On February 27, the famous Hong Kong movie star Wu Mengda died of liver cancer. Many netizens are sad and mournful, but also full of emotions, have found uncle Da's old works to relive.
Of course, the film fans miss the film that Uncle Da and Stephen Chow cooperate with, from "Gamble Saint" to "Shaolin Football", the two people outside the play are like brothers and fathers and teachers and friends, the two have also contributed countless classic works and nonsense bridges, but Wu Mengda's acting career can not only cooperate with Stephen Chow, the most classic in the period is 1990's "Heavenly Love".
"Heavenly Love" is definitely an indispensable Hong Kong film classic, it is the debut of director Chen Musheng, is Wu Qianlian's first work, but also let Andy Lau officially gain a foothold in the film circle, opening his way to the king.
It also has a special significance for Wu Mengda, with which he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, which is the first time that Uncle Da's acting skills have received award recognition, and it is also the only time that Wu Mengda has won an Academy Award.
In the current view, the story of "Heavenly Love" may be a bit cheesy, simply put, the tragic love story of a street gangster and a rich lady Jojo, which is nothing more than the common gangster fire in Hong Kong movies, and the love of moths fighting fire in love films.
But the charm of "Tianruo Has Feelings" is not the ups and downs of the plot, but the ultimate romance, and to some extent, "Tianruo Has Feelings" is the ancestor of Chinese idol dramas.
First of all, the starring role, that year less than thirty years old Andy Lau is at the peak of appearance, between the eyebrows there is a juvenile heroism, a thick curly hair, denim clothes, white sneakers, with a windy motorcycle, is simply a hot-blooded teenager who came out of the comic, enough to throw the small fresh meat a few streets.
The heroine Wu Qianlian was still in college when filming "Heavenly Love", and the supervising producer Du Qifeng decided to use her as the heroine after seeing Wu Qianlian's student photos, when Wu Qianlian was full of youth, a face of pure natural beauty, scattered hair has been draped over the shoulders, single eyelid small eyes, but very energetic, sparkling and permeated with aura.
Putting these two together in a film, even if you stand there without acting, it will already make people drool.
Of course, a movie only relies on actors is not enough, a moving love story also needs the weaving of the creator, it is precisely because of the director Chen Musheng's director, it has achieved the classic screen couple of Hua Di and JOJO.
Director Chen Musheng has put a lot of thought into the role setting, Hua Di and JOJO have very different lives, one is a rich woman, the other is a gangster, the love of the two bears the difference in class, the incomprehension of the family, and of course, there are people in the jianghu involuntary situation.
Hua Di is wandering in the rivers and lakes, but unlike ordinary gang members, in addition to fighting and killing, he has a true temperament, inserts a knife in the ribs of his friends, and has a gentle feeling for his lover, he wants to quit the jianghu, but he can't help himself, and can only be tied up by the jianghu and the resentment again and again.
Hua Di in the movie is a gangster and a speedy motorcycle teenager, which makes Hua Di a gangster character a little more chivalrous and juvenile, and the motorcycle has become the most important element in the movie.
From JOJO's first ride in Huadi's car in the reeds, to Huadi's sending JOJO home on a rainy night, to Hua Tsai's ride JOJO around the city, the love between the two is like a romantic journey, both debauched and unruly love, but also hidden danger.
At the end of the film, Hua Di and JOJO decided to get married privately, the two changed into wedding dresses and dresses, Hua Di carried JOJO on the night road, JOJO hugged Hua Di, and Hua Di's blood flowed to JOJO's hands, this picture is the most heartbreaking picture of "Heavenly Love", and it is also the classic screen moment of Hong Kong films.
The moving point of "Heavenly Love" is here, it is about the tragedy of love, rather than the sense of involuntariness, it creates a pure dream for each boy and girl, a reckless love, but it shows the disillusionment of dreams and pushes the naked reality away for you to see.
Tai Bao, played by Wu Mengda, is a very realistic little person, he is the bottom of the gang, he is bullied like grass, but he is very happy and has his own rules of survival.
Wu Mengda played this small role, although there are not many appearances, but each appearance can attract the audience at once, Taibao wipes the car on the street, in the face of business he is full of smiles, greasy mouth slippery tongue, and even extremely exaggerated things, but when encountered things can only swallow breath, after people leave, gamble and scold two sentences.
But in the end, in the face of his friend Hua Di being bullied by the horn, he plucked up the courage to die with him, and finally maintained his trademark smile, laughing at the sky, "I killed the horn."
"Tianruo Has Feelings" is a love film, telling the love of the rivers and lakes, Andy Lau and Wu Qianlian are idols, are the gods and immortals who attract the attention of thousands of people, and Wu Mengda represents the rivers and lakes, is the sentient beings in society, he is the beauty of green leaves with red flowers, without Wu Mengda's "Heavenly Love" will not be complete.
Similarly, the music of "Heavenly Love" also left a deep impression, and its classic degree even has a greater influence than the movie, the theme song of the same name "Heavenly Love", especially at the end of the film, when Hua Di fell in a pool of blood, and JOJO wore a wedding dress looking around in the street, the melody sounded, the difference between the heavens, the sentimentality of youth love, and the helplessness of life were all expressed. "There will always be a sigh in the dream of the plump thoughts, if he can be with you in this life" has also become the best footnote to the love story of this pair.
Another song, "Gray Trail", from Beyond, appears in the first half of the film, and when JOJO first sits on Huadi's motorcycle, the song sounds, and the confused melody seems to suggest that the two are about to embark on a dangerous journey.
When creating this song, Beyond is in the low tide of the career, the career life is not smooth, so there is a kind of helplessness and confusion in the song, and even some darkness, "the road ahead cannot be seen clearly, and then there are those struggles and compulsions, stepping on the gray trajectory, full of water shadows of the abyss", which not only alludes to beyond the mood of beyond, but also interprets the lost youth of HuaDi.
Beautiful people, sweet songs, good stories, "Heavenly Love" is indeed a work that cannot be copied, even if the second and third parts have been filmed successively, but they have not surpassed the first part.
Perhaps "Heavenly Love" is a right film shot at the right time, there are irreplaceable Andy Lau, Ye Qianwen, Wu Mengda, and there are also chen Musheng, Luo Dayou and Beyond who have just debuted with ambitions, and together they have achieved a classic.