Li Hanxiang travels to the mainland of Hong Kong and Taiwan, the so-called "Thirty Years from the beginning", from "Diao Chan" in 1958 to "Queen Mother of the West" in 1988, from the pillar of Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong, to Taiwan's self-organization of the League of Nations, and to the founding of the mainland "New Kunlun", Li Hanxiang's influence on Chinese-language films in terms of artistic innovation, theme development, and industrial structure is obvious to all.
In the early 1990s, even though Li Hanxiang had "the old tiger's ambition", due to various reasons such as health and personality, he actually left the mainland in his sixtieth year and wandered to Thailand, South Korea and other places, using a guerrilla posture for Shaw's third level Pornographic movies (including "Jin Ping Feng Yue", "Mrs. Bamboo" and "Girl Pan Jin Lian").
In 1993, Li Hanxiang returned to Taiwan, where he had been away for more than ten years, to recruit actresses for the biographical film "Li Xianglan". "Li Xianglan" was Li Hanxiang's last ambitious production in his later years (comparable to the "Chinese Workers' Blood and Tears" planned by Hu Jinquan for many years). The shooting was going well, and the new star Jin Lingzi has been selected, but unfortunately it was suspended for some reason.
Li Han went to Los Angeles to prepare for the adaptation of "The Landlord's Wife" from Yan Geling's original work. He made a temporary decision midway and switched to filming "The Lover's Lover" based on the real stories of local Chinese.
The film brings together Li Hanxiang’s old friends, including the "Emperor Xiaosheng" Liu Yong from the series "Qianlong under the Jiangnan", Liang Jiahui, who was awarded the Golden Statue with "Burning the Old Summer Palace", and "I Have a Date with Spring". The popular Liu Yali (who was still a singer in the play), and the new star Jin Lingzi selected by Li Hanxiang.
In addition, Li Hanxiang's film title "Lover's Lover" also has the psychology of using Leung Ka Fai's "Lover" brand to attract audiences, fully demonstrating the shrewd style of "Silver Armor Overlord's waist showing half abacus" (Zhang Cheyu).
According to Li Hanxiang's original intention, "Lover's Lover" is a detective thriller. I wanted to shoot a confusing and confusing murder case, and analyze the world's people's minds with the structure of "Rashomon".
However, due to the frequent changes in the shooting plan and the hasty and hasty creation process, the whole film appears fragmented and chaotic in terms of structure and plot, and it does not have the leisurely interest of the previous collage sketches.
After the release of "Lover's Lover", the box office reputation suffered a fiasco. Since Jin Lingzi had no hope of being a superstar by Li Hanxiang, she left the film world to study in Europe. Li Hanxiang was also discouraged until she was invited by Liu Xiaoqing in 1996. It was only when he went to the mainland to start filming the large-scale costume TV series "Burning A Fang Gong".
Hu Jinquan’s experience in his later years is similar to that of Li Hanxiang. In the 1990s, his disciple Wu Mingcai invested and came to the mainland to film "The King of Yin and Yang", with the help of his deceased Sammo Hung, Lin Zhengying and Xu Zhongxin, as well as stars such as Zheng Shaoqiu and Wang Zuxian. The style of the
film is the same as that of "Legend of the Mountain", and even the special effects production level stays in the 70s, so even if the filming has a profound artistic conception, it can only end up in a bleak and silent box office in the booming 90s. . In the following years, Hu Jinquan ran for the planning of "A History of Chinese Workers' Blood and Tears", but passed away on the eve of filming. Zhang Che, another martial arts director of the same fame as Hu Jinquan, came to the mainland to form Changhe Company after leaving Shaw Brothers in the 1980s. He received a group of new students and continued to make action films. Zhang Che’s style has remained unchanged for decades. Many new works from the mainland remake old works. "Crossing the River" is a new version of "Vengeance", "Xi'an Kill" is a reprint of "Five Poisons", and the last work "Supernatural Powers" is "Supernatural Powers and Little Overlords" A replica of. The so-called remake of
, in fact, did not have any innovation, but in 1983 Taiwan disciples (Cheng Tianci, Zhao Guo) were replaced by 1993 mainland disciples (Dong Zhihua, Mu Lixin), continue to interpret Zhang Che's masculine and violent aesthetics formed in the 1960s and 1970s That's it, the response can be imagined. In the 1990s, Zhang Che had already collapsed, and his energy was even worse. He often fell asleep at the scene, and his disciples helped him in filming. After
"Supernatural Powers", Zhang Che retired and lived in the Shaw Dormitory. He suffered from illness until his death in 2002. Zhang Che's later self-financed or joint venture filming, except for Wu Yusen, Li Xiuxian, and Jiang David in 1989, the disciples of Wu Yusen, Li Xiuxian, and Jiang David made "The Heroes of Righteousness" which was filmed by the master for 40 years. Most of them lost their money and almost lost nearly half of their savings.
However, Shao Yifu is said to be stingy, only to miss Zhang Che's old feelings, not only specializing in the studio dormitory for Zhang Che to live in his later yearsLive, and provide vehicles for transportation until his death.
Zhang Che's contribution to the film industry can be summarized in two points. One is to lead the trend and create new styles of action films; the other is to cultivate talents, except for famous filmmakers in Hong Kong and Taiwan such as Wu Yusen, Dillon, David Jiang, Guo Zhui and even Chen Xunqi. Why did the assistant director Du Yuming and photographer Madlin, who he trained when he came to the mainland to film, played a key role in establishing the style of the famous Heisei masterpiece "Swordsman in Shuangqi Town"!
"A confidant has a thousand fights with wine, and half a page of favors; the world is like a chess game, the first is the strongest"-this is a character written by Zhang Che to Zou Wenhuai.
Zhang Che understands tactics and sees things naturally and transparently, but when it comes to "start first, he can do it best", Zhang Che can only do it in film creation. In reality, he often slows half a shot, especially in utilitarian sensitivity. Back then, when he had a deal with Shaw Shaw and Zou Wenhuai, Zhang Che took advantage of the situation to rise up in the Shaw Brothers, but he encountered a stronger balance and suppression... It turned out that it was the most difficult for officials to seek their own! (Wen, Wei Junzi)
