Feng Quanfan during the bearded period is still very pretty, playing a more serious role, but after growing a beard, he has been starring in comedy, I don't know if it is that the beard has increased his sense of joy?
Feng Quanfan, born in 1945, is a native of Shunde, Guangdong. Known as "Ah Qiang", known as the "Ancestor of Humor", because of its wonderful performances in the "Hardcover Chasing Girls" series and the "Five Lucky Stars" series, it is well known and named "Cold Face Laughing Craftsman". But for Feng Quanfan himself, what has been haunting him to this day is that everyone has stereotyped him as a comedian. In his words, there may be some non-comedic roles that are suitable for him, but others will say that he is acting in comedy, and it will make him lose a lot of acting opportunities. Although the audience is happy to see his comedies, he himself does not like those comedies. As an actor, he hopes to diversify his performances, play different roles, and break through in his performances.
Like the early Hong Kong entertainers, he entered the industry very early and held different positions in the set. From the beginning of the stage actor to the film and TV series actor, to the screenwriter, film director, TV series director, TV station administrator, producer, etc., it is the overall interest in acting life that makes him constantly try new positions.
Film DirectorIal Achievements:
In 1974, when he wrote and directed his first film, Under the Roof of Hong Kong, Feng directed about 14 films, including films in Beijing after 2000 in collaboration with the Film Channel. Although his films are not the best-selling, several of them are considered to be excellent and worth watching a few more times. Movies from '74 to '75 don't have resources, so I won't say it
In 1981, Feng Quanfan directed the Hong Kong film "Pink Skull", which was well evaluated by wikipedia. "Pink Skull" takes the suspense thriller route, the atmosphere is well created, the plot is interlocked, and the suspense of the murderer is very successful; a movie like this that is not easy to guess the end is really surprising.
Although the film is defined as a comedy in 1987's "Happy Five", it does not have too many laughs after watching it, but has an educational significance. The film writers don't seem to be very strong, the ending is a bit rushed, and the plot transition is too hasty, so that what it is eager to express has a feeling of abrupt stopping. Only the piano accompaniment at the end can impress me.
Representative works of the director:
1988 "Deserter of Love". Compared with many commercial comedies, the film has a more literary atmosphere. Although some witty comedy sections are also added to enrich the drama of the film, and the ghost film elements of the 1980s are combined, it is still impossible to hide the warm atmosphere of the work itself. As a comedic character, Feng Quefan polishes his works to a delicate and delicate level, which makes people happy or hurtful and endlessly evocative, the first half is as hilarious as the general Hong Kong-made urban comedy, and the second half of the true feelings are revealed but like literary and artistic dramas.
Feng Quanfan himself said that he pursues the actor's life-like performance, although he himself is a director, he does not ask for much on the set, but asks the actor to be as natural as possible. Therefore, Tan Yonglin's acting skills in this film can be said to be the true color of the performance, without too much exaggeration. This film was sung by Tan Yonglin all the songs in the film, of which the title of "Half Dream and Half Awake" was later popular in the north and south of the river, becoming a widely sung classic. The song of the same name as the movie, "Deserter of Love", is also a classic, of course, the piano soundtrack is indispensable in the film, which is also very good. The protagonist is positioned as a tuner, and the opening shot of the tuning technique is refreshing. Feng Quanfan plays Tan Yonglin's uncle, the former famous musician Gao Shanliu, who almost supports the comedic elements of the whole play with an unobtrusive performance.
In 1990, "Police Pickpockets Two Families" is also a touching warm film, which shows that Director Feng Quefan's works usually focus on the social status quo of the public. In this film, the performances of Zheng Zeshi and Wu Jiali are very lifelike and grounded, and I have seen it more than twice.
In the film, Zheng Zeshi is a pickpocket with good character, who only steals money from foreign tourists and loves his family, feng Quefan is a good-natured and righteous policeman, these two sworn sons are friends of the same school, so the two know each other and discover each other's advantages. In the end, Zheng robbed the gold jewelry store in order to save his mother, and Feng still arrested Zheng after a choice between friendship and duty. The first half of the film depicts the personalities and families of the two protagonists, which is uniquely interesting. Zheng is kind and timid, but he is brave and resourceful, Feng is subtle and down-to-earth, likes to collect feelings, the two play appropriately, and the roles of playing the wife of the two are vivid and lively. The second half is about Zheng's mother suffering from kidney disease and needing huge sums of money, so she is desperate to take risks, this story is more sad, and director Feng Quefan ends with sensationalism and a warm and moving sense of drama.
Here I would also like to mention a wufuxing series "Fuxing Breaks into the Rivers and Lakes", screenwriter Wang Jing, director Feng Quanfan. Although this film is not as high as several other films at the box office, I personally believe that the comedy section in it is at least not lost to "Fortune Five Lucky Stars" and "Five Lucky Stars Collide with Ghosts". There are three classic scenes: 1. Wufuxing tells ghost stories at night, teasing the heroine as usual, this time it is Liu Jialing. 2. Wufuxing was imprisoned for undercover training in the underworld, and Zeng Zhiwei's Teochew song was quite funny, as well as negotiation fighting training. 3, the scene where Wufuxing helped Dai Geda escape from prison, the prison police through the water is too obvious. 4, insist that the car run to charge, a few people wearing eye-catching coats on the road to play a majestic scene, teasing the various hero films of the moment.
A masterpiece of non-comedy films
"The Epilepsy"
An unforgettable film, all the actors, including Feng Quanfan, have played extraordinary acting skills. In the film, Mr. Xu, played by Feng Quanfan, is a social worker responsible for tracking and counseling mental patients, which completely subverts the audience's impression of him, and many people do not expect that Feng Quanfan plays a social worker in this drama instead of an epileptic. I still can't forget the psychopath paparazzi (Liang Chaowei) making trouble, Mr. Xu was accidentally slashed to death by a knife, using the impact of the picture to show the blood flowing like a pillar, the final ending of a social worker who serves the society is too tragic, and at the same time, I feel that the scene is a bit bloody, is it cut to the aorta, so I need so much plasma? Another classic clip is also a bit bloody and even terrifying, that is, the scene of a mentally ill person played by Qin Pei in a kindergarten, and finally when he slashed and killed half of the policemen who plunged into the window, he was shot by Feng Quanfan with a gun, and then close-up of Feng Quefan's expression, his eyes revealed a trace of fear and uneasiness.
Call Girl 1988
The middle-aged call girl played by Feng Baobao in this film is saddled with heavy life pressure because of her husband's serious kidney disease and huge medical expenses. Her fate is also the most tragic of the five, her husband Feng Quefan learned that his son was infected with AIDS because of the use of his mother's toothbrush, in order not to let his wife experience the kind of relatives of life and death, reduce the burden of his wife, suffering from kidney disease, he decided to take his son on a journey first, who knew that Mei Feng could not accept her husband's kindness, and finally committed suicide by drinking bullets next to the corpses of her husband and children. In the film, the father and son are on the bridge and the drink is synchronized, who can think that the next second the family will meet in another world?
"Whenever It Changes"
Played the father of Miriam Yeung. The film takes a Hong Kong wet market as the background of the story, telling the tragic and joyful life of the little people in Hong Kong in the past 10 years. Feng Quefan plays Ah Miao's father, who is already the year of Hua Jia, but he loves to gamble and is in debt; he also likes to pick flowers and stir up grass, and eventually his daughter Ah Miao is forced to come to the rich and noble market to work and have low debts. Although he feels remorse, he will not change his nature. But in the case of the last gamble to win, he resisted and left the dowry money for his daughter. He knew that his daughter liked the fish guy played by Eason Chan and hoped that he could promote them, but in the end, due to a heart attack, he did not hear the fish guy's reply, and his last words to his daughter were "You can finally leave the market and don't have to pay off your father's debts." "That kind of strong fatherly love touched the audience.
"Accident"
Galaxy Creative Group's rare film in recent years. The film tells the story of the protagonist's brain, who is good at planning a seamless assassination layout, and succeeds in planning accidental assassinations again and again, but an accident makes his operation fail, resulting in his inability to distinguish between true and false accidents and is lost. In the film, the image of Lao Bo played by Feng Quefan won him nominations for the Academy Awards and the Chinese Film and Media Awards for Best Supporting Actor, although there was no final award, but there were nominations that have shown everyone's recognition. Lao Bo is a member of the assassination gang and is responsible for cooperating with the brain (Gu Tianle) to carry out the assassination plan, but he does not know that he has amnesia, which not only leads to the death of another member, but also aggravates the paranoia of the brain. The whole film has a good sense of suspense, and the old man is a dark line that runs through the whole film until the mystery is revealed. The film was filmed with the help of Du Qifeng, who was filming another film, Revenge, so he invited Feng Quefan to make a cameo appearance as the cousin of Ah Ghost (Huang Qiusheng), responsible for providing guns, which passed in just a few minutes, but the shot of the bicycle in the ruins field was a new angle of gunfight performance.
Feng Quanfan's later films were almost all comedic images on the movie screen, and he was known as the "ancestor of humor". Although he does not smile and is cold and arrogant, he creates a hilarious effect and makes his image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Below is an inventory of its classic comedy image series
1. Five Lucky Star Series
Unlike "Best Partner", Wufuxing is not a complete series of movies, except for Hong Jinbao's own director, most of the rest is borrowed from Wufuxing's character design mode to shoot, the plot is not coherent, and the characters have changed, such as later joined by Zeng Zhiwei and Miao Qiaowei. And the best partner from the skinhead and the man's wife to get married to the birth of the little skinhead, there is still a plot coherence. In the first "Strange Scheme Five Lucky Stars", Lan Kesi, played by Feng Quefan, is an undercover police officer with three bars, but in "Summer Lucky Star" and "Lucky Star High Light", he became a rhinoceros skin, and his occupation is unknown. The only character whose identity has changed, the most likely reason is that in the first part, everyone found that his comedic effect is very good, in order to make the character continue, better play the comedic effect and strengthen the interaction with other people, so the arrangement of the police identity is no longer appropriate, it becomes the old oil of extortion, but it is still the identity of the boss, giving advice, telling salty and wet jokes are his work. Later, when Zeng Zhiwei joined, he and Wu Yaohan and Zeng Zhiwei became a group, often taking pleasure in bullying and making fun of the two.
2. Liu Dingjian, the ———— of the hardcover chasing girl series
No one will forget the boss of the owner of the garage, right? He is harsh, stingy and. Even in such a critical moment, he cared deeply for his employees and stepped forward. Without too many exaggerated facial expressions and body language, but can achieve a strong comedic effect, it can only be said that he is very good at grasping the rhythm of acting. For comedy films, it is very important to master the rhythm, and the length of the dialogue and the time to give a reaction determine the effect of the audience's expectations. Xu Guanwen also said that the rhythm of comedy is the most difficult to master, and it is very difficult to estimate how long the audience will laugh and how long to stay in a certain place. But Feng Quanfan has a good control, and there are classic performances in all three films that are difficult to surpass. The scene of being tricked into tightening the skin and shrinking the bones in "Hardcover Chasing Girl 1" is an insurmountable performance, very graphic, and Zhou Runfa may not be able to do it. Later, Zeng Zhiwei imitated this paragraph in "Hardcover Chasing Girls 2004", but the effect was much worse, and the imitation was performed to Shen Yun. The most classic thing in "Hardcover Chasing Girls 2" is to be hit by the laughing hole, not only to laugh non-stop, but also to give a speech at other people's funerals, and as a result, he let everyone turn their grief into laughter and laugh for three minutes. In this scene, he rarely uses facial expressions to express that kind of laughter, which is very comedic, and it is extremely difficult to shoot empty laughter. The most classic scene of "Hardcover Girl 3" is to shrink again, but this time it is to eat the youth pill and then dance in the form of a mentally retarded child. Although there was a slight exaggeration, the dance he himself danced by imagination was in line with the limitations of his limbs.
3. Overlord Flower Series ———— Jane Sir
The commercial concept of "Overlord Flower" was born out of the "Five Blessings" movie, which was originally a title exclusive to Hu Huizhong's classic police girl image. Jackie Chan is even more clever to take the "overlord flower" as a selling point to hype up, and the entire action design is a family class. In order to add commercial elements and at the same time play a role in bringing out a group of female newcomers, designed into the form of the Flying Tigers and the Bawang flower confrontation, of course, through the performance of the contrast between the male and female strength to highlight the tall image of the Bawanghua, this heavy responsibility was handed over to Sir Jane played by Feng Quefan. As an instructor, he took the lead in not being serious, privately pursuing Madam Hu, and not bold enough, embodying machismo everywhere, he partnered with Lou Nanguang to increase the comedic effect of this film. The Jane instructor of the Flying Tigers, after a series of tests, finally got the love of the Overlord Flower Team's Instructor Hu and married in the third part, but was said by his boss that he was a hot hand and that his husband was poor and his wife was expensive.
3. The ghost film series ———— various Taoist images
Feng Quanfan, as one of the main actors, is a rare actor who has cooperated with two generations of laughing artists. Cooperation with Xu Guanwen in "Modern Bodyguard" is not responsible for funny, but it is still very popular. With Zhou Xingchi's cooperation in "Master Brother Colliding with Ghosts", the different comedy performance methods of the two are inseparable, Zhou Xingchi mainly relies on changes in movements and facial expressions, while Feng Quefan is a static brake, not covered up by Xingzai, because he does not belong to Wu Mengda's subordinates, he can be a single player.
In the era when ghost films were prevalent, Feng Quefan naturally participated in a lot, but in the play, most of them appeared as Taoist priests who did not learn any skills, were deceived, and were lustful and sloppy. He is not academically proficient, but he is eager to express himself, but he helps to bring a lot of trouble to the protagonist. It is worth watching "Master Brother Bumps Into Ghosts", "Music Zombie" and "Demon Road" cooperated with Lin Zhengying. Other ghost films such as "Time To Run", "Ghost Catcher", "Barge Bad Guy" and so on are also worth watching.
other
In many movies, although it is only a cameo for a few minutes or a few scenes, it can make people shine, as he himself said, in front of the camera, he is very serious to play. For example, the image of the two-gun old man in "Blood in the Wind" sang "Songhua River" many times in the film. Although he has rarely performed in recent years, and he has reached the age of playing his grandfather, he still hopes that the old man can take care of his body and make more cameos in movies. A few years ago, the I Love Hong Kong series was good, especially the scene of the hi and hi ending news was completely full of laughter, you can understand why Xu Guanwen was not allowed to serve as a news anchor, in fact, everyone is a cold-faced laughing smith.
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