Hong Kong films have always been a hundred flowers, but also a variety of trends, the Hong Kong film market in 1990 perfectly reflected this feature. That year, Hong Kong veteran comedy master Hui Guanwen remade his comedy classic "Half a Pound Eight Two", and together with Hui Guanjie Hui Guanying Brothers, he launched "New Half Pound Eight Two", which grossed 23.28 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking third in the year; nearly twice the number was higher than the previous work "Half Pound Eight Two" in 1976, which was 8.53 million. Lin Zixiang Zhou Huimin's urban comedy "Three People New World" No. 4, Zhang Yimou Gong Li starred in the cross-martial arts film "Qin Figurines" No. 5, Zhang Guorong's romantic love ghost film "Qiannu Ghost 2" was no. 6, Zheng Yuling's comedy "Cousin, Hello Wild" No. 7, Chow Yun Fat's Lunar New Year comedy "Ji Xing Gongzhao" No. 8, Andy Lau Tan Yonglin's funny gambling film "Supreme Ji Zhuangyuancai" No. 9, the most powerful cast of "Rich And Noble Corps" No. 11, the new martial arts representative "Laughing Pride Jianghu" No. 12, Hong Jinbao's funny ghost film "Ghost Bites Ghost" 17th, Andy Lau's jianghu romance film "Heavenly Love" No. 19.
This year's box office champion was Chow Sing Chi's nonsense classic "Gambler Saint", and the runner-up was Chow Sing Chi and Andy Lau's "Gambler". This year's Hong Kong movies are indeed full of flowers and various genres; and the trend at this time is the gambling film brought by "God of Gamblers", plus Chow Sing Chi's nonsense. That year, the biggest investment in Hong Kong films was a gunfight hero film "Blood Street", but unfortunately, the hero film trend brought by "Hero Nature" has passed, and the final box office is 8.55 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking only 41st.
"Blood Street" is produced by golden princess films, directed by Wu Yusen, starring Liang Chaowei Jacky Cheung' Li Zixiong Ren Dahua and other co-stars, Yuan Jieying Zhen Chuqian and other co-starring, Wu Yusen made a cameo appearance again. "Blood Street" premiered in Hong Kong on August 17, 1990, a day earlier than Stephen Chow's "Gamble Saint"; in the end, the box office was not good, in addition to the hero film trend has passed, the more direct reason is that "Gamble Saint" was squeezed into the film space. Although "Blood Street" lost at the box office that year, it was Wu Yusen's ambitious work; the pattern was larger than "Hero's True Colors", and the gun battle surface and the flying car chase scene had been upgraded to varying degrees, which was definitely a standard work. ["Gamble Saint" was released from August 18 to September 19; "Blood Street" was released on August 17 and rolled off the production line on August 31]
"Streets of Blood" is the story of three young Hong Kong people who grew up in slums in the 1960s who go on an adventure in Vietnam and end up fighting for a box of gold. The first half is based on Wu Yusen's personal experience, the role of Ah B played by Liang Chaowei is derived from Wu Yusen himself, and the two roles of Hui Zai and Xiao Rong, played by Jacky Cheung Li Zixiong, are portrayals of Wu Yusen's two friends; they have lived in the wooden house area since childhood, and the feelings of fighting and taking care of each other between friends are all interpreted in the story. In the second half, the three came to Vietnam, in the face of life and death and gold, the feelings of the brothers were strongly impacted, the brothers killed each other, Li Zixiong shot at Jacky Cheung, and Liang Chaowei returned to Hong Kong to hunt down and kill Li Xiong to avenge Jacky Cheung.
Wu Yusen's several classic masterpieces, "The True Colors of Heroes", "Blood Double Males" and even "Across the Sea" are the settings of double male protagonists or even three male protagonists, and "Blood Street" is still the same; the difference is that "Blood Street" finally Li Zixiong became the villain again, making brothers cannibalism and the tragic color even heavier. Among them, the role played by Jacky Cheung is the most moralistic, and the fate is also the most tragic, but the acting skills are played the most fully, so it is nominated for the Academy Award for the first time. [From the poster and the final ending, it can be seen that the first male protagonist is Liang Chaowei, but Jacky Cheung's performance is more glittering!] 】
As early as 1988, Jacky Cheung starred in Wong Kar-wai's debut film "Carmen in Mong Kok", playing a lecture-esque but not progressive little asshole, and won the Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards for his wonderful performance, and also gave the audience an inexhaustible meme. In 1990, in addition to the nomination of "Blood Street" for the Academy Awards, Jacky Cheung also nominated for best supporting actor in two films, "Smiling Proud of jianghu" and "Qiannu Ghost 2", although it was not awarded at the Academy Awards, "Smiling Proud of Jianghu" won the Best Supporting Actor of the Taiwan Golden Horse Award. It can be said that Jacky Cheung's acting skills reached its first peak this year. [The film emperor of that year was Zhang Guorong of "The True Biography of Ah Fei"]
There is a scene in "Blood Street", Liang Chaowei and Yuan Jieying get married, the banquet begins, the money to buy the bill is not yet available, Jacky Cheung said that he got it, and when he drank halfway, he changed his clothes to find money. He also had no money, so he mortgaged the house deed to the usury and took a sum of money, and immediately rushed back, as a result, he met a group of small who had festivals before, Jacky Cheung desperately fought a fight before leaving with the money, but he was hit by a wine bottle in the head, went home to change his clothes and then rushed to Liang Chaowei's wedding. Before, in "Mong Kok Carmen" there was a similar plot, Jacky Cheung's only little brother got married, was looked down upon by his parents-in-law when he put wine, and then Jacky Cheung took an assassination mission, took the settlement fee to give the little brother, let him set up another banquet, don't let the parents-in-law look down on it. This time, Jacky Cheung was helping his brother Liang Chaowei, and Liang Chaowei saw that his head was still bleeding and asked him what was wrong. After knowing the reason, the two of them took a wine bottle that night and took revenge on the, but they lost their hands and beat the person to death.
Just when their gang saw that Vietnam was in war and lacked medicines and supplies, they asked Liang Chaowei Jacky Cheung and Li Zixiong to send a batch of scarce drugs to Vietnam and run away. On this road in Vietnam, the three people's experience is like purgatory, brothers betraying, cannibalism, life and death, and all kinds of pain in the world are presented. Jacky Cheung's experience was the most tragic and painful, and they killed Sai Kung together with their Hong Kong compatriot Ren Dahua, whom they met in Saigon, Vietnam. The Hong Kong singer They rescued from Saigon, Zhen Chuqian, died, and he suffered the first blow; after which they were caught by the Viet Cong, pointed at the head, and forced to shoot the kidnapped American prisoners, this time, Jacky Cheung directly suffered a mental breakdown. Fortunately, Ren Dahua brought people to rescue in time, and they fought back on the spot, but when they fled, Li Zixiong fired a shot at the head, but did not die, and then a bullet remained in the brain, torturing him forever. In the end, it was Liang Chaowei who found him, couldn't bear to let him continue to suffer, and helped him make up a shot. In the next 20 minutes, It is Liang Chaowei who returns to Hong Kong, after seeing his wife and children, takes his brother's skull and single-handedly seeks revenge on Li Zixiong.
In the previous 110 minutes, Jacky Cheung's collapsed performance was crazy enough. In the Base of the Viet Cong, he was forced to kill people, from panic and fear, to pulling the trigger his scalp, and then directly collapsing after firing a few shots, and his eyes were empty and confused. After being revived by Ren Dahua, he stayed in Vietnam as a killer, but the money earned was only used to take drugs and anesthetize the pain in his head. At this time, Jacky Cheung was already a madman. When Liang Chaowei appeared, the pain was relieved for a while, and he looked at Liang Chaowei helplessly, holding Liang Chaowei's hand with the gun and pointing it at himself, the scene was too shocking. [It is true to say that Jacky Cheung is a movie emperor who is delayed by singing!] 】