Not long ago, Andy Lau's online concert exploded.
350 million views, consecutively on multiple hot search lists.
Have to say.
Andy Lau, the Heavenly King, is still the first true top stream of the Chinese language.
There was a small detail in this concert that caught Uncle Fish's attention.
Andy Lau connected his own music initiation teacher, Lin Zixiang.
Lin Zixiang mentioned his first film with Hua Tsai in his early years, "Running to the Fury Sea" directed by Xu Anhua in 1982.
It can be said that Lin Zixiang is not only Andy Lau's music enlightenment teacher, but also the leader of Hua Tsai's entry into the film industry.
And this "Running to the Fury Sea" is also the first important movie in Hua Tsai's life.
With this film, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best New Actor and has been a hit ever since.
However, many people do not know that this movie caused great controversy at the time.
The film has been banned in many places, and Andy Lau is also in danger of being banned.
Why did Hua Tsai, who just debuted, fall into such a predicament?
Today, Uncle Fish and everyone pickpocket the hidden behind-the-scenes of Hong Kong and Taiwan movies in that special era.
At the beginning, "Run to the Fury Sea" was not looking for Andy Lau, but Chow Yun Fat.
At that time, Andy Lau had just graduated from the training class and signed a contract with TVB, and was still a newcomer.
Lin Zixiang joked that the first time he met Andy Lau, he was still a very handsome "little fat man".
Zhou Runfa is different.
With the role of Xu Wenqiang in "Shanghai Beach" two years ago, Fa Ge has already become popular on both sides of the strait and three places.
But just when everything was ready, Fa Ge declined.
Why?
At that time, Taiwan had a regulation:
Films filmed in the Mainland are not allowed to be released on Taiwan; Actors who go to the mainland to participate in filming are banned.
"Run to the Fury Sea" tells the story of Vietnam, but for various reasons it is impossible to go to Vietnam to shoot.
In the end, only the filming location can be selected on Hainan Island, which has a similar climate.
This made many people in the crew difficult.
After all, the Taiwanese market was too important for Hong Kong films at that time.
There is even a saying in the industry, "The capital protection depends on Hong Kong, and the money is made in Taiwan".
Being banned by Taiwan is equivalent to becoming a box office poison.
Zhou Runfa could not take this risk and quit.
This role was later changed to Huang Rihua, but Huang Rihua later quit.
In the end, it fell to Andy Lau.
Hua Tsai didn't know why Fa Ge wanted to quit the show at first.
After learning the reason, he said with a confused face, I am also afraid of affecting my Taiwan market.
Fa Ge looked at the newcomer in front of him and smiled:
What market do you have?" This is your opportunity, seize it.
In this way, Andy Lau joined the crew.
In order to fit the image of the character, he also deliberately reduced his short hair and tanned his skin in Sanya.
In the movie, there is no sense of stardom.
The film has a huge investment and has received strong support from the mainland.
It's also thanks to the producer, Xia Meng.
Xia Meng was a well-known actress in the Hong Kong film industry in the 60s.
Known as the "Hepburn of the East", he is also Jin Yong's "dream lover".
Jin Yong and the prototype of "Little Dragon Girl" Xia Meng
Later, Xia Meng, as an outstanding representative of the Hong Kong film industry, had close exchanges with the mainland.
She is the only Hong Kong female consultant of the China Filmmakers Association.
It is precisely because of this relationship that the film successfully borrowed several tanks to appear on camera, and also invited inland military experts to help design guns and mine effects.
During filming, the mayor even announced a curfew to ensure that the shooting scene was not disturbed.
After the film, "Run to the Fury Sea" was acclaimed and acclaimed.
The local box office in Hong Kong reached 15.4 million yuan, breaking the box office record of literary and art films.
In addition, it won many awards such as Best Film at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards.
Andy Lau was also nominated for the first Academy Award in his life.
Although he finally lost to Ma Sichen of the same crew, he has officially made his name in the Hong Kong film industry.
However, because of filming in the mainland, the film still cannot escape Taiwan's ban.
Later, due to the special theme, it was also banned in the mainland.
It is rare for a movie to be banned in two places at the same time.
This also implicated many members in front of and behind the scenes.
Fortunately, the newcomer Andy Lau escaped the disaster.
The lead actor Lin Zixiang and director Xu Anhua have become the main targets.
In accordance with Taiwan's requirements, he was able to pass the customs by publicly publishing a "letter of repentance" in the press.
Xu Anhua refused to "repent", so he was banned by Taiwan, and it was difficult to pick up the film for many years.
His 1984 film "Love in the City" was not released in Taiwan until 1988 and was nominated for the Golden Horse Award.
Andy Lau escaped the disaster this time.
However, not long after, there was a contract dispute with TVB and was banned by the old owner.
Fortunately, the time is not long.
After only a little over a year, the two sides eased their relations and released their former suspicions.
Otherwise, Liu Tianwang's path to fame may be destroyed.
In the environment at that time, it was far more than Andy Lau and Xu Anhua who faced this dilemma.
In 1982, the 24-year-old Leung Ka Fai was taken in by the famous director Li Hanxiang and stepped into the film circle.
Subsequently, he followed Li Hanxiang to Beijing to shoot "Burning the Yuanmingyuan" and "Hanging curtains to listen to the government".
With his outstanding performance in the latter, the 25-year-old Leung Ka-fai became the youngest film emperor in the history of the Academy Awards.
But at the same time, he was also banned from Taiwan.
At the time, Taiwan claimed that leung could lift the ban if he wrote a "letter of repentance."
Who knows, Liang Jiahui is resolute and uncompromising.
Since then, no one in Hong Kong has dared to look for him to make films.
Leung Ka Fai, who was once unemployed, set up a stall with friends at the Causeway Bay Night Market and sold handicrafts.
Every day I sat on the ground with my hair messy and ate a box lunch.
It was not until many years later that it was unsealed.
He went on to star in many classic films.
Also in 1982, another action star was also banned.
He is Liang Xiaolong.
In the 1970s, along with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Dillon, he was known as the "Four Little Dragons" of Hong Kong's showbiz industry, and his popularity can be imagined.
In the early 1980s, he successively starred in the role of Chen Zhen in "Huo Yuanjia" and "Chen Zhen".
Both dramas are all the rage in the mainland.
Liang Xiaolong has also become a well-known kung fu star.
After the explosion, he was invited to the mainland for exchanges and was warmly welcomed.
He found that in the mainland, even kindergarten children would sing the theme song of "Chen Zhen".
Liang Xiaolong, who was very excited, made a speech at that time:
"This is the first time I set foot in my motherland after I was born, the audience is warm and friendly to me like a relative, I am deeply moved, as a Chinese, I silently wish the motherland's economy to take off!" 」
Unexpectedly, this sentence has aroused taiwan's dissatisfaction.
Force him to apologize and write a letter of repentance.
Liang Xiaolong was also stubborn, that is, he did not apologize.
As a result, they were banned by major television stations.
He could no longer star in any of the plays, but could only serve as a stand-in, group actor and martial arts instructor.
It was not until the ban was lifted in 1990 that he starred in an action film "Goro Bagua Stick".
However, the eight-year vacancy has already caused his popularity to fall to the bottom.
To really make Liang Xiaolong's career pick up, we have to wait until 2004.
He was invited out of the mountain by Zhou Xingchi to perform the fire cloud evil god in "Kung Fu".
After 22 years, "Chen Zhen" returned to the perspective of mainland audiences.
Kindergarten children who used to sing the theme song of "Chen Zhen" have now entered middle age.
It's a shame.
In addition, there is TVB "Sister" Wang Mingquan.
She was banned from the Taiwan market for more than ten years because she appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
And, the famous actor Liu Songren.
In the 1980s, he went to the mainland to shoot "Heroes in a Troubled World".
Because he refused to write a letter of repentance, he was also banned from Taiwan for many years.
By the 1990s, cross-strait relations had gradually eased.
Hong Kong people no longer have to tremble when they go to the mainland to shoot movies.
However, films starring or even participating in by mainland actors still cannot be released on Taiwan.
Therefore, in order to take care of the two major box offices in the mainland and Taiwan, Hong Kong filmmakers have come up with new methods.
In 1991, Zhou Xingchi took advantage of the hot sale of "Gambler" and created a sequel "Gambler 2: Gambler saint on the beach".
The heroine chose Gong Li from the mainland.
She has just been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Figurines", and she is well known in both places.
But with Gong Li, the film could not be released in Taiwan.
Therefore, the producer came up with the method of "one piece and two shots".
The Taiwanese version features Taiwanese actress Fang Jiwei.
In the same scene, the two actresses each shoot again, and the plot is exactly the same.
The line is the way to go, that is, to suffer the other actors in the play.
Fang Jiwei and Gong Li are two versions
If the supporting role can still find someone to replace, what should the protagonist do.
In August 1991, Jet Li starred in "Huang Feihong" was about to be released on Taiwan.
However, the application for release was rejected.
The Taiwanese side set a deadline of 2 days, so that Jet Li must publicly declare that he will renounce his "mainland origin".
Jet Li certainly did not make a statement.
Therefore, the producers thought of various ways to resolve the contradiction.
For example, he gave Jet Li an Ecuadorian passport, which turned him into a "South American star"...
Fortunately, relying on the running operation of the producer, "Huang Feihong" was finally released on Stage.
Jet Li also relied on this movie to successfully turn the fire.
Looking back at the past few decades of Hong Kong films, the dilemma they have suffered is not only the cross-strait situation.
As a land of bullets, the market is small, the space is limited, and the shooting resources are scarce.
However, it was precisely because of these difficulties that the wisdom and morale of Hong Kong filmmakers at that time were stimulated.
Put the ground in death and be reborn, and finally usher in the golden age.
Not only Chinese mainland and Taiwan, but even South Korea, Southeast Asia and other places have become the box offices of Hong Kong movies.
This is also the most admirable point of Hong Kong filmmakers at that time:
No matter how the environment changes, we are actively thinking of solving it.
Today's Chinese films still face many dilemmas.
And how do we break the game?