Gambler you may not know
In 1989, Wang Jing's "God of Gamblers" fire, while wildly winning 37.05 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, also set off a wave of Hong Kong gambling films, following the trend of countless works, and the most representative is Liu Zhenwei's "Gamble Saint", which won 41.32 million box office in one fell swoop after the release, and also made Zhou Xingchi become a star master overnight, Wang Jing saw this and decided to immediately make another gambling film, and dug Chow Xingchi under his own door, inviting Wu Mengda Zhang Min, who starred in "Gambling Saint", as his foil. However, Wang Jing's main purpose is to tailor a "Gambler" for Andy Lau, and he wants to let the apprentice of the God of Gamblers have a duel with the gambling saint with special functions
Although Zhou Xingchi was dug up, Wang Jing could not use the name of Xingye, Zuo Songxing in the Gambling Saint, because the Gambling Saint was Liu Zhenwei's work, and the source of the name Zuo Songxing was also Liu Zhenwei's assistant director Zuo Songsheng, who had cooperated with Liu Zhenwei many times and also starred in many brilliant supporting roles, so Xingye's big name in the Gambler series became "Moro Xing" and Zhou Xingzu
At the beginning of the filming, Wang Jing originally only wanted Zhou Xingchi, who had just been on fire, to be a foil for Andy Lau, but he did not expect that Xingye had unconsciously robbed Andy Lau of a lot of limelight, so Wang Jing found that this effect was better and then simply let Xingye play to the fullest, and added some scenes to him, after that, Wang Jing cooperated with Xingye for nearly ten years, until now he also had to evaluate Zhou Xingchi as the best actor, no matter who it was, he would become a supporting role in front of him
The length of the film is 104 minutes, but in fact, the full version of this movie has a total of 123 minutes, this is because the Hong Kong movie of that year in order to maximize the income, it will let the movie loop in the theater, as long as the length of the film can be played several times, so the length of a movie at that time is generally about 90 minutes, the director will also reduce part of the plot when cutting, and the gambler is a Hong Kong movie that deletes part of the plot, such as some very dirty laughs and lines, the reason why A Xing passed the special function to the third uncle, the villain's conversation, So, that's why when we look back at this movie, we feel that some of the plot changes are very abrupt, but there are also many viewers who have seen these deleted plots, because the cheaters were not full versions of the film when they released the tapes