In 1984, after creating a new TVB pick-up rate of "Eagle Hero", Andy Lau appeared in the TV series "Deer Ding", and Shengsheng played the foil character in Mr. Jin Yong's novel, Kangxi, into a double male protagonist juxtaposed with Wei Xiaobao.
In the same year, Andy Lau partnered with screen newcomer Wen Bixia to star in the movie "Can't Stop Love". Andy Lau was just 23 years old this year.
In the same year, a 19-year-old sunshine boy named Aaron Kwok was admitted to the TVB dance training class. Since then, in the stage performances of Zhang Guorong, Mei Yanfang, Chen Baiqiang and other Heavenly Queens, Aaron Kwok's accompaniment dance can be searched.
This situation lasted for more than a year, and Aaron Kwok appeared on the stage more and more, in addition to the then Heavenly King Tianhou, there was also Lu Haipeng and newcomer singer Jacky Cheung.
In 1987, after the restructuring of the wireless artist training class (the training cycle was changed from one year to half a year), the 22-year-old Aaron Kwok entered the 13th issue of the second season, graduated with the first place, and became TVB's "Galaxy Ten Stars".
The same handsome appearance, but Aaron Kwok's audience popularity is not as good as that of his brothers Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei, who also participated in TV series such as "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", "Tianya Song Girl", "Midnight Sun" and the movie "Flying Over the Dangerous Wall", but the response was mediocre.
In 1990, Aaron Kwok, who had been officially in the circle for more than two years, changed his mind, turned his attention to Taiwan, signed a UFO record after two sets of advertisements attracted attention, and released his first Chinese album and his first album - "Can't Finish Loving You", which sold more than 1 million copies in Asia.
At the same time, in the "Top Ten Most Popular Hong Kong Male Stars" selected by taiwan media, Aaron Kwok ranked first. He and Lin Yilian are the first Hong Kong male and female singers to seek innovation and change and benefit the most.
In 1991, Aaron Kwok released his second album with the help of the powerful UFO Record Production Group, "Should I Walk Away Quietly", which was another very successful album, and just after this album, Aaron Kwok and Andy Lau, the two kings, met.
In 1991, yongsheng Film Company's legendary biography epic - "Leiluo Biography" series was filmed, this large-scale film was divided into upper and lower parts due to the time and space to be released.
In "The Father-Son Feud of Leiluo", Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok played the father "Leiluo" and son "Lei Yongxian" respectively.
In the movie, the 30-year-old Andy Lau will first enter the society to finally escape the life of the tyrant Leiluo, the hero who escaped from Taiwan, the time span is more than 50 years, but Andy Lau completed very well, there is no sense of drama, after watching it, it gives people a sense of heaviness and vicissitudes, as if a play has insight into life.
Aaron Kwok, who played Andy Lau as his rival, was 26 years old, and this was his third film, and his acting skills were still slightly jerky, but this sense of youth was still very correct with the identity of "Lei Yongxian" who had just entered the sinister society.
In fact, during the filming of this film, Andy Lau has set up Tianmu Film Production Co., Ltd. and became the boss himself, and the first film he planned to shoot, "91 Condor Heroes", warmly invited Aaron Kwok to join.
"91 Condor Heroes" is a fantastic fantasy film, like a fairy tale heard by a child, all-encompassing but revealing human nature. As a screenwriter, Wong Kar-wai showed his talent that was not inferior to Tsui Ke.
In the first work of Tianmu, the boss Andy Lau attaches great importance to it, the director is Li Dawei, who he trusts very much, and there are many actors who have a good personal relationship with Mei Yanfang and Liu Jialing. Inviting Aaron Kwok to the crew shows Andy Lau's trust and importance to Aaron Kwok.
In the play, Aaron Kwok attacked black clothes and silver hair, and the ruthlessness of the killer was well grasped by Chengcheng, which formed a good visual effect with the "Qin Song" of the obsessive film, the masculine and handsome Andy Lau, one good and one evil, one cold and one hot.
Based on Aaron Kwok's subversive performance this time, he also relied on the role of the killer "Silver Fox" to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the first time.
At the beginning of 1992, Aaron Kwok, who "exported to domestic sales", returned to the Hong Kong music scene, and one of his selected albums "Please Bring My Feelings Home" was sold out of stock, plus the previous "Three Musketeers" - Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, and Dawn, at the moment of spring, TVB Taiqing, the head of fang Yihua blurted out the title of "Four Heavenly Kings".
Although it is said that the competition between the four heavenly kings is fierce, Andy Lau has a good personal relationship with his younger brother Aaron Kwok. When the filming of the second film "The True and False Weilong of the Machine BOY Boy" (also known as": "Dragon God Prince") began in 1992, Andy Lau invited Aaron Kwok to join the group.
In "True and False Weilong", Guan Zhilin, who "holds a beautiful and fierce act", Aaron Kwok, who is invincible and handsome and loyal, Wu Mengda, who interjects and deceives himself, Wu Junru, who is naïve and white-eyed, and Pan Hongbin, who has a personal relationship with Andy Lau, plus the cold "Eighth Master" Yuan Heping, who is fierce and soft, and who is wise and stupid. All beings are integrated into this special action film.
Tianmu had very high expectations for this movie, but that year they met Zhou Xingchi, who opened the hanging, and the box office of 15 million was less than one-third of that year's annual crown- "The Inquisitor".
Although the film did not lose money, it only made a few shouts. Since then, Andy Lau has filmed "92 Heroes of the Condor", "Legend of the God of War", "Heaven and Earth", "Heaven and Earth" and other films with huge production costs but poor box office, and finally dragged into a desperate situation, Andy Lau also embarked on the sad road of 5 years of filming and repayment debts.
In 1993, in Wang Jing's film "Super School Bully", Andy Lau ushered in his fourth cooperation with Aaron Kwok in 3 years, but in this crossover comedy, they only catered to Wang Jing's deliberate promotion of Zhang Weijian.
Since then, the two kings have not cooperated on film for 20 years.
In the past 20 years, Andy Lau has come out of the debt crisis and re-established his own film entertainment company, and he actively explored the Chinese song market after Aaron Kwok, and finally achieved the blossoming of the wall and the outside of the wall.
In the past 20 years, In addition to consolidating his position in the song world and proud of the Xiangjiang song world with the 6 most popular male singer awards of the top ten golden songs, Andy Lau has also made frequent efforts in movies, becoming the owner of three golden statues and two Golden Horse film emperor trophies.
In the past 20 years, Aaron Kwok has also made great progress, breaking the doubts of the weakest of the four kings in one fell swoop, he won 3 Jingge Golden Song Most Popular Male Singer Awards second only to Andy Lau in the four majors, he used his dynamic dance style and continuous acquired efforts to win the reputation of "Asian Dance King" and "Fashion King", and his advertising endorsement also helped PepsiCo, Metersbonwe and other companies to explode.
In addition, Aaron Kwok has also made remarkable achievements in the film industry, he in 2005 with "Three Forks", in 2006 with "Father and Son" Lianzhuang Golden Horse Film Emperor, becoming the second film superstar after Jackie Chan to win the Golden Horse Film Emperor, this time Lian Zhuang, not only Andy Lau, even the "God of Acting" Zhou Runfa, "King of film emperors" Liang Chaowei did not do it.
In 2012, the script of the movie "Cold War" found Andy Lau, and he himself was quite optimistic about this movie, because he welcomed the birth of his daughter and investment considerations, the script was not won by his film entertainment company, so Jiang Zhiqiang of Anle Pictures made a "takeover man".
Out of love for the script, Andy Lau also played the role of "Lu Minghua, Secretary of the Security Bureau" in the play, so that he ushered in his fifth film cooperation with Aaron Kwok after a gap of 20 years.
"Cold War" is a typical Hong Kong film, which has made Hong Kong local audiences addicted, and has achieved a good box office when released in the mainland, and the double male dramas of Aaron Kwok and Leung Ka Fai in the movie are also wonderful.
After the baptism of years, the audience saw Aaron Kwok's great progress in acting skills, "Zhou Changsheng" in "Father and Son", "Kang Sanye" in "Silver Empire", "Zhao Deyi" in "Favorite", Aaron Kwok seems to have the shadow of "Emperor of a Thousand Faces" Liang Jiahui.
In 2016, the highly acclaimed "Cold War" ushered in the sequel "Cold War 2", and Aaron Kwok once again ushered in a positive PK with Leung Ka Fai, although the momentum was slightly inferior, but this may be the arrangement of the plot.
A richer plot and character framework, so that this "Cold War 2" surpasses Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu" (61.28 million) and the nine-handed "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" (61.86 million), defending the stubbornness and glory of Hong Kong films with the first place in the hong Kong domestic box office in history of 66.82 million.
Prior to this, on April 3, Aaron Kwok relied on the movie "Treading Blood and Looking for Plums" to pick the first golden statue emperor in 27 years, becoming the second golden horse and golden statue double film emperor winner after Andy Lau among the four heavenly kings.
In 2018, Aaron Kwok and his admired predecessor Chow Yun-fat double starred in the film "Peerless" in one fell swoop, breaking the box office record of Hong Kong films in the mainland and becoming a new benchmark for Hong Kong films.
It is gratifying that not only Aaron Kwok and Chow Yun-fat, but also "Sweeping Drugs 2" starring Andy Lau and Gu Tianle, "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" starring Andy Lau and Liu Qingyun, and "Anger" starring Zhen Zidan and Nicholas Tse. "Serious Case" has repeatedly surpassed and frequently set new records for Hong Kong films.
Nowadays, the afterglow of Hong Kong films has slowly fallen, the hong Kong market is shrinking, the lack of innovation in Hong Kong film themes, and the lack of film talents, it seems that it is a luxury to expect Hong Kong films to shine again and open up new bureaus.
It is gratifying that Andy Lau still insists on 40 years of filming, the action superstar Zhen Zidan is still working hard, the thick and thin Aaron Kwok has always been promoted, and the façade of the Mesozoic Era, Gu Tianle, has not given up.
Liu Zhen Guogu is the last facade and sign of Hong Kong movies, even if there is a glimmer of light, it must be smiling and stubborn.
Doesn't it say that "the spark of a spark can burn the plains"?