Peng Yuyan, who has worked with Leung Ka Fai 10 times, once said:
"JiaHuigo is like a chameleon."
He has appeared in more than 140 films and played a variety of roles, but never repeatedly.
He can master all types of movies, whether it is martial arts, gunfights, crime, romance, comedy, history, suspense, thriller, gangster can find masterpieces.
Leung Ka Fai is definitely one of the goddess of luck, just graduated from the TVB artist training class, was appreciated by Li Hanxiang, played the Xianfeng Emperor in 1983's "Burning Yuanmingyuan" and "Hanging Curtains", and won the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards for this role.
Debut is the peak, so that Leung Ka Fai received the attention of the whole Hong Kong film circle, and because of his low remuneration, "good quality and low price", he was more favored by film companies.
In 1992, Liu Zhenwei launched "92 Black Roses to Black Roses" in tribute to Chu Yuan's "Black Roses", in which The funny police officer Lu Qi, played by Leung Ka Fai, brought him another Academy Award.
Thus Leung Ka Fai opened up his unique "lowly" performance style in comedy films.
In the following "Huang Feihong Laughing Legend", "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", and "Three Heroes of the Wind and Dust", this "criminal" skill is playing more and more pure.
In 1993, Liu Zhenwei believed that the classic IP of "Black Rose" still had use value, so he wrote the script "Rose Rose I Love You". But instead of directing the film, he handed over the script to Wong Kar-wai's best friend, Peong Ferns.
Peong is a senior executive producer of Wong Kar Wai Zedong Company, and she has only directed two films so far, "Rose Rose I Love You" is one of them.
In addition to Liang Jiahui, the film also gathers Zhong Zhentao and Ren Dahua, as well as two charming actresses of "Black Rose" Ye Yuqing and "White Rose" Liu Jialing.
The martial arts instructor, led by Yuan Kui and Yuan De, is not only funny, but also takes into account the action viewing, which is the best funny movie of the year, and earned 21.91 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.
Today, Pigo will talk to you about the story of this movie before and behind the scenes
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Let's start with the story
One diamond, three men, two women, a "war"
The thief McGee (played by Ren Dahua) is arrested by detectives Lu Qi (played by Leung Ka Fai) and Leung Shing Bo (played by Zhong Zhentao) for stealing the Diamond Mara Star, and the Mara Star has been missing since then.
One night, McKee escapes from prison, and Lü Qi and Liang Xingbo conclude that he will go to his old love Chen Baozhu (played by Liu Jialing), so they approach Chen Baozhu separately.
Lu Qi discovered that Chan Washo Chu was a teacher living in Lasale Road, Kowloon Tong, and that her neighbor, Tam Tak Cheong, had a history of mental illness and suffered from severe amnesia.
So he pretended to be a friend of TedWin, moved into Ted-chang's house, became a neighbor with Chen Baozhu, and pretended to be a music teacher, and went undercover to the school where Chen Baozhu worked to work with her.
Liang Xingbo, disguised as a stowaway, pretended to be injured on the way home from Chen Baozhu's drive, and stayed in Chen Baozhu's home on the pretext of recuperating.
Chen Baozhu knew that these two people were undercover police officers who came to her house, but they were calm and pretended to be unsuspecting silly white sweets, because she was actually a female snitch White Rose, and there was also a theft organization White Rose Party under her command.
Because the white rose is not as famous as the black rose in the jianghu, the white rose steals the mara star, but is mistaken by the black and white two to be the black rose.
The real Black Rose (played by Ye Yuqing) in order to prove her innocence, she assumed the name of Beauty, disguised as Tan Dechang's ex-girlfriend, lived in Lu Qi's home, and became neighbors with Chen Baozhu.
The two pairs of men and women each had a ghost fetus and accidentally bumped together, staging a funny scene after a scene.
In the process of getting along, Chen Baozhu and Liang Xingbo, Meimei and Lü Qi all had love respectively.
Just as the identities of The policemen, Lü Qi and Liang Xingbo, are about to be revealed, McKee finds Chen Baozhu and wants to retrieve the safe key that hides the Mara Star.
It turned out that after McGee and Chen Baozhu stole the Mara Star, McKee took it away and hid it.
The safe key to the Mara Star was hidden in a necklace by McKee, who gave it to Chen Baozhu.
Chen Baozhu has been waiting for McKee to get out of prison for many years, but he never knows that the key to the safe is hidden in his body.
However, in these years, Chen Baozhu developed his own power, the White Rose Party, and under the joint siege of the party members, he captured McKee.
The cunning McKee was outnumbered, so he took advantage of the chaos to hide the key in the pocket of Liang Xingbo's pants, who had heard the news, so that Chen Baozhu searched his whole body and could not find the key.
Unsuspectingly, Liang Xingbo returned to Chen Baozhu's home in Kowloon Tong with the key and casually placed the key in the fruit bowl in the living room.
McKee broke free of Chen Baozhu's control and soon came to Kowloon Tong to get the key back.
At this time, Chen Baozhu and Meimei appeared at the same time, and a black and white rose battle began.
Fortunately, Lü Qi and Liang Xingbo arrived at the same time, and they learned that the white rose was Chen Baozhu and the black rose was beautiful, and the two also shook hands and made peace, and decided to deal with McKee together and get the Mara Star.
After a rooftop battle, McGee is killed by a bomb tied to his body, Black and White Rose finally gets the safe key to collect the Mara Star, and Lü Qi and Liang Xingbo also complete the mission.
At the end of the movie, Lü Qi and Liang Xingbo both quit their police jobs, and Chen Baozhu and Meimei opened a flower shop that only sold black and white roses.
And they also have another identity is the jewelry thief, 4 people formed a black and white rose treasure theft gang.
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The actors in the movie
"Black Rose" Ye Yuqing and "White Rose" Liu Jialing, two major actresses, are a major guarantee for the box office of the movie.
Both were actresses who entered the film industry in the 90s, and they also took the same route of boldness, and at that time they were the two most popular among Hong Kong actresses.
Liu Jialing, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, came to Hong Kong with her parents in the 1980s, applied for the TVB TV Artist Training Class because she loved TVB red star Huang Rihua at that time, and starred in many popular classic dramas after graduation.
By 1990, he officially left TVB to join the film circle, and because he was very open-minded in his performance, he developed smoothly in the film circle.
In Liu Zhenwei's "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", Liu Jialing has shown her unique comedic talent.
In this film, her character White Rose Chen Baozhu's personality setting is more restrained, and the funny scene is added to the body of "Black Rose" Ye Yuqing.
Ye Yuqing debuted in 1985 and joined atv as the third runner-up of Miss Asia, participating in dramas such as "Ode to the Crowd", "Chao Hua Xi Shi", "Burning Red Lotus Temple" and so on.
In 1991, Ye Yuqing decided to give it a go, first she made a very bold cover for the weekly, and then launched three good movies for the otaku in succession, which made her popularity soar.
Therefore, Ye Yuqing got more room for development, and she also participated in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" to discover her comedic talent.
Although she did not perform on a large scale in this film, she used a song "Desert of Passion" to burn the overall atmosphere of the film to the peak, which is a major highlight of the film.
It is also because of the performance in this film that many people realize that Ye Yuqing is not just a "vase" with high appearance, good figure and good temperament.
She can not only sing and dance, but her acting skills are also first-class, and she was able to become a hot first-line star in the 90s, completely relying on her own strength.
And Leung Ka Fai, who takes the funny route, is the third point of the movie in addition to these two beautiful women.
Leung Ka Fai once said that a truly professional actor, even if he takes a bad film, can rely on his personal charm and professionalism to infect and influence others on the set, so that everyone can unite and make a good movie.
Therefore, even in such a comedy based on "play", he can completely "release himself" and devote himself to playing a good role.
In "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", he once showed his singing voice with Zhang Guorong, and this time he sang Du Dewei's "Don't Go Home Today" in the movie.
This song, composed by Zuo Hongyuan, once made Du Dewei popular throughout the Chinese-speaking area, but in the mouth of Liang Jiahui, it sang the taste of "mean and lowly".
Hearing this song, and seeing Leung Ka Fai's performance in the film, Pi Ge once had the illusion that if a Hong Kong actor starred in a Marvel movie, Leung Ka Fai must be the best candidate for "Deadpool".
Finally, let's talk about Zhong Zhentao, who is also a movie star who has worked with director Liu Zhenwei many times.
His performance continues the funny style in movies such as "Gambler", "New Jingwumen" and "Comic Weilong", which belongs to the silly strong man type character, and also carries the funny skill of retracting freely.
It is precisely because of the passionate performances of these acting stars that this film, which was not originally a strong story and whose plot could not withstand scrutiny, still presented a unique charm. And "Black Rose", the old IP of the 60s, also regained its vitality in the 90s.
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Film prototype
"Black Rose" is a famous female snitch in Hong Kong film and television works, born in the 1965 film "Black Rose" directed by Chu Yuan.
The "Black Rose" has been a sister from the beginning, the sister Chen Meiru is played by Nan Hong, and the younger sister Chen Meiling is played by Chen Baozhu.
They were bullied by bullies when they were young, and when they grew up, they became black roses to rob the rich and help the poor.
Due to the popularity of the film after its release, in 1966 Chu Yuan made a sequel to "Black Rose and Black Rose".
The image of the black rose played by Chen Baozhu is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Hong Kong people are used to calling her original name, but over time they ignore the name of her role "Chen Meiling", so in this film, the white rose is simply called "Chen Baozhu".
Lü Qi and Liang Xingbo are both movie stars familiar to the audience in the old Hong Kong film era, and have cooperated with Chen Baozhu many times, and Lü Qi is Chen Baozhu's on-screen couple.
Liu Zhenwei named the characters after them in the film, and also paid tribute to these two old movie stars.
In addition to the 4 works mentioned above, Liu Zhenwei also cooperated with Yuan Kui in "Black Rose Righteous Knot Jinlan" in 1997, Huang Zhenzhen and Zhen Zidan cooperated in "Apprentice Black Rose" in 2004, and Hui Yinghong starred in 9 episodes of the TV series "My Aunt is a Black Rose" in 2015.
In 1981, our mainland director Wang Wenzhi made a Republic of China version of "Black Rose of the Heroes", which was set in the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the shape of black rose dressed in black with a red cape was extremely subversive.
Director Jin Ming also made a "Black Rose" in 1983, starring The Asia-Pacific film queen Lu Xiaofen, and Japanese national treasure actor Yasuaki Kurada also participated.
"Black Rose" can be regarded as a hong Kong superhero IP like "Black Man", and these two IPs have not been well developed so far, which is a pity.
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