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As the saying goes, behind a successful man, there must be a successful woman.
But for the singer Jacky Cheung, this sentence should become:
Behind a successful man, there may be a failed woman.
Recently, Hong Kong media reported that Jacky Cheung's wife Luo Meiwei speculated in stocks for 2 billion in 4 years, and also said that all her family's assets were only one set of self-housing, forcing 61-year-old Jacky Cheung to perform desperately.
The news is an exaggeration, but it is by no means groundless.
As early as 2008, when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Hong Kong media broke the news that Luo Meiwei had lost a lot of money in investment.
The revelation also mentioned that she was rude by nature, and she was the person who changed the most Filipino maids in Hong Kong, and she was not satisfied with dozens of changes a year, and was finally directly blacklisted by the Filipino maid organization.
If you have a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for?
Of course, it's a desperate effort to make money.
In the past two years, Jacky Cheung's itinerary has been full.
Last year, he held more than 80 concerts, an average of one every four days, and each one sang and danced for 3 hours.
In March this year, it was even rumored that Jacky Cheung was overworked and admitted to the ICU.
Later, it was confirmed that it was just him who was impotent, canceled several concerts, and made a false alarm.
But from another point of view, the wife's defeat has stimulated Xueyou's fighting spirit to fight for his career, which is indispensable.
Some fans ridiculed, hoping that Kunling would also lose billions, so that Jay Chou could produce some good songs.
Jacky Cheung wants to make money, but it's actually very easy.
participated in "I Am a Singer", became a judge of "The Voice of China", and even recorded a variety show by the four kings, and tens of millions of dollars were recorded in minutes.
But he was born in singing competitions in his early years, and he has long been tired of competitions, and he does not have a strong sense of variety shows, so he is unwilling to condescendingly judge others.
My only career and hobby is singing.
Brother Xueyou is a true love to sing.
When Zhong Zhentao got married, he invited a professional band and singer, but the songs were sung by him and Alan Tam, and the money for inviting singers was spent in vain.
Later, when he participated in the recording of "Art Life", other singers cherished words like gold, and he sang directly to fans on the spot, with his own reverberation.
Other people invite guests to concerts, but he has been running for so many years, almost no guests, and he sings by himself.
is reluctant to let the fans sing, it's really a reverse Wu Bai.
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For Jacky Cheung, if singing is the first, the second must be acting.
Among the Four Heavenly Kings, he is the bottom in appearance, and he seems to have no ambition in acting.
But he has acted in more than 80 film and television dramas in the past 30 years, won the Academy Award for Supporting Actor and the Golden Horse Award for Supporting Actor, and with his performance in "Carmen in Mong Kok", he has become an emoji among young people.
It's just that he sings so well that people ignore his acting talent.
In 2016, at the press conference of "Macau Fengyun 3", he smiled and said that he doesn't mind others using my emojis, I use them myself.
After 8 years, he did not act again.
Recently, there is good news that Jacky Cheung is starring in a movie again after 8 years.
"Customs Front" starring him and Nicholas Tse is officially set for July 5, and the filmmaker has released the latest trailer.
The film is directed by Qiu Litao, with Nicholas Tse as the action director, Lin Jiaxin and Liu Yase in the role, and Wu Zhenyu in a special appearance.
The movie tells the story of Hong Kong Customs investigator Zhou Zhengli (played by Nicholas Tse) and his boss Zhang Yunnan (played by Jacky Cheung) who are forced to be involved in violent attacks by overseas forces in the process of investigating a major transnational case.
In the trailer, this is a standard vicious popcorn action movie, with gunfight scenes, blasting scenes, and boat collision scenes are all exciting, and it is really worthy of "the first bomb of the summer".
It is true that Nicholas Tse works very hard in this film.
This is his first time as a leading actor and action director, and he is fully committed to the film:
"There were more than 60 sets of scenes, but it took a lot of time to prepare, and a total of 80 sets were filmed!"
Jacky Cheung is also very hard-working.
He said that at first, he thought that he didn't need too many scenes, but after joining the group, Nicholas Tse was very strict with him, and he successfully completed them, and said that the filming was not enjoyable, and he hoped to shoot more scenes next time.
Considering that Hong Kong films have declined significantly in recent years, Jacky Cheung's comeback has undoubtedly injected a shot of strength into Hong Kong films.
The release of "Customs Front" is a great thing for Jacky Cheung himself and for depressed Hong Kong films.
But when you think about it, it's quite ironic.
When Hong Kong movies need Hong Kong singers to save them, this thing doesn't sound very reliable.
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Jacky Cheung also had a Nicholas Tse before, and he was also forced into this position.
Nicholas Tse is a second-generation star, but he didn't enjoy much aura, and debuted as a singer at the age of 18 to pay off his father's debts.
Later, he switched to filmmaking, making his first action movie "SWAT New Human" at the age of 19 and "New Police Story" at the age of 24.
When participating in films such as "The True Colors of a Man", "New Shaolin Temple", "Anger and Serious Case", Li Zhongzhi was in the family class, and he specialized in training his skills.
So from a certain point of view, Nicholas Tse is already half a family class.
At the age of 30, Nicholas Tse won the Academy Award for Best Actor with "The Informant", and his merits were complete.
He was originally going to learn Jackie Chan to turn into a star.
But because of the lack of foundation, there are too many injuries, so I can only give up, which is a pity.
In those years, most of Nicholas Tse's appearances were as a cook in the variety show "Fengwei".
It's true that Nicholas Tse likes to cook, but he hasn't left the film industry.
In the later stage, he moved behind the scenes to do film and television investment and later stage, and occasionally acted.
3 years ago, he was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor with "Rage: Serious Case", and the whole person's state is more Buddhist.
If you compare Hong Kong movies to a river and lake, this river and lake needs a talker.
At the peak of Hong Kong films, the person who spoke was "Double Monday".
After the millennium, the talker became Louis Koo.
Louis Koo is a kind-hearted person who donated money to study in the mainland, and has always been Yang Guo in everyone's hearts before.
In 2006, Jimmy Tsai, played by him in "Underworld 2", became the talker, which also foreshadowed the ending of Louis Koo.
In 2009, "Eavesdropping" exploded, and Louis Koo officially became the leading big brother.
After more than ten years, Hong Kong films have formed an assembly-line shooting mode.
Actors, it's permutations and combinations.
Gu Tianle saved the game, Liu Qingyun, Zhang Jiahui, Lin Jiadong and others joined, and then found a group of supporting roles to work together and start work.
The subject matter is poison, rotten, black, and lying, and the four dishes are fried over and over again until the audience sees it and vomits.
Louis Koo also has pursuits.
He spent nearly 10 years filming the sci-fi film "Tomorrow's War".
The essence is a police film with a sci-fi skin, and "The Wandering Earth" is a completely two-dimensional work.
Gu Tianle looked ugly in order to promote it, but he suffered a word-of-mouth backlash and gradually fell lonely.
Louis Koo was followed by Andy Lau.
Andy is 9 years older than Louis Koo, but he supported many mainland directors including Ning Hao in his early years, and this hard work has blossomed many years later.
In 2020, "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" exploded, and Andy Lau was pushed to the front of the stage, starring and producing many Hong Kong films one after another, forcibly renewing the life of Hong Kong films.
It's just that this year's new work "Mr. Red Carpet" was dismal at the box office, and Lao Liu was not very good.
After Louis Koo and Andy Lau, there is no successor in Hong Kong, and the only one who can handle it is Nicholas Tse.
In 2021, "Rage: A Serious Case" will be a box office hit, and Nicholas Tse will be pushed to the front of the stage-
He has to go up, and he has to go up.
The tone of filming is still the same: Nicholas Tse doesn't start work, and Hong Kong filmmakers have nothing to eat.
At present, Nicholas Tse's filming schedule is full.
In addition to Customs Front, there are also Infinite Missions, Rage Spreads, and New Police Story 2.
If Nicholas Tse can't stand it one day, do Hong Kong films really need to rely on Jacky Cheung's comeback to save them?
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Count the most recent Chinese-language movies.
Although there is not much breakthrough in mainland films, the overall quality of commercial films is steadily improving.
The director has taken the pulse of the audience, and this year's Spring Festival file ushered in the best reputation in history.
Taiwanese films have successively presented good works such as "Removing the Three Evils Around the World" and "Old Fox" that are both entertaining and humanistic.
Only Hong Kong movies are not in good shape, clichés, and twilight.
In fact, the glory of Hong Kong films was in the 90s, and the decline was also in the 90s.
At that time, Hong Kong films could be brilliant, and from the overall background, Hong Kong had geographical advantages and received excess dividends of the times.
From the perspective of the small environment, Hong Kong films are backed by the underworld and many markets in East Asia.
In the Korean drama "Please Answer 1988", the protagonists watched "The True Colors of Heroes" together, Leslie Cheung and Lin Qingxia were the idols of young Koreans at that time.
With the stars holding the moon, Hong Kong films are all crazy and overdone.
The things filmed are all curious, erotic and bloody, and everyone watches Hong Kong films more for the excitement, and a few of them are for art.
Those Hong Kong stars, one counts as one, and they have all made a lot of bad movies.
In 1993, Tsui Hark's martial arts films brought this category to popularity, and a large number of people followed the trend to make martial arts films, and Taiwanese filmmakers bought them brainlessly, but they lost miserably.
The last straw was Stephen Chow's "Jigong", which Taiwanese filmmakers bought for 30 million, but the box office was dismal.
Jackie Chan once revealed that some Hong Kong companies took 10 million investments, swallowed 5 million privately, and left 5 million to make films.
When Hong Kong films were glorious, Taiwanese businessmen swallowed their anger, and when Hong Kong films declined, grievances broke out immediately, and the eight major Taiwanese film companies collectively boycotted Hong Kong films.
Hollywood took the opportunity to knock on the door of the Taiwan market, and visual blockbusters such as "Jurassic Park" directly dried up the Hong Kong films produced by the workshop.
Subsequently, South Korea, the second largest overseas market for Hong Kong films, also began to engage in its own film and television industry, and now it is catching up and leaving Hong Kong films behind.
Then came the Asian financial crisis in 97, and Hong Kong films were completely cool.
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The current Hong Kong films, anti-drug, anti-corruption, chasing dragons and undercover agents all day long, the four detectives have filmed repeatedly, and there is really nothing left.
In this small land, there is no soil for science fiction, Gu Tianle's imagination of science fiction is a steel mecha, they have never experienced war, and they can't make profound war movies.
Referring to the plastic sheeting waterfall in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", they can't play with offline special effects, count and count, and really can play with the theme of police and bandits, with less cost, less risk, and better than the trial, all of which are advantages, except that they don't look good when filmed.
Of course, we recognize the past glory of Hong Kong films, of course we respect the stunt performances of the dragon and tiger martial artists, and of course we are willing to regard those kung fu films, police and gangster films, gambling films, and even Fengyue films as memories of youth.
But the times are developing, you still fool everyone with the works of the small workshop from decades ago, and use feelings as packaging, once or twice, and after three times, the audience will not be used to you.
There is only one real way out for Hong Kong films - to embrace the mainland.
Wang Jing said well, there will be no Hong Kong movies in the future, only Chinese movies.
You see Lin Chaoxian, Chen Kexin, and Tsui Hark going north one after another, "Operation Red Sea", "Dear" and "Changjin Lake" are not Hong Kong stories, they are Chinese stories with Hong Kong elements.
You see how many classics Wu Mengda and Stephen Chow have made, but he said, I have been doing it for 40 years, and only making "The Wandering Earth" is really making movies, and this life is worth it.
"All madness, all overkill."
In fact, looking back, Hong Kong movies can become a trend that can make countless audiences addicted.
The core reason is that there are two of the most unique "sexy" hidden cultural heritage and industrialization.
With the support of these two sexy elements, Hong Kong movies from bone to shape make the audience linger and forget to return.
Without these sexy elements, saving Hong Kong movies is self-deception.
It's time for Hong Kong films to wake up, stop letting Hong Kong stars be arranged and combined as starring roles, and mainland actors gags as supporting roles.
It's time to get out of Causeway Bay and embrace the New World, and it's time to let go of the last stubbornness and superiority.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: A chicken
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