Preach in words. - Don Tears
In 1984, a friend signed up Aaron Kwok for a dance artist training course at Hong Kong Wireless.
Ten years later, Aaron Kwok stepped into the Red Pavilion and opened 16 wild seduction concerts in a row.
In 1996, he held 18 consecutive "Aaron Kwok's Most Exciting Concerts" in the Red Pavilion, and also performed 45-degree body tilt dance skills.
The Top Ten Golden Melody Awards ceremony has set up a "Supreme Stage Award" for him that has only one session.
The Dancing King was thus gradually refined.
This year, the movie "Romantic Storm" was released, Aaron Kwok was rewarded by Jiahe's senior management, and signed a two-year contract with him to perform four films, and the first major play of the film was "The Majesty of the Wind and Clouds", when Jiahe sent Jackie Chan to Hollywood, positioning Aaron Kwok as the "third generation of kung fu superstars" after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
Although it was a year of great spirits.
However, if you review it afterwards, you will find that this choice was more like a "wrong way".
Aaron Kwok starred in his first film "Flying Over a Dangerous Wall" as a supporting role in 1989.
In fact, many people have misunderstandings about Aaron Kwok's acting skills.
They think that Aaron Kwok was zero acting at the beginning, which is the same concept as the traffic actors pushed by the mainland today, until many years after entering the industry, "Three Forks" and "Father and Son" suddenly opened the second pulse of Ren Dou, and this misunderstanding is really not generally big.
And if you look at the big screen debut, Aaron Kwok's acting skills must be above the standard line, but it is not amazing.
After that, he also showed strong adaptability, and soon handed over two excellent performances of "91 Divine Eagle Heroes" and "Barefoot Boy", especially the "Barefoot Boy" that he first cooperated with Du Qifeng, which can be called stunning, and in addition to the relaxed performance, the neatness of his skills is also breathtaking.
After releasing eleven movies in two years during the popular period, Aaron Kwok began to drastically reduce production.
On the one hand, he was ready to go all out to compete in the singing world, which can be seen from the obvious progress in his singing skills on every record at that time.
On the other hand, it is intended to take the route of low-production and high-quality films.
There's nothing wrong with that idea.
The inspirational boxing theme of "Romantic Storm" is a sophisticated work, literary and martial arts are outstanding, Aaron Kwok is also known as the golden statue of the year, and as mentioned above, with the opening of cooperation with Jiahe, he began to embark on the action film route.
Hong Kong actors' enthusiasm for action movies may be beyond many people's imagination.
In a talk show many years later, the host asked Aaron Kwok if he were to become a director now, would he definitely go to make literary and artistic films?
He answered emphatically, making an action movie.
Looking at Andy Lau again, after Ma Ta's injury, he was nearly sixty years old and still went to shoot the police action movies "Sweeping Drugs 2" and "Bomb Disposal Expert 2".
Aaron Kwok rejected Xu Ke because of the Jiahe contract that year, and won the Hong Kong Annual Championship in 1998 with "The Majesty of the Wind and Clouds".
Subsequently, he fell into a disagreement with Jiahe and the Cold War, resulting in no release of the work the following year.
At this time, Tang Jili appeared, and he drew a bigger pie for Aaron Kwok, called "International Action Superstar".
In 2000, Aaron Kwok released two action movies in a row, "2000 AD" and "Thunder X-Men", the latter of which was directed by Tang Jili and cost eight million US dollars, because the action was extremely dangerous, and the film company invested $100 million in insurance premiums for Aaron Kwok.
But although the box office is good, the word of mouth is just ordinary.
In the same year, another literary and artistic film "Little Relatives" and the following year's song and dance film "Romantic Cherry Blossoms" were lackluster in performance, at least, measured by his qualifications of more than ten years in the industry and the amazing performances he had in the early days.
This was followed by the slow sales of the new record "Karate".
King of the Valley.
If you talk about it as an actor, his momentum at this time can be said to have fallen to the lowest point.
Andy Lau has already won the golden image of the emperor for the first time in 2000 with the commercial film "Dark War", and ushered in the "Infernal Affairs" such a higher-level boutique production.
Jacky Cheung carefully selected the script, and won the international film emperor in New Delhi, India in 2001 with "Man Forty".
Li Ming cooperated with Chen Kexin and was awarded the Golden Horse Film Emperor in 2002 for "The Return of the Three Changes".
And Aaron Kwok looked back, there was only one annual crown box office in the 1990s, and what was more frightening was that his works at this stage were all lackluster, and the momentum of the song world also fell again and again, which could be called "snubbed in front of the door".
The title and future of kung fu superstars are indeed tempting, with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li being the benchmark of dragons and phoenixes, and Aaron Kwok's heartbeat was normal in the mid-1990s. But he is actually different from these superstars, those three are practicing martial arts since childhood, and Aaron Kwok only embarked on the road of practicing "dance" at the age of 19, although the athletic talent is very high, the skills are also very flexible, but it is always too late to start.
At this time, he should begin to reflect on the choice of action film route.
After all, the music scene has obviously declined.
From the entertainment reports of these years, we can also get a glimpse of his situation.
The first is Metersbonwe, which was replaced by a new generation of Jay Chou after two years of Aaron Kwok's endorsement.
The new record is said to have sold only a few thousand copies.
Then there is TVB Taiqing, who was written by Yu Ji because of the low popularity and was disliked by the partner actress.
Later, he made an appointment with Pepsi Cola and did not renew his contract, and said that he was abandoned by advertisers, but this matter was actually his initiative to terminate the contract.
Fortunately, in 2004, six consecutive "Stage Treasures @ Dance Forest Conference Concert" turned the tide.
With this concert, he was named the "King of the Stage", and was awarded the "Hong Kong Dance Of the Year Award" the following year, followed by the second part of the "Flying Over the Forest".
From the previous year's rose carved hairstyle to bald head, painted with a blue bird pattern, it can be described as a sensation in Hong Kong.
In order to prepare for the concert, he exercised and lost weight to the point of being thin and deformed, just so that he could wear the "battle suit" designed for him by Zhang Shuping.
It is really tough and very good at contributing to the cause.
If I remember correctly, the two-part CD of the collection concert sold more than one million copies in Asia that year.
Then it was revived with the movie "Three Forks".
Subsequently, Lian Zhuang Golden Horse Shadow Emperor soared into the sky.
Get out of the way completely.
Look back.
The title of "Third Generation Kung Fu Superstar" is like a phantom.
It once made him look forward to it and go happily.
This is also a common phenomenon in life.
Mirages are always magnificent.
But in the end, it is only an illusion.