"Love Letter to Filmmakers" is a work in Taiwanese singer Cai Qin's 2008 album "No Regrets", a gift from Taiwanese artists to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese cinema, and one of the must-choose theme songs of the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and Chinese mainland major film festivals.
The song was composed earlier than the composition, and was composed by the famous Hong Kong director Luo Qirui in 2003 to commemorate his brother Zhang Guorong, who left us in April, but suffered from not finding a suitable composition, and continued until 2005, until he met Li Zongsheng's elder brother, the song "Love Letter to the Filmmaker" was completed. In 2006, Cai Qin won the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards at the 4th Southeast Hit Music Chart Awards ceremony with this song. It should be said that the front and back of this song contain too many stories of filmmakers and musicians.
However, the song went out of the circle after 18 years in the "2020 Voice of China" on November 13, the top five competition, Li Jian's "Northeast Tiger Team" student Shan Yichun sang "Love Letter to the Filmmaker" with great affection, and once burst into tears caused heated discussion in the major media. On the one hand, Shan Yichun's tears are not singing mistakes; second, is this song an emotional type of song?
Although the topic of controversy has long been settled, Shan Yichun and "Love Letters to Filmmakers" are tightly tied together. As long as who sings this song again, many fans will unconsciously compare it with Shan Yichun's singing version, which will lead to a new round of disputes, in the end who sings well, sings touchingly, can sing into the feelings of the song, etc.
In fact, "Love Letter to the Filmmaker" and Shan Yichun's relationship stems from the tears of that time, and there is no connection from the aspects of words, songs, backgrounds, and song intentions. If you say it later, it is 12 days after the Final Five, on November 25, 2020, he was invited to sing the same song for the movie "One Second" directed by Zhang Yimou, and it was the theme song for the promotion of the film. To this day, as to why Shan Yichun broke down and shed tears when singing, she has now received her own authoritative explanation: "Due to the discomfort of the voice caused by the cold, the singing effect may not meet the expectations of Teacher Li Jian, the pressure of the first appearance is too great, and the melody in the song has tears, so it is not well controlled, and the tears are shed." ”
There are still many people who disagree with the above explanation, especially fan friends who like her. They believe that Shan Yichun's singing is the emotional expression in place, the human song is integrated, the emotion is completely swayed by the song, trapped in it, the love is naturally thick in the depths, and it is difficult to suppress the tears. I deeply understand this, but the facts cannot sway your emotions, nor can you ignore the facts in order to force Shan Yichun's deductive ability.
The person who should cry the most about singing this song should be Cai Qin, but she has never cried for this song.
Cai Qin fell in love with her ex-husband Yang Dechang in 1985 and went to the United States to marry in the same year. In the ten years after their marriage, the two lived a sexless married life, during which Cai Qin helped her husband Yang Dechang raise shooting funds, assume the lead singer of film interludes, and sometimes ran to the set to do art work, and devoted herself to helping her husband's film career. In 1995, the marriage between the two suddenly came to an end, and Yang Dechang concluded that the marriage was "10 years of relationship, a blank." Cai Qin replied: "I don't think it is a blank, I have all the effort." In the same year, Yang Dechang and Peng Kaili opened a third marriage, which was a sexual union, and gave birth to a big baby son in 2000.
And Cai Qin was silent about this past. She often said, what you know is my song, what you don't know is my life, my life is not important to you, so everything is the best arrangement. (How I always think of Shan Yichun in this sentence, as if she also said it.) ）
On June 29, 2007, Yang Dechang died of colon cancer in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, AT the age of 59. The Taiwanese film director, who has gone through three marriages and is known as the "scalpel of Taiwan's social reality", went to his own soul land, wandering place, and dreamed of the galaxy outside.
This year, the big brother of the music world, Li Zongsheng, has finished composing music for "Love Letter to Filmmakers", and after hearing the news of Yang Dechang's illness and death, he was shocked and keenly realized that perhaps this song is a philosophical classic song that can accurately express Cai Qin's marital experience and the incongruity of love career. So he found Cai Qin and persuaded her to shoot the MV of "Love Letter to the Filmmaker" and reproduce this world-famous golden song with a more three-dimensional feeling. For this film, Li Zongsheng not only supervised the production of the whole process, but also found the strongest production lineup in the Chinese music scene such as Zhan Lingqi, Li Haiying, Liang Qiaobai, Huang Yunling, etc., and spent five years of fine work, and finally washed into a series, a lyrical song, filmmaker feelings, and created a new classic of the film for a hundred years. After the MV was completed, Cai Qin said in an exclusive interview, "I heard the news of Yang Dechang's death, cried at home that night, experienced that life was short, and knew that his life was so short, I really should have divorced him earlier and let him enjoy his life." ”
How to say it, anyway, Cai Qin sang "Love Letter to the Filmmaker" without shedding tears, and I really can't figure out this past. 10 years of youth, the best time of the decade, ten years of platonic persistence, and then suddenly announcing the divorce. Would you cry? But I know that in 2005, when Yang Dechang did not die, Cai Qin had already released the album "No Regrets".
Finally, last week, mainland martial arts star Zhang Jin, Hong Kong artist Zhang Zhilin, and new Xiaosheng Yin were singing "Love Letters to Filmmakers" before the group night of "Brother With Thorns and Thorns". After singing a song, whether it is a hot search or a hot list, even Zhang Zhilin's wife Yuan Yongyi is high thumbs up. It is said that the couple also regards Mango TV as a husband and wife store, one on "The Brother Who Cuts Thorns", one on "The Wife's Romantic Trip", and all of them are blockbuster programs, and the sweet pictures of dog food sprinkled on each other can always be seen in the two programs. Speaking of "Love Letter to filmmakers", Zhang Jin, with a hard kung fu, flew through the glass door at the beginning, interpreting his bitter experience of being an actor by Wuxing's stand-in; Zhang Zhilin used the effects of serving the lights of the road to interpret the hairy boy who did not understand the world to the half-hundred old man who had the vicissitudes of the heart, expressing that time and yin flowed through the fingers, how many years had flowed away from the screen, the young did not feel that the time was old, and then looked back at the dedication of the filmmakers who had been a hundred years old; the big screen behind Yin Zheng continued to play from the film segment, Hua Dan, Dao Ma Dan, The pictures of the poor boy in the drama building flashed one after another, and the deep emotion told, empathizing with many young audiences with movie dreams on the scene, and everyone cried. "Love Letter to filmmakers" is so arranged and creative, you can also see the special love of the three filmmakers for the film industry. As for how to sing, it doesn't matter, anyway, according to the pure version in front, it is difficult to surpass. However, this interpretation of the song is memorable and heart-warming.
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