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"Rich Train"
Released in Hong Kong on January 30, 1986, the Chinese New Year comedy film "Rich Train" was the second runner-up at the box office that year, second only to Chow Yun-fat's "The True Colors of Heroes". In fact, "Rich Train" is a milestone work of a blockbuster film with a full-star cast at the peak of the Hong Kong film industry.
Previously, the "Five Lucky Stars" series of comedy movies led by Hong Jinbao was already a collection of stars, and 1985's "Summer Lucky Stars" had a classic shot of dozens of stars coming out of the elevator.
However, in terms of the prosperity of the cast, "Rich Train" is more luxurious.
However, because of its age, the audience now watches this film through online video; on the Internet, "Rich Train" will have multiple versions. Most viewers should watch the Hong Kong standard version of 1 hour and 37 minutes; in fact, there is an international version of "Rich Train" that is 1 hour and 48 minutes.
What is the difference of 11 minutes between the two versions?
"Rich Train" tells the story of a prodigal son who turned back to the thief and the captain of the security team during the Republic of China period, leading a group of men and women to join forces to defend the town of Hanshui, which was raided by mountain thieves.
There are at least 4 forces in the story, the core of which is the return of the great thief Cheng Fangtian played by Hong Jinbao, and Zheng Wenya playing his red face confidant big sister, and a group of wind and dust women she leads, including Guan Zhilin, Wang Yuhuan, Zhu Baoyi, And Au Helen.
Cheng Fangtian's first appearance was when he was caught stealing from a Russian military base and later pursued by a central agent (Zhong Zhentao).
His confidant Zheng Wenya, who is also related to Zhilin, Wang Yuhuan, Zhu Baoyi and other little sisters, appeared in the 13th minute, about 5 minutes of scenes.
Several girls wearing silk suspenders and black stockings were woken up from their hotel rooms, which was very eye-catching.
It turned out that a group of rich wives, under the banner of "down with prostitutes and return my female dignity", organized a group late at night to demonstrate and catch adultery.
The eldest sister is not in danger, get dressed, and immediately have arrangements.
First, Qian Xiaohao rushed out with a kitchen knife to block the wives. He threw the kitchen knife to the ground and said these words:
You can hack me to death, but you can't hurt the mother who is bitter and bitter, and endures humiliation and secretly raises our ten brothers.
(Qian Xiaohao then knelt down and hugged Zheng Wenya's thigh.) ）
Mother, all nine brothers are defending the country on the northeast border, leaving only me, the unfilial son...
Then, cheng Fangtian came out to perform a more subversive speech:
If they sleep with your husband, they are sluts, and you are also sluts.
What's the difference? You're wholesale, they're retail.
……
Because my mother is also a prostitute, she worked hard to raise our ten brothers...
Just by looking at my figure, you know how many businesses my mother has to do a day to make me so fat, and I am the thinnest of our ten brothers.
They then succeeded in leaving like heroes amid the shouts of support from their wives.
This bridge section is designed to be too good!
It is estimated that it was cut out because it was worried that some female audiences would be uncomfortable watching it, but such a bridge section was by no means an isolated case in the Hong Kong films of that year.
Among the actors in this cut-off scene:
Zheng Wenya is the winner and most photogenic Miss Hong Kong in 1979, the most legendary Hong Kong sister, and later the trophy of the Hong Kong Academy Awards was designed based on her image;
Guan Zhilin is a Manchu flag person, his parents are movie stars, married to a financial company boss at the age of 20, divorced half a year later, and just played the heroine in Hong Jinbao's "Summer Lucky Star" in 1985;
Zhu Baoyi is the earliest otaku goddess, from Taiwan Province, and his famous work is "The True Colors of Heroes" that year, playing Zhang Guorong's girlfriend;
Wang Yuhuan is of mixed Chinese and Korean descent, still a little transparent in the film industry, and later appeared in many zombie films, playing more female zombies, female ghosts or fox spirit roles;
Au Helen is a singer who once made her debut with Lee Hye-min in the Echo group;
Qian Xiaohao debuted from Shaw at the age of 16 and became a closed disciple of the big director Zhang Che, but unfortunately there was no big hit in Shaw; in 1985, after Shaw's suspension of production, Hong Jinbao asked him to star in "Mr. Zombie", which accidentally turned popular (at that time, Qian Xiaohao's younger brother Qian Jiale, who debuted, was already a member of the Hong family class. ）。
In addition, in the Russian snow encountered the Russian army and Zhong Zhentao's drama, the Hong Kong version was less than 1 minute; the gang of horse thieves discussed the bridge section of the train, and the Hong Kong version was also reduced by tens of seconds.
Coupled with Qian Xiaohao's paragraph, by the time Zeng Zhiwei and Lin Zhengying appeared in Hanshui Town, the Hong Kong version had been 10 minutes less.
At about 46 minutes and 20 seconds, Guan Zhilin and Yuan Biao had a kiss scene and kissed down steadily;
At about 1 hour and 39 minutes, there is a martial arts clip of Zheng Wenya and a group of sisters jointly dealing with mountain thieves.
When the theme song is played in the subtitles at the end of the film, there are more behind-the-scenes production clips, including the scenes and the shooting process.
In fact, in the poster and cast list, there are also the names of Xie Xian and Deborah, Chen You, Zhang Jianting and other people, but they are not seen in the main film.
So, this is still not really the full version.