In the early 1990s, the development of Hong Kong films entered the final golden period. At this time, Sammo Hung fell into a bottleneck period in his career.
In the late 1980s, the box office of " Oriental Condor " and " dragons and phoenix " suffered setbacks, which put " Hongjiaban " under tremendous economic pressure. In the early 1990s, as the Hong Kong film market became more and more competitive, Sammo Hung's "Baohe Movies" also ceased production in 1992.
After the "Baohe Movie" closed down, Sammo Hung's directorial career has completely fallen into a trough. Because of "stable compensation but not profit", filmmakers are unwilling to invest and film for Sammo Hung. Even the old club " " is unwilling to donate generously for him.
When Sammo Hung was in a difficult situation, a senior Hong Kong film producer reached out to him. This person is Luo Wei .
When he was young, Luo Wei was a kung fu film director. Bruce Lee's " Tangshan brother " and " Jingwumen " are his representative works.
In the mid-1970s, Luo Wei began to transform as a producer, and the first Kung Fu film actor he discovered was Jackie Chan. However, Jackie Chan later left Rowe and entered "Jiahe". Of course, these are things to follow.
From the mid-1970s to the mid-90s, Rowe ran "Siwei Films" and two "Wanli Films" successively.
Although the two companies have not sold "milestone Hong Kong films", with their precise control of the low-cost Hong Kong film market, Rowe also guarantees the stable operation of the two companies.
In 1992, when Sammo Hung was in trouble, Rowe's "Wanli Pictures" funded and helped "Hongjiaban" and completed the filming of the movie " New Mr. Zombie ". Unfortunately, the “zombie film market” in the early 1990s was in a downturn, and after the release of “Mr.
After the market failure of "Mr. New Zombie", Sammo Hung is eager to revive the name of "Hongjiaban" through a new work. Rowe also hopes to redeem the loss of "Mr. New Zombie" through a high-level work.
In the early 90s, Tsui Hark , Li Lianjie co-operated " Huang Feihong _span _strongHighly respected in the market. At this time, Luo Wei hopes to imitate the characteristics of "Huang Feihong" and shoot a movie of the same type.
Sammo Hung agrees with this idea very much. So in 1993, "Wanli Pictures" invested and " " directed by Sammo Hung officially entered the Hong Kong film market.
The investment in "One Sword Allure" was high, and the quality was excellent, but it was not recognized by the audience at the time, and the box office results were dismal. And Rowe's "Wanli Pictures" has also become precarious because of the loss of this "One Sword Allure".
The two cooperation, not only failed to achieve market benefits, but put "Wanli Pictures" in a dilemma. Sammo Hung felt very guilty about it.
In order to help "Wanli Pictures" tide over the difficulties, in 1996, Sammo Hung recruited a group of friends in the circle. With the label of "Wanli Pictures", he shot the action comedy " Fortune Five Lucky Stars" .
In this issue, we will talk about the "Five Lucky Stars of Wealth" and also talk about the film history of Sammo Hung and Wanli Pictures.
In the early 1990s, "martial arts films" and "gambling films" can be said to be above the Hong Kong film market.Two creative themes with great box office appeal.
"Swordsman: Unbeaten in the East", "New Dragon Inn" and other works successfully set off a "martial arts boom" in the Hong Kong film market at that time. "The God of Gamblers" and "The Holy Gambling" have broken box office records time and time again.
In 1994, "God of Gamblers 2" directed by Wang Jing beat Jackie Chan's " 2 " and " 2 " by Stephen Chow with a box office record of over 52 million. ", successfully won the box office champion.
At this time, Sammo Hung, who was immersed in the bitter fruit of the defeat of "One Sword Allure", couldn't help but focus on the subject of "gambling movies".
In this "Five Lucky Stars of Wealth", Sammo Hung imitated Wang Jing and integrated the elements of "gambling film" into the " five lucky stars" .
At the beginning of the movie, Shangguan Feihua (played by Gong Xuehua ) played in the "Gambling King" (played by Lei Mingtai) in the "Betting King" ), has become a new generation of "gambling king".
After the match, Lei Tian died in depression. Shangguan Feihua, under the title of "Gambling King", played a big role in "Charity Gambling Competition".Secretly took the opportunity to "money laundering".
Cao Sir (played by Cao Dahua ) and Lei Tian are old friends. He has sensed the suspicion of "money laundering" by Shangguan Feihua, but there is no evidence.
In public and private, Cao Sir wanted to deal with Shangguan Feihua, so he called the "Five Lucky Stars", hoping that they would handle this case.
was summoned by Sir Cao, rhino hide (played by Feng Suifan), Dashengdi ( Wu Yaohan played by span1_span_span_span_span_span_span2 and span2span_span_span_span2) (Played) arrived one by one, but Partridge (played by Sammo Hung) was unable to make the appointment because of a broken leg.
For the sake of "Five Lucky Stars", Partridge appointed his cousin, Shaolin monk "Qingpu Liang" (played by Liu De), to come to the appointment instead of him.
After the assembly of the five lucky stars, Sir Cao explained the details of the case and arranged for the "woman superintendent" Ayan (played by pan1span 2 Xiuyan).
After listening to the task, the American ginseng, Luo Han Guo, etc. were all screaming and retreating. Ayan said, "Hui Lin" (played by Ye Fanghua ), the daughter of "Gambling King" Lei Tian,Will also participate in this action. When everyone saw Hui Lin's sexy figure, they were all determined to stick to the task and wipe out the evil.
In fact, Huilin, who is sexy, is not Lei Tian’s daughter. Ayan, who is in charge of the operation, is Lei Tian's daughter.
Sir Cao knows that the five lucky stars are lustful, and if there are no beautiful women with them, they will not perform tasks at all. Therefore, Sir Cao found Huilin, the "flower of Chinatown", and lured a few people to complete the task.
Due to the lack of partridge, Cao Sir was worried about the safety of the "Five Lucky Stars" in the operation, so he arranged a "special police member" to secretly protect everyone. Coincidentally, , the "special police member", looks exactly the same as partridge , and his name is "Rutabaga" (played by Sammo Hung).
Cao Sir hopes that the five lucky stars will be involved in the "Charity Gambling Contest" and find out the situation of Shangguan Feihua's teachings, so he arranges for "Gambling Sovereign" (span_span_1) Fuxing "gambling".
Qingpu Liang is the most talented, and he quickly understood the skills taught by the "gambling tyrant", but he is a monk and refuses to go to the "gambling table."
The remaining four lucky stars, while taking the opportunity to wipe oil on Huilin,While learning carelessly, I also learned a lot of "gambling skills."
Partridge, who lives in the hospital, heard that there was a reward of 100 million yuan for this operation, so he planned to sneak out of the hospital and participate in the operation. Unfortunately, she was stopped by the female nurse on duty "Adan" (played by Peng Dan ).
After a fight, Partridge was trapped by Adam. In desperation, he wrote to the Four Lucky Stars for help. However, the Four Lucky Stars are immersed in the "Gentle Township" and ignore partridges at all.
Seeing that the lucky stars have learned something, the "gambling tyrant" decided to conduct an assessment on everyone.
is the so-called ten gambling and nine scams. The "gambling tyrant" has found the "thousand kings" (played by Chen Baixiang ), and let the four lucky stars and Huilin join forces to see if they can fool the "thousand kings".
On the table, the four lucky stars and Hui Lin cooperated tacitly, but in the end they lost to the "Thousand Kings". Qingpu Liang, who was observing from the side, discovered that when the "gambling tyrant" was dealing cards, he always helped the "thousand kings" to cheat, which led to everyone's failure.
"gambling tyrant" told the four lucky stars, some seemingly fair people,In fact, the most unfair . Lei Tian had previously lost to Shangguan Feihua because the "croupier" on the day of the game accepted bribes and secretly helped Shangguan Feihua cheat.
After the end of the game, the "Thousand Kings" left, and at the same time took away the money from the lucky stars. But this money was originally the capital for the lucky stars to participate in the "Charity Gambling Competition".
In order to raise funds and participate in the "Charity Gambling Competition", Sir Cao came up with a brilliant idea for several lucky stars.
Cao Sir arranged an undercover agent, approached Shangguan Feihua, and found out the vault where she had hidden the money, and then asked the lucky stars to steal and use the money from Shangguan Feihua to defeat Shangguan Feihua in the "Charity Gambling Competition".
However, when the lucky stars took action, some accidents happened. Although the money was in hand, Ayan was arrested. At this time, everyone discovered that Ayan was the daughter of Lei Tian.
While participating in the "Charity Gambling Competition", while trying to rescue Ayan.
The "Five Lucky Stars" were divided into two groups. Qingpu Liang was responsible for rescuing Ayan. Luo Han Guo, Dashengdi, rhino hide, and American ginseng went to participate in the competition. Huilin also participated in the competition as the "Daughter of Thunder". , Help Ayan to win the qualifications.
Qingpu Liang successfully rescued Ah Yan, and Hye Lin also ran into the final under the guise of Ah Yan.
in the finals,Ayan replaced Huilin and planned to "avenge my father" at the poker table. Rhinoceros and others cooperated with each other to help Ayan deal with Shangguan Feihua.
Like all gambling films, in the most critical round, Ayan and Shangguan Feihua both chose "Stud". Both of them have a 10 of spades.
This 10 of spades was originally in the hands of Ayan, but the dealer secretly exchanged it to Shangguan Feihua when the dealer used the card to deal.
After the draw, Shangguan Feihua won with a straight flush. Ayan accused Shangguan Feihua of cheating. The judges opened the deck and checked the cards, only to find two ten of spades.
It turned out that after being reminded by the "Gamblers" and "Thousand Kings", Qingpu Liang and Ayan developed a method to crack the "croupier cheating", that is, using cheating to deal with cheating_ span2span .
While "the dealer steals the card", Yan also secretly stuffed a 10 of spades into the deck. The "dealer" was busy cheating and didn't pay attention for a while.
The referee determined that Shangguan Feihua was cheating and must conduct a thorough investigation. Shangguan Feihua was worried that his "money laundering" transactions would be exposed during the investigation, so he decided to use force to solve the problem. She summoned her men and surrounded the scene of the game, intending to kill.
However, Sir Cao had anticipated everything, he arranged rutabaga,Take "special police" on the periphery. After a fierce action fight, Shangguan Feihua was arrested and Wufuxing successfully completed the mission.
After the mission ended, the "Five Lucky Stars" received a large bonus. Qingpu Liang is a monk and doesn't greedy the money, so Rhinoceros decided to pass the money to Partridge.
When they came to the hospital, the four of them handed the money to Partridge. They found that Partridge and the female nurse, Dan, became lovers. The partridge did nothing but got money and lovers, which made Sifuxing extremely unhappy.
The four people clamored to get back the partridge share. Amidst the noise, the story of "Five Stars of Fortune" also came to an end.
In 1992, Sammo Hung directed "" for Andy Lau and lost the legend of the god of war _span2. In 1993, Sammo Hung directed "One Sword Allure" for Luo Wei, but he lost again. It may be that I have seen my own "unlucky" attributes. In this "Five Lucky Stars of Fortune", Sammo Hung gave up his job as a director and gave the filming to his old friend Chen Xunqi .
Not only is Chen Xunqi, in this "Five Lucky Stars of Fortune", Sammo Hung uses his contacts to find many friends in the circle to help out. Many of them don't count the rewards, and they are friendly to help out.
at the end of the movie,Sammo Hung also played the subtitles, thanking those friends who do not consider their own interests.
In terms of plot design, although "Fortune Five Lucky Stars" incorporates "gambling movie" elements, it also imitates Wang Jing's style, designing a lot of nonsense bridges, but the whole series continues the series In the early stage, several lucky stars "gagged" and "pushed girls"; in the later stage, the story entered the main line, and everyone completed the task together; finally, through an action scene, the finishing touch was completed.
In the Hong Kong film market in 1996, the "Fortune Five Lucky Stars", a work of "old wine in a new bottle", did not win the favor of many viewers. It only achieved a box office score of more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars. Very bleak.
Luo Wei's "Wanli Film Industry" failed to come back to life because of the "Five Lucky Stars of Fortune". The film also became the last film produced by "Wanli Pictures".
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