The success of "Shaolin Temple" has brought fire to a number of domestic martial artists, and Yu Chenghui is one of them.
Affectionately known by fans as the last sword saint in China, he is highly skilled in swordsmanship and has won many swordplay championships.
The drunken sword he showed in "Shaolin Temple" has always been one of the classic scenes that fans talk about.
Yu Chenghui also re-created the long-lost two-handed sword technique, which is a must.
So you only don't feel awkward if you see a sword in both hands in the film and television drama that the old man participated in filming.
In addition to his martial arts achievements, Yu Chenghui also paid special attention to inner cultivation.
He is the practitioner of the traditional sense of learning martial arts before practicing morality.
You have to ask which movie is the representative work of mainland martial arts dramas, I think it is "Shaolin Temple", but to ask which martial arts movie makes Bo Jie feel the most, it is "Yellow River Hero", which is the movie I remember most in my childhood, there is no one.
The reason why I am so impressed by it is because of its majestic momentum, its meticulousness, and its fierceness.
"Yellow River Hero" was filmed by Xi'an Film Studio and Zhongyuan (Hong Kong) Film Co., Ltd. in 1987, and its director is also Zhang Xinyan, the director of "Shaolin Temple".
The film was released in 1988 and began with the Yellow River. The first time I watched "The Hero of the Yellow River", I understood the word "magnificent".
In 1988, after the release of "The Yellow River Hero", it once again triggered a movie-watching frenzy in the mainland.
In major theaters in Hong Kong, the film has been tested for 13 days, and was forced to take down the shelves because of the cold box office.
For this phenomenon, a large number of domestic audiences have speculated, and finally divided into two major reasons:
The film's lead actor, Yu Chenghui, has poor appeal in the Hong Kong market
Although the "Shaolin Trilogy" has achieved good results in the Hong Kong market, for local audiences, the only actor with real appeal is Jet Li.
Jet Li's absence is also a factor that has contributed to the dismal box office of "Yellow River Hero".
The outstanding fighting performance in the "Shaolin Trilogy" has allowed Jet Li to condense a certain box office appeal above the Hong Kong film market.
From "Shaolin Temple" in 1982 to "Shaolin Kid" in 1984, the "film combination" directed by Zhang Xinyan and starring Li Lian has also accumulated a good audience base in the Hong Kong film market.
When a director works with an actor on the screen to impress the audience too deeply, once the "film combination" of the two is split, it will have a big impact on the box office performance.
The film is realistic and humorous, which is inconsistent with the taste of the Hong Kong market at that time
At that time, the Pace of Life in Hong Kong was relatively fast, did not like the theme of a strong sense of history, and was more receptive to witty and funny plot design.
The interpretation of Ma Yi in the original script is relatively thin, and it is Yu Chenghui who gives the character a distinct personality of introverted and deep, righteous and thin, kind and frank.
Its exquisite sword technique is even more intoxicating to see people, and the unity of man and sword has reached a high degree, reaching the supreme realm of the unity of man and sword as stated in martial arts novels.
As an auxiliary character, the male number two jianghu artist Che Tian is the funny person in the film.
Originally, it was a character tailored for Jet Li, but because Jet Li started another stove, he refused this role, and director Zhang Xinyan found a dancer Chun Yu Shanshan from the Comrades-in-Arms Song and Dance Troupe of the Beijing Military Region to play this role instead.
WuXing's first villain, Yu Chenghui: Jet Li refused to play a supporting role for him, and Wu Jing weptically mourned at the funeral.
It should have been a promising future, but an accident in training caused him to break his knee and retire from the martial arts team.
Falling from the top to the bottom, he did not bow to fate. He entered the paper machinery factory and became an ordinary worker, working during the day and continuing to practice martial arts and study martial arts at night.
12 years later, he created the "Mantis Sword Method", which brought the long-lost "two-handed sword" back to the jianghu, and thus became famous.
Combining practicality and artistic beauty, he was invited to enter the film and television circle and bring the real traditional Chinese martial arts to the big screen.
With white hair and long hair, fairy wind dao bone, his image meets the definition of all the worldly masters and heroes of the jianghu; he is more proficient in swordsmanship, and has devoted his life to the research and promotion of traditional martial arts.
He is the titan of Chinese martial arts and a generation of sword saints Yu Chenghui.
Yu Chenghui was born on August 16, 1939 in Penglai, Shandong.
In 1951, Yu Chenghui, who had been learning martial arts since childhood, entered the Qingdao Amateur Sports School system to learn martial arts. In 1960, Yu Chenghui was selected into the Wushu team of Shandong Provincial Institute of Physical Education after winning the all-around championship of the Qingdao Wushu Competition.
In 1963, yu Chenghui won the championship with a set of "drunken swords" when he participated in the Wushu Competition in East China.
In the spring of 1979, the Wushu Team of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region invited Yu Chenghui to serve as a martial arts instructor.
In 1981, when he was participating in a national martial arts competition in Jinan, he happened to meet Zhang Xinyan, the director of the film "Shaolin Temple" who came to Shandong to find him.
Since stepping into the film and television drama industry.
"Shaolin Kid" was originally called "Dragon And Phoenix Village", the story itself is very light and funny, not as bitter and vengeful as "Shaolin Temple".
Bao Shengfeng is also a serious and slightly funny positive character.
"Shaolin Kid" also achieved unprecedented success, and then Shaw Company also took a fancy to the Shaolin kung fu theme, digging jet Li and other original people to star in "North and South Shaolin" directed by Liu Jialiang, and Yu Chenghui became the main villain in the film, Herso.
Interestingly, Yu Chenghui and Ji Chunhua are always inseparable, and when Yu Chenghui plays a positive character, Ji Chunhua is the big villain;
When Yu Chenghui played the main villain, Ji Chunhua retreated to the second line to play the thugs around him.
In February 2012, invited by director Xu Haofeng, he returned to the big screen and played the main character Qiu Dongyue in "The Trail of Wokou". In the film, he has white hair flowing, a long beard, and a fairy wind Dao bone.
When the film was filmed, Yu Chenghui still used real kung fu, did not hang Wei Ya, and did not lose his strength, and it is said that at that time, he knocked down a group of young actors who were looking for him to practice martial arts.
There is a scene in "The Trail of Wokou" in which Yu Chenghui is energetic in the field, and the strength of the shape is punched. When the film was exhibited at the 48th Golden Horse Awards, Taiwanese film audiences commented that the scene in the rice field was really too classic.
In the same year, he cooperated with Xu Haofeng and played an assassin whose personality was extremely traumatized in the movie "Arrow Soldier Liu White Ape".
"Yellow River Hero" is Yu Chenghui's first starring role, when he was 49 years old, and his self-created two-handed sword (mantis sword) was vividly displayed in the film.
Yu Chenghui's image temperament in his prime is completely in line with the public's imagination of "martial arts masters".
The image temperament after old age is the "martial arts master" himself in the minds of the public.
Therefore, as written on the poster of this film, "real fight, real fall, tension, thrilling", Yu Chenghui's two-handed sword is not a flower frame, but a practical weapon in actual combat. It is said that during the filming of the movie "The Trail of Wokou", there were young actors who approached Yu Seung-hye to challenge their sword skills, and they were all balanced. Unfortunately, Yu Chenghui's treacherous and evil plan Chunhua is no longer there, the master is gradually withering, it is difficult for future generations to continue, the hero plays the hero, and there is no one after that.
"North and South Shaolin", "Lian Cheng Tips", "Eagle Hero", "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", "Legend of Shaolin Temple", "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", "Four Famous Catches" and other works believe that everyone is very familiar, in these film and television works, there are Mr. Chenghui's dedication, until 2014, Mr. Chenghui also participated in the "White-haired Witch Legend of the Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom", on July 4, 2015, Yu Chenghui died of lung disease in the middle of the filming OF THE TV series "Qinglian Wei Zheng", at the age of 76.
This TV series has not been completed so far, and he still owes three films directed by Xu Haofeng to be completed, which has also become a permanent regret for the audience.
A generation of martial arts masters left, Wu Jing, Wu Fan, and other stars sent him off, and there was no real hero in Chinese martial arts films.
Leave his legend alone to reverberate in the jianghu...
From a dazzling martial arts champion to an ordinary worker, from a martial arts instructor, to a martial arts star, to the final swordplay master and even a sword immortal, Mr. Yu Chenghui's voice has experienced too many ups and downs, but no matter how life has changed, Mr. Yu's love for martial arts has not decreased, this may be where we should learn from Mr. Yu!