Since the Hong Kong film "Chasing Women" entered the mainland, there has been a craze for Hong Kong comedies in China, and it has been until today.
You can look at the number of hits on the broadband Hong Kong Film Encyclopedia website. In contrast, it is not difficult to know the enthusiasm of Chinese people for Hong Kong film encyclopedia. I was unfortunately involved in it, but after watching many Hong Kong movies, I thought about it for a long time.
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1, bachelor type Hong Kong comedy film collection
The representative works of the early dynasties, which describe the protagonist's efforts to develop intelligence and make jokes, include the series of works "The Agent's Pull" adapted from the popular novel "The Diary of the Agent" in the 1950s. Zhang Ying's "The Pull of the Broker" is a typical local film philistine, and the film's description of various shopping malls in the 1950s can be said to hit the nail on the head. In 1960s, Jian Qin directed "He is My Brother" starring Xie Xian and Hu Feng, which further developed the drama of two bachelors chasing girls, and then there were the subsequent "Colorful He is My Brother" and "Dining". In the 1980s, the New Art City gave the packaging of the bachelor era, and produced Chasing Girls and a remake of He is My Brother. In addition, it is worth mentioning that bachelor films love to write stories about the protagonist's efforts to find money, which inspired the emergence of cheating films and gambling films later. Of course, the series of Gambling God and Gambling Man at the helm of Jing Wong were deeply influenced.
2, erotic type Hong Kong comedy film encyclopedia
The combination of eroticism and comic elements has been common since the era of Cantonese films. The movie "Sexy Men" directed by Kuen Yeung and starring Tina triggered a storm of romantic sex for sexy girls. In the film, seven perverts are lewd and upright. Even if they have wrong ideas about women, they dare not act because of cowardice, which provides inspiration for the image of a little man in the future. In the 1980s, comedies with mixed erotic elements still occasionally appeared, such as the revival film directed by Sammo Hung, and each episode had scenes in which the protagonists were fighting with beautiful women.
3, group drama type Hong Kong comedy film encyclopedia
A comedy in which a group of poor people share weal and woe and help each other is undoubtedly inspired by the stage play Seventy-two Tenants, which has been put on the screen many times for decades. In addition, some traditional sitcoms, such as Fourteen Gangs on the First Floor, Downstairs Thrifting, and Banquet of the Giants, have been derived. The biggest drama conflict in the film is either exploited by renters or forced to move by homeowners. In the 1980s, the series "Prosperity and Forcing" reshaped the long-lost neighborhood flavor with the life in the village. The later variation "Golden House of Prosperity" satirizes the greedy face of unscrupulous real estate developers, while retaining the grassroots characteristics of "72 tenants" in spirit. Once upon a time, a lot of group dramas influenced the direction of New Year films, such as Eight Stars, Happy Family and Happy Flower Field. On the contrary, in the 1990s, personal space became more and more spacious, and the crowded space moved from the countryside to the office. The situation was dominated by romance, among which Lonely Men and Few Women was naturally the masterpiece.
4, nonsense type Hong Kong comedy film encyclopedia
To create jokes in a whimsical and irrelevant comedy performance form, the process even ignores the plot and script, and makes people laugh purely by the actor's personal performance. This "nonsense" comedy technique was created by a generation of comedian Qiushui Yi in 1950s. His words are humorous, his actions are ghostly, and he is short and full of comedy. Another stunt of Qiushui Yi is to accurately grasp the comedy rhythm. He plays most of the dialogues. Qiushui Yi's representative works include "Little Hometown", "Laughing Stars Fall into the World" and "Brokers Fly South".
Another pair of nonsense comedians are Sun Masceng and Deng Jican, who are also good at making a belly-popping, and their characteristics are that one is playing dumb and the other is eye-catching. Their masterpieces include Two Fools series and XX World series. In the 1970s, Xu Shi Brothers basically continued the comedy style of New Masceng and Deng Jichen. Stephen Chow also imitated some impromptu comedy performances in his early days, such as the use of catchphrases. His masterpiece is A Comic Book Goes the World. The film performed badly, but it was revived by Stephen Chow's sense of comedy and personal charm. This is also the representative work of Stephen Chow's "Wulitou" period. Unfortunately, due to the increasing scale of post-production, Stephen Chow, as a comedy superstar, is under increasing pressure. Instead, he becomes cautious and more serious.
5. Encyclopedia of plagiarized Hong Kong comedies and movies
There are many articles in the world, and many early comedies copied Hollywood works, both in plot and content. For example, Sun Ma Shizeng and Deng Jichen copied Billy Huai's Passion, and Jinshan Shaoshao adapted it from the western film Twist the Master's Treasure Chair. Xiao Fangfang's "The Robber of the Jade Girl" plagiarized Godfrey-Shapin's masterpiece "Stealing the Dragon to Turn the Phoenix". Hello, I'm Good, which was produced in 1980s, copied the classic sitcom Peach Blossom Spring, Jackie Chan's Miracle copied the old Hollywood movie Rich bloom, and the photo of Jixing Zhao Gong came from a rich young man. Playing truant is from kindergarten cop, etc. However, in these adapted and plagiarized works, a certain degree of renovation has been added, adding a sense of local interest and comedy. Among them, Truant is better than the original, and Miracle is Jackie Chan's most amazing masterpiece in acting and guiding skills so far!
6, science fiction stunt type Hong Kong comedy movie Daquan
Hong Kong movies have never been good at sci-fi movies, but interestingly, Hong Kong filmmakers have never given up the idea of making sci-fi stunt movies, and stunt and sci-fi elements have infiltrated into comedy movies. Among them, Big Winter Melon and Two Fools Fighting in Space are the earliest sci-fi comedies in Hong Kong. Among them, The Big Winter Melon tells the story that Zhang Ying and Yanqing Luo, a rural couple, came to modern cities to learn to pump water from the early years of the Republic of China, because they found a magical gong. In 1980s, with the rapid development of local stunt level, sci-fi comedies appeared from time to time.
7, ghost film type Hong Kong comedy film encyclopedia
It is a major feature of Hong Kong comedies to combine the thriller elements and comedy elements of ghost films. From the surprise styles of "A Fool Encounters a Ghost", "Make a scene" and "Two Fools Wandering in Hell" in the Cantonese movie era to Sammo Hung's series of "Ghosts", "Scaring People" and "Scaring People" in the 1980s, China's folk superstition tradition has been dramatically interpreted. However, sometimes the comedy style is too strong, which will unconsciously cover up the play of thriller elements, which also causes the problem that Hong Kong ghost films are always more funny than thriller.