[Text / Teacher Liu]
For an entire generation, Su Rui's "Drinking Wine If Nothing Is Sold" is the most familiar melody. But perhaps for those born after the 1980s, they don’t know much about the movie that made this song possible.
"Hatch the Wrong Car" was born in the golden age of Hong Kong and Taiwan movies. That year it won 11 Golden Horse Awards nominations and won four laurels.
is as sung in the lyrics, "How can there be you without home, and me without you". "The Wrong Car" also tells a story about family relationships. But it is more twists and turns than the love of ordinary relatives: the uncle dumb, a veteran who picked up the abandoned baby, caused his wife to leave him, relying on trash, and the dumb uncle is both a father and a mother. . Because Uncle Dumb often plays beautiful music in his ears, Ami has a special understanding of music since she was a child. After graduating from high school, Amei went to a restaurant to be a singer. After getting to know the composer Shi Junmai, her singing skills improved greatly and she was followed by the entertainment company owner Yu Guangtai. In order to improve the life of the dumb uncle, Ami signed a contract to perform in Southeast Asia under the lure of Yu Guangtai. She did not want to be controlled by him as a cash cow. When the dumb uncle was seriously ill in bed, she could not withdraw to visit, and could only feel her thoughts and guilt on the stage. The love turned into a singing voice...
, a story about the love and dedication between the adopted daughters and adoptive fathers, not only touched many people back then, but still has the power to move people's hearts in this era. Although the experience of the protagonist Ami has strong characteristics of the 1980s, it seems that this story still has deep universal care and social insights. As a child born in a difficult family, even though Ami has a strong talent, she has no chance to receive a formal education, and she even has to support her family with skills at a young age. After meeting a noble person, she didn't have too many choices, and in the end her talent was squeezed by capital control.
Time has passed for thirty years, but the subject of star dreams is everlasting. However, all kinds of creations are mostly concerned with the brilliance of the surface, focusing on "dreaming", but rarely mention the price behind its brilliance. "Hatch the Wrong Car" does the opposite, using the experience of a female protagonist with a humble background to expose the hardships and pains behind the "star dream". And the focus is on the profound friendship between the heroine Ami and her adoptive father, dumb uncle. The motive of chasing dreams is not to pursue fame and wealth, but to fulfill filial piety. This story is not outdated today, so the well-known Hong Kong director Gao Zhisen who has directed "Happy Anniversary in the Flower Field" teamed up with the original screenwriter Huang Baiming and invited the veteran Hong Kong actor Dillon to put this classic movie on stage. Although
is the same story, stage plays and movies are two different carriers, and their expressions are actually quite different: in terms of initial investment, movies have higher cost requirements, but it is difficult to predict the benefits. Over the past ten years, Hong Kong films have been affected by piracy, which often leads to making ends meet. As a result, more and more good works have begun to be transformed into stage plays. As an "old play and new work", the stage play "The Wrong Car" has more room for adjustment. From the preliminary publicity, you can understand the tastes of the audience, and you can adjust the content at the right time while performing, and the performance will become more refined. Although
has room for adjustment, in fact, stage plays have higher requirements for performance. As a form of live performance, all plots must be completed at one go. This kind of carrier has extremely high requirements for actors, but it also has more occasions that cannot be reproduced. For example, in a performance of "The Wrong Car", Ti Lung, who played his father, suddenly added a roll down the stairs to the play. The details of this are not available in the rehearsal and rehearsal.
Due to the important position of "Hitch the Wrong Car" in the film history of Hong Kong and Taiwan, director Gao Zhisen hopes to not only retain the beauty of his film, but also make it fit the framework of the stage. In the interview, Gao said two major breakthroughs: First, there are some content elements in the movie that cannot be realized on the stage, so you need to consider using new elements to recreate. Therefore, the more popular songs of that era were added, and the whole music was finally The play has 17 songs. The second is to use film techniques to deal with stage plays. So the final product will have a lot of cinematic feel. A lot of film techniques are used in the play, and there are no pauses or changes in the two scenes. In the play, the heroine only takes 7-15 seconds to change the style, which is a rehearsal for quick change-ups, in order to be more similar to the editing method of the movie.
is on casting, director Gao Zhisen also hasQuite a lot of experience. "Hitch the Wrong Car" is a successful classic, so it is natural to choose the right actors to adapt to the script. Director Gao believes that you cannot choose actors with too strong personality, but should choose actors with strong personality. If the character is too strong, it will even downplay the character itself, and this will lose the true qualities of "Hitchhiking". Although Ti Lung is acting in a stage for the first time, he is a powerful veteran actor who can perfectly control the role of dumb uncle. In the choice of Yan Yige and Shen Zhenxuan, the first criterion is whether they can sing, and the second is that they are also very compatible with the character's temperament. In particular, Yan Yige and the character Ami both became famous when they were young, and they neglected their family members for their singing career. From a psychological point of view, they should have more resonance.
Although "Hitch the Wrong Car" on the mainland stage for the first time, it has actually been held in Hong Kong earlier after a series of twelve popular performances. As Director Gao said, good stage plays are getting better and better in constant adjustments. After 12 successful performances, what we can see is a better version. After being adapted and re-created, the classic "Hitch the Wrong Car" is finally able to emerge from the old movie 30 years ago and come to the new generation, which also allows this good story to last forever and become more Good memories for many audiences. The stage play "Hitch the Wrong Car" will now move to the Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall on October 18 and 19 as the first stop of the world tour. Don’t miss it!
