Not long ago, the actor of "Xiongba" Qianye Shinichi passed away, and "Nie Feng" Zhao Wenzhuo sent a microblog to mourn, suddenly pulling time Jun back to childhood.
If in the years at the turn of the century, girls were crazy about "Huan Zhu Ge ge", then the boys were addicted to the world of "Wind and Cloud".
At that time, the network was not yet developed, VCD was still the source of spiritual entertainment for many people, and fantasy film and television works were rare at that time, so after the emergence of "Wind and Cloud", it largely met the needs of the audience.
It is more visually impactful than traditional martial arts works, and at the same time rooted in the love and righteousness of Chinese martial arts culture, and soon attracted a large number of fans.
Film Edition (1998) vs TV Series Edition (2002)
The novel setting is the focus of the success of "Wind and Cloud", and each character in the play has his own skills and specific artifact equipment.
Bu Qingyun's peerless sword was paired with a row of cloud palms, and Nie Feng's snow drinking mad knife was matched with the legs of the wind god, and almost every character left a deep impression on the audience at the first time.
In terms of production, the drama version of "Wind and Cloud" now seems to be uniform, the scene is rough, and the special effects are even more unbearable.
At that time, the teams of land, Hong Kong and Taiwan jointly formed a team to shoot, and Han Sanping took the lead as the chief planner, with a total investment of more than NT$100 million, which is definitely a big production.
As early as four years ago, the "Wind and Clouds" series was made into a movie that became popular throughout Southeast Asia, and Aaron Kwok and Zheng Yijian's version of Bu Qingyun and Nie Feng entered the audience's eyes earlier than He Rundong and Zhao Wenzhuo's version.
Unfortunately, at that time, the mainland film market was too weak and could only be disseminated through other channels, and the scope of influence was not as good as that of the later TV drama version.
Step to the famous scene of the clouds to pay tribute
Of course, if you want to talk about the source, the "Wind and Cloud" comic has been popular on both sides of the Xiangjiang River in the early 90s, and everything must start from the rise of Hong Kong comics.
Born yellow, he gave birth to horses
In the 1970s, Japanese and American comics were the first choice for Hong Kong comic fans, and the rise of Hong Kong comics in the future was thanks to two people - Huang Yulang and Ma Rongcheng.
These two people are collectively known as "comic double males", and Ma Rongcheng is the author of the "Wind and Cloud" comic.
In the 1970s, Huang Yulang founded the "Yulang Book Company" and worked for decades, leading Hong Kong Comics to usher in a golden age in the 80s.
Since then, his company has attracted many new forces in the Hong Kong comic book industry, and Ma Rongcheng is one of them. Ma Rongcheng, who dropped out of school at the age of 14, loved painting, did not receive orthodox art studies, and became a professional cartoonist by self-study.
The comic version of Bu Qianyun and Nie Feng
After Receiving Huang Yulang's appreciation, Ma Wing-shing joined his own famous work "Chinese Heroes" during this period, becoming a hot cartoonist in the Hong Kong comic industry.
With a tough and delicate painting style, and a rare portrayal of characters that highlight the temperament of the Chinese nation, "Chinese Heroes" soon became the golden sign of Hong Kong's local comics, and even surpassed Huang Yulang when the limelight was at its peak.
However, the story, characters and themes of "Chinese Heroes" are all conceived by Huang Yulang.
In 1999, "Chinese Heroes" was also made into a movie, directed by Liu Weiqiang, who directed "The Storm Dominates the World" and "Infernal Affairs", and the actor who played Hua Hero was "Nie Feng" Zheng Yijian.
"Chinese Hero" is Liu Weiqiang's re-development of Ma Rongcheng's comic after the film version of "Fengyun", and the response at that time was not bad.
No matter how popular Ma Rongcheng is, he also works for Huang Yulang, and later he is more and more satisfied with this, and like many of the company's cartoonists, he also has plans to start another stove.
Immediately after Ma Rongcheng encountered two violent beatings, especially the second time the gangsters slashed with knives, if he had not been in a hurry to use his big brother to block the machetes of the gangsters, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Ma Rongcheng was injured in his right arm in this incident, and the blood flowed non-stop, and his comic career had to be suspended for a while.
This incident was full of storms in Hong Kong that year, and who exactly laid down a cruel hand to deal with him, the rumor in the jianghu was Huang Yulang, but when interviewed by the media, he personally denied it, which was completely nonsense.
During his recuperation, Ma Rongcheng began to conceive "Wind and Cloud", and after completing the serialization of "Chinese Heroes", he left Huang Yulang's company at the end of his contract.
Cooperating with his partner to open Tianxia Publishing Co., Ltd., launching the comic book "Wind and Cloud", becoming the top cartoonist who swept the Chinese world, this is another matter of later.
Is the boss of Storm Cloud the Emperor of Japan?
Japan has always been a major force that cannot be ignored in the world view setting of "Wind and Cloud", but there are many adaptations in TV series, and only in the second part of the movie, there is a big boss from Toei who has no god.
In the original manga setting, no god was born in Toei, killed his master with his own hands, established a godless palace, and even threatened the rule of the Japanese emperor.
The film version is absolutely godless and starring Ren Dahua
In the TV series, this setting is weakened, only the foreign tribes who covet the throne of the Emperor of the Central Plains, and then the ultimate boss of the first manga, the Japanese Emperor Shōsei, is added to the body of the male bully.
The TV drama version is absolutely godless and "Nie Feng's mother" Yan Ying
Therefore, in the world view of the manga, the Toei imperial family has always been the opponent of the Central Plains Martial Forest, and then there are imperial bosses such as Emperor Shōmu and Lian Chengzhi.
So to some extent, "Wind and Clouds" is actually an anti-Japanese god.
There has been no more dominance
Many people, like Jun Shigeru, grew up to learn that the actor Who Plays the Male Bully, Shinichi Chiba, is actually Japanese.
Although the film and drama versions of the wind and cloud casting are different, but the male bully has always been played by him, the domineering between the eyebrows, the firm and cunning eyes, are the best candidates to play a generation of tyrants.
When Shinichi Chiba first starred as a bully, he was also 59 years old. Sadly, the 82-year-old recently passed away due to COVID-19.
When he was young, Chiba Shinichi studied karate and practiced a good skill, and then was excavated by the famous action film master Fukasaku Shinji and began to play roles in his films, but most of them were green leaf supporting roles, but in the near ancient years, ushered in the peak of his career.
From 1998 to 2002, Shinichi Chiba starred in the film and TELEVISION drama versions of "Wind and Clouds", and he also starred in the Japanese Yamaguchi group in "Ancient Puzzle Boy: The Winner is King".
He also played key roles in two Hollywood blockbusters, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill and Lin's Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.
His son, Makoto Nitta, is also a well-known Japanese actor who played a role in the Hollywood film Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises Again, and the father and son are very similar in eyebrows.
On the left is the true sword
Is the voice of Wen Ugly ugly chow Sing Chi royal?
Ugly (left is the movie version, right is the TV series version)
Although Wen Ugly received the bento very early, the audience who watched the "Wind and Cloud" TV series must have been impressed by him.
As the closest person around Xiongba, his setting is similar to Li Lianying around Cixi, and his personality is also like an eunuch, in addition to sneaking and patting horses, he also knows the truth that the companion is like a companion tiger, and finally embarks on the road of rebelling against the xiongba, but he is helpless and is quickly killed by the male bully.
Playing the role of Wen Ugly is Taiwanese local artist Ho Du Lin, in fact, he was a singer at the beginning, released several albums in the 90s, and then active in taiwanese showbiz as a host.
In 2002, he was first acted as an actor, starring in the TV series "The Wind and the Clouds Dominate the World", portraying the ugly and ugly role in three points, and contributing a lot of laughs.
But the ugliness of the text can make a deep impression, and the other person can do a good job. This person is Stephen Chow's royal voice voice Shi Banyu, and you try to recall the ugly voice Chinese the drama, is it suddenly felt?
Storm 2 failed miserably at the box office
As one of the biggest IPs of Chinese martial arts fantasy, the box office failure of "Wind and Cloud 2" seemed difficult to understand at the time.
Although it is 11 years later than the first one, the popularity of the comic and the influence of IP are still there, and there are not many traces of age on the faces of Zheng Yijian and Aaron Kwok.
The story follows the plot of the second half of the first part of the comic, but director Peng Shun Pengfa is obsessed with special effects, all using indoor studio shooting (influenced by Zach Schneider's "300 Warriors"), ignoring the narrative rhythm and storyline, blindly letting the two heroes hang up, from beginning to end.
Coupled with the release of "Avatar" in the same year, the special effects of the film are more shabby and shabby, and its schedule is also selected in the New Year file where blockbusters gather.
In the face of competition from many blockbusters, in the end, only 60 million box office was earned, and the investment of over 100 million yuan was thus adrift.
The unaccounted for "Storm 3"
After the release of the movie "Dominating the World", the Hong Kong box office exceeded 41 million, winning the throne of the annual box office championship and setting off a boom in Asia.
So it is no wonder that Hong Kong filmmakers have not given up on moving this IP to get their minds.
In addition to the two "Wind and Cloud" films, there was also an animated film "Wind and Cloud Determination" in 2008 that cannot be ignored, and the director of the film was Lin Chaoxian, who later came up with two box office masterpieces, "Operation Mekong" and "Operation Red Sea".
The film is voiced by Ren Xianqi and Nicholas Tse, the lineup can also be said to be quite good, and the animation can restore more of the wonders in the comic, with a box office of 30 million yuan, once becoming the box office champion of domestic animation.
In addition to the above, there was once news that the "Wind and Cloud" movie will make a third part, named "The Broken Wave of the Wind and Clouds", as the name suggests, will be the broken wave as the protagonist to start the story.
At first, Hong Kong director Yip Wai Shin directed, and Broken Wave was starred by "Fengyun" comic fan Gu Tianle, produced by Gu Tianle's Gongtianxia Investment.
Later, it became Ma Rongcheng himself, serving as an executive producer and directing with two other directors.
However, from the current point of view, this project may not be resolved in the end, which is a pity.
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