In the Hong Kong film industry, there are three iconic figures, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat and Chow Sing Chi.
They are all actors who were red in the 90s, and "Double Monday" dominated the Hong Kong golden age film industry.
In the Hong Kong showbiz industry, the three should intersect with each other and join forces.
However, the three men rarely cooperated.
Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow have been on the same stage in "Liu Li Zun" and "The King of Comedy".
Zhou Runfa and Zhou Xingchi also collaborated in "Gambler".
Only Jackie Chan and Zhou Runfa have never cooperated so far.
Jackie Chan has sincerely invited Zhou Runfa to cooperate several times, but he has been rejected, which inevitably makes people wonder if there is any contradiction between these two people?
<h1>Shine separately</h1>
In 1965, at the age of 10, Chow Yun-fat moved to Kowloon with his family. For the next three years, while studying, he went to work in an electronics factory to help support his family. Later, his father became seriously ill, and he simply dropped out of school to work as a temporary worker to support his family.
Waiters, postmen, salesmen... At a young age, I tasted the bittersweet and bittersweet of life. When he was 18 years old, Zhou Runfa saw the enrollment advertisement for the TVB Actor Training Class and went to apply with his friends.
At that time, the examiner Zhong Jinghui saw the pearls and tried to persuade other examiners to admit Zhou Runfa.
At the same time, Jackie Chan, who is a year older than him, has successfully graduated from the opera class and is running dragon sets in Shaw's, working as a martial artist, and humbly waiting for the director to pick someone every day.
At that time, he was not Jackie Chan yet, his name was Chen Yuanlong.
Jackie Chan is young, dares to fight hard, dares to try any dangerous moves, is flexible, and the director is happy to use him.
In 1975, Jackie Chan waited for a small opportunity, from a martial artist to a protagonist, and made two films, "Guangdong Little Tiger" and "Beipai Kung Fu", but the box office was dismal.
Later, Jackie Chan filmed the Shaolin series ("Shaolin Wooden Man Alley"), which was once completely unconscious, but this Shaolin series did not make much splash.
Until 1978, the two action films "Snake-shaped Executioner" and "Drunken Fist" opened the prelude to Chinese comedy action films, making Jackie Chan famous in one fell swoop, and also making his image of a juggler boy deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Taking advantage of this momentum, Jackie Chan directed and wrote and acted himself, and successfully won awards such as best director, best picture, and most popular actor. Subsequently, he broke into the international market, and a "Red Fan District" set a high box office record in the United States.
From 1978 to 2006, for nearly 30 years, Jackie Chan has been the leader. Among them, 6 films won the annual box office championship, 24 entered the annual top 3, and he also became a household kung fu star.
In 2007, the first Hollywood film "Rush Hour", in addition to winning high box office, also appeared in Time magazine, establishing Jackie Chan's international status.
At that time, the kung fu stand-in that year has become a hot international superstar, winning awards and getting soft hands, and people before and after are respected as "big brothers".
He was also named "the actor who performed the most stunts" by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Jackie Chan was only 24 years old when he became famous.
Coincidentally, Zhou Runfa also ran a dragon set for several years, and became a first-line star in the eyes of the audience at a considerable age.
After graduating from the TVB training class, Zhou Runfa could only take on small roles. Usually, when he is fine, he crouches at the elevator entrance, meets the company's senior management, and quickly comes forward to say hello and increase his exposure in the eyes of the leader.
After two years of insisting on this, Zhou Runfa did get a lot of opportunities.
In the 80s released "Shanghai Beach", Zhou Runfa played the male number one Xu Wenqiang, charming eyes and smile, smoking, drawing guns, raising hands and feet to show elegance, he played Xu Wenqiang.
It is also this Shanghai beach gangster who makes Zhou Runfa red through the north and south of the river and usher in a small peak of his career.
Then he was like a full-fledged motor and began to take over various film and television works.
1986's "The True Colors of Heroes" was Hong Kong's annual box office champion, and Chow Yun-fat also won the "Best Actor" title at the Academy Awards for this film.
Later, Chow Yun-fat turned into a god of gambling and took Andy Lau to set off a frenzy of Hong Kong gambling films at the card table.
Unsurprisingly, with "God of Gamblers", Zhou Runfa once again reached the peak of his career.
Zhou Runfa has won numerous awards in his life, such as the Asian Special Achievement Award, the Asian Lifetime Achievement Award, the Three Academy Awards, the Two Golden Horse Awards...
The classic images he created, such as Xu Wenqiang, Xiao Ma Ge, the god of gambling, etc. are still difficult to surpass, and because of this, he is known as the god of acting.
Zhou Runfa and Jackie Chan have similar experiences, and their fame time is similar, and they are often compared.
Jackie Chan became famous as a kung fu comedy in the late 1970s, set a milestone for Hong Kong-made action films as a spokesman for the Hong Kong police in the 1980s, and made a name for himself on Hong Kong Island in the 1990s as a super policeman.
In the heyday of Hong Kong films in the 1980s, Zhou Runfa opened the precedent of gunfight films and god of gamblers films, and became a representative of violent aesthetics.
One is the king of kung fu comedies, the other is the king of gunfight gambler films, they are all dormant for many years, ready to go, and then dominate in their respective fields.
<h1>The king does not see the king</h1>
Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat are both at the top and are leading figures in the film industry. The most blood-curdling thing is to see the master move, the trick is wonderful.
Although the film and television circle has the rule of "the king does not see the king", after all, a mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, but this rule has also been frequently broken, and good results have been achieved.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li have collaborated on "The King of Kung Fu", and Chow Yun Fat and Ge You have filmed "Let the Bullets Fly" together, and the ratings and word-of-mouth of these two films are far ahead.
All along, the call for two big brothers to collaborate on a movie has also been very high.
However, Jackie Chan and Zhou Runfa have never cooperated, and even rarely share the same frame.
In 1991, in order to help raise funds for the mainland floods, Hong Kong films once made a "Night Feast for the Giants", and the star cast was unprecedentedly luxurious.
The movie posters have Chow Yun-fat and Jackie Chan on them, but neither of them was involved in the filming of the film.
At that time, the film was filmed in only one week, and Jackie Chan and Zhou Runfa were in the field, and it was too late to rush back, so it was only a "cooperation" on the poster.
In 2015, it was also reported that Hong Kong director Wang Jing was preparing to make a film to pay tribute to the glory of Hong Kong cinema.
It is said that this movie is also a collection of heroes, Andy Lau, Zhang Jiahui, Chow Yun Fat, Gu Tianle, Ren Dahua, Jackie Chan...
Jackie Chan and Zhou Runfa joined forces, which can be said to be the first time in history.
However, the film, called "Twelve King Kongs," has not been made until now.
Wang Jing said in an interview: "I didn't start preparations, it was all fantasy."
It seems that century on the same stage is probably just a simple dream.
In fact, Jackie Chan rather wants to cooperate with Zhou Runfa, he has wanted Zhou Runfa to issue an invitation many times, but he has been rejected by the other party on the grounds that the script is inappropriate.
Once, Jackie Chan invited Fa Ge again at an awards ceremony, saying that their cooperation must be very "wow". But Zhou Runfa immediately said, if you want 'wow', then we don't want to cooperate, we are going to shoot the scene, not to shoot the 'wow'. ”
In Jackie Chan's eyes, Zhou Runfa is a very strange person. He pays the most attention to the script when acting, and will not please the audience, let alone shoot for the box office.
Due to the repeated rejection of Jackie Chan, there have been rumors that Zhou Runfa looks down on Jackie Chan, and the relationship between the two is not harmonious.
In fact, it is not the case, although the cooperation is not successful, the two have always respected each other. Chow Yun-fat has always idolized Jackie Chan.
At the international award ceremony, Zhou Runfa sincerely said that Jackie Chan is his idol and an idol of people all over the world, and praised Jackie Chan as a miracle and a legend.
After Jackie Chan came to the stage, Zhou Runfa also knelt down on one knee in public, holding his fists in both hands to show his admiration for Jackie Chan.
Years later, in an interview with "Peerless", Zhou Runfa once again mentioned Jackie Chan as his idol.
In fact, the main reason why Chow Yun-fat does not cooperate with Jackie Chan is that the film style and performance style of the two people are different.
Over the years since his debut, Zhou Runfa has been good at playing chivalrous and domineering characters, mostly handsome and handsome heroes.
Born as a martial artist, the film is based on action, interspersed with comedic elements.
The styles that are not matched by wind and horses, hard together, I am afraid that they will only paint strange styles and destroy the artistic sense of the film.
As Zhou Runfa explained in an interview why he would not cooperate with Jackie Chan, the works he is good at are different, and if you cooperate together, it will only be counterproductive and not good for everyone.
"Jackie Chan has 30 million at the box office, and I have 20 million at the box office, but it doesn't necessarily add up to 50 million box office."
Another reason is the limitation of the film script. There are too few scenes that can perfectly present the two male protagonists, and the protagonists of the two individuals are very strong, and it is difficult to coordinate who has more scenes and which one to step on. Therefore, it is not unreasonable for Zhou Runfa to refuse that the script is inappropriate.
Moreover, Jackie Chan is outgoing and hospitable, loves to be in the limelight, enjoys honor and applause, and can spend 16 million yuan a year to invite guests to dinner.
And Zhou Runfa is low-key and simple, wearing ordinary clothes, going to the street to buy vegetables, taking the subway, and a meal does not exceed 50 yuan. He was more keen on cultivating himself inward.
Completely different personalities have more or less become obstacles on their way to cooperation.
In fact, each of them is wonderful, there is no need to tie them together for the sake of box office and gimmicks.
Today, although Jackie Chan is still active in the film and television circle, Zhou Runfa has gradually withdrawn from the jianghu.
In this way, the two will cooperate with each other, and there is no end in sight.
Author: Flower Blue
Editor-in-charge: Zeria
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