The 1990s were the golden age of Hong Kong comedy films, and the works of people like Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei and others at that time were mostly regarded as classics. In LiangZai's view, the comedies of that era, especially the New Year comedies, the works of director Gao Zhisen can at least rank in the top three. "The House of great wealth", which was released in 1994 and starring Zhang Guorong, Liang Jiahui, Liu Qingyun and others, is regarded as a classic among classics.
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The film is about a rich family in Hong Kong, and like most Hong Kong films, this family is several generations of the same family, and the industry that Dad has worked hard to make the family live a wealthy life and eat and wear. But the family has a difficult scripture, the eldest son and daughter-in-law quarrel every day, the marriage is about to break down, the second son has language barriers, and the relationship with his father is not very good, he knows that he stays in the room all day to draw cartoons, and ignores other things, and his father can be said to have broken his heart for his marriage. The youngest son is the youngest, still studying, and is mischievous every day, whether at school or at home. The most rebellious daughter returns from studying in France, and also brings back from France a bohemian Robert (Zhang Guorong), who lets Robert pretend to be her boyfriend in order to avoid the marriage proposal of her cousin (Liu Qingyun).
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The storyline of this movie is also nothing to talk about, there is no gunfight and car accident, just a simple sad and happy clutch, and the things that happen in this big family in the film can often be seen in real life. Robert, played by Zhang Guorong, can be described as a soul figure in this movie, and he has just the right amount of Robert's debauched image. In the movie, he is romantic, humorous, and knows how to please his elders, because he grew up alone in France, so his life skills are also very rich, cross stitch, knitting sweaters and so on. It is precisely because of his influence that everyone in this large family has a happy ending, the eldest son's family is harmonious, the second son has met his own love, and the third daughter has also accepted the cousin's marriage proposal and is about to enter the palace of marriage.
The music of the film is also relatively relaxed and pleasant, in this less than two hours, the dialogue of the characters is also full of comedy, nonsensical ideas, exaggerated performances of the actors (such as when Leung Ka-fai draws comics at the beginning of the film), and do their best to win the audience happy. I remember watching this movie for the first time, I still watched it on the closed-circuit TELEVISION at home, and the family gathered around the TV to watch and laugh, and the scene still remains in my mind.