Xu Guanwen

essential information

Early experience

Xu Guanwen ranks first among the four brothers of the Xu family (Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanwu, Xu Guanying and Xu Guanjie). He moved to Hong Kong with his parents since childhood. He studied in Lasha Academy in high school and was a student of the same level as Bruce Lee. The University studied in the Department of Sociology of the United College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. With excellent organizational and expressive skills, it served as the president of the student union and the leader of the debate team. When it was a sophomore, it hosted the student debate program on the newly established Hong Kong TV station. After graduating from University, Xu Guanwen went to the United States for further study. After returning to Hong Kong, he successively worked as a middle school teacher and an advertising planner. Xu Guanwen had a hard childhood because of his poor family. His family settled down in the diamond hill log cabin area where there was no water or electricity supply. He described poverty as "willing to do anything for two meals.". "I don't have a sense of humor, from small to large, and I'm so serious that I don't understand why other people think I'm funny," he said Xu Guanwen, a student of Lasha college, went to night school to teach English part-time when he was a sophomore. After graduating from high school, Xu Guanwen studied as a teacher for one year, taught as a middle school teacher for three years, saved enough money to go to the Chinese University, and worked part-time as a TV station and night school teacher.

Acting experience

In 1968, Xu Guanwen began to host programs on TVB, and initially hosted the star cup inter school Q & a competition. in 1971, he joined TVB and co hosted the variety show "double stars" with his younger brother Xu Guanjie. Within two months, the program changed from an irregular column to a weekly golden column, which set the highest ratings of Hong Kong TV that year. In 1972, Li Hanxiang invited him to star in warlord, which became one of the three best-selling Chinese films of that year and won the award of "the most successful comedy in characterization" at the 19th Asian Film Festival. In the next two years, Xu Guanwen starred Li Hanxiang in Shao's films such as "yileye", "scandal" and "sound, sex, dog and horse". In 1973, Xu Guanwen, who has made some progress in performance, intended to develop as a creative filmmaker, directing and acting. He handed the self satisfied play ghost horse and double stars written by himself to Run Run Shaw, and hoped to share the profits with the company. Run Shaw, who has always been "dictatorial", thought it was too demanding, and immediately rejected it on the ground that the script was too poor. Xu Guanwen had to find another co-author. At this time, Zou wenhuai, the boss of Jiahe, agreed to help the Xu brothers set up a film company, so Xu Guanwen switched to Jiahe. When he left Shao in 1974, Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanying and Xu Guanjie, the three brothers of the Xu family, set up the Xu brothers film company. They worked with Jiahe company to make films, all of which were self edited, self directed and self performed. Kaishan as a satirical comedy "ghost horse double star", the film with local slang dialect woven jokes make the audience very happy, the final result is that "ghost horse double star" in Hong Kong box office as high as HK $6.25 million, more than Bruce Lee film and Shao's comedy "72 tenants", the director of Chu Yuan, breaking the Hong Kong box office record. In 1976, Xu's three brothers CO produced the Hong Kong comedy film "half a weight eight Liang". The three brothers joined hands. After the film was released, it successfully entered the film market of Japan, Spain and other countries. the contract of sale, which was released in 1978, and modern bodyguard, which was released in 1981, all set the highest box office records in Hong Kong that year. In 1982, he won the first Hong Kong Film Awards for "best actor" with "modern bodyguard". Since then, many films have been produced and performed. They include "happy Ding Dang" with Cao Dahua, Zhong Chuhong and Anita Mui in 1986, and "magic detective chocolate" with Hu Huizhong and Anita Mui in 1986. In 1988, he cooperated with Xu Guanying and Xu Guanjie in the book "talk with chickens and ducks". In 1989, with Huang Baiming, Xu Guanying and other cooperation of the "happy family.". In 1990, he cooperated with Mao Shunyun, Xu Guanjie, etc. In 1992, he cooperated with liming, Xu Guanying and others in "Shensuan", and with Wu Junru, Zhang Jianting and others in "hero of beggars". In 1989, Xu Guanwen won the best actor award in Las Vegas International Comedy Film Festival. Later, after shooting the box office failure of "rich and noble world" in 1995 with Huang Qiusheng, GE Minhui and others, and the box office failure of "entrepreneurial player" in 1996 with Luo Jiaying, Li Lizhen, Zhang Daming and others, it gradually turned into the background. In 1996, he served as an advisor to the State Council of China on Hong Kong affairs. He returned to the big screen in 2000. In 2004, he guest starred in "Rhapsody of ghost horse" and starred in "fried three treasures" directed by Ma Weihao in 2004. In 2006, he starred in project baby directed by Chen Musheng and starred Jackie Chan, Gutianle and Gao Yuanyuan. In 2004, he was awarded the title of "justice of the peace" by the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. on March 24, 2012, he served as the judge of the fourth Okinawa International Film Festival. In 2014, Xu Guanwen, ye Nianchen and Wang Zulan jointly released the film "changeable lovers" on April 11. And the comedy film "beating the tiger", written, directed and performed by Xu Guanwen, will start shooting at the end of this year.

Comedy career

In the middle of 1972, Xu Guanwen, a TV artiste, won the recognition of the director Li Hanxiang and became the leading actor of Shao's movie "big warlord". He shaved his head to perform the confused warlord in Jinan. Xu Guanwen, who first appeared on the big screen of the movie, cooperated with actress Dina. As a result, the box office exceeded 3 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking third in the whole year. In the same year, Xu Guanwen also took the lead in "big warlord" He participated in the opening ceremony of the Hong Kong Cross Harbour Tunnel in August 1972. After that, Xu Guanwen and Shao's company continued to work together. Under the guidance of director Li Hanxiang, they made four Mandarin films, namely "yileye", "scandal" and "sound, sex, dog and horse", all of which gained good reputation and achievements. In 1974, Xu Guanwen turned to Mr. Zou wenhuai's Jiahe film company and joined hands with the Xu Guanjie brothers to produce the Cantonese dialogue ghost horse double stars. The opening of the painting immediately caused a huge bang, creating a box office record of 6 million, breaking the box office record of Kaifu in Hong Kong. The original Cantonese album of the film was also released in the same year and sold well in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. It is worth mentioning that the cast of ghost horse and double stars is very prosperous, including the planner John Woo, martial arts director Hong Jinbao, music Gu Jiahui and lotus band. The co stars include Huang Zhan, LV Youhui, Xu Shaoxiong, Shi Tian and Ding Pei. From 1974 to 1981, the comedies of the Xu brothers, ghost horse and double stars (1974), genius and idiot (1975), half a Jin and eight feet (1976), deed of sale (1978) and modern bodyguard (1981), became the annual box office champion for five consecutive times, and broke the highest box office record of Kaifu for three times, becoming the box office guarantee at that time. "Fa Qian Han" (1977), directed by John Woo and starred by his younger brother Xu Guanying, won the box office title of Chinese films in 1977. In Hong Kong, "half the weight" is the highest income movie in the 1970s, higher than the contemporary Hollywood blockbusters such as star wars, great white shark and Superman. His younger brother, Xu Guanjie, starred in the best partner series, also won the box office title for three consecutive years from 1982 to 1984. Throughout 1974-1984, the nine box office winners in the 11 years were all won by the Xu brothers (group or individual), which achieved great commercial success. Xu Guanwen's comedies often depict the working class, while he is good at acting as a mean boss with helplessness in his laughter, which resonates with the general public. In addition to the theme song with the same name, there are also many popular episodes in the soundtrack of Xu brothers' films, including "double star love song", "voice of prodigal son", "past love of genius idiot", "dream of genius idiot", "money of genius idiot", "wine as song", "impression", etc. In 1981, under the arrangement of Mr. Zou wenhuai, Xu Guanwen and Jackie Chan took part in the Hollywood movie cannonball flying car invested by Jiahe company, and performed with the international movie star bilenos. As a result, they became the fourth best seller in the United States. During this period, the films of Xu brothers enjoyed certain influence in Southeast Asia and European markets, and "half weight" was even more important in Japan Mr.Boo Movie boom, box office as high as 1 billion yen, the role of the two brothers by Yukawa Taiichiro, Takeshi Kitano with Japanese, field magazine invited cartoon master Takeo akazuka to write preface and famous Japanese film critic Lin Dongzi highly praised. Since then, Jiahe company has arranged the sequels of the mrboo! Series, such as the contract of sale, double stars of ghosts and horses, modern bodyguard and Teppanyaki, to be released in Japan one after another. From 1979 to 1983, the three brothers of Xu family visited Japan many times and appeared on various TV programs. The mrboo! Japanese song fans association was also established at that time, and Xu Guanjie also released several Japanese albums of the same name. In the 1990s, when "chicken with duck" was launched in Japan, Xu Guanwen was praised as "the king of human comedy" by Japanese media. In 1981, at the first Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony held in Hong Kong, Xu Guanwen won the best actor with modern bodyguard, which was recognized by the whole Hong Kong film industry. To become the first movie king. works of Xu brothers during their solo flying period in the 1980s: iron plate burning (1984) with ye Qianwen, Zhiyong Sanbao (1985) with Wu Yaohan and Cen Jianxun, happy jingle (1986) with Zhong Chuhong, and magic detective chocolate (1986) with Anita Mui and Xu Guanying. Xu Guanwen left Hefei in 1987

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