1,
As the saying goes, behind a successful man, there must be a successful woman.
But for the singer Jacky Cheung, this sentence should become:
Behind a successful man, there may be a failed woman.
Recently, Hong Kong media reported that Jacky Cheung’s wife Luo Meiwei had invested RMB 2 billion in the stock market in four years. She also said that all her family’s assets were reduced to a self-owned house, forcing the 61-year-old Jacky Cheung to still work hard to perform.
The news claims are exaggerated, but they are by no means groundless.
As early as 2008, the year Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Hong Kong media broke the news that Luo Meiwei suffered a large investment loss.
broke the news and also mentioned that she was unruly by nature and was the person who had the most Filipino maids in Hong Kong. She was not satisfied with dozens of maids a year. In the end, she was directly blacklisted by the Filipino maid organization.
With such a wife, what more could a husband want?
Of course he is working hard to make money.
In the past two years, Jacky Cheung has a full schedule.
He held more than 80 concerts last year, with an average of one concert every four days, and each concert started with singing and dancing for three hours.
In March this year, it was even reported that Jacky Cheung was admitted to the ICU due to overwork.
Later it was confirmed that he was just suffering from yang, and several concerts were canceled, which was a false alarm.
But from another perspective, his wife’s prodigality actually inspired Jacky’s fighting spirit to pursue a career again, which was a huge contribution.
Some fans joked that they hope Quinlivan also spends billions so that Jay Chou can produce some good songs.
Jacky Cheung wants to make money, it is actually very easy.
participated in "I Am a Singer", became a judge on "The Voice of China", and even recorded a variety show with the four kings, earning tens of millions every minute.
However, he participated in singing competitions in his early years and was tired of competitions. He did not have a strong sense of variety and was unwilling to condescendingly judge others.
’s only career and hobby is singing.
Jacky Brother really loves to sing.
When Zhong Zhentao got married, he hired a professional band and singer. However, all the songs were sung by him and Alan Tam, and the money spent on hiring the singer was wasted.
later participated in the recording of "Artistic Life". Other singers cherish words like gold. He sang a cappella directly to the fans on the spot, with his own reverb.
Others always invite guests to their concerts, but he has been doing it for so many years and almost never invites guests, just sings by himself.
can’t bear to sing it to his fans, it’s really like Wu Bai.
2,
For Jacky Cheung, if singing ranks first, acting will definitely rank second.
Among the four kings, he is the last in appearance and seems to have no ambition in acting.
But he has acted in more than 80 film and television dramas in 30 years, won the Academy Award for Supporting Actor and the Golden Horse Award for Supporting Actor, and became a popular meme among young people with his performance in "Carmen".
It’s just that he sings so well that people overlook his acting talent.
In 2016, at the press conference of "Macau 3", he said with a smile that he didn't mind others using my emoticons, I would use them myself.
After 8 years, he did not act again.
Recently, good news has come out. Jacky Cheung will appear in a movie again after 8 years.
"Customs Front" starring him and Nicholas Tse is officially scheduled for July 5, and the film crew has released the latest trailer.
This film is directed by Qiu Litao, with Nicholas Tse as action director, starring Karen Lam and Liu Yasu, and Wu Zhenyu makes a special appearance. The movie
tells the story of Hong Kong Customs investigator Zhou Zhengli (played by Nicholas Tse) and his boss Zhang Yunnan (Jacky Cheung) who were forced to be involved in violent attacks by overseas forces while investigating a major transnational case.
According to the trailer, this is a standard bad popcorn action movie. The shootout scenes, explosion scenes, and boat collision scenes are all very exciting. It really deserves to be "the first hit of the summer".
It is true that Nicholas Tse worked hard in this film.
This was his first time as the leading actor and action director. He was fully committed to the film:
"There were more than 60 scenes, but the preparations took a lot of time, and a total of 80 scenes were shot!"
Jacky Cheung also worked very hard.
He said that at first he thought he didn't need too many fighting scenes. After joining the cast, Nicholas Tse was very strict with him, but he successfully completed everything. He also said that the filming was not enough, and he hoped to film more fighting scenes next time.
Considering the obvious decline of Hong Kong films in recent years, Jacky Cheung's comeback has undoubtedly injected a shot in the arm into Hong Kong films.
The release of "Customs Front" is a great thing for Jacky Cheung himself and for the depressed Hong Kong movies.
But if you think about it carefully, it is quite ironic.
When Hong Kong movies need Hong Kong singers to save them, this sounds unreliable.
3,
Jacky Cheung had faced Nicholas Tse before, and he was also forced into this position.
Nicholas Tse is a second-generation star, but he did not enjoy much glory. He debuted as a singer at the age of 18 to pay off his father's debts.
Later, he transitioned to filmmaking. He made his first action movie "New Police" at the age of 19, and "New Police Story" at the age of 24. When
was participating in films such as "The True Colors of a Man", "New Shaolin Temple", "Fury: Crime" and other films, Li Zhongzhi, who was in the family class, specially trained his skills.
So from a certain perspective, Nicholas Tse is already half a married man.
At the age of 30, Nicholas Tse won the Academy Award for Best Actor for "The Informer", which was a complete achievement.
He was originally planning to learn from Jackie Chan and become a star.
But because of the lack of foundation and too many injuries, I had to give up, which is a pity.
In those years, most of Nicholas Tse's appearances were as a cook in the variety show "Feng Wei".
It is true that Nicholas Tse likes to cook, but he has not left the film industry.
later moved to behind the scenes to do film and television investment and post-production, and occasionally acted.
html was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor 03 years ago for "The Fury: Serious Case", and his overall status is quite Buddhist.
If Hong Kong movies are compared to a world, this world needs a talker.
During the peak period of Hong Kong films, the talkers were "one in every two weeks".
A thousand years later, the talker became Louis Koo.
Louis Koo is a kind-hearted person who donates money to support education in the Mainland. He has always been Yang Guo in everyone's heart.
In 2006, his character Jimmy Tsai became the talker in "Underworld 2", which also foreshadowed Louis Koo's ending.
In 2009, "Eavesdropping" became a hit, and Louis Koo officially became the leading brother. More than ten years after
, Hong Kong films have formed an assembly-line shooting model.
actors are just permutations and combinations.
Louis Koo set up the game, Liu Qingyun, Nick Cheung, Lam Jiadong and others joined in, and then found a group of supporting actors to work together and start work.
The themes are poisonous, rotten, black and lying. The four dishes are stir-fried over and over until the audience vomits.
Louis Koo also has pursuits.
He spent nearly 10 years filming the science fiction film "Tomorrow's War".
is essentially a police film with a science fiction veneer, and is a completely two-dimensional work from "The Wandering Earth".
Louis Koo suffered from word-of-mouth backlash in order to promote his ugly appearance, and gradually became lonely.
After Louis Koo is Andy Lau.
Andy Lau is 9 years older than Louis Koo, but he supported many mainland directors including Ning Hao in his early years, and his hard work bore fruit many years later.
In 2020, "Bomb Disposer 2" exploded, and Andy Lau was pushed to the front of the stage. He starred in and produced many Hong Kong films one after another, forcibly extending the life of Hong Kong films.
It's just that this year's new film "Mr. Red Carpet" failed at the box office, and Lao Liu is not doing well either.
After Louis Koo and Andy Lau, there is no successor in Hong Kong, and the only one who can do it is Nicholas Tse.
In 2021, "Fury: Serious Case" was a box office hit, and Nicholas Tse was pushed to the front of the stage -
He has to be in it, and he has to be in it if he is not.
The argument for filming is still the same: if Nicholas Tse doesn’t start work, Hong Kong filmmakers will have nothing to eat.
Currently, Nicholas Tse's filming schedule is already full.In addition to "Customs Front",
also has "Infinite Mission", "Rage" and "New Police Story 2".
If one day Nicholas Tse can no longer stand it, does Hong Kong film really need Jacky Cheung to come back to save it?
4,
count the most recent Chinese movies.
Although mainland films have made little breakthrough, the overall quality of commercial films is steadily improving. The director account of
has caught the audience's pulse, and this year's Spring Festival season has the best reputation in history.
Taiwanese movies have successively produced good works that are both entertaining and humanistic, such as "Zhou Chu Destroyed Three Evils" and "Old Fox".
Hong Kong movies are the only ones that are outdated, cliche, and lifeless.
In fact, the glory of Hong Kong films was in the 1990s, and the decline was also in the 1990s.
Hong Kong films were brilliant at that time. Looking at the overall background, Hong Kong had geographical advantages and gained excessive dividends of the times.
Judging from the environment since childhood, Hong Kong films are supported by the underworld and backed by multiple markets in East Asia.
The protagonists in the Korean drama "Reply 1988" watched "A Better Tomorrow" together. Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin were the idols of young Koreans at the time.
With all the stars cheering for the moon, Hong Kong movies are in a state of madness and excess. The things produced by
are all curious, pornographic and bloody. People watch Hong Kong films more for excitement, and some for art.
Those Hong Kong stars, one by one, have made a lot of bad movies.
In 1993, Tsui Hark's martial arts film made this genre popular. A large number of people followed the trend and made martial arts films. Taiwanese film producers bought them without any thought, and as a result they suffered heavy losses.
The last straw was Stephen Chow's "Ji Gong". Taiwanese film producers spent 30 million to buy it, but the box office was dismal.
Taiwanese businessmen have been grudged against Hong Kong films for a long time. Jackie Chan once revealed that some Hong Kong companies took 10 million investment, kept 5 million for themselves, and left 5 million to make movies.
When Hong Kong films were in their glory, Taiwanese businessmen tolerated them. When Hong Kong films declined, resentment immediately erupted. Eight major Taiwanese film producers collectively boycotted Hong Kong films.
And Hollywood took the opportunity to knock on the door of the Taiwan market. Visual blockbusters such as "Jurassic Park" directly destroyed the Hong Kong films produced by the studio.
Later, South Korea, the second largest overseas market for Hong Kong films, also began to develop its own film and television industry. Now it is catching up, leaving Hong Kong films behind.
Then came the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and Hong Kong movies completely went cold.
5,
Today’s Hong Kong movies are about anti-drugs, anti-corruption, chasing dragons and undercover agents. The four detectives filmed them repeatedly, but there is really nothing left.
This small place has no soil for science fiction. Louis Koo’s entire imagination of science fiction is steel mechas. They have never experienced war and cannot make profound war movies.
refer to the plastic cloth used as a waterfall in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". They can't do the offline special effects. After counting, they can really do it with the theme of police, criminals, drugs and crime. The cost is low, the risk is low, and it is easy to pass the review. , all have advantages, except that it doesn’t look good when photographed.
Of course we acknowledge the past glories of Hong Kong films, of course we respect the life-threatening stunts performed by the dragon and tiger warriors, and of course we are willing to regard those kung fu films, police and gangster films, gambling films and even romance films as memories of our youth.
But times are developing. If you still fool everyone with the works of small workshops from decades ago, and package them with emotions, you can do it once or twice, but after three times, the audience will no longer be used to you.
There is only one real way out for Hong Kong movies - embracing the mainland.
Wang Jing said it right, there will be no Hong Kong movies in the future, only Chinese movies.
You see, Lin Chaoxian, Peter Chan and Tsui Hark have all gone north. "Operation Red Sea", "Dear" and "Changjin Lake" are not Hong Kong stories, they are Chinese stories with Hong Kong elements.
Look at how many classics Ng Mang-tat and Stephen Chow have made, but he said, I have been working for 40 years, and only "The Wandering Earth" is the real movie making, and this life is worth it.
"Everyone is crazy, everyone is over the top."
In fact, looking back, Hong Kong movies can become a trend and addictive to countless audiences.The core reason of
is that it contains the two most unique "sexiness" of cultural heritage and industrialization.
With the support of these two sexy elements, Hong Kong movies, from bones to shapes, make the audience linger for thousands of years.
Without these sexy elements, saving Hong Kong movies is self-deception.
It’s time for Hong Kong films to wake up and stop letting a combination of Hong Kong stars play the leading roles and mainland actors playing supporting roles.
It’s time to step out of Causeway Bay and embrace the New World. It’s time to let go of the last stubbornness and sense of superiority.
Text/Pippi Movie Editorial Department: Yi Li Ji
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He said that at first he thought he didn't need too many fighting scenes. After joining the cast, Nicholas Tse was very strict with him, but he successfully completed everything. He also said that the filming was not enough, and he hoped to film more fighting scenes next time.
Considering the obvious decline of Hong Kong films in recent years, Jacky Cheung's comeback has undoubtedly injected a shot in the arm into Hong Kong films.
The release of "Customs Front" is a great thing for Jacky Cheung himself and for the depressed Hong Kong movies.
But if you think about it carefully, it is quite ironic.
When Hong Kong movies need Hong Kong singers to save them, this sounds unreliable.
3,
Jacky Cheung had faced Nicholas Tse before, and he was also forced into this position.
Nicholas Tse is a second-generation star, but he did not enjoy much glory. He debuted as a singer at the age of 18 to pay off his father's debts.
Later, he transitioned to filmmaking. He made his first action movie "New Police" at the age of 19, and "New Police Story" at the age of 24. When
was participating in films such as "The True Colors of a Man", "New Shaolin Temple", "Fury: Crime" and other films, Li Zhongzhi, who was in the family class, specially trained his skills.
So from a certain perspective, Nicholas Tse is already half a married man.
At the age of 30, Nicholas Tse won the Academy Award for Best Actor for "The Informer", which was a complete achievement.
He was originally planning to learn from Jackie Chan and become a star.
But because of the lack of foundation and too many injuries, I had to give up, which is a pity.
In those years, most of Nicholas Tse's appearances were as a cook in the variety show "Feng Wei".
It is true that Nicholas Tse likes to cook, but he has not left the film industry.
later moved to behind the scenes to do film and television investment and post-production, and occasionally acted.
html was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor 03 years ago for "The Fury: Serious Case", and his overall status is quite Buddhist.
If Hong Kong movies are compared to a world, this world needs a talker.
During the peak period of Hong Kong films, the talkers were "one in every two weeks".
A thousand years later, the talker became Louis Koo.
Louis Koo is a kind-hearted person who donates money to support education in the Mainland. He has always been Yang Guo in everyone's heart.
In 2006, his character Jimmy Tsai became the talker in "Underworld 2", which also foreshadowed Louis Koo's ending.
In 2009, "Eavesdropping" became a hit, and Louis Koo officially became the leading brother. More than ten years after
, Hong Kong films have formed an assembly-line shooting model.
actors are just permutations and combinations.
Louis Koo set up the game, Liu Qingyun, Nick Cheung, Lam Jiadong and others joined in, and then found a group of supporting actors to work together and start work.
The themes are poisonous, rotten, black and lying. The four dishes are stir-fried over and over until the audience vomits.
Louis Koo also has pursuits.
He spent nearly 10 years filming the science fiction film "Tomorrow's War".
is essentially a police film with a science fiction veneer, and is a completely two-dimensional work from "The Wandering Earth".
Louis Koo suffered from word-of-mouth backlash in order to promote his ugly appearance, and gradually became lonely.
After Louis Koo is Andy Lau.
Andy Lau is 9 years older than Louis Koo, but he supported many mainland directors including Ning Hao in his early years, and his hard work bore fruit many years later.
In 2020, "Bomb Disposer 2" exploded, and Andy Lau was pushed to the front of the stage. He starred in and produced many Hong Kong films one after another, forcibly extending the life of Hong Kong films.
It's just that this year's new film "Mr. Red Carpet" failed at the box office, and Lao Liu is not doing well either.
After Louis Koo and Andy Lau, there is no successor in Hong Kong, and the only one who can do it is Nicholas Tse.
In 2021, "Fury: Serious Case" was a box office hit, and Nicholas Tse was pushed to the front of the stage -
He has to be in it, and he has to be in it if he is not.
The argument for filming is still the same: if Nicholas Tse doesn’t start work, Hong Kong filmmakers will have nothing to eat.
Currently, Nicholas Tse's filming schedule is already full.In addition to "Customs Front",
also has "Infinite Mission", "Rage" and "New Police Story 2".
If one day Nicholas Tse can no longer stand it, does Hong Kong film really need Jacky Cheung to come back to save it?
4,
count the most recent Chinese movies.
Although mainland films have made little breakthrough, the overall quality of commercial films is steadily improving. The director account of
has caught the audience's pulse, and this year's Spring Festival season has the best reputation in history.
Taiwanese movies have successively produced good works that are both entertaining and humanistic, such as "Zhou Chu Destroyed Three Evils" and "Old Fox".
Hong Kong movies are the only ones that are outdated, cliche, and lifeless.
In fact, the glory of Hong Kong films was in the 1990s, and the decline was also in the 1990s.
Hong Kong films were brilliant at that time. Looking at the overall background, Hong Kong had geographical advantages and gained excessive dividends of the times.
Judging from the environment since childhood, Hong Kong films are supported by the underworld and backed by multiple markets in East Asia.
The protagonists in the Korean drama "Reply 1988" watched "A Better Tomorrow" together. Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin were the idols of young Koreans at the time.
With all the stars cheering for the moon, Hong Kong movies are in a state of madness and excess. The things produced by
are all curious, pornographic and bloody. People watch Hong Kong films more for excitement, and some for art.
Those Hong Kong stars, one by one, have made a lot of bad movies.
In 1993, Tsui Hark's martial arts film made this genre popular. A large number of people followed the trend and made martial arts films. Taiwanese film producers bought them without any thought, and as a result they suffered heavy losses.
The last straw was Stephen Chow's "Ji Gong". Taiwanese film producers spent 30 million to buy it, but the box office was dismal.
Taiwanese businessmen have been grudged against Hong Kong films for a long time. Jackie Chan once revealed that some Hong Kong companies took 10 million investment, kept 5 million for themselves, and left 5 million to make movies.
When Hong Kong films were in their glory, Taiwanese businessmen tolerated them. When Hong Kong films declined, resentment immediately erupted. Eight major Taiwanese film producers collectively boycotted Hong Kong films.
And Hollywood took the opportunity to knock on the door of the Taiwan market. Visual blockbusters such as "Jurassic Park" directly destroyed the Hong Kong films produced by the studio.
Later, South Korea, the second largest overseas market for Hong Kong films, also began to develop its own film and television industry. Now it is catching up, leaving Hong Kong films behind.
Then came the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and Hong Kong movies completely went cold.
5,
Today’s Hong Kong movies are about anti-drugs, anti-corruption, chasing dragons and undercover agents. The four detectives filmed them repeatedly, but there is really nothing left.
This small place has no soil for science fiction. Louis Koo’s entire imagination of science fiction is steel mechas. They have never experienced war and cannot make profound war movies.
refer to the plastic cloth used as a waterfall in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". They can't do the offline special effects. After counting, they can really do it with the theme of police, criminals, drugs and crime. The cost is low, the risk is low, and it is easy to pass the review. , all have advantages, except that it doesn’t look good when photographed.
Of course we acknowledge the past glories of Hong Kong films, of course we respect the life-threatening stunts performed by the dragon and tiger warriors, and of course we are willing to regard those kung fu films, police and gangster films, gambling films and even romance films as memories of our youth.
But times are developing. If you still fool everyone with the works of small workshops from decades ago, and package them with emotions, you can do it once or twice, but after three times, the audience will no longer be used to you.
There is only one real way out for Hong Kong movies - embracing the mainland.
Wang Jing said it right, there will be no Hong Kong movies in the future, only Chinese movies.
You see, Lin Chaoxian, Peter Chan and Tsui Hark have all gone north. "Operation Red Sea", "Dear" and "Changjin Lake" are not Hong Kong stories, they are Chinese stories with Hong Kong elements.
Look at how many classics Ng Mang-tat and Stephen Chow have made, but he said, I have been working for 40 years, and only "The Wandering Earth" is the real movie making, and this life is worth it.
"Everyone is crazy, everyone is over the top."
In fact, looking back, Hong Kong movies can become a trend and addictive to countless audiences.The core reason of
is that it contains the two most unique "sexiness" of cultural heritage and industrialization.
With the support of these two sexy elements, Hong Kong movies, from bones to shapes, make the audience linger for thousands of years.
Without these sexy elements, saving Hong Kong movies is self-deception.
It’s time for Hong Kong films to wake up and stop letting a combination of Hong Kong stars play the leading roles and mainland actors playing supporting roles.
It’s time to step out of Causeway Bay and embrace the New World. It’s time to let go of the last stubbornness and sense of superiority.
Text/Pippi Movie Editorial Department: Yi Li Ji
© Original丨Article Copyright: Pippi Movie (ppdianying)
Please do not reproduce in any form without authorization
