In the previous character features, we have introduced several big-level characters in the 80s hero films: the heroic Zhou Runfa, the righteous Li Xiuxian, the domineering side leak wan Ziliang, the righteous Deng Guangrong, and the old-fashioned Ke Junxiong.
Today's protagonist is the arrogant Dillon. As Xiao Hei sang: I have not been a big brother for many years, and I do not love the cold edge of the bed. Teenagers are ambitious, the scenery is infinite, once the spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease; people reach middle age, the hairline is in danger, and once the phoenix is not as good as a chicken.
In 1986, at the age of 40, Dillon made a comeback and opened up a new world of cinema. What kind of mountains and rivers have been experienced in the middle, and the willows are dark and bright? Today we do not mention Shaw's martial arts, nor about rural love, specifically to talk about the middle-aged Dillon man forty.
In the 1980s, Shaw, Jiahe and New Art City were divided into three parts. In the face of the fierce attack of the new art city, Jiahe can barely cope, and Shao Shi seems to be unable to cope. In 1985, Run Run Shaw ended filmmaking and leased his theater to businessman Pan Disheng.
The mansion had fallen, unable to return to heaven; the Empire was no more, and the Rangers were scattered. Laid-off employees are trying to find ways to re-employ, and the old gangsters are scrambling to find a way out. The two brothers, David Jiang and Er Dongsheng, chose to go to Debao to work behind the scenes, but what about Dillon, the son of the empire?
New Art City rowed the friendship boat and threw an olive branch to Dillon. In the early days, the company prepared a co-production with the American film company, but unfortunately it did not work out. Dillon's first play at the new company was "The Wesleyan Legend" with Xu Guanjie.
During the filming of the film, Wu Yusen returned to Hong Kong from Taiwan and began shooting a new film with Xu Ke. The same is the Shaw fallen man, in public or private, Wu Yusen invited Dillon to star for the first time. And Dillon, because it is difficult to separate, almost missed the role of Song Zihao.
Fortunately, fate sometimes has to be had to be there, and when the luck comes, you can't hide from it. After the release of "The True Colors of Heroes", Dillon invited Zhang Che, Chu Yuan, Sun Zhong, Yu Yunkang and other close friends to watch the midnight show together. After watching it, the mentor Zhang Che greatly praised the film: the role of Song Zihao was very flattering, and Dillon's acting skills were worthy of praise.
Although in the play of "The True Colors of Heroes", Zhou Runfa "covers the fragrant river", Dillon is not "siren alone and haggard". Needless to say, he is still the veritable first protagonist of Yingben. At the Golden Horse Awards ceremony that year, the organizing committee still gave the best actor to Dillon fairly and affectionately.
That night, David Jiang, who was the host, learned of this news in the background, took the initiative to go forward and quietly said to Dillon: "Congratulations." Dillon was stunned for a moment, and could no longer help but be full of joy and excitement, hugging Jiang David tightly, and Er Dongsheng on the side also followed the tiger to tears.
For this golden horse past, Dillon recalled: "After leaving Shaw," we went our separate ways, living in different environments, different hobbies, and we have not been in touch for a long time. But friendship is mutually appreciated. This time he was very happy for me, and we brought our faded feelings closer together again, as if they were clamped together again."
Zhang Fei, the big brother of Taiwanese variety shows, has a mantra: "A man is forty years old, still a living dragon." The 40-year-old Dillon was like this, successfully overcoming the mid-life crisis and walking out of a desperate situation.
After the release of "The True Colors of Heroes", the box office reputation was a big success, and Hong Kong films entered a new era. Chow Yun-fat led the trend of hero films, and Dillon did the opposite, embarking on the anti-hero road.
At the end of 1986, New Art City sent "Animal Director" Huang Zhiqiang to shoot "The Legend of Heroes". Due to the sensitive story and violent picture, the film was deleted by the Hong Kong Electricity Inspection Department before its release, and it was banned in many places.
In the film, Dillon plays a big guy who has just been released from prison, because of love, reopening the killing ring, killing the villain, hand blade enemy, and finally returning to the cage. The children of the orphanage regarded him as a heroic idol and worshipped him extremely.
At the end of the film, in order to avoid the younger generation from repeating its mistakes, Brother Long deliberately cried in front of everyone, shouted and feared death, destroying his heroic image, disillusioning the supporters, and sublimating into a real hero.
Looking at it now, the film is of great enlightenment significance. "The True Colors of Heroes" inspires the world to be heroes, and "Heroes" persuades the world not to daydream: heroes are not so good, come out and run, sooner or later they must be returned.
In 1987, the top brass of New Art City ordered Wu Yusen to recruit the original team and start filming the sequel to "The True Colors of Heroes". Boss Shi Tian joined the team battle, and Dillon officially retired to male number three, serving as a foil for Zhou Runfa and Zhang Guoronggan.
Until the beginning of filming, "Heroes 2" had not yet formed a complete script. In desperation, Wu Yusen took Zhou Runfa and Shi Tian to the United States to shoot half, while Xu Ke took Dillon and Zhang Guorong to shoot the other half in Hong Kong.
Compared with the previous work, "Hero Nature 2" abandons too many emotional entanglements and pays more attention to portraying the stubbornness and persistence spawned by the cruel fate, so the film can be seen as a supplementary interpretation of the heroism of the previous work.
Engaged in the profession of actor, it is not necessary to say how many works have been done, how many roles have been played, as long as there is one is enough. Putting aside Shaw's past glory, the role of Song Zihao is enough to make Dillon shine in the history of film.
In September 1987, New Art City invited Liu Jialiang to direct the action film "Tiger Out of the Change". The film starred popular superstar Chow Yun-fat and young hit star Lee Won-ba.
Liu Jialiang issued an invitation to Dillon and David Jiang. Dillon promised to make a cameo appearance for three days, and David Jiang also agreed to perform. After the Shaw era, Di Jiang was in the same film for the first time.
In a fight scene shooting, in the face of 27-year-old Li Yuanba, the 41-year-old Dillon was unable to cope and accidentally injured. He couldn't help but sigh: Heroes are difficult to compete with the years.
Also in 1987, Cen Jianxun left Debao and set up another choreography and production club with his friend Chen Guanzhong. Er Dongsheng followed him and began to shoot the crime film "People's Hero" and warmly invited Dillon to star.
At that time, because Dillon and New Art City had a film together, it was inconvenient to pick up the film privately. In order to support Er Dongsheng, he patiently negotiated with the top management, and finally sacrificed one of the film amounts in the contract to be able to take over the film.
"People's Heroes" is remade in the Western film "Afternoon Hot Day", and takes the same anti-hero route as "Heroes". Dillon faded his former heroic aura and played the calm and fierce bandit - Gu Xiangyang.
Although Gu Xiangyang was serious about righteousness, he lacked basic principles. As long as there is no money, go to grab it, and kill people as soon as they are angry. The director tore the fig leaf of the hero and told the world: do not think of the robber as a hero.
The story of "People's Heroes" is simple, and it all depends on the collective efforts of the actors. At the following year's Academy Awards, Liang Chaowei and Huang Bin were nominated for the best supporting actor at the same time, and the former won; and Jin Yanling killed a number of strong enemies in a few minutes and shook the best supporting actress.
The male and female supporting partners all won all, only Dillon did not receive any grains, but was nominated for the Golden Horse Award. From the awards of the two films "The True Colors of Heroes" and "People's Heroes", we can also see that the aesthetic orientations of the Golden Horse and the Golden Statue are very different.
In 1988, it was produced by New Art City, directed by Sun Zhong, and starred Dillon, Zhou Runfa, Tian You, and Xu Shaoqiang. At the film reception of the film, As soon as Dillon entered the venue, he immediately became angry.
It turned out that on the promotional posters posted by the organizers, Zhou Runfa and TianNian occupied the main page, and Dillon's photos accounted for less than one-tenth. Obviously, it is a three-person movie, but he does not deserve to have a row of noodles.
Seeing that the world's hearts are like this, Dillon can't help but sigh: "With the red top and white, the inflammatory situation, if my mother sees this poster, I believe that the old man is more upset than me." After saying that, I want to turn around and leave the scene.
The reporters present urged each other, and the staff immediately changed into suitable posters. After vomiting his displeasure, Dillon turned his head to promote the film seriously, and also talked to reporters about how popular Zhou Runfa was overseas.
The distinction between public and private, one word and one, this is the character of this dragon. Looking at this matter from today's perspective, some people will question: Is Dillon suspected of being preoccupied and competing for the position? otherwise.
At the same time as "Righteous Bile Red Lips", there is also a "French-Chinese Love" released. This time, Dillon did not complain about the ranking of the queen and the photo was too small, but resented the focus of publicity and exaggerated his performance.
"I only made a cameo appearance in that film for two days, and my picture on the poster is bigger than the main character." Dillon believes that such publicity is not only misleading to consumers, but also unfair to the protagonists of other hard-working performances.
The two vignettes of "Righteous Red Lips" and "Fa Zhongqing", one bend and one stretch, do not conflict, but more highlight Dillon's personality qualities of unevenness, talking, frankness, and integrity.
For really good actors, there has never been a saying that "starring in the true colors", but it is a fire. But Dillon's righteousness is cloudy and full of pride, and there is no difference between inside and outside the play.
In 1989, it was the 40th anniversary of Zhang Che's retirement from film. A group of apprentices prepared a grand and splendid "Righteous Courage and Courage" for the master.
Dillon, Jiang David, Chen Guantai, Luo Lie, Li Xiuxian, Wu Ma, Gu Feng and other Shaw disciples participated and gathered together.
In front of and behind the scenes of "Righteous Courage", almost all the staff did not get paid, volunteered labor, and devoted themselves to filming.
After the film was released in the Golden Princess Theater, after deducting all expenses, the brothers gave all the 8 million box office revenue to Zhang Che.
At the end of 1989, New Art City began to shoot the gangster film "Edge Years", starring Dillon, Zheng Wenya, Yuan Jieying, Zheng Haonan, Zhang Yaoyang, Luo Lie, and Wang Xia.
Due to the recurrence of an old arm injury, Dillon chose to temporarily retire from the film world after filming this film. The film also became his last gangster film of the '80s.
In 1990, by the time Edge Years was released, Dillon hadn't been involved in the film for nine months. Attending the press conference is purely the responsibility of the actors.
At the press conference, Dillon jokingly called "The Edge Years" a commemorative work of quitting movies. However, human beings could not escape the law of true incense after all, and soon he reappeared in the jianghu.
I would like to ask, for this person who claims to have grown up drinking movie milk, how easy is it to quit movies? Now 75 years old, he is still active on the big screen!
A history of Chinese dragon films is also a history of the blood and tears of a big man. From 1986's "Heroes' Nature" to 1990's "Edge Years", it can be said that Dillon's "Middle Dragon Years".
In these four years, he has participated in more than ten films. Almost every hero film begins with leaving prison and ending at the end of returning to prison, and some even return to prison without being killed, and then they bleed on the streets.
It is said that the jianghu does not sue the children's feelings, but in fact, the children's feelings are deeper. When other big guys flaunt their might and fight evil on the screen, Dillon is like a clear stream, warning young people not to go astray.
During that period, Hong Kong gangster crime movies showed a situation of a hundred flowers blooming. Wu Yusen, Lin Lingdong, and Ma Dangxiong have different styles, and Zhou Runfa, Li Xiuxian, Deng Guangrong, Wan Ziliang and so on lead the way.
However, in the final analysis, all of them are borrowing the east wind of heroism to raise the wave of police and bandit crimes. Among them, Dillon's rather indoctrinating anti-heroism became an indispensable voice of the era.
(This article was first published on the public account: the birth of a word)