Stephen Chow is really a very good director and actor, and his strength is not only reflected in acting, but also in the selection of actors.
Zhou Xingchi has made movies for half a lifetime, and has won countless golden supporting roles, such as Wu Mengda, Lin Zicong, Yuan Qiongdan, Badijin, Huang Yishan, Tian Qiwen, etc. Excellent actors can be described as countless.
One of them is sure to impress the audience, although his name may not be spoken by the audience, but when he says the role he plays, the audience will surely realize that it is him.
He was "the Seven Provinces Wen Zhuangyuan and Staff General, known as the King of the King's Bowel", Gu Dezhao.
The actor's life is also legendary, and his early acting career was smooth, but because Zhou Xingchi was expelled from the division, his talent was not lost to Wang Jing.
In the second half of his life, he suffered from depression because his mother jumped off the building, and afterwards he made a lot of bad films, which was called "the king of bad films" by netizens.
The first half of his life and the second half of his life are completely two extremes, from the big to the big fall, and we will talk about his story today.
1. Enter the film and television circle
Gu Dezhao's entry into the show business was a complete accident, and when he was a student, Gu Dezhao did not intend to enter the show business at all, and the reason why he entered the industry was because his sister was a TV series producer.
At a very young age, Gu Dezhao began to soak on the set all day long, so it was very strange for others to shoot, and for Gu Dezhao, it was just a childhood game, and it was nothing at all.
When Gu Dezhao was studying at a university in Canada, the big director Gao Zhisen took the crew to shoot a scene, because he was not familiar with the local environment and needed a person who knew Chinese as a guide.
After Gu Dezhao's sister heard about this, she recommended her younger brother Gu Dezhao to Gao Zhisen. At first, Gu Dezhao was reluctant, thinking that he was wasting his private time. But in the end, he was unable to beat his sister, and could only go to Gao Zhisen as a guide.
In this way, Gu Dezhao often went in and out of the set, watching the actor's voice and emotion, Gu Dezhao suddenly became curious and felt very interesting. Later, he simply took a break from school and ran around with the crew.
Gao Zhisen saw that Gu Dezhao was so interested in acting, he knew that Gu Dezhao was very interested in writing, and often wrote some things himself, so he told him that you have the talent to be a screenwriter, and if you are interested, you can try.
But at that time, Gu Dezhao was only interested in acting, and running around with Gao Zhisen was only because it was fun, and he had no intention of entering the industry, so he politely rejected Gao Zhisen and continued to return to school after half a year.
After graduating from college, Gao Zhisen returned to China to look for a job, but after looking around, he did not find a job that he was satisfied with. After Gao Zhisen learned of this news, he threw an olive branch to Gu Dezhao, saying that since you have no job now, it is better to follow me first.
In this way, Gu Dezhao became Gao Zhisen's apprentice and began to work as a screenwriter.
Gao Zhisen was busy with work during that time, and there was no time to take care of Gu Dezhao, and he directly threw him to his subordinates. After his subordinates told him the basic framework for writing the script, they never paid any attention to him.
Gu Dezhao began to think about it himself, but he did not expect that he wrote surprisingly well, writing eight scripts in one year. Not only is the speed fast, the quality is also quite excellent, and it is favored by master Gao Zhisen.
So in the first year of Gu Dezhao's career, he participated in the creation of the movie "Happy Family". It was also in this year that Gu Dezhao knew the actor Zhou Xingchi.
I have to say that Gu Dezhao is really a ghost screenwriter, he is responsible for designing the story line between Stephen Chow and Maggie Cheung, which is cleverly conceived to make the whole story quite interesting.
There was also an episode during the period, when Zhang Guorong and Wu Junru were filming next to them, and seeing that this side was very happy, they invited Gu Dezhao over and asked him to help with the script creation.
"Come on, fat boy, eat something first." What are you doing over there, so funny, can you add a few more scenes to us and laugh. ”
At that time, Zhang Guorong and Wu Junru were already long-established first-line actors, and they could get their recognition, which showed how strong Gu Dezhao's screenwriting ability was, and "Family Has Happy Events" also made Zhou Xingchi favor him.
2. Gu Dezhao and Zhou Xingchi
Gu Dezhao and Zhou Xingchi's first cooperation is not harmonious, after "Family Has a Happy Event", Zhou Xingchi once looked for Gu Dezhao, Gu Dezhao put his carefully written script in front of Zhou Xingchi, but did not expect that the other party only read three pages, and then directly threw the script back.
"Who's that, it's just something you just write casually, and you're going to write it again, right?"
It can be seen from Zhou Xingchi's attitude that he is not satisfied with this script, but this is already a script written by Gu Dezhao with all his strength. This incident also made Gu Dezhao fall into self-doubt, thinking that he was not suitable for the screenwriter's bowl of rice.
In the end, it was Gao Zhisen who woke up Gu Dezhao and said: "These may be now, or they may be forever." The best actors in Hong Kong, if the cooperation is good, even if you come out to shoot four tigers in the future, there is no problem. ”
This sentence made Gu Dezhao wake up like a dream, so after he had done his homework, he went to negotiate with Zhou Xingchi again. This time, the two people were like friends who had not seen each other for many years, and the more they talked, the more energetic they became, and they became very good friends in private.
In this regard, Gao Zhisen was very proud, saying that even Zhou Xingchi, who was so difficult to do, had been handled by the apprentice, and there was nothing he could not do.
But what gao Zhisen did not expect was that his own persuasion completely pushed Gu Dezhao to Zhou Xingchi's side.
At that time, when filming "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", Zhou Xingchi found Gu Dezhao and wanted to work with him, and Gu Dezhao thought of many wonderful ideas for this movie.
For example, in the scene when he entered Washington, "Hua An", played by Zhou Xingchi, cried out to the corpse of a cockroach: "Xiao Qiang, you can't die, I am dependent on you for my life, and I have been sharing happiness and suffering for so many years, I have always taught you to raise you as if you were my own flesh and bones, and I didn't expect to send black haired people today." ”
This plot, which is still talked about by the audience today, is from the hand of Gu Dezhao. After this, the cockroach has a new title, "Xiao Qiang", which is given by Gu Dezhao.
Not only as the screenwriter of this drama, Gu Dezhao also made a cameo appearance in the movie "To Wear the Intestine", originally this role was not designed in the movie, but Gu Dezhao had a clever move on the set and wanted to design a literary fight before the martial arts, so "Wearing the Intestine" was conceived.
The role was designed by Gu Dezhao, and naturally he played it.
After the release of "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" in 1993, it won the unanimous recognition of the audience and won the Hong Kong box office championship in 1993, and Gu Dezhao also became popular because of this movie.
But it was also in this year that Gu Dezhao was expelled from the division by Gao Zhisen. At that time, Gao Zhisen was already an independent filmmaker, how could he allow his apprentice to cooperate with others, and the object of cooperation was still Zhou Xingchi, who he hated very much, which was even more unacceptable.
After leaving Gao Zhisen, Gu Dezhao began to cooperate fully with Stephen Chow, not only as a screenwriter in his films, but also as an occasional cameo role.
During the filming of "God Eater", Gu Dezhao participated in the creation of the script and let him play the role of "Tang Niu".
In fact, this role was not Gu Dezhao's at the beginning, but handed over to several big men. But Zhou Xingchi thought about it and felt that it was a bit inappropriate, because their fame was too big, and they would be discovered by the audience as soon as they appeared, and only by handing it over to actors without fame could they bring a surprise to the audience later.
Therefore, Zhou Xingchi gave this role to Gu Dezhao. At first, Gu Dezhao was still unwilling, and under the repeated requests of Zhou Xingchi, Gu Dezhao agreed, but put forward two requests.
First, give yourself enough freedom to play.
Second, you can't scold people on the set, if you scold me, I will turn around and leave.
After Zhou Xingchi agreed, he had the role of "Tang Niu" in "God Eater" that we see now.
It turns out that Stephen Chow was right, and before "Tang Niu" revealed his identity, it is estimated that no audience will regard him as the final boss of this movie.
After this movie, Gu Dezhao felt that the time was ripe, so he had the idea of directing his own film, pulling jackie Chan's film "Glass Bottle", And Zhou Xingchi also made a cameo role in the movie, which is also one of the few cooperations between Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan.
After this movie, Gu Dezhao completely achieved fame, which was known as a ghost director in the circle, and his talent was not lost to Wang Jing.
3. Middle-aged family changes
I thought that he would show his fists in the film and television circle later, but he did not expect to encounter changes at this time. His mother could not bear the pain because of her long-term illness, and chose to jump from a tall building to end her life.
Later, Gu Dezhao's nephew also chose to leave this world in the same way because of emotional reasons.
The blow of the two things made Gu Dezhao's emotions completely collapse, he locked himself at home, did not go out for half a year, and even suffered from depression for a while, and finally in the company of his wife, he finally came out of the shadows.
After that, Gu Dezhao disappeared for a long time, and it was not until 2018 that he reappeared to direct the movie "Undercover Superstar".
This movie can be described as a gathering of superstars, Eason Chan, Li Ronghao, etc. have joined, but the audience does not buy it, after the release of the film was scolded to do bad films, many netizens have complained that Gu DeZhao Jiang Lang is exhausted, and even scolded as the "king of bad films".
Seeing that his new film had fallen to such a point, Gu Dezhao was discouraged and chose to quit the film and television circle and stop making movies.
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Not only on the set, Gu Dezhao and Zhou Xingchi also maintained a very friendly relationship in private, and Gu Dezhao is one of the few people in the film and television circle who can be called a friend.
Before Zhou Xingchi was scolded as a "tyrant on the set" because of "The King of New Comedy", he was even accused by many big guys, and Hong Jinbao was one of them.
At this time, only Gu Dezhao stood up and supported Zhou Xingchi, saying that no matter what others said, he would always stand on Zhou Xingchi's side.
Gu Dezhao is unfortunate, he has encountered many changes in his life, but at the same time he is also lucky, he entered the film and television circle at a young age, and was excavated his talent.
Just as the so-called times create heroes, if there is no master Gao Zhisen, Gu Dezhao cannot enter the film and television circle, and if there is no Zhou Xingchi, Gu Dezhao cannot occupy a place in the film and television circle.
But all this is still thanks to Gu Dezhao's talent and grasping the opportunity. Although he repeatedly refused, it turned out that the big man in the Hong Kong film industry was born for movies.