I don't know when, the film industry has blown a nostalgic wind, Chow Sing-chi's "Journey to the West", Wu Yusen's "Hero's True Colors", Dawn, Maggie Cheung's "Sweet Honey" and many other classic films, all of which have landed on the screen again after several years and set off a touch of memory killing.
In September this year, another work of his brother Zhang Guorong's early years, "Unemployed Student", also quietly logged on to the theater after a gap of 36 years, although it did not get much attention and did not publicize it, but there were still many fans who silently supported it.
"Unemployed Student" is a youth romance film released in 1981, and the film market of each other is almost monopolized by the masculine themes such as action movies, police films, zombie movies, etc., but in this atmosphere, it has successfully stood out, not only causing a sensation in the Hong Kong film industry at that time, but also opening a new era of Hong Kong youth inspirational films.
Since "Unemployed Student", Zhang Guorong, Chen Baiqiang, and Paul Zhong have a title of "Three Princes of Central", and the group has become a professional household in youth films, but the three of them have only been active for a short period of time, and they have moved towards different career trajectories, but at that time, even they were even film fans, probably no one expected that the three of them would encounter a very similar fate.
Born in 1959, Paul Chung chose to enter the hosting industry, successfully gained a foothold with Hong Kong's ace variety show "Happy Tonight", and then served as the emcee of the "Miss Hong Kong Contest" for three consecutive years, and at the same time, with his tall and handsome appearance and humorous hosting style, he was directly hand-picked by the two candidates of the gold medal emcee at that time, He Shouxin, who skipped Wang Mingquan and Lu Dawei.
However, on the first day of September 1989, Paul Zhong, who was at the peak of his career, jumped out of thin air at the residence, thus ending a short but cruel life, and based on the reason he broke up with his girlfriend who was talking about marriage before his death, many people speculated that he was hit by unbearable emotional injuries, but then there was another statement that he was in debt but unable to repay it, which caused his girlfriend to leave and go to the end of the road.
The fate of Chen Baiqiang in the first half of his life is actually exactly the same as his role in "Unemployed Student", "Kong Jiabao", who was also born with a golden spoon, but he gave up inheriting the family business and turned around to chase his musical dream, unfortunately, the second half of "Kong Jiabao" continued, but Chen Baiqiang's life was stuck in the autumn of 35 years old due to "brain failure".
Zhang Guorong's career achievements in the three are the highest, and although he no longer starred in youth films, he caused a sensation in the world with "Farewell to the Overlord", and his achievements in the music world are also extraordinary, together with Chen Baiqiang and Tan Yonglin, he is known as the mainstay of the music scene in the 1980s and 1990s.
But the elder brother, like Paul Zhong, lived in his own world due to emotional injuries and blows, and finally chose to jump in the spring of 2003, so that the world cried because of him.
To this day, these three stars who once shone incomparably in the show business circle have passed away for many years, but their legends are still remembered in history, and they only hope that there is no pain in heaven, and they can return to the wanton "youth" there.