The Hong Kong film market in the early and mid-1970s was surrounded by a variety of kung fu and martial arts films. Jiahe and Shaw became the two major focuses of the Hong Kong film market at this time. Bruce Lee, Dillon and David Jiang have also become the three most representative actors on the screen of Hong Kong films at this time.
In the mid-to-late 1970s, traditional kung fu films and martial arts films both showed a decline, while Xu Guanwen rose rapidly in the film industry with comedy, and Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao rose rapidly in the film industry with kung fu comedy. Jiahe is also in an invincible position above the Hong Kong film box office market at this time because of the expansion of the territory of hong Kong jinbao, jackie chan and Xu Guanwen.
After entering the 1980s, with Shaw's transformation of the television industry, Jiahe became the biggest hegemon of the Hong Kong film market. However, Jiahe's era of hegemony did not last long, and it encountered new opponents.
In the early 1980s, with the establishment of the "New Art City" by Shi Tian, Mai Jia and Huang Baiming, Jiahe's market hegemony began to be threatened. The box office competition between Jiahe and New Art City also kicked off.
In 1985, the box office battle between Jiahe and New Art City entered a white-hot stage. This year, Yuan Heping and Zhen Zidan also bred an alternative action classic "Love Meets the Enemy" under the smoke of the box office of Jiahe and New Art City.
Today, we will talk about this "Love Meets the Enemy"; at the same time, on the big screen of Hong Kong films in the 80s, the box office battle between Jiahe and New Art City.
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In 1982, Tsang directed "Best Partner" for New Art City, which beat Jackie Chan's "Young Master Long" and Hong Jinbao's "Beware of Little Hands", ranking first in the Hong Kong film box office of that year with more than 26 million results.
This is the first time after entering the 80s that Jiahe was ousted from the box office championship, and it is also the beginning of the box office war between Jiahe and New Art City.
In 1983, in order to regain the status of box office champion, Jiahe shot "Plan A" for Jackie Chan and "Five Lucky Stars for Hong Jinbao". These two works have achieved good results in the box office market, but they are still slightly inferior to the "Best Partner 2" launched by New Art City at the same time.
In the end, "Best Partner 2" won the annual Hong Kong film box office champion again with a score of more than 23 million.
In 1984, Xu Ke took over the baton of Zeng Zhiwei and served as the director of the "Best Partner" series, shooting "Best Partner 3". In this year's box office market, New Art City's "Best Partner 3" defeated Jiahe's "Fast Food Truck" and once again sat on the throne of box office champion.
Although it once again won the honor of box office champion, in 1984, the new art city, on top of the internal operation, there was a small episode. This year, Zeng Zhiwei and Xu Ke, who had served as directors for the "Best Partner" series, left New Art City one after another.
Xu Ke chose to set up his own "film studio" and embarked on the road of independent production. Zeng Zhiwei was recruited by Hong Jinbao and returned to the "Hong Family Class" again.
Xu Ke's departure and Zeng Zhiwei's transfer to Jiahe made New Art City have a sense of crisis. At this time, Huang Baiming, Shi Tian, and Mai Jia also began to look for new directors to take the place of Xu Ke and Zeng Zhiwei to prepare for the next round of box office wars.
At this time, Yuan Heping and the "Yuan Family Class" behind him became the object of the new art city. And this "Love meets the enemy", which was invested by New Art City and filmed by Yuan Jiaban, was also born in this background.
Some fans may be curious, "After Xu Ke and Zeng Zhiwei left, why did New Art City choose to woo Yuan Heping?" ”
In fact, looking at the three box office confrontations between Jiahe and New Art City, it is not difficult for us to find the answer to this question.
From 1982 to 1984, the "Best Partner" trilogy beat jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao three times in the box office market of action comedies. However, when it comes to the presentation of "action elements" in the film, the "best partner" of New Art City is far inferior to Jiahe's "Plan A", "Strange Scheme Five Lucky Stars", "Fast Food Truck" and other works.
The reason why the "Best Partner" trilogy can win the box office war is because of the novel theme mode and the presentation of comedic effects. However, when the audience's freshness of the subject matter gradually eased, the flaws of the "Best Partner" series in the action scenes were also expressed step by step.
Jiahe has two major teams of "Hongjia Class" and "Chengjia Class", which can be said to be impeccable in the performance of action elements. If New Art City wants to fight against it, it must choose a strong action team to make up for its own shortcomings. Yuan Heping and "Yuan JiaBan" are obviously a good choice.
Coincidentally, in the early 80s, the kung fu comedy market declined. In 1984, Yuan Heping filmed a kung fu comedy classic "Laughing Tai Chi" for his beloved disciple Zhen Zidan, but after the film was released, the results were dismal, and Yuan Heping also fell into a creative bottleneck.
After the market failure of "Laughing Taiji", Yuan Heping also longed for an opportunity to transform the action comedy market. At this time, the olive branch thrown by the new art city just provided such an opportunity for Yuan Dao.
So in 1985, New Art City cooperated with "Yuan Jiaban" to shoot the action comedy "Love Meets the Enemy".
In order to create a gimmick for the film, Yuan Heping personally went down and co-starred with Zhen Zidan in this "Love Meets the Enemy". Next, we will talk to you about this "dance classic" cooperated by Yuan Heping and Zhen Zidan.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, breakdancing became popular among young people. In 1983, in order to attract young audiences, the famous director Zhang Che filmed the movie "Thunderbolt Love". Although this work was not good at the box office after its release, the design of "break dance" and "kung fu fighting" in the film left a deep impression on many filmmakers at that time.
Probably influenced by director Zhang Che, Yuan Heping also intended to shoot a comedy that combined "break dance" and "action fight" when he cooperated with New Art City in 1985, hoping to attract the attention of young audiences.
Therefore, after the joint efforts of "Yuan Jiaban" and "New Art City", the story of "Love meets the enemy" appeared on the screen.
The story of "Love Meets the Opponent" is not complicated, and the teenager Eddie (played by Zhen Zidan) and his sister Ah Ying (played by Huang Yunshi) are dependent on each other. In order to make ends meet, Ah Ying opens a fast food restaurant, and her cousin Stella (played by Luo Meiwei) also helps out at the fast food restaurant. Eddie loves breakdancing and neglects her studies, which gives her sister a lot of headaches.
Big Eye (played by Yuan Heping), who sells sugar cane, is originally a Peking Opera actor, but Peking Opera has declined, and can only rely on setting up stalls and selling sugar cane for a living. However, the "chengguan" raided and the stalls of big eyes were confiscated. The big eyes that lost the means of livelihood were helpless to live on the streets.
Big Eyes, who wanders the streets, is hit by Eddie, who is riding a bicycle. After Eddie apologized, he hurried away. Eddie was busy going to a breakdancing party, and Big Eye learned that there was a lot of good food on the party that could be enjoyed for free, so he wanted to go to a full meal and take advantage.
At the party, Bigeye wants to eat, but is stopped by a dancer named "Colorful". Colorful said the party was for break dancers, who were not dancers and were not eligible for food unless they could dance for a while to prove their abilities.
Although Big Eye did not know break dancing, he studied Peking Opera in his early years. He saw that most of the dancers' movements were jumping and spinning, similar to the flying legs and flips on the stage, and then performed a period of flying legs and flips.
The big-eyed flying legs and flip techniques made everyone marvel. And the female dancer "Anna", whom Eddie has been secretly in love with, also began to talk and get close to Eddie because of her big eyes. In order to attract Anna's attention, Eddie decided to follow Big Eye and learn the techniques of flying legs and flips.
Learning that Bigeye has lost his means of livelihood, Eddie arranges for Bigeye to work at his sister's fast food restaurant. After learning the big-eyed flip technique, Eddie successfully attracted Anna's attention with her fancy dance steps, and the relationship between the two was further developed.
While working at a fast food restaurant, Big Eye also had subtle emotional changes with Eddie's sister.
As Eddie and Anna's relationship progresses, Stella begins to sneer at Eddie. It turned out that Stella had already had a crush on Edido, and now that she saw that Eddie and Anna had strong feelings, Stella couldn't help but be jealous.
Colorful has a big brother named Kenny, who came to Hong Kong from the United States. Kenny accidentally meets Anna on the tennis court, develops love, and when he learns that Anna is dating Eddie, Kenny decides to compete with Eddie.
In order to attract Anna's attention, Kenny and Eddie first played against tennis, and then danced at the banquet.
Eddie used a series of victories to bring himself closer to Anna again. And Stella's jealousy has also embarrassed Eddie many times.
After a few twists and turns, Eddie discovers that it's Stella, not Anna, who really likes her.
With the finalization of the two couples of Eddie and Stella, Big Eye and Ah Ying, the story of "Love meets the enemy" also came to an end.
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In 1984, Zhen Zidan officially entered the film industry because of his role in "Laughing Taiji", and this "Love Meets the Enemy" also became the second work in Zhen Zidan's acting career.
It may be considered that Zhen Zidan is still a newcomer in the film industry, and his acting skills are still relatively immature, so director Yuan Heping reduced the literary performance of the role of "Eddie" and increased his role in dance and fighting.
When starring in "Love Meets the Enemy", Zhen Zidan was 22 years old. At the peak of his physical fitness, he not only presented his superb dance skills in the film, but also staged many wonderful fist and foot fights.
In the middle of the film, Eddie and Kenny breakdancing duels at the party left a deep impression on many viewers. The bicycle playing tennis and the ring boxing match with the "martial idiot" Di Wei have also made many fans remember it vividly.
Zhen Zidan's action performance in this "Love Meets the Enemy" is indeed remarkable, but in order to make up for the lack of literary drama, director Yuan Heping also chose to personally go down and starred in the male number two "Big Eye" in the film, trying to turn the tide and shoulder the funny responsibility of the film.
Yuan Heping is most praised by fans for his superb "action guidance ability". However, in this "Love Meets the Enemy", Yuan Baye's talent for comedy performance also made many audiences shine.
In this "Love Meets the Enemy", the emotional lines of Big Eye and Ah Ying have been undulating several times, creating the birth of many funny bridge sections, and Yuan Heping's joyful performance and pinched expression have also added a lot of highlights to these bridge sections.
In the Hong Kong film screen, although Yuan Heping has also made cameo appearances in many film works, most of them are few shots and flashes. In this "Love Meets the Enemy", Director Yuan showed his acting skills to the audience through a large number of literary and opera performances, and also showed his dedication.
At the beginning of the film, the shot of Yuan Heping personally taking the battle and swallowing the pushpin allows us to see the attitude of the older generation of filmmakers to film work. At the same time, it also makes us realize the professionalism that those traffic actors lack today.
In addition to Yuan Heping and Zhen Zidan, the outstanding performance of other actors has also added a lot of highlights to this "Love Enemy".
Luo Meiwei, the "sister-in-law of the Heavenly King", became popular in the film industry in the early years because of the "Happy Ghost" series of "New Art City". In this "Love Rival", Luo Meiwei was recommended by the boss behind the scenes, Huang Baiming, and served as the heroine of the film, "Stella". The pure and lovely screen performance also made her the face of the film.
And Huang Yunshi's excellent acting skills will also be the role of her sister "Ah Ying", sometimes introverted, sometimes contrived, the performance is vivid, adding a lot of laughter to the film.
The joining of the powerful star Di Wei has also contributed a lot of highlights to the fight scene of "Love Meets the Enemy". At the end of the film, Di Wei and Zhen Zidan are in the ring, and the hardcore fight from fist to flesh is still fresh in the memory of many fans.
It is worth mentioning that this "Love Meets the Enemy" can be said to be the starting point of Zhen Zidan's hard-hitting style. In the film, Yuan Zhenyang, as an action director, integrates the characteristics of fighting into the film performance.
Although this fist-to-flesh fight was short,it laid the groundwork for Zhen Zidan's subsequent development. After the film, Zhen Zidan grew step by step, and his career progressed step by step. And this hardcore action design style that integrates the characteristics of fighting and fighting also allows Zhen Zidan to punch out his own on-screen status in the film industry.
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This "Love Meets the Enemy", jointly created by New Art City and Yuan Jiaban, although well-made, has encountered a number of strong opponents after its release.
From 1982 to 1984, New Art City stole the box office title from Jiahe three times. Probably because the resentment was too deep, Jiahe in 1985 carried out a wave of explosions.
This year, with the assistance of Zeng Zhiwei, Hong Jinbao filmed two classics, "Fuxing Gaozhao" and "Summer Fuxing". Jackie Chan also directed and acted in "Police Story", with his touching and bloody stunts, shocking wave after wave of moviegoers.
In 1985, Liu Guanwei of Hongjiaban independently filmed "Mr. Zombie". And this year, Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao also joined forces to shoot "The Heart of the Dragon".
In the 1985 Hong Kong film market, "FuXing Gaozhao", "Summer Fuxing", "Police Story", "Dragon's Heart" and "Mr. Zombie" occupied the top five positions at the annual box office.
In the face of these strong opponents, "Love Rival" only got more than 6 million box office results, falling at the feet of Jiahe's vast box office army.
In 1985, on the Hong Kong film market, Jiahe defeated New Art City, and the victory was very thorough. Under the ferocious attack of Jiahe, this well-made "Love Meets the Enemy" was helplessly submerged in the torrent of the times.