In the 1990s, Jet Li and the Xiang couple's Yongsheng company collaborated on four films, namely: "Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede", "Letter to Daddy", "Adventure King" and "Huang Feihong's Lion of the Western Regions". Maybe these are not the most important films of Jet Li, but they are also regarded as classics by fans, because the current martial arts films can no longer make this feeling. Especially "Letter to Daddy.".
This film not only has wonderful action scenes, thrilling undercover plots, but also tear-jerking family depictions, and several elements are very well balanced. Surprisingly, although the director of this film is Yuan Kui, the story conception, including the slightly literary title of "Letter to Daddy", was proposed by Wang Jing (Note: The mainland name is "Red Son Weilong", the Taiwan name is "Father and Son Wu Zhuangyuan"), and he himself has said that this is the most satisfactory script he has ever made that year. 24 years have passed, and the two actors in the play have passed away, one is Mei Yanfang, who plays Officer Fang, and the other is Ke Shouliang, who plays Xiaohei. And Jet Li, people are still looking forward to whether the next version of the trailer of "Mulan" can appear in his figure... So, where are the other actors in the play?
1. Semyon (consolidation)
Xie Miao can be said to be one of the most popular child stars in the Hong Kong film industry in the 1990s, working with big stars like Fa Ge, Jet Li, Mei Jie, Leung Ka Fai and Qiu Shuzhen. Later, he heeded Fa Ge's advice, returned to Beijing to continue his studies, and was admitted to the Beijing Institute of Physical Education. During his studies, he began to contact drama and performance again, but whether it was "The Legend of Shaolin Temple", or the "Winning the Bid" and "Bagua Grandmaster" tailor-made by the filmmakers, etc., did not let him open a new situation in his acting career, and later became an inconspicuous supporting role in "3D Qimen Dunjia", and in recent years, he has marched to the "Net University" and continued to consume popularity, which is a pity. Although Xie Miao's career is not satisfactory, his family life is very happy, and after marrying He Yanni, the "crown princess" in "Palace Locks and Beaded Curtains", the daughter of the two "Jelly Beans" also fell to the ground. For the sake of his family, Now Semyon has begun to work hard, and I hope that in the future he can make a masterpiece in the true sense of adulthood.
2. Liu Songren (Superintendent Cheng)
Liu Songren is a cameo in the whole play, and the role image is not good or bad, but it is a bit unscrupulous for promotion. Coincidentally, in "Three Heroes of the East", Mei Yanfang and him are husband and wife, and in this play, Liu Songren's lover is played, because of Jet Li's "protagonist halo effect", in the end, Mei Jie of course did not stay with him, but is likely to become a consolidated "new mother". Hong Kong film and television drama fans know that Liu Songren is an "old drama bone", he had the opportunity to be a film and television drama choreographer, but because it is difficult to give up the hobby of acting, so he has been acting until today. Because he has studied drama theory, Liu Songren has high requirements for his acting skills as a cooperative partner, although this is evaluated by many people as "difficult", it is undeniable that there are countless classic roles he has portrayed, and whether it is a decent villain, he can easily control, and each role can make people forget that he is Liu Songren. Now in his seventies, he is still filming, but his mentality has changed greatly from the past, on the one hand, he is addicted to drama, and on the other hand, he is willing to teach his acting experience to new actors.
3. She Nannan (Consolidated Mother Li Xia)
In the film, Gong Wei's wife Li Xia is gentle and considerate, sympathetic, but unfortunately, the red face is short-lived, and in the end, the enemy disease is swallowed up by it, and she has not been able to see her husband before her death, but her appearance also brings a special warmth to the whole film. The role is played by the famous mainland drama actress She Nannan, who graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, and although "Letter to Daddy" is not her film debut, it is her only Hong Kong film. Later, she has been pouring her main energy into dramas, and occasionally participated in film and television drama performances, so the "popularity" is relatively low, but in the industry, She Nannan has been quite accomplished, and even has been an "assistant director" level drama worker. And last year's hit drama "Do You Know Or Not" kong Mama is She Nannan, this role is not angry and arrogant aura sonorous and powerful way of speaking, will not let people associate her with the weak Li Xia at that time, but also show her super drama skills. Nowadays, with a large number of people with experience in drama performance more and more involved in the Chinese film and television circle, I believe that she Nannan in the future can contribute more energy and surprises in film and television performances to us.
4. Boss Fu Guang (Yu Rongguang)
In the film, the boss Fu Guang, played by Yu Rongguang, is not only cold-blooded and murderous, but also some perverted and neurotic, coupled with the powerful line design and very iconic small action habits, it is easy to make a deep impression. Xiao Bian felt that this should be regarded as the peak of Yu Rongguang's villain, as long as his aura was fully open, even Zou Zhaolong and Lu Huiguang around him would be eclipsed. At that time, Yu Rongguang also entered the Hong Kong showbiz circle according to Jet Li's path, although his status in the film industry was not as high as the latter, but he still starred in many Chinese A-level productions in the past few decades, and Jackie Chan and Zhen Zidan were iron brothers. After returning to the mainland a few years ago to set up his own film and television company, Yu Rongguang has always focused his work on the performance shooting and production of TV dramas. Soon a well-received "Biography of the Hero of the Southern Overseas Chinese Mechanics" also strengthened the confidence of Rongguang to become a director, and then it was up to him to see if the new "Tianlong Eight Parts" directed by him could create a peak of word-of-mouth again.
5. Lu Huiguang (one of the Thugs)
Lu Huiguang, who has a solid Foundation in Muay Thai, has played many villain roles, because the big villain in "Letter to Daddy" has given Yu Rongguang, so he can only play "little brother", but his super leg skills later showed a hand in the finale battle. If you don't know Lu Huiguang, it proves that you hardly watch Hong Kong movies, because many of Jackie Chan's movies in the nineties are indispensable to his figure, and the "highest light" moment should be the big battle between his "one-word horse" leg gong and Jackie Chan in "Drunken Fist 2". In fact, in addition to participating in Jackie Chan movies, Lu Huiguang has also done the male number one of many movies, such as "Peter Pan", "Lost Gun Detective" and "Blood Farewell", etc., but because the film is not hot, Lu Huiguang's film status has not risen. After leaving the family class, Lo Huiguang became a "10,000-year-old green leaf" - almost every Newport film has him, but he can't remember what he played in it. In fact, for the current Lu Huiguang, filming is not all of his life, part of it is divided among his two sons, and the other part is to carefully take care of his boxing gym.
6. Zou Zhaolong (one of the Fuguang thugs)
In "Letter to Daddy", Zou Zhaolong and Lu Huiguang perform the same, because they want to highlight the absolute villain position of Glory, so the sense of existence is slightly lower. But it doesn't matter, "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard", "Demon Cult Leader" and "Adventure King" these films, has long established his will not be easily forgotten by the audience "Jet Li screen nemesis" status, after 7 years in Hollywood (filming "The Matrix" is this period) and then returned, he used "Fuse" and Zhen Zidan's wonderful confrontation to accumulate a lot of popularity, but in recent years, Zou Zhaolong's films are mostly of poor quality, in fact, this is not conducive to his popularity maintenance, such as the new "Fengshen God" in which he played the king of Lu, There are many places worth circled, but helplessly the whole drama has a poor reputation, and the people who watch it are naturally few, it is precisely his role in "Horn 2" that more people talk about, which also shows that Zou Zhaolong is a good actor, the key depends on how the director uses it, but also uses the right place.
7. Fang Ping (rich businessman)
Fang Ping made a cameo role as a rich businessman in "Letter to Daddy", and since it is not the kind that is absolutely important, the analysis of his role is not too much to repeat. Perhaps in the cognition of many people, Fang Ping's fame is not as great as that of his wife Bao Qijing, but in fact, it is not. In his early years, he was also a red student in the Hong Kong Chinese film era (he also starred in the 80th edition of "White Haired Witch" in Zhuo Yihang), and later transformed into a successful commercial film supervisor, very famous in the industry. Things like "Precocious", "Eavesdropping", "King of Guns" and "Shinjuku Incident" are his "supervising works". In terms of performance, many of his later role images are dominated by evil people, and Gandhi, the "most miserable supporting role" he played in "Infernal Affairs 2", is believed to be the deepest memory point of many friends.
8. Yuan Kui (Bartender)
The director of this film, Yuan Kui, also made a cameo role in the play, but the scene is relatively short, and the lines are only a few simple conversations with Liu Songren. At that time, the director appeared in his own films, which was a "tradition" that was not uncommon in Hong Kong films, and did not pay attention to how many scenes there were, as long as they were interesting. In the 1990s, Yuan Kui and Jet Li collaborated on many good films, such as the "Fang Shiyu" series, "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" are the crystallization of their joint cooperation, and later Jet Li went to Hollywood to develop with Yuan Kui, like "Deadly Weapon 4", "Deadly Romeo", "Dragon's Kiss", "Cosmic Pursuit Order" and "Ranger" and other movies, all have important participation of Yuan Kui, and he is also regarded by Jet Li as the "closest partner" in action movies, in addition, he is also Liu Zhenwei's golden partner in the film career, after filming in 2016 After Journey to the West 3 and "Fairy Ball War", YuanKui chose to rest in peace and recuperate, temporarily no longer taking on the role.