Chapter 139 The Four Great Directors of Xiangjiang (3rd update!)

  Speaking of Xiangjiang’s directors, you may be more familiar with Mr. Xu, Baige Wu, Fatty Wang, and Wang Sunglasses.

  However, from the 1950s to the 1970s in the Xiangjiang film industry, the four most famous directors in Xiangjiang were Zhang Che, Chu Yuan, Li Hanxiang, and Hu Jinquan.

   Zhang Cheh is a martial arts master with many disciples. He made his debut in Taiwan. In 1949, he directed his own virgin film "Alishan Fengyun", which was also the first feature film in Taiwan's film history.

  This person even has a good relationship with the first son of Taiwan Island.

  However, in 1957, Zhang Che left Taiwan and came to Xiangjiang to develop. He first signed a contract with MP & GI, and then joined Shaw Brothers a year later.

   Xiangjiang's first movie "The One-Armed Swordsman" with a box office of more than one million was his masterpiece, and Zhang Che has been known as "Million Zhang" ever since.

Later, Zhang Che made a series of well-known martial arts movies such as "The Great Assassin", "Golden Swallow", "Thirteen Taibao", "The New One-armed Swordsman", "Ma Yongzhen" and "The Stabbing Horse". It changed the style of Huangmei Diao, which was dominated by female characters in the Xiangjiang film industry at that time, and opened a new era of martial arts dominated by men.

  The reason why Zhang Che has many disciples is also for a reason. At this time, Xiangjiang's Wang Yu, who is currently popular, and Di Lung, Jiang Dawei, Chen Guantai and others who are about to become popular are all promoted by him.

   In addition, Baige Wu is also a disciple of Zhang Cheh.

  At that time, Zhang Cheh's evaluation of Baige Wu was: Wu Yusen should not be an actor, but a director.

  Even Zhou Xingchi was Zhang Che's disciple.

  In 1989, Zhang Che's apprentices and grandchildren even jointly filmed a movie "Brave Heroes" to celebrate Zhang Che's 40th anniversary in film.

   Zhou Xingchi also participated.

Chu Yuan, a native of Yangcheng, came to Xiangjiang in 1956. The audiences of later generations are more familiar with him because of Cheng Long's movie "Police Story". In this movie, Chu Yuan plays the villain Zhu Tao .

However, his career as a director is also extremely brilliant. The films directed by this person are extremely fond of focusing on the lives of ordinary citizens. As a film director, his second film "Poor Parents" made Chu Yuan famous in one fell swoop. Throughout the 1960s, Chu Yuan Director of more than 60 Cantonese films.

  Extremely efficient, this point was fully developed in his apprentice Wang Fatty.

   This year Chu Yuan will launch his first masterpiece "Ai Nu" in Shaw Brothers. Once this film is released, it will immediately cause a sensation in the whole Xiangjiang.

   And next year, Chu Yuan’s movie "Seventy-Two Tenants" became the box office champion of the year, beating Li Xiaolong's "Way of the Dragon".

  The "Kung Fu" released by Zhou Xingchi also obviously borrowed from "Seventy-two Tenants".

   Later, Chu Yuan started the cooperation with Gu Long, filming a total of 18 Gu Long films including "The End of the World and Moon Sword", "Chu Liuxiang" and "Sentimental Swordsman Ruthless Sword".

   At that time, Chu Yuan + Gu Long + Di Lon was the guarantee of the box office.

   Later, Chu Yuan also made Zhou Xingchi's "The Thief A Xing" and Zhou Runfa's "A Man's Diary" and other movies.

  Hu Jinquan is known as a master of the generation who is famous but not profitable. Hu Jinquan, who was born in Beijing, came to Xiangjiang in 50 years. Compared with the other three directors, the number of films he made in his life can be said to be pitifully small, only 16.

However, in 1978, he was selected as one of the top five directors in the world by the British "International Film Guide" magazine. And a world-renowned Chinese director.

   Among the Chinese action movies, the very famous "The Drunk Man" was his directorial work. At the same time, because of this movie, the Xiangjiang film industry at that time had an additional title of martial arts director.

  Old Monster Xu's "New Dragon Inn" is a remake of his movie "Dragon Inn".

  The Li Hanxiang in front of me, a native of Liao Province, who has been in Xiangjiang for 48 years, naturally gave the audience more impressions of his romantic films, but in fact Li Hanxiang's achievements are not limited to romantic films.

Xiangjiang's Huangmei Diao movie was carried forward in the hands of Li Hanxiang. In 1958, Li Hanxiang chose Lin Dai to star in the movie "Diao Chan", which broke the box office record of Mandarin movies in Xiangjiang at that time, and also made Li Hanxiang the winner of the Fifth Asian Film Festival. Best Director Award.

  Subsequently, Li Hanxiang directed "Jiangshan Beauty", which had an unprecedented box office.

  At that time, Li Hanxiang could be said to be the strongest director of Shaw Brothers.

However, at this time, the gap between Li Hanxiang and the Shaw Brothers became wider and wider. In the end, Li Hanxiang left the Shaw Brothers and went to Taiwan Island. Mao went to Taiwan Island to expand its territory.

   Established Guolian Film Company in Taiwan Island by Li Hanxiang.

It is a pity that with the death of Lu Yuntao, Li Hanxiang also ushered in a low period of his career, especially the last film "Xi Shi" directed by Taiwan Island. In order to achieve the effect he wanted, Li Hanxiang even seconded Taiwan Soldiers on the island, the movie was released, but the box office was a mess.

   As a result, Li Hanxiang couldn't get along in Taiwan.

   In desperation, Li Hanxiang had no choice but to return to Xiangjiang, and filmed two films in succession, "Tales of Deception" and "Grand View of Deception", especially the film "Tales of Deception", which entered the top ten box office of Xiangjiang movies that year.

  If Chu Huan hadn't appeared, Li Hanxiang would soon return to Shaw Brothers and direct his first movie "The Great Warlord".

   It was this movie that made Hong Kong's first-generation comedy king Xu Guanwen popular.

  Of course, there are many other movies about Li Hanxiang, such as "Listen to the Government" which made Liang Jiahui the youngest actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

   "It turned out to be Mr. Chu. Recently, the circle has often heard of Mr. Chu's name, but I didn't expect Mr. Chu to be so young and handsome!"

   After knowing Chu Huan's identity, Li Hanxiang spoke with a smile.

  Even if he spoke Cantonese, Chu Huan still listened to the taste of Northeast China, and Li Hanxiang's Cantonese was actually not that brilliant.

  Chu Huan preached in Mandarin: "It's good for Director Li to speak in Mandarin, I can understand it!"

  Hearing that Chu Huan was fluent in Mandarin, the joy on Li Hanxiang's face became brighter: "Mr. Chu can speak Mandarin?"

   "I understand a little!" Chu Huan said with a smile.

   Hong Jinbao asked curiously beside him: "Director Li, are you here to film a new movie?"

  Li Hanxiang laughed and said: "Almost, I met with Mr. Shao some time ago, and we are ready to cooperate again."

   Hong Jinbao was shocked when he heard it, "Director Li is going back to Shaw Brothers?"

When Li Hanxiang left the Shaw Group, there was a lot of trouble. Yifu Shao even threatened to take Li Hanxiang to court, but in private, Yifu Shao also admitted that he would not do such a thing that would hurt both sides. To persuade Li Hanxiang to stay.

  But what Shao Yifu didn't expect was that Zou Wenhuai had grown rebellious at that time, and wanted to leave Shaw Brothers. Naturally, it was impossible to sincerely persuade Li Hanxiang.

   This is another reason that caused Li Hanxiang to leave Shaw Brothers.

   "It hasn't been finalized yet, I just have this idea!" Li Hanxiang said with a complicated expression.

Chu Huan looked at Li Hanxiang, but his eyes lit up. Chu Huan actually didn't know much about the movie "The Great Warlord", and he had never watched it, but Chu Huan knew that Li Hanxiang used this movie to make Xu Guanwen popular, which shows that this The movie is definitely a blockbuster.

  In addition, now that Black & White Image was first established, although there are rising stars like Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long, it still takes time for them to grow.

  What the company has now is the future, not the present. If Li Hanxiang, a film giant like him, can join in, then it can have the effect of pacifying the sea.

   At least for the next five years, Chu Huan doesn't have to worry about the company not having any blockbuster movies.

  The most important thing is, if Li Hanxiang can be signed, can he also **** Xu Guanwen along the way?

Thinking of this, Chu Huan was a little excited, "Director Li, I have just entered the Xiangjiang film circle, and I have heard a lot about Director Li. I don't know if Director Li has time to let us juniors have a good time. What about learning scriptures?"

   Li Hanxiang was also a little surprised by Chu Huan's sudden invitation. It has been a year since he came back to Xiangjiang, so he naturally saw reports about Chu Huan on the news.

  Knowing that the young man in front of him is a very well-known rising star in the business world in Xiangjiang.

   When it comes to their status in the film industry, the two are naturally not the same, but when it comes to their status in Xiangjiang, ten of them can't compare to one Chu Huan.

   Now that the other party invited him so politely, Li Hanxiang's vanity was greatly satisfied.

   "Meeting is fate. Mr. Chu said it himself. If I don't agree, wouldn't it be a loss of face."

  Li Hanxiang agreed with a smile.

  Chu Huan now has his own film company, and more importantly, his own theater chain, which Li Hanxiang does not have.

  Regardless of whether the black-and-white image was first created, at this time, Chu Huan already had a status in the Xiangjiang film industry relying on the Lisheng Cinemas.

  Chu Huan said with a smile: "That's just right. It's better to hit the sun than to choose the day. Just tonight, I will set up a place at Yung Kee. When the time comes, Director Li must appreciate it!"

  Li Hanxiang also smiled and said: "No problem, I will definitely attend on time!"

   Having made an appointment with Li Hanxiang, Chu Huan and Hong Jinbao left the Shaw Brothers studio, and Hong Jinbao looked at Chu Huan deliberately in the car.

   "Young Master Huan, do you want to pull Li Hanxiang into the company?"

  Chu Huan nodded and said: "That's right, a director like Li Hanxiang is a rare talent for every film company. If he can join, the black and white image will be improved to a higher level."

  Hong Jinbao nodded and said nothing, but there was still a trace of tension in his eyes.

  Now he is the only director of black and white images, but if Li Hanxiang joins, he will not be the only one. More importantly, Li Hanxiang has more status than him and has box office appeal.

  The pressure came suddenly!

  Chu Huan saw Hong Jinbao's reaction, but he didn't explain anything to the other party. Do you have motivation when you are under pressure?

   It’s just that I first snatched Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long before Jiahe, and now I’m going to **** Li Hanxiang before Shaw, and I don’t know what will happen to these two companies in the future.

   But what does it have to do with me!

   There are many more, the next chapter is at two o'clock in the afternoon~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)