"Let's go! Let's go! People must learn to grow up by themselves. Let's go! Let's go! Life will inevitably experience painful struggles. Let's go! Let's go! Find a home for your heart. I have been sad and crying, and I have Sadly heartbroken, this is the price of love."
"The Price of Love", a classic old song that was born in the 90s, is still refreshing to this day.
Pi Ge didn't realize until recently that this song composed by Li Zongsheng is actually the ending song of the 1992 Hong Kong film "Three Summers" (also known as "Brother's Lover"), which was originally sung by Zhang Aijia. The script of
"Three Summers" was also created by Zhang Aijia, but she did not direct it. Instead, she handed the guide to the director Liu Guochang, and she served as executive producer.
Liu Guochang has a master's degree in film from the University of Southern California. His films are mainly commercial action films. Before this film, he had just finished filming the police film "The Legend of the Blue River".
"Three Summers" is an attempt of Liu Guochang's new style. Under Zhang Aijia's "escort", the whole film reveals the warmth and splendor of the girl's spring. The
movie uses the perspective of a young girl in the fishing village of Tai O to tell three sad love stories that happened on the island of Tai O in three summers.
Tony Leung, Chen Shaoxia, Ye Yuqing, lead starring, Wu Qianlian and Chen Jinhong, etc., many movie stars joined in the performance.
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Tai O is located in the western part of Lantau Island in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It has a warm climate and beautiful scenery, and is known as the "Little Venice".
Banchi (played by Chen Shaoxia) and Gran Viagra (played by Tony Leung) have lived on the island since they were young. She has never been out, and she does not know what the outside world is like.
Viagra went out to work. He just returned to the island not long ago. His arm was injured. The neighbors said that he was running away and hiding on the island to avoid the limelight. What was the reason? Viagra himself refused to say, and no one Know the truth.
In the days when he lived on the island, Viagra's temperament changed drastically, and he was very irritable every day.
In the first summer of the movie, the stone house of the half-chi family was rented to an environmental protection group. The person in charge is a foreigner named Zhai Luwei (played by Zhuang Yufei). Both
Zhailuwei and his parents are studying the organisms on the island. Every summer, they cooperate with the Green Power Organization to carry out training camps and recruit a group of students to visit the island and do scientific research. Half a foot every summer, they look forward to their arrival.
In this group of college students, Lam (played by Chen Jinhong), Sean (played by Chen Shuyi) and Flora (played by Wu Qianlian) are the focus of the classmates. They are inseparable, and they are the three who are the happiest and devoted.
Lam and Flora are lovers, which makes Banchi very envious, but when Lam is going to study in Australia, the two will separate at any time.
The first summer in the movie starts with watching the sunrise and making a wish, and ends with the sky lantern making a wish. This is a beautiful summer, but goodness is not permanent.
Time passed, the second summer in the movie came, and half a chi was looking forward to the arrival of the students, but some changes that followed caught her off guard.
was first a mysterious animal. It attacked the chickens and dogs in the village. The villagers called it "mountain demon", which disturbed the quiet of the village. Then a group of underworld found Viagra and beat him up.
Viagra was beaten, and also revealed the secret of Viagra's previous injury-
He once drove a triad brother, but fell in love with the woman Miss Ye (played by Ye Yuqing), and was discovered by the elder brother after a lesson. Escape back to the island. Now that Miss Ye is missing, the older brother is looking for her remains everywhere.
Soon, Miss Ye suddenly appeared on the island. She came to look for Viagra. Viagra avoided her at first, but later found the hotel where she was staying.
After the two lingered all night, Miss Ye said goodbye to Viagra, she wanted to go to a place where no one could find her, and completely get rid of her eldest brother's control.
Miss Ye left, and half a chi also waited for the students who came for summer vacation, but their atmosphere was not so harmonious this year.
Among the three people who were like glue the previous year, Lam has gone abroad, Flora found her new boyfriend Aaron and stayed with her, but Sean, who was late, became very abnormal because of her mother's suicide.
Sean couldn't understand Flora and Aaron together, and often made trouble with Flora deliberately. This made his classmates repel him, but he got worse, and he became crazy in the end.
All this makes Banchi very confused, she doesn't know why everyone has changed.
is also in love with half a chi, and her object is a boy named Monkey among the students. The little monkey is from New Zealand. After spending this summer vacation, he went back, so he fell in love half a chi.
Viagra says that people will grow up after they are broken in love, but half a chi does not seem to be sad because of the monkey's departure.
In short, I didn't have a very happy summer. Those changes are just like mountain monsters. In the third summer in the movie
, she doesn't want to stay at home anymore. She wants to leave Tai O to study or work outside.
Viagra took her to take a ride in a boat, and Viagra said to her on the boat: "Don't be afraid, look at the back. No matter where you are going, home is behind you."
appears with the panoramic view of the island at the end of the film. , The song "The Price of Love" sung by Zhang Aijia also slowly sounded. The beautiful scenery of the small island of
is intertwined with beautiful songs, which is imaginative.
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In fact, the song "The Price of Love" has a profound meaning, and it still needs Li Zongsheng's original vocals to show the charm of the vicissitudes of life.
Zhang Aijia's voice is sweet, but he expresses a different mood.
is like a half-foot in the film, watching other people's love and experiencing one's own love, but is always ignorant. The real protagonist of the whole story of
is Chen Shaoxia, and the whole film is also told according to the half-foot perspective played by Chen Shaoxia.
The two loves seen in the eyes of half a chi are hazy and miserable, but deliberately do not understand, accompanied by large blank spaces, triggering endless reveries of the audience. One of the relationships between
is Viagra and Miss Ye-
's "Three Summers" movie is also called "Brother's Lover". The promotion also featured Liang Chaowei and Ye Yuqing. The two lingering scenes were released, but Chen Shaoxia It is rarely mentioned, which shows the reality of the commercial market at that time. Z2z
Ye Yuqing played Miss Ye in the middle of the movie, her red lips and white dress surprised the audience.
When Viagra first arrived in Hong Kong, he didn't have any skills, so he could only drive for the big brother. It is conceivable that the eldest brother is often away from home, and Viagra and his sister-in-law have been in love for a long time. This kind of plot has also been seen in many gangster movies (such as "Gun Fire").
was later beaten by the elder brother after the Dongchuang incident. He was already very cheap.
So when the two meet again on the island, they both have a complicated mood that is hard to part with and dare not love.
Miss Ye naturally hopes Viagra will keep her, but both of them know that this is impossible. Tony Leung and Ye Yuqing are both well-established movie stars. Although the length of the emotional drama between the two is limited, it is performed well and is the most exciting part of the movie.
The second relationship is Lam and Flora
Lam and Flora were originally lovers, but the two are unworldly, and this relationship is not so consolidated. Lam is going to study in Australia, and the two seem to be separated for granted. The
movie didn't explain who left and who was the first to betray in this relationship, but when Flora appeared again, she was already with Yaron.
half foot and SeaThe empathy between the two of them towards Flora is unacceptable. But half a chi just couldn't figure it out in his heart, but Sean completely showed it, and the shock of his mother's death made him hysterical, adding a bit of instability to the second summer on the island.
Because Viagra said that people will only grow up after they are broken in love, so half a chi is also in love.
But her love is only a taste of it, and it did not leave too many traces, so until the last half a foot off the island, it was a blank sheet of paper, full of longing for the future.
is like the song sang: "People always learn to grow up by themselves. Life will inevitably experience painful struggles."
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This film is a wonderful fusion of films from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The screenwriter and executive producer are both Zhang Aijia, director Liu Guochang and other actors are all from Hong Kong. The filming location is also Hong Kong's Tai O and Lantau Island. The most interesting thing about
is the dubbing. The soundtrack of the Blu-ray disc produced by the film is Hokkien mixed with Mandarin, giving people the illusion that this is a treasure island movie. Z2z
, who played half-foot Chen Shaoxia, had just entered the showbiz at the time. In the film, he deliberately sunken into a dark fisherman's sister, but a closer look reveals that she is Yue Lingshan in the TVB version of "Swordsman", as simple as a bay of lake water.
In fact, there is a Cantonese version of the movie, and Pigoth found this Cantonese version to look at it, and it resolved the abrupt feeling of the Mandarin version. In the Cantonese version of
, even the song "The Price of Love" was replaced by the Cantonese "Leaving and Gone", which was also sung by Zhang Aijia, and the writer was Lu Guanting's wife Tang Shuchen. Another song she is familiar with is "The Love of a Lifetime" from "Western Journey", composed by Lu Guanting. The green power organization appearing in the film
is a real Hong Kong voluntary group. It was established in 1988 and focuses on environmental affairs and related issues in Hong Kong. The activities of the
organization are funded by donations from citizens, membership dues of the organization, corporate sponsorship and income from fundraising activities.
This film is also a film project in cooperation between film investors and Green Power.
was at the time when the Hong Kong government invested large sums of money in infrastructure construction in Tai O and Lantau. The "moving" Guanyin appeared in the film to make way for the airport in Tung Chung. In the aerial footage at the end of the film, you can also see the dam of the Shek Pik Reservoir and the airport under construction.
Behind the love story, it also reflects the changes of the times and the change of the environment, and conveying the message of environmental protection is also a theme of the film. However, the activities of the training camp in the film include collecting butterfly specimens, tracing the stream, and setting off the sky lanterns, which now seem to be actions that damage the environment. It can be seen that with the progress of the times, people's thinking and concepts will change accordingly. The story of the
film is like a prose poem without a clear main line. There are so many characters in
, who come and go like a passer-by in everyone's life without leaving too many marks. The plot of
seems casual, but it reflects the way life is. Coupled with the charming scenery of Tai O, the impression left to the audience is still very good.
1993 was the year when the Hong Kong film industry was competing with each other. Naturally, there was not much market for such low-cost literary films.
But less than two weeks after the movie was released, it still won a box office of 3.66 million Hong Kong dollars, which shows that literary and artistic films still have a place in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong films are still the old "spicy"!
has been in theaters for 27 years now. "Ye Yuqing with red lips, Chen Shaoxia who debuted, Tow Wai Leung in shorts, the sea breeze blows their fluttering hair." In this movie, those beautiful moments still make the audience who have seen it. Unforgettable...
