Deng Xinya, female, Sichuanese, teacher of Guangdong Baiyun University, mainly engaged in visual culture research of film and television.
In 20 10, Peng Haoxiang, a Hong Kong director, won many praises for his film Meiji and Chunjiao. In 20 12, another film, Love with a Pure Son, extended the story to the mainland. The main emotional thread of the hero and heroine in the two films still runs through the whole story. Compared with the first film, the second film has many elements familiar to mainland audiences on the basis of Hong Kong flavor. Today, when many Hong Kong film directors are criticized for going north, it is not easy for Peng Haoxiang's two films to achieve box office success.
First, Zhiming and Chunjiao-Love in the Smoke
The movie begins with a ghost story told by smokers. Under the anti-smoking regulations, smokers hide in the back alley and smoke in groups, and the topic keeps lingering in the smoke. Zhiming and Chunjiao met in a smoking place. In just five days, their feelings grew rapidly in the smoke. Peng Haoxiang has always been good at telling stories about little people. This story tells the story of men and women who came to Hong Kong and collided with reality with emotional moral signs. This event is real, but it is short-lived. After five days of acquaintance, Chunjiao gave up her boyfriend who had been in love for five years and devoted herself to the relationship with Zhang Zhiming. Peng Haoxiang made the love that refused to return to rest straightforward and hateful. It seems that every relationship is just a story of chatting while smoking. Convenience stores, narrow alleys and interspersed interview clips everywhere in Hong Kong make Hong Kong feel hysterical. "It can be said that the prosperity of Hong Kong films is based on this endless stream of fresh themes that are not divorced from the lives of characters." Meiji and Chunjiao won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. It is shameless, relaxed and humorous. Peng Haoxiang vividly shows Hong Kong people's attitude towards emotion, and the use of reflective lenses makes their personality distinct.
Details can't be ignored in this film. Whether it's Jia Hao who has been in love with Chun Jiao for five years or the incident in which Zhiming and Chun Jiao hold hands together, love is a little clear behind the smoke, and the tension of details infects this film. These details made Chun Jiao Zhiming fall in love and paved the way for the next paragraph. Similarly, there are many dialogues in the film for you to savor. When the film was released, it was labeled as a "third-class film" because of swearing. By the time of goodbye, the dubbing has been changed, and the vernacular has interpreted the city from another side. Peng Haoxiang is accurate. You can see their emotional attitude from chatting, and you can also see a corner of Hong Kong from their emotional attitude. Those graceful fireworks will not only appear in Victoria Harbour, but also in the streets and lanes, or just an encounter in a convenience store. Zhiming Chunjiao makes people sniff out humanistic feelings in cigarettes. It's tepid, and the narrative of the lens is smooth and not exaggerated. Between you and me, it seems that we have no intention to do everything in our hearts.
Second, "the love of the naked child"-love beyond cigarettes
The film begins with Zhiming and Chunjiao living together, but the gap between Zhiming and Chunjiao gradually rises, and finally reaches its peak after Zhiming forgets to have dinner with Chunjiao's family. Chunjiao moved out of the apartment, and Zhiming chose to go north. Love in the smoke comes and goes quickly. Those street puffs are rare in the second film, and only memories are left in light yellow love. Peng Haoxiang's "Going North" has obvious inland characteristics, and the new characters make this characteristic obviously abnormal. Zhiming's new girlfriend Shang Youyou appeared, and the young stewardess loved Zhiming deeply. Sam, a mature and excellent man, is tolerant, generous and devoted to everything in Chunjiao. "Love of a Pure Son" crossed a remote back alley in Hongkong, seesaw half of China, and seemed to be on the road of happiness without hesitation. Zhiming and Chunjiao each have their own advantages. How will the story continue? The director kept the audience's appetite by selling tickets in the play.
Similarly, in Love with a Pure Son, the scene is changed to the mainland, and people go north to collect gold. The landmark buildings such as Kuta and Sanlitun, which are familiar to mainland audiences, have brought people closer, and the ending also adopted the mainland TV series "Airport Interception Bridge". Peng Haoxiang's trip to the north was full of superficial "Mainland Kung Fu". However, according to the experience of Hong Kong directors going north, not all mainland kung fu is useful. "Going north will inevitably encounter cultural aesthetics, creative thinking and spiritual temperament. It is inevitable for Hong Kong directors to adjust their original creative strategies and film styles to adapt to the mainland market. However, if you just "cater" blindly, you will walk into a minefield and completely lose Hong Kong's spiritual temperament and cultural characteristics. Stiff patchwork of the unfamiliar "continental model" will only be unpleasant at both ends. " Naked love is very popular in Chinese mainland. Obviously, Peng Haoxiang is not limited to appearances. With the help of the first film, he will be surrounded by more serious mainland feelings, but the feelings of Hong Kong faction still spread in the story. The two are still having an affair with each other's new lover. Until finally, Chunjiao found herself a different Zhang Zhiming. The true meaning of love on Hong Kong Island is not obvious under favorable conditions, and it hits people's hearts directly.
There are many movies that move people with emotion. Peng Haoxiang directly transplanted realistic young people's acute attitude towards feelings into the comparison of feelings and attitudes in the Mainland, and Zhiming's criteria for mate selection were also best interpreted. Not all love can be replaced. The love in the smoke extends beyond the smoke, and you can see the shortcomings clearly. The little people's emotional experience is still shameless, but people can't hate it. Between the lines of the camera, there is thinking and absence. The lens feeling of Love in buff is obviously calmer than the first one, and it also represents the director's understanding of mainland feelings, which is steady and true. "The Love of a Pure Son" also continued to illuminate the elements of the north in his last embrace.
Third, Peng Haoxiang moved northward.
Hong Kong film directors have a tortuous road to the north, but Chinese mainland's rich film and television resources and huge investment are still attractive, but the differences in regional preferences, audience types and viewing habits often make films "acclimatized". Many top directors such as Chen Kexin, Xu Anhua and Chen Jia have tried water in North Korea. Some people are happy and others are worried. The warlords, The Demon of a Journey to the West and The Painted Skin have been successful in the market, but many films such as The Guillotine, The Magician and Yang Jiajiang the Warrior are not satisfactory. Since Hong Kong directors went north, the choice of film themes has gradually narrowed, and the plot is weak, making it difficult to convince the public. Martial arts dramas and star effects are no longer sharp weapons, and movies need to be more inclusive. The success of the above two films in Peng Haoxiang lies not only in the box office, but also in the recognition of mainland audiences. With his unique perspective, he opened the mainland's exploration of Hong Kong people's feelings, attitudes and lifestyles, and the urban expression and narrative under humanistic care made the film full of human touch.
Emotional depiction makes Zhiming and Chunjiao full, the characters in the film are clearly and profoundly portrayed, and fragmented interviews guide the story to tell everyone's feelings. Men and women in Hong Kong are also looking for suitable partners according to their sexual orientation. Chun Jiao's crazy and playful attitude towards Zhiming is exactly what Zhiming needs. The emotional connection between the two is clear, even in the confused love of metropolis. The spirituality of love between Hong Kong men and Hong Kong women obviously exceeds materiality in the film, so the increase of materiality of love in buff is obvious. Sam's high quality and superior appearance, Peng Haoxiang believes that all the elements that the mainland attaches importance to have been added. Love under material resistance is more real.
The choice of movie theme is also the key to the success of Peng Haoxiang's Going North. Many directors who go north choose martial arts themes or continue classics, but the visual stimulation of big chapters is a sense of emptiness. Peng Haoxiang chose the route of "little affection and little love" to bring freshness to the mainland audience. Similar to love rat's love, Shang Youyou and Yu Chunjiao's tears hurt the audience, but they secretly cheered for Zhang Zhiming's final choice. Peng Haoxiang brought endless love back to the real world. Feelings go northward with the pace of Hong Kong people's work. At the same time, feelings are also facing the "challenge" of regionalization. After the reunification, Peng Haoxiang had a subtle influence on this psychological challenge.
A big movie with a small theme, a chat plot full of warnings. From Meiji and Chunjiao to Love of a Pure Son, Peng Haoxiang made great efforts for his trip to the North. He forgot the visual stimulation and classic attraction, and touched the audience in both places with the truest love.
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