At the hong kong film awards just past, Tsang chi-wai won the "Best Supporting Actor" with "A Thought of Ignorance". This award is not only the jury's reaffirmation of Zeng Zhiwei's superb acting skills, but also a recognition of his contribution to "A Thought of Ignorance". When Huang Jin, the director of "A Thought of Ignorance", won the "Golden Horse Award for Best New Director" last year, he publicly thanked Zeng Zhiwei, and he frankly said: Without Zeng Zhiwei's help, there would be no movie "One Thought of Ignorance".
Zeng Zhiwei's film career is quite legendary. He first worked as a professional player, Dragon Tiger Martial Artist, and worked as a green leaf for many big stars, and then under the advice of Mai Jia, the director of New Art City, he learned to write and direct from scratch, and directed the first and second episodes of the highest-grossing action film "Best Partner" for New Art City.
Later, Zeng Zhiwei, Chen Kexin and Li Zhiyi formed the "UFO" film company and made "Sweet Honey", "New Difficult Brothers", "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" and other word-of-mouth works. In 2000, he formed "Oriental Charm" with Tam Wing Lin and Chen Baixiang, creating a precedent for the networking of Entertainment in Hong Kong. In the words of Zeng Zhiwei: Regarding making movies, I have tried any role, so I also know how a movie works, and I know what kind of pressures and problems to face to make a movie.
In 2000, Hong Kong films have shown signs of decline, as the "golden oil" of Hong Kong's performing arts industry, for his birthday, he can invite "half of the Hong Kong entertainment industry" Tsang Chi-wai, who not only helps young new directors grow up with practical actions, he is more enthusiastic about funding these young directors to continue the glory of Hong Kong's local films.
The biggest problem facing new directors is branding and funding. Zeng Zhiwei once said in an interview with "Movie Montage", "Many times they (the new director) want to make a story that is very simple and local, because they have no money. So I found five new directors in one go and created a platform to put their work on the big screen. So he guaranteed himself to be a producer and find someone to invest. Therefore, the entertainment industry also circulates the good story of "want to make a movie, find Zeng Zhiwei".
For example, when Huang Jingfu filmed "Jianghu", it was only because Zeng Zhiwei, Andy Lau and others found investment to complete the film. At that time, Zeng Zhiwei also took the lead in launching the "Nine Descending Winds" plan, allowing the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong to make a youth film each, so as to discover and cultivate potential young new directors. In addition, like Guo Zijian's "Wild Dog" and Peng Haoxiang's "Big Husband", Zeng Zhiwei has made great achievements from the smooth shooting to the release.
Due to his appearance and personality, Zeng Zhiwei has been playing some supporting roles and pleasing the audience for many years, and there were many negative evaluations of him by the outside world at that time. Later, he defeated Lu Liangwei's "Lame Hao" with "Tale of Two Cities" to win the film emperor, which was enough to prove his acting strength. But he has always been very indifferent to winning awards.
Zeng Zhiwei, who has long passed the age of confusion, still insists on rolling in the film circle, what is the reason why he insists on coming to this day? He said that everything stemmed from interest, and only interest kept him filming to this day. "As long as you're interested in what you're doing, nothing else matters," he said. "If it is said that acting skills as the only criterion for measuring the film emperor has become an iron law, then this iron law is probably not applicable to Zeng Zhiwei.