Leslie Cheung

[bonniec1]

Leslie was and always be one of my favorite actors and singers. He had it all- at least to our eyes- but thrown it all away. Some of my favorite movies with Leslie are:

Farewell My Concubine
All's Well That Ends Well
The Chinese Feast
Once A Thief
A Better Tomorrow
A Chinese Ghost Story
The Bride With White Hair
She's a Man. He's a Woman ( Gum Zhi Yuk Yip)

What a filmography!

I haven't seen Rouge, but I'm going to put that off for a while since both Anita and Leslie are gone. It'll be too depressing...

[Yo Kang]

The way I see it. He's not really dead. His performance's essence will always live forever. Seeing his movies, I see him as a romantic but melancholic figure.

[cherrie]

leslie would always be remembered.

[Melanie]

Omigod! There's a thread on Leslie Cheung! One month ago, I didn't know who Leslie Cheung was. Then, my cousin gave me his dvd series of TVB's The Fallen Family and I immediately fell in love with the incredibly handsome male lead in the series!!! This guy was handsome! So I searched around the internet, trying to find out who he was - Leslie Cheung! I then avidly searched for all youtube videos on him and found a bunch of his concerts and music videos. Boy, can he sing and dance! And he looked so hot! Then, I watched practically every movie he was in during the past one month. My favorites included Once a Thief, A Better Tomorrow I, A Chinese Ghost Story I, The Bride with White Hair I, Shanghai Grand, and Moonlight Express. So handsome! SO HANDSOME! And then my bubble burst when I realized he already passed away. So sad. But he will always be so hot and handsome to me! I saw this one youtube video where he performed his hit song Sleepless Night in Korea. Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmnE6W_GdNA

[Melanie]

Oh, oh, and here's the theme video from The Fallen Family with Leslie Cheung! Doesn't he look absolutely handsome in there? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T4ZTO6Cxzk

Here's another youtube video of him performing live an at awards ceremony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-akaVl9Pn8o

Here's another live performance of another one of his songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4yBC...eature=related

And here's the music video of the above song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2yfl...eature=related

Here's a rather funny interview in English with Ronny Yu on the making of The Bride with White Hair I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kW36...eature=channel

[Pharaoh]

Thanks Melanie for those clips.

I know this actor/singer. He is quite talented himself.

Here's the pix of him:



He quite handsome....

[Melanie]

Thanks for posting that picture of Leslie, Pharaoh! He was sooo handsome.

Here's a youtube video of him in The Bride with White Hair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p9xrdMY7Zg

And here's another video of him singing his winning song in 1986 TVB 10 Best Songs of the Year Award.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qH2...eature=related

[pemberly]

i always thought of leslie cheung as very beautiful. and chase is one of my favorite songs.

[Sugar]

i always thought of leslie cheung as very beautiful. and chase is one of my favorite songs.

wow! One of mine too. I like him singing it in the movie He's a woman she's a man.

[Melanie]

Yes, I just finished watching He's a Woman, She's a Man last week and thought the movie was hilarious. I started to watch the sequel but stopped after the first 15 min because it wasn't as good as the original movie. I also watched The Bride with White Hair II and didn't like it very much, either. Bridgitte Lin and Leslie Cheung only had minimal screen time! It was mostly about other characters!

[Melanie]

Leslie Cheung looking incredibly sexy and intelligent in a tux and wire rimmed glassses. Love the song, too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhH8f...eature=related

[Melanie]

Omigod! Leslie looked especially handsome in this video. He had such a beautiful smile! So handsome!!! Eeeeeeeee! Eeeeeee! May he rest in peace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3XhN...eature=related

[Melanie]

Ah, Leslie had such a bashful look when he shyly looked down and said he used to have the audience toss something back at him because they didn't want his stuff! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi0ePr91U5c

[Trinie]

Leslie will ALWAYS be remembered and will never be forgotten since he is really special and talented. I just feel so sad that he threw it all away... . I heard a lot of songs for awhile and didn't know that it was him that sang them, but then found out that it was him. The day he passed away was a shock to us all... I just could not believe it. I remember seeing him the Fallen Family and gosh was that a SAD series. Sadly, Leslie died in that series too. Seeing it now hurts even more since he really died in real life....

[Moonshade]

Leslie 'gorgor' is my favourite artist/idol of all time, as an actor, singer and even as a person he's great.

[Canuck21]

this is what i know about schizophrenia. learned this in my abnormal psych and clinical psychology subjs:
schizophrenia has many causes. it does not purely because of heredity or chemical imbalances in the brain. social factors may also play a very impt role in the development of schizophrenia. also, there's no absolute cure in schizophrenia. it's controlled. the patient will be trained in the mental institute to stand on his own by teaching him not only skills but also constant counselling. of course several medications would also be given to him. i don't think leslie has schizophrenia. he does not have a psychiatric illness; rather he has a psychological problem. one way to detect if a person is normal or not is: if the person seeks professional help, then he only has a psychological problem. but if he denies he has a problem and therefore refuses to seek for help, then he's got a psychiatric problem. leslie has been seeing a doctor. that only shows that he knows there's something wrong going on within him. so i think his illness leans more towards depression. often depression is hard to detect coz the person may be successful in hiding it. just like in the case of bipolar disorder. they may appear very manic, very happy and energetic, but if you won't explore his feelings and thoughts carefully, you'd never know that there's an underlying depression on it.

There's a huge difference between depression and schizophrenia. I have an aunt who is schizophrenic and trust me, people know when you start to talk nonsense; all logic is toss out of the window. Depression is much more subtle and sometime hard to detect, but there are clues. Friends and family should never take these psychologic and psychiatric problems lightly, these people need help.

[smurf120]

I remember watching nearly all the films Leslie was famous for when I was a child namely A Chinese Ghost Story, Better Tomorrow, Alls Well Ends Well series, Once a Thief, He's a Man She's a Woman, Tristar and others.

But I never appreciated his depth as an actor until I became an adult and reevaluated his artistic fare:
Rouge, Happy Together, Ashes of Time, Viva Erotica

He is so charismatic and embodies the beautiful misunderstood outsider so well. Simply iconic.

[starwennz]

no matter what happened i will always love him
i know suicide is bad solution,,,but no one through what he through... and no body so strong as you that live and read what i wrote!
so.... if you like him,,or not ... please stop to judging him.
cause maybe if you in his part,,,nobody knows what you can do!
i disagree with what he did,,,but he already did! i only could said.... "you do your best,,and i'll do my best to keep loving you! you are like magic gor gor! love you! "

[Trien Chieu]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cheung
I am not his fan and not into his work but gotta admit he is a very talented and successful man. He had pretty much everything going his way and he threw all of them away. Not feel sorry for him though as he wasn't a victim of any kind. His death is completely self inflicted.