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This presentation is going to introduce you Leslie Cheung – a great actor and wonderful singer. It's fair to call him the most widely adored and admired male star of the late 20th century in China. Any visitor to Hong Kong who mentioned his name would hear the same refrain: \"Guess how old he is.\" As if Leslie kept a rotting portrait of himself in the attic.
Leslie Cheung was born in 1956 in Hong Kong, At the age of 15, he went to England to study. And returned 5 years later. In 1977, Leslie entered RTV’s Asian Music Contest. Singing Don MacLean’s AMERICAN PIE, he took second place in the competition. Since then on, he entered the entertainment business. For the next 7 years, he struggled in obscurity until 1984, one of his songs MONICA earned him two music awards. After that his career continued unabated. On April 1st, 2003, Leslie took his own life by plunging from balcony of 24th floor of the HK’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. On April 8th, although at that time SARS epidemic was serious, tens of thousands of fans (some of them came from around the world) collected in HK to say goodbye to this real artist.
Leslie pioneered new ideas and set creative trends both in music and movie careers. Even after he died, many new fans are magnetized by his songs, movies and his graceful personality. Now let us look back Leslie’s actor career. Leslie starred 56 movies in his life. In 1986 John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, he played a pliceman. This action movie was a hit and went on to become one of the most influential films of the 1980s. In 1987, Leslie starred in the hit historical fantasy A Chinese Ghost Story, this film spawned a revival of ghost movies. Both these two movies caught attention of audiences in the West. He played the opium-smoking playboy lead in Guan Jinpen’s Rouge. Rouge was one of the most wildly acclaimed films to come out of HK during the 1980s. In 1990, he starred a notorious thief in John Woo’s action film Once a Thief. These films establish him as a romantic leading man as well as action star. In 1991 in Wong Kar-wai’s Days of Being Wind he played a guy who used most of the women in his life to retaliate his mother. This film is very important to Leslie, he won a HK Film Award Best Actor Award, and the elegant Qiaqia dance, the famous one minute incantation and the story of a secular bird are all came from this movie. 1993, he won international acclaim and recognition for his performance as a Peking Opera star specializing in female roles in Chen Kaige’s drama Farewell My Concubine, which was awarded 11 international prizes including golden palm award in movie festival of Cannes in France. In 1997, again with Wang Kar-wai, Leslie starred perhaps the most daring role of his career as Ho Po-wing, one of a pair of can’t-get-along gay couple stranded in Buenos Aires in bittersweet Happy Together, the film was one of the most controversial movies of the year and also one of the most acclaimed.
