Among Hong Kong films, Kwan Jinpeng is the director who is best at shooting women.
Kwan learned from Yu Yongkang and Hui Anhua, representatives of the new wave of Hong Kong films, but his real fame depended on Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan bought a lot of the copyright of the novel from Li Bihua and decided to make a less desperate movie to transition, originally planned to star Jackie Chan in "Farewell My Concubine" and play the role of Duan Xiaolou.
At that time, Jackie Chan had "Plan A Sequel" and "Police Story Sequel" to be filmed, and Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were worried that literary films would destroy Jackie Chan's image as an action superstar, so this proposal was abandoned.
But Li Bihua's novel copyright bought a lot, can not put ashes, just Anita Mui especially likes "Rouge Button", so she suggested shooting, the film version of "Rouge Button" took office.
The original director of "Rouge Button" was Tang Jiming, and the original actors were Anita Mui, Zheng Shaoqiu, Andy Lau, and Zhong Chuhong
Anita Mui plays Ruhua, Zheng Shaoqiu plays the twelve youngsters, Andy Lau plays Yuan Yongding, Zhong Chuhong plays Chu Juan, if it can be done, it may be another taste of "Rouge Button".
But Tang Jiming adapted Li Bihua's novel into a script and changed several drafts, Jackie Chan and He Guanchang have always been dissatisfied, and under pressure, Tang Jiming resigned as a director.
In order not to let the project of "Rouge Button" abort, Guan Jinpeng, who had just entered Weihe not long ago, took over this mess, but the original actors have changed greatly.
Zheng Shaoqiu resigned because Shen Dianxia was pregnant, Andy Lau and Zhong Chuhong were also difficult to come due to schedule adjustments, and only Anita Mui waited because she loved the role of Ruhua.
After that, Anita Mui invited Leslie Cheung over in exchange for filming a play for New Art City (later "The True Color of Heroes 3: Sunset Song"), and brought in Wan Ziliang and Zhu Baoyi, and "Rouge Button" began filming.
"Rouge Button" is a pure literary film from a female perspective, and it is not a box office darling at any time.
Especially in Hong Kong, the male era of popular action movies and comedy films, it is almost a fool's dream for "Rouge Button" to sell well, not to mention that the only box office guarantee Leslie Cheung's role is not much.
As a producer, Jackie Chan was naturally anxious, but he was not good at directly interfering with Guan Jinpeng's filming, so he waited for the gap to call Leslie Cheung to make up the action scenes, and told him that adding action scenes to the film would definitely sell well.
But Leslie Cheung sensed that something was wrong, director Kwan Jinpeng did not inform him that there were action scenes to shoot, and "Rouge Button" did not have any place to add to action scenes, thought carefully, and rejected Jackie Chan.
In fact, Jackie Chan's idea is not wrong, he starts from the perspective of a boss, of course, he hopes that the movie will have a good box office.
Since Leslie Cheung can't make sense, let's start with editing, and Guan Jinpeng has been staying in the editing room after hearing this, not allowing Jackie Chan to interfere at will.
Jackie Chan is not a stubborn producer, Guan Jinpeng insists on his own ideas, then simply let go and let him play freely.
This performance made "Rouge Button" a bumper harvest in the Golden Image and Golden Horse Awards, and at the box office, although it was not as good as Jackie Chan's "Police Story Sequel" and "Flying Dragon Fierce General", it also won 17.47 million box office, ranking 13th in the year.
The story of "Rouge Button" stems from the word "waiting", and the tragedy of Ruhua lies in treating love as faith.
This caused her to develop an extreme desire for control, and her values were distorted, which made her wait for more than fifty years, and she would never be reincarnated as a human being until she saw the twelve.
Ruhua is a dusty woman, before she met Chen Zhenbang, her life did not have any waves, that is, to make more money and live a good life.
But as soon as the golden wind and jade dew met, life was no longer just for the wind and moon, but had a new pursuit, Ruhua gave up the unchanged and tried to make herself go from Fireworks Alley to Red Dust Road.
So she went to see the mother of the twelve young men alone, wanting to impress with true love and sincerity, but she couldn't get what she wanted, and Mother Chen used tea to make Ruhua defeated.
Mother Chen knows her son too well, and also understands Ruhua's thoughts, and directly tells Ruhua that they are not people all the way, and the seriousness of their feelings is not the same.
If at this time, Ruhua can stop the loss in time, there will be no later double double butterfly flying, and the only person has become a lone soul and wild ghost.
But Ruhua doesn't think so, she regards love as the whole of life, and the twelve young people have become her hope for a fresh start, become her faith, once the faith collapses, Ruhua's future will not have a second choice.
And the twelve young people are different from Ruhua, he has lived a rich life since he was a child, and love is only part of his growing up.
As his mother said, he is only twenty-four years old, and he will still return to me in two years, because what the twelve young people like is just a novelty, and when they are tired and old, he will lose it and change to another person and do it again.
Ruhua just makes Chen Zhenbang feel in love, but it does not mean that he wants to love Ruhua for a lifetime.
When this feeling slowly subsides, it will be impossible for the twelve young masters to be as righteous as they were at the beginning, and they will do all kinds of tricks to please Qingqing.
In order for Ruhua to live outside, refuse the brocade clothes and jade food at home, and for Ruhua to endure the pain of learning drama, she served tea to the master and poured water and spittoon.
In fact, the twelfth young master did not last long, he was still the same young man who made a scene.
Within a few days of singing, he began to indulge in Fushou ointment, so that Ruhua raised herself and lived a little white face.
Swallowing clouds and mist all day long, creating false bubbles for Ruhua with sweet words, and turning a blind eye to Ruhua's sincerity in going to the temple to ask for a sign to worship the Buddha.
The gap between reality and ideal shattered Ruhua's dream, and the love with the twelve young people was like a mirror, and his deep love was exchanged for not knowing what to do.
In order to allow the twelve young people to pay equally, Ruhua wishful thinking, thinking that the twelve young masters can never be deep in their affection, so they choose to take both of them and take the blessing ointment and stay together in the netherworld.
However, Ruhua has no confidence after all, thinking that the twelve young people must love themselves and will do everything for themselves, but they show cowardice in their actions.
Coaxing Twelve Young Man to drink wine mixed with a lot of sleeping pills, not wanting to let himself be alone on Huangquan Road, it can be seen that Ruhua has made up a beautiful dream for herself, and has been refusing to wake up in her dream.
The twelve young masters were finally rescued, did not choose to take their second life, and spent time underground with Ruhua.
Because he didn't want to die, love was not his everything, and the instinct to survive could make him not go crazy like a flower, waiting for a result that would not happen.
Twelve Shao has too many choices, no flowers, and Shuxian, and everything that the family has arranged for him.
And Ruhua only has twelve youngsters, whether she can get out of the green building and sell laughter all depends on the decision of the twelve youngsters, but the twelve young people's dragging mud and water makes Ruhua's selfishness even worse.
The Twelve Young Men are not a person with little affection, he just does not use deep affection and is not improper.
Ruhua is infatuated and wrongly paid, attracting the destruction of three views, twelve young people are right to survive, Ruhua is affectionate is also right, they are both wrong in failing to make a decision immediately, and the twisted melon is not sweet.
At the end of the film, Ruhua returns the rouge button to the twelve youngsters, that is, I understand this truth, and the wrong people will not be happy if they get together, after all, Ruhua is beautiful, like water flowing through the years.