[Li Lianjie Qing Dynasty martial arts film, the only classic "The New Shaolin Five Patriarchs" without a shaved head]
1993 was the year of the outbreak of martial arts movies in Hong Kong, and more than 50 martial arts movies were screened throughout the year; including Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Tony Leung, etc. There are martial arts movies released. In the box office champion Zhou Xingchi's "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance", Zhou Xingchi is also a martial artist Tang Bohu. As the initiator and core leader of this wave of martial arts movie craze, Jet Li released a total of 6 martial arts classics in 1993, all of which are of very good quality and excellent box office results. Three of them entered the top 10 box office lists.
, driven by the box office, the Taiwanese filmmakers made another profit in the second year. They found Hong Kong director Wang Jing and directly invested in him. The request was to make a martial arts film about the story of the "Five Ancestors of Shaolin", to find Jet Li as the starring role, and Wang Jing to take care of the rest. As we all know, Wang Jing is a comedy director, screenwriter and actor, known for his efficiency and productivity; but he happened to cooperate with Jet Li in 1993 in two martial arts movies "Huang Feihong: Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede" and "Eight Dragon Slayer: The Demon Lord" ", the box office back then was also good, especially "The Lord of the Demon Cult" for more than 20 years has attracted many viewers to remember, hoping for a sequel. Although Wang Jing also bears the notoriety of the king of bad movies, all the movies he made make money, and movie investors value this most; and this year has also proved that Wang Jing can also make good martial arts movies, and it is also very good. It is good to integrate the funny into it, which is more helpful to the box office, so I found him the first time.
Later, Wang Jing said in an interview that after being a director for so many years, the most difficult one encountered was Jet Li's "New Shaolin Five Ancestor", also known as "Hong Xiguan". At that time, the boss only gave a request for a movie story about the five Shaolin ancestors, and at the same time clearly designated Jet Li to star; if it is based on the traditional story of the five Shaolin ancestors, there should be five leading actors; and based on Jet Li’s popularity index at that time, it is the same as Jet Li. There are not enough action superstars of the level to make up five, and even if there is that pay, it must be over budget. This made Wang Jing very embarrassed. At that time, he had to make other movies during the day, and at night he thought about the Five Shaolin Patriarchs. After several days of hard thinking, he finally found a solution.
In the Hong Kong movie, the Five Shaolin Patriarchs refer to Emperor Hu De, Li Shikai, Ma Chaoxing, and Fang Dahong, who fled to Fujian for the cover of the southern Shaolin after the Qing Dynasty "burned the North Shaolin" and continued to carry out the "Anti-Qing Ming Restoration" activities in secret. The five members of Cai Dezhong, and later they even founded a new anti-Qing and Fuming organization Hongmen, which is now the largest Chinese gang in the world. The five ancestors respectively set up underground organizations such as "Tiandihui", "Triad Society", "Brother Pao", "Old Brothers Society", and "Small Sword Society" throughout the country. Among them, Fang Dahong was the founder of "Triad Society" and Wang Jing was in "New Shaolin Five Patriarchs" Guest starred in Fang Dahong's father, named Fang Shiyu. Jet Li just starred in two "Fang Shiyu" in 1993, so Jet Li was surprised when Wang Jing reported Fang Shiyu's name in "New Shaolin Fifth Ancestor", "I thought, you also deserve to be called Fang Shiyu?", very interesting! [Wang Jing's solution is to use five children to play the five ancestors of Shaolin and Jet Li as Hong Xiguan; the protagonist is Jet Li, and the story is still the story of the five ancestors of Shaolin. Perfect]
"New Shaolin Five Patriarchs" premiered in Hong Kong, China on March 3, 1994, written and directed by Wang Jing and guest starred, starring Jet Li, Qiu Shuzhen, Xie Miao, Ye Dexian, Ji Chunhua, Chen Songyong, etc., Sun Jiankui, Liu Songren and other guest stars. At the box office of 19.4 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking 11th; higher than Jet Li's most classic "Jingwu Hero" and "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" in the same year. Qiu Shuzhen was Wang Jing's favorite girl back then, and Qiu Shuzhen was the heroine of "New Shaolin Fifth Ancestor". In Jet Li’s other films with Wang Jing, both "Evening the Heaven and Slaying the Dragon" and "Die Hard" are starring Qiu Shuzhen; another crystal girl Zhang Min also starred in "Evening the Heaven and Slaying the Dragon", as well as "Huang Feihong: Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede" ". Similarly, Jet Li did not forget his old feelings. Ji Chunhua, the villain of "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", was the bald eagle in "Shaolin Temple" and also played the big villain in "Fang Shiyu 2"; Sun Jiankui, who starred in the guest role, was also the teacher of Jet Li in Shaolin Temple. Brother, later appeared in "Flying Armor of Dragon Gate" and became a martial arts instructor.
The story of "The New Shaolin Five Patriarchs" is in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Shaolin lay disciple Hong Xiguan played by Jet Li and his youngest son Hong Wending escaped the chase of the imperial court. Later, they drifted to the south and went to the home of the wealthy Ma Dashan played by Chen Songyong.Bodyguards; here they met Ye Dexian and Qiu Shuzhen, who made a living by cheating and stealing, and four children who had escaped from Shaolin Temple. These four children, together with the son of Ma Dashan, are the fifth Shaolin ancestors. They each have a map on their back. Together, they are a treasure map, used by the anti-Qing forces to do great things. All the stories are mainly concentrated in the home of Ma Dashan.
Ye Dexian and Qiu Shuzhen's mother and daughter conspired to make Qiu Shuzhen pretend to sell her body to bury her mother, and then entered Ma's house pretending to marry Ma Dashan, but Ye Dexian could only pretend to be dead. Hong Xiguan, played by Jet Li, became the bodyguard of the Ma family. He saw Qiu Shuzhen's conspiracy to stop him, and after contacting him several times, he had feelings. Ye Dexian pretended to be lying in the wood house, and got acquainted with a few children, especially the little fat man Fang Dahong. What is more classic is Hong Wending, played by Xie Miao, who has been cool and silent. The Shaolin disciples competed with him in martial arts, but they couldn't beat all of them, and finally embraced him as the boss. Then, a few children discussed the establishment of a new society. Hong Wen would be the boss, so the name of the society would be Hongmen; the world's first Chinese gangster was born, admiring Wang Jing's ghost talent. [There is only Wang Jing. Every time I cooperate with Jet Li’s movies, he arranges him to have emotional scenes with the heroine. It is the same as Qiu Shuzhen’s three "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", "The Demon Lord of the Legend of the Dragon Slayer" and "The Die Hard"]
For the five ancestors of Shaolin, Wang Jing went to Beijing school to select children who could teach martial arts. Xie Miao, who was only 8 years old, was photographed. In the beginning, Xie Miao auditioned for the role of Ma's young master, but his face was bitter and hatred, and he lacked the local tycoon of the trousers. Wang Jing asked him to try to play Hong Wending. As a result, he was full of momentum, firm and sharp as soon as he appeared. His eyes and heroic temperament are just in line with the character setting, so the newcomer Xie Miao becomes the second man in the film.
Jet Li returned to Hong Kong in 1990 and collaborated with Tsui Hark to the new school martial arts classic "Huang Feihong" to return to the peak of his career. After that, Jet Li appeared in a number of Huang Feihong movies in succession. In 1993, "Once Upon a Time in the Lion King" and "Once Upon a Time" directed by Wang Jing, plus two films produced by Jet Li's own film company. In "Fang Shiyu", four of the six martial arts starring Jet Li that year were Qing dynasty films. By 1994, Jet Li had three films released, namely "The New Shaolin Fifth Ancestor", "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" and "Jing Wu Hero". Two of them were invested by Jet Li, and he completed "The Demon Lord of the Legend of the Dragon Slayer" in 1993. Then start preparing. Because "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" and "Jing Wu Hero" are modern dramas, Jet Li has his hair, so in "New Shaolin Fifth Ancestor" we see Jet Li's Qing Dynasty braids are a full set, while before Huang Feihong and Fang Shiyu's style was shaved after his head, set To the position where the ears are up. This is also the only one of Jet Li's costume dramas that did not shave his head. Later, "Once Upon a Time in the Western Regions" and "Huo Yuanjia" were all shaved.
[It's not that it's not a professional, it's a tight schedule! Of course, it is also that Wang Jing is not harsh, and Zhou Xingchi's several costume play "The Deer and Ding Ji" do not need to shave his head! 】
