When it comes to the booming film and television industry in Hong Kong in the last century, it must be inseparable from various "gambling king films", even in recent years, "Macau Storm", which will appear in the New Year file every three to five years, is still a series of sequels to classic film and television works that people like to hear.
Hong Kong's "gambling king film" has not only created a number of classic actors, but also the classic shapes of various gods of gambling and gambling saints are also unforgettable. So what are these classic "gambling" related identities? What is the ranking between them?
The first to bear the brunt is definitely the "God of Gamblers" played by Brother Zhou Runfa, which should be the highest among all the characters of the "Gambling" generation, he is the master of the gambler, and the gambler is the brother of the gambler, so it can be said that the gambler and the gambling saint are relying on the name of this god of gambling to get rich, and naturally the god of gambling is ranked first.
"God of Gamblers God of Gamblers" is indeed the earliest one in the "God of Gamblers" series filmed by Wang Jing, which was released in Hong Kong in 1989. With the great success of the God of Gamblers, the following year, in 1990, Liu Zhenwei and Yuan Kui filmed the second part of the "God of Gamblers" series, "The Gambler And the Gamblers", starring Star Zhou Xingchi and his old partner Wu Mengda.
In the same year, the third part of the "God of Gamblers" series, "The Gambler", was also successfully released under the direction of Wang Jing, and the protagonist was replaced by Hua Tsai Andy Lau, who appeared as a disciple of Fa Ge in the first "God of Gamblers", and was matched by Zhou Xingchi and Xiang Huaqiang. In the following five years, "Gamblers 2" was remade in 1991, "God of Gamblers 2" was remade in 1994, and "Gamblers 2" was remade in 1995.
As for the others, such as the gambling king and the gambling demon, they all belong to the three big villains against the god of gambling, the gambler, and the gambling saint, and the gambling king is the important villain in "God of Gamblers 1" and "Gambler 1", and the gambling demon is an important villain in "God of Gamblers 2". As for a gambler, starring the older generation of famous actresses in Hong Kong, Zheng Yuling and Mui Yanfang, it is a rare "God of Gamblers" series with female protagonists.
Speaking of why the "God of Gamblers" series has been circulated so widely, it is still an immortal classic in the hearts of many people until now. That's because on the one hand, it is indeed a new genre that can make people shine; secondly, the actors, regardless of the positive villains, are really old predecessors with acting skills, and their acting skills are indeed worthy of our impressive impression.
Not to mention the three male protagonists, namely the famous Chow Yun Fat, Chow Sing Chi and Andy Lau, even the supporting roles are Xiang Huaqiang, Wu Mengda, Liang Jiahui and other very powerful acting schools, the female protagonists are also the dream goddesses Mei Yanfang, Wang Zuxian, Gong Li and so on who have unknown many people on both sides of the strait, which can really be regarded as the stars shining.
Another point is that there was a very famous real "Macau gambling king" Ho Hung-sun at that time, although he did not win a fortune through gambling, but the series of casinos he founded such as the "Palace Casino" in Macau still made people full of curiosity about him and his "casino kingdom", which naturally made the masses more curious about the "God of Gamblers" series.