Films after Zhou Xingchi became famous, such as "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", "Journey to the West", "The King of Comedy", and "Kung Fu" are all well-known classics.
And Zhou Xingchi's early works, except for hardcore fans in order to make up for all his performance works, others see less.
But "Thunderbolt Pioneer" is of great significance to Stephen Chow, and it is his first film.
Zhou Xingchi won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor with this movie.
At that time, no one would have thought that this little-known young boy would become the king of comedy that was popular all over the country.
The plot of Thunderbolt Pioneer is actually quite old-fashioned today, telling the story of a tough cop who is jealous and hateful, a good-hearted, serious, and a boss who is unreasonable and only pays attention to immediate interests.
Inspector Zhang Tiezhu (Li Xiuxian) worked hard for more than ten years to gain the status of inspector, and the new inspector, Sir Luo, was so dissatisfied with the inspector who did not obey the discipline that he often harassed Zhang Tiezhu.
On the other hand, the gang of the Gangster Judge (Cheng Kui'an) is planning a big operation, and the car thief Boy (Zhou Xingchi) is a little brother of the judge.
Zhang Tiezhu inadvertently found boy stealing a car, tracked all the way, found that Boy provided the stolen car to the judge and a gang, so boy was arrested and imprisoned.
The judge is leading his men, such as Mad Bull (Huang Guangliang) and Chicken Wing (He Jiaju), to loot the casino.
Good guys, there are three of hong Kong's "four evil men".
Zhang Tiezhu, who went to the casino site to check, found that the prisoner's vehicle was the one that Boy stole, and realized that the prisoner was the judge and others.
Sir Luo designated Boy as a major suspect in the casino incident, and he wanted to put all the charges of car theft, robbery, and homicide on Boy's head.
Zhang Tiezhu knew that although Boy stole the car, he had been with him since then, and it was impossible to commit a crime in the casino.
So Zhang Tiezhu released Boy, hoping that Boy could be his own informant and help catch the judge's gang.
Boy, however, did not think he could betray his friends and pretended to agree to Zhang Tiezhu.
At the scene of the firefight, the judge threw a used pistol to Boy and fled.
The pistol had Boy's fingerprints on it, and Boy was hard to argue with.
So Boy cooperated with Zhang Tiezhu, and a policeman and a thief began to cooperate.
In the end, the judge's gang was annihilated.
At this time, Zhou Xingchi's acting skills were naturally not as smooth as later, pure fire, but still remarkable, he set a lot of small details for this role.
There is a person in the bar who is looking for Boy to trouble, and Zhang Tiezhu restrains the person, saying that Boy is his own person.
Zhou Xingchi was first surprised by Zhang Tiezhu's behavior, and then he was happy that Zhang Tiezhu was out for himself, and the other party saw that Zhang Tiezhu was not good, and could only leave alone, at this time, Zhou Xingchi's eyebrows were full of provocative tease.
Zhou Xingchi's dedication to acting is just like the portrayal of "The King of Comedy", in 83 years of "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", he played a prisoner who was sent by Yang Kang to practice for Mei Chaofeng, and died tragically under the claws of the nine yin white bones.
"The director originally designed me to slap people to death, but I thought it was a bit unreal, so I changed the action without authorization, and discussed with the assistant director whether I could use my hands to block Mei Chaofeng's move first, and then die."
Even if it is a few seconds of footage, Zhou Xingchi will think about it repeatedly.
In this section of "Thunderbolt Pioneer", he is just a background board, but he still shows as much as possible the change of mentality of Boy's character towards Zhang Tiezhu's move to protect him.
Success is really not accidental, but day after day.
Zhang Tiezhu told Boy that the pistol he was holding at the scene of the firefight had four bullets found in the two dead.
Zhou Xingchi first felt aggrieved, the gun was thrown to him by the judge, he had never fired a gun at all; then he felt afraid, because no one but Zhang Tiezhu believed him, he would be accused of murder; and then he felt anxious, where did he go to the judge to clear himself of his crime.
Outside the bar, Boy was beaten to vomit by a group of judges, and after the judges and his gang left, he sat down slowly against the corner of the wall alone, and then cried.
Zhang Tiezhu asked him to be an informant to return his innocence, but he refused, because he felt that he was mixed up in the tao and could not betray his friends, but the judge and his gang did not take him as their own from the beginning to the end.
Zhang Tiezhu, who rushed over, asked Boy if the judge had beaten him, and Boy stubbornly said that he was beaten by the debt collectors, and he did not want to admit that Zhang Tiezhu was right.
Zhang Tiezhu naturally knew that Boy was lying, but instead of dismantling him, he let Boy go with him, and Zhou Xingchi looked at Zhang Tiezhu with tearful eyes and got up, he subconsciously trusted Zhang Tiezhu.
At the end, because Boy stole Zhang Tiezhu's body armor to escape his life, when asked by Zhang Tiezhu, Zhou Xingchi first showed his nonsensical funny dialogue: "You see what you said, how can stealing your things tell you!" You're really nine and eight. ”
Although Stephen Chow's later film path was not followed by "Thunderbolt Pioneer", but a nonsense comedy route that took a different path, this supporting role did make him stand out.
Li Xiuxian is indeed considered to be Zhou Xingchi's Bole, but the two did not have a pleasant quarrel later.
Zhou Xingchi's initial contract was signed to Li Xiuxian's universal film company, when Zhou Xingchi was still a star boy, and the price was naturally very cheap.
However, the subsequent "Gamble Saint" made Zhou Xingchi famous, and the audience accepted the bombardment of Stephen Chow's nonsensical performance without any preparation, and everyone had never seen a movie to act like this.
Stephen Chow's failure to play cards completely subverted the market for comedy films.
Chow Xingchi became popular, and all the big film companies in Hong Kong wanted to sign him, but Chow Xingchi always refused to nod his head, because he had not forgotten Lee Xiu-hyun's kindness.
Li Xiuxian, however, thought that I had brought you out, and you deserved to make money for me. So he let Zhou Xingchi make several movies with a very low salary, and then "sold" Zhou Xingchi to Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng Film Company.
In 1992, Chow Xingchi had a total of seven films released in Hong Kong, all of which entered the top ten hong Kong film box office this year, and even won the top five box office in the Hong Kong film market that year.
As the greatest hero, he got a pitiful salary for the film.
Zhou Xingchi was discouraged and decided to open his own company as his own boss.
Even so, Zhou Xingchi has always expressed his gratitude to Li Xiuxian: "If it weren't for Li Xiuxian, I don't think I would have made a movie, he was the first to find me." ”
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