The emergence of the "Huang Feihong" series of movies in 1991 not only helped director Xu Ke open the door to new martial arts films, but also made Jet Li a hit as the protagonist, becoming another kung fu superstar after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan
But who could have imagined that it was this role that made Jet Li famous, but also made him suffer all kinds of humiliation, not only was he put under house arrest in disguise, but even his agent Cai Ziming was shot in the street, how dark is behind the filming of "Huang Feihong", today I will take you to understand
As the most heavyweight traffic IP in Hong Kong movies, the Wong Fei Hung series of movies has always been favored by people, as early as 1983, Xu Ke had plans to remake Wong Fei Hung, but because he could not find a suitable candidate, this remake plan was repeatedly shelved
In fact, in his original conception, he wanted Dillon to play Huang Feihong Zhou Runfa to play Liang Kuan, but he did not expect that in 1986, "The True Colors of Heroes" suddenly became popular, and the hao brother played by Dillon and the little brother played by Zhou Runfa quickly went out of the circle, especially the image of Zhou Runfa wearing sunglasses was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people
If they are allowed to wear a robe and a coat to play Huang Feihong and Liang Kuan, I am afraid that the audience will not be able to accept it at all, plus the requirements for actors in this movie are also very strict, Xu Ke can not find a suitable candidate for a while, so the shooting plan of "Huang Feihong" is temporarily shelved
In 1989, Xu Ke went to the United States to study film, and jet Li was also teaching in the United States at that time, so the two of them cooperated in the film "Dragon Walking the World" for the first time, that is, in this cooperation, Xu Ke saw Jet Li's skills, thus determining the official candidate for Huang Feihong
So when "Dragon Walking the World" was filmed, Xu Ke immediately proposed to shoot "Huang Feihong" with Jet Li as the protagonist, at first Jiahe was not willing, because they felt that Jet Li had passed away and no longer had box office appeal, even the "Dragon Line" that had just been filmed was temporarily sealed, but fortunately, Xu Ke was persistent enough, and finally Jiahe agreed to Li Lian's outstanding role as Huang Feihong
In the filming process of the film, Xu Ke showed a lot of his innovative ideas, first of all, in terms of image, in order to distinguish him from Guan Dexing's version of Huang Feihong, he gave up the traditional horse coat and melon skin hat, let Jet Li wear a long shirt, and secondly, in the character setting, he cleverly associated Huang Feihong with modern things, so that the new version of Huang Feihong had more feelings of home and country, and finally he also added an emotional line for Huang Feihong, and the thirteen aunts played by Guan Zhilin were beautiful and generous, which not only promoted the development of the plot, but also contributed a lot of laughs to the film
In the martial arts design that the audience is most concerned about, he originally invited the authentic Huang Feihong descendant Liu Jialiang, but because the two had great differences in design concepts, they later found the eighth master Yuan Heping to help, in fact, their biggest point of disagreement is that "Foshan has no shadow feet"
Liu Jialiang believes that this anti-human design is not Huang Feihong's style at all, such an action is released, the 100,000 Hong Fist disciples will definitely laugh to death, but Xu Ke believes that what he shot is not Huang Feihong's biography, so there is no need to follow that traditional martial arts move, so various differences have led to the two people breaking up unhappily
Even if everyone thought that the setting of the shadowless foot was too exaggerated at that time, Xu Ke still insisted on his choice, which also had the classic Foshan shadowless foot in the movie, and I have to say that Xu Ke's sense of innovation is really strong
Back to the filming of the movie, the film can not continue due to Jet Li's leg injury in the later stages, so most of the martial arts scenes in the back are completed by the stand-in Xiong Xinxin, especially the last bamboo ladder battle, the close-up and close-up are completed by Jet Li, the long-range and panorama are completed by Xiong Xinxin, in order not to let the stand-in be exposed, Xu Ke used a large number of broken shots to cover the stunt actors, which was originally a helpless move, but unexpectedly made the action scene look more impactful
In 1991, "Huang Feihong's Ambition" was officially completed, and once it was released, it won a box office performance of 29.67 million yuan in Hong Kong, which not only made Xu Ke win the Academy Award for Best Director, but also let Jet Li in the downturn play a beautiful turnaround battle
First of all, the film that was sealed two years ago was taken out, renamed "Huang Feihong 92 Dragons Travel the World", rubbed the traffic to get a good box office result, and then proposed to Jet Li to renew the contract for two years, which was originally a mutually beneficial thing, but due to Jiahe's various bullying behaviors, Jet Li angrily stopped acting when filming "Huang Feihong 2"
In fact, at the beginning of their contract was two years and four plays, the contract expired to pay 6 million Hong Kong dollars, but when the contract expired, Jet Li only received 3 million Hong Kong dollars, jiahe gave the reason that he only made, "Dragon Walking the World" and "Huang Feihong 1" these two films, so refused to pay the remaining two plays
But Jet Li felt that the failure to finish 4 movies was not arranged by Jiahe himself, and he should have received the remaining remuneration, but in the face of Jiahe's hegemony, Jet Li, who was weak, could only give in, and finally the two sides negotiated to renew the contract for a period of time to finish the remaining two dramas, but the funny thing is that seeing that the renewal deadline is also approaching, Jet Li only has one "Huang Feihong 2" in his hands.
Jiahe repeated the trick, asked Jet Li to renew his contract for another two years, and also withheld his passport, so that he could not leave Hong Kong, in the face of Jiahe's repeated oppression, Jet Li really could only be slaughtered, but the appearance of Cai Ziming resolved Jet Li's predicament
As a businessman with a strong background, Cai Ziming finally made the unreasonable Jiahe apologize with a series of iron fist means, but the other party had a request that Jet Li must complete the remaining movie, so "Huang Feihong 2" was finally filmed after suffering hardships, but what people did not expect was that on the day of the release of "Huang Feihong 2", Cai Ziming was shot in the street
Jet Li who received the news was shocked and could not even put the phone back in place, he was once very worried about his own safety, but he thought that Cai Ziming had told him that everyone wanted eggs and would not kill chickens, so he adjusted his state and fulfilled his agreement with Jiahe's last play, and completed the filming of "Huang Feihong 3 Lion King", which finally ended his contract with Jiahe
Regarding the murder of Cai Ziming, some people say that a film producer hired a killer to do it, and some people say that it was the dutch gangsters who retaliated against each other
However, in that era of gangster power, the living environment of film actors did have certain dangers