Five Soundtracks in The Wind Guardians

After The Wind Guardians was on screen, many audience were very impressed by the music in the film. After they stepped out of the cinema, the first thing they did was to search the songs in the film. “The music covers every type in the film – funny, sweet, sad, enthusiastic and aesthetic – and all sounds nice.” According to the director Liu Kuo, most songs in the film carry Chinese characteristics to make it a complete Chinese-style one.The soundtrack mostly consists of traditional Chinese folk music, including Suona Horn, Dulcimer, Pipa and Erhu, which is rare in domestic movies. Then what kinds of music are there in the film? Let’s list them one by one.

The Most Righteous: HUAJIANGHU – The Wind Guardians

In the film, after the Mother “Sister May” was missing, Lang Ming decided to look for his mother together with the little demon. On their way through all the obstacles and hardships, Lang was growing up quickly. The soundtrack of this segment consists mainly of Rap, accompanied with a Chinese-style melody, catchy and unique. The lyrics of the song show the bravery, righteousness and chivalrous of the youngster.

The Most Funny: Punishing Them

The most impressive soundtrack in the film is Punishing Them by “That Village”. The village head Wealthy Wang and the villagers Wealthy Wangs stand in a grand and serious formation on the Worship Ceremony, yet the audience burst into laughs as they begin to sing the song Punishing Them. “Oh it’s the two of them, debtors of the debt; Oh it’s the two of them, beheading other people; Should You Go and Punish them.” This peculiar song should have the flavour of “Throwing the Pot”. Some audience joke that this song is the Best Punch Line and should be placed at the core position in the film.

The Most Sweet: Muddled

The quarrelsome lovers – Lang Ming and the Little Demon gradually generate affections towards each other when they live together in “That Village”. The Little Demon  looks after Lang Ming carefully when his stomach swells because of the spinning top while Lang Ming bought her favourite bracelet secretly. It makes a scroll painting of the dawn of love. As the episode Muddled rang, a great number of audience were moved by the sweet romance between the couple, even the Post-95s grinned like an aunt and said that it made them want a romance, too.

The Most Sad: Leaving

The sweetness of the romance in the top half of the film makes the bottom half even more grieving for the audience. The Little Demon betrays, awakens, sacrifices herself and transforms into a wind – the development of the plot makes this romance particularly heartbreaking. As the ending song Leaving rings, the romance between the Little Demon and Lang Ming is put to an conclusion while the open ending of the two lovers meeting again in the stinger provides more possibilities for this couple.

The Most Aesthetic: The Wind Guardians

As the namesake theme song of the film, The Wind Guardians is made by Vincent Fang and Henry, the two representatives of Chinese-style music.As is learned, both of them decided to produce this song after being moved by the film.The poetic lyrics by Vincent Fang is combined with the sweet melody of Henry, demonstrating the meanings of the film accurately and vividly. The audience hasn’t been able to find the song in the feature as it was made relatively late. It does not matter as they can play the MV of the song and appreciate it closely.