In 1978, yuan heping, with the support of Wu Siyuan, transformed from martial arts guidance to director, planning and shooting works such as "Snake-shaped Executioner" and "Drunken Fist", and "Peace Pictures" also quietly rose at this time.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the popularity of kung fu comedy, Yuan Heping's "Peace Pictures" also rose to the peak step by step, shooting works such as "North and South Drunken Fist", "Brave without Fear", "Qimen Dunjia", "Ghost Horse Tianshi", "Laughing Taiji" and so on.
However, in the mid-1980s, with the decline of the kung fu comedy market, Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao, with the support of Jiahe, transformed into modern action comedies, but Yuan Heping, who lacked the support of "big studios", gradually sank under the impact of the market environment.
In 1987, Yuan Heping was invited by Hong Jinbao to star in "Oriental Condor". After the film, Yuan Heping had the idea of "leading Yuan Jiaban and defecting to Hong Jinbao".
In 1988, Yuan Heping, who was frustrated in his career, led the "Yuan Family Class" to hong jinbao, and also planned the action comedy "Dragons Seize the Treasure" for Hong Jinbao's "Baohe Pictures". The era of cooperation between Yuan Jiaban and Hong Jiaban also officially kicked off at this time.
After "Dragons Seize the Treasure", Hong Jinbao arranged Yuan Heping to the "Debao Movie". Movies such as "SWAT Slaying the Dragon", "Royal Master Sister 4", "Money Laundering", "Cold Face Sniper" and so on have also become Yuan Heping's "Debao Period" and highly representative works.
The topic is back to 1988's "Dragons For Treasure". As the first cooperation between Yuan Jiaban and Hong Jiaban, Yuan Heping and Hong Jinbao gave the position of director to Yuan Zhenyang of the "Yuan Family Class" in order to make the two major action teams run into each other, while the Martial Finger work was assigned to Yuan Hua and Yuan Kui of the "Hong Family Class".
The plot design of this "Dragons and Dragons" is excellent, and the action fight scenes are also wonderful. However, after the film was released in 1988, the box office response was flat and drowned in the market torrent at that time.
In 2006, "Crazy Stone" was screened, and this absurd treasure hunting story reminded many Hong Kong film fans of the 1988 action Hong Kong film "Dragons Seize the Treasure". Today we will talk about this "Dragons Seize the Treasure" jointly created by Hong Jiaban and Yuan Jiaban. At the same time, let's talk about the film's relationship to Crazy Stone.
This "Dragons And Treasures" is completely a Hong Kong version of "Crazy Stone".
At the beginning of the film, the wealthy businessman "Song Jinrong" (played by Huang Zhiqiang) held a conference and exhibition activity in order to bring down the security company of "Old Man Wu" (played by Zheng Junmian), and also took out his family heirloom treasure "Koran" for exhibition, and the security work of the exhibition was fully entrusted to Old Man Wu's company.
After the two sides signed a "security contract", Song Jinrong hired the jianghu thief "Zhuo Extraordinary" (played by Teddy Robin) to steal the Koran, in order to blackmail Old Man Wu's security company.
After the contract was established, Old Man Wu received rumors that the great thief Zhuo Fan was going to steal the treasure, so he sent his son "Charlie Chen" (played by Andy Lau) to strictly guard the treasure.
Ma Rulong (played by Xu Shaoqiang), who is known as the "fast gunner", also wants to take this trip to muddy waters. So the story of the treasure guarding and competing for the treasures of the three forces also began.
On the way from the "Song Jinrong Mansion" to the "Convention and Exhibition Center", the scriptures were attacked by gangsters. Charlie Chen also learned the news that Ma Rulong and Zhuo Bufan were going to steal the treasure.
Charlie Chen, like Ma Rulong and Zhuo Extraordinary, is a jianghu person. In order to protect the Koran, Chen Charlie met with Ma Rulong and Zhuo Bufan in advance, and tried to persuade them to give up stealing treasures in accordance with the rules of the jianghu, but unfortunately the persuasion failed. The three of them can only rely on their own abilities, each with his own miraculous powers, and each with his own responsibilities.
The "Koran" is to be exhibited at the exhibition for three days, and as long as there are no problems with the scriptures during the exhibition, the task of defending them is completed.
In order to ensure that the scriptures are foolproof, Charlie Chen found a master counterfeiter and made a "fake scripture" to put on top of the exhibition to hide the eyes and ears.
Ma Rulong took the lead in the exhibition, he let his girlfriend pretend to be "about to give birth" to attract the attention of the security personnel, while he took the opportunity to steal the scriptures.
However, all this was seen by Zhuo Bufan, who called the hospital ambulance, worried that the arrival of the doctor would cause the plan to be revealed, so Ma Rulong terminated the operation and let his girlfriend leave quickly.
After the failure of the "pretend pregnant woman" operation, Ma Rulong decided to rob it. At night, Ma Rulong took a shot from the skylight of the exhibition hall and forcibly stole the scriptures.
Zhuo Bufan saw through Charlie Chen's plan to "confuse the truth with falsehood", and also knew that Ma Rulong stole "fake scriptures". After the "fake scriptures were stolen", Zhuo Bufan used his eldest daughter (played by Guan Zhilin) to alienate the relationship between Old Man Wu and Charlie Chen, and at the same time exchanged a fake scripture for the real thing.
Zhuo Bufan handed over the scriptures in his hand to Song Jinrong. Song Jinrong also made a claim for compensation against Old Man Wu's security company.
In order to save Old Man Wu's security company, Charlie Chen decided to retrieve the scriptures. Zhuo Bufan was also greedy for the scriptures, and after returning the scriptures to Song Jinrong, he arranged for his young daughter (played by Lin Yilian) to infiltrate the Song mansion to steal the treasure.
Ma Rulong, who had obtained the false scriptures, was not willing to stop there. When he learned that the scriptures were in Song Jinrong's mansion, he was also determined to go and steal the treasure.
So in the Song Mansion, the three groups staged a "three forks" and launched a wonderful fight.
After some fighting, Zhuo Bufan's daughter escaped from the Song palace with the scriptures. Ma Rulong and Chen Charlie followed suit.
Zhuo Bufan waited for the arrival of his little daughter at the station, however, he not only waited for the little daughter, but also waited for Ma Rulong and Chen Charlie.
Charlie Chen, Ma Rulong, and Zhuo Bufan looked at each other and decided to use the jianghu people's way to decide the ownership of the scriptures. During the melee, Zhuo Bufan was injured, handed over the scriptures, and left the station. Yet this scripture is a fake.
Sitting on the train, Zhuo Extraordinary thought he was the winner in the end. However, his eldest daughter already had a secret affection for Charlie Chen. Before leaving the station, the eldest daughter packed the scriptures and handed over the real "Koran" to Charlie Chen.
As Charlie Chan gets the scriptures, he completes the guard mission. The story of "Dragons And Treasures" also came to an end.
Looking at the plot ups and downs of this "Dragons and Treasures", it is almost the same as "Crazy Stone".
In "Crazy Stone", the real estate developer wants to destroy the exhibition and hire "international thieves" to steal the treasure, while Bao Shihong of the factory security department wants to guard the stone. This contradiction and conflict between the two is the same as that of Song Jinrong and Charlie Chen in "The Dragons Seize the Treasure".
Not only are the contradictions and conflicts similar, but the story line and bridge design of the two films are also very similar.
At the beginning of "Dragons And Treasures", the scriptures were attacked on the way to transportation, and Chen Charlie, who was responsible for the protection work, interviewed the thieves who were going to steal the treasure according to the rules of the jianghu, hoping that they would give themselves some face.
At the beginning of "Crazy Stone", Dao Ge led his subordinates to "Night Exploration Exhibition Center", Bao Shihong thought that this was the work of those "lollipops", so he also pretended to be lao jianghu to send cigarettes and wine to those "lollipops", hoping that they would give themselves some face. Unfortunately, Bao Shihong got the wrong object.
Later in the story, Charlie Chen in "The Dragons Seize the Treasure" uses false scriptures to distort the truth. In "Crazy Stone", Bao Shihong also had the idea of "messing with the real with falsehood" because he saw "Uncle Twins". It's just that Bao Shihong's idea was preemptively implemented by the factory director's son.
In "The Dragons Seize the Treasure", Ma Rulong let his girlfriend pretend to be pregnant and wanted to steal the scriptures, but he encountered extraordinary obstruction and staged a farce of "dog biting dog".
In "Crazy Stone", the first confrontation between the "International Thief" and the "Dao Ge's Men" in the exhibition hall also staged a farce of "dog bites dog". The sentence "This stone does not belong to you" in the film is even more contracted by many fans.
At the end of "Dragons And Treasures", the "Scriptures" finally returned to Song Jinrong's hands after some turnover, but Zhuo Bufan refused to give up on it, and also let his young daughter enter the Song Mansion to steal the treasure. At the end of "Crazy Stone", the real estate developer also staged a life-and-death duel with the "international thief" he hired because of the stone.
It is because of the appearance of a woman that the exchange of true and false treasures has been triggered, and the real goods at the end of the story have also remained in the hands of the "true lovers". Although "Dragons And Treasures" and "Crazy Stone" are quite similar in terms of plot line and bridge design, the performance focus of the two works is very different.
"Crazy Stone" focuses on the plot conflict and story reversal. And this "Dragons And Treasures" will focus on the presentation of the play. The strong combination of "Hong Jia Ban" and "Yuan Jia Ban" also makes the fight scene of this "Dragons Seize the Treasure" look wonderful and abnormal.
In order to win greater box office possibilities for "Dragons Andy", director Yuan Zhenyang invited Andy Lau, Guan Zhilin, Lin Yilian, Xu Shaoqiang, Teddy Robin and other popular celebrities to star in the film.
However, after the release of "Dragons and Dragons" in 1988, it only achieved a box office performance of more than 8 million. The bland box office performance also drowned the film in the torrent of the Hong Kong film market at that time.
In 2006, "Crazy Stone" was a hit. This "treasure hunting story" of three-way forces, true and false, and you come and go has reminded many veteran Hong Kong film fans of 1988's "Dragons Seize the Treasure".
Interestingly, whether it is "Dragons Andy" or "Crazy Stone", it is closely related to Andy Lau. Under such a connection, there are so many similar designs in the two works, and the reasons behind it are also intriguing.