How prominent is Hong Jinbao’s family background? Each is a big figure in the Republic of China. The family power supported half of Hong Kong’s films. In 1938, Hong Kong produced the first martial arts film "Fang Shiyu Fight the Ring". The director of this film, Hong Ji, is Hong Jinbao’s grandfather, and Hong Jinbao’s grandmother, Qian Siying, is the first generation of Chinese martial arts actresses.
In the late 1940s, Hong Jinbao’s grandparents sponsored Yu Zhanyuan, a Beijing opera master, to establish the Hong Kong Chinese Drama Academy. This academy, in fact, was a place for the troupe and a large number of talents for subsequent Chinese films. Hong Jinbao was one of them.
From Xiao Long to the youngest martial arts instructor in Hong Kong, and now to the big brother of the film industry, the colleague that Hong Jinbao most admires is not his junior brother Jackie Chan, but the kung fu legend Bruce Lee. When the three brothers of Hong Jinbao Jackie Chan and Yuan Biao went to the cinema to watch Bruce Lee movies, Jackie Chan and Yuan Biao both thought that Bruce Lee movies were nothing more than this. Only Hong Jinbao can bet that this is the beginning of a huge change.
Because he felt that Bruce Lee movies had a real fighting feel. Later, Bruce Lee introduced Chinese kung fu movies to the world, and Samuel Hung has been following with an attitude of admiration and appreciation. Therefore, after Bruce Lee left, Samuel Hung launched a tribute to Bruce Lee’s work "Fat Dragon Crossing the River".
He not only imitated Bruce Lee in this movie, but also showed the essence of Bruce Lee’s movements to the fullest. Although the appearance of the two is quite different, when it comes to imitating Bruce Lee, no one can defeat Fatty Hong.
Wonderful not only in front of the stage, can the minister only talk about big things, everyone, I am able to minister. Today we will talk about this "Fat Dragon Crossing the River"!
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In fact, Samuel Hung and Bruce Lee are not familiar with each other. He first played a supporting role in Bruce Lee’s works. The two had private contact but not much, but Samuel Hung admired Bruce Lee very much and has been trying to catch up.
In 1978, the era of Bruce Lee had come to an end, and Hong Jinbao became a famous martial arts instructor and producer in Hong Kong. He recruited Ni Kuang, one of the four talents in Hong Kong, as a screenwriter, and wrote the script of "Fat Dragon Crossing the River". The story content is similar to Bruce Lee’s masterpiece "Raptors Crossing the River". But Hong Jinbao played his own brilliance in this movie.
In 1972, Bruce Lee starred in the work "Raptors Crossing the River", which broke the box office records in South East Asia. Six years later, Hong Jinbao, who was supported by Bruce Lee, made a film "Fat Dragon Crossing the River". There is no Bruce Lee here, but there is a tribute to Bruce Lee everywhere. The story begins with a dream. The martial arts design is to restore the classic scenes of Bruce Lee’s films from the action and scene. There are both empty hands and equipment, one-to-one seckill, and one-to-many group scenes. The final replenishment action is still ended in a comedic style. From here, it can be seen that Hong Jinbao’s tribute is not just imitation, but adds a lot of his own creativity.
Hong Jinbao plays the male protagonist Aaron, who is a brain-dead fan of the kung fu star Bruce Lee. He first raised pigs in the countryside, and when he had nothing to do, he lectured the little pigs. If he didn’t like anyone, he had to go up and punch them twice. Under the supervision of his father, Aaron went to the city to join his second uncle. The background of this story is a bit like Bruce Lee’s "Raptors Crossing the River".
There are many fighting scenes in the movie. Hung Jinbao not only referred to Bruce Lee’s action style, but also added the most popular acrobatic martial arts design at that time in the details. It is worth mentioning that Lin Zhengying also appeared in this movie, playing a punk who was beaten. It hurts to watch. In the early years, Lin Zhengying and Hung Jinbao followed Bruce Lee. Later, Lin Zhengying also directed and starred in a tribute to Bruce Lee’s work "Green Hornet", but the box office was not as good as Fat Dragon Crossing the River.
In 1978, Hong Jinbao directed and starred in the "Fat Dragon Crossing the River" after the release, although it is a tribute to Bruce Lee’s works, only received 1.66 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, but did not set off much waves in the industry, when Hong Jinbao was 29 years old, is a director producer and martial arts director, young and energetic refused to admit defeat, so after the "Fat Dragon Crossing the River", Hong Jinbao worked overtime and drove out a "Mr. Zan and Looking for Qian Hua" before the end of the year. The movie has a full plot and full of interest. The box office 2.86 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking sixth in the year., Now there are still people who regard "Mr. Zan and Looking for Qian Hua" as a Wing Chun teaching film.
At that time, Hong Jinbao was talented, not only launched a number of action movies, but also showcased his skills in comedy, ghost movies and other fields. However, Hong Jinbao’s favorite was literary films. At the peak of his career, Hong Jinbao opened a company to launch many literary films, and even pulled his junior brother Jackie Chan to play a "Dragon’s Heart". Unfortunately, the Hong Kong film market was like a big wave, and good-looking films emerged in an endless stream, but few audiences could remember. Hong Jinbao’s career began to lack stamina in the 1990s.
Until now, if you want to talk about Hong Jinbao, the people who can talk to you may have all married and started a business, and few people remember how flexible and powerful Hong Fatty was back then. With the aging of a generation, today’s film and television industry has changed. It seems that few people stick to the bottom line and take their works and audiences seriously.
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