"Departure: When the Wind Rises" (hereinafter referred to as "Departure") has come to an end.
In the last scene, when Xiao Chuang stood in front of the TV with wet eyes and watched his former brother Pei Qinghua shout at him, Lin Zixiang's "Who Can Understand Me" sounded - "Walking on the road ahead, catching up with the ideal journey." ”
The sense of age atmosphere is once again full.
In the rendering of the background of the times, "Departure" is very well done.
From the first episode to the last episode, it very realistically restores the various details and elements of that era. For me, a post-80s generation, what I feel the most is the Hong Kong circle element that can be seen everywhere in the play.
In the 1990s, when the culture of the Hong Kong circle was at its peak
The 1990s were the golden age of Hong Kong's development and the heyday of Hong Kong's circle culture. Its impact on us is not limited to the southern coastal areas, but also in the north, the "harbor wind" element can be seen everywhere.
The first episode of "Set Sail", a long shot, takes us into the "Good Mood Video Hall".
The video hall is a favorite place for hipster men and women in the 90s.
There, we can see the latest Hong Kong and Hollywood movies.
No, the poster on the wall of the "Good Mood Video Hall" is pasted with the 90s Hong Kong blockbusters: "Heavenly Love", "Tiger Out", "God of Gamblers".
"Today's screening" is "Lame Hao", "Qiannu Ghost 3: Dao Dao", "Across the Sea", "Hero's True Colors".
Xiao Chuang, the male protagonist played by Wu Lei, is a regular guest of the "Good Mood Video Hall".
He and Xie Hang met because Xie Hang was holding a videotape he wanted to see, Zhou Runfa and Zhong Chuhong's "Fairy Tales of Autumn".
These details, too familiar to me.
It is no secret that most of these Hong Kong films that appeared in "Departure" have been seen by most of them.
At that time, our idols came from these Hong Kong movies.
"Heavenly Love" made Andy Lau the most handsome motorcyclist in the hearts of young girls in the 90s.
Wang Zuxian is the "most beautiful female ghost" in "The Ghost of Qiannu". In the future, no matter who plays Xiao Qian, he will not be able to replace Wang Zuxian, who has a variety of styles in my memory.
The actor configuration of "Across the Sea" can be called "the face of all the staff". Zhou Runfa, Zhang Guorong, Zhong Chuhong, you can't tell for a moment who is better looking here.
Acting skills are also not comparable.
Because of the maturity of industry, in the 1990s, Hong Kong produced a large number of films every year.
Not only do we girls find "husbands" in Hong Kong movies, but even middle-aged men of my dad's age also like to watch Hong Kong stars.
In my father's eyes, the most handsome man is Zhou Runfa. He used to take me to watch "God of Gamblers" over and over again, and even secretly imitated Chow Yun-fat's card playing moves. Which man does not want to be the handsome and rich Zhou Runfa in "God of Gamblers"?
In addition to the beautiful pictures of Hong Kong movies that fascinate us, Hong Kong pop music also stirs our hearts.
"Departure" begins with Ye Qianwen's "Dashing Away" and ends with Lin Zixiang's "Who Can Understand Me", which is obviously a carefully considered arrangement.
People who like Hong Kong music, who would not know that this pair of "heavenly kings and queens of heaven" in the Hong Kong music scene?
This drama also reveals the popularity of Hong Kong Music through character lines.
When Pei Qinghua helped Tan Yuan buy the tape of "Babylon River", the boss said that "ten yuan and three plates" should buy more boxes.
Xiao Chuang asked, is there Any Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong? "Tan Zhang's struggle for hegemony" was a major event in the Hong Kong music scene in the mid-to-late 1980s, and the two of them almost monopolized the awards of the Hong Kong music scene at that time. Behind their competition is actually the sales war of the Hong Kong record industry. In 1990, PolyGram announced that Tam wing Lin's records had sold 10 million copies. Zhang Guorong's "Love" album has sold more than 2 million copies in Asia.
These figures all show the prosperity of the Hong Kong record market.
Because of the prosperity of Hong Kong's entertainment culture, in that year, our most extreme imagination of handsomeness and beauty came from Hong Kong idols.
When watching "Departure", I saw that Xiao Chuang's bedside was plastered with posters of Hong Kong stars - Chow Wai Min, Andy Lau, Chow Yun Fat, Kwan Chi Lin, I felt a special sense of substitution.
Because at that time, I also put a poster of my "dream lover" Dawn on the bedside, and every day I woke up to see him first.
Shaw's bedside is plastered with posters of Hong Kong stars
Because we like them, we naturally want to become as handsome and beautiful as them.
Hong Kong idols have influenced the aesthetics of our generation.
At that time, "Hong Kong style" was the most fashionable dress, like Xiao Chuang's flower shirt and jeans were very classic "Hong Kong style" dress.
Why can "The True Colors of Heroes" and "Dashing a Walk" influence a generation?
There are so many Hong Kong elements in the play, and their role is not just to set off the atmosphere and render the sense of age.
The crew also worked very hard to integrate these Hong Kong elements into the plot and combine them with the characters.
Like Xiao Chuang, his idol is Zhou Runfa, and he especially likes Zhou Runfa's role in "The True Colors of Heroes".
As soon as he appeared, when Hanka's accident was investigated by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Xiao Chuang cosplayed a small horse brother and let the friends go first, and one person carried everything down.
"The True Colors of Heroes", as a classic of Hong Kong cinema, has influenced a generation of young people. Wu Yusen also began to establish his own "violent aesthetic" style from this film.
"The True Colors of Heroes" is about frustrated heroes, how to find their dignity. In reality, director Wu Yusen and the two lead actors Dillon and Zhou Runfa are also in the midst of their own frustration.
Wu Yusen made comedies for more than a decade before "The True Colors of Heroes", and his inner talents were nowhere to be displayed; Dillon left Shaw a year before "The True Colors of Heroes", a former "costume hero" who was confused about his career; and Chow Yun-fat had not yet been recognized in the film circle at that time, because the previous films had not done well at the box office, known as "box office poison".
It was these men in the low period of life who worked together to create a myth about the "lost hero".
When Xiao Ma Ge said passionately in the small TV in the video hall, "I must get back what I lost", those enthusiastic teenagers in the 90s also saw it with excitement.
How many people have learned what is "heroism" and "brotherhood" from "The True Colors of Heroes".
Blood and righteousness have also become the character background of that generation.
As Xiao Chuang said, he is Xiao Ma Ge, he is Xu Wenqiang, no matter the ebb and flow, he must stand at the head of the tide and be the "tide maker" of the times.
In addition to "The True Colors of Heroes", another Hong Kong circle element often mentioned in this drama is Ye Qianwen's "Dashing Walk Back".
"The heavens and the earth are leisurely, the passers-by are hurried, and the tide rises and falls."
"Grace and resentment, life and death are whiteheads, and several people can see through it."
From the background sound from the taxi radio in the first episode, to the later xiao chuang and Pei Qinghua singing in front of the microphone when they negotiated business at karaoke, to Pei Qinghua's song for Xiao Chuang, the choice was "Dashing Walk Back".
"Dashing a Walk" is the title song of Ye Qianwen's 1991 album of the same name, which was originally just the theme song of a Taiwanese costume idol drama "Beijing Four Young".
Therefore, its songs have classical elements such as erhu and guzheng. Originally, this song was more just about a free attitude towards life.
But unexpectedly, its lyrics are in line with the social development of the 90s. In the 90s, like the plot of the play, many people began to go to the sea to do business. "The years do not know how much sorrow there is in the world, why not go back in style", the lyrics of "Dashing Walk Again" are like a portrayal of their mood at that time.
Whether it succeeds or fails, I also have to "walk around" in this era. This is the reason why "Dashing Back" will become the Divine Comedy of the Times, through which many people express their "ambitions".
In addition to the Hong Kong style elements, there are these exoticisms
In addition to highlighting the elements of Hong Kong style, "Departure" also has the presentation of European and American culture in the play.
Tan Yuan asked Pei Qinghua, who was on a business trip to Guangzhou, to help her find a tape of "Babylon River".
The first time Xiao Chuang and Xie Hang met, Xiao Chuang recommended Xie Hang to watch "Casablanca".
After that, Xie Hang also read to Xiao the classic line of "Casablanca": "There are so many towns in the world, and there are so many taverns in the towns, but she just walked into me." ”
"Babylon River" is a divine comedy that swept disco in the 90s.
Casablanca is an enduring love movie.
The arrangement of this drama is very thoughtful, and the foreshadowing of the two emotional lines is connected with European and American culture. In fact, this is also related to the characteristics of the times. In the 1990s, most of the young people's imagination of romance came from the exoticism of various European and American music and movies.
There is a scene in the play that is very classic. Tan Yuan and her classmates were caught watching foreign love movies. At that time, we still had very few entertainment products about love, and we could only spy on this "forbidden area" in larger European and American movies.
Whether it is Hong Kong circle culture or European and American films, the reason why they had an impact on young people in that area in the 90s is because they advocate individual liberation and self-release.
The youth of that era faced an era of rapid economic development. In the face of rapid changes in society, what they need is precisely these new and free things. The friendship, love, and ideals promoted in Hong Kong movies and pop music are all very personal pursuits, and since the 90s, we have begun to focus more on our spiritual world and need to meet our personal needs.
Therefore, the appearance of these cultural elements in the play is not superfluous. They are all meant to show the vibrant, open-minded era of the time. The youth of the 90s, fierce and romantic, were willing to open their minds and accept the impact of more foreign cultures. The colorful world outside also inspired them to "go out and break in" and "walk back in style".
As a result, the bloody and inspirational struggle story of the two protagonists was also established in such a passionate era.