The so-called big guys, after all, are just mortals, who have been looked up to and forgotten, as if we were rolling in the red dust. Life, old age, illness and death, can not be retained, can not be sought, fate will not be spared by anyone. If you are a person, you have to go with the flow, but you can choose like Dragon Four, whether to sink or rise up.
In 1986, several well-known box office poisons in the Hong Kong film jianghu - Wu Yusen, who was "distributed" by the company, Chow Yun-fat, who did not sell well in new films in the film industry, Zhang Guorong, whose acting skills were booed, and Dillon, who was "terminated" by Shaw and thought that he had passed, joined forces to make a film that created the era of Hong Kong film hero films - "The True Colors of Heroes", the film was a great success, and the producer New Art City and producer Xu Ke hoped that Wu Yusen could hit the iron while it was hot and shoot a sequel immediately.
Hero Essence 1
But Wu Yusen did not want to repeat himself, but conceived of the prequel story of "The True Colors of Heroes" and wanted to find three young people to play. However, neither New Art City nor Xu Ke agreed with this idea, just when the second boss of New Art City was in a low period of career, and he was depressed and depressed. In order to help him restore his confidence, Xu Ke and Wu Yusen simply rewrote a story, putting their feelings for the Hong Kong film tycoon into it, and the story that Wu Yusen originally conceived finally became another underrated Hong Kong film classic - Jacky Cheung's acting skills overshadowed the film emperor Liang Chaowei's "Blood Street", and this rewritten story was filmed as "Hero Nature 2".
Hero Essence 2
The Hong Kong film big man who let Xu Ke and Wu Yusen work together to rewrite the script for him is Shi Tian, who played Dragon Fourth in "Hero True Colors 2". On November 1, Lin Junxian, a former Hong Kong film actor who had worked with Shi Tian on "France-China Love", suddenly posted on social platforms that 72-year-old Shi Tian had passed away, and Xu Ke's ex-wife Shi Nansheng said that she had received news of Shi Tian's death, but she did not want to believe it, and she also pointed out that Shi Tian had suffered from cancer 2 years ago but had recovered: "I saw each other a year ago, and my spirit was good." "However, a generation of Hong Kong film bigwigs, life and death are only overnight, in 2021, we have lost 8 Hong Kong film veterans." Wang Jing posted a memorial on social networks: "Boss Shi is gone, Shi Tian, one of the three founders of New Art City, in his era, from the late 70s to the first half of the 80s, he was a comedy superstar, comparable to the current Shen Teng, "The True Colors of Heroes" and "Ghost of Qiannu" are all opened with his support. ”
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But people will not forget that a group of revitalized Hong Kong film filmmakers got together to make another Hong Kong hero film classic for a lost big brother, although its plot was whimsical and the story was fragmented, it unexpectedly still gained a lot of resonance, because it told the story of how a man who slipped from the peak to the bottom and picked up the gun again took back his dignity.
Shi Tian and Zhou Runfa
Deep under the story is the era of the most chaotic hero films in Hong Kong films. At that time, the superstars of Hong Kong films shone brightly, hundreds of boats competed for the current, the best beauties were at the peak of their appearance, and countless good stories continued to roll. Known as Hong Kong Chaplin, Shi Tian, who was active in the Hong Kong film industry in the 70s and 90s, just experienced the process of Hong Kong films from the rise to the peak, and then gradually slipped down, during which there were luck, sighs, rises, sighs. And he is the rich uncle and dragon fourth in the movie, and he is also the protagonist of the story outside the movie. At the end of "Heroes 2", the character played by Zhou Runfa said to Long Si, "Uncle Four, we are dying, we can leave". Long Si calmly replied, "Just go."
Hero Essence 2 shots
This heroic movie of life, the life of Dragon Fourth, has finally played a sound and color. On October 17, 1949, a little boy was born in a family surnamed Shi in Tianjin, and the child was born in the same year as New China, and the whole family was so happy that it exploded, and this little boy was Shi Tian. When he was three years old, he moved with his parents to a strange city, and his parents told him that this was the "Pearl of the Orient", called Hong Kong, China. Shi Tianda was addicted to TV dramas and novels since he was a child, dreaming of one day performing in front of the curtain, and his parents supported him to study in the Youth Drama Troupe, laying the foundation for the future of film. At the age of 17, he was admitted to shaw's artist training class. However, his appearance is not outstanding, when he first entered the industry, he did not have many opportunities, and he acted as a small supporting role in many films such as "Youth Love", "Peach And Plum Spring Wind", and "Northland Rouge". It wasn't until the age of 23 that he finally directed the action film "The Monk" for the first time, becoming the youngest director in Hong Kong, China at the time. But Shi Tian did not give up his dream of being an actor, and while he was a director and wrote a script, he continued to work hard to study acting skills and wait for opportunities. At the end of the 1970s, with the rise of Hong Kong-made action comedies, Shi Tian's opportunity came. Jackie Chan was strongly praised as Bruce Lee's successor, filming the action comedy "Snake-like Executioner", Shi Tian played a supporting role in the film Master Li, became famous with his witty performances, and has since formed his own comedy style. The next "Drunken Fist" has his funny performance.
The movie Serpentine Diao played a supporting role
Since then, Shi Tian has been filming continuously, constantly shuttling between Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the performances are basically crooked and crooked, treacherous and obscene "adulterous" villains, but Shi Tian can play the role with full joy. As a result, he participated in 12 works that year. But the most important of these is another 1978 comedy, Tiger Field Chicken, whose director is a bald head named Mai Jia. The two can be said to have seen each other at first sight, and since then they have often gathered to drink tea and talk about movies, and later a polite and thin young screenwriter also joined the tea drinking team, and the two became three. This thin young man was Huang Baiming. And the time that belongs to them is coming. In the 1960s, Shaw's films won the electric war and became the king of the Hong Kong film industry, but Jiahe suddenly became a new trump card. At that time, the bald man Mai Jia was ambitious and pulled Hong Jinbao together to set up Garbo Films, intending to lay a foundation in the booming Hong Kong film industry. But it wasn't long before Hong Jinbao was poached by Jiahe. Mai Jia had to start another stove, and when she looked up, she saw the ghosts around her, Huang Baiming and Shi Tian, and simply founded a film company called "Struggle", although it was not big, but their super creative ability was quickly displayed.
Shi Tian, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming
At that time, the Rapid Development of the Hong Kong film market, the most popular entertainment of Hong Kong people is to watch movies, the cinema line develops rapidly, and over time the cinema line party simply begins to cultivate its own production power, and it is not better to make money in one go. Large companies like Jiahe are not easy to cooperate with, so small companies like Struggle have entered the vision of the distributor "Golden Princess Cinema Line", and Lei Juekun, the son of the big man of the consortium, invited them to form an independent production company, and the three of them discussed it, which was called "New Art City". In September 1980, this independent creative company that deeply influenced Hong Kong films was founded. However, the big boss's money is not given in vain, set up a company, you have to work for the boss, Lei Juekun does not want to give up the Christmas file and the New Year file at the end of the year, let them make two movies out of the year ago. At that time, the new art city was only Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and Shi Tiangesan, Hong Jinbao was pulling a good brother Lin Zhengying to shoot Jiahe's "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", there was no time to come to help, only to find foreign aid, looking for help, a young director was willing to help, but he signed a contract with Jiahe, can only secretly help, signed wu Shangfei, this director, is the future famous Wu Yusen. The actors could not find anyone, and the three of them starred together, filming the entrepreneurial work "Funny Times", starring Shi Tian. In the film, Shi Tian imitates Charlie Chaplin, after sticking a beard, and then with superb acting skills, the interpretation of "Chaplin" is magical, which causes a laugh in the theater.
Shi Tian, who plays Chaplin in the funny era of the movie
With the investment of one million yuan in "Funny Times" and the box office earning five million, New Art City made a name for itself in one fell swoop in the Hong Kong film industry, but to compete with Jiahe and Shaw, New Art City must recruit soldiers. Shi Tian Mai Jia together persuaded Wu Yusen to transfer, but at that time, Wu Yusen won the box office championship every year in Jiahe filming comedy, and he did a good job, so he recommended a Hong Kong film New Wave film standard-bearer, called Xu Ke. Xu Ke is indeed a representative of the new wave, but he made three movies in a row that year, one more than one loss, if it were not for the legitimate employment of the new art city, plus it was recommended by Wu Yusen, Mai Jia and Shi Tiancai would not personally invite him to join. Xu Ke originally did not want to make a hoax comedy in New Art City, but he had already lost three movies, and no company dared to look for him to shoot anymore, so he could only "commit" to New Art City. At that time, the company had just been established, and it also needed a person who managed the accounts, and as a result, Shi Tianmaijia heard that Xu Ke had a girlfriend in the TV station company, and the work efficiency was very high, and she was a female Haojie, and simply pulled the employee's family into the company. This family member is the Hong Kong film heroine who became popular later, and one of the producers of "Chosin Lake" many years later - Shi Nansheng.
Young Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng
When Shi Nansheng went to the company to visit, he was stunned: Mai Jia was the big boss, Shi Tian was the second boss, both were night owls, and they went to work after dark, Huang Baiming was the younger brother of the three, and he still appeared a bit, and there was no one except a small secretary. Shi Nansheng asked Huang Baiming: "What is the company's annual turnover?" Huang Baiming, who was only a screenwriter at that time, thought for half a day and said: "What do you think? Shi Nansheng asked, "How large-scale do you plan to achieve?" Huang Baiming still replied: "What do you think?" "Okay, the three of you've found the right person." There is no shortage of directors, screenwriters, actors and housekeepers, and there is a lack of a soundtrack, so Teddy Robin, who can play and understand music, also joins in. Hong Jinbao could not come over, so he looked for Hong Jiaban, who had been following his most clever little brother to help, this is Zeng Zhiwei, and at this point, the company team was formed. Years later, they were known as the "Seven Monsters of New Art City". Mak Ka is mainly responsible for business and decision-making; Shi Tian is the actor and voice actor; Huang Baiming continues to do screenwriting; Xu Ke and Zeng Zhiwei are directors and set affairs; Shi Nansheng manages logistics chores; Teddy Robin score. Seven people show their skills and create collectively, and many times seven people are crowded in a room to discuss what movie to shoot, how to make the movie, and whoever has an idea will say it, and this room is named "Struggle Room". In this way of cooperation, the seven people made a new work "Chasing Girls" in the next big summer period.
The Seven Monsters of the New Art City of that year
Movie Chase Girl
Before Shi Tian's appearance was mostly ragged, but this time he played the playboy "Luo Baidu" in a suit and leather shoes, coupled with the iconic explosive head, Xu Kemai Jia Huang Baiming and others came up with a bridge section, coupled with Shi Tian's funny interpretation and a number of beautiful women, the film box office nearly ten million, won the box office runner-up that year, and caused a lot of sensation in the Taiwan market. The company became more and more courageous, and the seven people decided to do the big vote again. Since Shi Tian was successful in imitating Chaplin before, why not imitate 007? The plan was finalized, and they based on the style of New Arts City and Hong Kong-style comedy, adapting the playful and elegant James Bond into McGarth's bald detective. But the taste of plagiarism is too obvious, and some people suggested that a trump partner be arranged for the bald detective. At first, everyone wanted to use Zhou Runfa, but Zhou Runfa became popular after performing "Shanghai Beach", and he did not let people go. Thinking about it, I found Xu Guanjie, and Xu Guanjie said that there was no problem in shooting, and the film was paid two million! That was a sky-high price in the year. But Huang Baiming, Mai Jia, and Shi Tianyi discussed, two million is two million. Since it cost so much money, simply take Xu Guanjie as the first starring role, and the title of the film is called "Best Partner".
Huang Baiming, Mai Jia, Xu Guanjie
In the film, Shi Tian played the supporting role of "Saliva Spring", was "crazy" Chen Xing with a crane hanging in mid-air, as the second boss of the company, Shi Tian personally went to battle, no use of stand-ins, this professionalism, can be said to be comparable to Jackie Chan. "Best Partner" sold well, and then they found a group of young directors to participate in the filming of the "Best Partner" series, including Du Qifeng and Lin Lingdong, who later became the pillars of Hong Kong films. Coupled with Huang Baiming's "Happy Ghost" series, New Art City has become synonymous with Hong Kong film comedy. Until the arrival of a director, it brought a new ace type of Hong Kong films to New Art City, changing the impression that New Art City can only make comedies. This person is Wu Yusen, who once refused to join. Wu Yusen, who was tired of making comedies in Jiahe, finally switched to New Art City, and as a result, he was sent to the Taiwan market just after joining, or making comedies. Zhang Aijia recalled that Wu Yusen would get drunk every night and sigh with her on the phone, "I am so miserable." Such a bad mood to shoot comedy will certainly not succeed, several box office hit the street comedy filmed, Wu Yusen was regarded as a former director. Wu Yusen has also reached the brink of collapse, and a talented director of Hong Kong films will be buried in this way.
At the critical moment, Xu Ke, who was recommended by Wu Yusen at the time, took out the script at the bottom of his own pressure box, and persuaded Shi Tianmaijia to invite Wu Yusen to return to Hong Kong to shoot. This script is called "The True Colors of Heroes". After returning to Hong Kong, Wu Yusen found that the young people at that time did not care about the things of tradition and xinyi, and would spit in front of him when taking the elevator, hoping that "The True Colors of Heroes" could recall what had been forgotten by people, he gave the film an English name "a better tomorrow", which literally translates to "tomorrow will be better", and then found Dillon, who had been fired by Shaw, as the main actor. Another role in the play, Xiao Ma Ge, who did not have much role, was originally scheduled to be the iron lung singer Lin Zixiang, but Lin jumped ship and could only be replaced. At first, I wanted to use the newcomer Zheng Haonan, Zheng's English name is mark, so I simply named this character Mark Brother. But then Zheng Haonan had no schedule, only to find Zhou Runfa, who had a box office hit the street in succession that year, and as a result, everyone knew that a few undesirable men spit out a bad breath through the movie, and "The True Colors of Heroes" won a big victory. But just when the new art city continued to win battles, Shi Tian's career fell silent. So in "Hero Nature 2", there is a scene at the beginning of the article, Xu Ke Wu Yusen joined forces to write a new role for him - Dragon Four.
Dillon, Zhang Guorong, Zhou Runfa
When acting in "Hero Nature 2", Shi Tiancai was 37 years old, playing a tragic character who had never played before, from the big guy who wanted to be windy in the opening scene, to being betrayed by his subordinates, encountering changes, his daughter was killed, had to flee to New York, and also caused his friend Asen and his daughter to be killed, making him insane, Zhou Runfa played by the little brother Ofte Akent to save the crazy Dragon Fourth. Dragon Fourth refused to eat, and Ah Jian threw his meal on the ground and said, "If you are sick, I will be sick with you, and if you want to give up, I will give up with you." Long Si saw Ah Jian's anxious look and picked up the food on the ground and ate it.
Shi Tian, Zhang Guorong and Jian Huizhen, who plays Shi Tian's daughter, in Hero True Colors 2
Zhou Runfa and Shi Tian
A scene in which the whole piece of Shi Tian's acting skills broke out, it was the muddy Dragon Fourth, who was killed by his subordinates who framed him, wave after wave of killers attacked, Ah Jian wanted to take him out of a bloody road, it was really unbearable, when he saw that he was about to be destroyed by the group, Dragon Fourth suddenly woke up, and in an instant he revived his might, truly interpreting what is called the true color of a hero.
The whole scene was played by Shi Tian in layers, especially the moment he picked up the gun, Long Si's eyes suddenly had a murderous spirit, coupled with Zhou Runfa's wonderful cooperation, it was the most wonderful scene in the second part of the series. In the finale, the 4 people broke into the villain's old nest war for more than 20 minutes, which is a colorful music in the Hong Kong action, it is difficult to imagine that there is another director, find another group of actors, and make the scene of a big armageddon both grand and funny, sad and joyful, both heroic and heroic.
Dillon, Shi Tian, Zhou Runfa
At the end of the film, "Dragon Four", played by Shi Tian, said the classic line with a gun on the head of the traitor villain: "Do you think that the bad guys will have good rewards?" "It can be called the peak action scene of this Hong Kong film, and it has completed the perfect footnote: killing is not the goal, so that good and evil are distinguished, is the purpose." The "The True Colors of Heroes" series revived Wu Yusen's career, making Chow Yun Fat the most popular Hong Kong star overnight, helping Dillon to make a comeback, Zhang Guorong was considered to be able to act with the performance of the second part, and Shi Tian also left the most classic role outside of comedy. As for new art city, it also completely broke the impression that the outside world thought that it would only make comedies.
But after the peak, there is no feast in the world. Because of the different accounting and creative orientation, the seven monsters of New Art City finally appeared contradictions, coupled with the increasingly rampant market piracy VCD, just in 1991, New Art City Company announced that it would stop making movies. The seven monsters of the new art city eventually went their separate ways. In the end, the affairs of the world are common sufferings and hardships, and the same riches and difficulties. After bidding farewell to the new art city, Huang Baiming opened the Oriental Film Group, invited Zhou Xingchi to join at a sky-high price, and made a new New Year comedy signboard "Happy Family", and eventually became a big guy; Zeng Zhiwei acted in comedy with his left hand, joined the wireless variety show with his right hand, and finally became the fastest general manager of wireless promotion many years later. And Shi Tian performed the comic comedy "Uncle Cai's Sweeping Thousand Armies" directed by Xu Ke, the quality of the film is good, but unfortunately the box office failed, and the king of a generation of comedy has since faded out of the Hong Kong film. The king of comedy who passed away with Hong Kong films, leaving the hero's true colors in the United States to shoot "Heroes 2", Shi Tian bought a lot of books on real estate and finance, all of which died again, and began to get involved in the economy. After withdrawing from Hong Kong, Shi Tian began to invest in the development of real estate, and also did financial, stock, gold and luxury real estate transactions. At the peak of his career, he was the founder of Shenzhen Agricultural Science Center Kapitao BBQ and opened a second branch in Jingtian. In 1993 and 1994, it invested heavily in holiday and leisure centers in Thailand, but at this time, the financial storm hit and a generation of bigwigs suffered a heavy blow. On June 5 this year, according to Hong Kong media reports, the film company he was a director of was sued by the financial company and asked to empty the mansion and hand it over. At this time, people found that the original Hong Kong film industry has been so many years, there is no news of Shi Tian. The last time Shi Tian came out of the mountain again, it was in 2016 with Mai Jia and Xu Ke in the same cameo "My Secret Agent Grandpa", in which three old monsters of the new art city sat there chatting, and an era passed in front of the audience.
Shi Tian, Mai Jia, Hong Jinbao, Xu Ke
Shi Tian said, "Only Hong Jinbao can please move me." In fact, Shi Tian had been suffering from cancer for many years, during which he was cured, Huang Baiming said that he had contacted Shi Tian, Shi Tian was in the hospital at the time, and said that he would come out to drink tea later. However, there will be no more opportunities in the future. Another figure who witnessed the golden age of Hong Kong cinema has left, and Hong Kong films have been lonely for a few minutes. Some netizens said that although Shi Tian mostly plays comedy roles, he always gives people a strange sense of fragility and tragedy that easily evokes my feelings of pity. This is really a wonderful comment, but a generation of Hong Kong film bigwigs, even if they are lonely and old, every time they appear, they are still radiant, even if time flies, prosperity has become an old dream, and the momentum of Hong Kong films is still there.
But the so-called big guy is, after all, just a mortal. Looking back on these years, Shi Tian's fate has finally risen and fallen with the Hong Kong piece, and has been looked up to and forgotten, as if we were rolling in the red dust. Life, old age, illness and death, can not be retained, can not be sought, fate will not be spared by anyone. Behind the radiance in front of the stage, I don't know how many dark deep seas he has crossed. But this Tianjin Baby, who loved acting since childhood, finally spent seventy-two years to prove herself, that people have to go with the flow, but individuals can choose like Dragon Fourth, whether to sink or rise. Finally, the story returns to August 2, 1986, when "The True Colors of Heroes" was released in Hong Kong. At noon the next day, a flag hung at the door of the cinema next to the Studio of New Art City, saying "Full of people", even the tickets after three days were sold out, but there were still people queuing up to buy tickets, and the fans saw Mai Jia, Shi Tian, Xu Ke, and Wu Yusen all waving their names when they went downstairs to eat, and everyone's blood boiled, thinking "This is what makes a movie." That year, "The True Colors of Heroes" set a Hong Kong film record with a box office of 34 million, and Huang Xia filled in the lyrics for Wu Yusen for free and wrote the theme song "The Love of the Year" sung by Zhang Guorong.
Now the seven monsters of the new art city can no longer gather together, and the years in the struggle room have finally become a thing of the past. Some netizens said: The fourth uncle just went to see Ajie. The starlight of Hong Kong films is gradually extinguished, but the melody of that year is still floating in the air, "Today I try to shoulder with you again. “