Chapter 77 blue sky green sea

Some people say that there are only two types of Taiwanese films left: youth films and gay films.Sometimes, there is even only one genre - youth films.Because those gay films are often youth films. Three or two ignorant teenagers, a faint love, a clean youth, a summer that comes and disappears suddenly, and is accompanied by blue sky, green sea, and large rice fields. Boys ride bicycles, wear white clothes, and walk through the rice fields. Or Huatian, the soundtrack behind it is often a small freshness with guitar harmonica violin and pure female voice as the main elements, and even the posters are surprisingly consistent. Douban's "Blue Sky on Posters" Douban's collection of Taiwanese youth movies, all have similarities The face of the blue sky, the sea, the green trees, the boy in white: "The Blue Gate", "A Boy Doesn't Wear Flowers", "Sleepwalking in Hawaii", "Etude", "Cape No. 7", "Nine Falling Winds" , "Summer Concerto", "Bike on the Road", "I Heard", "Sleeping Youth", "Miao Miao", "Love in May", "Summer of Miracles", "I am Sunny in Kenting", "Waiting This is almost the case for Flying Fish, Leaping Over the Sea of ​​Love, and The Tail of Summer.Even if the blue sky disappears accidentally, it still does not change its "blue sky and green sea" feelings, such as "Boy" or "Boy".

Indeed, as long as you have watched three Taiwanese youth films, you will be familiar with all the routines of a youth film, and you can roughly understand why youth films will become the direction of all Taiwanese films: small investment, quick results, it is a downturn in the film industry It is the first choice for the film industry and the entertainment industry in terms of organization and personnel - the stars who have experienced the appraisal of the youth film market are the stars with market potential. The small-scale training in youth films enables them to enter the market more smoothly. More mature big movies, such as "Mongolian" (although it is essentially a youth film full of gay sentiments), or "The Way to Survive" can at least contribute some new faces to variety shows.Therefore, youth films have flooded and appeared in droves. Even the Taiwanese film "One Page of Taipei" produced by the famous director Wim Wenders is still a slightly disguised youth film, although it is set in a relatively noisy city. , the underworld big brother embellishes it, but still uses green love as the main line, and the atmosphere of healing is permeated in it.

However, just because of the market?Why did other types of films fail to survive the endangerment of Taiwanese films and take the lead in recovering?Because youth films have always been an important branch of Taiwanese films.Wang Xiaofeng once said: "Taiwan's culture has left two roots of disease, one is inexhaustible nostalgia, and the other is immature adolescence." Looking back, most of the chapters in Hou Hsiao-hsien or Yang Dechang and Tsai Ming-liang's films, In fact, you can’t get rid of the suspicion of youth films, just a bit rougher and heavier, but wrapped in the feeling of life like a heavy hammer, it is still the love for youth. Therefore, there is a kind of youthful blood in "Guling Street Juvenile Murder" Generally sharp, "Young Nezha" has a kind of sexy that makes people itch. How can a movie made with youth as the material not be sexy?Not sexy, not alive.

This youthful love orientation is so close to another island.The Japanese have always been keen on this fresh style of youth films, in contrast to those repressive Japanese films. The other half of the films in the "Blue Sky on Posters" list are almost all from Japan: "Flower", "God, God, Why Did You Abandon Me", "Rainbow Goddess", "Sound of the Wind", "Go Anywhere", "Blue Sea", "Beautiful Summer in Kirishima", "Disappearing in the Far Sky", "Girls of Swing", "Natural Substructure", and "Lemon Period" are just posters, which are enough to make people nostalgic for those clear moments, those late summers with lush vegetation.

In fact, youth, named after spring, is closer to summer.And summer... Lin Junying said in "Summer Night Smile": "Especially in summer, the season when the reproductive power of all things climbs to its peak, and the senses are completely disturbed by the hot night. Throughout our lives, we are pursuing a summer night full of stars. ""Prostitution... The state of excess, overflow, and wildness is of course relative to stability, satisfaction, order, and establishment." Summer is the true face of youth.We pursue summer nights all our lives, because those summer nights come and go suddenly, we are in love with youth, because the lost youth is youth.

Therefore, even if there is a suspicion that Taiwanese youth films are flooding, it seems that there is still not enough, not enough.What's more, Wang Xiaofeng said: "We don't have normal puberty, and Taiwan's puberty is too long." The responsibility of Taiwanese youth films is to provide us who have no normal puberty with a convincing model of puberty for us to post. Missing experience and imagination.