In 1975, a stunt motorcyclist won the championship trophy at the Taiwan Motorcycle Steeplechase. Because of his wonderful performance in the competition, the driver began to be invited by many film directors to perform speeding stunts in film works. This driver is Ke Shouliang.
On the big screen of Hong Kong films in the 80s, Ke Shouliang's wonderful flying car performance in the series of "Best Partner", "Fast Food Truck", "Divine Courage Double Cannon" and "Royal Master Sister" attracted the attention of countless fans. After years of trial and error, he also got the opportunity to get out of the position in the late 80s, transforming from a stunt director to a director.
In 1989, Ke Shouliang won the support of "Yineng Pictures" and filmed the movie "Ambition and Pride" as a director, and since then he has opened his own path of directing. Later, "Curry Pepper" and "Yafei and Yaji" made him famous in the Hong Kong film market.
In 1993, Ke Shouliang, who had a smooth road as a director, planned to set up a film company, went it alone, and also planned the entrepreneurial work "Cheese Ham".
Originally, Ke Shouliang thought that this "Cheese Ham" would open a new chapter in his film life. Unexpectedly, after the release of the work, it caused a heavy blow to Ke Shouliang's directing career.
Next, we will talk about this "Cheese Ham", and at the same time, talk about Ke Shouliang's entrepreneurial road.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > Ke Shouliang, who started his own business </h1>
Director Ke Shouliang's film works are not many, but they are "personal style".
In 1989, Ke Shouliang officially sat in the director's position and filmed the action film "Heroic Feelings". In this work, Director Ke tried to express the story in the way of two male protagonists, and since this work, "double male" has become a prominent feature of Ke Shouliang's film works.
After "Heroic Love", Ke Shouliang filmed the action comedy "Curry Pepper" for "Yineng Pictures" in 1990. In this work, Ke Shouliang integrates his double male characteristics into comedy works. The style of "Ke-style double male comedy" is also officially formed in this "Curry Pepper".
In 1990, when filming "Curry Pepper", Chen Kexin, who was still working at "Yineng Pictures", served as a supervising producer for the film. In 1991, Chen Kexin left "Yineng Pictures" and formed the "UFO Filmmaker Production Co., Ltd." with Zeng Zhiwei and Zhong Zhen.
In order to make the company's sign, Chen Kexin found Ke Shouliang and hoped that he would shoot a sequel to "Curry Pepper" for "UFO Filmmaker Production Co., Ltd.", so on the big screen of Hong Kong films in 1992, the work "Yafei and Yaji" was born.
After the release of "Yafei and Yaji", it achieved good box office results, helping "UFO Filmmaker Production Co., Ltd." to stabilize its foothold in the Hong Kong film market.
In 1993, Ke Shouliang once again filmed "Zhengpai Wei Xiaobao's Fengzhigou Girl" for "Yineng Film" in the style of "double male comedy". After the release of this work, it once again achieved considerable box office results.
After experiencing the market success of "Curry Pepper", "Yafei and Yaji", "Zhengpai Wei Xiaobao's Fengzhigou Girl", Ke Shouliang also established box office confidence, established "Ke Shouliang Film Production Co., Ltd.", and decided to make a sequel for "Curry Pepper", "Yafei and Yaji", so there was "Cheese Ham" known as "Curry Pepper III".
When he filmed "Curry Pepper" in 1990, Stephen Chow had not yet starred in "Gamble Saint", and he was still a small figure in the Hong Kong film industry at that time. However, with the advent of works such as "Gamble Saint", "Truant Weilong", "Gambler", "Trickster Expert" and so on, Zhou Xingchi quickly entered the peak of his career.
In 1992, when filming "Cheese Ham", although Chen Kexin could not find Zhou Xingchi, he found Liang Chaowei. In the film, liang chaowei and jacky Cheung's "double male performance" has also won the praise of a large number of audiences.
However, in this "Cheese Ham", Ke Shouliang did not find Zhou Xingchi, nor Liang Chaowei, nor jacky Cheung, but let Zhang Weijian and Zeng Zhiwei take over the two male protagonists of the story.
Of course, in order to enhance the star cast of the movie, Ke Shouliang also found Wu Mengda, Wang Zuxian, Zhang Min and others. However, compared to "Curry Pepper" and "Yafei and Yaji", the performance of this "Cheese Ham" is much inferior.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > "cheese" and "ham" </h1>
This "Cheese Ham", like "Curry Pepper" and "Yafei and Yaji", revolves around a pair of partners.
"Curry Pepper" is about a pair of "police partners", "Yafei and Yaji" is about a pair of "gu puzzle boys", and this "cheese ham" is about a pair of "entrepreneurial partners".
Under the impact of the economic tide, many people have made a fortune. The two brothers, "Cheese" (played by Zhang Weijian) and "Ham" (played by Zeng Zhiwei), also want to set up a company and make a profit. But the two of them don't learn anything, and they can't do anything.
In the end, at cheese's suggestion, the two set up a "package out of the gas company" to help people solve various troubles.
Cheese and ham thought that they could receive some big business, but all kinds of life problems have professional solutions, "find a restaurant" to eat, "find a policeman" if you want to catch a thief, and "find a lawyer" if you want to fight a lawsuit.
The business that can fall into the hands of cheese and ham is nothing more than "helping the tea restaurant owner to negotiate with the gangsters", "helping the honest people collect debts", and "helping couples solve emotional problems". These businesses are extremely difficult to deal with, and there is no profit. After several tosses, cheese and ham not only failed to make money, but also owed a large debt.
When they are poor, cheese and ham receive a big deal, and an old man named "Yang Xiaohu" (played by Liu Zhaoming) hires two people to kill a girl named "Zu'er" (played by Wang Zuxian).
Zu'er's father was once a "gangster gangster", because he was crawling in the rivers and lakes, so he made a lot of enemies, Yang Xiaohu was one of them. Zu'er's father died of illness at an early age, but the anger in Yang Xiaohu's heart was difficult to eliminate, and he decided to kill the daughter of the enemy and let the enemy die.
Originally, cheese and ham did not want to take risks, but after learning that the rewards were good, the two decided to take over the business in order to pay off the debts they were carrying.
While the cheese and ham are in action, another enemy, "Brother Dragon" (played by Ke Shouliang), also begins to take revenge on Zu'er. Like Yang Xiaohu, Brother Long also had a deep hatred with Zu'er's father. Brother Long came out of prison and originally planned to stab the enemy, but Zu'er's father had died of illness, so he decided to kill Zu'er and pay the debt of his father and daughter.
After investigation, cheese and ham found that Zu'er's father was fierce and fierce, and he had made many enemies that year. In order to help his father atone for his sins, Zu'er went around doing good deeds and donated a lot of schools.
On this day, Zu'er, as the honorary principal, visited the donated school. Cheese plans to pretend to be a student, blend into the school, and wait for the opportunity to assassinate Zu'er. However, there was an accident at the scene, and Brother Long killed halfway. After a chaotic shootout, Brother Long fled the scene and his ham was hit by a car.
Zu'er mistakenly regarded cheese as a student of the school and ham as the guardian of cheese.
Seeing that the ham was accidentally injured, Zu'er took the ham to the hospital, while the cheese was taken to zur's home to take care of.
Cheese plans to move the plan to Zu'er's house and find an opportunity to kill him. However, Zu'er's personal bodyguard "Bobby" (played by Wu Mengda) and the nanny "Pink Sausage" (played by Zhang Min) at home are all staring at the cheese, so that the cheese does not have any chance to start.
During this time in Zu'er's home, Cheese developed a fondness for Zu'er. But the ham in the hospital frequently urges the cheese to do it.
Seeing that the cheese was confused by the beauty and refused to complete the task, the ham pretended to be the cousin of the cheese and came to Zu'er's house to spend the night, waiting for the opportunity to urge the cheese and kill Zu'er.
The arrival of ham aroused Bobby's alarm. In the end, under Bobby's temptation, the identity of cheese and ham was exposed, and Zu'er also learned the reason why "Yang Xiaohu hired cheese and ham".
After some investigation, Bobby learned that Yang Xiaohu was suffering from cancer and his life was short. In order to resolve the grudge between his father and Yang Xiaohu, Zu'er decided to cooperate with cheese and ham to perform a play.
At the station, Bobby, Cheese, Ham, and Zu'er join forces to stage a "fake assassination". Yang Xiaohu, who was hiding in the distance to observe, saw Zu'er lying in a pool of blood, believed it to be true, and immediately released the grudge in his heart.
After Yang Xiaohu's problem was solved, Brother Long made new troubles.
Brother Long sneaks into Zu'er's residence, injures Bobby, and successfully abducts Zu'er. Originally, Brother Long planned to kill Zu'er and take revenge on Xue Hate. But he suddenly realized that Zu'er was not the daughter of an enemy.
In a moment of crisis, Bobby also tells the truth. It turned out that Bo was a double-flowered red stick in the society before, and when the eldest brother died, he entrusted his daughter to Bobby, and in order to prevent the eldest brother's daughter from having an accident, Bobby transferred his daughter to the eldest brother's daughter.
Zu'er is actually Bobby's daughter, and the nanny in the family is the bloodline of the eldest brother.
Brother Long, who has a debt and a master, and who speaks of principle, let go of Zu'er and went to grab the powder sausage, but unfortunately he was calculated by ham and cheese. After a chaotic battle, with Brother Long being defeated, this "Cheese Ham" also came to an end.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > bring down Ke Shouliang's Cheese Ham </h1>
In this "Cheese Ham", In order to cater to the market audience, Ke Shouliang designed a large number of "lower three ways" jokes. Wang Zuxian and Zhang Min have also become victims of the "next three-way joke", and have presented many restrictive performances in the film.
Now search for this "cheese ham" on the Internet, it is difficult to find a 94-minute full version, the reason is that the original version of the story, the bad taste is too strong, many video platforms, have been appropriately deleted.
Relying too much on the "next three jokes" to please the audience is bound to cause an imbalance in the film story.
In "Curry Pepper", although the film uses the old story idea of "two brothers fall in love with the same woman", the accurate portrayal of the characters makes this work a classic in the hearts of many fans.
In "Yafei and Yaji", Ke Shouliang added the interest of the story structure while ensuring the performance of the characters. The complementarity of "character shaping" and "comedy bridge" also makes the film present an unexpected effect.
However, in this "Cheese Ham", in order to cater to the box office market, Ke Shouliang gave up the in-depth shaping of the characters, but relied on a large number of "colored strips" to support the laughter of the story. The performance of the characters is weak, and eventually becomes a hard wound in the quality of the film.
In 1993, Stephen Chow's film career reached its peak. At this time, Ke Shouliang obviously also wants to rub the heat of Zhou Xingchi in this "Cheese Ham".
In the movie, Zhang Weijian pretends to be a student and sneaks into the bridge section of the school, which is the same as "Truant Weilong 2". The schools filmed in the two works are also in the same place. And Zhang Weijian's performance style is also a reproduction of Zhou Xingchi in this period.
However, the popularity of rubbing Zhou Xingchi did not bring any market benefits to this "Cheese Ham". The lack of character shaping and the excessive accumulation of "the next three road sections" also made "Cheese Ham" suffer a major setback at the box office.
In 1993, after the release of "Cheese Ham", it only earned more than 3.3 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office. That's right, just over HK$3.3 million.
The dismal box office results caused great financial pressure on Ke Shouliang's "Ke Shouliang Film Production Co., Ltd." After "Cheese Ham", the company had no choice but to go out of business. Ke Shouliang's "dream of an independent filmmaker" has not yet begun, and it has ushered in an end.
Originally, there were two classics of "Curry Pepper" and "Yafei and Yaji" in front, and the filming of the sequel "Cheese Ham" should have been a "good hand". However, Ke Shouliang's excessive dependence on the "lower three sections" eventually led to the destruction of this good hand.
After "Cheese Ham", Ke Shouliang's directing career quickly fell into a trough. In 1995, Under the investment of "Xinfeng Film", Ke Shouliang filmed "Old Mud Girl", and the result was dismal at the box office. In 2003, with the support of "Oriental Film", he filmed "Life and Death Express", which resulted in both word-of-mouth and box office failures.
At the end of 2003, Ke Shouliang died of asthma. "Old Mud Girl" became the last work of his directorial career. And "Cheese Ham" has become a watershed in Ke Shouliang's film career, from prosperity to decline.