, a bowl of rice, half a salted egg and a basket where I slept were enough."

Even though life is so hard, the foster mother still wants to abandon him again and again.

On one occasion, she left John Lone at the station. Although he was sensitive, he had already guessed the foster mother's mind, but he didn't poke it or cry. After they looked at each other for a long time, the foster mother finally took him home.

People who have never felt warmth since childhood generally find it difficult to warm others, including themselves, when they grow up.

So is love.

/kloc-When she was 0/0 years old, her adoptive mother sent John Lone to Hong Kong Chunqiu Society to study Peking Opera. Since then, she has lived and eaten in the theater.

I thought I could get rid of the shadow of my foster mother and jump from one fire pit to another.

It's really difficult to learn art. I get up at 6: 30 every day and practice until evening 10. I have no entertainment and no time to study except eating and sleeping.

For this reason, he is often beaten by his master, and sometimes he runs away when the pain is unbearable, but the world is so big, but he has no home to go back to?

Finally, John Lone, who had nowhere to go, had to go back to the theater, knelt down to apologize to the master and was slapped several times.

The children in the troupe knew that he had no parents and looked like a hybrid, so they called him a "son of a bitch". John Lone couldn't bear it, so he fought with them, but he couldn't beat four hands with one punch.

The injured John Lone had no money to see a doctor, so he went to the tailor for eight stitches.

17 years old, his life has finally turned around. John Lone got financial support from an American family and went to live in Los Angeles.

When I was a child, everyone in the theater called him Johnny. Later, when I went abroad to get a passport, someone casually named him Wu Guoliang.

When he arrived in America, he added a Lone to the English name John.

John Lone, translated as John Lone in Chinese, said that he liked dragons very much when he was a child. Dragons represented the spirit of China people and were born lonely.

In those years, in order to save tuition and living expenses, John Lone washed dishes and toilets and suffered a lot. It took him three years to learn English.

Having studied Peking Opera, he became interested in acting. He worked part-time and entered the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

At that time, racial discrimination in American universities was very serious, and whites were usually given priority. As a China native without any background, John Lone's hardships are unimaginable.

1976, aged 24, started his acting career as a China cook in the Hollywood movie King Kong.

It is also an indisputable fact that Hollywood discriminates against Asians. They not only get low pay, but also get dispensable roles.

After running for nearly 10 years, John Lone finally came out.

1985 starred in the movie "the Year of the Loong", with a calm and fearless face, a gas field of 2.8 meters, and a wind when walking. The most handsome gangster is John Lone!

John Lone won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 43rd American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards for this film, and he became the first China actor to win the Golden Globe Award.

Two years later, he ushered in his own highlight moment.

1987, John Lone participated in The Last Emperor by Italian director bertolucci, which was the first western film allowed to be filmed in the Forbidden City.

The film spans a large span and tells the grand occasion of more than 60 years from the last years of Cixi to Puyi's accession to the throne.

In John Lone's view, like Pu Yi, he was lonely all his life.

He handled the changes of the characters' mentality delicately and accurately, and his acting skills were full of tension, almost blending with the characters. At the same time, he interpreted Puyi's helplessness and despair into his bones.

After the film was released, it caused a sensation in the world film industry.

At the 1988 Oscar ceremony, The Last Emperor won nine awards, including best film and best director, and John Lone was shortlisted for the best actor award in the 45th Golden Globe Awards.

Together with Chen Chong, he was invited to be the winner of the Oscar for "Best Documentary Short Film".

John Lone became a veritable international superstar and was praised by western media. At that time, even Brigitte Lin and Joey Wong were his little fans.

At that time, as a China person, he was recognized by Hollywood. Besides Bruce Lee, the second one is John Lone.

In Hong Kong in the 1990s, he became the champion of Hong Kong with an endorsement fee of HK$ 30 million, and Fage was only the runner-up.

God gave him a bad deck of cards, but he played a shocking king.

However, even with all the honors, John Lone was always lonely.

He once said that when he returned to the hotel, he was alone, no one was waiting for him, and there was no phone to call. Even if you win the prize, you can only sit there alone and have nowhere to show off.

Due to his unfortunate childhood experience, he doesn't know much about how to get along with people;

"I'm not particularly good at being a person. I have no family, no parents, no name, no study, no childhood, and I don't understand the relationship between people. "

Abroad, he always has a sense of alienation, which makes him unable to really integrate into the real society, so he has deep feelings for his hometown and native land.

When almost all China actors want to sharpen their heads and show their faces in Hollywood, John Lone's greatest wish is to return to China and make a film that truly belongs to China.

Unfortunately, I missed Farewell My Concubine for the last time, and my first grade was 10 year.

I heard that there was a movie to be filmed in China. He didn't care about the pay or the quality of the script, so he immediately packed his bags and flew back to China.

During this period, he continued to take on the film "Amusing Yourself", the TV series "Qianlong and ChristianRandPhillips" and "Kangxi's Private Visit 5".

In order not to delay the filming process, he declined many interviews with CNN and Yang Lan, and even refused the Hollywood blockbuster Memoirs of a Geisha, which gathered in Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi.

All the works that have spent countless efforts are on the streets, so some domestic media hype up the negative news of John Lone, saying that he can't get along in the United States and come to the mainland to make money.

Of course, these are all nonsense. As a media person, Uncle Mai is also ashamed of some colleagues. When Chinese people only earn a few hundred dollars, John Lone is already worth millions.

Why would he do that?

John Lone always felt that it didn't matter how many honors he won abroad, he just wanted to get the attention and recognition of Chinese people.

He is eager for belonging, warmth and love, and has no immunity to his own national complex. He has been searching for roots all his life.

Lucky people are cured by childhood all their lives, and unfortunate people are cured by childhood all their lives.

When she first came to study in the United States, John Lone and her college classmate Nina Savineau had a short marriage, but it only lasted for 67 years, and then they parted ways.

Later, he never got married again. Did he meet someone who didn't like it?

Not exactly. When working with Chen Chong on The Last Emperor, John Lone had a crush, but unfortunately, this beautiful woman has married someone else.

"She is my angel, because I am useless and let her run away."

Once I tasted the vast sea, I felt that the water in other places was pale; Once you have experienced the clouds in Wushan, you feel that the clouds elsewhere are eclipsed.

Many foreign actresses who have worked with him are crazy about him, saying that they can give up everything for him, but they are all rejected by him.

Because he was afraid of exposing himself and being rejected, he hid himself and did nothing so that he wouldn't get hurt.

Writing here, I really feel a little distressed about my "Uncle Dragon"! ! !

He once told the media that he didn't know how to love and accept others' love until he was old.

It's just that that girl is a thing of the past, and John Lone can only miss the Sri Lankan people in his memory again and again.

After 2007, he completely faded out of the film circle, lived alone in Vancouver, lived in the forests of North America with two dogs, and recognized two thousand-year-old trees as grandparents ...

When I am homesick, I will cry to the tree alone for a while.

He is somewhat out of place with the world. It seems that only in front of those two trees can he really be himself.

Today, 67-year-old John Lone is still alone, without children, daughters, wives and companions.

He is a descendant of John Lone, a forever noble and lonely dragon.