He was the king of kung fu films in the 70s of the last century, and he was the favorite general of the great director Zhang Che, who became famous with the two blockbusters "Ma Yongzhen" and "Thorn Horse" that year, and swept the entire film industry.
He has been an actor and a director, and his fame and fortune are not bad, but his emotional life has always been criticized.
He is the actor Chen Guantai, and now that he is more than 70 years old, why should he return to the film industry to make hard money?
It all starts at the beginning.
Born in Hong Kong on September 24, 1945, Chen Guantai was a famous actor and director in the 1970s and 1980s, and he was known as the Iron Triangle of the film industry with Dillon and Jiang David at that time.
In 1973, the Iron Triangle and actress Jing Li once made a blockbuster movie "Thorn Horse", in which Chen Guantai played the second brother who played a very heavy role.
The film is based on a true story that took place at the end of the Qing Dynasty, because the plot is extremely chivalrous and has ups and downs, and after its release, the response was enthusiastic.
This classic film, which was later joined by Chen Kexin and Ye Weimin, was remade and remade again, named "Letter of Submission", with a rather strong starring cast, escorted by Jet Li, Andy Lau, Jin Chengwu and Xu Jinglei at the box office, which was released in 2017 and slashed nearly 195 million at the box office.
It is worth mentioning that the second brother with a heavier role, that is, the role played by Chen Guantai, was played by Andy Lau.
At that time, Chen Guantai was in the film industry, compared with the fame of Bruce Lee, who debuted at the same time, he could also compete for a high position, with in addition to his excellent acting skills, there was also a real kung fu he had trained since childhood.
The reason why Chen Guantai was born in the Lian family has a lot to do with his background.
Chen Guantai's grandfather and Geng Dehai, the head of the Great Saint Splitting Hanging Gate, have been friends for many years, and perhaps people who have never been exposed to martial arts do not understand, at the earliest time, the Great Sacred Gate and the Splitting Knife Hanging Gate were originally two schools of kung fu.
As the name suggests, the Great Sacred Gate means Monkey Fist, and the Split Hanging Gate is a kind of Northern Long Fist, Geng Dehai has studied martial arts for many years, and the subtleties of these two kung fu have been integrated into one, creating the Great Saint Splitting Hanging Gate.
When Chen Guantai was seven or eight years old, he had been exposed to this martial art, and later he was under Geng Dehai's apprentice Chen Xiuzhong, and Huang Qiusheng was in the same vein as his master and disciple.
Chen Guantai later also accepted an apprentice, that is, Ao Jianian, an old drama bone who later worked in the film and television circle.
Chen Guantai's kung fu was improved under the guidance of famous teachers, and after he grew up, in order to help his parents take on the heavy responsibility of supporting their families, Chen Guantai found a job in the fire brigade. Because he learned martial arts from a young age, he was extremely chivalrous, and every time he fired, he rushed to the front.
Chen Guantai's enthusiasm for work is extremely high, so he also has an excellent reputation in the fire brigade.
Because Chen Guantai especially likes to make friends, he has a wide network of contacts and knows many friends in the film and television circle.
At that time, Liu Jiachang and Tang Jia had a good relationship with him, and the three of them often practiced fist and foot kung fu together, and unconsciously, Chen Guantai became the martial arts instructor for both of them.
As a result, it has entered the development of the show business circle smoothly.
When Chen Guantai was 24 years old, he was appreciated and reused by a person, this person was zhang Che, the famous director of Shaw Film Company, so how did Chen Guantai attract Zhang Che's attention?
It turned out that in 1969, Zhang Che participated in the large-scale martial arts competition in Southeast Asia, and Chen Guantai won five battles with a strong real kung fu, winning the championship, and his reputation was greatly enhanced.
If there was an Internet in those days, then Chen Guantai must have been a popular figure on the hot search list.
As we all know, Zhang Che's favorite thing to shoot is a kung fu film, and in his films, most of them are shots of male protagonists with naked breasts.
When he was young, Chen Guantai, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a tall figure, could be called a beautiful teenager, Zhang Chu fell in love with him at a glance, and soon recruited him to serve under Shao's command.
Just as the so-called jade does not grind into a tool, people do not learn and do not know righteousness. With Zhang Che entering the film and television circle of Chen Guantai, while his eyes are wide open, he has gradually improved his acting skills.
After entering Shaw's company, although he did not participate in many movies, each movie was quite classic.
In 1972, he participated in the film "Ma Yongzhen", which is still unforgettable by the older generation, and this film written by Zhang Che himself has become a classic memory of a generation.
After this, Chen Guantai filmed "Thorn Horse" and "Five Tiger Generals" successively, and with the successful release of the film, Chen Guantai's ambition was unprecedentedly high, and he had the idea of self-reliance.
So, after this, he left Shaw and went to Taiwan to study film and television production.
In 1975, Chen Guantai, who returned from his studies, established Dasheng Pictures on his own.
Under his supervision, there was a movie that was quite good at the time, that is, "The Iron Monkey of Young Huang Feihong", after him, the film and television circle blew up a wave of movies with Huang Feihong as the core of the story, until it was popular so far, Chen Guantai's unique insight was also a pioneer in the industry.
In this film, Chen Guantai is not only the director, but also the main actor, and later the nickname of "Iron Monkey" has not gone away.
After this, Chen Guantai constantly switched between the identities of directors and actors, and his career was in full swing.
Some viewers commented on the role played by Chen Guantai, he is the professional household of Hong Xiguan in Shaw's films, as long as the role of Hong Xiguan appears, you take a serious look, there is a good chance that Chen Guantai played.
In addition, Chen Guantai often plays a variety of gods of war who are not afraid of death, or righteous or evil underworld bosses, in short, the top chair sits firmly, the fight scene, quite waste of blood plasma.
Watching his early films can make people bloody and indignant.
Since his debut, Chen Guantai is still active in the film and television circle.
A few years ago, the film "Master" directed by director Xu Haofeng was once laughed forward and backward by countless audiences while spitting out bad taste.
The scene at the end of the film, the street battle, ends with a joke, like a stroke of God.
In the group of people who were knocked down by Liao Fan, an old man stood up from these thugs with exaggerated acting skills and said slowly and logically: "This person, hurting people does not hurt lives!" ”
A closer look at the person who spoke was None other than Chen Guantai, a laughing terrier that is still talked about to this day.
Although Chen Guantai has played a lot of heroes, but he is influenced by the old ideas, the patriarchal preference for daughters in his bones is quite serious, which also leads to his often contradictory in marriage and love, which also makes many women suffer from emotional injuries, and he himself has also been criticized as a negative person.
Chen Guantai's original wife gave birth to a daughter, which made Chen Guantai have a different idea, so he cheated in marriage and lived with Shaw's actress Yingying for six years, he originally expected Yingying to continue the incense to the Chen family, and did not expect that Yingying was actually a daughter.
So he soon had Xiao Sifang Yizhen, and later Fang Yizhen gave birth to a big fat boy for him, so he quickly divorced the original partner, and dumped Xiao San and married Fang Yizhen as his wife.
However, although he has a son, the basis of this marriage has nothing to do with love, people's desires are difficult to fill (hè), Long Wangshu, Chen Guantai also wants to have love, but in this marriage, he can not get it, so he and Fang Yizhen later divorced.
Later, Chen Guantai in Australia, married to a woman named Fang Tingting, but this relationship did not last long, after the passion faded, the only thing left was plain rice oil and salt, which made Chen Guantai soon feel tired, so after a few years, he divorced again.
In this way, after experiencing four failed marriages, Chen Guantai no longer has any expectations for marriage, he lingers in the flowers, and he in the game world has also had a relationship with the actress Huang Zaoshi, who played Princess Hua Zheng in the 83rd edition of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero".
Later, as he grew older, Chen Guantai began to yearn for the warmth of his family.
At the age of 73, Chen Guantai moved the idea of starting a family again, and married his wife Tang Liping, who was 30 years younger than him, and the two registered for marriage.
This father-daughter relationship is controversial and is talked about by others, Chen Guantai, who explains to the outside world that he is old and needs someone to take care of him.
On the other hand, Dillon and Jiang David in the Iron Triangle are very different from Chen Guantai's marriage experience of four marriages and three divorces.
Jiang David and his wife Li Linlin have been married since 1974, the marriage age has reached 47 years, and it is said that in the first two years, Li Linlin also had a serious illness, and Jiang David's meticulous care without wearing clothes has made her turn the crisis into safety.
Another member of the Iron Triangle, Dillon, who was with Tao Minming, the wife of Qingmei Bamboo Horse, had been together since childhood, and later after getting married and having children, there was no scandal.
If Dillon had been like that, he hadn't let him have a different heart for his wife, and the relationship between the two people was still stable until now.
Chen Guantai, who is now a rare year old, may have woken up when he saw that the two friends had a deep marital relationship for decades?
Some time ago, Chen Guantai, who was nearly ancient, reappeared in the jianghu again, and this time he returned to the film world, which made people feel a thousand emotions, and many people worried about whether his body was suitable for shooting action movies again.
However, he himself said humorously that it did not matter much, because before that, there were directors who wanted to invite him to shoot, but he felt that it was not suitable for himself, this time because he was playing a martial arts star, he felt that it was still very consistent with his current situation, at least to ensure that the audience did not jump.
Last year, 75-year-old Chen Guantai went to the hospital to check the body, was checked by the doctor out of the problem, are some old dark diseases, fortunately found in time, after conditioning, the body has no major problems.
After this incident, Chen Guantai, now 76 years old, now also attaches importance to health care, often through swimming for fitness, and recently gained 20 kilograms of weight, so there is not much concern about the body.
Today's shooting technology is much better than before, and some martial arts actions are not as dangerous as before, and can be solved through technical means.
Therefore, now That Chen Guantai is once again out of the mountains and earns some remuneration, perhaps because he wants to relive the sense of achievement of chivalry again in his lifetime, in the world of light and shadow, right?
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