Many famous stars were born in the early days of Hong Kong, and although the quality of Hong Kong's films has declined, Hong Kong films are still an indispensable part of Chinese films. Hong Kong's old kung fu films are still classics, and now kung fu movies are no longer what they used to be, and kung fu stars born in the same era are not as athletic as before. But these martial arts stars have left the audience with many classic works and profound characters in the film. The most representative martial arts stars are Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao, who set up the Cheng Jia Class and the Hong Family Class respectively. Comparatively speaking, the family class is mainly known by Jackie Chan and the public, while the Hong family class is known by the public by a relatively large number of famous actors.
For example, Hongjiaban Zou Zhaolong is a typical example, Zou Zhaolong was born in Taiwan in 1967, there are 13 brothers and sisters, because there are too many children Zou Zhaolong is ranked eighth, so there is no sense of presence among the 13 children. Soon after, Zou Zhaolong's father died suddenly, and all the family burden fell on his mother alone, and in that era when no one could eat, his mother needed to raise all 13 children alone. Because the family is poor and has too many children, a widow raising children alone can easily be bullied. Therefore, Zou Zhaolong wants to grow up as soon as possible so that he can protect his family.
In order to reduce his mother's burden, Zou Zhaolong went to a carving shop as an apprentice at the age of 6. Every time Zou Zhaolong went to the disaster area, on his way to the carving shop in the disaster area, he would pass by a martial arts hall, which was a few steps away from the sculpture shop. Zou Zhaolong suddenly became very interested in martial arts, on the one hand, he wanted to learn martial arts to protect himself and his family, and on the other hand, he was really interested in martial arts. Since then, Zou Zhaolong has been going to the carving shop every day as an apprentice, and whenever he has free time, he will go to the martial arts gym to steal martial arts, and then practice martial arts in private free time. At the age of 9, Zou Zhaolong re-found a bakery and went there as an apprentice. At the age of 12, Zou Zhaolong chose to go out to work in order to reduce the burden of his mother supporting the family alone. By chance, he found a film company recruiting, and the recruitment slip said that it was related to martial arts, so he wanted to try it, zou Zhaolong did not expect that he would make a drastic change in the second half of his life.
Although this job is only a martial artist, that is, when the lead actor in the movie needs to complete some difficult actions in the play or needs to be beaten, then it is necessary to complete the appearance of the martial artist. Although Zou Zhaolong was not the best kung fu in Wu Ti, he was indeed the most resistant to fighting in it. Zou Zhaolong is very hard and very serious, both inside and outside the play. After joining the crew, Zou Zhaolong had more opportunities to learn new kung fu.
In between filming, Zou Zhaolong will continue to practice martial arts and learn Muay Thai and other martial arts as long as he has time. When he was 18 years old, Hong Jinbao at that time especially liked to find good seedlings from the newcomers, and Zou Zhaolong, who had been working hard, was given by Hong Jinbao. In Hong Jinbao's eyes, Zou Zhaolong's martial arts skills were very solid, and later Hong Jinbao also let him join the Hong family class. Later, he was lucky to star in the film "Full Rebound" directed by Hong Jinbao, although the movie was not popular, but Zou Zhaolong and Hong Jinbao formed a fate.
After entering the Hongjia class, although Zou Zhaolong had no acting foundation, martial arts was an opportunity for him to enter the entertainment industry. In 1994, the 27-year-old Zou Zhaolong played jet Li in the movie "The Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai". Since then, he has formed a relationship with Jet Li and has collaborated with him in four subsequent films. In the movie, they are enemies who do not share the sky, and the scene of the fight is even more commonplace, and after the movie was broadcast, the audience felt that the scene of their fight was one of the most wonderful scenes in the film. Later, Zou Zhaolong was accepted as a big apprentice by Hong Jinbao, although he was very much valued by Hong Jinbao, and Hong Jinbao also praised him, but he was in a state of tepid fire.
Later, he became popular because he filmed with Jet Li in martial arts films and played the villain role in the film. Since then, Zou Zhaolong has become a well-known villain professional role. I believe that there should be many viewers who remember the 2007 movie "Fuse", in which although he played a villain role, the scene where he fought with Zhen Zidan won the praise of many audiences. It was also because of his martial arts training that he was invited by Hollywood to shoot a role in "The Matrix 2". The filming went very smoothly, and the subsequent release of the film also won the love of many audiences, and this popularity once again made more people know him. Gradually, more and more foreign films invited him. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for all martial arts stars, but Zou Zhaolong decisively refused.
Because most of the movies in Hollywood are smearing our Chinese. Although he is known as a "villain professional" at home, he feels that if he also plays such a villain abroad, he represents the face of the Chinese people, not just him personally. For Zou Zhaolong, his principle is that he can play the bad guy in domestic films to earn money to support his family, but he must not play the bad guy abroad to tarnish the image of Chinese. Many viewers were also shocked by the choice to abandon their careers overseas for his national image. In that era, to have such a patriotic spirit of consciousness was really to make people feel a kind of admiration for him involuntarily.
Although Hong Jinbao and Zhou Xingchi have some discord, he still admires Zhou Xingchi's talent. Under the strong recommendation of master Hong Jinbao, he played the villain Chang Wei in "Nine Pin Sesame Officer". When Zhou Xingchi selected the role for "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", he had a great contradiction with Zou Zhaolong, who played the villain Chang Wei, because Zou Zhaolong not only looked excellent but also had good acting skills, and for a time the limelight actually suppressed the limelight of the starring actor, which was some of the meaning of domination. At first, Zou Zhaolong was not very able to understand this role, but under the guidance of master Hong Jinbao, he slowly integrated into this role.
Chang Wei, played by him, has become an indispensable villain role in "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", and this role is also one of the hottest supporting roles in all of Stephen Chow's films. I have to say that Stephen Chow does have his superiority, because he knows how to shape every character. He shot movies for half a lifetime without a big fire, and as a result, he became a household name in China because of his role as Chang Wei. It is a pity that Zou Zhaolong has never cooperated with Zhou Xingchi for the second time, and since Zou Zhaolong played the role of Chang Wei, his image in other films has always given people a sense of Chang Wei.
But I have to say that Chang Wei's role is really too classic, there is a very classic line: "Chang Wei, you also said that you can't do martial arts", there should still be many netizens still remember, the brain should still be able to flash the scene of Xingye saying that sentence at that time, this is the classic. I have to say that Zou Zhaolong is really too suitable for playing a villain, and he deserves to be a professional villain. The role of Chang Wei also raised Zou Zhaolong's acting career to a higher level, but it still did not catch fire later. As he grew older, 54-year-old Zou Shiming had long since withdrawn from the art world. He has left the audience with many wonderful scenes, and I believe that those wonderful fight scenes are still classic scenes today, and no one can surpass them.