Recently, 3 "ancient puzzle boys": Chen Xiaochun, Xie Tianhua, Lin Xiaofeng, gathered on "Brother Who Cut Through Thorns", I don't know how many older young people's DNA moved, evoking countless young memories.
In 1992, Hong Kong musicians Made Wish discovered three 25- and 6-year-old young people: Chen Xiaochun, Xie Tianhua and Zhu Yongtang, and formed the singing and dancing group "Wind and Fire Sea".
Four years later, they became a hit in Asia in a comic book adaptation, the movie "Ancient Puzzle Boy".
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In 1996, "Ancient Puzzle Boy - People in the Jianghu" was released, Zheng Yijian played Chen Haonan, HongXingshe Causeway Bay speaker, Chen Xiaochun played Hongxingshe Pheasant, Xie Tianhua played Hongxingshe Dayi, and Zhu Yongtang, the captain of the Sea of Wind and Fire, played the brother of Hongxingshe's foreskin.
The original work of this movie, "Ancient Puzzle Boy" comic, was created in 1992, and the author Niu Lao once studied under Shangguan Yulang, Shangguan Xiaobao, and Huang Yulang, and can be regarded as an orthodox class of Hong Kong cartoonists.
Cowboy made a cameo appearance in the movie "Ancient Puzzle Boy" (first from the right)
On the cover of The Cowboy's comic, it is clearly stated that the work "Ancient Puzzle Boy" is a realistic comic of the Hong Kong underworld, and in the 60s and 70s when he grew up, it was the era when the Hong Kong police and gangsters coexisted. The police managed the gangs, the gangs managed the security, and the business had to pay protection fees to the gangs, which was commonplace among Hong Kong people at that time.
The manga story begins with the creation of the Japanese gangster "Yamaguchi Group" - in 1915, the Japanese Haruyoshi Yamaguchi gathered 50 coolie workers from the Kobe Port dock to form the "Yamaguchi Group", which began to influence Asian gangsters.
The Hong Kong underworld originated from the anti-Qing organization Tiandihui in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and later partly dispersed into the people due to the suppression of the Qing court.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, various folk associations with the background of the Tiandihui rose, including Hongmen, Tiandihui, Triad, Three-Point Society, Zhigongtang, Xinyi'an, it is said that the folk martial arts sects are related to Hongmen (Tiandihui), most of the gangs rely on local protection fees to live, and the places that collect protection fees include theaters, dog fighting grounds, cricket fighting grounds, gambling halls, mahjong halls and big smoke houses.
In modern times, the triad entered Hong Kong, operating community viewing venues and organizing casinos and entertainment industries.
The positions in the underworld basically continue the name of the folk "Hongmen", including dragon heads, second-way marshals, red sticks, white paper fans, straw shoes, and four or nine boys.
Dragon head, also known as the speaker, sitting in the museum, black language "four eight nine", the heads and leaders of each hall, generally have a family hereditary and elected from the gang once a few years.
The marshal of the second road, also known as the pioneer and the incense lord, is called "four three eight" in black, and each hall has one or more people, who usually have no rights, but the position is higher than that of other members of the society, responsible for some ceremonial affairs.
Red stick, also called roll fit person, black word called four two six, because of the "Water Margin" in the Wu Song holding a red stick and named, in the community responsible for martial arts, that is, the head of the player, the most powerful of the red stick is called a double flower red stick, left and right chest inserted a red flower.
White paper fan, also known as Mr. Ten, black words called four one five, responsible for the financial and clerical work of the community, usually manage finances, and is also a military master in the community.
Chen Yao, a white paper fan in "Ancient Puzzle Boy"
Straw shoes, also known as iron plates or nine bottoms, black words called four three two, the name comes from the late Ming Dynasty a hundred monks resisted the feats of foreign invasion, monks wear more straw shoes, responsible for communication and contact with internal and external affairs, usually in the gang a wide range of friends, but also often participate in the gang's negotiation work, responsible for collecting important sources of intelligence.
Four nine boys, also known as horse boys, black words called four nine, that is, the little brother in the community, the horse boy, the lowest level of the community of the ancient puzzle boy, into the community for three years can not be promoted, it is called the old four nine.
In the manga, Dadong is promoted from four nine and grass shoes to double red sticks and dragon heads
These gangster cultures formed in the "long history" have become the "rich spiritual source" of the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" comic.
At the time of drawing "Ancient Puzzle Boy", the cowboy's experience outside the comic was even more legendary than the comic itself, and he even received an accountability call from Taiwan's "Bamboo Gang"!
What's going on?
In 1992, the original comic of "Ancient Puzzle Boy" was serialized to the 30th episode, and the plot of the Taiwanese gangster "Jingwu Gang" was introduced, describing the original Taiwanese gangster as follows:
"In the 1950s, there were many military dependents living in the Yonghe area of Taipei, and their children relied on the power of their parents to cause trouble, and some of them formed gangs, and the gangs repeatedly carried out street vendettas, and then held a conference on Jingwu Road in Taiwan and established the Jingwu Gang, which continues to this day."
This description of the Taiwan gangsters caused displeasure in the Taiwanese gangsters at that time: we are famous and decent! You stinky comic, is it that the cow can't get out of the cub - give you a cow to break?
NiuLao himself soon received an accountability call from the Bamboo Gang, in which the Cowboy first apologized in seconds, then patiently explained, and even published an apology notice for the Hong Kong branch of the Bamboo Gang, when the comic of "Ancient Puzzle Boy" was extremely popular, and the Bamboo Gang also understood the creative intention of the Cowboy, and the two sides even formed a dinner party after reconciliation.
Chen Qili, the first helper of the Bamboo Gang
Speaking of the Bamboo Gang, it also has an indissoluble relationship with Gu Long.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Bamboo Gang, there was also a big gang against it, the Four Seas Gang, the Four Seas Gang was older, and most of them were led by active military officers, and in 1962, the Four Seas Gang had several large-scale armed struggles with the Bamboo Gang.
Later, due to the general sympathy of public opinion for the Bamboo Gang composed of middle school students from the Later Shengzai, denouncing the Four Seas Gang, the Four Seas Gang was also disbanded, and one of the gang members of the Four Seas Gang at that time had to write novels for the sake of life because the gang was dissolved, and later was drafted by Ni Kuang of ming Pao, entering Jin Yong's martial arts circle, and then it was even more popular, he was the original member of the Four Seas Gang - Gu Long.
And many people who watched the movie "Ancient Puzzle Boy" at that time, I am afraid that they have a feeling: although Chen Haonan is the protagonist and is a big handsome force, the pheasant played by Chen Xiaochun is more popular, the role is more brilliant, and the performance is more vivid.
Behind this, it is also closely related to Chen Xiaochun's personal experience.
The original description of Chen Haonan joining the gang is described as follows, Honan's family is poor, poor enough to open the pot, his mother is critically ill, Honan is worried about the cost of surgery, at this time by the gu confused boy and friend Dafei funded, and introduced him to Hongxing's "big guy B", Honan officially joined the gang.
Young Chen Xiaochun
Chen Xiaochun has been very poor since childhood, because the family is too poor, everyone can not survive, his brother was sold to others for 3,000 yuan, came to Hong Kong from Guangdong at the age of 12, was arranged by his mother to work on the nearby land farming land, worked as a hardware shop employee, kitchen apprentices and construction site workers, beauty salon, many poor children are desperate to join the gang, so Xiao Chun's temperament is very compatible with the gang, and therefore can play the role of "pheasant" to the fullest.
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The original "Ancient Puzzle Boy" is different from the movie, and here I also want to nag.
Let's start with the nest skin.
He is Chen Haonan's brother who played football together when he was a teenager, often bullied by the ancient puzzle boy Liang Kun at that time, after entering Hongxing with Haonan, he and his brother foreskin and called "Causeway Bay Double Skin", in the movie version, Hongxing people were ambushed, Nest Pi in order to cover the brothers retreat, one person broke, and finally was hacked to death by the opponent.
However, in the original comic version, Chao Pi betrayed Honan and provided intelligence to his opponent because of his disagreement with Chen Haonan, resulting in the murder of Honan's girlfriend's "fine grain" family, and finally saw Honan's weak heart in a fight, rolled off the road when he fled, was hit and killed by a truck, and died blindly.
The cowboy's evaluation of the nest skin is that "many acts of injustice will kill themselves."
The death of the second day is also a large adaptation of the difference.
Honan's friend Da Tian Er learned that the pheasant and Shengfan were competing for the position of Tuen Mun speaker, so he took 4 people to try to do the Shengfan, but shengfan had already taken precautions, but instead was put on a provocative hand tendon, but when he was injured, he was calculated by Lei Yaoyang of the Dongying Society behind Shengfan, and was thrown from the roof and sent to his life.
In the original manga, it was Datenji who competed with Shengfan for the Tuen Mun speaker, but due to the arrogance behind Shengfan, the final campaign failed, but because of the imprisonment of Daewoo in Kwun Tong District, he subsequently became the Kwun Tong speaker.
Finally, in the chaotic battle in which the 6 big people rescued Honan, he was physically weak and was hacked to death by the Taiwanese "Viper Gang" gang.
The plot of the comic that the pheasant once opposed to his brother was adapted quite thoroughly.
After the pheasant in the movie went to Taiwan, he became the boss of the Taiwanese gang, returned to Hong Kong for a "righteous" character to help Honan, and always loved Honan as a brother.
However, in the original comic, the pheasant and the Dongying Society Five Tigers Hengmei lost an eye after the temperament changed greatly, and Chen Haonan began to fight with Chen Haonan, after inheriting the Taiwan gang, and even launched a decisive battle with Hongxing, almost leading to the demise of Hongxing, and finally was thrown to death by Chen Haonan's friend Dafan from the top floor of the old building.
In the original comic, the sons and daughters of the pheasant did not have a good ending, and the son Zhao Jibang urinated incontinence in front of the gang, and then was seriously injured by the assassins, and finally his mother Ding Yao pulled out his oxygen tube.
Daughter Zhao Wushuang died under the knife of The Taiwan Viper Gang Jin Zun.
Obviously, the cowboy painting the ancient puzzle boy is equivalent to recording the childhood memories one by one, plus some jianghu rumors, folk fight scenes, and finally gave birth to the classic gangster comic "Ancient Puzzle Boy", although it has been adapted into a movie many times since then, but many plots in the movie are contrary to the original intention of the cowboy.
The cowboy's judgment of "ancient puzzle boys" is "ten ancient puzzle boys, nine decay to the end".
This point is most evident from Chen Haonan's body, although the young man is proud, so that the Japanese Yamaguchi group is disgraced, won the hearts of the boss, and began to rise to the position from the Causeway Bay speaker, but the ending in the original work is the tragic death of the whole family, the murder of his girlfriend, and the son turning against the police to stage an infernal undercover Hongxing and betraying his father.
Those characters who shine incomparably on the movie screen, Nest Skin, Big Sky Ii, and Pheasant, in the original manga of Cowboy, without exception, all ended in misery. But these are the real feelings of the cowboy for the ancient puzzle boy, and the connotation spirit of the "ancient puzzle boy" series, which is completely different from the classic shot of the ancient puzzle boy in the movie that spends money like earth, the beauty is like a cloud, and everyone yearns for.
However, the adaptation of the movie "Ancient Puzzle Boy" is not a nonsense.
In order to make this film more realistic, the producers of "Ancient Puzzle Boy" have invited several actors with Hong Kong community backgrounds as consultants.
Wu Zhixiong, a consultant to Hung Hing Chan Ho Nam, joined the gang as a young man to manage entertainment venues in the Causeway Bay area.
The preacher Chen Shenzhi, pastor Lin's adviser, once joined the gang organization CiyunShan Thirteen Taibao, contracted drug addiction and received gospel drug rehabilitation, and later became a priest to spread the gospel, mediate gang fights, and strive to bring members of the underworld into the church.
Lee Shau Kee, adviser to Chu Shui Ji, former leader of the Thirteenth Taibao of Ciyun Mountain.
Cheng Kui'an, a big stupid brother adviser, caused a storm because the staff prevented him from voting in the district council election.
Chen Huimin, a consultant to Big Head Boy, was a former gangster with double flowers and red sticks, teaching free fighting in the boxing gym.
Situ Yulian, the consultant of the thirteenth sister, a Macau businessman, runs a real estate business and Ogilvy gaming, and is known as "big sister".
Chen Jiannan in "Dragon Fight and Tiger Fight" is based on Chen Songqing, a Sin Chew businessman in the "Jia Ning case".
Therefore, whether it is a comic or a movie, "Ancient Puzzle Boy" can be called a work of heart, a classic in their respective fields.
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Today, with the transition of the economy from "rapid progress" to "orderly development", all sectors of society are more and more eager for order, and the turbulent days when opportunities and dangers coexist, and wealth and original sin coexist are getting farther and farther away.
This point is revealed in the "Underworld" series directed by Du Qifeng, which is particularly clever and profound.
Behind you is the grass mustard, behind me is the green mountain
The famous big brother of the Hong Kong film industry, Wan Ziliang, who starred in "Ancient Puzzle Boy" as Hongxing dragon head Jiang Tianyang, sang "Into the New Era" some time ago:
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This scene is more like a wonderful close-up of the film and even the entire Hong Kong film industry that is "not the ending but better than the ending".
Many actors of "Ancient Puzzle Boy" often say that when we acted in this movie, we taught a lot of young people to be bad people, and they regretted it.
However, regardless of the fact that the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" comic clearly indicates that it is not suitable for underage viewing under the age of 18, only to say that the more important factors such as family, education, and economy are thrown away, and the reason for their bad learning is simply attributed to a few movies, which obviously cannot touch on deeper social problems -
For example, the opening of the movie "Ancient Puzzle Boy" points out the background of the times:
On the other hand, the fire of The Ancient Puzzle Boy, the fire has become a symbol, after the synonym for a group, the media will also label the Ancient Puzzle Boy when reporting adverse events, which also deepens the stereotype of the society on the movie.
Moreover, without the 80s of "Ancient Puzzle Boy", many criminals could still call themselves "Garrison Death Squad"; without "Garrison Death Squad", those violent elements also had other seemingly righteous names to whitewash themselves.
If the soil of evil has always been there, then even if a bad person watches Water Margin, he will flaunt his crime as a substitute for Skywalker, and we can throw the pot to Water Margin?
At present, the influence of "Ancient Puzzle Boy" has declined, but school violence still exists. It can be seen that the problem of preventing young people from going astray is a problem that every era must face, and it requires the joint efforts of the whole society, and it is not possible to solve a few movies, a few comics, and a few games.
In today's world, there are some places where there are no violent movies, TV series, and video games, are you really willing to live in those places for a lifetime?
Don't forget that the ancients said, "When the water is clear, there is no fish."
However, this article also does not intend to do too much analysis, gu puzzle boy is not ruined a generation of teenagers, welcome you in the comment message, talk about this topic.
Last year, the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" comic was finally finished, and on the promotional cover of the finale, Chen Haonan, the once-famous Causeway Bay speaker, looked back in the crowd. At this time, he was extremely lonely, his former brothers were all far away, the pheasant, the big heaven, the nest skin, either tragic death or centrifugal condemnation, the road of the underworld is a crooked road, the so-called "confusion of the sea is boundless, turning back is the shore", early return is the right reason.
For most ordinary people who have been living an ordinary life, those days of chasing "Ancient Puzzle Boy" have long been transformed into fragments of memory for more than twenty years, and have become a kind of yesterday's feelings: 5 cents can rent a day's VCD, bare-chested fantasies that you are a good classmate of Honan and I am a pheasant, and those young secrets that will never be told to teachers and parents.
Some people seal these, go back and scold a few animations, a few movies to ruin a generation, I am afraid that this is not a "prodigal son turning back", nor is it becoming rational and mature.
They, however, have become adults, more conformist, and just follow the tide.