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Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan and Yuan Biao are the most well-known and best developed in the "Seven Little Blessings", known as the "Three Musketeers".
Among them, Hong Jinbao first entered the industry, worked hard for many years, and successively founded four film companies of Jiabao, Baoxiang, Baohe and Debao, and the strength was independent.
Jackie Chan won the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement and is a world-renowned action star.
Although Yuan Biao has an introverted personality, he is also the elder of action films in the Chinese film industry.
Before the 1990s, the three had collaborated on more than ten films, such as: "Plan A", "Five Lucky Stars", "Lucky Stars High Light", "Fast Food Trucks", "Summer Lucky Stars", etc. In 1988, "Flying Dragon Fierce", it was the last cooperation of their "Three Musketeers".
In addition to "Three Musketeers", the film also gathers Yuan Hua and Yuan Kui (director) of "Seven Little Fortunes".
The main cast is also full of stars, such as: Binni Yuquadez, Zhou Billy, Di Wei three boxing kings, as well as Cao Rong, Yuan Xiangren, Zhang Wulang, Chen Long, Liu Jiarong, Luo Lie, Feng Ke'an, Qian Jiale and other Jiahe fierce generals.
Because Jackie Chan is tired of playing a policeman, in this film he changed his path and played a defense lawyer named John Long, who of course is still very good at fighting.
Huang Feihong, played by Hong Jinbao, is a small gangster who sells banned firearms.
Yuan Biao plays an otaku with a stressful life and some abnormal nerves.
Today, Pigo will take you to talk about this movie and the interesting things behind the scenes of this movie.
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Let's start with the story
It is said that the chemical factory under the name of Hua Xinwu (played by Yuan Hua), the underworld big brother Hua Xinwu (played by Yuan Hua), is outwardly engaged in chemical raw materials, but in fact, its underground factory is manufacturing drugs. The factory's sewage was not done well, and the sewage flowed into the nearby fishery, poisoning the fish to death.
The manager of the fishing farm, Miss Ye (played by Ye Dexian), negotiated with Hua Xinwu to no avail, so she applied to the court for an injunction to prohibit the factory of Fahrenheit from continuing to produce, and Hua Xinwu found Lawyer Long John to fight for them.
Miss Ye also invited her cousin, Water Quality Expert Wen Meiling, to serve as her prosecutor. Since the evidence was conclusive, the chances of this lawsuit were not very good, and John Long hoped to persuade Miss Ye to reconcile.
In order to be able to know himself and know the other, he found the nemesis Ah Biao to go to Miss Ye's house to install a bugging device. At the same time, he also asked Huang Feihong to bubble Miss Ye, as long as he could soak Miss Ye in his hand, he could persuade her to sell the fishery.
However, in the process of contact, Long John fell in love with Miss Ye's cousin Wen Meiling, and Huang Feihong also came together with Miss Ye. After investigation, John Long also began to believe that there were ulterior secrets in the factories of Fahrenheit Enterprises, and decided to investigate with Huang Feihong and Ah Biao.
They went deep into the Tiger's Den and finally discovered Hua Xinwu's drug factory, but they were besieged by Hua Xinwu's men and had to fight them with all their might.
After some fighting, the three finally defeated the strong enemy and destroyed the underground factory.
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In fact, this is a "rush work".
"The Dragon" is a 1988 New Year film, so it was very rushed in the process of shooting, and the creators also paid a lot of hard work.
Hong Jinbao was filming "Ghost Kicking" at the time, and halfway through the film, he was called by Jiahe boss He Guanchang to direct and star in the film.
Hong Jinbao had to stop his work, and later after completing "The Flying Dragon", he continued to shoot his "Ghost Foot", losing 8 million Hong Kong dollars in production costs. Later, "Ghost Foot" was released and earned 11.49 million at the box office, which was not as good as expected.
The addition of Hong Jinbao injected new ideas into the film. He asked Jackie Chan to play a lawyer, a role Jackie Chan hadn't tried before. Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao both fall in love in the film, which is also extremely rare in their action movies.
Yuanhua is well known to the audience for playing the villain general in "The Condor of the East", and plays a similar role in this film.
In order to distinguish him from his previous characters, Hong Jinbao let him fly a cigar the whole time, and the cigar can become a sinister weapon in the fight, injecting a lot of funny elements into the character.
"Jet" Binnie Euquadez is the first world weweight king of the WKA in the United States, with a professional fighting record of 63 wins, 0 losses and 57 KO opponents. In "Fast Food Truck", he had a wonderful duel with Jackie Chan, and when filming this film, Hong Jinbao thought of him again, so he invited him again.
In order to change the image, Binny was blackened by the makeup artist, making his small eyes instantly become one size larger and more sinister.
The duet between Binney and Jackie Chan is said to have been filmed for 7 days, during which they even went to bed at night to make floors on the set in order to save time.
During this period, Binney established a deep friendship with Hong Jinbao and Zhou Billy. In order to practice his English, Jackie Chan always talks to Binni alone and uses English to improve his English level throughout the whole process.
The fights in the film are extremely sinister, and both Binney and Jackie Chan have used stand-ins. But there is a shot of Jackie Chan being kicked directly by Binney, and according to Yuan Biao's recollection, Jackie Chan was kicked to the point of urine and blood.
Jackie Chan kicked a spin kick at The Pinney shot, and both used stand-ins. Jackie Chan couldn't do that action because he tried to shoot several times, so he had to find Qian Jiale as a stand-in to complete it.
Billy Zhou and Yuan Biao played each other in the movie for the first time, because the height difference between the two was much different, and the action had to be reshooted many times a day to complete. Among them, a shot of Zhou Billy being pulled by Yuan Biao and opened into a one-word horse was filmed no less than 20 times, and Zhou Billy was forced to split his leg more than 20 times.
The shot of Billy Chow being kicked in the chin was also repeated many times, because it was a close-up shot, and he could not wear a tooth guard, and could only use a lot of cotton stuffed into his mouth to protect his teeth.
The shot where Billy Chou flew down the steps used a stand-in, only to see that the entire back of the stuntman was directly pressed against the steps, and it hurt to watch.
We still don't know his name as a stuntman, so we can see the intensity of filmmakers when they made movies.
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The final song of the "Three Musketeers" cannot be copied today.
It is this serious attitude and professional spirit of all the creators that have made the action classic "Flying Dragon".
The film achieved a box office performance of HK$33.58 million that year, ranking Third in the annual box office list, and the global box office of $18 million was also very good.
Unfortunately, Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, and Yuan Biao have not worked together since this movie.
According to Hong Jinbao's account, there is no contradiction between them at all, and as brothers in arms, they are often connected. But the reason for no longer cooperating is that each has its own development path, and no film company has asked them to cooperate together again.
I didn't expect that 32 years have passed in the blink of an eye, and now the three are not young, and the opportunity to cooperate again is probably even less. We can only see their collaboration in those old images, classics that carry fond memories of our childhood.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Bloody Dan Heart
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