I just want to have one day, I just want one day when my dreams become real.
"Caiyun Song"
In 1981, Andy Lau was admitted to the 10th TVB Artist Training Class, and became classmates with Xu Jinjiang, Leung Ka Fai, Wu Jiali, and Qi Meizhen.
This year, Andy Lau, who was still a trainee of the training class, starred in his film debut "Caiyun Qu", in which he played a trainee in the film. The supervising producer of "Rainbow Song" is Teddy Robin, and the soundtrack of the film is also him.
Since then, Andy Lau has opened a friendship with the Hong Kong film and music giant for nearly 40 years.
Teddy Robin (formerly known as Guan Weipeng, Teddy Robin), born in 1945 in Guilin, Guangxi, moved to Hong Kong with his parents. Teddy Robin is only 150, but he is a real giant of Hong Kong's film and music giants.
The earliest group of musicians in Hong Kong all made their debut by playing bands, and they all sang English songs at the beginning, mainly influenced by the European and American pop music scenes, and had strong characteristics of the times. In the early years of the Wenna Band and the Lotus Band, the long-haired flared pants were the most intuitive features.
Teddy Robin loved music since childhood, organized playboy bands to perform everywhere in middle school, and became popular in the mid-1960s, earlier than Hong Kong singer Tam Wing Lin and song god Hui Guanjie became famous.
Teddy Robin in composition, scoring and instrumental performance are very high, in the music world is also very high status, the network is also very wide, Xu Guanjie also let his son Xu Huaien worship him as a teacher, which shows his achievements. [Hong Kong post-80s singer Kwan Chu Yiu is the nephew of Teddy Robin, and because of his friendship, he worships Tam Wing Lin as a dry father.] 】
In 1980, Hong Kong New Arts City Film Company was established, Teddy Robin joined, together with Mai Jia, Shi Tian, Huang Baiming, Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng, Zeng Zhiwei, became the core creative group of seven people at the peak of New Arts City, and was nicknamed the Seven Monsters of New Art City.
Each of the seven monsters of the new art city is a legendary elite in the film industry, but each has its own strengths, or directing or writing or acting, and Teddy Robin is the only big ka with music creation ability, and he can also be an actor, director, producer and producer.
In the early days, the classic films that made New Art City famous in one fell swoop, such as "Ghost Horse Wisdom Star", "Best Partner", "Difficult Brother", "I Love the Night", etc., all had important contributions from Teddy Robin.
At that time, Teddy Robin, with his achievements and influence in the music and film industry, had long been a real giant in the song and film world in Hong Kong.
At that time, the film strategy of New Art City was to promote the production of high-grossing commercial films, but it also insisted on producing some small-cost New Wave literary and artistic films, and "Caiyun Qu" released in 1982 was such a work.
At that time, Andy Lau, who was just 20 years old, had excellent results in the wireless artist training class, and could often get the opportunity to perform, but it was only a small set, but with his diligence and dedication, he quickly won the appreciation of some predecessors in the film industry, including Teddy Robin and Zeng Zhiwei.
Teddy Robin is the executive producer of "Caiyun Song", in which Zeng Zhiwei plays a training class teacher.
Through "Caiyun Song", Andy Lau met these film industry bigwigs in New Art City, but did not immediately develop in the film industry, but signed a contract for debut on TVB, the main force is to shoot TV series.
Although Andy Lau also had the opportunity to participate in the filming of some films during his wireless period, he no longer cooperated with New Art City, which adhered to the strategy of superstardom.
In 1986, Andy Lau ended his contract with Wireless and officially entered the world. Previously due to the blockade of wireless, after the wireless boss Run Run Shaw personally mediated, Andy Lau was allowed to leave wireless, but still had to complete the filming of several TV series. It was not until 1988 that Andy Lau finally ushered in the first big explosion in the film industry.
This year, Andy Lau met Teddy Robin again and officially starred in the movie "Dragons And Treasure" for the first time.
The new art city, which was once in the sky, also began to split in the mid-1980s, and the seven monsters of the new art city fought their own battles, and finally closed in 1990. So, at this time, Teddy Robin has begun to leave the new art city and cooperate with other film companies. This "Dragons Seize the Treasure" is produced by Hong Jinbao's Baohe Company and belongs to Jiahe's satellite company.
In "Dragons For Treasure", Andy Lau plays an exhibition custodian Charlie Chen, Teddy Robin plays a thief Zhuo Extraordinary, plus Xu Shaoqiang plays the fast gunner Ma Yunlong, staged a good play of dragons to seize the treasure, but the highlight is Andy Lau and Guan Zhilin's first cooperation.
"Dragons Andy's Treasure" has become a turning point in the status of Andy Lau and Teddy Robin in the film world, and the young student Andy Lau has gradually reached the peak and become a superstar, while the former big brother of the film industry, Teddy Robin, has gradually faded out and retreated behind the scenes.
[Later films such as "Same Root" and "Yoshiko Kawashima" were all supervised by Teddy Robin.] 】
Fast forward to 2010, Andy Lau invested in a movie "The Ring" as the boss, and Teddy Robin came back to play the role of an old martial artist. At the Academy Awards the following year, Teddy Robin won the Academy Award for the first time, and it was two awards at once, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Film Music.
In the acceptance speech, Teddy Robin's gratitude to Andy Lau allowed the audience to see the continuing love between the two for more than three decades.
In fact, earlier, the martial arts blockbuster "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" launched in 2009, starring Andy Lau, Teddy Robin has returned to cooperate with Andy Lau again, he plays a transfiguration of the divine doctor Wang Donkey.
[The director of "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" is Xu Ke, who is also one of the seven monsters of the new art city at that time, which is also his first cooperation with Andy Lau.] 】
In 1981's "Caiyun Song", Andy Lau is a trainee in the training class, and Teddy Robin is the executive producer who can determine the cast; 1988's "Dragons Andy Lau" is the male protagonist, Teddy Robin is the supporting actor; 2010's "Fight in the Ring", Andy Lau is the boss, Teddy Robin is the actor.
Thirty years of time change, the little brother of that year has been the king of the Hong Kong music scene and the film industry, although the giant of the music and film world of that year has been heroic and late, the love between the two is the same as that year.