"Best Partner" (1982) was written by Huang Baiming, directed by Feng Yong, and starring Ceng Zhiwei: Samuel Hui, Mai Jia and Zhang Aijia King Kong (played by Samuel Hui) robbed a batch of diamonds while the gang was secretly trading, but they accidentally left a white glove before leaving, which was mistaken by the Hong Kong police as the "white glove" of an international criminal group. So he called Interpol in new york and asked to send a bald detective (Mai Jia) to Hong Kong to hunt down criminals. Hong Kong policewoman He Dongshi (Zhang Aijia) assisted in handling the case. I didn't expect the bald detective to be robbed of the gold shop by the same bald gangster just after he arrived in Hong Kong. The policewoman mistook the detective for a robber and took him back to the police station. At this time, the owner of the jewelry flew to Rome to discuss with the mafia godfather. The godfather knew that someone in Hong Kong pretended to be his "white gloves" and committed crimes everywhere, and decided to come to Hong Kong with the killer to find out the truth. In order to protect himself, King Kong surrendered to the police and joined hands with the bald detective to deal with the "white gloves" and established a profound friendship. After many wits, the bald detective finally captured the "white gloves" alive and won the favor of the policewoman. 1982 Shortly after its establishment, New Art City Film Company has become the biggest threat to Jiahe Film Company, which has just won more than half of the country from Shaw Pictures. The Seven Wonders of New Art City, starring Shi Tian, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and Tsui Hark, was released with unprecedented pomp, regardless of human and financial resources, and the Best Partner was the highest box office achievement since the opening of Hong Kong. If inflation for 20 years is included, the current price of the film's 26 million box office will reach 228.3 million Hong Kong dollars, far exceeding the record of 62 million Stephen Chow shaolin soccer. The sequels "Best Partner" and "The Secret Order of the Queen", which started shooting later, also have excellent word-of-mouth box office, both of which dominate the annual box office champion throne, which shows the popularity of this series. Speaking of the success of the best partner series, besides the star effect and excellent acting skills of Samuel Hui and others, the tense plot and wonderful and funny scenes are also important factors. The film absorbs many commercial elements of western movies, such as the bald detective who is full of jokes and the thief King Kong who steals with electronic weapons, such as the plot in which they play tricks on each other and make a fool of themselves. As for the love between the bald detective and the policewoman, the screenwriter Huang Baiming admitted that he had plagiarized Shakespeare's masterpiece The Taming of the Shrew. In addition, some movie stunts that Tsui Hark, Mai Jia and others learned from the West are also of great use: high-tech equipment such as high-altitude flying cars and electronic weapons, and each episode begins with a large-scale action scene imitating the "Bond movie", which naturally leaves other similar films in Hong Kong behind. In fact, the emergence of the "best partner" in the early 1980s, even today, is the product of abnormal industries. At that time, all directors of New Art City Company mobilized, and five or six directors, including Ceng Zhiwei, Tsui Hark and Mai Jia, only made a film "Best Partner", which was responsible for shooting different scenes. Moreover, regardless of the cost, serious cost overruns, speeding, blasting and other big scenes strive for perfection, often remake several times before passing the customs. After all, shooting what they filmed was enough to shoot three sets of Best Partner-but it was precisely because of this desperate energy in the early days of New Art City that Best Partner not only made a big profit at the local box office, but also successfully entered the international market, laying a solid foundation for New Art City to share the world with Shaw and Jiahe. So "Best Partner" finally became a myth, the myth of that era. "Bald Detective"-Mai Jia's glib Taishan dialect, funny bald modeling and endless jokes and jokes made Mai Jia's image of "Bald Detective" in "Best Partner" widely known and deeply rooted in people's hearts, and also won the title of best actor in the second Hong Kong Film Awards. But before that, Mai Jia had never played a leading role in the film, but only appeared as a supporting villain or a guest running errands. In fact, as one of the founders of the New Art City film, Mai Jia's contribution to the film is more reflected in the behind-the-scenes work. Acting is just his interest with many Hong Kong-made film behind-the-scenes workers (such as director Tsui Hark, screenwriter Huang Baiming, photographer Arthur Wong, etc.). ), but he is more talented. Maijia, formerly known as Maijiashang. Originally from Guangdong, 1958 moved to hongkong, and his family moved to new york in 1960s. When I was in college, I majored in electronic engineering, but I loved movies. Later, when I became an engineer, I went to new york University to study film production. In America, I participated in the shooting of three gun battles as an assistant director. 1973, he returned to hongkong and established "pioneer" film company with Richard Ng and lai Changxing. 1976, he made the director's first film "A Bachelor Goes to the World", but it turned out to be not a good play, and almost spent all the money of the Mai family. Later, he cooperated with Sammo Hung and Liu Jiarong to set up the "Garbo" film company, and his works such as Tiger and Frog were very popular. However, these are just some training that Mai Jia did when he entered the film industry in his early days. What really made him an instant hit was that he and Shi Tian and Huang Yaoge formed the "Struggle" film company. Most of the works of Struggle Company are comedies produced at low cost. Although only Huang Baiming, Mai Jia and Shi Tian have their own directing roles, it is very difficult and busy to start a business, but films such as Crazy Liar and Life of Salted Fish have achieved stable high box office and were reorganized into "New Art City" film companies with the strong financial support of Golden Princess Cinema. Coupled with the joining of Tsui Hark, teddy robin, Ceng Zhiwei and others, it can be said that the sword has not been drawn and has taken the lead! As the owner of "New Art City", Mai Jia attaches great importance to the films made by the company and plays a powerful personal role. In the "Best Partner" series, in addition to funny performances, he also took advantage of his study of electronic engineering to skillfully integrate special effects such as high-altitude flying cars and electronic weapons into film creation, thus making the production level of "Best Partner" far superior to that of Hong Kong films of the same period. In addition, while insisting that New Art City continue to shoot popular comedies, Mai Jia boldly helped Lin Lingdong complete the black "Fengyun" series. Realistic violent films directed at the ugly side of society, such as Dragon and Tiger Storm, Prison Storm and School Storm, which were personally produced by him, were well received and aroused strong repercussions in society. Throughout the 1980s, Mai Jia was a pivotal figure in the Hong Kong film industry, and almost all the films he made and participated in were a great success. However, the Mai family is also under pressure, which leads to his fate sharing glory and humiliation with the New Art City. By the early 1990s, the brothers who worked together in the farmland had to go their separate ways, and people were separated. As a result, the new art city building will collapse in name only. Although the Mai family struggled, it was still unable to return to heaven. Soon after, Mai Jia faded out of the film industry with the disintegration of the New Art City ... Who knows that in 2000, there was a "bald detective" in the film and television industry. Guest movie "The Big Winner", starring in TV series "Jigong", Mai Jia seems to be quite a bit of a comeback, but he disappeared again in the past two years-I'm afraid it's just nothing to play with tickets. It seems that Mai Jia's brilliant film era can only remain in the memory of the 1980s forever. 198 1 When Art Nouveau decided to invite Samuel Hui to star in Best Partner, Samuel Hui's price of 2 million films plus Japanese bonus surprised almost everyone in the industry. You know, in those days, 65,438+0 million was enough to make a movie. But xinyi city finally agreed to Samuel Hui's "lion's mouth" because they knew that Samuel Hui was definitely worth the price. Samuel Hui, who was born in an artistic family, is the eldest of four children, and his eldest brother is Xu Guanwen, a comedian in the Hong Kong film industry. Samuel Hui's artistic talent was first revealed in music. When he was a student, he was already a famous band singer. 1970 developed into a solo singer. 197 1 year, he and his brother Xu Guanwen hosted the TVB TV program "Double Star News", which was very popular. At the same time, he released his first Cantonese song "Lingyun Tower". He quickly gained the appreciation of "Million Director" Luo Wei, and participated in films such as "Little Hero on the Road" and "Dragon Tiger King Kong", and accumulated rich experience in shooting action movies. 1974 The comedy "Ghost Horse and Double Star" starring Xu Guanwen and Samuel Hui has set the highest box office record since it opened to the public. Later, relying on Jiahe, the Xu Brothers Film Company was founded, and films such as Crazy Money, Half a catty, Sales Contract and Modern Bodyguard also topped the annual box office. Xu Shi's comedy of little people is deeply rooted in people's hearts and has gradually become an important part of Hong Kong's citizen culture, which shows its great influence. Samuel Hui's relaxed and humorous performance style not only brought out the best in each other with Xu Guanwen, a "cold-faced comedian", but also the Cantonese theme song album sung for these films was a big hit, widely sung and enduring-Song and Shadow Two plays a prominent role and was only one of the male stars at that time. Best Partner is Samuel Hui's first film after he left his brother Xu Guanwen. This time, he played the thief King Kong, who is a vigorous master and proficient in all kinds of cutting-edge weapons. A lot of action scenes make Samuel Hui face an unprecedented test. In contrast, it is much easier to create a smart, funny and self-deprecating image of King Kong. Fortunately, Samuel Hui is very professional, and the action scenes he can complete by himself are never fake. The opposite play with Mai Jia also shows the coordination and sense of humor of this partner, who used to work with his brother Xu Guanwen. Therefore, Best Partner was a great success, and Samuel Hui's star effect and careful performance really played an important role. During the period of New Art City, Samuel Hui ushered in the second peak of his acting career. In addition to continuing to promote the trend of Cantonese songs, he is also honored as the "God of Songs". His films such as Family Portrait, Working Emperor, Legend of Wesley, Flying Dragon in Red Square, etc., although not as good as Best Partner, have earned more than enough money and are quite influential. Especially in 1990, at the age of 42, Samuel Hui played the hero Ling Huchong in Tsui Hark's the legendary swordsman. Although it is difficult to hide his old age, this handsome and witty prodigal image was well played by him, very decent and very popular with the audience. Samuel Hui announced his farewell to music. At the end of the same year, he participated in the New Year's film "Happy Events in Huatian", and the following year, the original crew of the film filmed "The Legend of Water Margin Laughter". In these two costume comedies, Samuel Hui played two subversive roles, one was the bully Zhou Tong and the other was the tiger hero Song Wu. Funny performances were even crazier than before, catering to the nonsense comedy craze prevailing in Hong Kong and Taiwan at that time. Since then, Samuel Hui stopped making films and gradually faded out of the film industry. However, in 2000, Samuel Hui made a comeback and starred in the New Year movie "The Big Winner" with his old partner Mai Jia. Unfortunately, after the film was released, the box office was bleak, and it was easily defeated by the rising stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Ekin Cheng's Tokyo Raiders, which made people feel that the former glory of Best Partner was no longer there. Is the couplet embedded in the friend Mai Jia's home that the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves before, and the new people in the world bury the old people?