Regarding the question of when Zhou Xingchi was called "Xing Ye", there are various opinions. One said it was Wu Junru who called it, another said it was Wu Mengda who called it, and some people said it was Sammo Hung who called it first, but anyway, Stephen Chow is the only recognized "Master" in the Chinese film world today. There is no objection to this. As for "Fan Ye" and "Cui Ye", most of them have the meaning of fan clamor or self-appointment, and they seem to have no wide recognition.
Zhou Xingchi’s famous work is "The Holy Gambling", produced in 1990, but there were a lot of works by Zhou Xingchi that year. It is difficult to verify which works were filmed before "The Holy Gambling" and which works were filmed after "The Holy Gambling", so we Here, the films released in 1991 and later are called works after Stephen Chow became famous.
In the past 20 years, Stephen Chow has acted in dozens of movies, but it is not easy to find the bad ones. One of the important reasons why the star is called the star is that most of his works are There is quality assurance. Let's first choose some of the poorer Star Master works as seed players.
Wang Jing is a director who can't stand the test of time. He directed many works for Stephen Chow in his early years, but now it seems that they are not very interesting. "Tricky Expert", "Shanghai Gambling Saint", etc., are no better than "Best Losing Friends" How brilliant is "Hardcover Chasing Girls". In addition, Li Lichi's "Sage of Love", which was the first director of Stephen Chow's movie guide, the lowest-grossing work of Stephen Chow in 1992, "Comic Dragon", and the last collaboration between Johnnie To and Stephen Chow "Jigong", etc. , Are all controversial works.
Wang Jing’s "Best Losing Friend Breaks the Pass"
In the latter half of the 1990s, the three iconic works of nonsensical movies continued to decline, "Dead Grass", "One-stop Transport", and "The King of Thousand Kings 2000", none of them A movie that is too popular among the media and fans. Since Zhou Xingchi became a director, "Yangtze No. 7" is considered to be the low point of his actor career.
If you must choose two of Stephen Chow's worst movies, not the ones mentioned above. However, when we judge bad movies, we can’t use the current standards and perspectives, and we must also integrate the reflections of the people at the time. The few Wang Jing’s works mentioned just now are not very good, but the box office at that time was very high and the evaluation was also It is true that Wang Jing's nonsensical spoofs accurately hit the people's interest at that time, so it should not be classified as bad movies such as "Shanghai Gambling Saint" and "Tricky Expert".
Among the movies mentioned above, people at that time found it boring, but the ones that are still boring to watch now are probably only "Dead Grass" and "The King of Thousand Kings 2000". In the latter half of the 1990s, the three films of Stephen Chow, "Dead Grass", "One-stop Transport" and "The King of Thousand Kings 2000" all give people the impression that Stephen Chow was not interested in performing and was not serious, and filmed in order to attract new talents. These three works, "Counting Dead Grass" and "One-stop Transport" to praise Ge Minhui, and "A Thousand Kings 2000" to praise Zhang Jiahui. However, among the three films, "One Dragon" has many laughs and reversals. As a Lunar New Year film, it is completely qualified and has no bad features. The other two films are not.
The style of "Counting Dead Grass" is a bit like Zhou Xingchi's previous "Examination of the Dead" and "Nine Grade Sesame Officials". It is a detective comedy, but the film has no momentum. The set is rough, the laughs are clichés, and the performance is perfunctory. In the movie, only Ge Minhui vigorously showed his flaws in acting.
"The King of Thousand Kings 2000" is even worse. Wang Jing later bombarded Zhou Xingchi many times, saying that he had only filmed the scene for a week, but took away 10 million. This is unreasonable. With Stephen Chow's status in the film industry at the time, he could participate in such a bad film and praise Zhang Jiahui, who has no talent for comedy. Such behavior is more than ten million dollars?
"Dead Grass" and "The King of Thousand Kings 2000" had a box office of more than 20 million in Hong Kong that year. As an ordinary movie, this result is not bad, but as a Stephen Chow movie, this result is more embarrassing. The media reviews of Xingchi are also extremely bad. Many people think that Stephen Chow's nonsensical style is near the end. Fortunately, Master Xing once again proved his extraordinary strength with a "King of Comedy".
