Star Ye is sixty years old, happy birthday! Our "filmmakers"!
In 2013, in "Seeing", Star Ye said that he was afraid to say his age, when he was 51 years old. The 30-minute dialogue of "Seeing" and "Wireless Treasure: Star Master" have become the preferred meal replacement video for us fans who miss Star Ye off the screen and can't see Buddha-figures.
Time flies too fast, and in the blink of an eye, another 9 years have passed. Recently, because of Xingye's birthday, Sina Movie did a special planning series of live broadcasts by Zhou Xingchi, and when even Mai Ejingwen and Lu Zhengyu said that they had not met Xingye for several years. Don't know what Star Ye has been doing lately? Will you still be overwhelmed by your age?
Want to say to him, you are part of our emotional and growing memory on the screen. Because of your movie, I later saw that all cockroaches are called Xiaoqiang, and all the earth dogs are called Wangcai.
01
Master of nonsense
The deep affection for Xingye has a lot to do with the countless pleasures he has brought us.
1. Nonsense tricks
"Stephen Chow" is not just a personal name, but also a cultural symbol, a comedy genre. For more than thirty years, his classic works have been like textbooks for comedy films, which have been paid tribute to and imitated by many later generations. Those widely circulated movie screenshots and memes are also chat hard currency.
"Nonsense" is the most prominent label of Xingye, "Journey to the West", "Domestic Lingling Paint", "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", "Nine Pin Sesame Officer" these movies have his unique performances in many famous scenes.
When this style first emerged, it was more like a spectacle created by a group of film and television people of that era, and "Wireless Treasure" has many performance clips of Xingye when he was young, when he was still a star boy, and his partners in the play, many of which are also familiar big stars today.
Among this group of people, Star Ye is the one who understands the core of "nonsense". From "actor Stephen Chow" to "director Stephen Chow", he made "nonsense" into a pure comedy style, a unique trend of the times.
2. Chaplin spirit
In the era of pirated discs and video halls, his movies amused and stimulated us again and again, and we were still pure fun at that time.
When we grow up, knowing that Hong Kong at that time was once a confused and unpredictable atmosphere about the future, the star master under the screen was shy, low-key, and defensive, and slowly understood the emotions behind this nonsense.
In the play, he speaks boldly, makes himself smart, has no heart and no lungs, and is absurd, because he finally seized an acting opportunity and opened up a sense of comedy in order to get out of position; It is to dissolve the sacred, to express feelings with a less heavy psychological burden; It is to heal the pain suffered in life through performance.
02
Inspirational dragon set
1. The role of the dragon set
Star Master himself became Star Master little by little from the Dragon Set, and he has a magical power that can make all the Dragon Sets glow with the brilliance of the stars.
In "Seeing", Xingye talked about his experience of adding drama when he was making dragon sets, and explained how he looked at the little soldier who played soy sauce, and in a second of the shot, he also wanted to make his role have a stronger vitality and sense of existence.
This attitude is also reflected in all his works, whether he is a director, screenwriter or a lead actor, his crew does not have a class distinction between protagonists, supporting roles and dragon sets, only different roles perform their duties, in their own positions slay the whole scene. "Domestic Lingling Paint" said: "A pair of underwear has its own uses."
2. The belief of the protagonist
He is obsessed with telling the stories of small people, preferring people who are obsessed with their dreams, teenagers are poor, big instruments are late, and the life experience of the city well and the career of running dragon sets are the circles of his lifelong creation. He sits on an equal footing with all the characters in the film, understanding the grievances and joys, struggles and hopes in each character's heart. These characters are different stages and different components of himself.
I was a beggar, a bastard, a pig killer, a builder, a dead dragon, I was rubbed by life on the ground, my dignity was repeatedly trampled, I was a light-spoken person, i was embarrassed, I was always bullied, I lived like a joke, but I believed that I could save the world, the country would one day call me, I was an actor.
If you don't have a dream, what is the difference between you and salted fish? Endeavor! Struggle!
03
Childlike guide
The stage when Star Ye was in full control of the work of film director was also the period when fans really understood him. From tvb dragon set to the north of the big director, all the way to the steep experience, I don't know how he digested these ups and downs, but he never brought these complex and gray things in adult society to the movie.
1. Three sightseeing spots
He should firmly believe in truth, goodness and beauty, and the main theme of the film is always bright, simple and decent. "The King of Comedy" is the grassroots of hard work to pursue dreams, "Kung Fu" is a strong counterattack, "Yangtze River Seven" to be a useful person to society, "Mermaid" is a love that does not care about fame and fortune and crosses races. The people in these stories are pure, serious, kind, and have a strong point, and the three views are extremely positive.
He likes to tell grand themes with small stories, which looks like a bit of chicken soup, but this pot of soup has a long shelf life and can make people believe and heal people again and again in the flow of time. Because he believes in himself, he is entertaining and educational in his creation, self-dreaming, his full devotion will infect us, his genius intuition will touch us, he said: "Do you know, in that state is very enjoyable, others think you can't do it, you just go to research, completely trapped in it, feel very lonely, but also very romantic." 」 ”
2. Hatsushin Eizen
As long as he is in the state of film creation, he is like a child living in a vacuum. He did not realize that dragging the entire company to meeting again and again until late at night was an unconventional consumption, that it was expensive to temporarily change the script as soon as inspiration came, that letting the actors NG dozens of times would wear down their enthusiasm and morale, and that preparing a movie would take several years to miss a lot of opportunities to make money.
Before denying others, he may have denied himself countless times, and when he can't surpass himself, he is also very uncomfortable. Before the release of the article "Journey to the West", a reporter asked him the question of "Jiang Lang is exhausted", and his answer is very frank: "Yes, it is Jiang Lang who is exhausted, but there is no way, I still like to make movies." ”
Seeing that there are voices criticizing him for selling feelings, eating old books and fried cold rice, no, he is old and unable to do it, but it is still him, and the fairy tale can be repeated three thousand times.
04
Lonely widow
Over the years, Star Ye rarely appeared, mainly relying on the film promotion period to see him. There were a few sporadic small waves, and he was also very far apart before he responded.
1. The background of sadness
When I think of him, he is always the image of a person, from Xingzai to Xingge to Xingye, he has worked with so many people along the way, and there are many names that are loud today in the same period, but he can't see his interaction with them in the public eye. He never called out to friends, managed relationships, and got used to not having friends.
Defining Star Master is a difficult thing, and people who have stayed by his side have always given mixed reviews, even very polarized. He is reticent, harsh, and talented, but he does not live in the world or be a man. He stood alone, and after many years, he asked himself, "Is there still a chance?" ”
"Wireless Treasure" combs through the growth of Xingzai in a positive and relaxed way, when he was very cute, very tender, and ignorant of hard work, but in reality, his acting career was full of long frustrations from the beginning, and everyone in TVB had a belly dragon set story, but he belonged to the kind that never got a hug.
2. True temperament
Having come to where he is today, belittling and looking up at him has seen too much, and will not be bothered by this and wrapped up in it. It's true that he loves money, but he loves movies and should still be ahead of love money.
There are many contradictions in him, and the power and resources he possesses are incompatible with the tense and cautious attitude when dealing with people; I became famous through the award through performance, but I was confused and confused in the interview shot; It gives us so much joy and touch, but we look so fragile and alienated.
While you may not be able to leave home right now, we know your heart is still full of imagination and looking forward to seeing your next movie!
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Ten classic supporting characters in the Star Ye movie
Wu Mengda
Representative works: "Gamble Saint", "Truant Weilong", "Deer Ding",
"Hundred Variable Star King", "God Eater", "Shaolin Football" and so on
Luo Jiaying
Representative works: "Domestic Lingling Paint", "Journey to the West", etc
Chen Baixiang
Representative works: "Deer DingJi", "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er", "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" and so on
Tian Qiwen
Representative works: "Kung Fu", "Shaolin Football", "The King of Comedy", "Mermaid", etc
Yuan Qiongdan
Representative works: "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er" and so on
Lee Kin-jen
Representative works: "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er", "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" and so on
Lin Zicong
Representative works: "Kung Fu", "Shaolin Football", "Yangtze River No. 7" and so on
Huang Yifei
Representative works: "Shaolin Football", "Domestic Lingling Paint", "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" and so on
He Wenhui
Representative works: "Kung Fu", "Shaolin Football", "Journey to the West" and so on
Chen Kaishi
Representative works: "Kung Fu" and so on
Today's topic
What is your favorite movie of Star Master?