Xu Guanjie has a very high status, a generation of singers, but basically did not see his style, after all, he did not live in that era. Mai Jia's bald head image is very eye-catching, although she does not like to laugh, but it is really funny and a big guy. Zhang Aijia starred as a man with short hair, which is really difficult to associate with the current image.
Director Zeng Zhiwei, as well as big names such as Shi Tian, Huang Baiming, Xu Ke, lin Zixiang and other big names, this lineup is really invincible. The strongest lineup in New Art City.
The '82 film, due to the constraints of the time and technical reasons, now seems a bit rough, but some of the creative bridges are really admirable. At the beginning, Xu Guanjie used a zipline to snatch the diamond, fled with a motorcycle, and used a glider to get rid of the pursuit, clean and sharp. The flying car in which Mai Jia appeared to arrest the robbers was not bad.
I feel that as far as the movie of 1982 is concerned, the above bridge sections are remarkable, worthy of the legendary Seven Monsters of the New Art City.
New Art City broke through the sky with "Best Partner" (1982) and a series of sequels.
"Best Partner", the set design is bright and pleasing to the eye, and the special effect is even better. They brought in stunt experts from Hollywood and Australia, and the photographers were also Americans.
Moreover, the whole film is full of life, because in addition to the European location and the cannon-like jokes, there is also a whistling theme song, the lyrics are frivolous, as if to reflect the new character of Hong Kong.
In addition, the film is played by singer Hui Guanjie, which caters to the Cantonese pop boom that is emerging in Southeast Asia. The cost of "Best Partner" is about HK$8 million, and in the local area alone, the revenue is more than 3 times the cost. The film and its two subsequent sequels were scheduled to be screened during the Lunar New Year slot, both of which set the highest box office revenue in Hong Kong in the 70s and 80s.
The pinnacle of Hong Kong cinema: "Seven Monsters of New Art City" Mak Ka Chapter.
In 1944, Mai Jia was born into an ordinary family in Guangdong Province, and his original name was Mai Jiashang.
When she was a child, Mai Jia was very well-behaved and obedient, and liked to read and study.
Maka's parents followed the wave of immigrants to Hong Kong, giving their children a better education.
The 14-year-old Mak Ka continued her studies at Hong Kong's Chongxin English College, and after graduating in 1963, she moved to the United States with her family, when She was 19 years old.
McGonaga was a good student with excellent subjects at the time, he wanted to become an electronic engineer, and when he arrived in New York, he studied electronic engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic University in New York, majoring in electrical engineering, and after graduation, he worked as an engineer in a telephone company.
We all know that the Hong Kong movies of the 1980s and 1990s are mainly divided into two series, one is a Hong Kong kung fu movie, and the other is a Hong Kong comedy movie.
Mai Jia herself is not from a film and television class.
Because I like to watch movies, I have seen more and the whole person's requirements for movies have gradually increased.
The more she watched, the more dissatisfied She became, and She began to want to make her own movies.
In fact, there is a bit of youthful vigor in the ingredients. I believe that many small partners have had such a feeling, when they are not satisfied with a thing, they think that they will do better, but most of the time we just think about it and rarely put it into action, and Mai Jia is saying that it is done. Returning to Hong Kong with a thousand dollars began his film path.
In 1973, After graduating, Mak Ka returned to Hong Kong and decided to revitalize hong Kong's film industry, and together with her friend Hong Jinbao, founded the Pioneer Film Company and made some low-budget films, but they did not get too good market response.
In 1976, Mai Jia wrote and directed "A Single Stick Goes to the End of the World", which was the first large-budget film produced by Mai Jia, and it was also a popular action film at the time, but it still failed to achieve high box office.
After the filming of this movie, his friend Hong Jinbao briefly left Mai Jia and broke into the Hong Kong film industry alone. Although, in the early days of entrepreneurship, Mai Jia's career once fell into a trough, but he never gave up.
In 1978, Mai Jia and Hong Jinbao set up the "Garbo Film Company" and made 2 films, "Tiger Field Chicken" and "Death-defying Single Knife Fighting Gun", because Hong Jinbao was a contracted artist of Jiahe at that time, coupled with the many affairs of the "Baohe" company, so the company was dissolved again not long after its establishment. Later, he formed the "Struggle Film Company" with Shi Tian and Huang Baiming, but this time because of the capital injection of Lei Juekun, a wealthy Hong Kong businessman, the scale of the company was expanded.
As a result, "Struggle" was quickly reorganized into "New Art City Film Co., Ltd.", officially opening a decade-long "film hegemony".
Due to the "New Sticker Wrong Door God" and "Crazy Old Thousand" in the early days of the establishment of "Struggle Pictures", they still decided to make comedy the basis for the company's survival.
Later, Wu Yusen invited his friend Xu Ke to join New Art City and directed the comedy film "Ghost Horse Zhi DuoXing".
The film tells the story of the old man who wants to use the beauty plan to defraud the godfather Carbon and other money, but is finally deceived by the private detective Ye Laixiang and Inspector Robin.
After its release, the film won three awards in the same period, including the Golden Horse Award and the Best Director Award.
Since then, the prestige of New Art City in the circle has been in the sky, and it has also attracted Zeng Zhiwei, Teddy Robin, Shi Nansheng, etc. to join, forming the "Seven Monsters of New Art City" creative group.
There are "Seven Monsters of Jiangnan" in "Shooting Eagles", each of whom is strong in martial arts; the Hong Kong film industry has "Seven Monsters of New Art City", and the same one has strong creative ability.
Because of the movie "Best Partner", Mai Jia won his first "Best Actor".
Because of the success of "Best Partner", Mai Jia chose to take advantage of the chase,
He has continuously filmed three works: "Best Partner 2: Great Magic", "Best Partner 3: The Empress's Secret Order", and "Best Partner 4: A Thousand Miles to Save the Poor Woman".
Each one has been welcomed by the market, and because of these films, Mak Ka has become the new generation of "king of comedy" in Hong Kong.
The alternating collaboration of the kings of comedy.
Released in 1991, the film "Love Saint" has always been talked about by people and is regarded as an alternate work of the kings of comedy.
The love saint in the movie tells that Cheng Sheng (played by Zhou Xingchi) is a idle person who does nothing evil and cheats all day long. One day pretending to be blind and cheating, he encounters a female liar (played by Mao Shunjun) who is bullied by the brother and thug (played by Yuanhua) of the debt-collecting King Guili, Cheng Sheng can't see it and decides to rescue him, but he is unexpectedly transferred by the debt to get his own ass debt.
On the other hand, the old jianghu Ling Wan bee (Wu Ma) also owes the debt of Guili Wang (Zhang Yaoyang) because he is unable to pay it off. He tries to find his old lover, Sister Ping (Tian You), and the prostitute APPLE (Ye Zimei) conspiring to impersonate a rich family to defraud Yi Kuo Shao. Unexpectedly, the deceived Kuo Shao was played by Cheng Sheng, and he also wanted to deceive this rich family. A sinister scam with lots of jokes.
First of all, he was impressed by the acting skills of Xingye and Mao Shunjun, and then the addition of several other old drama bones, and the spark of collision with Xingye, which added to the icing on the cake of this film. Put the scam in the middle of the scam, play to the fire. In particular, Ye Zilin's special advantage in some aspects, really as long as there is a movie she starred in, that advantage will be infinitely magnified.
Think about it too, in some ways is also an advantage.
Everyone should find their own characteristics, so that when others think of you, they understand what your strengths are. For example, when it comes to Xingye, the first thing we think of is definitely the king of nonsense comedy, or the comedy master, Zhou's comedy. For example, Jacky Cheung will think of the god of song.
There is also Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts drama, when it comes to every famous character, everyone will think of their stunts.
After retiring from the show business circle, Mai Jia tried to do business, tried to speculate in stocks, enjoyed the money entanglement, and also experienced putting it into a vacuum, but he always maintained a "play" mentality, a cynical, and at the same time a way of breaking the boat.
In Wong Kar-wai's film "A Generation of Grandmasters", Gong Er and Ip Man said: "If there is no regret in life, it should be boring." ”
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am."
Then the life of Mai Jia can be completely changed into: I play, so I am.