Luo Wei, as the "super leak king" in the Hong Kong film industry, started from Zheng Peipei, to Bruce Lee, then to Jackie Chan, and finally Jet Li, all of which played an important role in the development of these big-name careers.
The first part finished writing about Luo Wei's leakage of Zheng Peipei and Bruce Lee.
Next, let's talk about how Luo Wei picked up Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and how he made his reputation stink.
In other words, with Luo Wei as the director and Bruce Lee as the starring role, the two collaborated on "Tangshan Big Brother" and "Jingwumen", which established Bruce Lee's status as a kung fu superstar in one fell swoop.
Luo Wei has also become the highest-grossing director in Hong Kong.
However, after "Jingwumen", the contradictions accumulated by the two broke out, to the point where water and fire are incompatible.
In detail, it was Bruce Lee who originally signed a contract with Golden Harvest for two films, namely "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Jingwumen", the two movies became popular, bringing Golden Harvest back to life on the verge of bankruptcy, and became a film company that was enough to compete with Shaw Brothers.
Jiahe's boss Zou Wenhuai is both happy and apprehensive. Glad that he dug up the treasure, Bruce Lee became popular. I am worried that the contract has ended, and I am afraid that Bruce Lee will be poached by Shaw Brothers.
In order to strike while the iron is hot, Zou Wenhuai wants to continue to match Bruce Lee and Luo Wei to continue to shoot a third movie, called "Yellow-Faced Tiger", which tells the story of Chen Zhen's master Huo Yuanjia. From the perspective of timing, "Jingwumen" made Chen Zhen popular, and launched "Yellow-faced Tiger" after "Jingwumen", playing Huo Yuanjia, which is very in line with the audience's psychology and market laws.
At that time, Bruce Lee had already established Concord Films, and according to Zou Wenhuai's idea, "The Yellow Faced Tiger" could be used as Concord's first film, and Golden Harvest only made investments and did not interfere in creation.
The film is still planned to be directed by Luo Wei and starring Bruce Lee. But the contradictions between Luo Li are already very deep. When Luo Wei showed the proposed script to Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee, who has always been happy, delayed for a long time and did not respond.
Because at this time, Bruce Lee had already written the script of "Raptors Crossing the River", and what he wanted more was a movie that he completely dominated, and he was not very enthusiastic about filming "The Yellow-Faced Tiger".
Luo Wei and Zou Wenhuai have not received a response from Bruce Lee for a long time. Bruce Lee's explanation to Zou Wenhuai was that he had no time to revise the script when dealing with private matters, but in fact, Bruce Lee made significant changes to the script of "The Yellow Faced Tiger" according to his own wishes, but because the revised script was not very satisfactory to himself, he was reluctant to hand it over to Luo Wei.
In order to start "The Yellow-Faced Tiger" as soon as possible while the iron was hot, Luo Wei took the initiative to call Bruce Lee to ask about the script, but Bruce Lee still refused to give a clear answer, and the filming plan of "The Yellow-Faced Tiger" was delayed again and again. Luo Wei had no choice but to ask his boss Zou Wenhuai to come forward to urge Bruce Lee.
As a result, as soon as Zou Wenhuai came forward, as soon as Bruce Lee saw him, he didn't talk about "The Yellow-Faced Tiger", but talked about his idea of wanting to shoot "Raptors Across the River", and soon handed over the script to Zou Wenhuai. On the one hand, there is a "yellow-faced tiger" with broad market prospects, and on the other hand, Bruce Lee is in full swing, how does Zou Wenhuai choose?
At this time, Zou Wenhuai showed the courage of a strong man to break his wrist, and he resolutely decided to shelve Luo Wei's "Yellow Faced Tiger", and actively assisted Bruce Lee and Concord Company to go all out to shoot "Raptors Across the River"!
After getting the news, Luo Wei was fooled, as a person who refused to admit defeat, Luo Wei, who was a big man at the time, decided to rename "Yellow Faced Tiger" to "Cold Faced Tiger", and invited Wang Yu, a senior martial arts star known as "Big Knife Wang Yu" in the Hong Kong film industry, to star in the plot.
Luo Wei feels that he has a good understanding of Bruce Lee, but this Bruce Lee is too ungrateful, and he must be given a little color!
Bruce Lee felt very embarrassed after learning the news that Luo Wei used Wang Yu to shoot "Cold Tiger", so he ran to Zou Wenhuai and was furious.
Luo Wei is not a good master, and the next day he called Bruce Lee again to stimulate him, and the two broke out in a fierce dispute on the phone, and finally fell out completely. Moreover, the conflict between the two people and the two crews lies in many aspects, as far as the selection of actors is concerned, the heroine of "Yellow-faced Tiger" was decided to be starred by "Jiahe Jade Girl" Miao Kexiu, she is Luo Wei's goddaughter, everything seems logical. However, Bruce Lee also decided to use Miao Kexiu, and as a result, at his invitation, "Cold-faced Tiger" has started filming, but Miao Kexiu still resolutely abandoned his godfather and threw himself into the arms of Bruce Lee.
By the way, Bruce Lee also poached the assistant director Zhi Yaochang from the crew of "Cold Tiger".
You say, can Luo Wei bear this breath?
When facing the media, Bruce Lee accused Luo Wei of going back on his word, leaving him at a loss of what to do. Luo Wei claimed that Bruce Lee was deliberately sabotaging the filming plan of "The Yellow-Faced Tiger", so he had to re-shoot the new "Cold-Faced Tiger" with Wang Yu.
Who wins and who loses is ultimately determined by the market.
As a result, Bruce Lee's self-directed and self-starred "Raptors Across the River" reached a box office of 5.3 million in Hong Kong, unsurprisingly breaking the film history record again, and by the way, breaking the box office record in almost all regions of Southeast Asia.
The huge influence of "Raptors Across the River" made Hollywood look sideways, and immediately invited Bruce Lee to co-produce "Enter the Dragon", which achieved a staggering $25 million at the North American box office. Bruce Lee thus became a cultural symbol in Europe and the United States.
"Cold Tiger" directed by Luo Wei has good quality and good box office, getting 2.3 million. But compared with Bruce Lee's "Raptors Across the River", it is still dwarfed.
Bruce Lee became more and more popular after leaving Luo Wei. And Luo Wei gradually declined, and the few works he directed were mediocre.
At the beginning of the falling out with Bruce Lee, Luo Wei confidently believed that since he could make Bruce Lee popular, he would definitely be able to bring out a second Bruce Lee.
First of all, he is supporting Xu Guanjie. First, Wang Yu took Xu Guanjie to star in "Dragon and Tiger King Kong", and then let Xu Guanjie as the starring actor to shoot "Little Heroes Havoc in Chinatown" and "Nickname Champion", which were not very successful. Then he also praised Zheng Shaoqiu for starring in "Xiaoshan Shandong to Hong Kong", but the result was still unsuccessful.
After Bruce Lee's death, Golden Harvest vigorously promoted Xu Guanwen's ghost horse folk comedy, setting off a new trend, and his leading films such as "Ghost Horse Double Star", "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", "Modern Bodyguard" and other films have broken the box office record of Chinese films many times.
But Xu Guanjie is not Xu Guanwen, as Xu Guanwen's younger brother, he sings better, is known as the "God of Songs", and is the biggest Hong Kong singer before Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung.
However, the song is sung well, and the brother is very popular, Xu Guanjie is a proper potential stock, and what is missing is a good work. As long as there is a work, it is enough to take advantage of the situation to catch fire and pick up a new big leak. Unfortunately, Rowe couldn't take the chance.
Xu Guanjie had to go back to sing honestly and occasionally act in movies. But Xu Guanjie's class starred in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", his role as Ling Huchong is undoubtedly the best in history, and is considered to be the closest to the spirit of the original work, better than Jet Li's version and Lu Songxian's version.
That's it, give the opportunity and don't, then others will seize the opportunity.
Within Golden Harvest, there is Xu Guanwen, and in kung fu films, there are also two directors, Zheng Changhe ("Huang Feihong Shaolin Boxing") and Huang Feng ("Taekwonquan Earthquake Kyushu"), who have grown up, and they do not let Luo Wei specialize in beauty.
The position of Jiahe's first leader became shaky as a result, and finally fell off the throne.
This is not over, at the same time as his career suffered, Luo Wei's marriage also lit up a red light. divorced Liu Lianghua, a husband and wife for many years.
The Grand Duke has already written, and this Liu Lianghua is also a powerful character. invited Bruce Lee back from the United States, Liu Lianghua contributed a lot, and it was she who successfully opened Bruce Lee's heart with her female affinity, making it easy for him to accept Zou Wenhuai's invitation.
Moreover, when preparing for "Cold Tiger", Luo Wei and Wang Yu had already fallen out when Shaw Brothers collaborated on "The Sword", Liu Lianghua was the producer, Wang Yu was involved in the director's work for the first time, Liu and Wang were inseparable, and as a result, the sixth master Run Run Shaw came forward to fire Liu Lianghua from the crew, which can be regarded as stabilizing the situation. In order to advance and retreat with his wife Liu Lianghua, Luo Wei publicly publicized the breakoff of friendship with Wang Yu. In order to fight with Bruce Lee, Luo Wei decided to invite Wang Yu, or Liu Lianghua used his personal relationship with Mrs. Wang Yu to open up the situation, and obtained Wang Yu's approval and agreed to star.
was once such a good couple, but they still divorced. What made Luo Wei unacceptable was that after Liu Lianghua divorced Luo Wei, he immediately married his boss, that is, Zou Wenhuai, the boss of Golden Harvest, and became Zou Wenhuai's confidante.
Is it tolerable or intolerable? In a fit of rage, Luo Wei ran away from Golden Harvest and established "Luo Wei Films" in 1976.
At this time, Luo Wei still refused to admit defeat, was still arrogant, and still felt that he had a merit in supporting Bruce Lee, since he could help Bruce Lee, he could help another one.
He set his sights on Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan, formerly known as Chen Gangsheng, was known as "Yuan Long" at that time. At that time, Jackie Chan had been doing martial arts in Hong Kong for many years, but there had been no major development, although he also starred in films such as "Guangdong Little Tiger", but on the whole, there was no improvement, and he could not see the future. Seeing the death of Bruce Lee and the rise of Hui's ghost horse style, Hong Kong action movies seem to have no chance. In desperation, Chen Gangsheng decided to change careers and went to Australia to prepare to become a chef. Because Jackie Chan's father Chen Zhiping (formerly known as Fang Daolong) is a chef in the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong, he can be regarded as a son inheriting his father's business.
Without Luo Wei, there would be one more chef and one less kung fu superstar in this world.
Luo Wei is still meritorious.
After the establishment of "Luowei Films", he began to look for potential actors everywhere, so that he could sign in to his name and build it well.
"Superstar promoter" Chen Ziqiang recommended Jackie Chan to Luo Wei. At this point, Jackie Chan came back from Australia and became the first actor signed by Luo Wei, and the cooperation between the two began.
In order to make Chen Gangsheng "the second Bruce Lee", Luo Wei also gave him a stage name, called "Jackie Chan".
Well, the Kung Fu Kid has a familiar name.
You must know that in addition to the trump card name of "Leak King", Luo Wei also has a king prefix name, that is, "King of Followers", which is what he shoots when he is hot, and he becomes crazy about following the trend.
It is said that with his status in the rivers and lakes, he should focus on originality, and step by step increase his reputation and status. However, he didn't, he followed the trend, fried cold rice, and was opportunistic.
praised Jackie Chan's first masterpiece, "New Jingwumen" (1976), which is frying the cold rice of Bruce Lee's "Jingwumen". After all, this is the highest-grossing work in the works he directed, and playing Chen Zhen with him is just conducive to taking advantage of the situation to create a second Bruce Lee signboard. "Cold-faced Tiger" was originally a work that borrowed the momentum of "Jingwumen", and it also achieved a certain success, which also gave Luo Wei confidence.
However, he failed, and "New Jingwumen" was removed from the shelves within a week of its release, with a box office of only 290,000, and he lost money to his grandmother's house. After all, there is only one Bruce Lee in everyone's mind, and Chen Zhen only belonged to Bruce Lee at that time.
Luo Wei hurriedly invited Wang Yu again and teamed up with Jackie Chan to shoot a "Wind and Rain Twin Meteors", and invited Gu Long to be the screenwriter, but fortunately, the box office reached 1.06 million this time, which did not insult Luo Wei's title of "million director". But this result was not uncommon at the time when the box office of one million was not unusual, and it could only be decent.
But Luo Wei felt that it would work again, so he asked Jackie Chan to take the lead and filmed "Sword Flowers and Fireworks Jiangnan", and continued to ask Gu Long to be the screenwriter, after all, Gu Long's martial arts were very popular for a while, and there was nothing wrong with following the trend. However, Luo Wei failed to follow the trend, and the box office was only 220,000, which was another fiasco.
Luo Wei was miserable, and when he filmed "Flying Over Cirrus Mountain" next, he was so miserable that he couldn't even pay his salary.
At this time, it was the end of the 1970s, Hong Kong was already changing, Hong Kong's film market was also changing, and the hard bridge and hard horse began to become boring and unpopular with the public. Jackie Chan had to leave Australia because he couldn't see an opportunity in the old kung fu movies. As a result, if you invite him back and still act like this, how can it be popular?
However, Rowe couldn't see through it.
However, someone can see through it.
Who is it?
The great director Wu Siyuan and martial arts instructor Yuan Heping can see through. After they watched some of Jackie Chan's films, the two felt that this young man's kung fu foundation was good and worthy of building, so they signed a loan contract with Luo Wei.
Luo Wei's own company's salary can't be paid, and some people are willing to lease Jackie Chan, who can take money for nothing and realize the cashing out of resources, so why not? Absolutely.
Who knows, Jackie Chan filmed two dramas in the hands of Wu Siyuan, one is "Serpentine Trickster", and the other is "Drunken Fist", both of which are very popular.
Wu Siyuan's two films, although they are also fights with hard bridges and hard horses, are no longer boring fights, but have some more "witty and humorous" shots, which not only feel hot, but also cheerful, very novel, and full of vitality.
Therefore, the films of Luo Wei that Jackie Chan shot before are not popular is not Jackie Chan's problem, but Luo Wei's problem.
However, the ownership of Jackie Chan belongs to Luo Wei, and as soon as he saw that the loaned Jackie Chan was on fire, he simply terminated the lease contract and took back Jackie Chan. Then, he began to follow the trend again, imitating "Drunken Fist" and making two movies "Fist" and "Dragon Fist", which were both blockbusters, and vaguely returned to the era of cooperation with Bruce Lee.
This is Rowe's third leak. Picked up a big bargain, good resources covered by themselves and couldn't survive, and when they were recovered, they had already changed from jade to gems, and picked up a big leak.
In any case, Jackie Chan is on fire.
Then, Jackie Chan won a chance to write and direct "Laughing Fist Tricks", which grossed 5.45 million after its release, setting a new box office record in Hong Kong, which is not far behind American blockbusters.
At that time, how popular was Jackie Chan? He Guanchang, the boss of Golden Harvest, met him in person and signed him for 2.4 million, but Jackie Chan refused. Jackie Chan is still very righteous, he feels that he was the first to be discovered by Luo Wei, and he should repay his kindness.
In the face of He Guanchang's huge contract, Jackie Chan was not moved, and would rather take a monthly salary of 3,000 than follow Luo Wei.
However, capital does not choose to give up.
At the beginning, because of missing Bruce Lee, Shaw Brothers felt a huge loss. This time, the sixth master didn't want to miss Jackie Chan again, so he launched a vigorous "dragon war" with Jiahe.
At first, Golden Harvest gave Jackie Chan 1 million Hong Kong dollars for a play. Shaw Brothers increased the price. Golden Harvest did not admit defeat and directly increased the price to 4.5 million Hong Kong dollars. Shaw Brothers is not afraid to spend money for the sake of competing people, and gives a high price of 5 million.
Jackie Chan, who has just become famous, is dazzled by these salaries, and it is difficult to resist the temptation not to change jobs, but which company to jump to has become a problem. Just when Jackie Chan was hesitating, Golden Harvest made a move to make a move, and when Jackie Chan ran foreign propaganda, Golden Harvest sent someone to follow, blowing the wind in Jackie Chan's ears all the time, which also made Jackie Chan's heart moved.
Subsequently, Jackie Chan and his agent Chen Ziqiang began to understand the system of Golden Harvest, and found that although Golden Harvest Company was established for a short time, it had a high degree of internal freedom, which could give artists more room for free development, so under the advice of agent Chen Ziqiang and others, they signed Golden Harvest with their senior brother Sammo Hung .
Of course, Rowe's side didn't do it. So, he began his sassy operation.
How does Rowe do it?
Now that Jackie Chan has become a cash cow, Luo Wei tried to tie up Jackie Chan by tampering with the contract, so that he could always make money for himself. Because the contract he signed with Jackie Chan at the beginning said "Jackie Chan needs to pay 100,000 yuan for breach of contract", but the word "ten" has an extra "skimming" and has become "thousand". Then, he sued Jackie Chan in court with a complaint and went to court.
The Grand Duke wrote earlier that Jackie Chan is uneducated, and he doesn't know much other words except for signing his name, so he is completely confused about the contract. In the end, it was a retired old housekeeper of Luo Wei's company who came forward to testify that Luo Wei had faked. Because the original contract was written by the old butler in traditional calligraphy with a brush, it was Luo Wei who cleverly added a skim above the "ten" of the number "one hundred thousand", doubling the amount. Under the testimony of the old housekeeper, Jackie Chan only paid 100,000 liquidated damages.
However, Luo Wei still did not let Jackie Chan go. When Jackie Chan went to Golden Harvest to make a film, Luo Wei actually resorted to despicable means, not only splashing dog blood on Jackie Chan's car, but also taking advantage of Jackie Chan's own outing, he directly asked people to tie Jackie Chan to Luo Wei's company, Luo Wei said that he invited Jackie Chan over, but in fact he coerced Jackie Chan to continue to make movies for his company, and Jackie Chan was naturally unwilling.
In order to trap Jackie Chan, Luo Wei did not hesitate to invite the thugs of "New Ngee An" to besiege and threaten him. Jackie Chan was worried and depressed all day long.
It wasn't until he had dinner with his senior brother Sammo Hung that he talked about his troubles. After hearing this, Sammo Hung suggested that he go to Wang Yu for help, and he also found someone to deal with him, maybe there would be a turnaround.
Speaking of Wang Yu, Jackie Chan knows each other, they have cooperated in the filming of "Wind and Rain Twin Meteors", and they have known each other for a long time.
Wang Yu is not only an actor, when he was in Hong Kong, he was the "righteous brother" of Liu Rongju, the leader of "Liangongle", and after coming to Taiwan, he met He Junxiong and Chen Qili, the bosses of the "Bamboo United Gang", and became the backbone of the "Bamboo United Gang". After joining the "Bamboo Union Gang", Wang Yu also created three famous bloody cases with the "Four Seas Gang", namely the "Xinghuage Bloody Case", "Tianchu Restaurant Bloody Incident", and "Court Building Bloody Case".
Jackie Chan followed the advice of his senior brother and found Wang Yu with his agent Chen Ziqiang, and knelt down to beg him to save himself as soon as they met, Wang Yu helped him up and let him have something to say slowly.
Subsequently, Jackie Chan told him about his grievances with Luo Wei. Although Wang Yu has cooperated with Luo Wei, his friendship is not so deep. When he heard what happened to Jackie Chan, especially when it came to "New Ngee An", it conflicted with Wang Yu's forces.
Wang Yu, who was full of righteousness, took the case and only said: "It's too much to deceive people, and this matter is on me." ”
The next day, Wang Yu found Luo Wei and warned him not to trouble Jackie Chan in the future, but Luo Wei gave up because he was afraid of Wang Yu's power and let Jackie Chan go.
In this way, the farce between Jackie Chan and Godfather Luo Wei came to an end, and the two never interacted again.
After Jackie Chan left Luo Wei, under the escort of Golden Harvest, he continued to break the Hong Kong box office record with action movies, becoming a new generation of martial arts stars, rather than "becoming Bruce Lee".
Later, in order to repay Wang Yu, Jackie Chan starred in "Burning Island" produced by Wang Yu, and brought his senior brother Sammo Hung to star together, and Wang Yu also played a role in the film.
Another actor, Ke Junxiong, also participated in this "Burning Island" out of favor, and the Bamboo Union Gang was also very polite to these three. However, for Andy Lau and Leung Jiahui, the two actors, they almost didn't fold on this movie.
In 1991, when actor Leung Jiahui was filming abroad, he was suddenly tied to a helicopter. Liang Jiahui was frightened, he didn't know who he had offended, and what was the other party going to do? As a result, the comers did not have a grudge against Leung Ka-fai, but wanted to ask Leung Ka-fai to make a movie for them. People on the plane have to agree, do they want to have a crash? What's more, Liang Jiahui received a phone call, it was his wife calling, saying that his family was inexplicably protected. Leung Jiahui had no choice but to ask for leave from the original crew and go to this crew for filming, that is, "Fire Island".
Andy Lau also didn't have an life on his side. On that day, Andy Lau, who had been filming for a day, just returned to the hotel, and saw a script appear out of thin air in the room, Andy Lau just opened the script, and found that there was a bullet in the script, and he had been in the entertainment industry for many years.
Just because everyone is together doesn't mean there are no problems. The biggest problem is that several big names including Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Leung Ka-fai, Sammo Hung , everyone has a film appointment, and they can make the company suffer serious losses if they leave the crew for a day. So these people's companies hurriedly interceded with Wang Yu to see if they could shorten the shooting time. So "Fire Island", which gathered five actors, was directly completed within a few days of start-up.
The twisted melon is not sweet, and the hard-made crew is not exciting, and sure enough, after the release of "Fire Island", the box office was only more than 11 million, becoming the Waterloo in the career of the five major actors. And Wang Yu also collapsed. It wasn't until later in life that he found some sense of existence because of Chen Kexin's "Martial Arts" and Zhong Menghong's "Lost Soul", and he also won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Horse Awards.
Back to Luo Wei, if he loses Jackie Chan, he can only reap the consequences.
lost Jackie Chan, Luo Wei fell into the situation where there was no Bruce Lee back then, and began to frequently "fry cold rice", frequently follow the trend, and imitate other people's works.
The conservative Luo Wei almost no more masterpieces came out in the later period, mainly following the trend - Yuan Heping's "Qimen Dunjia" became popular, and Luo Wei filmed the psychedelic kung fu film "Yin and Yang Soldiers"; "A Chinese Ghost Story" became a classic, so he asked Wang Zuxian and Wu Ma to shoot "Chasing the Sun" to follow the trend; Seeing the success of the nonsensical kung fu comedies of "Kicking the Hall" and "Thief", Luo Wei took out "One and a Half Tricks" that had been hidden for many years.
Luo Wei, for this reason, got the title of "Master of Followers".
At that time, it was the heyday of Hong Kong films, and a master like Luo Wei was still like a fish in water, anyway, the cost was not high, and he didn't have to worry about making no money - not only did he have Luo Wei Company in Hong Kong, but he also had a Fengnian company in Taiwan, and he found more local teams to make films, such as "Dark Night" and "Haunted by Ghosts", which also made him a lot of money.
But Jiang Lang always has a time when he runs out of talent, and Luo Wei even began to do whatever it takes, he integrated the film materials before Jackie Chan left to produce "Dragon and Tiger Leap". There are many mistakes in this film, such as the clip of stealing chickens and loaches from "Fist Spirit", and the big battle at the end is from "Laughing Fist Monster". The two leading actors didn't even have a rivalry with the real Jackie Chan, it was all Luo Wei's editing work, and it was all a riotous operation.
However, he still has the opportunity to remake, because the opportunity to pick up Jet Li is here, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
It was the late 80s, and Luo Wei, who was good at knowing people, got Jet Li's first drama contract to leave the mainland and go to the United States.
At this time, Jet Li had already become famous, from "Shaolin Temple" to "Shaolin Kid" and "North and South Shaolin", it was a mess.
But when his career was on the rise, Jet Li made an unexpected choice - he chose to temporarily retire from the entertainment industry, followed his sister Huang Qiuyan to the United States, and entered the palace of marriage hand in hand. During this time, Huang Qiuyan gave birth to two lovely daughters for him.
Jet Li and Huang Qiuyan bought a property and opened a boxing gym. Jet Li thought that he could get the second spring of his career, but it backfired, the martial arts hall was not as hot as he imagined, and the income began to become stretched, but the couple's financial situation was quite embarrassing.
It's almost exactly like when Bruce Lee was in the United States.
Jet Li quit the showbiz at that time, probably when the director was filming "Chinese Heroes", he suddenly fell ill, and his condition was so serious that he was almost paralyzed in bed and his life was in danger. Jet Li, who believes in metaphysics, chose to withdraw from the circle.
At this time, Luo Wei made a move and picked up the leak again. He went to the United States and persuaded Jet Li to make a comeback and shoot a new movie "Dragon in the World" ("The Taiwan version is called "Dragon Domination of the World").
If Luo Wei hadn't come to the door, it is estimated that Huang Qiuyan would still be living with him now.
Jet Li was hesitant at first because he had lost confidence in his film career and feared that it would affect his wife, Huang Qiuyan, to conceive a second child. However, Huang Qiuyan understood Jet Li's love for movies, so she encouraged him to go to Hong Kong and promised that she could take care of her eldest daughter and herself.
During the filming of "Dragon in the World", Jet Li met Li Zhi and fell in love ever since. Guys, men, yes!
It is said that with Jet Li's reputation, as long as "Dragon in the World" is not bad, it will definitely be able to bring new success to Luo Wei.
But how does Rowe do it?
Remember how he made Jackie Chan?
His first work "New Jingwumen" is to follow the trend. is now starting to build Jet Li, but he is still path dependent, still the old routine, and follows the trend.
His work "Dragon in the World" for Jet Li is a work that follows the trend, and it did not stand out among the many Hong Kong-made fashion action movies of that year, and the response was mediocre. The only thing worth saying is probably the cooperation between Jet Li and Stephen Chow, which is rare.
Jet Li is not stupid, as soon as he saw that Luo Wei was not in trouble, he immediately changed his court, changed his contract to Golden Harvest, and cooperated with Tsui Hark to shoot "Once Upon a Time: Top Gun", which was once again a success, laying a solid foundation for the title of "Kung Fu Emperor", and then growing into a kung fu superstar on the same level as Jackie Chan.
In this way, this excellent opportunity to pick up the leak was also wasted because of Luo Wei's "following the trend".
In this, there is also the credit of Luo Wei's son David Luo, which is worth mentioning.
It was David Luo who met Jet Li during the filming of "Dragon in the World", and saw that this film was just a bad movie, so he took the opportunity to dig into the corner of his father's wall, fooled Jet Li to Golden Harvest, and became the other party's agent. After all, Liu Lianghua, the proprietress of Golden Harvest, is David Luo's mother and Luo Wei's ex-wife. David Luo went from his left hand to his right hand, from his father to his mother, and enjoyed it.
A good agent is still quite important, and Jackie Chan's agent Chen Ziqiang helped Jackie Chan get rid of Luo Wei's clutches and become a new generation of action superstars.
And poor Jet Li escaped Luo Wei's clutches and fell into David Luo's pit.
After Jet Li became popular with "Once Upon a Time", David Luo followed his father's routine again, withholding his salary, threatening and luring, and forcing him to sign an overlord contract, and finally relied on the help of the ruthless Cai Ziming Jet Li to get out smoothly.
As for the story of Cai Ziming and Jet Li, it is even more exciting. It is worth mentioning that after "Once Upon a Time" became popular, Jet Li did not get a penny of salary. In the middle of the filming of "Once Upon a Time 2: Men Should Be Self-Improvement", Jet Li did not hesitate to boycott the show, causing an uproar. As an agent, David Luo does not stand on the side of the artist, but speaks for Golden Harvest. Until Cai Ziming appeared, squeezed out David Luo, and negotiated with Golden Harvest for Jet Li. After the filming of "Men Should Be Self-Improvement", Jet Li finally got the salary with the help of Cai Ziming, and Golden Harvest had no way to take Cai Ziming. But when it came to "Huang Feihong 4: The Wind of the King", Golden Harvest still chose to change people and found Zhao Wenzhuo to play Huang Feihong. Jet Li chose to cooperate with Wang Jing and filmed "Huang Feihong: Iron Fighting Centipede", a chicken feather.
Cai Ziming tailor-made "New Dragon Gate Inn" for Jet Li, but he himself was suddenly assassinated. Jet Li chose to avoid it, and the protagonist became Leung Jiahui.
Not long after Cai Ziming's death, David Luo once again entangled Jet Li, this time Jet Li, who was on the cusp of the storm, did not obediently obey, but used his influence to get rid of David Luo's entanglement, and then his brother-in-law took over the position of the agent, but not long after, his brother-in-law also died in a car accident. In the end, Jet Li successfully passed the trough period of his life under the escort of Yongsheng Film Company to Huaqiang.
Far from it.
Back to Rowe, his story is not over.
In the early 90s, Hong Kong and Taiwan became popular with kung fu films, and the master Luo Wei was also ready to move.
In 1992, Luo Wei hired Sammo Hung as a director, spent a huge amount of 18 million, and went to the mainland to film, based on the story of Dadao Wang Wu and Tan Sitong, to create a big production "A Knife in the City". However, with a box office of just over 1 million, Luo Wei declared bankruptcy.
However, "A Knife in the City" is actually a classic, not a bad movie. It's just that times have changed, and this left-leaning film can't keep up with the situation. Looking back now, you will find that there are many merits in this film, and it is even one of the best works of Sammo Hung's directorial career.
Moreover, Zhao Changjun, the star of "A Knife in the City", is the same "potential stock" as Jet Li, if he didn't retire early, becoming the next Jet Li would definitely not be a problem, because his kung fu foundation and record are much better than Jet Li.
However, the failure of the box office caused a lose-lose.
Rowe lost completely.
Zhao Changjun didn't get up either, which is a pity.
Therefore, Luo Wei missed Zheng Peipei and succeeded; Picked up Bruce Lee, succeeded, picked up Jackie Chan, succeeded. But Jet Li, who picked up the leak, did not succeed, but fortunately, he still picked up the leak.
Originally, he could still pick up Xu Guanjie and Zhao Changjun, but his skills were not enough, and he didn't have the ability to carve Baoyu, so he was miscarried.
When you say that Luo Wei has no strength in this life, you definitely wronged him, but his strength is limited. The vision is absolutely accurate, as a talent scout is world-class, but he lacks the ability to make stars, he will only follow the trend, he just wants to take shortcuts, opportunistically, and gradually overdraft his fame and become a tragedy, which is a pity.
In his life, he has called for wind and rain and flaunted his might, but after all, he was haunted by the two ironic names of "King of Leaks" and "King of Followers", and became a tragic figure in Hong Kong film history.
In 1996, Luo Wei died. A legend is over.
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