Two years ago, I watched an American sports biographical film with a Douban score of 8.7 points, "Extreme Wind". To tell the story of two racing drivers with very different personalities, the characters I brought in throughout the whole process are Zhang Jike and Ma Long in the Chinese table tennis world.
The movie is very wonderful and high-energy. It is based on the true stories of two foreign racing champions.
In the movie, a man named James Hunt does things without consequences, has a tough personality, flaunts himself, pursues timely pleasure, but cannot get rid of his own desires and is addicted to sex and alcohol. His motto is "Sex, Breakfast of Champions". A chaotic private life, either drinking and taking drugs, or looking for the next prey.
There are many stories between him and flight attendants in the movie, because he has more than 30 female flight attendant companions. It is said to have relationships with more than 5,000 women in his lifetime.
The result of uncontrollable self-control is that the peak of his career is only one or two years, the peak period is full of various championships, after the peak personality is doomed to his end, the peak is followed by a cliff fall, no team is willing to cooperate with him, soon retire, into the sluggish half of his life, less than 46 years old died young.
The other is Niki Lauda, restrained and low-key, as a racing driver driving like a novice in private, perhaps less talented than James, he is steady, thick and thin, never messing around, has a lifelong partner, self-disciplined life. He suffered serious injuries and burns, returned to the throne, won several championships, and even after retiring, he successfully transformed into an entrepreneur.
In the ping ping world, Zhang Jike is also like that shining meteor that briefly crossed. He is the fastest Grand Slam player in the history of men's table tennis, making history in only 445 days, and is also the third Grand Slam player in China's men's table tennis.
Coupled with his handsome looks, with the blessing of the media and the halo of the national team, he has circled a large number of fans and tolerated his indulgence.
He used to be very dazzling. In 2011, in the final of the World Table Tennis Championships, at the age of 23, he defeated Wang Hao, the senior brother and opponent of the national team, and tore his top in front of his senior brother to show himself to the fullest.
A year later, he defeated his senior brother Wang Hao again and became an Olympic champion. Wang Hao was ridiculed as the "second oldest in the millennium" and participated in three Olympic Games, all of whom were singles runners-up.
As for Zhang Jike, in just one and a half years, he won the Olympics, World Championships and World Cup, and almost everyone is chasing him and loving him.
When Zhang Jike hit the peak height, Ma Long, who was born in the same year and was only 8 months younger, won most of the men's team championships.
People who are familiar with table tennis know Zhang Jike's peak height, and they also know that his peak is short. In October 2014, still at the World Table Tennis Championships, he narrowly defeated his teammate Ma Long 4:3. In front of everyone, he kicked down sponsors' billboards, vented his anger, and humiliated opponents and advertisers.
The following year, he entered a trough. The domestic media say it is the injury factor and the instability of the form.
In fact, at the beginning of this year, the German media "Der Spiegel" disclosed a news that did not get widespread attention in China, saying that Zhang Jike slipped away from the hotel and went to the casino after losing to Ma Long in the final.
Zhang Jike entered the beginning of the trough, Ma Long took advantage of the momentum, and the singles championships in all world competitions began to change hands. For example, a few months later, the World Table Tennis Championships were held, Zhang Jike did not even have an admission ticket, and the champion was Ma Long. The following year, at the Rio 2016 Olympics, Ma Long faced Zhang Jike, and he won 4-0.
Zhang Jike is absolutely talented, but he is also defeated. Ma Long opened the men's table tennis double circle slam, ruled the men's table tennis an era, two Olympic cycles, basically men's table tennis, the competitions he can participate in, have more than two champions, is the first person in the history of men's table tennis.
Now former opponent Zhang Jike, struggling with emotional and gambling doubts, 35-year-old sports veteran Ma Long still does not admit defeat, and still plays around the world, wanting to participate in the next Olympic Games.
Zhang Jike was involved in gambling, as early as 2004, when he first entered the national team. That year, he had just entered the national team and was expelled back to the Shandong provincial team precisely because of gambling.
Zhang Jike is not the first person involved in gambling in the men's table tennis team. Earlier he was stabbed was Kong Linghui, China's second men's table tennis grand slam and the head coach of women's table tennis. Kong Linghui gambled money in Singapore, and then was prosecuted in Hong Kong in 2017, and he refused to admit it when he made a big fuss, but he was still fired by the national team.
There are a total of four Grand Slam players in Chinese men's table tennis, and the result is that two are involved in gambling, and the serious situation can be imagined. It's just that the excellent results cover up a lot of things.
Interesting coincidence is that this year's Spring Festival, Deng Chao made a movie "Chinese Table Tennis Jedi Strikes Back", the protagonist of the story is not Kong Linghui, but a group of veteran members before him. There is a fleeting shot, plus the box office Waterloo of the movie, which many people may not care about and do not know.
The head coach played by Deng Chao, who rectified the night attack on the men's table tennis team, and one of the things confiscated was mahjong. The corresponding thing is that Kong Linghui's previous male table tennis main players Wang Tao, Ma Wenge and others gathered to play mahjong, which happened in 1995.
Neiyu has made a lot of bad films, and the themes involved are really all aspects. For example, in June 2019, the old director Li Shaohong made a movie that told the story of the stacked code boy, called "Ma Ge is a City".
"Ma Ge" is a referential word.
In the southwest of the Macao Peninsula, there is an ancient temple with a history of more than 500 years, which is also the oldest ancient temple in Macao. THE ANCIENT TEMPLE ENSHRINES THE "SEA GOD" THAT THE COASTAL PEOPLE BELIEVE IN - MAZU, CALLED "A-MA-TEMPLE", ACCORDING TO LEGEND, THE PORTUGUESE ARRIVED IN MACAO BY BOAT DURING THE JIAJING PERIOD OF THE MING DYNASTY, AND SAW THE A-MA-COURT TEMPLE WITH INCENSE IN THE DISTANCE, SO IT WAS TRANSLITERATED BY PORTUGUESE MACAU AS THE NAME OF THE ISLAND.
"A-Ma" has long symbolized Macau, and the whole movie points to the Macau casino, telling the story of the stacked yard.
The plot of the movie is somewhat sparse, and Douban only gives 5.7 points. The screenwriting team is a star lineup on both sides of the strait, including the big names in the mainland literary circle, Reed and Yan Gling, and the famous Hong Kong screenwriter Chen Wenqiang, and the story also has a shadow of reality.
The heroine played by Bai Baihe is the identity of the stacker boy, and her job is to gamble money with various bosses in the mainland to get a cut. The two main male protagonists, Wu Gang plays a gambling mainland real estate developer, and Huang Jue plays a gambling mainland artist. Correspondingly, casinos suck blood through the two lines of the mainland, rich businessmen and celebrities.
If I write, I should add a line, a corrupt official. However, this line should not be preserved.
Wealthy businessmen and celebrities in the mainland are involved in gambling far more than Kong Linghui and Zhang Jike. For example, some time ago, Wang Yan, who restarted to be active, "Qinggege".
Wang Yan's husband, Wang Zhicai, once known as a billionaire, was led by "stacking code boy" Li Bensheng to casinos in Macau and Singapore. The gambling world has been wandering for many years, and his last big news was that he was chased by a casino for 69 million yuan.
The last big news of the Wang family was that the royal palace next to the Forbidden City, which their family exposed countless times, was auctioned off. It's a creditor's right, not a house auction. The starting price was 1.12 billion, the corresponding principal of the debt was 750 million, and the interest was 370 million, and the result was a stream auction and no sale. Even if it is sold, the money is given to the creditor.
"Qinggege" has faded out of domestic entertainment for many years, and is now reactive on the short video platform, updating frequently, and updating 227 works in one year.
Stacking Boy makes a lot of money by increasing leverage, and gambling dogs are destined to be a bottomless pit. The most famous case in the rich business circle is Liu Lirong, the owner of Gionee Mobile Phone. Lost $700 million overnight, from a billionaire to a billionaire with a debt of tens of billions, the brand went bankrupt, and people disappeared.
"Stacking Boy" is very open among entertainment celebrities, such as Ji Xiaobo found star artist Wu Peici as his girlfriend, and Xu Jinglei and others are old friends, An Yixuan, who was once popular on both sides of the strait, married Chen Ronglian, the big boss of Stacking Boy, and all kinds of luxury jewelry live very dashingly.
"Stacking Boy" Li Bensheng made a fortune and was also wanted in the territory, but it did not affect his dashing and comfortable outside. He married a little star as his wife and gave birth to a pair of children for him in the United States.
His wife used to record variety shows in domestic entertainment, and now she is a small Internet celebrity with more than 300,000 fans in Xiaohongshu, living in a mansion to share luxury goods, teaching people to read poetry and learn English, and preaching the road to success, but she never tanned her husband's face, and did not allow others to mention her husband in the comment area.
Li Bensheng had many top star artists and old friends in domestic entertainment before. I don't know if Huang Xiaoming and AB are familiar with this person.
Jing Tian's life is definitely full of ups and downs. Filmed into a film and television drama, in just a few episodes, it may not be finished.
Zhang Jike and Jing Tian, the things exposed this time have actually been circulated for a long time. It's just that it hasn't fermented for a long time. Because the things involved are extremely private, unless the artists and the team come down in person, it is difficult to believe. If you can't get a real hammer, you can only draw comics to say it cryptically.
This wave was first fermented because of a post on Douban, and someone brought up the matter again. After a small area of fermentation, the post of Douban was fried.
Because Qinglang is now being used by the artist team very slippery, there is negative news, and it is a routine operation to pull the flag and quickly clean it up.
However, on a small scale of fermentation, Li Weiao, the chief reporter of the Economic Observer, happened to see that he may have just read the case file and stood up and bite hard.
Senior journalist Li Weiao's past achievements are fierce, with his own authority, which increases his credibility, and only then tears this matter apart.
Li Weiao's words secretly coincided with many rumors about Zhang Jike.
For example, before the epidemic, when someone counted the artist's plane itinerary online, one of them flew to Phnom Penh, Cambodia many times.
Even so, Zhang Jike still did not admit it, and first the studio appointed a lawyer to issue a statement denying it. In an interview with the Beijing News, he still did not admit it.
Lawyer Zhang Jike said he was preparing for the prosecution.
It may be that Li Weiao has no evidence and the woman does not dare to hammer. In fact, the best way to refute rumors is Jing Tian's refutation. She never said a word, which means a lot.
Li Weiao, who has reported a lot of political and economic news, gave the latest response.
In the last article, someone left us a message saying that Jing Tian is not the daughter of who is who, and her father did not make a move. This is a rumor, Jing Tian has long refuted the rumor, her father and Zhang Jike also have a public photo, and who is not the same person at all. That whoever is whose position dooms him to not dare to have such a high-profile daughter.
Taking a step back, in case the woman is leaked by the man's private video, in the current public opinion environment, no matter who her father is, it will push her to the abyss. Perhaps this is the reason for the woman's despair, this is a dead move. Being deceived by millions or even tens of millions is actually a small matter for star artists.
I hope the photos and videos at that time were deleted.
The stackers who wander around in domestic entertainment are not two, and the star artists are not one or two in the casino. For example, Uncle Ge.
Because a "Ge Youlie" fought 544 infringement lawsuits in six years, Uncle Ge was compensated 7.59 million. I don't know if there is a big brother joking with him again.
This is not the first time that Li Weiao has broken the news about domestic entertainment artists. A few years ago, when the "God of Wealth" Lai Xiaomin fell, he also said that a female star was involved in the case, and Caixin also reported it, but it didn't make a big deal, and then the matter went away.
Coincidentally, she and her husband have rumors of gambling, and there are many photos of them entering and leaving the casino on the Internet, and even taking photos with Xi Mihua, the "king of stacking yards". I don't know if they are just happy or to the point of breaking their bones, and whether they will detonate one day.