On October 10, director Robert Samuels posted revealing the death of Hong Kong film actor Chen Long.
He wrote: "We have lost a Legend Chen Long in the Hong Kong film industry. We worked together in the '90s, he also worked with Bruce Lee on Dragon Fight and Tiger Fight and Jingwumen, and he had a kind and innocent heart to pray for his family during this difficult time. ”
Seeing the news of the death of Chen Long, a 79-year-old golden supporting actor on the hot search, many people did not know who he was. But looking at the photos below, many people will be impressed.
Chen Long entered the film industry in the late 1960s and worked as a martial artist. He has a younger brother named Chen Huiyi, and both of them have appeared in the movies "Dragon Fights Tiger Fight" and "Jingwumen".
At that time, they were heavily valued by Bruce Lee and together with Lin Zhengying became Bruce Lee's "right and left arm".
Bruce Lee used to want to take the Chen Long brothers to Hollywood to develop, but unfortunately Bruce Lee died early and did not take it with him.
Later, in the 1980s, Chen Long entered the "HongJia Class" and became a fierce general of Hong Jinbao, and together with Lin Zhengying, created the precedent of Hong Kong's "spiritual zombie films", starring in films such as "Ghost Fighting Ghosts" and "Scary People".
Stills from the movie "Ghost Fights Ghosts"
Unlike Lin Zhengying, Chen Long is a lewd and humorous technical stream, and the editor is most impressed by the big battle at the end of "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", two Taoist priests Chen Long Dou Zhong Fa. First a flame flew by, and this earth-based special effect was much better than a computer. But the actor's hard burning of the fire is indeed too dangerous. Chen Long is really selling his life here, burning people for a long time, and he also has to fall down from such a high platform in front of the air flip, which is all spelled out with his life.
In addition, as a golden supporting role in Hong Kong movies, it is still a rather comedic character, and in other movies, it can often amuse us, like to play roles such as butlers and servants, and often come to a little cold humor or something.
Such as the loyal domestic servant "Magu" in the movie "Fang Shiyu", the servant of Yuan Biao in "Loser Boy", the master who is often late in "Six-Fingered Piano Demon", and the Lei Tiger in "Gambler 2 on the Beach Gambling Saint".
After 2000, Chen Long basically faded out of the entertainment circle and rarely filmed.
When I think about it, supporting roles such as Chen Long, when it comes to the protagonists who have been partners, are all resounding, why is it not easy to be remembered?
Perhaps it is precisely because everyone does not attach much importance to supporting roles, and the Chinese people are only willing to remember No.1.
Although soldiers who do not want to be generals are not good soldiers, in the law of two and eight, those who can achieve the protagonist also need an excellent supporting role.
Once again, people miss those golden supporting characters who died this year, such as Wu Mengda, Liao Qizhi, and so on.
In the movie of life, are you the protagonist or a supporting role?