In recent years, the "Zombie" series broadcast on the mainland has attracted the attention of netizens with the gimmick of "the last zombie film in Chinese history" and "tribute to Lin Zhengying".
The crowd seems to have a special affection for "zombie" movies, all of which go back to the Hong Kong entertainment industry in the 70s and 80s.
It was not only the era of kung fu superstar Bruce Lee.
It is also the era of "Mr. Zombie" Lin Zhengying.
The two swallowed almost 80% of the market in Hong Kong, among which Lin Zhengying took the "apprentice" Qian Xiaohao with fire.
At that time, Qian Xiaohao was so red that Zhou Run had a seizure, and his acting skills were strongly overpowered by Jet Li, and he was known as the best male star in martial arts dramas.
He thought it was smooth sailing, but in the end he lost his future because of his "special habits", and he has not been able to turn over so far?
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Qian Xiaohao, born in 1963 in a poor family in Hong Kong, whose real name is Qian Jiahua, has six brothers and sisters in the family, of which the youngest brother, Qian Jiale, is a martial arts instructor for Hong Kong movies.
But who would have thought that Qian Jiale was "oppressed" by his brother everywhere when he was a child?
Qian Jiahua has been beautiful since he was a child, and he is even more handsome when he grows up.
In 1971, bruce Lee's "Big Brother Tangshan" was released in Hong Kong, which aroused the keen attention of Hong Kong people, and the box office created a miracle, and Bruce Lee became a world superstar and set off a Chinese kung fu fever in Hong Kong.
Countless teenagers have adored Bruce Lee, and the two brothers, Qian Jiahua and Qian Jiale, are the senior fans of Bruce Lee.
However, Qian Jiale has been introverted and stable since childhood, and Qian Jiahua has been brazen and brazen, and the two have formed a contrast.
Soon, after indulging in martial arts, Qian Jiahua gradually became disgusted with learning, thinking about using force to conquer his classmates and become the boss in school all day long.
After fighting all over the school, he began to look for opportunities to compete with students from other villages.
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At the age of 10, he looked for someone to duel as usual, but lost because the opponent had professional boxing training.
He summed up the reason why he lost, because his moves were disorganized, and he was inferior to the people who came out of formal and systematic teaching.
Later, he found the classmate who defeated him and humbly asked for advice, but he did not expect that the father of the classmate was xian Linyu, the champion of the heavyweight martial arts competition in Southeast Asia, so Qian Jiahua followed the trend to worship the teacher.
Xian Linyu became his first master and taught him.
Teaching him monkey boxing and various types of boxing, and teaching him the use of weapons, which gave him a good foundation for entering the show business and becoming a martial arts artist.
When Qian Jiahua was 14 years old, he signed up for the ring and won the third place, and since then he has become a prominent figure in school.
Qian Jiale became more inferior under the aura of his brother, because Qian Jiahua was handsome and famous, and he received the attention of female classmates, and girls used Qian Jiale to convey their love for Qian Jiahua, which made Qian Jiale very distressed.
At this time, Qian Jiahua, who was in the blessing and did not know the blessing, did not have any idea about the love between men and women, and only wanted to learn martial arts.
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In 1977, shaw recruited martial arts actors, Qian Jiahua seized the opportunity to audition, and finally successfully joined the Shaw Group as a martial arts trainee through an interview.
He is the most beautiful and the best in boxing among all the trainees, and naturally attracts much attention.
But for Shaw, why should he hold a stinking yellow haired boy? It all started with Shaw's missing Bruce Lee and his grudge with Jiahe.
In 1958, Run Run Shaw founded the Shaw Film Company.
Its gold medal martial arts instructor Liu Jialiang sat in the seat, and cooperated with Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan, Zhang Che and Chu Yuan to produce nearly a thousand excellent films.
Among them, martial arts movies are the most classic, and Shaw became famous in one fell swoop, becoming the most conscientious film production company in the mouth of movie fans.
As long as it is caught by Shaw, it will definitely explode, and until the 1970s, Shaw was the most powerful presence in Hong Kong.
However, the prosperity of the pole must decline is an eternal truth.
In the early 1970s, there was news that Shaw Company had no humane management of its artists, and because of salary problems, a large number of high-level executives and famous guides left the nest, among which the former Shaw senior Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang, who founded Jiahe Company in 1970 with Liang Feng, fought against the Shaw Group.
Jiahe snatched Bruce Lee from Shaw's hands in the first year of its establishment, and this time it was even worse for the Shaw Group.
Bruce Lee's four dramas in Jiahe's "Tang Three Big Brothers", "Game of Death", "Jingwumen" and "Raptor Crossing the River" made Jiahe Company call the wind and rain in the Hong Kong entertainment circle.
In contrast, Shaw has obviously begun to decline.
At that time, Shaw's large number of martial arts actors were also recruited because they wanted to create another Bruce Lee and Jiahe confrontation.
And Qian Jiahua, whether it is his body appearance or martial arts ability, is very compound, so Shao Shi began to vigorously praise him.
At just 15 years old, he stood out from 80 strong opponents of the Shaw family and was given the opportunity to star in "Shaolin and Wudang".
Subsequently, he served as a stuntman in "Guangdong Ten Tigers and The Last Five Tigers" and "The Great Killing of the Four Sides". His martial arts movements are smooth and beautiful, and he is favored by Zhang Che.
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Zhang Che was a pioneer figure in martial arts films, and his "One-Armed Knife" was a classic of Chinese martial arts films, and Wang Yu, who became popular, was even hotter than Bruce Lee at the time.
Zhang Che took a fancy to Qian Jiahua and took him as an apprentice, changing Qian Jiahua's life.
Zhang Che's first step was to help Qian Jiahua change his name to "Qian Xiaohao", because many artists at that time used memorable and distinctive names to facilitate the audience's cognition, and Zhang Che was almost ready for him to become popular.
In 1980, Qian Xiaohao became the male protagonist of the movie "Flying Fox", and in the same year, he became the most high-profile martial arts star, and his salary doubled in popularity in just one drama.
Qian Xiaohao is Zhang Che's chip for his comeback.
However, it often backfires. Because Shaw's ideological concepts are outdated, they do not change the traditional production mode in the past, and gradually make the audience feel tired.
The rise of Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao under Jiahe Company changed the traditional thinking and developed an innovative model of comedy + kung fu drama, so that the audience had a sense of freshness.
After all, Shaw still failed to change his life against the sky.
Zhang Che lost the backer of the Shaw Group, and at the same time, the film departments filmed by Qian Xiaohao ended in the street, which made both of them lose confidence.
Subsequently, Zhang Che turned to the mainland market, and Qian Xiaohao also had the idea of transformation, trying to find new resources, but he ran into walls everywhere. In a bad mood, he went to Phuket alone to relax.
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This time the distraction allowed him to meet Hong Jinbao, a man who really made him create brilliance.
Both of them talked happily because they loved martial arts, and the two had the same philosophy, so they saw each other as before.
Qian Xiaohao told Hong Jinbao that he wanted to transform.
Hong Jinbao remembered it in his heart.
But Hong Jinbao belongs to Jiahe Company, and the two are sworn enemies.
In 1985, jiahe company prepared "Mr. Zombie" began filming.
Because it is a new project and an adventure theme, Jiahe decided to let the film fend for itself.
Hong Jinbao, as one of the producers, was very troubled, and after finding lin zhengying and Xu Guanying, two old drama bones, he found that another soul figure "Qiu Sheng" was not willing to play. So Hong Jinbao thought of Qian Xiaohao.
Qian Xiaohao was very embarrassed after receiving the invitation, at this time, Shaw announced the news of the suspension of the film, which solved Qian Xiaohao's problem.
In 1985, Qian Xiaohao participated in "Mr. Zombie".
After its release, "Mr. Zombie" swept the world, and the film ushered in the era of zombie films in which Hong Kong movies stood out from the crowd.
Lin Zhengying's "Maoshan Taoist" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Qian Xiaohao, who plays an apprentice in the play, also successfully brushed his face and once again became popular throughout Asia.
When his career was soaring, he did not forget to promote Qian Jiale, when Hong Jiaban was recruiting martial arts instructors, and Qian Xiaohao recommended his younger brother Bai Hong Jinbao as a teacher.
Qian Jiale officially stepped into the entertainment circle under the leadership of Hong Jinbao.
The following year, Shao took the initiative to reconcile with Jiahe, and the two companies jointly created "Yuan Zhenxia and Wesley", and the male protagonist fixed Qian Xiaohao and let the "god of gambling" Zhou Runfa match him.
Although the box office of the movie is not ideal, it has not stopped Qian Xiaohao from continuing to shine.
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Soon after, he received a high-paying olive branch from New Era Pictures, inviting Qian Xiaohao and Noonma to shoot "Uncle Zombie".
But because he had promised to shoot "One Eyebrow Road Chief" with Lin Zhengying before, he had to refuse.
And this opportunity, naturally will not flow into the hands of others, Qian Xiaohao recommended Qian Jiale to star, the movie let Qian Jiale get a wave of praise, since then in the entertainment industry has a name.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Qian Xiaohao and Lin Zhengying cooperated in several zombie films, almost monopolizing the Hong Kong zombie film market, and Qian Xiaohao's role also increased, and his career reached its peak.
While his friendship with Hong Jinbao is getting deeper and deeper, it has also created the rise of Qian Jiale and Zou Zhaolong in the entertainment industry.
In 1987, Qian Jiale dutifully did not fear danger in Hong Jiaban, and successively served as a stand-in for Hong Jinbao and Jackie Chan in two dramas, Flying Tiger and Eastern Condor, and did many non-human difficult moves
Qian Jiale became Hong Jinbao's most powerful disciple, laying a good foundation for his official debut as an actor.
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On the other hand, Qian Xiaohao, who has a strong career momentum, met Miss Guo Xiuyun, an Asian, and fell in love with her at first sight. The two fell in love until the marriage did not go so smoothly.
Guo Xiuyun is a famous person, his father is the founder of Hong Kong Ocean Park, and his family runs a jewelry business, which is a full-fledged Bai Fumei.
Guo Xiuyun because she loves to watch zombie movies, she has a very good feeling for Qian Xiaohao, in order to meet the "idol", she participated in the International Chinese Miss Beauty Contest, and finally won the third place after Li Jiaxin.
Subsequently, she was favored by the Hong Kong entertainment company, and her fate with Qian Xiaohao also began.
The two collaborated on "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in 1990.
Qian Xiaohao was also attracted to the beautiful and moving Guo Xiuyun, and the two fell in love.
However, due to the huge difference in the family backgrounds of Guo Xiuyun and Qian Xiaohao, they have not been able to get the support of Guo Xiuyun's parents.
In 1990, the two secretly married and had children in Australia, cutting first and playing later.
At that time, the zombie film market began to decline after it was close to saturation, and Qian Xiaohao's resources were becoming less and less, and his career encountered a second bottleneck.
But fortunately, the martial arts film market has re-emerged with the rise of Jet Li, Zhao Wenzhuo and others, which has given Qian Xiaohao hope.
At the same time, he also met the fourth Bole Yuan Heping in his life.
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In 1993, Qian Xiaohao and Kung Fu Emperor Jet Li cooperated in "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" to make him burst into flames again, in which he played the arrogant and vicious "Dong Tianbao", who suppressed the male protagonist Jet Li.
The line he created in the movie, "My life is up to me", became a classic line in 2019 for "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending".
Qian Xiaohao's play is natural and beautiful, making the audience praise.
In 1994, the two continued to cooperate in "Jingwu Hero", although the role was small, but Qian Xiaohao received unanimous praise in the martial arts duel with Jet Li, and everyone in the crew pursued him and respected him, even Jet Li was jealous of him.
Under the three-time popularity, TVB invited Qian Xiaohao to cooperate with Zheng Xiuwen in "Big Head Green Fighting Zombies" in an attempt to use zombie films to stir up the last wave of heat.
However, the drama was finally cut off halfway through the broadcast, and the reason for this was rumored to be because Qian Xiaohao played a big card.
The most taboo thing in the entertainment industry is that when popular artists are killed, they will automatically ignore their shortcomings and become conceited.
After all, Qian Xiaohao has not escaped the process of playing a big card.
This incident put a question mark on his reputation in the entertainment industry, and it became the first reason for his decline.
You know, in Hong Kong in the 90s, a hundred flowers competed for beauty and a hundred grasses grew.
Actors with good acting skills, good character and good attitude abound, and after this, Qian Xiaohao's resources have dropped sharply.
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With a bad career, he began to pour anger on Guo Xiuyun, and in 1993, the two eventually divorced.
After Guo Xiuyun divorced, he began to release his nature to make third-level films.
At that time, Guo Xiuyun successfully attracted the attention of Pang Jie, the fifth son of the steel king.
Pang Jie pursues her, and the two eventually marry.
In order to anger Qian Xiaohao, Guo Xiuyun also changed his son to Pang's surname, which touched Qian Xiaohao's bottom line and opened the curtain for the scolding war between the two.
Hong Kong's entertainment industry has rapidly changed in the years when the two have quarreled.
Younger brother Qian Jiale also successfully signed a contract with TVB and became an artist under its umbrella.
And in cooperation with TVB's first brother Chen Haomin in the "List of Conferred Gods", Qian Jiale is well known to everyone with the role of Yang Jian, who is thick and diligent.
The two brothers' careers came to a fork in the road, only this time it was the younger brother Qian Jiale who reversed the wheel.
Qian Jiale, who became famous and became a director, filmed "Best Partner of Drunken Street Partner", invited Tan Yonglin and Liang Chaowei to help, and Huang Baiming and Wu Zhenyu cameoed.
He also did not forget the grace of Qian Xiaohao's promotion that year, invited Qian Xiaohao to make a cameo appearance, and the film eventually received high box office.
Later, catching up with the rise of the theme of ancient puzzle boy in the Hong Kong film market, Qian Jiale and Chen Xiaochun and Zheng Yijian cooperated in "98 Ancient Puzzle Boy Dragon Fight Tiger Fight".
Immediately after, Qian Jiale left Hong Jiaban to set up his own portal, completely gained a firm foothold in the Hong Kong film circle, and married Tang Yingying as his wife, and his career and love were both harvested.
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On the other hand, his brother Qian Xiaohao fell into the scandal of "skirt bottom scenery" in 2000, which completely ruined his acting career.
Hong Kong media broke the news that Qian Xiaohao secretly photographed the bottom of a woman's skirt in a supermarket and was found by the security guard to call the police.
Qian Xiaohao was arrested, and the police found photos of the genitals of more than thirty women in Qian Xiaohao's camera. Confirmed the fact that Qian Xiaohao molested women.
After the matter was revealed, Qian Xiaohao also refused to admit guilt, and the judge reprimanded Qian Xiaohao as "shameful to the extreme", and the matter was out of the circle.
What followed was that Qian Xiaohao received a flood of insults from netizens, and netizens collectively called for Qian Xiaohao to be banned.
However, Qiu Qianming, who is Qian Xiaohao's wife, supports Qian Xiaohao, and the incident makes netizens lament Qiu Qianming's eyes and no pearls.
In the end, Qian Xiaohao reached a settlement with more than three dozen victims and paid the women's losses, and Qian Xiaohao was released.
But the Internet has a memory, and Qian Xiaohao finally can't escape the end of being banned by the Hong Kong entertainment industry
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Depressed, he turned to the mainland market after listening to Zhang Zhiliang's words, and the two cooperated in the filming of "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", and the TV series finally ended in the street.
After that, Zhang Zhiliang recommended him to meet Wu Qilong, and the two collaborated on "Iron Fist Prodigal Son", which finally ended with the street.
Unable to break into fame in the mainland market, he returned to Hong Kong with a fluke mentality, but the Hong Kong market has completely abandoned him, and he has no choice but to return to the mainland.
In order to turn popular again, Qian Xiaohao began to regain the zombie series of movies, earning feelings with the gimmick of "paying tribute to Lin Zhengying".
Later, it caught up with the mainland's Radio, Film and Television Bureau's ban on filming works such as demons and ghosts, which made Qian Xiaohao only have to rub the edge ball, but eventually it became four different.
Since 2013, he has filmed a total of 10 zombie films, each of which has hit the street and sat on the throne of the "King of Bad Films".
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The younger brother and son in Hong Kong, on the other hand, have had a smooth career. Because Qian Jiale could not "save" Qian Xiaohao, he did his best to hold Pang Jingfeng.
But I have to say that Pang Jingfeng is really angry, thinking about Qian Jiale everywhere.
Netizens once lamented that uncles and nephews are more like father and son.
Qian Xiaohao was still not dead-hearted, and was bound to hang himself from a tree. In 2017, he filmed "Save the Zombie Scavenger", this time blatantly marked with the title of "Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Lin Zhengying's Death".
The drama's reputation is polarized, pushing Qian Xiaohao to the cusp of the storm, some people say that he consumes Lin Zhengying, and some people say that this is his way of commemorating Lin Zhengying.
But the facts are known only to the parties.
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Chen Jiashang, the director of "Jingwu Hero", once commented on Qian Xiaohao, saying, "He is the most unlucky person in the film industry, he is obviously a very good martial arts artist, but also a good actor with online acting skills, the reason why Qian Xiaohao did not become a first-line martial arts star in the end is because he is too handsome!" ”
The director lamented that his life was not timely.
Because at that time, the Hong Kong entertainment industry was too good. On martial arts, Qian Xiaohao is no better than Jackie Chan; on acting, it is better than Zhou Runfa; on character, let alone.
Obviously, it is a very good deck of cards, and it is rotten in the end, not only because it is not the right time, but also because of its own unclean self-improvement.
Qian Xiaohao's life is like a roller coaster, high and low, things are not people!
I don't know if Qian Xiaohao regretted his stupid things when he dreamed back in the middle of the night?