What are Shaw's romantic movies?

In addition, Lust, Sound, Dogs and Horses is the last film co-produced by Li Hanxiang and Xu Guanwen. They started with The Great Warlord, and the subsequent films "Yi" and "Lust, Sound, Dogs and Horses" were directed and performed by Li, which gained a strong box office and reputation, and therefore firmly occupied the throne of the first comedian in Xiangjiang River. This time, in The Sound, Dogs and Horses, Xu Guanwen once again played many roles alone, vividly showing four different class figures, namely, the old man, the film critic, the doctor and the messenger Jiang Lang. However, Xu Guanwen, who has been planning to develop into a creative filmmaker who is a screenwriter, director and actor, gave his script Ghost Horse and Double Stars to Run Run Run Shaw, hoping to share the profits with Shaw. However, how can Shao Yifu, who has always been arbitrary, allow his subordinates to put forward such "unreasonable" conditions, and immediately flatly refused on the grounds that the script was too poor. As the negotiation failed, Xu Guanwen had to move to Jiahe and set up the Hsu Brothers Company, and his career was brilliant from then on-this is another story.

In fact, there is a sensational news about debauchery and immorality, that is, the heroine Bai Xiaoman committed suicide before the film was released. There are different opinions on the reasons, which are beyond the author's imagination after 30 years. However, this woman was only 19 years old when she died, but she was handsome and mature, and she was born with beauty. As soon as she made her debut, she was called "the greatest discovery since Lin Dai". Now when I watch movies, I know that this statement is true, and my heart is full of envy. It suddenly occurred to me that Li Hanxiang recalled an interesting story about Bai Xiaoman's performance. It turns out that Bai Xiaoman can't remember his lines no matter how hard he tries, so every shot in the whole movie is a hint from Li Hanxiang. She said the dialogue unhurriedly while acting out the dialogue. As a result, not only the audience couldn't see it, but even the voice actors didn't believe it was shot like this. The funniest thing is that someone actually praised her acting skills for being vivid and natural. So someone asked Yang, the director who wanted to use it but thought she couldn't act: You said she couldn't act, so how did he act so well as soon as he got it? -Director Yang was puzzled for a long time, but only managed to squeeze out a sentence: I am very confused, and there is nothing I can do!

■ [Xiao] [Li Hanxiang] [Yang Qun] Shuang Yan in Golden Bottle [1974]

1973' s romance was a great success at the box office. Li Hanxiang found that the audience's favorite was the fragrant and exciting "Golden Lotus Flower", so he took the opportunity to shoot "Golden Lotus Flower". At that time, Jackie Chan, whose stage name was still Chen Yuanlong, was also filmed by Li Hanxiang, in which he played a joking clever brother. This is the first time Jackie Chan has played an important role on the screen and performed in a playful and funny way. At that time, there were still four years before he was truly famous. At that time, he still had a single eyelid. The film begins with Pan Jinlian's bamboo fork hitting Ximen Qing by mistake, and the adulterer and prostitute poisoning Wu Dalang, and ends with Ximen Qing's indulgence and death. The whole story is about the romantic and dissolute life of Ximen Qing and Kim and the bottle. ...

■ [Xiao] [Li Hanxiang] [Xu Guanwen] Great Warlord [1972]

In the early 1970s, Shaw Company, which was in its heyday, lost its strength because of Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang. Coupled with Bruce Lee's box office guarantee, Zou Hehe's Jiahe Company, "Tangshan Big Brother" and "Jingwumen" broke records at the box office, and Shaw Film Kingdom was overwhelmed. Just when Shao Laoliu was at a loss, he secretly went to Taiwan Province Province to deal with the Shao family in the 1960s and quietly returned to Hong Kong after failing to run the League of Nations. Shao Laoliu knows that although this black Lao Li is down and out at present, he still has the ability to make a peerless film, which can be used against Jiahe. It is precisely because of this that Run Run Run Run Shaw put the past behind him and recruited him to Li Hanxiang. However, Director Li lived up to expectations and returned to the box office of The Great Warlord and Shaw's First Shot to catch up with Jingwumen, which was also very popular.

The Great Warlord is adapted from many anecdotes of Li Hanxiang and interesting history of the Republic of China. Pang's artistic image and absurdity can be regarded as a collection of three warlords: Zhang Zongchang (three unknowns, begging for rain in the sun, honoring his stepfather), Sun Dianying (stealing Dongling). The film adopts the structure of passbook drama, stringing all kinds of jokes and anecdotes together. Although loose, it is still interesting even now under the guidance of Li Hanxiang, who is good at describing the world and paying attention to details.

Although The Great Warlord is a funny film about the anecdotes of warlords in the Republic of China, the two plots of "uncle and sister-in-law suing" and "warlord and aunt cheating" are full of "love affairs", so this film can be called the first romantic comedy. Jin Hu, who first appeared on the screen, showed coquettish charm, while Tina, who is famous for her sexy seduction in many Cantonese films (such as Seven Escapes, Seven Saturdays), finally took off her clothes and streaked for the camera. Their lively performances naturally feast the eyes of the audience, and the movies sold well at the box office, which also strengthened the idea of Shaw Company and Li Hanxiang to make more pure "romantic movies". As a result, there were later works of romance, romantic wonders, sexy dogs and horses, golden vase flowers and so on.

In addition, another great contribution of The Great Warlord is that it won the popularity of Xu Guanwen, the most important comedian in Hong Kong in recent 20 years. At that time, no one expected that this man, who is usually gentle and wears a pair of glasses and has never made a movie except as a TV host, would vividly play a "big warlord" with a thatched belly and a mouthful of jokes. Li Hanxiang seldom has an eye for talent. As soon as the film came out, Xu Guanwen immediately became the most popular comedy star at that time, and was also known as the "cold-faced comedian".

■ [Xiao] [Li Hanxiang] [Qin Huang] shameful warlord [1979]

This film can be said to be a sequel to The Great Warlord, which tells an anecdote about another warlord in Shandong after Pang. Even the scenes of judging corruption cases, celebrating the birthday of the elderly, and being unfaithful to the warlord aunt are similar. Compared with The Big Warlord, the plot of Gossip Warlord mainly focuses on whoring, whoring, adultery and other affairs. All the way to the end, Jin Hu, Shao Yinyin, Yu Shali, Linda Chu and other actresses have their own amorous feelings and are full of natural gimmicks.

Unfortunately, The Shame Warlord was written by Li Hanxiang after Xiao. Although many scenes are carefully produced by Lao Li with great interest, they are nothing more than cheating on each other. If the audience watches too much, it will inevitably be deja vu and some aesthetic fatigue. Therefore, by the end of 1970s, Li Hanxiang's romantic comedies had actually lost their beauty and the box office was more mediocre, but this does not mean that the level of Li Hanxiang's works has declined, only that.

Li Hanxiang is good at making hundreds of films. For example, the vs paragraph in "The Warlord of Scandal" actually completely copied Hou's comic dialogue with the same name, and even the dialogue was exactly the same. Such examples abound. The passage "The old lady went to the hospital to see a doctor" in Li Dao's comedy A Joy is actually a verbatim copy of Lao She's short story "Opening the Market". -Now we all say that Jing Wong is good at imitating and copying, but I don't know that Li Lao mastered "takenism" as early as 20 years ago.

■ [Xiao] [Li Hanxiang] [Leti] Ghost Story [1960]

This film is an immortal masterpiece in China's film history, adapted from a short story in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. Li Hanxiang showed his master's demeanor, researched the details, spent all his thoughts, dressed luxuriously and had exquisite props, which reshaped the classical world. Li Hanxiang is a great painter, and he wrote all the scenery in movies. The film is full of antique and ethereal charm. Betty Loh Ti, known as a classical beauty, plays Xiao Gan, and the beauty of her modeling is amazing.

Ning (Zhao Lei) and Nie (Betty Loh Ti) fall in love with ghosts, and the plot is bizarre. Grandma Tree Demon forced Xiao Gan to take the life of the minister. Fortunately, swordsman Yan Chixia saved them and set off a war between man and ghost. Finally, Xiao Gan came back to life and joined the team of priests. Li Hanxiang strengthened the original role and laid the foundation for Tsui Hark to remake Ghost Story thirty years later.

■ [Xiao] [Li Hanxiang] [Liu Yong] Gan Long Xiajiangnan [1977]

The relationship between Liu Yong's Gan Long and two think tanks (Miao Ching) and Liu (Kun Li) is subtle and funny. When Ji was shirtless editing Sikuquanshu, Gan Long suddenly visited, so Ji, who had no time to get dressed, had to hide under the table. After being summoned by Qianlong, he escaped the crime of deceiving the monarch by wit. "traveling incognito" shows the joys and sorrows of ordinary people, makes friends with () and, with Zhou's help, finds out and teaches a group of corrupt officials. ...

According to a costume comedy directed by unofficial history, a folk in the Qing Dynasty, Li Hanxiang, the Master of Romance, got rid of the complete way of shooting historical films of the court in costume, and turned into a storyteller, telling anecdotes about Qianlong in a humorous and skillful way, focusing on the battle of wits between the monarch and the minister and the characteristics of folk dialects. He spoke with relish, which made him more cordial and realistic. However, using Liu Yonghao to change his image to interpret the romantic emperor Gan Long reveals his comic talent and proves Li Hanxiang's unique vision in employing people. As early as the 1970s, the story with Liu was put on the screen, more than 20 years earlier than the mainland TV series. This film won the Golden Horse Award for outstanding feature film and the Best Color Film Art Design Award.

■ [Xiao] [Li Hanxiang] [Liu Yong] Gan Long Xiayangzhou [1978]

This is the sequel to "Qianlong Down the South". The last episode is the best prank on Ji Xiaolan. This episode was replaced by Liu's deception of one of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou. At first, Zheng refused to paint for Qianlong. Unexpectedly, Liu Yong's chess skill is better. He first lured Zheng with fragrant meat, and prevented him from painting when he was drunk to arouse him, in order to achieve his own goal. There are stories such as Gan Long's haircut scaring the barber to death and Liu Yongqiao's winning the flower show. Don't have fun.

■ [Xiao] [Li Hanxiang] [Liu Yong] Emperor Qianlong and Beauty [1980]

Li Hanxiang was immersed in the folk culture of northern cities since he was a child. When he grew up, he came to Hong Kong in the south and took more photos of northern folklore. He loves to listen to the Tianqiao crosstalk in old Beijing, and when he made up humorous sketches, he actually took materials directly from the crosstalk. It seems that "Guan Gong hits Qin Qiong" in "Gossip Warlord" and "Little Fairy" in "Love Story" just copied some familiar cross talk jokes. Another example is Li Hanxiang's series of jokes about Qianlong, whether it's "Qianlong Down to the South of the Yangtze River", "Qianlong Down to Yangzhou" or "Qianlong Emperor and Beauty", the main plot is the battle of wits between Qianlong and Liu Yong, which obviously comes from the long-standing cross talk ballad "Battle of wits in the Golden Temple".