In 1982, Xiao Wang Sunglasses went to the boss of Huang Tuya with a broken script, hoping to have a meal in Xinyi City. At that time, Art City was one of the few independent production companies in the world that made profits every year. Boss Rabbit has always been famous for his fast food commercials. The company has a few weird heads, and he shoots things surprisingly well and quickly. Sunglasses have just debuted, so they may be a little more tender. Boss Tuya read the book and said, have you ever written a script? You need to practice when you see it.
It's not his fault that Tuya doesn't understand sunglasses. The script for the sunglasses is pretty bad, I don't even think it's good, and I often have to change it before filming starts. As a result, a marriage was missed, and Sunglasses and Tuya took over Liangzi - and finally turned back. After Sunglasses became prosperous, it was Tuya's down and out season, but the two prodigies of Hong Kong movies never cooperated.
Twenty years of ups and downs in Canghai...
In 2005, after the climax of Sunglasses, I was bored by "2046", and when I came back, I wanted to make a money-making subject. Tony Leung, still wants to make a successful husband film, a little bit. But the audience thinks that the sunglasses are a master, and they will definitely be able to make them.
The problem is that the owner of Tuya decided to make a comeback and set up Dongfang Company in 2004. He also took a fancy to Ye Wen, so why are you being polite, grab it!
After the gossip is over, the book returns to the real story, and tell me the reasons for my appreciation of this movie. I'm sorry, but I have to start with history...
2005 was a dark age for Hong Kong movies. Do you remember that year, or any Hong Kong movies that impressed you? If you don't like Galaxy, then you really don't have much impression. Even the third-level films have been discontinued, those who have the ability have fled, and even Wang Jing has come to Beijing to hang out, and Hong Kong has no hope...
At this time, "Killing" "Broken Wolf" was born. I'm not exaggerating to say that this is a landmark work, and it is only 78 minutes long. The theme is an ordinary police and bandit film. Mainland theaters, why do I say it is a milestone?
Most of the landmark works have mixed reputations, and the defects are even more obvious than the advantages, so that people can feel the value of its advantages.
This is especially true of commercials.
There is no doubt that "Slaying the Wolf" is such a movie. Although the plot is vulgar and the performance is stylized, a flash devours everything like a mushroom cloud. To be honest, I only watched the second half, but it was enough. It was the most exciting sparring in history, which changed the life of Hong Kong kung fu movies. Zidan and Wu Jing, one is the American Jeet Kune Do champion, and the other is the national martial arts routine gold medal, they are all nonsense. The real fight comes from life. Fatty Hong may not have thought that the energy of the fusion of two people can be so great, it is just a male adrenal gland The extreme eruption of the element, he only found out when he was going to downgrade the film like Jacky chan in the later stage, no need, the fastest punching speed in the history of Hong Kong film has been born, or it can be said that it is the fastest so far.
In kung fu and movies, it's hard to say who succeeds who. When Li Zhenfan first arrived in the United States, in order to have the money to open a martial arts hall, he used his childhood experience of acupoints to fight for auditions. He was a second-rate artist and almost quit the film and television industry after playing a few supporting roles in TV dramas. Later, a producer of Golden Harvest took a fancy to him, dragged him back to Hong Kong, gave him confidence, and cast "Big Brother Tangshan" for him. It can be said that without Zou Wenhuai, there would be no Bruce Lee who later became a spiritual idol of a generation. For Jeet Kune Do to have today's influence, we should first thank Zou Wenhuai, not Bruce Lee. There is a precedent for Hong Kong people to create a trend. Bruce Lee went for domestic sales and re-exports. Until his death, he did not expect to have today's status.
The rivers and lakes are turbulent, and later Jackie Chan and Jet Li have contributed milestones to Hong Kong movies. Today I will watch "Drunken Fist 1" and "Shaolin Temple" again, but I can't stand it anymore; "Big Brother Tangshan" is a joke, but on the tablet in the Temple of Kung Fu Movies, I can't even wipe the dust off it, it's too high. .
Today, Donnie Yen is advancing towards this tablet. He was much rougher than his predecessors. Although he was famous early in the morning, he was always out of position. I was probably the same as most people when I met him. It was around the early 90s. At that time, he had acted as a gangster, a traitor, a soap opera, and even a eunuch. That's all, he is a vase that can be remembered. He was injured by Jet Li in the filming of "Men Be Self-improvement", and he was kicked by Yu Rongguang in the filming of "Iron Horse", but he was only regarded as a Liu Jiahui. style personality actor.
The entertainment version paid the most attention to the fact that he put lines on his opponent's face when he filmed "Seven Swords", which made people think that he is not an actor - he is ABC, basically can't recognize a few Chinese characters, and some even think he Yahuazi is too stealthy, and belongs to the kind of second-rate artist who does not hesitate to show his flesh in order to make a name for himself The milk killer shot the cover with bare chest, and at that time, he couldn't help choking and sighing about the fall of a piece of jade). I remember watching the material of the premiere of "Heroes" in the Great Hall of the People when I was on the movie channel, the stars appeared on the red carpet in pairs, Zhang Yimou and Jet Li, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, it was Zhang Ziyi's turn, and Yi actually looked around and walked around her. The nearest Donnie Yen went to Cheng Xiaodong. Donnie Yen finally found only Hetian Huimei. I have no intention of commenting on Miss Luozhang's sophistication, after all, this circle is very realistic, but I fully feel that as an actor, Zidan is confused in finding his own position. An American who found his roots in Hong Kong, but he didn't even have the luck of Bruce Lee back then.
All this until the age of 42, when he met Yip Weixin, and maybe Sammo Hung, although they had worked together before. This superstar who has passed the golden age of kung fu actors (Jet Li was filming his last kung fu film "Huo Yuan Jia" at the age of 42, Jackie Chan had finished his last profitable "Rush Hour" at the age of 42, as for Bruce Lee, 42 years old, he has been dead for ten years), this piece of jade broke out.
A bad script, a young director who was struggling on the set, and a martial artist who was going downhill, it was the superstar himself who made "Slay the Wolf". The box office is not high, the genre is hard, the audience loves and hates it clearly, some think it is too dark and bloody, and some think that Hong Kong movies have successors. I said, don't worry, just wait.
So, "Dragon Tiger Gate" didn't get up; "Fuse" was a little bit more energetic; "Ip Man" arrived.
"Ip Man" is just like its predecessor in the Golden Triangle. The script is very laborious and the performance is blunt. Some people say that a masterpiece of patriotism, I advise them to watch "Mei Lanfang". The bearded Dawn also wants to be more patriotic than Ip Man. . In my opinion, Zidan, as always, radiates a thousand rays of light in the dark environment. The reason why I love watching "Ip Man" is the same as watching "Slaying the Wolf", "Dragon Tiger Gate" and "Fuse", but this Back, traditional martial arts have plated a layer of golden light on close combat. No matter whether the opponent is Wang Lang, Wang Xiaohu, Tony or the Japanese, you must fight fast. , only fast is not broken."
If you don't know Zidan as well as I do, then you can look at the atmosphere of Ye Dao's painstakingly managed operation, the passionate music (Guizi makes music for the film that beats the devil, it's better than our own, tnnd), 70 years ago The dreamy hometown of martial arts (Chinese people in foreign stores all over the street wear Huo Yuanjia's long gowns to practice national quintessence), the yellowing picture (Chou Dong and Fang Wenshan will definitely like it), and the long-lost Fan Shaohuang (contacted after 1997) The audience of Hong Kong films should be unfamiliar with him), Shanghai beauty Miss Xiong (the vase is like this, killing you with her eyes), Lin Jiadong can also give such a good acting skills (to catch up with "The Detective"), Chi Nei Bozhi is not Onizuka-sensei's class (what is Kunio's name)
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In short, "Ip Man" is about to enter the room. Many years later, during the Lunar New Year, some people will definitely recall that in this winter of Hong Kong movies, there is a kung fu movie that has become more and more popular, and it is constantly added. start counting).
I will patiently tell them that Zidan’s mother is the Tai Chi master Mai Baochan, who founded the Chinese Wushu Research Association in Boston in 1975; Zidan was a child with an 8th grade piano; when he was a teenager, he was sent to Shichahai, Beijing for abusing violence in the block. He learned martial arts at a sports school; later moved to Hong Kong and started filming with Yuan Heping; Zidan learned Jeet Kune Do from a young age, and used traditional martial arts Tongzi Gong to make up for the shortcomings of Wing Chun's descendants who were unstable in the lower plate, thus forming a fast-paced, good at the same time borrowing The new generation of boxing that fights hard will eventually become everyone...
2009.01.10
PS: This article has nothing to do with art, it is purely dedicated to memories.
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