In 1982, the movie "Shaolin Temple" starring Jet Li was born, which quickly caused a sensation, and the ticket price of more than a dime sold hundreds of millions of box office, creating a miracle in film history.
The unprecedented popularity of "Shaolin Temple" has made many keen filmmakers see the prospects of the market, so many movies starring athletes and national champions in the system came into being, such as "Southern Boxing King", "Divine Whip", "Invincible Mandarin Duck Legs", "Wulin Zhi", etc., trying to catch up with the boom of "Shaolin Temple".
Most of these movies have the same routine, but in 1983, there was a movie that took a different path and brought a different feeling to the audience, and this movie was "Heroes from Ancient Times".
The difference in the movie is that the main actors are all stinky children, but in the process of filming, it is done according to the standards of adult actors, so these children are steady and even sophisticated, and the lines in the mouths of these children form a strong "contrast and cuteness" with their age, like a fresh breeze, which makes the audience feel novel and deeply liked by the audience.
In order to get the best effect of the film, the movie uses full live action to shoot the exterior, even if the audience sees these beautiful scenery is worth a few cents of the ticket price.
The plot has a lot of funny scenes, wonderful fights, most of the actors are professional athletes from Sichuan and Zhejiang martial arts teams, from the protagonist to the supporting role, all of them are top martial arts masters, the martial arts action in the film is dense and varied, almost a collection of eighteen kinds of martial arts, and the audience is dizzying.
Time flies, more than 40 years have passed since the premiere of the movie, things are not people, and the protagonists in the movie have long disappeared on the screen, what has become of today's big husbands, little daughters-in-law, Tie Biao, big leopards, little leopards and other actors?
Jiang Ha (played by Xu Meiling).
Extraordinary, handsome, very impressive, Jiang Yu is a member of the Zhejiang Wushu team Xu Meiling, who has won the national youth wushu women's championship, and was only a teenager when the movie was filmed.
It's a pity that after "Heroes from Ancient Times", the good-looking Xu Meiling did not continue to be an actor, but focused on martial arts, worked as a martial arts coach to teach knife skills and qigong, and later worked as a teacher at the Communication University of China.
Tie Biao (Xiong Changgui).
In the film, he wears clothes similar to tiger skin skirts that are particularly conspicuous, with a kind nature, and has been adopted by a monk since he was a child and has practiced a good kung fu, and later fought against the court in order to protect several children.
Xiong Changgui, began to practice martial arts at the age of 9, studied under Wang Shutian, Deng Changli, Zou Defa and other martial artists, at the age of 11 on behalf of Sichuan to participate in the national martial arts competition, at the age of 16 officially joined the Sichuan martial arts team, has won the championship of the monkey stick many times in the national martial arts competition, has the reputation of "Emei Monkey King".
After the hit of "Shaolin Temple" in the early 80s, Xiong Changgui, who was dressed in martial arts, had the opportunity to be an actor, and took over the filming of works such as "God Kitchen" and "New Shaolin Temple", and in 1988, he won the title of "Top Ten Actors" on the second national TV for the TV series "Sea Lantern Master", and his fame in the martial arts circle is almost as famous as Jet Li.
However, Xiong Changgui suddenly stopped filming during the first period of his career, and it was rumored that he was involved in a personal grudge in Sichuan martial arts, and Xiong Changgui was reluctant to mention this matter in his subsequent interviews.
After retiring from the circle, Xiong Changgui once served as a martial arts coach in Singapore, and later served as a martial arts coach of the Sichuan team.
Several of his apprentices are now also well-known in the film and television industry.
Chen Hu, the martial arts instructor of films such as "Kung Fu", "Huo Yuanjia", "Thunderbolt Baby", "The Matrix", a member of the Yuan family class, has been nominated for "Best Fight Scene of the Year", the all-around champion of the International Wushu Invitational Tournament, the 60kg champion of the National Karate Competition, etc.
Li Cai, who was the sparring champion of the National Wushu Championships, served as the martial arts substitute of the Bull Demon King in "Journey to the West", and served as the martial arts instructor of "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Ambush on All Sides" and "Hero".
Gao Ming (Hu Yilin).
The villain in the play, the master of Ouchi, is very impressed by the tiger fist played in the film.
Hu Yilin, from the Sichuan martial arts team, began to practice martial arts at the age of 7, has won the championship of national martial arts competitions many times, is good at knife skills, stick skills, boxing, and has competed with Jet Li on the same stage, "Heroes from Ancient Times" is his first work to transform into an actor.
Since then, taking advantage of the popularity of martial arts films, Hu Yilin has successively filmed many works in the films "The Number One Killer in the East", "Southern Boxing King", "Desperate Life" and "Bagua Serial Palm", with similar themes, and the actors are all ruthless villains.
After the popularity of the martial arts film market passed, Hu Yilin, who had been tepid, returned to the martial arts team, served as the head coach of the Chinese Fighting Martial Arts School, and worked as an instructor in the Leshan Giant Buddha Martial Arts School and the Sichuan Youth Federation, and has been engaged in martial arts teaching and cultivating talents in recent years.
Mother-in-law (Ye Daoqing).
In order to protect the lives of several children, when the body of the mother-in-law went away with the river, the children lay on the river and cried "mother-in-law, mother-in-law", the picture was touching and impressive.
The mother-in-law is Ye Daoqing, a teacher of the martial arts department of Chengdu Sports School, who has taught many students, and only made a cameo appearance in the film, and then returned to school to teach kung fu, disappeared from the screen, and now has long since retired and lived peacefully in his old age.
Sima Li (Li Dianfang).
Ouchi master, shrewd and cunning, showed the drunken sword he is good at in the movie, the action is stretched and chic, the shape is drunk and not drunk, and it is very ornamental.
Li Dianfang, from the Sichuan martial arts team, after the hit of "Heroes from Ancient Times", Li Dianfang had more opportunities to appear on the screen, and then took over the filming of "The Legend of Daliang Mountain", "Tongtian Elder", "Seven Star Jade Knife", "The Secret History of Blood Drops", "Emei Flying Thieves" and other works, and joined Emei Film Studio.
At the end of the 80s, he withdrew from the film and television industry, and later opened a martial arts club, and now teaches film and television in the secondary school department of Sichuan Vocational College of Art.
Fan Long (Ren Gang).
One of the five masters of Ouchi, he is good at using back boxing.
Fan Long is Ren Gang from the Sichuan Wushu Team, the first captain of the Wushu Team, who has won the National Wushu Competition Tongbeiquan Championship for five consecutive years, and is one of the first batch of Wuying-level athletes in China, representing the country to perform in the United States, Japan, France and other countries.
Since 1984, Ren Gang has returned to the wushu team as an assistant coach of the wushu team, served as the head coach in 1988, was rated as a senior coach in 1995, and served as the head coach of the national team twice in 1996 and 2001, leading the team to win three gold medals in the 14th Asian Games, women's southern boxing, men's changquan all-around and women's changquan all-around.
Now Ren Gang is still cultivating talents in the Sichuan martial arts community and is already the chairman of the Sichuan Wushu Association.
The big leopard (Xue Jian).
When filming "Heroes from Ancient Times", the actor Xue Jian of the big leopard was only 14 years old, from the Beijing martial arts team, the master is Wu Bin, and Jet Li, Wu Jing, Zhao Changjun and others are the same brothers.
After that, Xue Jian only made one movie "Shaolin Dream" and then quit the film and television industry, and when he grew up, he served as the chairman of Beijing Zhongshi Tengfei Film and Television Training School, and rarely appeared in the public.
Little Leopard (Shi Weidong).
Protect a few children, although they are young, they have a good eye for every move, and their kung fu is very solid.
The actor who played the little leopard is called Shi Weidong, also from the Sichuan martial arts team, and his father in the movie is his head coach Deng Changli in real life, there are not many shots, after the movie was filmed, Shi Weidong returned to the martial arts team, and went abroad when he grew up, and there is no definite news.
In addition to the above roles in "Heroes from Ancient Times", the most memorable is the hero and heroine of the movie, "big husband" and "little daughter-in-law", the eldest husband is young, timid and afraid of death, but he is clever, always helping everyone out of the siege at a critical time, and the little daughter-in-law is more like a big sister, and the anti-cuteness of the two "two" will always make the audience play.
Little daughter-in-law (Zhang Xiaoyan).
Beautiful, heroic, good at snake boxing, wonderful fighting action, when I was a child, I learned this set of snake boxing after watching the movie, and there are a lot of laughs in the scenes of the "big husband" in the movie, and the characters are very pleasing to the audience.
The little daughter-in-law is Zhang Xiaoyan, a member of the Zhejiang Wushu team, who has won the championship of the national martial arts competition, and has not had many film and television works.
In recent years, he has returned to China many times, and has actively studied and researched the differences between foreign competitive martial arts and traditional Chinese martial arts, and has been spreading martial arts culture and cultivating martial arts talents at home and abroad.
The eldest husband (Hao Yong).
The stubborn rich boy did not obey discipline, in order to restrain his heart, her parents married him a daughter-in-law in her 20s, the daughter-in-law was strong in martial arts, and the discipline was very strict.
The eldest husband and the little daughter-in-law made a fuss and made a fuss, almost all the laughs in the movie, and the usually sharp-toothed husband immediately became well-behaved and didn't dare to speak when he saw his daughter-in-law.
Hao Yong, the young actor who played the eldest husband, was not a martial arts athlete, from the Chengdu Acrobatic Troupe, became famous overnight after "Heroes from Ancient Times", and was invited to participate in the Spring Festival Gala of that year in 1985.
There are two theories about Hao Yong, who played the eldest husband, one is that he quickly became popular after becoming famous, made a lot of money, and then immigrated to the United States with his family, in 2011, when filming the TV series version of "Heroes from Ancient Times", the director contacted him, hoping that Hao Yong would participate in the filming of the TV series, but unfortunately he has not been contacted.
There is also a saying from netizens that the actor of the eldest husband is not called Hao Yong, he did not go abroad, he was a soldier when he grew up, and now he raises dogs in Jinan.
Neither of these claims has been confirmed by me, and there is very little information available on the Internet.
Things are people, 40 years have passed in a flash, the director of the film Mou Dunfu has passed away in 2019, and the producer Xia Meng died in 2016, the movie has become the memory of a generation, the memory of a generation, most of the plot in the movie has been forgotten almost, but those lines in the film still have a deep impression.
This is my wife...
There's no way, my wife is watching it tightly".
The women of today are truly amazing."