In 1993, "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" won 40.17 million Hong Kong dollars, helping Zhou Xingxing win the annual box office championship for the fourth time.
As we all know, Hong Kong filmmakers like to follow the trend, "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" is on fire, a large number of costume comedies have struck, and 1994's "Lun Wen Shu Lao Dian Liu Xian Kai" is more representative.
The film is produced by Deng Guangrong, directed by Rowan (not the one who sings), and co-starred Zhang Weijian, Aaron Kwok, Zhou Huimin, Wu Mengda, And Leung Ka-jen.
Many students may not understand the name of the movie, but "old point" has the meaning of deception, trickery, and teasing in Cantonese, so it can be understood as Lun Wenshu playing Tricks Liu Xiankai.
01, Lun Wenshu and Liu Xiankai
Liu Xiankai is a folklore figure and has no canonical history records, while Lun Wenshu is a real historical figure, the first ruler of Guangzhou during the Ming Dynasty, and the candidates in the same period were Tang Bohu and Wang Yangming, two big bulls.
As early as the Cantonese fragments of the 1950s, Luo Jianlang, Liu Luhua, Lu Guoxiong and Gu Guanzhong all played this historical figure.
Cantonese fragments are a treasure trove for Hong Kong films, and many classic films of the 1980s and 1990s are remakes of Cantonese fragments, which Chow Sing Chi and Wang Jing have also mentioned many times.
The most well-known "Lun Wen Shu" is Zhang Weijian's version, "Lun Wen Shu Old Point Liu Xiankai" as a nonsense costume comedy, the overall story is quite smooth.
However, the division of labor between the two clues is not clear, focusing on the drama of the competition between the "Ming School" and the "Oriental Academy" represented by Lun Wenxu and Liu Xiankai;
Another line is represented by Liang Jiaren and The East Factory Liu Jiahui, the fight scene is designed by Dong Wei, Pan Jianjun and Jiang Daohai, which is extremely exciting, but some details are ignored, and in the end, the Eight Emperors are not explained.
02, Zhou Xingchi film supporting roles a large collection
The film lineup is luxurious, Zhang Weijian and Aaron Kwok, two beautiful men, full of "friendship", put it now indispensable to the group CP, the proper "Chen Qing Ling" and "Mountain and River Order" both visual sense.
The heroine Zhou Huimin has long hair and shawls, and the delicate Qi bangs look full of girlishness, worthy of being the "jade girl leader"
Uncle Da, Zhou Xingxing's best partner, the image of the principal who is greedy for money is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people;
"Wu Zhuangyuan" Liang Jiaren and "Life-Killing Scholar" Liu Jiahui, the two are still sworn enemies, Li Wanlong against the Jinyi Wei commander;
Wu Zhuangyuan came, how to get the "magnificent" pomegranate sister Yuan Qiongdan, the consistent ugly style, starred in Lun Wenshu's mother;
Liang Rongzhong, the "father of Wangcai", Huang Yishan, the "stupid son" of Huafu, and Li Peter, a teaching gentleman of "Zuo Qinglong and Right White Tiger", also cameo appearances.
Shang Shu Luxiong, who was "ungrateful" in "Nine Pin Sesame Officials", Huang Yifei, who reversed black and white, and Xia Ping, the mother of Bao Longxing, who used salted fish as a sword, also came to help;
Zhou Wenjian, who likes Zhu Yin in "Truant Weilong 2", Zheng Jiasheng, the judge who broke his clothes in "The King of Destruction", Li Haisheng, who played the "uncle" in "Descendants of the Dragon", and Deng Zhaozun, the fiancé of the worm worm in "Hundred Variable Star Jun", all have good performances.
In addition, there are "fat cat" Zheng Zeshi, "Wash the Injustice" of the Ten Wang Ye Ande zun, senior TV artist Bai Yin, ATV artist Bao Peiru and other people to join, jointly creating this classic.
03, imitate the plot of Stephen Chow movie
Zhou Xingchi movie supporting roles have, naturally it is indispensable to imitate some Chow Xingchi movie plot;
For example, Da Shu's blackboard smashed Deng Zhaozun, is not the drama of "Truant Weilong";
Lun Wenshu and Liu Xiankai played the "CopperHead Seven" Li Haisheng, which is similar to Zhou Xingchi's knocking on the bald king's head in "The Whole Trick Expert", and this trick was later performed in chen Xiaochun's version of "Deer Ding" unchanged.
Since it is the "follow-up work" of "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", how can it be rare to "copy" the wonderful pair of sub-paragraphs.
For example, at the beginning, Zheng Zeshi left a message on the wall of the Liu family: The old mother of the Liu family is not a person, and she has a son to be a thief.
Originally, it was a curse word, but Lun Wenshu added two sentences, which immediately became a good word: the old mother of the Liu family is not a human, and the nine-day fairy goes down to the mortal dust; raise a son to be a thief, steal the peach to offer to the mother.
Lun Wenshu and Liu Xiankai arrived late, the principal came out of pairs, and the gold character edge was shanglian: milling money shovel lithium pot;
Willow first opened with fruits: citrus banana orange pear grapefruit;
Lun Wenshu uses birds and beasts: geese and vultures to carve tanuki lion baboons. (Students who understand Cantonese should understand the meaning, this is swearing)
Then the college elects the class leader, wins with his talent, and composes a five-word poem, including "circle" and "tip".
Lun Wenshu: Yantai is round and round, the tip of the brush is sharp and pointed; three poems are written in a row, and the middle one is a literary figure.
Liu Xiankai: The longbow is round and round, the tip of the arrow is pointed and pointed; three arrows in a row, the middle Wu Zhuangyuan.
Cheng Qing: The belly is round and round, the ten fingertips are pointed; one child gives birth to two sons, and wen and wu are two yuan.
Later, When Old Master Qian passed his birthday, he came up with a question, and two "colleges" made moves:
Qian Laoye: Nantong Prefecture, North Tongzhou, North and South Tongzhou Through North and South.
East pawnshop, west pawnshop, east pawnshop pawnshop.
LunWenshu: big casinos, small casinos, big and small casinos bet on size.
Old Master Qian: Moonlight screen window, each kong Ming Zhuge Liang.
Dongfang Answer: Shoubi Nanshan, happy money lord every year.
Lun Wenshu: Like the flow of water, the first golden song Mei Yanfang.
In the movie, it is common to ridicule "stars", not only Mei Yanfang, Xingchi, Runfa, Jet Li have not escaped, but even the older generation of artists Lin Jiao, Lü Qi and Zhang Huoyou have not let go, and will carry out the nonsense to the end.
04, Deng Guangrong's "retired" work
"LunWen Shu Old Point Liu Xiankai" uses a postmodern perspective to deconstruct ancient characters, in order to create contrasts and jokes, although the plot is lacking, but the laughter is very sufficient, both joyful and good-looking.
However, the box office was not satisfactory, and it only sold 8.38 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong that year, ranking 36th in the annual box office list.
The top three box office players that year were Chow Yun-fat's "God of Gamblers" second part, Jackie Chan's "Drunken Fist 2" and Stephen Chow's "Domestic 007".
The failure of "Lun Wen Shu Old Point Liu Xiankai" was a heavy blow to the "big guy" Deng Guangrong, as we all know, wong Kar-wai's "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" was a fiasco at the box office, and he was so angry that he was hospitalized.
In the middle, relying on "Dragons and The Four Seas" and "Black Panther World", a little bit of blood returned, and I did not expect to directly let Zhang Weijian's "Lunwen Shu Old Point Liu Xiankai" lay down, and the Shadow Jie Film Company announced that it was closed.
And Deng Guangrong also chose to "retire" early, and since then, a generation of "big guys" have withdrawn from the film industry and no longer care about the affairs of the jianghu.
In fact, this can not blame Zhang Weijian, after all, in the movie his "sacrifice" is not small, directly staged the "licking the soles of the foot" drama, how many people can do it?
It can only be said that Zhang Weijian's fate is not good, or there is no clear positioning, at first he just imitated Zhou Xingchi's performance.
"Truancy" followed the trend of "Truant Weilong", "A Comic Book Breaks the World 2" followed the pace of Zhou Xingchi, and then hugged Wang Jing's thigh.
Wang Jing also made a bloody bet in order to praise Zhang Weijian, "Huang Feihong's Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede" let him partner Jet Li, and "Seven Princesses of Wuxia" used 7 "female heroes" to match him;
The most absolute is "Super School Overlord", Andy Lau Jacky Cheung's three kings came to help.
Unfortunately, these are useless, Zhang Weijian is still tepid, until he later acted in TVB's "Journey to the West" before he really went out of the circle, and then he found his own positioning and began to shine in the field of TV dramas.
"Young Hero Fang Shiyu", "Xiao Bao and Kangxi", "Clever Little Don't Understand", "Young Zhang Sanfeng", "Fang Mu Shen Detective", "Cornucopia", Zhang Weijian can be said to have contracted most of the childhood of many classmates, and he also won a title of "TV drama version of Zhou Xingchi".
The box office "failure" of "Lun Wen Shu Lao Dian Liu Xian Kai" tells us two truths, first, people should be cautious; second, actors must find their own positioning.
Jackie Chan jumped out of Bruce Lee and ran wild on the road of kung fu comedy; Zhen Zidan stayed away from Jet Li and Jackie Chan and played a world in fashion action movies; and Wu Jing found box office passwords in military war movies;
Their success, without exception, has found their own positioning, such as Zhao Wenzhuo, Shi Xiaolong and other action actors, they are still groping, looking forward to an early rise. (Author: Zhou Huai'an)