Do you know who the protagonist of Mr. Zombie is? In the original setting of the movie, Uncle Lin Zhengying is only a supporting role, but the real thing the movie wants to win is Xu Guanying, and his name is also ranked first in the cast list at the end of the film.
Hui Guanying is the third of the four masters of the Hui family, and it is not an exaggeration for the Hui brothers to dominate the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s. However, compared with the other three brothers, Xu Guanying is slightly bleak, since childhood is the weakest of the four brothers, due to inferiority and never married, he died suddenly in his home in his twilight years. What kind of ups and downs does he have in life? Today we will reveal the behind-the-scenes events of Xu Guanying.
Born in Guangdong in 1946, Xu Guanying's father was an amateur folk musician and his mother was an official Yue opera actor, and when he was four years old, his family moved to Hong Kong, and the youngest of the five siblings did not enter the entertainment circle. The four brothers of the Hui family, Wen Wu Yingjie, at that time in the Hong Kong entertainment circle can be said to be well known, but when he was a child, Hui Guanying was very inferior, and the four brothers in the family were the most brilliant in terms of appearance and talent. Coupled with the fact that the eldest brother Xu Guanwen was very strict with them, over time, he became more and more introverted, so that he was a little afraid and cowered. Due to the large number of children in the family, the family is not well off. After graduating from Xu Guanying Middle School, he began to break into the society. When he first started working at a news agency, Xu Guanying never wanted to enter the entertainment circle due to his looks.
In 1971, his younger brother Xu Guanjie signed a contract with PolyGram Records and entered the entertainment circle, and subsequently, his brother Xu Guanwen also entered TVB and stepped into the entertainment circle. But not long after, Xu Guanying also entered the Shaw actor training class with their assistance. A year later, Xu Guanying made a cameo appearance in the film "Young Man" by the big director Zhang Che, which officially started his acting life, but because of his appearance, he could only run the dragon set in the crew and play some marginal roles.
In 1974, at the call of Hui Guanwen, they founded the Hui Brothers Film Company and jointly launched the Hong Kong martial arts comedy ghost horse double star. What is unexpected is that this ghost horse comedy style has won the audience's divergent praise, and the film box office has soared all the way, directly winning the box office championship of the year, but as a partner of the company, Xu Guanying still has no sense of existence. In acting, there is the king of comedy Xu Guanwen to suppress him, the singing god Xu Guanjie leads the way, and even the brother Xu Guanwu who is behind the scenes is stronger than him, and Xu Guanying can only be in a difficult position. It was not until the release of "Half a Pound and Eight Twos" in 1976 that Xu Guanying had the opportunity to emerge.
Unexpectedly, with a depressed face, he was very suitable for acting in comedies. In this play, he played a migrant worker who was very shrewd in practice on the outside, this contrasting persona of playing a pig and eating a tiger not only won the praise of the audience, but Xu Guanying's natural playing style vividly showed the cleverness and bitterness of this small person, and he also got unanimous recognition inside and outside the circle for the first time, and the film finally won the annual box office championship.
Then, Xu Guanying, who found the correct positioning, began to often contact such roles, during which he simply played a small person at the bottom of society, and every time he was the kind of unlucky egg person who dressed up as ugly and bullied, the more miserable he was, the happier the audience laughed. It is precisely the characteristics of Hui Guanying, and then the two films starring the three brothers have won the Hong Kong annual box office championship twice, and Hui Guanying's acting style has also been recognized by more and more audiences, and the name of the Hui brothers is getting smaller and smaller.
And the work that really made Xu Guanying fire is Mr. Zombie. Do you know that the protagonist of Mr. Zombie is not Lin Zhengying? Released in 1985, Mr. Zombie is the pinnacle of the Hong Kong zombie series, and its place is obvious. In fact, in the original setting of the movie, Lin Zhengying's ninth uncle is only a supporting role, but what the movie really wants to praise is Xu Guanying, and the apprentice Wencai played by Xu Guanying is the unlucky ghost he is best at, so Xu Guanying is handy. I believe that many people still remember the classic bridge section of Wencai's corpse poison, Uncle Ying put glutinous rice for him to suppress, and as a result, Wencai screamed in pain, jumping around on the bed, looking very funny and funny, and also made the audience in front of the screen feel a little relaxed in the atmosphere of fear and panic.
In fact, at the beginning, Mr. Zombie focused on horror, just like Hong Jinbao's previous directors' "Ghost Fighting Ghosts" series, and later participated in a lot of funny elements under the proposal of Xu Guanying. In the end, this film won a grand victory, Xu Guanying can be said to be indispensable, and the timid and lustful literary talent has become one of his most classic roles. After the release of Mr. Zombie, he received a number of nominations at the Hong Kong Film Awards, including Hui Guanying's nomination for Best Supporting Actor, but she rejected the nomination for this award, becoming the first person in the Hong Kong film industry to reject the Academy Awards, because he thought that he was the lead actor and not a supporting role.
At that time, Xu Guanying certainly did not have the reputation of his brothers, but at that time he was also a famous comedy star, and he was also a big coffee in the movie, at this time he was more popular than Lin Zhengying, in the cast list at the end of the movie, his name was also placed in the first, and Lin Zhengying was also nominated for the best supporting actor, but because Lin Zhengying directly played the supporting role as the protagonist, the audience was most impressed by the ninth uncle in a yellow robe, and later the audience also completely regarded him as the protagonist.
For a long time after this, Xu Guanying did not cooperate with Lin Zhengying again, until the new Mr. Zombie began filming in 1992, and the two released their previous suspicions and joined hands again. After Mr. Zombie, Xu Guanying rarely played supporting roles, and he began to develop in the direction of the protagonist. In the 1988 movie "Chicken and Duck Talk", Xu Guanying first provoked Xu's comedy, a large number of vivid and natural plays, which made people praise. In the same year, he starred with Jacky Cheung in the horror comedy movie "Fierce Ghost Academy", and then Xu Guanying became more and more courageous, indulging in self-indulgence in comedy movies, completely getting rid of the titles of Xu Guanwen's younger brother and Xu Guanjie's brother.
In 1990, the three brothers of Wen Yingjie reunited to shoot the new movie "Half a Pound, Eight Two", and then played the old lady of the Zhou family in "Happy Affair in the Flower Field", and starred in the obscene and perverted Ximen Qing in "The Legend of Water Margin", these funny screen images are still deeply impressive.
In the 1990s, Stephen Chow's nonsense comedy swept the Hong Kong film industry, and many comedians' positions were impacted, and zombie films gradually declined. It slowly faded out of the film and television circle, but he also had some achievements in the field of music. Xu Guanying not only has a firm foothold in the film industry, but also has some achievements in the music world.
In 1977, Xu Guanying and Zhao Yazhi starred in the comedy action movie "Fa Qian Han", he took this opportunity to release his debut album "Fa Qian Han", of which the song "Ruthless Night Cold Wind" was composed by himself, the lyrics were neat, five words, moving sentences, and later helped Teresa Teng shoot the MV, in Teresa Teng's song Little Daughter-in-law Return to her mother-in-law MV, he also sang songs with his brother Xu Guanjie. Of course, he is an all-rounder.
But in the depths of Xu Guanying's heart is still very inferior, he feels that the ugly-looking person is not worthy of love, so he is basically reluctant to try to fall in love with others, until 2004, Xu Guanying, who is 58 years old, only low-key and a Japanese fan who adores him very much, this is the only emotional experience in her life, he himself is also very cherished, for which he also sang love songs for his girlfriend on the stage.
When everyone wanted him to be happy, he denied the existence of the relationship. When it comes to reasons, he said that he is old and ugly, and he does not dare to expect a girl to like her, nor does he know how to give her happiness. In this way, this love has quietly ended before it has blossomed.
After that, Xu Guanying slowly disappeared in front of the audience and began to enjoy his twilight life alone. But fate did not take care of him, on November 8, 2011, Xu Guanying suddenly died of a heart attack at home, when the second brother Xu Guanwu found him, Xu Guanying had been dead for a long time, a generation of laughter will die suddenly at home no one knows, before dying around even without a friend. Coincidentally, 14 years ago, Lin Zhengying also died on this day, some netizens sighed, perhaps Wen is going to accompany the master, throughout his life, although the stars are shining, but it is sad, because of his appearance and inferiority, the happiness will be turned away. Regarding the reason for Xu Guanying's inferiority, his brother Xu Guanwen later said in an interview that he could not escape the blame.
Xu Guanying entered the show business circle for 40 years and continued to live under the aura of brotherhood. On singing, Xu Guanjie has the name of the first generation of song gods, on the movie, Xu Guanwen cold-faced laughter, once worshipped as the king of the first generation of comedy, and behind the scenes there is Xu Guanwu's full-time deepening. But Xu Guanying did not be silent because of this, he played every small role to the extreme, no matter how much the role was not welcomed, he always used his own performance to shape the role so that the audience could not forget. His unyielding attitude deserves the respect of all people, even if he has a thousand pounds, he must smile and bo tomorrow, even if he has passed away, but the memories he left us will never be forgotten.
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