The late Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung has been resurrected on social media. Twenty years after the singer-actor died at the age of 46, he has 'reappeared' on Douyin in peak form, thanks to Chinese impersonator Yu Junhan, who has attracted 636,000 followers on the platform. As his profile says: 'I like Leslie, I am Junhan, and I enjoy Hong...
Twenty years after the singer-actor died at the age of 46, he has 'reappeared' on Douyin in peak form, thanks to Chinese impersonator Yu Junhan, who has attracted 636,000 followers on the platform., mostly of him having special makeup done to look like Leslie or singing his songs., Junhan sings Glass Love and the video is interspersed with old footage of Leslie singing the same song.
Besides his face looking very much like Leslie, Junhan also mirrors his mannerisms and fashion style to be like the latter. In the video, he looks downwards in a melancholic way, and also stares ahead to the distance with his eyes glimmering with tears. This bears close resemblance to Leslie's original black-and-white music video for Glass Love, where he sits in the backseat of a car looking depressed.In his caption, Junhan wrote: "Singing with Leslie Cheung across 20 years, using special makeup and visual effects to pay my respects to him.", his nose and chin to make him look like Leslie.
The clip cuts to footage of passersby gasping at his resemblance to Leslie, taking multiple glances and snapping photos of him while he is seated outside a cafe. He wears a black vest over a white shirt, one of Leslie's most memorable outfits.The background music is Leslie's song Silence is Gold, and the caption reads: "No matter how hard I try, I can never compare with Leslie. A toast to his uniqueness and a consolation for 20 years of longing.
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