The bizarre death of legendary superstar Leslie Cheung shocked the whole world. When people were still wondering whether this was an April Fool's joke, the Hong Kong police announced the death of Leslie Cheung.
On April 1 this day, what unexpected events caused Leslie Cheung to collapse instantly? He chose to jump off a building, leaving too many mysteries to the world and bringing great news value to the media. The twisted railings at the scene, as well as deep red blood, were exposed by the media.
Exploring the cause of Leslie Cheung's death has also become the hottest topic in various media. Witnesses claimed that they heard Leslie Cheung arguing with friends at the club, and then there was an accident. At the same time, the media published a well-known suicide note:
Around this suicide note, it is reported that Leslie Cheung was trapped by love, which eventually led to tragedy. Tang Tang mentioned in the suicide note seems to have something to do with Leslie Cheung's death. Tang Tang's real name is Tang Hede, and she has been a good friend of Leslie Cheung for more than 20 years.
In the face of media innuendo, Tang Hede had to come forward to clarify: "My feelings with my brother have never changed, and he is definitely not because of emotional problems. The third party you mentioned before is completely untrue. " But his remarks did not stop the media from speculating on the rumors of love changes.
Until Leslie Cheung's funeral, Tang Hede appeared again, and some media had to shut up. Because everyone saw it, only seven days later, Tang Hede was so thin that he needed help. During the whole funeral, Tang Hede never took his eyes off the portrait of Leslie Cheung.
Seeing all this, who will believe that there is a so-called love change between two people? And that widely circulated suicide note is actually false. Leslie Cheung has always called Tang Hede "Mr. Tang" instead of "Tang Tang", and the handwriting of the suicide note was not written by Leslie Cheung.
As for the cause of Leslie Cheung's death, besides "emotional change", there are even more outrageous statements such as "being too involved in the play" and "bumping into evil spirits". These rumors are related to his last film, Inner Senses.
According to media speculation, Leslie Cheung was too deeply involved in the play to break away from his role, so he jumped off a building like the hero in the movie and ended his life. A professional actor should not only know how to act, but also know how to act. It is far-fetched to say that you chose to end your life because you acted in a movie.
All kinds of strange stories are flooding the media, which is tantamount to desecrating Leslie Cheung again. However, faced with all kinds of nonsense in the media, Leslie Cheung's family remained silent until the day of the funeral. Leslie Cheung's favorite niece, Mai Jiaxuan, explained the cause of his death on behalf of his family:
On April 8th, the day of Leslie Cheung's funeral, thousands of people gathered on both sides of the road in hong kong funeral home to see the legendary superstar off. All the elites of Hong Kong entertainment circle, including the seniors who have retired for many years, also came to the scene.
It is said that only Bruce Lee's funeral had such a scene. On that day, all the white flowers in Hongkong were sold out, just because it was Leslie Cheung's favorite flower before his death.
Depression is the family's explanation for Leslie Cheung's death. This statement was also confirmed by Chen Shufen. Chen Shufen has been a manager of Leslie Cheung Company for more than 20 years. She witnessed the pain that depression brought to Leslie Cheung's theory of body and mind.
"Every time he has an attack, his muscles ache all over, as if he were about to tear himself apart." It is often accompanied by severe insomnia, shaking hands and acid reflux. All kinds of torture, finally let Leslie Cheung collapsed.
Although Leslie Cheung's private life has been infinitely magnified by the media and endlessly discussed and criticized, his psychological problems have been mercilessly ignored. How brilliant before people, how bleak after people. This fate was doomed from the day Leslie Cheung stepped into the entertainment circle.
Leslie Cheung was born in a wealthy family. His father, Zhang Huohai, is a famous tailor and dress merchant. Even famous Hollywood stars like Marlon Brando and Gary Gleiter have asked him to make clothes.
Leslie Cheung's mother, Pan Yuhua, gave birth to 10 children, three of whom died unfortunately. Leslie Cheung, the youngest, is called "Ten Boys" by his family. It stands to reason that Leslie Cheung should be loved by thousands of people, but this is not the case.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Haihui gave their children to grandma for care because of their busy business. Only when they go home during the Spring Festival every year will they come back for family reunion. Even in this rare time, the "ten boys" only face their father who is drunk every day and their mother who is as cold as ice.
Zhang Huohai is a famous playboy. Not only did he marry two concubines, but he also had constant affairs. All this makes his wife Pan Yuhua's life very unhappy. Nothing seems to make this woman happy except her husband's love, including her little son.
The old saying "Mother-child blind date" doesn't seem to be fulfilled in Leslie Cheung and his mother. /kloc-At the age of 0/3, Leslie Cheung left this warm home and went to England to study alone. After finishing high school in England, he entered Leeds University to study textiles. For this experience, Leslie Cheung later recalled:
If nothing happens, Leslie Cheung may follow in his father's footsteps and become a fashion designer. But when he was a freshman, his father was critically ill because of a stroke, and he had to return to Hong Kong. Although my father turned the corner later, his studies were interrupted.
After returning to Hong Kong, he tried to live with his parents, but because of the deterioration of his relationship, he quickly moved out. In order to make a living, Leslie Cheung became a small trader, selling shoes and jeans. As the lowest stratum in Hong Kong at that time, his future was gloomy and his life was confused.
1977, Leslie Cheung, 2 1 year-old, took part in the "Asian Singing Contest" organized by the TV station and won the second place in Hong Kong at one fell swoop, so she signed up as a TV artist.
Leslie Cheung, who just debuted, is just an unknown singer. In order to make a living, she has to sing in bars and restaurants. In the most painful time, he sang on the stage and threw his hat at the audience on a whim.
Unexpectedly, the audience was ungrateful and the hat was thrown back to the stage. Amid laughter, he insisted on singing the whole song, and then rushed backstage and burst into tears.
Leslie Cheung was very unpopular in his early years, and all he got on the stage was boos and jeers. After years of ups and downs, until 1983, he finally became famous as the wind continued to blow.
After becoming famous in the music industry, Leslie Cheung's film career went badly. 1986, Leslie Cheung cooperated with John Woo for the first time in the film The True Color of Heroes. Despite his best efforts, his light completely lost its color in front of Chow Yun Fat, who was in full swing.
Leslie Cheung, who made a splash in the music industry, was snubbed by movie audiences and was once depressed. Wu Yusen saw his mind and talked to him for a long time, hoping that he could see his own strengths and not sell himself short. This heart-to-heart talk helped Leslie Cheung regain his confidence.
1987 collaborated with Joey Wong on Ghost Story. The film made Joey Wong famous, but Leslie Cheung's progress in acting was ignored. Later, he collaborated with Anita Mui on "Rouge Kou". After the film was released, there was a great response, but the audience's eyes turned to Anita Mui, who was lost again.
1990, Leslie Cheung finally saw The True Story of Teddy Boy directed by Wong Kar-wai. After filming this film, Leslie Cheung, 34, announced his retirement from music. The True Story of Teddy Boy won numerous awards in the 10th Academy Awards, and Leslie Cheung also won the Best Actor Award, which proved himself.
The success of The Story of Teddy Boy aroused Leslie Cheung's long-lost passion, and he decided to go all out to enter the film industry. Later, he starred in films such as Crossing the Sea and Family Fun, and starred in Farewell My Concubine and Golden Branches and Jade Leaves at 1993 and 1994 respectively.
Especially in the movie Farewell My Concubine, Leslie Cheung plays Cheng Dieyi who sings Hua Dan. His gorgeous appearance, dreamy singing voice and uncompromising demeanor stunned all the audience. This film has also become the pinnacle of his acting career. However, this work, which he thinks is the most successful, missed many awards because of its sensitive subject matter.
The only film that brought Leslie Cheung the honor of "Best Actor", The True Story of Teddy Boy, tells a story of pursuit and loss. Some people say this is Wong Kar-wai's autobiographical film, but it is very similar to Leslie Cheung's life, including his desire for maternal love.
In the movie, Xu Zi searched frantically for his real mother, but found nothing in the end. However, in reality, Leslie Cheung seldom gets the care of her mother, and the relationship between mother and child is as cold as ice. Leslie Cheung recalled:
After becoming famous, he bought a high-class apartment and asked his mother to move in with him. He wanted to make up for his regret that he didn't live with his mother, but both of them were very uncomfortable and even rarely talked. Leslie Cheung was deeply saddened by his mother's diagnosis and appraisal. He can only console himself that his mother has no fate.
Leslie Cheung once said his life experience in an interview: "I grew up with my mother-in-law, that is, my six sisters. She loves me very much and raised me. Because my parents are unlucky. "
The "six sisters" in his mouth began to take care of his domestic servants when he was very young, but the care of the six sisters could not eliminate the shadow caused by the lack of maternal love. His family life is unfortunate, and his love life is also very bumpy.
1977, Leslie Cheung, who had just made a debut, met Teresa Mo, who was 17 years old. Teresa Mo, who is lively, cheerful, youthful and beautiful, touched Leslie Cheung's heart, and they soon began to associate.
Getting along with Teresa Mo is Leslie Cheung's first love affair after he entered the entertainment circle, and he attaches great importance to this relationship. However, when he proposed to marry him, Teresa Mo, who was only 17 years old, was frightened and never dared to meet him again, so they broke up.
After that, we didn't meet again until 1992 cooperated with Happy Family. Although they didn't become husband and wife, they became lifelong friends. After Leslie Cheung's death, it was a great blow to Teresa Mo. She said in an interview:
Some people even said that if Leslie Cheung and Teresa Mo can achieve positive results, it will change his life. Unfortunately, Leslie Cheung is gone forever. In Leslie Cheung's later career, Tang Jun was regarded as his favorite.
Leslie Cheung and Tang Hede have known each other since they were very young. But before the age of 20, the two had little contact. It was not until198265438+February 9th that they met again at a party at the Regent Hotel and soon became lifelong friends.
Tang Hede was a bank executive known as the "silver gray class", and his professional standards were well-known in the financial circle of Hong Kong at that time. But for the sake of Leslie Cheung, he gave up his bright future.
1997, when the relationship between them became public, Tang Hede could not work normally because of the fanatical tracking of paparazzi, and had to give up his career. After his resignation, Tang Hede took charge of Leslie Cheung's personal property and daily life.
At the "Concert over 97", Leslie Cheung gave a song "The Moon Represents My Heart" to the two most important people in life-mother and Tang Hede. Leslie Cheung has always regarded his mother and Tang Hede as "beloved", but one of these two kinds of love can't be obtained, and the other is opposed by the world.
Emotional suffering is not enough for humanity. However, Leslie Cheung's favorite singing career has not been understood.
In July, 2000, Leslie Cheung organized the "Love" World Tour Concert. In order to present an audio-visual feast to the audience, he tried his best to be the artistic director himself, and invited the fashion master Paul jean paul gaultier as the fashion designer.
On July 3 1 day, Leslie Cheung stepped onto the stage of Hung Hom Gymnasium. But the next day, he became the target of public criticism in Hong Kong. The problem lies in his long hair style. Hong Kong media accused him of dressing up as a woman and his concert style was "unconscious and indecent".
Leslie Cheung reacted indifferently to the overwhelming media questions. The subsequent world tour was warmly welcomed and highly praised everywhere. In April of 20001year, when Leslie Cheung returned to Hong Kong again, it was interesting that the Hong Kong media have it both ways turned to highly praise his concert.
This attitude of the Hong Kong media is tantamount to secondary damage to sensitive Leslie Cheung. It is not his Leslie Cheung that is recognized by public opinion, but the evaluation of outsiders. He is a perfectionist and wants to do his best in everything, but the Hong Kong media has done him great harm.
Chen Shufen, the agent, believes that the insult from the media after the concert is the main reason why Leslie Cheung suffers from depression.
200111October, Leslie Cheung was invited by director Chi-Leung Law to star in the psychological suspense film "Inner Senses", which was the last film that Leslie Cheung appeared before his death.
At the end of the film, the psychologist played by Leslie Cheung goes to the rooftop to prepare to end his life because of unbearable mental torture. Unexpectedly, the end of the film turned out to be a reality and the end of Leslie Cheung's life.
The last two years of Leslie Cheung's life can be said to be his darkest days. He told his friends more than once that he was beheaded in Thailand two years ago. Since then, he has been scared, insomnia every night, and his mood has almost collapsed.
The so-called head-dropping technique is a kind of witchcraft circulating in Southeast Asia. Although the ghost theory is not credible, it is an indisputable fact that Leslie Cheung has been suffering from mental torture in the last two years of his life.
In order to save himself, Leslie Cheung kept looking for a monk to exorcise evil spirits and avoid disasters for him, and also looked for a psychologist, Mai Liefei. Although various methods have been tried, they still failed to escape.
In June 2002, he was taken to the hospital. This is the first time that Leslie Cheung tried to commit suicide because of unbearable depression. Fortunately, it was discovered by Tang Hede in time, which didn't lead to tragedy. However, when he chose to go to a dead end for the second time, there was no one around him.
On April 1 day, 2003, at noon 1 1, at about 6 pm, Leslie Cheung also met his agent Chen Shufen at the Mandarin Hotel. Later, he called Tang Hede and made an appointment to play badminton together in the evening. It can be seen from these details that Leslie Cheung was in a good mood that day.
After Leslie Cheung went out, he also had lunch with designer Alfred Mok, who has a deep friendship, at Causeway Bay Hotel. During this period, Alfred Mok didn't notice anything strange about Leslie Cheung.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Leslie Cheung came to the gym on the 24th floor of Mandarin Oriental Hotel to exercise as usual. Staff noticed that Leslie Cheung's mood began to become anxious at this time. Especially after he made a phone call on the terrace, he was very upset.
Who is this phone call for? But so far, there is no information about who he is talking to on the phone. After that, Leslie Cheung left the gym and went to a suite on the same floor and asked the waiter for a cup of coffee. At this point, he should meet Chen Shufen.
Chen Shufen arrived at the appointed place, but didn't see Leslie Cheung. She called Leslie Cheung. Leslie Cheung told her that she didn't stop, and told her to wait at the taxi stand in front of the hotel. However, when Chen Shufen arrived at the taxi stand, Leslie Cheung had fallen.
Subsequently, Leslie Cheung lying on the ground was found by passers-by and was taken to Queen Mary Hospital. Later, the doctor confirmed that Leslie Cheung had died before he arrived at the hospital. Chen Shufen said that Leslie Cheung persisted for a long time after his illness. But he had no choice. When he left, there was only boundless loneliness and helplessness, and there was no one around him to rely on.
Leslie Cheung's illness is not without reason. The lack of childhood affection, the bumpy course of more than 20 years, the unacceptable love life and the pressure of public opinion are the last straw that crushed him and overwhelmed him. On April Fool's Day 18 years ago, he landed like a forever flying "sleeping in the wind".
The movie "The Story of Teddy Boy" said: "I heard that there is a kind of bird in the world that has no feet. It keeps flying and sleeps in the wind when it is tired. This bird can only land once in its life, and that time is when it dies. "
Leslie Cheung, who jumped, is tired!
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