"Thanks to Mr. Deng Guangrong!"
The reason why Sunglasses King wants to thank Deng Guangrong first is because he screwed up the ambitious work of Film Emperor Company. The True Story of Teddy Boy, which was shot at HK$ 40 million, only took back HK$ 9 million at the box office after its release. Such a heinous loss directly caused the boss Deng Guangrong to go to the hospital, and the film company was weakened and finally closed down!
Compared with the infinite scenery of Wong Kar-wai on the podium, Deng Guangrong was swept off his feet in his hospital bed. He couldn't figure out why this work called Genius was a fiasco at the box office.
Second, in the same year 199 1, Wu Yusen was even more depressed than Deng Guangrong, who had just been promoted to be a master of violent aesthetics by virtue of the series "True colors of heroes" and "Two Men of Hot Blood". The production cost of 30 million yuan also made a film that made herself and Princess Jin burst into tears the year before last. Compared with The Story of Teddy Boy, John Woo only won the best editing award.
What makes him even more ironic is that the film editing work was completed with the help of his old friend Tsui Hark. This gunfight master, who just got rid of the title of "out-of-date director" and wanted to do something big in the Hong Kong film market, once again fell into a trough in his life. In any case, he can't figure out why his "most satisfied and favorite" works also failed at the box office. And this movie that makes John Woo regret for life is "Bloody Streets" that we are going to talk about today.
Thirdly, 1990 was a bittersweet year for John Woo. After bidding farewell to his old friend Tsui Hark, the ambitious John Woo started his career in the small screen market. With the support of Princess Jin behind the scenes, John Woo started his own film company, and prepared to compete with Tsui Hark's film studio with a completely Wu-style big budget film. Just like the contest between Jianghu people depends on a knife and a gun, the wrestling between John Woo and Tsui Hark is a movie that shocks the film industry!
In order to get the first shot on the road to starting a business, John Woo borrowed from the movie Stabbing Horse, which was adapted by his mentor Zhang Che according to the four great mysteries of the Qing Dynasty, and wrote his childhood growth experience into the script. Not only that, John Woo also extended his vision from Hong Kong to Vietnam, adding elements of the Vietnam War, hoping to expand the international pattern of the film through this move. Princess Jin saw John Woo's great ambition and lavished HK$ 30 million to support his dream, making Bloody Streets the most expensive movie in 1990.
Fourth, I thought John Woo, who was holding a huge sum of money, would continue to use the old cast of "The True Color of Heroes", but the first person he thought of after writing the script was not his old partner Fage, but Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who was appraised as a "visionary actor" by Wong Kar-wai. Wei Zi, who just finished filming The True Story of Teddy Boy, was deeply questioned about his acting skills because Wong Kar-wai's ng and the play were deleted. Wei Zi, who is not good at words, came home and cried to Carina Lau: "Wong Kar-wai doesn't seem to like me very much!" But in John Woo's eyes, Wei Zi is a good actor with international characteristics and great potential. In this film, he cast Wei Zi as B among the three brothers. He can receive and play appropriate performances in the play, and show people's psychological state incisively and vividly in extreme situations.
Although John Woo was satisfied with Wei Tsai's performance, Tony Leung Chiu Wai himself didn't think so. I wrote in the article "Tony Leung Chiu Wai: I can't let go of my feelings for the Milky Way" that Wei Zi shut himself in his room and cried for three days when he got home from the premiere of the movie, because he felt that he had acted too hard in this play, which led to many acting mistakes!
Perhaps it is because of his truthfulness in acting that he won five Golden Elephant Best Actors and three Golden Horse Best Actors in the future, leaving his own rich and colorful pen in the golden age of superstar shining!
5.65438-0990 There is a saying in Hong Kong entertainment circle: Don't underestimate Tony Leung Chiu Wai's singing skills, let alone Jacky Cheung's acting skills!
This ambitious work by John Woo tells the story of three friends who grew up in slums and were forced to flee to Vietnam to engage in smuggling activities because of manslaughter. Finally, because of a box of gold, their brothers turned against each other and killed each other. And this kind of human story between nobody and street breath, the only person John Woo thinks of is Jacky Cheung, the god of songs!
Xueyouge, who won the gold medal for best male matching in 1989 with Tears Like Rain, is planning to expand its territory in the small screen market. In order to improve his acting skills, he turned down all the roles. It was the role of Heifei in Tears that made John Woo see his talent and infinite possibilities.
So in this play, John Woo asked him to play Hui who would go through fire and water for his brother, but he was finally betrayed by his brother and shot in the head. Xueyouge didn't live up to John Woo's trust, and explained the constant brotherhood with Wu's style, which made people feel distressed and moved. Even Dou Sha personally thinks that this is the acting peak of Jacky Cheung's film career!
Unfortunately, such an overwhelming performance only earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor, and he lost to Xu Zi Leslie Cheung in The Story of Teddy Boy. You know, this is the closest Xueyou got to the best actor in my life!
However, this did not affect Jacky Cheung's love for acting. After 30 years of deep cultivation in the film industry, Xueyou Ge has created countless classic images for us: Huang Feihong's buck teeth, the broom head of Super School Overlord, Hong Qigong in East and West, and so on …
These characters witnessed the birth of an uncrowned king, which impressed all fans who like Hong Kong films: there is an acting school in Chinese music called Jacky Cheung!
Sixth, let's talk about Li Zixiong, who plays Rong in the film. Perhaps many people know his heroic qualities from a journey. The leader of Hong Kong film villains in the last century was more cruel and treacherous than Chang Zhao Long later. It is said that after seeing the true colors of heroes in those years, Hong Kong fans hate Big Brother as much as they love Mark!
In this film, Rong plays a sleek and sophisticated role, and does whatever it takes to get ahead. Under the temptation of money and power, you can always abandon your brother and friendship, even your own life.
Before leaving Hong Kong, Xi Rong said that he didn't want to be a street sweeper forever, and he vowed to drive back in a Mercedes one day. So when he faced his brother and gold in Vietnam, he said at the top of his lungs: Don't throw it away, I'll grab it ... I think I'm dead, and I don't even want to lose gold ... His greed led to his betrayal of his brother, and a bullet that shot into his brother's head finally made him bleed to death in the street!
On the street where bicycles were flying, two former brothers launched a life-and-death chase. The laughter of the past and the hatred and anger of today reflect each other, vividly depicting the sadness and impermanence of the protagonist's fate!
7. 1990 This movie, which bears John Woo's ambition, was officially released, but to the surprise of John Woo and Princess Jin, this big budget movie with a cost of HK$ 30 million only got 8.5 million box office in the end, and was even criticized by fans that year as too sad to see hope!
This made John Woo, who started his business for the first time, feel extremely frustrated, and even wanted to give up the theme of the gun fight film for a time. In order to make up for the deficit, John Woo teamed up with his friends Fage and Leslie Cheung to make another film "Crossing the World" within two months, and won the fourth place in the box office list that year with a score of HK$ 33.39 million, which made him spend another low point in his life.
Maybe we appreciate the love and righteousness of A B and A Hui because each of us is more like Rong. In the film, Rong's father told him that if he had money, he would be noble, but if he had no money, he would be cheap. Just like when we were young, too many people warned us to honor our ancestors, so we studied hard to make money and gradually lost ourselves in the face of getting ahead and money and fame.
Writing here, Dou Sha suddenly felt that John Woo's films were really cruel. He stuck a fine needle in your heart. I didn't feel it at that time, and I didn't know it really hurt until many years later! Perhaps because of this, the fans of 1990 were not moved by this film, but after 30 years, this film has become the conscience of Hong Kong films in everyone's hearts!
8. On 20 17 Pingyao Film Festival, Jia invited to speak at the opening ceremony. The 7 1 year-old man choked and said, "I have been filming all my life, and now I can hardly breathe." Young people don't know me, but Xiao Jia can still remember me. I am very touched! "
Yes, this once all-powerful movie master benefited from the golden age of Hong Kong movies, was trapped by the times, but now it will be abandoned by the new era! He is like a grave keeper of a Hong Kong film, old but affectionate. When the chivalrous spirit of the ancient chivalrous man was about to disappear, he taught us how to face all the evil and betrayal in this world alone with one movie after another!
As for the so-called box office and word of mouth, I think it is probably not that important for all the old fans trained by Hong Kong films!
Pay tribute to John Woo and those buried classic Hong Kong films ~!