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In 1989, "God of Gamblers", directed by Wang Jing and starring Chow Yun Fat and Andy Lau, won 36.29 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, becoming the box office champion of the year and the pioneering work of the "Gamble" series.
On August 18, 1990, "Gamble Saint", directed by Yuan Kui and Liu Zhenwei and starring Stephen Chow, continued to work hard and won 41.33 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, breaking the box office record and shocking the entire film circle.
Perhaps others have not yet reacted, but Wang Jing has already made a move, he simply drew Liu Zhenwei from the bottom of the cauldron, and the high-paid two people, Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda, dug up, plus Andy Lau, a 3-person combination, concocted "Gambler", which was released on December 13 at the end of the year.
Due to copyright reasons, Zhou Xingchi is not called Zuo Songxing in the film, but changed his name to Zhou Axing; the heroine Zhang Min is not called Qi Meng, but mengluo; Wu Mengda is still called Uncle Three.
Pigo noticed that Zhang Min appeared many times throughout the series, but played different roles.
In "God of Gamblers", she is Janet, the girlfriend of Gao Jin, the god of gamblers; in "God of Gamblers 2", she is Gao Jin's wife Arou; in "Gamblers 2: Shanghai Beach Gamblers", she is Qi Meng; in "Gamblers" she is Mengluo; in "Gamblers" in the same universe as "New Jingwumen", she is Amin; in the sequel to "New Jingwumen", "Comics Weilong", she is also called Wanjun.
The movie is both a sequel to "God of Gamblers" and a continuation of the story of "Gamblers".
After defeating the gambling demon Chen Jincheng on the high seas, Gao Jin sent him to prison, took Chen Daozai as an apprentice, and took him back to the United States for training for a year.
After leaving the school, Dao Boy returned to Hong Kong accompanied by Dragon Five and the Japanese on the mountain, and used gambling skills to do charity on behalf of his teacher, known as a gambler.
On the other hand, after defeating Hong Kong gambling king Hong Guang, Ah Xing felt that his gambling skills were lacking and wanted to learn gambling skills by worshipping the god of gambling.
When they heard that the gambler's apprentice, Chen Daozai, had come to Hong Kong, Ah Xing and uncle Three came to visit and wanted to beg Daozai to take him to see the God of Gamblers.
Ah Xing and Dao Zai competed in Dao Zai's hilltop villa, regardless of victory or defeat.
However, Dao Zi was unwilling to introduce him, so Ah Xing stubbornly stalked and kept near the villa and refused to leave.
On this day, a killer suddenly came to assassinate the knife boy, and the dragon resisted the strong enemy, but was attacked by the killer Panther, and was later robbed.
Dao Tsai takes Ah Xing and Uncle Three back to his former Ting House (a house approved for construction by the male descendants of the original residents of Hong Kong's New Territories, the "Male Ding").
It turns out that the villa and the Ding House are both scenes that appeared in "God of Gamblers", when dao boy lived in the Ding House under the mountain, and his heart longed for the villa on the top of the mountain. Later, the yankee who lived in the villa went bankrupt, so Shangshan bought the villa from him and gave it to Daozi. And the funny thing is that the foreigner who sold the villa actually lived in the house and became the neighbor of the knife boy.
The group of people who attacked the knife boy was sent by Hussein, the righteous son of Chen Jincheng. In order to avenge his righteous father, he set up a gambling game on a ship under the banner of the god of gambling, attracting the rich people from all over Asia to the ship, in an attempt to deceive money and ruin the reputation of the god of gambling.
Hussein also sent his beautiful woman Mengluo, who looked like Qi Meng, to approach Ah Xing and the three uncles and nephews, and designed to capture the third uncle and make Ah Xing lose his special function to remove the helper of the knife boy.
When Dao Zi learned that Hussein was swindling and cheating in the name of the god of gambling on the gambling boat, he naturally could not sit idly by, so he went to the gambling boat to compete with him.
But the first time they fought, because Hussein was full of surveillance on the gambling ship, the hole cards of the knife boy let him see, and he lost a mess.
Hussein also threatened Uncle Three and Dragon Fifth, so that DaoZi did not dare to expose his identity.
Dao Zi and Ah Xing returned to the Ding House, and the two were depressed and could not think of an idea to deal with Hussein. At this time, the foreign neighbor from Kuwait suddenly appeared, taught the two a lesson, and rekindled their morale.
Here Pigo would like to explain that when the Gulf War broke out in August 1990, people all over the world supported the war waged by the Coalition forces against Iraq to restore Kuwait's sovereignty.
The villain in the movie is called Hussein, and there are Kuwaitis again, which represent Wang Jing's position.
The next day, Dao Boy got on the gambling boat, borrowed 20 yuan from Hussein, won more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars along the way, and got the capital to compete with Hussein again.
Ah Xing and Dragon Five's sister Long Jiu also arrived at the gambling ship, rescued Dragon Fifth and Uncle Three first, and then got Monroe and helped restore the special function.
It turned out that Hussein also found an army of masters who could perform special functions as a helper, and the four finally sat together.
The army used its special function to change the bottom card in the hand of the knife boy, but the knife boy had already exchanged the bottom card for Ah Xing, so that he could get the final victory with a hand of flush.
Dao Boy also exposed Hussein's identity in front of everyone' eyes, and together with Ah Xing, he taught him a lesson.
Hussein is Played by Huang Jiaju's best friend, the versatile and full-fledged Shan Liwen.
I believe that most post-80s like Pi Ge will like Shan Liwen, he has always had two identities: one of the best bass players in Hong Kong and Ximen Qing professional household.
Some people say that his musical talent has delayed his acting skills, and his acting skills have delayed his music. During the golden age of Hong Kong entertainment in the 1990s, odd figures like Shan Liwen were numerous.
It is said that Zhou Xingchi had hesitated when taking over the filming of this film, one is that the copyright of "Gamble Saint" belongs to Liu Zhenwei, who does not know how Wang Jing will avoid copyright disputes, and the other is afraid that in the short term, the role of Gamble Saint will be overexploited, and the box office will not be ideal.
Did not think that Wang Jing's level is indeed high, on the one hand, with the help of the original audience base of Gamblers, on the other hand, let him and Andy Lau perfect combination, "Gamblers" finally won 4034 Hong Kong dollars at the box office, once again surpassed "God of Gamblers", only with a slight gap of 990,000 Hong Kong dollars followed by "Gamble Saints" ranked second in the 1990 Hong Kong film box office.
So far, many people have said that although the title of the film is "Gambler", Stephen Chow has robbed Andy Lau of the limelight.
This may not be unreasonable, because then Wang Jing launched "Gambler 2: Gambling on the Beach", but without Andy Lau, directly use Zhou Xingchi as the protagonist, so that the gambling saint crossed to the 30s to play on the beach.
The title of the film is "Gambler 2", but there is no gambler in the film, and this kind of sword-and-bladed riot operation is only available in Hong Kong movies.
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