After 10 days of intense post-production, on September 5, 1975, "Seven Little Blessings" was finally released in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. [No pop-up novel network]

In the minds of the older generation of Hong Kong people, Qi Xiaofu is an opera troupe and a play, and he is the seven most outstanding apprentices under Yu Zhanyuan, a famous Peking Opera actor who resounded in Liyuan back then.

In the impression of young people, Seven Little Blessing is a code name, representing the most glorious moment of Hong Kong kung fu films, and the turning point of this glorious moment is now Wang Xiaohu in the Hong Kong film industry.

They didn't know what the Seven Little Fortunes were before, until Bruce Lee's "Jingwumen" came out, everyone had an impression of the young man named Wang Xiaohu, and then the young man used "Righteous Hero", "Ip Man", "Ah Hu" to firmly grasp the young man's mind, and with his help, his brothers and sisters have also become the pillars of Hong Kong movies in recent years, Jackie Chan and Yuan Biao were so popular that year, today, the biopic of the same name about the childhood learning of the Seven Little Blessings was released, Naturally, everyone wants to go to the theater to see it.

If nothing else, I am curious about how Wang Xiaohu succeeded and how they became the elite team of Hong Kong films.

The lineup of the film itself is huge enough, among the child stars are Weng Meiling , Stephen Chow , the second-generation kung fu girl Zheng Peipei who has disappeared from the field of vision of Hong Kong people for three years, Lin Zhengying, an important starring role in "The Loser", Wang Xiaohu , Sammo Hung , Jackie Chan , Yuan Biao , Yuan Hua "Seven Little Blessings" did not do too much publicity, but attracted many people to the theater to watch, this film in Wang Xiaohu's memory box office is not very good, unexpectedly sold 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office before its release, it can not be said that it is an unexpected gain brought by the star lineup. However, he still gave Sammo Hung a preventive shot in advance.

"It's possible that the box office won't be too good. You have to be mentally prepared, if you feel uncomfortable, you always think about the original purpose of our filming "Seven Little Blessings". ”

The box office of 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars was not ideal for Wang Xiaohu, which was a bit of a blow to Sammo Hung, who had just read independently, and it took him half a day to recall why he filmed "Seven Little Blessings" in the first place.

"In order to publicize the past of the Seven Little Blessings, in order to let Ah Long's conscience find it back, in order to surprise the master on his 70th birthday, and in order to cultivate a new successor." Sammo Hung muttered four "fors", and now it seems that three of these four goals have been achieved, and Sammo Hung also knows that the fifth is to give himself the experience of being the master of the house for the first time.

The film was all invested and filmed by Wang Xiaohu, and Sammo Hung paid for his hard work, and what he gained may not only be experience, but even the title of Golden Horse Award actor that Wang Xiaohu never told him.

After three years of operation, as long as the film produced by Concord in the Hong Kong film industry has canceled the so-called midnight test screening concept, at more than 6 o'clock in the evening, 105 theaters belonging to Concord, 97 theaters of Shaw Brothers, and more than 50 other scattered small theaters in Hong Kong have all begun to screen "Seven Little Blessings".

With the broadcast of the film, the audience seems to have returned to the scene of more than ten years ago, looking at the dilapidated two-story building, a group of children with half-bald heads are splitting legs and hanging horses, and the chubby Sammo Hung is wearing a coarse cloth gown, carrying a rattan in his hand and supervising the group of children expressionlessly.

Then everyone recognized on the big screen that it was Stephen Chow who was turning his heels, Shen Moyan was the most lazy and was beaten by Master Yu, and it was Weng Meiling who was holding a lollipop in the background.

Literary films have not been very accepted by Hong Kong audiences in recent years, because of the rise of martial arts and kung fu films, literary films have begun to languish like Peking Opera, but "Seven Little Blessings" has evoked many old audiences' memories of Peking Opera.

The children on the big screen are connecting the memories of the older generation bit by bit, and the young people are discussing who is Wang Xiaohu, who is Jackie Chan and who is Yuan Biao, and they are more interested in the gossip and troubles of the Seven Little Blessings.

"Ah Hu, Sanmao, was I so fierce back then?" Yu Zhanyuan, who was sitting in the front row, complained a little dissatisfied when he saw Sammo Hung on the screen beating the children hard.

Yu Zhanyuan rarely watches movies, he even regrets that his apprentices are engaged in the film industry, his daughter Yu Suqiu has starred in 200 movies, he has never seen it, he watched "Ip Man" starring the little apprentice in the United States, and then he fell in love with watching movies, but among all the movies, he still likes this one, even if he says he is dissatisfied, in fact, he likes it in his heart, otherwise he would not pull Yuan Xiaotian, Tang Di, Fan Chrysanthemum, Han Yingjie and other famous drama founders to watch the premiere tonight.

"Uh, no!" Wang Xiaohu and the senior brothers hurriedly replied in unison, but said in their hearts: You are at least ten times more fierce than Sanmao in the movie, no, hundreds of times!

The movie continued to play, and Qi Xiaofu's performance needed music, and it happened that the theater was playing "Bridge on the River Kwai" at that time, and Yu Zhanyuan heard the march in it and thought it was very good, so he chose it as the background music for the performance. Now the thoughts of the older generation have exploded again, and some old drama bones have begun to beat along with the music in the movie, humming and babbling to enjoy it extraordinarily.

Because there is no tuition, the school's funds are very tight, Yu Zhanyuan usually sleeps on the ground with his disciples, although Qi Xiaofu earns more than 70 yuan per performance, but Master Yu only received money to buy rice for more than 100 people to eat. As in the movie, Yu Zhanyuan often asked the children to go to the church to receive relief food.

At the end of the film, many people unconsciously left tears, it can be said that this "Seven Little Blessings" feels very real to them, look at the Seven Little Blessings who are active in the film industry today, and then look at the hardships they endured back then, many people feel very moved in their hearts, and at the same time know that the success of both Wang Xiaohu and Sammo Hung and others is not a coincidence, but after years of hard work, they have achieved today's achievements, which has greatly stimulated the idea of young people to devote themselves to the film industry.

This is actually to promote Wang Xiaohu's school that will open in November this year. Yes, Wang Xiaohu is going to be the principal, just like when Master Yu Zhanyuan founded the Chinese Drama School, but the school he created is more advanced and has more complete supporting facilities, almost integrating all the elite forces of the Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Training Base and TVB Artist Training Center, creating a comprehensive assembly line for Hong Kong films from child stars to martial arts instructors, photography directors, directors, etc.

These are all operated by Wang Xiaohu secretly, and the only people in the know are him, Zhao Yazhi, and Run Run Shaw. The location of the school is in the Concord Film and Television City, and the name of the school is very domineering: China Film Academy.

The applause rang out from all sides of the theater, which was particularly deafening, expressing the audience's high respect for Zhan Yuan and the Seven Little Blessings.

"Master, you see that the audience is watching, come up to the stage and say a few words." Wang Xiaohu helped Yu Zhanyuan up and said.

Sammo Hung over there comprehended, and also came over to hug Yu Zhanyuan and said, "Yes, Master, say something." At the same time, he also gave Yuan Biao and the others a look, and the latter hurriedly went to the background to work.

Unable to survive the enthusiasm of the apprentices, Yu Zhanyuan slowly walked to the stage with the help of the apprentices, and under the illumination of the lights, Yu Zhanyuan felt a trance.

"More than ten years have passed." Yu Zhanyuan looked at the dense audience under the stage, and his heart was a little excited, he held his crutches with both hands, "This stage used to belong to famous dramas such as Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera, and now, he has become the stage of movies, such a development is an inevitable trend, we are old, I am very pleased that my apprentices and grandchildren can still stand on this stage and show everyone the value of art in another way."

When Wang Xiaohu heard this, he sighed in his heart, Master Yu Zhanyuan failed to live in an era where "Peking Opera has never been so popular" like the master in "Farewell My Concubine", he caught the last train of Peking Opera and witnessed the decline of this drama that he thought was "the most perfect art in the world".

The kind of regret and helplessness in Yu Zhanyuan's words made many of the audience present sigh with emotion, Yu Zhanyuan on the stage was excited and shed tears, Wang Xiaohu and they didn't feel good in their hearts, and hurriedly and quietly gestured to the backstage.

When the huge tower cake appeared on the stage, the audience under the audience let out a cry of surprise, one by one, wow, I don't know what other tricks there are tonight, so I heard Wang Xiaohu pick up the microphone and say to the audience: "Now, I will tell you an important news, today, in addition to the release of "Seven Little Blessings", it is also the seventieth birthday of our Seven Little Blessings' master Yu Zhanyuan, and our Seven Little Blessings want to say to his old man: Master, thank you for your hard work in the past ten years, I wish you a happy life!" ”

"Let's sing a song with me, okay?"

"Good!"

"I wish you a happy life~" echoed in the cinema for a long time, Yu Zhanyuan stood there in surprise, his old eyes were full of tears, and then he smiled, smiling very brightly, he couldn't imagine that his apprentices would celebrate his birth in such a way, and he couldn't imagine that he could stand on this stage tonight and tell the 600 audience a history of the development, prosperity and decline of Chinese Peking Opera in Hong Kong, and gradually, the filial piety of the apprentices moved him.

"Master, come and blow out the candles, we'll give out a cake to the audience later!" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

(To be continued)