On April 5, the day of the Qingming Festival, another bad news came, a generation of martial arts superstar Wang Yu died at the age of 80, and his eldest queen Xinping released the news of his father's death on social platforms early in the morning...
With just a few lines to summarize his father's life, his film career, his chivalrous image on and off the screen, his life is inseparable from a "hero" word, and what he has done is enough to leave a position in the hearts of the majority of movie fans!
Career: He is a Shanghai native, studied at the Shanghai Institute of Physical Education before the age of 17, and his status as a physical education student has exercised his hard-working spirit and strong physical fitness, as if laying the foundation for his martial arts superstar road!
At the age of 17, Wang Yu came from Shanghai to Hong Kong and entered the Department of Civil Engineering of Zhuhai University. In 1963, Wang Yu was admitted to Shaw Company! In 1964, in order to have a place in the rising martial arts films, Shaw Film prepared the movie "Tiger Hero Annihilation", and openly recruited the male protagonist!
The director of this film is Zhang Che, who is the first "million director" in Hong Kong and the standard-bearer who opened the "new martial arts century" of Hong Kong cinema. His martial arts films, with distinctive characteristics, advocate the "masculine route", pay attention to the male sense of strength and masculinity, and also open the way for future Hong Kong martial arts films to be dominated by "masculine male stars"!
And Wang Yu also happened to be lucky, he could be selected, except that he was hard-working and hard-working, practicing martial arts. There is also his appearance is not a creamy little student, without any rouge taste, and a strong body, just in line with Zhang Che's "masculine" aesthetic, so he became the male protagonist!
After that, he became Zhang Che's most proud disciple, and in 1967, Zhang Che made "One-Armed Knife", in which Wang Yu created the image of a hero with amazing martial arts, and this film became the first film in the history of Chinese martial arts to exceed 1 million at the box office.
Wang Yu became the chief student of the new martial arts films of the 60s. The pillar of Hong Kong cinema in the 70s, the character of Half the Sky of Shaw Pictures, it can be said that Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are his descendants!
After that, Wang Yu joined Jiahe Pictures, and people familiar with Hong Kong films know Jiahe Pictures, which is the most influential film company in the Chinese market! The glory of Hong Kong film can be said to be shaped by Jiahe Pictures, which mainly produces martial arts movies and brings out Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, two world superstars!
Those popular movies, such as "Jingwumen", "Dragon Fight and Tiger Fight", "Police Story", etc., are all produced by Jiahe. The founder of Jiahe is Zou Wenhuai, who ran away from Shao, when he asked Wang Yu to run away with him and found Jiahe together, but Shao Pictures dragged Wang Yu with a contract!
However, Wang Yu eventually left Shaw and went to Jiahe, became the elder figure of Jiahe, and supervised and starred in many movies, and the Hong Kong movies of that era, everyone knows what kind of background, it can be said that "Owl Xiong" Wang Yu is covered with Jiahe, and then Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee are also covered by Wang Yu!
It can be said that in his career, he created the first martial arts era of Hong Kong cinema!
Outside the play, his life is more exciting!
To explain his position as a tyrant, the famous Xie Xian beat Zeng Jiang incident that year, wang Yu knew about it, and let Xie Xian crawl to Taiwan to meet him, because Zeng Jiang was Wang Yu's former brother-in-law. After Xie Xian knew, he finally came out and publicly apologized...
Xie Xian is also a senior in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, when he saw Xie Xian apologize, netizens also ridiculed him as a man that Tse Ting Feng's father was afraid of!
The second thing is to publicly say that Zheng Jiaying did not show up. Wang Yu's first marriage, the marriage object was a flight attendant Lin Cui, who was 8 years older than him, and then divorced for some reasons, they had three daughters, after the divorce, Wang Yu can say that he was a father and a mother!
In the end, her eldest queen Xinping also entered the entertainment circle, but she was with TVB student Zheng Jiaying. Wang Yu did not want her daughter to associate with people in the entertainment industry, and publicly commented on Zheng Jiaying: "As soon as I look at him, I know that there is no appearance, what is your father?" I knew this man at a glance. ”
In the end, the daughter broke up with Zheng Jiaying and married a financial rich businessman!
The third thing, the four heavenly kings gave him support, when Wang Yu filmed "Volcano Island", Wang Yu called Jackie Chan to shoot, Jackie Chan confiscated the film remuneration, and then called Hong Jinbao, and also went directly to Thailand to arrest Liang Jiahui, and finally forced Andy Lau to call him to shoot...
The lineup of this movie gathers the big guys in the Hong Kong entertainment industry and also shows the status of Wang Yu!
The fourth thing, emotionally, his emotional experience is very rich, married to a flight attendant, but also with the 40-year-old fan love, but also with Lin Fengjiao rumors, but the most eye-catching is still with Lin Qingxia a relationship episode!
In 2011, Wang Yu blew himself up and Lin Qingxia's feelings, and Lin Qingxia, who was 15 years younger, chased him backwards, but at that time, Lin Qingxia's jade girl image was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he did not want to delay the other party, so he took the initiative to break up.
It can be seen from this that he is really sentient and righteous, does things in a bright and straightforward manner, and can bear the responsibility of a man!
In 2019, Wang Yu won the Golden Horse Award lifetime achievement award, he was seriously ill and did not come to receive the award, his two daughters received the award for him, Ang Lee read the award speech, just a few dozen words explained Wang Yu's influence and status!
The first martial arts era is Wang Yu, the second is Bruce Lee, the last is Jackie Chan, and Wang Yu is the "big brother" and leader of the next two, throughout his life, worthy of a "chivalrous" word!