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At the 1986 Hong Kong Top Ten Songs Golden Melody Ceremony, when Dillon presented zhang Guorong with an award, he took himself by the way:
"Leslie, I haven't come up to present the award for a long time"
Friends who have seen "The True Colors of Heroes" know that he is imitating the classic lines in the movie: "Sir, I haven't been a big brother for a long time." ”
The former sentence is a joke and self-deprecating, and the latter sentence, inside and outside the play, is like Dillon's master's self-channeling. In the play, Song Zihao's career failure, the old cold eyes, the brothers look at each other in a difficult time; outside the play, Dillon's encounter at that time was almost the same.
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In 1968, at the age of 18, Dillon was still a small tailor in a western clothing store, because he listened to a sentence from He Guanchang:
"Men want to build their own lifelong careers, can you make western clothes a lifelong career?"
After that, his mind was hot, and he walked into the Shaw set in a daze, and became a popular warrior in white, a superstar sought after by thousands of people, and swept the Xiangjiang River for more than ten years.
At the same time as him, he was also a knight dressed in white, and he was Jiang David. Because both of them studied under Zhang Che, Zhang Che was inspired by the category of Peking Opera martial arts students and made them the most successful "double horns" in Shaw's martial arts films.
Among them, Jiang David is mostly "short hit", and Dillon is "long lean", one life and one stable, complementing each other. Such a design made Dillon and David Jiang, and also deeply influenced Wu Yusen, who was still an assistant director in "Zhangjiaban" at that time.
So that later when he wrote Xiao Ma Ge and Song Zihao in "The True Colors of Heroes", in addition to referring to his friendship with Xu Ke, he also unconsciously followed the "one life and one stability" designed by Zhang Che for "Di Jiang".
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Because of the same division, coupled with frequent cooperation in filming, Dillon and David Jiang soon became close brothers. However, in vanity fair like the entertainment industry, friendship is too luxurious and too fragile. In the front, Zhang Che and Liu Jialiang tore their faces, and then there were Li Xiuxian and Zhou Xingchi facing the court, they are not the first pair, nor will they be the last pair.
In 1975, Dillon and David Jiang spread a disagreement after collaborating on "Falling into the City", and then they became strangers and became like water and fire. Then, Dillon still filmed his "big hero" in Shaw's and began to form an iron triangle with Chu Yuan and Gu Long, and "big hero" ushered in the second spring of his career. And David Jiang put down the burden of idols early and slowly transformed behind the scenes.
In addition to Shaw," Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao, and a new group of filmmakers such as "Seven Monsters of New Art City" began to appear on the scene, using classic movies to continuously impact Shaw's martial arts and divide up movie audiences.
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Ten years later, in 1985, Shaw's martial arts came to an end, Shaw shifted his focus to the television industry, and the original film studio employees were laid off on a large scale.
And the former first beautiful teenager in Xiangjiang also received a dismissal letter from the company at this moment, which read:
"Thank you for what you have done for the company over the years"
A short sentence ended Dillon's twenty-year youth Shaw career, and also made Dillon, who had just turned 40, become unmotivated.
From being a popular movie emperor to being abandoned by Shaw, Dillon has paid for his youth. In the past, he played the "big man", and now the trend of film is comedy. Dillon's heroic and dignified face naturally did not win the favor of the producers.
In addition, because he stayed at Shaw for too long, Dillon was almost completely disconnected from the shadow circle outside. It was Shaw's set that made him, but it also imprisoned him. Dillon, who originally regarded acting as a lifelong career, now has no drama to shoot.
At this time, he seems to be destined to be abandoned by the times and buried for The Shaw martial arts films. I don't know at that time, when he remembered He Guanchang's original words, would he rethink: the showbiz industry wants a generation of new people to win a generation of old people, compared with this line, it is easier to become a lifelong career by doing western clothes!
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In those difficult days, in order to be able to film, Dillon sought out Fang Yihua, Chen Ziqiang, He Guanchang and other former "guests". But there was always no way to ask for help, and Dillon rented a house opposite the Shaw set, looking at the bright lights on the set from time to time and remembering the good times. The original good time suddenly disappeared, and he was not willing.
At this time, Dillon changed from a heroic Shaw hero to an unemployed and balding middle-aged uncle. The brilliance of the past is like the films he has acted in, frame by frame in every insomniac dream.
Looking at the embarrassment in front of him, he secretly swore in his heart: What I lost, I must take it back with my own hands! Finally, he waited for "The True Colors of Heroes".
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When discussing casting in "The True Colors of Heroes", because of Song Zihao's role setting, Xu Ke had the ingenuity to find a past actor to play Song Zihao, and it is best to be an old actor who has been beautiful and then declined. He thought of Dillon, who was once a Shaw hero, but now unemployed at home.
On Wu Yusen's side, because he is also a student of Zhang Che, and at the same time, he has been friends with Dillon for many years and wants to find an opportunity to help him. Therefore, Wu Yusen and Xu Ke coincided and unanimously decided that Dillon was the best candidate for Song Zihao.
Such a bold choice, in the end, surprisingly successful, is inseparable from Wu Yusen Xu Ke's vision and courage, and it is also inseparable from Dillon's precipitation after the confusion of life.
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Because of the brothers' opposite eyes, from the peak to the lows and other similar experiences to Song Zihao, Dillon accurately integrated his true emotions when performing.
Not only that, Dillon also took this play very seriously, for example, when filming the scene "I waited for three years", Zhou Runfa was late when he rushed to the "Hero's True Colors" crew to shoot this scene because he had many scenes at that time. At this time, Dillon unceremoniously criticized him:
"Hair boy, you can't act like this"
For example, who will fire the last shot at the end of the film, it may be that Wu Yusen deleted Zhang Guorong's scene and felt indebted, so he temporarily changed the script and changed it to let Zhang Guorong shoot the last shot. But Dillon felt that Zhang Guorong's role was a policeman, and he should not shoot this shot, or he should come by himself, which was also to make up for his inner debt to his brother. At his insistence, Wu Yusen changed back.
For example, when filming the scene "Not being a big brother for a long time", for this short line, Dillon privately pondered for a long time, and he felt that there should be three meanings in this sentence:
One is the change in his own status, the second is that he has not fulfilled his responsibility to take care of his brother, and the third is that he hopes that he can turn over one day. With such care, he finally achieved "The True Colors of Heroes" and also made Dillon himself.
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In 1986, as soon as the film was released, it immediately became a hit in Hong Kong and won a record 34 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office. Dillon also won the Golden Horse Award for Film Emperor with the role of Hao Ge. Making a comeback from defeat and then making a comeback may be the happiest thing for a middle-aged man than this.
In addition to the recovery of the career, at the celebration banquet of the Golden Horse Awards, Jiang David also came to congratulate him. The two brothers, who had been estranged for many years, hugged each other tightly, and Dillon was even more excited.
The next day, the major newspapers in Hong Kong published the news, and the whole of Xiangjiang was boiling for their reunion.
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Just as the so-called young children are old, from the Shaw superstar sought after by thousands of people, to the mid-life crisis with no drama to film, to the re-popular wine talk.
The experience of Brother Hao in the film is like a projection of Dillon's 40-year life, and all the various situations of the middle-aged man are all integrated into the layered performance.
With the bowl of wine of "The True Colors of Heroes", it is poured into the fortress of the heart that will never lose its will. Whether it is the bitterness of the past or the glory of today, Dillon, who is not confused, may have long been relieved...
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Many years later, "The True Colors of Heroes" was re-screened in the mainland, and a good reporter asked Dillon if he wanted to play Brother Hao again. Dillon, on the other hand, asked:
Can you find me another Zhang Guorong?
Yes, 34 years later, the hero and warrior of that year are long gone, and the jianghu sentiment that we were proud of is out of place in today's era when money is supreme. Just as Brother Hao can no longer find Ajay, we can't go back to that proud youth.
But whenever we are in a deep predicament and feel that the road ahead is confused, we will always think of the ever-changing 1986 in the middle of the night, think of the surging "Hero's True Colors", and think of the ups and downs of the life of Hao Ge Dillon.
A tribute to the hero's true colors and Dillon's forty not confused.
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