In 1992, Stephen Chow was very popular, and 11 films starring Stephen Chow were released in a year, seven of which were the protagonists and the box office was hot, and seven movies were in the top 15 Hong Kong films of that year. Because of the relationship of interests, the underworld said to kill him, many directors who could not cooperate with him tried their best to resist him, strangers often appeared around the set waiting for opportunities, asking Huaqiang Wang Jing for bodyguard protection throughout the process, in order to please Zhou Xingchi, Xiang Huaqiang gave him the password of the spare key room of his mansion, allowing him to enter and leave Xiang's home at will.
The protagonist of the historical "Death Judge" Prototype Song Shijie is not a Qing Dynasty person, but after being born during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, because he was not afraid of power, resourceful and resourceful to avenge the people's grievances, he overthrew a number of corrupt and favoritistic powers, and was praised by posterity. In Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao became popular, coupled with the Qing Dynasty produced a Guangdong Four Great Divisions, posterity believes that Song Shijie is also one of these four Major Divisions, so the story of the Ming Dynasty was adapted into the Qing Dynasty's singing. At that time, the Hong Kong film and television circle was already particularly fond of adapting popular novels and dramas into TV series and movies, plus the drama "The Inquisitor" was a rare comedy style drama in Cantonese opera, with a strong audience base, when Chow Yun-fat had a hobby of watching drama in his spare time, when he saw the crowd of people queuing up to buy tickets for "The Inquisitor", he came up with the idea of adapting this popular drama into a movie.
So he found Du Qifeng and told him about his idea, the two hit it off, Du Qifeng found Shao Liqiong as a screenwriter, and tailored the story according to the image of Zhou Runfa. Looking at the freshly baked script, Du Qifeng felt that this had to be another explosive movie, but he decided to shoot this film, the script was written, and he could start the machine on the next day, but Zhou Runfa's contract with the film company at this time had a problem and could not star. This can make Du Qifeng have a headache, seeing that if such a good script cannot be filmed, the fiercely competitive Hong Kong film and television circle may not be long before other directors will shoot this "Death Judge". At that time, everyone knew that the double Monday, since Zhou Runfa could not play, then look for the same explosive Zhou Xingchi, but Zhou Xingchi and Zhou Runfa are not a drama at all, in order to make the role more in line with Zhou Xingchi's nonsense comedy, the script was constantly modified, and the last change was changed for four months. To know that at that time, the fastest time to shoot a movie in Hong Kong took only a few days, and a script was changed for several months and finally filmed for two months, which shows that Du Qifeng made enough efforts to make this movie.
After its release in 1992, the film won 49.88 million at the box office and won the first place in the annual box office that year, and Stephen Chow won the Best Actor at the 37th Asia-Pacific Film Festival because of this film. According to the box office and acting skills, he will be the winner of the Hong Kong Academy Awards, but the Academy Awards of that year were awarded to Leung Ka Fai, and even the movie picture played when Chow Xingchi was nominated for "The Inquisitor" was the image of him playing a women's clothing gangster in the play, many people said that the popularity of that year was too grand, and those who could not rub his heat were trying to suppress him. So not only did not let him win the award but also played his ugliest picture at the award ceremony, nominated the best screenwriter to "The Judge", the best actress nominated "The Judge" actress Mei Yanfang but none of them won, for the statement that Zhou Xingchi was madly suppressed, the audience can tell their views in the comment area.
However, this movie is popular in Hong Kong, but it is not as popular in Hong Kong as in Hong Kong, and even in the hearts of the audience in China who was released in the same year, the reason is not that the plot is not attractive enough, but because of the absence of a person, which has led to a poor reputation in China, this god man is Chow Sing Chi's royal Chinese dubbing. Since 1990's "Gambler", Shi Banyu has been the royal voice of Stephen Chow, when the film was about to be completed, Shi Banyu was absent from the dubbing of "The Inquisitor" due to physical reasons. Before dubbing Zhou Xingchi, although Shi Banyu inherited taiwanese dubbing emperor Chen Mingyang, his voice was very sharp and impure, not a good voice actor embryo, and could only voice bad people or eunuchs, so For a long time Shi Banyu was very distressed. Until 1989, when Yongsheng Company praised Zhou Xingchi, he also went to Taiwan to pick a voice actor for him, and as a result, his voice that did not enter the eyes of others coincided with Chow Xingchi's image and exaggerated acting skills. But Shi Banyu is not only because of the high degree of sound fit can make the Chinese version of Stephen Chow's movie popular, but more importantly, before each dubbing, he has to ponder the script many times, and then begin to find a feeling for each line, which is equivalent to his role of Stephen Chow re-interpreted in the way of sound.
At that time, in the "Journey to the West", this classic dialogue: "There is a sincere love, put in front of me, I did not cherish, when I lost, I regretted it, the most painful thing in the world is this, if god can give me a chance to come again, I will say three words to the girl, I love you, if you have to add a deadline in this love, I hope it is ten thousand years." Shi Banyu first analyzed its composition before dubbing: 75% sincerity, 25% hypocrisy, in order to impress the Zixia fairy also had to bring some crying, in order to be more emotional, he directly memorized the entire dialogue, turned off the light in the recording studio, and perfectly matched this line at once. And in "Journey to the West", Zhou Xingchi is a person who plays two roles, the time spans 500 years, the voice expression of the supreme treasure and Sun Wukong is completely different, the audience baby can go to see if "Journey to the West" can hear the different expressions on the voices of the two characters, and can talk about their feelings in the comment area.
In addition to using sound to shape the character, Shi Banyu also often changes the lines dubbed by Chinese to make the lines more in line with the grammar expressed Chinese, and Zhou Xingchi's iconic laughter is also shi Banyu's own groping, this magical laughter was not in the Cantonese version of the movie at the beginning, and later Shi Banyu said in an interview: "Many classic lines, such as 'I served U' and 'I went first', are self-created." It can be said that Shi Banyu's dubbing has given the whole movie a richer emotion and a nonsense aesthetic that is more in line with domestic audiences, and without Shi Banyu, I believe that Zhou Xingchi would not be so popular in China. From his absence in "The Inquisitor", it can be seen that the voice of him by domestic audiences has been deeply rooted.
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