"Shaolin Soccer" I believe everyone has seen it, as a combination of kung fu and football, it can be said to be very successful. However, today I want to introduce a Hong Kong film from 34 years ago, and Xingye's "Shaolin Football" can be said to be derived from it. "Shaolin Soccer" Douban score 7.4, and it is only 0.1 points, it is "Bo Niu".
"Bo Niu" is the first Hong Kong film to combine kung fu and football, released in 1983, directed by Yuan Zhenyang, co-starring Yuan Biao, Zhang Guoqiang, Di Wei, Kaohsiung, Li Saifeng and so on.
Li Tang, played by Yuan Biao, and his uncle Tie Quan Li (played by Kaohsiung) are dependent on each other, a township competition conference is held, Li Tang does not want to be bribed by a rich second generation, and in the game, he takes advantage of the opportunity everywhere with his athletic skills, and as a result, the rich second generation is offended, and the uncle is helpless to arrange to take refuge in his city. He didn't find his uncle's old friend, but he ended up offending King Kim (Dee Wei).
By chance, he met a pair of children of his uncle's old friend, the older brother was Xiaosun (Zhang Guoqiang), and the younger sister was Yafeng (Li Saifeng). Xiao Sun knew that Li Tang's legs were strong, so the two applied for the Longhua football team together, and as a result, Li Tang was selected under the wrong yin and yang, and Xiao Sun lost. It turned out that the owner of the Longhua football team was the ball king Jin, and it was precisely to avenge Li Tang to join the team.
The enemy was extremely red-eyed when they saw each other, and Li Tang naturally suffered a lot, and at the same time, he was also arranged to be a ball picker on the court and was not allowed to play football. All kinds of humiliations Li Tang endured, assiduously learning the kicking method of Qiu Wang Jin, and playing with Xiao Sun in his spare time.
King Kim's skills have nothing to say, but he is too bad, it turns out that he played a match-fixing ball with the gambling boss. In order to act realistically, in the match between the Longhua team and the new student team, the ball king Jin deliberately injured and let Li Tang, who had never played the ball, play. King Jin thought that Li Tang would not play football, and he did not expect that Li Tang won the game by himself and was favored by the boss of the new team.
Li Tang naturally could not stay in the Longhua team, just when the boss of the new student team decided to praise him as the ball king, so he and Xiaosun became the main players of the new team, and they were in direct opposition to the ball king Jin everywhere. In the end, there was even a situation of gambling legs. So the two bosses gambled money, the ball king Jin and Li Tang gambled on their legs, at first the ball king Jin led 2 goals 3:1, and then in the case of torrential rain, Li Tang successfully recovered 2 goals and won the game. Because at the beginning of the game, the ball king Jin confidently said that playing a peace would also be considered a win for Li Tang. Poor King Kim was finally cut off by the boss of the match-fixing ball, which is also a punishment for him!
The director of "Bo Niu" is Yuan Zhenyang, yuan heping's cousin, and he is the one in the film who buys tickets for others to fly. The man who once starred in the jar in "Qimen Dunjia". In the 1990s, Yuan Zhenyang saw through the red dust, became a monk, and is now the abbot of a temple in Hong Kong.
Yuan Biao, as the all-round king of the Seven Little Fortunes, is skilled, and shows a lot of ball skills in the film, which is full of ornamentation. Yuan Biao started work with his master brother Hong Jinbao in the late 1970s, and Hong Jinbao was also relatively good to this little master, so that he starred in "Miscellaneous Family Boy" and "Loser Boy" were very successful, and in the 80s, he began to team up with Hong Jinbao and Jackie Chan to become an iron triangle, and starred in many classic films.
By the end of the 1980s, Yuan Biao began to fly alone, and cooperated more with YuanHua and Yuankui. After the new century, he occasionally appeared in some TV dramas, and now he has long faded out of the show business circle, and when he married his daughter a few years ago, many big guys in the circle came to the scene, which shows his good popularity.
Zhang Guoqiang was originally a professional football player before entering the industry, once played in the Oriental, Sea Hornets and other football teams, entered the show business circle in the late 70s, and has been tepid in the film circle for many years, on the contrary, he has made great achievements in the field of television dramas, and the most impressive role is Murong Fu of Huang Rihua's version of "Tianlong Babu", which can be described as both form and god.
Deewe is always the villain and a master of the court. The film is too narrow-minded, and the most hateful thing is to kick a match-fixing. Di Wei is a kung fu master in real life, Zhang Che first gave him the stage name of Slayer Dragon, and later Dillon helped him change to Di Wei. In the 1980s, he joined Hong Jiaban and played against Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao and Jet Li, and the three brothers Luo San cannon in "Plan A", Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan and Yuan Biao, almost did not beat him.
The heroine Li Saifeng was invincible in her youth, similar to Ren Tingting in "Mr. Zombie", who initially took the pure route, and in the late 80s, she embarked on the route of beating women, and was deeply impressed in the "Angel Action" series and "Overlord Flower". Unfortunately, it was later caught in a scandal, and there is still no news.
"Bo Niu" is a masterpiece overall, and now it seems that it is still outdated, the match-fixing and stadium violence mentioned in the film still exist, and compared with "Shaolin Football", there are more ball skills to show, for that era without stunts, it is really rare to be able to shoot like this. Xingye's "Shaolin Soccer" depends more on the story and stunts, both of which have their own advantages, and those who like football are not to be missed!