In the early 1980s, a "Shaolin Temple" was popular all over the country and eventually created a box office myth of 160 million with a dime ticket price.
The popularity of "Shaolin Temple" not only made a number of kung fu stars such as Jet Li , but also led to the production boom of kung fu martial arts films in mainland China.
Among them, " Yue Family Young Player ", filmed in 1984, is a representative work of the kung fu film, making Xunfeng , Zhang Xiling and other martial arts actors famous. The clean and neat martial arts scenes in the film also left a deep impression on the audience at that time.
The popularity of "The Young Master of Yue Family" has influenced the youth of a generation and has become an indelible screen memory for many viewers. The film is still replayed many times on the movie channel, and the response is still enthusiastic.
01. The director is a fan of "Shaolin Temple". The screenwriter once wrote "Lushan Love"
Unlike "Shaolin Temple" and " Shaolin Boy ". The story of "The Young General of Yue Family" is based on the Qing Dynasty folk novel "Talking about Yue Quan Biography", which tells the story of the five sons of the general Yue Fei fighting against the Jin soldiers and resisting foreign aggression.
The father of Wang Zhiyu, the director of "The Young Master of Yue Family", is a journalist of the older generation. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the editor-in-chief of many famous newspapers such as "Business Daily".
Influenced by his father, Wang Zhiyu was very interested in art, especially film since he was a child. In 1966, he was admitted to the Director Department of the Central Academy of Drama . After graduation, due to the influence of the general environment, he has not filmed his own film works.
Wang Zhiyu did not start filming movies until the 1980s. Her debut work "Man·Monkey" is an opera movie. After it was released, it was loved by many audiences, which also strengthened Wang Zhiyu's confidence in continuing to film movies.
So she found the screenwriter Bi Bicheng to exchange ideas. As a senior screenwriter with many years of experience, Bi Bicheng's first romance film "Lushan Love" in New China was written by him. In addition, he is also the screenwriter of the best feature film " Defendant Shan Gangye ".
Bi Bicheng was very interested in Wang Zhiyu's idea of shooting a martial arts film. First, the martial arts films were very popular among the audience at that time, and second, Chinese martial arts culture has a long history. If it is made into a movie, it will also be a positive publicity for Chinese culture.
The two had a great time talking. After Wang Zhiyu left, Bi Bicheng began to collect information and conceive the script: What kind of story can show both Chinese martial arts and have unique personality? This is a question that Bi Bicheng has been thinking about when creating the script.
Bi Bicheng neither wants to imitate the plot of "Shaolin Temple" nor use fictional stories to fool the audience. So he searched for inspiration from folk stories and storytelling , and finally got inspiration in "Talking about Yue Quan Biography" and wrote a passionate story with Yue Fei's five children as the protagonist.
After the story was written, Bi Bicheng found Wang Zhiyu with the complete script. After reading it, Wang Zhiyu praised it and gained a new understanding of Bi Bicheng.
Bi Bicheng not only vividly wrote the five protagonists, but also wrote a hazy emotional line for Yue Yun and Princess Yinling in addition to the martial arts plot.
The two people in the hostile camp conveyed ambiguous feelings that seemed to be there and not be any. They left a deep impression on the audience at that time and made Princess Silver Bell's image more deeply rooted in people's hearts.
02. The actors are all martial arts masters. The male protagonist has participated in "Shaolin Temple"
. During the filming of the film, Wang Zhiyu, as the director, not only required real-life shooting in order to pursue a more realistic and enjoyable martial arts scene, but also invited many martial arts champions to play important roles in the movie.
male lead Xunfeng plays Yue Fei's eldest son Yue Yun in the film. He was the swordsman champion in the national martial arts competition at that time. He once played the role of the monk Daokong, who had few roles in "Shaolin Temple".
The heroine Zhang Xiling is also a martial arts actor. She has learned martial arts since she was a child and has a very deep martial arts foundation.
When selecting the heroine, Wang Zhiyu's requirement for the actor is to have real skills and gentle and affectionate appearance, which is in line with the image of Princess Yinling in the script.
Wang Zhiyu interviewed many female martial artists from martial arts schools, but there was no particularly satisfied candidate until the appearance of Zhang Xiling, a girl from Dai .
Until she showed her many years of profound martial arts skills in front of everyone, no one present expected that this gentle and elegant girl still had amazing martial arts cultivation.
When Wang Zhiyu was surprised, he immediately made a decision and asked Zhang Xiling to play the female lead Princess Yinling.
With the finalization of the male and female protagonists, the filming of the movie began one after another. Because of the director's requirements for real-life shooting, the shooting schedule of "The Young Master of the Yue Family" was longer than that of many movies at that time.
In order to find a satisfactory shooting venue, the entire crew traveled from south to north to multiple cities. It took half a year to shoot all the shots of the movie. During this period, director Wang Zhiyu had very high requirements for martial arts, and he checked them carefully several times after each shooting. After the filming of
, in order to further enhance the influence of the movie, Wang Zhiyu also wrote lyrics for the film's theme song "Little Lily Flower" and invited Zheng Xulan, the heroine of "Shaolin Temple", to sing.
03. The male protagonist disappeared, and Zhang Xiling's life was happy after the marriage
The male protagonist Xunfeng in the film gained a lot of popularity after the release of the film, and has successively participated in film and television works such as "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", " The National Secret Imperial Notice ", " New Fang Shiyu " and other film and television works.
However, due to the development of the times, martial arts films gradually lose market appeal, and Xunfeng, a martial arts actor, gradually faded. In the years following
, Xunfeng was constantly renamed to Xunyifeng and Shi Baohua , but his acting career still did not improve and gradually lost its position in the ever-changing film and television industry.
Because "The Young Master of Yue Family" is a co-production film in the mainland and Hong Kong, Xunfeng still had the opportunity to participate in Hong Kong films that year, such as the role of Master Wu in "New Blood Sword", and his stage name was Shi Baohua at that time.
Compared with Xunfeng, the heroine Zhang Xiling's life is much happier. After "The Young Master of Yue Family", Zhang Xiling participated in films such as " Xiajiang Suspicion of Movie " and " Princess Wencheng ". She also played the second female lead Xiaolan in " Invincible Mandarin Duck Legs ", becoming another classic role of her.
Although it was a flash marriage, Zhang Xiling got along very harmoniously with her husband after marriage, and she had a son and a daughter, and had a happy life. Her daughter was once called "Little Zhang Xiling" because she looked like her mother.
It has been 38 years since the release of "The Young Master of Yue Family". In that era when entertainment resources were relatively scarce, "The Young Master of Yue Family" did not reach the influence of "Shaolin Temple" as a crowded crowd, but it has also gained market recognition and is still talked about by the older generation of audiences. (Written by: Pipi shrimp)
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