Rowe

Rowe

Rowe (1918-1996), born in Jiangsu, China, moved to Hong Kong in 1948. He is a film director and actor in Hong Kong. Graduated from Beijing middle school.

Life figures

Jin Yonghua Film Co., Ltd. has starred in more than ten films, including the secret history of Qing Palace (as Yuan Shikai) and the captives of love. In 1957, Siwei company was set up to direct "river of love". In 1961, he took part in directing "ask the sky without words" by Dianmao company. In 1965, he joined Shaw Brothers and directed Crocodile River. In 1970, he directed five tigers to kill the dragon, shadow whip, and ice chivalrous girl, and then he became the main director of Jiahe company. After directing "Eight Generals of Tianlong" in 1971, he starred Bruce Lee in "JingWuMen" in 1972 and won the best work award of the 10th Golden Horse Award in Taiwan, creating a new type of "Kung Fu film". He also starred Bruce Lee in five kung fu films in a row, and soon entered the European and American film market, setting off a worldwide upsurge of kung fu films. In 1974, Japanese actress Chi Lingzi starred in the devil's first class, the bedevilled, and went to cooperate with foreign producers. In 1975, Rowe pictures was founded. After directing "golden powder fairy hand", he recalled Jackie Chan from Australia to play "new JingWuMen". In 1976, he cultivated the second generation of Kung Fu stars. Since then, he has directed many films starring Jackie Chan. For example, "Shanghai beach tycoon" and others died of heart failure in Hong Kong on January 20, 1996. In 1997, the 34th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award was awarded the lifelong achievement award

early stage

In 1963, under the instigation of Shao's rival Cathay Pacific, Li Hanxiang went to Taiwan to form the League of nations and took away a lot of people from his old company. However, the biggest regret was that he did not take away Ling Bo, the most important film star in the film industry. This is what surprised Li Hanxiang the most. After all, it was he who overcame the public opinion and starred Ling Bo in Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, which made her very popular. But after thinking about it, I was relieved that Ling Bo had a close relationship with he Guanchang at that time（

Lian Xiaojuan's proposal to change her stage name to "Lingbo" came from

He Guanchang, who is devoted to everything, asks for advice on his job hopping plan. He Guanchang and Zou wenhuai are being valued by Run Run Shaw. At this critical moment, they should try their best to express themselves. Although Ling Bo didn't leave, his acting career began to decline as soon as Huang Mei was hot. On the other hand, he Guanchang was very happy. It was not until the end of the 1960s that Shao Yifu sent Fang Yihua to take charge of Shao's purchasing department, and he and Zou wenhuai suffered a separation of powers, that he and Zou wenhuai got the idea of running away together to establish Jiahe.

Luo Li cooperation

Rowe may have limited talent in making movies, but his luck is surprisingly good. At that time, Bruce Lee was invited back from the United States by Jiahe to film. At first, he didn't receive special attention. The investment of "big brother in Tangshan" was not high, and it was only shot in Thailand. The director Wu Jiaxiang was not good at Kung Fu and martial arts. He couldn't sustain half of the shooting, so Rowe saved the scene halfway. As a result, the box office exceeded 3 million, setting a new record in Hong Kong, which made him and Bruce Lee proud! After that, Rowe wanted to claim to be the mentor of "making Bruce Lee", but Bruce Lee didn't appreciate him and even killed him with a knife. Facts have also proved that Luo weikong has insight, and Bruce Lee's self directing and self acting "dragon across the river" will only be more successful. Luo Wei, who does not have Bruce Lee, has only cooperated with veteran Wang Yu in cold faced tiger, which has a good box office performance. Other films with new stars, whether it is Xu Guanjie's debut film little hero in Chinatown, or Jackie Chan's starring in new JingWuMen and Shaolin Wood Lane, have a general response.

In the 1970s, when kung fu movies were popular, Rowe was in the limelight. If Zhang Che was Shao's chief director, he was Jiahe's number one. Later, they met with similar experiences: after Li Hanxiang returned to Shao, he was borrowed by Fang Yihua to check and balance Zhang Che, and director Zhang Da had to go far away to Taiwan to set up Longgong to play outside for Shao. After Bruce Lee's death, Jiahe pushed Xu Guanwen's ghost horse citizen comedy, and kung fu movies also included Zheng Changhe（

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The Skyhawk

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）And Huang Feng（

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When Taekwondo Strikes

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）The two directors won't let Rowe be a beauty. Moreover, since Liu Lianghua, his second wife, divorced Luo Wei and became Zou wenhuai's confidant, all these reasons prompted director Luo to stand on his own feet and compete with Jiahe.

Jackie Chan

"Rowe pictures" of course focuses on kung fu movies. Rowe thinks that he can make Bruce Lee popular and also make others successful. So he signed Chen Yuanlong, who has gone to Australia to change his job as a cook, and changed his name to "Jackie Chan". The first play "new JingWuMen" highlights the signboard of that year and fails! Shoot "Shaolin Wood Lane" again, play the most popular Shaolin Kung Fu theme, and failed again! Three shots of "Jianhua Yanyu Jiangnan", the most popular martial arts of gulong, still failed!

Is Jackie Chan not good, or does Rowe not know how to play his characteristics? History has told us the answer. It can only be said that Luo Wei knows people with vision, but he has no vision for filming. In his whole life, he has been following the trend except cooperating with Bruce Lee and participating in the creation of "Bruce Lee's elite martial arts trend". If most of the box office is good, it's just that he is popular enough. In 1978, he borrowed Jackie Chan to make snake shaped tricky hands and drunken fist, which were very successful. However, he was still not sure about the new trend of Kung Fu Comedy. When Jackie Chan took the company's money to make "one move and a half style adventure", he was very angry and hid the film. It wasn't until around 1980 that Rowe used Zeng Zhiwei, a novice, as a director, to make two nonsense Kung Fu comedies, kicking the hall and stealing. After the box office success, Rowe dared to follow suit. At this time, Jackie Chan had already gone to Jiahe.

Luo Wei is to Jackie Chan what Bian he is to He Shi Bi. He has a brilliant eye but does not know how to carve. Wu Siyuan and Yuan Heping helped Jackie Chan become popular, but Rowe didn't know how to placate him. He still gave Jackie Chan tens of thousands of yuan for each play, and his fixed salary was 3000 yuan per month. In the long run, Jackie Chan's gratitude to Rowe gradually turned into resentment. So when he Guanchang asked him to go over Jiahe and took out millions of Hong Kong dollar deposit checks on the spot, it was natural. Luo Wei's anger at Jiahe's robbing people and Jackie Chan's breaking the contract can be imagined. The poor old man still failed to stop his hard-working "heshibi" from handing over to others by kidnapping and intimidating them.

The truth of Bruce Lee's assassination of Rowe

Bruce Lee and Rowe didn't have a deep hatred originally, but they both had very distinct personalities and wanted to make a classic play. However, things would not be transferred by people's will, and the contradiction between them would arise. During this period, Bruce Lee was in a very low mood and was easy to get angry.

Due to the different shooting views, the stalemate between Bruce Lee and Rowe has lasted for about a year. Even so, although both of them have resentment, the well water does not violate the river water. But suddenly one day, Bruce Lee makes a big fight with Rowe and wants to take his life, forcing Rowe to call the police. This is the "Lilo fight" once publicized by the media.

Trap Jet Li

In addition to Jackie Chan's repeated use of film materials in the 1980s（

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In addition to selling money, I went to Yuan's class to continue shooting the magic kung fu films "ghost horse master" and "strange soldiers of yin and Yang" brought by "Qimen dunjia". Occasionally, I invited Wang Zuxian, Wu Ma and Guo Zhui to shoot "chasing the sun" to pay homage to "the ghost of a beautiful girl". At that time, Hong Kong was in the prime of film making. For example, Luo Lao, a master of following suit, was still in a good position. Anyway, the cost was not high, and he didn't have to worry about making money. Not only Hong Kong had Rowe company, but also Taiwan had a bumper year company, which wanted to find more local teams to make films, such as "dark night" and "haunted by fierce ghosts". During this period, Rowe has won a chance to turn over once in a blue moon! Jet Li left the mainland for the United States about his first play in hand.

I have to admit that Rowe's vision is really first-class. Jet Li is definitely another Kung Fu superstar after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, which has been proved in the previous Shaolin Temple. It's a pity that the movie "dragon in the end of the world" by Luo Wei and Jet Li is the same as the Hong Kong Fashion action movie of that year. Luo Wei can only sigh and get treasure, but he doesn't know how to use it. Later, Luo Dawei, the son of Luo Wei, appeared and encouraged Jet Li to sign his mother Liu Lianghua as the high-level Jiahe. This was the chance for Jet Li and Tsui Hark to make a comeback of Huang Feihong. But later, Luo Dawei and Jiahe squeezed him, made friends with CAI Ziming, and made a scene of Jiahe. All this has nothing to do with Luo Wei.

Late bleak

Rowe's situation in his later years is bleak. The reason is that he was indirectly affected by Jet Li! It turns out that the box office of "Huang Feihong" is not long after the big sale, and RTHK has set off a trend of competing for the production of Qing Dynasty Kungfu films. As a master follower, how can Luo Wei fall behind? He immediately asked Hong Jinbao to be the director. Famous writers Szeto zhuohan and Zhang Tan took out 18 million coffin copies and went to the mainland to take pictures. He took the story of Dadao Wang Wu and Tan Sitong, the title of the film "a knife falls into the city"! It's rare for Luo to invest in filming. Unfortunately, the result is not as good as expected. At that time, there were a lot of martial arts films in ancient costume, and even if the level of "one sword pours over the city" was not bad, it was just one of many following suit. How easy is it to break through?

Rowe watched the investment of 18 million yuan earn only one million yuan at the box office. He was in a hurry. Fortunately, he had a group of friends to help him for decades（

Rowe's opponent of the year

In his later years, Zhang Che also had a group of disciples such as Jiang Dawei and Li Xiuxian who raised money to shoot "Yidan Qunying". They had the cheek to remake the classics that had set the trend at that time. First, Liu Guanwei, Lin Zhengying, Xu Guanying and Qian Xiaohao's "Mr. NEW zombie", then Hong Jinbao, Zeng Zhiwei, Feng kuifan and Wu Yaohan's "fortune five lucky stars"

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