I will go against the wind, no matter how hard it is, but I will lift my heart with the sound of the drums. Go against the wind with a smile, fly a trip, and I am young and I do not follow the rhyme. I will go against the wind, and I must be stoic, and I must understand that a person's life must go through darkness. Determined to go against the wind, fly a trip, the drums guide my future.
"Drummer" was the first movie I saw starring Zhang Guorong, I remember that it was a primary school charter, and the movie had begun when I entered the scene after playing with the same table, and I didn't even know that the handsome and sunny middle school student who liked to play drums on the silver screen was Zhang Guorong.
At that time, the most impressive thing after watching "The Drummer" was not Zhang Guorong, but the mentally ill old man in Qingshan Hospital who could beat the drum to one-thirty-two beats, knocking out a full screen of residual shadows, as if the existence of the sweeping monk in "Tianlong Babu" existed. For a long time after watching it, the boys liked to compete in the after-school competition who knocked on the desk faster.
At that time, the biggest gain after watching the film was not to know Zhang Guorong, but to know that the original Hong Kong Tsing Shan Hospital was a mental hospital, and then the classmates joked or quarreled, and there was one more sentence "You are run out of Tsing Shan Hospital", which is obviously much more advanced than directly scolding people for neuropathy.
"Drummer" is an inspirational film, released in Hong Kong in 1983, because the film is too old, searched online for a long time, and has not been able to find high-definition resources. At that time, Zhang Guorong was 27 years old, but playing an 18-year-old middle school student, there was no sense of violation, which was really amazing.
The heroine is Zhou Xiulan, who is 6 years younger than Zhang Guorong, and the last youth film "Lemon Coke" starring her and Zhang Guorong had a good response, so in this one, she and Zhang Guorong still formed CP. Remember that she played Chu Yanhan in "Demon Land Taoyuan", and Murong Bai, played by the villain Wu Qihua, was a pair, and after Murong Bai killed Fu Qingyun, played by Andy Lau, she designed to trap herself and Wu Qihua in the cave forever, so as not to prevent Murong Bai from going out and continuing to harm people.
The storyline of "The Drummer" is not complicated, TOMMY is a middle school student who loves to play drums, lives with his father, grandfather, and brother, and the first thing he does every morning is to play drums. His love of drumming has gone so far as to strike, not only wherever he goes, but even when he takes a class exam, he can't help but use his pen to knock it out.
TOMMY likes to play drums, not to be famous or to make money, but to feel that the drums can best show the momentum of young people, and it is precisely because of this shining point on him that the old drum king Kabio will agree to accept him as an apprentice. Although he was talented, he worked harder, practicing the basics hard, even eating with his left hand, practicing drums in the heavy rain, and practicing until his wrists hurt.
The biggest setback and failure of his youth was to lose to Dani, the niece of the old drum king, when he took the youth orchestra. Even if his father smashed his drums in anger, he was never so depressed. That frustration is like the feeling of being thrown away from someone far away during a long run, and no matter how you chase, you can't catch up. Even after he was disqualified as an amateur drummer when he knew that Dany was a professional drummer, he still chose to give up joining the group because his heart was too big and his goal was too high.
This kind of mood I can understand, before just learned to play Go not long ago, encountered an opponent who thought it was impossible to defeat, consecutive battles and losses, that moment really did not want to play Go again, probably for a week did not touch the chess at all, and then figured it out or picked it up again, a summer vacation lost a hundred games in a row, and finally won him before the end of the summer vacation.
The person who made TOMMY reinvigorate was not the master old drum king, nor his girlfriend Yi Ling, nor did he take himself as a typical grandfather who failed, but one thirty-two, a mentally ill old drummer who could not break through one-half of the thirty-two beats in music, and what he did not do when he was awake, he actually got a breakthrough after the madness. At that moment, he realized that in life, we must be good at failure, failure is not terrible, the terrible thing is that you can never stand up again, as long as you keep moving forward, there is always a chance to succeed.
Seeing this, I suddenly felt that the line in "Farewell to the Overlord" "No crazy devil can not live" is really the best interpretation of this paragraph.
In the end, he picked up the drumsticks again, and officially entered the youth orchestra with the saxophone Apaul, in order to support his relatives and friends, for his favorite music, to dedicate a perfect performance of youth.
There is the most beautiful love of youth in the film, and Yi Ling, as tommy's girlfriend, has always fully supported her boyfriend's enthusiasm and faith in music. When TOMMY encountered failure, he actively helped him find a way to do things in action, and encouraged him to cheer up mentally.
There are also the best friendships of youth in the film, there is APAUL's same like-mindedness about music, and there is also the warmth and help from a group of partners when TOMMY encounters setbacks and the drums are smashed by his angry father, saving money to help him buy new drums, and shouting for his ideals and talents together.
There is also the most beautiful affection of youth in the film, no matter when, grandpa will never change the support, brother worship him. There are also fathers who go from opposition to understanding, until they are recognized and applauded.
In the film, through the father as a screenwriter, with a group of young film creators, some discussions on film creation were conducted, such as whether to have a high style or a high box office, whether to be functional stimulation or emotional conflict, whether to have the smoothness and structure of the film, or the gimmick and packaging of the film, whether art has divorced the film... Give this movie a little more thought.
Finally, I have to mention the three youth inspirational theme songs of this film, "Silent Upstream", "Drummer of Life", and "I Want to Go Against the Wind", all of which are included in Zhang Guorong's "The Wind Continues to Blow" album, all composed by Gu Jiahui, Zheng Guojiang filled in the words, it is said that in order to ask Zheng Guojiang to fill in the words, Zhang Guorong did not hesitate to pay for subsidies in addition to the company's expenditure, which can also be seen from This can also see Zhang Guorong's high requirements and high standards for art.
In addition, Paul Chung, who plays APAUL in this film, committed suicide at the age of 30 in an apartment in Sha Tin First City, Hong Kong, as early as September 1, 1989. It is rumored that it was because of gambling debts and inability to repay them. In a film, there are two stars whose last fate is to choose to commit suicide by falling from a building, and they also choose the first day of that month, which is really sad to think.