This TVB classic drama is the youth of generations of Hong Kong filmmakers with tears in laughter.

must have ten major conditions to be considered a standard Hong Kong citizen:

a suit;

two personalities (one loyal and one traitor);

three new equipment: watches, lighters, ink pens;

four sentences English (HELLO, YES, NO, GOODBYE);

is 50% westernized;

has all six faculties (the remaining one has no knowledge);

colorful life;

is exquisite in all directions;

is sleek;

is full of grace.

-the classic lines of "Difficult Brothers"

This is a comedy: Wu Zhenyu’s Xie Xian super imitation show, Luo Jialiang’s self-proportioned Donald Duck voice, Zhang Keyi’s cute, simple and cute, Xuan Xuan’s singing and dancing, quirky and strange. The witty lines, the hilarious performance, and the lively and jubilant plot are absolutely delightful.

"Brothers Difficulties"

Xie Yuan (played by Wu Zhenyu), alluding to the popular Cantonese film Xie Xian (Nicholas Tse's father) in Hong Kong in the 1960s. The title of this play is taken from the 1959 film "Difficult Brothers" between him and Hu Feng.

Xie Xian entered the industry at the age of sixteen. He has many works: In addition to "A Thousand Waters and Thousand Mountains Are Always Love" familiar to mainland audiences, there are "Flowers in the Rain in May", "Chasing Wife", "Playboy", "Tearful Rose" (with Xiao Fangfang) Cooperation), "Black Rose" (cooperating with Chen Baozhu), "Tissot", "Farewell to Relatives", "Window", etc.

On April 14, 2019, the 83-year-old Xie Xian won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 38th Hong Kong Awards Ceremony.

Wu Zhenyu looks like Xie Xian in his youth. His clothes, manners, and demeanor, even his walking posture are vivid.

(Xie Yuan played by Wu Zhenyu)

Li Qi (Luo Jialiang), alluding to another popular niche at that time, Lu Qi. In 1967, Lu Qi and Chen Baozhu collaborated on "The Jade Girl Adds Ding", and the two were known as the "Golden Boy and Jade Girl".

His voice is very distinctive, so he performed many song and dance films: "Lover's Tears", "Manly Manly I Love You"... But in the 1970s, Lv Qi turned to behind the scenes and organized his own Jinhe Film Company. Produced SE love movies, and has a place in Hong Kong's third/class movies. Although the story of

is not separate from male thieves and female prostitutes, it still does not forget to add a lot of moral criticism, and even has the ambition to speak for the oppressed girls. The image of women in the film is independent and self-reliant, which is a relative improvement compared to the average Hong Kong film.

In 1985, after Lu Qi directed "Four Cannons", he ended his film company and went to Taiwan for business. "Brother Difficult" was filmed in 1997. At that time, Luo Jialiang was in his early thirty-five years old. Since joining TVB, he has always played some indifferent roles or villains. His efforts and gains in front and behind the scenes and Feelings about life's encounters are more or less the shadow of Li Qi in the play.

Youth is the capital: handsome face, deep eyes, wearing a suit and tie, well-dressed and charming. Is this Luo Jialiang or Lu Qi? Cheng Baozhu (played by Zhang Keyi) alludes to Lu Qi's screen partner Chen Baozhu, known as the princess of the movie fan. She was also a smash hit in the Hong Kong film scene in the 1960s.

Is this a gem or Fangfang?

Baozhu has only been in the film for twelve years and has made more than two hundred films. Back then, Sister Baozhu was easy-going and friendly, with many fans, and fans cheered wherever she went. Her films "Colorful Hu Does Not Return", "Female Killer", "Black Rose", "Jade Girl", "Undeserved Youth" and "Reincarnation of the Red Plum", etc., were well received and popular.

(Chen Baozhu in "The Jade Girl")

Baozhu's parents are both Cantonese opera red actors. She learned from the famous actress Ren Jianhui.

(right: Ren Jianhui)

Sister Baozhu made her comeback again in 1999, participating in the stage play "Sword Snow Floating Life", playing her master Ren Jianhui, causing a sensation. In the play, Zhang Keyi's appearance and Chen Baozhu's appearance are both. Shao Fangfang (Xuan Xuan) alludes to Xiao Fangfang, the only female star who could compete with Chen Baozhu.

(Photo of Chen Baozhu and Xiao Fangfang)

(Xuan Xuan and Zhang Keyi)

She was born as a child star, starred in the first film "Little Star Tears" at the age of 6, and starred in "The Wandering Children" at the age of 10, known as a Hong Kong show Lan Temple. She sang the theme song "Only Mother in the World Is Good" has become a famous song that has been circulated to this day.

(Xiao Fangfang)

She once played three different roles in "Girls' Heart", even dancing and performing 18 songs and dances; in "Snitch Red Rose", one person plays ten horns, which is amazing. Her film and television works: "Colorful Hu Does Not Return", "Girl's Heart", "Happy Years", "Flying Girl", "Girlfriend", "Haiyun", "Lin Yazhen", "Forty Women" and "Hudumen" and others are well received. Xiao Fangfang won two Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards and one Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1995, she became the second Berlin actress from Asia after Maggie Cheung for her outstanding acting in "Forty Women".

Xiao Fangfang and Chen Baozhu are brothers and sisters. Together with Feng Subo and Feng Baobao's sisters, Shen Zhihua, Xue Jiayan and Wang Aiming, they are also called "Seven Princesses of the Shaw Brothers".

In the 1960s, the Seven Princesses Hong Kong film circle set off a wave of worship. Ten famous directors became the "Ten Directors", nine second-gang Huadans formed the "Nine Big Sisters", and the eight master Huadans also became the "Eight Peony". ", and the seven female stars at that time also became the well-known "seven princesses." Today, "Seven Princesses" are still talked about by fans.

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These seven people are all child stars. They have been working together since they were young. They grew up together on the set and have good relationships. Later, Feng Feng's wife suggested that they become seven sisters. This is how the "Seven Princesses" were born.

held a worship ceremony at the Golden Crown Restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui in 1964. The scene was very grand. Reporters and filmmakers alone had crowded the restaurant, and there were countless fans waiting outside.

Whenever there are "seven princesses" attending an event, there will be a large number of fans who will hear the news. Among them, the fans of Chen Baozhu and Xiao Fangfang are the most crazy. Sometimes in order to support their idols, the fans even make some acts of attacking each other. The photo of the other idol was torn, which embarrassed Baozhu and Fangfang, but did not damage the friendship between the seven princesses. After

bowed, the seven princesses took their acting career to another peak, and the feelings between the seven sisters became deeper.

At that time, there were seven popular niches in the film circle, including Xie Xian, Hu Feng, Lu Qi and Zeng Jiang. Seeing the seven sisters became the "seven princesses", they wanted to join in the fun to organize the "seven princesses." However, the "seven princesses" are young girls. If they are allowed to form the "seven princesses", it feels like they have taken advantage of them. Therefore, under the strong opposition of the "seven princesses", the idea of ​​the "seven princesses" will not be able to stop. It became a topic in the film world at that time. (Hahahahaha)

In 1970, the prosperous sister Fangfang suddenly bid farewell to Hong Kong and went to the United States to study alone, obtaining a bachelor's degree in mass communication and a master's degree in child psychology.

was awarded the Queen of the MBE and the Hong Kong Artist of the Year Award in 1997 due to years of performance achievements. In recent years, she has been troubled by ear problems and has reduced her performance and focused on further training. In 1998, she established the seedling fund to actively promote " Protect children from sexual assault" message. The era of twin twins is over, but how can we forget this drama?

Li Qi and Xie Yuan are good brothers who have gone through hardships together and shared joys and sorrows. The two broke into the colorful movie scene by accident, but their encounters were quite different. Xie Yuan instantly became the leading actor, forging a lot of bonds with the two most popular ladies Shao Fangfang and Cheng Baozhu, while Li Qi has always been half red and not black.

meets by fate, the four of them are entangled, and they turn from happy friends to very loving lovers. Later, due to various misunderstandings, he was lost on the road of life.

Thirty years later, Yuan, Qi, Fang, and Zhu have all reached old age, and time will eventually resolve their grievances. This is actually a real drama: it teaches us how to behave: Perseverance is like Li Qi, masterful like Xie Yuan, seize the opportunity and dominate the destiny; Perseverance is like a jewel, independence like Fangfang, be loyal to love and never give up. Li Qi secretly loves Fangfang, but Fangfang falls in love with Xie Yuan. The development of Li Qi and Baozhu was opposed by the mother-of-pearl, and they were forced to break up. The love road was bumpy.

He was born at an untimely time, his acting career has just picked up, and he is facing the decline of Cantonese film days; he was also exposed to his father as a murderer, which made him devastated. Throughout Li Qi's life: separation of lovers, brothers against each other! So it seems that this may be a tragedy.

The play interprets the entertainment circle from the 1960s to the 1970s in a relaxed and humorous way. The plot contains many singing and dancing scenes. The track was extremely popularTemporary songs were mainly re-sung or adapted from popular songs at the time, and the response was good.

revisit the old drama this time, listening to the theme song of "Difficult Brothers" over and over again, in the reflection of time, it seems like a dream...

"Difficult Brothers, Difficult Brothers" Cantonese lyrics

Luo Jialiang Wu Zhenyu Xuan Xuan Zhang Keyi

(Luo) Love is like a play

true and false

(Wu) Once upon a time, it was like a dream to go to

too much to remember

(announcement) no one can do

all this life is interesting

(zhang) sorrows, joys and joys change

there are some All beautiful

(together) ah...

youth always loses Mo Ming

ah...

I just want friendship to last forever

(Wu) My lover and lover often remember

I am intoxicated with

(Ro ) Why is it so hard to be so sad at

is because of you

(Zhang) Talking about love is originally beautiful

Two cuddling together

(Xuan) Love and fate are difficult to follow

There are some things that should not be remembered

(合)ah. .....

just want to love each other and never stop

ah...

can really prove

with the year and month. A simple story contains deep and broad emotions: love and misunderstanding, friendship and career, parting And miss, passion and indifferent.

When I tried to interpret this door from the play to our hearts, I found that everything was in vain. The taste of the play may not be well known to the audience, but for me, it is just hovering between the seriousness and the seriousness, transcending the barriers of the world, and transcending a certain eternal theme.

Faced with such a series, after several years, you may forget all the details, but you will still clearly remember the intoxicating breath that it once brought, like warm wine.

No matter what, "Brothers and Difficulties" always reminds me:

youth is always lost inexplicably.

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