Zhang Che is a name that may be unfamiliar to young movie fans. On the contrary, everyone is more familiar with John Woo , Tsui Hark , etc., but they are all fans in front of Zhang Che. Xu Guanwen once said that Zhang Che's name is like God to people in the movie industry.
Zhang Che devoted his life to the movies. In his early years, he turned Shaw Brothers movies from female to male with his own strength, and brought out six generations of disciples. The Zhang family was once the most awesome movie team, among which the most well-known ones include Wang Yu , David Jiang , Dilong , Fu Sheng , etc. Zhang Chelsen directed dozens of movies throughout his life and created various types of films, such as ancient costume swords, fist and foot kung fu films, Shanghai Beach films, boy genres, mythological martial arts films, etc. Zhang Che's movie is actually relatively simple, full of violence and romance, and it conveys various brotherly feelings.
Zhang Che, as a master of martial arts, the originator of violent aesthetics, and a hero of the Hong Kong film generation, how high is his status in the world? Look at how many great directors he has trained? Back then, Zhang Cheung and many directors co-directed, asking them to use their own team, and then look at the sample films themselves to see how they are and decide whether to reshoot them. This not only saves one's own time, but also cultivates new directors.
1. John Woo - everyone is familiar with John Woo. He is known as a master of violent aesthetics. His representative works include "The True Color of Heroes" and " hiding all over the world ". But everyone will find that this is the continuation of Zhang Che's movie? But changing the sword to a gun still interprets brotherhood.
Wu John Woo was the deputy director under Zhang Che’s hands in the early years and was the most beloved one. It is said that every time Zhang Che scolds the staff, everyone will come to Wu Woo. And whenever Zhang Cheol saw John Woo, he would immediately stop scolding. Later, John Woo became the commander-in-chief of all deputy directors, and any opinions Zhang Che will be conveyed through John Woo. When Wu John left Zhang Che, Zhang Che wrote a letter to Zou Wenhuai, recommending Wu John to him, saying that this young man is good.
There is another episode about John Woo and Cheung. We all know that John Woo likes to play guest roles in his movies, because he has always had a dream of becoming an actor. Back then, both Dillon and David Kang recommended John Woo's acting to Cheung Cheung and were preparing to audition, but Cheung stopped him and told John Woo: You are suitable for being a director, and being an actor will only be distracted. After becoming famous, Wu John never forgot about the cultivation of director Zhang Cheung and said many times that without Zhang Cheung, he would not have himself.
2, Bao Xueli - Bao Xueli was a photographer and later became Zhang Che's deputy director. He was later promoted to director. He has co-directed many works with Zhang Che, including " Pirate ", "Ma Yongzhen", " Water Margin ", "Big Sword King Wu", "Qiu Lianhuan", etc. In 1977, Bao Xueli left Shaw Brothers and returned to Taiwan Province to establish his own business, founded a film company, and directed many works. However, without Shaw Brothers and Zhang Jiaban, his works have become much less influential.
3. Gui Zhihong - Gui Zhihong, the founder of Hong Kong animal directors, a master of cult films of a generation. His representative works include the "Evil" trilogy. His works are often off-the-scenes, which are very realistic and have great educational significance. For example, at the end of the ghost movie, we always tell us that people are making trouble, and the same is true for various Gu movies. They are only those who make mistakes and will be gued.
Gui Zhihong was already a director before joining Shaw Brothers. After joining Shaw Brothers, he served as the deputy director of Zhang Che, and co-directed " Angry Youth " with Zhang Che. He was written by Ni Kuang and co-starred by Fan Meisheng and Li Lili. Gui Zhihong was not greatly influenced by Zhang Cheol, but was somewhat similar to Japanese director Meiji Inoue. After all, he had also studied in Japan. Unfortunately, such a talented director retired from the film and television industry after filming "The Artillery" in 1984 and died of illness in 1999.
4, Tang Jia - Tang Jia and Liu Jialiang was Zhang Che's imperial martial arts guide. The two combined the two factions of the north and the south to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and designed many exquisite movements.Compared with Liu Jialiang, Tang Jia has no ambitions and is determined to do his own job well. Later, when Zhang Che formed Changgong Film Company, Tang Jia did not follow him and chose to stay at Shaw Brothers. Later, he joined the TVB as a martial arts coach. Guo Zhui, Yuanbao , and Xu Zhongxin were all his apprentices.
Tang Jia once studied under Yuan Xiaotian . His skills are naturally good. He also served as a martial arts director for many years and was promoted to director. However, he has directed three movies, namely "Three Breaks in Shaolin", " Shaolin Successor " and " Hongquan Master ". Overall, it is quite normal. In addition to being a low-key person, Tang Jia is also a person who loves her wife very much. His wife Xue Ni is an artist at Hong Kong TVB. When her wife was filming, she was her agent and nanny. She has been taking good care of her, and she has been doing this for decades.
5, Liu Jialiang - Liu Jialiang has a relatively large ambition. Not long after he followed Zhang Che to Taiwan Province, the two had a falling out. Liu Jialiang said that Zhang Che suppressed him and did not let him be a director, while Zhang Che said, I have always encouraged people to be directors, John Wu is like this, and even Di Long and David Kang have asked them to direct the film, how could they suppress people? It doesn't matter which one of the two big guys is right or wrong, after all, they are no longer here.
It is undeniable that when Liu Jialiang was the director of Zhang Che's martial arts, he must have learned a lot of film knowledge, otherwise he would not be a director. Liu Jialiang is worthy of being a master of kung fu. Many of the films he directed can be called kung fu textbooks, such as "Eighteen Martial Arts", " God-beating ", " Shaolin Thirty-Six Rooms ", etc.
6. Wuma - Wuma has a relatively high status in the martial arts world. When he died, most people in the entertainment industry went to mourn, and many mainland actors also went there. Those who helped him were Sammo Hung , Jackie Chan , Shitian , Yue Hua , Di Long, Jiang David, Zeng Zhiwei and Tang Jili. Wu Ma and Wang Yu, Luo Lie , Zheng Lei are Zhang Che's first generation disciples. In Zhang Che's movies, he is a small supporting role, but he is Zhang Che's most executive deputy director, and has learned a lot of film knowledge.
Later, Wuma began to slowly go out independently, and directed many movies, and he also became more and more frequent in performances. He is best at playing some Taoist priests and ghost catching masters, after all, his image is quite similar. In the 1990s, Zhang Che's disciples planned to film " Yidao Heroes " for his good old age. Basically all the members of the Zhang family came, and Wu Ma played a relatively important role, even Stephen Chow is also in it.
When Zhang Che died, the elegiac couplet written by Huang Jun for him was enough to overview his life: the sound of nature is passed down from the mountains, and the one-armed tree is full of a mighty wind. Gao Shan refers to his first director's work "Alishan Fengyun" theme song " Gaoshan Qing ", which was also composed by him. The second half of the sentence "Handle One-Armed Tree" refers naturally to his " One-Armed Sword " series, which has created a new era of martial arts!
Now there is a pathological phenomenon in the Chinese film industry. All kinds of young and handsome guys are rampant, and what they lack is the masculinity guided by Zhang Che back then. I will always miss Zhang Che, the founder of violent aesthetics!
