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As the saying goes: "The higher you stand, the easier it is to flash your waist",
This sentence is most appropriate for the big director Luo Wei,
When he was a "box office brother" of Jiahe, the scenery was infinite,
He would not have imagined that Bruce Lee, a good brother who was more in love with him than Jin Jian, would one day "meet with him with a knife".
I would not have thought that many years later, Jackie Chan, who I had cultivated with my own hands, would break with him and not even participate in his funeral.
Bruce Lee and Rowe
In the early 1960s, Bruce Lee was full of ambition to go to the United States, but he was never appreciated, and the long-term frustration finally made the young man learn to precipitate, and in 1971, he packed his bags and returned to Hong Kong.
Unable to negotiate with Shaw, he instead signed an agreement with the then-startup Jiahe to make two films for $15,000, one of which was the highly popular movie "Big Brother Tangshan".
After the agreement was signed, the crew of "Big Brother Tangshan" started in Thailand. The original director of the film was Wu Jiajun, but after running into most of the film, he and Bruce Lee just did not deal with each other, and in the end, they actually left everyone without saying a word, and simply left cleanly.
The shooting also stopped so awkwardly.
Every day of stopping, Jiahe is a huge loss, money can not withstand the toss, in desperation, they can only go to Luo Wei to help.
Luo Wei's shot was really extraordinary, not only ending the capital loss, but also allowing "Tangshan Big Brother" to rely on word of mouth to win the box office of 3.2 million Hong Kong dollars, directly breaking the Hong Kong film box office record.
Although it was a rescue, Rovey was indeed indispensable, and this cooperation also allowed him to see Bruce Lee's strength.
Therefore, after "Big Brother Tangshan", Luo Wei and Bruce Lee joined forces again and cooperated in a second classic work - "Jingwumen".
"Jingwumen" also directly surpassed "Tangshan Big Brother", and the box office of HK$4.33 million set a new record for the Box Office of Hong Kong films.
However, this time, the box office myth was broken at the fastest speed. Because it didn't take long for Bruce Lee's self-directed "Raptor Crossing the River" to earn 5.31 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.
And from the third refresh at the box office, whether it is the audience or Bruce Lee or Luo Wei himself, they all recognize a reality: the essence of the three consecutive refreshes depends on Bruce Lee, and even without Luo Wei, he Bruce Lee can still support the box office alone and shine.
And this secret competition outside the film works of the two has also made the rumors of Li Luo's discord into a nail-in-the-coffin fact.
Before this, there had been rumors of the appalling "Li Luo fight incident", it is said that Bruce Lee held a knife and shouted outside the door of Luo Wei's house, which frightened Luo Wei to contact the police station directly for help, and Bruce Lee also fell under the nickname of "Crazy Dragon".
This is also why Quentin's portrayal of Bruce Lee is so violent and rude, in fact, it is also based on reality.
When I think about it, the change between Rowey and Bruce Lee from a sympathetic friend to an enemy who is now dead and unrequited should have been a sign of early warning.
As early as when they were working together to make a movie, this sprout had already sprouted, and they were stretching out their teeth and claws to the two people who should have worked together:
First, they all have their own ideas about movies
From the Tang Long portrayed by Luo Wei's Chen Zhen and Bruce Lee's hand, it can be seen that these two people have different creative concepts, but the personalities of both sides are too tough, no one can convince anyone, and when they get together, they naturally have to make a fuss and disperse.
Second, the lens control has its own insistence
Bruce Lee loves real kung fu, no stunts, no trampoline, this kind of real fighting makes him feel good. But Rowe is the director, as long as he can show the lens effect he wants, don't say this, even if you use more doubles, it doesn't hurt.
Third, mutual achievement instead of "being kind to me"
Lowe always tried to assume the name of "making Bruce Lee", and this feeling of being a noble man in his life disgusted Bruce Lee the most.
As a result, the feud between the two men did not resolve until Bruce Lee's death in 1973, when the era of Kung Fu in China was almost annihilated.
Instead, in another form, it continues to the new person.
2. Jackie Chan and Luo Wei
In 1976, Jiahe was no longer the small company that panicked because of the failure of a single film.
At this time, it is handsome and starry, Xu Guanwen, Huang Feng and Zheng Changhe and more and more excellent directors work together to divide the world.
This is a good thing for Jiahe, but for the original brother Luo Wei, it is a real status crisis.
And the misfortune has never been a one-way street, and there have been troubles in Rovi's love life. His wife, Liu Lianghua, insisted on divorcing him, and then transformed into a woman who was his boss Zou Wenhuai.
This green hat was pressed down, not only loud, but also dangling on his head. Luo Wei didn't have a taste in his heart, but he didn't even have the stance and courage to beat the man.
This torment forced Luo Wei to leave Jiahe, away from this place that made him feel humiliated.
But after all, it was the film industry's big man, and it wasn't long before he relied on his own ability and accumulated contacts to found Luo Wei Pictures.
And this year's Yuan Long, that is, the later Jackie Chan, is also the time when things are not going well.
At that time, he was 22 years old, did not debut that is, the peak, but dimmed for many years, and even directly gave up his expected acting career, and became an Australian cook who dealt with spoons and shovels.
The world is so ingenious.
Such two people who could not be hit by eight rods, fate actually let them meet.
The acquaintance of the two is also coincidental.
At that time, Luo Wei had just finished setting up the company, full of expectations for a start, and in Luo Wei's heart, revisiting the classic "New Jingwumen" of the past was the best way for him to shine.
The female protagonist naturally continues to star by Miao Kexiu, but the male protagonist is undecided. Chen Ziqiang's mind turned and he remembered the thick teenager who was eager to act in the Australian restaurant - Yuan Long.
Yuan Long learned that Chen Ziqiang wanted to introduce himself to the big director Luo Wei, and was overjoyed, and immediately dropped the pots and pans and flew back to Hong Kong. After seeing him, the YuanLong of the Upper Dao directly knelt down and recognized Luo Wei as his righteous father.
Although the Yuan Long of the past years was young, his skills were not bad. Luo Wei was very satisfied with the young man and gave him a stage name "Jackie Chan".
Bruce Lee's former glory, he wants to take it with his own hands and continue it on this teenager.
Since he wants to "become the second Bruce Lee", the male protagonist of "New Jingwumen" naturally has to be Jackie Chan.
However, this "dragon" is not another "dragon", and a clear and vivid Jackie Chan is set in Bruce Lee's shell, which not only cannot reproduce the dazzling of the deceased, but also covers up the original brilliance of Jackie Chan.
"New Jingwumen" rightfully went downhill.
Since its release, the film has been on the street all the way, and the box office is only a dismal 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, not to mention making money, even the actor's salary may not be even together.
But which first attempt can achieve brilliance? How many walls did Bruce Lee hit to get to that point?
Therefore, Luo Wei is not discouraged, he intends to polish Jackie Chan in another way.
He let Jackie Chan continue to star, and filmed "Shaolin Wooden Man Alley".
But this movie has become a mysterious existence in Jackie Chan's film works, which is a puzzling first, because Jackie Chan, who is the protagonist, is actually a deaf and mute person.
The martial arts drama originally did not have too many lines, this film is good, from the beginning to the end to implement a principle - if you can do it, don't argue, anyway, just "fight", it is right!
As a result, although the actors played brilliantly, the audience scolded everywhere, making this ending even more tragic than "New Jingwumen", not only stopping at the box office of 470,000 Hong Kong dollars, but also having a very poor reputation.
At this time, Luo Wei did not feel that there was anything wrong with him, he blamed all the failures on the "bad script", and deeply believed that.
He found Gu Long, hoping to buy a good martial arts script from him and take Jackie Chan to open a new river and mountain.
But Gu Long felt that Jackie Chan, who was 170cm tall, had small eyes and single eyelids, and only had a heroic spirit and no sword qi between his eyebrows, was not suitable for shooting martial arts films.
Luo Weixiang was negative and did not want to listen to the advice of others, so he bought the copyright of the three novels of "Wind and Rain Double Meteor", "Sword Flower Smoke and Rain Jiangnan" and "Flying Cirrus Mountain" in one go, and put aside other idle things to start filming directly.
But each of these three movies is tragic.
In "Wind and Rain Double Meteor", Jackie Chan was portrayed as a villain, starring Wang Yu, and after the film came out, he did not even have the opportunity to be released in Hong Kong.
"Sword Flower Smoke and Rain Jiangnan" was released, but the box office was only 290,000, and the cost fee could not be earned back;
And Luo Wei paid the most effort, spending a lot of money to create a 3D martial arts giant "Flying Over Cirrus Mountain", which only ended in a dismal end of 770,000 Hong Kong dollars.
However, at this time, Jackie Chan did not trap himself in Luo Wei's Ecstasy Array. In the "Eight Steps of the Snake Crane" and "One And a Half Moves into the Rivers and Lakes" filmed at the same time, his performance was outstanding.
Moreover, without Luo Wei's deliberate beating, Jackie Chan is also trying to be himself.
He added some of his favorite juggling elements to some of the film's actions, and also tried to integrate the props around him, and when he looked closely, it was a bit like today's style. It seems that he is mischievous and handsome, and his style is outstanding.
However, the story of "Eight Steps of the Snake crane" is too vulgar, even if Jackie Chan performs very well, it is still inevitable to be ridiculed by Luo Wei. "One Move and a Half Style" could not enter Luo Wei's eyes, and directly ordered him to put it away, which caused a great blow to Jackie Chan.
After the big production and small harvest of "Flying Around the Cirrus Mountain", Luo Wei was already very poor, and his men naturally did not have any resources.
At this time, Jackie Chan finally ushered in his own real Bole.
Wu Siyuan and Yuan Heping accidentally watched Jackie Chan's films and unexpectedly appreciated him. Just when Luo Wei couldn't pay his salary, he lent Jackie Chan 50,000 yuan and asked him to help Wu Siyuan shoot "Snake-shaped Executioner".
Unexpectedly, the movie was very popular as soon as it was released, and the box office reached 2.71 million.
This also proves that Jackie Chan is indeed not a stubborn stone, but it is a pity that the pearl is secretly cast.
Wu Siyuan is also aware of this, he has the heart to promote, want to borrow from Luo Wei again, take Jackie Chan to shoot "Drunken Fist".
Where Lovi was willing to let go.
Wu Siyuan refused to give up, so he thought of a way to find a way to find Taiwanese film dealer Lin Rongfeng to talk with Luo Wei about borrowing people.
They promised Luo Wei a lot of benefits, and promised him that as long as Luo Wei was willing to release people, he would buy the distribution rights of Luo Wei Pictures' subsequent films in Taiwan.
The power of money was great, especially for Rowey at the time.
Therefore, Jackie Chan finally participated in the movie "Drunken Fist", and became a blockbuster and quickly became famous in the film circle.
"Drunken Fist" also won the second place in the 1978 annual box office with a box office of 6.76 million Hong Kong dollars, leaving the word-of-mouth film "Snake-shaped Executioner" behind.
Luo Wei finally panicked, he understood that after achieving fame, Jackie Chan could not continue to commit himself to this small world.
In the face of the desire of various film companies in Hong Kong for Jackie Chan, Luo Wei, who could have guarded this piece of jade well, made an extremely ridiculous way of dealing with it.
He pushed Jackie Chan in front of the media and forced him to show loyalty to himself again and again, trying to trap people in this way.
But privately, he is still very tight on Jackie Chan, no matter how much he earns or how little he makes, he only gives Jackie Chan tens of thousands of yuan a film salary, and a basic salary of 3,000 yuan per month, really want to only give cattle grass, but also to squeeze out milk.
So that after Jackie Chan followed Luo Wei to shoot "Fist Essence" and "Dragon Fist", although the film reputation was very good, Jackie Chan did not get much money.
At this time, Jackie Chan was still grateful for his kindness, and even if he was treated badly, he was still obedient to Luo Wei's orders.
Even when He Guanchang took 1 million yuan to dig up people, Jackie Chan had to drag the money to ask Luo Wei. He did not allow it, so he returned all the money, and did not have the slightest attachment.
But when Jackie Chan finally got the power to write and direct the film he wanted, the spirited teenager quickly left and ran to Taiwan to shoot the movie "Laughing Fist Strange Move".
Once the film was released, it quickly swept through Hong Kong, with a box office of 5.45 million, the highest-grossing film in China that year.
This time, Jackie Chan finally realized the fact that he was a pearl, and this success also laid the groundwork for his solo flight.
Luo Wei would not be unaware of this, but Jackie Chan was a cash cow he had cultivated with his own hands, and he would never allow him to leave easily.
Luo Wei thought of a bad move, and asked Jackie Chan to sign a long contract with him as a benefactor.
At that time, Chen Ziqiang, who introduced Jackie Chan, was already Jackie Chan's agent, and he sensed that this matter was sinister, so he argued according to reason, so that the two sides only signed a contract with a blank date.
Luo Wei fainted at this time, completely broke the can, and directly added two zeros to the clause of the contract that Jackie Chan "must make more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars for the company to terminate the contract".
This suicidal behavior made Chen Ziqiang laugh, and he just took advantage of this to make Luo Wei's painstakingly crafted contract aborted.
But the two sides did not go to court after all, even if Rovey had to lose.
Jackie Chan did not want to send him to the end of the road, but completely chilled his heart and joined Chen Ziqiang in Jiahe.
But Luo Wei was not reconciled, he even found the evil forces, wanted to teach Jackie Chan some lessons, the yin damage of the means was shocking.
Fortunately, with Wang Yu's mediation, there was no big right and wrong. However, the former pure young boy Lang saw the true face of his righteous father, and the two broke off their righteousness and never returned to their original love.
To this day, Jackie Chan hardly talks about the righteous father of that year.
The grace and righteousness of the entertainment industry will eventually be lost in the long river of time because of interests.
Whether it is the grace of reconstruction or the feeling of support, it is completely shattered in the face of the cruelty of reality.
Leave a blank piece of paper to sigh.
Third, the end of Luo Wei's life
In the later time, Jackie Chan's real gold washed away the dust little by little, and finally became the most dazzling "big brother" in the show business circle, and the classic works and special style made his elder status indestructible, and it stands firm to this day.
Rovey was much more desolate.
The family is scattered, the career is like a flower that has failed, only relying on the shallow shadow of the past to make a successful dream, but eventually it has become a real mirage, and the bottom of the family has lost a clean.
Of course, his decline is not only due to his own bad luck, carefully investigated, the following two reasons, is the root of his decline.
First, overconfidence and even arrogance in personality
In the past, he did not know how to learn from the advantages of others, even if Bruce Lee was both intelligent and capable, he still insisted on himself and did not want to think from the standpoint of others.
When he went downhill, he did not know how to see the dazzling places of others, but instead stood on the merit book of the past, trying to pile up the righteous son into the brilliant shadow of the person who had once been.
Second, in the cause, there is no sense of innovation
Rovey spent his whole life in an almost blind chase.
He has directed dozens of films, but they are all ridiculous reproductions of other people's successful works, like his attempts to copy Jackie Chan into the new Bruce Lee.
"A Thousand Knives and a Thousand Miles to Chase" fire, he followed the knife, came a brand new "Flying Around The Cirrus Mountain";
"Ghost of a Lady" made Wang Zuxian half the sky red, and he directly found Wang Zuxian and used her fame to send "Chasing the Sun" to the audience;
"Huang Feihong" is even more popular, but he has lost his strategy and cannot borrow the original Jet Li. It doesn't matter, Zhao Changjun is not bad, and there is no problem in shooting a similar "A Knife to the City".
The most unacceptable thing is that such a well-known director has even used the theme song of "Star Wars" directly like a gambler at the end of the road, without regard to the problem of people's copyright.
At that time, Luo Wei was not exaggerated to describe it as a mad demon. As if stimulated fiercely, I don't care about following the trend or not, nor do I care about the "creation" of creation, as long as it can be successful, even if it is copied.
Unfortunately, this self-destructive method hurt him. At that time, the glory was gone, and even the little money left was lost.
In 1996, director Luo Wei's life finally came to an end, and the cause of death was heart failure.
I don't know, at the moment when the old man's heartbeat stopped, did he think of the hot film big man of that year.
In the dream, Luo Wei, who still had the original intention, was so spirited.
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