Editor's note: This is a nostalgic theater.
20 years ago, standing at the turn of the century, Hong Kong filmmakers are looking out, Xu Ke filmed "Down the Current" background in South America, Ma Chucheng filmed "Summer Mama Tea", full of Southeast Asian sunshine, Chen Guo went to the northeast to shoot "Durian Fluttering", giving the unique flavor of Hong Kong movies, at that time, Chen Jia, the director who had not yet gone to the mainland with the "Painted Skin" series, went to Japan to shoot a movie called "Love War Okinawa".
Although the plot "dog blood" to all things are not coincidentally not a book, the character's mentality and emotions may be put to look at today and there is still a little bit of "three views are not correct" meaning, but it does not matter at all, the fairy tales that happened in Okinawa, the police crime is filmed like a family, and love seems to really have a fate to indicate that everything is just right, no one will be left alone, and every Pingshui encounter is a precursor to happiness.
Poster of "Love Battle Okinawa"
So this is really a pleasing and good movie, well, it is literally "good-looking", Okinawa's island scenery is needless to say, to this day there are various tourist public accounts to take this movie with the title, advocating following the movie to travel to Okinawa. And the people in the movie are also the best to watch in the golden age of Hong Kong films. Zhang Guorong and Faye Wong fell in love, thinking about what kind of immortal combination this is, appearance and temperament, talent and acting skills, are so evenly matched.
In 2000, Faye Wong released the album "Fables", which is a small peak of her music, and the popular music of the past, this album with a pioneering posture, psychedelic and enchanting, she composed her own music, Lin Xi's words plus Zhang Yadong's arrangement, "Cambrian", "The Other Shore Flower", "New Tenant", "Asura", a set of song titles like "Three Character Classic".
Faye wong
At that time, she was a maverick female singer who opened her love affair for the first time after the divorce, and although she was covered in scandals and strange makeup after the end of the first marriage, she talked about love with her 10-year-old popular "little fresh meat" Xie Tingfeng, and it was so shocking that even the buttock tattoo had to be exposed to reporters and the public without hesitation. And this pair of legends that must be divided for a long time and must be combined for a long time is still being staged today.
In 2000, Zhang Guorong opened the last of his "passionate" concert, crossing the beauty of the two sexes to turn all sentient beings upside down, more shocking than the appearance of red high heels in 1997, grinding into a strong bubble at the cusp of the wind, becoming a wind, becoming a wave, but unfortunately too many people can only wait until many years later to begin to understand the preciousness of this magnificent style.
Leslie
That year's brother, made two movies, one is Du Qifeng's Gun King, for the gun mad devil, is a bitter and crazy black romantic imagination, but also Love Battle Okinawa, sunny to talk about the simple love of the, refreshing with a little greasy, let people think about it and feel happy.
There is also Liang Jiahui, who is stunned like a young man, completely without the temperament of today's old-fashioned calculations, and the opponent scene of Zhang Guorong playing treasure in the movie seems to be "East Evil" and "West Poison" crossing into another painting style to continue to compete. Li Zi, who does not shoot too many movies, also adds more of a city beauty to the movie. At that stage, Li Zi achieved the best version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" with Zhao Min of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", and even Jin Yong himself was most satisfied. At that time, the beauty of the Hong Kong showbiz circle was like a cloud, and the Hong Kong media still praised her as the first beauty.
Lizzie
Let's take a look at how pompous and childish this golden combination comes together to deduce a story that is pompous and childish, but actually feels self-righteous - Lo Hong-ta, played by Leung Ka-fai, is an agent of the Archives Department of the Hong Kong Police Department, who goes on vacation with his girlfriend and friends played by Lai Zi, and encounters the gangster boss girlfriend played by Faye Wong and the gangster who has washed his hands in the golden basin played by Zhang Guorong. Liang Jiahui has a dream of handling a big case, so he pretends to hire a murderer to design a plan to arrest Zhang Guorong, and at the same time, the two of them invariably fall in love with Faye Wong, who is like the wind.
As soon as Liang Jiahui saw Faye Wong at the airport, his eyes lit up, not only that, he also used the "police handling" as an excuse to beat himself sloppy when his girlfriend was jealous. This kind of disagreement is actually quite "scum", but then one of his spiritual monologues with a serious nonsense, but it is too real to pierce the hearts of many people. He said that his relationship with his girlfriend was like a church and a church, and at first he was very religious and wanted to go every day, but gradually he didn't want to go except for major holidays. After that, even this religion was no longer believed.
Faye Wong is the storm center of "Love Battle Okinawa", she appears in the movie, the ghost horse is still like an elf, almost all male characters are fascinated by her.
Chen Jiashang himself said that in "Love Battle Okinawa", he turned Faye Wong into a "summer ice cream", cool and delicious, and would steal money and steal hearts. This is her follow-up to "Chongqing Forest", more than four years apart to act in the film, Chen Jiashang said, give her a good script that can make her heart move, she will nod.
In reality, Faye Wong and Zhang Guorong have made this movie possible with each other. According to reports, the male protagonist of "Love Battle Okinawa" should have been the son of the production direction Tai, but Faye Wong said to Xiang Tai that she wanted to cooperate with her brother, and Xiang Tai replaced him. Zhang Guorong has also said many times that the reason that attracted him to take over this film was to be able to cooperate with Faye Wong.
At that time, one of the big publicity selling points of the movie was Faye Wong's first kiss on the screen, but this legend only existed in Chen Jia's exposés, and it was not seen in the movie, probably because it was filmed or not cut in. But Faye Wong's first kiss on the screen is Zhang Guorong, even if it is so fixed, how to say it is indeed a beautiful talk. The performance in the movie is really particularly subtle and meaningful, the last second Faye Wong said to the female friend, judge whether a person likes you, go kissing, because "the mouth can talk, the lips will not", the next scene and Zhang Guorong hid behind the shelf, when he came out, the corner of the mouth smiled, is the right sweetness when the love just began.
Screenshot of Okinawa
Sunny and boring okinawan beach, men and women's minds are love affairs. It is particularly interesting to see Faye Wong and Zhang Guorong full of all kinds of small hints of your comings and goings, and the ambiguity that is not broken is comfortable growing and fighting in the daily casual exchange. On the jukebox, she ordered a song called "The great pretender," and she pretended not to care, and he walked up to him, pretending that there was no wave in his heart, and said lightly: "Hot coffee." "Ambiguity flows in the details.
And everyone in this room seems to have been arranged with a romantic fate. The underworld big brother who was thrown away by his ex-girlfriend and the well-behaved girl who was half-hearted and sad for her boyfriend and harshly blamed herself for not being sensible enough, can get married because of a chance encounter in the bar; the robber who kidnapped and buried the bomb in the house will also rub a spark with the female tenant who was kidnapped by his own hands and eventually retire to the lake; traveling with his girlfriend and girlfriend, although the down-and-out little policeman can't eat the pot and lose the bowl, but on the way back, he finds that the person who knows himself best has just been blind...
There are too many coincidences, but because of everyone's simple inattention, it seems natural and flexible, and even the criminal facts of bank robbery, fraud, and extortion have become innocuous jokes just to match people. So this is a very suitable summer movie, anyway, everything in the fairy tale is to pave the way for the prince and princess.