In the 80s and 90s, Hong Kong films were very popular, and even the New Year comedies were filmed with sound and color, when every actor could act and play, and there was no baggage at all. "Happy Family Affair" is definitely a classic comedy movie, continuing the "Eight Stars Annunciation" three-life and three-dan route, coupled with the parents' finishing touch, it can be called a New Year's film classic.
The three groups in the movie are Huang Baiming with Wu Junru, Zhang Guorong with Mao Shunjun, and Zhou Xingchi with Maggie Cheung. But the initial collocation was not like this, originally Huang Bai wanted Lin Zixiang to play the eldest brother, play the second brother himself, and find Zhang Guorong to play the playboy third. As a result, Lin Zixiang had a temporary affair, and he had to play the big brother himself. At that time, Zhou Xingchi was showing his prominence, not only offered three times the salary, but also designated to partner with Maggie Cheung, Zhang Guorong felt that the role of the girl had a lot of room to play, plus he also wanted to match with Mao Shunjun, so it became a combination we saw, and now it seems that it is really thankful, this match is superb, even the cameo object of affair is played by Li Lizhen.
The story goes family comedy style, the eldest brother has been married for many years, stealing food outside, and as a result, the little third child enters the house, and the sister-in-law has to go to karaoke to work for self-reliance; The second's purest love insists on the distant cousin of Wanjun, and the cousin aunt is a sworn enemy; The third elder works as a DJ on the radio station, is a playboy, and associates with He Liyu, an audience who loves movies. In the end, the boss changed his mind and tried to chase the sister-in-law back, and the second yin and yang (worthy of the name) were with his cousin and aunt; After going crazy, Lao San discovers that He Liyu is true love. The film says goodbye to the audience at the wedding Wishing you prosperity ends.
In fact, a lot of funny are placed on Wu Junru and Zhou Xingchi, and these two roles are also the most changed. Zhang Guorong and Mao Shunjun are cute and joyful enemies, but they are really matched, and both of them play a good role in their yin soft and masculine temperament, not excessively deliberate and cute. I especially like my cousin riding a motorcycle into the house very playing mahjong that part, the whole storyboard and laughing stem are arranged just right. This is the most powerful place of "Happy Things at Home", and the jokes are still outdated after 30 years. Classic lines will be memorized by everyone when they see it, "Pretty Women look for Kaizi", "Who is lascivious, I am lascivious", "Don't close the door and don't drive", "Don't shout loudly don't let the old people know", and "The Eiffel Tower of Paris overturned".
In fact, this movie has many interesting memes, like Chen Shulan, who plays the mistress, who said: "I chose Miss Hong Kong, but no one remembers!" 」 In real life, she really was the runner-up of Miss Hong Kong in 1988. Then there are a large number of movie memes, not only the poster CoS "Ada Family", Maggie Cheung's He Liyu is a Hollywood fan, her role spoof "Sparrow Becomes Phoenix", "Sixth Sense Of Life and Death Love", and even "North African Spy Movie" and "Ghost Shop" have been paid tribute. There are no shortage of Chinese-language movies, with Stephen Chow quoting Zhang Guorong's famous "one-minute line" in "The Legend of Ah Fei", and Zhang Guorong himself taking a peek at the Adult Education Center with the soundtrack of "Ghost of a Woman".
What's more, it turns out that there are two versions of the ending of "Happy Things at Home"!
From childhood, I saw that the big ordinary version was the whole family to karaoke to sing Hokkien songs to save the sister-in-law's song "Why Meet And Know Each Other" super brainwashing, and after watching the lingering smooth reunion. However, the special edition has a sudden style of painting into Wu Yusen's gunfight scene. In the special edition, the sister-in-law rejected them at karaoke, but was kidnapped by the gangsters on the road, the three brothers chased after the gangsters in a flying car, and then snatched their guns, and there was a gunfight in the jungle, Zhang Guorong was on the upper body of "The True Colors of Heroes" for a second, handsome and full of air to shoot the gangsters. It turned out that it was really because "The True Colors of Heroes" was popular in South Korea at that time, so in order to sell the Korean market, another ending was filmed, which was very abrupt and funny, and everyone might wish to look for it.
Extended version