Chapter 98 Looking at "Outside the Window"

The 1973 version, which was banned in Taiwan for 35 years, was bought by Brigitte Lin at the price of "meaning and meaning". It was rediscovered at the "Song Cunshou Film Relics and Works Retrospective Exhibition" in July 2008. I want to appreciate it. Lin Qingxia's nineteen-year-old Fangrong immediately lined up outside the cinema. In 1963, at the age of twenty-five, Qiong Yao became famous in one fell swoop with her semi-autobiographical novel. In 1964, Lu Jianye's China Yule Company bought the film copyright and made it into a black and white film, directed by Cui Ziping, starring Wu Haidi and Zhao Gang.After the film was released, Qiong Yao's mother was extremely dissatisfied with being portrayed as an unreasonable mother, and went on hunger strike for several days and nights. In 1972, Lu Jianye formed a limited company in the 1980s and wanted to re-shoot. Qiong Yao, who was afraid of troubles at home, fought a lawsuit with Lu Jianye. In the end, both parties took a step back: Qiong Yao agreed to continue filming, but did not agree to perform in Taiwan. .Directed by Song Cunshou, starring Lin Qingxia and Hu Qi, it was only released in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.Therefore, Brigitte Lin's debut film was the first time Taiwanese saw her in her second movie "Cloud Piao Piao".

Why 1973?Why remake it around 1973? 1973 was a special year in Taiwan's film history.This year, Taiwan lowered the film import tax rate to 13%, and Taiwan’s film entertainment tax was not allowed to exceed 30%. Stimulated by such a major positive news, Taiwan’s total film production reached the second place in the world for the first time.Li Xing, an important director of Qiong Yao films, stayed away from Qiong Yao films for a long time after filming "Cousin Wan Jun" and "Deep Love of a Dumb Girl" in 1965, but returned to the Qiong Yao film assembly line with mixed feelings this year. "Colorful Clouds Flying", "Where Seagulls Fly", and "A Thousand Knots in the Heart" became box office wonders (the scene record of this play is Hou Hsiao-hsien, who just entered the film industry under the guidance of Li Xing).

The mood of the 1973 version is quite different from that of Qiong Yao films of the same period. It does not have the legacy of the 1940s films of Qiong Yao films at that time. The whole film is as melancholy as a European movie. The film is covered with a sallow and lonely mood.Hu Qi, who plays Kang Nan, often appears in martial arts films, but here he is indescribably tender and caring. But why, thirty-five years later?Why was it lifted after thirty-five years?Maybe it's because Qiong Yao's mother has passed away, or maybe it's because the director Song Cunshou has also passed away, maybe it's because thirty years is the most standard period of love and hatred annihilation, and it is also the most appropriate period of review.Ten or twenty years is too short, and fifty years is too long, only thirty years is just right. Some people leave, which can be sighed, and some decisions made at the beginning have already taken effect.

Thirty years of reform and opening up, 30 years of the resumption of the college entrance examination, 30 years of CCTV "News Network", and 30 years of Chinese contemporary art.Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, thirty years to stand, thirty years to focus on the details... Ten years is a small section of the times, thirty years is a section of the times, hiding a psychological breather, Even Eileen Chang said: "Shanghai thirty years ago, on a moonlit night..." Even Jesus did not preach before the age of thirty, because "my time has not yet come". The next time I look back, it will be thirty years later. If someone asks earlier, I will answer him: "My time has not yet come."