First of all, Shaw Film Company is a big film company established for several decades. Decades = there will be many problems left over from history, and it may be difficult to return if it is not handled well; It is difficult to take into account many details if you are not careful. Details often determine success or failure. In the early 1980s, Shaw Film executives turned their attention from movies to TV series. At that time, Shaw Pictures' financial report was getting worse year by year, and it happened that the company also made a big profit when operating TVB, so it gradually reduced its investment in movies.
Second, Bernard Shaw's decades-old production system has long been difficult to keep up with the times. This makes it difficult for Xiao to make movies as popular as before. Coupled with the unreasonable choice of actors, many excellent actors left Shaw and set up another portal. Many of these actors later became strong opponents of Xiao. Such as Zou Wenhuai, Bruce Lee and Xu Guanwen. These are actors and directors who have great influence in Hong Kong's film industry, but they are all rejected by Shaw. However, if they were really accepted by Xiao at the beginning, under Xiao's rigid system, it may be difficult for them to achieve later achievements.
Coupled with the rise of Tsui Hark, Huang Baiming, Mai Jia and others, the Hong Kong film industry has formed a three-legged situation of Shaw, Jiahe and Art Nouveau.
The most fatal thing is that because of the collapse of the local box office in Hong Kong, Shaw executives turned their attention to the international market. Shaw Film Company began to enter Hollywood in 1980s. The company invested in Hollywood blockbusters such as Cataclysm and blade runner, but the box office was not ideal, and it was basically a loss situation. This became the last straw to overwhelm the camel.
If the decision is correct, Shaw Film Company may become a century-old film company like Warner Bros. Unfortunately, without more ifs, Shaw Film Company, which missed the opportunity of the times, can only be gradually buried by the dust of history.
Shaw films used to be the label of China films in 1960s and 1970s, and even left an indelible mark on the world film history. Thirteen Pacific Insurance, Master Hong Quan, Fang Shiyu and Hong Xiguan. They are all classics of Shaw movies.
In the late 1970s, Xiao began to decline. I think there should be three points:
First, the development trend of Hong Kong film and television. From 1950s to 1970s, Hong Kong's films were brilliant, and excellent films from Chinese mainland and many Asian countries were introduced from Hong Kong. Shaw also pushed Shaw movies to a climax under the leadership of Shaw. It is the rapid development of Hong Kong's economy that promotes the rapid development of the film industry. However, after the 1980s, with the slow development of Hong Kong's economy and the emergence of excellent films from neighboring countries, Hong Kong films have made great strides forward.
Second, the internal reasons of Shaw Group, the external development is rapid, while the internal production system of Shaw Group is stuck in the past and has not kept pace with the times. In addition, some excellent directors and actors have got married, and Shaw's spiritual leaders are getting old. Especially after the 1980s, Shaw turned his attention to the field of television, which failed to bring glory to Shaw, so Shaw followed the decline of Shaw's films and gradually declined.
Third, at the time of Xiao's decline, the wrong overseas investment made Xiao, who was already in a spent force, worse, played a devastating role and accelerated Xiao's decline.
Shaw Film Company, known as "Oriental Hollywood", has experienced nearly 30 years from the establishment of 1958, to its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, and then to its decline in the 1980s. This film and television empire is the highest in China's film history and the pride of China's films. Due to the rise of major film companies in the 1980s, such as Golden Harvest, and the progress of the times, Shaw's film style can no longer meet the needs of the audience. Xiao has a unique vision and soon turned his attention to TV, which is now TVB (Wireless TV). After the transfer, it had great influence and received great benefits, and classic dramas emerged one after another, such as The Legend of the Condor Heroes. This is the result of Shao Yifu's foresight, because any industry has its ups and downs. It is also a miracle that Shaw's films have been monopolized for more than 20 years, and it can't be like this forever. Although it stopped production in the 1980s, it can't be concluded that it is a decline, but a transformation, which is the need of the development of the times, indicating that Shao Yifu's approach is the right choice.
1957, 50-year-old Shao Yifu went north to Hong Kong from Nanyang.
At that time, the Shaw brothers had long been famous in the film and television circle. As early as 1925, the four brothers established "Tianyi" film company in Shanghai with their strong family background. The eldest Shao Zuiweng is the general manager and director, the second Shao Cun is the accountant and screenwriter, the third Runme Shaw is responsible for distribution, and the sixth Shao Yifu helps his brothers while reading.
Thanks to the joint efforts of brothers, Tianyi once became one of the three major film companies in old Shanghai, and developed its business to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and even Southeast Asia, becoming a multinational company with a good reputation overseas.
In the 1950s, the Shaw brothers who went south coincided with the once-in-a-century development opportunity in Hong Kong, and elites from all corners of the country gathered.
However, Shao Cunren, the second brother in charge of Hong Kong business, did not focus on production, but focused on building cinemas, which was quickly suppressed by rival Cathay Pacific.
In the second year of the establishment of Shaw Brothers Film Company, the highly effective Run Run Run Shaw came to Hong Kong. Later, it made great progress and spent a lot of money to show its extraordinary entrepreneurial spirit.
He spent a huge sum of money to buy a piece of land of more than 60,000 square meters in Qingshui Bay, and built a movie theater by reclamation, and bought equipment from the United States. Shaw Studios, built by him, had 1300 employees in its heyday and was praised as "Oriental Hollywood" by foreign media.
▲ The classic title of Bernard Shaw.
Shao Yi's conservatism was soon abandoned by Shao Yifu and his third brother Runme Shaw.
In order to completely seize the production right of the second child, Runme Shaw and Run Run came up with a trick of "relieving soldiers with a glass of wine". On Shao Yi's 60th birthday, they announced in public: "The second brother has worked hard, and now he is old, so it is better to retire and enjoy happiness."
Shao Yi was forced into the palace by his younger brother, and he didn't want to admit his cowardice. Although he gave up the production right, he was troubled by Xiao's drastic construction. He sold the old Shaw Studio first, and then the Xinhua Cinema he bought didn't show Shaw movies, but premiered western movies.
It was not until 196 1 that Shao Cun officially withdrew from Shaw Brothers Company, and the Shaw family business split into two.
During the ups and downs of Shaw Company, the power struggle ran through, and rivers and lakes grievances became an endless topic in Hong Kong film and television circles.
The road is blue, in order to open the forest. Shaw Company, which faced the separation of brothers at the beginning of its establishment, suffered from internal and external troubles.
Run, run, run, run, work hard, and talk about your work. He said: "My attitude is to do everything well, even the smallest part. I will never relax until everything is perfect. "
Zhang Che, a director from the Shaw family, witnessed Shaw's dedication. According to his memory:
"(Shao Yifu) has been like a day for decades. Go to work at 9 o'clock every day, and practice Qigong for two hours before going to work without interruption. At work, I explain the work of the supervisor. I wrote a note, one for everyone. When I arrived at the factory, my first job was to watch the porn taken by the director the day before, standing and watching, while doing the handle movement. "
Shaw once said that he had no entertainment, and watching movies was his job and entertainment. He claims to be the person who watches the most movies in the world. Before he was 80 years old, he watched six or seven hundred movies every year.
In order to ensure the quality of the film, Shao Yifu strictly controls the film. He said: "The audience must be very unhappy after watching the bad film. If they watch too much, they will lose confidence in you. It is better to burn the bad films. "
In the early days of Shaw's establishment, Shaw made numerous films. The slogan "Shaw's films must be good" is by no means empty talk.
At the same time of Shao's difficult development, the problems brought by Shao Cun's departure were quickly exposed.
Shaocun people have three sons, the second of which, Shao, is the most outstanding and deeply appreciated. After Shao Yi resigned from Shaw Company, Shao was still retained as the general manager by his sixth uncle and became the backbone of Shaw in his early years. Xiao intends to train him as a successor to Xiao's film career.
However, Shao Yiren didn't want to because they were pushed out by their younger brother. They didn't want their son to "work for others" and ordered Shao to quit the Shaw brothers. Shao didn't want to go against his father's wishes, so he had to submit his resignation letter to his sixth uncle and went to Japan, and he was never heard from again.
After Shao left, Zhou Naiwen took over as general manager. Run Run Run Shaw is unwilling to delegate power to outsiders. Zhou Naiwen is only in charge of the distribution field, and Zou Wenhuai, who was hand-picked by Run Run Run Shaw, is in charge of the company's scale.
Zou Wenhuai has made great contributions to Shaw for many years, but his position has always been limited to the propaganda director and production manager, and at the highest, he was only the deputy general manager. During this period, the general manager changed several times. Even if he didn't have real power, he was always on Zou Wenhuai's head.
Zou Wenhuai was very depressed. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot be independent, let alone a shareholder. Shaw is a family business. As early as the beginning of its establishment, it was written in the company's articles of association that the main shareholder could only be the Shaw family.
This arrangement paved the way for Zou Wenhuai to escape from Bernard Shaw and become independent in the future.
At that time, Shaw's rival Cathay Pacific made a lot of excellent films that were applauded and sold well, which made Shaw a little anxious. Zou Wenhuai gave advice to Run Run Run Shaw Company and hired Lin Dai, the most popular actress in Hong Kong, from Cathay Pacific Airways at twice the salary.
▲ Lin Biao.
His real name is Cheng, and his father is a big shot in Guangxi, who helped Li Zongren run for "Vice President". Lin Dai was praised by director Li Hanxiang as a star that could not be found in the film industry for decades. Unfortunately, she married dragon five, the son of Yunnan King Long Yun.
1964, Lin Dai committed suicide due to marital problems at the age of 30. For many years after that, when Hong Kong people think of unlucky beauties, they will mention Lin Dai.
After Dai Lin switched to Shaw, she starred in the film The Story of Diesim at 1958. The film was directed by Li Hanxiang and won five awards at the 5th Asian Film Festival.
Li Hanxiang was born in fine arts and was obsessed with drama. When he was young, he applied for the college entrance examination with a forged high school diploma, and was found to have cancelled his student status. 1948 actively participated in various student movements, but went south to Xiangjiang River on the eve of the political reform, and escaped the cultural catastrophe afterwards.
Li Hanxiang is one of Shaw's most valued directors, and his Huangmei movies became a major symbol of Shaw at that time.
Butterfly lovers, released on 1963, was written and directed by Li Hanxiang, and achieved good box office results. After it was released in Taipei, it set a record for 62 consecutive days in Taipei, and the total box office income exceeded NT$ 8 million.
When Ling Bo, the actress who plays the cross-dressing Liang Shanbo, visited Taiwan, thousands of people and citizens lined up to watch. For this reason, she won the second Golden Horse Award "Special Award for Best Actor". The reason for this award is that the judges don't know whether to give her the leading actor award or the leading actress award.
Butterfly lovers turned Taiwan Province Province into a "crazy city". In the next 30 years, the film market in Taiwan Province Province has been dominated by Hongkong. As Zhang Aijia, an actor from Taiwan Province Province, said, filmmakers in Taiwan Province Province think that as long as there are Hong Kong actors, it is a good movie.
Just when Li Hanxiang's career was booming, Cathay Pacific betrayed him and supported him to set up the League of Nations Company in Taiwan Province Province. Li Hanxiang wanted to achieve something, and made some good movies in Taiwan Province. However, due to poor management, it was on the verge of bankruptcy in a few years, and it was only 197 1 to return to Hong Kong.
Hearing that Li Hanxiang was going back to Bernard Shaw, Bernard Shaw wanted to refuse, or his third brother Runme Shaw let bygones be bygones and advised him to "fight for money and fail to live up to expectations". Li Hanxiang returned to Shaw and made a comeback, opening up new commercial films such as deception films, romance films and Qing Palace films.
Even when making erotic films, many later directors can't compare with this old driver.
Li Hanxiang's sworn brother Hu Jinquan is also famous for Xiao. Hu Jinquan is a scientist. Later, he was the first to shoot light jumps with a spring bed, inspired by studying science and engineering.
He introduced China's martial arts films to the world and made classic films such as Come and Have a Drink with me and Longmen Inn. Come and have a drink with me, which is called the pioneering work of the new martial arts film.
However, Hu Jinquan and Xiao often disagree.
1964, Hu Jinquan directed the anti-Japanese film Children of the Earth for Bernard Shaw. Because some Southeast Asian countries implemented anti-racial laws at that time, the scenes of Japanese atrocities and confrontation between Chinese and Japanese troops were largely deleted by Xiao before the film was released, especially those with national flags. Hu Jinquan is not satisfied with this.
Later, Hu Jinquan's film "Red Beard" was originally filmed on location in Taiwan Province Province. Zou Wenhuai signed a contract with Taiwan Province, but Shao Yifu ordered to stop filming. Later, the film was shot by other directors in Taiwan Province and renamed Mountain Thief, with Hu Jinquan as the titular screenwriter.
Soon, Hu Jinquan left Shaw Company and went to Taiwan Province Province.
It is another Xiao, Zhang Che, who teamed up with Hu Jinquan to create a martial arts film.
Zhang Che was born in a warlord's family in Zhejiang. In his early years, he became a political official. He first served as a cultural competition committee member in Shanghai, and then went to Taiwan Province, where he was promoted by Jiang Jingguo. Being in officialdom, Zhang Che always thought about official addiction, but he was defeated frequently in the power struggle and had to quit politics. From then on, he was addicted to sex and had an affair with actress Helen Li Mei, so he mistakenly became a director.
When he first arrived in Hongkong, Zhang Che worked in Cathay Pacific for one year, and then was poached by Shaw. When Xiao was the director of the screenwriter, Zhang Che received a small note from Xiao every day, which indicated the designated project. Apart from Zou Wenhuai, few people can enjoy this kind of treatment, which shows Bernard Shaw's expectation for Zhang Che.
Zhang Che didn't let him down.
In 1960s, Shao Yifu, who was far-sighted, adopted the differentiation strategy proposed by Zou Wenhuai, which coincided with the popularity of martial arts novels by Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng and others in Hongkong, so he intended to create a "martial arts century". During this period, Shaw finally surpassed his rival Cathay Pacific, and the film industry reached its peak.
The characters in the martial arts films, led by them, are different from the female Xia and Confucian Xia who are good at it, and more like rangers and assassins who existed in the pre-Qin period. "His words will be true and his actions will be fruitful. He has promised to be sincere, not love him, and go to the realm of scholars. "
Directed by Zhang Che and released on 1967, "One-armed Knife" became the first Hong Kong film with a box office of over one million, which established Zhang Che's status as a Jianghu person in one fell swoop.
One-armed Knife was written by Ni Kuang, one of the "four great talents" in Hong Kong.
1957, Ni Kuang smuggled from Guangzhou to Macau and then moved to Hong Kong. At first, he only worked in a dye factory and occasionally contributed to Pravda. Unexpectedly, he wrote something by mistake and became a writer.
Ni Kuang also writes martial arts. 1965, Jin Yong was running Ming Pao and writing the novel Tian Ba Long Department. He has to go abroad for a month on business. It's hard for readers to accept if the serial of Tianlong Babu is suspended, but Jin Yong is too busy to do it, so he has to ask Ni Kuang to do it.
Before he left, Jin Yong told Ni Kuang never to write the characters in the novel Dead. As soon as Jin Yong left, Ni Kuang blinded A Zi in the novel. When Jin Yong came back, he found that Ni Kuang had completely released himself and changed the plot beyond recognition.
In the face of doubt, Ni Kuang smiled and said, "I didn't blind him, but Ding Chunqiu blinded him."
Ni Kuang has made great achievements in the script of martial arts movies, but after he finished writing a work, he left it with money, so the content was often revised by the director. He changed Jin Yong's novels and others changed his plays.
Ni Kuang doesn't mind at all. He joked that he wrote One-armed Knife Ni Kuang. After this film, he and Zhang Che began to cooperate for more than ten years.
The heroes in Zhang Che's movies are handsome and natural, the simple clothes are full of masculinity, and the brow is often depressed, so the story of tragic heroes is staged.
Li Xiuxian, Tommy Tam and John Chiang are all Zhang Che's favorite students.
John Chiang was born into a family of performers, and his brother Jiang Changnian made his debut as a child star. Jiang Changnian later became known as "Qin Pei" and was also a famous actor in Hong Kong. Their mother remarried after their father died and gave birth to a son named Dong Chengyi.
Brothers in the entertainment circle are not uncommon, but Qin Pei, John Chiang and Dong Shengyi have completely different names, and they are brothers, which is expected to surprise many people.
▲ John Chiang, the emperor hero of Zhang Che.
Zhang Che won the title of "Million Directors" for One-armed Knife, but there is another director named Chu Wan under Bernard Shaw.
This man is Chu Yuan.
Chu Yuan has been fascinated by Shanghai-style movies since he was a child. After liberation, he went to college in Guangzhou and studied many film theory works of the former Soviet Union. He fled to Hong Kong from 65438 to 0954.
Chu Yuan originally wanted to be an actor, but he was too short, so he had to develop into a screenwriter and director. Maybe he can't get rid of his obsession with acting. Chu Yuan made a guest appearance in film and television dramas from time to time in his later years, and Chu Yuan played the villain in Jackie Chan's Never Give Up.
Now when it comes to Hong Kong movies, many people still think that the Mandarin movies they watched in video halls and TV as children are dubbed versions imported from the Mainland. In fact, in the 1970s, films in Hong Kong were mainly in Mandarin, while films in Bruce Lee were all shown in Mandarin, which was only changed to Cantonese after re-release in the 1980s.
Chu Yuan's martial arts film "Gu Long" was also dubbed in Mandarin when it was shown in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He said: "Gu Long's dialogue is the most interesting in Mandarin."
But it was Chu Yuan who brought Cantonese movies back to life. 1973, his Cantonese film "Seventy-two Tenants" was released, which caused a sensation in Hong Kong and became the box office champion of that year. This film has a far-reaching influence, and various film and television dramas have been derived in the future.
However, at this time, Hong Kong's film rivers and lakes are no longer dominated by Shaw.
▲ "Seventy-two Tenants" stills.
Zhang Che once wrote a sentence for Zou Wenhuai: "Friends fight with wine, half a piece of paper; The world is like chess, and the first hand is strong. "
In the chess game of Hong Kong film and television circles, Zou Wenhuai joined the army of Shaw without hesitation. He has worked for Xiao for n years. Although he is highly valued by Bernard Shaw, he is also repeatedly constrained.
1970, Shao Yifu, who was in his 60s, was in a good mood and had many happy events. Cathay Pacific, the old rival for more than ten years, finally stopped its production business, and Li Hanxiang, the "rebel" who left Taiwan Province, had a hard time and would close down sooner or later.
Later, Shaw brought Fang Yihua, a confidante, to Bernard Shaw to take charge of the purchasing department. Fang Yihua, a singer, has been a concubine for many years. It was not until she was 62 years old that she officially married Run Run Shaw, known as "Sixth Aunt". It was she who called Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Liming and Aaron Kwok the "Four Heavenly Kings".
Shaw reconstructed the Great Chinese culture in a small Hong Kong. He said, "I make movies to meet the needs and aspirations of the audience. The core audience is China people." Because of Shao's existence, Hong Kong became the center of Chinese films at that time.
At this time, there was bad news. Sir Zou Wenhuai, Sir Run Run Run Run's first capable minister, left with a group of Shaw veterans to set up Jiahe Company.
Zou Wenhuai said, "People who stay in one place for a long time always want to change. Besides, Shao Lao Liu and I are actually the same kind of people. The two of us are in a small world, which is really too crowded. "
At the beginning of Jiahe's establishment, there was no climate. The first film that Zou Wenhuai plans to shoot is The Blind Touch the Elephant vs One-armed Knife, which was co-produced with Japan. Wang Yu, the leading actor of one-armed knife, was invited to continue acting, which was a bit of a stunt.
Although Zou Wenhuai participated in the production of "One-armed Knife" series, it is not obvious that this is a fake Xiao. As soon as The Blind Touch the Elephant vs One-armed Knife was released, Run Run Shaw sued Zou Wenhuai, accusing Jiahe of copyright infringement.
Shao and Zou, who turned against each other, went to court and spent millions of lawyers' fees. They were still arguing until the end of the film.
However, Zou Wenhuai did not follow suit. He and his Jiahe soon found a weapon to deal with Xiao, or a big killer. This is Bruce Lee.
1970 was interviewed by Hong Kong media in Bruce Lee, where the United States developed, and said that as long as the salary and script were suitable, he would go back to Hong Kong for development. Xiao contacted him first. As a result, he was not only underpaid ($2,000), but also arrogant, which made the proud Bruce Lee very dissatisfied.
Xiao's pay has always been a hole.
Although Shaw spent a lot of money to attract famous pop stars such as Lin Dai at the beginning of its establishment, it has always adhered to the family business model, and since then, it has implemented a monthly salary system, and employees who signed Shaw often have to endure long-term contracts and low wages.
Chen Baozhu, who made Cantonese films in the 1960s, made dozens of plays every year, worth millions, but his salary did not exceed 10,000.
At that time, actors were even paid less than martial artists. John Chiang, who once dabbled in martial arts, once told Zhang Che that he would rather be body double than an actor.
Li Xiuxian once talked about Bernard Shaw's management system, saying that actors are not allowed to go out at night.
The old employees of Shaw often say that "Boss Shao has raised many people" when they talk about their former employers, but they seldom boast about how good Shaw's welfare is.
On the other hand, to this day, the star's pay is still very high, and there are so-called yin-yang contracts. Some people evade taxes by 800 million yuan. If the actor Shaw at that time knew about it, he would probably think it was a fable.
▲ Zou Wenhuai and Bruce Lee.
After talking with Xiao, Brother Long was very angry and the consequences were very serious, so he turned to Jiahe for help.
Seeing the value of Bruce Lee, Zou Wenhuai generously offered $7,500 as his salary and promised to meet his other demands. Bruce Lee was very satisfied and signed two films with Jiahe.
197 1 Bruce Lee's "Tangshan Big Brother" was released, which set a box office record in Hong Kong.
Bruce Lee is on fire, Jiahe is alive, Zou Wenhuai smiles from ear to ear, and Xiao can only sulk at home.
Xiao, who has always been wise, is confused at this time and misses the opportunity many times. When Bruce Lee competed for Xiangjiang River, Xu Guanwen, a "cold-faced comedian" who had worked for Shaw for many years, came to talk about cooperation with Shaw with his own script, wanted to direct, want to perform and even want to pay dividends.
Dividend? No
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By 198 1 year, Xu Guanwen had successively created films such as Crazy Money, Half a catty, Deed of Sale, Modern Bodyguard, etc. for Jiahe, and all of them won the box office champion of that year, and they were in the limelight for a while.
▲ "Half a catty and eight liang" poster.
Some people miss their whole lives. At this time, the Hong Kong film market has gone beyond Shaw's control. For film companies, the market is the source of money, and the box office is king.
Hong Kong film entered the golden age, and companies such as New Art City, Debao, China Star, Emperor and so on rose one after another, but Shaw's film career declined day by day.
1987, Shaw Film Company officially stopped production. Although it formed a "metropolis" with TVB in the 1990s, it failed to catch the last bus of the golden age of Hong Kong films and soon fell silent.
Bernard Shaw did not retire from the Jianghu, but took monopolizing the TV industry as his main direction.
1967, Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (TVB) was established, and Run Run Run Shaw is an important shareholder of TVB.
Since 1980s, Shao Yifu has gradually failed in the film market, but his carefully crafted TVB has entered an institutionalized era, playing a song of triumph in audience competition, which is very groundbreaking in TV series, music and variety shows.
At the beginning of the reform and opening up, classic TV dramas such as Legend of the Condor Heroes and Shanghai Beach produced by TVB were introduced to the mainland, which triggered a ratings frenzy. Since then, every China audience will have several impressive TVB TV dramas.
▲ "Shanghai Beach" stills.
TVB 1972 wireless TV artist training course has continuously delivered a large number of talents for China film industry.
Chow Yun Fat, Ng Man Tat, Yam Tat-wah, Lin Lingdong, Du Qifeng, Chen Yulian, Lv Liangwei, Felix Wong Yat Wa, Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Wu Zhenyu, Liu Qingyun, Wu Junru, etc. All walked out of TVB's artist training class.
1982, two young people with weak champions entered the wireless artist training class at the same time.
They are good friends. One of them decided to be an actor when he was a child, and the other one was just dragged by him to accompany the exam. As a result, the young man who wanted to be an actor unfortunately lost the election, but the one who took the exam was unexpectedly admitted as a student of 1 1 because of his handsome appearance.
Stephen Chow lost the election and Tony Leung Chiu Wai was admitted.
Undaunted, Stephen Chow managed to make it into TVB through unremitting efforts, and he has been a walk-on in TV dramas all the year round, which is not the same as Tony Leung Chiu Wai (the other four are, Andy Lau, and Tang) who has become one of the "five wireless tigers". It was not until Li Xiuxian discovered that Stephen Chow's career was on the right track and he was known as "king of comedy".
In addition, TVB began to select "Hong Kong Sisters" from 1973. There are too many beautiful women in Hong Kong movies, and this beauty contest covers almost half of the countries. Angie Chiu, Maggie Cheung, Chingmy Yau, Cherie Chung, Michelle monique Rice, Kathy Zhou, Ada Choi, Anita Yuen, etc. Have participated in the selection of Hong Kong elder sister.
Whether it is a training class student or a Hong Kong sister, these people have been marked by Shaw as soon as they debut. Some people started as a walk-on and endured hardships and tribulations for many years. Some people had a smooth career and rose step by step, and later became the backbone of Hong Kong's film and television industry.
Shaw's legend lies not only in film and television, but also in Shaw's charity. In a century's life, Shaw's kindness is worth learning from all entrepreneurs in China.
From 1985, Run Run Run turned to Chinese mainland. He said: "The key to China's strength lies in education and training talents. It is my greatest wish to donate the money I earned to education and do something practical. "
▲ Shao Yifu.
There is only one Shaw House in Hong Kong, but how many Shaw Houses are there in Chinese mainland? This is a question raised by some netizens when Shao Yifu died.
A netizen posted a picture in Weibo, showing that he searched the Shaw Building through an online map and found nearly 30,000 buildings, almost all over China. Almost all children from different regions can find a Shaw Building in their local school.
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This centenarian started a film and television river and lake, and he still moved freely until his later years. Talking about the secret of health preservation, he said, first, we should work hard, second, we should laugh often, and third, we should practice martial arts every day.
When Shao Yifu retired to the mountains to support his old age, Hong Kong films were on the decline.
In the 1990s, Taiwanese capital entered the Hong Kong film market in large quantities. Some filmmakers made up their minds to make a fortune before 1997, so they sought a large amount of investment from Taiwan Province filmmakers and made shoddy work. 1993, the eight major film producers in Taiwan Province Province negotiated with the Hong Kong Film Industry Association to reduce the actor's pay, and mentioned that "* * * more than 250 Taiwan-funded Hong Kong films were not delivered on schedule". There are countless "unfinished" investments, and Hong Kong films eventually lost the trust of Taiwanese businessmen and the Taiwan Province market.
Around 1997, the gangster capital that once played an important role in Hong Kong film and television also withdrew one after another, and Hong Kong films lost a great reliance. Hong Kong filmmakers have gone north to make money, and the local market is declining, which seems to have been powerless for a long time.
2014,6543817 October, Shao Yifu died at the age of 107.
At that time, the glory of Shaw films has become history, and the golden age of Hong Kong films has long passed.
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Liu Qi: On the Maturity, Evolution and Significance of Hong Kong Martial Arts Films in 1960s and 1970s, Master's Degree Thesis of Shanghai Theatre Academy, 2009.
The two letters on the shield have broken the geomantic omen, so I'm not afraid of giving birth to the wrong image, and I'm afraid of giving the wrong name.
Mainly due to the death of Sir Run Run Run Shaw, TVB lost its former glory.
Not decline, but brave retreat. He has trained countless Hong Kong stars. Isn't he a star mother?
It is difficult to be safe and secure.