The famous historical "Flower" Li Jianren, his story is far more wonderful than you think.

Not long ago, according to Hong Kong media reports, TVB veteran actor Li Jianren made his debut after a stroke.

In front of the camera, he still has some slurred speech due to sequelae, so he can only travel in a wheelchair.

In 20 19, Li Jianren, who was nearly sixty years old, suffered a stroke and was admitted to the hospital. After craniotomy, he was critically ill for many times due to complications such as pneumonia.

In two years, he once thought about giving up treatment and thought it was just a waste of time. But with the encouragement and company of my family, I finally gave up this idea and began to actively cooperate.

Since his illness, Li Jianren has lost more than 70 kilograms, and now his greatest wish is to continue filming.

Speaking of the name Li Jianren, maybe many people will feel strange.

But when you see the role he plays, you will exclaim: it's him, I know!

Yes, he is the shadowy and ugly funny actor in Xingye's movie-Ruhua.

Shaved eyebrows, unshaven beard, heavy make-up, nose picking. ...

As a supporting actor of Stephen Chow, he played Hua 60 times in more than 20 years. His ugliness is so deeply rooted in people's hearts that everyone forgets his real name.

But at that time, Li Jianren was obviously a sportsman, not only more handsome than Master Xing, but also more valuable. What makes him willing to perform disfigured performances? Will it last that long?

0 1 The years when Stephen Chow and I sat at the same table.

196 1 year 1 month 3 1 day, Li Jianren was born in hongkong.

Father Li Youtang worked as a photographer in Jiahe Entertainment, and later switched to running a restaurant, and his family was fairly rich.

Li Jianren has worked with his father on the set since he was a child, so he has a keen interest in movies.

Later, junior high school entered San Mario Middle School, and junior high school and Stephen Chow became deskmates.

However, teenage Li Jianren is much more dazzling than this deskmate.

At that time, he liked sports very much. He played football very well and was tall and big, so he was naturally welcomed by many girls.

Different from the crazy version of Stephen Chow we saw in the film and television works, he was cold-faced and silent at that time.

But in Li Jianren's eyes, Stephen Chow is a genius and his idol.

Not only do I get better grades than myself, but I also like Kung Fu very much. Stephen Chow stared at the small TV set every day, and fought wits with Bruce Lee inside, which really developed a skill.

To this end, the students nicknamed him "Little Dragon". No matter what happens in the class, Stephen Chow will stand up and scare each other away as soon as he shows his posture.

In the mid-1970s, Li Jianren began to work with his father as a recording and photography assistant on the set. Every day, watching Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung slap in front of him, his movie dream is almost impossible to realize.

After graduation, Li Jianren began to work part-time with Stephen Chow.

At that time, they still used the short lunch break every day to get together, eat, chat and cheer each other up.

Until later, Stephen Chow met Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who was also very quiet.

As a result, the original "two-person world" was upgraded to "threesome".

198 1, Stephen Chow has a new goal. He decided to apply for Hong Kong Radio and Television Artist and become a movie actor like his idol Bruce Lee in the future.

But Li Jianren's father thought it was too difficult to do this job, and he didn't want his son to suffer.

In contrast, my father hopes that Li Jianren will become a football player, or be engaged in the catering industry, so as to take over the restaurant at home in the future.

Under the strong opposition of his father, Li Jianren had to temporarily hide his dream of film and television buried in his heart for many years, and went abroad to study catering management according to his father's wishes.

Before leaving, Li Jianren encouraged Stephen Chow to stick to his dream and apply for a job as a TVB artist.

In this way, Stephen Chow signed up with Tony Leung Chiu Wai. Unexpectedly, Tony Leung Chiu Wai succeeded once, and Stephen Chow made unremitting efforts for two years before entering the night part of the training class.

After returning home, Li Jianren began to enter the catering industry.

During the period of 10, Li Jianren's life changed greatly, from a shop assistant to a waiter in the lounge to managing three restaurants at the same time.

At that time, Li Jianren's monthly income was nearly 50,000 yuan, and he not only had a successful career, but also formed a happy family.

The movie dream that can always be hidden in his heart has become his meaning.

In this way, Li Jianren, unwilling to miss, gave up his stable job and found his old friend Stephen Chow.

Those years when I was fooled by Master Xing.

At this point, Stephen Chow's career has just started.

Although he has accumulated a wave of popularity with Heroes on Earth, he is still only a newcomer in the circle.

However, it was the golden age of Hong Kong movies.

Stephen Chow quickly became famous with films such as Gambling Saint, Gambling Man and Playing Truant.

1989, Stephen Chow introduced Li Jianren's work for Gao Zhisen, who produced "Warning in a Prosperous Age".

At this point, the original catering tycoon officially unlocked the studio to play miscellaneous notes.

Walk-on, recording, photography assistant, deputy director, producer ... do everything, and make up what is missing.

Busy for three years, Stephen Chow's "Fudge" plan began. ...

At that time, Stephen Chow was going to Beijing to shoot "Su Gai, the champion of martial arts". He telephoned Li Jianren and invited him to go with him. Isn't it killing two birds with one stone to travel and climb the Great Wall?

In this way, Li Jianren set foot on the "false boat" in Stephen Chow.

On the set, Stephen Chow "colluded" with the makeup artist, and under the guise of asking him for help, he accidentally turned him into this appearance.

Shave your eyebrows, grow stubble, pick your nose and smile back. ...

Later, recalling the scene at that time, Li Jianren said that he had never seen himself so ugly. He was so angry that he cried in the hotel for two hours and even wanted to have a fight with Stephen Chow.

Obviously, Li Jianren initially rejected the disfigured performance.

But I can't stand Stephen Chow's indecision. He treats people with red envelopes and uses all kinds of tricks.

So, crustily skin of head played "Sue beggar's aunt's sister".

It never occurred to me that this kind of thing happened only 0 times and countless times, and then Li Jianren went away forever on the road of "pretending to be ugly".

1993, Stephen Chow found Li Jianren again, and said that there was a role in Tang Bohu Dianchouxiang that was very suitable for him.

The result is women's dress again. ...

This time, he played the legendary yellow flower girl and a back killer.

It is said that when he looked back, even Stephen Chow was scared silly.

From 65438 to 0994, Li Jianren continued to dress up as a man and played the female boss of Regent Hotel in Domestic Lingling Paint.

However, Li Jianren, who played the best beauty three times, still has no name in the play.

It was not until 1994 that director Jing Wong found him to play the role of "Nine-level Sesame Officer".

This is a major turning point for Li Jianren.

Because in this play, Jing Wong gave his character a name, and that is flowers.

Li Jianren recalled that he was the deputy director of the play, and he felt a little shaken when he saw the name in the script. He has a feeling that this name can make him a little popular, just like "Mark" and "Big Stupid".

Sure enough, from then on, "show" became the proper term of Li Jianren.

As long as you have seen Stephen Chow's movies, you may not know who Li Jianren is, but you must remember the woman with exaggerated figure, who likes to pick her nose and is extremely ugly.

In the next 20 years, Li Jianren repeated it more than 60 times.

In agent provocateur, while picking her nose, she ran downstairs to find a harem beauty.

Wang Xiaohu, whose eyebrows are strange in The Amazing Stars;

As soon as "Soul Night" appeared, it surprised the beautiful women in all directions;

In Gourmet, a young female student in uniform with a pair of ponytails;

Maruko in One Stop Tour;

Coquettish barber shop owner in shaolin soccer;

……

I have to say that in Stephen Chow's movies, Li Jianren really took ugliness to the extreme.

Every appearance is unexpected, but it can instantly detonate the joke and even become an indispensable egg in the audience's heart.

But in reality, he obviously has the height of 183 and is very handsome. Why is he willing to play the clown for so many years? Looking back many years later, did he really have no regrets?

In a program, the host asked Li Jianren if he would play such a role if he was given another chance to choose.

Li Jianren would not hesitate to say: Yes.

He joked that Stephen Chow was not as handsome as himself when he was studying, so he deliberately made himself ugly in the movie because he was jealous of himself.

To this, he was dissatisfied, disgusted, rejected, and even wanted to fight with Stephen Chow.

However, when I look back again after many years, I feel more grateful.

Without Stephen Chow's original bravado, there would be no later self, and the audience would not see the role of "flower".

As Li Jianren said, the profession of actor is actually very passive, and the result of many things is beyond the actor's control.

Not only do they have to bear the pressure, but their families also have to take risks with them. Children are laughed at by my classmates because I dress up as a woman. I really want to appear in front of everyone as a man.

But since we have chosen this road, we must stick to it.

Therefore, even if it is a bit part that only appears on the screen for tens of seconds, we must persist in practicing, running in and shooting. If you want to do well, you have to work ten or twenty times harder than others.

For example, once Li Jianren dressed up as a woman and wanted to wear earrings, but he was afraid to take them off until the director told him to stop.

At the end of the day, her ears were red, swollen and painful to death. It was from this point that she understood how difficult it was to be a woman.

For example, in A Chinese Odyssey, Li Jianren wears several hats and only sleeps for two hours every day.

In addition to being a mentor and staring at the actors, I also made a guest appearance in Niu Wangmo and spent three hours on makeup.

By the way, I played Zhu Bajie for Ng Man Tat who had something to do temporarily.

Surprisingly, A Chinese Odyssey failed to climb the peak for them, but the box office was a fiasco.

The cooperation between Li Jianren and Stephen Chow has also begun to enter the countdown.

Those years when I left Stephen Chow in 2003.

1999, Wang Jing offered a sky-high price to invite Stephen Chow to participate in "Thousand Kings 2000".

Stephen Chow was dissatisfied with the script, and they never cooperated again.

This will be the last cooperation between Li Jianren and Stephen Chow.

After 2000, Stephen Chow never cooperated with his old partner again.

In his films, Ng Man Tat and Li Jianren are both past tense.

When asked why he stopped making Stephen Chow's films, Li Jianren didn't give a clear answer: We are old classmates. I can understand him and know his temper very well, so there is not much contradiction between us.

Therefore, what happened between the two people is still an unsolved mystery.

Later, like many Hong Kong actors, Li Jianren embarked on a journey to the north.

Continue to play "Like a Flower" in various online dramas and dramas.

I can leave Stephen Chow's Flowers, but it is no longer funny.

The audience no longer pays for this over-exaggerated and rigid image, and Li Jianren's career has never improved.

Nevertheless, Li Jianren never complained or regretted it, because this role is only a part of the actor's life.

"I want to shoot two groups of dramas a month, plus advertisements, which is enough for life. Contentment is necessary, so be happy every day. "

Besides blooming like a flower for more than 20 years, Li Jianren also has a wife who loves her deeply and three grown-up children.

For his career, he is very grateful to those old friends who have brought themselves into his career and helped him.

For life, he chose contentment: "I am happier than Stephen Chow because I have a family."

In 20 19, after a sudden stroke, he also fell into financial difficulties.

Fortunately, Liu Luanxiong's wife Gamby and Louis Koo helped him.

Recently, he made his first public appearance after his illness. Although he is thinner than before, it can be seen that he is really trying to recover.

Li Jianren wrote in the Weibo: "I will refuel and recover and return to the stage as soon as possible."

It can be seen that although he is over 60 years old and struggling for his career and ambition, his enthusiasm for performing has never subsided.

The golden age of Hong Kong movies has become a thing of the past, and the peak period of "flower-like" is gone forever.

But what is irreplaceable is the laughter and memories that really brought us in the plain years.