It is very common to watch the same movie twice, as long as the quality of the movie is good enough, and the audience just has time and likes it.
However, it was very unexpected to shoot the same movie twice, and even if the creative team liked it, the shooting process was quite torturous. [Except for art forms such as dramas and operas, which are repeated countless times.] 】
So, who has ever encountered an accident that was made twice in the same movie, and what was the reason for the need to shoot it twice?
The same movie was shot twice, Stephen Chow met, Jet Li met, and Zhang Min also met, but their situations were different, and the reasons for reshooting were different.
In 1991, Stephen Chow's "Gambler 2 On the Beach Gambling Saint"
"Gambler 2 on the Beach Gambler Saint" is full of stories in the title, because of copyright reasons, the male protagonist of the film is the gambling Saint Zhou Xingchi, but the title is the sequel to "Gambler 2".
More stories are the filming process of "Gambler 2 on the Beach Gambler".
In 1990, after Stephen Chow became the new annual box office champion in Hong Kong with "Gamble Saint", he immediately became the object of competition among major film companies. Xiang Huaqiang to Huasheng Brothers' Yongsheng film took the lead in grabbing Stephen Chow, and used its Andy Lau and Stephen Chow to cooperate in making a "Gambler", which also achieved a box office performance of more than 40 million.
The next year, seeing that the gambling boom was still there, Stephen Chow's nonsense comedy was even more in the sky. Therefore, director Wang Jing created this "Gambler 2 on the Beach Gambling Saint" on the basis of nonsense gambling film + special function, plus crossing elements.
In addition to Stephen Chow, another big selling point of "Gamblers 2 on the Beach" is the heroine Gong Li from the mainland, who has just won the nomination for best actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards for "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Figurines" with Zhang Yimou, opening up popularity in the Hong Kong film industry.
At that time, it was the most brilliant era of Hong Kong films, because Hong Kong films could be marketed throughout Southeast Asia, and Taiwan has always been the largest foreign port market and source of funds for Hong Kong films.
At that time, Chow Yun-fat abandoned "Running to the Fury Sea" because he was afraid of losing the Market in Taiwan Province, while Leung Ka-fai was filmed in Beijing for "Burning the Yuanmingyuan" and "Hanging Curtains to Listen to the Government", although he won the Hong Kong Academy Award for Best Actor, he was still banned, which was also pressure from taiwanese film manufacturers.
Therefore, "Gambler 2 on the Beach Gambling Saint" uses mainland actress Gong Li, and it is impossible to release it in Taiwan in the future.
In order to preserve the big market in Taiwan Province, Yongsheng came up with a one-piece double-shot method: the Hong Kong version used Gong Li as the heroine, and the Taiwan provincial version used Taiwanese provincial actress Fang Jiwei as the star, who played the same role.
To be precise, Gong Li and Fang Jiwei played the roles of Ru Xian and Ru Meng at the same time.
The specific operation is that the same scene, Zhou Xingchi and Gong Li filmed again, and then filmed again with Fang Jiwei as it was, the two versions of the plot are exactly the same, but the heroine is different.
Therefore, in Zhou Xingchi's "Gambler 2 on the Beach Gambling Saint", all the opponent scenes with Gong Li were filmed twice.
It's just that most of the audience sees Gong Li's version, and Fang Jiwei's version is seen by very few people and is almost forgotten.
As a singer, Fang Jiwei also sang the theme song of the movie "Complaining that the Sky Changed Hearts", including the Cantonese version of "Hate Meets Again Today". The audience remembers more, it should be these two theme songs.
1995, Zhang Min's "One Thousand and One Nights' Dreams"
Because of her close relationship with Xiang Huasheng, Zhang Min has always been a sister of Yongsheng, obtaining the best film resources, and can continue to cooperate with first-line superstars such as Stephen Chow, Andy Lau, Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li and so on.
By 1995, seeing the decline of Hong Kong films, Xiang Huasheng quit Yongsheng to do other business, and Zhang Min also began to plan for his future.
That year, Zhang Min founded his own film company, transformed into a boss, and began filming an entrepreneurial work called "One Thousand and One Nights of Dreams", which is a romantic comedy starring Leung Ka Fai and Wu Qianlian.
[The role played by Zhang Min in Stephen Chow's "Gambling Saint" is called Qi Meng.] 】
As a result, after watching the rough cut sample after shooting, Zhang Min felt dissatisfied, and there were many places that needed to be reshot. However, the male protagonist Leung Ka Fai has already gone to other places to shoot other films, and there is no schedule to cooperate.
In a hurry, Zhang Min decided to reshoot, personally playing the female lead, the male lead was replaced by Liu Qingyun, the title of the film is "Chasing the Girl 95 Dream"; the director was also replaced by Li Lizhi, who and Gu Dezhao revised the script, and Zheng Danrui, Wen Jun, Wang Minde, Gu Juji and other co-stars.
The version starring Leung Ka Fai was not wasted, edited into a complete movie, and the name was changed to "One Thousand and One Nights' Dreamer".
The two movies "One Thousand and One Nights' Dream Man" and "Chasing the Girl 95's Dream", in addition to the difference in the main creators, titles, etc., 95% of the plot is the same, which is equivalent to the same movie being filmed twice.
Later, "One Thousand and One Nights' Dreamer" was released on June 17, 1995, with a Hong Kong box office of HK$3.11 million; "Chasing the Girl 95's Dream" was released on June 24, 1995, ranking 20th at the Hong Kong box office of HK$10.32 million.
Obviously, Zhang Min's version of the horse personally has a better box office, and the choice of remake is correct.
In 1996, Jet Li", "King of Adventure"
In the 1990s, Jet Li was the most appealing superstar at the box office outside of bi-Weekly Chengcheng; he once paid off his debts for Li Zhi and signed a number of film contracts with Yongsheng. Therefore, in those years, jet Li had many movies produced by Yongsheng, and he could also be called Yongsheng's brother, and he had a good relationship with Xiangjia.
At that time, Hong Kong movies often copied and imitated the bridge sections of classic Hollywood movies, such as the main plot of "Squirrel", which was copied from Hollywood's "Die Hard".
This "King of Adventure" began to imitate Hollywood's classic fantasy adventure movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark", hoping to make Jet Li into the Indiana Jones of the East, nicknamed the King of Adventure.
Jet Li's Adventure King style in the movie, leather jacket and cowboy hat, and the nine-section whip he carries with him, is aimed at Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) who does not leave the whip.
If filmed according to the original story outline, "The Adventure King" can indeed become a classic fantasy adventure movie, and it will be the pioneering work of this type of domestic film. Later, "Adventure King" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Visual Effects, proving its quality.
Unfortunately, "The Adventure King" had a major accident during the filming process in the mainland, and halfway through the filming, there was a fire on the set, dozens of gas canisters exploded, and all the film was burned, including many of the materials that had been filmed for the big scene plot.
Whether it was an accident or arson cannot be verified, but all the previous work results have been wiped out.
The boss Xiang Huaqiang was extremely angry but helpless, and finally could only add money to reshoot; but in order to control the cost, many big scenes that burned money could not be filmed, and could only modify the script and add a lot of scenes in Hong Kong.
In the final film of "The Adventure King", Jet Li played two roles at the same time, one is the Adventure King, and the other is the editor-in-chief of the comic book club; this editor-in-chief created the story of "The Adventure King", and the adventure king in the story is jet Li.
Among them, the plot of the adventure king in the film to risk the treasure, Jet Li filmed twice.
"Gamblers 2 on the Beach Gambler", "One Thousand and One Nights" and "King of Adventure" have all undergone two shootings, but the reasons and purposes of the remake, as well as the final effect, are different.
"Gamblers 2 on the Beach" and "One Thousand and One Nights' Dreams" were made into two movies, while "The Adventure King" was not so lucky, and finally only made up an imperfect adventure action movie.
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