Last night, Hong Kong media broke the news that the old Hong Kong movie drama Bone Shi Tian died at the age of 74.
Shi Tian, people familiar with Hong Kong movies must still remember the dragon four in his "Hero Nature 2" who has feelings and righteousness, endures humiliation and burdens in order to avenge himself and is not afraid to die.
The protagonist of "Hero True Colors 2" has changed from Xiao Ma Ge to his twin brother Ah Jian, the same righteous thin cloud sky, the same line of arrogance dry cloud. Dillon Zhou Runfa Zhang Guorong Iron Triangle continues the classic of the first part.
In terms of music, Huang Xiagu Jiahui's "Love of the Year" became a film song with a lyrical song "Running to the Future Days".
Love Music of the Year: Zhang Guorong - Gu Tingshenghui Music Circle Grand Master Classic Half Century
In the film, Song Zihao, played by his brother Zhang Guorong, finally said goodbye to his wife and daughter in the phone booth, which became the most tearful moment. Many years later, in "Please Answer 1988", it was sought after by Koreans.
The aesthetics of violence, the wonderful gunfights, the Hong Kong movies and Hong Kong stars, these are all points that Koreans have been sealed as textbooks.
And The scene played by Shi Tian, Played by Dragon Fourth, and Ah Jian Zhou Runfa nibbling on the food on the ground while tearfully recovering their memories, and rekindling their confidence in life is the unforgettable memory point of this sequel.
As everyone knows, this superb acting, white-haired fourth uncle is known as Hong Kong Chaplin, the godfather of Hong Kong film who established the new art city.
The hero's true colors were invested and filmed by New Art City Film Company, and the success made director Wu Yusen, who was at a low point, regain his confidence and return to the peak. It was Director Xu Ke, an old friend of Wu Yusen, who came forward to help.
Inside and outside the play, it is a deep sense of love.
At that time, Xu Ke was one of the seven monsters of New Art City, and the other six were Mai Jia, Shi Tian, Huang Baiming, Shi Nansheng, Zeng Zhiwei, and Teddy Robin.
Seven film enthusiasts at that time gathered together to do their jobs and create a new world of Hong Kong cinema. With Jiahe, who was in the limelight at that time, Shao's three worlds were divided.
In particular, the entertainment shootout commercial film "Best Partner", inspired by "007", which invested 6 million yuan, set a record for Hong Kong people to queue up all night.
The film not only grossed HK$26 million, but also brought Hong Kong films into the 20 million box office era, and for three consecutive years it broke the record for the highest grossing since the opening of Hong Kong.
At that time, the singer Hui Guanjie was also the first actor in Hong Kong to pay 2 million yuan. The image of the skinhead, King Kong, and the man's wife has also become a collective memory of a generation.
Later, "Ghost Horse Zhi DuoXing" and "I Love Night Fragrance" made the Republic of China comedy upgrade from shoddy to new models every day with fancy and funny stems, beautiful and beautiful shapes, and exquisite and charming sets, westernized and foreign, and made the audience refreshed.
In "I Love the Night", Lin Qingxia is beautiful and glowing.
In the late 1980s, the "Ghost of a Woman", "The True Colors of Heroes" and "Happy Ghosts" series generated one after another excellent IPs of Hong Kong films.
Produced by New Art City, the audience is confident that this slogan and Shaw production will be recognized by the market and the audience like a good product.
The predecessor of New Art City is the Struggle Film Company founded by Huang Baiming, Shi Tian and Mai Jia in 1980.
The struggle trio, with less to win more, full of creativity, is hard to kill a bloody road in Jiahe and Shaw and Xu Shi brothers to dominate the film circle. Attracted the big man Lei Juekun of the rich Golden Princess Company, he was very optimistic about the struggle trio, so he funded the upgrade of the trio, and there was a new art city that was later popular.
In the early 1980s, in a small study room in the Mobil apartment, seven people sat together every night at twelve o'clock in the evening, both men and women, almost everyone was out of hand, sometimes meditating, sometimes laughing. In the smoke, one chicken after another jumped on the movie bridge, gradually taking shape in the exchange of information between seven mouths and seven pairs of ears, waiting to be brought to the screen. As the logo of "New Art City" in white on a red background is projected on the curtain by a pillar of light, the audience will usher in a ninety-minute carnival.
The seven people's feast of thought always begins with the company financial report of the only woman among them, Shi Nansheng, who is tall and beautiful, known as the "housekeeper" of the new art city, and every time she finishes speaking politely, she quietly stays behind to wait for her boyfriend Xu Ke. Xu Ke is a skinny bone fairy, smart, the most imaginative, telling the story like a kite, must be pulled back by someone to make it perfect.
The diminutive Teddy Robin is the one who pulls the kite line, his thinking is the most meticulous, known as "logical bin", whether the script is logical or not, to him to judge the most assured. The chubby Zeng Zhiwei is not very good at writing a complete script, but he will add some clever and interesting ideas under the stable skeleton. But to make the bridge section more interesting, it is necessary to help the white-faced bookish Huang Baiming, the flower name "Optimistic Huang", to think of some hilarious stories, and the movie makes the audience laugh every ten minutes, mostly to his credit. Too optimistic is often out of touch with reality, and the thin stone sky is called the "pessimistic stone", and everything always loves to think badly, reminding everyone not to be happy and sad.
This feast of thought ends at seven o'clock in the morning every morning, and the six people mentioned above have resigned one after another, leaving only Mai Jia, the owner of the "Struggle Room", to take a nap. As the leader of the group of seven, he was too tired just now, touching his bald head, and he had to summarize the speech, reconcile the emotions of each person, remind this too optimistic, comfort the one too pessimistic. The real sleep time is only two or three hours, and the day's work often begins at nine o'clock that day. He and his group of exaggerated-looking (except, of course, with the beautiful Shi Nansheng), tall, fat and jagged friends, are known as the "Seven Monsters of New Art City". "
—— Maizi,"Joke about the Seven Monsters of new art city"
Mai Jia is known as an iron man and can work for several nights without sleeping; Huang Baiming's execution is super strong, keen and willing to follow the times, and the "Hitchhiker" written in one night is proud of Hong Kong and Taiwan; Shi Tian plays a comedy and can be a director; Xu Ke is famous for all kinds of good ideas; Teddy Robin music performance director a leader, all-round style; Zeng Zhiwei is also an all-round talent. Add a strong woman who is engaged in production, Shi Nansheng. New Art City's super lineup, unprecedented, tall, fat and thin, male and female, bearded and bald, this strange shape of seven people all day and night bridge to think of the script, the first few years of New Art City to wind and rain to rain.
But later, because of the creative concept and income distribution problems, the seven monsters developed each. The first is that Zeng Zhiwei went to Taiwan to shoot a film and quit, and then joined Hong Jinbao's Five Lucky Stars.
Then Xu Ke and his wife Shi Nansheng set up their own portals and set up a "film studio", which also got the support of the Golden Princess and successfully found another way to start decades of romantic acting with the debut of "Shanghai Night".
As soon as Xu Ke, the main creative force, left, half of the new art city collapsed, and the new art city, which stood at the top of the Hong Kong film box office for three consecutive years, retired in 1984 and gave the championship to the rival Jiahe.
Only because Shi Tian picked a beam to shoot a "Wishing you prosperity", the audience liked "Best Partner", the box office was not good, and it was not hostile to Jiahe's "Fuxing Gaozhao". Later, I still found Lin Lingdong to save the scene and made "Best Partner 4,000 Miles to Save the Poor Wife".
At this time, the new art city was torn apart, and it was no longer the scene of the creative explosion and prosperity of the year.
The most dramatic thing is that as the founder, Mai Jia actually took her own signboard to Hong Jinbao and made a "Best Lucky Star". A new film company was formed.
At this point, the new art city has completely disintegrated, and the seven monsters have run to each other, but the weight of the new art city in the Hong Kong film industry is still in place and the elder, which is groundbreaking.
From the 1980 "Funny Times" to the 1991 "Wild Fairy Tale", in just ten years, the new art city relies on a unique think tank, focusing on the thinking of type, packaging, marketing and other aspects, so that in the most brilliant period, it is necessary for Shaw and Jiahe two dragons to jointly fight against him, the former martial arts films always present a pedantic atmosphere, hard state and false feelings, comedy and focus on the low-cost small market, the characters of the new art city are always flesh and blood, good at speculation, or full of heroic morality, but also combined with high technology to make a girl, These anti-traditional innovations are all the charm of attracting large audiences into the cinema.
Although the era of New Art City has passed, but the myth of New Art City is not extinguished, these seven monsters are still running in their respective fields, if there is such an opportunity, will Hong Kong movies be more vigorous now?
I don't know the rest, but I knew that with these seven people working together, they would be able to revive the Hong Kong film industry.
Now that Shi Tianxi has gone, several others have reached their twilight years, but Xu Ke is still enthusiastic about creating. The reunion of several people was at the 2017 Hong Kong Film Awards.
The new art city that will no longer be there has become a beautiful story like the rare glory of Hong Kong movies, anyway, and the love of that year is fresh at this moment.