The most famous person for making bad films is Wang Jing, and Zhu Yanping is the one known as Taiwan's Wang Jing. The bad film "The Laughter of the New Oolong Courtyard" that was just released last week in the hope that the emotional killing will bring great sales is his work.
From the title of "Taiwan Wang Jing", we can see the characteristics of Zhu Yanping's filming, one is known for making commercial entertainment films, and the films he shoots are basically profitable; the other is that the number of shooting works is large, and when he was a director for more than thirty years, he shot nearly 100 films, which is called highly prolific. And most of the works are of poor quality, a bit like fast food such as potato chips, which look delicious and have no nutrition.
Especially after turning to the mainland since the new century, "Thorn Ling", "Big Slam Dunk", "Big Otaku", "Laughing Jianghu" and so on are all like this.
Last weekend, "The Laughter of the New Oolong Courtyard", which was basically hit the street because of word of mouth, was criticized for being out of style.
Take the old passages from more than 20 years ago, and and other bridges to fool the current audience. When I was young, I would laugh when I watched it, and now I will sigh boredom when I watch it. Times are progressing, but the quality of Director Zhu's work continues to regress.
Mainland films have made great strides this year, almost "water, land and air" in an all-round way. Thirty years ago, the mainland was not able to make commercial films, but then we had Feng Xiaogang, and now we have Shen Teng.
In the past, the shooting of action movies was relatively poor, and now there is also "Wolf Warrior", although literary and artistic films have become niche, but they still have a fine product from time to time.
Even if it is a documentary, we used to shoot too seriously, and now there is a grounded "String of Life" on the screen, and there is also "The Third Child" on the screen and so on.
Cartoons have been a bit inferior to the previous thirty years in the past thirty years, but in recent years, there have also been masterpieces such as "The Return of the Great Sage" and "Big Fish and Begonias".
But what about Taiwan? Although there have also been films such as "Cape Seven", "Big Buddha Plus", "Blood Guanyin", "The Girl I Chased In Those Years", and even more commercially, "The Pursuit of witnesses", they only symbolically represent that Taiwanese films are still alive.
In terms of the current number of Taiwanese films produced and released, it is no longer the same as thirty years ago, and to some extent, Taiwanese films are just dead and not rigid.
Another proof that Taiwanese films still have a breath is probably Zhu Yanping.
Although the old comrade is almost 70 years old, he still can't see a rising star from Taiwan to take over his class. Of course, Zhu Yanping's main direction is in commercial films.
From the films he shot, it is not difficult to see the almost naked appeal to the market, comedy has also become the main genre of his films, the "Laughing Forest Boy" series and "Truancy" filmed in the prime of his life have achieved great success, especially "Laughing Forest Boy 2: New Oolong Courtyard" is a nostalgic classic that brings a generation of hilarious feelings.
But in recent years, after the old Zhu has made frequent shots, he has finally appeared to be really indistinguishable from Wang Jing at times.
In fact, as everyone knows, in that year, Zhu Yanping also had a tiger eye for the Golden Horse Awards and other awards, and made acclaimed movies, and wild lilies did have a spring.
Among his "vast seas" of works, the most noteworthy is "Exotic Lands," which almost became banned in Taiwan.
This is a film taken in 1990 about the tragic history of a Kuomintang "lone army" that retreated to northern Myanmar in 1949, gained a foothold in the local area after several tribulations, and was forced to withdraw after the Four-Nation Conference in 1953.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by the famous Taiwanese writer Bai Yang, and the audience who is now familiar with Zhu Yanping's bad film style would never have imagined that such a tragic, dignified, and forgotten piece of history was actually written by Taiwanese Wang Jing.
Because the film involved the Kuomintang's defeat on the mainland and became an "orphan" in Southeast Asia, this contradiction and hidden pain of the Kuomintang top brass was not allowed to be screened at the beginning.
But because of this movie, it is said that the masses who were mainly the families of the "lone soldiers" held a parade that year, and the Taiwan Electric Inspection Office finally made huge concessions, from 21 knives to 16 knives, and the last knife was released without cutting. Not only was it acclaimed, but the box office also rose all the way with the word-of-mouth of the film, and after its release in 1990, it achieved an income of more than NT$200 million, becoming the most important bright color in Zhu Yanping's directorial career.
A few days ago, Yu Zhonghua posted a photo of the year on Weibo
Both songs in this film are from Luo Dayou, the godfather of Chinese music. One is "Home Is Too Far", and the other is a song that all Luo Dayou fans know and love - "Orphans of Asia". The singer was Wang Jie, the most popular singer in Taiwan at that time.
Wang Jie's high-pitched and desolate voice takes the film's tragic atmosphere to the extreme.
The opening chapter of "Home is Too Far" begins by clearly pointing out that the film is "ireby commemorating all the Chinese who have tightened all kinds of suffering and torture in the turbulent displacement of the great era", and sings the misery of the defeated nationalist army to go to the country.
The ending song "Orphans of Asia" defines the backs of the remnants of the Kuomintang in the Golden Triangle that have been forgotten for decades for historical reasons in the long river of history.
The most successful thing about the film is not the box office, not Zhu Yanping's reputation, but the film that makes the Taiwan authorities' electrical inspection system a big step forward.
In such a film that reflects the suffering history of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, the cast is also quite symbolic. The main actors were the then Taiwanese popular Xiaosheng Yu Zhonghua and the veteran film emperor Ke Junxiong.
The supporting roles include Andy Lau, who became one of the four kings of Hong Kong a year later, and Schengova of the mainland, which can be called a masterpiece of joint participation between the two sides of the strait and the three places.
Three years later, Zhu Yanping made a sequel to "Exotic", starring Yu Zonghua and Liang Chaowei, "Exotic 2: The Hero of the End", which was still well received and won the nomination for best film at the Golden Horse Awards that year.
In fact, compared with the first part, the sequel is more smooth and rich in completion and plot design.
However, the first is an adaptation of Bai Yang's novel, and the second is a script written by Wu Nianzhen himself, and at the same time, in order to consider more at the box office, wu Mengda Lin Zhiying's gag jokes and Guan Zhilin's Burmese spy played by Guan Zhilin have been added, weakening the tragic color of the film.
The theme song of the film is still Luo Dayou's song "Children of the Earth", which is sung by the Muslim father.
Although he does not have Wang Jie's own sadness of "being lonely than anyone else's back", the warm and hoarse voice still makes people feel the cruelty of war, and the magnetic timbre makes the slightly happy ending of the ending bring a little warmth in the overall tragic atmosphere.
A good movie that makes people sigh.
The two parts of "Exotic Land" have not and cannot be released on the mainland, in fact, in the last century, on the big screen of the mainland, there was not a single film directed by Zhu Yanping.
But his work circulated through videotapes, DVDs, etc. in that era.
Among them, "Seven Wolves" filmed in 1988 is probably the film that Zhu Yanping left the deepest impression on mainland audiences. This basically qualified entertainment film brought together the popular actors in Taiwan at that time, in fact, each of Zhu Yanping's works had popular actors as the entrance to the traffic.
The main actors of "Seven Wolves" are Wang Jie and Zhang Yusheng, who were almost the only People in Taiwanese music to compete with Hong Kong pop music. And the theme song in this movie, "Never Look Back", became much more famous than the movie because of the two tenors of Wang Jie and Zhang Yusheng.
Both "Seven Wolves" were filmed before "Exotic", and Zhu Yanping "fell" after "Exotic".
Last weekend, my colleague across from me took her child to see "The New Oolong Courtyard Laughing and Laughing", and before going there, she told me that she had a lot of feelings for this series.
After reading it, I asked how it felt, and she said that her son was laughing from the beginning to the end, but she felt extremely disappointed. This is almost what has always been wrong with Zhu Yanping's films, and most of his films may not be for adults.
Wang Jing is a little scary to be serious, last year has been drummed out of the score is not low reputation of the "Chasing the Dragon", I don't know if I can look forward to Taiwan Wang Jing's next movie.