Wang Jing has always been dubbed the king of bad films, and movies have also been labeled vulgar and pornographic. But we can't deny his contribution to Hong Kong cinema, a fat man whose appearance has unearthed newcomers and directed many familiar classics. There is also such a Wang Jing in Taiwan Province of China, and he is Zhu Yanping.
Zhu Yanping is known as the Taiwanese version of Wang Jing, the two are so similar, both are good at shooting comedies, and third-level films are also involved. Zhu Yanping has been questioned why he does not take the art route, and he himself metaphorically said that if a supermarket only sells some vitamins that are beneficial to the human body, and there is no instant noodles, sooner or later it will close its doors. He also said that if all Hong Kong movies were Wong Kar-wai, they would have collapsed long ago. Yes, if you shoot a movie in a few years like the Sunglasses King, it will not be possible to create the glory days of Hong Kong movies!
Like Wang Jing, Zhu Yanping scolded the more people, the more people watched his films. Who said that they had not seen Wang Jing's films, and who said that they had not seen Zhu Yanping? Zhu Yanping also won many movie stars in that year, such as the first laughing star xu bu bu in Taiwan Province, and the two child stars of Xiaolong Hao Shaowen.
Xu Bu has the title of Chaplin of Taiwan Province of China, and zhu Yanping's first play "Joker" was a big hit, and then successively cooperated with "Mini Special Attack Team", "Born a Pair", "Joker and Swan" and other films, although it was criticized for copying Charlie Chaplin's style and comedy style, but the box office still sold well. And Xu Bu later became a cash cow of the gang, often using a gun to coerce him to continue filming, and even giving him morphine, and finally a generation of comedians died, which could not help but make people lament the rampant gangs in Taiwan.
However, a film that can more reflect their rampant is "Burning Island", which gathered jackie chan, Hong Jinbao, Leung Ka Fai, Andy Lau and other big bosses with strong underworld backgrounds, and Wang Yu, Ke Junxiong, and other people who have a strong underworld background, it is a rare thing to see Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao and other people die in the usual movie, where Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan and Andy Lau all hang up. Know that they are also reluctant because they are coerced.
Zhu Yanping knows how to find a balance between gangsters and movies, he constantly shoots movies to earn money for them, and sometimes he can get corresponding remuneration, and he uses these rewards to shoot some films that he really likes, such as the more far-reaching "Exotic Land", which restores a group of Kuomintang troops in exile.
In the last century, Hong Kong and Taiwan were closely linked in film, and cooperation between the two regions was a common thing, plus the financier of many Hong Kong films was Taiwan. Zhu Yanping has also used many Hong Kong actors to shoot films, the previous "Burning Island" is, as well as the Taiwanese version of "East into West" of "Nerve Knife and Flying Cat", the lineup is not bad, but the plot is not good.
If you haven't seen the above, then you must have seen the film starring Hao ShaowenShi Xiaolong, Zhu Yanping made the two of them into super child stars that year, and became more popular than many big names. From "Laughing Forest Boy" to "Oolong Temple", to "Invincible Anti-Fighting Star" and "Crayon Little Student".
There are also "Chinese Dragon", "Ancestral Love", "Comic King" and so on, Hao ShaoWenshi Xiaolong plus the old abbot Li Mingjiong, the master brother Da Uncle, formed a four-person group of masters and apprentices, staged one hilarious clip after another, which is the childhood memory of many people.
Hao Shaowen is undoubtedly the funniest child star, but unfortunately has been squeezed for many years, and now has become a passerby, fortunately Shi Xiaolong has a kung fu, although in recent years, although tepid, but with the popularity of "Wolf Warrior 2", driving the rise of action movies, Shi Xiaolong must have a lot of opportunities, if you can seize the opportunity, the fire is not impossible, after all, the strength is there.
Zhu Yanping seems to have found a balance, but every film is also a risk, if he loses money, he is also in danger of life. Zhu Yanping has shot more than 100 films in nearly 20 years, driving the entire Film Market in Taiwan Province, and his films occupy half of the entire market, and the other half are yang Dechang, Hou Xiaoxian and other art films. From this point of view, Zhu Yanping's contribution is still enormous.
Later, with the decline of the film market, the underworld tycoons no longer set foot in the film circle and no longer forced Zhu Yanping to shoot, but instead went downhill, still taking the previous plagiarism route and repeating the film clips of the year. However, today is different from the past, and then according to the previous model, it is naturally not OK, just like Wang Jing has been frying cold rice in recent years, like "Macau Storm" and "Ace Of Ace" Bad movies flying around!
The fates of Zhu Yanping and Wang Jing are almost the same, and they have also made big bad films such as "Laughing Jianghu" and "Thorn Ling".
In the 90s, there were still many people who bought it, and now if they are still brazenly fried cold rice and plagiarism, they will be despised by more people, and I hope that many filmmakers can sink their hearts and work hard to create a good cycle of the film market.