In 1993, Jet Li had five films released: "Fang Shiyu 1", "Fang Shiyu 2", "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer", and "Huang Feihong's Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede", which was Jet Li's most prolific year. The following year, Jet Li continued to work hard, although only three movies were released, they were classics and began to enter the field of fashion action films, namely "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard", "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" and "Jingwu Hero".
The Five Ancestors of New Shaolin
"New Shaolin Five Ancestors" is Jet Li's only costume action film in 1994, premiered in Hong Kong on March 3, 1994, this film brings together the elite of the three regions across the Straits, the production company in addition to Jet Li's own Zhengdong Pictures (Hong Kong), but also introduced the mainland Beijing Film Studio and Taiwan's Xinfeng Pictures, which can be described as a powerful combination.
When filming "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", Jet Li was 31 years old and in the best condition, with a long jade body, a handsome appearance, full of physical fitness, and heroic. He plays the Hong Xiguan temperament is cold, tough and fierce, is a veritable "ascetic male god", and the sword eyebrows into the sideburns, eyes like cold stars, a silver gun like a dragon out of the water, compared with the previous Hong Xiguan films, such as the 1974 Luo Chi director's "Hong Xiguan Fang Shiyu Lu Acai", Zhang Che's "Fang Shiyu and Hong Xiguan"; 1977 Liu Jialiang's "Hong Xiguan"; 1979 Zhang Che's "Street Hero", jet Li's version of Hong Xiguan can be called the best in style, the best in the frame, the best in appearance, etc. Jet Li is deep and introverted, introverted and gentle, has an ancient temperament, and is originally very compatible with ancient costumes, and Hong Xiguan is the peak of Jet Li's ancient costumes, which can be compared with the peak of fashion costumes in "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard".
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Qiu Shuzhen played the heroine Hongdou in "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", when Qiu Shuzhen was only 26 years old, she was the goddess in the heart of director Wang Jing, and in the movie, she had a thick braid, which can be described as pure and lustful, sweet and sassy, and there are many kinds of styles between Gu Pan.
Qiu Shuzhen
Director Wang Jing and Jet Li cooperated with many excellent works at that time: such as "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer in the Sky", "Huang Feihong's Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede", "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" and "Rats and Dragons" (in addition to "Huang Feihong's Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede", the heroines of the other three films are Qiu Shuzhen), Wang Jing once commented on Jet Li "In fact, I have always said that Jet Li is the best weapon used in the whole film industry, even Jackie Chan can not be as good as Jet Li, Jackie Chan is very good at body movement, But when it comes to weapons, especially Chinese weapons, I think Jet Li is the best." Wang Jing also said, "No matter what it is, even if there is only one piece of wood, in Jet Li's hands he can play like magic, sometimes I will ask him to take something in his hand, he can use it very well, this is much better than he fights with others with his bare hands, Jet Li will have any weapons: three sticks, knives, swords, guns, sticks, umbrellas, belts, nine whips, silver needles..." In the film, Jet Li's "life-locking throat gun" can be long or short, dismantlable and combined, and the fight is like a dragon flying like a dragon, and the "lonely nine swords" in the movie "Laughing proud of the east of the rivers and lakes" can be called the "double absolute" of weapons.
Wang Jing
When filming "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", Wang Jing was 39 years old, at the most powerful stage of creativity, Wang Jing was a commercial film ghost director, imagination is wild, gags, meat vegetarian is not afraid, although it is a fast gunner, but in the heyday of Wang Jing in the heyday of ensuring that the filming is fast at the same time can also take into account the quality, especially with Jet Li several films jump out of the open, although the film in the cultural heritage is far inferior to Xu Ke and other "new wave" pioneer directors, but in terms of ornamentality and interest, but in terms of ornamentality and interest, it is not inferior, There is even a faint wind of the king of the times. And the action director Yuan Kui tailor-made action for Jet Li is just in line with his hands and weapons, with tacit understanding, child star Xie Miao's excellent interpretation also adds a lot of glory to the film, also born in Beijing Xie Miao in the film a serious book, the child's innocence and childishness and the old age of the perfect fusion, almost a "little Jet Li", and so they played the father and son image is particularly brilliant, Sem miao and Jet Li shine together, becoming "the most proud in history" action "father and son file", and Ye Dexian and Qiu Shuzhen's " Snitch Mother and Daughter "is also the same personality, the two pairs of sparkling, impressive.
Stills from "The Five Ancestors of New Shaolin"
"New Shaolin Five Ancestors" in many post-70s, post-80s, post-90s impressions are a classic movie, but also the last sunset of the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, it is said that the original Wang Jing's plan was to gather the five most powerful movie stars at that time including Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, Chow Xingchi, Andy Lau, Leung Chao-wei and so on to shoot a super blockbuster "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", yin and yang mistakes only invited one Jet Li, which has the story of xie Miao and other five children and after that. To this day, this is still the heart of countless fans, leaving Jet Li and Qiu Shuzhen in the best years in the film, and they have also become the unparalleled white moonlight and cinnabar moles in the eyes of a generation.