20 years ago today, "Midnight Song" was released in Hong Kong, starring Zhang Guorong, Huang Lei, Wu Qianlian, a poignant love-hate song, known as the Hong Kong version of the "Phantom of the Opera", literary and artistic thriller, love horror. Cheung Kwok Wing's ghostly songs are still haunting, which is also an important factor in the classics of the film, and won 6 nominations at the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In "Midnight Song", Zhang Guorong played a 30s actor who was quite ideal and even avant-garde at that time - I don't know whether to call it an artist or a singer or a star or anything else, it should be regarded as an opera student, let's call him a drama according to the names of others in that era - Song Danping. I remember that there was such a sentence on the poster of "Farewell to the Overlord" that year: the bitch is ruthless and the drama is meaningless; but this Song Danping in this film is really sentient and righteous.
Song Danping fell in love with Du Yunyan (Wu Qianlian), a rich woman, but was obstructed by Du Father and the haoqiang Zhao family father and son. On the night when Yun Yan was forcibly locked in her own firewood room by her father, Song Danping was forcibly disfigured by the people sent by the Father and Son of the Zhao family; even the Grand Theater she painstakingly designed, built and operated disappeared in a fire.
Crazy Yunyan, every full moon night in the future, will run to the ruins of the theater to find Danping's singing; and Danping, who has spent the rest of his life after the disaster, is ashamed to face Yunyan, nor dare to face love, hiding in the opera house and dare not see people. Although the two longed to hug each other deeply, they could only sigh in the end, and one could wash his face with tears all day long. As the saying goes: "One kind of lovesickness, two places of idleness." ”
The appearance of Wei Qing (Huang Lei) gave the two a chance to reunite.
Dan Ping could not bear Yun Yan's sorrow and pain, attached his voice to Wei Qing's body, took Wei Qing as his own avatar, and comforted his lover with his song. But Dan Ping, who was hiding behind the curtain, finally had an impatient day, and he finally understood that in fact, Yun Yan didn't care that his face was no longer handsome.
However, on the day when he decided to meet Yun yan with his true face, he was shot by the young master of the Zhao family, knocking down Yun Yan's shaky body in the wind and rain, shattering the dream of the two of them to break the mirror and reunite, hitting Dan Ping's vicissitudes of heart, leaving only a sad song wandering in the night sky, fluttering...
The music is a commendable part of this film. In order to make the film more realistic, but also to make himself more into the drama, Zhang Guorong finally persuaded Yu Rentai and Huang Baiming to record live Chinese. The brother even went to battle himself, mixing his own mental journey into the plot of the film, and composed three Chinese songs that later became classics. Coupled with his own affectionate interpretation, he was able to make such a touching and beautiful song reverberate in the boundless night sky for a long time:
Only in the middle of the night can I and you
Open your soul to release innocence
Put a gentle kiss in the middle of the night
Turn into a song and snuggle up to the door of your heart
I pray that the stars and the moon will come and testify
Spend your whole life and be willing to wait
There will always be a day when the wish is fulfilled
Take you on a race to find eternity
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