In 1984, Mei Yanfang was 21 years old and Zhang Guorong was 28 years old.
Two years ago, the two just met. Because of fate, the two entered the same record company, and the same agent, Chen Shufen, took care of all the appointments between the two of them.
"Fate" is the third of the 46 films that Mei Yanfang has participated in in her lifetime, and the first film to cooperate with Zhang Guorong.
Previously, she also cooperated with Liang Chaowei, Zhong Zhentao, and Xu Guanwen, but there was no spark until she met Zhang Guorong in "Fate".
There is a classic line in the movie, Zhang Guorong said——
"One word of fate we came together, one word of completion wants us to separate..."
In Cantonese, the pronunciation of this "end" word and the word "yuan" is the same, and this line is intriguing and meaningful.
And the theme song "Fate" sung by the two in the movie has already predicted their future -
"How far apart you and I are, what year and day we can see each other, the situation will change..."
Mei Yanfang looked at Maggie Cheung's hair and Zhang Guorong's hand
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" >, the storyline foreshadows the future emotional direction of Mei Yanfang and Zhang Guorong</h1>
"Fate" tells the story of Paul (played by Zhang Guorong), who has just graduated from college, and meets the beautiful and moving Monica (played by Maggie Cheung) and the rich girl Annie (played by Mui Yanfang) in the subway.
Then, the three of them came to a romantic youth love story.
The story is very interesting, Mui Yanfang and Zhang Guorong's role in the movie, it seems to foreshadow their future interactions and a series of emotional complex relationships.
Since then, both of them have become famous and magnificent.
Mei Yanfang, Zhang Guorong
Later, Zhang Guorong once wrote and directed the public welfare film "Smoke And Smoke", witnessing his pure friendship with Mei Yanfang. There is also the "Rouge Buckle" that the two collaborated on, which has become the masterpiece of a generation.
And endless life sighs.
At the beginning of the movie "Fate", in a newly opened subway, the young Paul Chen fell in love with Monica in the same car at first sight, but unfortunately was tricked by another passenger, Annie.
And this Anne, who also likes Paul, just because of her inferiority, does not dare to say it.
Subsequently, the young people quickly scattered in the vast sea of people, the new Ding Chen Paul began to work for the work, Monica was restless to sort out an old relationship with her boss.
One day, Paul and Monica meet again, and the rich lady Anne reappears, half teasing and half teasingly wrapped around Paul.
Monica finds a new job and is harassed by a lustful new leader, while Paul formally pursues Monica with Annie's secret help, fighting against the latter's lustful boss.
Monica considers accepting Paul's affection but finally backs down, claiming to have entrusted their love to a game of fate in the subway.
As a result, in the midst of the disorganized crowd, Paul and Annie go on a search for the vanished Monica.
Why did Paul and Anne go to find Monica together, because Anne finally figured it out, instead of tangling with love and non-love, love and not love, it is better to open the knot in her heart-
Let go and love, help the person you love, and find the person he loves.
As long as he is happy, isn't he happy himself, and shouldn't love be like this? Why do you have to be exclusive?
Zhang Guorong, Maggie Cheung
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > second, director Huang Tailai, is Liu Meijun's ex-husband, Qiu Litao's former colleague</h1>
Director Hao Tailai, a man in the 50s, is a man with a lot of stories, he is not only Liu Meijun's ex-husband, but also Qiu Litao's former colleague.
He directed the films "My Days in the Underworld", "Ghost Bride", "Sword Laugh", "Jianghu Love", "Fa Inner Affair" and so on. All have been sensational, and word of mouth has exploded.
Haotailai, Liu Meijun
And his director's "Fate" even sent Mui Yanfang to the podium of the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress.
Many excellent works starring Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau, Zhang Guorong, Maggie Cheung and others are also directed by him.
His last work was the 2010 Ip Man Prequel.
Chen Jiashang
Screenwriter Chen Jiashang, who is exactly 10 years younger than Haotailai, is more famous than him.
When Chen Jiashang wrote this movie, he set it as a romantic comedy, and he had long thought that it would be played by Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang.
And Maggie Cheung was originally just an episode.
Maggie Cheung, Guorong Cheung
Later, Chen Jiashang began to work as a director, and also teamed up with Zheng Danrui and others to make a tongren film company, specializing in sketch-style comedies. For example, "Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan", "Little Man Zhou Ji" and its sequel "Wrong in Shinjuku" and so on.
They are all similar to "Fate", showing the life of office workers, and are well received by urban white-collar workers.
Later, he also made Hong Kong's highest-grossing film "Truant Weilong". It has become the best work of the action comedy route, and it has become popular with Zhou Xingchi.
He skillfully combines campus farce with common police and bandit themes, and various funny bridges emerge in an endless stream, bringing zhou Xingchi's "nonsense" performance to the fullest.
In addition, he also cooperated with Andy Lau, another good friend of Mei Yanfang, on "True and False Weilong" and "Ambition in Heaven and Earth", and with Jet Li on "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" and "Jingwu Hero".
As well as working with Jackie Chan on "Thunderbolt Fire".
He has a classic quote -
"It's not 'what do you like I shoot for you', but 'what I shoot for you', when there was no urban white-collar comedy in the market, I wrote 'Fate', and when there was no social decompression comedy I made 'Truant Veyron'."
By the way, his student is lin chaoxian, who is now famous.
Chen Musheng
There is another one, unfortunately, who has passed away, called Chen Musheng. His posthumous work "Fury: Serious Cases" is currently airing, starring Nicholas Tse, who has not acted in movies for a long time.
Everyone must go to the scene when you have time, and it is really beautiful.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > three, the role chose 3 newcomers, Mei Yanfang, Zhang Guorong, Maggie Cheung</h1>
At the time of this film, Maggie Cheung was only 20 years old and had just won Miss Hong Kong.
Zhang Guorong is just a singer, 7 years later to shoot "Ah Fei Zheng Biography", 10 years later to shoot "Overlord Farewell".
And Mei Yanfang is only 21 years old, and she has just emerged on the road of singers and is eager to try.
This film is also the only movie co-starring Zhang Guorong, Maggie Cheung and Mui Yanfang.
The youthful atmosphere of the 3 people overflowed on the big screen and poured out to the audience. One by one, dashing and romantic, heroic and compelling, one look at each other, all of which are green and sweet tastes.
Especially after watching Zhang Guorong's performance, you know that some people are born to be actors, and in this absurd dog-blood love drama, they can't even fault him.
And the fledgling Maggie Cheung, has no acting skills, but just by her true color performance, it is not annoying at all, on the contrary, looking at it, she also likes her.
It's inexplicable.
At this time, Zhang Guorong was not as popular as later, and the original male protagonist of the movie was not him. As a result, screenwriter Chen Jiashang and a group of young people strongly recommended Zhang Guorong to star.
They even launched a public vote on the streets to do so.
As a result, Zhang Guorong voted for the first place. So, success is really not accidental.
It was precisely because of Chen Jiashang's action that the top level of the Shaw clan decided to use Zhang Guorong to "Bo once". There is also the "fate" of Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang.
Since then, the two have never been separated.
Years later, Chen Jiashang said-
"That Bo was a great success and meant a lot to me, it was my first collaboration with my brother."
Later, he and Zhang Guorong became a partnership, and he and Mei Yanfang often talked about the script together, thinking about how to shoot tomorrow's play.
"How to act in each scene, when this movie became my brother's first biggest selling film in Hong Kong, I was very happy, and then we became very good friends." 」
Zhang Guorong, Chen Jiashang, Liang Jiahui
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > inscription</h1>
20 years later, unfortunately, in the same year, Zhang Guorong committed suicide and Mei Yanfang died of illness.
After another 16 years, in 2016, the 60th anniversary of Zhang Guorong's birth, the mainland re-"re-screening", the theater is also specially equipped with Chinese dubbing, Cantonese soundtrack synchronous distribution.
It is said that because Paul, played by Zhang Guorong, dares to pursue his own love, Anita, played by Mei Yanfang, is simple and sincere and willing to sacrifice for love.
Not only the post-80s response was strong, but also deeply touched the post-90s and post-00s audiences.
Some media even said that "Fate" not only reflects an attitude of daring to pursue sincere love that is generally lacking in society, but also exists as a sign of the youth of a generation .
Seeing it, you will recall the innocence of yourself and love.
If you haven't seen it, you can search online now, find a quiet rainy night, nest in the bed, and watch it quietly.
It will definitely make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you scream, good-looking, enjoyable, love, so beautiful.