What do you mean by "Shaw movies" in Hong Kong?

1958, Shaw Brothers Film Company was established in Hong Kong. In the next 30 years, Shaw Brothers films gradually grew into a wonderful work in China film industry. Whenever China movies are mentioned, Shaw Brothers movies are absolutely unavoidable. The sixties and seventies of last century were the golden age of Shaw's films, and they were in a dominant position in Hong Kong's film industry, and no one could beat them. What is important is that its influence is not limited to the tiny place of Hong Kong. Shaw movies have fans all over the Chinese community in Southeast Asia.

Past glory

The history of Bernard Shaw is actually very clear: from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, it was the pioneering period of Bernard Shaw, with Li Hanxiang as the representative, and his Huangmei School movies became the main genre of Bernard Shaw; After the mid-1960s, under the vigorous advocacy of Zhang Che, Bernard Shaw brought martial arts films into a glorious period, which was divided into two tribes, one was the new martial arts film advocated by Zhang Che; The other is Chu Yuan, who is good at shooting surreal martial arts works with Gu Long. Unfortunately, Li Hanxiang and Zhang Che left us in 1996 and 2002 respectively.

However, what is mentioned above is only Shaw movies in a narrow sense. To say that the earliest history of Shaw can actually be traced back to 1925 when Shaw Brothers established Tianyi Studio in Shanghai.

In the mid-1980s, Xiao stopped making movies, and his aura began to fade. Of course, no one will deny that Shaw's films are treasures that fans will never give up. We look forward to its return, or just the restoration and re-release of old films, or the development and innovation of Shaw style in the new era. In short, we are waiting for it to shine again. -Editor's note

Han Hsiang Li

Huangmeipai film

In Bernard Shaw's films, China's costume films have always occupied a very important position, while Li Hanxiang is a master of shooting romantic costume films. Li Hanxiang entered the company in Xiao's pioneering stage. At that time, he advocated making Huangmei films, and chose Lin Dai as the leading role to make the film The Story of Diesim, which was released on 1958, and immediately broke the box office record of Hong Kong films in Mandarin. This success has enhanced the confidence of Boss Shaw in Li Hanxiang. Encouraged by the company, Li Hanxiang later filmed "Beauty of Jiangshan" and won the Best Film Award at the 6th Asian Film Festival. Li Hanxiang Huangmei School films have gradually become an important part of Shaw's films.

Before the mid-1960s, Huangmei School was the mainstream of Shaw's films, and Li Hanxiang was Shaw's flagship director at that time. Most of the stories of Huangmei films are based on folk stories, which are deeply loved by Chinese in a foreign land in Southeast Asia.

Hu Jinquan, Zhang Che

New martial arts movies

Different from Li Hanxiang's style, Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che are famous for shooting martial arts films. Their style is defined as a new genre of martial arts movies. Make sure that the pioneering work of this school is "Come and have a drink with me" filmed by Hu Jinquan on 1966. The following year, Zhang Che's One-armed Knife was released, becoming the first movie with a box office of over one million, and Zhang Che's title of "million director" began from then on.

In Zhang Che's films, the actor really won the leading role. In the works before Huangmei School, the actor only played a foil role, but Zhang Che was different. In his films, most of the leading men are chivalrous men with strong personalities. They are very independent and have their own set of standards for treating people. What they value most is the friendship between men, but love for children often takes a back seat and becomes the foil of the main line of the movie.

Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che belong to the same period of directors, and they are also the pioneers of new martial arts films. However, he is somewhat different from Zhang Che. Hu Jinquan emphasizes the aesthetic feeling of action on the screen, unlike Zhang Che who pursues the cruel beauty and smart reality of action. Moreover, the characters in Hu Jinquan's works are not as tough as those in Zhang Che's works, and most of them are subtle.

Surreal and weird martial arts movies

Chu Yuan's style is different from that of Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che. In contrast, Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che are more realistic, and the Chu principle belongs to surrealism, which is related to the fact that most of his films are based on Gu Long's novels. His "meteor butterfly sword" and "Tianya Yueming Knife" are the representative works of this kind of surreal martial arts films. Most of the characters in this kind of movies are charming and dissolute, wandering around the world. From time to time, there will be some unreasonable plots, which is the characteristic of Gu Long's novels.

The actor who often appears in Chu Yuan's films is Tommy Tam. At that time, people used to call Chu Yuan, Gu Long and Tommy Tam the Iron Triangle.

Shao Shi Wuwen Female Head Card

Text: Lin Dai

The four-time Asian film winner ended his life at the age of 30, retaining his glory and bringing infinite sighs and feelings to fans. She was born in 1934, Guangxi. /kloc-settled in hong kong at the age of 0/5, and/kloc-started to enter the entertainment circle at the age of 0/6. During Shao's period, The Story Of Diu Sim was charming, and "Can't Love" brought her the honor of best actress (because "Jin Ping Mei" was filmed in Yunnan Desert, she became the best actress again). 1964, she committed suicide for love, leaving two unfinished works, Blue and Black and Lotus Lantern. Her costume is particularly charming, and she is the top actress in the popular period of Bernard Shaw's romantic movies.

Wu: Pei-Pei Cheng.

Unlike Lin Dai, Pei-Pei Cheng is a martial arts actress under Shaw. She has made 23 films in Shaw, which is not much, but because almost all departments are impressive, people feel that she has devoted all her energy and time to Shaw. When she made her debut, she made the film "Come and Have a Drink with me" directed by Hu Jinquan, which made her famous as a "chivalrous woman". 1970, she retired and lived in America with her husband. When Ang Lee filmed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Cheng Peipei became one of the "blue-eyed foxes". Now, she is writing the sequel "Come and have a drink with me". She now has three daughters, 1 son. The eldest daughter, Eugenia Yuan, is currently developing in the entertainment industry. She hopes that Eugenia Yuan and her third daughter Martha can cooperate with her in the sequel "Come and Drink with me".

They are from Xiao.

See Yuen Ng

Wu Siyuan has been trained by Shaw's Southern China Choreographer, so it is hard to avoid bringing him Shaw's shadow.

Wu Siyuan is known as "the godfather of Hong Kong films". 1944 was born in Shanghai. 1966 joined the director department of Southland Experimental Troupe of Shaw Brothers Co., Ltd. After graduation, I stayed in Shaw Company and worked as a reporter and deputy director. After leaving Shaw, he never forgot the essence of Shaw Kung Fu movies. Later, he set up his own Philip Burkart Film Company, and continued to direct kung fu films, such as Roman Kidnapping and Hong Kong Little Godfather. Now, Wu Siyuan not only directs himself, but also exerts his social prestige to run for the working environment of the whole Hong Kong film.

John Woo

Like Wu Siyuan, John Woo graduated from the Dance Department of South China Experimental Troupe. He is Zhang Che's favorite student. Zhang Che wanted to meet John Woo very much, but he didn't get it.

Wu Yusen 65438-0946 was born in Guangdong Province and moved to Hong Kong at the age of 4. At the age of 25, he began to work as an assistant director in Shaw Brothers Film Company. However, his time in Shaw was not long, and later he joined Jiahe and Xinyi City Company. The films such as Hero, Hot-blooded Man, Wandering around the World, Bloody Streets, Hero II and Tough Detective are all his representative works.

After entering Hollywood, John Woo directed Ultimate Goal, Broken Arrow, Face Changing/Closing and Whisperwind, bringing the style of oriental action movies to Hollywood.

Replay extraordinary splendour

Shaw Pictures stopped making movies in the 1980 s, and its film city turned to TV station to shoot TV series. Shaw has gradually lost its former edge in China film circle, but in any case, no one doubts that Shaw's films are the treasures of China film circle.

1999, an exciting news came. Malaysia's Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd consortium purchased the copyrights of more than 760 films of Shaw, and then established Tianying Entertainment Company in Hong Kong with the help of Shaw's rich film library. Tianying Entertainment has been committed to restoring the former glory of Shaw movies since its establishment three years ago. First, it has spent a lot of money to repair the old film through digital technology; Then put these restored works on the market, so that people can see Bernard Shaw's Days of Our Lives again; Tseung Kwan O Cinema, a joint venture between Shaw and Huaxing, will be completed next year. At that time, Shaw will re-sign artists to shoot new films.

Tianying Entertainment plays Shaw brand.

According to the reporter's investigation, Tianying Entertainment is divided into four parts: Shaw Film Library, Tianying Channel, Tianying Production and Tianying Entertainment Audio and Video. Among these four sections, three sections are closely related to Shaw's films.

First of all, it is naturally this part of Shaw's film library. The resource of this film library comes from the copyright of 760 sets of Shaw films acquired by 1999 Malaysian consortium. After these films were acquired, Tianying Entertainment invested a lot of money to restore the image of these films. This film library provides strong content support for Tianying Entertainment. Mr. Wang Zhixiong, the chief representative of Tianying Entertainment in China, told reporters: "A large part of these films we have now have not been released. Although some of them have been released, no TV station has obtained their broadcasting rights on the TV network. We will certainly make good use of these classic works of Xiao. For some of them, we may use 35 mm film to make them reappear on the screen, and we will also use home video products and pay TV.

In addition, Tianying Channel and Tianying Entertainment Audio-visual also have deep roots with Shaw movies. Tianying channel is a pay-per-view movie channel. Most of the movies played on this channel now come directly from Shaw Film Library. The main direction of Tianying entertainment audio-visual is also Shaw movies. Mr Wang Zhixiong said, "We will distribute Shaw movies in the market in the form of VCD, DVD and video tape. We now have 760 sets of Shaw's works, and we plan to release 10 to 20 sets every month. It is estimated that all the films in our hands will be released by 2007. "

The restored film is brand-new.

After years of baptism, Shaw's films have gradually blurred on the negative. For Tianying Entertainment, their main job after their establishment is to repair these faded negatives. It is said that Tianying Entertainment has used the most advanced digital equipment and technology to repair these old Shaw films, including color matching, stain removal, damage and scratches repair and so on.

So, what is the effect of the restored Shaw film? Pei-Pei Cheng spoke highly of the restored film. She said that in the past, if she wanted to watch her own films, she could only buy videos of those guns and discs. The photos are very blurred, and many photos are still incomplete. But now, after seeing the restored "Come and Drink with me", she said excitedly: "It's still the original, just like the new one, even the colors on the clothes are very real. Seriously. It turns out that Bernard Shaw's films at that time were already in color, not in black and white as we thought.

Southeast Asian audiences have eyes first.

In this way, there are two channels for fans to appreciate Shaw's classic films, one is to watch Tianying Channel, and the other is to watch audio-visual products.

Sky Shadow Channel has been broadcast in Southeast Asia since March this year, and audiences in Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia can watch it. It is said that Cheng Peipei, a senior actor of Shaw, will also host the interview program of Shaw's big brand file on this channel. Her job is to interview some people who have worked in Shaw, including directors, actors and behind-the-scenes staff. She has been to Ningbo, Kim, Cai Lan and other places. Because Cheng Peipei herself used to be Shaw's favorite, it would be relatively easy for her to do such an interview. Nevertheless, she also revealed some difficulties in doing this program. However, Cheng Peipei said that she would not force her old colleagues too much. She just tried to interview as many people as possible. There is no hard and fast rule about how many people she must interview and how many episodes she can do. "Everything depends on fate," said Cheng Peipei.

According to Mr. Wang Zhixiong, they have applied to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of China for the landing of Tianying Channel in the Mainland, but the result has not yet come out. "As of September, the application for channels settled in the mainland this year has stopped. We have submitted the application, but now we are waiting for the approval of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. I don't know what the result is."

Mainland audiences watch movies to satisfy their hunger.

Although mainland audiences haven't had a chance to see Shaw movies on TV, they can make up for this shortcoming through audio-visual products. The reporter learned from Guangzhou Hongxiang Audio & Video Production Co., Ltd. that Tianying Entertainment has reached an agreement with the company, and Hongxiang Company will be responsible for the exclusive distribution of Shaw movies in China mainland in the form of DVD and VCD.

Because Shaw's film library is extremely rich, it is impossible to launch all the films at once. What comes first, what comes later? What are the selection criteria? In this regard, Mr. Wang Zhixiong said: "The first batch of audio-visual products in inland areas was put on the market in July, and the second batch is being applied. Basically, the standard for choosing films is to choose some martial arts films at a time, and then choose some romantic films. Shaw's movies are many, good and bad, and we will release good movies first. "

As we know, there are many excellent directors in Bernard Shaw's films, and their films all have their own styles. Moreover, in different periods of Xiao's development, Xiao Ye formed his own main styles, such as Huangmei School and New Martial Arts School. I wonder if Tianying Entertainment will launch audio-visual products according to these directors and factions. Wang Zhixiong replied, "We haven't thought about it yet. So far, we have only released about 65,438+000 movies. Movies that exceed 150 may consider this method. "

Shaw movies worth collecting

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

When will you come again?

Hong Ling's tears

The Price Of Love

Nezha.

Shaolin Temple

Princess Iron Fan

Love in the city

Flowers in flowers

Da ji.

[Literary Works] Journey to the West

Huajie times

Liang Zhu.

72 tenants

Yun pei dung lung

Love slave

Wang Wu took a broadsword.

Meteor butterfly sword.

a love affair

Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities

Golden bodhisattva

tales of eternia

bodyguard

Fang Shiyu and Hongxi Palace

Thirteen Pacific insurance company

Hong kong nocturne

The house of Mr.Sun's wife

Chu Liuxiang.

Come and have a drink with me.

Books and swords

unknown hero

destiny

Little bastard

Thorn horse

Blue and black sequels

Huatiancuo

Tathagata palm