【Red Rabbit Jun】
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In 1973, because of bruce Lee's death, Jiahe Film Company, which had just been established for three years, had to focus on training its staff Hong Jinbao.
At this time, the 24-year-old Hong Jinbao had served as an action director in several films and had just participated in the action film "Dragon Fight Tiger Fight" starring Bruce Lee.
Stills from Dragon Fight
But his "big brother" status is far from being apparent.
This year, the 11-year-old "Star Master" was still in school and was deeply in the distress of "partial subjects".
At this time, a "skinhead" with long hair decided to return to Hong Kong for development, and resolutely stepped from "electronic engineering major" to the film and television industry.
Later, the "skinhead" shared the second Academy Award in history with Hong Jinbao, and became the first generation of "comedy kings" in Hong Kong film history with Hui Guanwen.
The name of "Skinhead" is Called Mai Jia, but perhaps the three words "Skinhead" have a more substitutionary sense.
02
Born in Taishan, Guangdong Province in 1944, Mai Jia moved to Hong Kong with her parents, and after completing secondary school, the family moved to New York and majored in electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic University in New York.
After graduating from college, Mai Jia often ran to the theater in Chinatown to watch Hong Kong movies in the middle of the telephone engineer, originally only wanted to relieve homesickness, but after watching more movies, she felt that movies were more interesting than telephone engineers.
Mai Jia's handprint on the Walk of Fame
In 1971, after working for two years, Mai Jia returned to campus again, enrolled in the film department of New York University, and participated in the filming of films such as "007" as an assistant director, which fully shows that as long as the brain is smart enough, no matter how large the "interprofessional examination", it can also be favored by the "mentor".
A year later, Mai Jia, who wanted to be more than pressurized, transferred from the film department to the art department, vowing to learn all the upstream and downstream of the film and television industry.
Stills from "Ghost Horse ChiDo Star"
In 1973, the 29-year-old Mai Jia looked at the Hong Kong films at that time and felt that there was still a big gap between her and Hollywood.
As a result, the first generation of "king of comedy" returned to Hong Kong with 1,000 US dollars in a spirited manner, ready to "run a horse" in the Hong Kong film and television circle.
03
At this time in the Hong Kong film industry, the Shaw family is dominant, Jiahe is unstable, although it has just experienced glory, but Bruce Lee died suddenly, Hong Jinbao is not the later "big brother", the third "Golden Princess" will have to wait for two years to be established.
Mai Jia, who came from a science class and panned for gold in Hollywood, just returned to Hong Kong and made many "fellow people", including Hong Jinbao, Shi Tian, Huang Baiming, Wu Yaohan, Liu Jiarong and others.
In line with the principle of horse racing, Mai Jia, Liu Jiarong and others established the "Pioneer Pictures" company, and at the beginning followed the trend and produced many action movies.
McGarthal also directed her first film, "Always Walking alone," in 1976, but these works did not cause much repercussions.
It was not until a year later that the director's film "Face ignorance" was a great success, and this comedy film starring Hong Jinbao, Wu Yaohan, Shi Tian and others allowed Mai Jia to find her own direction in the film and television industry.
But when he was preparing to do a big job, his actor Wu Yaohan "followed" Hong Jinbao to Jiahe, so that Mai Jia, who was still groping for comedy routines, suddenly had no suitable actor.
Seeing that Jiahe had destroyed his "foundation" in this way, Mai Jia also decided to "apply eye drops" to the other party.
In 1978, Mai Jia persuaded Hong Jinbao to set up the "Jiabao" film company together, and Several very high-grossing films were made by Mai Jia and Hong Jinbao, who opened up the second pulse of Ren Dou in "Face Ignorance".
Seeing that "Jiabao Pictures" has a rising trend, this also means that Hong Jinbao has the possibility of breaking away from Jiahe, and Jiahe, who has a big family, has prescribed conditions for Hong Jinbao that cannot be rejected.
In 1980, the "Garbo" film company, which had just splashed a little splash, was dissolved again, and after the 29-year-old Hong Jinbao returned to Jiahe, he also played the roles of director, producer, and starring, and created a series of blockbuster works such as "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", and the status of "Big Brother" began to appear.
After the 36-year-old Mai Jia and Hong Jinbao "broke up", he established a "struggle" film company with Shi Tian and Huang Baiming, and his peak is also coming.
The Big Three of New Art City
This year, the 18-year-old Stephen Chow became a special actor of Li's TV station, officially entered the show business circle, and began an 8-year dragon set career.
04
For the newly established "Struggle" film company, Mai Jia and others have identified the development path of comedy.
With the idea of the ghost horse starry sky, Mai Jia and the three of them filmed works such as "Salted Fish Rebirth" and "Crazy Old Thousand", which successfully attracted the attention of the rich businessman Lei Juekun.
Stills from "Salted Fish Turned Over"
At that time, Lei Juekun was the big boss of "Golden Princess", one of the three major cinema lines in Hong Kong, while the other two major cinema lines Shao and Jiahe were out of the same door, and the owner of Jiahe, Zou Wenhuai, was once an employee of Shaw Company.
"Struggle Pictures", which was funded by the "Golden Princess", was renamed "New Art City" Film Company, and the rising star who won the film industry throughout the 80s and attracted Shaw and Jiahe to join forces to suppress was officially established.
The first answer sheet of "New Art City" was the comedy film "Funny Times" directed by Wu Yusen, with Mai Jia as one of the executive producers and stars, and this work achieved a good response.
The following year, Mai Jia also supervised the production of the movie "Ghost Horse Zhi DuoXing", a comedy film directed by Xu Ke and starring Zeng Zhiwei, Lin Zixiang, Teddy Robin and others, which not only won the box office champion of the year, but also won six nominations for the Golden Horse Awards, and finally won three awards such as best director.
This film is not only a success in the work, the "New Art City" film company successfully attracted Xu Ke and his wife Shi Nansheng, and then Zeng Zhiwei and Teddy Robin also joined the growing giant ship.
At this point, the creative and imaginative "Seven Monsters of New Art City" gathered, and Mai Jia and the "Seven Monsters of New Art City" were no different throughout the 80s, even if Shaw and Jiahe joined hands to fight against each other.
Seven monsters of new art city
At this time, Stephen Chow had just starred in his first TV series "When IQ Matured".
05
In 1982, the first film in the Best Partner series was released.
Stills from "Best Partner" Xu Guanjie and Mai Jia
Because of Mai Jia's experience in Hollywood and the skills of the electronic engineering profession, the film incorporated many high-altitude speeding vehicles, electronic weapons and other stunts, and the design and conception of the whole film were fantastic, and this work won 26 million at the box office in one fell swoop, becoming the first Hong Kong film to successfully break the 20 million mark at that time.
In the second Hong Kong Film Awards, the 38-year-old Mai Jia successfully won the film emperor with the "skinhead detective", and standing with him on the podium was Hong Jinbao, the only "double yolk egg" in the history of the Academy Awards.
In the following years, Mai Jia successively starred in two sequels to "Best Partner", both of which achieved good results, and also made "Skinhead" a unique title of Mai Jia.
At the same time, the five works of the "Happy Ghost" series starring Huang Baiming are all supervised by Mai Jia.
Stills from Happy Ghost
By 1991, "New Art City" had successively produced classic works such as "Best Partner" series, "Happy Ghost" series, "Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers", "Hero's True Colors", "Ghost Horse Wisdom Stars", "Hitchhiking" and other classic works.
In the past ten years, "New Art City" has made The two old film and television companies of Shaw and Jiahe face a great enemy, although Jiahe and Shaw are in the same door, but in the 1970s, the "two heroes competed for hegemony" was not harmonious, but in the face of "New Art City" and the "Golden Princess" behind the "aggressive", the two had to work together to "resist the enemy".
However, in the face of the "Seven Monsters of New Art City" and many excellent actors and staff such as Zhou Runfa, the former's joint suppression has not achieved good results, although Jiahe's Hong Jinbao specially filmed the "Five Lucky Stars" series against "Best Partner", but the limelight of "New Art City" cannot rely on the "suppression" of the outside world.
Stills from the "Five Lucky Stars" series
In 1991, after participating in Stephen Chow's work "Love Saint", the 47-year-old Mai Jia suddenly announced the dissolution of the "New Art City", and the first generation of "king of comedy" seemed to have found a comedy successor, and also announced his departure from comedy and film.
Stills from "Love Saint"
06
There are many theories about the dissolution of the "New Art City" in the middle of the day.
For example, during the white-hot stage of the struggle between "New Art City" and "Jiahe", Mai Jia co-produced a movie with Hong Jinbao, named after the "Best Partner" and "Five Lucky Stars" series, called "Best Lucky Stars".
Stills from "Best Lucky Star"
It's just that this work finally chose to be released in Jiahe's theater, and finally achieved a box office performance of more than 30 million, helping hostile companies to defeat their own people, and perhaps planting a seed for the dissolution of the future.
In addition, the "Seven Monsters of New Art City" are all talented and have the pride of literati, but they must also consider the "copper smell" of reality, in the predecessor of "New Art City", "Struggle Pictures", the proportion of Mai Jia's share is the big head.
After the "Golden Princess" injection, Shi Tian accounted for 19% of the shares, Huang Baiming accounted for 9% of the shares, and the remaining 72% was held by Princess Mai Jiatong, of which Mai Jia accounted for 49% of the shares and the Golden Princess 51%.
The other four people of "New Art City" do not have a stake in it.
For various reasons, the "New Art City" of the film industry for ten years was finally dissolved, and Jiahe originally thought that he could breathe a sigh of relief, but Xiang Huaqiang, who was once in the corner, began to "look at the tiger", which of course is other stories.
But as far as Mai Jia is concerned, before there was a "ghost horse starry sky" from electronic engineering to the film and television industry, and then there was the "ghost horse starry sky" of "Best Partner", the "skinhead" who jumped in thought probably felt that making movies was the same as telephone engineers, and it was not so interesting.
As a result, the 47-year-old first generation of "king of comedy" has plunged into the investment industry after contributing countless classic works.
This year, Hong Jinbao continued to consolidate the status of "big brother", and Zhou Xingchi became a new generation of "king of comedy".
07
In the early 1990s, Hong Kong entered the peak period of speculation, which is now called "wind outlet".
Standing on the cusp of the wind, Mai Jia made a lot of money, and then he switched the muzzle of the gun and entered the stock market.
Only this time, Mai Jia lost everything.
In 2001, after a period of adjustment, the 57-year-old Mai Jia returned to show business and cooperated with Huang Baiming in the TV series "The Legend of The New Jigong".
Any
After directing "The First Bucket of Gold" in 2006, the "skinhead" basically bid farewell to the film world.
Only ten years later, at the invitation of his old friend "Hong Jinbao", he made a cameo appearance in the movie "My Secret Agent Grandpa".
About Mai Jia's love life, the outside world knows very little, even who his wife is, but in the first two years, there was news of his son's marriage on the Internet, and the 75-year-old Mai Jia attended the wedding, or the bald image, still the "bald detective".
He has been an engineer, made a movie, taken a movie emperor, invested in capital, also broken production, and has been "regarded as a thorn in the eye" by several established film and television companies, if he continues to develop in the show business circle, will he not be a "big brother"?
The 77-year-old May have a lot of experience, but it may not be called a bump, because he has always held a "play" mentality, looking at the various identities of engineers, filmmakers or investors, "interesting" is his life motto.
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