In 2014, an article titled "Why Are So Many People Black Star Chi?" As soon as the article was published, it quickly exploded, which also made the contradiction between Xiang Huaqiang and Zhou Xingchi more intense.
Xiang Taichen Lan has repeatedly exploded Zhou Xingchi's black material on the network, and for a time Zhou Xingchi was pushed to the cusp of the storm.
And in 2020, when Zhou Xingchi's bet failed and the capital turnover was seriously difficult, why did Xiang Tai express his willingness to help Zhou Xingchi at this time and help him through this difficult time, Zhou Xingchi is also our former friend and partner no matter how to say it, zhou Xingchi Yongsheng Film Company also made great achievements, and our husband and wife still remember these.
Today we will talk about the feud between Stephen Chow and the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
At the beginning of the story, we first take a look at some of the actors who have worked with Stephen Chow, and evaluate him, so as to make our own judgments about the behavior of Stephen Chow in reality.
Lin Xue: "We grew up together, it is relatively familiar, when he made "Kung Fu", he said let me play a role, he was always undecided, one moment he asked me to play the role of Fat Boy Cong, one would ask me to play the role of the axe gang leader, and the other would say that you played the role of the second gang leader, acting to the end and saying, no, you don't have to come, and then he went to Shanghai, he had already started filming, and then he called me and said, no, you still have to come. ’
Lin Xue "Kung Fu"
Wu Junru: 'Others are more introverted, I actually know him for so many years, I still don't know what he is thinking, he knows himself very well, he does not sell beautiful, does not sell handsome, so he should sell talent, sell his director's skill, I know he will definitely become a director, because he has a lot of opinions, when he was filming, he was still an actor, he would ask the director, just say Oh, the director can not come again, I felt so annoyed, why do you want to come so many times? Then we all often boasted that we were actors who had been in the past, and now I know why he is so successful, that is, he will not let go of any detail. ’
Zhou Xingchi and Wu Junru "Wangfu Jackie Chan"
Chen Baixiang: 'Zhou Xingchi is definitely a genius representing the film industry, but he is very proud and realizes that no one is worthy of him, so he does not associate with anyone, have you ever seen Zhou Xingchi have friends? In addition to the younger generation of fat boy Cong, tianji, he has no friends among his peers, filming "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" is not what he is looking for me, it has nothing to do with him, we are always invited to Mr. Huasheng, I and Zhou Xingchi belong to the actor. ’
Chen Baixiang and Zhou Xingchi,"Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang"
Wu Mengda: 'From the earliest realization that he did not cooperate later, the last time he saw me was also very respectful and polite to me, whether in private or at work, he did not say a word of heavy tone to me, not like everyone said, he went crazy on the set, scolded the photographer, scolded the director, or scolded other actors, only when he said something many times, and others could not understand, he would say something in a very heavy tone. He's really just targeting things, and he really wants the actors to meet his requirements, but it's really hard because his acting style is really unique, and his brain turns quickly, so some actors don't understand his words and it's difficult to work with him. ’
Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda, "Nine Pin Sesame Officers"
Stephen chow
In 1962, Chow Was Born in the Slum of Kowloon, Hong Kong, his parents divorced when he was 7 years old, after that, Chow And his sisters and sisters were raised by their mothers, although life was relatively poor at that time, but Chow's mother still tried everything to let Chow Attend English School, which also made Chow Sing Chi not become one of the many illiterate people in the slums.
In 1980, after graduation, Zhou Xingchi found a job as an office assistant in the TV station, Zhou Xingchi's childhood playmate Liang Chaowei also became a salesman of the electrical appliance company, (Zhou Xingchi was greater than Liang Chao for 5 days, when Zhou Xingchi's sister dated her boyfriend for the first time, both sides because they were afraid of life, so each of them brought a 'light bulb' The sister brought his brother Zhou Xingchi, and the man brought Liang Chaowei, although the sister's feelings did not succeed in the end, but Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei became good friends)
Zhou Xingchi and Liang Chaowei in their early years
When Zhou Runfa's performance of "Shanghai Beach" exploded, it also made Zhou Xingchi, who had been interested in acting since childhood, more impatient, so with the convenience of working in the TV station, Zhou Xingchi successfully became a special actor of Li's TV station, and in 1981, he participated in the TV series "IQ Mature".
At this time, Zhou Xingchi's acting skills are still quite young, in order to learn acting, he plans to apply for a TVB training class, and many of us are young, doing things always like to pull up their good friends. Zhou Xingchi thought of his good friend Liang Chaowei, who had already made achievements in the electrical company at that time, but could not stand Zhou Xingchi's stalking, so the two of them prepared for the TVB artist training class together.
As a result, Liang Chaowei successfully passed the exam, But Zhou Xingchi fell off the list, and finally under the introduction of Qi Meizhen (then the host of 'Happy Tonight'), he entered the night shift of the TVB training class, and after his childhood partner Liang Chaowei entered TVB, as if he had opened a hanging, after a two-year transition period, he directly became the male number one of "Deer Ding", and it did not take long to star in "The Dragon Slaughter in the Heavens" and "Absolute Double Glory", Liang Chaowei quickly became popular at the same time and his relationship with his good friend Zhou Xingchi became more and more distant.
In the face of the popularity of his partners, Zhou Xingchi, who was not willing to be left behind, did not give up, and struggled to support himself in the TV station for 5 years before getting the opportunity to play the dragon set in the movie. Until 1988, by chance, Li Xiuxian (founder of Universal Film Company) met Zhou Xingchi, who was running a dragon suit, and saw that Zhou Xingchi was acting hard, and his company was just established, it was the time to employ people, so he boldly used the depressed Zhou Xingchi, and directly signed a contract with Zhou Xingchi for 10 plays. For Zhou Xingchi, who has run the dragon set for two or three years, it is simply a 'big pie' falling from the sky.
Zhou Xingchi and Li Xiuxian
Soon Zhou Xingchi ushered in the first play "Thunderbolt Pioneer" after joining Universal Pictures, he played a wandering little brother in the play, what Li Xiuxian did not expect was that Zhou Xingchi won the best supporting actor at the 25th Golden Horse Awards and the best supporting actor nomination at the 8th Golden Film Awards with his outstanding performance, which surprised Li Xiuxian, who signed Zhou Xingchi at a low price.
Stephen Chow in "Thunderbolt Pioneer"
What Li Xiuxian did not expect was that the 'star boy' he picked up frequently broke the record of Hong Kong films in the following two years, and after filming "Thunderbolt Pioneer", Chow Xingchi participated in several movies such as "He Comes from the Jianghu" and "A Comic Book Breaks the End of the World".
In 1990, Chow Sing-chi and Liu Zhenwei's cooperation of "Gamble Saint" was released, in a very short period of time it became popular in Hong Kong, and finally set a box office of 41.32 million Hong Kong dollars, breaking the Box Office record in Hong Kong in one fell swoop, the same year the movie "Gambler" set a box office of 40.34 million Hong Kong dollars, becoming the second place in the annual box office, this year won the top two annual box office 'Star Boy' jumped to become 'Star Master', the Hong Kong film and television industry also put forward the 'bi-weekly' statement for the first time, that is, Chow Run-fat, Chow Sing-chi, Jackie Chan.
'Double Mondays'
After 1990, various film companies came to the film, and Zhou Xingchi's value was also rising, but whether it was 'Xingzai' or 'Xingye', in Li Xiuxian's eyes, Zhou Xingchi was still the 'little brother' he personally excavated, no matter how much Zhou Xingchi was worth, Li Xiuxian still settled the film remuneration for Zhou Xingchi according to the old price.
Zhou Xingchi is also well aware of Li Xiuxian's kindness to his Bole, so he made two films according to the old price, "Descendants of the Dragon" and "Love Saint", although these two films are very ordinary compared with other Chow Xingchi films, but also created a lot of income for Li Xiuxian.
Many years later, there is a classic line in Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West", "He is like a dog", which means that during his time in Universal Pictures, He was scolded by Li Xiuxian in front of the whole crew. Also written on the prop wall of the movie "Jigong" "Li Xiuyuan, I swear to kill your whole family"
Scene from the movie "Jigong"
All kinds of signs showed that the two were not compatible that year, so Li Xiuxian sold the remaining contract to the Yongsheng Film Company, which cooperated with Stephen Chow to shoot "The Gambler", without Chow's knowledge, and The Yongsheng Film Company only needed to pay Stephen Chow 700,000 Hong Kong dollars per film, which also made Chow Xingchi tie the knot in the early stage of cooperation with Yongsheng.
There are two sides to the conversation
In 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, major general of the Kuomintang Military Command, went to Hong Kong to carry out espionage activities under the instructions of dai Kasa, the head of the Kuomintang secret service, during which in order to disguise his identity, he founded the Ngee An Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Ngee An Company, the Xin'an Company, etc. in Hong Kong, and made huge profits through gambling and collecting protection fees, so he was also regarded as the founder of the Hong Kong New Ngee Ann Organization.
In 1953, Qiang Qiang was accused by the British government of Hong Kong of organizing a mafia and engaging in illegal political activities and espionage activities, and was deported and moved to Taiwan. After Xiang Xiang was deported, Xiang Huayan, his second son, who graduated from high school at the time, took over the affairs of the gang. Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng are the 10th and 13th sons of Xiang Qiang.
Xiang Huaqiang (left) and Xiang Huasheng
Under the leadership of Xiang Huayan, New Ngee An became one of the most powerful organizations in Hong Kong, with nearly 100,000 members in the 80s, in this context, Xiang Huaqiang, who liked movies since childhood, participated in the first movie "Dragon Tiger Ground Snake" in 1973, after shooting several movies, Xiang Huaqiang felt that he was really not suitable for being an actor, but out of love for movies, he joined his brother Xiang Huasheng in the late 70s to establish hong Kong Yongsheng Film Company.
In the early days of the company's establishment, many films were filmed, such as "Zama", "Liangshan Strange Tricks", etc., but because of the lack of investment, the film was shoddily made, the theme was not novel, almost a loss was made, and even almost closed down in the early 80s, during which although the ghost Wang Jing came to "Yongsheng", but because of the black background of the Xiang brothers, many big stars did not dare to cooperate with them because they were afraid of the film remuneration.
Until 1984, Xiang Huaqiang, who went to Taiwan to look for investment, met Chen Lan, and the two soon came together, and Xiang Huaqiang's wife at the time, Ding Pei, also took the initiative to divorce Xiang Huaqiang, thus completing Chen Lan. After marrying Xiang Huaqiang, Chen Lan sold out all his valuables and even opened a clothing store in order to support Xiang Huaqiang's film career, which also helped Xiang Huaqiang solve part of the problem of funds.
Not only in terms of funds, Chen Lan also excavated potential newcomers everywhere, and star Zhang Min was found by Chen Lan on the street. In terms of credibility, Chen Lan also helped many actors, and in the mid-to-late 1980s, Chen Lan even became synonymous with the most moralistic in the Hong Kong film industry.
Chen Lan and Xiang Huaqiang
The 1980s were the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, with many new film companies being established and many film companies failing, which led to artists constantly jumping ship. And Yongsheng Film Company also takes the opportunity to continuously absorb fresh blood.
In 1987, 'Yongsheng' was officially renamed 'Yongsheng', Chen Lan had an indispensable contribution in it, in 1989, Zhou Runfa was dug up to Yongsheng, and yongsheng funds at this time were also very sufficient, so the "God of Gamblers" series came out, once making the Xiang brothers earn a lot of money.
cooperate
In 1990, due to the fire of "God of Gamblers", Wang Jing found Chow Sing Chi and Andy Lau, who were already famous at the time, and co-produced a "Gambler" according to cats and flowers, and finally surpassed the 37 million box office of "God of Gamblers" with a box office of 40.34 million Hong Kong dollars. And this film is produced by Yongsheng Film Company.
Stills from "The Gambler"
After the Xiang brothers tasted the sweetness, they were also quite satisfied with Zhou Xingchi, so they found Li Xiuxian and prepared to dig Zhou Xingchi to Yongsheng. And this is also in the heart of Li Xiuxian, because Li Xiuxian has always liked to make movies with the theme of 'police gangsters', and Zhou Xingchi in the 'nonsense' style is not favored by Li Xiuxian.
The two sides hit it off immediately, and without going through Zhou Xingchi, they set the remaining contract of 700,000 yuan per film. And this 700,000 film remuneration, has been completely unable to match the then Zhou Xingchi, in 1992 when Zhou Xingchi participated in Huang Baiming's "Family Has a Happy Event", the film remuneration has reached 8 million Hong Kong dollars.
From 1991 to 1993, Zhou Xingchi has filmed a number of classic films in Yongsheng such as "Truant Weilong" series, "Deer DingJi", "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" and so on.
In 1992, among the top 15 Hong Kong box office films that year, Stephen Chow monopolized 7, and the first 5 were all Stephen Chow's films, of which 4 were filmed for Yongsheng, this year is also known as: "Chow Xingchi Year", but each film's salary of 700,000 yuan has always made Stephen Chow feel uneasy.
1992 "Year of Stephen Chow"
If Zhou Xingchi was excavated by Li Xiuxian, then the popular Zhou Xingchi must be Yongsheng Film Company. However, in 1994, after the contract between Stephen Chow and Yongsheng expired, in the case of repeated retention and promises to repricing to Hua Qiang and his wife, Chow Xingchi still resolutely chose to leave, and cooperated with producer Yang Guohui to establish The Color Star Film Company.
This also directly led to the rupture of the relationship between Xiang Huaqiang and Zhou Xingchi, and then when Zhou Xingchi was preparing to shoot "Shaolin Football", he was even more vocal, who gave Zhou investment against the Xiang brothers, which also once put Zhou Xingchi in trouble, and finally Lin Xiaoming, chairman of Huanyu International, invested 40 million yuan to help Zhou Xingchi survive the difficulties, but soon after because of copyright problems, Lin Xiaoming and Zhou Xingchi were in bo court.
After leaving Yongsheng, Zhou Xingchi starred in a series of classic films such as "Domestic Lingling Paint", "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", "Journey to the West", "God of Food", "King of Comedy" and so on. In 2004, he directed and wrote his own performance of the classic film "Kung Fu", which reached a global box office of 105 million US dollars, with which Stephen Chow won the Academy Award for Best Film, the Golden Horse Award for Best Drama, the Golden Horse Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination and many other honors.
Stills from "Journey to the West"
Waves again
Zhou Xingchi, who thought that he and Xiang Huaqiang and his wife had a grudge, were prepared to shoot "Mermaid" in 2014, but they were attacked by an article titled "Why Are So Many People Black Zhou Xingchi?" " pushed the cusp of the storm.
The article is sprinkled with more than 50,000 words, counting the life and past of Zhou Xingchi, and even mentioning the suppression of Zhou Xingchi in the Hong Kong film and television circles, and focusing on the suppression of Zhou Xingchi by Xiang Huaqiang and his wife and the black background of Xiang Family, which also makes Xiang Huaqiang and his wife who have been trying to get rid of their relationship with the family for many years extremely annoyed.
In a later media interview, Xiang Taichen Lan expressed his desire to expose the true face of Zhou Xingchi and said that Zhou Xingchi had explained it to her through an intermediary. But xiang Tai made a harsh remark: personally explain it to the media within ten days. Subsequently, Zhou Xingchi's assistant also responded, but Chen Lan did not buy it and must ask Zhou Xingchi to respond personally.
For a time, people in the Hong Kong showbiz circle who had cooperated with Stephen Chow accused Stephen Chow one after another. Wang Jing bitterly criticized Chow Sing Chi as a tyrant on the set, Li Xiuxian scolded Chow Sing Chi for being ungrateful, and Du Qifeng said that Chow Sing Chi had made no contribution to Hong Kong films. Big stars such as Ren Dahua, Zhang Jiahui, and Liu Qingyun also implicitly voiced their support for Xiang Taichenlan.
The three movie emperors spoke up
Immediately afterward, Mo Wenwei, Xu Jiao, Zhang Yuqi, Zheng Peipei and other stars also sent articles to support Zhou Xingchi. The majority of netizens are also almost one-sided for Zhou Xingchi to stand on the platform.
In September 2014, Xiang Tai bombarded Zhou Xingchi: "This online article hurt my husband so much, so I had to come out and defend him." This article is like a personal autobiography, some childhood past media may not have, a fan will have so much information? I endured for many years before I broke out, what I said was the truth, there was a basis for it, and I was not afraid to face the other party, anyway, he did not regard me as a friend, and he had to expose the true face. ”
In October of that year, Xiang Taifa hinted that Lan Jieying was bullied by Zhou Xingchi: "Twenty years later, the most beautiful Lan Gu has become a crazy woman who wanders on the streets, living by begging, and suffering the most extreme humiliation in the world." Twenty years later, the villain has gained fame and fortune and enjoyed the most extravagant honor in the world. He can only be called Donald Duck, a Donald Duck in the public eye. ”
In November 2015, Xiang Tai was blunt in an interview: "Zhou Xingchi is a jerk at all, his last girlfriend has been looking for him, people have followed him for seven or eight years, helped him make a lot of money, he does not give a dime." In fact, everyone knows why he turned his face to so many people. ”
In March 2016, Xiang Taifa sent a long article asking Zhou Xingchi to come out and confront him: (The following is a quote to speak to Tai Chen Lan)
I started weiboing in August 2014, with the intention of looking at the world of young people, and by the way, I looked at my son Xiang Zuo's Weibo Chinese degree of expression ability. I also pay attention to the friends I know in the fields of song, film and television, culture and art. How I didn't know that when I was eating at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing on September 8th, I was shaking my hands when I was watching Weibo, and for the first time in my life, I was scolded by black powder, water troops, and some irrational and uncultured star fans. Before that, I had never mentioned the three words *Zhou Xingfeng* on Weibo. Only because the Hong Kong media forced me to come out and face an article called "Why so many people black Zhou Xingsheng". Originally, he asked the media friends in the middle to say that they wanted me to call and want to explain and apologize, but I refused, and asked him to directly explain to the media to clarify that we and Mr. Li Xiuxian had not bullied him! But he disappeared from then on, and not responding became me forced to respond. This article is actually his heart journey from childhood to adulthood, originally you wrote how pitiful you are, how much suffering you have suffered, and you are amorous, and it is understandable to beautify yourself. But don't step on our bottom line, smear us, smear his mentor, Mr. Lee Sophie. It is said that Mr. Li sold the contract to us cheaply, but in fact, Mr. Li photographed several of his films and could not afford to come to us to help us. From 300,000, the second part has become 700,000, and the third part has jumped to 2 million, 400,000, 8 million, 10 million 12 million, 15 million and the last. All of them are hong Kong TVB representatives to collect money. So he borrowed money to buy a Ferrari TVB after the first play, and he couldn't deduct it. Just keep dragging on. We also never mention when to pay back, we lend money to many people in the circle without IOUs, because most people will shoot dramas to settle accounts. It is difficult for both of us husband and wife not to help. Even if not, I go around saying good things about us dating me. The only thing that meets Zhou White-Eyed Wolf will not be grateful to the picture newspaper and still find someone to write an article to black us, is it still necessary to be serious about this? Around 1994, I went home and took eight of my precious red wines and a latest opener in Hong Kong without asking. My mobile phone was not available in Japan at that time. So the servants have no way to verify! I swear no nonsense! We don't have a deep-sea vendetta against you, you're only angry at us for not being able to immigrate to Canada? What's the matter with us? There is no problem with a hundred people who have filmed for us to immigrate to Canada, and we have no problem, that is, you alone have a problem? Then the Canadian government agency must have the data in question for the week. Only not to give Zhou and mother immigration and entry. At that time, we also helped him fight the lawsuit in a good way, because there were reports that he could not immigrate because he made our films, so we sued the Canadian government, the lawsuit was won, and the Canadian government also apologized and explained that it was not our business. After that, he called for help again, helped him fight his lawsuit, and said yes to Hua Qiang, but our barrister was angry and threw some documents saying that he could not help zhou any longer, because a Canadian government official asked him in his confession: Do you think Mr. Xiang is a triad? Bastard Week replied yes. Then we can't help anymore, let alone lawyers!
To tell the truth, you don't engage in so many small actions, borrowing money to steal wine is a small matter, anyway, you have thick skin, and we have not folded when we meet with a hippie smile. But you never contacted us when we were kind and righteous to you. Don't even try to say that you eat a sheet of paper. For decades, only when we got into trouble would we be able to solve it. I never said thank you! It doesn't matter, I'm not going to sue you for not paying it back, (although I have evidence that I'll write a $2 million check and you'll take it to pay for the car) Plus red wine my maid has been doing it for thirty years and is still doing it at my house, two living witnesses.
If you still have it anyway, I will send some of them to my fans to suppress the red envelopes, and most of the rest will be donated to people in need or charitable organizations.
But I see the plaque you lonely cold as if the money as fate will not be returned! I really don't understand that you don't have a wife and no children, and you can't bring them into the coffin when you're a hundred years old. Why bother?
Whether it's your fan or the water army, I'm not afraid. From the time you were going to get on that dead man's fish before the New Year, you kept scolding me on Weibo. Anyway, I have a reason to go around the world! I'll keep pestering you, stinking you, counting down the dirty things you've fucked until you're still me. to end it.
Finally, please stop playing the pitiful, sympathetic, head is not stained, only to say that you are old, sorry! I'm a few years older than you, and my husband is a teenager older than you! Please don't be a shrunken-headed turtle again, it's a man who comes out and confronts me! િી
For this series of shelling, Zhou Xingchi has always remained silent, and things seem to have gradually calmed down, but in 2020, a news of 'Zhou Xingchi fell into financial difficulties and was chased by people for debts' made headlines.
The reason is that Zhou Xingchi and New Culture Company signed a VAM agreement, and New Culture bid 1.29 billion yuan to acquire 51% of the equity of Zhou Xingchi Company, on the premise that Zhou Xingchi must complete the net profit totaling 1.29 billion yuan in four years from 2016, and if it cannot be completed, it will be made up by himself.
With "Mermaid" and "Journey to the West" in the first two years, the task was exceeded, but "The King of New Comedy" was not satisfactory in terms of ratings and box office, coupled with the impact of the epidemic, which led to the failure of this bet. This also made Zhou Xingchi's capital turnover temporarily in trouble, and the Hong Kong media also broke out that Zhou Xingchi was ready to mortgage the 'TianbiGao' villa to suspend the predicament.
Unexpectedly, at this time, He told reporters to Tai Chen Lan that he was willing to reach out to help Zhou Xingchi at this time and help him through this difficult time.
At last
It is not easy to get acquainted
Xingye and Yongsheng parted ways, which should be an ending that neither side could control
Bombarding the Star Master to the Too, should be the heart of the protector
Star Ye has been committed to directing and creating over the years, and I believe that he will not and has no time to engage in these small actions
It is advisable to settle the knot
For Xingye, the Xiang brothers have the grace of knowing
For Yongsheng, Xingye has made great achievements
I hope that the two families can smile and enmity and leave a good story for the film industry
"One Film Emperor a Year, One Hundred Years of Zhou Xingchi" - Tribute to idol Stephen Chow
A movie emperor a year, a hundred years of Zhou Xingchi