It's hard to find such a legend-People's Network-because Leslie Cheung has never appeared.

Leslie Cheung lives in an era when the rules of entertainment circle are not so clear and cruel. This era allows his soul to grow freely and shine in his life. Ten years after his death, his agent, Chen Shufen, still thinks: "I think Leslie Cheung is unprecedented and irreplaceable by anyone. Even in any environment, it is difficult to find a legend like Leslie Cheung. "

"I am me.

I will always love me like this. "

-"I"

A

Yuan Huan

You can't say that he has no bad temper.

In front of others, most of the time, Leslie Cheung behaves as he once expected: positive. That's why people call him: brother. Sometimes, Leslie Cheung will play a little irrelevant temper, but in the eyes of those who love him, all this just makes his simple character look fuller.

"Leslie Cheung, you can't say that he has no bad temper." Shi, the chief interview director of entertainment celebrity edition of Sing Tao Daily, described the Leslie Cheung she knew when interviewed by Yangcheng Evening News reporter. "On one occasion, he was drinking tea with his friends, and a paparazzi suddenly rushed up to take pictures. He cursed and said you shouldn't do this! The paparazzi asked him, how can I take pictures? He said, you can come and hand over your business card and ask me if I can take a picture. The paparazzi did as he said, handed in his business card and asked him,' May I take a picture?' Leslie Cheung said, "Yes." Shi said that sometimes he is a little emotional, but he is always a "reasonable" person. "He knows that paparazzi have to work, just tell him, but it is not good to be strong. There are two things he can't accept most: first, you don't understand his contribution to art, and second, because he is a star, it will bring trouble to friends and family. "

Shi said that the career started not so smoothly. However, entertainment reporters in Hong Kong generally loved him from the beginning. "I don't know why, but I love him very much. Maybe he is too beautiful. A TVB MV director told me that he has filmed so many stars for so many years, and no one has ever been so perfect as Leslie Cheung. " Although he is a little grumpy, Shi said that reporters around him can feel his nostalgia: "He has always had great feelings for reporters who debuted with him. Whenever we look for him, he will definitely give us convenience. "

Shi also talked about his work situation: "He always goes to work alone and never has an assistant. Lin Jiaxin, who co-produced the last film with him, told me that every day on the set, Leslie Cheung always arrived earlier than her, so she wandered alone, unlike many stars today who had to bring five or six people. I think he is very good, why can't he do it himself? " Even if interviewed by reporters, Leslie Cheung will definitely arrive early. At the end of 2002, Shi interviewed someone who was already suffering from severe depression. "I will never forget that photo. It was in a hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. We have an appointment 12. 1 1: 30 arrived early, only to find him sitting downstairs in the lobby making up. I said, why are you sitting here! It turns out that he has arrived at 1 1. Although he was actually very uncomfortable at that time, he still had to wear makeup because he respected the people who came to visit him. Leslie Cheung is such a person. "

B

self-examination/introspection

Why is it difficult for us to see the texture of the stars?

As an entertainment reporter who debuted almost at the same time, Shi said that before paparazzi, a special media, they had a very good relationship with stars. "In those days, we were not like journalists, but more like friends, because we talked about everything." Sometimes, entertainment reporters even go to the star's home to eat and play mahjong. "Once Leslie Cheung changed his phone at home, he called me specifically and said,' Hey, you copy my phone, I'm afraid you can't find me.' You know, at that time, mobile phones were not popular. "

Because of this, the entertainment reporters at that time had access to the private lives of the stars, but the trust between them decided that some things would not be reported in the newspapers. "In fact, when Leslie Cheung was not openly with Mr. Tang, he told us." Shi recalled that it was 20 years ago that he first told her about Mr. Tang. "We sat down to chat in a club in Happy Valley, and he talked about Mr. Tang. I wonder why he said that. He said, I just want to talk about this person. He said a lot that day. He said that Mr. Tang had been kind to him for so many years. He also said that he used to be a playboy, but Mr. Tang never was. I asked him at that time, how can you be so sure that he is not a playboy? He said with a smile, if there is, I must know. I said at that time, in fact, you are also very good to him, because you said that you are not good and others are good. " That day, Shi learned that Mr. Tang worked in a bank and was very beautiful. However, when writing, she never used the word "he" to describe Mr. Tang. She only wrote Leslie Cheung's Lover. Shi said: "I know he likes boys, but at that time, the social atmosphere was not so open." He trusted me and never let me write. In the end, I didn't write either. At that time, my manuscript would only make people feel that there was such a person around him. This person is Leslie Cheung's favorite person now-everyone will naturally think that this person is a girl. "But she didn't expect that Leslie Cheung later publicly spoke about it at the concert.

A few years before Leslie Cheung left, paparazzi were very popular in Hongkong. The ecology of the entire entertainment circle has changed, and this change is not only reflected in the loss of the personal life of the stars. "Our generation of entertainment reporters debuted and grew up with the stars. At that time, we can sit down and talk to the stars for hours. How is it possible now? There are too many people around the stars now, makeup artists, agents and assistants. "

In that era when even mobile phones were not popular, Leslie Cheung left us vivid images of life. In today's Internet age, even stars use Weibo every day. How can their images be blurred? Shi said: "Journalists are actually a bridge between stars and the public. But these years, we are not interviewing stars, but interviewing brokers. You said that we can't even really contact ourselves. How can we write the texture of this person? "

The deeper reason is that the mature circle of marketing routines will actually damage the personality of stars. Shi said: "Today's stars, everyone is very busy, running around all day, and there is no time to study and precipitate, to cultivate their own temperament. Don't say what texture they are, even if their images are true or false, we can't tell. Many times, those so-called images are masked faces. "

"Every product that climbs into the upper class has a diaosi core. Look at Cinderella married by the prince, look at the sitting posture of nobles sitting on the toilet with private jet yacht magazines, and look at the beautiful women sitting in high-end restaurants with straight backs but rushing into the bathroom to pick their noses. Climbing mountains, acting, pretending, including me, I have to consider. If I don't want to live any longer, I will sprain my fake waist. " This is Chen Kun's emotion in a Weibo recently. "Dress" has become a common word for people to criticize stars nowadays.

A propagandist of an entertainment company recently told reporters about his experience of eating at the same table with a company agent and his subordinate artists. "The artist is very young. It is strange that he didn't say a word when he was eating. I felt embarrassed, so I wanted to find a topic to talk to him. Finally, he replied to me, but was immediately stopped by my agent. The agent said: You haven't built it yet, how can you talk casually? " It turned out that the artist was going through a "silent" training period before putting it on the market. This kind of quick success and instant benefit training method is very common in the entertainment circle now, and its side effects are obvious. Mr. X, who once worked as a public relations officer in the circle, told reporters that he had successfully packaged a domestic third-line actress as an "international movie star", but within a few years, the actress was beaten back to her original shape because she could not succeed. However, similar short-sighted packaging behaviors still emerge one after another.

In order to prevent his memoirs from being taken out of context by outsiders, Chen Shufen is still unwilling to publish any words about Leslie Cheung, which is simply a fairy tale in today's entertainment circle. Mr. X revealed that most brokers now regard artists as cash cows, just looking at their use value, and stars feel the same way. When Chen Shufen cooperated with Leslie Cheung in the early days, there was no concept of a broker in the circle, and the relationship between the two respected partners and friends was thus established.

Mr. Tang, a senior agent in the entertainment circle, said in an interview: "It has achieved success in a special era: the creators have just started and have the mentality of young people. They can inspire each other and learn from each other; The competition and scale of the media are not that big. Artists have a place to talk about their ideas about their works. The most gossips are birth, illness, marriage and divorce. The brokerage system is not really perfect. Many times, artists rely on their own sensitivity and the help of the surrounding nobles ... In such a relatively harmless environment, stars can choose what they want to do more freely. "

However, that era ended before Leslie Cheung left.

In today's era, Leslie Cheung may not be able to replicate, but we may find ways to protect the true colors of stars. Mr. Tang said: "Artists are not commodities, but they need to be packaged with the concept of commodities. You should understand the characteristics and advantages of artists. For example, Wu Xiubo is a handsome uncle, so you should make him a mature male star. Fan Bingbing is calm, dragging her into the stormy waves will always surprise everyone. In a word, a star's excellent qualities will be brought into full play, and eventually he (she) will be free-everything about him (her) has nothing to do with goods, packaging and marketing. As long as he (she) is himself, he (she) will be wonderful. Just like Fan Bingbing, Zhou Xun, Lin Chi-ling and Cai Kangyong, they can speak for themselves, and their names have already represented a social attitude and living conditions. "

Lack of childhood

Can never make up for it.

In 1980s, the music scene in Hong Kong surged, especially the competition between Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung, which once developed into a physical conflict between fans of both sides to defend their idols. This stage, known as "Zhang Tan's hegemony" in history, officially ended after 1988, when Alan Tam announced that he would no longer receive the award and Leslie Cheung announced his retirement from the music scene the following year. However, Chen Shufen later revealed that Leslie Cheung's withdrawal was not entirely due to "Zhang Tan's hegemony", but more because he didn't want to expose his lover and wanted to live a quiet life elsewhere. "We all like Yamaguchi Momoe very much. Leslie Cheung thinks that she can retire at the most glorious time and live her favorite days, so can he. " Even at that time, what Leslie Cheung wanted to announce was not only to quit the music world, but to completely quit the entertainment circle. It's just that Chen Shufen saw through his drug addiction and will definitely come back in the future, so he tried his best to dissuade him. Facts have proved that Chen Shufen's judgment is accurate.

Leslie Cheung has many brothers and sisters. He went to England to study when he was very young, so he didn't get much family warmth. However, his father is a tailor who once helped Marlon Brando make clothes. This knowledge enabled Leslie Cheung to skillfully use elegant temperament from an early age. The family's influence on Leslie Cheung was reflected in his unique young master spirit in the first half of his star career, and Leslie Cheung, who returned to the music scene 1995, is closer to our impression of him today-warm, fragile, lonely and firm. This is the transformation of Leslie Cheung after many years, but the influence of his family is still there, only from dominant to recessive. Later, Leslie Cheung expressed his regret for his childhood many times: "I was a noisy and silent child. Anyone comes to my house, you are in the hall, I am in the room, and you don't even know I exist. Ever since I was a kid. After being sensible, I feel that my family is in chaos. There are many people, but no one cares about me. The only thing that saddens me most is that servant, who died a few years ago. Do you ask me if they really cherish me? Maybe, but the care and love that I needed most when I was a child can never make up for it. " He even thought that his mother's love for him would be implicit if he didn't become the later Leslie Cheung. This inner vacancy, coupled with Virgo's pursuit of perfection, makes him in the contradiction of trying to protect himself and prove it to others all his life.

In an interview, Guan also mentioned the behind side of the star. Meeting for the first time, I felt a little proud, cold and indifferent to people and things. But later, he discovered what Leslie Cheung was proud of. "It's just an embarrassment for a person to dress up as himself to protect himself during the downturn." Photographer Du Kefeng believes that what Leslie Cheung needs most is "love". He is encouraged to live by love and spirit, so he needs to make movies and audiences. Leslie Cheung's final choice, in Du Kefeng's view, is a kind of regret: "Maybe he feels tired and wants to rest, but I want him to know that we have always loved him."