My brother Lu Xiaofeng you all know, I Lu Xiaofeng you do not know?
The Owl
There are many brothers in the Hong Kong film industry, three brothers with three surnames of Qin Pei, Jiang David and Er Dongsheng, at least from the name is the most legendary group of brother files.
The three brothers Qin Pei, Jiang David and Er Dongsheng, one is a golden green leaf actor who has won the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor, one is The Shaw Martial Arts Star and the first film emperor in Hong Kong, and the other is a senior director and screenwriter who has transformed into a martial arts film student.
What kind of movies will be made when these three brothers work together?
In 1977, Er Dongsheng first did the male lead in "The Sword of the Three Young Masters", and the second brother Jiang David made a cameo appearance; in 1986, Er Dongsheng did the first time to direct "The Legend of the Crazy Guy", the eldest brother Qin Pei starred in a supporting role, and also won the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In fact, as early as 1981, the three brothers Qin Pei, Jiang David and Er Dongsheng had their first big cooperation.
The spoof comedy film "Owl" is directed and starred by David Jiang, with Qin Pei playing a supporting role and Er Dongsheng as the screenwriter; moreover, the production company of this film is The Hong Kong Yuanheng Pictures co-formed by Qin Pei and Jiang David.
On April 30, 1981, "The Owl" was released for 8 days and grossed HK$1.57 million. That year's Hong Kong box office champion was another group of three brothers, the comedy film "Modern Bodyguard", starring Hui Guanwen, Hui Guanying and Hui Guanjie, which grossed 17.76 million Hong Kong dollars.
Although "Owl" performed mediocre at the box office, it is a rare nonsense comedy classic that occupies an important place in the history of Hong Kong cinema.
In 1990, Stephen Chow became a hit with the nonsense comedy film "Gamble Saint", and then became the most influential comedy superstar in the Hong Kong film industry and the grandmaster of nonsense comedy films.
However, Stephen Chow has never been the originator of nonsense comedy; because almost 10 years ago, there was such a nonsense comedy classic as "Owl".
This "Owl" is not necessarily the founding work of nonsense comedy, but it must be the vanguard of spoof comedy movies.
In "Owl", Jiang David plays Fan Shilin, a knife-carrying bodyguard who inherits his father's business, and Qin Pei plays a mysterious ninja.
The biggest spoof of "Owl" is that in a costume martial arts film, it unrestrainedly adds various modern elements, and it seems very reasonable; the various classic martial arts characters in the movie are old, and the people who come out to walk the rivers and lakes are their descendants.
At that time, he and Jin Chaoqun (played by Bao Qingtian) and others, alongside Wei Ziyun, who was the fourth child of Huashi, played Xiao Xiaoli, the son of Xiao Li Feidao Li Xunhuan; Zeng Zhiwei played the son of Xiao Yu'er in "Absolute Double Glory".
At that time, xiao Li Feidao, who was famous in the jianghu, had become a leprosy ghost, and the little fish had become an old fat man; the ten evil people were still there, and they were already old.
The film begins with the great villain Cat Boy, who holds a mysterious auction every year, and because of the needs of the guests, he sends someone to kidnap the emperor's thirty-sixth concubine. In order to find the concubine, he found Fan Shilin out of the horse, and Fan Shilin found Xiao Li and the great white shark and tracked them down all the way.
The auction of the cat boy has become a modern Western-style cocktail party, with a band and a light show, and there is a "Mona Lisa" in the lot; the cat boy even appears in the music of "Little Li Flying Knife", as if opening a concert.
A rich woman hit a young black man and wanted to give him a name, and said to herself: Aaron? Hairy? Autumn Boy?
The spoof was none other than Hong Kong's popular stars of the year, Tam Wing Lin, Chow Yun Fat and Cheng Shao Qiu.
The stolen thirty-sixth concubine is actually a spoof of Liu Jiahui's "Thirty-Six Rooms of Shaolin" in 1978.
This thirty-six-room concubine was the emperor's favorite, but she also had a leg with Manchu Wenwu!
Playing the emperor is Emperor Xiaosheng Zhao Lei, whose appearance music is Huang Mei's music of his 1959 masterpiece "Beauty in Jiangshan".
The emperor first sent a general to look for the thirty-six concubines, and also sent two concubines beside him, Jade and Pearl, to accompany him; one person in the middle came out to narrate, and the set and characters did not move, and in the blink of an eye it was 9 months later.
As a result, the general returned, the thirty-six concubines were not found, but the jade and the pearl were already about to be born.
Then, the emperor sent a parrot to pass on the message and found Fan Shilin; and after reading the Holy Will, he self-destructed on the spot, exactly like the classic passage of Mission Impossible.
The soundtrack of the film was made by Chen Xunqi, who used a lot of soundtrack elements of "Mission Impossible" to make people have a sense of crossing into the wrong movie hall.
When Fan Shilin was preparing to appear at home, it was this soundtrack, and finally he chose a battle suit, which was laughed at all the way by others, because this was the shape of Cao Dahua's "Rulai Divine Palm" that year.
Fan Shilin and the trio of Little Li and Great White Shark walk the rivers and lakes in order to track down the thirty-six concubines.
There are regular liquors such as daughter red in the restaurant, and there are also various cocktails, called traveling around the world, breaking into the rivers and lakes, the martial holy fire order, and the bunny girl who accompanies the wine.
Taiwanese actress Ouyang Linglong, who plays Miss Tang Men in the film, Chinese dialogue throughout the whole process, and dialogue with David Jiang, all use the classic lyrics of the year; absolutely full of talent, but also nonsensical.
What do you have to do with catboys?
Unforgettable first love. (From Teresa Teng's "Unforgettable First Love")
When did you meet?
A day in a certain month of a certain year. (From Cai Qin's "Just Like Your Tenderness")
Where?
Under a banyan tree on the side of the road. (From Yu Tian's "Under the Banyan Tree", that is, the Taiwan Provincial Edition of "Spring in the Northern Kingdom")
What are his characteristics?
Black hair, black eyes, yellow skin. (From The Descendants of the Dragon)
So how deep is your relationship with him?
You and I, talk less and more. (From Liu Wenzheng's "You Nong, Me Nong")
If so, why did he kill your whole family?
Diamonds sparkle. (From Liu Wenzheng's Diamonds)
So who are you going to seek revenge on him?
Kaifeng has a bao Qingtian, the iron mask selflessly distinguishes between loyalty and adultery. (From The Courgine's "Kaifeng Has a Bag Qingtian")
In the end, the trio found the cat boy's ancient city of Peter, mixed into the auction, and met the beautiful thirty-sixth concubine.
In the secret passage, I met four masters wearing Peking Opera costumes, who turned out to be dummies who needed to be clockwork; after the fight, Fan Shilin and the cat boy fought, and the fight turned into dancing, which was obviously a spoof of a Certain Hollywood movie, and later Zhou Xingchi's "Truant Weilong 2" also used this idea.
The cat boy's men were injured and came out with the sound of the ambulance horn to carry people.
The Great White Shark played by Zeng Zhiwei is obviously a spoof of Spielberg's science fiction film "Jaws"; as a result, this Lu Dafeng pulled out a lightsaber transformed by a lamp and spoofed Hollywood's "Star Wars".
The cat boy reveals his true face and calls himself Lu Xiaofeng, played by Emperor Zhang; half-beaten, tears off a face, and calls himself Lu Dafeng, played by Chen Xing; and then defeated, tearing off the last face, but it is a tomato (extra).
This design, a spoof, may be the entire film and television industry.
Audiences familiar with the movies of that era can actually find more dark memes from "Owl".
Later Hong Kong comedy films were full of talents in spoof comedy, and Wang Jing and Liu Zhenwei were both masters in this area.
As a forerunner, "Owl" must have played a huge role in enlightening them.