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In the process of Stephen Chow becoming the king of Chinese film comedy, the support of his old partner Li Lizhi has contributed a lot.
The two have dedicated countless classic movies, including "Shaolin Football" in 2004, which made Stephen Chow win the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Director in one fell swoop.
And this "King of Destruction", released in 1994, is Stephen Chow's first film as a director.
2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the film's release.
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He Jinyin, a worker in a fast food restaurant, met Ali when delivering fast food and fell in love with her at first sight.
After being humiliated by the martial arts coach who also likes Ali, Ah Yin, who feels too weak, decides to worship Uncle Da, who calls himself the "devil's flesh man", as his teacher.
At first, Uncle Da just wanted to defraud Ah Yin of his money, but he was finally moved by his kindness and persistence, and began to teach him ancient Chinese boxing techniques.
Ali was intercepted by the bad guys, Ah Yin wore a Garfield mask to the rescue, and rolled down from the high platform with the gangsters in a hurry, but thus created the "Invincible Hot Wheels", but was unexpectedly led by the coach afterwards.
In order to prove his strength, Ah Yin signed up for a duel with his coach in a fighting match.
The plot setting is standard and concise, the character performances are exaggerated, and the comic sense is full.
Orphan, a takeaway boy in a tea restaurant, kind and clumsy, cowardly but persistent.
When he unexpectedly met Ali, he was so nervous that his hands and feet trembled, and love happened in an instant, queuing up for her to buy Jacky Cheung's concert tickets, and asking her for warmth and silly hush.
The delivery boy slid off a telephone pole and the whole sky went dark.
Stephen Chow, who was 33 years old at the time, smoothly and silkily performed the little people he was good at, knocked down again and again, looked down on again and again, and finally hugged the beauty.
Stephen Chow and Li Lizhi made a standard inspirational movie, a story of humorous comedy packaged with sincere chicken soup, and a worldly law that tells the audience that you can succeed with hard work and can win beauty with courage.
This truth seems to be the golden rule of killing young and old, but behind it, there is also lingering bitterness and sadness. From this point of view, why are Stephen Chow and Li Lizhi's comedy movies advanced?
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This bitterness can be seen in the characters.
The protagonist has nothing else in this world, he is a real coward. In the end, he won the victory, relying on the stalker "Invincible Hot Wheels". And this is a trick to give up all skills and burn the jade with the other party.
The characters don't really grow up throughout the story, and this is not the usual dramatic way to write a script.
He didn't go through real hardship, he didn't go through real growth, but he still succeeded.
But even if He Jinyin is still a waste from beginning to end, the audience can still be moved by Stephen Chow's performance and Li Lizhi's story.
Because he is like the weakling in our lives,
He is the reference for us when we fail,
It's our frustrated self,
It is an ordinary middle-aged man we often meet when ordering takeout, an ordinary person without love, and a vast number of beings who can be trampled on at will.
He Jinyin's posture is too low, any player on the playground can press him to the ground and beat him up, the boss can humiliate him, and his peers can look down on him.
He Jinyin was dumped by Ali and ridiculed by people, and finally pretended to be a hero and was impersonated.
When Ali and Master Broken Water Flowing sang together, He Jinyin bled and still failed to have love.
But this painful failure has made a truly shining character, a three-dimensional and full vivid image, and it has also made enough energy for the ending.
Of course, Stephen Chow acted well, but Zeng Xiansen still wanted to talk about Wu Mengda's performance.
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Wu Mengda, who plays the devil muscle man Ghost Boyda, acted very well.
He opened a kiosk at the Global Elite Sports Center with a sign that reads "Coward Buster".
Ghost Boy Da is not a coward nemesis, but a charlatan, who began to sell Indian divine oil to He Jinyin.
Later, he learned that he was out of love, so he assumed the identity of the inheritor of the ancient Chinese boxing method, and fooled He Jinyin to learn kung fu.
"The iron sand palm originated from the Surabaya Iron Palm Gang, and the power is endless, and anyone who is hit will be shattered, resulting in death on the way to the hospital! ”
After He Jinyin apprenticed to Ghost Zaida and wanted to learn a full set of quick Chinese ancient boxing methods, the whole net worth earned by working and delivering meals was soon hollowed out by Ghost Zaida.
Ghost Boy Da is actually a multi-time world free fighting champion, nicknamed the Devil Muscle Man, who once swept the karate master in Japan, and was finally defeated by the master of the big brother.
As the second-generation inheritor of ancient Chinese boxing, He Jinyin is naturally qualified to challenge him, a karate master.
However, after the ghost boy was defeated and lame, he withdrew from the rivers and lakes;
Wu Mengda said:
"This is Xingzai's first time as a director, so he has high requirements for himself, so that there are often changes, coupled with the lack of preparation work in advance, there are a lot of changes when he arrives at the scene, which not only makes the production overtime, but also exceeds the budget cost."
Wu Mengda's precise exaggerated expression and uncertain gestures paint the characters with a layer of brilliance.
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In 2024, Stephen Chow will be 62 years old and has been out of film for 16 years, and his last movie "Yangtze River No. 7" was released in 2008.
Today, 16 years later, we can only feel his affectionate comfort for the little people from this little people comedy who worked hard 30 years ago.