Aunt Thirteen, if the foreign country is so good, then why do you have to come back?
There's something here that foreign countries don't have.
"Huang Feihong's Ambition"
All-round unveiling of Hong Kong Dragon tiger martial arts more than 60 years of change in action documentary "Dragon Tiger Martial Artist", after many days of release, the box office is less than 1 million yuan; then quietly logged on to iQiyi video, began to broadcast online.
The box office performance of "Dragon tiger martial artist" is bad, not its quality is bad, Douban 8.3 points higher than all recent films in theaters. Moreover, as a sincere documentary, "Dragon tiger martial artist" deciphers the behind-the-scenes stories of many classic Hong Kong films, allowing the audience to better understand the greatness of action filmmakers.
Released on August 15, 1991, the costume martial arts film "Huang Feihong's Heroic Ambition" is Jet Li's turnaround to return to the peak, and has led a strong wave of Hong Kong's new martial arts film trend; it is of great milestone significance for Jet Li and Xu Ke, as well as Hong Kong martial arts films.
However, some veteran Hong Kong film fans also know that during the filming of "Huang Feihong", Jet Li was injured and had a plaster cast on his left foot.
Therefore, in the final battle of the bamboo ladder between the dock warehouse and yan Zhendong in the iron cloth shirt, in addition to the close-up and close-up shots, Jet Li needs to show his face and pose, and the other real fight scenes are completed by doubles.
Most of these senior Hong Kong film fans only know that the later ghost foot Seven Bear Xinxin served as Jet Li's stand-in.
In fact, a total of 3 doubles were used in this scene, namely Xiong Xinxin, Gu Xuanzhao and Ling Zhihua; they took turns to fight, not only for Jet Li, but also for their opponent Yan Zhendong (played by Ren Shiguan).
In the end, the 6-minute bamboo ladder showdown in the movie, Jet Li and Ren Shiguan, as well as Xiong Xinxin, Gu Xuanzhao and Ling Zhihua, three stand-ins, filmed for 31 days and started work for 16 hours a day.
Also because the director is demanding, the shooting is difficult and the cycle is long; so during this shooting, these three stand-ins also replace each other's identities. For example, Xiong Xinxin replaced Jet Li today, and tomorrow he may replace shiguan, both for those who were beaten and those who were beaten.
In this way, there will be no contradiction between several stand-ins.
[Xiong Xinxin] is a native of Liuzhou, Guangxi, and also a national martial arts champion, one year older than Jet Li, but he does not debut like Jet Li, that is, the peak of star luck.
In 1984, Xiong Xinxin made a movie for the first time, that is, in "North and South Shaolin", he made Jet Li a stand-in, and also played a monk who watched the door in Southern Shaolin. Later, he was appreciated by Liu Jialiang and went to Hong Kong to join Liu Jiaban.
However, Xiong Xinxin really became famous, or followed Xu Ke to shoot the "Huang Feihong" series of movies; from the stand-in to the Nine Palaces of Real People, and then to the Ghost Foot Seven, step by step.
[Gu Xuanzhao] first followed Xu Xiaoming, and later became the main force of Yuan Jiaban, and cooperated more with Yuan Xiangren.
As early as 1988, Gu Xuanzhao cooperated with Jet Li in his self-directed "Chinese Hero"; later in "Huang Feihong", "Jingwu Hero", "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", "Black Man", "King of Killers" and other films, there have been many successful cooperation experiences.
[Ling Zhihua] is Gu Xuanzhao's disciple, the earliest filmed in 1989 "Dragon Walking the World" has cooperated with Jet Li, and has cooperated with Jet Li 4 times, including "Jingwu Hero", "Huo Yuanjia" and other classics.
Later, he worked with Lin Chaoxian as a martial arts instructor for films such as Guild Wars and Operation Red Sea, but unfortunately died suddenly on May 27, 2019.
In 1991, when Xu Ke invited Jet Li from the United States to start filming "Huang Feihong", he was determined to create a new martial arts film with deep ideological depth. In addition to the plot story is different from the previous "Huang Feihong" movies, Huang Feihong has also changed from a previous teacher to a young master like Jet Li, and the most important thing is to have a major breakthrough in martial arts design, so that the audience can see a new screen Huang Feihong.
The plot story xu ke and the team were taken care of, jet Li satisfied all his imagination of Huang Feihong, and the last thing left was the martial arts design.
During the filming of "Huang Feihong", Xu Ke used a number of martial arts instructors, including Liu Jiarong, Yuan Xinyi, Yuan Xiangren, and Yuan Heping, who came to save the scene. He had also looked for Liu Jialiang, a descendant of Huang Feihong, who was authentic in Hong Quan, but he could not accept Xu Ke's advanced imagination and refused.
Because of the participation of these martial arts instructors, Xiong Xinxin of Liu Jiaban, Gu Xuanzhao of Yuan Jiaban, and Ling Zhihua can complete a century of cooperation.
In the end, "Wong Fei Hung's Ambition" won the Best Action Direction Award at the 1992 Hong Kong Film Awards, which was won by Lau Ka Wing, Yuen Shin Yi and Yuan Xiang Ren.
In 1992's "Huang Feihong's Boy Should Be Self-Reliant", the martial arts director was replaced by Yuan Heping, who also won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Action Direction with this film.
The fundamental reason for Xu Ke's substitution is that the bamboo ladder decisive battle filmed in the last 31 days of "Huang Feihong" was created by Yuan Heping.
At the end of "Huang Feihong's Boy Should Strengthen Himself", the decisive battle between Jet Li and Zhen Zidan was also made of bamboo; he could still play new tricks and still win awards, reflecting Yuan Heping's skill.
At that time, "Huang Feihong's Ambition" was a pure Hong Kong film, and it was not released in the mainland. Therefore, mainland audiences initially watched through pirated DVDs, and in that kind of picture quality, they could not see the existence of a stand-in.
Later, network video developed, and classic films such as "Huang Feihong" gradually had Blu-ray-level hd resources, and attentive audiences carefully appreciated them, and gradually found the faces of Xiong Xinxin and other stand-ins in the picture. Then, like discovering a new continent, it was identified frame by frame, and the fact that Jet Li used a stand-in was determined.
However, it is still impossible to imagine that "Huang Feihong" used 3 doubles in this scene, and they often rotated with each other. Also because Xiong Xinxin is more substituted, including the picture of seeing the face, Xiong Xinxin is the first to be exposed.
Action movies are full of uncertain dangers, so it's normal for a star actor, especially a superstar actor, to use a stand-in and doesn't affect his greatness.
Similarly, dragon and tiger martial artists like Xiong Xinxin are proud to have been a stand-in for classic films like "Huang Feihong".