For the 2019 Lunar New Year, Stephen Chow, who has always only "interrupted" us during the Spring Festival, once again returned to the big screen with his new movie "The New King of Comedy".
doesn't have too many surprises. Just like 20 years ago, the movie still tells the difficult journey of "female Yin Tianchou" Ru Meng from Xiaolongtao to big star.
For various reasons, once the movie was released, it showed a serious polarization of reviews.
A movie, the people who support it are full of praise and love it, and those who hate it are more criticized and contemptuous.
thinks about it carefully, between love and hate, it is also like Zhou Xingchi's sad and happy life outside the play.
In the early 1950s, Ling Baoer's family was identified as counter-revolutionaries due to the influence of his father's status as the prosecutor of the Kuomintang. When
is desperate, Ling Baoer, who will graduate from the Normal University, can only leave his hometown in Guangdong and come to Hong Kong alone.
In order to gain a foothold here, Ling Baoer chose to marry Zhou Yishang, a local poor, in desperation. Shortly after the marriage of
, Ling Baoer gave birth to two daughters and one son for the Zhou family. As the only "cultural person" in the family, Ling Baoer thought for a long time, and finally chose two sentences as his son's name in "The Preface of King Teng's Pavilion".
"Xiongzhou Wuli, handsome stars."
Zhou Xingchi was born.
grew up in the "slums" of Kowloon. No one understood the poetry and ambition of the boy's name, and this seemed to be doomed from the beginning, Zhou Xingchi did not belong here at all. The poor life in
slums caused Ling Baoer and the children to suffer, but Zhou Yishang, who was supposed to be the backbone of the family, developed a bad problem of proficiency in eating, drinking, and gambling.
After realizing that he could no longer tolerate all the evil deeds of her husband, Ling Baoer, who had always been strong, decided to divorce and left the home without any warmth with her three children.
left the "slums" in Kowloon, Ling Baoer secretly vowed every day that she would never let the children repeat the mistakes of Zhou Yishang. During
, Ling Baoer could do three jobs a day. She insisted on letting her children wear decent clothes and get the best education, and she avoided going to mixed places even when she went to the streets.
In order to make her children "decent people", she almost exhausted her efforts.
Zhou Xingchi in his childhood was very introverted, and this directly led to many things that seemed easy to others, when he came to him, they became daunting. After
separated from his father, Zhou Xingchi became the only man in the family. Living among women every day, Zhou Xingchi rarely finds any fun in it.
has no friends and doesn't know how to communicate. As a student, Stephen Chow's biggest hobby every day is to stand at the table and watch the street view outside the window.
For 2 hours, he was motionless in the cramped "coffin room", the city was full of people, but none of the excitement belonged to him.
When it gets dark, the colorful lights on the street illuminate the house very brightly, and the lights of various colors hit Zhou Xingchi's face, but he is always expressionless.
Broken family, poor life, bad personality, holding such a bad card, Zhou Xingchi told himself more than once: "Don't think about it, you won't have a future."
Such an inferiority to despair psychology and childhood Stephen Chow followed like a shadow until he met Bruce Lee in the cinema.
That was the first time he walked into a cinema. After the film, he was extremely excited, who had always been taciturn, and he took his mother's hand and said:
"I also want to go to the film and become a star like Bruce Lee!"
Zhou Xingchi's sudden thought made Ling Bao'er feel a little ridiculous, because she In the adult world, there is a qualitative difference between dreaming and daydreaming. The first ideal of
was ridiculed when he was young, but Stephen Chow did not mean to give up.
After that, he began to devote more time to practicing martial arts. In order to better practice martial arts, Zhou Xingchi begged his mother to buy sandbags.
hung in the middle of a room of several square meters. Every time the family had a meal, he could hear him banging the sandbags in the living room.
In an almost self-abuse way, Zhou Xingchi forced himself to learn 18 martial arts.
Many years later, he put his perseverance and love into the movie, without mechanically copying, everything is appropriate. This is a talent and a result of persistence.fruit.
"If people don't have dreams, what's the difference between them and salted fish?"
Zhou Xingchi's question when he was 9 years old, now finally waited for the answer. With
kicking and beating all the way, Zhou Xingchi passed through his middle school age. In order to reduce the burden at home, he gave up the opportunity to continue studying and began to shuttle among the major workplaces.
In the adult world under the mud and sand clubs, he felt thousands of human feelings, joys and sorrows among countless little people-
, and this will become the most breathtaking bravery and touching in his movies in the future. When working at
, Zhou Xingchi met a colleague who was very similar to his own growth experience-Tony Leung. The highly overlapping trajectories of life make the two of them fight hot when they meet.
coincided with TVB recruiting new actors and actresses. Chow Xingchi, who had been preparing for a long time, pulled in Too Wai Leung and signed up together. Before
participated in the audition, Stephen Chow wrote, directed and acted an eight-minute short film. He played the leading role, and Tony Leung, who was dragged by the hard way, played only an unknown soldier who was "beaten to death" halfway through. After the
exam, the two took the subway home. On the way, Zhou Xingchi, who was consciously performing well, couldn’t help but said to his partner: “Look at how well I performed just now, unlike you who are not serious at all!”
that night Zhou Xingchi was so excited that he didn't sleep all night.
was lying on the wooden bed in the sub-room, his whole person was wrapped in the heat of summer, but his heart was particularly light and bright.
has never been as successful as today. He felt that he was only one step away from Bruce Lee.
ended the TVB test. Zhou Xingchi looked forward to the stars and the moon all day, just waiting for the admission notice.
A few days later, the notice came, but after the word "congratulations", it was the name of Tony Leung who accompanied the test.
Standing outside the congratulatory crowd, Zhou Xingchi turned and left, the noise of his sigh and footsteps covered his sigh and footsteps.
Later, he didn't mention his feelings of the day with anyone, and only wrote lightly in "Shaolin Football": "Fate is really unfair. Why do I lose my hair when I am so handsome? You are so ugly, but you don't lose your hair?"
asked, but couldn't. Some past is regrettable that time can't heal. After
lost from TVB, Zhou Xingchi became the laughing stock of everyone. Everyone took his dreams as a joke and changed the law to ridicule him over his own strength, but Zhou Xingchi was a dead eye who hit the south wall without looking back.
In 1980, Zhou Xingchi was introduced by people and entered the 11th TVB Artist Training Class Night Training Class and became a special actor of Lidi TV.
"The world laughs at me too crazy, I laugh at others to see through."
that year, Zhou Xingchi was just 18 years old. After many setbacks, he felt the joy of success for the first time in his paranoia.
A year later, Stephen Chow graduated from the artist training class and officially became a contract artist of TVB.
At this time, his good friend Tony Leung has become one of the "Wireless Five Tigers" by virtue of his super popularity, and has officially entered the entertainment industry. In order to fill the vacancy after the transformation of the former, Zhou Xingchi was transferred to the radio station and began to serve as the host of the children's program "430 Shuttle", which took three years. The experience of
brushing shoulders with the "Actor Dream" several times made Zhou Xingchi feel very disappointed. In the past few years, he has made more than one wish to "change careers" to the leaders, but the other party's answer is always only one:
"The host is not good at doing it, but still want to be an actor? You dream!"
At that moment, Stephen Chow seemed to Back to the day when I first saw Bruce Lee on the big screen. I remember that at that time, Ling Baoer had said the same thing to him, and this time he also chose to make the same decision as that day:
dreams still have to be there, once hell. In order to get a chance to be an actor, Zhou Xingchi would go to the major crews to "experience life" as long as he was free when he was a host of children's programs.
Dead corpses, guards, eunuchs, passers-by... In order to be able to say the phrase "I am actually an actor" righteously, Zhou Xingchi ran through all the tricks.
Around 1983, filming of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" started, and Stephen Chow was fortunate enough to get a chance to play a soldier.
can show his face, but has no lines.
According to the setting of the plot, weekXing Chi needs to be beaten to death by Mei Chaofeng. Although it was just a passing scene, he held the script for several days.
started filming, Zhou Xingchi found the director and analyzed with him the hierarchy of "before death" seriously. Before I thought the other party didn't even listen, he directly replied "I'm crazy" and hurriedly turned on the phone. After the TV series
was broadcast, in order to save the film length, Zhou Xingchi's performance was cut to only one side face. But even so, you can see his subtle expression changes in it.
"Although he is small, he is also acting." In the course of "Actors' Self-cultivation", the first skill he learned was "shameless".
was ignored all the way, Zhou Xingchi finally survived his host career.
In 1986, Zhou Xingchi was transferred to the TVB drama group and began to star in TV dramas. Two years later, he was discovered by director Li Xiuxian and was arranged to star in the movie "Pioneer of Thunder" as a car thief.
Faced with this supporting script that showed his face again and had lines, Zhou Xingchi seemed even more excited.
was on the set, and he tried his best to complete every action, and every line was clearly stated. He felt great satisfaction in it, but he caused extreme dissatisfaction from the director.
In the eyes of the director, Zhou Xingchi’s exaggerated performance is a performance of excessive force. In order to let him get out of his own world as soon as possible, he even walked forward and said to him:
"Acting is not hard work, why do you follow As hard as a dog?!" You see, he really looks like a dog. Although the filming process of
was not as beautiful as imagined, Stephen Chow won the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor Award in one fell swoop with this movie. Under the spotlight, Chow Xingchi finally gave himself a fulfillment after many years of ups and downs. After
won this trophy, the Hong Kong film market officially ushered in the era of "Double Mondays" composed of Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat, and Jackie Chan: It broke the Hong Kong film box office record 6 times and won the Hong Kong film annual box office championship 8 times...
For decades, Zhou Xingchi's glory is well known, but his loneliness has never been known.
A segment of Zhou Xingchi's interview with a certain program was widely circulated on the Internet. In the screen of
, when the hostess spoke of the profound meaning of the classic lines of "A Great Westward Journey", his eyes flashed with relief for a moment, and then he nodded quickly and said:
"Thank you, thank you."
gave a look , Two words of thanks, everyone saw the loneliness in his eyes, and understood his reluctance and regret for that "true love". When
and Zhu Yin met, Zhou Xingchi had just finished a three-year love run with his first love girlfriend Luo Huijuan. In "Play Back To School 2", the two fell in love at first sight, and since then they have both become cinnabar moles in each other's hearts. After
fell in love due to the drama, the two quickly began an underground romance. Although the Hong Kong media reported a lot of this during the
period, the two parties always chose not to talk about it. After repeated questioning to no avail, the outsider returned angrily, leaving only two lovers tacitly.
In the past few years, although the outside world has different opinions on this relationship, judging from the performance of the parties, the two are considered sweet.
Just when everyone thought the two of them would achieve a positive result, Zhu Yin unilaterally announced at this time that she had parted ways with Zhou Xingchi. The reason for breaking up with
is exactly the same as the one given by Luo Huijuan: "He only loves movies and himself."
was just released that year, and the half line of Fairy Zixia in the film was still on the lips. , She said:
"The person I want is a hero, one day he will step on the colorful clouds to marry me. But I guessed the beginning, but could not guess the end of the story."
a long, long time later, this line became Countless epitaphs in the feelings of idiotic men and women, and Zhou Xingchi also fought for the title of God. Everyone of
shed tears for Fairy Zixia, but few people are willing to ask Supreme Treasure's helplessness. Wearing the golden hoop, he was no longer a mortal.
"Let's go first. When my legs don't tremble so much and my heartbeat isn't so messy, I'll just go again."
has been so long, and Zhou Xingchi's loneliness is still unknown.
Some time ago, when participating in a variety show, Zhu Yin once again put on the clothes of the Zixia fairy after many years.
When the former Supreme Treasure appeared on the big screen, a dazzling star flashed in her eyes. After years of
incident, when Tan talked about the old things again, Zhu Yin put away the anger and toughness when she was young. She was silent for a long time, and then said: "In fact, everyone is wrong."
is at the head of the word "less." At my age, what is it like to meet the love of my life?
There is no complaint if there is no mistake, and no regret if there is a mistake.
He only loves movies, so movies have made him and "destroyed" him completely. Because
refused to give up his obsession with the "perfection" of the movie, Zhou Xingchi became a well-known "set hooligan"-
script is not good, change it! Even if there is something wrong, all staff will stop working at all!
The props are wrong, look for it! Even if it is earth-shaking and beyond the budget, it will never make it! The actor was in a wrong state when performing "fainting". He broke 8 wine bottles on people's heads in succession. Even if he knocked a person into a faint and went to the hospital, he would only have one sentence, "When can I start work?"
because of this "tyrant" Act, "Black" Stephen Chow gradually became the "fashion" in the Hong Kong film circle: "Too" Chen Lan sent a 4D long article to bombard him with many "criminals";
Wang Jing because he refused to star in his new movie at a low price , And yelled at him for being ungrateful and selfish; Sammo Hung was dissatisfied with his denial of his martial arts on the set, and left the scene angrily. When he left, he did not forget to add: "You can't just treat yourself as a person and treat others as Dog!"
Even the old partner Wu Mengda, who has worked with him for decades, vowed to never interact with him after Zhou Xingchi deleted all his scenes in "Yangtze River Seven"...
Because of these remarks, Zhou Xingchi betrayed his relatives. The most serious is when the major Hong Kong stars stand in line, only Karen Mok and Huang Qiusheng are willing to speak for him publicly:
"You only see so many people saying that he is not good, but do you see him come out and say something to others?"
After the "Black Star" storm, Zhou Xingchi seemed to have learned to reconcile with "perfect" in the process. He is no longer so true and paranoid, and even learned to be polite and sleek.
He tried to be friends with every actor he had worked with, and he knew how to bow to the market and traffic. He became the "star master" in the hearts of more and more people, but he never found the original "star boy" again.
"I am lonely all my life, and the only person who depends on each other for life is this human head. It may not be so easy for you to take it away."
was accused of daydreaming when he was young, and was scolded as "like a dog" when he was young. , Taking care of the stars of the past.
starred in a movie for the first time in 1988, to the last time he appeared in "Yangtze River Seven" as an actor in 2010, Zhou Xingchi has passed his "loneliness" through his golden years for 30 years.
Now, even he himself admits that he is "old", but the audience still refuses to admit that the hero is too late.
Because many years ago it made many people very happy, and now those people don't want to see him sad. Before the release of
"The New King of Comedy", Stephen Chow had participated in many road shows. At that time, he was smiling very happily in the audience. Everyone at
thought he had learned to reconcile with this world, but only he knew:
didn't change, he just gave up paranoia and just be himself.
No one can understand his loneliness anymore.
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