Many people watch Hong Kong movies to pursue Cantonese dubbing, so do you know who promotes the Cantoneseization of Hong Kong movies, he is the cold-faced smilester Hui Guanwen. He pioneered the comedy in Hong Kong's local market and let Cantonese films dominate the mainstream, winning 5 box office titles that year with "Ghost Horse Double Star", "Genius and Idiot", "Half a Pound, Eight Twos", "Selling Deed" and "Modern Bodyguard". Although the first "Ghost Horse Double Star" is a bit different from "Half a Pound Eight Two" and "Modern Bodyguard" in terms of funny, it is of greater significance to Xu Guanwen, and today I will talk to you about "Ghost Horse Double Star" and the behind-the-scenes story of this film.
1. Under what conditions was "Ghost Horse Double Star" born?
First of all, Xu Guanwen, who initially hosted programs on TVB, and "Double Star Annunciation" hosted by his brother Xu Guanjie, which set the highest rating of the year. Later, Xu Guanwen was favored by Li Hanxiang and became popular with "Army, Valve" and officially went to the front of the stage to perform. Xu Guanwen is a high-achieving student at the University of Chinese in Hong Kong, naturally not willing to be just an actor, and conceived the script of "Ghost Horse Double Star" when he hosted "Double Star Annunciation" on weekdays, and later showed it to Run Shaw, hoping to be a director to shoot himself, but also to take the box office share.
Although Run Run Shaw is a big philanthropist, he is more harsh in treating employees, and Xu Guanwen proposed a share of the box office, which naturally cannot be accepted by him. At that time, Run Run Shaw once missed Bruce Lee because he did not give Bruce Lee a high salary, and achieved Jiahe. This time, Run Run Shaw walked away again and successfully pushed Xu Guanwen to Jiahe. For Jiahe, a Bruce Lee played against the entire Shaw family, but unfortunately died young, just at this time Xu Guanwen made a fill, I have to say that Zou Wenhuai's wisdom and insight, boldly let Xu Guanwen open a company, filming, thus giving birth to "Ghost Horse Double Star".
It was Shaw's "Ghost Horse Double Star", which Shaw did not look up to and thought was poorly scripted, that broke the Hong Kong film box office record in 1974 and earned 6.25 million Hong Kong dollars, the previous box office record was 5.62 million Hong Kong dollars set by Chu Yuan's "72 Tenants". Since then, Hui Guanwen has become famous, and the later "Genius and Idiot", "Half a Pound, Eight Two" and "Modern Bodyguard" have broken box office records one after another, promoting the localization and Cantonese of Hong Kong films. Xu Guanwen's glory period was in the late 70s and early 80s, and then in 1991, "The Night Feast of the Giants" and Stephen Chow staged a chicken head and chicken tail battle, since then the cold-faced laughter has come to an end, and the king of comedy has come to the stage. It's just a pity that after so many years, no one can still take Zhou Xingchi's class.
2. Where did Hong Jinbao go?
In "Ghost Horse Double Star", there is Hong Jinbao's name in the cast list, and he also uses Zhu Yuanlong's name as a martial arts instructor. Obviously there is a name, why can't you find Hong Jinbao in the film? Where did he go, the original was cut when it was released, and he could only be found in the abridged footage of the DVD.
In the main film, Xu Guanjie and Lu Youhui played on the beach, we saw that Lu Youhui changed clothes, and then Xu Guanjie and Xu Guanying gambled cards, and then They were beaten. Xu Guan's outstanding level was so low that he used poker of different colors.
In the deleted clip, in fact, Xu Guanjie and Lu Youhui encountered two hooligans robbing at the beach, one of which was Hong Jinbao. Even if the robbery is over, he even flirts with Lu Youhui, and at this time Xu Guanjie heroically saves the United States. This section is more montage and nonsensical, and it is also intended to pay tribute to Wang Yu and Bruce Lee. However, how could Xu Guanjie beat Hong Jinbao, naturally he was beaten up. As for why this paragraph was replaced by Xu Guanying's paragraph, my personal guess is that this clip is not directly related to the whole film, which is a bit inconsistent with the tone. And Xu Guanying's section is different, after all, it is also a gambling film. At that time, the reason why Hong Jinbao's section was filmed was also for box office considerations, although Bruce Lee died, but the impact was still there, and kung fu movies were also more popular.
3, the lineup is strong, many bridges have been imitated
First of all, the lineup, Xu Guanwen wrote and directed himself, as well as Xu Guanjie and Xu Guanying, two brothers, in the film Xu Guanwen's wife is a young Dragon BoRolan, the lover is Ding Pei, Bruce Lee finally died in her home. The CP who formed the CP with Xu Guanjie was Lü Youhui, who was later Huang Rihua's version of the Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon. There is also a little confused actor who is Xu Shaoxiong, who later became the funny Inspector Huang Qiqi. Several cameos are also big celebrities, such as casino dealer Shi Tian, TV host Huang Xia, Qiao Hong, who has been copied, and gamblers Huang Xin and Chen Lipin. Unfortunately, several actors in the film are gone, Xu Guanying, Huang Xia, Qiao Hong, Huang Xin, and Chen Lipin.
Released in 1974, 45 years ago, "Ghost Horse Double Star", many bridge sections in the film have been imitated and paid tribute, such as the hotel section that opens a double room, Ding Pei is pushed around by Xu Guanwen Xu Guanjie, and then There is Xu Guanwen Xu Guanjie to massage, the contrast effect caused by the two massage ladies. There are also TV quiz, fifteen mahjong, multi-scene chases, etc.
"Ghost Horse Double Star" is ostensibly a gambling film, a comedy film, but in fact it contains many human life truths, Xu Guanjie's theme song "Ghost Horse Double Star" Lyrics can be reflected: life is like gambling, winning or losing is uncertain, winning is a meal, losing is not happy. Xu Guanwen also used a witty way to show those who relied on gambling to dream of getting rich overnight, often saying that ten gambles and nine losses, or down-to-earth is the most important, what do you think?