Last year, the comedy movie "The King of Bathing", starring Peng Yuchang and Qiao Shan, attracted a lot of attention.
The director of the movie network celebrity named Beast Yi Xiaoxing directed, telling the story of the original arrogant rich second-generation male brother, who accidentally lost his memory and was exiled to a bathhouse on the verge of closure, and was fooled by the owner of the bathhouse to become a bather in the bathhouse, and since then he has started his bathing career.
In the end, Brother Gongzi became the "King of Bathing" after going through various tests, and also understood the meaning of friendship and family affection for life.
The film achieved considerable success in the mainland market last year, the director showed the traditional bathing culture in the form of comedy, the comedy baggage was wild at the same time, the story was laughed and tearful, and there was no lack of warmth, so that the film finally earned a good box office of 400 million.
However, while "The Bath King" was successful at the box office, word of mouth has been facing controversy.
On the one hand, the film was exposed to infringe the Korean comic "God of Bath" and caused a lot of controversy, on the other hand, the film is indeed slightly insufficient in originality. The clear-eyed people know at a glance that the entire story framework of "The Bath King" draws on many hong Kong classic nonsense comedies, and many plot designs and character relationships have a sense of déjà vu.
The two movies that the film imitates the most are "Dumb Guy Bai Shou" and the other is Chow Sing Chi's "God Eater".
In the first half of the film, the rich second generation of amnesia incarnated as a civilian to carry out inspirational struggle to chase dreams, which is the same as the movie "Dumb Guy Baishou" starring Liu Qingyun, and even the characters in the film are completely consistent, all of them are arrogant and rich second generation accidentally amnesiac after becoming a stupid and cute male protagonist, and the protagonist has a black and cunning brother around him who wants to seize the family property.
In the second half of the story, the protagonist practiced hard to scrub the bath, finally participated in the bathing competition, and faced a disadvantage in the final, completed the bridge section of the self-sublimation Jedi counterattack, which is obviously copied from the setting in Zhou Xingchi's "God Eater".
"God Eater" does not need to be introduced too much, this issue of the Shadow Monarch wants to introduce "Dumb Guy Bai Shou". As a Hong Kong-made nonsense comedy from 26 years ago, the film has been replayed on television many times and is a classic romantic comedy in the memory of many 80s and 90s.
This issue of "Forgotten Domestic Genre Films" will take you to revisit this nonsense comedy classic -
"Dumb Guy Bye Shou"
Only Fools Fall in Love
The film was released in 1995 and has a Douban score of 7.5 points.
Director Gu Dezhao was one of the representative figures of Hong Kong nonsense comedy in the 1990s, he entered the film circle as a screenwriter, studied under comedy director Gao Zhisen, especially with the cooperation with Stephen Chow, such as:
In "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", he and Zhou Xingchi are paired with the master who vomits blood; the Tang Niu in "God of Food" who bites Zhou Xingchi again; one of the clerks of Huang Yifei's restaurant in "The King of Destruction", from time to time to deceive Zhou Xingchi and so on.
The film is written and directed by Gu Dezhao, and the other screenwriter is Li Min, a famous screenwriter who later wrote "The King of Comedy" and "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", which is also an early masterpiece of her screenwriting career.
In terms of starring, the film emperor Liu Qingyun partners Wu Qianlian, playing the villain is the Hong Kong comedy ghost Huang Zihua, his Dong Du laugh performance style is his own family, laughing and scolding there is a kind of sincere wisdom and foolishness, in addition, the film also brings together Yuan Hua, Qiao Hong and other Hong Kong old drama bones, which can be described as star-studded.
Strictly speaking, "Dumb Guy Bai Shou" is a remake, and the story prototype is from the well-known story of Guangdong folk.
It was made into a movie as early as 1933, and it was remade many times in the 1950s, and the plot is much the same. It mainly tells the story of a stupid son-in-law who was originally stupid, often discriminated against by the rich man's father-in-law, but accidentally got the help of the gods and became extremely intelligent, and finally successfully counterattacked and punched his face and walked to the peak of life.
The 95th edition of "Dumb Guy Bai Shou" has carried out a bold nonsense adaptation on the basis of the original story framework, which not only adds more entertainment elements to the story, but also eliminates fantasy elements, integrates elements such as heroic grudges, romantic love, business fighting wisdom, ghost horse comedy, etc., and is recognized by many fans as a nonsense classic that can withstand the baptism of time.
The background of the story is the early years of the Republic of China, Jiangnan.
The protagonist is the young master of the Zhao family, named Zhao Fu (played by Liu Qingyun).
Although he is a rich second generation, he is smart and wealthy, and the business of recruiting families is thriving in his hands.
Only Zhao Fu's personality is somewhat unpleasant, he is indispensable, he acts in a brash manner, drinks and drinks to all the people in the Zhao family, and is quite pretentious, can't see others pretending in front of him, and always takes pleasure in teasing others.
But in fact, Zhao Fu's heart often feels inexplicably empty, so he bases his happiness on the pain of others.
On this day, Zhao Fu and another cunning douqi, on the way home, met a supreme stinky tofu stall, no one could have imagined that the young master of the golden clothes and jade food was so fond of stinky tofu.
It just so happens that the stall owner has only the last piece of stinky tofu left today, Zhao Fu is about to buy it, but who knows that he actually killed a cheng to bite the gold halfway, and the heroine Adi (played by Wu Qianlian) also has a special love for stinky tofu, and she and Zhao Fu are competing on the street for a piece of stinky tofu.
Zhao Fu proposed to buy the last piece of stinky tofu at a high price, Adi refused to admit defeat, there was a sample to put forward a premium, and the result was that the two began to bid for a piece of stinky tofu, and finally forced Zhao Fu to rise to fifty silver dollars.
Ah Di deliberately teased the other party, but he did not expect that Zhao Fu actually took out fifty silver dollars, just to buy a piece of stinky tofu.
What surprised Ah Di even more was that Zhao Fu actually gave himself the stinky tofu that was at a high price.
I have to say that the rich second generation's means of wooing her sister is so simple and boring.
Back at the Zhao family, the first thing Zhao Fu did was to visit his elderly mother. Zhao Fu died very early, fortunately, Zhao Fu's mother ran the family and raised Zhao Fu alone to grow up, and although Zhao Fu was stubborn, he was a true filial piety.
Zhao's mother is now old, and her biggest wish is to marry Zhao Fu, so that she can pass on the inheritance for the Zhao family as soon as possible.
But Zhao Fu was not sad about this, and had no choice but to hold a daughter-in-law draft and openly choose a wife for Zhao Fu.
Recruiting families with hundreds of millions of dollars, so many local girls who want to marry into the rich have come to participate in the draft,
However, Zhao Ji (Huang Zihua), zhao fu's cousin (huang zihua), who is a draft judge, is very picky about the girls participating in the audition.
It turned out that Zhao Ji, as the second heir of the Zhao family, he was an addict, and he had always been deliberately trying to seize his cousin's family property, and once Zhao Fu got married, he would become the official heir of the Zhao family, so he had been secretly obstructing.
It is worth mentioning that in the Chinese version, ZhaoJi's name is translated as Zhao Fu, which directly implies that there is an antagonistic relationship between him and Zhao Fu.
It was also at this time that Zhao Ji met the jianghu seller Adi and his father. Adi's father was a gambler, wandering in the casino all day, and as a result, he owed a large amount of usurious loans, so Zhao Ji paid money to induce Adi's father to tell his daughter to pretend to marry Zhao Fu, so as to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the family property.
Although Adi was born at the bottom, he still had a clear conscience, and at first he was very opposed to his father's greed for vanity and refused to cheat on marriage.
But thinking that with money, she could start a new life, and finally agreed to marry into the Zhaofu, but at this time, she did not know that the young master of the Zhaofu she wanted to marry was an acquaintance.
Therefore, Under the packaging of Zhao Ji, Ah Di's father became the king of the provincial city, and then bought the fortune teller, falsely claiming that Ah Di and Zhao Fu were fateful marriages, in order to deceive Zhao's mother into agreeing to this marriage.
By the day of the wedding, the bride's brother had already entered the door in a flower palanquin, but Zhao Fu took the children of the Zhao family to grab the fireworks with the opponent.
There are many people on the other side, but Zhao Fu has prepared early, prepared a cloud ladder in advance, and plans to reap the benefits.
Although Zhao Fu successfully grabbed the fireworks, but could not stand the team has internal ghosts, Zhao Ji deliberately made hands and feet on the bamboo pole, wanting to let Zhao Fu fall down, and finally Zhao Fu was hit in the head by the bamboo pole that collapsed from the scaffold, unconscious.
The marriage was forced to be interrupted, and the Zhao family was very worried, and when Zhao Fu woke up after treatment, because his brain was concussed, he became a fool with intelligence of only a few years old, which made Zhao Fu very worried.
In the cave room, Ah Di once again saw Zhao Fu, who had become stupid, but at this time Zhao Ji handed Ah Di a knife and forced him to kill Zhao Fu, Ah Di could not bear it, and was frightened to grab the door and flee.
Zhao Fu's mother happened to see this scene and was frightened into a heart attack and passed out, but the ambitious Zhao Ji forbade the doctor to give first aid to Fu Mu, so that Fu Mu died on the spot.
Zhao Ji wanted to plot the family property, but he was worried that Zhao Fu would arouse suspicion when he died at home, so he planned to take advantage of the worship of Fu Mu Mountain's tomb to push Zhao Fu down the hillside in order to kill him and keep his position as the head of the family.
What I didn't expect was that the person who recruited the blessing was as his name suggested, but he was blessed with a big life, but he was slightly injured.
But because Zhao Fu was already demented at this time, he did not remember his identity at all, and could only live in exile and beg for a living.
However, it is said that in the small town under the mountain, the father and daughter relied on the money they had accumulated to cheat on marriage that day, opened a clothing shop called Qiu Wangyue, and started their lives again.
However, one day at the market, Adi actually encountered a blessing that had become stupid.
Although Zhao Fu became a fool, he had a special impression of Ah Di in the dark, and he came to the clothing shop with Ah Di all the way.
Adi's father and daughter saw that Zhao Fu was a bit of a thief, but they couldn't drive away, no matter where zhao Fu was thrown, he could magically run back;
Adi's father wanted to harm Zhao Fu on the road, but he did not expect to eat his own fruit and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
The foolish Zhao Fu has a kind heart, risking his life, sucking it out for Adi's father,
The fool has a stupid fortune, and the father and daughter of Adi can't bear to leave Zhao Fu alone, plus the guilt of what they have done, and finally agree to let Zhao Fu live at home, and give him a new name: Ah Fu.
Under the careful care of Ah Di, Ah Fu's body gradually recovered, and because of Ah Fu's kind nature, he gradually became loved by Ah Di.
The movie has a very romantic popsicle eating bridge here,
On the way to deliver ah di and Ah Fu, Ah Fu saw that Ah Di wanted to eat popsicles, but he was reluctant to buy them, so he ran back to buy popsicles for Ah Di, but due to the hot weather, when Ah Fu ran back with popsicles, the popsicles had almost melted.
Although Ah Di ate a melted popsicle, Ah Fu's actions invisibly influenced Ah Di.
Not only that, Ah Fu used his kindness and luck to help Adi's clothing shop turn a profit and signed several large businesses.
On the other hand, the recruiter who got the position of the head of the recruiter became more and more greedy and overbearing, and the recruiter could not tolerate the evil deeds of the recruiter.
At this time, the father and daughter of Adi learned the news that the most authoritative uncle of the previous generation of the Zhao family (Qiao Hong) would soon come to the Zhao family to change the sect and choose the head of the family, so they were determined to let Zhao Fu prove himself in the uncle and help him take the family property.
In order to make up for the previous guilt, the father and daughter of Adi launched an emergency special training for Ah Fu, with only one purpose -
Let Ah Fu pretend to be a normal person in front of everyone, so as to win the trust of his uncle.
In addition to teaching Afu various mind games, the most important thing is to teach him how to become majestic and imposing.
The core is a trick: straighten your chest and look up, don't look at people with a straight eye, and see who will first scold a "slut"!
Under the training of Adi's father and daughter, Silly Ah Fu returned to the Zhao Mansion again, and actually deceived Zhao Ji and everyone.
Unconvinced, he proposed an intellectual competition to prove that Ah Fu was now a fool and was not qualified to inherit the family business.
However, Ah Fu actually relied on luck and quick wit to successfully defeat Zhao Ji.
But the thief's heart did not die, and he deliberately tempted Ah Fu, saying that his tail was off behind him!
At this time, Ah Fu was mentally unsound, and Zhao Ji deliberately tried to test the idea of deceiving the child, but he did not expect to expose the fact that Ah Fu was a stupid guy, so that Ah Fu became the laughing stock of everyone present.
Just when Zhao Ji thought that he was sure of winning, the accident happened again.
The servants wanted to catch the stupid Ah Fu, but unexpectedly knocked down the master of the hall, and as a result, the cricket jar that Zhao Fu had placed on the beam of the room fell and fell on Ah Fu's head.
Unexpectedly, Ah Fu, who had been hit the head again, actually regained his sanity and remembered all the evil deeds that Zhao Ji had done.
The blood-filled resurrection of Zhao Fu once again changed back into the domineering and shrewd young master, and in a few words he debunked the true face of Zhao Ji, and finally Zhao Ji panicked and ate his own evil consequences, and was smashed into a fool by Zhao Mu's tablet, which was also considered karma.
At the end of the story, Adi sees Zhao Fu regain his sanity and plans to take the initiative to leave.
However, although Zhao Fu changed back to Young Master Kuo, he still had to be silly ah fu and ah di bit by bit...
As a Hong Kong-style nonsense comedy, the plot of this "Dumb Guy Bai Shou" is not innovative, and the plot design of the domineering giants and the amnesia Cinderella is also very cheesy, but the rare thing is that the choreographer uses a lot of details to enrich and polish the love of the male and female protagonists, plus a variety of nonsensical jokes and baggage, so that the tone of the whole film is relaxed and interesting.
Hong Kong-style comedies often have a grassroots temperament, even if the protagonist's identity is tall, but it will not be too detached from the market.
In this film, the screenwriter is extremely good at the construction of the character, taking Zhao Fu as an example, flying and stumbling when he appears, using aggressive momentum to tear down competitors, but in the next second, there is a flash of loneliness in his eyes, revealing the unknown loneliness and bitterness of this rich man behind the life of the brocade and jade food.
His encounter with Adi is a love story triggered by stinky tofu.
No one could have imagined that the grand and powerful Kuo Shao would love stinky tofu as much as the heroine Adi who was born at the bottom, and what was even more surprising was that knowing that Adi had deceived himself, Zhao Fu was not only not angry, but generously transferred the sky-high price of stinky tofu bought for fifty silver dollars to Adi, although it was said that there was money and willfulness, but it also showed that Zhao Fu's nature was not a domineering evil minority.
Although the plot is a small love story, the details are not perfunctory. The love between the two began with the melted popsicle, a very everyday but romantic comedy bridge, so that the relationship between the two is full of drama and not too deliberate, and later Ah Fu heard the news that Ah Di fell into the well, and without saying a word, jumped into the well, and the screenwriter's portrayal of this emotional change was simply meticulous.
Especially to mention is the performance of the actors, the acting skills of the film emperor Liu Qingyun needless to mention, the personality change between the domineering Kuo Shao and the dumb and cute Ah Fu is simply switched freely, the 27-year-old Wu Qianlian always has a calm and timeless temperament in the film, and the performances of Huang Zihua and Yuanhua as supporting roles are also quite impressive.
I have to sigh that the creativity of Hong Kong filmmakers in that era is obviously a vulgar story, and it is stunned that it can be filmed gracefully and movingly, without the slightest cold field, and this is the reason why the film can be regarded as a classic.