英文摘要 |
When previous scholarship focues on Hou Hsiao-hsien and his aestheticsof long takes and bystander positions in relation to Shen Congwen’s literaryworks, this paper shifts its focus on vital impulses that both of their worksshare and points out the intertexual relationships of Boys from Fenggui (1983)with Lovable You (1981) and Rocco and His Brothers (1960). Just as the youngShen Congwen, boys from Fenggui express their vital impluses through resistanceto domestic confinement, group fightings and romantic pursuits. Theiryouth, however glorious it may be, leaves no traces on history same as theircounterpart of Western Hunan residents in Shen Congwen’s writings whoexhaust their life enengy in fighting and self-entertainment. In addition, LovableYou can be regarded as the predecessor of Boys from Fenggui; the ordinaypeople in the background from the former have become the heroes and heroineson the front stage of the latter. Similar to Milan in Rocco and His Brothers,Kausheng in Boys from Fenggui provides these teenagers an opportunity tomove forward in a progressive life trajectary along with the linear progressionof modernity: having a job, earning money, striving for promotion, and becominga middle-class member. Their self-realization in Kaosheng examplifiesTaiwan’s economic miracle and, whether or not they succeed in fullfiling thedreams, Hou Hsiao-hsien acknowledges the life enegy of these youths and,through the film, attempts to revitalize the audience’s vital impulses. |