The 28-year serialization of "Young and Dangerous" comics has ended, and another cultural symbol has ended

"The naive voice is fading, and we are distanced for each other's goals... All the stories seem to have happened, in the wandering years." The classic lyrics of this song " Friendship Years" used to be in the streets and in the karaoke room It has been sung by many people born in the 1980s and even in the early 1990s. This is the theme song of the classic Hong Kong film "Young and Dangerous". This series of movies had a huge impact in the years from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Whether you watched it or liked it or not, it has influenced many post-75s, the entire post-80s and even the early 90s. This series of films is based on the manga of the same name by buffalo and has been serialized since 1992. Recently, this 28-year-long cross-century long comic series has finally ended, with an open ending. Both Chen Haonan and Da Fei are still alive, leaving you with a thought.

"Young and Dangerous" comic finale poster.

Unlike other Hong Kong comics and movies, the "Young and Dangerous" series is one of the rare Hong Kong comics that has been serialized for so many years and still has no plot collapse. The movie has a total of six main and three side stories, and there are a lot of derivatives. series. Later, because of the rise of new police and bandit movies such as "Infernal Affairs", the film market of "Young and Dangerous" slowly receded, but the comics have continued.

Why has this comic continued for so long and maintained a certain influence? And like other Hong Kong comics " ", "The Legend of the Son of Heaven", etc., after some time, the plot collapses and it is difficult to continue? Because "Young and Dangerous" is one of the few works in Hong Kong comics that is more realistic. Although it has exaggerated plots and an atmosphere of urban knights, it essentially records the economic take-off of Hong Kong society from the 1980s to today. The course of social change; with the struggle of some young individuals and groups in the great changes of urbanization and modernization as the story line, the image of Chen Haonan, an urban green forest hero, was created, and the young mainlanders who also experienced rapid development and changes at that time also It resonated all of a sudden, and once brought a very negative imitation effect. Because it is difficult for everyone to imitate the same period "Once Upon a Time" and "Fang Shiyu",At least you have to work hard to practice martial arts, but it is easy to imitate Chen Haonan and Dafei, just pretend to be a ruffian.

Ekin Cheng in Young and Dangerous.

"Young and Dangerous" star Ekin Cheng also expressed in an interview that he hoped that everyone would only regard this work as a movie. The "Young and Dangerous" series not only affects young people in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but also in the Southeast Asian market, a large number of post-80s fans are also fans of this work. Although their urbanization is different from ours, and their perceptions are naturally different, the pursuit of this series is the same.

The author visited an actor in "Young and Dangerous" during a fighting competition in Hong Kong two years ago. He is also a Muay Thai champion in Hong Kong. Mr. Lu Huiguang, an overseas Chinese from Thailand, . He played Hong Kong in this series. Hing Tsim Sha Tsui talker Prince is one of the best talkers in Hung Hing. But what I saw in reality was Lu Huiguang walking along the streets of Hong Kong with his young son, smiling and nodding politely to pedestrians who recognized him. He was just a kind father. Even in a city like Hong Kong with a profound martial arts culture and a thriving civil society culture, there is still no atmosphere of rivers and lakes. At that time, I seemed to understand the reason why the cultural memory of "Young and Dangerous" was coming to an end.

The Prince of War in "Young and Dangerous".

Niu Lao said in an interview a few years ago that he would end this work, because he thinks that young people nowadays feel that they are too old-fashioned with which big brother. Indeed, the winds of fashion and fashion have changed, and young people rarely fight. Whether Huang Feihong or Chen Haonan, whom everyone admired back then, used personal force or charm to change the world. Today is different. What young people are interested in is the ambition to transform the world and even the entire universe with powerful industrialization and technological forces like "The Three-Body Problem" and "The Wandering Earth". Even Japanese comics are no longer about individual heroism, and "Attack on Titan" has repeatedly emphasized the importance of teamwork.

The romantic era of Hong Kong films has really come to an end. The story of Chen Haonan and Xiaojieba can no longer infect young people.The kind of delinquent teenagers who are beautifully dressed and walk with a group of people kicking the wind on the pedestrian street are no longer sought after by young girls. Ear studs, hair dye and tattoos are no longer their exclusive, but have become expressions of the pursuit of fashion by all young people. These exclusive symbols that once belonged to the culture of " " have become popular, which naturally also makes They have lost their original charm and attributes. The internal reason is that social progress and the great improvement of public security, society no longer allows the space for disorderly violence to exist. The soil for worshipping bad youth culture no longer exists, which is the most important reason for the finale of "Young and Dangerous".

The generation from the 1980s to the early 1990s, no matter how it developed later, Hong Kong's literary and artistic works were once our important spiritual food, and "Young and Dangerous" is one of the very important nodes. Although we couldn't understand the actual meaning of this work at the time, let alone the fire at Shixiawei in Hong Kong in 1953 at the beginning of the story, the largest urban village was burned down, and many people were displaced, which is the source of the subsequent series of stories... At the end of the comic, In addition to drawing a scene where all the main characters say goodbye, Niu Lao also specially drew a scene where Chen Haonan is hidden in the crowd of office workers in suits and leather shoes. Chen Haonan in the painting still has long flowing hair, but his eyes are looking back. It's a bit tangled, it seems that he thinks that you don't know yet, an era is really over...

□ Yang Tian (film critic)

Beijing News editor Wu Longzhen proofreads Yang Xuli