text | Qiong Ying
editor | Xiang Wanwan
"Of course I have seen the movies he acted in, but as for this person, I really don’t want to comment."
This is Hong Kong martial arts instructor, Sammo Hung, who is at the level of a boss. What he said about Stephen Chow in an interview program.
What the hell is this?
's tone seems abnormal no matter how you look at it. What happened between them?
is really, really curious.
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Stephen Chow was born in 1962 in the slums of Kowloon, Hong Kong.
When I was a child, my parents often had quarrels over trivial matters in life.
Finally, when Stephen Chow was about 7 years old, his parents divorced.
My father left alone, and he lived with his two sisters and his mother.
may be related to the name of his mother. His name comes from the "Xiongzhou fog column, handsome stars..." in "Tengwang Pavilion Preface"
This sentence means, the majestic Hongzhou City, The houses are lined up like fog, and the handsome people are as active as stars.
This is a mother's expectation for her child. She hopes that Stephen Chow's life will be as majestic as Hongzhou City and as dazzling as the stars.
Kung fu master Bruce Lee is someone Stephen Chow has always admired.
During a summer vacation when he was in middle school, he took out the 300 yuan he had saved from his part-time job to study Wing Chun with Bruce Lee's senior brother, Huang Chunliang.
After graduation, he also met Tony Leung, who also had a dream of becoming a star.
The two hit it off and applied for the 11th wireless artist training class together.
Due to insufficient preparation, he failed the exam this time.
Later, with the help of a sister, I entered the night shift of the training class.
After finishing the night shift, Stephen Chow signed a contract with TVB.
He is the host of a children's program. He also starred in a unit drama "Black and White Zombie" with his partner Long Bingji.
In 1988, Stephen Chow won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 25th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.
What brought him this honor was Li Xiuxian's movie "Thunderbolt Pioneer", in which Stephen Chow was just an inconspicuous younger brother.
Stephen Chow will continue to work hard, and through the unstructured acting style in "A Comic to the End of the World", he will have his own acting style.
Immediately afterwards, for his superb acting skills in "The Gambler", he was mentioned as the Best Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards. At the same time, he broke the box office record in Hong Kong with a box office of more than 41 million Hong Kong dollars.
In the coming year, Stephen Chow once again won the annual box office championship in Hong Kong with HK$43.82 million, breaking the box office record in Hong Kong.
In "The Dragon Back to School", Stephen Chow changed his image as a gangster and played the role of an undercover detective with special skills.
Just when the audience thought that the nonsensical, disorganized little gangster was the image of Stephen Chow.
did not expect that his role as a detective would also bring excitement to the audience.
"Hong Kong's box office is waiting for Stephen Chow to break, and Stephen Chow's name represents the box office."
This should be the true thought in the hearts of the audience at that time.
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In 1993, Stephen Chow became the annual box office champion in Hong Kong with the film "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance". In the film
, Stephen Chow plays Tang Bohu, who is extremely talented and is known as the "Four Talents" along with Zhu Zhishan and others.
When I met the old lady’s personal maid, I felt like she was going to be together for thousands of years at a glance. His witty language and handsome image make Qiuxiang both love and hate him.
In the end, the old lady was moved, and the two finally got married, which made people couldn't help but applaud and bless them.
Stephen Chow never rests on his laurels. He never defines himself as being able to star in only one genre. He always continues to develop and innovate.
No, his nonsensical performance and the image of a gangster had just taken root in people's hearts, and then came a detective who broke the box office record.
In December 1996, Stephen Chow's comedy action film "The God of Cookery" sold more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, ranking second in Hong Kong's annual box office.
It is worth congratulating that this film was also selected as a viewing film at the "Venice International Film Festival".
can only say that the audience is already familiar with it. Stephen Chow always brings all kinds of surprises, allowing us to bathe in a feast of perspective and listening angle.
Stephen Chow has an insatiable heart. When he combines various film performance styles, he is also trying the performance mode of the world's king of comedy "Chaplin".
In 1999, in "The King of Comedy", Yin Tianchou, who had been an extra, used various "hip-hop" and "weird" ways to express himself in a difficult environment and move towards his dream.
Isn’t this the path of Stephen Chow’s own life!
This unique style of film also won the Hong Kong annual box office no. 1.
Stephen Chow lived up to his mother's expectations and kept galloping forward like a star.
Of course, he will have many partners along the way.
In a film in which he directed and starred, a small friction between him and Sammo Hung, who was also a kung fu star, is still remembered.
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In 2004, Stephen Chow directed, wrote, and starred in a movie called "Kung Fu".
This film cost a lot of money. During the filming, the investors once asked Stephen Chow not to be too serious in many parts because it cost too much. If he didn't agree, they would not inject further funds into him later.
Stephen Chow decisively refused.
Stephen Chow attaches great importance to every role in this film.
The role of "Charter Housewife" in the film was played by Stephen Chow again and again, Yuen Qiu Lai, who has been out of the industry for 18 years.
Yuan Qiu was finally moved. In order to make her "charter wife" more attractive, Yuan Qiu forced herself to gain 20 pounds.
Sure enough, with this role, Yuan Qiu became popular again.
Another one is Yuan Hua who plays the role of "Charterer".
He said that he had been following someone for many years without making any splash, but following Stephen Chow once made him famous.
"Kung Fu" Just by looking at the name, you know that it must require martial arts instruction.
At that time, Stephen Chow invited the famous Sammo Hung to be his martial arts instructor.
With the relationship between the two, Sammo Hung agreed without saying a word.
At the beginning, everyone got along very happily.
However, the opinions of the latter two people are somewhat different.
Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu" film needs a fantasy and exaggerated martial arts artistic conception.
However, Sammo Hung’s martial arts concept is a traditional, real fight in which every punch hits the flesh.
However, these two are both "teacher-level" figures in the industry, and they have their own persistence.
In the face of the situation, Sammo Hung proposed to "go back to Hong Kong for medical treatment."
Little did he know that Stephen Chow said directly, "If you go back, you don't have to come back again."
Now, the situation has reached an irreversible point.
Stephen Chow may be called "Master Xing" by other people.
But in the eyes of Sammo Hung, he is "Xingzi". How can he continue with such awesome words?
Therefore, when you see the martial arts movements in "Kung Fu", you feel that the first part is traditional martial arts movements, and the latter part looks more freehand.
This is because the former was Sammo Hung’s martial arts instructor, and the latter was replaced by Yuen Woo-Ping.
later proved that Stephen Chow's persistence was not wrong.
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After the film was released, its total box office worldwide reached 105 million US dollars.
broke the box office record in Hong Kong with more than 61.2 million Hong Kong dollars, and even set a single-screen box office record for Chinese-language movies in North America.
"Time" rated "Kung Fu" as "one of the top ten films of the year."
Stephen Chow personally won the Best Director Award at the 42nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.
films have won even more awards: Best Picture Award at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards, Best Feature Film Award at the 42nd Taiwan Golden Horse Film Awards, and so on.
In the coming year, Stephen Chow will be named one of the "100 Outstanding Actors in Chinese Films for a Century".
It is precisely because of Stephen Chow's continuous innovation, fantastic ideas, and bold attempts that he has brought us one classic after another.
Stephen Chow was rated as a "genius" actor.
However, most of the actors who have worked with him have criticized his temper, saying that he is "arrogant", "ignorant" and so on.
In fact, Stephen Chow is not very understanding of the world.
"Uncle Da" who has worked with him said in the program that he is a person born for dramas. As long as he is filming, he will be immersed in it every minute and everything else has nothing to do with him.
“Forgetting sleep and food” is probably not enough to describe him.
"Stephen Chow is a very careful gentleman, and he is also very good at taking care of others. His inner emotions are very rich, but he is not good at expressing them." This is the comprehensive evaluation of "Shandong Business Daily", Tencent and others.
"Beijing News", Dragon TV, etc. commented that he is the inheritor of traditional comedy and a brave pioneer.
His nonsensical performance mode combines some language and body movements that seem to have no logical relationship, but it enriches the contradictions and conflicts of the characters.
's imaginative comedy style is sometimes exaggerated, sometimes restrained, and with some funny and warm blessings, we can't help but follow the mental journey of the characters in the play.
His comedy not only brings laughter, but also gives people space for deep reflection.
Stephen Chow, who has retired behind the scenes with his full head of hair, still continues to bring us classics. Do you like him like this?
