In 1999, one of Wang Jing's moves completely angered Zhou Xingchi, and he asked Zhou Xingchi to make a cameo when Wang Jing filmed "King of a Thousand Kings 2000". 9 days of time, Zhou Xingchi asked for 8 million, Wang Jing scolded Zhou Xingchi for greed for money completely disregarding friendship, in the shooting is also a variety of non-cooperation, but when the movie was released, Zhou Xingchi was suddenly dumbfounded, this movie starring Zhang Jiahui was edited by Wang Jing into Zhou Xingchi starring, whether in the poster promotion or in the entire film's actor introduction, Zhou Xingchi is the leading actor, to know that Zhou Xingchi's salary in 1999 has been close to 20 million, Wang Jing's cameo starring operation completely ended their "Wang Explosion Era". After Wang Jing, he searched for a successor several times to continue the trend of nonsense, but none of them succeeded from Zhang Weijian to Zhang Jiahui.
In 1962, Chow Xingchi was born in a slum in Hong Kong, because the family is not good, his parents often quarrel over the matter of chai rice oil and salt, and even fight a lot, for the disharmony between his parents, Chow Xingchi said: "My parents are very artistic cells, their every move is very entertaining, even the fight is very interesting", when Chow Xingchi was seven years old, his parents finally stopped arguing. The mother divorced her father with three children. In order to support the family, her mother worked two jobs a day, and Zhou Xingchi, who was alone at home, sat in front of the window every day and observed his neighbors through the window. Since then, he has experienced a variety of life. Gradually, he established an inferior child who was shy, did not like to talk, and did not dare to speak loudly. Due to the lack of father's love, the diminutive Zhou Xingchi will always imagine when he will grow up, it is best to grow tall and strong, so that he will not be bullied, until the appearance of a man completely affects his life...
If it were not for Stephen Chow, the current Liang Chaowei may just be an obscure ordinary person, in the 70s when Bruce Lee ruled the Hong Kong film industry, Chow Anderson and Leung Chao-wai were fascinated by it, and Zhou Xingchi, who wanted to become Bruce Lee, instigated Liang Chaowei to accompany him to apply for tvb training classes in 1980, but Liang Chaowei was not too interested in this, could not withstand Chow's repeated requests, and did not matter. Liang Chaowei, who had no choice but to create people and had no intention of inserting willows, was successfully admitted, but Zhou Xingchi fell off the list. Later, Zhou Xingchi became a night shift student of the 11th t v b through the introduction of Qi Meizhen, and began a 6-year dragon set career.
One day in 1988, a depressed Stephen Chow met Lee So-hyun, the big boss of "Universal Film Company", while bouncing around in a dance hall. After a brief conversation between the two, Lee gave him a valuable opportunity to star in his new film "Thunderbolt Pioneer". In the play, Zhou Xingchi played a idle little rogue "a boy", that feeling of youth, dazedness and loss is impressive, but it is such a small role that makes him win the nominations for "Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor" and "Golden Film Award for Best Newcomer" in one fell swoop. And this, Zhou Xingchi met the director Wang Jing, who made him soar.
In 1989, Wang Jing's "God of Gamblers" pushed Zhou Runfa to the shrine and created a wave of gambling films in one fell swoop. In 1990, he boldly used newcomer Stephen Chow and Andy Lau to shoot "The Gambler", which swept the box office of 40 million Hong Kong dollars in one fell swoop. In the same year, he starred in the release of "Gamble Saint", which grossed more than 40 million yuan in one month, and zhou Xingchi's reputation became famous throughout Hong Kong. Chow Xingchi, who made money, bought the landscape garden of Mid-Levels House and gave it to his mother who worked hard to bring up him, and in 1991, Chow Xingchi and director Chen Jiashang's "Truant Weilong" was released, breaking the Hong Kong box office record again. In just three years, Zhou Xingchi has the confidence to call Jackie Chan and Zhou Runfa, but this is only the beginning.
1992 was a nightmare for all filmmakers in Hong Kong, because a man named Stephen Chow was as inhumane as he was in the open and hung up, and he occupied the box office record that year. In that year, Stephen Chow starred in seven films, with a total box office record of 270 million Hong Kong dollars, and stomped Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat under his feet. But that's not all. In 1993, a "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", "Huang Feihong" and "Fang Shiyu" that pushed Jet Li to push him to a high position again, and the era of Zhou Xingchi came completely, but at the same time it was criticized by the older generation of filmmakers, the first of which was Jackie Chan. He said: After "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" was released in the mainland, Jackie Chan was completely dumbfounded. Although many people did not know who Stephen Chow was at the time, this film starring him won one of the top ten high-grossing films in Shanghai that year.
In 1992, it was one of the top 10 hong Kong films at the box office
In 1994, "Journey to the West" found Xi'an Film Studio to cooperate, after reading the script, "Western Film" did not agree with the style of "Journey to the West", but considering zhou Xingchi's influence, it reluctantly agreed, but this film, which is now regarded as a classic, was resented by the two sides of the strait and three places at that time. Hong Kong audiences think it is messy and difficult to understand, and mainland audiences call it "cultural garbage"! However, three years later, "Journey to the West" began to circulate in various colleges and universities in the mainland and quickly became popular, becoming a phenomenon-level movie!
Classic shot of "Journey to the West"
In 1996, Star Ye officially became a director. That year' "God Eater" and "Big Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" won second and third at the box office, respectively. After "Happy Affairs at Home" and "Counting Dead Grass" in 1997, the Hong Kong film industry has signs of decline. In 1999, Although Star Ye's "King of Comedy" became the annual sales champion without suspense, it only grossed 29.8 million Hong Kong dollars. In 2001, Stephen Chow found an investor in a strong return to "Shaolin Football", which won 60.73 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, once again breaking the Hong Kong box office record. This time, Xingye stood on the highest hall of honor, and seven awards and various nominations, including best director and best actor, swept the Academy Awards ceremony. In 2004, Zhou Xingchi, who had been silent for three years, entered the mainland and won the box office championship of that year with a "Kung Fu" with a box office of 173 million yuan, until 4 years later, Xingye brought his farewell work "Yangtze River No. 7", which became the past.
In his 13-year film career, Star Ye won the annual box office championship eight times and broke the Hong Kong box office record five times.
"One film emperor a year, a hundred years of Zhou Xingchi"
How could this man, known as the king of comedy, not be the king of tragedy? He does not win sympathy through tragedy, he always expresses a tragedy in a comedic way. That's why, until now, the movies that once made you laugh will make you cry. So I dare to say that the reason why Stephen Chow's films cannot be copied is because most people have not experienced Stephen Chow's past, and true feelings are the true meaning of movies.
Finally, when will the movie ticket we owe to Stephen Chow be replenished?