In 1992, Wang Jing and Zhou Xingchi cooperated in two films "Deer Ding" were released.
At that time, the star master was in the sky, Wang Jing was also creative, coupled with the martial arts fever driven by Xu Ke at that time, which made Zhou Xingchi's version of "Deer Ding Ji" a great success when it was released, and the upper and lower parts were ranked third and fifth in the annual box office list, with a total box office of 76 million Hong Kong dollars.
By the way, 1992 is also known as the year of Zhou Xingchi in the history of film.
Because this year, Zhou Xingchi had a total of seven films released in the Hong Kong market, all of which entered the top ten of the Hong Kong film box office this year, and even won the top five box office of the Hong Kong film market that year, in addition, with the box office champion film "The Judge" of the year, he won the Best Actor Award at the Asian Film Festival, and the star at that time could be said to be red and purple.
At that time, the Hong Kong and Taiwan film circles were keen to follow the trend, and a theme was immediately followed by a bunch of follow-up works to shoot.
Wang Jing and Zhou Xingchi's "Deer DingJi" made Yongsheng Pictures behind the scenes make a lot of money, which soon aroused the eyes of Taiwanese film merchant Yineng Pictures, and Yineng Pictures found Liang Chaowei, who had played Wei Xiaobao in the 86 TV drama version of "Deer Ding", to play the protagonist.
And in order to compete with Zhou Xingchi's version of Wei Xiaobao, the film side also carefully named the film "Genuine Wei Xiaobao", which obviously means something, implying that Liang Chaowei's version of Wei Xiaobao is the genuine version.
However, when the film was released, the audience was shocked, although the film found Liang Chaowei to play the role of Wei Xiaobao again, but the plot of the magic change is more outrageous than Wang Jing's version of "Deer Ding", the story was transplanted to modern times, completely turned into a crossover comedy.
In this issue of "Forgotten Hong Kong Films", let's talk about this crossover version of "Deer Ding"——
"Zhengpai Wei Xiaobao's FengzhiGou Girl"
Hero from Beyond the Boundary of Time
The film was released in 1993 under the title of "Wei Xiaobao 93 Modern Love Pass".
The director is the famous stuntman Ke Shouliang, who is a well-known stunt director in the Hong Kong film circle in the 1980s and 1990s, and is also an all-round filmmaker, who not only wrote, directed and acted, but also dabbled in the singing world, singing "Stupid Child", "Big Brother" and other golden songs.
The film's screenwriting team is quite luxurious, Zou Kaiguang and Ye Weizhong are both gold medal screenwriters in the Hong Kong film industry, and another screenwriter, Ma Weihao, later transformed into a director, shooting classic Hong Kong films such as "Tokyo Raiders" and "Hedong Lion Roar".
In terms of actors, the cast of this film is quite strong, in addition to finding Liang Chaowei, the original Wei Xiaobao, but also invited the sexy goddess Ye Yuqing to play Princess Jianning, the model-turned actress Wu Xuewen as the heroine, in addition to Tang Zhenye, who is one of the five wireless tigers with Liang Chaowei, played the Kangxi Emperor.
It is worth mentioning that the male number two of this film is played by Zhang Weijian, who just received attention with the TVB dramas "Sun Moon Excalibur" and "Old Friend Ghost", and began to show some comedic talents, so he got the opportunity to participate in this "Genuine Wei Xiaobao", and this film has also become the cross-time and space-time co-stage of two generations of Wei Xiaobao.
Tell the story again.
Since this film is to benchmark Zhou Xingchi, the plot and painting style of the whole film are also very nonsensical, and the screenwriter continues to write "Deer Ding" with a big brain hole, telling the witty adventure of Wei Xiaobao crossing to the modern era and finding the true empress for the seriously ill Kangxi Emperor.
In the sixteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the emperor (Tang Zhenye) suddenly fell ill with a strange disease, resulting in a lack of energy and increasing depression.
Seeing that the Tai Doctor was helpless, Kangxi had to turn to the Current Protector Mage and ask the Mage to ask him to ask for a good chance and find a way to crack it.
Just at this time, the secret agents of the imperial court found a "blueprint for the manufacture of rebel weapons" in the palace of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and this weapon was a black technology secretly manufactured by the northern Luocha State, which could travel through time and space.
When Guoshi saw the luocha people's time-space travel concept, he immediately came up with a solution to eliminate the disease and disaster for the Kangxi Emperor: that is, to use the time and space shuttle wheel to travel to 300 years later, according to the eight characters of the birthday, to find a virgin and be crowned as the true empress.
Only in this way can the strange disease of the emperor be removed.
Kangxi immediately ordered people to build a shuttle wheel according to the book, and summoned skilled craftsmen to create a shuttle wheel, and the risk of traveling through time and space was completely unknown, and naturally fell to Wei Xiaobao (Liang Chaowei), the Duke of Luding, who was deeply trusted by Kangxi.
Wei Xiaobao is now prosperous in official fortunes, his wives and concubines are like clouds, but the sadistic Princess Jianning (Played by Ye Yuqing), who is most afraid of being cruel and spicy, in order to avoid Princess Jianning, Wei Xiaobao immediately took the order and decided to travel through time and space.
Before leaving, Wei Xiaobao went to pay homage to his master Chen Jinnan and asked him to bless him to return safely.
Although Chen Jinnan was already dead, his soul would often appear at key moments to protect Wei Xiaobao, and Wei Xiaobao had a summoning secret word, and every time he read the secret language, chen Jinnan could be made to appear.
On the day of departure, Guoshi gave Wei Xiaobao a virgin detector, which was said to automatically emit holy light when he encountered a real queen.
In this way, Wei Xiaobao, with Kangxi's expectations, entered the shuttle ship and embarked on a journey through time and space.
The black technology of the Luocha people is indeed reliable, and Wei Xiaobao successfully crossed to the modern era and came to a small fishing village in the New Territories of Hong Kong 300 years later.
In the fishing village, he meets the angry little policeman Ya Chao (Zhang Weijian), Who mistakenly thinks that Wei Xiaobao is a stowaway and beats him up, resulting in Wei Xiaobao performing a hand of ancient kung fu, which completely convinces Ya Chao.
Ya Chao was beaten every day because he owed a lot of money to the underworld gangster Brother Xiong, so he stole a jade pendant from Wei Xiaobao's body, and Brother Xiong gave him 100,000 yuan as soon as he opened his mouth.
Let Yachao finally believe that Wei Xiaobao came from ancient times and was worth a lot, and has since become Wei Xiaobao's small follower in modern times, and Wei Xiaobao has also helped Yachao solve the problem of his brother who has been targeting him.
Wei Xiaobao came to the modern era of drunken gold fans, but still did not forget the imperial order, he bribed Ya Chao with jewelry, asking him to use his position to help inquire about the clues of the true queen, and the two even held an open queen audition.
Unfortunately, although there were many candidates, none of them could match the virgin detector in Wei Xiaobao's hand.
At the same time, Wei Xiaobao met the modern beauty Ah Xia in the fishing village, the two met due to misunderstanding, and later Wei Xiaobao helped Ah Xia teach her scumbag boyfriend, so that the relationship between the two gradually eased.
After that, Wei Xiaobao used his rich "bubble girl experience" to pursue Ah Xia.
However, brother Xiong, the gangster that Ya Chao had provoked before, refused to let them go, and kidnapped Ah Xia, fortunately, Wei Xiaobao took him out of trouble. However, Ah Xia, who escaped the disaster, relapsed from the old disease, and Wei Xiaobao saved each other through internal strength, so that Ah Xia gradually fell in love with Wei Xiaobao, and the two fell in love in modern times.
Unexpectedly, just when the two were sweet, Princess Jianning and Shuang'er also took a shuttle wheel to find Wei Xiaobao 300 years later.
It turned out that Wu Sangui, who was bent on rebellion, learned the news that "Kangxi was suffering from a strange disease, and Wei Xiaobao traveled through time and space to find a cure", so he also created a shuttle wheel and arranged for two Luochaguo killers to go and kill Wei Xiaobao.
Princess Jianning and Shuang'er were not at ease with Wei Xiaobao's safety, so they followed them to the modern era and wanted to protect Wei Xiaobao.
As a modern independent woman, Ah Xia was very sad to learn that Wei Xiaobao actually had 7 wives in ancient times. At this moment, Wei Xiaobao unexpectedly learned that the True Destiny Empress who met the eight characters of the birthday was actually Ah Xia.
Wei Xiaobao, who had just been broken up, learned that he had soaked the emperor's woman in his hands, and was even more worried about how to go back to the emperor to regain his life.
When it rained overnight, the Luochaguo killer also came to modern times and began to hunt down Wei Xiaobao and Ah Xia, Princess Jianning and Shuang'er were invincible to the killer, and everyone started a big scuffle in a playground.
At the moment of crisis, Wei Xiaobao remembered the secret words left by his master, and immediately summoned Chen Jinnan's soul and let it ascend to Ya Chao's body. With Chen Jinnan's plug-in blessing, Yachao's combat effectiveness exploded, and everyone worked together to kill two killers with an electric current.
A crisis is lifted, wei Xiaobao is about to return to the Qing Dynasty, but Ah Xia is unwilling to go back to 300 years ago and become an empress because she loves Wei Xiaobao deeply. Helpless, Wei Xiaobao could only choose to return to his life with a history textbook.
After reading the history textbooks, Kangxi found that he could live to be more than sixty years old and had made many great achievements. So he no longer believed in the state teacher who deceived the people, and was determined to work hard to rule and be a good emperor who broke away from superstition.
At the end of the story, Wei Xiaobao returned to modern times with seven wives, and Ah Xia also became one of Wei Xiaobao's wives.
The story of the movie ends here.
This "Zhengpai Wei Xiaobao" can only be regarded as a fan work, from the story level has been separated from the original, the film is completely a pure catering to the commercial nonsense comedy, the story mixed with crossing, fantasy, martial arts, love, gunfights, gangsters and other common elements of Hong Kong films, the choreographer played the brain hole to make it into a pot of hodgepodge.
The advantage of the film is that the story is very lively, Wei Xiaobao in the original is an alternative protagonist who enjoys the blessings of the Qi people, smart and clever, but there is no too high moral bottom line, so he can wander in the temple and the rivers and lakes, the screenwriter has another way, let Wei Xiaobao travel through time and space to the modern era, from the purpose of finding the queen to meeting true love in the modern era, the plot does not seek depth, relying on various jokes and gags to tell the whole story.
The creativity of this film lies in the mixing of the ancient and modern winds caused by the crossing setting, both the divine kung fu points in martial arts novels, the soul possession in fantasy films, and the science fiction settings such as traveling through time and space. The whole film gives people a sense of déjà vu, just like the shape of the protagonist Wei Xiaobao, although the identity is an ancient person with a braided head, but the suit and leather shoes are full of modern fashion.
On the other hand, the performances of the main actors in the film are also excellent. I have to sigh the professional attitude of the Hong Kong filmmakers at that time, although this film is basically a farce, but the actors are really working hard. Liang Chaowei is funny, Zhang Weijian is responsible for playing treasure, Ye Yuqing starred the sadist Jianning Gong very well, and Wu Xuewen sacrificed a lot for this film.
After the film was released that year, it received more than 10.3 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, which can be said to be a small profit compared to the cost of 4 million. However, compared with Wang Jing's all-star lineup of "Deer Ding", there is naturally a big gap, and the classic degree of the plot is not as good as Zhou Xingchi.
It is worth mentioning that this film, as Zhang Weijian's first involvement in the film circle, allows Zhang Weijian to further show his comedic talent, even in the face of famous actors such as Wei Zai. After this film, Zhang Weijian was appreciated by many directors and began to often appear in some comedy films, such as "Seven Princesses of Wuxia" and "Super School Overlord" directed by Wang Jing.
Seven years later, Zhang Weijian became Wei Xiaobao in the TV series "Xiaobao and Kangxi" created by Wang Jing, and this drama has also become a classic in the memory of many people, but this is the last word.