I still want you to call my full name Darwensi.
Okay, Smell West.
《Domestic 007》
1994 was a magical year in the film industry, for the simple reason that good films were like clouds.
"True Lies", "The Speed of Life and Death", "Forrest Gump", etc., the acclaimed and popular Hollywood blockbusters have been released one after another, "Alive", "Jingwu Hero", "East Evil and West Poison", "I Have a Date with Spring" and other Chinese classics, also shine together.
In 1994, what was the box office performance?
That year, Zhou Xingchi had three movies released, "Domestic 007" 37.56 million, "The King of Destruction" 36.92 million, "Nine Pin Sesame Officer" 30.18 million, ranking 3rd, 6th and 7th respectively, with a total box office of more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars; the online ratings are very high, and the golden sentences in the lines are frequent.
The Hong Kong film box office market in the 1990s was a double-weekly world, and Chow Xingchi, who came out in 1990 with a record-breaking "Gambling Saint", topped the box office for 4 consecutive years; the most brilliant year was the top 5 in the box office list, with a total personal box office of 268 million for the whole year.
But in 1994, the champion became Chow Yun-fat's "God of Gamblers 2", and the runner-up was Jackie Chan's "Drunken Fist II". Of course, because of the quantitative advantage, Zhou Xingchi, who produced three films, is still the champion at the personal total box office.
Stephen Chow's performance in 1994 cannot be said to be a rout, but only a natural decline after the climax, and this is also the overall development trend of the Hong Kong film industry.
In 1992, 12 films grossed over 30 million in Hong Kong; in 1994, only 7 grossed over 30 million.
Of course, because of the decline of the market, the overall box office performance has declined, but it does not affect the quality of Stephen Chow's films.
This year, Zhou Xingchi's most important change was not the sidefall of four consecutive box office titles, but his transformation into a director. "Domestic 007" and "King of Destruction" are co-directed by Zhou Xingchi and Li Lizhi.
The biggest surprise is that these three films of Stephen Chow have won the popularity of three supporting actors; and their popularity is not only the prosperity of their careers at that time, but the popularity on the Internet many years later.
"Domestic 007" won the popularity of Luo Jiaying, who played the down-and-out agent Dawenxi, "The King of Destruction" won the popularity of Lin Guobin, who played the master brother of the broken water flow, and "Nine Pin Sesame Officer" won the popularity of Zou Zhaolong, who played the second generation of the official Chang Wei who could not do martial arts.
When starring in "Domestic 007", Luo Jiaying, who came from a Cantonese opera family, was 48 years old, but he was a newcomer to the Hong Kong film industry who had just debuted for 2 years; in 1993, he starred in Jackie Chan's "Serious Crime Group" as a kidnapped rich businessman, and after filming "Domestic 007", Luo Jiaying was on fire, and since then, he has been out of control, and has been mixed in the film industry, and has appeared in more than 200 movies so far.
Luo Jiaying was able to quickly become popular because he showed a comedic talent mixed with Zhou Xingchi in "Domestic 007". He is not like Chow Sing-chi's old partner Wu Mengda's kind of B-trick funny, but always behaves a serious book, but in fact, his behavior is very unorthodox, creating a high-contrast comedic effect.
For example, in the thrilling moment of the final showdown with the Golden Gun Man, Dawenxi first appeared in the shape of 007, and after being recognized, he took out a "take your life 3000" that claimed to be a collection of ten kinds of killing weapons, but the result was nothing more than a bicycle chain, a watermelon knife, and a wreck water.
In fact, Luo Jiaying's appearance and dialogue have been perfectly integrated into Stephen Chow's nonsense comedy.
After he and 007 connected, he returned to the base to meet the commander, and after a few small talks, 007 asked him what he had been busy with lately.
Darwensi: Doing research at the Central Institute of Psychiatry.
007: What to study?
Darwensi: Being studied!
Then, the chief and 007 were stunned face to face, and then said "good", but off-screen had already laughed.
With "Domestic 007", Luo Jiaying was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and successfully debuted.
Also because this role is classic enough, in Chow Yun Fat's "God of Gamblers 2" in the same year, The role played by Luo Jiaying is still called Dawenxi. Of course, friends who know Cantonese know that the name DaWenxi is a laughing point in itself.
Later, Luo Jiaying also starred in Tang Sanzang, who could annoy people to death, played Fayin in "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair", and made cameo appearances in "God Eater", "Counting Dead Grass" and "King of a Thousand Kings 2000", becoming the gold medal green leaf of Chow Xingchi's films.
Lin Guobin, who played the villain in "The King of Destruction", was 34 years old at the time, but he was already an old jianghu in the film industry for nearly 10 years, and he also won the Best Newcomer Award at the Academy Awards with "Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldier 2", but it was not popular!
At that time, his biggest aura was the boyfriend of Mei Yanfang, the queen of the music world, and dawn, who looked like the king of the music world.
However, as the boyfriend of the superstar, the pressure is huge, and the fame is not good, so they broke up in 1993. As for looking like dawn, it is even more miserable, because it is not dawn anymore!
Just in "The King of Destruction", Jacky Cheung, the King of Heaven, also made a cameo appearance, performed in true color, and gave the male protagonist Zhou Xingchi two concert tickets. Earlier, he lined up to buy jacky Cheung's concert tickets, met a dawn fan, shouted "I love dawn", and was beaten by Jacky Cheung's fans on the spot.
This bridge section, which was originally a performance of the competition between the superstars of the Hong Kong music scene at that time, has triggered conflicts between fans. As a result, Dawn's fans were beaten, and there was a big villain in the movie who looked like Dawn, which was really embarrassing!
Of course, Lin Guobin became popular this time, but not by looks, but by kung fu, and the sentence "The status of everyone here is garbage!" The domineering lines; later spread virally on the Internet because it was too domineering.
Lin Guobin is indeed a kung fu, debuted as a dragon and tiger martial artist, joined Jackie Chan's family class in 1985, and has the opportunity to perform in front of the scene in films such as "Police Story" and "Plan A Sequel". The real audience can see his skills is the 1988 "Police Story Sequel", in which he plays a bomb gang member.
Later, the family class was dissolved, and Lin Guobin worked hard in the film industry, but it was difficult to get a good role until he met Stephen Chow's "King of Destruction".
In "The King of Destruction", Master Brother is not a pleasing character, because he snatched the male protagonist's girlfriend as soon as he appeared. However, his performance in the power grab battle of the Global Sports Center surprised the audience, and he defeated all the masters of taekwondo, kendo, judo and boxing in one shot, and almost all of them were seconds.
The most handsome thing is that he punched through the wall, and outside the wall hole were Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda, who were too frightened to breathe, and the comedic effect was really no one!
Zou Zhaolong was also born as a martial artist, joined Hong Jinbao's Hongjia class in 1985, and also worshiped Hong Jinbao as a teacher, and was adopted as a son; he followed Hong Jinbao to shoot many action movies, such as "A Knife In the City", "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard", "Adventure King", etc., and also served as an assistant martial arts instructor in films such as "Legend of the God of War", "East Into the West", "East Evil and West Poison" and other films.
Because of his own efforts and the promotion of his master Hong Jinbao, Zou Zhaolong, as an action actor, has indeed made some achievements in his profession, including participating in the Hollywood movie "The Matrix", and successfully shaping a domineering gangster big brother image in the Taiwan provincial film "Horn 2: The King Rises Again".
However, on the Internet, the screen image that resonated with the most netizens was still the second generation official Chang Wei in Zhou Xingchi's "Nine Pin Sesame Officials" who claimed to not know martial arts.
In 1994, Zhou Xingchi's three films, "Nine Pin Sesame Officer" had the worst box office, but Douban scored the highest, indicating that its quality and reputation were the best. And the reason why it has a high score is because there are the most classic shots and classic characters in the film, including Chang Wei.
In fact, the villain role of Chang Wei is not funny, as soon as he appears on the scene, he will secretly have an affair with his cousin, and then commit a major crime in the Qi family, which is a very evil crime. Later, Bao Longxing, a nine-pin sesame official, appealed for justice for the people and retried the Qi family massacre after doing the Inspection of the Eight Houses; while Chang Wei, at the behest of his teacher Fang Tangjing, claimed that he could not do martial arts and tried to escape the murder charges.
In the movie, Chang Wei's criminal facts and martial arts are obvious to all, and it took a lot of manpower to arrest him in the first place. Therefore, the persona who could not do martial arts was forcibly added to Chang Wei by the master of the form, and a wonderful tacit understanding was formed among the audiences familiar with Zhou Xingchi's films.
Chang Wei, I didn't think you were such a person!
Can't do martial arts?
hehe!