A song is a memory and a play is a classic. In your memory, is there anyone who sang songs with you and played a film and television role?
At this point, who is the character that comes to mind? Will think of Dicky Cheung like me.
When I first met him, I was still a teenager who started out with notes. When I saw him again, there was a little more precipitation in the song.
Before, after the Mid-Autumn Festival party, Dicky Cheung picked up the microphone again and boarded the national interactive music variety "Hi Sing Zhuan" hosted by Nana and Show Lo.
On the stage, under the gorgeous lights, I seem to see the teenager running in the sea, shouldering the responsibility of the teenager to "support his family". Even so, he clung to his dream.
Dicky Cheung was born in an ordinary family with five people and one room, but most of the time, it was the day of mother and son. My father is basically a sailor at sea all the year round.
A brief meeting with his father is usually full of domestic violence, so that at the age of 15, when his parents' marriage came to an end, he and his younger brother chose to live with their mother.
Near high school graduation, Dicky Cheung is looking forward to his college life and planning his future. However, his imagination can't compete with fate after all. There is no money for him to continue his studies at home, and his dream of the future has been shattered before he can touch it, leaving only fallen fragments and unwillingness.
Out of the campus, Dicky Cheung, 17, was forced to grow up before it could fade away. He began to look for jobs everywhere, thinking about changing his family's life as soon as possible, and then pursuing his dream of becoming an actor and singing.
By chance, he saw the phone number of his idol Leslie Cheung in a magazine notebook. When he got up the courage to dial this number, fate opened a new door for him.
Under the recommendation of Leslie Cheung, Dicky Cheung took part in the rookie singing contest, but was eliminated after entering the top 30 in the first game, and finally advanced to the finals in the second time, but withdrew from the competition because of the record company.
Going around,/kloc-returned to the stage at the age of 0/9, and a song "Love Crossing" won the crown. Three years later, Dicky Cheung finally came to an end.
At that time, Bole Leslie Cheung, who helped him, presented him with the champion award. Many people are wondering whether he would still be on the road to pursue his dream without his brother. Maybe, so in a later interview, he deeply expressed his gratitude to Leslie Cheung.
02
Singing on the stage is half the dream, and being an actor is the other half. Together, the two are the complete dream in his heart.
Dicky Cheung, the champion of the rookie singing competition, was signed by TVB to become a Hong Kong radio actor. In his eyes, this is a kind of luck. In the eyes of others, this is the rise of a new star.
He can step into the entertainment circle. For seven years, he has been a walk-on or a walk-on. He can't make ends meet even the rent, and life seems as embarrassing as before he debuted.
This road has no end. Going on is an unknown future. If you don't go, you will drift away from your dreams and bite your teeth. Dicky Cheung went to the company to explain his ideas.
At the age of 26, he was officially recognized by the audience through Excalibur of the Sun and Moon and Old Friends and Ghosts, and his unique acting skills were finally displayed in this opportunity. The fire in his heart melted the frozen situation, such as a single spark opened the prairie fire mode.
One play after another extended an olive branch to him. Even Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok and other big coffees have played supporting roles for Dicky Cheung, and have successively appeared in plays such as The Real Girl of Wei Xiaobao, Overlord of Super School, and Liu Xiankai, the Old Point of Lun.
At that time, Dicky Cheung was probably the most popular screen and CD player. His songs surround the streets and alleys, and the characters he created have also become the topic of aftertaste for many fans.
His childhood dream of flying in the sky with golden wings was so dazzling and wonderful, but before he stopped in the clouds, a sudden gust of wind pushed him to the bottom.
Dicky Cheung became famous too quickly, and his frequent exposure and accepted plays were mostly boring comedies, which gradually consumed the audience's goodwill, and his record sales also fell into a bottleneck and tended to be bleak.
Nobody asked him to make a movie or make a record. The peaks and valleys seem to rise and fall in an instant, so how many people can live, surrounded by cold and endless gloom. He crouched in the corner, on the verge of collapse.
In a daze, he was gradually swallowed up by life and had no source of income. He had to sell the house where he didn't live for long. At the low tide of his career, he felt that he was not worthy of his girlfriend Jessica Hester Hsuan and chose to break up.
Endless depression can't drive away the haze, only stand up and reach out and try to push it away, as Dicky Cheung later said to himself: "Even if the surrounding environment is dark, as long as there is sunshine in our hearts, each of us is a luminous body, illuminating ourselves and others."
03
Sunshine is the courage to face the darkness, the hope and the eternal dream.
Oprah once said, "A person can be poor, sleepy and humble, but he can't live without dreams. As long as you dream one day, as long as your dream exists one day, you can change your situation. "
Dicky Cheung rallied, went to Taiwan alone, signed a contract with the record company that contacted him, opened a new world with three Mandarin albums, saw another promising village, and became one of the "top ten idols" at that time.
With his growing fame, he packed his bags and went on a date with his old club's last TV series, The Journey to the West, because he had an artist contract with TVB. In the play, he was rated as "the most free and easy the Monkey King", which broke through the previous image of the Monkey King and showed confidence in giving up everything.
"I am the Tathagata, the jade emperor of Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva, and I appointed the messenger of the Western Classics to take Huaguoshan, the Monkey King, water curtain cave, and the Monkey King, Sheng Da, Monkey! Handsome to slag. "
This classic character, with a unique color, became the hero we dreamed of in childhood.
Heroes are powerful, but they can't be changed in life, and there is no superb magic. Faced with some things, there is nothing he can do. Dicky Cheung had a disagreement with TVB because of the Monkey King's salary, and suffered the revenge of the company.
In this regard, he had to choose to leave. Even though he had decided to leave, he was left with a sarcastic remark by some people. "Don't think that you are very popular in Hongkong after the Monkey King. I tell you, your popularity in China is zero. Remember, if you have no hair on your face, you are worthless. "
After the storm, how can we not be afraid of being laughed at by others? "I want to prove to you that I can climb back without a hair on my face." Dicky Cheung shaved his head, dropped this sentence and began to wander alone.
He was proud of his efforts. After two years of wandering, he got the opportunity to film the young hero Fang Shiyu. The hot ratings pushed Dicky Cheung to the peak of acting again, and at the same time, Bao Xiao and Kangxi directed by Jing Wong also made great achievements.
He reopened the screen-dominating mode, ignorant of the roles of teacher, fish and immortal Cheng. Accompanied our childhood and filled our youth.
"Red blood stained with yellow sand, youthful white hair. If you are a real hero, how can you be afraid? " Although you can't see the youth turning into white hair, you can see the wrinkles in his eyes. The boy who grew up with us is back, but he is also old.