I’ve been very tired today. It’s the last few days. I always feel heavy in my heart and I can’t write down some things.
I watched a movie called "Beijing Fun and Road" a few months ago, and today I saw a review like this, which brought back memories of that movie. If you have the opportunity, you can go and watch it. It's a realistic movie. But it is a movie full of ideals. It represents not only the pursuit of rock and roll, but also the group of people who are constantly pursuing their dreams. My dream is still there, how about you.
I will never forget that sentence in the movie. It affected me and changed me, "A man should not make money from idleness, drink too much wine, or hug little sluts."
I have lived for more than twenty years, and have been in college for two years. I have fallen into depravity and done things I shouldn't have done.
Sometimes, I have written hydrology for a few hundred yuan. This may be a waste of money. A thousand words are less than three yuan. Haha, it is an insult to a writer. I will not do it again in the future.
sometimes........
sometimes........
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【Many years ago, I was ignited by a movie.
It was a summer afternoon, and I went out to rent a CD as usual. I forgot which CD I wanted to rent, but I couldn’t find it. As usual, the landlady recommended a new movie to me - "Beijing Music and Road". This was something I couldn’t figure out. name, but I was afraid that it would be more boring if I couldn’t rent a plate, so I took it back to watch it.
After that afternoon, I started a rock and roll journey that lasted for half a year. I guess if I could afford to buy a guitar, I would not be sitting here at work writing a blog at this time. I would probably be in a messy place with records and band posters. In the rental house, I smoked sesame cigarettes while writing lyrics or held the guitar to compose music.
A young person's destiny can change at any time because of a small thing. Jia Zhangke watched Hong Kong movies for half a year and made up his mind to go to Beijing to take the film school entrance examination. But I was crazy about rock music for half a year and after finishing college, I cut the film. Have long hair, buy a new suit, look for a job honestly, and get paid properly.
However, I will never forget those more than half a year. Although it did not change my destiny, it profoundly affected my future, but I was not aware of it at the time.
If you haven't heard of Zhang Wanting, then you should know about "The Three Song Sisters". If you don't even know about the Three Song Sisters, then what about Fa Ge? You should have heard about "Autumn Fairy Tale". Unfortunately for you I was born relatively late, in an era where bad movies are rampant. Have you ever watched "Song of the Movies"? Zhang Wanting participated in most of the work.
"Beijing Music and Road" has a bit of Ang Lee's shadow at the beginning. Along with the exciting music of the capital, the camera passes through Tiananmen, courtyards, diabolo, and candied haws, and the 10-minute Beijing style display is very similar to "Food and Drink". The tone at the beginning of "Men and Women".
I believe that the sentence "A man is a real man, he doesn't make useless money, he doesn't drink bad wine, and he doesn't hug little sluts" can resonate with many passionate young people. I have posted it countless times on the unfamiliar QQ description file bbs signature file msnid I’ve seen it before, it was the toast of the band’s lead singer Ping Lu.
However, he might not have to drink too much wine, but he still had to make money, so he started to make excuses. Even so, his rock music only received comments like this:
"Looking for a band, I searched everywhere. There were bands all around. They were so noisy all day long that I felt dizzy."
"You guys are shaking and rolling so hard that my pigs don't even eat, and they are almost dead."
Ping Lu, a young rock and roll man who pursues the rebellious rock and roll spirit, has only two options for him: continue to pursue his ideals and run a greenhouse without being recognized; follow the packaging, rebel outside, and return to an economic company to be an honest person. Dog, then the record sells well and he becomes famous.
This is the paradox of rock music, and almost the paradox of art. When you are poor and have no future, your creativity is strongest. The so-called pain is the root of art. At this time, you are not recognized, and you are desperately trying to squeeze into the mainstream. But when you are finally recognized, you have lost the creative motivation that was originally caused by anger and rebellion.
Ping Lu chose to continue wandering. He was hit by a car and died. It is said that this was based on the death of Zhang Ju in the Tang Dynasty. Before his death, he took out the cassette and gave it to the driver to listen to. The desolate and distant song of Qiu Ye came from the car stereo. singing:
Bodhi has no tree.
Even the bright mirror is not a platform
There was nothing
Where is the dust?
This is one of my favorite rock songs. Occasionally singing it while driving at night brings me the same desolate and majestic feeling, as if I have returned to the past.
Of course, Hong Kong film directors describe rock music in Beijing from a Hong Kong perspective. For example, in the words of Daniel Wu, "There is no rock music in Hong Kong."
There is indeed no rock music in Hong Kong. Just look at the Chinese fire set off by Magic Rock that year and you will know how it was. Rock and roll comes from anger. It is a place without anger. How can rock and roll be produced? It can only produce popular pop that makes money. It's just music.
Going back to this movie, it is basically a literacy movie about Chinese mainland rock music.
The music of the entire movie was composed by the band Zi Yue. Ping Lu sang "Porcelain" in the bar, "The Depths of Light" he sang when he opened the tent, and "Bodhi Has No Trees" played to the driver before his death was from "The Zi Yue". i" are some of the better songs. Later I downloaded Ziyue's album and listened to it. They were all quite good. The next few songs were "Guigui", "No Way to Say", "Big Tree" and "Wine Road". It is said that this The band came out with Cui Jian, and I think it's quite reliable. They haven't released any more records since "Zi Yue I" and "Zi Yue II". I'm afraid only friends in Beijing can hear Akino's singing.
When the boxcar set off, the background music was a powerful and high-pitched rock version of "The Internationale". No one would believe it if I told it. This was the first time I heard "The Internationale" and I was immediately shocked. I quickly asked people around me who composed it. , when everyone laughed at me, I said something that I think is very new now: Oh, how sad, brother, the first time I heard the Internationale, it was the rock version.
At the memorial service on Pinglu at the end of the film, "Good Night, Beijing" by Baojiajie is a song that is so desolate and tragic. Wang Feng's broken gong voice is so damn suitable to sing this song, but before singing, Le The hands asked:
"How are you doing?"
"not bad"
"How are you doing,"
"improvise"
Everyone on earth knows that this is Lao Cui's handiwork.
Also, that song your angry young woman with an afro sings in the bar
"I love what you hate, I hate what you love, and I am the one you despise the most." The brothers are so ignorant that they don't know which band they are from.
In addition, when Daniel Wu was looking for a band, he met three kids with dyed yellow hair who were basically no taller than a guitar and passed by while chatting and laughing. I was stunned for a long time. When I saw these three kids, I immediately thought of the Huaer Band.
This movie also spread a lot of slang used by people in Beijing. I even saw a set of test questions on a website, which were all slang picked out of the movie, making people guess what they meant. I still see this The ones I remember include "Berry" and "Xiguo'er". I remember that I copied it to the computer and read it many times before I could clearly understand what it was about. From that time on, following the "Editorial Department's" After "Stories", "Beijingers in New York" and "I Love My Home", I gained a new understanding of Beijing dialect, which is still not outdated now.
What we discussed most was the impact of Shu Qi's leaky Mandarin on the film. The words "your uncle", "fuck you" and "do you have another lover" coming out of her mouth sounded awkward? , and finally I concluded: Just think of her as one of the northern drifters who traveled thousands of miles from the south to Beijing to engage in art. After agreeing with this, everyone praised Shu Qi's acting skills.
However, when Shu Qi said, "It's like Faye Wong, Black Panther, and Tang Dynasty, they all came out of acupoints in the past." We were still quite shocked, but now it's not so cliché.
Shu Qi injured a spectator selling mutton skewers and was taken to the branch. The police uncle used a ruler to measure the cut: three and a half centimeters. If it was half a centimeter short, he didn't need to go to the branch. He laughed to death.
Conversation between Daniel Wu and the owner of People’s Store (Note: People’s Store is a small grocery store on the street, mainly selling snacks and pirated discs)
“Are there any Mexican jumping beans,”
"I have oil beans, black beans, and spicy beans here, but I don't have those snacks."
"It's not snacks, it's a band"
"There is no such thing as a snack band"
“Very popular in Hong Kong”
"Let me tell you, you don't have the final say whether something is popular or not. Did you see that if I sell copies of his copies in the people's store, they are called red. If there are no copies of others, no one can say whether they are popular or not. The people are the masters of the matter. ,"
At that time, the boss sold pirated discs including Andy Lau's "It's Not a Sin for a Man to Cry", "Stefanie Sun", and Nicholas Tse's "Walking and Loving"
Laughing to death again.
I recorded fragments of this movie and recalled my life at that time. From this movie on, I started to grow my hair long, wear strange clothes, show off my rebellion and anger everywhere, and was proud to go home and go against my dad--- -I finally became an angry young man on campus with a cigarette in his mouth and his eyes looking at the sky. It wasn’t until I read Meng Jinghui’s “The Accidental Death of an Anarchist” that my level of “angry youth” improved a little bit. .
Of course, these are all superficial actions that are slightly exaggerated. The biggest gain is my love for rock. I crazily played down hundreds of underground and underground rock songs. I can still remember some bands such as "Underground Baby", "Pangu" and "Overload". "Xu Wei", "Zheng Jun", "Black Panther", "Tang Dynasty", "Magic Rock Three Heroes" and "Yin Wu" concentrated on listening to all kinds of rock during that time, which caused the anger of other buddies in the dormitory, but I didn't I spent money to buy a Walkman, so I could only use headphones to entertain myself. I believe that those rock songs entered my life from then on and are still alive and well to this day.
Some people say that starting to like light music is a sign of maturity, middle age, and middle class. It seems that I will never mature. My MP3 still has those "old rock" songs from that time. I listened to a few "Second Hand Rose" some time ago. Although it is good, there is still a gap compared to "Zi Yue". It is said that this is the most rock-like song now. Maybe fewer and fewer people use singing to express anger. Nowadays, people prefer to kill and commit suicide. , but that is not an expression but an escape.
Nowadays, although my life is no longer rocking, my heart is still rocking and will continue to rock.
It is said that this movie has been strongly boycotted by the Beijing rock circle. I don’t understand what they are boycotting. I think this kind of performance is already very objective. Compared with the real faces of those "pseudo artists" in "Grown Up" There is also Zhang Yuan's messy "Beijing Bastards" that exposes and satirizes. Zhang Wanting really completed this film with an attitude of admiration and envy for Beijing's underground rock scene, which is really kind.
A Hong Kong person made such an original rock and roll movie. I feel really embarrassed for the mainland directors. Maybe they don't want to touch on this subject, because this kind of life is simply the life they are immersed in. No one has the courage to face it honestly. To their own lives, especially the so-called artists.
Last night when I was sorting out the DVDs, I accidentally discovered that I had bought them before, so I took them out and watched them again overnight. I recalled my life at that time and was so excited that I couldn't sleep.
To experience the feeling of being young, watch some rock movies.
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,,Reprinted from Douban·Film Review
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