Hong Kong, New York and London, in a small place, is also known as "New York Port". It is the third largest financial center in the world. It has the reputation of "Pearl of the Orient" and "Shopping Paradise". It has nurtured many in this land of Hong Kong. Gifted scholars and beautiful ladies, Hong Kong's hall-level lyricist master, Huang Zhan ( 1941-2004), also known as the "ghost", is one of the leaders.
Huang Zhan
As one of the most influential Chinese songwriters, Huang Zhan, his lyrics can be said to have both national style and rivers and lakes. From the first song "Forget Him" composed by Huang Zhan in 1968 (Teng Lijun sang and included his Cantonese album), to the last song "Love Is Always Here" for Liang Hanwen in 2003, and Zhang Jingxuan in 2004 The last word "Blessing" filled in by , Huang Zhan composed more than 2,000 popular songs in his lifetime.
Huang Zhan
"Shanghai Beach", "A Chinese Ghost Story", "A Boy Becomes Self-improvement", "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Ask Me", "Below Lion Rock", "The Long Road" "Man Man with You", "My Chinese Heart", "Life is Meaningful", "The World is Always Hello" ....... Huang Zhan can be said to have created countless classics to sing everywhere. Rowan, Jenny, Teresa Teng, Leslie Cheung, Lin Zixiang, Ye Qianwen and many other famous singers have sang his works. His work swept the Hong Kong music scene 12 awards in 1991, and won the Golden Needle Award", CASH Music Achievement Award, Hong Kong Artist of the Year Award Best Lyricist Award and many other music honors.
Many people say that Jay Chou and Taiwanese lyricist Fang The combination of Wenshan (with the reputation of the word saint) pushed the Chinese style to its peak. But the editor thinks that Huang Zhan is the true founder of Chinese style songs, and the master of the younger generations.
, especially his creation for Tsui Hark’s movie "The Swordsman", "A Laugh in the Sea" can be said to be Huang Zhan’s pinnacle work, and "A Laugh in the Sea" is Huang Zhan. Personally write lyrics and music. and other representative works of Huang Zhan such as "Shanghai Beach", "A Chinese Ghost Story", "A Man Should Be Self-improvement", "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Below the Lion Rock", "A Long Road With You Through", "My Chinese Heart" , "Life is meaningful", "The world is always hello", either he writes the lyrics or he composes the music.
That was in the nineties of the last century, Xu Hark, known as Old Monster Xu, was preparing to shoot Jin Yong’s masterpiece "The Swordsman" in 1989, inviting masters of martial arts films, The semi-retired Hu Jinquan (1931-1997) came out to direct the film. Hu Jinquan is good at portraying loyal and traitor characters with Peking Opera facial makeup, and paired with musical instruments such as opera gongs and drums or shengxiao, flute and zither, there is a unique and elegant charm. He likes to choose the location of the conflicts in his films, either in the Buddhist monastery or in the frontier inn; or in the bamboo forest and reeds, which can be said to be ancient; "New Dragon Inn", "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Famous Sword", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Hero", "Ambush on Ten Sides" and other films all have the shadow of Hu Jinquan's films.
Tsui Hark and Hu Jinquan
The film "Swordsman" can be said to be the focus of Tsui Hark, Hu Jinquan, Cheng Xiaodong, Li Huimin, Jin Yanghua, Xu Anhua.
When filming "Swordsman", because Tsui Hark constantly wanted to incorporate his own creativity of "Swordsman" into the film, he intervened several times with director Hu Jinquan as a producer, which made it difficult for Hu Jinquan to accept What’s more, Hu Jinquan wants to carry the romantic and simple style to the end, while Tsui Hark wants to make a strong style and stunning visuals.A political fable that borrows the past to metaphor the present. With less than half of the film being shot, Hu Jinquan and Xu Hark froze. Hu Jinquan withdrew from the crew, and the remaining director work was done by Xu Ke, Cheng Xiaodong, and Li Huimin.
Hu Jinquan
Yue Hua, who originally played "Lin Zhennan" in the film, also quit because of this, and Tsui Hark had to be replaced by Jinshan (Ganshan). Ye Qianwen, who originally starred in "Ren Yingying", also resigned for health reasons and replaced Zhang Min.
When choosing the theme song of the movie "The Swordsman", Tsui Hark kept improving, and invited the "ghost" Huang Zhan. After listening to Tsui Hark's creativity in the film, Huang Zhan, I shut myself in the room and did six creations, but after listening to it, Tsui Hark was not very satisfied.
Huang Zhan was helpless and conceived hard. One day by chance, he picked up an ancient book "Le Zhi" and saw a sentence, "Great pleasure is easy". The most "easy" thing in the mind of a great talent is the ancient phonological pentatonic scale of the Han nationality ( Gong-Shang-Jiao-Zheng-Yu; if is arranged in pitch order, it is: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6) It is said that in the world, apart from our country, only the folk songs of Scotland are also pentatonic. "Unity is strength", "Chinese People's Volunteers Battle Hymn", "Socialism is Good", "The Rising Red Sun on the Grassland", "Song of Four Seasons" and many other songs are composed in pentatonic scale.
So Huang Zhan went the other way and changed to play it in the arrangement of "feather, sign, angle, shang, palace". It is really melodious and has the charm of Chinese ancient music. Huang Zhan composes it in style. The catchy melody of "A Laugh from the Sea". Drawing on the majestic and majestic and heroic momentum of the great man "Qinyuanchun·Snow", I found the inspiration for the words, and quickly filled in the words.
When playing,Huang Zhan not only uses the flute, guqin and sanxian, but also adds the rhythm of drums. The melody is first suppressed and then raised, and the melody turns around, so that the audience will sink into the desolation little by little with the sound of the music, reminding you Ebb and flow, changes in personnel, kindness and resentment ......
The elder of the Sun Moon God Sect, who loves rhythm, is good at playing the piano, Quyang and Hengshan School, loves rhythm The friendship between the two masters of Liu Zhengfeng, who is good at flute, is vividly displayed, bringing the audience into the world of "Swordsman" through sound and pictures. The mountains and flowing water, the piano and the flute mingled together, a song of tragedy echoed for a long time, and all the love and all the hatred in the laughter disappeared between the strings and the flute. I just want to remember today's free and easy, canoeing.
And Xu Guanjie, Huang Zhan and Zhang Weiwen (singed by Ling Hu Chong, Qu Yang, and Liu Zhengfeng in the movie "The Swordsman") also made the song more vicissitudes of life.
Concluding remarks: The movie "Swordsman" is adapted from Jin Yong's original martial arts novel "Swordsman", adding Hu Jinquan's Dongchang eunuch's story of Zhongliang framed by Zhongliang, and is accompanied by a wonderful story The martial arts design, Xu Guanjie’s interpretation of Linghu’s suave and unrestrained appearance, Ye Tong, Jacky Cheung, and Zhang Min’s wonderful performances in the film, and finally accompanied by the lyrics of the theme song "A Laugh in the Sea" created by Huang Zhan, leaving behind for fans An impression that is indelible.
Huang Zhan deserves to be called the "Hong Kong's Three Great Disputes" together with Ni Kuang and Chua Lan; and Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, and Chua Lan are collectively called "Hong Kong's Four Great Talents". What do you think? Welcome to leave a comment.
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