In the show business circle, a person's body and face are their façade.
A while ago, Cao Jun was on several hot searches because of "Actors Please Take Place 2", and some netizens commented that his appearance was too righteous, and his height was not enough, and it was difficult to have a good development in the show business circle.
There is even more than one such comment.
Although I feel very helpless, it seems that I can't argue.
Appearance is justice, it seems to be used very thoroughly, even in the early film and television circles, there are also such scenes, but not all of them.
In the history of Hong Kong film, there are many film emperors, but the image is completely absent, and there is only one fattest film emperor with a cute attitude.
He is Zheng Zeshi.
Perhaps, call him "Fat Cat", everyone will be more impressed.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01, young dreams but accused of vanity</h1>
In the early 50s of the last world, there was a girl star who debuted at the age of three, and with her stardom, she influenced countless people and was an idol of countless people.
This child star is called Feng Baobao.
In terms of age, he is about three years younger than the protagonist of this article, Zheng Zeshi.
The so-called highest state of star chasing is to become a star when following an idol, or to become as good as an idol, or even better.
As a fan of Feng Baobao, Zheng Zeshi also has the same dream of stardom as an idol.
Zheng Zeshi did not grow up to be fat.
In fact, even when he was young, the family was poor, he didn't eat well, didn't sleep well, and had to work hard to help take care of his younger siblings, he never lost weight.
Living in the slums, his dreams, seemingly naïve and vain.
He thought that as long as he was a star, eating and drinking would not be a problem.
In the fourth grade, Zheng Zeshi wrote down the dream of "I want to be a star" on his writing text for the first time.
At that time, Zheng Zeshi was chubby, ordinary-looking, and somewhat dark, and his family was poor and white, and even where he lived, it was a top-floor house built by the wooden strips that his father had broken from the fruit wooden box.
One has no appearance, two have no good form, three have no family support, and his star dream has become the "love of vanity" in the eyes of the teacher.
That essay, torn to shreds.
But with low self-esteem, he actually felt that the teacher was right, and he was indeed "useless".
The sense of responsibility of the eldest son born from the heart invaded the young him, filling the stomach of himself and his family, is the most important, reading or something, in the face of food and clothing, somewhat redundant.
Therefore, when he was in junior high school, he resolutely dropped out of school to work.
Since he was a teenager, Zheng Zeshi has been a person with great ideas and opinions.
Dropping out of school, he did not hesitate to go to work, he also had his own ideas.
He understood that part-time work was temporary, and learning a skill to settle down was real.
To this end, after tossing and turning in the restaurant for half a year, he tried to learn jewelry processing in the jewelry store, at least, this technical work, fine, the treatment is also good, can ensure that the family's food and clothing is not a problem.
In 1972, the famous director Zhang Che organized the first actor training class of Longbow Pictures, of course, at this time, Zhang Che had not yet left Taiwan, and Longbow Pictures had not yet been officially named.
Therefore, this actor training class, called the Zhangjia class, may be more appropriate.
This year, Zheng Zeshi was 21.
Having been an apprentice in the jewelry processing industry for five or six years, he has not forgotten the "dream" of his childhood.
Despite his objections, he was admitted to Zhang Che's actor training class and seriously ran the dragon suit.
It was his first attempt at this dream, and it was only 4 months to come to an end.
Four months later, Zhang Che took his Zhangjia class to Taiwan to expand its territory.
"Director Zhang Che is going to Taiwan to develop, and if I follow, I will become a martial artist." I didn't want to do this, so I didn't go. ”
It was the closest he had ever been to his dream in 20 years.
However, his dream of stardom is still there.
In 1976, wireless held the "Sound Treasure Set Acting Competition", and Zheng Zeshi, who was 25 years old, decided to make one last effort for his dream.
Although his family still objected, he still wanted to get the support of his family, so he asked his mother for a year's time, promising that this time it would not work and never dream again.
It was this perseverance and effort that gave him the opportunity.
This time in the acting competition, he cut through the thorns all the way, and in the name of the champion, he got a contract signed by wireless.
Since then, Zheng Zeshi has officially become a member of the show business circle.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02, a blockbuster disability "fat cat" miracle</h1>
In 1977, Wang Mingquan and Zhou Runfa co-starred in a family drama "Family Change".
This drama made Zhou Runfa leap into a wireless homemaker.
Zheng Zeshi, who signed a contract recently, has just begun his career in running dragon sets.
I have to say that Zheng Zeshi is much smoother than most actors.
Some actors, who have been running the dragon for ten years and eight years, may not be able to see the scene where they become the protagonist.
Of course, the luck we see is actually every minute and second of his efforts.
Others are resting, he is pondering the script, others are eating and drinking, he is honing his acting skills.
Zheng Zeshi is very fat, it seems to have his own thick attributes, hindered by his physical "unqualified", at the beginning, there were not many opportunities to belong to Zheng Zeshi.
Fortunately, he looks festive and the way of the harmonic star seems to coincide with him.
It is said that when he was the fattest, he got into a taxi, and the car had to be turned upside down a few times, and he "lived" into a comedic posture.
To this end, when Wireless planned a drama path for him, the first thing was to let him be a long-term guest in "Bang Bang Bang Outline".
The host of this show is None other than Zhou Runfa.
Zhou Runfa, a young student, is responsible for hosting, and Zheng Zeshi is responsible for funny.
Also from the bottom, although the status of the two in the circle is already different, they have an inexplicable sense of pity for each other.
In particular, as a fat man, Zheng Zeshi is born with a sense of joy and looks very good.
When eating lunch, Zhou Runfa always likes to take Zheng Zeshi with him: "Fat man, let's eat together!" ”
The more meals are eaten, the more the two people will communicate and learn.
Zheng Zeshi is very clever, he is like a sponge, squeezed, always able to find space to continue to cultivate knowledge.
Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared.
From 1976 to 1979, in just three years, he had already skipped the threshold of the dragon set and began to star in TV series.
The first TV series, called "Four-Eyed Detective", partner Lu Liangwei, played a private detective.
Zheng Zeshi uses his own comedic temperament and superb acting skills to interpret a fat detective vividly, real and natural.
Therefore, Zheng Zeshi has successfully broken into the audience's field of vision, of course, this is a small scope.
But for Zheng Zeshi, who is good at seizing opportunities, it is also enough.
With the blessing of the long-term guest status of the funny show, with the preparation of the TV series "Four Eyes Detective", he has his own unique comedic characteristics.
In 1980, Zheng Zeshi successfully entered the film circle.
The transition from TV series actor to film actor took less than a year.
The next 2 years will be the highlight moment of Zheng Zeshi, and it is also the time when he shows his talent to the best.
In 1984, Zheng Zeshi's self-directed and self-starred "Lost Marriage Old Bean" was released, and Zheng Zeshi's partner Zeng Zhiwei, two actors with their own comedies, added a lot of laughter to this movie.
In the movie, he plays a divorced father who is nestled, and his interpretation is vivid.
For the first time, Zheng Zeshi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and such a hot word finally fell on him.
He became one of the most important comedians in the Hong Kong film industry at that time.
Subsequently, Zheng Zeshi set his sights on the theme of small people at the bottom and people with disabilities.
Together with Huang Baiming, he planned to adapt a new movie "Why Should There Be Me", trying to create a mentally handicapped young protagonist with intellectual disabilities in the movie - "Fat Cat".
With the script in place, the next step is to prepare for filming.
The versatile Zheng Zeshi, from screenwriter, to director, to lead actor, single-handedly carried most of the creative content of "Fat Cat".
Of course, he also pulled his old partner Zhou Runfa to help, in order to enhance the "appearance" of this movie.
In order to create a "fat cat", Cheng Zeshi visited the Hong Kong Social Welfare Department many times.
Understanding the psychological and physiological characteristics of mentally handicapped people, I took many expansion packs and repeatedly pondered, studied and practiced for three months before officially starting shooting.
"Fat Cat" is a humble, simple child, but because of physical defects, he has always been at the bottom of society, suffering from social discrimination and oppression.
The fat cat is very fat, and the face of the fat cat does not carry a trace of aggression, but he may not be able to be accommodated by reality.
He didn't end well.
However, it directly hit the atrium of the audience, making countless viewers feel empathy, feeling sad for the fate of the "fat cat", and also feeling powerless for the reality of society.
Zheng Zeshi also won the Best Actor award at the Fifth Academy Awards and the Jury Awards of the Academy Awards because of "Why Should There Be Me", and was ridiculed by the media as "the fattest movie emperor".
However, no one could have imagined that the "fat cat" would become an IP that lasted for up to 20 years, and many people re-developed this IP one after another.
Zheng Zeshi himself must not have imagined that the "fat cat" he created would become a classic role that no one could surpass.
In his acting career, he played the fat cat 7 times.
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With the aura of "fat cat" and film emperor, Zheng Zeshi's acting career once reached its peak.
But everything has a constant truth of prosperity and decline.
After "Why Should There Be Me", Zheng Zeshi pulled Maggie Cheung and others to shoot a sequel, and the response was not as good as the first one, but it was the beginning of this IP development trajectory.
After that, he began to change his image one after another, trying to shoot different types of characters, especially villains.
The 1990s were a decade of rapid development but rapid decline in the Hong Kong film and television industry.
In 1991, Jiahe and Ma Dangxiong Pictures jointly filmed a film known as the Hong Kong version of "The Godfather", "Lame Hao".
This is a Biographical Film of Hong Kong Gangster Characters, and the main characters in it have specific character archetypes.
With a historical background and the true attributes of a biography, Zheng Zeshi established his position in the Hong Kong gangster film through the role of "Fat Wave", a character who "exists in reality".
Two years later, Zheng Zeshi tried to start his own business.
He almost copied the movie "The Legend of the Hero After the Disaster" made in the "Lame Hao" blockbuster model, pulling him into the trough of his life.
The film itself is at a loss, the company is not well managed, the friends who started a business together run away with the money, and all the mess is left for Zheng Zeshi to clean up alone, so that his debt is as high as nearly 100 million yuan.
Showbiz has always been more worse, less charcoal in the snow.
Even he himself could not help but sigh: "There are no real friends in the entertainment industry."
"That time it really hurt and hurt, and I sold everything except my relatives, my parents, and my children, and I sold everything."
In those years, he ate all the debts, was the bitter head of the falling stone, the emperor of the shadow, went to shoot the scene but was taken advantage of the opportunity to reduce the price, what films were picked up, countless closed doors waited for him.
In desperation, he took his whole family and lived in a slum and began a decade-long career as a poor man.
He came from the slums, experienced a short period of glory, returned to the slums, and many years later, with the help of Andy Lau, he returned to the small peak of his acting career.
It's like a cycle of fate, ups and downs.
When Zheng Zeshi fell, in fact, he and Andy Lau were not familiar, and no one would have thought that he actually stood up and pulled Zheng Zeshi.
Andy Lau introduced Zheng Zeshi to the scene, introduced him to be the producer of his own film, and became a producer.
In the years since, we can see that in Andy Lau's films, there are basically Zheng Zeshi's figures, either as actors or as behind-the-scenes personnel.
In 1996, he played a low-level policeman in "Three Injured Policemen", and won the Academy Awards Film Emperor trophy again.
How heavy is this trophy in today's view?
First, this is proof that he started all over again after falling from the top. The lineup nominated for Best Actor at this Academy Awards is luxurious.
The nominees include Jackie Chan, Zhang Guorong, Li Ming, Wang Minde, Liu Qingyun, and Zheng Zeshi.
And he, defeating these powerful assistants, once again proved his acting skills,
Second, it is precisely with this restart that ATV reminds me of the IP of "fat cat", and there is a follow-up re-creation of "fat cat".
The previous "fat cat" only fell into the shadow in the Hong Kong circle, but ATV's "fat cat" entered the mainland market, and Zheng Zeshi was well known to the national audience because of the "fat cat".
After nearly ten years of suffering, Zheng Zeshi turned over.
He paid off his debts, fulfilled the promise he made to his family when he moved to the slums, and did not give up his dream of continuing to act.
Nowadays, Zheng Zeshi, who is more than a year old, is difficult to return to the glory of that year, but he has also become a very special existence in the entire domestic showbiz circle.
He is very fat, the image is not good, but he uses his own experience and acting skills to tell everyone over and over again that he can control the comedy and farce, and can also play a fierce, poisonous villain, he can create a small character "fat cat" IP, and he can also have an addiction with the police bandits and gangsters.
Zheng Zeshi's ups and downs of life are like an inspirational drama, with difficult toss and solitudes, and lucky flowers.