Recently, Du Qifeng and the two actors he worked with, Gu Tianle and Liu Songren, gathered together, which reminded Bin Ge of Du Qifeng's early wonderful movies.
The film style is sharp, the image is unique, and the actor's performance is relaxed, especially the actor under his lens is sometimes calm, sometimes crazy, sometimes obedient, vivid and expressive.
Bin Ge came to take stock of the nine male actors who played male number one in Du Qifeng's movie.
Liu Songren
He is the male protagonist of Du Qifeng's first film "Bishui Hanshan Kills Gold".
Ten years later, we collaborated again on "The World of Love".
In 1993, he also made a cameo appearance in Du Dao's "Three Heroes of the East".
Whether it is the personality of the character or the performance style, Liu Songren is not the most representative male protagonist in Du Qifeng's movie, and his performance in the TV circle is remarkable, but when he reaches the big screen, he seems tepid, and finally stops at the TV series.
Zheng Haonan
Du Qifeng filmed several TV movies during the TVB period, such as "Heavenly Blood Road", "Spy Blood Whampoa Beach" and "Big Knife King V". Zheng Haonan, who is famous for his tendon meat, is the male number one of these works.
Shoot it according to the movie, but the picture and the actors' performances are the style of TVB's early episodes.
In addition to showing a strong physique and agile hands, Zheng Haonan lacks eye-catching personality and rich emotional changes, and his recognition is not high.
After missing Wu Yusen's "The True Colors of Heroes", Zheng Haonan's star luck was not good, often appearing in a series of low-budget love action films, and later directly reduced to a fourth- and fifth-line supporting role.
Zhou Runfa
Fa Ge and Du Qifeng have not cooperated much, and so far they have cooperated in four movies.
The first was the Lunar New Year film "Eight Stars annunciation", which grossed 37.09 million, ranking first in the box office in 1988.
The second was "A Lang's Story", which grossed 30.91 million, ranking fourth in the 1989 box office list.
The third is the New Year film "Auspicious Star Arch", which grossed 20.29 million, ranking eighth in the box office list in 1990.
The fourth is the 2015 song and dance film "Gorgeous Office Worker", which grossed 47.422 million, which seriously dragged its feet at the box office.
Fa Ge's strong box office appeal in the mid-to-late 1980s coupled with Du Qifeng's ability to control commercial themes, the film career of both of them skyrocketed.
Zhou Runfa said in an interview that he is a fan of Du Qifeng and it would be a pity not to shoot his works. It seems that Fa Ge will not have regrets.
Andy lau
Du Qifeng's formal cooperation with Andy Lau began in 1991's "Supreme Supreme 2 Forever Domination", which performed well at the box office.
However, the two had an unpleasant vignette in the collaboration. During Du Qifeng's tenure as the producer of "Tianruo Love", Andy Lau's greedy little action of stroking his hair completely angered Du Qifeng on the set, so it took six years to have the cooperation of "Tianruo Love 3".
This time, Andy Lau and Du Qifeng spent a long time together, and found that Du Qifeng was just a person with a temperament that said one thing, and gradually fell in love, and then had many later cooperation.
In 1999's "Dark War", Du Qifeng let Andy Lau break through the original drama path, and also let him win the Academy Award for Best Actor that year.
After the millennium, Du Qifeng also portrayed Andy Lau into a Chengdu Yapi type man, partnering Cecilia Cheung, Zheng Xiuwen and other actresses, talking about love and making money by the way.
Working with Cecilia Cheung on "Big Man with Great Wisdom" has a good box office.
He did a couple file with Zheng Xiuwen and cooperated with a series of good-grossing romantic light comedy films such as "Lonely Man and Widow", "Slim Man and Woman", "Dragon and Phoenix Fight" and "Blind Detective".
Friction and acquaintance with Andy Lau on the set, and then to the later exchange of hearts, Du Qifeng and Andy Lau achieved mutual achievements.
Liang Chaowei
Although he cooperated with Liang Chaowei in urban comedy films such as "Beach Boy and Zhou Shi Milk" and "Kick to Bao", the box office and word of mouth were average.
Liang Chaowei was originally an actor with great acting talent, but he could not shine in Du Qifeng's works.
Perhaps there is no strong spark between Liang Chaowei's gloomy and introverted performance temperament and Du Qifeng's outward image style, but the sunglasses king excavates and magnifies his unique performance charm.
Stephen chow
Working with Zhou Xingchi should be the most proud but also the most uncomfortable experience of Du Qifeng's career.
When asked which of the actors he has worked with is the most talented, Du Qifeng told the truth, "I don't like him the most, but I think he is very good, I like him, and I don't like him, and the person who gets very confused is called Zhou Xingchi." ”
Du Qifeng found that Zhou Xingchi's nonsensical performance style completely stole the limelight of his director, and the two sides had constant friction when cooperating, and they could only give in to the completion of the work.
One is "The Inquisitor", which not only sits firmly on the box office champion throne in 92 years, but also makes Stephen Chow a well-deserved king of nonsense comedy and box office guarantee.
The other is "JiGong", which has a mediocre box office, but inspired Du Qifeng to be a director with his own style of expression.
Liu Qingyun
Since 1995, Du Qifeng and Liu Qingyun have begun to cooperate frequently, and they have also begun to stand on their own and establish Galaxy Impression.
Galaxy Impression was founded not just to run a company, but to make original films without forgetting the original intention.
Liu Qingyun said that the 1990s was the most enjoyable period for his creation, although Du Qifeng did not pay much, but he enjoyed it and constantly broke through his performance comfort zone. Representative works of this period include "Tasteless Detective", "100,000 Fire Rush" and "Goodbye Ah Lang".
Even when Du Qifeng later recalled the early days of the establishment of galaxy impressions, only Liu Qingyun could digest his creations, because Liu Qingyun's calmness and Du Qifeng's boldness created a unique galaxy impression movie.
Gu Tianle
In addition to Liu Qingyun, Gu Zai is also an actor who is recognized by Du Qifeng and matches the style of Galaxy Impression.
Millennium collaborated with Gu Tianle on a series of romantic comedy films "One Hundred Years of Good Union", "Single Man and Woman" and "High Altitude Love 2".
"Judo Dragon and Tiger List" starring Gu Tianle is Du Qifeng's personal favorite movie.
Du Qifeng also directly praised Gu Tianle as gu fun, because he was very interesting, loved by everyone, and the car was seen in the car.
Unlike Andy Lau, who was scolded when he was young, Gu Tianle on the set got along well with Du Qifeng, and Gu Tianle also regarded Du Qifeng as his mentor on the road of film.
Ren Dahua
Ren Dahua's performance style is changeable, and he is well represented in Du Qifeng's works.
Like "Mobile Force", "Underworld" and "Wen Que" can be called the works that Ren Dahua has taken advantage of in his acting career.
Ren Dahua said that on the set of Du Qifeng, it is rarely necessary to prepare in advance, but relies on the run-in with Du Qifeng on the spot to enter the performance state. This placed extremely high demands on the actors, but Ren Dahua enjoyed this way of performing very much.
During the filming of "Wen Que", Du Qifeng asked Ren Dahua to ride a bicycle on a very old Yongle Street in Hong Kong, but without telling him the purpose of doing so, Ren Dahua really had to ride a bicycle for seven days.
It is very hard to make Hong Kong films, especially to shoot Du Qifeng's films. Although he has made many foreign films, Ren Dahua always believes that Hong Kong film directors are the best.
Today's Du Qifeng, the film output is not as good as before, many years have not seen the emergence of new works, after all, Du Qifeng's creative peak has passed, and the male actors who cooperate with him have also entered the age of destiny, but most of them are still filming in the front line, some are self-reliant, and some belong to semi-retirement.
The Hong Kong film market has changed its world and is more dependent on the mainland. However, the tastes of mainland audiences are ever-changing, and Du Qifeng has learned.
Insisting on originality while respecting and taking into account the market is a great challenge for Du Qifeng. However, as a Bin brother who loves Du Qifeng's works, he is still looking forward to Du Qifeng's next work.