In 1986, "The True Colors of Heroes" was released.
No one was optimistic before the release, why?
Because this movie brings together the fallen genius Wu Yusen, the once-famous Dillon, the box office poison Zhou Runfa...
Can a few Luthor make good movies?
Facts punched everyone in the face.
"The True Colors of Heroes" broke the Box Office Record of Hong Kong Films with a box office of 34.65 million Hong Kong dollars, sweeping the Academy Awards ceremony that year.
Through this film, Wu Yusen initially established his own violent aesthetic style;
Through this film, Chow Yun-fat got rid of the label of "box office poison" and became the box office guarantee of Hong Kong films.
Four years later, "Blood And Two Heroes" was released.
The film is seen as a mature work of Wu Yusen's violent aesthetic.
The most important influence of "Blood And Two Heroes" on Wu Yusen was to arouse the interest of Hollywood production companies.
Wu Yusen has always been yearning for going to the United States to make Hollywood movies.
That year, Wu Yusen and his partner Zhang Jiazhen partnered to open a film company.
Wu Yusen can be noticed by Hollywood, inseparable from Zhang Jiazhen's effective marketing.
Zhang Jiazhen took Wu Yusen's work "Blood And Two Males" to the French Film Festival to promote it, and initially touched a nose of ash.
People don't buy your Account of Wu Yusen at all.
Later, Zhang Jiazhen thought of a trick, starting from the film critics, first of all, the reputation of "Blood Double Male" was done.
Critics have never seen such a lively film before.
The next day, the newspaper was full of praise for "Blood And Two Heroes".
Later, Zhang Jiazhen took "Blood Two Heroes" to the United States to publicize and look for opportunities for Wu Yusen everywhere.
After watching the film, Martin Scorsese wrote a letter to Wu Yusen praising the scene of the church shootout in the movie, full of poignant redemption.
At this time, several Hollywood production companies also threw olive branches to Wu Yusen.
Everything was ready, and Wu Yusen nodded.
In Hong Kong, although Wu Yusen's films have sold well, they still have limitations, and no one knows how long the popularity of gunfight films can last.
Then simply break the boat and go to the United States to fight.
To this end, Wu Yusen directly sold the house in Hong Kong and took all his belongings to dream of Hollywood.
A "success is a benevolent" posture.
The first project to be handed over to Wu Yusen was the movie "Ultimate Target".
The lead actor was Shange Winton, an action superstar who was becoming popular at the time.
The filmmakers were skeptical about hiring a Hong Kong director to make a Hollywood commercial film.
At one point, it was considered to only let Wu Yusen shoot action scenes, and the rest was left to another director, Sam Remy.
Sam Remy took the initiative to let Hyun, saying that Wu Yusen would be fully responsible, and if he messed up himself, he would clean up the mess.
After the film was made, what Wu Yusen did not expect was that Shange Yunton, as the lead actor, actually enjoyed the editing rights of the film.
And hollywood companies did not dare to say anything, and let him do so.
In order to highlight his position, Shange Yunton drastically cut the role of other actors, coupled with the aesthetic fatigue caused by too many slow motions.
The film's final box office wasn't ideal.
Wu Yusen's first game in Hollywood is not a beautiful game.
But it is also a foothold in Hollywood.
In Hollywood, vanity fair, the cost of personal trial and error is high.
If a film does not sell well, the director is likely to lose the opportunity to direct a second time.
Wu Yusen was lucky, and the second project given to him was the movie "Broken Arrow".
The success of this film directly determines Wu Yusen's future in Hollywood.
The filming of "Broken Arrow" was considered to be starred by John Travolta.
In the seventies and eighties of the last century, he has been playing funny roles, but his career has not improved much, and he is slowly forgotten.
It wasn't until Quentin was preparing for "Pulp Fiction" that he first thought of John Travolta.
John Travolta started the second spring of his career because of this film.
For the director by Wu Yusen, John is half-convinced:
Is this dude okay?
At this moment, a man assisted by God appeared.
He is Quentin.
He is a super fan of Wu Yusen, Wu Yusen's movie, Quentin is like a family treasure.
In order to persuade John to star, Quentin took a copy of "Blood And Two Males" and showed it to John.
Since there were no English subtitles, Quentin translated them to John sentence by sentence.
After watching the movie, John immediately decided to star, but there was a condition, he wanted to play Chow Yun-fat.
So you can see in Broken Arrow that John Travolta has a lot of small movements that imitate Chow Yun Fat.
In order to ensure the smooth progress of the film, it may also be out of distrust of Wu Yusen.
The film side found several screenwriters and producers to stare at Wu Yusen on the spot, and not a single sentence of dialogue or words could be modified.
Wu Yusen resisted the pressure and gritted his teeth to complete the film shooting.
"Broken Arrow" was a box office hit, and Wu Yusen completely gained a foothold in Hollywood.
Soon, Wu Yusen ushered in his peak work in Hollywood, "Change of Face".
At this time, Wu Yusen has complete creative freedom and is no longer the beaten worker who only promised to do so.
"Changing Face" was originally a science fiction film, but Wu Yusen would not shoot science fiction, and filming modernity, shooting gunfights, and shooting men was his strength.
This film is the culmination of Wu Yusen's many years in Hollywood.
Use Western film techniques to tell the story of the East.
The film eventually grossed as much as 200 million, with both word-of-mouth and box office.
This gave him the next chance to receive the first-class Hollywood commercial masterpiece, Mission Impossible 2.
But "Mission Impossible 2" has caused Wu Yusen to collapse many times, and several times he wants to leave without shooting.
One of the reasons is Brother Atang.
Brother Tang's position at that time, even the production company had to look at his face.
On set, he was the emperor, and he said one can't say two.
Wu Yusen became a puppet on the set.
Whenever Wu Yusen wanted to give up, Zhang Jiazhen only said to him:
After filming, it is victory.
Afterwards, as Zhang Jiazhen said, "Mission Impossible 2" achieved outstanding global box office results.
Wu Yusen finally stepped into the position of Hollywood's first-line director.
Leaving a handprint at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, he became the first Chinese director to receive this honor.
Wu Yusen really ushered in the peak of his career.
It may also be that the popularity of people is a little fluttering, so that Wu Yusen has an illusion that he can control any movie.
When MGM asked him to shoot "The Wind Whisperer", Wu Yusen agreed.
The Wind Whisperer is a traditional Hollywood war film.
MGM wants to use this film that blends Eastern and Western cultures to target the box office and covet the Oscars, and its ambitions are really not small.
Before the start of filming, many people sang about the decline, saying that Wu Yusen could not control Hollywood war movies.
Wu Yusen knew that there were tigers in the mountains and preferred to go to the tiger mountains.
This time, though, the goddess of victory was not on his side.
"The Wind Whisperer" hit the street at the box office and became the biggest Waterloo of Wu Yusen's Hollywood directorial career.
After that, there were also many medium-cost action movies that sought out Wu Yusen.
But Wu Yusen is a little discouraged, and he doesn't want to make action movies anymore.
He also wants to go back to his country to make his own movies like Zhang Yimou and Ang Lee.
Coinciding with the opening of the mainland market, Hong Kong directors have gone north.
Chen Kexin, Xu Ke and others have found their own positioning and regained their glory.
Wu Yusen held his breath, either not shooting, or shooting the most expensive scene.
So there is this "Chibi" with a cost of 600 million yuan and thousands of people participating in the light group performance.
Investors at the time said that as long as the lead actor is Zhou Runfa, money is not a problem.
Wu Yusen thought that with his friendship with Zhou Runfa when he met Yu Wei, this was not a problem at all.
But Wanwan did not expect that the day before the start of filming, Zhou Runfa did not come and resigned.
According to Wu Yusen's later interview, there was no negotiation with Zhou Runfa on the condition of 0.1.
"Chibi" temporarily changed its role into the nuclear bomb-level news of the time.
The filmmakers accused Fa Ge of proposing 100 harsh conditions.
Brother Fa said that the script was given too late, there was not much time to prepare, worried that he would not be able to act well, so he quit the performance.
The public says that the public is reasonable and the wife is reasonable.
No one knows the truth.
In fact, similar situations have occurred earlier.
Zhou Runfa took over the filming of "Full of Golden Armor", and producer Zhang Weiping also shelled That Fa Ge's contract was too harsh.
Wu Yusen originally thought that after "Hot Hand Detective", he could continue the frontier with Zhou Runfa Liang Chaowei.
Now this result only ends in a sigh.
Fortunately, Liang Chaowei was willing to replace Zhou Runfa to perform, and did not mention any conditions, which made Wu Yusen greatly moved.
Zhou Yunfa also praised Liang Chaowei's move in public and blamed the mistake on himself. He hoped that this incident would not affect his friendship with Wu Yusen and Zhang Jiazhen.
But after this incident, As Zhou Runfa's agent in Hollywood, Zhang Jiazhen has since cut off contact with Zhou Runfa.
The three no longer have any intersection in private.
Friendship and contract, is it really only possible to choose one or the other?
If the problem really lies in the remuneration, then why can Zhou Runfa play Xu Anhua's "Aunt's Postmodern Life" with low remuneration?
In the process of negotiation, does Chow Yun Fat have the right to choose?
However, the parties concerned were all silent about this matter, and the resignation became an unsolved mystery.
The star-studded "Chibi" lost both at the box office, and Wu Yusen failed to continue his glory in Hollywood.
The next "Taiping Wheel" and "Hunt" are not satisfactory.
Gone are the heroic eras that belong to Wu Yusen.
If Wu Yusen had been given another choice that year, would he have regretted returning to China to shoot a drama?