As a cold-faced laughing artist in the Hong Kong film industry, it is natural to say how high the status is, but he once said that the name Zhang Che is like a god in the film circle, so you can imagine how high Zhang Che's status is. As a martial arts grand master and the originator of violent aesthetics, Zhang Che has made nearly 100 movies in his lifetime, and most of them are martial arts films. However, recently found that Zhang Che has a habit of filming, the title likes to use numbers, basically from one to ten, almost all shot, how much do you like numbers?
1, "One-Armed Knife": We can understand "one", "One-Armed Knife" is Zhang Che's famous work, which won the popularity of the eldest disciple Wang Yu, and he himself became a million directors. But the greater significance is that it ushered in a new era that influenced Hong Kong cinema for decades, and later paid tribute to Tsui Ke's "Knife" and Li Rengang's "The Love of the 94 One-Armed Knife".
Later, "One-Armed Knife King" and "New One-Armed Knife" were launched, and if the three films were put together, I personally liked Di Jiang's "New One-Armed Knife" the most, which had both violent aesthetics and romanticism, and the whole process could be said to be full of excitement.
2, "Two Heroes": There is not a single female character in the whole process, not even a dragon runner, Zhang Che decided to carry out the masculinity to the end. At the beginning, Jiang David played the side of the banner is a master of both good and evil, everyone wants to pull him into the company, but little Jiang yi sees his true love Dillon on the side of justice, naturally does not hesitate to choose the side of justice! Helplessly, this group of teammates was too stupid, and in the end, he hung up on the wisdom and courage of the two, but death must also have dignity, so he chose to stand and die.
3. "Three Heroes of Border City": There are four disciples of Zhang Che's first generation, Wang Yu, Luo Lie, Zheng Lei and Wu Ma. Noon Ma is basically behind the scenes, is Zhang Che's best assistant director, this time it is the other three disciples who are on the battlefield, the scene is more balanced, basically all taken care of. It is worth mentioning that this is Zhang Che's first martial arts work, the masculinity has not yet been fully highlighted, and the three of them have each arranged an emotional drama, which is still relatively complete and delicate on the whole.
4, "Four Horsemen": Dillon, Jiang David, Chen Guantai and Wang Zhong are four veterans, at first full of hope, the feeling of homelessness in the back is getting stronger and stronger, and then all the way to the end. The biggest benefit is naturally the military uniform control, the four handsome disciples have different personalities, the dashing Brother Long, the decadent Jiang David, the romantic Chen Guantai and the stable Wang Zhong. Although the end of the group is a bit illogical, but seeing the four of them will put up with it.
5. "Five Tiger Generals": The five tiger generals here are not Liu Bei's, but Zhang Che's five disciples, adding another Li Xiuxian to the four knights to form the five tiger generals. The whole story revolves around the process of the five of them uniting to fight the bandits, full of tragic colors, and in the end, Wang Zhong survived alone, and the others all died. This film has a bit of a seven samurai flavor, and the later Hong Kong version of "Zhongyi Qunying" is also the same.
In addition to "Five Tiger Generals", there is also "Five Poisons", Quentin especially likes this film, and it also has its name on the list of cult films commented by foreign media, which is one of Zhang Che's important works, and the protagonists are Jiang Sheng, Guo Chai, Luo Mang and other fourth-generation disciples. Regarding the number "five", there are also "Five Escapes Ninjutsu" and "Shaolin Five Ancestors", after all, Zhang Che has many disciples.
6, "Seven Golden Corpses": There is no number of "six", it is estimated that the big director Zhang Che has not had time to shoot it. Everyone now generally believes that Hong Jinbao's "Ghost Fighting Ghosts" is the originator of the psychic action film, in fact, if you calculate seriously, Zhang Che's "Seven Golden Corpses" is the real originator, combining western vampires and Xiangxi corpses in the east, but unfortunately some details are not handled well, resulting in a box office fiasco, which is why no one touched the zombie theme in the following years. If you like zombie movies and like David Jiang, you can still watch it.
7, "Eight Dao Louzi": This film was filmed by Zhang Che to Taiwan Province to set up a longbow film company, the team is still Jiang David, Dillon, Chen Guantai, but also joined Fu Sheng, Qi Champion them, two generations of disciples together for us to reproduce the legendary deeds of this group of unsung heroes in the Eight Dao Louzi, once again let us understand their patriotic feelings, without exception, our Di Jiang twins died in one piece.
In "Eight-Nation Alliance", Fu Sheng and Qi Guanjun co-starred, and by the way, Zhang Che also arranged for Zhen Ni and Fu Sheng to partner, and I have to say that Zhang Che is really fond of Fu Sheng. It's just a pity that this cute kung fu boy unfortunately died young, otherwise it must be a generation of kung fu superstars.
8, "Nine Sons heavenly demons": Some time ago, Liang Jiahui's "Asura" had three heads, in fact, Zhang Che had played with nine skulls in "Nine Sons of Heavenly Demons". Although this film is directed by Zhang Che and co-starring his disciples Cheng Tianci and Jiang Sheng, it is not produced by Shaw, but by Hong Kong's Changhe Film Company. Overall, the character modeling, the actor performance is still very good, that is, the plot is slightly worse, I have to sigh that Zhang Che who entered the eighties is indeed old.
In addition, there are "Thirteen Taibao" and "Shanghai Thirteen Taibao", one is the Tang Dynasty period, and the other is the Shanghai Beach during the War of Resistance. Among them, "Thirteen Taibao" has the deepest memory of the tragedy of Xiao Jiang being divided by five horses, and to "Shanghai Beach Thirteen Taibao" is from the beginning to the end, and 2009's "October Siege" has many shadows. Now that Zhang Che's grandfather has long passed away, the masculinity of that year cannot be found at all in the current Chinese film circle, all of which are filled with small flowers and small fresh meat, missing the once masculine jianghu!