Speaking of China's most cattle director, we have to talk about Zhu Yanping, Zhu Yanping was one of the most important comedy film directors in Taiwan from the 1980s to the 1990s, he monopolized half of the Box Office of the Taiwanese film industry for more than ten years with his own strength, he was also the director who was repaired the most miserably by Taiwanese film critics, with more than 100 works, and in the 80s he could not make this comedian who catered to the tastes of Taiwan's local customs, and in the 90s he excavated Hao Shaowen and Shi Xiaolong, two child stars, and once again created a Taiwanese film box office miracle with the new Oolong Academy.
Zhu Yanping nicknamed "Taiwan Oriental Undefeated", the past 15 years of TaiwanEse New Year films are all from his hands, his youth film "Seven Wolves" is Taiwan's earliest commercial youth film, Wang Jie, Zhang Yusheng are from that movie; "New OolongYuan" is one of the highest-grossing films in Taiwan, this movie has won two popular child stars Shi Xiaolong, Hao Shaowen, they starred in ten movies in four or five years, only in Taiwan created a box office of 1 billion Taiwan dollars, and the asian new king Jay Chou cooperated to make a film to impact the mainland market. Although they are not highly evaluated, because of Jay Chou's participation, it has also become a large investment and box office revenue for investors.
Zhu Yanping graduated from the English Department of Soochow University, assisted in the production of documentaries during his college years, and worked as an assistant director. In 1978, he completed the film drama "Wrong First Step", which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival. In 1980, he directed "Joker" and became famous. 4 comedies are filmed every year. Participated in the filming of the "Good Boy" series, the "Evil Man" series and the "Beauty" series in the Taiwanese commercial film. In 1993, he directed "Lone Army" and sent it to the first Shanghai International Film Festival.
In the 23 years that Zhu Yanping has been in the film, 18 years have been escorted by the underworld big brother to make movies, he said, these 18 years are the golden age of Taiwanese films. Zhu Yanping's first film was called "Joker", and one of Taiwan's most popular comedians, Xu Bu, "You may not have heard of it, he was more popular than Stephen Chow at that time." However, he died three years later, controlled by the underworld to beat morphine, forcing him to shoot a scene, beating him to death with drugs.
At that time, I was full of thoughts just thinking about selling seats, not losing money, otherwise my life would be in danger, and it is ironic to think about it to this day. "In this ironic, helpless 18 years he made more than 100 films, what is the concept of this number? Taiwanese films are divided into two parallel lines, one is the art films of Hou Xiaoxian and Yang Dechang, and there are forty or fifty directors who take this route, and they shoot more than 100 films, that is to say, the other half of the films are all directed by Zhu Yanping. He said triumphantly: "20 years ago, the ticket price of Taiwanese movies was 60 Taiwan dollars, and now there are 260 yuan.
In the 60-block era, "New OolongYuan" only received NT$260 million in Taiwan, doubling the box office in Southeast Asia than Taiwan. There is also "Exotic Land" starring Andy Lau, which also has more than 200 million. I also filmed two plays by Jackie Chan, one is "Burning Island", which also includes Andy Lau, Hong Jinbao, Leung Ka Fai, and Da Ka Shi (cast). In addition, "Seven Wolves" also has more than 100 million. Taiwanese commercial films are not saying that I am the best, but that I am the only one, because there is no second person shooting. ”
Of these films, 99% are subjects that Zhu Yanping doesn't like, and the only thing he likes is "Exotic Lands," which is based on a banned book and was once banned by the Electrical Inspection Department. Zhu Yanping persuaded the underworld brother to promise to make a blockbuster film "Big Head Soldier" for him in exchange for the right to shoot "Exotic". These glorious-sounding records have troubled Zhu Yanping, a genre in which commercial films are despised in Taiwan, and for many years he has been accused by the media of not taking the artistic route.
In Zhu Yanping's view, a good commercial film cannot be successful without famous actors, famous directors, and large productions. Taking his highest-grossing movie "New OolongYuan" as an example, Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen were only five or six years old at the time, and they were accidentally discovered on television, and he did not expect that two children without any acting experience would be popular in Southeast Asia. Later, when Shi Xiaolong grew up and could no longer be a child star, Zhu Yanping trained his disciple Shi Xiaohu, but he lost half his life. "The charm of cinema is that it is unpredictable. It is often the small soldiers who make great achievements.
In 2010, director Zhu Yanping and Zhao Benshan collaborated on the film "Laughing Jianghu" written by Ning Caishen, and Zhao Benshan played a role in it. At the same time, he also admitted in the recording of the "Shen Chunhua Life Show" program in Taiwan on January 24, 2011, "The box office of Thorn Ling is too poor, it is himself who harmed Jay Chou and Lin Chiling, making them into box office poison", Jay Chou because of the movie "Thorn Ling", let him seriously frustrated in the movie perception. Douban audience ratings are even more frighteningly low, only 3.7 points. Today's Zhu Yanping is still successful, do you like him?