In fact, this is a "quick work".
"Flying Dragon Warrior" is a New Year's Eve movie in 1988, so it was very rushed in the process of shooting, and the creators also paid a lot of hard work.
Sammo Hung was filming "Ghost Stuck Foot" at the time. Halfway through the filming of the movie, Jiahe boss He Guanchang called to direct and star in this movie.
Sammo Hung had to stop his work. Later, after finishing "The Flying Dragon", he continued to shoot his "Ghost Stuck Foot", and lost 8 million Hong Kong dollars in production costs. Later, "Ghosts" was released and received 11.49 million box office, which was not as good as expected.
The joining of Sammo Hung injected new ideas into the film. He asked Jackie Chan to act as a lawyer, a role that Jackie Chan had not tried before. Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung both fall in love in the film, which is extremely rare in their action movies.
Yuan Hua is familiar to the audience for her role as the villain general in "Eastern Condor", and she also plays a similar role in this film.
In order to distinguish him from the previous role, Sammo Hung asked him to wear a cigar all the time. In a fight, the cigar can also be a sinister weapon, injecting a lot of funny elements into this character.
"Jets" Benny Yuquedz is the first generation of American WKA world middleweight king, professional combat record is 63 wins, 0 losses and 57 KO opponents. In "Fast Food Truck", he and Jackie Chan had a wonderful duel, and Sammo Hung thought of him when filming the film, so he invited him again.
In order to change his image, Binney was turned into dark circles by the makeup artist, making his small eyes instantly bigger and more sinister and cunning.
Binney and Jackie Chan’s fight scene is said to have been filmed for a full 7 days, during which they even went to bed at night to play on the floor in order to save time.
During this period Binney, Sammo Hung and Billy Zhou have established a deep friendship. In his eyes, Jackie Chan is very easy to learn. In order to practice his English well, Jackie always talks to Binney alone and uses English throughout the whole process to improve his English level.
The fights in the film are extremely dangerous, and both Binney and Jackie Chan are used as substitutes. But there is a shot of Jackie Chan being kicked directly by Binney. According to Yuen Biao's recollection, Jackie Chan was kicked and had blood in the urine.
Jackie Chan kicked Binney in a spin, and both of them used doubles. Jackie Chan couldn't do that action after several trial shots, so he had to find Qian Jiale as a stand-in to complete it.
Zhou Billy and Yuen Biao fought for the first time in the movie. Because the height of the two is so different, the action has to be retaken many times every day to complete. Among them, Zhou Billy was pulled by Yuen Biao and stretched out into a single horse. It took no less than 20 shots. Zhou Billy was also forced to split his legs more than 20 times.
And the shot of Zhou Billy being kicked in the chin was repeated many times. Because it was a close-up shot, he couldn't wear a mouth guard, so he could only use a lot of cotton in his mouth to protect his teeth.
The shot of Zhou Bili flying on the steps used a substitute, and the whole back of the substitute actor was directly pressed on the steps, and it was painful.
We still don't know the name of this stuntman, so we can see how hard the filmmakers were when they were shooting movies.
03.
The last swan song of the "Three Musketeers" has finally become a classic that cannot be copied today.
It was the serious attitude and professional spirit of all the creators that made the action classic "Flying Dragon Warrior".
The film achieved a box office of 33.58 million Hong Kong dollars that year, ranking third in the annual box office list; and winning 18 million US dollars in the global box office, it is also very good.
It is a pity that Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Biao have never worked together since this movie.
According to Sammo Hung, there is no contradiction between them, and they are often in contact as brothers. But the reason for no longer cooperating is that each has its own development path, and no film company finds them to cooperate again.
Unexpectedly, 32 years have passed, and now the three of them are not young anymore. I am afraid that there will be fewer opportunities to cooperate again. We can only see their collaboration in those old images. Those classic works carry the fond memories of our childhood.
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