During the most glorious period of Hong Kong cinema, most of the films were sold on star platters.
Among them, "The Night Feast of the Giants" and "Rich Train" can be called two feasts unprecedented in the history of film.
But on the film itself, the biggest significance of "The Night Feast of the Giants" is its public welfare, so strictly speaking, "Rich Train" is a commercial film with a large number of stars.
At that time, once "Rich Train" was released, it immediately caused a huge response in the market.
First of all, as a commercial film, it has earned more than 28 million at the box office, second only to "The True Colors of Heroes".
Secondly, as a well-made Hong Kong film, the film is not only entertaining, but also the action scenes are of a first-class level.
It is precisely because of the success of the film that the major film companies copied each other, resulting in the emergence of copycat works.
In 1990, the same star lineup as a selling point, and also took the comedy route, even the title is the same, this "cottage" movie is - "Rich Corps".
Although there are Hong Jinbao and other original people starring, "Rich And Noble Corps" is not a sequel in essence, but a "cottage goods".
Who has such a great ability to brazenly follow the trend and concoct Hong Jinbao's proud work, and also call him over to play the leading role?
In fact, behind this has to start from a person - Zhang Guozhong.
Zhang Guozhong, this person, is a big figure in the Hong Kong film circle.
The actors who have been hand-pulled by his hand include Chow Yun Fat, Tan Yonglin, Andy Lau and other big stars.
Later, after entering the film industry, he founded Yineng Pictures Co., Ltd., which began to focus on the production of films.
Due to the influence of the general environment, hong Kong films at that time followed the trend seriously, and Zhang Guozhong and Wang Jing hit it off and established a very tacit cooperation.
But in any film produced by his own company, he will use his connections and find a large number of actors to help, basically achieving good box office results.
And "Rich Corps" is a typical example, not only there are heavyweight actors such as Mui Yanfang, Andy Lau, Tan Yonglin, but also the joining of "genuine pioneer" Hong Jinbao, who is full of stars and all-encompassing.
The story takes place during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in a prisoner-of-war camp.
The male protagonist, Hua Hero (played by Andy Lau), is a prisoner of war who is worried about his fiancée.
Therefore, with the help of fellow inmates Marshmallow (played by Zheng Zeshi), Dragon in the Clouds (played by Chen Baixiang), Stinky Duck Egg (played by Lou Nanguang), big banana (played by Cheng Kui'an) and others, he successfully escaped.
However, when Hua Yingxiong saw his fiancée as he wished, he found that her identity was a secret agent.
It turned out that overseas talents raised a sum of money for the anti-Japanese resistance.
However, the password for this funding was in the hands of a man named "Fortuna".
And his fiancée Cao Mulan (played by Mei Yanfang) is on a secret mission to find this person named "God of Wealth".
According to reliable sources, the "God of Wealth" is currently imprisoned in the concentration camp, and Hua Yingxiong just happens to know the situation inside.
So Cao Mulan's boss, Big Brother Hong (played by Hong Jinbao), hopes that Hua Hero can join them.
For the sake of his fiancée, Hua Ying happily agreed to come down.
So under the arrangement of Brother Hong, another secret agent, Rosen and Hua Yingxiong, infiltrated the concentration camp together.
The two looked everywhere for someone who could code the "Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles".
As a result, the news reached the Rotten Duck Egg, who was actually a traitor among the prisoners of war, and told the Japanese army about this matter to The Japanese army Daisa Asakawa (Ryukata).
Not long after, Cao Mulan, who was lurking in the medical team, finally joined Hua Hero and Rosen.
The three of them finally investigated the identity of the "God of Wealth", but the other party was detained in the execution room and suffered all kinds of abuse, and before they could tell them the password, they were tortured to death.
However, Cao Mulan noticed that the "God of Wealth" had a parrot before he died, and this parrot was likely to know the password.
However, the biggest problem facing Hua Andyo and the others was that the parrot was placed in Asakawa's office.
Coincidentally, at this time, the concentration camp captured several pilots of the "Flying Tigers", and after learning that they were doing something righteous, decided to lend a helping hand.
On the other hand, the Japanese army also sent the "Three Tigers of Kanto" to investigate the "Fortuna Code".
That night, Asakawa asked the prisoners of the camp to perform a show for the Three Tigers.
The prisoners dug a tunnel to the outside in advance, and when Rosen performed on stage, one by one they escaped.
Kusanagi took the opportunity to search for the parrot in Asakawa's house, and as a result, his identity was exposed, which led to a decisive battle.
In the end, the crowd joined forces to defeat the Three Tigers of Kanto and escaped the concentration camp in a car.
In the car, the parrot said the code: pull out the dark clouds and sunny days, and the mountains and rivers are low and cattle and sheep appear.
That's the end of the story!
In fact, looking at the whole story, "Rich and Noble Corps" fully reflects Wang Jing's imitation skills, and directly creates a war comedy with a senseless painting style.
And according to Wang Jing's consistent style, the film does not pay too much attention to depth, but instead has a typical entertainment spirit.
It's just a patchwork of all kinds of worthless jokes, and through the interpretation of the stars, the whole movie seems hilarious.
However, also in terms of story, "Rich Corps" is slightly far-fetched, mainly because it is completely unrelated to the word "rich".
You know, the story of "Rich Train" revolves around the closure of a train, and the people on the train are either rich or expensive.
However, the film only mentions a sum of money, obviously to rub the heat of "Rich Train".
Therefore, on the whole, "Rich And Noble Corps" is more like a farce, putting literary drama and martial arts drama together and stewing.
Of course, even if the movie is not good, the box office is not bad, and it has won more than 17 million at the box office after its release.
In my opinion, the success at the box office is due to the attractiveness of the star line-up.
However, after the filming of this film, the relationship between Jiahe and Hong Jinbao also deteriorated.
Although the box office of "Rich Corps" is not high, but with Hong Jinbao sitting, many viewers think that it is a sequel, which naturally attracts many people to watch.
So after the release of the movie, the box office pressed "Children of the Troubled World", which also triggered the dissatisfaction of Jiahe's senior management.
With the box office failure of "A Good Man", the cooperation between Hong Jinbao and Jiahe has also come to an end.