Ching-Ying Lam maoshan taoist (Ching-Ying Lam becomes a zombie leader for the first time)
First, Sammo Hung created a fantasy action movie.
1973 Bruce Lee's death made the Hong Kong Kung Fu film industry suddenly lost. At this time, Shaw in movie mogul chose to pay attention to the film and television of Gu Long's novels, and the director Chu Yuan became famous, and many films with tens of millions of box office appeared.
On the other hand, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang's "Golden Harvest" chose the comedy direction, took the lead in implementing the independent filmmaker system, and supported the satellite company of Golden Harvest-Xu Film in Xu Guanwen.
At that time, Sammo Hung was a walk-on in Xu Shi's blockbuster Ghost Horse and Double Star, and served as a martial arts instructor. Later, experienced Sammo Hung put forward the idea of being a director to Zou Wenhuai.
Zou Wenhuai, out of the idea of supporting young people, asked him to give it a try, so he got "three virtues and six monks make a meal". The movie box office is not bad, ranking sixth in the annual box office list.
The success of "three virtues and six monks make a meal" made Sammo Hung an independent general of Jiahe, and then Hongjiaban was also full of talents. Later, he made a series of action movies, such as The Sage Boy and Lin Shirong.
But Sammo Hung's ambition does not stop there. 1980, with the support of Jiahe, Baohe Film Company was established, and the first film produced was Ghost, which was a real magical action film in Hong Kong film history and opened a new genre.
Second, the foolproof Guangdong folk custom, Maoshan Taoism introductory teaching film.
After Ghost, Sammo Hung and Jiahe quickly released Scary Man, which is the first time that Ching-Ying Lam plays maoshan taoist. The whole movie is full of Guangdong folk customs, ancestral temples, funerals and even the art of bringing back the dead.
One of maoshan taoist's techniques: catching ghosts. Dip grapefruit leaves in water (gray water after burning paper symbols) and put them on your eyes to see ghosts. This setting was continued by Mr. Zombie at 1985.
Wicker play ghost, hit three inches short.
Maoshan taoist's second trick: use magic to let Ma Linxiang, the soul of the afternoon horse, enter Sammo Hung's body and let Sammo Hung's soul out of body.
There is a time limit for casting spells. Be sure to come back before dawn.
Maoshan taoist's third skill: reincarnation
Xiaoyun (Cherie Chung) in the film is bent on saving Sammo Hung. My second uncle pointed out a method for her: marrying her with a rooster means that she married the dead Sammo Hung, because this method can only be used by her wife.
At the same time, the theory is also very complicated: the seventh day after death is called the first seven days, and the first seven days are the days when Zhu () suffered disasters.
"Disaster" is the living spirit of the dead and the soul of strangers. When this gas passes through the corpse, it will become an evil wind, which is called a ghost, that is, a "ghost"
Xiaoyun needs to light a Yongming lamp behind the coffin. In order to remind Zhu's ghost how to get to the underworld from here, he needs a bowl of "inverted rice".
Before introducing the operation of the first seven, Uncle Ching-Ying Lam continued to teach Cherie Chung Theory: Erqi is the return of evil spirits, and the return of evil spirits is the day when ghosts go home. She will prepare a five-color ladder and a reed flower and put them in the chimney.
Ghosts will become beetles, but there are many insects at night. The way to tell which is Zhu is to cover the roof with lime. If there is an insect whose feet are covered with lime, it is Zhu. When you catch the beetle, wrap it with a "period belt" so that you can't find it.
When he returned to the evil spirits, Zhu was detained by Yin and could not stay long. So you need to prepare a lot of sacrifices.
Yin Yin's specialty: Put the eggs in a jar, because the setting in the film is that Yin Yin likes to eat eggs, put the eggs in a jar, and if you want to eat eggs, you must drink all the wine.
In this way, he will get drunk and Xiaoyun will have time to find Zhu, who has become a bug, to do the above operations. As long as he can endure until the dawn, Zhu can return to his soul.
Yin Yin's modeling design is very ET style, which is also a reflection of the crazy creativity and imitation of Hong Kong films at that time.
Unique Street Ghost Horse Comedy in Cantonese
The comedy style in Scary Man has the street ghost horse comedy style peculiar to Cantonese in 1960s+0970s and 1960s+0980s.
It is not easy for Sammo Hung to pretend to be a paper worker and be moved by his second uncle Ching-Ying Lam. The most flexible fat man in the world is as light as a swallow, which is the hilarious scene of this film.
At the funeral, Sammo Hung, dressed as a paper tie, was lit by naughty children, and her expression was matched with the makeup of paper tie, which made people laugh.
Sammo Hung suspected that his old friend Ma Linxiang was poisoned, so he went to have an autopsy. The horse in the afternoon did not die at this time, but remained as calm as the dead when it was seen by an old friend in collusion.
The funniest thing is the monk invited by the Ma family to do things for Ma Linxiang's funeral. The monk had ulterior motives and returned to the mourning hall in the middle of the night to steal Ma Linxiang's funerary objects. As a result, I happened to bump into Sammo Hung's "corpse" after the "autopsy". I was very surprised and disappointed: "Did anyone beat me to it?"
Finally, the monk found a valuable commodity: gold false teeth. The process of pulling out false teeth is also full of laughter.
Another hilarious scene in this movie is that the afternoon horse borrows Sammo Hung's body and goes back to seek revenge on his fake wife. As a result, it failed and Sammo Hung's body could not be recovered. Their souls had to carry their second uncle Ching-Ying Lam, who was disabled, and look for the body with his fake wife. Because Oh Mom and Sammo Hung are ghosts, Oh Mom and Sammo Hung are flying in the street with Ching-Ying Lam on their backs, and passers-by see Ching-Ying Lam fly away.
As a film of 1982, such creativity and sense of humor have been widely recognized by the audience. At that time, it ranked ninth in the box office list with 1065438+ million box office, which saved a little face for Jiahe, which was beaten by the rising new art city company at that time.
Fourth, the inheritance between Sammo Hung and Ching-Ying Lam.
In Scary Man, Ching-Ying Lam, who plays the second uncle, said that he would pass on his mantle to his nephew Sammo Hung after his death. But in fact, as far as the inheritance of zombie comedy is concerned, Ching-Ying Lam took over the mantle of Sammo Hung and insisted on the kung fu elements and hilarious style initiated by Sammo Hung in ghost films.
In fact, Sammo Hung is also regarded as a noble person in Ching-Ying Lam-Ching-Ying Lam's first zombie movie is Ghost, which plays a catcher. In Scary Man (1982), although there were no zombies, Ching-Ying Lam played the yellow-robed Taoist Mao Shan for the first time, which became the beginning of Ching-Ying Lam's film universe.
Although Sammo Hung and Ching-Ying Lam are not Peking Opera masters, they are both Long Hudou masters in the same period. Ching-Ying Lam was Bruce Lee's right-hand man in the1970s and was appreciated by Bruce Lee.
After Bruce Lee's death, Sammo Hung invited Ching-Ying Lam to join Hong Jiaban. Most of the zombie films that Ching-Ying Lam later starred in were shot with the support of Baohe Company in Sammo Hung.
In reality, their relationship is also very good. Sammo Hung once said, "Ching-Ying Lam is a very good brother of mine. He is a very upright man. " Now that the people of Sri Lanka have passed away, people can't help but miss the era when the stars gathered. (Author: Mankei Wu)