Recently, the most sensational thing in the entertainment industry is Michelle Yeoh winning the Oscar.
After all, this is the first Asian actress in the 95-year history of the Oscars.
It has the significance of breaking history!
In fact, speaking of Michelle Yeoh's success, it is inseparable from a big senior in Hong Kong.
Just now, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Asian Film Awards, and the audience gave him a standing ovation.
That's right, this person is Sammo Hung.
Michelle Yeoh's debut film "The Owl and the Dumbo", directed by him;
He led Michelle Yeoh to take the "beating girl" route, and tailored action classics such as the "Royal Senior Sister" series for her.
O proper teacher!
Regrettably, contrary to Michelle Yeoh's rising acting career, Sammo Hung gradually fell into loneliness in the later period.
Retreated from the front of the stage to the background, and in the past two years, there was no drama to film.
Previously, Sammo Hung had faced the camera and revealed his heart many times-
My movie dream, not yet finished.
As long as I can film, I can also shoot in bed.
Alas...
A generation of big brother-level figures has become what it is now.
The comparison between the past and the present is really like a dream.
You know, the director who grew up watching his movies still remembers what he looked like when he was infinitely beautiful.
"People Are Scary"
Yes, don't look at Uncle Sammo Hung's fat body, not as handsome as Bruce Lee.
But in terms of achievements, he does not lose at all.
He has studied with famous Peking Opera since he was a child, and has the ability to sing, chant and fight, as well as extremely solid basic skills.
This led him to later establish the "Hong Family Class" and shoot and participate in well-known films such as "Seven Xiaofu", "Ip Man", "Fighting for Life Single Knife Gun", "Tiger Field Chicken" and so on.
At that time, Sammo Hung was like a fish in the Hong Kong film industry, able to direct, act, write and play.
He won the Golden Image actor as early as 1983, and later switched from action to comedy, and from comedy to horror, and finally fused into a "Hong style".
For example, this film is the pinnacle of his personal style.
The film is written and starred by Sammo Hung, and directed and participated by Wuma.
The lineup even gathered the actors who were gaining momentum in the circle that year -
There are thousands of styles, and the goddess Zhong Chuhong is thick;
the zombie's "nemesis" Uncle Lin Zhengying;
and his Taoist partner Zhong Fa.
The unexpected lineup combined to shoot this childhood classic that combines funny, action, horror, reality, and magic.
The story begins with the death of a person.
There is a rich merchant Ma family in the town, three generations of single transmission, only one young master Ma Linxiang.
Who knows, Lin Xiang is an indisputable rebel.
Not only did he not learn without skills, but he also ate, drank and gambled, corrupted the Ma family's family style, and emptied the family property.
In a fit of anger, Old Master Ma threw Lin Xiang out of the house.
I don't know how long it took, and Mr. Ma died of illness.
The huge family business instantly lost the person in charge, and only a few elders of the senior members of the Ma family were temporarily safeguarded.
And at this moment, another bad news came:
Lin Xiang passed away.
I saw a woman, following the group of funerals, and returned to Ma's house with Linxiang's body.
It turned out that Lin Xiang married a family outside, and the woman was pregnant with two children.
Just when everyone was thanking the woman for leaving the Ma family, Linxiang's good friend Zhu Dagu felt that there was something strange about this matter and decided that Linxiang had died.
What do you mean by that?
The reason is very simple, Zhu Daguan once accompanied Lin Xiang to the Fengyue place to have fun, and when he was having fun, his mother Sang forcibly promoted women to Lin Xiang.
As a result, Lin Xiang took the woman back to the room, and finally returned defeated.
Therefore, only Zhu Daguan knew that Lin Xiang could marry a wife, but it was absolutely impossible to have children.
Then Who is the child in the belly?
And what is the purpose of this group of people?
Did Lin Xiang die?
At the beginning of the film, the suspense atmosphere is full, and the further you look back, the more you will find that, as written earlier, this film is really worth watching!
In the beginning, it was a zombie movie.
Zhu Daguan is the apprentice of the Taoist Chief, so we can appreciate Uncle Ying's demeanor.
Familiar gestures:
Familiar mantras:
Familiar pendulum:
Familiar ghost lowering techniques:
This scene is filled with a strong Hong Kong flavor, which is really not felt in the current movie.
If Uncle Ying is the king, then Zhu Daguo is at most bronze.
Like his round body, he directly turns zombie movies into comedies from characters to expressions to actions.
He alone contributed to many famous scenes:
For example, Zhu Daintestine carried tools and tried to perform an autopsy on Lin Xiang in the dead of night.
From the audience's point of view, it can be seen that Lin Xiang is actually pretending to be dead, and he and the group are trying to deceive Mr. Ma to leave him a huge amount of funeral goods.
As for the child in the woman's belly, it is the real husband's.
This is good, Zhu Daguan is good at doing bad things.
He asked his senior brother to dress himself up as a paper man.
As a result, he was first carried around.
After that, he was also complained by the master, the paper tie man is so big, don't have the capital hahaha
Rejected here, sinned there.
A bear child took a burning incense and stabbed him in the ass.
For example, Zhu Daintestine explores the truth for the second time.
I saw him holding an awl and a hammer, planning to gouge at Lin Xiang.
Just when Lin Xiang was full of apprehension, to make matters worse, there were thieves who were worried about the gold teeth in Lin Xiang's mouth.
So, Zhu Daguan and the thief came to a competition who could pull out the golden tooth.
As it turned out, Zhu Da Gu won.
In this regard, Lin Xiang can only cry silently hahaha
In short, there is no time to stop.
From a few simple clips, you can feel that the setting is interesting enough and creative enough.
This is not only reflected in the character, but also in the small details of catching ghosts.
To spoil everyone in advance, originally Lin Xiang wanted to use the "fake death" with the group to divide the funeral goods left by Master Ma, who knows, the woman heard the elder say that the funeral goods were just a lie that Old Master Ma was worried that Lin Xiang would empty the family property.
In fact, Mr. Ma left him a large legacy.
And bluntly said that now that Lin Xiang has "died", this inheritance will be inherited by his children.
When the woman heard it, there were such good things.
She made a total calculation with her husband, and directly calculated it, so that Lin Xiang changed from fake death to real death.
Lin Xiang died unjustly, and his soul is not dispersed.
He told Zhu Dagu the ins and outs of the matter, and asked Zhu Dagut to avenge him so that the family property would not fall into the hands of dog men and women.
From here, Uncle Ying came out again, and the audience was full of eyes again.
In the film, we saw a new trick -
Borrow your soul for yourself.
Let the soul of Zhu Daguo come out, and let Linxiang's soul enter the flesh of Zhu Daguo.
Resurrection of the wronged.
Because Lin Xiang did not change the body back until dawn, Zhu Da's soul was scattered.
His fiancée Ah Yun was in pain.
Under the guidance of Uncle Ying, Ah Yun was returning to his death, which was the day that the soul of the deceased was escorted back by Yin Chao to eat a short stay.
Prepare wine and tribute for the yin cha and drunk it.
Taking advantage of this gap, the insect that spreads dust on the ground, leaves footprints on the ground, and can understand people's words is the vermilion intestine.
Then, Ah Yun used a menstrual belt to pick up Zhu's intestine, so that Yin Chao could not find Zhu's intestine.
Don't hide from you, when the director of the plant looked at this paragraph, he was stunned the whole time.
There is even this operation?!
I was also impressed by the UFO-like messenger, let's just say that I want to laugh now, but I saw the degree of scared crying back then.
Of course, in addition to the above, Sammo Hung's best - playing scenes.
This smooth move and style, exquisite design, and then look back at many action movies now, it is really unsightly.
You know, the positioning of "People Are Scary" is still just a horror movie.
To tell the truth, as far as the director of the factory is concerned, watching memories, recalling the feelings of childhood, and feeling the glory of Hong Kong films in the last century.
Although after reading it, what is left is an emptiness.
Yes, just like zombie movies going lonely, Mai Junlong used a "zombie" to draw ellipses for this genre film;
Similarly, Sammo Hung's era is a thing of the past.
At the award ceremony, he had tears in his eyes and was incoherent with excitement, he was sincerely afraid of the weight of the lifetime achievement award, regretting that he could no longer be moved by his age.
However, how can Sammo Hung admit defeat and bow to the status quo.
As he said in his acceptance speech -
I want to think about abandoning the martial arts and practicing the poisonous tongue, so that it can be done. At that time, I can make a "Grandpa Agent of the Poisonous Tongue", there should be something to watch, and it will be put on for a year ...
Yes, his movie dream, not yet finished;
As long as he can still shoot, he will continue to shoot forever!