Cheng Dieyi died in close contact three times.
One, when he was playing against the fourth master Yuan, he played Yu Ji, and he got too deep into the play, forgetting that he was holding a real sword, and it was the fourth master Yuan who pulled him out of the play. It is conceivable that Cheng Dieyi will really die every time she plays Yu Ji, if the sword is real. In the play, Yu Ji is him, and he is Yu Ji. Fortunately, it was only in the play, and he could still be alive after death. Outside the play, he was Cheng Dieyi and had his Duan Xiaolou. In his most splendid time, in and out of the play, he was perfect.
Second, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was taken to the court as a traitor, and everyone thought he was doomed. Fourth Master Yuan, Duan Xiaolou wanted to save him. Juxian wanted to save him, but also wanted to get rid of him, and asked Duan Xiaolou to give him a farewell letter. After seeing it, Cheng Dieyi had no thoughts and was mad to death, howling in the court, "You shoot me." At that moment, he almost died. Surprisingly, he was born out of desperation, and some bosses liked him and didn't shoot him. But he only lived part of it, in the play. Off-screen, he smokes a lot of cigarettes, which is almost a chronic suicide for the actor. It was not until Dieyi and Xiaolou reunited to sing opera that he quit smoking, but his voice was no longer good. At that time, he was Yu Concubine in the play, and there was an overlord; outside the play, it was Dieyi, and there was no small building.
Third, at the end of the movie, when he was playing against Duan Xiaolou, he killed himself with a sword (the suicide is my guess, the director did not shoot it). When Dieyi blurted out "I am a man," at that moment, he found out that a part of his life in the play, Yu Ji, was dead. For the audience, Cheng Dieyi's Yu Ji died. After being exposed by Duan Xiaolou, Juxian hanged himself, but Dieyi survived for more than 10 years. The belief that supports his survival may be because he is still Yu Ji. Therefore, after more than 10 years of separation, the person who met and sang together must be Cheng Dieyi, and he still wanted to be his Yu Ji. Until he found out that he was no longer Yu Ji, he couldn't live anymore.
Cheng Dieyi's life was for Concubine Yu. When he and the little leper escaped and accidentally saw Jiao'er playing Farewell My Concubine, he burst into tears. At that moment, maybe he understood the feeling of parting from life and death, or maybe he appreciated this kind of life and death. In the end, Zhenlie, maybe he was purely attracted by the beauty of Peking Opera. Since then, he was intoxicated in the drama. He was Yu Ji in the play, and outside the play, he also wanted to live as Yu Ji until he died.
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