In the 1990s, Tsui Ke, Jet Li and Yuan Heping teamed up to create the Wong Fei Hung series, which pushed Hong Kong martial arts films to a peak.
In 1993, Jet Li filmed his own company's "Fang Shiyu" and parted ways with Xu Ke. On the one hand, Xu Ke used Zhao Wenzhuo to take over Huang Feihong, on the other hand, as a supervising producer, launched a new series of biographies, and there was "The Iron Horse of Young Huang Feihong" directed by Yuan Heping.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, Yuan Heping Zhen Zidan restored Xu Ke's imaginary "Foshan shadowless foot"</h1>
In 1991, because Xu Ke was keen on the flowing movements of "Weiya", he insisted on playing Huang Feihong with Li Lian, who was born in the Northern School of Kung Fu, and broke with Liu Jialiang, the action director at that time, the official Huang Feihong's southern fist lineage.
Yuan Xiangren, Yuan Xinyi, and Liu Jiarong reluctantly resolved Xu Ke's request, but the final ladder battle in "Huang Feihong" was helpless. With nothing to do, Yuan Xiangren and Yuan Xinyi released a big move and invited the eldest brother Yuan Heping to save the scene.
Eight Master Yuan Heping knew whether there was a shot or not, the ladder war was wonderful, which made Xu Ke secretly happy, and the action of "Huang Feihong's Boy Should Strengthen Himself" was directly handed over to Yuan Heping.
In 1993, Xu Ke simply entrusted "Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse" to Yuan Heping and became a hand-throwing producer himself, for which Yuan Heping also complained that he did not come to the scene and filmed it by himself.
As a director, Yuan Heping has directed dozens of action films, and as an action director, he has countless excellent products, such as "Kung Fu", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Jingwu Hero" and so on.
"Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse" was not ideal at the box office that year, less than 7 million, but it was considered by Yuan Heping to be his most satisfactory work, and the lead actor Zhen Zidan himself also believed that this film could be used as a benchmark for action movie classics.
At that time, the main actors Zhen Zidan and Yu Rongguang were at their peak, and the various one-shots in the film were magical and amazing.
Yuan Heping gave up the continuation of Jet Li's version of Huang Feihong's usual Northern School Kung Fu in this film, and let Zhen Zidan use the rigid, swift and realistic leg method to restore the "Foshan Shadowless Foot" that Huang Qiying Huang Feihong did not have in history, made up out of thin air by Xu Ke, and realized with Weiya in "Boys As Self-Reliance", to the greatest extent possible.
There are also many variations of "Zhen's Foshan Shadowless Foot": facing four enemies surrounded, one-legged surrounded by four consecutive kicks to the end, and only fast release in the later stage can achieve such a fantastic "shadowless foot".
The shooting of the action scenes in this film also shows a high level, using many one-shot shots to shoot coherent actions, which is very exciting and ornamental.
Although Wei Ya is also widely used in the film, such as Zhen Zidan and Ren Shiguan from the roof all the way to the ground, the feeling is relatively real, and there is no common problem in many films, that is, the actor Wei Ya feels heavy and the core strength is insufficient.
The editing of the film is also very elaborate, through various camera positions and speed adjustments, shooting a dazzling number of fast punches and feet. Yu Rongguang's sticking to the ground is filmed with a low camera position to achieve a sense of reality.
The "Iron Monkey" was able to twist the opponent's villain's knife into a twist in the glory of the nine-section whiplash tiger.
The climax of the film is Yu Rongguang and Zhen Zidan's wooden stake duel with Ren Shiguan. "Plum Blossom Pile Fire Sea" is a classic action scene in the history of famous films.
Wooden stake play is not uncommon in Hong Kong martial arts films, but the only one with fire is the only one in this film. The post-editing flexible use of montages, interspersed with action and fire, and the visual impact is extremely strong.
For Yu Rongguang and Zhen Zidan, who were at the peak of their physical fitness, what kind of magical movements were not unusual, such as the two standing on a seesaw-like stake to maintain balance. Although assisted by VIA, it is also a very amazing action design.
Zhen Zidan's wooden stake is really a tianxiu action at the peak of the star.
Ren Shiguan, who plays the great villain Yankong Monk, is a professional villain master of martial arts movies, such as Feng Xifan in "Deer Dingji", Yan Zhendong in "Huang Feihong", and Ren Ixing in "Smiling Proud of jianghu".
And Zhen Zidan once played the villain Nalan Yuanshu in "Huang Feihong's Boy As Self-Improvement", and this time the two popular villains actually had the opportunity to fight in Huang Feihong's movie, which was also a major attraction at that time.
The exaggerated stunt of "Flying Sleeves of The Clouds" such as Yankong is a very special setting in this film that emphasizes the real iron horse hard bridge, and it is used to reverse the sleeves to become an offensive weapon.
In addition, there are other classic clips in this film, not a fight, but Yu Rongguang's daily romantic kung fu display, which makes many fans remember: Yu Rongguang plays Dr. Yang of Baicaotang Medical Center during the day, and after watching the patient close the door with Xiaolan. The costumes and sets of the two people are very suitable for the scene, and the overall tone of yellowing and gray is permeated, and the atmosphere of the turbulent and cool rivers and lakes is turbulent.
The gust of wind blew through the paper and flew up, the two looked at each other, Yu Rongguang lifted his breath and performed light work, catching the scattered paper in the air, flowing and elegant,
The He girl played by Wang Jingying also flew to help. When she was about to land, Yu Rongguang came out to help, and she took advantage of the situation and landed on the ground after grabbing the last piece of paper.
In the process, the two did not have a single line, only relying on fists and feet to cooperate tacitly. The theme song of this film, "Is It Love or Not", sung by Lin Yilian, is tender and gentle, which probably represents the biggest difference in the style of this film and Xu Ke's first three Huang Feihong.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, Zhen Zidan transformed into a chef in Rongguang, Huang Xia played the county order, and Huang Feihong turned out to be a girl</h1>
"Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse" is based on the Cantonese folklore "Iron Horse", which means "iron monkey" in Cantonese. Because Monkey Fist is a branch of Nan Quan, it is widely popular in Guangdong.
According to folklore, the "iron monkey" saves lives during the day and robs the rich and the poor at night. The frequency of appearances in early Hong Kong martial arts films "Iron Horse" is not low, and there has always been a mysterious rogue image, such as "Iron Horse Horse" starring Chen Guantai in 1977, which can be described as a classic IP. In 1996, Yuan Heping made another film "Iron Horse Horse II Street Killer", also starring Zhen Zidan.
The iron monkey in this film is very cute, and when robbing the rich and the poor, they will always leave a "post-it note" of the monkey image.
Folk even made statues of iron monkeys.
Although the name of this film is "Young Huang Feihong", the film is mainly the story of Huang Qiying and the Iron Horse Wolf, and the righteous double male protagonist who feels sorry for each other is set.
Southerner, Huang Qiying of Baozhilin; Northerner, Yang Tianchun (Iron Monkey) of Baicaotang. The north-south cooking contest between the two male protagonists is also very interesting, and Yu Rongguang sang an oil poem when he made knife cutting noodles, making this film almost called "China on the Tip of Huang Feihong's Tongue".
The female protagonist is Wang Jingying, who plays the lady He, the owner of Baicaotang, and she also plays the fourteenth aunt in "The Wind of the Four Kings of Huang Feihong" played by Zhao Wenzhuo in the same year.
Wang Jingying was once the first model in Taiwan Province, with a sexy body, after signing Xu Feng's Tomson film, she gradually entered the Hong Kong film industry, and once partnered with Wang Zuxian in "The Undefeated Rise of the East", which was praised by Xu Keli, but in the end regretted that she failed to become popular.
The young Wong Fei Hung is played by a girl in reverse string, and is also a common operation in Hong Kong movies. Wong Fei Hung is played by Tsang Si Min, the champion of the Hong Kong women's martial arts children's group, who is similar to Zhen Zidan and has a full sense of father and son. However, after the excellent performance of this film, he did not enter the film world, but chose to become a policeman.
This film also has a famous point of view: Huang Xia, who single-handedly wrote the classic theme song of the Huang Feihong series "Boys Be Self-Reliant", actually made a cameo appearance in the important role of County Ling, who played a lot of scenes.
Uncle Xia's performance is exaggerated and exquisite, and if the audience does not see the cast list, they probably will not believe that the talented Huang Xia can also look so "greedy and lustful".
As an actor, Huang Xia's film is the representative work with the most scenes and the most able to show his acting skills. Yuan Heping was very obvious when filming Huang Xia, making Huang Xia a laughing point in this film.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, the Hong Kong box office downturn, all relying on Quentin's discernment to blossom outside the wall</h1>
1993 was a year of boom and bust for Hong Kong martial arts films, with an oversupply of martial arts films and most of them lost everything.
Although the film is relatively well-made, because the main actors Zhen Zidan and Yu Rongguang were still second- and third-tier stars at the time, the lineup was indeed weak, and the film did not catch fire in Hong Kong at that time. This shows the fierce competition in the Hong Kong film market that year.
After Jet Li and Xu Ke ended their cooperation in 1992, the Huang Feihong IP run by Xu Ke was not only looking for Zhao Wenzhuo as the successor plan of "Huang Feihong", but also prepared to develop the "Young Huang Feihong" series.
Originally, Xu Ke was going to make a series of movies, but unfortunately, the box office performance in Hong Kong that year was less than 7 million, which was really tragic, and there was no following.
Zhen Zidan even suffered setbacks in his development and joined ATV to shoot a TV series. At that time, Hong Kong film actors rarely went back to making TV dramas.
In 1994, although the film was nominated for Best Action Direction at the Hong Kong Film Awards, it ultimately lost to Won Kui and Won Tak's "Fang Shiyu".
However the flowers inside the walls are fragrant outside the walls. In 2000, when Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was screened in North America, the film also entered the vision of Quentin, who was obsessed with Chinese kung fu.
With Quentin's help, the film was released in North America in 2001 and unexpectedly grossed $14.69 million (about 100 million yuan).
When the news spread back to Hong Kong, people could seriously understand the film, and the name of Yuan Ping's first martial finger resounded throughout Hollywood. It is precisely because of the film that Quentin chose Yuan Heping to become the action director of "Kill Bill".
It is worth mentioning that when the North American film company released "Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse", it was released after cutting out some of the literary dramas and speeding up the action scenes.
After that, many of Zhen Zidan's films were like this routine, tuned fast, and released in North America. This "acceleration" operation directly affected Zhen Zidan later, and his later action design pursuit of speed was also to the point of madness. (Reported by: Mankei Wu)