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In August 2003, on the beach in Taipei, Zhang hung a guitar on the stage. Short hair, a black tank top, jeans, and no makeup on her face. Speaking of which, the nike red wristband on the wrist was dangling.
"This is the first time we've shown it to so many people, so you're the right people." She was 23 years old, her face and language were green, and for the first time in her life she had so many viewers. "Actually, our team members have experienced a lot of things together, just for this game."
Zhang Hang 17 years ago
The camera cuts to bass and guitarist, two young shadows standing in the wind.
Someone started cheering and shouting her name. Zhang Hang wiped the corners of his eyes, smiled and rushed to the stage and said, "I didn't cry, I didn't cry." The prelude sounded and she sang "No."
The Ocean Music Festival is Taiwan's annual independent music award competition, and director Chen Longnan followed the filming competition, but he did not expect to be a great success. "Ocean Heat" won the Special Jury Prize at the Taipei Film Festival in 2004 and the audience voted best film, and was invited to participate in the Busan Film Festival, with a score of 8.7 on Douban.
Most of the people who go to see "Ocean Fever" are for hanging. Today she has long hair and a long skirt and delicate makeup. It's hard to imagine that 14 years ago, she was the lead singer of the band Mango Runs, and she couldn't leave her hands like a tomboy. "Ocean Heat" makes people re-recognize her, and therefore love her more.
At the age of 23, she was young and mature. As the spiritual leader of the orchestra, she has behaved differently, will explain her philosophy, and will seriously ask the members: "What kind of attitude are we trying to express in this song, eh?" ”
As soon as the camera turns, she is sensual and sensitive, and she especially loves to cry. Poor communication with the members will cry, the sound on the stage will cry, and the final performance will also shed tears.
Now that the little girl has grown up, she has changed her sane and intellectual face. But looking back at "Ocean Fever", you will understand what she wants to insist on for more than 10 years, and what she has relied on to get to where she is today.
Zhang Hang
The winner of the contest will receive 200,000 prize money, but she has no interest in it. "I don't want 200,000, I'll donate it to orphans." She treats the competition as a practice group: "I really don't know what I want in this competition, the only thing that makes sense is that it puts pressure on us to improve." ”
She was cool, crazy, and when she got on stage, she gave herself herself a lot of fun, and she got off the stage to rack her brains for the performance. "The biggest word of youth is in music, which is original."
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Chen Longnan selected 5 orchestras to form this "Ocean Heat". In addition to Zhang Hang, other young people also have their own moving stories.
SUNSHINE BOY is as enthusiastic as their name, but is confined to poverty and embarrassment. They couldn't afford to rent a rehearsal room, so they gave small concerts at home and got neighbors to call the police. Every week, the police fixed to collect fines. In the summer, the small room is hot and stuffy, and a group of big boys are burning their youth in it.
But on the day of the competition, they sang a song that made people spray rice like a ticket. "Taichung cavity, Taichung cavity, I love Taichung, cavity!" The lead singer on the stage wore a white vest and floral pants, and found a counter lady to dance with two sand hammers, and the judges and the audience laughed together.
SUNSHINE BOY who sang "Taichung Cavity"
If you do this, of course, you won't get the rank. But they said that just because it was a competition, they could not change the type to meet the tastes of the judges. "We're just hilarious, fun, different from everybody else, and that's enough."
Totem is a band made up of Taiwanese aboriginal teenagers who quit their jobs to compete. On stage, they never play the national style under the sign of the aborigines, they have their own original elements and connotations. But to face reality, they do not have the capital to support their musical dreams.
"When it's over, can you go over there and buy a CD, ours." A hundred pieces a sheet. "While performing in a bar, the lead singer was in tears as he spoke." Because we all live so far away, we don't have money to take a car, so pitiful..." Someone in the audience shouted: "Two hundred yuan!" He immediately looked overwhelmed: "Then everyone will think that the natives have cheated money." ”
Hotpink is a 17-year-old punk girl group whose lead singer returns to school to take the joint exam during the competition. Lack of time, no experience, their first appearance on stage was this game.
A few little girls cried bitterly because of the difficulties in front of them, but they said the most classic passage in the film: "For me, the ocean is only once." If you give up, next year's ocean will not be the first. In fact, everything is only once, and if you want to, you must grasp it. ”
Hotpink Orchestra
In 2003, when independent music was just in its infancy, the market was the world of popular artists of big record companies. After watching "Ocean Heat", I understood how difficult they were at that time and how hard they pursued their dreams. Each group has a very different personality, but the biggest common denominator is a pure belief in independent music.
This purity, in later times and even today, has become a rare luxury.
A few years later, the mainland draft boomed, and a number of music competitions such as "Supergirl" became a trend, but they were essentially different from the independent music awards: singing other people's songs, commercial operation, and setting up people according to the company's requirements after the game.
In Ocean Fever, indie music is about pursuing what you want to do, so that others will know as soon as they listen, "That can only be me." "Independence and ego are more important than the championship, the 200,000 prize money and even the success of success later, which is the spirit of independent music."
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Some people on Douban said that watching "Ocean Heat" is like watching them chase a dream for themselves.
Perhaps as a music documentary, the biggest significance of "Ocean Fever" is to help us dig out what is behind independent music: the blood of youth, life-releasing, and desperate to pursue ourselves. It is actually an attitude towards life.
Reality has its harsh side. After the competition, most of the orchestra's careers came to an abrupt end. Mango Runs soon disbanded, with drummers and guitarists joining other bands, and Zhang Hang sought to develop on his own; Stone changed its name to Rokkaku, changing styles to suit the market, T-shirts and shorts into tie uniforms; and more contestants were under pressure to survive and bid farewell to music to find another way.
When he finally won the award, Zhang Hang excitedly grabbed the microphone on the stage and shouted: "Do you know what rock is?" Rock 'n' roll is where we stay together forever! "This group of young people huddled together on stage. When the lights dimmed and the crowds dispersed, they quickly went their separate ways.
Regrets? Is it childishness? No, it's just that they were once young.
When a teenager was asked how he felt after winning the award, he held his breath for a long time, and finally said a sentence: "Thank you to my mother for giving birth to me." ”
I have been young, I have been fanatical about my dreams, I have insisted on myself, and my whole life has shone because of this story.
In high school, my best friends played rock and roll and formed their own bands. He told me that his parents' pursuit of his music was two attitudes. Mom always whispered in his ear, "In a few years you'll know that you can't eat what you like, and raising a family is more important than anything else." ”
But Dad would tell him that after just a few years of youth, he must foolishly dream and then return to reality and choose again.
Someday, I'll sit in a civil servant's seat in my office. But before I do that, let me hold the guitar and make a few more noises. Didn't Hotpink's little girl say that the ocean is only once, and youth is only once?
After watching "Ocean Fever", I have been thinking repeatedly of the song that Zhang Hanghong has crossed the strait - "About I Love You". Before, I only thought she was singing love, but now I feel like she is singing about life.
"Before you have to feel like we're going to have nothing, what you did was so you could say, yes, I've seen my dreams."
Perhaps, in youth, squandering and cherishing are really the same thing.
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