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In 1945, it was a year of war, and the people were not happy. On September 24, the Chen family and his wife in Foshan, Guangdong Province, gave birth to a baby boy, and the couple was overjoyed and named him "Guantai", hoping that he would be able to live in the "Taiping Prosperous World" when he grew up.
As the child grows up, the old Chen couple slowly finds that he is not a worry-free guy, this wild boy likes to follow those bear children who love to fight and fight together, Ping Su always has a homemade wooden sword and wooden stick in his hand, and often parents will bring their children to the door to ask questions, because Chen Guantai beat people's children to cry.
Chen Xiuzhong
In order to let the children be tempered, the old Chen couple had a fierce heart, and when Chen Guantai was 8 years old, they sent him to the "Great Saint Splitting Hanging Gate" Chen Xiuzhong to learn martial arts.
Speaking of Chen Xiuzhong, in the past, he was a well-known leader of the "Great Saint Splitting Hanging Gate" in Guangdong, known as the "Monkey King", and when he was 12 years old, he worshiped the Great Saint Splitting Door Master Geng Dehai as a teacher, because he was diligent and studious and respected the master, and he did his best to pass on the true tradition.
By practicing martial arts under such a strict master, Chen Guantai's stubborn character has been greatly improved, and as a result, he has learned a good kung fu and become the most important and proud protégé of the master.
Chen Guantai
In junior high school, because of his deep martial arts skills, his physical education results were outstanding, but other subjects were at the bottom, and after graduating from junior high school, he had no heart to continue his studies, and he found his first job after entering the society early - as a firefighter.
At the age of 24, when Singapore hosted the Southeast Asian Chinese Arts Competition, Hong Kong gathered all kinds of masters, such as Japan, Thailand, South Korea and other countries also sent masters to compete.
In order to revitalize the division, Chen Xiuzhong sent his beloved apprentice Chen Guantai to participate in the competition. The result was perfect, Chen Guantai did not disappoint the master, and won the lightweight group A championship after five consecutive rounds. Since then, he has become the hero of the Great Sacred Gate Monkey Fist, and thus became famous in the Asian martial arts community.
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In the late 1960s, Shaw's action movies became half the sky,away from keeping up with market demand, and shaw began to set up artist training classes everywhere in order to cultivate a large number of new generations of actors.
Under the introduction of friends, Chen Guantai went to Shao with the mentality of trying it out, and when Zhang Che learned that he was the proud disciple of chen Xiuzhong of the "Monkey King", when he was reused by Shao, he was arranged to be in the team of Liu Jialiang and Tang Jia, the head of the wusheng, mainly serving as the "martial finger".
Eight Steps to Souls poster
At that time, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang established Jiahe Film Company, and when they learned that Chen Guantai had a good foundation in martial arts, they invited him to serve as the martial finger of the crew, and in the same year, he appeared in the action film "Eight Steps to Chase the Soul" starring Qiao Zhuang, Chen Sisi, Feng Yi and other actors. Although the role is pitifully small, for a newcomer, it can be regarded as a good care.
It can be seen that Chen Guantai's film career began with "full of blood".
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Friends who like to watch old movies will probably not be unfamiliar with a generation of star Chen Guantai, who is not only strong in kung fu, but also tall and handsome, and his righteousness is even more awe-inspiring. It is precisely because of such unique internal and external conditions that he has made his way to the road of acting and shaped many classic roles.
Behind a classic action movie, it is inseparable from the martial arts design of martial arts instruction, although it is indispensable, but as an actor with excellent conditions in all aspects, he must go to the front of the stage to be well known.
Poster of "Ma Yongzhen"
What really made the audience start to know Chen Guantai was a 1972 action film called "Ma Yongzhen" directed by Shaw's director Zhang Che. In the film, Chen Guantai plays the boxer "Ma Yongzhen", in which a scene of thrilling fights, Chen Guantai never uses a stand-in, and all actions are completed personally. It was this film that suddenly opened up his popularity, and he became the first generation of Shaw's stars who used real kung fu to make films.
Photo of "Betrayal of the Master's Gate"
Later, he played the male protagonist "Hong Xiguan" in the action movie "Hong Xiguan"; "Jin Tianyun" in "Betraying the Shimen"; "Guo Jing" in "Yang Guo and the Little Dragon Girl"; and the fierce gang boss "Ah Tai" in the center of "Righteous Courage and Courage"...
Poster of the TV series "Generation of Gangsters"
If you act well, you can direct! Chen Guantai's films are not in the minority, such as the self-directed and self-acting "Young Huang Feihong's Iron Monkey", "Shanghai Beach Tycoon", "Dangerous People", "A Generation of Tyrants", "Blood Storm", etc., whether it is a TV series or a click on the movie, each of which is a classic.
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As the old saying goes: people are red is not much!
After becoming popular, Chen Guantai did not encounter "right and wrong", but he began to get busier and busier, so busy that even his wife, who had been a young plum bamboo horse, could not take care of it, and lingered on the set all day.
In 1973, the star-studded Chen Guantai partnered with Jiang David and Dillon to co-starred in the action film "Thorn Horse", also directed by Zhang Che, in which he played the second brother of the three brothers, "Huang Zhong", in addition to his kung fu skills, he was also righteous and thin.
Do: Chen Guantai Dillon Jiang David
The following year, he played the role of the righteous warrior "Sabre" in the adventure action movie "Five Tiger Generals"; in "Children of Shaolin", which was released in April of the same year, he co-starred with the kung fu superstars Fu Sheng and Qi Guanjun, who had worked hard to create by Shaw, and played the Shaolin lay disciple "Hong Xiguan" in the film.
Poster of "Fang Shiyu and Hong Xiguan"
At that time, Chen Guantai was a well-deserved "hero" in Shaw's action movies, a dazzling film and television superstar, and his reputation was indistinguishable from Dillon, David Jiang, Fu Sheng, and even Bruce Lee.
However, it is such a heroic and dry "hero", who has been repeatedly exposed to cheating in marriage, and it is the shaw movie star Cai Jenny who lives with her, and Cai Jenny, who is unmarried and pregnant, gives birth to her daughter Chen Yongxi. Surprisingly, at the end of 1977, he ended a relationship of more than 2,000 days and nights because his girlfriend gave birth to a daughter for him.
"Son preference" is an old idea that should be abandoned long ago, and Chen Guantai broke up with his cohabiting girlfriend because he could not give birth to a son for himself, which seems to be reluctantly accepted back in the 1970s, after all, people's thinking was generally backward at that time, which was commonplace.
What is even more unexpected is that in 1978, Chen Guantai was exposed to having a son Chen Junxiang with Fang Yizhen, and he finally ended his marriage with the original match and gave Fang Yizhen the title of husband and wife who gave birth to a son for him.
Fang Yizhen
As we all know, Gu Long 'Gu Daxia' has been addicted to "wine" all his life, and the past is even more wonderful than his novel. But it has to be said that Gu Daxia is "abusive", and Chen Guantai's biggest purpose is to "seek children".
In 1990, Chen Guantai married Zhao Tingting in Australia, when he had already parted ways with his ex-wife Fang Yizhen for many years. And this time, his marriage with his wife Zhao Tingting also fell apart after not long.
Mr. and Mrs. Chen Guantai
In 2019, Chen Guantai, who is already 74 years old, was exposed to be "low-key" married in Hong Kong with his 43-year-old girlfriend Tang Liping, one is thinning west, one is like a wolf, and netizens are worried that the former generation of stars is overwhelmed.
In the face of the media, Chen Guantai said that the reason why he and his girlfriend registered marriage was to give each other a name.
The hero is sad to be beautiful, and chen Guantai, who is old and strong, is still more dedicated, after all, he has always only liked beautiful women.
Back to the point, I think that as ordinary film fans, we like a movie artist, there is really no need to care too much about the gossip and anecdotes of people in the circle, and being able to enjoy a good film and television masterpiece in leisure time will be an appetizer in ordinary life.
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Many years later, Chen Guantai once said: In his life, he always likes to fight unevenly, and when he encounters an opponent who is stronger than himself, he will fight to the end!
It is precisely because of this personality that a grudge between him and Shaw's boss, Run Run Shaw, was once a sensation.
According to Chen Guantai himself, the truth of the matter is probably like this:
In that year, after Chen Guantai joined Shaw, he was reused by Shaw, and at Shaw's request, Chen Guantai signed a contract with Shaw to make 24 films in 6 years. However, 6 years later, Chen Guantai shot more than 50 films in total, and wrote a script of "Iron Monkey" to Shaw, but Shaw did not expect that Shaw did not agree to shoot.
The script company that had worked so hard was reluctant to shoot, so Chen Guantai planned to raise money to shoot it himself, but he was hindered by Shaw. To this end, Chen Guantai and Shaw launched a three-year-long "conflict".
In front of the powerful Shao, Chen Guantai was like a "small ant", with no resistance. After the two sides broke up, he not only had no drama to shoot since then, but also was issued a "personal prohibition order" by the government, and he could not get out of the country at all. Even if he sneaked to Taiwan later, it was difficult to find a life under Shaw's intimidation.
Just when Chen Guantai was most desperate, a lawyer friend in Hong Kong helped him write a long letter "full of apologies", and Chen Guantai was able to make a comeback...
At this point in the story, I believe that friends who know something about the Hong Kong entertainment industry know that the people in the circle at that time were actually not easy behind the star-studded stars.
At the same time as saying these words, Chen Guantai also said: "As my former boss, until now I am full of respect for Run Run Shaw. Of course, whether this sentence has moisture or not, only the parties know best.
Chen Guantai also said: "When I fought with Run Run Shaw, those two years were my golden age, but I didn't regret it at all, this lawsuit finally changed the hong Kong art contract to all English, avoiding the differences caused by the previous two versions, which is also my contribution to Hong Kong artists." ”
Chen Guantai's spirit of "daring to call the sun and the moon for a new day" is very admirable even today. Now there is a word on the Internet that is most appropriate to describe - "urine".
In addition to the confrontation with Shao, Chen Guantai also did a very good job in treating the little brothers. Just like zhou Xingchi, who is now a well-known "star master", he only came out step by step after receiving the support of Chen Guantai.
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In 1990, Chen Guantai founded Wei Kai Film Company and supervised the production of many films, and the comedy film called "Thief A Star" was tailor-made for Stephen Chow. It is reported that when Zhou Xingchi was brought red by Li Xiuxian, it was promoted under the recommendation of his brother Chen Guantai.
Saying that Chen Guantai is a predecessor full of "urine", there is another thing that also makes people feel convinced. It is said that in 2010, in order to protect his beloved disciple Ao Jianian, he did not hesitate to issue a statement to withdraw from the division and break off the 50-year mentor-apprentice relationship with his mentor Chen Xiu.
epilogue:
In an interview, when the reporter talked about how to look at the current kung fu movie, Chen Guantai sighed: "The current investors are short-sighted, which has caused the embarrassing situation that there is no successor to the kung fu movie." He also admitted: "Only China has kung fu movies in the world, so we need to show the real side of kung fu." But let's take a look at it again, there are now a few young people who know kung fu, and many of them are randomly compared and then done through high technology. High-tech we are not as good as foreigners, but we can compare with kung fu, but now the situation is that we are short to bo people. After saying these words, Chen Guantai couldn't stop shaking his head, and his face was confused.
Now, Shaw's first generation of star Chen Guantai is 75 years old, and it is almost impossible to see his new works again, which is a major regret for action movie fans.
Although the glory of the past is no longer there, he is still full of red light and full of "urine". Finally, I hope that this old man will be happy and healthy in his old age.
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