In the heyday of Hong Kong movies, many directors loved shooting "violent aesthetics" films, and as a representative of them, Chow Yun-fat's image was also established in many "violent aesthetics" movies. From the policeman, the gambler to the prisoner, although his image has been changing, but the temperament radiating from his heart still affects every role he plays.
Chow Yun-fat, 64 years old this year, has already entered the ranks of the elderly, but although he has slightly sagging skin and wrinkles on his face, white hair on the temples will appear in the public’s sight from time to time. Anyone who has watched his movies and TV shows grow up knows that he is getting old, but his condition is not at all like an old man in his 60s. On the contrary, he is very vigorous and still maintains his passion for movies.
Chow Yun-fat’s accumulated fame over the past decades has made many entertainment stars difficult to match even today. However, there was still an actor with the same fame as him-that is Li Xiuxian. In the development of
in Hong Kong police films, I have to mention Li Xiuxian’s influence on police films. At that time, many movies were produced and sold quickly. Although many stars gave up their lives to perform, they were very different from the actual police profession, and the pure pursuit of visual stimulation would make the audience aesthetic fatigue. At this time, Li Xiuxian, who once wanted to be a police officer and then switched to an actor, successfully directed a police movie, and won the double actor at the Golden Horse and Golden Horse Awards.
The film he directed and starred in is "Public Servant". In this film, he assigns the pursuit of fairness and justice in his youth to the protagonist, and he also puts his expectations of the police in this film. Therefore, in this movie, the policeman he plays is of flesh and blood. After "Public Servant", police films began another form of expression.
Li Xiuxian is three years older than Chow Yun-fat. At the time, the two also collaborated on many films and achieved high results, so the two were equally famous at the time. In addition to the performances in front of the screen, he will also retreat behind the scenes to guide other people's action scenes, and he can be said to be Zhou Xingchi's teacher.
Li Xiuxian, now 67 years old, walks on the road just like ordinary old people, getting fat and unsharp, far from the handsome and just police image when he was young. And he loves to wear flip flops and big pants casually dressing up also makes it difficult for many people to associate him with the idol in memory.
Although years are a pig-killing knife, no one can resist time, but their once spirited appearance will always remain in our minds.
