The audience of each era has a unique movie-watching memory that belongs to their time.
Even though many years have passed and the audience has forgotten the specific content of the movie, the classic music in the film can always evoke the audience's memories of a certain movie and a certain era.
For example, "If the Wine Sells Nothing" sung by Su Rui, whenever they hear this song, many people will think of the touching clips of the classic movie "Hitchhiking" in the 80s.
The movie "Hitchhiking" tells the touching story of the retired veteran dumb uncle raising the abandoned baby Ami alone, and the sincere portrayal of simple emotions such as family, love, and friendship in the film has aroused the emotional resonance of countless audiences.
At that time, the influence of "Hitchhiking" was unprecedented, not only the box office soared, but also the interludes in the movie "Please Follow Me", "Whether", "If the Wine Is Sold Without" also exploded, and were widely sung in the streets and alleys.
Later, the story of "Hitchhiking" was adapted into other different versions, which were broadcast in turn on various David TV and recognized and loved by a new generation of TV viewers.
01, Huang Baiming personally participated, and wrote the script in two nights
In the process of "Hitchhiking" from the script planning to the release of the film, its production company New Art City Pictures can be described as a bloody blood, and Huang Baiming, one of the three giants of the company, also personally participated in the script creation of this film, which can be said to be quite important.
It was 1983, just after the establishment of New Art City Pictures, in order to open up the film market in Taiwan, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and others decided to prepare a film about the life story of Taiwanese people.
In order to smoothly open the Taiwan market for new films, Huang Baiming has traveled to Taiwan many times to collect materials, find creative inspiration, and organize and contact the behind-the-scenes team of Taiwanese films.
The whole preparation process was quite smooth, especially in the script planning stage, Huang Baiming, who has always pursued high efficiency, only spent one night to determine the plot of the first half of the film with the director of the film, Yu Jieping.
Then because of the company's business, Huang Baiming returned to Hong Kong early the next morning to deal with things, and in Hong Kong, Huang Baiming spent another night to complete the second half of the script.
In this way, the script of "Hitchhiking" took only two days to be determined, and Huang Baiming's high work efficiency spread throughout the Hong Kong film circle for a time and became a good story in the film industry.
As the first shot of New Art City Pictures to enter the Taiwan film market, "Hitch a Ride" was pinned on high hopes, and Huang Baiming and others could be said to have done their best to catch up with almost all the company's wealth, and the behind-the-scenes production team of the whole movie was quite luxurious.
For example, Mai Jia, as another big man in new art city, won the Academy Award for Best Actor in that year and was one of the producers of this film.
In addition to Huang Baiming, the screenwriting team also invited Taiwanese screenwriters to join, so as to better grasp the local life characteristics of Taiwan.
In addition, Luo Dayou, Li Shouquan, Liang Hongzhi and other hall-level figures in taiwan's music industry were also invited to escort the production of the film's theme song, and Xu Ke, Du Kefeng and others were also hired as directors of photography.
Such a top-level staffing, even now, is definitely a commercial blockbuster "king fried" lineup.
The combination of the top team laid the foundation for the success of the film "Hitchhiking", which was re-screened 8 times in five months in Taiwan and released for three consecutive months in the mainland, almost full of venues, winning unanimous praise from the audience and the industry.
02. Movie music swept across the taiwan strait and three places and became a classic of the times
In addition to the film, the songs in the film also became popular at the time, the most famous of which was undoubtedly "If the Wine Sells Nothing" sung by Su Rui, a song that was tailored to the film by Luo Dayou according to the storyline of the film.
"If the wine is dry and sells nothing" is a Minnan language, which means "do you have wine bottles to sell", which is a sentence often shouted by people who collect waste products in Taiwan and Fujian, which refers to the work of the male protagonist's dumb uncle to pick up rags for a living.
"It was you who raised me and said the first thing you said with me, it was you who gave me a home and let me share it with you..."
The whole lyrics are actually the perfect abbreviation of the story between Dumb Uncle and Ami in the film, and each lyric in the song has a strong emotion flowing between the lines, interpreting the strong family affection between fathers and children.
Su Rui's high-pitched and vicissitudes voice, the emotion of the song is warm and just right, right in the audience's tears, making people cry.
With the release of the film, "If the Wine Is Sold Without" has been popular from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the mainland, and has also appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, becoming a classic that everyone knows in that era.
Moreover, this song has also led to the transformation of the entire Chinese music scene, and is regarded as a watershed between campus folk songs and popular music, and its significance has long exceeded that of the film itself.
It has touched countless Chinese people and become one of the most representative classical music works of the 1980s.
03, Li Liqun settled in Shanghai, the male protagonist has passed away
While the movie "Hitchhiking" is popular, it also brings fire to a number of powerful actors such as Sun Yue and Li Liqun in the movie.
Li Liqun played two roles in "Hitchhiker", playing the two roles of Ah Man and Ah Man's son respectively, although the two roles did not play much in the film, but his performance left a deep impression.
For example, he played Aman, speaking an authentic Shandong dialect, very simple and grounded, during the shooting, the director was once worried that Li Liqun could not get Aman, a Shandong big man, did not expect that Li Liqun after a few days of study, speaking Shandong dialect is very natural and fluent, this role is quite brilliant.
It turned out that although Li Liqun lived in Taiwan, his parents were both from Henan, and his parents often communicated in Henan dialect at home.
Moreover, the pronunciation of Henan dialect and Shandong dialect is very similar, so it is not difficult for Li Liqun, who has been accustomed to Listening to Henan dialect since childhood, it is not difficult to learn To speak Shandong dialect.
Today, Li Liqun has returned to the mainland to settle in Shanghai, and he still maintains a young mentality when he is over the age of huajia, often using social software to communicate with the audience and share his daily life.
Another old Taiwanese actor Sun Yue played the dumb uncle of a veteran veteran in "Hitchhiker", and Sun Yue's acting skills for many years have long been honed very skillfully, and he has pinched the simple kindness and humble warmth of the dumb uncle just right, and also earned enough tears from the audience.
Sun Yue's role as a dumb uncle also deeply shocked the audience, winning industry recognition, and he won the honor of best actor for the first time in his fifties.
After the popularity climbed, Hong Kong filmmakers found him, and then took over the filming of "Dragon and Tiger Storm" and Hong Jinbao's "Dragon Drama Phoenix".
In the 1990s, Sun Yue deliberately reduced his workload, gradually faded out of the show business circle, and put more energy into Taiwan's public welfare undertakings.
Until the eve of his death in 2018, Sun Yue still insisted on doing public welfare and was also known as "Taiwan's lifelong volunteer".
Time flies, the years are like shuttles, revisiting the movie "Hitchhiker" is still touching, as if the story and characters in the film have become more and more shiny after the baptism of the years.
Engraving memories and retaining emotions may be the charm of movies. (Author: Pippi Shrimp)