Preach in words. - Don Tears
In 1995.
Aaron Kwok cut off his long hair from the "Legend of Innocence" period and began the transformation on the big screen.
He didn't want to just be a commercial movie star.
In the impetuous Hong Kong film industry, in fact, few people can resist the temptation to become popular through the commercial film valley.
But Aaron Kwok is definitely one of the outliers.
After taking over ten commercial films in 1992 and 1993, he decisively let go.
Went to make a literary film "Xianle Fluttering", and a commercial action film "Romantic Storm".
Since this time, he has formed a parallel shadow road style of business and literature, which can also be seen from this point that his ambition is not low.
Producer Wu Yusen, screenwriter Chen Qingjia, director Liang Baijian.
Aaron Kwok took the lead and made cameos with Li Ruotong, Hong Jinbao and Tang Wenlong, as well as a number of well-known filmmakers.
This is the main cast of the movie "Romantic Storm" released in 1996.
Liang Baijian, who inherited Wu Yusen, replaced Wu Yusen's usual gunfire with a fist, and then wrapped himself in sorrow to concoct this "storm."
The Mainland Imported Version has another name, "You are my hero".
The two versions ended differently, with the Hong Kong version ending in death, while the mainland imported version left a future.
Aaron Kwok, who was Chinese New Year's Eve years old at the time, was extremely suitable to play a boxer, and it was almost the first choice of the younger generation of actors at that time.
Wang Xueqin, rebellious and impulsive, stepped on the boxing ring because of love, and the boxing match is not only divided into victory and defeat, but also life and death.
Killing his girlfriend's brother in the ring plunges his life into darkness.
His girlfriend is devastated, while he steps into the underground world of black fists and tortures himself with alcohol and endless fighting.
At this moment, it is doomed to the eternal recipe of the future.
The final battle in the ring is the asian boxing champion golden belt competition, followed by the ambition to win glory for the country, Ah Qin decided the final victory with his will, and lost his life, but he saved his family and love.
There is a scene in the movie where Ah Qin, who is dizzy due to head trauma and bleeding from his mouth and nose, stands on the edge of a tall building and raises his hand to the sky, which is particularly shocking to the audience, which is a symbol of tenacity and indomitability.
The movie is not only full of masculinity, but also has lingering love, such as Ah Qin riding a motorcycle into the classroom, eating egg tarts with the humorous interrogation traffic police, whispering at night, not willing to say goodbye, the fierce kiss on the balcony at night, and the third person in front of the face who is in conflict. The details of these loves are very delicate, interspersed with a fierce boxing match, complementing each other.
It makes the movie worthy of a sentence, rigid and soft.
Hong Jinbao's literary skills are very good, and several directors playing passers-by Dragon Tao are also extremely involved in the drama.
Aaron Kwok is excellent in this film, portraying a young man who is cynical on the surface but tough on the inside. The bold attachment and yearning for love is inspired and raised, self-abandonment after emotional injury, and finally regaining self-harvest value.
If you only consider the protagonist scene, this is only the ninth film shot by Aaron Kwok.
It is no wonder that the Hong Kong media was full of voices that cried out for it, called "the golden statue pearl", which can be described as a promising future.
The movie became a hit, with a box office of 11.6 million, and the new director Liang Baijian became a blockbuster.
Producer and screenwriter Chen Qingjia, director Liang Baijian.
Gu Tianle and Wu Yanzu lead the way, and starring Tan Yaowen and Gu Zulin.
This is the main cast of the 2001 film "Pupil of the Beast".
The film is seen as a sequel to "Romantic Storm", Liang Baijian once again began to shoot boxing themes, the ending is still tragic, but the style shifts from inspirational to dark.
Compared with the clean and neat screenwriter of the previous "Romantic Storm", this movie is slightly strange, with a "fraternal twin" medical concept that triggers the entanglement of the story.
After many years, the deepest impression left by the movie is the fierceness and stubbornness of Gu Tianle's character.
At that time, Gu Tianle was almost the only movie star in Hong Kong who could compete with Aaron Kwok's appearance.
He Hitomi, played by him, has a particularly wild charm, but his rebellious and stubborn personality is doomed to a tragic ending of "too rigid and easy to bend".
He Hitomi, who left home at the age of eighteen, was taken into the underground boxing market by Arwen, and every time he won a boxing match, he was one step closer to death.
Two of the boxing matches were impressive, the first was He Hitomi carrying Arwen on his back to get revenge, and the second was a life-and-death battle with the black boxer, the former was brotherly righteousness, and the latter was rather unyielding.
The horror of the human heart and the darkness of the underground world are vividly expressed in the movie, and the wrong He Hitomi, even if the fist is hard, will eventually be the enemy of the chaotic game without reason and rules, and in the end, the revenge of the twin brothers seems to be a bit of a snake, making the end of the movie meaningless.
The film adopts a two-way narrative of positive and negative, intending to tell the story of brotherhood and charlatanism in an underground boxing match, but the strange setting is not pleasing.
As far as the actor is concerned, Gu Tianle's eyes are fierce like an indomitable trapped beast, the performance is good, Wu Yanzu is lackluster, and the real radiance of acting is the supporting role Tan Yaowen, who shows the character's greed, fear, guilt, loneliness, cowardice and gravity to the fullest.
Previously, Aaron Kwok had said in an interview that he hoped that Tan Yaowen could get the Golden Statue Emperor as soon as possible.
In fact, seriously speaking, he is really a fierce role of the acting school, but he has not really risen, fortunately, with this film to win the 38th Golden Horse Awards Best Supporting Actor Award, it is also deserved.
Under various factors, the film's box office performance is extremely unsatisfactory, only 1.29 million
Later, Liang Baijian made movies such as "Peerless Baby", "Love Your Bed" and "Thousand Machines Change 2", but there was not much improvement.
In terms of works, the quality of these two boxing movies is actually quite good.
Especially "Romantic Storm" is the best.
It is the first boxing theme in the Hong Kong film industry.