There is a movie master in the Chinese film industry, Ang Lee [Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon], who pays tribute to him. ▲ [Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon] Zhang Che said: When making martial arts films, I am the second one. Chu is the palace army, and this one is the eldest one.

There is a movie master in the Chinese film industry

Li An [ Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ]'s

Bamboo Forest Drama is a tribute to him

▲[Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon]

Zhang Che said:

martial arts films, I am the second place,

Chuyuan is the palace army, and the boss is this one.

This list has nothing else to do.

▲Zhang Che and Dillon

He asked Wu John to help as the supervisor

Wu John 1st feeling is that

be stolen

Bruce Lee said one of his regrets

is that he didn't have the chance to collaborate with him

▲Bruce Lee visited the set

he used [年3年 ]

won the technical award at the 28th Cannes Film Festival

can be said to be the first Chinese director who has attracted widespread attention in the international

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He is Hu Jinquan

Some people say he is "Kurosawa of Hong Kong"

Some people say he is " The number one person in martial arts films"

And today is Hu Jinquan Director 20th anniversary anniversary

As Director Hu's dead fan

Xiaosha feels it is necessary to talk about this director

It's a coincidence that Xiaosha wrote Li Hanxiang 20th anniversary tribute not long ago, and not long after, he wrote about his brother Hu Jinquan again.

This means that twenty years ago, Chinese-language movies lost two masters in less than a month, which is simply sad.

Speaking of which, Li Hanxiang and Hu Jinquan have a close relationship. In the Shaw Brothers era, Hu Jinquan also became an actor to an assistant director under Li Hanxiang. In the 1960s, the two went to Taiwan to develop one after another. In short, it was a revolutionary friendship that was strong.

The [Happiness, Anger, Sorrow, and Joy] , which was filmed by four directors back then, was not taken away by Hu Jinquan, just to pay back the money to Li Hanxiang. However, Li Hanxiang took it to decorate the house luxuriously, and Lao Hu expressed his confusion.

▲[Happiness, Anger, Sorrow, and Joy]

50s, a group of wanderers from northern China who gathered in Hong Kong, including these two, 7 people gathered in Hong Kong. They were also called " Seven Leisure " in the movie circle. Xiaoshou can almost imagine the youth. The seven people lived together, talked about art and creation, and missed their hometown from time to time to time. From obscurity to revealing one's talents, we spent the most frivolous years together.

▲Hu Jinquan and Li Hanxiang

Although he is very close to the "third-level film master" Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan is completely insulated from the third-level film. In name, his first independently directed movie [ Yutangchun ] was still Li Hanxiang wanted to film, but Hu Jinquan was kicked on the shelves. He never recognized this debut work, and felt that he was at most an executive director.

Yes, this movie is adapted from a story in of "Jian Shi Tongyan". It tells the love story of the son of a prostitute monk. It is also one of the few movies in Lao Hu that has a little romantic element. Of course, he was actually unwilling to do so. After this film, he bid farewell to Huangmei Opera and began his own film career.

▲Although [Yutangchun] this film was partially shot by Li Hanxiang

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▲[Children of the Earth]

And this movie is also the debut work of John Woo's 's supporting career. According to him, he plays a dead body in it, of course no one can recognize it.

Unfortunately, the box office of [Dadida Children] failed so much. The boss of Shaw sent me a low-cost and profitable film.Therefore, [ Daddy Husband ] emerged suddenly, and he and [one-armed knife] of were innovated in the prosperous martial arts era.

▲[Drunk Hero]

It also began since then. Hu Jinquan embarked on the road of martial arts films, and by the way he brought this genre out of Asia and rushed to the world.

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Lao Hu had been at Shaw Brothers for many years. Although [Yu Tangchun] had directed three films, he had done everything, but he was not infected with Shaw Brothers' atmosphere.

pair, Lao Hu was the most special existence at Shaw Brothers and even the Hong Kong film industry at that time.

The social composition of Hong Kong makes Hong Kong movies naturally have the factor of commercialization . Shaw Brothers back then, there were many fine movies, but many of them were suspected of industrial production.

The big directors such as Li Hanxiang, Zhang Che, and Chu Yuan are all very productive, and they are all casually made by various films, resulting in the big directors having unsatisfactory works.

The willful Lao Hu never has a hurry. His rigorous, focused and exquisiteness are hard for others to see.

Once the graduation thesis was written by Hu Jinquan's fan Tsui Hark . So:

For example, in this ray of holy light in [Hello Girl], Lao Hu must have waited until the natural light arrived before taking pictures. It took him 7 days to wait. It was his rigorous attitude that he could create truly classic works.

This move also reminded Tsui Hark of the same "waiting for the sun" Kurosawa Akihiro .

Perhaps it is this attitude towards movies that made Hu Jinquan called "Kurosawa Akira of Hong Kong" when he was introduced to the international community.

▲[ Longmen Inn ] Manuscript

Including when filming, Hu Jinquan will do everything himself.

Wu John Woo, who was still playing supporting roles at that time, said that Director Hu would personally check the extras' costumes, positioning, and hairstyles , and strive to be meticulous.

Xiaosha felt that perhaps it was the opposite of the creative concept and business that led to Lao Hu going to Taiwan after filming [The Drunken Hero] and leaving Hong Kong's martial arts cause to Zhang Che.

, and Hu Jinquan's most well-known works [Hello Girl] and [Longmen Inn] were both shot in Taiwan.

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Compared with this, Xiaoshou has to say that the bamboo forest drama of [Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon] and [ Ambushing ] is still inferior in artistic conception.

▲[Hello girl]

▲[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]

▲[Ten sides ambush]

As Zhang Aijia said:

Director Hu has always tried to express an atmosphere or a philosophy. His works are still relatively restrained. He hopes to have more space for the audience to think about it themselves.

▲Chang Aijia has starred in [Legend of the Mountain]

Hu Jinquan's martial arts films, and it has never been the action-type film we remember: the rhythm is compact and the atmosphere is tense. His film plot structure is exquisite, but he never fills the plot with it, always leaving some room for thinking for the audience.

Just like the [heroine] that Xiao Sha watched, the entire cinema was full of people. Most of them should have come here to see the reputation, but many people fell asleep.

▲[Hello girl]

I think a patient movie is destined to be left to patient audiences, and this movie [Hello girl] is worthy of repeated taste.

Inn, bamboo forest, hidden weapon are always essential elements in Hu Jinquan's movies, and of course there are ethereal scenery and buildings with great characteristics of the Ming Dynasty.

▲[The Storm of Yingchun Pavilion]

As for the small killing, my favorite movie by Lao Hu should be [ Kongshan Lingyu ].

[Kongshan Lingyu] was filmed in 1979. It can be regarded as a later work based on the number of works. It probably tells the story of the ancient temple being changed, and various forces invading it, and the ancient temple was also chaotic for a while.

▲[Empty Mountain Spirit Rain]

At the beginning of the movie, it talks about chivalrousness and power, but ultimately it still comes to Zen. The whole film is magnificent and has a full artistic conception of . You can reminisce for a long time after watching it.

In fact, Lao Hu's later works are somewhat Zen, and the artistic conception is getting stronger and stronger.

▲Hu Jinquan's font

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Lao Hu was a fanatic in the history of the Ming Dynasty, so we can see that most of his movies are structured under the background of the Ming Dynasty. The all-round examination of history has greatly restored the costumes and living conditions in his movies to the Ming Dynasty.

The complex political environment of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the rigorous historical structure, added a bit of heavy feeling to Hu Jinquan's films. With his elegant and agile shooting method and action design, the drum beats of Peking Opera are added to the movies, and the whole thing is the unreplicable Hu Jinquan.

is different from the "hard" martial arts designs with clear fists and feet in other action movies at that time. In [The Drunken Hero], Hu Jinquan chose Zheng Peipei , who was born in the dance, as the heroine, which greatly improved the viewing of the movie.

▲[Drunk Hero]

In these points, Lao Hu and Zhang Che are obviously in a completely different direction. Zhang Che pursues " masculine ", and he is very casual when filming, with no historical background at all. Perhaps it is this casualness that allows him to ensure high productivity for many years and produce a series of extremely entertaining and stylish martial arts films.

But it is his beloved "masculinity" that has made most of the female characters in his movies become decorations. Interestingly, the protagonist of Hu Jinquan's filming [The Drunken Hero] is actually played by Zheng Peipei, and the protagonist of Zhang Che's filming [The Drunken Hero] has become the hero in white played by Wang Yu, .

▲ In Zhang Che's movie, the status of the heroine is really limited

It has to be said that Hu Jinquan is too clever in handling female characters. The classic image of Xu Feng in [Hello] is enough to be recorded in the history of film.

▲Xu Feng

It is precisely because of his love for Ming history that when Tsui Hark invited Hu Jinquan to shoot [Swordsman], he placed the novel without the background of the times in the Ming Dynasty. This may be a concrete manifestation of the political expression of "Swordsman".

▲[Swordsman] intervened in the Jinyiwei, a very political villain,

Of course, in the end, in addition to the settings, there were very few things belonging to Hu Jinquan. His creative concept of artistic films hit a wall again under the background of commercialization of Hong Kong films.

▲[The King of Painted Skins: Yin and Yang Dharma King] Photo on the set

Unfortunately, Lao Hu's last work was filmed in Hong Kong [The King of Painted Skins: Yin and Yang Dharma King] . It has already shown signs of falling into business, but unfortunately he suffered a Waterloo in terms of reputation and box office.

▲[The King of Yin and Yang of Painted Skin]

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Hu Jinquan:

Actually, I am an actor

For the first time I met Hu Jinquan, Li Hanxiang wrote this:

I saw him wearing a long blue cotton robe with white cuffs, with heavy eyebrows and big eyes, like Li Shifang among the four famous actresses, and was a bit shy.

Li Shifang As a famous actress, she was once called "Little Mei Lanfang". She must have good looks, which shows that Lao Hu was also a handsome man when she was young.

▲Li Shifang

And Hu Jinquan, who had just entered the film industry as an art assistant, was taken as an actor.

Li Hanxiang's directorial debut [Xuelihong], he has the apprentice of the important role - the male protagonist.

▲Twenty-four-year-old Hu Jinquan is still very young

The movie he is most satisfied with is [Long Lane] in 1956.

This unruly raised eyebrows, does Chen Kun have this unruly!

▲[Long Lane]

The era of Hu Jinquan was not handsome, but he could also be called quite handsome. During the days when he was an actor and an assistant director, Hu Jinquan had already had box office appeal as an actor.

▲[Laughter tears]

However, our old Hu was very distressed: luck makes people mess with people, I don’t want to be an actor, okay!

Xiao Sha deeply suspected that Lao Hu's later gain of weight was his self-giveness in appearance, and he was useless to say goodbye to the actor.

▲The young man is full of energy

Starting from [ Chinese Ghost Story ] directed by Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan's directorial journey began to slowly unfold, persisting all the way, and finally becoming a master.

▲[A Chinese Ghost Story]

The fall of a generation of handsome male actors is followed by the birth of a generation of film masters, and this sacrifice is worth it.

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Tsui Hark once said that when he was filming [New Longmen Inn], he originally wanted to recreate the role of Director Hu, but found that it was impossible.

Hu Jinquan's irreplaceable lies in his persistence in art and his achievements in film art.

Before his death, he was still in the United States and was still preparing to shoot a movie about Chinese workers in foreign countries [History of Chinese Workers' Blood and Tears] , and Wong Wu was finalized as the producer, and Zhou Runfa was the starring actor.

Unfortunately, Hu Jinquan unfortunately passed away two months before filming started. And this unfilmed [History of Chinese Workers' Blood and Tears] has become an eternal regret in the history of Chinese films.

However, as a young killer of the younger generation, you can see Hu King Quan's movie is already a pity.

After Hu Jinquan's death, Wu Johnson accompanied his group of people to help him prepare for the funeral, and found that this famous director was almost in a down-and-out life. His family had nothing but books and his own movies. His cemetery was donated by Mrs. Wu.

It can be said that Lao Hu devoted his life to movies. Perhaps only such a movie person is worthy of our admiration, and only such a movie person Only then can we make a masterpiece~

Finally end this article with the words of John Woo:

means whether it is director Zhang Cheung or director Hu Jinquan, although they finally feel depressed and lonely, their spirit and their figures make us admire them very much. At the same time, as directors, we should also maintain their spirit.