In 1985, "Mr. Zombie" created by "Hong Jiaban" set off a "zombie film boom" in the Hong Kong film market.
Lin Zhengying, who starred in "Uncle Nine", became popular in the film world with his calm "Daochang temperament". And Chen You, who plays the "four eyes", has also won the love and praise of many fans because of his excellent "Dao Chang appearance".
In fact, in addition to being an actor, Chen You also has multiple identities as a musician, director, screenwriter and producer.
In the early 1970s, Chen You, together with Chung Chun Tao, Tam Wing Lin, Peng Jianxin and Ip Chi Keung, formed the "Wen Na Band" and made many achievements in the Hong Kong music scene at that time.
At the end of the 1970s, the "Wenna Band" disbanded, and at this time, Chen You also began to dabble in the film industry and seek new developments.
In the early 1980s, with his active performance on the comedy big screen, Chen You accumulated a good audience base.
In 1984, Chen You registered and established his own "Eryou Film Production Co., Ltd." and began to challenge the work of producers and directors.
The birth of works such as "Thirty Virgins" and "Goodbye 7-Day Love" has also gradually consolidated the market foundation of "Eryou Film".
In 1986, "Eryou Film" suffered a major setback in development.
This year, Chen You planned and filmed the comedy film "Two In-laws and Eight Hearts", which was of excellent quality, but after its release, it was not popular, and only won more than 2.3 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.
The fiasco of "Two In-laws and Eight Hearts" put Chen You in financial difficulties.
In order to get out of the predicament, Chen You invited Hong Jinbao, Zhong Zhentao, Wang Zuxian, Wu Mengda and other friends in the circle in 1987 to plan and shoot the police comedy "Wrong Reference".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01: Chen You and Hong Jinbao </h1>
Chen You and Hong Jinbao can be regarded as old acquaintances.
In 1977, when Hong Jinbao and Mai Jia cooperated in the filming of "Face ignorance", they invited the "Wenna Band" at that time to sing the theme song for the film. Hong Jinbao and Chen You also officially met in this cooperation.
It is worth mentioning that although the IP of "Five Blessings Star" was carried forward in the hands of Hong Jinbao, it was Chen You who first proposed the inspiration for this film shooting.
In 1981, Chen You collaborated with his 4 band teammates to shoot the comedy film "Ghost Horse Five Lucky Stars".
This story of "five protagonists loving and killing each other and deceiving each other" has established the structural routine of the "Five Lucky Stars" movie for the first time.
In 1983's "Five Lucky Stars", Hong Jinbao combined this "5 people to rectify each other" story routine with the elements of police films, and the result was praised and loved by many audiences.
In 1985, when Hong Jinbao was filming "Summer Lucky Star", Chen You also participated in the filming of the film as a guest guest.
Of course, in addition to participating in the cameo appearance of "Summer Lucky Star", Chen You in 1985 also participated in the filming of "Mr. Zombie" and "Dragon's Heart".
Frequent film cooperation with "Hong Jiaban" has gradually brought the relationship between Chen You and Hong Jinbao closer.
In 1986, while the market of Chen You's "Two In-laws and Eight Hearts" was frustrated, Hong Jinbao's "Rich Train" sat on the throne of the annual box office runner-up with a box office performance of more than 28 million.
Chen You, whose career was frustrated, launched a request for help from Hong Jinbao, hoping to let "Eryou Film" and "Baohe Film" cooperate to jointly shoot "Wrong Reference".
In order to help Chen You get out of the predicament, Hong Jinbao, who was righteous, agreed to the shooting plan of "Wrong Reference". And Hong Jinbao himself also starred in the male protagonist of the film, "Fat Ding".
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02: The farce of the stupid thief meets the "black eats the black" </h1>
In Cantonese, "standard reference" means "tied ticket", and "wrong reference" as the name suggests, that is, "tied wrong ticket".
The story of this "Mislabeled Reference" revolves around the "tied ticket oolong".
"Hit worker" Fei Ding (played by Hong Jinbao) works in a jewelry company, because of his introverted and honest personality, he is often bullied by his colleagues in the company.
Once, Fat Ding and the "lady boss" went to deliver diamonds to an important customer, only to encounter robbers on the way.
The lady boss suspected that Fat Ding gave the robbers an internal response and leaked the escort route. As a result, Fat Ding was taken away for questioning by "Inspector Wang Sir" (played by Chen You).
In the company, Fat Ding has been working hard and complaining, and the suspicion of the boss lady makes Fat Ding very unhappy.
After returning from the "police station", Fat Ding was demoted, and his colleagues also pointed out him. For all this, the hostess did not stand up and give Fat Ding an explanation.
The disgruntled Fat Ding decided to "kidnap" the boss lady and take revenge on her.
The poor boy "A B" (played by Zhong Zhentao) came to this jewelry company as a warehouse manager.
Unexpectedly, A B learned of Fat Ding's "kidnapping plan", so he began to track Fat Ding, planning to "eat black black" with one hand.
On this day, the lady boss drove home, followed by Fat Ding, planning to do it. And A B also followed Fat Ding, planning to use the camera to film the crime process.
When Fat Ding saw someone coming out of the boss's villa, he rushed to catch up, wrapped the other party in a sack, and carried out the abduction.
And A B also filmed the whole process from a distance.
Fat Ding hid the "hostages" in a rental house, and then went to call the boss and carry out "blackmail".
As a result, an accident happened. On the other end of the phone, the boss said that his wife was not missing.
Confused, Fat Ding rushed back to the rental house to investigate, only to find that the "hostage" he had kidnapped was missing.
Fat Ding rushed back to the company, only to meet the lady boss on the way. And the hostess seems to know nothing about the previous "kidnapping" thing. It all seemed as if nothing had happened.
Feeling that he had bumped into the evil fat man, he decided to go home and sleep, forgetting everything.
However, when he came to work the next day, he found several photos on his desk. What is taken in the photo is the picture of Fat Ding's previous "kidnapping".
At this time, a strange phone call came into Fat Ding's office, and the caller was None other than A B.
It turned out that A B, who had been following Fat Ding yesterday, secretly stole the "hostage" after Fat Ding left.
Now the "hostage" is in the hands of A B, but A B wants Fat Ding to come forward, "extort" and collect a ransom. In this way, even if the transaction fails, the person who is caught is also fat, and A B can retreat completely.
For this plan, Fat Ding is obviously reluctant to accept it, but Ah B threatens with the photo in his hand, and Fat Ding can only obediently obey.
It turned out that what Fat Ding had "kidnapped" before was not the boss lady, but the boss's illegitimate daughter "Zu'er" (played by Wang Zuxian).
The boss lady was very repulsive to this illegitimate daughter and wanted to use this "kidnapping case" to drive Zu'er out of the house, so she called the police in a high profile, hoping to stimulate the kidnappers to "tear up the ticket".
After receiving the "alarm", Wang Sir also took over the investigation of the case.
Fat Ding demanded a ransom of 1.5 million yuan from his boss. The lady boss secretly exchanged the money for counterfeit money and disrupted the transaction.
Learning that his wife obstructed from it, causing the transaction to fail, the boss was stunned and sent to the hospital. And Wang Sir was also demoted by his boss "Inspector Wu" (played by Wu Mengda) because of his unfavorable handling.
The follow-up work of the subsequent case was also directly under the full responsibility of Inspector Wu.
After the failure of the first transaction, A B began to command Fat Ding to make the second transaction. And Fat Ding also discovered the true identity of A B based on a series of clues.
After the boss was hospitalized, the boss lady decided to give up the rescue of Zu'er and let the kidnappers "tear up the ticket".
However, when the boss lady learned that the boss's will stated that if the daughter had an accident, all the property would be donated to charity.
In order to keep the property, the lady boss decided to carry out a second rescue of Zu'er.
Although Fat Ding and Ah B have recognized each other's identities, now the "kidnapping" thing has become a tiger.
The two people, who were in a dilemma, decided to join hands to carry out the "kidnapping" to the end, and the ransom was divided equally after the ransom was received.
This time, Fat Ding and A B proposed a ransom of 4 million yuan to the boss lady. In order to keep the property, the hostess this time is also very cooperative.
Although Inspector Wu sent a large number of people, with the cooperation of the boss lady, Fat Ding and Ah B still successfully got the ransom and released them as promised.
After the ransom was paid, Fat Ding and A B decided to deposit the money into their respective bank accounts.
However, when the two came to the bank to do business, they accidentally encountered the robber "Big Fool" (played by Cheng Kui'an), and the ransom was also robbed by others.
Unwilling, the fat man catches up with the robbers and wants to snatch back the ransom. However, during the chase, the ransom was accidentally lost. This "ill-gotten gain" is also "missing" at the end of the movie.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03: Hong Jinbao's comedic style breakthrough </h1>
When it comes to the movie starring Hong Jinbao, I believe that most viewers will think of the label of "action".
However, in this "Wrong Reference", Hong Jinbao gave up action performance and made a bold breakthrough in his screen performance style.
The reason why Hong Jinbao will change his style in this "Wrong Reference" is related to his special encounter in 1987.
In the mid-1980s, Jackie Chan climbed to the new peak of his career with the life-fighting stunt scene in "Police Story". And Hong Jinbao, an action comedy that focuses on small scene fights, has also begun to gradually lose the audience market.
In order to seek a career breakthrough, In 1987, Hong Jinbao planned and filmed a large scene and a large-scale production of "Oriental Condor", but unfortunately suffered setbacks above the box office market.
After "Oriental Vulture" failed in the action scene, Hong Jinbao did the opposite, trying to strip away the action elements and create a pure comedy.
This idea was put into practice in the "Wrong Reference".
In "Mislabeled Reference", there is almost no decent action fight section, and the whole film completely relies on the dense comedy bridge design to support the plot.
In the film, Hong Jinbao also made a bold attempt at the performance style of "nonsense comedy".
For "nonsense comedy", the audience is most impressed by the film works starring Stephen Chow in the 90s.
But in fact, as early as the 80s, "nonsense comedy" has begun to appear on the big screen of Hong Kong films.
In 1980, "Owl" cooperated by Jiang David and Er Dongsheng can be regarded as the pioneering work of Hong Kong-style "nonsense comedy".
Unfortunately, the audience at that time did not appreciate this style of performance, so the "nonsense comedy" also fell into a period of silence.
At the end of the 1980s, the style of "nonsense comedy" began to attract the attention of many Hong Kong film directors. In 1987, Liu Zhenwei's "Fierce Ghost Messenger Pavilion" successfully opened the prelude to the era of "nonsense comedy".
And this year, Hong Jinbao and Chen You also joined hands to shoot this "Wrong Reference". The exaggerated performances of the characters in the film and the comedy sections that are not compatible with each other also make "Mislabeled Reference" reveal a strong "nonsense" atmosphere.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >04: Noon Ma and Chen You </h1>
Released in December 1987, Hong Jinbao's market appeal and novel comedy style of "nonsense", coupled with the help of Wang Zuxian, Zhong Zhentao, Wu Mengda and others, made the film win more than 11 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.
Although this achievement is not particularly prominent, to a certain extent, it also alleviates the financial pressure of Chen You and "Eryou Film".
In "Mislabeled Ginseng", Wu Ma and Chen You performed a rivalry scene at the tattoo shop. In this scene, the two people's nonsensical performance contributed a lot of laughter to the film.
When filming "Wrong Reference", Chen You and Wu Ma may not have imagined that their nonsensical comedy performance in the film would lay the groundwork for the birth of a Hong Kong film classic.
Liu Guanwei, the director of the "Zombie Series", found a lot of inspiration for film creation from the rivalry scenes of Chen You and Noon Ma in "Mislabeled Reference".
In 1988, Liu Guanwei fused "nonsense comedy elements" with "zombie films" and filmed the movie "Uncle Zombie". The two protagonists of this movie were also handed over to Wu Ma and Chen You.
Although this "Uncle Zombie" does not have Lin Zhengying, a professional in "zombie films".
However, the nonsensical comedy bridge design and the excellent performances of Chen You and Noon Ma still make the film an indelible classic in the hearts of "zombie film fans".
The performances of Chen You and Wu Ma in "Wrong Reference" laid the groundwork for the subsequent "Uncle Zombie". And Wu Mengda's appearance in "Wrong Reference" was unexpectedly doomed to his subsequent acting life.
In the film, Wu Mengda made his first attempt at the performance of "nonsense comedy".
With this attempt, Wu Mengda's acting path is also gradually drifting away on the big screen of "nonsense comedy". In the 90s, together with Stephen Chow, he led the Hong Kong-style "nonsense comedy" to the peak.
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