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In 1992, Stephen Chow created the myth in the history of Hong Kong film box office, and the top 5 films on the box office list were all his works. Among them, the box office champions and runners-up "Death Judge" and "Family Happy Affair" both broke box office records, one was the annual box office champion of 49.88 million, and the other was the New Year box office champion of 48.99 million.
From July 30 to August 7, 2022, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the release of "Happy Family Affair", the restored version was re-screened at the Beijing Broadway Film Center and broadway cinema (APM store); It is also one of the theme film festival activities celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, and has been screened in Hangzhou and other places.
Although "Happy Family Affair" was not officially released in the mainland that year, many people have already seen it in the VCD era; Coupled with the crazy spread of the Internet age, Zhou Xingchi's fans have hardly not seen "Happy Things at Home".
However, most viewers are likely to watch "Happy Affair at Home" is a 100-minute standard Hong Kong version, and this restoration is a 106-minute extended version.
So, what is more in the extended version of "Happy Things at Home"? Why is there such a version?
The main thing is to add a few minutes of gunfight scenes, and after 98 minutes, it is finally the reunion scene of the family getting married in the church.
The addition of this scene is mainly because of the Consideration of the Korean Market, and the Korean distributor specifies that there must be a gunfight scene by Jang Guo-young. Because Zhang Guorong was very popular in South Korea that year, especially the influence of "The True Colors of Heroes" in South Korea was very far-reaching, a classic Korean drama "Please Answer 1988" later reproduced the boom at that time.
The plot added to "Happy Things in the Family": The Chang family all went to the bar to persuade the eldest sister-in-law (Wu Junru), but the sister-in-law still refused to forgive the eldest brother Chang Man (Huang Baiming), went out to intercept the car alone, and ended up encountering a group of kidnappers who wanted to kidnap Li Ka-shing and did not tie themselves to fool around on the road.
Then the three brothers of the Chang family arrived in time, wearing stockings and coming to the rescue, staged a wonderful hero to save the United States gun battle drama.
Among them, Huang Baiming and Zhou Xingchi are responsible for funny, and after a random shot, they are surrounded by robbers, and finally rely on Zhang Guorong's divine courage to reverse, so that Zhou Xingchi is very convincing to shout out the sentence "Hero's true colors!" ”。
In fact, the behind-the-scenes story of "Happy Things at Home" is far more than that, and there are many more wonderful ones.
Perhaps the best part is that the negatives of "Happy Things at Home" were almost snatched away.
At that time, the post-production of "Happy Family" was nearing its end, and suddenly one night, three masked gangsters with guns came from the printing factory, indicating that they wanted to grab the negatives of "Happy Family". However, the editors present were too frightened to speak, and then they were sealed with tape by the gangsters, and finally the gangsters themselves turned out 3 exquisite iron boxes from the locked cabinet and flew away.
Fortunately, these 3 boxes are just some tidbits of "Family has a Happy Event", and the real "Family Has a Happy Event" is at the feet of the editor, and the box also has the title of "Family Has a Happy Event" written on it.
Afterwards, Huang Baiming sighed and used "ghost covering his eyes" to describe the three funny stupid thieves.
As for who is behind the film, it is impossible to know, but this is not the only one that similar incidents in the Hong Kong film industry that year.
Jet Li's former agent Cai Ziming was also assassinated in 1992, and it is still a pending case.
At that time, it was the most glorious era of Hong Kong cinema, and it was also the darkest era.
In 1990, there were two major events in the Hong Kong film industry.
First, the new art city film that has been brilliant for ten years is announced to be closed, and an era is over; Second, Zhou Xingchi became a box office champion with "Gamble Saint" and became popular, and an era is coming.
Then, Stephen Chow became a celebrity scrambled by the bosses of Hong Kong film companies, and was finally signed into the umbrella of Yongsheng Film by Huaqiang Brothers, and he grabbed a "Gambler" with a box office of more than 40 million yuan that year.
After the completion of New Art City, Huang Baiming, who was once one of the three giants of New Art City, founded Oriental Film Company alone in 1991, hoping to continue the glory of New Art City.
In 1992, Stephen Chow produced 7 films, 5 of which were Yongsheng; Another one is Shaw's "Death Judge", playing the emotional card; There is also an Oriental "Happy Family", playing the sincerity card.
The feeling is that Zhou Xingchi came from Shaw's wireless origin, and the sincerity is that Huang Baiming offered a sincere price.
As a result, these two films were the best-grossing films of 1992.
The three brothers selected at the beginning of "Family Happy Affair" are Lin Zixiang, Zhou Runfa and Huang Baiming.
Because Lin Zixiang starred in classic comedies such as "I Love Night Fragrance" in New Art City in his early years, and Zhou Runfa starred in box office blockbusters such as "The True Colors of Heroes" in New Art City, all of which are his own people in the New Art City department.
However, both of them could not star for their own reasons, so Huang Baiming looked for Zhang Guorong, who was also his own person in the new art city, and finally looked for Zhou Xingchi, because he had signed Yongsheng at that time.
In fact, most of the main creative team of "Happy Things at Home" are Huang Baiming's resources.
Maggie Cheung is Jiahe, but she starred in Huang Baiming's "Happy Ghost Bumping Into Ghost" when she first debuted;
Director Gao Zhisen and his apprentice screenwriter Gu Dezhao, as well as cameos Li Lizhen, Li Zi, Huang Guangliang, etc., are all hand-picked up by Huang Baiming during the New Art City period.
At this time, Stephen Chow has already won two consecutive box office titles in the Hong Kong film industry, with continuous films in hand and a very full schedule.
So at the beginning, he did not want to act, so he gave Huang Baiming a sky-high salary of 8 million yuan, which was 1 times higher than zhang Guorong, who was already the predecessor of the Academy Awards film emperor, and did not expect Huang Baiming to agree happily.
Although Zhou Xingchi is popular, he has signed many film contracts before, and the film remuneration is less than 1 million, so he cannot refuse the 8 million "Happy Family".
Of course, some people on the Internet also say that Zhou Xingchi can't get the 8 million, because Yongsheng wants to take a draw. However, after "Happy Things at Home", Zhou Xingchi did have money, and his first set of mansions was bought during this period.
Later, the film remuneration of Zhou Xingchi in "97 Happy Events" increased to 12 million, but Huang Baiming still felt that it was worth the money, because it did make money. Moreover, Huang Baiming also made "Happy Affairs at Home" into a huge series, including the later "Happy Events at Home 2009" and the derivative "Happy Events in Huatian" series.
However, in terms of excitement and box office results, they are not as good as the two films starring Stephen Chow.
"Happy Family Affair" is Huang Baiming's most signature family comedy, the three brothers played by Stephen Chow, Zhang Guorong and Huang Baiming, as well as the three heroines played by Maggie Cheung, Mao Shunjun and Wu Junru, most of the scenes are actually filmed separately.
Therefore, before the release of the movie, several protagonists did not know the complete plot, nor did they know what the other groups of protagonists shot.
Because as early as the TVB period, Mao Shunjun has already cooperated with Zhou Xingchi in many dramas; Before Yongsheng, Mao Shunjun and Zhou Xingchi had cooperated in "Love Saint" and "Descendants of the Dragon", and the two cooperated very tacitly, and the comedic effect was very good.
Therefore, at the beginning, "Happy Things at Home" also wanted to continue the CP of Zhou Xingchi and Mao Shunjun.
However, Mao Shunjun had a relationship with Zhang Guorong as early as the 70s, and even rejected Zhang Guorong's marriage proposal. Therefore, in order to make "Happy Things at Home" more topical, the director let the two of them become a pair of joyful enemies in the movie.
At the time of the filming of "Happy Family", Cheung Kwok Wing was already the film emperor of the Hong Kong Film Awards, and Maggie Cheung was the double film queen of the Golden Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards.
Later, Zhou Xingchi, Mao Shunjun and Wu Junru all became the film emperor and film queen of the Academy Awards, and Maggie Cheung was promoted to an international film queen.
Coupled with the cameo Li Lizhen is a Golden Horse Award film queen, a total of 2 film emperors and 4 film queens.
Therefore, the cast of "Happy Things at Home" is quite deep.
Such a depth of actors can also sweep more than 95% of Chinese films now.