At the 37th Academy Awards in 2018, Director Chu Yuan won the Lifetime Achievement Award, and an acceptance speech blew up the network: Call it a thousand things in the world, idle to laugh two or three times!
Now this lovely big director has gone to another world, reunited with three old friends Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che, at the age of 87, and the departure of Shaw's four directors represents the end of an era.
Director Wang Jing posted nostalgia, saying that Director Chu Yuan was his respected mentor and his "Master Qi", who taught himself how to behave and the philosophy of dealing with the world, and learned enough things in him for a lifetime.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Jing once arranged the role of "God of Movies" for Chu Yuan in the movie "Hardcover Difficult Brothers", which is enough to prove its weight.
Chu Yuan came from a film family, and his father, Cheung Ho-yu, was a famous Cantonese film actor in Hong Kong, and he also entered the film industry.
He studied under the well-known director Qin Jian, took the route of screenwriter and director, independently directed movies at the age of 25, and became famous at the age of 26 with "Poor Parents' Hearts in the World".
In the years that followed, Chu Yuan shot dozens of Cantonese films, accumulated rich directing experience, and joined Shaw in the 1970s.
When he first entered Shaw's career, Chu Yuan became famous and received the attention of his boss, Run Run Shaw, who also broke the box office record in 1973 with a "Seventy-Two Tenants" and overpowered the limelight of Jiahe Bruce Lee.
The significance of "Seventy-Two Tenants" is not only a box office success, but also to a certain extent, it has opened up another trend of Cantonese films, and then the Hui brothers' works such as "Ghost Horse Double Star" and "Half a Pound and Eight Two" have pushed Cantonese films to a peak.
After the peak is the trough, after "Seventy-Two Tenants", Chu Yuan's films mostly do not sell seats, and the boss gradually loses patience with him.
In order to reverse the situation, he looked at gulong's novel "Meteor Butterfly Sword", found his friend Ni Kuang to help him adapt, and invited Yue Hua, Jing Li, Zong Hua, Ling Yun and other actors to star.
In the end, "Meteor Butterfly Sword" stood out, and even broke the record of the Taiwan region, Chu Yuan director took advantage of the situation to turn over, and Gu Long, Dillon formed an iron triangle, the Gu Long novel martial arts movie to the end, set off a boom, and even at that time there was a saying, if you have not acted in Chu Yuan's movie, you are not a movie actor.
Chu Yuan is not only the director who shoots the most Gulong novels, but also the most capable of making Gulong novels, his literary and romantic temperament and Gulong's strange martial arts novels and Dillon's "Divine Face" are the perfect partner, and there are classics such as "Tianya Mingyue Knife", "Chu Liuxiang", "The Sword of the Three Young Masters" and so on.
After the 1980s, with the loneliness of Shaw Film Company and the increase of age, Chu Yuan began to reduce his filming and gradually moved to the front of the stage.
The optimistic and open-minded mentality of the former big director, who put down his body, starred in some supporting roles in the film, and was willing to play for young directors, is admirable.
As a director, he broke box office records, and as an actor, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor with "Cher", which truly interpreted the line of love.
The most impressive thing is his several cooperation with Jackie Chan, such as the villain Zhu Tao in the "Police Story" series, the father of Li Zhi in "Double Dragon Society", the father of Jackie Chan in "Thunderbolt Fire", when he was a child, he thought he was an inconspicuous supporting role, who could think of being a big director?
Not only that, he has also participated in many TVB dramas, as early as 1983, he was invited to serve as an advisor to "The Legend of the Eagle Hero".
In the 90s, the drama addiction came up, with a "old naughty boy" posture, and Qian Xiaohao cooperated in "Big Head Green Fighting Zombies", participated in the Rulai Buddha in "Journey to the West", played Cheng Feng's father in the "Top Gun Master Sister" series, and even made a cameo appearance in "Looking for Qin".
The life of The great director chu yuan, in front of and behind the scenes, not only left many classic works, but also cultivated many talents, such as the big apprentice Feng Quanfan, xiao Bao'er Dongsheng, the thousand-faced little student Gu Guanzhong, etc., is a well-deserved Hong Kong director, all the way good.