Shi Xiaolong became a director, and I think that a considerable part of the audience who grew up watching him have a feeling of being old.
In everyone's impression, Shi Xiaolong is still the clever and cute little monk in the Oolong Courtyard, but after a few decades, he has not only become a director, but also invited Zou Zhaolong to participate in his new film.
The name Zou Zhaolong may not be familiar to everyone, but the stem "As soon as I came in, I saw Chang Wei playing Laifu" must be familiar.
Yes, "Chang Wei" is played by Zou Zhaolong.
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Zou Zhaolong was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1967, when the poor did not have enough to eat.
Zou Zhaolong's family is one of them.
His father died early, and the burden of life was all on his mother.
The mother came out early and returned late, desperately trying to make money, just to support 13 children.
At that time, in order to reduce the pressure on his mother, Zou Zhaolong came out at the age of 6 to learn martial arts to earn money and work for the owner of the carving shop.
At that time, he helped his boss color during the day, and at night he lived in a carving shop to look after the boss's house.
This lasted for 3 years, and at the age of 9, he left the low-paid carving shop and switched to bread.
The little man had to put on a box to make bread on the counter, and at the age when other children were spoiling their parents and going out to eat a big meal, he had been sharing the pressure of life for his mother for 3 years.
Without a father, he and his younger siblings were often bullied.
Because he is often bullied, Zou Zhaolong has learned from a young age that his fists are big so that he will not be bullied.
Right next to the bakery where he was, there was a martial arts hall.
Outside of work, he often hides in the corner and secretly watches the coach's moves and styles, and follows them in a more contrasting manner.
He found that having a coach to teach was much more effective than practicing his own.
Just like "the paper can't contain the fire", it wasn't long before the coach found that a small child was sneaking around "stealing the teacher".
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After understanding his family situation, the coach touched his muscles and bones, felt that it was a piece of martial arts material, and acquiesced to him to follow alongside.
Three years passed quickly, and at the age of 12, he followed his eldest brother to Taipei to develop.
Soon after, the eldest brother found a job doing martial arts in the crew, and when Zou Zhaolong was visiting the class, the scene was in need of a girl's martial arts.
At that time, he was about the same shape as the girl, and he was pulled by the director at the time to do martial arts.
Originally, the director was mentally prepared for "one but more", but he did not expect that he would pass by with his agile skills.
Not only did the director like Zou Zhaolong, the head of the crew found Zou Zhaolong after the shooting and asked him if he would like to stay.
Zou Zhaolong was ecstatic and immediately agreed to stay.
At that time, he worked in the bakery for only NT$9,000 a month, and he received NT$1,200 in less than an hour as a wu ti.
In Zou Zhaolong's eyes, this was similar to a pie falling from the sky.
In the martial arts, Zou Zhaolong began to learn martial arts moves such as taekwondo and sanda, and began his career as a dragon set.
In that era, there were few special effects, and the fight was also a real fight, punching to the flesh, so he was often injured.
In Zou Zhaolong's heart, as long as he can make his family no longer poor, if he is hurt, he will be hurt a little.
Zou Zhaolong once recalled in the show:
"There was a scene that required me to jump over a wall with a trampoline, but I was injured and didn't jump over. If my face had landed first, there might have been no Zou Zhaolong by now. ”
Unlike other stars in his early years, he was not the most capable of fighting in martial arts, but the most capable of being beaten.
He once said on the show that at that time, it was not about who needed to fight more, but how long he could be beaten on the set.
If you are too capable of fighting, you may not be able to steal the limelight and affect your future no drama; if you are very resistant to fighting, which crew needs a dragon set in the future is willing to find you first.
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When Zou Zhaolong was 18 years old, his life took a huge turn.
Director Wu Guoxiao encountered difficulties when preparing to shoot "All Out Bounce".
The crew needs all the actors to have a martial arts foundation, which is easy to do, and he invited Hong Jinbao's "Hong Family Class" over.
However, there is a role in the play that needs to have a strong foundation in taekwondo, which is difficult to do, and no one among the actors invited meets Wu Guoxiao's requirements.
Just when he had a headache, someone recommended Zou Zhaolong to him.
Wu Guoxiao found Zou Zhaolong with the mentality of trying it out, but he did not expect that he had completed the required movements almost perfectly.
Wu Guoxiao made up his mind, and he was gone.
It was also here that he met Hong Jinbao and changed his destiny.
At that time, at the age of 18, he had just emerged from the "Full Bounce" and had to go to military service.
In two years, in the rapidly changing entertainment industry, it is enough to drown a person, not to mention a newcomer who has no splash.
But just before he took up his military service, Hong Jinbao, who was very appreciative of him, gave him a promise:
"Even if you go to be a soldier, if you need help when you come back, come to Hong Kong to find me."
At that time, Hong Jinbao was very famous, and he was just a small person whose star path was likely to be broken, and the gap between him and Hong Jinbao was too large, and Zou Zhaolong's heart was very bottomless.
2 years passed in a trance, and zou Zhaolong, who had been a soldier, gradually became more and more a tough guy.
Just a week before his military service ended, the staff sent by Hong Jinbao found Zou Zhaolong and helped him arrange the formalities to come to Hong Kong.
Zou Zhaolong did not expect that Hong Jinbao really did what he said, and his heart had always been thinking about him.
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After arriving in Hong Kong, Hong Jinbao officially accepted him as an apprentice, becoming his first official apprentice.
Subsequently, Hong Jinbao tailored several roles for him in several movies, Ah Che in "Elf Change", Zhou Xiaolong in "Street of Fire"...
But unfortunately, the response of these movies is mediocre, and some people privately ridicule Zou Zhaolong as a broom star, and his movies can't be fired.
Zou Zhaolong struggled with a strong force, he desperately practiced martial arts, improved his acting skills, every action must be accurate to centimeters, and he could clearly carry out which facial muscles needed to be involved in every micro-expression.
When those messages reached Hong Jinbao's ears, he was furious:
"Zou Zhaolong's acting skills are comparable to you?" If you can't compare, don't be fooled! ”
In this way, in 1993, Wang Jing cooperated with Hong Jinbao to shoot "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slaughter record in the Heavens", and the male protagonist was Jet Li, who was already quite famous.
Hong Jinbao arranged for Zou Zhaolong to play the role of Song Qingshu, who played the most against Jet Li, hoping to mention Zou Zhaolong by jet Li's reputation.
However, due to the large number of celebrities in the movie, Zou Zhaolong is not conspicuous, and he is not popular.
The audience didn't remember him, but Jet Li remembered him.
Jet Li once said that his cooperation with Zou Zhaolong is the most comfortable and tacit understanding.
The following year, Jet Li invited Zou Zhaolong to star with him in "The Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai", but somehow, he cooperated with Jet Li 7 times before and after, and still had no audience affinity, and could only sigh "time is also lucky".
At that time, Zou Zhaolong was a little disheartened, and at this moment, Hong Jinbao seemed to have discovered the reason why he was so desperate not to be red.
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Hong Jinbao found that when Zou Zhaolong played the villain, the role was more "close to the face".
To put it bluntly, Zou Zhaolong grew an "evil face."
Coincidentally, at this time, Zhou Xingchi's movie "Nine Pin Sesame Officer" was being cast, and only the role of the villain "Chang Wei" was empty.
After Hong Jinbao knew, he immediately thought of Zou Zhaolong and hoped that he could play this role.
At first, Zou Zhaolong was very resistant, because of his personal personality, he hated the villain role with "evil without reason", and Chang Wei was just such a role.
But under the persuasion of Hong Jinbao, Zou Zhaolong took over this play, on the one hand, Hong Jinbao had great kindness to him, on the other hand, it also met the principle that all the villain roles he took over did not have a good ending.
Everyone did not expect that Zou Zhaolong was actually red because of the "Chang Wei" hit, red into this look, "Chang Wei you also said that you can't do martial arts" This stem seems to be engraved in the audience DNA.
He likes all the roles he plays, except for "Chang Wei", but it is also "Chang Wei" that makes him enter the hearts of the audience.
This made Zou Zhaolong very conflicted, and on a talk show, he joked to the host after watching his performance in "Nine Pin Sesame Officer":
"It's not me, it's my twin brother."
In this joke, there is a little bit of helplessness.
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In the years since, except for the positive roles he played when he was not popular at the beginning, the rest of the role was all villains, and his play path seemed to be fixed.
He has been thinking about how to break through himself and how to better interpret the profession of actor.
In 1999, he dropped everything, including the hard-laid foundation he had laid at home, and came to the United States for further study, hoping to learn more about different ways of acting.
Half a year later, Jet Li was found during the casting of "The Matrix 2", but Jet Li chose to push off the play after listening to the shooting conditions.
On a variety show, Jet Li said the reason for pushing it off:
"The Americans asked me to shoot for 3 months, but they wanted me to stay in the crew for 9 months, and the remaining 6 months had to capture my martial arts movements, and the copyright belonged to them. I studied martial arts all my life, and I finished the copyright to become theirs, which I don't do. ”
After Jet Li pushed it off, the director of "The Matrix" and others found Zou Zhaolong, and Zou Zhaolong said to them:
"I can play, but I will never play a villain role that damages the image of the country, nor will I accept the use of art to trample on our national dignity." Also, I asked to wear Tang costumes. ”
Subsequently, chinese figures appeared in "The Matrix".
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For Jet Li's refusal to act, Zou Zhaolong took over the role of netizens with mixed evaluations.
Some people say that "Jet Li suspects that the film remuneration is low", "Zou Zhaolong picks up the scene that Jet Li does not want, there is no backbone"...
But when you think about it, that's not the case.
Jet Li insisted that the copyright issue must be in China, and Zou Zhaolong's insistence was that he cared about the chinese film and television image outside, and the two of them insisted on different directions.
Since then, Zou Zhaolong has publicly refused to act in Hollywood's "Golden Cicada Shell 3":
"Sorry, no! Hollywood movies don't have to be like beggars asking for food and eating everything! ”
Zou Zhaolong once said:
"Most of the Chinese actors found abroad played some roles without dignity and personality, I am very persistent about this, it is no problem to play a villain in our country, but when you go out, you must not do any role that insults China." I'm proud to say that so far, I haven't been insulting or impersonal in any of the Western films. ”
More than a decade has passed, Zou Zhaolong revealed that since 2003, after the release of "The Matrix 2" and "The Matrix 3", he has been collecting dividends for more than 10 years.
When he signed a contract with "The Matrix", the terms said that as long as the "Matrix" movie and its surroundings were still profitable, then the profit part would be divided into Zou Zhaolong.
In layman's terms, this is a permanent dividend, even if Zou Zhaolong dies, the dividend that belongs to him will be given to his family.
Zou Zhaolong jokingly said in the interview:
"As long as the 'Matrix' is still making money, I've been collecting money, even if I die, my children are collecting money."
This may be the legendary "people sit at home, money comes from heaven".
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