The movie "Kung Fu",
It is by far the most successful commercial comedy film in the Chinese film and television industry!
Why is this the pinnacle of Xingye's work?
The film was released in 2004,
Won almost all the awards of the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards,
16 Academy Award nominations,
It's the Best Picture award!
Even Wong Kar-wai's "2046",
Johnny To's "The Big Event"
and Feng Xiaogang's "No Thieves in the World"
Without exception, all of them were defeated in the hands of this movie!
And it's been 20 years since the movie was released,
I can continue to see fresh reviews now,
The rating of this movie is also increasing year by year,
Slowly climbed to 8.7!
Nearly 20 years have passed,
Almost 5 times per capita, so I still don't get tired of watching it!
Just the group scene at the beginning, looking at so many movies, it is impossible to explain the background at the same time.
and enriches the image of each little person,
There is no waste footage, no matter how many times you watch it, and when you start watching it, you can see it!
Just a few lines are stalks!
"Who else?"
"Let go of that girl"
"Why is there no water all of a sudden?"
"It's called professionalism."
Stephen Chow has always been very fond of Chinese kung fu,
There's also a joke in this,
Stephen Chow and Tony Leung were friends before entering the industry,
Both love movies,
After work, we will meet to play together,
He always lets Tony Leung play the villain!
Compete with each other in martial arts!
This memory was revealed by Tony Leung in an interview, and when it came to this experience, Tony Leung happily shared his state of mind at that time:
2003,
is already in the Hong Kong circle, a well-known funny actor Stephen Chow in the mainland,
He has always had a kung fu dream in his heart,
So it brought in an investment of 200 million,
He's going to make a real kung fu movie!
Who would have thought,
This movie that carries Stephen Chow's childhood dream,
It will become a classic of the era!
16 Academy Award nominations,
Behind these accolades,
It was Stephen Chow who was overly strict, pursued the ultimate, and slowly boiled it out!
The initial idea of a poor boy to become the first in the world became the prototype of the soul of this movie!
After getting the script and the money,
Stephen Chow began to "shake people", after all, he has been in the Hong Kong circle for so many years,
I also made some powerful "friends"~
However, this is my dream since childhood,
Naturally, for Stephen Chow at that time, he was cautious!
Acting, traffic, popularity, and role fit, none of them can be sloppy!
For this reason, the film was a success in the end,
However, Stephen Chow also offended many people because of this movie,
Some have even broken off diplomatic relations for more than 20 years and have no more contact!
1: Feng Xiaogang
The first thing he thought of was Feng Xiaogang,
Because I had an agreement with him before,
If he directs a play one day, he will prepare a role for Feng Xiaogang!
Feng Xiaogang is also very interesting, as soon as Stephen Chow said it, he came immediately!
And in just a few minutes,
contributed a classic scene in the history of Chinese film:
Who else, is there still a royal law? Is there still a law?
This successful cooperation made Feng Xiaogang propose that he hoped that Stephen Chow would star in his movie "No Thieves in the World"
But was rejected by Stephen Chow!
and said: "No Thieves in the World" is a mainland-based plot, which is incompatible with Stephen Chow's performance style!
But coincidentally, "No Thieves in the World" and "Kung Fu" were released in the same year,
But in the end, the box office "Kung Fu" won with absolute superiority,
And also swept 16 trophies at the Academy Awards!
Although on the surface everyone is still polite,
But Feng Xiaogang also openly said:
I regret making a cameo in "Kung Fu"!
2: Huang Shengyi
In this bizarre movie, the characters who appear are all ugly in their own ways,
The only heroine becomes the white moonlight of this movie,
Like a white rose in a pile of toads,
It's so beautiful that it's beyond the ordinary!
Huang Shengyi, who was still a college student at the time, leaned on a white shirt and a clean face without powder.
It's all over the Taiwan Strait!
This role has also become the most classic and famous role in Huang Shengyi's acting career.
But everyone knows that after Huang Shengyi signed a contract with Stephen Chow, the two had a storm about terminating the contract, which also caused a sensation in Hong Kong!
3: The charter wife is played by Yuan Qiu!
The charter wife is also a very classic character in this movie.
A curling iron, a white dressing gown,
How many boys' nightmares,
She roared loudly, and the floor trembled three times!
But this character was originally notified of Yuan Qiu's junior sister Yuan Ju!
But while waiting, Yuanqiu was bored, stepped aside, and smoked a cigarette.
It happened to be the scene of smoking, which made Stephen Chow book Yuanqiu at a glance!
This role even made Yuan Qiu win the trophy for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards!
Naturally, Yuan Ju will definitely be unwilling in his heart.
4: Sammo Hung
In the early days of the film, the martial arts director of the film was Sammo Hung,
But Stephen Chow has a lot of his own opinions on this movie,
If you are not satisfied, keep adjusting until you are satisfied!
But Sammo Hung at that time was also a martial artist with a lot of voice in the Hong Kong circle.
The run-in process is not smooth,
So under the pretext of going back to Hong Kong for treatment, he said that he was bitten by a mosquito!
The young and frivolous Stephen Chow is not used to being a big coffee and said angrily:
Don't come back when you go back!
So, the martial arts instructor in the second half of this movie, Stephen Chow was replaced by "Yuan Heping"!
This is also the reason why the martial arts movements before and after the same movie are very different.
Although he broke up unhappily with Sammo Hung,
But Stephen Chow still added Sammo Hung's name to the final report of the movie,
But the two still broke off their relations for more than 20 years, and they have not reconciled so far!
This movie, for Stephen Chow, is more than just a martial arts movie,
This is also mixed with a particularly ordinary dream in the childhood heart of Stephen Chow, who grew up at the bottom of Hong Kong.
I think no one understands better than Tony Leung how "meaningful" this movie is!
The main scene of this movie, "Pig Cage Walled City", comes from the place where Stephen Chow grew up - Kowloon Walled City!
This movie written, directed, and acted by Stephen Chow,
The release set a new box office record in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the mainland!
It has broken box office records in 33 countries and regions around the world!
Although unprecedented results have been achieved,
But "Stephen Chow can't be a man and do things", "low emotional intelligence" and so on.
has appeared in major newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong,
Some reporters even deliberately tricked Stephen Chow and asked:
The movie "Kung Fu" has won so many awards at the Academy Awards,
Why didn't you win the Academy Award?
Not even a nomination?
Stephen Chow just smiled,
Self-deprecating response:
It's normal not to be shortlisted, because the acting is terrible!
Now 20 years have passed,
This movie is also turned out by the public from time to time and watched repeatedly.
And every time you look at it, you will find a different shining point!
The score of "Kung Fu" on Douban,
From only 6.8 points that year,
All the way to today's 8.7 points!
Perhaps, as a director, his thinking, what he wants to express,
For the audience back then, it was just a witty comedy,
But as the audience gets older, the experience grows year by year,
It dawned on him that there were so many things he wanted to express!
After that,
There hasn't been a movie,
With such a strong personal emotional color,
And it was expressed so deeply and warmly!
Maybe Jia Ling is also such a director,
Her "Hello, Li Huanying" is the same,
can become a phenomenal movie,
is because this is the director's own consciousness of life engraved into the soul,
So, thrilling!
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