Author: Lin Xiaoye
More than ten years ago, there were always children in the office who recommended Korean gangster movies to me, and I lazily replied to them: "Don't watch it, there is no one like "Black Gold"!"
They would ask me, "What is Black Gold?"
never thought that "Black Gold" would return to the public eye in recent years and become popular again without any hot start, Zhou Chaoxian's sentence actually became an Internet celebrity slang.
It is not difficult to see that the vitality of excellent film and television works is tenacious! It will not fade with the passage of time.
It is worth mentioning that the experiences of the actors in the film are also wonderful in their own ways, some are caught in lawsuits, some are in prison, some are bankrupt, some are divorced, and some are married into wealthy families.
Today, the editor will talk to you about how the leading actors of the Hong Kong version of "Hurricane" 27 years ago are doing?
I.. Leung Ka-fai wrote a 100,000-word biography of "Zhou Chaoxian".
The overseas version of "Black Gold" is translated as "Sicily of Love", which sounds a little inexplicable, probably because the directors want to remind European and American audiences of "The Godfather" and quickly understand the type and content of the film.
However, to put it in detail, the big male protagonist Liang Jiahui really had a "godfather dream"!
This starts with the years when he was playing tricks.
Liang Jiahui and Andy Lau were both born in the 10th phase of the TVB training class, and they accompanied their friends to apply for the exam together, but their friends did not pass the exam, but they were selected by the examiners.
Back in 1981, the two were still playing tricks together.
For example, in the hit drama "Fire Phoenix" starring Chow Yun-fat and Chen Yuling, Leung Jiahui was actually playing a classmate at Dong Shunhua's sister's birthday party, without a single line.
TVB "Fire Phoenix" (broadcast on June 29, 1981)
At that time, the audience never expected that this little dragon set would win the Best Actor at the Academy Awards four times since then, which was even more beautiful than the big actor Chow Yun-fat.
At that time, Leung Ka-fai and Andy Lau were called to play the followers of the eldest brother in a drama, and both of them were the first time, and they didn't know how to act. So Andy Lau changed his costume, stood in front of the camera with a toothpick in his mouth, and Leung Jiahui suddenly remembered the driver Poly in the movie "The Godfather", and followed Poly's example to put his hand in his suit and pull out a gun at any time.
Leung Ka-fai also thought that the director would praise him for his insight and ideas.
Unexpectedly, the two were scolded by the director:
Liang Jiahui had a short face and quit TVB in a fit of anger, while Andy Lau was well-behaved by nature, swallowed this breath, and soon starred in "The Condor Heroes", starting his star career.
Thanks to Leung Jiahui's willful withdrawal, he was fortunate to meet the great director Li Hanxiang later, starring in "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" and "Listening to Politics with the Curtain", which made him win the first Academy Award in his life!
In 1996, when Leung Jiahui received the script of "Black Gold", his "godfather dream" woke up again, and he was inspired to create, and wrote a biography of 100,000 words in one go, and even what color Zhou Chaoxian liked and what constellation he was.
Another example is that in the film, Zhou Chaoxian and his wife Cui Miaoxiang are wearing a pair of slippers in their wedding photos, which reflects this person's lack of family responsibility and poor family background since childhood, these details all come from the character biography written by Liang Jiahui himself.
Under the careful carving of Leung Jiahui, "Zhou Chaoxian" has become a shining character in the Chinese film industry, which can be called a legend written with acting skills!
Now 66-year-old Leung Ka-fai has starred in 169 film and television works, many excellent works, classics, known as the "Thousand Faces Actor", is a representative of the Hong Kong film industry.
On June 9, 2023, "I Love You" starring Leung Ka-fai will be released, allowing the audience and peers to see how an old man who is close to old age still retains his strong creativity!
II: Because Andy is in trouble with "Black Gold".
Fang Guohui has a lot of fight scenes in the film, Andy Lau chose to do it himself, not to mention the hardships, and was inexplicably involved in a lawsuit.
At the end of the film, Fang Guohui pursues Zhou Chaoxian, and the filming location is Pingtung Jiadong.
Andy Lau personally piloted the plane and landed on the runway, and after the filming was completed, the merchant who rented the helicopter proposed that the fuselage was damaged-
It can be described as an unjustified disaster.
What's funny is that this businessman is very stubborn, and he can be called a tracer without regrets, Andy Lau is married, and they are chasing the lawsuit; Andy Lau has given birth to a child, and they are still fighting a lawsuit! This lawsuit has been going on from 1997 to 2014, 17 years before and after! The amount of the other party's claim has been repeatedly rejected by the court, and finally Andy Lau must compensate the merchant NT$2,678,490 (about 550,000 yuan).
The good-natured Andy Lau never said a word.
In the past 43 years, Andy Lau has shot 309 works, with an average of 7.16 films a year, and he can't watch so many movies in a year as an audience.
With such a pace of work, how can you be in the mood to pay attention to such trivialities? This can be regarded as a kind of attitude towards life, regardless of depravity!
Ⅲ.“ Cui Miaoxiang "Sun Jiajun married into a wealthy family, but made a comeback again
At the end of the 90s of the last century, our businessmen and sellers in the northeast dreamed of having a wife like Cui Miaoxiang.
Not to mention being beautiful, it can also be put on the table.
Intelligent, sharp-toothed, and adaptable on the spot! Such a wife is really here to repay her kindness.
In this scene at the door of the court, when the female reporter Ling Fei questioned Zhou Chaoxian,
Zhou Chaoxian was speechless for a while, and he was stuck, Cui Miaoxiang was not ambiguous, he made a stumbling block under his feet, raised his high heels and kicked Ling Fei down.
The editor still clearly remembers that there was an emotional voice in the cinema at that time - "This woman is amazing!"
This woman with a head full of street wisdom has obviously been mixed with society since she was a child.
Cui Miaoxiang intoxicated at home at night singing karaoke "The Voice of the Drunk" "Ah, I'm not drunk, I'm not drunk, I'm not drunk, I'm not drunk......" The audience couldn't help but guess that her background must be a wine shop and dance hall.
Until he was debunked by the reckless Ding Zongshu on the street, "one lip is tasted by ten thousand customers", Cui Miaoxiang's lowly background was confirmed.
However, none of us may have expected that actor Sun Jiajun himself is a top student!
Born in Singapore on September 11, 1974, Sun Jiajun graduated from Simon Fraser University in Canada and is fluent in English, Japanese, Mandarin and Cantonese.
In 1994, 20-year-old Sun Jiajun participated in the Miss Singapore beauty pageant and won the championship in one fell swoop!
After that, Sun Jiajun resigned from his white-collar job in an office building and came to Hong Kong alone, making his debut in 1995 with "Changing Stars".
Movie "Changing Stars" (released on August 19, 1995)
In 1997, she was nominated for Best Actress at the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Black Gold", becoming the first Singaporean actor to be nominated at the Academy Awards.
After that, the audience felt as if Sun Jiajun had evaporated from the world, and no new works appeared for several years, in fact, at that time, she was filming Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love", in which she played Tony Leung's shadow wife. Forget about being silent for three years, the scenes involved in filming were cut out in the end. As a popular young actress, this is more than worth the loss.
In 2003, she fell in love with her wealthy businessman boyfriend Liu Guiqiao, who was a director of a shipping company. The relationship between the two developed rapidly, and Sun Jiajun secretly gave birth to a son in Hong Kong in February 2005.
Boyfriend Liu Guiqiao bought a mansion for Sun Jiajun on Shoushan Village Road in Deep Water Bay, and soon the mansion was changed into a wedding house, which seemed to be a good ending, but I never expected that only four years later, the relationship between the two changed.
One day in 2009, Sun Jiajun called the police, claiming that she was severely beaten by her husband Liu Guiqiao, and finally Sun Jiajun sued the court, and the two went to court, and finally reconciled and divorced.
Sun Jiajun, who has always been self-reliant and self-reliant, didn't want to spend the rest of her life with her ex-husband's pitiful alimony, she chose to return to the film and television industry to work hard.
In September 2012, Sun Jiajun joined the Emperor Film Artist Management Department and made a full comeback!
In 2018, when the editor watched "Wushuang", he was very emotional about Sun Jiajun, who played the eldest sister Lin Lihua, after 20 years, his skin has not changed at all, and he is more beautiful than Cui Miaoxiang in "Black Gold"!
However, Cui Miaoxiang's fierce and confident eyes in "Black Gold" obviously no longer exist.
In front of us is a woman who has been tempered by life and eroded by time, and the once vigorous and high-spirited vitality has disappeared with the passage of time.
Compared with "the boss marries a businesswoman", it is more fragrant to "buy flowers and wear them yourself".
IV.. After Wu Chenjun married a famous family
Wu Chenjun may not be the kind of "beautiful and wow" stunning beauty, but the most important thing is that the image is healthy, transparent and fast. It's very similar to the kind of "protein girl" described in the novel, which is comfortable and pleasing to the eye.
Wu Chenjun's earliest memory to mainland audiences is that she is a strong swimmer, and this impression is caused by the large-dose publicity of "Police Story 4".
In fact, the real swimmer is Wu Chenjun's father, and Wu Chenjun himself studied in the dance department of Huagang Art School.
Wu Chenjun was born on August 21, 1978. In 1996, 18-year-old Wu Chenjun made her debut as Anne in "Police Story 4", won the recognition of the audience with her fresh image and natural acting skills, and was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards, but finally lost to Shu Qi in the same year.
1997 was a busy year for Wu Chenjun, after starring in "Black Gold", she joined the crew of the movie "Half Life" non-stop, and performed on the same stage with first-line stars such as Liming, Anita Mui, Ge You, Wang Zhiwen, and starred as Shen Shijun's wife Shi Cuizhi.
In 2013, Wu Chenjun withdrew from the film industry after playing "Summer Love" and completely disappeared from public view.
It turned out that she got married as early as June 2012.
Regarding this low-key wedding, some insiders revealed that the bridesmaid was Ruby Lin, and the best man was Su Youpeng. And the identity of the man is even more incredible, not only the high-level of Phoenix Satellite TV, but also the great-grandson of Liao Zhongkai! The mother-in-law used to be the head of the National Ballet of China! It can be described as a "double wealthy family"! Being able to marry into such a good family has aroused the envy of many female artists on Treasure Island.
After Wu Chenjun got married, he gave birth to his daughter Mia and son Luxley one after another, and then completely withdrew from the circle, and his mind was all on his children.
It is commendable that Wu Chenjun's current state looks no different from Ling Fei in "Black Gold", not like a woman who is nearly fifty years old and still looks like a little woman.
V.. This beauty is the director's lover
Fang Guohui, played by Andy Lau, has three assistants, one of whom is a girl, named Mei Meimei, who is not only proud of her figure but also very capable of fighting.
The most impressive thing is that when she and Ni Jianguo pretended to be a wealthy husband and wife, went undercover in Zhou Chaoxian's video game store, and after their identities were discovered, they grabbed a painting on the wall and shot down an eagle dog, and ran away from the door, with neat and neat movements!
In fact, the actor Guo Jingchun is neither a martial arts practitioner nor a dancer, she is a model and TV host, born in 1971, she is just 26 years old this year, and she is becoming popular.
In 1996, the year before the filming of "Black Gold", Guo Jingchun also appeared on the cover of the Chinese edition of Playboy, becoming the first Chinese to appear on the cover of this magazine.
Guo Jingchun had a secret identity at that time, she was the lover of "Black Gold" director Mai Dangjie.
Director / Screenwriter / Producer: Mak Dangjie (born August 16, 1958)
Although she is thirteen years younger than the man, Guo Jingchun is quite invested in this relationship, and it costs tens of thousands of Taiwan dollars just to make a transatlantic phone call every day. It's a pity that true love lost to distance in the end, and the two couldn't get up two years later.
In 2006, Guo Jingchun married producer Wang Xingui, who had been dating for four years, and gave birth to a daughter the following year.
Since then, most of Guo Jingchun's works have been TV series produced by her husband, and she completely withdrew from the film industry after starring in "Whirlwind Butler" in 2011, becoming a housewife and teaching her husband and children.
VI.. What is the origin of Minister Hou's wife?
In the scene of "Spirit Bone Tower Donation Ceremony", Minister Hou appeared with a genuine wife.
In public, he accepted bribes generously and justly, and played a good trick.
Minister Hou and his wife stood together, and people instantly realized that the so-called wealth, wealth, "rich" and "expensive" are completely different things.
Although Minister Hou is rich, his temperament is completely a gangster.
To tell the truth, this Mrs. Hou gave people the feeling that Minister Hou was Gao Pan as soon as she appeared, and this lady had a beautiful face and a temperament like a cloud, so she should be a famous family. Minister Hou probably came to power by virtue of nepotism.
Many viewers are curious about this actress, they haven't seen her play anything before or after, where did she go?
The actress's name is He Rose, she is a singer, born on March 20, 1973, and her ancestral home is Wuyang, Anhui Province. starred in "Black Gold" at the age of 24.
In fact, many post-60s and post-70s generations in the mainland have heard her songs, but in the early nineties of the last century, she was not called He Rose, at that time her name was Li Aomei!
I don't know if there are friends here or not, in the early nineties, there was a popular Hong Kong and Taiwan singer joint song "Forever Friends"-
Leslie Cheung: No kind of love is lost forever
Zhen Xiuzhen: No heart will be silent forever
Jang Ho-chul: Have you forgotten to be moved for too long?
Zhang Taotao: I forgot that there is tenderness in this world
……
Singers include Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam, Jacky Cheung, Grasshopper, Beyond, Kim So-mei, Zhang Haozhe, Ho Ka-king, Zhou Zhiping, Bai Annie, City Girl, etc., a total of more than 20 singers and groups, including Li Aomei.
Li Aomei was still not popular after releasing several albums, so she changed her stage name to He Rose, but it has not yet been transferred.
In the late 90s, He Rose retired from the circle and got married, and only acted in one movie in her life, "Black Gold".
Speaking of Baodao, a place rich in singers, there is no reason for "Black Gold" to use only one, in fact, there is another singer here, he is the "Mr. Lin" who likes to go out with a gun!
VII: The domineering old man in the film is the father of Treasure Island folk songs
We learned through the dialogue between Fang Guohui and Ni Jianguo that the old man in the film is named "Lin Biaoqing", in fact, this character has a prototype, and the name is also called "a certain SD".
In the film, Lin Biaoqing always speaks a thick dialect, and speaks in a low tone, giving people the feeling that this actor has a deep foundation, why haven't I seen him play anything before or after? Not even the actor's name is popular? No one even talks about it?
In fact, this actor is still very popular in Treasure Island, and everyone knows his name.
The old man's name is Liu Fuzhu, and he was a representative figure in the seventies and eighties of the last century, the heyday of the night life of Baodao.
Liu Fuzhu is known as the "living fossil of folk songs" in Baodao, and is the industry boss who is highly respected by his peers.
I think Faye Wong went to Taiwan to develop back then, starting from the draft, and after a certain competition, no one turned on the lights. Liu Fuzhu, who is upright in this kind of "bullying", can't stand it, he not only turned on the light, but also took the case on the spot:
Big brother spoke out, the judges chose to follow, and Faye Wong finally jumped out! To a certain extent, Liu Fuzhu is Faye Wong's nobleman.
Liu Fuzhu looks like a greasy uncle in "Black Gold", and he was also an out-and-out little fresh meat when he was young.
When Liu Fuzhu was 27 years old, he became an instant hit with a song "Brother An Tong Buys Vegetables", and then became a star of the night club, running ten games a night, and receiving cash at the end of each game according to the industry rules, so every time he finished work at dawn, he had to carry a plastic bag of banknotes home. It was about 10,000 yuan a night, which was equivalent to a month's salary of a salaried person at that time.
At that time, Liu Fuzhu bought a house every three months.
In the movie "Black Gold", Mr. Lin shouted to Zhou Chaoxian: "I'm not afraid of you, I'm a righteous person!" In real life, Liu Fu is also an upright person, who can be said to be anxious for justice and righteousness. When he learned that his friend was chased by the gang because of his gambling debts, he resolutely took out tens of millions of assets to help his friend pay off his debts.
It's a pity that my friend passed away in 2017. Liu Fuzhu's pension money was wiped out and declared bankrupt!
It's a pity that this eighty-year-old man is still active on the stage, and he doesn't dare to quit easily, and he is still working hard for three meals a day. It is in response to the old saying, "When the good heart is opened, disaster will come".
VIII.. Many years later, "Ni Jianguo" was imprisoned
Ni Jianguo, who sacrificed on the front line of anti-crime and evil, actor Niu Chengze is 31 years old this year, but he has acted in movies for 22 years.
If it weren't for the situation in recent years, it should be the backbone of Treasure Island Pictures.
Niu Chengze's family background is very good, he is a descendant of the Empress Dowager Ci'an family of the Qing Dynasty, and belongs to the Manchu inlaid yellow flag.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Niu Hulu was divided into two surnames, one was "Niu" and the other was "Lang", such as Lang Lang, who played the piano. And Niu Chengze's branch is still the Eight Banners family, he was born in the General's Mansion since he was a child, and his grandfather has a private residence of 1200 square meters.
He once joked in a variety show interview, "I am the remnant of the Manchu Dynasty!"
Although he has studied in an aristocratic school since he was a child, Niu Chengze is naughty by nature, and his academic performance is always at the bottom. Fortunately, his grandfather has a wide range of people, and when Niu Chengze was 9 years old, someone took the initiative to invite him to make movies and become a child star.
Niu Chengze seems to have been born to eat this bowl of rice, in 1977, when he was 11 years old, Niu Chengze starred in "Little Rain" starring Qin Hantianniu, and in 1983, he starred in the Golden Horse Award for Best Film "The Man from the Wind Cabinet", and in the same year, he starred in "The Story of Xiao Bi" written by Hou Xiaoxian. On the high starting point of the career, it is difficult for the treasure island peers to match.
"The Story of Xiao Bi" (released on January 29, 1983)
In 2001, Niu Chengze filmed "Meteor Garden", which followed the trend of "Meteor Garden", "Toast Man's Kiss", which received rave reviews on the island, and successfully transformed into a director.
Until the 2010 movie "Monga", Niu Chengze's career peaked, won numerous awards, and became popular with a number of newcomers.
Just when Niu Chengze's career was rising, a weathering scandal made him fall from the top of the clouds to the bottom all of a sudden.
On November 23, 2018, Niu Chengze, who was filming "Running Horse", invited the crew members to his home as guests, and finally left the female assistant alone to clean up the dishes, and the rape scandal broke out the next day.
Niu Dao did not admit his guilt from beginning to end, he admitted frankly that he thought that the woman had feelings for him and had already acquiesced, this is your love and my wish.
In front of the media, Niu Chengze said: "I am already dead and have been sentenced to death. ”
It seems that he has a clear understanding of the objective fact that his "future is ruined". Because Niu Chengze never pleaded guilty, he was sentenced to four years in prison in 2020.
IX: Zhao Wenxuan was old and had a cat
Minister Feng, played by Zhao Wenxuan, has a scene where he runs in the morning and is surrounded by four bodyguards.
As early as 1992, mainland audiences have been paying attention to this handsome guy's every move and even his love life because of "The Wedding Banquet".
However, this curiosity has never been satisfied, and Zhao Wenxuan's love life is blank.
It stands to reason that Zhao Wenxuan, who was born in China Airlines, at least has a flight attendant scandal or something, you look at Zhang Peihua, who has been married to a flight attendant for two terms.
Zhao Wenxuan, who was born in 1960, is 64 years old this year, has no children and no daughters, lives alone in a large villa in the countryside of Tainan, and only accompanies him with a cat.
Some time ago, there were rumors that he and actress Wu Yue fell in love because of the play, which made netizens happy. Wu Yue, who has been single away from Chen Jianbin all the time, is also very worrying to netizens. fell in love with Zhao Wenxuan now, the two are too compatible, both in appearance and connotation.
But unfortunately, all this is the beautiful wishful thinking of netizens, Wu Yue quickly posted on his personal social media to refute the rumors, claiming that Zhao Wenxuan is indeed an actor she admires, but the two "are not that kind of relationship".
After the lost netizens began to care about the single Zhao Wenxuan again, who would inherit the Wanguan family property?
It seems that Zhao Wenxuan's past and back events have broken the hearts of netizens!
X.. What did "Ding Zongshu" do later?
In fact, the editor likes the role of Ding Zongshu very much, he has never changed his true character as a gangster, he doesn't know any emotional intelligence, and he doesn't know what demeanor he has, but people with a real temperament are always a little cute.
What's more interesting is that the actor himself is called Ding Zongshu, but the name is not these two words, but Ding Zhongshu.
Ding Zhongshu was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1966, is an athlete who practiced taekwondo, and was taken to Hong Kong by his friend Zou Zhaolong in 1987 to join Cheng Siyuan's Jiafeng Pictures to shoot the movie "Full Rebound".
At that time, Zou Zhaolong was still called Zou Yunlong, and Ding Zhongshu's name on the poster was behind him.
As a competitive athlete, Ding Zhongshu seems to have been born with a fighting face, with "I just don't get convinced" written on his face!
Although Ding Zhongshu has good skills, his Tainan accent is too strong, which hinders his development in the Hong Kong film industry.
Fortunately, ten years later, in 1997, "Black Gold" was ushered in, which made him show his skills and play heartily!
It's a pity that Ding Zhongshu didn't set foot in the film industry again after "Black Gold", and chose to go to the United States to do business, which cannot but be said to be regrettable.
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