Chapter 95 last romance

She appeared on stage with a guitar in her arms, flushed and with thick black hair.The light came from behind, coating her hair with a layer of soft golden light, which was the most popular method of lighting at that time.Then, she began to sing: "There is a touch of sadness floating down, a trace of memory", "Don't ask me where I come from, my hometown is far away". This is the most important scene in the most important movie "Happy Face" in 1979: singer Qi Ying sings on stage.Countless people watching this movie seem to be waiting for Qi Ying, played by Hu Huizhong, to sing and smile melancholy, and "as long as you smile lightly, my heart will be enchanted".

Before that, before Qi Ying opened his mouth to sing, the people related to this movie had also been preparing for a long time.Director Tu Zhongxun was famous for his martial arts films "Dragon City Ten Days" and "Underworld"; screenwriter Song Xiangru won the Best Screenplay of Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award in 1958 for his debut work "Winter Warm" after a life of wandering. Award, "A Boat in the Wang Yangzhong" is also his work; starring Hu Huizhong, born in 1958, was studying in the third grade of the night department of the History Department of National Taiwan University.

Those songs in "Happy Face" appeared slightly earlier than the movie, and they came from the album "Olive Tree" produced by Li Taixiang for Qiyu.The tracks include "Olive Tree", "Walking in the Rain", and "Happy Face", which is Qiyu's first album.The lyricists include Sanmao, Luo Qing, Rongzi, and Shen Lubai. The song "Happy Face", which won the Best Movie Interlude Award at the 16th Golden Horse Awards in the future, was written by Shen Lubai.This album, known as an "epic masterpiece", ranked third on the list of the 100 best albums selected by Taiwan's literary and art circles.

But this may be the last time a Taiwanese literary film will be romantic, and it may even be the last time a movie character will sing on stage like a dream.The tradition of non-human fireworks created by romantic literary films is being violently cleared by the typhoon of reality. Although the heroine in "Happy Face" also wears long hair and wears a white dress, she is completely inconsistent with the heroine image that has dominated the Taiwanese film industry for two decades.She undressed, and even gave birth to a child out of wedlock. She was self-reliant, not waiting for the rich and the young to rescue her.And the song and dance film "Hit the Wrong Car" that appeared later, although also written by Song Xiangru, portrayed a more tragic reality.From "Happy Face" to "Hitching the Wrong Car", all the plots are revealing a sign, that is, the "future" has already arrived, and the "croaking of frogs and cicadas" has become the past, and the past must be forgotten. Must be buried and erased from memory.

Romance is probably just a smoke bomb when the times change, to alleviate people's emotional ups and downs.It is even possible that romance is the product of an era of violent turmoil, and once the replacement of the era is completed, the so-called romance will be discarded as trash. After that, Tu Zhongxun died in a car accident in 1980, Song Xiangru created the TV series "Joking about Qianlong" in 1988, Hu Huizhong changed from a jade girl to a beating girl, Li Taixiang was fighting the disease, Qi Yu was still singing, Sanmao had passed away, and Zhang Guozhu, who plays the widower of a rich family, has a famous son named Zhang Zhen.

In 1986, "Happy Face" was screened in mainland China, and won the Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award for Performance Special Award, and that was also our romantic era, which was violently turbulent but hasty. "Happy Face" can especially arouse the resonance of that era, although the resonance is only for a short moment.