Wang Jing, formerly known as Wang Rixiang, was born in Hong Kong on May 3, 1955. His father, Wang Tianlin, has been involved in the Hong Kong film and television industry for more than 60 years and has filmed nearly 300 works. He is known as the "living fossil of Hong Kong film industry". As a teenager, Wang Jing studied at Pei Ching Middle School in Hong Kong, along with Guan Jinpeng, who also became a well-known director in the future. After the examination, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Affected by her father, Wang Jing started watching movies at the age of 7, and she often reviewed scripts for her father at around 15 years old. She read an amazing amount of films and was nicknamed "The Walking Movie Library". After the freshman year of college, Wang Jing entered the Hong Kong TV station as a screenwriter, writing for "Happy Tonight". After completing the script for the TV series "People in the Net", Shaw signed a director contract with Wang Jing. Since then, another legendary story in the Hong Kong film industry has kicked off.
Throughout Wang Jing's 30 years of film career, his works are closely integrated with the formation and perfection of the complete system of Hong Kong commercial films. While Wang Jing participated in the main creation of films with continuity in content or form, such as "Hardcover Chasing Girls Series" and "Playing Back to School Series", the "Bet" series fits the people's perspective and unique vision. The style and features are still regarded as classics by the audience and never tire of them. Looking at the entire series, the creative process can be roughly divided into two stages:
early stage (1981 ~ 1988)
In 1981, Wang Jing invited the handsome and suave Xie Xian, martial arts stars Chen Guantai and Wang Yu, together with the wireless team. Huang Xingxiu of Huadan released his first film "A Thousand Kings Fighting Thousand Fighters". This work, which integrates various elements such as kung fu, laughter, and gambling, ranked ninth among the top ten grossing movies in Hong Kong with a box office of more than 5 million. In the
film, Wang Jing's style of gimmicks has already begun to emerge. "A Thousand Kings Fighting Thousand Tyrants" has also become the pioneering work of Wang Jing's "gambling" series of movies. The use of "gambling" elements in the plot to enhance the observability of the story is no stranger to Wang Jing.
In 1980, Hong Kong’s ATV’s predecessor "Lie's TV Station" produced and aired the TV series "Earth Thoughts", which overwhelmed the TV ratings. In order to save the disadvantage, the wireless executives urged Wang Tianlin to come out. Wang Jing was responsible for the script writing of the TV series "The King of Thousand Kings" under the recommendation of his father. He used his best at plot construction and organization ability to push the background of the story to the southern Guangdong city of Guangzhou in the 1930s.
takes Qian Wang "Southern God Eye" Luo Sihai (played by Xie Xian) and Qian Wang "North Qianshou" Zhuo Yifu (played by Yang Qun) as the main characters, telling the story of the South and North Qianwang from being hostile to being bought together to both being framed Caused by physical disability, the last two decided to pass on their lifelong skills to a young man and asked him to return to Guangzhou to avenge the ups and downs of the plot of "The King of Thousand Kings". The actors are superb, and the ratings have been steadily after the premiere. Climbing, the wireless station defeated ATV by this.
Actually, "A Thousand Kings Fights Thousand Fighters" can be regarded as the sequel to "The King of Thousand Kings" on the big screen. Luo Sihai, played by Xie Xian, is equally outstanding in both works. The box office of this film successfully gave the fledgling Wang Jing I am very sure, but he did not choose to take the opportunity to continue the routine of this film.
In the following years, driven by his vigorous creativity, Wang Jing tried many themes, filming "The Demon Hunter", "The Frog Prince", "Modern Cinderella", "Hardcover Chasing Girls" and more This is an ingeniously conceived work with good market response. Although these films showed Wang Jing's potential in controlling commercial films, they did not make him stand out in the Hong Kong film scene. During the heyday of
(1989 ~ 1999), since the birth of
Hong Kong film, theaters have been an important economic pillar. Shaw Brothers and Jiahe have sufficient funds to produce and sell themselves, while other theaters choose to subsidize directors.
In 1988, Hong Kong Xinbao Cinema was established. The distribution of Hong Kong-produced films that year surged to 110, 20 more than in 1987. Since then, Hong Kong movies have truly entered the "golden age". Many Hong Kong filmmakers are more eagerly devoted to the production of various films, and the heyday of Wang Jing's film career has also arrived.
If we say that in 1986, Wu Yusen's "The True Colors of a Hero" was launched, which suddenly led to a rapid wave of hero movies. Then, Wang Jing finally picked up her most iconic film themes in 1989, and successively launched "Supreme" and "God of Gamblers", which created a wave of gambling movies in Hong Kong for more than a decade. Especially starring by Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, Wang Zuxian, Zhang Min, etc."The God of Gamblers" has become a classic "gambling film" in the hearts of countless audiences.
"God of Gamblers" received a box office income of 40 million Hong Kong dollars with an investment of 10 million Hong Kong dollars, causing countless gambling films to come out.
Because Wang Jing has let Gao Jin played by Chow Yun-fat occupy the domineering title of "God of Gamblers". Other gambling film creators can only use their brains to come up with all kinds of words that are cooler than "God". As a result, gambling holy Zhou Xingchi, gambling respected Wan Ziliang, gambling tyrant Anita Mui, gambling queen Zheng Yuling and so on appeared in the gambling circle. Wang Jing herself also portrayed characters like Andy Lau, the young gambler Liming, and the street gambler Saint Ge Minhui in the subsequent "gambling" series of movies. The good reputation of
"God of Gamblers" is due to the completeness and rigor of the overall plot. The lively fighting scenes and moderate jokes also complement each other. David Bodwell once commented, "Wang Jing, who puts away the funny style, is actually good at telling stories. However, in the anticipation of all the people, Wang Jing reluctantly changes the style of the'God of Gamblers' series into crazy comedy, it is very possible It is because another film company has imitated "The God of Gamblers", that is, "The Holy Gambling" (1990).
Yuan Kui and Liu Zhenwei's "The Holy Gambling" co-directed the story of the mainland youth star (played by Zhou Xingchi). Hong Kong goes to his third uncle (played by Wu Mengda). After discovering that the star boy has special abilities, he can easily see the points and change the cards. He suggested that he study gambling skills and watch the "God of Gamblers" video tape, wearing a black suit, Applying hair oil and practicing the slow motion of Gao Jin walking into the casino. The two uncles and nephews of
were involved in the battle between Hong Kong gambling king Hong Guang (Qin Pei) and Taiwan gambling king Chen Song (Liu Zhenwei). After the twists and turns, Xing Zi won the game and was recognized by his sweet dream (Zhang Min).
Although part of the content of "Sacred Gambling" borrowed from the follow-up of "The God of Gamblers", Wang Jing made a strong momentum to produce " "Gamblers", "Gamblers II Shanghai Beach Gamblers", "Gamblers 2, "Gamblers 2 Street Gamblers", "Gamblers 3: Young Gamblers", "Gamblers 1999", "Gamblers vs. Las Vegas" Vegas, "A Thousand Kings of Kings 2000" 8 gambling films. "The New Legend of Casino Tycoon" and "The Supreme Invincible of Casino Tycoon II" were not included in the list because although the two films are in the title The above involves the word "gambling", but from the perspective of the content of the story, it should be regarded as a biopic based on the legendary life of Stanley Ho and Fok Yingdong.
In 1989, the great success of "The God of Gamblers" perfected the Hong Kong film scene. A type of film that opened the glorious period of Hong Kong gambling films.
Countless filmmakers have devoted themselves to the "sea of gambling", using "The God of Gamblers" as a yardstick to rack their brains and constantly copy in terms of story structure, character creation, and shooting techniques. However, it is far from satisfactory and lacks considerable highlights. However, after absorbing and transforming the creative experience of others and in-depth assessment of the film situation, Wang Jing timely perfected his own "gambling" series of films to lead the gambling in different periods. The development direction of the film. And because of the large number of "gambling" series of films, the long duration of creation, and the richness of the elements, Wang Jing has written a strong mark in the historical coordinates of gambling films in Hong Kong and the entire world.
In addition, Wang Jinghui’s ability to recognize beads is also recognized by everyone. Wang Jing single-handedly explored actresses such as Qiu Shuzhen, Hsu Qi, and Lin Xilei. They are sometimes pure and lovely, sometimes lively and naughty, sometimes sexy and attractive on the screen. The audience knows and loves it. Like "Mu Girl" and "Star Girl", "Jing Girl" has also become the dream of countless fledgling actresses.
