The Hong Kong entertainment industry has always had a spell of 3 years and a superstar fall.
In 1973, Kung Fu superstar Bruce Lee;
In 1993, Chen Baiqiang and Huang Jiaju, the kings of the music world;
In 2003, brother Zhang Guorong and Mei sister Mei Yanfang;
In 2013, a generation of grandmaster Liu Jialiang.
So, which superstar fell in 1983?
The hour hand is set back to July 7, 1983, a day of deep pain for all vocal fans. Fu Sheng, a generation of kung fu superstars, had a tragic car accident in Hong Kong's ClearWater Bay, and died after being sent to the hospital, at the age of 28.
Many friends may be unfamiliar with this name, but when it comes to his wife, I believe everyone is familiar with it. Fu Sheng's wife is the diva who has sung classic songs such as "Lu Binghua" and "Iron Blood Dan Heart", Zhen Ni, who was once called "the giant lung of the music world" by Huang Xia.
At his peak, Fu Sheng was known as "Bruce Lee's successor".
The wind and rain have blown the lights and candles out, and the name grows in the teeth and teeth cold.
From porter to kung fu superstar, Fu Sheng, whose life is frozen at the age of 28, what has he experienced?
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Fu Sheng was born on October 20, 1954 in Hong Kong, China.
His father, Zhang Renlong, was originally born in Bao'an, Guangdong Province, and later moved to Hong Kong to pursue a business career.
With years of hard work, Zhang Renlong has accumulated huge wealth while also achieving the position of president of the New Territories Chamber of Commerce.
Later, he entered politics, and Zhang Renlong was named a "gentleman of balance" by the British government of Hong Kong.
It is reasonable to say that Fu Sheng was born in such a family, and how could he not be reduced to the point of porter.
But sometimes, reality is so realistic.
At that time, when the Zhang family moved to Hong Kong, it was from the "running dock" step by step to break out of the family business.
As a child, Fu Sheng was stubborn and brave, and before he could finish middle school, he dropped out of school.
His father, enraged, threw him out of the house and forbade his family to help him—forcing Fu Sheng to become self-reliant.
At first, Fu Sheng didn't care, he spent all day on the pitch doing nothing.
But after a while, he couldn't hold back.
The money ran out and the food was gone.
Painfully, he found a job.
Like most young people who dropped out of school, Fu Sheng, who was just looking for a job, was not "qualitative."
He has worked as a delivery man, a decoration worker, a site worker and other miscellaneous jobs.
Fu Sheng's parents are fierce on the surface, but in fact, they are paying attention to Fu Sheng's every move behind their backs.
Zhang Renlong befriended the director Zhang Che, so he asked Zhang Che to come forward and let Fu Sheng be a crew porter.
Moving props, sending box lunches, acting out dead bodies... The dirty and tiring work of the crew was all handed over to Fu Sheng.
As a result, Fu Sheng not only did not think of suffering, but also thought of pleasure.
Zhang Che was greatly amazed!
In Hong Kong in the 1970s, the film and television industry was in the ascendant.
Faced with an urgent shortage of film and television talents, Run Run Shaw held an actor training class.
Fu Sheng, a porter, became the first student of the Shaw Actor Training Course at the recommendation of Zhang Che.
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In order to test Fu Sheng, Zhang Che did not directly assign him a role after graduation, but let him continue to work as a porter.
For example, in 1971, when Zhang Che filmed "Fourteen Female Heroes", Fu Sheng showed his face.
At that time, Fu Sheng was the true color of the actor, and he and his "mount" running back and forth, the two-eight-bar bicycle, were in the camera together.
In 1972, Fu Sheng made a cameo appearance in the film "Qiu Lianhuan" co-directed by Zhang Che and Bao Xueli.
After that, he continued to work as a porter while continuing to run the dragon set.
Originally, Zhang Che wanted to test him for a few years, but in 1973, a big thing happened in the Hong Kong film industry - Bruce Lee died!
The fall of a generation of kung fu superstars has caused heavy losses to the Hong Kong film industry.
Shaw and Zhang Che immediately decided to create a "Bruce Lee successor".
This successor, who had high hopes, was None other than Fu Sheng.
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In 1973, Shaw and Zhang Che began to praise Fu Sheng.
First let him partner Jiang David, in the movie "Friends" mixed faces.
The following year, Fu Sheng's acting path was already fully opened.
Shaw handed over his martial arts action blockbuster "Hong Xiguan and Fang Shiyu" to Fu Sheng, who starred in Fang Shiyu four times in his short acting career.
In this year alone, Fu Sheng starred in 6 films, including "Hong Xiguan and Fang Shiyu" and "Hong Fist and Wing Chun".
After that, the popularity of movies such as "Nezha" and "Five Ancestors of Shaolin" quickly made Fu Sheng grow into a hot kung fu superstar.
He is handsome, flexible, and proficient in all kinds of weapons.
For example, the picture below shows the flute in the left hand and the horizontal knife in the right hand, and the imitators later imitated it.
For example, the action of holding a fist with both hands and a knife on the wrist is also classic.
For example, when a smoking gun reaches Fu Sheng's hand, he can use it as a weapon.
Not to mention what a fork in the arm.
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Zhang Che likes "hard horses and hard bridges" and is a smart actor. For example, Wang Yu and Jiang David.
The appearance of Fu Sheng made Zhang Che ecstatic, and while he praised him, he even accepted him as a righteous son.
In just one or two years, Fu Sheng and another disciple of Zhang Che, Qi Guanjun, formed a "freshman duo".
Earlier, the pickpocket sister said that Fu Sheng likes to be brave and fierce, and his personality is stubborn, so Zhang Che also has a way to cure him.
He asked Dillon and David Jiang to help discipline Fu Sheng.
Dillon and David Jiang are two brothers, one severe and one gentle.
Jiang David treated Fu Sheng like a friend, and the two often talked and went shopping together.
Dillon, on the other hand, was like a stern big brother, who used his eyes to restrain Fu Sheng from time to time. This thing should not be done, this sentence should not be said, the car can not drive too fast, the meal can not be eaten too urgently... One look in the eye.
It is said that Fu Sheng followed Dillon's car while driving, and did not even dare to press the horn.
It was precisely under the discipline of the two brothers' ears and one gentle and one rigid that Fu Sheng in the early stage of his debut would not "deviate".
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To call an actor a successful superstar, not only must he have the real kung fu of "hard horse hard bridge", but also his play path must be broad.
That's the case with Fu Sheng.
Hard horse hard bridge, fist to flesh, that is a must:
At the same time, his facial expressions are particularly rich:
Kung Fu comedy? By then there were already:
Play Guo Jing, then go eat fat:
Literary films can also be competent:
Is Jackie Chan's "Serpentine Executioner" a tribute or an imitation?
It is hard to imagine what Fu Sheng would have achieved if he had not died young.
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When Fu Sheng's acting career was booming, he also harvested his own happy love.
His love story with Zhen Ni is known as the entertainment industry version of "Talented Beauty".
Two people on the cover of the magazine, it is commonplace:
Xiu'en loves and envies others:
Zhen Ni often visits the crew:
After Fu Sheng's death, Zhen Ni was devastated.
While insisting on not remarrying, she also gave birth to a daughter in the fourth year of Fu Sheng's death, using her pre-frozen sperm.
We have heard so many love stories, and we did not expect that the entertainment industry has such a touching story.
Unfortunately, most good love stories are tragedies.
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At 10:30 p.m. on July 6, 1983, Fu Sheng, his brother Zhang Zhensheng, his younger brother Zhang Zhanpeng, and the movie star Wang Yu went to the Clearwater Bay set to shoot the location.
On the way, unfortunately, a car accident occurred.
On July 7, Fu Sheng died in hospital.
The poor generation of kung fu superstars fell to the age of 28.
Regarding Fu Sheng's death, many people are difficult to let go.
In the interview, Zhen Ni was embarrassed:
That license plate number was not originally AD83, and later a friend sent him this number, this friend is very famous, everyone knows it, so it is still not good to talk about it. Fu Sheng's English name was Alexander (A), Dead (D), and the year of his death was exactly 1983 (83), and coincidentally the number of the death certificate was the same as the license plate number.
And the memories of his brother Zhang Zhensheng, who was in the same car as Fu Sheng, made Fu Sheng's death a little more supernatural.
At Shaw's annual meeting that year, Liu Jiahui could not help himself as soon as he mentioned Fu Sheng. The guests in the hall were all crying bitterly.
A few years later, when the media wrote about Fu Sheng, they still did not want to believe that he had passed away.
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Fu Sheng's death dealt a very big blow to Zhang Che.
Originally scheduled for Fu Sheng's role in "The Thirteenth Taibao on the Beach" because of Fu Sheng's death, he handed over this role to Andy Lau, and after that, Zhang Che hardly filmed much.
Zhang Che still did not hesitate to praise this disciple in his memoir "Zhang Che's Memoirs and Film Critics":
He was 17 years old when I brought him into the industry. Handsome in appearance, good physique, lively and revealing wildness. Fu Sheng was already a "boy" when he filmed "Fang Shiyu and Hong Xiguan", and films such as "Hong Fist Boy" and "Five Ancestors of Shaolin" have a sense of comedy, yiwen Yiwu.
After Fu Sheng's death, Jackie Chan paid tribute to (imitated) Fu Sheng's "Hong Fist and Wing Chun" and filmed films such as "Drunken Fist" and "Snake-like Executioner".
A generation of new people replaced the old, Fu Sheng's era has passed, and the era belonging to Jackie Chan has arrived.
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Director Wang Jing even used "I am a man who likes him" to describe Fu Sheng's charm.
He once recalled:
In addition to The Shaw boss and director Chu Yuan, the most memorable thing for me in Shaw is Fu Sheng. When I first filmed "Flower Heart" with him, he helped me pull out of the trough of my life. Later, when I filmed "Out of Deception", I slept with Fu Sheng, Chen Baixiang, and Wang Yu. He is really beautiful, if I really let me describe: Andy Lau plus Stephen Chow.
Liu Jiahui's evaluation of Fu Sheng is also very high:
Dillon and David Jiang could not mention Fu Sheng in front of them at all.
At the mention of it, two tough guys who have played countless heroes will rain in the corners of their eyes.
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When Fu Sheng died, the last sentence left was: My face is not flowered?
You see, when he was seriously injured, he could still joke with people optimistically, but unfortunately, God made a joke with him.
His friend Wang Yu had looked up to the sky many times and sighed: If his name is like his person, why can't Fu Sheng be reborn?
One generation of kung fu superstars has fallen, and another superstar has risen.
Sometimes the brilliance of the moment is eternity.
In the 8 years of Fu Sheng's art, he has starred in dozens of classic works and created dozens of classic roles.
For Fu Sheng, this may be the best gift left to us.