The movie was shot in 1992 and produced by Guangxi Film Studio. The film was a relatively rare comedy about the war, and Chen Pesi played two roles in the movie, saying that he used one person's performance to support the whole movie.
The story begins in Tianjin in the 1930s, after the September 18th incident. At this time, a local drama troupe is rehearsing a patriotic play in a theater. The male and female protagonists are in the midst of their impassioned performances, but the male protagonist always stumbles over his key lines. This is a big problem for the actor in charge of delivering the lines, Peter Chen, the main character of the movie.
SynopsisPeter Chen is a theater actor who also serves as a stage manager, helping out with miscellaneous chores and delivering speeches to the actors on stage. Although he has a knack for theater performance, he has never been given much of a chance, and has only been able to make a few cameo appearances.
Seeing that the leading man on stage couldn't memorize his lines, Peter Chen was very anxious, but the leading man, in turn, directly threw the pot. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers," he said, adding that the company's products and services have been widely recognized by the public.
The play is about to start, but the male lead is on strike, and the director is as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. At this point, he saw Peter Chen, who was doing odd jobs on the set, and decided to take the risk of letting Peter Chen temporarily fill in for the male lead.
One, as a teleprompter, Peter Chen knows his lines by heart, and the other, he has some acting experience. He pushed Peter Chen onto the stage.
Unexpectedly, the performance was a great success, Peter Chen performed on stage with great emotion, which triggered a strong reaction. Even General Song, the patriotic general who came to see the show that day, was full of praise and highly appreciated Peter Chen's impromptu performance. After the show, Peter Chen became a popular theater star.
Just then, his former classmates came to him and brought him an opportunity. It turns out that Peter Chen has a strong passion for saving his country and is determined to become the patriotic hero he plays on stage. And Ms. Liu takes Peter Chen to meet a mysterious person, who gives him an important mission to save the country's survival, and then gives him a large sum of money. Our hero, Peter Chen, is certainly not afraid to face such a dangerous mission.
One second, he was so righteous, learning the accent of the patriotic heroes in the theater, saying that it was incumbent upon him to sacrifice his life for his country; but the next second, he resumed his mercenary and cunning character, and rushed to pick up the banknotes that he had just thrown away. The mysterious man implied that Peter Chen should keep the mission a secret, and the dialog between the two was very concise but full of comedy.
Mystic: Your wife?
Peter Chan: Not a word.
Mystery man: on not pass parents!
Peter Chan: has passed away.
Mystery man: not passed down to children!
Peter Chan: It hasn't been born yet.
Peter Chen returned home, flung out the money, always wife strict Peter Chen finally in front of his wife raised eyebrows. At this time, Peter Chen was paralyzed by a passion and immediate benefits, did not expect to cause a greater crisis for themselves.
To the day of the planned action. Peter Chen, with Ms. Liu in tow, ambushed the target near an apartment building in the rented area and waited for the target to appear. Seeing a car driving towards the apartment, Ms. Liu immediately lit a grenade and asked Peter Chen to prepare to throw it over. But I didn't expect that the person getting out of the car was actually the patriotic general General Song, Peter Chen immediately forgot about his mission and went forward to greet him.
To say that this General Song is also a big heart, to see someone with a smoking grenade, not nervous, but mistakenly thought that Peter Chen in rehearsal drama. But Miss Liu, who was watching from afar, was anxious and shouted for Peter Chen to throw away the grenade. Peter Chen panicked, threw the grenade to the distance, did not expect so coincidentally, thrown to the car of the mysterious person in the peripheral ambush.
It turns out that the mysterious man is actually a spy, Ryutaro, and General Song, who has been actively fighting against the Japanese, is his mission. Ryutaro saw the grenade was thrown over, scared and rushed to throw it back, a round of drumming, the grenade actually has not blown up. At this point, Longtaro ordered his men in ambush to rush up and shoot, and Peter Chen, on the verge of doing so, managed to save General Song's life.
After the incident, Peter Chen and Ms. Liu were arrested and taken to the rent district inspector's office. As a result, Inspector Hua of the police station has long been bribed and was secretly authorized to ask for a lunch box. After being put in the cell, Miss Liu drank a bowl of poisoned porridge and received her lunch box. Peter Chen also knew that he could not hide from the first day but the fifteenth, and he could only take the risk of escaping from the cell if he wanted to live.
How to do it?
Only see Peter Chen wearing Miss Liu's shoes, and then ripped open the pant leg, pinching the voice, show their years of hard work method pie acting skills, directly disguised as a female big brother. The jailer in charge of guarding did not know the inside story, and thought that the imprisonment was a delicate beauty, so he moved. As a result, when the jailer just opened the door, Peter Chen sneak attack succeeded and changed into the clothes of the jailer and slipped away.
When Ryutaro learns that Peter Chen has escaped from prison, he is furious and orders his men and Inspector Hua to search the city for Peter Chen. Peter Chen is afraid to go home and has to sneak back to the theater first, only to be targeted as soon as he returns. Panicked, Peter Chan runs into the theater company's props warehouse, which is filled with all kinds of costume props and miscellaneous items. Taking advantage of the killer's unfamiliarity with the warehouse, and with the help of various props furnishings, Peter Chen winds the killer up.
Here, the writer-director has obviously borrowed a lot of Chaplin's comedy techniques, allowing the protagonist to create all kinds of accidents with exaggerated body movements, creating a comedy scenario with a very exaggerated sense of humor. It was not easy to get rid of the killer, Peter Chen also stole a dress to change into, intending to sneak home.
In the end, he met Inspector Hua on the road, and knowing that the other side wanted him to get his own box, Peter Chan had to turn around and go into a restaurant on the side of the road, and took a newspaper in his hand and blocked it in front of his face for fear of being found out by the other side. Relying on some small cleverness, Peter Chen finally shook off the pursuit.
But now home can not return, the theater dare not go, Chen Peter who can not believe. Under the desperate, Peter Chen remembered the theater actress colleague Fei Fei, intends to go to join her. As a result, he was surrounded by people just as he arrived at Fei Fei's house.
Peter Chen thought it was the Japanese assassins again and was heartbroken, but he didn't realize it was General Song's men. It turns out that General Song, feeling grateful that Peter Chen had saved his life, had been secretly searching for Peter Chen and wanted to protect him. Under General Song's arrangement, Peter Chen was brought to a mysterious beauty parlor.
There is a strange plastic surgeon called Dr. John, who is good at plastic surgery and can easily make up to look like another person. General Song arranged for Peter Chen to come to the lineup in order to turn him into another person's appearance and escape the disaster.
Dr. John, who had previously met the Japanese Ryutaro, was greatly surprised to see Peter Chen again:These two people are very close in appearance, which is very suitable for his own play! So he pressed Peter Chen onto a surgical bed without a second thought and performed a cosmetic surgery.
After the surgery, Peter Chen suddenly realized - he had turned into Ryutaro's appearance. At this point, Peter Chen was in tears, while Dr. John looked at his work and let out a satisfied laugh. General Song, however, persuaded him that it would be more conducive to disguising his identity, and that he could take the opportunity to see his wife.
So the fake Ryutaro swaggered home. When his wife saw a Japanese man in the house, she was shocked and angry. Seeing that his wife could not recognize him, Peter Chen had a bright idea and began to recite his lines from the play. The wife, who had often seen Peter Chen practicing his act, naturally became very familiar with the performance and finally recognized it as her husband.
In this way, the two of them escaped without any problem under the surveillance of the Japanese. On the other hand, Ryutaro learned that Peter Chen had disguised himself and saved his wife. So he was furious and ordered the arrest of people who looked exactly like him.
They first got someone to use the name of investing in a movie to intentionally approach Fifi, the lead actress of the troupe, saying that they wanted to promote her, and then the producer said that he happened to be missing a Chinese actor who looked like a Japanese in his movie. Not knowing the inside story, Fifi recommended Peter Chen, who was disguised as Ryutaro at this time.
But I don't want this to be a trap, but thanks to Peter Chen's ingenuity, he was able to dodge a bullet. However, see the plot failed, but captured Fifi. Peter Chen stole a set of Japanese military uniforms, changed into them and strutted in. As soon as he came up, he chopped his head off at the gang of henchmen, so that the other party could not react in time and mistakenly thought that he was Ryutaro himself.
Relying on his bold improvisation, he actually fooled the others and successfully rescued his colleague Fifi. Returning to General Song's apartment, he learns of Peter Chen's rescue experience, and General Song laments:Peter Chen's acting skills are so superb that people can't tell the difference between the real and the fake!
Just when the protagonist is celebrating, he doesn't expect the Japanese, Ryutaro, to return the favor in the same way. They sneakily followed General Song's guards and found the hospital where Peter Chen's wife was, and then Long Taro pretended to be Peter Chen and hoodwinked Peter Chen's wife into transferring her to the rented hospital.
In order to save his wife, Peter Chen had to take the risk of playing the role of Ryutaro again. With Fifi and General Song's men guards, he disguises himself as a Japanese who comes to the hospital for treatment and blends into the hospital wards. Unexpectedly, the Japanese had an ambush, and a melee ensued between the two sides in the ward. When he managed to find his wife and planned to sneak out of the hospital, Peter Chen was caught by Ryutaro.
Long Tai Lang took off Peter Chen's clothes and locked him up, telling him, I'll do the rest of the play for you! Then, Ryutaro put on Peter Chen's clothes and took his wife back to General Song's residence.
The people all assumed that the rescue plan was successful and that it was Peter Chen in front of them, without any suspicion at all. General Song will hold a media conference this evening to rally the nation. Ryutaro will plan to attend the conference as Peter Chen and secretly set up the event, wanting General Song to lead the box.
Meanwhile, the real Peter Chan knocks out Inspector Hua, who is guarding him, and escapes. In order to expose Ryutaro's plot, he also came to the scene of the launch, identifying the other Peter Chen as Ryutaro's impersonator. But the two men in front of him, both claiming to be Peter Chan, both look exactly like Longtaro.
Everyone couldn't tell the difference, even Peter Chen's wife couldn't recognize him. The fake Peter Chen is also a demon, all sorts of incitement, suggesting that the real Peter Chen is the Dragon Taolang. At the moment of crisis, Peter Chen actually stopped explaining and instead raised his voice, loudly reciting some unknown words.
Other people have not yet reacted, Peter Chen's wife has instantly, is reciting is their husband. Because only the real Peter Chen would be so familiar with these theater lines.
Looks could fool people, but a husband's acting skills could not.Eventually, Ryutaro's plot was foiled, and with that, all the exits were blocked. With everyone in a panic, it was Peter Chan again who stepped forward and pointed to the roof, which turned out to be a balloon hanging from the roof. In order to remove it, the crowd first came up with the idea of stacking up people's ladders, which ultimately failed because the roof was too high.
After that, Peter Chen thought of stacking up chairs, and relying on his many years of experience in theater miscellaneous work, he successfully climbed to the roof and opened the skylight on the roof, allowing the balloon to fly up into the sky. In the end, the balloon exploded in the sky, and Peter Chen became a real patriotic hero.
The story ends here.
ReviewAs a Chinese movie made 28 years ago, the story of "The Lost Hero" is still current even today, especially in the design of the comedy sequences and the arrangement of the plot conflicts, which reflect the creativity and ingenuity of the Chinese filmmakers at that time.
The film's two directors, Guo Shaoxiong and Liu Jiankui, haven't done many comedies in their careers, while screenwriter Hu Yuewei is known for his historical dramas. So it's not hard to guess that Chen Pesi, who stars in the movie, should be credited with the comedic design of the movie.