In 2001, when Zhang Guorong learned that Hong Kong came out gay director Kwan Kam Peng to make a gay movie, he was very happy and immediately called to tell his boyfriend Tang Hede about the news.
Because in that era, no one dared to touch this taboo subject, director Guan Jinpeng could withstand such a big pressure to make this film, which made Zhang Guorong very admirable.
In order to thank director Guan Jinpeng for his courage to speak out for the gay community, Zhang Guorong dedicated his cover song "The Moon Represents My Heart" to director Guan Jinpeng, hoping that he could use this song as the theme song of the film to express his sincerity for this film.
But director Guan Jinpeng rejected Zhang Guorong's kindness, and he chose the most widely sung song in the Beijing gay circle as the theme song of the movie.
This song is Huang Pinyuan's "How Do You Give Me Up to Be Sad".
In the movie "Lan Yu", Lan Yu stood in the snow and looked at Chen Handong with affection and sang:
"The person who loves you the most is me, how can you be sad for me, when I need you most, without saying a word and leaving..."
Shortly after Lan Yu finished singing the song, he left.
Chen Handong lifted the white cloth in the morgue and saw Lan Yu lying motionless on the bed, and he cried.
Chen Handong's favorite person was Lan Yu, and when he needed Lan Yu the most, Lan Yu left without saying a word.
Huang Pinyuan's song perfectly fits the plot of the movie.
The sad lyrics and style in "How Do You Give Me Up To Be Sad" are like tailor-made for the feelings between Chen Handong and Lan Yu.
It is no wonder that the audience who watched the movie in 2001 has not yet come out of the sadistic love affair between these two people until 2021.
The pinnacle of creativity
"How Do You Give Me Up To Be Sad" is Huang Pinyuan's most widely sung song, but this song cannot represent the peak of this musical talent's creation.
In 1992, Huang Pinyuan's song "The Wordless Hill" was regarded by many as the peak of his creation.
The song, though little known, has been dubbed an "epic song".
"The Wordless Hill" is also the name of the movie, in which Huang Pinyuan plays the male protagonist Awei.
The film tells the story of a large number of poor peasants who ran to Taiwan to pan for gold in the Jiufen Mountains during the Japanese occupation era in 1927.
In order to make money, the two brothers Ao and Asuke also joined the gold rush, and the two rented the house of the widow Aro after they arrived at Jiufen Mountain.
Stills from The Wordless Hill
During the days of gold panning, Ao fell in love with the Japanese woman Fumiko, but at that time Taiwan was occupied by the Japanese.
The hatred of the two peoples, who do not share heaven, dooms the tragedy of their feelings.
This film is Huang Pinyuan's debut work, and it is also his first time to be a male protagonist, but his acting skills are not inferior to yang Guimei, the golden horse actress in the play.
Huang Pinyuan's acting skills are very sincere, especially when interpreting sad emotions, which can arouse the resonance in the hearts of the audience.
The Azu brothers signed a five-year deed of sale with the head family, but they sneaked out to pan for gold, and when the head family found out, they came to the door to cut off one of their brothers' hands and one foot and go back to make a difference.
AhSuke did not want Ah Wei to be implicated, and after a moment's hesitation, he made up his mind, snatched the machete from the head family's hand, and forcefully chopped off two of his own fingers.
Ah Wei cried and covered his brother's bloody hand on his face, blood and tears mixed together and flowed down, and the desolate scene touched the hearts of the audience.
Another time, the Japanese Red Eye took Ah Wei to a brothel, and the old bustard arranged for the prostitute Ah Ying to serve him.
Ah Ying is very old and suffers from tuberculosis, and she does not want to spread the disease to Ah Wei, so she wears a mask.
Ah Wei looked at Ah Ying, who was wearing a mask and undressing at the same time, and felt very uncomfortable in his heart, because his parents had tuberculosis and had no cure, and they coughed to death.
Ah Wei knelt on the ground and cried silently, and finally he did nothing, put the money on the ground and left.
Huang Pinyuan portrayed Ao's cowardly and kind image as iris, and his acting skills can be described by a lyric he sang for the theme song of the movie of the same name: "Sweat, blood, tears, and madness." ”
"The Wordless Hill" sings not only the tragedy of this era, but also the emotional tragedy of Ao and Fumiko.
The lyrics "Silent Tears, Ruthless Heaven and Earth, You and I Who Have No Chance" are written by Ao and Fumiko, who have a chance to meet, but have no chance to fall in love.
"Scarecrow", "Banana Paradise", "Wordless Hill" and called it "Taiwan's Modern History Vernacular Film Trilogy".
But to some extent, the significance of "The Wordless Hill" far exceeds the former, because it is a continuation of Taiwanese scar films, and the sadness it conveys is difficult for moviegoers to go.
Compromise to the popular
Huang Pinyuan's songs after "The Wordless Hill" no longer have the same epic meaning and difficult style as this song.
His works are generally popular and highly sung, and these songs have been called "compromises to pop".
The theme song "How Do You Give Me Up to Be Sad" in the movie "Lan Yu" in 2001 made Huang Pinyuan usher in the first spring of his career.
"How Do You Give Me Up To Be Sad" is a song written, arranged and sung by Huang Pinyuan, and the lyrics are created from his personal experience.
Huang Pinyuan met a girl in his early years when he was singing in the restaurant in his hometown, and the girl was with him because she admired his talent.
But Huang Pinyuan was signed to Taipei by a record company, and his girlfriend did not want to endure the pain of long-distance love and left him fiercely.
Huang Pinyuan went to Taipei to work for half a year and still worried about his girlfriend, but when he returned to his hometown, he found that he could no longer find her.
With this painful emotion, he wrote "How Do You Give Me Up to Be Sad".
The story of personal experience allowed Huang Pinyuan to interpret this song with a feeling of heartbreak.
The song has been called "one of the worst piano preludes in history", with two-tone chords aggressive, like two sharp blades piercing the heart.
The movie itself is aside, the track hurts enough.
This is also one of the reasons why director Guan Jinpeng will reject Zhang Guorong, "The Moon Represents My Heart" is too tender and watery.
The lyrics of "How Do You Give Me Up To Be Sad" do not have a flowery word, but they make people sad, and the reluctance and regret in their minds are all lingering.
After "How Do You Give Me Up To Be Sad", 2002's "Xiao Wei" made Huang Pinyuan's singing career reach its peak, and this song was so popular that it was rotten.
The "Xiao Wei" in the city and the "Xiao Fang" in the village, the "Ah Lian" in the town and the "Nine Sisters" in the mountains are known as the "Four Beauties of Folk Songs".
The fame of these three songs is comparable to that of "Xiaowei", but the more touching point of "Xiaowei" than the last three songs is the background story of its creation.
This song was written by Adi based on his own personal experience.
Adi works in a garage in Malaysia, one day, a beautiful girl went to his garage to repair the car, through communication, Adi learned that her name is Xiaowei.
Adi fell in love with her at first sight, but Adi was jealous of his status as a migrant boy and felt that he was not worthy of this girl with a pair of "gentle eyes".
Later, the car was repaired, Xiao Wei never came to the store again, and Adi couldn't find her at all.
He regretted that his cowardice had made him miss this girl, so he bought a broken guitar, replaced it with a new string, and spent four months quickly learning to compose lyrics and compose music, and pinning his thoughts on Xiaowei in the creation.
After "Xiao Wei" was written, Adi spent all his savings, bought a full set of recording equipment and professional audio, and made the song into a tape, rented a small car to drag the stereo all over the street to play the song.
He knew that the chances were slim, but he still expected Xiao Wei to appear again after hearing this song.
But the reality is that "Xiaowei" did not wait for the heroine of the story, but waited for a music producer.
He bought the copyright to "Xiao Wei" from Adi, and let his team rearrange and compose the song, and found a popular singer in Taiwan, Huang Pinyuan, to sing.
That year, Huang Pinyuan was 34 years old and became popular all over the country with "Xiao Wei".
Since then, Huang Pinyuan's name has also been equated with "XiaoWei".
Singing, acting, hosting
After "Xiao Wei", the record industry declined, and a new generation of singers emerged, which caused a lot of blows to the older generation of singers, and Huang Pinyuan's singing career also turned from prosperity to decline.
His exposure has also dropped a lot, and many new generations of young people have never heard his name, and then he has no highly sung works.
After the singing career stagnated, he began to "save the country with curves", invested in the variety show business, and hosted "Variety Big Brother" with Zhang Fei and Honduras.
The host of this show, Zhang Fei, is the brother of Fei Yuqing, who also often makes cameos on this show.
The famous scene "You chase me, if you chase me, I'll let you hehehehe" comes from this show.
Although Huang Pinyuan is a singer, he is also very popular in the hosting industry.
Throwing stems, strong ability to pick up stems, good sense of variety, fast response, his outstanding performance in this show, so that he won the Taiwan Television Golden Bell Awards Variety Show Host Award in 2004.
I was particularly impressed by one episode where he sang "How Do You Give Me Up To Be Sad" with the imitators.
The imitator laughed and the mouth rose to the same extent as the two huge dimples and Huang Pinyuan himself, living like a young version of Huang Pinyuan.
However, when the two sang "How Do You Give Me Up To Be Sad" together, the level of the two was immediately high.
Huang Pinyuan's singing skills have not decreased, and the singing level of the scene is still very stable, but his singing voice is a little more vicissitudes than before.
In addition to being a cross-border host, Huang Pinyuan picked up the old business again. In 2012, Huang Pinyuan starred in the TV series "Rainy Night Flower" in the male protagonist Ah Xiong.
In the play, Ah Xiong and his younger brother Ah Zhi are dependent on their mother for their lives, both brothers are high school students, but Ah Zhi is involved in the rights and wrongs of American officers, and Ah Xiong helps him go to the correctional institution in order to save his brother.
After Ah Xiong left the correctional institution, because he had a case background and did not have a high education, he could not find a job and was discriminated against in society.
In order to survive, he joined the local Wind and Sand Gang and climbed all the way up to become the leader of the gang.
Although Ah Xiong is a gang boss, he does not charge excessive protection fees to the people on the territory, and is committed to maintaining local law and order, so he mixes well in both black and white.
Huang Pinyuan interpreted this iron-blooded but chivalrous gangster boss into three points.
With the role of Ah Xiong, he was successfully nominated for the Best Actor Award for Drama Program at the 47th Taiwan Television Golden Bell Awards, which is the highest award in his current acting career and the best proof of his cross-border success as a singer.
"I'm not the male lead"
Although the career of host and actor is in full swing, Huang Pinyuan has never forgotten his original intention, he always believes: "Hosting the show is an extension of my work as a singer, but I will not forget the book, music will always be my favorite." ”
Huang Pinyuan's debut album was called "Voice of a Supporting Actor".
He told the fans at the publicity concert: "I am not the male protagonist, because I am not like the male protagonist." I don't have the deep eyes of the male protagonist, no gritty chin, no vicissitudes of the story, no love to sing and cry. ”
"But I have my feelings and thoughts, and I want to sing my own songs to you, I'm not the male protagonist." I'm just a hard working supporting actor. ”
Later, he became the male lead in many film and television works, and was also nominated for the Golden Horse Award.
He proved with facts that a person who does not have the appearance of the protagonist and has some inferiority in personality can also successfully make himself a male protagonist with the courage and talent of not accepting defeat.
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