People often say that now is an era of looking at faces, in fact, this tradition has always existed, just because of the development of network technology now, the word "face value" has been infinitely magnified, in the glorious period of kung fu action movies in the 90s, there are some action actors who obviously have strength, but because of the value of "no", and finally buried, it is a pity.
Yuan Richu, one of the Yuan family's classes, the son of Yuan Xiaotian, the brother of Yuan Heping and Yuan Xiangren. Like several brothers, Yuan Richu debuted as a martial artist after learning art at home, he was more fortunate, first with Yuan Heping and other people to do martial arts, within a few years, the "peace movie" was established, the film needs the protagonist, Yuan Heping looked at this extraordinary flexible and thin brother, decided to be a new star in kung fu.
At that time, Yuan Jiaban racked his brains in the design of the movie theme kung fu, yuan Richu did everything in his power, but "Qimen Dunjia", "Tianshi Collision with Evil", "Ghost Horse Tianshi" and other minchu kung fu films, fantasy god and monster films down, Yuan Richu did not have a big hit, and when the better appearance of Zhen Zidan arrived, Yuan Jiaban also shifted the object of force, Yuan Richu sat in the second and third positions.
As Yuan Heping's brother, but did not win him, but lost in the face value, you said that the angry people are not angry. If Yuan Richu looks a little more handsome and his figure is a little taller, maybe there will be nothing to do with Zhen Zidan after that, and finally Yuan Richu unexpectedly entered the Taoist Temple and became a Taoist.
Yuan Richu cooperated with the actor to belong to Liang Jiaren, in addition to the well-known "Qimen Dunjia", is this "Patrol Horse", in the 80s, Liang Jiaren is relatively popular, this movie is the first protagonist, other actors in addition to Yuan Richu, as well as Zhou Runfa, Zhong Chuhong, basically in Liang Jiaren to play soy sauce, not to mention Yuan Richu, more senseless.
In the 1987 film "Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldier 2: Soldiers Divided into Two Roads", Xu Jinjiang, Lin Guobin and Yuan Richu were the three main actors, in order to combat increasingly serious crimes, the mainland police, at the request of the Hong Kong government, dispatched three police officers, Li Xiangdong (Xu Jinjiang), Qi Jingsheng (Lin Guobin), and Guo Xuejun (Yuan Richu), to land on Hong Kong Island as stowaways. During his time in Hong Kong, Sir Cheng of the Hong Kong Police Station was directly led, and the local undercover dae (Wan Ziliang) assisted in handling the case.
This film is also Xu Jinjiang's first film, and he mostly plays villains due to his strong and fierce appearance. In this movie, Xu Jinjiang is the first male protagonist who is justified, and the role of Li Xiangdong belongs to a decent person, but it belongs to the tragic figure in that period of history, and the last line: life, life together; death, death together. Good bye! It's a shame.
Remember when I wrote earlier in my article that Yuan Richu was not tall enough? Xu Jinjiang has almost 188CM, Yuan Richu looks like 168CM, as a male height, it belongs to the short, so it is really the appearance and height that limit his development. I think this movie is the best one in the "Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldier" series.
In 1989, Yuan Heping directed "Royal Master Sister 4 Direct Witness", which is also the most powerful one in the "Royal Master Sister" series, the first two were starred by Yang Ziqiong, and then ran to get married without time to shoot films, from the third part is Yang Lijing starring, she is also with these two films, laying the status of "a generation of beating women" in the Hong Kong film industry, and is known as "Yang Ziqiong's successor".
But the most amazing thing about this movie is the "better looking" Zhen Zidan, it is this movie that knows Zhen Zidan, and has since liked this action actor, after the "Money Laundering" movie the following year, the degree of infatuation with him is no less than Jet Li and Jackie Chan, at that time in my mind, he was the three action actors who were juxtaposed with these two.
Yang Lijing and Zhen Zidan are a pair of police partners, Yuan Richu played by the dock worker Liu Zai inadvertently witnessed an illegal transaction, the police and criminals both thought that he got a negative film can be used to prosecute a senior CIA agent, Liu Zai was hunted down and hunted down by both police and bandits, so he was either beaten or chased on the way.
Especially this crew comparison, he is actually a little shorter than Yang Lizhen, Zhen Zidan is 169cm tall, Yuan Richu estimated that in the "Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldier" in the stills, there is also something under the foot, obviously there is no 168CM, Yuan Richu and Zhen Zidan a comparison, no wonder Yuan Heping will choose to hold Zhen Zidan, give up his brother Yuan Richu, this is also the last movie he starred in.
In addition to the two foreigners in this movie, Michael Woods, John Salvetti, two masters of white and one black, and this "ghost animal" little prince Cao Rong, in that era, his skills were also very powerful, but he was always abused by the protagonist: my combat strength was only 6,000, and he had at least more than 10,000.
The big boss behind the scenes is the colleague played by Wang Mingde, and the leader of the other group, Michael, was finally eliminated by the protagonist team on behalf of Justice.
At that time to watch this movie, or videotape, I rented this tape, has not been returned, nothing to take out to see again, now look back on this movie, many netizens' comments I very much recognize: like this film will not have again.
The action movies of that era gave people a sense of reality, especially this kind of modern film, there is no trace of Weia at all, there are many scenes that are completely completely completed by the ability of the action actors themselves, without the help of any props, so it is pleasing to the eye to watch, a word: cool!
However, it is worth saying that in this fight with black actor Michael Woods, many actions were completed by the "ghost animal" little prince Cao Rong.
Although The six boys played by Yuan Richu have been chased and beaten, he also has many action scenes, not only the limelight has been overshadowed by Zhen Zidan, and even in the fight scene with Cao Rong, even Cao Rong played better than him, in that era, whether it was a decent or a villain, as long as he fell to the ground, or on the glass table, and then broke the dangerous scene on the ground, it was generally completed by a professional stand-in.
Because they know how to land correctly, how not to hurt themselves in the process of landing, this is not a profound knowledge, but need to be through countless times of blood and sweat to understand, if the protagonist is injured, the next scene can not continue to shoot, will affect the process, but the Hong Kong film is very efficient.
Since this movie, Yuan Richu may have also found his own shortcomings, so he gradually withdrew from the film circle, and later went to the Taoist hall to do a Taoist, a lot of information on the Internet said that he was acting in those three Taoist movies, too deep into the drama to withdraw, I looked for a lot of information, did not find a photo of him after becoming a Taoist (the Internet circulated is He Baosheng who played Lin Pingzhi).
Like the actor Huang Yuanshen who played Huo Yuanjia, after leaving home, there were a lot of photos flowing out, but people were the superstars of the year, there were many media attention to him, this status is incomparable to Yuan Richu, so it is reasonable to find his photos.
On the contrary, his other two brothers, Yuan Xinyi and Yuan Xiangren, have been active in the film industry, both of them are mostly behind-the-scenes action directors, and occasionally make some cameos in the film, and each supporting role of Yuan Xiangren's cameo for the film is undoubtedly the finishing touch of the entire film.
Perhaps at the beginning, Yuan Richu took the route of behind-the-scenes action guidance, rather than developing as an action star, and the achievements may be higher.