Spoilers in advance.
The theme of the seventh anniversary of the poisonous tongue, "Hong Kong wind".
So you can find that sir's two articles today are both Hong Kong film themes.
No way, to find inspiration for today's outfit (what to wear last, first keep it a secret).
The first picture wrote a new film, and the second picture wrote a 20-year-old Hong Kong film.
The first two days of "Golden Rooster" is from the perspective of "Ah Jin", telling all the ups and downs of Hong Kong.
Today.
It is answered from the perspective of a "low-energy child":
Exactly, what is Hong Kong flavor?
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The taste of Hong Kong is gray and dark
Sir believes that many people once wondered why "McDoubt" was a classic.
Released in the same year, the box office exceeded the same period of "Spirited Away";
In the next decade, it won awards at home and abroad, including one Academy Award, three Golden Horse Awards, and the "Oscar of the Animation Industry" at the Annecy Film Festival For Best Animated Feature Film (the only one in Chinese).
Isn't it just a pig?
Stupid, blunt, never grow up 5-year-old piglet, funny to be funny, not to "God".
Look at McDoubt in 20 years.
You will find that magical things happen:
Every time you look at it, this "little pig" seems to grow up with your age.
Because, you gradually discover many familiar details.
Like what.
One of the most representative characters of Hong Kong flavor, Stephen Chow.
McDougal is definitely Star Ye's most loyal "fan".
Cameos from time to time:
The obvious tribute:
△ "The King of Comedy", "The Story of McDougall"
And deeper.
Represented by Stephen Chow, the core of the grassroots of Hong Kong cinema.
There are two sides to the "color" of The Story of McDougall.
On the one hand, it is gray.
You can "see" from the lens:
McDou and his mum Mai Tai live in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, with no glamorous Central CBD building, only estates like sardine cans where civilians hug old, low, old concrete houses.
You can "hear" from the lines:
McDougall and mom are the most ordinary working pigs.
The reason why McDougal is called McDoubt is really derived from a "pocket".
When Mai Tai was about to be in the basin, a plastic basin flew to her delivery bed, just like the mother of every jackie chan, Mai Tai quickly made a wish, "I hope he is very smart and good at reading." ”
The rubber pocket did not respond.
Mai Tai quickly gave way, "Or as handsome as Andy Lau Zhou Runfa." ”
The rubber pocket still did not respond.
Well, Matthew had to fold her hands together.
Compromised:
It doesn't matter if you're not smart or handsome, as long as the lucky star shines high
A lifetime of luck everything can be murdered
Of course, he is best off solving problems on his own
Is this really a compromise?
Apparently not.
Superstition is the last straw for the people at the bottom.
But How do McDoub and Mom fight against such darkness?
The other side of "McDougal" is the ultimate high saturation tone.
In McDougall's eyes, Mom is "Super Mario".
She was furious and did many odd jobs.
The most "successful" is her cooking program.
Mai Tai can make all kinds of "chickens":
Including fast chicken, paper wrapping, wrapping paper, wrapping paper, paper wrapping, paper wrapping, wrapping paper wrapping chicken...
funny?
Behind it is heartache:
Matthew did the show from beginning to end, and only had a real chicken in her hand.
There is no way but matryoshka to get ratings.
So.
The whole "Mai Du" can be seen as a "chicken wrapping paper" tutorial of Mai Tai.
My son wants to go to the Maldives to play, but the family has no money, what to do?
Travel Edition Chicken Wrapper Paper:
Mai Tai took Mai Du to take a cable "plane" to the "Maldives" at victoria peak in Hong Kong, played the same snorkeling, and ate Western food.
What is Hong Kong Flavor?
Hong Kong flavor shows the darkness of the bottom floor without filters.
The taste of Hong Kong is even more tightly grasped by the people at the bottom in the gray.
The neon of your own.
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Hong Kong flavor is a birthmark
The bond between McDougal and Hong Kong can be said from a round birthmark in McDougall's right eye.
Someone analyzed it like this:
The birthmark symbolizes a Hong Kong era, and after the financial crisis in the late 1990s, this epitome was forever left in the most conspicuous place.
Indeed, "McDougall" is interspersed with many changes in the land of Hong Kong.
Countless immigrants and Hong Kong people, with their own hard work, promoted the beginning of Hong Kong's industrialization at that time.
The prototype of the spirit of Lion Rock.
But until the release of the movie version of McDougal, the former international financial center did not recover from the asthma, and many people became negative assets overnight, as McDoubt said.
△ "McDougal: The Prince of Pineapple Oil"
"McDougal" seems to stand on the opposite side of the "Lion Rock Spirit".
Here, all the propaganda divorced from reality is completely ineffective.
Take education, for example.
The principal, a Teochew native, speaks non-standard Cantonese and Mandarin, and the kindergarten cannot make ends meet, and the only thing he remembers at the beginning of the school is to urge everyone to pay tuition.
When children in Hong Kong began to learn the multiple intelligences "inner volume", the principal taught everyone to learn to cheat death (pretend to die) and Sarai, opened the "Earth Wind Dance Dress Death Class" and "BBQ Fishing Cuttlefish Pretend Death Class", and loved to play with terriers.
For example, feelings.
Springfield Flower Kindergarten closed down and the principal returned to his hometown.
After 2000, Hong Kong accelerated the pace of reconstruction, with robotic arms digging deep into dilapidated old estates, and rows of new-style neighborhoods grew behind The Mak Dui family, while Mai Du lived in peeled-out estates.
But has anyone ever thought about:
This "birthmark", which represents the pain of the times, why is it inherited?
Birthmarks are not only traces of change.
It is also the fate of small people in the big era.
Just like the hilarious "Fish Ball Thick Noodles":
McDougal: Trouble you, fish balls thick noodles
Principal: No rough face
McDougal: Really? Let's have a bowl of fish balls pho
Principal: No fish balls
McDougal: Really? That tripe thick noodles
McDougal: Let's get fish ball oil noodles
McDougall: How come there's nothing? Then ask for the thick noodles of cuttlefish balls
McDougal: Sold out again? Trouble you come bowl fish ball rice noodles
Side: McDougall, their fish balls and coarse noodles have sold out, that is, all the matches with fish balls and thick noodles are gone
McDougall: Oh~~! There is no internal collocation ah... Trouble you just need fish balls
McDougal: What about the thick noodles?
Xie Liwen said:
In fact, I have come into contact with a lot of adults, who seem to be doing things that are not necessarily their real personality all day long, and everyone dresses up as one. I vaguely felt that he might have been a mcDougall when he was a child, and now he is a mcDougall grown up when he was a child.
When I was a child, McDoubt was carefree and had no coarse noodles, so I came to fish balls.
But when he grew up, McDougall had already woken up:
"Some things, yes is there, no is no, no, just can't."
Take a look at their future:
McDougal, a middle-aged office worker in debt;
Classmate Amei, enter the "cubicle room"; Classmate Ah Hui, courier; Gu Shi classmate, driver...
But can you say they failed?
The wish made by Matthew when he was about to be born may not have come true completely.
McDougall doesn't look like Andy Lau Chow Yun Fat.
But his bronze statue, on the Victoria Harbour Walk of Fame, is brighter than the Handprint of Andy Lau Chow Yun Fat next door.
△ Avenue of Stars
Hong Kong flavor is the not so good-looking "birthmark".
The taste of Hong Kong is the spot of light composed of countless shimmers, which is enough to illuminate a city forever.
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The taste of Hong Kong is...
From 2001 to 2016, the McDoubt series consisted of 6 animated films:
2001 "The Story of Mai Du", 2004 "The Prince of Mai Du Pineapple Oil", 2006 "Springfield Flower Classmate Association", 2009 "Mai Du Dang Dang", 2012 "Mai Du Dang Dang" and "Mai Du Dang Dang With My Heart", 2014 "Mai Du and My Mother", 2016 "Mai Du · Rice Treasure Soldier".
Among them, only "The Story of Mai Du" and "The Prince of Mai Du Pineapple Oil" are purely local productions, and the later ones are co-productions of "Mai Du North".
The "Hong Kong flavor" of the McDougall series began to fade slowly.
From the birthmark on McDougal's birth, to the real Hong Kong estates, shops, Hong Kong food and beverages behind McDougall, including tea restaurants, pineapple buns, egg tarts, fish balls..........
All have a strong Local atmosphere in Hong Kong.
The soul of "McDougal" also lies in the fact that almost every "McDoubt" will have several catchy brainwashing songs.
Cute child voices, classical music melodies of Schubert, Schumann and Mozart, especially the Refilled Hong Kong-style lyrics.
"The spring breeze kisses me like an egg tart tart ~~"
"The big bag is two more cages, and the big package is more than two cages."
Sir liked, especially the nonsensical, eccentric lyrics:
"I would like to be like a piece of meat, clasping the plum dish and holding your hand."
Even the past that Hong Kong people don't remember, "McDougle" remembers.
Vanishing folklore.
Bao Bao Shan is a folk activity in Hong Kong Cheung Chau that originated in the Qing Dynasty and was passed down by the Hai Feng people, with a history of more than 200 years.
In "The Story of Mai Du", Mai Du originally wanted to become an Olympic champion, who knew that what he learned from the master was the "Grab The Bag Mountain" that would never be held again.
However, in the 1970s, due to frequent injury accidents, the activity of snatching baoshan was cancelled.
Interestingly, the bridge section in "The Story of McDougall" that failed to apply for reinstatement was really presented in the 2005 resumed bag snatching competition.
This is a little warmth brought by "McDoubt".
In "Mai Du Bang Dang", Mai Tai took Mai Du north to Wudang Mountain to practice, only the background of the first 20 minutes and the last 10 minutes was in Hong Kong, and the lack of laughter in the middle and the sense of patchwork became stronger and stronger, forming a sense of separation.
"McDougall and My Mom" became a well-known detective for children across the country;
In "Maduro Iwabo", Maidou becomes the hero of the earth who saves the world.
McDougall from a loser who will never succeed, grassroots counterattack.
But the audience understands:
The pig is still the pig, but it is not the "wheat pocket" in it.
McDougall, embarrassed in "Going North" and "Hong Kong Flavor".
So some people said, don't be embarrassed, it is better not to shoot it.
The McDoubt series has not had a new film released for 5 years, and even on this 20th anniversary, there is no re-screening arrangement.
McDougall, have you forgotten?
What is the so-called taste of Hong Kong?
Not those tea restaurants, the symbolic labels of pineapple buns, but the humble but tough pyrotechnics and "popularity".
Sir noticed.
In the McDouble series, there is a flash of the appearance of the grown-up McDoubt, and the McDoubt may have grown up to become a chef.
McDougal finally has endless chickens, thick noodles and large bags, and like Mai Tai said, it is an ordinary happy person.
This is a gentleness wrapped in cruelty by the creator from an adult perspective.
Xie Liwen said:
When you accept the reality that if a person is not talented enough, in fact, he will not be able to do it, no matter how hard he tries, he will not be able to do it, but does not it mean that this person is finished?
The answer given by Xie Liwen was no.
Even ordinary people like McDougall have the right to live an ordinary life.
For example, the professor of the Mozart effect class said in McDougall's evaluation:
"He's not incompetent, he's just kind."
Did he really deny McDougall's "low energy"?
No.
What he denies is that there are too many "self-made cleverness" in this world.
Hong Kong flavor, perhaps not elite enough, not enough "forced".
But it must be honest with life.
Therefore, it can travel through time again and again, fight against the years, and evoke the resonance of our different stages.
Life is like a play.
It is the taste of Hong Kong.
The picture in this article comes from the network
Editorial Assistant: Yasuhiro Ozu