Ask the young editor, has Jet Li played Huang Feihong seen it?
shake one’s head.
What about Zhao Wenzhuo?
Well, his "Supreme Red Face" was seen 5 times when he was a child, and nie feng, who he played, also watched it.
If you put it more than ten years ago, it is difficult to imagine that such an answer would appear, only get Zhao Wenzhuo and not fan Jet Li... I can't say it.
But, this — probably the intergenerational force.
1.
A big reason for Zhao Wenzhuo's entry into the entertainment industry is jet Li.
In the early 1990s, Jet Li had his best time in the Hong Kong film industry. His huang feihong series trilogy with Xu Ke has pushed Hong Kong martial arts kung fu films to a new peak and also made the production company Jiahe earn a lot of money.
However, if there is more money, it is not easy to divide the accounts. At that time, Jet Li was repeatedly squeezed by film companies and agents, unwilling to work for capital anymore, and vigorously made a fuss about the contract, and even once made a human life case.
The final result was that Li zi formed Zhengdong Film and Television, and the first film he planned was "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu".
Originally, Xu Anhua was looking for a director, and he invited Yuankui to be an action director.
At that time, it was another peak of action movies, and martial artists were very popular, like Yuan Kui's level, and it was common to cross three or five crews at the same time. But after Yuan Kui learned about Jet Li's ideas, he also became deeply interested in the IP of Fang Shiyu, and both of them wanted to create a new screen hero different from Huang Feihong's grandmaster temperament.
Yuankui simply took the initiative to ask Jet Li to ask for help, pushed other scenes, concentrated on being the director and martial finger of "Fang Shiyu", and also pulled the master and disciple Yuande to help.
Xu Anhua turned to planning, and the screenwriter was also invited by YuanKui - Liu Zhenwei, this lineup set the tone of the funny action movie "Fang Shiyu" in one fell swoop.
In order to play a better look, the actors who play the opposite role are best able to "match" Jet Li in their hands, and Yuan Kui personally ran to Beijing Sport University to pick new people, and at a glance, he took a fancy to Zhao Wenzhuo, who was temporarily dragged by his classmates to punch.
A boy less than 20 years old, who has been practicing martial arts since childhood, can fight, has neat movements, and looks good, playing the villain master in the film, Nine Doors Admiral Ordo, just right.
In this way, before he could figure out the direction of the lens, Xiao Zhao had the first masterpiece in his life.
In the movie, he and Jet Li have many fight scenes, whether it is the stick duel on the boat or the "battle of the broken rope" at the climax, the plot and fist and foot kung fu are combined naturally, the two fight happily, and the audience is still satisfied.
Later, this film really helped Yuan Kui and Yuan De successfully win the two best action director trophies of the Golden Statue and the Golden Horse, and achieved the most glorious moment in the career of the Shi brothers.
People's luck comes, and it is impossible to stop it.
This side is still filming "Fang Shiyu", next door because Jet Li released pigeons and had to find a Filipino actor to take over the baton "Huang Feihong" Xu Ke sent people to observe, found "very capable of fighting" Zhao Wenzhuo, his eyes lit up, decided to start first, simply bypassed Zhao Wenzhuo himself, found the North Sports University, said I want to use you as a student.
So Xiao Zhao, who is still in his sophomore year, plays a generation of grandmaster Huang Feihong in "The Wind of the King of Huang Feihong" during the day, and plays the villain in "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu" at night, playing Fang Shiyu (also the previous "Huang Feihong").
At one point, he was so busy that he couldn't even sleep.
He once said a funny thing, "When playing the villain, the director asked me to look at people with slanted eyes, but when it came to the decent side, director Xu Ke asked, why do you always squint at people, you are now Huang Feihong, you are the master, give me the head straight over..."
At that time, Xiao Zhao could not act, and what expression he did was all under the direction of the director, and he became a tool person with oblique eyes at night and a face during the day.
However, the directors on both sides also have something in common, that is, they do not allow him to laugh.
Because of a laugh, the temperament of the calm little Zhao Seconds became 15 or 6 years old.
The aura is completely broken!
2.
This trait of "being a big brother when you are dignified, laughing like a humble person" is still retained in the 49-year-old Zhao Wenzhuo.
Therefore, there will be a "contrast cuteness" that first appeared in "Brother Who Cut Through Thorns", which is very popular.
Many people did not expect that this habitual action master, the "light of the right path" of the grandmaster's big brother ↓
It only takes one look to make a bunch of arrogant hip-hop singers obediently sit up, stand up straight, and honestly close the door of the "PingXi King", who will be so approachable in private, paying attention to peace and tranquility everywhere, and valuing peace.
Obviously, he looks most like a worldly high-ranking person who suppresses evil demons and crooked ways/ a community talker who fights all over the rivers and lakes, but in his bones lives the soul of the street office director who can talk about everything.
In the latest performance, the opening solo rap really makes people completely convinced of the stage production team.
Accurately excavated the fog-like complex atmosphere on Lao Zhao's body: a man who sat that was the godfather of the gangsters, full of gangster temperament, spat out of his mouth, but it was full of street offices with warm and earthy hip hops.
The difference! Devil! Evil charm! Joy!
What does this say enough? Engaging in variety shows is the same as engaging in film and television creation, to "present" real and complex characters, a single person can not be set.
Zhao Wenzhuo himself certainly could not have imagined that after so many years of ups and downs in the show business circle, several ups and downs, he won a "Jet Li Heir" candidate when he gave up his life to fight the country, and decades later, he actually won the red again because of his personality contrast.
The times are far away, and the rivers and lakes have changed suddenly.
The gears of fate never run with personal will and expectation.
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For example, those martial arts brothers who forged the golden age of kung fu films with Zhao Wenzhuo.
In the summer of 2021, a generation of action star Zhao Wenzhuo became a comedian in the variety show, relying on his personality to gain the love of the majority of houlang, many martial arts colleagues also appeared in the documentary "Dragon and Tiger Martial Artist", recalling the golden age of that year.
The story of their film was really bloody.
In order to complete a shot, even if it is a life, it will bite its teeth and fight hard. Whoever dares to say that I am afraid of death, I can't do it, I don't have the face to go on in this industry.
Like Zhao Wenzhuo, when he entered the industry at the beginning of the year to shoot action scenes, even if his right foot was shot to the bone fracture, he would grit his teeth and use his left foot to continue to complete difficult actions, because in that era, those who did martial arts, whether it was curry or big stars, no one dared to admit it.
In an interview with Yi Lijing, he said that he had been seriously traumatized because he had been smashed into the Tianling Cover while filming, and the left and right head nerves were different, and once the nerves were highly tense or the rest was not good, he would be in pain and rolling on the ground.
It was an era of glory with blood and sweat and the courage to fight and dare to think.
Make stand-ins for stars, fight with stars, help stars get beaten... Most of the time, these Dragon and Tiger Martial Artists, who did not have much time to appear in front of the curtain to brush their faces, in that era, racked their brains to challenge various difficult moves and show the audience the visual wonders that the human body could accomplish to the limits.
Jumping off buildings, diving, jumping buses; fighting in the water, fighting in the fire, flying on the knife... It's all there is to it.
Former family member "Mars" recalls that when he and Jackie Chan filmed "Young Master Dragon", they were kicked down from the second floor of the barn by the villain -
The ground did not have any protective measures, only scraped the mud to loosen a little, after he fell down, jackie chan played by the young master of the dragon also had to be kicked down, in order to show brotherhood, he played the "A Niu" need to climb over to pick up.
The scene that fell down was filmed 3 times, OK, no injury, great luck!
Jackie Chan's scene was filmed 15 times, too difficult!
"Sometimes I climbed over my head, sometimes I didn't get to the point where he had fallen, sometimes I picked it up, but I twisted my waist... After filming that scene, (lying down) for 2 months can not move. ”
When filming "Plan A", it was even more tragic, and Jackie Chan had to challenge the jumping bell tower, which was more than 15 meters high.
Without any protection, only two layers of awning can slow down the downward trend, which tent can reduce how much force? There is no scientific calculation formula, Zeng Zhiwei said, purely empirical estimation.
Then find a martial artist to do it first.
Because mars weighs about the same as Jackie Chan, he went first, he did not die, and the big brother came.
Jackie Chan also jumped a few times later.
The finished film used Jackie Chan's jumping shot, but the jump of Mars was missed, and mars was placed in the end of the film, which was also the first time that Jackie Chan put a shooting tidbit at the end of the film, and then simply each film retained this tradition.
What is even more frightening is that the more brilliant the years, the higher the self-requirements, the more fierce the competition, those years of Liu Jiaban, Hong Jiaban, Chengjia Class, Yuan Jiaban... It is both self-contained and terrifyingly involved in each other.
You jumped the second floor, I jumped the third floor, you jumped the building, I jumped off the cliff, injured and crippled The insurance company did not dare to issue the insurance policy but don't be afraid of the boss to support your family, an action is not designed or can not be realized, the famous such as Yuan Baye, will also be grumpy on the set to hit the wall with his head...
After watching "Plan A", when Chen Huiyi of hongjiaban filmed a new film, he directly let Yuanwu fall from a building several stories high, his back landed on the ground, and he was still on the ice, and the biggest protective measure was the several layers of clothes he wore, and the fall was full of blood.
Zeng Zhiwei recalled that at that time, there were foreign martial artists visiting the scene and were stunned, do you dare to do such a move? Who does such an action and who dies?
Yuanwu said that he also knew that he would go to the hospital if he fell like this, but because it was a movie invested by Hong Jinbao, he was willing to fight for his life for his eldest brother.
Yuanwu, Yuankui, Yuande, and Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao, Yuanhua, Yuanbiao, all of them are teachers out of a discipline, the Jianghu people call "Seven Little Blessings" (mainly refers to the Yuanzi generation, the members are not fixed), are poor children, when they were young, they entered the Zhanyuan Gate early to learn Peking Opera, practiced solid tongzi gong, and later entered the film and television circle, and naturally became the backbone.
According to Yuan De, the shi brothers did not graduate from primary school, came from the bottom, and had little ambition. And doing martial arts is a lot of money, desperate, has become the only hope for individuals to get ahead.
But also because of the low level of culture, most of the dragon and tiger martial artists who entered the industry at that time were drunk in the present dynasty, working the set during the day, gambling money and gambling on horses at night, in the second half of the nineties, kung fu films went from prosperity to decline to backwardness, many martial arts did not work, but also the evening scene was desolate, driving taxis, stalls, thieves... Both.
For example, the brothers of the Seven Little Blessings are already among the leaders. Even if they have not become superstars like Jackie Chan, most of them have become famous martial arts fingers, and Hong Kong's film and television industry has started little, and in recent years they have turned to the mainland for development.
Like Yuande, one of the martial fingers of "Fang Shiyu" that year, he set up a director studio in Beijing, and the 2017 small-scale online drama "Double World Pet Princess" was directed by him, when the director played multiple roles on the set, and the funny picture of the two young actors acting was also made into a ghost animal video, which was on fire for a while.
It's just that the younger generation of the audience, when lamenting that this thinning-haired director does not show his face and his acting skills are great, how many people know his brilliant achievements in that year? It is a gold medal action director who has been nominated for 10 golden statues, 7 times nominated for golden horses, and several trophies in hand.
"But people don't recognize action directors, they only recognize directors, and I was forced to be a director."
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No matter what kind of glory there has been, the times will always be gone.
Kung fu films have declined, and the lifelong struggle and glory of a generation have become a thing of the past, just like this documentary of "Dragon and Tiger Martial Artist", which was released for 17 days, the box office was worth millions, and it was broadcast on the video platform last weekend.
Their voices, like the distant action movie craze, didn't make much of a splash in the moment.
The reasons for this are complex. Some people say that it is because the entire industry is in internal friction, the same type of film is filmed to the technical poverty, some people say that it is because of the deformed development of the economic industry, real estate hegemony squeezes the film and television industry, some people say that it is because of the talent gap, the times have changed, contemporary young people like technology and video games, no longer interested in "kung fu", some people say that the current kung fu films rely on stunts, do not need to fight hard, it is not good to watch...
In the industry, everyone can feel the cold and warm.
However, Hong Jinbao has a sentence that makes people feel particularly deeply, he said that movies are dreams, in the 80s, Hong Kong kung fu movies were great, young children would say that when they grew up, they would be Jackie Chan, to be Yuan Biao, to be movie stars, but now you can't create such a dream for them.
Yes, these generations of young children, want to be Internet celebrities, want to be love beans a lot, rarely will say again, I grew up want to be a kung fu star, proud of bloodshed, sweating, to assist the weak, fight for the righteousness of the rivers and lakes for glory.
The past can only be recalled, and the wind is always blown by the rain. What about even the peak of the Kung Fu Emperor Jet Li? The power of the times is also enough to make the new generation of young people less impressed with him.
But maybe it's not so desperate.
You see the scene of Zhao Wenzhuo being arched by the stars when he first appeared in "Phi Ge", all the Ha people respected him, and felt that the "hero worship complex" buried deep in the soul of men was not completely erased.
It's just missing an opportunity.