In 1983, the American motorola company put a portable mobile communication device on the market and named it "Cell phone".
This black box, which could connect with people thousands of miles away, became the most mysterious black technology at that time.
Because of its high price, it fundamentally cuts off the possibility of all-round coverage of the crowd, and therefore it can be equipped with people who are either rich or expensive.
When this black box weighing 1.13 kilograms spread to China, many people called it "Big Brother".
Tracing back to the roots, many claims say it originated in Hong Kong.
Because only dignitaries and dignitaries in Hong Kong could hold this black box, coupled with the prevalence of the underworld at that time, in order to show their status, mobile phones also became a disguised evolution of the big gold chain.
The people who pick up the mobile phone are all big brothers, and the mobile phone becomes "big brother".
But there is another way of saying that according to Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po, the reason for the name "Big Brother" actually comes from a person -
Hong Jinbao.
At that time, Hong Jinbao was already a giant crocodile in the Hong Kong film industry, dangling around with a new mobile phone every day, pointing out the country and mountains, and at this time, the master and disciple Jackie Chan also became famous and became a rookie.
After Jackie Chan became famous, everyone called him "Big Brother", then Jackie Chan's brother Hong Jinbao became "Big Brother", and over time these three words were placed in line to the black box that showed his identity.
Although it is somewhat legendary, from this story, it is enough to see the status of Hong Jinbao in Hong Kong at that time.
Readers who often read articles by Hong Kong filmmakers believe that they will have a hint of emotion, in that era of fierce cooking oil, although there is gold everywhere, it is also a reef and shoal, and even if many people have achieved fame, under the torrent of the times, it is just an involuntary duckweed, rising and falling between major forces, looking for and confused between individuals and the times.
However, only Hong Jinbao is the most "card face" alive.
After bruce Lee's sudden death in the 70s, in order to maintain the situation, Jiahe grabbed the top of Hong Jinbao of the Dragon and Tiger Martial Division, and it was expected that Hong Jinbao lived up to expectations, and also found another way in terms of directing, opening the era of spiritual films and zombie films.
Before the advent of the era of "double weekly cheng", Hong Jinbao was undoubtedly the top pillar of Jiahe, and after the arrival of the "double monday cheng" era, Hong Jinbao was also the winner behind the influence of everything.
However, Gui Wei Hong Jinbao has actually done a lot of wrong things.
For movie fans, the biggest impact Hong Jinbao has done is that he has indirectly accelerated the disintegration of a gold medal film company, and even saying that one of his moves is a direct cause is not too much.
This company is the New Art City Company, and behind the New Art City is Hong Jinbao's best friend Mai Jia.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Hong Jinbao and Mai Jia</h1>
At the 1983 Academy Awards, "Skinhead Detective" Mai Jia took the podium to receive his Film Emperor Trophy, and he stood on the stage and ridiculed the old friend next to him:
"I want to thank someone who discovered me like a rising star, six years ago, he directed a play by himself and let me make a cameo appearance for three days, in order to play me, he actually wanted me to shave my head, and he also wanted me to speak country language to scandalize me, this is my best friend Hong Jinbao." 」
The "bald detective" In front of the screen, Mai Jia, seems to have been born a "brine egg", but he has just returned to Hong Kong from the United States off the screen, in fact, he is a "Beatles" with long hair and a thick beard.
It is precisely because of seeing the loss of friends Hong Jinbao that the "kiwifruit" has become a "brine egg".
And Mai Jia also continued this bald head image and nervous body movements, forming a unique way of performing, and even more than thirty years later, many fans still remember this role vividly.
It is a little inappropriate to say, although one is a "partridge dish" who can be brave and good at war, and the other is a straight male model "skinhead", but Hong Jinbao and Mai Jia give me the feeling that is very similar to Zixia and Qingxia in "Journey to the West".
Two people are originally entangled in a wick, but they can't fight for half a lifetime.
Before meeting Hong Jinbao, Mai Jia was a "pioneer film" established with Liu Jiarong and Li Ying, but Mai Jia, who was new to the film industry, made strategic mistakes, resulting in successive losses.
When it seemed that there was no way to continue, just when Wu Yaohan suddenly emerged, Mai Jia patted his thigh and took Wu Yaohan to make a comedy film "Face Ignorance", which was a great success, and even sold to the following year, which also laid the status of comedy in Mai Jia's heart.
However, Jiahe snatched away Wu Yaohan halfway through, and Mai Jia began to search again.
What he didn't know, however, was that the same thing would happen again.
At the end of the 70s, when Hong Jinbao was still struggling in Jiahe, Mai Jia, who had calmed down, found Hong Jinbao and the two to establish "Jiabao Pictures".
Although the film was low in cost, it was creative, and after the establishment of the film industry, Garbo made two films, both of which squeezed into the top ten of the annual box office.
However, just as Mai Jia and Hong Jinbao rolled up their sleeves and prepared to do a big job, Jiahe, who had lost Bruce Lee, was scratching his head at this time.
Seeing that Hong Jinbao under his hand set up a company, Jiahe was busy knocking on his corner when he first appeared, and promised to promise him to set up "Baohe Pictures" and give him absolute power.
Hong Jinbao weighed the pros and cons, left Garbo, once again into the arms of the old owner, filmed several blockbuster movies in succession, and embarked on the road of "big brother".
Jia Heyang and Qi Jie, and Mai Jia turned around and established "Struggle Pictures" with his old friends Shi Tian and Huang Baiming, which is also the predecessor of new art city, from "pioneer" to "Jiabao", from Wu Yaohan to Hong Jinbao, Jiahe dug Mai Jia over and over again, the only thing left to him is the confidence to do comedy.
During the "struggle", the three of them filmed works such as "Salted Fish Turning Over" and "Crazy Old Thousand", which attracted the favor of the capital "Golden Princess".
Then Hong Jinbao introduced Zeng Zhiwei to Mai Jia, and then Teddy Robin, Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng and others joined one after another, and the era of the seven monsters of the new art city finally came.
Regarding new art city, audiences who often watch Hong Kong movies must have emerged at this time with all kinds of ridiculous pictures.
Unlike other companies with strict grades and golden rules, the creation of New Art City was completed for these seven people, focusing on brainstorming and creative collision, and the seven people often wrote scripts in Mai Jia's "struggle room", and wrote them for several overnights.
In the early days, New Art City's work direction was very persistent and focused – comedy.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > New Art City</h1>
It is worth mentioning that after the establishment of New Art City, the first movie was not "Best Partner", but "Funny Times" made by Xu Ke's old friend Wu Yusen.
At that time, Shao Shi withdrew from the film stage and threw the creative team to Jiahe, and Wu Yusen was one of them.
Wu Yusen and Xu Ke have a very good personal relationship, seeing that the thin-winged New Art City has just established a company, but there is no project support, at The request of Xu Ke, Wu Yusen secretly ran to the set of the New Art City, alias "Wu Shangfei" to shoot "Funny Times".
"Funny Times" is starring Shi Tian, and almost the whole time he imitates Mr. Chaplin, the king of comedy abroad, which is simply telling the world:
The king of Hong Kong comedy is here.
With its rule-breaking performances, Burlesque Times ranked fourth that year with the label of a new company work, earning 5.18 million at the box office. New Art City became a hit, and then in 1982, the crowd collected firewood and flamed "Best Partner" to cut 26 million box office, and the second place is still New Art City's "Difficult Brother" 16.72 million box office.
In recent years, New Art City has announced the whole of Hong Kong with two movies:
Hong Kong has entered the 20 million box office era, and it is also the box office era of New Art City.
"Best Partner" not only won a big victory at the box office, but also made Mai Jia the second golden film emperor in history, in 1983, at the second Hong Kong Film Awards, Er Dongsheng read out the name of the best actor on the stage, which immediately caused a full house of glory.
why?
Because it's a double yolk egg!
When Mai Jia said thank you to Hong Jinbao, Hong Jinbao was actually standing behind him, because he was also the film emperor of that session, the two were black, white, fat and thin, one thick and dense, one radiant, just like a pair of "best partners".
That year, after receiving the award with his old friend, Hong Jinbao filmed the urban comedy film "Local Little Hands" to open the road of transformation, not only to match the marriage of his brother Yuan Biao, but also to accumulate experience for future wars.
The following year, Hong Kong cinema ushered in a big explosion of urban comedy, new art city concocted the second "Best Partner: Great Magic", while on the other side of Jiahe saw that Shaw's scenery was no longer there, but The new force of New Art City was born at night, and the company even called Hong Jinbao to shoot the urban comedy "Strange Scheme Five Lucky Stars" to face the opposition.
The two old friends who have just finished receiving the award have started a big battle.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Mai Jia's "betrayal"</h1>
In 1983, "Best Partner 2: Show Your Magic" still came out on top, followed by Hong Jinbao's brand-new IP "Five Lucky Stars".
After a while, "Best Partner" and "Lucky Star Series" became the two highest-grossing IPs in those years, but whenever these words appeared, people would even laugh a few times before watching the movie.
It was an era of blowouts and creativity, and there were "Three Treasures of Jiahe" on Jiahe's side: Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao.
But New Art City also has "three treasures": the best partner, happy ghost and wisdom star.
However, when the new art city was fighting with Jiahe, the interior was distorted.
Since the ancient literati are proud of their bones, although the seven monsters of the new art city can be independent of each one at will, but due to the uneven distribution, it is actually dark and turbulent.
After the early establishment of "Struggle", Mai, Shi and Huang won the favor of the Golden Princess with their small and large amazing data, behind the Golden Princess Consortium is the rich lei Juekun, who has the third cinema line in Hong Kong, and the reason why the New Art City can level the ground and rise from the sky, in addition to excellent creation, the help of the Golden Princess is the root of everything.
Although the 7 people are racking their brains for the work, Huang Baiming only accounts for 9% of the shares, Shi Tian accounts for 19% of the shares, and the rest are jointly held by Mai Jia and The Golden Princess, while the other four have no account.
This unfair distribution of the same effort but no consistent remuneration also lays the groundwork for the subsequent disintegration.
As the struggle between New Art City and Jiahe reached a white-hot stage, Jiahe used a divisive tactic to use Hong Jinbao and Mai Jia's private relationship to move the latter, and the two generals of the opposing camp actually sat together to co-produce a movie
- "Best Lucky Star".
Yes, yes, the first two words are taken from "best partner", the last two words are taken from the "Fuxing series", and the two classic big IPs with the highest-grossing hong Kong cinema line are so integrated.
At the same time, Wu Yusen, who was not valued in Jiahe, returned to Hong Kong from Maicheng, who had traveled from Taiwan for three years, and with the support of Xu Ke, reinvigorated his strength, took the script handed to him by Xu Ke, and filmed "The True Colors of Heroes".
In 1986, "Best Lucky Star" was released and ranked fourth at the box office that year, although it was inferior to "The True Colors of Heroes", but it also defeated Huang Baiming's "Happy Ghost Collision" and Shi Tian's "Oolong Big Family".
However, Mai Jia ran into a big disaster.
Because "Best Lucky Star" was not released in the Golden Princess's theater, but chose to be in the Jiahe Theater Line, the producer of the film, the title merchant is also from Jiahe.
To put it simply: Mai Jia ran to the enemy camp with her own people to help them make a movie and won the battle against her own people.
A group of people did not expect that before the infighting had started, they were taken out of the way by the founder.
Later, with the relationship between Mai Jia and Princess Jin, the boss Lei Juekun did not take Mai Jia, so conniving, some people soon followed suit one after another, accelerating the rupture of the new art city - Huang Baiming.
3 years later, seeing that the best partner series has exhausted the heat, Huang Baiming plans to start a new film, but was rejected, so he took Gao Zhisen to make a "Family Fun", and the film starred in Jiahe's chief artist Xu Guanwen.
After the release of the film, it earned 31.25 million at the box office, more than 10 million more than Gen Zhengmiao's "New Best Partner", and also won the battle by borrowing the hand of others.
Just like "Best Partner", the emergence of "Family Fun" is like a repetition of history, which also verifies the internal rupture of New Art City.
Not long after, in 1991, the new art city completely collapsed, and the Generation Ghost Talent Alliance ended.
Before withdrawing from the stage, New Art City sold Zhou Runfa to Yongsheng at a low price, and Jiahe, who had just won the battle against New Art City, threw himself into the fight with Xiang Huaqiang.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
In the end, why did Mai Jia agree to co-produce "Best Lucky Star" with Hong Jinbao to fight against his company?
I searched for almost the entire site without a clear answer, but through an interview, it seemed to be able to peek into The Psychology of McGarthal at the time:
In an interview, Mai Jia said that she had dreamed of going to heaven many times, and there was a billionaire who was parallel to her, and at this time Mai Jia offered her affection to this billionaire:
"Wow, you're that rich man!" You're so happy. ”
And the rich man said:
"Where and you, I've only been in business all my life, played all my life and suffocated me, you're fine, play movies and play with such things, you're happy!"
Mai Jia suddenly realized after listening to it, and he thought to himself: What he said is also right.
After retiring from the show business circle, Mai Jia tried to do business, tried to speculate in stocks, enjoyed the money entanglement, and also experienced putting it into a vacuum, but he always maintained a "play" mentality, a cynical, and at the same time a way of breaking the boat.
In Wong Kar-wai's film "A Generation of Grandmasters", Gong Er and Ip Man said: "If there is no regret in life, it should be boring." ”
Perhaps the night Hong Jinbao found him, he could not refuse at all, because at the negotiating table, there was also a "greedy Mai Jia" who also kept lobbying himself.
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am."
Then the life of Mai Jia can be completely changed into: I play, so I am.
He was like a chemistry teacher, grabbing a hand of raw materials, putting them in a bottle, quietly waiting for the explosion, then writing down the formula, and waiting for the next one.
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