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Recently, Director Chen Musheng's posthumous work "The Case of Anger" was released. Fist-to-flesh fight scenes and classic Hong Kong-style police stories make people shout "Hong Kong films are finally back!" ”
Some people say that Chen Musheng used his last energy to defend the glory of Hong Kong films.
The mid-to-late last century was the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, shaping many classics. "Police Story", "Ghost of Qiannu", "Chongqing Forest", "Hero's True Colors", "Happy Ghost"... In those days, there were countless better "fury cases."
In the past two decades, Hong Kong films have gradually declined in the midst of people's sighs. And also no longer brilliant, there are Hong Kong dramas, Hong Kong music, Hong Kong stars...
When people are lamenting that Hong Kong films are dead and Hong Kong music is no more, the "Taste of Hong Kong" in that year has become more and more faded.
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What is Hong Kong Flavor? It was a scene of Hong Kong depicted at the time of hong Kong's popular culture, forming a taste of Hong Kong. Before setting foot in that city, people slowly piled up the impression of Hong Kong.
People see that a bustling and fashionable metropolis has the most marketable and most relevant side. Plain and simple food can always make people fall into warmth in a moment. People who grew up listening to Cantonese songs say that it sings out for each stage of their own. And the stars who come out of Hong Kong films always have a hard work and a unique style.
People miss the taste of Hong Kong, not only the brilliant Hong Kong pop culture of that year, depicting such a pearl of the Orient that people have a beautiful imagination and yearning for, but more importantly, they miss the memories of the past that were filled with Hong Kong flavor.
It is no wonder that people remember and look back.
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Because of Hong Kong films, people have the first memory of what Hong Kong looked like. Hong Kong, which is both a shopping paradise and a bustling metropolis full of elite sense, as soon as you turn around, you will feel the most fireworks in Hong Kong. Such a Hong Kong is vividly displayed on the screen.
Most of people's imagination of Mong Kok comes from Wong Kar-wai's movie "Carmen of Mong Kok". This place from morning to evening, with the label of authentic Hong Kong style, is always crowded. In the movie, this has always been a land of mixed fish and dragons. The played by Andy Lau, every day with the unformed little brother black fly in Mong Kok to fight and kill, sword and light sword shadow, and finally died for his brother without hesitation.
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Coming to Temple Street, there is no Mong Kok jianghu grudge and happy love vendetta, only the most ordinary and most fireworks of the night. At night, small stalls and vendors fill the entire temple street, crowded and crowded.
In the movie "New Love", Ajay's music career has been depressed, and later he met the Amin family who sold songs in Temple Street. Amin's family are very talented people who are not favored by good luck. They also do not have any complaints and self-pity, but they are optimistic and positive, and they work hard to sing, and they cannot sing on the big stage and sing to the neighbors on Temple Street, and there is another kind of happiness. As Amin said, "If the worst in life is only death, how can there be difficulties in life that cannot be faced?" ”
Temple Street has the most ordinary and marketable side of Hong Kong, where ordinary people work hard to make a living, and ordinary people come here to find the warmth that fills the gaps in the tired life.
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In the distance, the sound of ferries came from Victoria Harbour. There are many tall buildings and bright lights. The fireworks of the city dissipated little by little under the blowing of the sea breeze, and we saw the most prosperous and fashionable Pearl of the Orient.
Prosperity and the city, rivers and lakes and warmth, people see such a Hong Kong on the screen. In the red dust, this Hong Kong flavor remains in people's memories and is always clear.
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When people leave a taste of Hong Kong on the screen, inadvertently, they also leave behind the melodies of the Cantonese theme songs. Whenever I hear it, I will think of the memories of listening to Hong Kong music at various stages, as if the sentence, "I have seen it in my dreams, and my heart is full of waves." ”
This is the theme song of the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Archery Hero", "Iron Blood Dan Heart". Jin Yong's jianghu children, with extraordinary skills, wander the world, have a dashing life of wanton and happy life. When we were young, we also fantasized about what kind of hero we would become when we grew up, guo jing? Huang Yaoshi? Or Zhou Botong. After so many years, people who are constantly spinning and busy in their lives have finally understood that the jianghu, chivalry, and martial arts are nothing more than a luxury fantasy.
That martial arts jianghu has gradually drifted away in the heart, but every time I hear the "dilemma of grace and righteousness in "Iron Blood Dan Heart", the martial arts dream of childhood is still surging with blood.
People in that era could not escape the martial arts Hong Kong music, nor could they escape the affectionate Hong Kong music.
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To this day, I hear Lu Guanting sing "Bitter Sea, Turn Up Love and Hate." In the world, it is difficult to escape fate. Many people remembered the tears that Zixia had left for the Supreme Treasure.
Zixia's love for the Supreme Treasure is intense, sincere, and reckless. Her eyes were full of stars, and she said, "One day, my crush will step on the colorful clouds to marry me." "It's just that her crush doesn't love her. This woman who put out the fire for the love of moths finally died for the supreme treasure, and she cried and said, "It is painful to love someone." ”
At that time, the people who watched "Journey to the West" gradually accepted it in their growth, and love had many regrets, but they thought that the next time, when love came, they still had to choose to fight for themselves.
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There is a lyric in "Years Like Songs": "When things are not perfect in the world, you can find you in the song of years." "Starting from Hui Guanjie, the Hong Kong music scene began to sow the seeds of this Cantonese song, and then Tam Wing Lin and Cheung Kwok Wing in the 80s, to beyond in the 90s, the Four Heavenly Kings... Hong Kong music is a kind of companionship and a kind of heart voice, which has been sung into people's memories of the years.
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Among the Hong Kong works, there is also a Hong Kong flavor, which is more common and very humane, that is, the tea restaurant.
The humble environment, the old tables and chairs, and even the cramped space, there are all kinds of delicacies, smooth taste of silk stocking milk tea, slightly charred toast, hot and juicy pork chop rice... Hong Kong people can almost solve three meals a day here.
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Hong Kong people live fast and eat fast. Sit down in the tea restaurant for 1 minute to order, 3 minutes to serve, 5 minutes to finish eating and leave, hurry back to work. When you become a regular customer of a tea restaurant, the tea restaurant for many people, as Ma Jiahui said, "This is not your home, but sometimes it makes you feel warmer than home." ”
In "A Dragon of Luck", the tea restaurant owner played by Wu Mengda can remember the preferences of each acquaintance, as long as he says a "routine card", the boss will understand. He said that when we do neighborhood business, it is most important to remember the taste of each neighborhood, otherwise how to compete with those fast food restaurants.
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In the lens of Hong Kong works, the tea restaurant is a very humane place, and it is also a witness to various human feelings and events.
In "Seventy-Two Tenants", Jacky Cheung and Yuan Yongyi are in the tea restaurant, eating wonton noodles and recalling the past of their youth. In "Fancy Years", Liang Chaowei and Maggie Cheung quietly cut the beef steak, ambiguously flowing. In "Ancient Puzzle Boy", the members of the society negotiate in the tea restaurant, and before the dishes are served, they rush out to fight.
Many people have heard the sentence in the Hong Kong drama: "Are you hungry?" Do you want to cook bowl noodles for you to eat. "Perhaps, the moment of sensing warmth or parting, all that is needed is a simple meal, just like the food in the tea restaurant that solves three meals a day.
The most irreplaceable thing in the memory of Hong Kong flavor is the group of Hong Kong stars who were absolutely beautiful in that year.
Lin Qingxia struck a red dress in "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", heroic and compelling; the charming Zhong Chuhong was bright and moving in "Across the Sea". The Gu Tianle version of Yang Guo, whose face is like a crown jade and whose eyes are like Lang Xing, has become the white moonlight in the hearts of many people; Xie Tingfeng in the new movie combs up his seaweed head, wears a toad mirror, and plays the butterfly knife in his hand handsome and charming.
This style lies not only in their good-looking skin bags, but also in the grassroots spirit of hard work and hard work in them.
Hong Kong artists of that era, after strict selection and training, most of them had to start from running dragon sets and supporting roles after signing, and slowly accumulated experience. Andy Lau, Liang Chaowei, Zhou Xingchi, Jackie Chan, etc. are all from supporting roles. What they show is not how to be a big shining star, but how to work diligently. Just like Yin Tianqiu, who runs the dragon set for many years in "The King of Comedy", shouts at the sea: "Work hard! struggle! ”
Some time ago, in the live broadcast of the 40th anniversary of and the debut of Andy Lau, he said that it is not to celebrate a person's 40 years of popularity, but to celebrate a person, who has worked seriously for 40 years. In his 40-year career as an artist, Andy Lau is known for his dedication, and he feels that he lacks talent and can only make up for it with diligence.
Jackie Chan grew up in Wuxing, never used a stand-in to shoot martial arts films, and really wrestled all the way to become a kung fu superstar. Affectionately known as the "Daughter of Hong Kong", Mui Yanfang has been selling on the streets since she was a child, and later performed on stage, participated in competitions, and gradually turned from a small person into a big star.
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The taste of Hong Kong stars is the spirit that small people can also have big dreams and work hard with their hearts.
Nowadays, many of those old Hong Kong stars are still active in our sights. When we lament that they are "not old", we also sigh on the one hand, can there be any successors?
People in that era, under the popular culture of Hong Kong, formed a special taste of Hong Kong little by little, and peeked into the Pearl of the Orient little by little, and also let the "taste of Hong Kong" remain in the memory of many people's times.
Today, Hong Kong's pop culture is no longer what it used to be, the works are not as brilliant as before, and the Taste of Hong Kong has disappeared little by little, making people feel lonely.
Some people say that we can still use those works of that year to linger and reminisce. However, blindly living in the past and lying on the beauty of the old times is actually a kind of demise.
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A new generation of Hong Kong directors, Wong Kei Lin, once said during the filming of "Golden Capital" that people's memories of "Hong Kong flavor" are still frozen in a previous era. In her opinion, "the genre Hong Kong films of the past have become farther and farther away from the lives of ordinary people." ”
Du Qifeng also said that as long as they are willing to think, in the limited remaining space, creators can still make their own works of expression.
The past and future of "Hong Kong flavor" cannot be easily skimmed over in one sentence.
Is the taste of Hong Kong really gone?
In fact, you don't have to be so pessimistic. The wheels of the times are rolling forward, and perhaps, we can also look forward to the future under the leadership of the younger generation of Hong Kong people, and the future will be a new Hong Kong flavor and memory.
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