February 14, today is the day, we have to talk about love.
Where did your love enlightenment, or initial impression of love, come from?
I'm ashamed to say that when I watched the movies when I was a child, I never remembered my name.
Until I grew up, I once saw Du Qifeng's "Lonely Man and Widow".
In it, the male protagonist played by Andy Lau once encountered a motorcycle racing party family head-on.
Andy Lau collapsed and complained to them: "So handsome, so cool, isn't it!" Acting [Heavenly Love]! You've all been soaked up! ”
[Lonely Man and Widow] Constantly Pay tribute [Heavenly Love]
Then Ah looked over the stills of "Heavenly Love". Ah, isn't this my childhood memories, my love enlightenment?
Released in 1990. Andy Lau is 29 years old, Wu Qianlian is 22 years old.
[Heavenly Love] has been one of the most classic Hong Kong romance films so far.
More than 60,000 people on Douban scored 8.3 points
Just by looking at Andy Lau's self-complaining about himself in [lonely men and widows], you know how many people have followed suit in its classic bridge section.
The film constructs many people's first impressions of love: a man riding a motorcycle and a girl in a wedding dress in the back seat.
Locomotives roar, the ends of the earth. Blood dripped on the white wedding dress.
What kind of love is there without life and death dependence and deep affection?
01
Who can not love the prodigal son on the street?
Especially this prodigal son kidnapped you and was gentle with you.
In the first act of [Heavenly Love], the prodigal son Hua Di is handsome and fried!
In the dark and quiet streets, under the blue street lights, when no one was seen, the roar of the locomotive had sounded.
Dressed in a blue jeans, the words "Extremely evil" were written on the red helmet.
Hua Di, who has a resolute and cold expression, is the first close-up of this film.
He's a part of the Street Biker Party!
Later, in a semi-underground drag racing venue, Hua Di received a task that he was reluctant to do but had to do.
Respond to a jewelry robbery.
Hua Di's boss is called Brother Seven. In the same community, they have a relationship with someone who doesn't deal with, called the horn.
On the orders of the seventh brother, Hua Di agreed to be the driver of the horn.
It was also during this operation that he met the heroine jojo.
A very typical "Stockholm" encounter.
In order to lure away the police, Hua Di drove away alone, and at the end of the road, he grabbed a young sister as a hostage among the passers-by on the street.
This grasp has "turned" Wu Qianlian's innocent jojo astray.
At what moment did the flower of love bloom in the girl's heart?
It may be that when he was discovered by the horn and others, and prepared to extinguish his mouth, Hua Di's tough and firm attitude:
"She was brought by me! Something I'll carry! ”
It may also be that the girl stumbled and escaped unsuccessfully, and was thrown down in the grass by Hua Di.
Instead of violence, ridicule and insult, an unexpected blue denim was draped over bare shoulders.
There is also a rather gentle and patient care: "There is no car called here, I will send you back." ”
The gentleness of the prodigal son from the mob, which girl can resist it?
Not to mention jojo, a rich lady who grew up in a rich environment, she is pure and bright.
So those danger factors that breed in the dark night are more attractive to her in another way.
Later encounters took for granted.
Because Jojo had items left at the scene, he was asked by the police to go to the police station to identify the suspect.
Unexpectedly, this seemingly simple and kind girl lied for the first time in front of people, she shook her head, and Hua Di's gang was all released.
Out of the police station, when the horn is about to kidnap jojo again, Hua Di grabs the man and takes jojo back to his home.
This paragraph is really a subtle surge of lust.
In such a small space indoors, dark red neon lights from outside the window hit the faces of men and women.
Wu Qianlian's jojo made a request (calling home) quietly and stubbornly, and when she looked up for a few seconds, Hua Di would quickly lower her head slightly.
The female voice upstairs groaned intermittently.
Andy Lau drank drinks, lit cigarettes, crossed his legs on the sofa, and showed a little laughter in a cool way.
Jojo, on the other hand, hid in the bathroom in shame.
Later, he was stabbed to protect her. He also took her away from her to see his own racing life.
Jojo was not scared away, she climbed on the roof of the car and handed over her life and trust to Hua Di.
At the end of the drag racing game, I was so frightened that I curled up on the roof of the car, and it was just a cry that was not a complaint: "Today is my birthday to find you!" ”
Jojo is such a flower of high ridges, but she can quickly melt into the "silt".
Take off his long skirt, change into jeans, and go in and out of the streets to really participate in his life.
No fear, no evasion, no harshness.
When he was injured, he was given a bowl of hot chicken soup; when he fled to Macau, he pursued all the way to Macau.
Their love begins with meanness. Ends with a bang.
02
The essence of love is uninhibited, imaginative and exciting.
[Heavenly Love] is so classic, precisely because it satisfies our ultimate expectations and imaginations of romantic love.
Of course, the classics of the two characters in this film cannot be ignored.
When she starred in this film, Andy Lau was 29 years old and Wu Qianlian was 22 years old. Is the true invincibility of youth!
This film is wu Qianlian's debut work, when she was in her sophomore year.
Compared with the actresses from the "Hong Kong Sister", Wu Qianlian may not be so beautiful at first sight.
But her temperament is too unique, both the girl's rotten innocence, and a strand of stubbornness and momentum.
Her jojo became the ideal of a girl, a truly gentle and powerful person.
Andy Lau's prodigal son on the street is even more of a hormone body walking on the screen.
Come to think of it, it is the locomotive that has achieved this classic image of the prodigal son of Hong Kong films.
From the beginning of the appearance of the image of the locomotive party Gu Confused Boy, his dangerous and mysterious temperament has attracted people to explore.
Locomotives are his way of life.
They are the ants at the bottom, living on the streets, riding roads in swarms, hunting for food.
Vintage motorcycles roar, leather jackets, jeans, sunglasses, all of which are their badges.
These people are associated with gangs, drugs, crime, and on the surface they are at ease, but in fact they live a life of desperation with no way out.
The locomotive is also a witness to the heating up of this strange love again and again.
The first time, kidnapped and treated gently at the crime scene, he took her home.
Behind him, a vehicle destroyed by a fire exploded, and the flames soared into the sky. In front of him, there are broad shoulders, and men who can be relied on.
Beyond's song rang out: "Lonely wandering / What will happen tomorrow / How much my helplessness is ahead ..."
The second time, after the dangerous drag racing game ends, the opponent's car explodes.
The two hugged each other tightly in the sky, brilliant and brilliant, but also fleeting.
And most classicly, before the end of the movie, Gu Qiuzi gets the tragic ending he is destined for.
On the verge of death, he once again took away jojo, who was about to study abroad, with a motorcycle.
Breaking the window of the wedding dress shop, the two went to a church and had a short but wonderful ceremony.
Hua Di was bleeding from the nose and riding a motorcycle carrying Wu Qianlian, who was wearing a wedding dress.
Nosebleeds dripped onto the white wedding dress, hinting at the last tender time.
Sadness! Grief! This is a farewell and a confession.
Andy Lau's romantic, amorous and frivolous and dangerous prodigal son image has also been sublimated to the extreme in this scene.
I wish the locomotive could take them away from fate, but ah...
If the sky is affectionate, it is also old. Unfortunately, the laws of nature cannot empathize after all.
03
The prodigal son of the street is destined to belong to the street.
Ah Kan will always remember Wu Qianlian running in the midnight street with her wedding dress and shoes.
She could no longer find her lover.
Like [the Titanic], it was this tragic ending that made this typical romantic love.
It transcends class (rich women and poor boys), does not involve material things, and even sexual desire appears hazy and subtle.
It records the most beautiful occurrence and emotional moments of love, and the moments of thousands of knots and wild horses in the center of love.
And this tragic ending tells us that we must not fall in love with the prodigal son.
As a result, generations of audiences fell in love with Andy Lau's prodigal son through this film.
Andy Lau is like James Dean of [Rebel for No Reason], or Marlon Brando of [Biker Party].
Marlon Brando of [Biker Party].
A uniquely charismatic screen character that has deeply influenced the aesthetics of a generation.
Since then, although he is at the bottom, he is loyal and courageous, and his feelings are like the sea.
Andy Lau's role further influenced the birth of the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" comic. It became the prototype of Chen Haonan's character in the comics.
What's more, after the film was introduced to South Korea that year, it was screened for half a year and caused a sensation throughout Asia.
With this role, Andy Lau has beaten Western artists for three consecutive times to win the "Most Popular Superstar in Korea".
Remembering that Andy Lau entered Douyin a few years ago, he immediately "dominated the screen" for several consecutive days. Within 48 hours of moving in, the number of followers exceeded 40 million.
Short films and small videos that are remade and nostalgic [Heavenly Love] have also appeared in an endless stream for a while
Andy Lau has been red for 40 years, and [Heavenly Love] can definitely be regarded as a starting point for his "national male god".
Andy Lau himself has said that this film is one of his most memorable films.
After all, it was hard for him to have the opportunity to grow that kind of hair later, and ride a heavy motorcycle to drift in the wind.
However, more than 30 years after its birth, looking at [Heavenly Feelings], there is a sense of retro that is "out of place".
After all, it's an age when all the love festivals have been illuminated, but true pure love is scarce.
On the one hand, there is the love skepticism of not wanting to fall in love and being super afraid of trouble, and on the other hand is the love realism of the door-to-door pair and the 985 blind date bureau.
And all Valentine's Day, in turn, ends in consumer culture.
Love may become less and less important, and it will become faster and faster, mixed with rational calculation and psychological games.
[Heavenly love] such pure love is hot, righteous and life-and-death love.
Together with Hong Kong films from the 1990s, it has long been synonymous with romanticism and idealism.
But Ah Kan felt that he should look at it today.
Just like the lyrics of "Dreamcatcher" in the movie: "Youth does not regret not die!" ”
Go love, go on adventure! Hopefully, we will always have the impulse and courage to love.
I hope that our ordinary life can one day achieve a transcendence because of love.