My sister Luo Peiying (7) | Movie Gunboats

From the debut of her sister in the show business in the 1980s to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the two decades were the heyday of Taiwan's hundred industries.

My sister's acting career dates back to when she was five years old.

In the winter of 1965, the great American director Robert Wise (1914-2005) went to The Port of Keelung to shoot "The Sand Pebbles" (1966), which caused a big sensation. Because of his masterpieces like "I want to live!" 》（I want to live！ 1958), "West Side Story" (1961), and the musical film "The Sound of Music" (1965), which is being released in Taipei, have all created box office successes throughout the island, and are highly regarded, and our whole family has seen it and enjoyed movie addiction.

This time to Taiwan as the male and female protagonists of the "Saint" film, the action king Steve McQueen, the beautiful red star Candice Bergen, gives the impression that it is an ideal match, and many people are thinking about seeing the true face of Lushan. In particular, Steve McQueen's tough guy in "The Great Escape" (1963) made Taiwanese movie fans crazy, and there were countless fans.

In addition, my father also has great expectations for the "Sheng" film, because the story scene of the film is set on the Xiang River between Changsha and Xiangtan in Hunan, and my father thought that he could follow the film crew to find a scenery similar to his hometown on the Keelung River, follow the photographic record, and comfort homesickness. However, it was later learned that the scene of Changsha in the film, in order to save time for proximity, was replaced by the landscape around the Tamsui Church, which was greatly disappointed and enthusiastic.

I remember that it was a Sunday afternoon, and many relatives and friends came to contact me early in the morning, saying that they would go to the third floor of my father's office in the afternoon to watch the "Saint" film crew shoot the location scene on the dock. The father's company was located at the intersection of Keelung Zhongyi Road and Zhongshan 1st Road, located on the second and third floors of the tallest building near the harbor at that time, with high windows and wide views, which was the best place to watch the activities of the pier. So everyone made an appointment, brought drinks and snacks, gathered in front of the third-floor window, and saw the shooting of this Hollywood epic masterpiece.

At the water's edge of the pier, but see a large rotating crane carrying a photographer, under the direction of the director, sliding freely up and down, up and down, left and right, suddenly high in the sky, suddenly on the sea, multi-angle framing; several main actors, and a bunch of extras, also under the staff arrangement, in order to move positions, simple a few actions, and constantly repeat the shooting, which must be satisfied by the director. We, the laymen who watched the battle in high-rise buildings, couldn't feel the trick, and within a few minutes, they were bored, and they sat down to rest and chat, and my father found a gap and took a photo of his sister sitting on a rotating high chair.

The biggest protagonist of the film, the San Pablo gunboat, was custom-made in Hong Kong for 200,000 US dollars by the crew, with a shallow draft, and was jokingly called "the largest prop ever made by Fox". My sister and I looked at it and both shook our heads in disdain. Because of the real battleships, we see a lot.

The uncle who was stationed in the left camp and often came to his home as a guest, came from a family of the Guangdong Navy, and went all the way from captain to fleet commander, to principal of the naval officer school, deputy commander-in-chief of the navy, and then to the chairman of CSSC, and is a well-known submarine expert today. Every time he came to Keelung, if he had a chance, he would invite us to board the ship to visit and introduce us in detail. Therefore, even my five- or six-year-old sister knows a little about the ship.

After seeing the actual shooting process of the "Sheng" film, I had the ambition to further understand the details of film screenwriting and editing, and also contributed to the opportunity for me and Ono to jointly open a film review column with Ono in minsheng Bao in the future, and laid the foundation for the publication of the book "Luo Qing Watching Movies" thirty years later.

Stills from "A Day on the Beach"

When my sister was twenty-two years old, because she starred in the eight-o'clock TV series "Love Me Again" (1982), with the aura of "Best Acting Rising Star", she began to become popular in the film and television industry, and the opportunities to participate in various performances gradually increased, and she was also invited to perform in the southern "labor army" many times to enhance morale. Every time she arrived at the Navy, the standard of her reception exceeded that of ordinary, making everyone think that the "Chief of Staff" had come.

In fact, in those years, she participated in more than a dozen films and televisions, all of which were general three-hall entertainment feature films or student lovers' slapstick films (melodrama), such as "Taipei Sweetheart", "Flying Over cram school", "Human snake war", "Home and Everything", etc., focusing on the box office, not art.

The younger sister has only participated in one of taiwan's new film staples, Yang Dechang's debut feature film A Day on the Beach (1983). In the film, she plays a pompous beauty who likes to flirt, and although her performance is amazing, she only has less than thirty seconds of scenes before and after, and can only talk about one frame.

The younger brother saw his sister's acting become a hit and became popular, and he was quite dissatisfied. "In terms of acting in movies, I'm still her predecessor!" The younger brother pouted, pointed at his electric guitar and said, "Our choir has been invited to be on camera!" ”

Indeed, in the mid-1970s, he and his electric guitar choir really appeared in a three-hall movie that no one can remember, directed by Li Xing (1930-), written by Qiong Yao, a neighbor who lived behind the Aon Building, and many relatives and friends were invited to watch it. Everyone watched intently for half a day, and they did not see their brother appear, which was very disappointing.

Later, according to the insider's careful recollection, the electric guitar that appeared in the movie was the brother's right, and as for whether the hand that played the guitar was the brother's, it remains to be examined.

Luo Qing