Chapter 4 A Generation of Heroes
There is a half-round red sun hanging in the sky, crumbling; When Chen Yongren returned home, he was just in time for dinner at home; At the dinner table, Chen's mother asked about his work, and Chen Yongren told the second elder truthfully, and the two were overjoyed after knowing that it was good news.
After the meal, Chen's mother cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and the father and son sat in the living room, but saw Chen's father speak: "Back then, your great-grandfather and his brother and brother moved their families to avoid disasters, and there was chaos everywhere at that time, so they were separated, and it was not as convenient as communication now, so there was no news for a long time, until your grandfather was sixty-two years old, and the two families were reunited by chance, but after a few decades and two generations, the relationship has faded, I have been married to your mother for less than two years, and your grandfather is also gone, so after more than ten years, the two families have only a handful, But the two families are connected by blood after all, and I believe that they don't want to be so disconnected, but they lack an opportunity and bond, I said so much today, you know what I mean, right? βγ
Chen Yongren nodded and said with a smile: "Lao Dou, don't worry, I fell in love with Brother Qi after I met Brother Qi today." βγ
Chen's father was very pleased: "That's the best ......"; "Jingle bell...... Jingle bell ......", just as he was saying this, the phone rang next to him.
"Hey...... Hello! Chen's father took the phone and was very happy: "Oh! It's Archie, Ah Ren, where are you...... Wait a minute, ......", he turned to Chen Yongren Nunu and handed over the phone.
Chen Yongren signaled to understand and took the phone: "Hey...... Chico? βγ
Chen Xunqi on the other side of the phone seemed to be in a good mood, and his voice was very clear: "Ah Ren, your luck is really good, I have a senior who has just set up a film company and needs help, I mentioned you to him, as for how much you can learn, it depends on yourself, learning from this senior is an opportunity that many people can't ask for!" β
"Brother Qi, you respect it so much, I don't know which god you are talking about?" Chen Yongren was also curious when he listened.
"Great God?" , Chen Xunqi seemed to be stunned for a moment when he heard this word, and then he thought about the meaning and laughed again: "You describe it a little interesting!" This senior is indeed a great god! I followed him for a long time when I first debuted, and many of his films were scored or composed by me. βγ
"Who the hell is Brother Qi talking about?" Chen Yongren became more and more curious, listening to Chen Xunqi's voice, it seemed that following "that great god" was a great honor for him.
"Haha...... All right! Don't whet your appetite, you know "One-armed Knife", "Ma Yongzhen" and "Thirteen Taibao", right? β
"Could it be ......" Chen Yongren understood what "surprise" was at this moment.
"Hmm...... Recently, 'Shaw Brothers Films' is about to disintegrate, and Mr. Zhang has to find another way out and set up his own 'Changhe Company', but you don't have to be too excited, you will start from scratch there, and Mr. Zhang will not take special care of you! Chen Xunqi replied.
Chen Yongren has calmed down his feelings and said "understand"; After patiently listening to Chen Xunqi's several good words and advice, Chen Yongren said "yes" and "understood" again and again; In the end, Chen Xunqi told the address of the "Changhe Company" and asked the latter to report for duty tomorrow, so he hung up the phone.
In the middle of the moon, Chen Yongren was lying on the bed, and a piece of information appeared in his mind. Zhang Che, the grandmaster of "Aesthetics of Violence", was one of the two standard-bearers who set off the new martial arts century of Hong Kong films in the sixties and seventies, and the other standard-bearer was Hu Jinquan, the grandmaster of "freehand martial arts". As long as you are a man, you will definitely like Zhang Che's movies, or you have liked them, or you will like them in the future; His apprentice John Woo once said, "Replace the knife in Zhang Che's movie with a gun, and it will become "The True Color of Heroes"." The heroes in Zhang Che's lens are emotionally hot, with strong personalities and few turns, so they mostly end in tragedy. His hero is the same as his own process of becoming a director, because he is not used in the world, he is full of sincerity, but he is subject to the crampedness of the environment and the manipulation of fate, so in the majestic and heroic, there is always a trace of pathos and indignation.
Cheung Cheh is one of the most influential figures in Hong Kong cinema. The contribution to Hong Kong films is probably beyond the reach of even Tsui Hark and Wong Kar-wai. In the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, Zhang Che's name was like thunder, and the films he directed were a guarantee of the box office, and he deservedly became the number one signature director of the Shaw Brothers Company.
In the Hong Kong film industry, Zhang Che is known as "a generation of heroes"; His father was a Zhejiang warlord during the Republic of China, and after graduating from university, he also served as a "cultural" (not involved in sensitive areas such as politics and military) officials of the National Government, formed a brotherhood with Chiang Ching-kuo in 1948, and then wrote and directed his film debut, which was also Taiwan's first Chinese film "Alishan Fengyun" after Japan's defeat and end of colonial rule, and then stayed in Taiwan due to changes in the current situation, which also opened the curtain of post-war Taiwanese films. It was not until the 60s that he went to Hong Kong to join Shaw Brothers.
In 1970, Zhang Che won the Best Director at the Asian Film Festival, and the winning film was "Revenge". In the same year, there was also a film "Thirteen Taibao", Zhang Che set up a location somewhere in Hong Kong in order to make this film, because the film was too bloody, the director and the taboo villagers and the crew conflicted, which also contributed to the establishment of Shaw Brothers Studios.
In 1972, he directed "Ma Yongzhen", which won many honors such as Best Director and Best Actor at the 16th Asian Film Festival, and became the driving force behind the TV series "Shanghai Tang" starring Chow Yun-fat. has a far-reaching influence, and Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu" also has a lot of Zhang Che's shadows, such as the Axe Gang from "Ma Yongzhen".
In 1973, Zhang Che made the strong work "Stinging Horse", which was later remade into "Casting Names".
The 1978 movie "Five Poisons" is a classic CULT film, ranking 11th among weird movies in the world.
Later, he cooperated with the mainland to shoot the movie "Shanghai 1937", which created a precedent for gunfight action films in the mainland. In 1991, he remade a "mythological stunt feature film" "Westward Flat Demon" based on the story of the classic masterpiece "Journey to the West", and the actors involved are also familiar faces in the entertainment industry, Sun Wukong is played by Dong Zhihua, the "Wulang Bagua Stick" in Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu", Zhu Bajie is the lead singer of the later "Black Panther Band" Zhang Kepeng, and the other actors are also recognizable. The online video expert "Lao Shi" made a special comment on this film in the sixth work of his "Lao Shi Series" "The Painful Journey to the West". But...... These are all trivial matters, after all, Zhang Che was already in his old age at that time, and his energy was declining, which is worthy of forgiveness.
Zhang Che's status in the world film industry is also well-known, and he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards in 2002. He died of illness in the same year.
Chen Yongren never thought that Chen Xunqi would find such a great god for himself, and he would be regarded as his protΓ©gΓ© when he became a teacher in the future, and then Wu Yusen, Li Xiuxian, and Dillon were also my senior brothers! Thinking about it, I fell into a dream......
The next day, Chen Yongren got up early and came to the "Long River" according to the address given by Chen Xunqi; Then he understood what it meant to be "the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny", he didn't see Zhang Che, he arranged for him to be Zhang Che's apprentice Jiang Sheng, who is also a director, and just released a movie "Ghost Collision" that he participated in directing last month, but the box office was less than two million,; Jiang Sheng also knew Chen Xunqi, knew that he was Chen Xunqi's younger brother, and was very enthusiastic about Chen Yongren. Chen Yongren's film career officially began......