The author of this article: Grand Duke Petropavlovsk of Habsburg
In 1950, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ended, and all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, because of the devastation of the war, the gorgeous Shanghai films moved to Hong Kong for development, which also objectively caused the prosperity of Hong Kong's local films.
This year, the Cantonese opera actor and director Feng Feng in the troupe of the Cantonese opera veteran Xue Juexian (the one who objectively facilitated the meeting between Liu Zhan and Yuan Xiaotian) mentioned above opened a play and found his old friend, the son of Li Haiquan, one of the four famous Cantonese opera ugliness, Li Zhenfan, who was only 10 years old at the time, to play the leading role.
Why? Because the name of this movie is "Thin Road", the protagonist is a "thin road", not the meaning of a narrow road, but the meaning of a child in Cantonese, and now it is generally pronounced as "fine guy", because the pronunciation of Cantonese people is not accurate, "road" and "guy" are pronounced the same.
But according to the popular science of Guangdong gods in our group, in fact, this word should be written as "fine".
In short, the protagonist is a 10-year-old child, so Li Haiquan's child Li Zhenfan got this role. Help my uncle.
This kid showed amazing acting talent, and he didn't hesitate to be the leading actor for the first time, and he couldn't close his mouth to director Feng Fengle, and asked his old friend Li Haiquan, this little road boy was born when he was a dragon, so the director gave him a stage name.
Lee Long!
The poster of "Xilu Xiang" was called Li Long at that time, and the word prodigy was added.
The two Cantonese opera bigwigs didn't expect that 21 years later, the name Li Long would shock Hong Kong with the name of Bruce Lee's variant!
That's right, "Little Road Xiang" is Bruce Lee's big-screen debut, born as a child star, and a child of an acting family.
The son of this director Feng Feng is the one you are very familiar with
"A song of liver and intestines is broken, where to find a bosom friend at the end of the world" Feng Ke'an.
Having said a lot, now we have pushed the timeline forward by 20 years, and the time came to 1970, an American drama was broadcast in Hong Kong through the mature global distribution system of the United States, called "The Green Hornet", in which the actor Kato played the Green Hornet's assistant Kato is Bruce Lee.
At this time, Hong Kong's TV industry has just started, and TV sets are still owned by a family, and they are rare objects that are blocked from all over the door, of course, it also means that TV is a proper seller's market, and the audience's acceptance of it is not generally high, and it belongs to the stage where you put what you put and everyone has to watch something.
There are still 8 years before the rise of the TV industry in the future and the surging "Wutai Mountain War".
"The Green Hornet" is not popular in the United States, but it is very popular in Hong Kong, and everyone has high expectations for this talented actor on the TV screen.
Bruce Lee also had a heart, and his eyes naturally looked at the Shaw brothers, the kings of Hong Kong movies at that time.
After all, at this time, Lu Yuntao has been gone for 6 years, Denmao is long gone, and the reorganized Cathay Pacific looks dying.
It should be said that Bruce Lee was very sincere, and he ran to TVB. participated in the variety show "Happy Tonight", and cooperated with the second section of karate Li Jinkun and his disciples in the show, performing a lot of fighting and fighting skills.
In this show, Bruce Lee not only showed his good skills, but also the martial arts philosophy that seemed very profound at that time. Of course, there is also my good eloquence and personal charm.
How do you explain charisma? Bruce Lee gives people the feeling that he is very confident, capable, fast-talking, beautifully organized, and has a bit of a social.
On the contrary, the same stage with him, that is, the host of this show, and the king of Hong Kong comedy in the future, Xu Guanwen, who will dominate Hong Kong in the future, seems very wooden, introverted, and has no feeling of social bull at all.
So after that, his title was "Cold-faced Smiler".
Therefore, if you are not talented, you must be a social cow. People who are in the community are not necessarily talented.
In fact, Bruce Lee in "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Jingwumen" is closer to the real person in reality, because these two dramas are tailor-made for him and are written according to his character, which fully demonstrates his character traits.
In the minds of future generations, Bruce Lee seems to be the image of Huo Yuanjia and Ip Man like the unsmiling grandmasters, or like Jet Li's version of Huang Feihong, although the characters are very interesting, the demeanor is very calm and elegant. In fact, no, Bruce Lee in reality is a very short-tempered person who is not calm at all, Bruce Lee in the "Ip Man" series and Bruce Lee in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" are the real Bruce Lee written by those who know him, closer to his image. However, the audience didn't accept it, feeling that these two films were insulting Bruce Lee and belittling him, so they made trouble, this way and that. Bruce Lee's daughter is noisy, understandable, after all, she is her own father. Ordinary audiences make trouble like this, which is a typical example of not knowing right from wrong, being unreasonable, and self-righteous.
This is the conflict between the image created by the collective imagination and the real image of the real person, which is very torn. Just like the relationship between the current brain-dead fans and their idols, maybe the idol itself is a scumbag, but in the minds of the brain-dead fans, the idol is a god, and no one else can afford to be tainted by it. It's like Wu Sign, who was like a god a few days ago, but a rape case popped up in a blink of an eye, which stunned everyone, and found that he hadn't been a day or two, so how could his fans be embarrassed.
A similar example is Tsui Hark, a movie geek and one of the Seven Monsters of New Arts City. It's also like a mallet, and it's ugly.
I don't know what Li Xiaotian likes about him (laughs)
We will talk about the specifics of this episode later, in short, Bruce Lee very much hopes to make a name for himself in Hong Kong, the "Oriental Hollywood". At the same time, we must also carry forward our own ideas. As for whether this concept is a "martial arts concept", a "philosophical concept" or a "movie concept"? This is an important question, which we will analyze slowly later.
After all, the story hasn't officially begun yet.
Therefore, Bruce Lee put forward his own requirements to Run Run Shaw, firstly, the salary is according to Hollywood standards, 10,000 US dollars a piece, second, he has the right to adapt the film script, third, he must lead the action design of the film, and fourth, the film production should be large, avoid shoddy production, and it should be about 60w Hong Kong dollars.
It should be said that Run Run Shaw attaches great importance to this rising star who has returned in Hollywood, because no matter how you look at it, he looks like he is about to rise and has great potential.
So he also offered Bruce Lee an "incredible" high price.
$2,000.
Yes, $2,000, only one-fifth of Bruce Lee's asking price.
Moreover, the latter request was not fully agreed, but only "can be discussed".
According to Mr. Zheng Jie's "Bruce Lee - The Immortal Legend of the East", Bruce Lee only sneered when he saw the reply, and did not refuse directly, he sent a telegram to Run Run Shaw and asked Run Run Shaw about the conditions that Run Run Shaw avoided talking about, because for Bruce Lee, the control of the quality of his works is more important than money. (It can be seen that it is the condition for wanting to appear in a big production)
But Shaw's reply was: tell him directly that as long as he returns, everything will be fine.
The tone is like a parent talking to a child.
Now Bruce Lee is completely popular, so this plan to enter Hong Kong can be regarded as a discouragement.
So why is Shaw's $2,000 price an "incredible" high price?
Because Shaw Brothers is a big business, he also has a big business disease.
He has a big director like Zhang Che under him, a lot of lighting, photography, screenwriters, and countless stars of handsome men and beauties to raise. At that time, the most popular under his command were Zhang Che's favorite generals, Dillon and Jiang David. There are also Yue Hua, Luo Lie, and Zheng Lei below. At that time, the highest-paid Dillon Jiang David was just over 10,000 Hong Kong dollars. According to Huang Jiaxi, a senior executive of Shaw Brothers, (the original words, word for word, from Matthew Polley's book "Bruce Lee: Myth and Truth"): At that time, Bruce Lee came back from the United States, Zhang Che asked him to audition, and we were already planning to use him, but he cost 10,000 US dollars for a play, and our own artists, Dillon and Jiang David, were only 10,000 Hong Kong dollars at the time, and 10,000 yuan was 60,000 Hong Kong dollars. Dillon and Jiang David have become famous, and they are still 10,000 Hong Kong dollars a play, how can they give Bruce Lee 10,000 US dollars? Gave him $10,000? What to do with Dillon Ginger David?
Note that after reading this description, let's see if the price of $2,000 offered by Run Run Shaw is already higher than that of Dillon and David Jiang, of course, not much higher. It shows that Run Run Shaw values Bruce Lee very much, and cultivates him as a promising rising star, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he is the "top" salary under his own company structure.
Therefore, although it is only 2000, it is indeed an "incredible" high price under the Shaw Brothers framework.
Therefore, Shaw Brothers, who are still sick of big business, missed Bruce Lee.
They have one more chance.
But that time I didn't grasp it.
We'll talk about it later.
Next, an important figure came into the picture.
He is the Shaw Brothers rebel general Jiahe partner Zou Wenhuai
subordinates
Golden Harvest is one of the few big directors, known as the most awesome leak king in the history of Hong Kong films.
Lloyd
of the wife
Liu Lianghua!
That's a big guy! Women with "Hua" behind their names in the history of Hong Kong movies are all ruthless and not easy to mess with. (The male name Hua is not bad, like Andy Lau, Huang Rihua, Ren Dahua, Yuan Hua, Ouyang Zhenhua, Wu Qihua, Xie Tianhua, etc.) ）
The woman that Run Run Shaw brought back from Nanyang, Fong Yat-wah, the queen mother of the Hong Kong television industry, the founder of TVB, and the gravedigger of Shaw Brothers Film Company.
There is also a female representative of the new wave of Hong Kong films, the well-known director Ann Hui, you may wonder, isn't this the director of "Woman Forty", "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai" and "Sister Peach"? Very intellectual, huh? Where's the ruthlessness?
That's because you don't know the history of Mr. Xu Anhua, she was a blockbuster, and her debut film was nominated for Best Director at the 17th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. That movie was called "Crazy Robbery". A masterpiece ahead of its time.
Treasures who are not so strong in their hearts, don't go to see it.
Huang Jingfu, who has recently become popular with "Removing Three Evils Around the World", knows that his debut process is very similar to Xu Anhua, both with a very "carnal" "curiosity" film style, such as the 2003 "Fu Bo", which tells the story of a morgue.
Xu Anhua is a female director, and her "Crazy Robbery" is also a curious style, which is different from the strong man Huang Jingfu, besides, "Crazy Robbery" is a 1979 movie, starring Zhang Aijia and Zhao Yazhi, which is more than 20 years ahead.
You can just say it's ruthless or not.
As for Liu Lianghua, at that time, she was Luo Wei's wife, and in the future, she will call for wind and rain in Golden Harvest.
No, it should be said that it has already begun to call for wind and rain.
At that time, the situation of Jiahe was relatively miserable, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang had just run away from the Shaw Brothers, and there were not many people brought out.
You must know that Shaw Brothers is a large studio, using the factory system to manage film and television practitioners, and fixing salaries for actors, directors, screenwriters, and lighting. But the disadvantage is that high-value talents like actors and famous directors can't retain people with a salary of a few thousand yuan a month.
Run Run Shaw is a chicken thief and can't keep people, so sign a long-term contract and forcibly detain people with high liquidated damages.
This set of trials and tried, and it can't be said that this is a "bad system", because this system forced away Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan, and even Zhang Che later in the 60s, but Shaw Brothers just refused to let go, and Fang Yihua brought this system into TVB in the future, and continued to play for 50 years, can you say that this system is not good? Existence is reasonable.
We won't talk about TVB's affairs, in short, the newly founded Golden Harvest has no talents, and it is not difficult to get together a whole set of teams. The difficulty is to get together a big team, the director is easy to find, and the famous director is not easy to find, which is why Luo Wei played a pivotal role in Golden Harvest, there were not many "million directors" at that time, Luo Wei I don't know if it is the only big director in Golden Harvest's hands, most likely is.
At that time, Luo Wei took Liu Lianghua out of Golden Harvest, could Run Run Shaw let him go? That must not be! So Shaw Brothers arranged an old film "Shadow Whip" starring the martial arts queen Zheng Peipei filmed by Luo Wei to snipe Golden Harvest.
"Shadow Whip" had a box office of 1.04 million, ranking seventh in the Hong Kong film box office list that year. Therefore, there was more than one "million guide" in the hands of Shaw Brothers back then. Luo Wei is also a million-dollar guide.
But the million-dollar box office of this film has nothing to do with director Luo Wei starring Zheng Peipei, they have both left Shaw Brothers, so naturally they can't receive a dime.
Here is an explanation of why the martial arts queen Zheng Peipei left the Shaw Brothers, and why Luo Wei is known as the king of leaks in the Hong Kong film industry.
Last time, we said that Zheng Peipei, as a newcomer from dance, was promoted by Hu Jinquan, who was still in Shaw Brothers at the time, and played "The Drunken Man", which gave birth to a new school of martial arts movies in Hong Kong.
But Hu Jinquan ran away to Taiwan after filming "The Drunken Man", and then director Zhang Che completely rose and took control of the power of the Shaw Brothers studio, and there is a saying that "Shaw Brothers is on the studio, Zhang's family is the world".
And Zheng Peipei is known as the "Queen of Martial Arts", of course, it is not something that can be consolidated by a "Drunken Man". After Hu Jinquan ran away, the commercial value of "The Drunken Man" was of course squeezed dry, so Run Run Shaw organized a "Golden Swallow" as a sequel to "The Drunken Man", and finally wrung out a dry towel.
The problem is that "Golden Swallow" was handed over to Zhang Che to film. And Zhang Che is a little too unhuman.
In this movie called "Golden Swallow", the Golden Swallow played by Zheng Peipei was left out in the cold by Zhang Che, and Zhang Che's love Wang Yu was strongly praised instead, even if there were many shots, the main line of the whole play was also directed at Wang Yu who was dressed in white, leaving the Golden Swallow, who should have been the main protagonist, aside.
Where can Zheng Peipei stand this, she was very depressed on the set, and then refused to watch this movie, it is said that 50 years have passed, Zheng Peipei has not seen this "Golden Swallow".
After all, she is Hu Jinquan's popularity, and she has more feelings for Hu Jinquan, and Zhang Che is too domineering, and she is naturally a person who walks through Hu Jinquan's old department, how to squeeze it.
Therefore, Zheng Peipei and Zhang Che had a falling out. Zheng Peipei's subsequent works, which have consolidated her status as a "martial arts queen", are mostly photographed by Luo Wei.
This is called picking up leaks. It's not you who is popular, but the works after she becomes popular belong to you. This is called leakage.
That's why Luo Wei is called the "King of Leaks". Martial arts queen Zheng Peipei picked it up. He picked up Bruce Lee in the back. Jackie Chan also picked it up.
Jackie Chan was brought back from Australia, he can be regarded as an excavator. But it's still picked up.
Because Jackie Chan made a box office hit the street in Luo Wei's hands, it was a famous box office poison at that time.
Later, Wu Siyuan asked Luo Wei to borrow Jackie Chan and filmed "Serpentine Trickster", and Jackie Chan became popular.
Therefore, Jackie Chan is not Luo Wei's popularity, but the ownership is in his hands. So it's also picked up.
This is not counting, after entering the 80s, leftist director Zhang Xinyan found a kung fu kid Jet Li in the mainland and filmed the fire of "Shaolin Temple", but at that time, for some unspeakable reasons, Jet Li was inconvenient to go out in the mainland, until Jet Li went to the United States for exchange by chance, Luo Wei immediately took Deng Yancheng, the first murder director in Hong Kong, and an unknown young actor named Stephen Chow at that time, went to the United States and filmed a "Dragon in the World".
Unexpectedly, Jet Li was also picked up by him.
It can be said that the Hong Kong action superstars you can name are all picked up by Luo Wei.
Of course, Jet Li was introduced to Hong Kong, Luo Wei just started up, and then his own baby David Luo pried his corner, introduced Jet Li to Golden Harvest, and handed it over to his mother.
Who is it?
Liu Lianghua!
As for how miserable Jet Li was pitted later, it is said that Li Laoshi is already writing Luo Wei, you go ask him.
After Zheng Peipei and Zhang Che tore their faces, Luo Wei made a lot of good films for him, consolidating her reputation as a martial arts queen, but as mentioned above, on the set of Shaw Brothers, Zhang's family is the world. Do you think Zheng Peipei can live comfortably in Shaw Brothers?
So she chose to retire and marry away from the United States.
Her husband was introduced by Zou Wenhuai.
This time, Luo Wei's old film broke one million again, although Luo Wei and Golden Harvest couldn't share a penny, and they were sniped in the same schedule, but the trend has risen, and if you don't borrow it, you won't borrow it. So Zou Wenhuai sent Liu Lianghua to the United States to find a way to talk Zheng Peipei back.
By the way, let's talk about Bruce Lee as well.
Liu Lianghua is an actor with a beautiful posture, she has acted in "Pansi Cave" in Shaw Brothers, and her negotiation level and management ability should be far better than Fang Yihua.
After all, Fang Yihua doesn't understand movies, but Liu Lianghua, who was born as an actor, obviously does.
At this time, Bruce Lee was already unable to make ends meet, and the pressure was relatively high. It is one of the most vulnerable moments in life.
Liu Lianghua used $15,000, the price of two parts, to move Bruce Lee.
After all, it is still lethal if it is given at one time.
Remember Bruce Lee's four conditions?
Let's take a look at how much has been realized, so as to speculate on the promise of Liu Lianghua and Bruce Lee, what is the gold content?
First, the salary of 10,000 US dollars a piece, considering that Bruce Lee has been unable to make ends meet, it is obvious that the absolute value of this amount is more attractive, so 15,000 and 7,500 are not the same concept. After all, the total amount of the bag is not the same. Giving more at once, that kind of security is not the same.
Second, the right to revise the script, which we have, we talk about specific movies.
Third, Bruce Lee himself was responsible for the action design. I dare not achieve this 100% of the time. Because the martial arts instructor of "Tangshan Big Brother" is Han Yingjie, that is, the martial arts instructor of "The Drunken Man", the son-in-law of Sammo Hung's master Yu Zhanyuan.
Moreover, he can't change it yet, because he is not only a martial arts instructor, but also the actor of the final boss. If he replaces, the final boss battle can't be filmed.
Finally, Bruce Lee demanded that the film should not be shoddy, and that the investment should not be less than 60w Hong Kong dollars.
Has this been implemented?
I don't think so. Although we found that the investment in "Tangshan Big Brother" is 10w US dollars, the calculated exchange rate is about 60-700,000 Hong Kong dollars.
But I think this should be the total investment, that is, the investment added to the later publicity.
The cost of shooting is definitely not enough for 60w Hong Kong dollars.
Because this film is too picky and too rough.
Moreover, Zou Wenhuai asked Bruce Lee to fly directly to Thailand, and went to a poor place in Thailand where the birds are silent and the flowers are not fragrant, and filmed in Beichong.
The poor in that place is called a heartfelt, how poor is it? There is a scene in "Big Brother Tangshan" that goes to a brothel, and the filming location is a real local brothel, Luo Wei said in his "Forty Years in the Film Circle" that the prostitute is so dirty, as soon as you go in, you smell a strong stench, and there are forty or fifty women like "ghosts" sitting in it (they also appear in the movie), in order to be "real", and finally filmed there (believe it or not?). Is it really for the sake of truth? So is this film really a big production of 60w Hong Kong dollars? ）
Luo Wei even went to inquire about the price, the price of these girls is only 15 horses (three dollars of Hong Kong paper), Luo Wei's original words, word for word, including the "Hong Kong paper" we call Hong Kong dollars.
It can be seen how poor this place is in Beichong.
Beichong is poor, the crew is even poorer, Zhengyin's protagonist Bruce Lee is said to eat very poorly over there, and he can't even guarantee basic nutrition, but fortunately he brought a bottle of vitamins, otherwise。。。。。。
Moreover, this film is not tailor-made for Bruce Lee at first glance, because when Bruce Lee arrived in Beichong, what awaited him was only a few pages of script like a story outline, a director Wu Jiaxiang who is not good at making action movies, and action director, Han Yingjie.
You say, is this beginning like a dream?
You should be able to imagine how high the quality of the final film is.
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