Before "New Love", the film directed by Er Dongsheng was not popular, and the emergence of "New Love" in 1993 broke this spell, selling 31.15 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, ranking 3rd in the annual box office list, Jackie Chan's "City Hunter" and Jet Li's "Fang Shiyu" are not its opponents.
Not only did the box office go viral, but the next year's Academy Awards also shined, with 12 nominations, winning 6 awards such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. After 27 years, the Douban score is now as high as 8.3 points, which is a rare tear-jerking movie.
The production of "New Love" is also quite bumpy, because the subject matter is unpopular and niche, no one is willing to invest, and Er Dongsheng has no choice but to set up an "infinite picture" film company and take out his savings to shoot.
The male protagonist Liu Qingyun was decided early on, as for the heroine, she initially considered Maggie Cheung and Zhou Huimin, but they did not have time, and finally the crew chose Yuan Yongyi, a newcomer to the film circle at that time.
Yuan Yongyi's performance was very successful, there was a fresh and unworldly feeling, and she also beat Xiao Fangfang, Wu Jiali and other predecessors with "New Love" and won the first post-film trophy.
01, Ajay's huaicai did not meet
Ajie (Liu Qingyun) is a composer, although talented, but because of his poor personality, it is difficult to become famous in the materialistic showbiz circle, or even survive.
Unlike Ajie, his girlfriend Tracy (Liu Jialing) is popular in the entertainment industry, with her beautiful appearance and moving voice, she is mixed in the circle.
In a relationship, as long as the two are in an unequal relationship, it is easy to produce rifts, not to mention Ajay, who has a strong sense of self-esteem, and he can't stand the situation of strong women and weak men.
Soon, he packed up his bags and left, saying goodbye to Tracy.
But in fact, he is not the first character in the movie who does not meet and has a bad temper, after moving into a new home, Amin's mother (played by Feng Baobao) downstairs seems to be a mirror image of Ajie.
Amin's mother was the lead singer of Hong Kong's popularity, but because she would not please insiders, she was soon eliminated by the times.
Now I have set up a stage and sang with Uncle Amin (Qin Pei) and others under the banyan trees of Yau Ma Tei.
Amin's uncle is called Zhang Baozai, who can be called Ajie's peer, both of them are saxophones, but the difference is that the uncle is always not strong enough when blowing saxophones because of his lack of alcohol and tobacco.
This cute and somewhat shaky old stubborn image was qin pei's "charity performance", just to support his brother Er Dongsheng, although he did not receive half a film remuneration, but with this role won the best supporting actor at the Hong Kong Academy Awards at that time.
And Ajay is the young version of Amin's mother, the two of them also have a face all day, do not give people a good look, the same is chinese and Western music proficiency, but will not please others, let themselves be better.
Facts have repeatedly proved that people who do not live in the world smoothly are equivalent to hitting stones with pebbles, and it is easy to be taken over by those who come after them, and thus be replaced.
02, Ajay and Amin's encounter and love
The role of Amin played by Yuan Yongyi, like this literary film, is not expected by the public, and everyone naturally believes that this actress from Hong Kong sister should be a vase, which is not useful in the middle.
But fortunately, Yuan Yongyi finally used her strength to give people who were not optimistic about herself, a loud slap, and she won the title of film queen with the role of Amin.
Amin is only twenty years old, and his first encounter with Ajay was when he was feeding dogs in the park, and the second meeting was under the banyan tree, when the drama team performed.
Because Ajay lives upstairs in Amin's house, he often plays his own saxophone songs, and by chance, Ajay hears Amin humming his own music, and the two officially get to know each other.
Amin is Ajay's Bole, and she sincerely appreciates Ajay's talent, and Ajay is also familiar with Amin's musical talent, so she takes Amin to the bar where her brother performs.
The musicians on the stage all performed very well, and anyone who went out could hold up half of the sky of Hong Kong music, but why wasn't it red? In Amin's words, he quickly understood the reason for the people's infamy.
Liking and liking are two different things.
Although Ajay is ten years old, but not as transparent as Amin, Amin is optimistic and smiley, always full of hope and vitality for life and the world, simply a full of vitality, her optimism soon infected Ajay's cold heart.
But behind this optimism and strength, there is a bitter past that no one knows, it turns out that Amin suffered from bone cancer when he was nine years old, but he has been relying on willpower to persevere until he is twenty years old.
She is the most tenacious patient Dr. Zhang (Zhang Aijia) has ever met, and it is precisely because of her survival that she has been supporting her on the road of medical career.
In fact, there are many people like Amin in life, who are only willing to be other people's little suns, so even if they like Ajie and want to tell him about this past, they are not willing to say it themselves, and want to say it to Ajie through Dr. Zhang's mouth.
Unwilling to immerse themselves in pain, good at being a trash can for other people's emotions, always thinking that this will always be happy.
03, Amin's departure
Taking Ajie to see Dr. Zhang in the front is actually laying the groundwork for the recurrence of Amin's cancer in the back.
Amin and Ajie dated, wearing the most earthy collocation - red with green plug dog green, but despite such a dirty dress, it is difficult to hide Yuan Yongyi's beauty, but it is more pure and simple of Amin's role.
She crouched in front of the ring laid by the vendor, complaining one second that Ajay would not buy her ring, and the next second she was unable to get up because of pain.
In an instant, he fell from heaven to hell.
The next day she woke up from the hospital, and she was happy again, putting on her shoes and preparing to be discharged, but in fact, she had a premonition, and Dr. Zhang's silence confirmed her suspicions.
Amin is very angry and desperate, she is angry that Dr. Zhang lied to herself, obviously said that she will not relapse; desperate is that it is difficult to fall in love with Ajie, but because of cancer, once back to the prototype.
And the dogs in the park, because they are not fed by Amin, have become stray dogs, and they need to go to the garbage can to rummage through the food to fill their stomachs.
In fact, in the current view, this is a somewhat dog bloody to vulgar film, but I am still impressed by Ajay's insistence.
Amin said, I may not be able to walk.
Ajay said, I hold you.
Amin said, I may not be able to do housework.
Ajay said, I do.
Amin said, I may die.
Ajay said, no! Neither you nor I will die so quickly.
I once saw an American survey before, saying that if the wife of the husband and wife suffer from incurable disease, the husband will be more likely to divorce the wife and abandon the other.
The vow made when they get married, whether poor, rich or sick, will not abandon each other, as if it is a joke, fooling women into marrying themselves and going home to make cattle and horses.
But Amin and Ajay are not yet married, but Ajay has truly done it: blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, life and death follow each other, and they do not abandon each other.
Ajay took out the ring that he had bought for Amin on the stall that day and said:
The only thing that makes me sad in this world now is that you won't marry me, and I will be sad for the rest of my life.
After Amin agreed to Ajay's marriage proposal, she wanted to eat the bowl cake, but before Ajay could buy the bowl cake from the night market, she left Ajay.
In "New Can't Love", Wan Fang sang:
May the next life be able to embrace again, how to love someone until old age?
Since Amin can't stay with Ajay until he grows old, I sincerely hope that they will be able to hug again in the next life.
After all, as long as you live, you still have to face the chickens and dogs in life, if the worst in life is only death, how can there be difficulties in life that cannot be faced. (Author: Song Juhan)