laitimes
return

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Before watching "Midsummer Future", Uncle Feng found "Midsummer Lightyear" and looked at it again.

I really think it's good.

Why don't you have the amazing feeling of that year?

Fifteen years later, why does this classic youth film, which once influenced a generation of young people, feel so unremarkable?

The times are rolling forward, and we are finally running to the future, rather than always stopping in the middle of summer, in the large areas of Hualien rice fields.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

And this latest "Midsummer Future" is about the lives of young people at present, electronic music, DJs, music festivals, vibrato, and Internet celebrities.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Or maybe, "Midsummer Lightyear" is ordinary, just the clouds of Hualien, floating lightly on me, and the sea of those songs, which is beautiful enough to make people yearn for it.

Fifteen years later, Chen Zhengdao, the director of "Midsummer Lightyear", made "Midsummer Future", which was released on July 30 and was called "a youth film used to save the city".

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

When filming "Midsummer Lightyear", Chen Zhengdao's age was a jealous and surprising 24-year-old.

That year, the male protagonist Zhang Xiaoquan was only 22 years old, but he had a rare sense of maturity. With the role of Yu Shouheng, he was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor (which should have been reported as the protagonist).

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Fifteen years later, in "Midsummer Future", Wu Lei, who plays the male protagonist Zheng Yuxing, is also almost 22 years old.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Coincidentally, the heroine of "Midsummer Lightyear" that year, Zhang Aijia's apprentice Yang Qi, and another male protagonist, Zhang Ruijia, were both 20 years old. Zhang Ruijia won the Golden Horse Award for Best New Actor with the role of Kang Zhengxing.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

And Zhang Zifeng, who played Chen Chen in "Midsummer Future", will also turn 20 next month.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Chen Zhengdao likes to use astronomical names to name his protagonists- the law of conservation, the stars of the universe.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film
"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

"Midsummer Lightyear" has never been officially released in the mainland in the fifteen years since its birth due to copyright, scale, theme and other reasons. Mainland audiences who have seen the film in theaters may be only a handful of film journalists at the 2006 Busan Film Festival.

However, in these fifteen years, "Midsummer Lightyear" has become a representative of Taiwanese youth films, a symbol, and gradually "sealed the gods".

Some scenes in the movie have even become "attractions" for fans to punch in.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

At that time, the film invited Wong Kar-wai's royal stills artist Xia Yongkang to shoot stills and posters, and it is not surprising that this color saturation is so similar to Wong Kar-wai.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

What really connects this film to mainland audiences is the music and songs.

Like many films, the soundtrack and theme song of Midsummer Lightyear were released separately.

The first to be released was the "Midsummer Lightyear Movie Theme Song Concept Album", released in mid-October 2006, with a total of five songs. The album was also the earliest film theme song EP of Believe in Music, which had just been established for two months at the time, and the release was handed over to the Rolling Stones.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

The "Midsummer Lightyear Movie Theme Song Concept Album" has a total of five songs, including the overture of "Midsummer Lightyear" intro back to; the theme song of the same name composed and sung by Ashin, "Midsummer Lightyear" and "Embrace"; the "Summer Lightyear" online theme song "Understand" (later learned to be Ding Dang), which was believed to be a mysterious newcomer at the time, and Liang Jingru's "Innocence".

In "Midsummer Future", Leng Buding appeared in this "Embrace", which is another element associated with "Midsummer Lightyear", and it is used quite cleverly.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Another VCD of "Midsummer Lightyear Movie Theme Song Concept Album" (yes, it was an era when DVDs were not much) also included the MV of "Midsummer Lightyear" and the six-minute film flower, which used the soundtrack of Zhou Zhihao and Yang Shengzheng for the film.

In 2006, it was still difficult for mainland fans to buy the original Taiwanese record online, and this record was not introduced to the mainland. So much so that even super Mayday fans today, few people have collected this soundtrack.

Let's take a look at the current second-hand price of a treasure Ha, now the owner who sells second-hand records, too understand the psychology of fans, you don't buy, ahem, anyway, it has been out of print.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

The price of a certain fish will be cut in half, but it is still ridiculously expensive, but it may be sold soon because it is rare.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

In February 2007, six months after the release of "Midsummer Lightyear" in Taiwan, "Midsummer Lightyear Movie Soundtrack" was late in coming and being released by independent music label Jiaotou Music.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

The record binding of Hornhead Music is very distinctive, and each album has the number of this record in the Horned Head Universe on the upper part. The soundtrack of "Midsummer Lightyear" is numbered TCM040, which is his family's 40th record.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

In fact, Mayday and Horn music are very related, in 1998 Mayday participated in the recording of the first album of Horn Head Music. In 2019, the horned music documentary "Twenty Years I'm Not Popular" came out, which accidentally exposed the youthful appearance of Ashin and monsters when recording the horned music.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Then, Mayday also participated in the recording of a concept album "Hug", the first song of that album, which was "Hug".

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Of course, "Hug" is heard by most people, and it is the second track of the first album "The First Creation Album" after Mayday was hand-picked by Li Zongsheng's big brother to enter the Rolling Stones, and this song has also become a classic in the Mayday classic. "Embrace" is used in the genre of "Midsummer Lightyear" is a perfect fit, and in "Midsummer Future", it is also a kind of metaphor and implication.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

The soundtrack of "Midsummer Lightyear" contains 23 soundtracks from the compositions of two musicians, Zhou Zhihao and Yang Shengzheng. When "Midsummer Lightyear" was about to be released in two weeks, but the soundtrack had not yet been made, Chen Zhengdao went to find two musicians with a trailer, and they spent four days and four nights to finally complete the soundtrack.

Now this "Midsummer Lightyear" soundtrack is a rare thing that has long been out of print and cannot be bought with money.

The only one seen by a certain fish is actually fair for a record of horn music that is worth collecting every time.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

The soundtrack of "Midsummer Lightyear" was not shortlisted for the Golden Horse Awards, but the theme song "Midsummer Lightyear" was shortlisted for the Golden Horse Best Film Original Song.

Who won the original song for the best movie of the year? Oh, the song god Jacky Cheung sang "If. Love".

The song "Midsummer Lightyear" has now become almost the entire memory of this movie, and it has been sung for fifteen years.

In order to evoke everyone's memories of "Summer Lightyear", "Midsummer Future" let the male and female protagonists Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng sing a new version as a promotional song.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Chen Zhengdao is a master of genre films, "Summer Future" is a youth film, its target audience is actually a student group represented by Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng fans, the reason for using the element of "Summer Lightyear" is probably to popularize to a larger audience, including Mayday fans, and the people who have memories of "Midsummer Lightyear" at that time - this audience base is large.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

This is not the end, the "master" of the song "Midsummer Lightyear" Ah Xin (Chen Xinhong) also re-created a "Blue Sky Future" as the theme song (ending song) of "Midsummer Future".

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Compared with the "Midsummer Lightyear" that is more high-pitched than the sentence, the 45-year-old A Xin is more calm and mature than the 30-year-old A Xin, and the song "Blue Sky Future" is much more idyllic and far-reaching than "Midsummer Lightyear".

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

And one of Mayday's earliest musical concept films, called "The Future", was directed by a half-hour short film, chen Zhengdao, whose first feature film "House Change" had not yet come out.

The main actors of "Future" are Zhang Junning, who just entered the industry at that time, and Wu Junqiang, an actor who has disappeared.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

"Midsummer Future" is slightly equal to "Midsummer Lightyear" - "Lightyear" + "Future", which is a closed loop of Chen Zhengdao's fifteen-year film universe, can it be understood in this way?

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film
"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Interestingly, in the lyrics of "Midsummer Lightyear", Chen Zhengdao's film universe has been summarized and predicted in advance, that is, the phrase "wildly released outside the light year". And Chen Zhengdao's first blockbuster debut was the short film "Wild".

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Then why don't I just comb through the song "Midsummer Lightyear", how far-reaching the impact has been in the past fifteen years, how "fried the field", and the most classic cover version!

Mayday's own concert, "Midsummer Lightyear" is essential.

In March this year, the second song of "I Want to See You" tainan Station sang "Midsummer Lightyear" on Mayday, which should be the last time Mayday sang this song live.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

In addition, Mayday has also performed "Midsummer Lightyear" with guests several times.

On December 5, 2017, the third session of the Mayday "LIFE Life Unlimited Company" concert in Shanghai, the famous hip-hop singer Ouyang Jing suddenly "parachuted in", and Mayday cooperated with "Midsummer Lightyear ✕ HIP HOP MAN", and the audience shouted to earn money.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

On August 25, 2019, the Bird's Nest Concert of "LIFE Life Unlimited Company" on Mayday, found Deng Ziqi as a guest, and the "Backgammon" group cooperated with "Midsummer Lightyear", and the whole audience exploded.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film
"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

It's not too much fun, on December 22, 2019, Mayday Just Rock It !!! Blue | In the second game of Blue Taoyuan Station, "Backgammon" sang "Midsummer Lightyear" again.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

The song "Midsummer Lightyear" really sank to a wider audience because of a female singer named Chen Bing.

In the third season of "The Voice of China" in 2014, 24-year-old Chen Bing sang this song "Midsummer Lightyear" and won the transfer of four mentors

body, and eventually reached the quarterfinals. What song do you remember about that year's "The Voice of China"? Probably only "Midsummer Lightyear" and

"On the shores of Lake Baikal".

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

The one who really sang "Midsummer Lightyear" to the realm of "out-of-body" was Lin Yilian, the queen of heaven.

As early as the Golden Horse 48 Awards Ceremony in 2011, Lin Yilian sang this song "Midsummer Lightyear" in the suite.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film
"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

In 2017, "I Am a Singer" became "Singer", and Lin Yilian won the championship. In the sixth phase of the knockout round, Lin Yilian sang this song "Midsummer Lightyear", leaving an excellent live classic.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

In order to adapt this song, Lin Yilian specially found Martin Tang, a master arranger in Singapore, to make arrangements, and her old partner Lun Yongliang to produce.

Lin Yilian's version of "Midsummer Lightyear" incorporates a lot of new elements and the arrangement is very novel. Of course, her singing is more in one go, so many sentences "I don't turn", each sentence you will hear is layer by layer to finally ignite the climax.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

At the beginning of Lin Yilian's version of "Midsummer Lightyear", it is played with electronic music, and "Midsummer Future" is also a movie about electric music.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

On January 5, 2018, Mayday "LIFE Life Unlimited Company" Taoyuan Field invited Lin Yilian as a guest and cooperated in this song "Midsummer Lightyear".

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film
"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Yuan Yawei, a new generation of strength singers who competed with Lin Yilian in that year's "Singer", was eliminated in the third period (that is, Zhao Lei sang the red "Chengdu" issue), but she came back in the breakout competition, performed well, and finally reached the final and won the seventh place.

In 2020, Yuan Yawei participated in the "Year of singer Dangda", was eliminated in the eighth period, in the breakout competition to decide whether to enter the final, Yuan Yawei fought back, chose "Midsummer Lightyear", won the first place breakthrough success, and finally won the runner-up in the song king battle.

Ms. Tia's version is really singing super singing, and even one tone has soared to G5, but it can be relaxed and not harsh. She added electronic music, cyberspace, rap and other elements to the song. As soon as this version came out, it established her position as the top singer in the Chinese music scene.

"Midsummer Lightyear" became so common fifteen years later, but "Midsummer Future" became a rescue youth film

Fifteen years from "Midsummer Lightyear" to "Midsummer Future", the future it keeps coming, I don't turn, I don't turn...

Text/Falling Wind

The picture in this article comes from the network.

Midsummer light-years midsummer future
Previous: Midsummer Future | Ming is a man or a woman
Next: Get through it! The crew of "Midsummer Lightyear" donated 6 million yuan to Henan

Read on