Sammo Hung's The Apprentice of the Loser set a new box office record in Hongkong. Do you know who he is?

Now Sammo Hung no longer appears in movies, but he is still a man with a strong voice in the entertainment circle. He has made a certain contribution to the development of Hong Kong films. Even if he doesn't appear on the big screen now, as long as what he says is still very weighty. Sammo Hung made many actors popular, but he sometimes lost his cool. He once said in front of the media that his least favorite apprentice was Liu Guanwei. Unexpectedly, this apprentice has set a new box office record in Hong Kong.

Liu Guanwei has always been a photographer. When he heard about the director in the photo studio, he was very interested in him. He told Sammo Hung that he didn't want to be a photographer, he wanted to be a director, and he wanted to have a film made by himself.

As we all know, making movies is not an easy task. In addition to a certain talent and professional knowledge, you need to pay attention to luck and strength. Some people have failed in making movies all their lives, and some people have stepped onto the altar at once.

It took a year to create Mr. Zombie, and only three months to complete the filming. Sammo Hung is going to lose money. As a new director, for the first time, I have been thinking that this film may make the company lose money.

Under great pressure, Liu Guanwei finished filming Mr. Zombie, but fortunately, the result was optimistic. Mr. Zombie's evaluation was very good. At that time, he sold more than 20 million box office in Hong Kong.

Liu Guanwei is also known as the "originator" of zombie movies. He showed many talented ideas in Mr. Zombie. Zombie Jump, a design that uses sticky rice, ink lines and holding one's breath to deal with zombies, was used in all subsequent zombie films. Although Mr. Zombie is a horror film, Liu Guanwei added many comedy elements to the film, which largely dispelled the horror atmosphere of the film.

In the era when Hong Kong movies were popular, zombie movies opened the door to the fantasy world. For many post-80s generation, Ching-Ying Lam series zombie movies should be the most profound collective memories besides star comedies.

Liu Guanwei was a director of ghost films in 1980s, and he produced Mr. Zombie, Mr. Ghost, Mr. Ghost Bite and Mr. New Zombie. Maybe these movies are classic now, but unfortunately, except for a few, most of the movies with ghost themes are generally profitable.

However, Liu Guanwei is as important as Ching-Ying Lam in zombie movies. Just because I am behind the scenes, I don't know many people. Later, because of the decline of zombie movies, Liu Guanwei rarely made similar movies.

However, he has come back occasionally in recent years, and he wrote "Four Eyes Master" and "Mr. One Eyebrow".

The much-watched supernatural film "Mr. Yimei" is another cooperation between Siu-ho Chin and Liu Guanwei.

Its score of only 3.7 points on Douban also indicates that Mr. One Eyebrow has become an out-and-out street movie!

After Ching-Ying Lam's death, the careers of Chen Xiaohao and Liu Guanwei also went downhill. On the one hand, there is no leader, on the other hand, paranormal films are no longer popular. Follow-up two people also cooperated several times, and even took pains to stir-fry cold rice under the banner of Ching-Ying Lam, but still failed to make a comeback!

Director Liu Guanwei probably didn't expect that the golden age of zombie movies had long since passed away with the deaths of Ching-Ying Lam, Xu Guanying and Oh Mom, so the old feelings should be left to the old times.

Maybe it's because they can't keep up with the trend of the times, or because Jiang Lang is a genius. In a word, both films suck.