Fans who know Hong Kong movies know that the biggest feature of the Hong Kong film industry in the last century is to follow the trend, a movie has just caught fire on the front foot, and the back foot is a large pile of the same type of film will be in unison, and the follow-up behavior is said to be eight words in today's words: Zhengda guangming, no contrivance
Especially in 1993, the release of 7 Wong Fei Hung movies directly made that year known as the "Wong Fei Hung" year, and what we want to talk about today is that one of the films that was scolded and followed the trend was bad, but eight years later, the salted fish turned over, and the popular North American movie "Young Huang FeiHong's Iron Horse"
In the 1990s, Huang Feihong became extremely popular under Jet Li's interpretation, and the film reputation and box office both soared, which made Hong Kong filmmakers see business opportunities, so a large number of Wong Feihong films entered the market
Jet Li and Wang Jing's "Huang Feihong's Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede", Li Li's spoof rubbing traffic comedy "Huang Feihong to Huang Feihong", Wu Ma Yuanbiao's "Huang Feihong's Ghost Foot Seven", Zhang Xinyan's "Huang Feihong's Boy Serves the Country", and "Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse" is also one of them
At that time, too many of the same type of films were released, coupled with the negative departure of the royal star Jet Li, xu Ke had a sense of crisis, watching the IP he created to make a wedding dress for others, he was not willing to be in a hurry, since Jet Li's Huang Feihong has preconceived notions, then do not find someone else to play Huang Feihong, it is also good to make a sequel
So he and Yuan Heping created "Young Huang Feihong", and found Jet Li's same door Zhen Zidan to serve as the main actor, because earlier in the filming of Huang Feihong 2, the two had a cooperation, and Zhen Zidan's Nalan Yuanshu was very outstanding, the action scene was clean and clean, so when preparing the iron horse, Xu Ke's first thought was Zhen Zidan
And although Zhen Zidan is now a superstar, but it was not remarkable, especially in the talented showbiz circle, even if he has starred in several good movies, his situation is still not optimistic, there is no drama, usually rely on life as an action director, so when Xu Ke found him and invited him to play Huang Feihong's father Huang Qiying, Zhen Zidan hurriedly responded to the film appointment to have this "follow-up work"
However, it is not as shoddy as other follow-up films, but it is a work of intention, not only directed by Yuan Heping, supervised by Xu Ke, but also almost completely using the original team of the film Huang Feihong, but because Xu Ke did not interfere too much, the film, although the title of the film says Huang Feihong, mainly tells the heroic deeds of Huang Qiying and the Iron Monkey
Although there is less family and country feelings and national righteousness, but fortunately, the character modeling is not bad, and the iron monkey played by Yu Rongguang in the film has a chivalrous style
The Yankong monk played by the villain Ren Shiguan also makes people hate it and itch their teeth
Not to mention Zhen Zidan's version of Huang Qiying, under the action design tailored by Yuan Heping, gave up the "shadowless foot" kicked out of the usual hanging wire of "Huang Feihong", and adopted his own strong and swift leg method, coupled with the continuous lens shooting of the eight masters, zhen Zidan's standing continuous bouncing leg, and the shadowless foot without special effects blessing in four directions were restored to the greatest extent on the screen, and the one move was fast and natural, which really put the style of Huang Qiying's generation of masters in place
Of course, it is worth mentioning that the actor of Huang Feihong, when filming "Qimen Dunjia", the eighth master let his brother Yuan Xiangren reverse the string of female characters, to "Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse", he let the little girl Zeng Simin anti-string Huang Feihong, I have to say that this anti-string is very successful
Zeng Simin has been learning martial arts since childhood, and won the Hong Kong Women's Martial Arts Children's Group Championship very early, and her skills are naturally good, not to mention her heroic appearance and temperament, similar to Zhen Zidan, full of father and son, so that many people did not see it at first, this teenager Huang Feihong was actually starred by a girl in reverse string, and was deceived by Yuan Baye for more than ten years
Unfortunately, Zeng Simin did not continue the path of acting, but chose to become a policeman
In addition to the success of character shaping, the most exciting thing in the film is the design of martial arts actions, and Baye, as the first martial artist, has never disappointed in the design of action scenes
Watching the film at the end of the "Fire Sea Plum Blossom Pile Battle", the lively martial arts scene, the movement of the clouds and the flowing water, above the sea of fire, in the small plum blossom pile, the three masters come and go, thrilling and very ornamental, whether it is the lack of the real martial arts skills of the three people, or the lack of the action design of the eight masters, it is difficult to see such a perfect shot
Unfortunately, in that era, the Hong Kong film industry was full of talents, and Wong Fei Hung's films were also various, so after the release of the film, the Hong Kong box office performance was less than 7 million, and the annual box office list only ranked 58th
It wasn't until eight years later, on the recommendation of the famous director Quentin, that Hollywood Studios bought the film rights and cut the original five-minute play, which was released in North America in 2001 and turned around with more than $14 million at the box office, and released a DVD version because it was too popular, which included Quentin's interviews with Hong Kong-made kung fu films
The popularity of this movie also fished out the unsatisfactory Zhen Zidan at that time, and the box office of "Hero" starring in 2002 exceeded 170 million, and "Ip Man" in 2008 pushed him to the position of Wing Chun spokesperson