"At the beginning, you were careless/and I was young and inexperienced/love in the world of mortals/just because of the cause and effect of that life/or previous lives."
This song "Rolling Red Dust" sung by Tayu Lo and Chan Sarah may not be familiar to many young people.
But even if I haven't heard of it, the sentence "You weren't careful, I was young and inexperienced" will still make people deeply moved.
This song is also the theme song of the same name from 65438 to 0990 of Hong Kong director Yim Ho's Rolling Red Dust.
No matter then or now, this film is enough to become a legend.
On many creative levels, we also saw the uniqueness of this film:
Based on the love story of Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng, Sanmao's only and last play, with Brigitte Lin and Qin and Han Dynasties as the hero and Maggie Cheung as the female companion. ......
One movie, three lovelorn episodes.
At the same time, he swept eight awards in the 27th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, and almost won all awards except the best screenplay award.
This film tells a story of love in troubled times.
In Shanghai from 65438 to 0943, the Japanese aggressors were rampant.
Shen, a 22-year-old rich girl, was locked in the attic by her father and only gave her food and drink.
Even if he committed suicide by cutting his wrist, his father just said:
"Let her go, she can't die."
Under such circumstances, Shao Hua began her writing career.
It was not until her father died that she finally went downstairs and moved out.
This kind of character setting reminds us of the fragments written by Zhang Ailing in her autobiographical essay Whispering. The same strong father was also imprisoned, and the yard was full of magnolia flowers.
After Shao Hua moved out, she concentrated on writing novels behind closed doors until the arrival of a man broke her lonely but peaceful life.
The man's name is Zhang Nengcai, and he is very handsome, with a deep and steady temper, elegant and gentle. But he is an important member of Wang puppet government, that is, a traitor.
First, I sent someone to send a beautifully written letter to Shao Hua, but I didn't receive a reply, and then I called home.
As soon as we met, we praised her handwriting and gave her a porcelain tiger.
This little toy touched Shao Hua's heart, because her mother gave her such a toy when she was a child. Zhang Nengcai read this passage from the novel and remembered it.
Later, when we had dinner together and saw Shao Hua's lace shawl, Zhang Neng was full of praise. Actually, that's her tablecloth. Leaving home and spending money like water, the love of beauty can only be so.
When we met again, he gave her a bright red shawl, which made the beauty as charming as a flower.
Shao Hua fell.
She stood barefoot on Zhang Nengcai's leather shoes, danced with him on the balcony, covered her head with a bright red shawl and kissed her. She said, "Let's get married" and gave him her birthday and her body and mind.
From then on, my heart was full of him.
Traitor or, no wedding, the woman who was once said by her neighbors to be very stylish, willingly bent down to take off her coat for her beloved man and asked him softly if he was cold, tired and hungry.
Isn't this Zhang Ailing?
At that time, he became famous at a young age, with love city and red roses and white roses all over the country. Hu Lancheng, Minister of Cultural Propaganda Department of Wang Puppet Government, was also fascinated by her talent.
He described her writing as "a classic, but also a tropical fresh breath, inspiring the waves of life from the pious depths of life."
The two quickly got engaged and wrote a marriage letter.
He was 38 and she was 23. There was no ceremony, only a piece of wedding paper, which read:
Hu Lancheng Zhang Ailing signed a contract for life and became husband and wife, wishing to make the years quiet and the world stable.
But this stability was quickly broken by him cruelly.
Zhang Ailing, a proud and famous young woman, became "as low as dust" because she fell in love with Hu Lancheng.
Perhaps this is also the same attitude held by most people struggling in love.
Later, when War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression won, Zhang Neng lost power and fled to the countryside. Shao Hua went all the way to find him. When he saw him again, he first asked "How many days will he stay" and then made out with his landlady.
Shao Hua felt cold, so proud that she didn't want to endure this humiliation and betrayal, so she turned and left.
Hu Lancheng went further and said, "There is Aileen, but she is beautiful with Zhou Xiao." .
When he was down and out, Zhang Ailing sent the remuneration for Long Live My Wife, but she fell in love with Fan Xiumei in the mountains.
When Fan Xiumei took a note written by Hu Lancheng and asked her for money to have an abortion, Zhang Ailing was completely heartbroken, wrote a farewell letter and never met again.
But Zhang Nengcai is not so out of line. He is just a coward, a person who goes with the flow, a person who only thinks about himself most of the time, so he loves Shao Hua from beginning to end.
Like Zhang Ailing's close friend Yan Ying, Hua Shao also has a close friend named Yue Feng.
Yan Ying is cheerful and lively, and she can enjoy herself even in wartime. She witnessed Zhang Ailing's two marriages and all her loneliness and loneliness. With Yan Ying, Aileen's aloof and aloof also has a solid foothold.
Yue Feng's first appearance was so full of vigor and vitality, full of life breath. She made fun of her introverted and quiet youth in the dark corridor and made a hullabaloo about.
They will talk about their boyfriends together and iron their curls, which is very lively.
Similarly, Yue Feng will stand up when Hua Shao is besieged by her neighbors because of Zhang Nengcai's traitor status, hug her regardless of the stench of sewage when she is abandoned, and take her in when she is homeless.
Later, Yue Feng and her boyfriend were shot dead at a student rally, and both of them were killed.
She said, "We volunteered. He gave his heart to his dream and I gave my heart to him. "
It is also the crushing of the times. Two women, one died with her lover, and the other suffered a lot and could not be together.
Qin and Han Dynasties said that Shao Hua and Yue Feng were three hairs in two. The former is the inner three hairs and the latter is the outer three hairs.
After hearing this, San Mao also admitted that he had "taken his own soul" in the two roles by writing the script.
Perhaps it is because San Mao was thinking about Jose when writing the script "Rolling the World of mortals" that Zhang Nengcai did not become an ungrateful person in the end. For decades, he spent the rest of his life thinking about Shao Hua.
This is another kind of being together.
This is the story of Shen and Zhang Nengcai, as well as the story of Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng.
For San Mao and Jose, the conversation we are most familiar with-
Jose asked San Mao: What kind of person do you want to marry?
Sanmao said: If you look pleasing to the eye, the multimillionaire will marry. If you don't like it, the billionaire will marry.
Jose said, after all, you still want to marry a rich man.
San Mao glanced at Jose and said, there are exceptions.
"What if you marry me?" Jose asked.
San Mao sighed and said, if it is, you just need enough money to eat.
"Do you eat much?" Jose asked.
"Not much, not much, you can eat less in the future." San Mao said carefully.
Jose lived for 30 years and loved Sanmao 12 years.
But at that time, the biggest tidbits of this film were not Eileen Chang and Hu Lancheng, nor Sanmao and Jose, but Brigitte Lin and Qin and Han Dynasties.
1972, 17-year-old Brigitte Lin got to know the Qin and Han Dynasties, when he had a family.
In the following 23 years, Brigitte Lin faced all kinds of rumors and broke all kinds of shackles for Qin and Han Dynasties, but he still failed to escape his fate.
After filming "The World of mortals", their relationship quickly came to an end.
This is also their last film together.
Aside from the love entanglements inside and outside these films, "Rolling Red Dust" is still an excellent and even groundbreaking work in terms of shooting techniques and innovative consciousness.
The scene setting in the play can be said to be a highlight of the film.
In addition to the story of Zhang Shen, the film also inserted a fragment from Shao Hua's novel Magnolia, describing the experience of a girl named Magnolia. Yulan's life story and youthful love adventure constitute a legend and reality in a deep sense.
Coupled with well-conceived photography and editing, as well as just the right background music, all these make the rolling world of mortals break through the shackles of time and become a veritable classic.