Who is Wong Ping Yao?
If you are familiar with Stephen Chow films, you should remember the 1991 Hong Kong film box office champion "Truant Weilong".
The Director Wang who made the "life-killing scissor foot" eventually become Zhou Xingxing's must-kill skill was Huang Bingyao.
On October 16, 1991, during the filming of "Dragons in the Wild" in Germany, Huang Bingyao died of a sudden heart attack, exactly thirty years ago.
"Truancy Weilong" is Chow Sing Chi's second annual box office champion, when he has become a "Star Master" from "Star Boy", and the high-selling "Truant Veyron" has been filmed three times in a row, which is the most influential film series in Chow Sing Chi's early years.
In "Truant Weilong", Zhou Xingchi played the captain of the Flying Tigers, who was ordered to go undercover as a student to a middle school to find the missing gun of the police superintendent, and then cracked a large-scale arms trafficking case.
As soon as the director who lost his gun appeared, he couldn't help but let the Flying Tigers ace Zhou Xingchi turn around, blow a whistle, and leave a sentence of "Who wants your chastity, I want your youth" so that Zhou Xingchi began his campus undercover journey.
This is a line called "earth-shattering ghost god" by star fans, Huang Bingyao's handwriting.
Those classic shots of Xingye that throw chalk and throw chalk wipes are all modified and remade by Huang Bingyao, and many of the classic bridge sections in them are discussed by Xingye and Huang Bingyao.
This masterpiece of the star master's nonsense style has directly led to the rise of campus comedy movies.
In this classic of Chow Sing Chi's comedy film, the female number one is Zhang Min with a delicate face, and the supporting roles include old partner Wu Mengda, Pomegranate Sister Yuan Qiongdan, Zhang Yaoyang of Dongxing Crow, Qin Pei, a traitor professional, etc. Huang Bingyao's identity is not only an actor but also one of the screenwriters of the film.
Both identities are successful, and director Wang's name may not be remembered, but "deadly scissor foot" has been an important code for interaction between star fans for a long time.
Screenwriters are even more skilled. At the Hong Kong Film Awards the following year, "Truant Weilong" received four best nominations, and "Best Screenplay" was one of them.
At that year's Academy Awards, although Wong Ping-yiu did not win the "Best Screenplay Award", he won the "Professionalism Award at the 11th Hong Kong Film Awards" together with Tu Meiqing, a senior in the industry.
Unfortunately, at that time, Huang Bingyao had been dead for more than half a year.
Although the award of the Academy Awards seems to be comforting to outsiders, fans familiar with Hong Kong films know that Wong Bingyao won this award by no means a waste.
Liu Zhenwei, who was crowned by "Journey to the West", was once the most powerful screenwriter in the Hong Kong film industry, but in the eyes of "Dear Grapes", Huang Bingyao is a "genius screenwriter".
In 1984, the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards was nominated for Best Screenplay by Wong Ping-yiu (Hung Kam Po's "Scary People"), and in the 5th edition, he was nominated for best screenplay for the Jackie Chan film "The Heart of the Dragon".
Prior to his death in October 1991, Wong Ping-yiu was working on the screenwriting of another of Fa Ge's god-like hero films, Detective Hot Hand.
When the Chow Run-fat film was released on April 16, 1992, the name "Wong Ping-yiu" was framed in the title of "screenwriter" in the title of the film.
At the end of the film, the words "MissIng Huang Bingyao" were solemnly typed on the scene where fans have been chanting the death of "Ah Lang" played by Liang Chaowei.
Huang Bingyao's role is to directly catalyze the peak of Zhou Runfa's sealing of the gods.
Fa Ge and Wu Yusen's cooperation of this "Hot Hand Detective" is an important film starring Chow Yun Fat in Hong Kong in the 90s, when the film industry has entered the era of Stephen Chow, but Fa Ge's film is still a box office guarantee, and was renamed "Gun God" when it was released in Taiwan.
The film co-starred Chow Yun Fat and Liang Chaowei, and it was rumored that Liang Chaowei rejected the nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards the following year, because he believed that his role was as important as Fa Ge and should be nominated for Best Actor.
This is the last film that Chow Yun-fat and Wu Yusen worked together.
It is also considered by many to be the originator of the "Infernal Affairs" style of film, and Wong Bingyao's role is well known.
Huang Bingyao first joined the film and television circle as a screenwriter, and the starting point is quite high.
Wong Bing-yiu, who was a former middle school teacher, entered the film industry in 1981 to write a script for Jackie Chan's film company, and although the first screenplay "Rat Street" was not alarmed when the film was released, and even let today's audiences call it "three views are not correct", Wong Bingyao successfully attracted the attention of Hong Kong film big brother Hong Jinbao.
So he entered Jiahe and became Hong Jinbao's royal screenwriter and golden partner in the film industry.
The first cannon of the duo's cooperation is "Loser Boy", which made Hong Jinbao's Hong Jia Ban, the number one martial artist in Hong Kong, focusing on the witty comedy of the city and becoming a masterpiece in the kung fu comedy pioneered by Jackie Chan Hong.
Comedy is also the main genre of Huang Bingyao's creation, and in the subsequent "Jiahe Era", Wong Bingyao and Hong Jinbao also created the "Fuxing" series and "Zombie" series that Hong Kong film fans are talking about.
"Strange Tricks Five Lucky Stars", "Lucky Stars High Light", "Summer Lucky Stars", "Best Lucky Stars" and so on, so that Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao, Yuan Biao and others are popular throughout Southeast Asia.
"Mr. Zombie" helped Lin Zhengying become a representative of zombie movies from then on.
"Royal Sister" made Yang Ziqiong the best among Hong Kong female star stars, and eventually went to Hollywood.
Huang Bingyao, who wrote the script quickly and well, transcribed the literary film "A Tale of Two Cities" and let Zeng Zhiwei get the film emperor.
Of course, the people behind the scenes will never be as beautiful and well-known as in front of the stage, and some people may never know Wong Bingyao behind Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao, Lin Zhengying, Zhou Runfa and Zhou Xingchi.
In fact, in addition to being the owner of the "kind gun" in "Truant Weilong", the peak of the actor, Huang Bingyao has also starred in many movies.
Chief Inspector Li Xiuxian in "Blood And Two Heroes", police boss in "Curry Pepper" starring Stephen Chow and Jacky Cheung, and Director Huang Xingchi called for help in "Gambler on the Beach".
It is a famous "superintendent professional household" in Hong Kong films.
Today, wong Ping-yiu has been dead for a full thirty years, and he left in the golden age of Hong Kong cinema.
His death directly contributed to the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Writers Association.
He is a person that Hong Kong film fans should not forget.
Released in 1993, "Remember when the bananas are ripe" was wong Bingyao's last appearance on the screen.
His role is that of a teacher, and there are not many scenes.
The final shot is of a student on vacation, alone in the classroom silently cleaning up his desks and chairs. The subtitles are titled "in loving memory of Wong Ping Yao".
Commemorating him thirty years later is not only to commemorate the glory of Hong Kong films thirty years ago, but also to thank his works for bringing us the best memories of youth.