Starting from July 21, many Hong Kong stars have also appeared on the list of stars who have rushed to Henan. Nicholas Tse and William Chan both donated 1 million yuan, Cecilia Cheung, Joey Yung, and Charles Cheung donated 500,000 yuan, Zhong Xintong and Li Keqin donated 300,000 yuan, and Li Ruotong donated 200,000 yuan. Behind this action, of course, it can be seen that Hong Kong stars are always concerned about the disaster in Henan.
I remember from this that there was a severe flood in East China 30 years ago. That year, the Hong Kong entertainment industry directly donated a charity movie with a box office of more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars.
plus the concert income of the four kings on the same stage and donations from the public, the total amount of funds raised reached more than HK$470 million in just ten days.
However, when the years passed, the most talked about and the audience remembered the most was the movie made in 4 days. Even with many feelings, its Douban score was still only 6.9 points, which was only better than 50% of the comedy films. It can be said that this is a bad movie.
But it is so heartbreaking.
Douban netizens said: In front of this movie, I'm afraid no Hong Kong movie will dare to boast about its "strong lineup".
In this movie that is bug-like in the history of Hong Kong films, directors Tsui Hark, Gao Zhisen, Zhang Tongzu, and Zhang Jianting were stuffed into more than 200 stars in the Hong Kong film industry in 90 minutes. In addition to Jackie Chan and Zhou Runfa, all the Hong Kong stars that were counted back then, including the four kings. And all cast members have zero pay for free.
The story of the film is not worth mentioning. A typical Hong Kong film is urgent, but the reason why the film is brilliant is because behind it is the most brilliant galaxy of Hong Kong films in the 1990s.
1991, the Hong Kong film industry took shape two weeks, and the names of the four kings were about to resound throughout Hong Kong. Superstars such as Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui are still shining. Hong Kong film beauties are all at the peak of their life's appearance. The Hong Kong film industry is still called Dongfang Holi.
In a word, that was the golden age of Hong Kong films.
But the film has also become the last portrayal of the golden age of Hong Kong films.
Just two years later, Hong Kong films lost their important Taiwan market and began to decline all the way, and never looked back. , and this movie is more like a grand night banquet. That night, the lights float, the dance hall, the singing stage, the entire night sky was illuminated by the stars. Everyone in front and behind the scenes thought that the music and songs never stopped, but people finally dispersed after the banquet. The feast finally became a past event, and the old dream was no longer the same as yesterday.
The following 28 years, some superstars passed away, and red stars withered, and beauties grew old with the rivers and lakes, and the rivers and lakes were accompanied by beauties. Hong Kong films have no more feasts since then.
Stephen Chow and the four heavenly kings, thus opening the curtain of the origin of the video
, which is the flood in East China. Anita Mui, then president of the Hong Kong Performing Arts Association, Xu Guanwen, and Eric Tsang, raised their arms and launched a series of fundraising plans, including the "Egoless Grand Reward" concert, and the " Rich Family Night Banquet ".
The biggest cast and strongest lineup movie in Hong Kong film history was born.
Directors are Tsui Hark, Gao Zhisen, Zhang Tongzu, and Zhang Jianting. The screenwriter lineup includes Wang Jing , Tsui Hark, Gao Zhisen, and Chen Jia on . Photography is Liu Weiqiang , which later filmed "Infernal Affairs" and " Chinese Doctor ". The soundtrack is the master of "Love in Life" who became the gods of the soundtrack Lu Guanting . The goal of the creator of
is very clear, which is to shoot a short, flat and fast popular comedy. The whole movie tells the story of the upstart cherry Zeng Xiaozhi (Zeng Zhiwei) with the help of his agent Zhang Yayou ( Jacky Cheung ), and competes with his arch rival Hong Dabao for a major real estate project in the hands of Kuwait rich man ( Lin Zixiang ).In order to please the filial prince, they transformed their father Zeng Bo ( Wu Yaohan ) into "upper class". They wanted to hold a "wealthy night banquet", and the final ending was naturally a happy one. Zeng Xiaozhi held a night banquet in the cabin and had a happy ending...
The design of the comedy plot of the film is not high-end, the story content and narrative logic are inexplicable, but they put the nonsensical spirit to the extreme. Most guest stars appear in the film with the most impressive image of the audience. It can be said that counting stars is the biggest highlight of the film.
The first star to appear in the film to introduce the film is the king of Andy Lau , who has been in the art for 40 years.
But then Andy Lau and his team were still half a year before they were named the Four Heavenly Kings by Hong Kong media.
, which entered the rank of that year, Andy Lau , has starred in 10 movies in a year and was nominated for the actor's hero for "The Legend of the Five Billion Inspector Lei Luo". His opening masterpiece "1 The Legend of Condor Heroes " won more than 24 million yuan in box office, but he has never made a blockbuster movie ever since. Later, Andy Lau spent 10 years filming hard to pay off his debts, and ran farther and farther on the road of Hong Kong entertainment model workers.
Like Andy Lau, there is also dawn who has just begun his life in the king.
movie directly copy the role and style of him and Ng Mengda "The Best Star". Leonard plays a boy who has a dream of a singer but is out of tune.
Before, the performance in East China disaster relief fundraising concert was over at dawn and was about to leave the stage, some viewers said that he would donate 500,000 more if he sang another song.
Dawn immediately returned to the stage and sang without communicating with the musician. As a result, he sang out of tune twice. Later, he was ridiculed by Hong Kong media as the "King of Out-of-Tune" for many years.
But as soon as Dawn turned around, she threw away the burden in the video and made a self-deprecating joke.
The movie plays music not only in Dawn, but also Jacky Cheung. Among the four kings, he plays the most roles in the film, playing a worker who strives to please his boss in order to make money.
His funnyest paragraph is at the end of the film. The frustrated Jacky Cheung "sang" to the "wife" who returned after leaving Wang Zuxian "sing" the sentence "Do you know I'm waiting for you?", and Wang Zuxian immediately replied with a completely unreliable sentence "Love you more every day" - it was actually a famous song song that was popular in Hong Kong films back then.
html with the least role among the four kings 1 Aaron Kwok is the younger brother who plays Leslie Cheung. Although there are fewer dramas, it is meaningful. In the film, Leslie Cheung told him, I heard that you are doing well in Hong Kong.
In the Hong Kong music scene, the era of Tan Zhang fighting for the barbarians came to an end. In 1991, when the four kings were ready to go, this scene was like a handover of the baton in the music scene.
From then on, the prosperous era of the four great kings competing for the might of the great power has begun.
The emergence of the four kings has raised the public's pursuit of celebrities to an unprecedented level. Since then, the four people have spread all over every corner, including the hair salon, karaoke bar, , campus, and even the background board of "Star Chaser" starring Cai Ming , which represents the official entry of Hong Kong entertainment into its golden age.
And of course there is one person in this golden age - Stephen Chow .
1991, the fresh meat Stephen Chow, who was at the peak of his appearance, was at the peak of his appearance.
If " Gambling Saint " in 1990 depends on luck to break the box office, then the popular "False School Veyron" this year completely established Stephen Chow's position in the film industry.
In "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family", he had just appeared as if Zeng Zhiwei shouted: "Stephen Chow?" He corrected with a serious look: "It's Stephen Chow." The title of Stephen Chow has been recognized since then, and appeared in "The Saint of Gambling" and confirmed in "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family".
Although Stephen Chow only acted in two scenes, both scenes were classics.
One is a self-deprecating gambling movie—
Zeng: This is another move, can it be changed?
Week: Do you don’t like it?
once: No! Zhou: Are you tired of watching it?
Zeng: Not what I mean, this is what everyone means.
weeks: But speaking of it, I feel a little tired of it myself.
Who wrote this line is no longer verified? I deeply suspect that it is Wang Jing, one of the screenwriters. Wang Jing's "gambling film series" was a big hit on the big screen.
But the audience was somewhat aesthetically exhausted. As for Wang Jingxing, the "black fan" of his own movies, there will never be a second place in the world's movies, and Hong Kong movies are unique.
But the most classic thing is at the end of the movie. The director specially arranged for the Hong Kong comedy leader Xu Guanwen to confront the new generation of "King of Comedy".
Special reminder of the person next to Stephen Chow, Huang Bingyao, who is not only one of the screenwriters of the film and also the screenwriter of "False School Veyron", had already passed away by the time the film was released. There is reason to believe that this clip should be written by him. In
, the two generations of comedy kings snatched a chicken head at the dinner table. In the end, although Xu Guanwen grabbed the chicken head, Stephen Chow ate a full plate of chickens. The baton of Hong Kong comedy was officially completed in this seemingly nonsensical plot.
The next 1992, Stephen Chow had exclusively seven of the top ten hit movies of the year, and the top five were him. Stephen Chow's era has officially arrived.
On the next beautiful night after night of Hong Kong films, countless young people saw Stephen Chow's comedy talent and were obsessed with this king of comedy. Many years later, they exchanged this gratitude for "We owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket." Many years later, when Stephen Chow's comedy no longer stood at its peak, this sentence became "Star Chow owes us a movie ticket." The beginning of the story of
is this "wealthy night banquet". As for the future, to apply a line from the Star Chow movie, it is:
"I guessed the beginning, but I couldn't guess the ending."
Gong Li What did he play in "wealthy night banquet"?
also can't guess the future. Gong Li in the video is also the one who can't guess.
In fact, Gong Li not only participated in the performance, but the screenwriter also played with rumors. In
, Stephen Chow appeared and used special abilities to treat Zeng Xiaozhi's wife, turning the person into Gong Li.
In the play, Gong Li woke up and said to Zeng Zhiwei: I like you, you are the elegant Mr. Zhang!
Zeng Zhiwei blurted out: I am not Zhang Yimou!
Gong Li: I said you are Leslie Cheung.
Zeng Zhiwei said that his surname is not Zhang. At this time, Stephen Chow spoke and told him that your surname is Zhang. If you don’t believe it, go look in the mirror.
Then there is a nonsensical passage in which Eric Tsang looked in the mirror and saw his face turning into Leslie Cheung.
Star Master sent Zeng Zhiwei away and started chatting with Gong Li: Miss Gong, your little surname is Xing, you can call me Stephen Chow.
Gong Li appeared more than once, and the ending session appeared again. The white-cut chicken that Xu Guanwen and Stephen Chow competed for the chicken head was brought by Gong Li.
In that golden age of Hong Kong films, there were only and only Gong Huang , which could be on par with top superstars like Stephen Chow.
Many Hong Kong film actresses privately bribed lighting masters, hoping to turn on more lights to make themselves look more beautiful. And Gong Li doesn't need to say anything. Li Li holds Wang Jing takes the initiative to tell the light that he will definitely shoot Gong Li's lights and call them all.
It is said that Gong Li wore Northeast flower pants every day on the set. The director endured it for a long time and finally couldn't help it. He asked her, and Gong Li said: I've brought a lot of them.
Although Gong Li and "The elegant Mr. Zhang" in the film have no rivalry, two years later, the two will eventually collaborate on a pinnacle work in the Chinese film industry. "The elegant Mr. Zhang" Leslie Cheung will reach the peak of her personal performance in the film.
This movie is " Farewell My Concubine ".
Hong Kong entertainment love, hate, love, and hatred. In this movie,
, I look back at "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family". The more I watch it, the more magic it becomes, because when I watched it back, it was just a nonsensical comedy with stars, but now I watch it, it is like a prophecy of the Hong Kong film.
is heartless, not a world of martial arts.
In the video, the boss Zeng Zhiwei pointed at Carina Lau and Maggie Cheung and said to Tony Leung : Go and greet them.
Tony Leung looked embarrassed: I can't say hello to them...
Nowadays viewers must think they are teasing the scandals of Tony Leung, Carina Lau and Maggie Cheung, but in those days, this rumor story that was unbroken and chaotic was actually not started. Another paragraph in the
film is that the frustrated Zeng Xiaozhi returned home and began to sing the English version of "The Flower of the Emperor". The actress who played the role of the Cantonese opera flower is Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau, accompanied by the famous Beyond band, and it is like a preview of a future story. Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau in the Cantonese opera passage compete for the position of the main palace. The story of
was not considered the finale until 2008 when Tony Leung and Carina Lau tied the knot. In the
film, in addition to the complaining couple, there are two real couples, one is the waiter flashing through the teahouse, which is Jacky Cheung’s wife Luo Meiwei .
There is also a pair of people who have not met, including Lin Zixiang, who plays the role of Kuwait prince Alibaba,
and , Sally Yeh , who runs to borrow the toilet.
The two of them back then were definitely the top stars in the Cantonese music scene.
Tsui Hark's " Huang Feihong " is released, so I will find Huang Feng to cooperate with. After listening to the General Order hundreds of times, Huang Zhen wrote "Men Should Strengthen Self-Reliance". When Lin Zixiang went to record the song, he didn't even have a band and sang the Chinese classic to the piano.
In the same year, Sally Yeh launched "A walk for free", with the sentence "I bet on my youth tomorrow, and you exchange your true love for this life" to make everyone empathize with .
Then the two singers broke up with their original wife because of the song " Choose ". Six years later, the two got married in Canada and faded out of the entertainment industry and became the fairy couple in Hong Kong music industry.
The story inside and outside the play is just like Murakami said - "The lost people are lost, and the people who meet will meet again."
the superstars will never see
again, but there are some people who will never meet the audience again.
In this movie back then, almost all the supporting roles were big names, including Leslie Cheung, who had already retired from the music scene at that time and made a day's play in "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family".
Two years later, the superstar will complete his acting work and eventually pass by the Cannes actor only by one vote because a judge cast him as the best actress. Twelve years after "The Rich Family's Night Banquet", the superstar leaped and April Fool's Day has another meaning since then.
There are too many nostalgic superstars in the movie. Anita Mui, who is very kind in the film, plays herself who comes to Zeng’s house to borrow a toilet. It is also twelve years later that this generation of queen will wear a wedding dress and complete her last concert in her life with Andy Lau’s company.
Huang Jun, who once wrote "a laughter in the sea" and "a wave of waves", plays a hawker selling fish eggs in the film. A generation of talented men laughed and scolded others, but they could not escape the changes of the times. Almost all the last classics in his life were contributed to Tsui Hark.
and the Beyond band, which was popular in Asia at the time, also played the role of Zheng Wei in the film and was fired by the role of Eric Tsang.
that year, Huang Jiaju was in his prime, and his talent was bursting out, but he was not very proud of his music. He was once suppressed by Grasshoppers in the top ten Golden Songs Awards and other awards. In addition, there were too many film and television dramas and variety shows work in the Hong Kong entertainment ecosystem, which eventually prompted Huang Jiaju to lead the band to the Japanese market and finally ushered in the fate of a generation of geniuses there.
is also sad, of course, there is Wu Mengda. In the film, Wu Mengda plays the fried rice hero, while Wu Mengda outside the film is reborn after suffering for nearly ten years and finally becomes the most dazzling supporting role in the golden age of Hong Kong films. Until the golden age of Hong Kong films is gone, Uncle Da also said goodbye to us.
Someone once sighed: "The nostalgia of Hong Kong people for Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui is actually also for that golden age.At that time, Hong Kong was in a cultural export position, and from a port city to an international metropolis, Hong Kong people saw their recognition of their culture and found confidence in them. ”
And when superstars leave, an era is gone, and the glorious years that have passed, who resonates with them?
" Chinese Ghost Story ", Huang Zhen wrote: "Life is, dreams and desires. "But "there are still tears in the dream."
Heroes cannot defeat the years and the times. When the wind blows and clouds, there are still traces of birds flying by in the sky.
"A long shed thousands of miles, there is no banquet that never ends"
Some netizens said: The biggest climax of the film is the cast after the end.
But are there really only those brilliant superstars who pass by with the wind? Of course it is more than that. In
, Simon Yam, who had not yet become the best actor at the time, the film continues the role style of the blockbuster films that year, and later this kind of Hong Kong film disappeared.
At the banquet, 新晓 and Zeng Jiang is responsible for the delivery of dishes. Tsang Zhiwei is behind two great directors Chu Yuan and John Woo . The two directors represent the era of traditional Hong Kong martial arts films and hero films, and the storm has also disappeared.
The family of the "Rich and Rich" series at the banquet, Shen Dianxia, Dong Piao , Li Lizhen , are still keen on buying lottery tickets, but after Shen Dianxia and Dong Piao passed away, the traditional Hong Kong-style citizen comedy gradually disappeared. After Li Lizhen bid farewell to this classic series, she finally embarked on the completely opposite of the Jade Girl.
film Cheng Yuling When Mrs. Zeng, who was played by Eric Tsang, asked him whom she dreamed of becoming after waking up from a dream, there was a conversation: Zheng: Then who did I become? Zeng: Cheng Yuling. Zheng: OK, I like her! Zeng: You like her so low-level, you like her, are you wrong? Zheng: What's the low-level? She has good acting skills, a fool. Zeng: The acting skills are useless...
Hong Kong film golden age, Cheng Yuling was known as Zheng Jiu Group. Hong Kong comedy was popular back then, and Cheng Yuling was everywhere. Later, the classic Hong Kong comedy declined, Cheng Yuling was no longer Zheng Jiu Group.
There is also Wang Zuxian who plays Jacky Cheung's wife in the film, and she still has Xiaoqian's eyes,
In 2001, she presented awards with Leslie Cheung. Leslie Cheung said, why did she and Tony Leung kiss scene in the third part of "A Chinese Ghost Story", but those two of them did not? Joey Wong said, we will shoot the fourth part together.
But "A Chinese Ghost Story" was filmed in the third part, and there will be no sequels. In 2001, Joey Wong announced her retirement after filming "A Chinese Ghost Story", and since then she withdrew from the entertainment industry. Hong Kong-style fantasy films have also passed away with the wind.
There is also Maggie Cheung, who plays a Cantonese opera star in the film. In 1991, Maggie Cheung participated in " Ruan Lingyu ". Finally, with her superb acting skills, she completely broke the outside world's doubts, won the Berlin Best Actress Award, and won the Best Actress Award again. Film Award . Maggie Cheung stood on the stage with a proud look on her face: "The award is in my hands, no matter what you say. "
But when " Mood for Love " created the peak of Hong Kong-made art films, Maggie Cheung then gradually faded out of the Chinese film industry, and Hong Kong-style art films no longer have Mood for Love
Who would have thought that it was Hui Yinghong, who played the waiter in "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family". After years of hard work, it finally blocked again, but instead supported half of the Hong Kong actresses' actresses' Golden Star Awards.
The ups and downs of movies are like life, which are so exciting.
But in that year, all kinds of future have not happened yet, Hong Kong films are still shining brightly, and Hong Kong stars have gathered again and again to help charity.
1993 In 2008, Hong Kong and Taiwan stars once again held charity performances. Four Heavenly Kings, Jackie Chan, Principal Tan , Anita Mui and other stars worked together to raise nearly 20 million donations;
In 2008, Hong Kong stars once again raised funds for Wenchuan earthquake , performing for nine consecutive hours and raising 32.37 million donations in one night.
In April 2010, artists held a grand ceremony at Red Hall to raise funds for the Yushu earthquake in Qinghai. Finally, 35.06 million yuan was raised.
In a sense, gathering time and time again also recorded the thousands of stars in that glorious era of Hong Kong entertainment.
In fact, "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy Family" could have a sequel.
In 2020, Louis Koo and Eric Tsang raised funds for the Hong Kong entertainment industry. It was once rumored that they started filming a new wealthy night banquet, but the movie was eventually called "Always Love in Quarantine", with a Douban score of 4.3. Even though Jackie Chan, who missed "The Wealthy Night Banquet", came back and turned on some of the things he didn't make that year, the movie still had a dismal box office.
Why can't Hong Kong films be filmed again "The Night Banquet of the Rich Family"?
A major reason may be that Louis Koo and Eric Tsang's influence is not as good as Anita Mui who initiated the "A Night Banquet of the Rich Family".
But in the final analysis, the success of "The Night Banquet of the Rich Family" may be attributed to the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s and 1990s. There are film geniuses like Gao Zhisen and Tsui Hark, magical editing like Hu Dawei, gold medal cameras like Liu Weiqiang, and superstars of the Golden Age. Otherwise, it would be difficult to complete an unprecedented comedy in 4 days.
The final achievement of "The Night Banquet of the Rich Family" was not only the elites in front and behind the scenes of the stage, but the unity of Hong Kong films in the golden age. There were countless big directors and stars participating in that year, but the production fee was only one million. In order to avoid the fundraising period for the next star performance, it must be completed within four days, and all the staff worked all night long.
stars have no complaints about the number of scenes and the bad shooting venues. Leslie Cheung flew back for a scene. All Hongxing shared a village house borrowed by the crew as a lounge. Of course, it is hard to imagine that all these things can be replaced by the traffic peanuts of today's domestic entertainment.
In order to accommodate Cheng Yuling's schedule, the crew started filming the big scene of the night banquet in advance. The 185 square meters space is crowded with hundreds of people, without air conditioning, and hundreds of large lights are illuminating the stars.
But after Tsui Hark finished his explanation, the four cameras started to move immediately; all the actors immediately started to perform, and the situation of "people wait for him, he waits for others" did not appear at all. Leslie Cheung, who made a special trip to film this scene, arrived early to bury his seat.
Nowadays, those who create classics, the lively, united and gathered stars of Hong Kong films, the glorious years of Hong Kong films have long been gone. Even Louis Koo certainly could not replicate the "wealthy night banquet".
The finale of the video, the night banquet was not completed, Zeng Zhiwei invited the neighbors to have a meal, and the food was at night food stalls.
Those city neighbors with fireworks are the same group of people in the dream. At that time, Maggie Cheung didn't know that she would compete with Carina Lau for the official palace, Stephen Chow and Xu Guanwen didn't know the belonging of the king of comedy next, and Anita Mui wouldn't know the future fate. Those superstars who were looked up to eventually fall into the world, including birth, old age, sickness and death, meeting with enemies and hatreds, separation from love, and inability to get what they want. They have to experience everything.
"Dream of Red Mansions" says it well: "There is no banquet that lasts thousands of miles to last."
Nowadays, when we watch "A Night Banquet for Wealthy Family", we miss not only Leslie Cheung, not only Anita Mui, not only Stephen Chow and the Four Heavenly Kings, not only those golden supporting roles who have passed away, but also the golden age of Hong Kong films.
Back to the night two years before the filming, Leslie Cheung, Chen Shaoqi and Li Xiaotian, who were preparing to retire from the music industry, had a dinner. My brother said that he wanted to write the theme song for the farewell concert as the finale.
Chen Shaoqi said, "Your famous song is called "The Wind Continues to Blow", so it's better to write a song " When the Wind Rises Again ". When the wind blows like this, everyone will think of you."
Later, Leslie Cheung sang: "In the precious years/Looking for the poem in my heart/When the Wind Rises Again/When the Wind Rises Again/When I think of you supporting me in the quiet night/When I hear the cheers crying in my gratitude/Although I have said goodbye, there is still a hint of warmth..."
I watched "The Night Banquet of the Rich Family" in the video hall, and with my youth playmates, I screamed out every time I found a familiar Hong Kong star. As a result, I called it from the beginning to the end, and I hadn't counted it yet, and the mood of that day never appeared. That was the last prosperous era of Hong Kong films in the early 1990s, and the memory left in every audience's heart.
Looking back now, it is exactly the mood in Leslie Cheung's song. "Although I have said goodbye, there is still a hint of warmth."
Thank you, Hong Kong film.
