He is a regular in kung fu movies, often playing villain roles, not only has a hard bridge hard horse of real kung fu, but also the acting skills are old and spicy, playing the bad guy is even more chilling, as long as he appears, everyone will always worry about the protagonist being ravaged.
Although the acquaintance is shallow, it seems that after years, I am Xiao Xiang. In this issue, let's walk into the "villain boss" in the Hong Kong kung fu movie - Ren Shiguan.
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Speaking of Ren Shiguan, the children after 90 and 00 must know very little, but the 70s and 80s are different, especially those who like action movies, and will not be unfamiliar with this old drama bone.
For example, in the martial arts film "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu II: Undefeated in the East" starring Jet Li, Ren Shiguan played the "Let Me Do" martial arts strong and fierce, far-sighted and scheming. With superb acting skills, he portrayed the brutal tyrant who wanted to dominate the martial arts.
In the "Three Heroes of the East" co-starring Mei Yanfang, Yang Ziqiong and Maggie Cheung, the evil charm and terror of "Chen Gonggong" created by Ren Shiguan, one person fighting three female heroes alone did not fall behind, in addition to being able to pick up bullets with their mouths, they finally became a skeleton and were full of combat effectiveness, and they are still childhood shadows.
In the "Deer Ding Ji II: Divine Dragon Sect" starring Zhou Xingchi, the "Feng Xifan" played by Ren Shiguan was bursting with force, and Qigong had been practiced to the high and deep realm of "returning from Profit to Blunt", and when playing with Xingye, the domineering side leaked with a bit of humor.
It is no exaggeration to say that every role played by Ren Shiguan has become a screen myth that is difficult to replicate.
Such an old drama bone with excellent acting skills, when it comes to his acting journey, is full of ups and downs and hardships, which makes Xiao Xiang can't help but worship.
In 1947, Ren Shiguan was born in a martial arts family in the mainland, his father Ren Yutian was a famous martial arts instructor in the 1930s, and in the 5th and 60s, his brother Ren Daguanzi inherited his father's business and cooperated with the great director Wang Tianlin many times.
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In addition, Ren Shiguan's sister Ren Yan was a popular female hit star of the year, who had participated in hundreds of kung fu films, and often played the female number one in series of movies such as Fang Shiyu and Huang Feihong.
Born in a family of martial arts and acting artists, with a profound foundation in martial arts, Ren Shiguan has been favored by the legendary directors of Zhang Che, Liu Jialiang, Yuan Heping, from "Dragon and Tiger Martial Master" to deputy martial arts instructor, to golden supporting roles, step by step.
Since the mid-to-late 1960s, under the leadership of Zhang Che, the "originator of violent aesthetics", he has won the famous "Shaw Five Tigers", opening up the heyday of kung fu films.
At that time, Ren Shiguan had participated in many movies such as "One-Armed Knife", "Three Heroes of Border City", "The First Fist in the World" and so on, but because his appearance was not brilliant enough, he could only be a "green leaf" for wang Yu, Chen Guantai, Luo Lie and other big-name superstars.
What really made the audience remember Ren Shiguan was after Jackie Chan became popular.
During that time, due to the increasing maturity of acting skills and the excellence of kung fu, Ren Shiguan was invited to play as a villain in Jackie Chan's films "Laughing Fist Strange Moves", "Dragon Leaping Tiger Leap", "Dragon Fist" and other films, often abusing the protagonist to the point of only parrying, without the power to fight back.
When people reach middle age, Ren Shiguan's acting skills are more amazing, and it is not too much to describe him as "playing a good person can become a Buddha, playing a bad person can become a demon", and his temperament of being both good and evil is unattainable by many actors.
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For example, in the kung fu film "Huang Feihong's Heroic Ambition", directed by Xu Ke, Ren Shiguan played the Shandong martial artist "Yan Zhendong" who went to Foshan, Guangdong Province, to fight the world, bent on making a name for himself through the iron cloth shirt kung fu, fighting with Huang Feihong everywhere, and finally died tragically under the guns of foreigners. The moment he fell, people could not help but sigh that the hero was at the end of the road and his ambition was difficult to reward.
Before his death, Yan Zhendong's words to Huang Feihong, "No matter how good kung fu is, it can't rival foreign guns" has become a sobering motto for practitioners.
In "Huang Feihong's Ghost Foot Seven", Ren Shiguan transformed into a "golden leopard" in Guangzhou pipe belt who threw himself into smoking bans, and fought with the ghost foot seven against the mastermind behind the opium trafficking, and the righteousness of that body could not help but be awe-inspiring.
In the "Iron Horse Of Young Huang Feihong" co-starring Zhen Zidan and Yu Rongguang, Ren Shiguan returned to the identity of the villain, playing the villain "Yankong Monk" in the film, the wooden stake battle between one person against two kung fu superstars, and each frame of the fight scene can be called the "textbook" in the action movie.
In addition, he also played the "protector" of Lin Qingxia in "New Dragon Gate Inn" and the "Iron Boss" in "The Legend of the Hero who Truant School", although the role is not much, it is also unforgettable.
Many years later, according to Yu Rongguang's recollection: "In the play, the world officials outside the play are two completely different people, and he is polite and low-key and introverted in life, as long as the director shouts to start the camera, he will immediately devote himself to the play for a second." ”
In the late 1990s, as Hong Kong action movies lost the mainstream market, veteran stars such as Ren Shiguan also abandoned the film and changed their careers. In 2001, after Ren's predecessor had a short-lived moment in the movie "The Legend of the Second Five-Year Plan", he has since disappeared from the "film and television jianghu", which makes fans and friends sigh.
Unlike some of today's "flaunting" stars, such as Ren Shiguan, Liu Xun, these old predecessors in the show business circle, the comprehensive strength is fully worthy of the "drama bone", unfortunately, it is difficult to find their detailed information on the Internet, "a thousand faces" can still find a few photos, Ren Shiguan is really like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", for fans who like him, it is really difficult to find a fairy.
Now, when The film is desolate, re-reading Xu Ke's "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", when Ling Huchong plans to retire with his brothers, the words that Ren I Xing said to him are unforgettable: "As long as there are people who have grievances, there are rivers and lakes, and people are rivers and lakes, how do you quit?" ”
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As a veteran martial arts fan, watching the older generation of artists grow old one by one, in the "traffic is king, the appearance is the way", coupled with the advent of the special effects era, now want to see a fist to the flesh and full of jianghu flavor of the film, has become a luxury.
Fortunately, although the jianghu is no longer there, the classic film will live on forever!