In the most glorious period of Hong Kong cinema, not only left many classic films,
Also popular with many household names in movie stars,
At the same time, there are also some gold medal green leaves that are indispensable.
The theme of jianghu gangs is a major feature of Hong Kong movies, which are naturally indispensable villains.
The four evil men of Hong Kong cinema at that time were very well-known,
They became indispensable to the success of the film.
Cheng Kui'an is well known to the audience with the image of "big fool" in the movie,
He is very popular in the circle, his personal image is very distinctive, and he is already domineering as soon as he appears.
The film circle also circulated that the big fool was not allowed to play the villain, and the movie could not sell well at the box office.
It is such a well-affirmed villain actor, but in his later years he was tormented by illness,
After death, the family was not at peace.
In 1955, Cheng Kui'an was born in the New Territories of Hong Kong.
At that time, there were no high-rise buildings in the New Territories, just small fishing villages.
His parents made a living from farming and came from a very poor family.
The family had six children, five boys, and one girl.
Cheng Kui'an is the eldest brother in the family, and he has been used to taking care of his younger siblings since he was a child.
When I was a child, several children would squeeze into a large bed and cover a quilt.
Before going to bed, often play with scissors stone cloth, and the person who wins can sleep in the middle,
People who sleep on the side often can't cover the quilt and may fall down.
A few children even have a problem with a full stomach, let alone taking a hot bath,
They often go to large puddles near their homes to take a bath.
At that time, their family did not even have a lamp, and they had to light candles at night to help their mother do handicrafts.
Folding paper boxes and wearing plastic flowers can only earn a dime a day.
When Cheng Kui'an was 13 years old, his mother could not afford to pay the tuition fee of two cents.
He dropped out of school, and as the eldest son, he should also take on the heavy responsibility of supporting the family.
After dropping out of school, Cheng Kui'an followed an older brother to Shaw's company to do small work on the set.
At that time, Shaw was the largest film company in Hong Kong, and the crew started every day.
This job does not bring Cheng Quian closer to the film.
He was young and uneducated and could only do chores on the set.
Responsible for cleaning up the garbage on the set and sorting out the props, most of them are some manual work.
Occasionally, I will be called to help lift the camera, and when the group performance is not enough, I will go to the head,
Other than that, his job and making movies don't have much to do with it.
Fortunately, I can have a salary of sixty yuan a month, which greatly reduces the burden on the family.
It also allows younger siblings to continue their education.
But after a few months of doing it, Cheng Kui'an still felt that this work was completely unskilled.
He resigned without a future, and he had no intention of becoming a movie star at all.
Cheng Kui'an, who left Shaw's, began to work everywhere, and his income became unstable.
But know a group of friends of similar age who are also mixed in society,
Since then, the three words of lecture qi have become an important principle of his.
During that time, when he had money, Cheng Quian went to sing and dance with a few brothers.
When he didn't have money, he went to work, which was exactly what a teenager looked like without heart and lungs.
In 1972, the 17-year-old Cheng Kui'an grew into a big man of 185.
A pair of large eyes looks very fierce, even if you stand without speaking, it is imposing,
Friends introduced him to the dance hall as a security guard, and his income reached 600 yuan a month.
Cheng Kui'an was impressed by the generous salary and became a security guard.
Often dressed in black, he is becoming more and more domineering.
In the dance hall, it is inevitable that there will be some guests who drink and make trouble,
At that time, there were many gangs in Hong Kong, and the people in the dance hall were even more mixed with dragons and snakes.
At every turn, he would find a group of people to fight, and fighting became a common thing for Cheng Kui'an.
Originally, he was a gentle person, and he never liked to cause trouble before.
But when you do this job, you have to be responsible, and you can only get started hard.
Because he looks very intimidating, many times as soon as he comes out, the momentum of the other party weakens,
In the store, it is also valued by the boss, and the income is very stable,
His life has finally improved a lot, and he has asked himself for a wife.
But sometimes it is inevitable that things will be made big,
Once a few young people drank too much and made trouble in the shop,
Originally, Cheng Kui'an only wanted to invite the other party out, not to disturb other guests,
But one of them smashed the bottle on his head, and his brother immediately got his hands on it.
The two groups of people quickly fought together, and the matter became more and more noisy,
In the end, the police arrived to stop the group fight, but the other party had been seriously injured.
Cheng Kui'an was also taken away by the police, and several other brothers all took the opportunity to escape.
At that time, he was very moralistic and wanted to protect his brothers.
One man took all the charges off and refused to reveal the other brothers' information.
In the end, Cheng Kui'an was sentenced to four years in prison, and his son had just been born when he was imprisoned.
At this time, Cheng Kui'an knew remorse, regret should not have fought in the first place,
You can only let your wife and children suffer outside.
Cheng Kui'an secretly swore that he would never be a little again after he went out.
On the one hand, he actively reformed in prison and fought for all opportunities for meritorious performance.
His excellent performance in prison also allowed him to receive multiple commutations,
It was eventually locked up for just over a year before being released.
But after he was released from prison, Cheng Kui'an's life was still a problem.
He has no culture and no case background, and he can't find a job for a long time.
In the end, I could only go back to my old business and go to the set to do miscellaneous work.
And at this time, Cheng Kui'an met the first Bole in his acting career, Liang Xiaolong,
That is, the fire cloud evil god in the later Chow Sing Chi movie "Kung Fu".
Liang Xiaolong is a practicing family, and he has his own martial arts team.
He is very famous in the industry and has shot a lot of kung fu movies.
Liang Xiaolong and Cheng Kui'an's brother are good friends, and the two often meet together to go fishing.
Once I happened to see Cheng Kui'an, who was doing nothing,
Looking at his appearance, he had a sense of camera, so he let him follow him to do martial arts.
Cheng Kui'an's first photogenic only one line, on, on!
But these three words made him get a salary of one hundred and twenty yuan.
Cheng Kui'an had the idea of becoming an actor and began to run dragon sets with Liang Xiaolong.
Limited by his image, most of the villains he starred in,
It's either the underworld or the bandits, and basically there aren't many scenes.
Moreover, Liang Xiaolong does martial arts instruction, and the martial arts under his command are all life-threatening work.
In the early years of Hong Kong kung fu movies, there were not so many protective measures,
It's all hand-to-hand combat, and a lot of dangerous moves are designed by martial fingers.
The slightest difference will send a small life.
At the end of Jackie Chan's movie, there is a collection of injuries in the filming process,
That is also a true portrayal of Hong Kong martial arts, and the stars have some people paying attention to,
Many of those unknown martial arts were injured or even killed, and no one knew.
Cheng Kui'an has not practiced kung fu, and his body is not coordinated enough.
The opportunity to follow Liang Xiaolong is very limited,
Just when he was distressed, he met his second Bole, Li Xiuxian.
In 1985, Li Xiuxian invited Cheng Kui'an to star in the movie "Jiren Tianxiang".
It was also in this movie that he got the nickname of big stupidity.
The big fool who looks fierce but does not have a bright brain has become a highlight of the movie,
It is also in this movie that Lee So-hyun teaches him how to be an actor.
Cheng Kui'an was very grateful to Li Xiuxian for his kindness and recognized him as a master.
In the decades since then, Li Xiuxian has experienced many public opinion disputes.
But Cheng Kui'an always defended master's reputation.
The movie that really made him famous was "The True Colors of Heroes".
It was after he starred as a fool that he got this opportunity.
This movie starring Chow Yun Fat, Cheung Kwok Wing and Dillon is a classic of Hong Kong films.
That year not only broke the box office record, but also let Dillon, whose career was at a low point, become popular again.
Cheng Kui'an has a lot of rival scenes with Chow Yun-fat in the movie,
His fierce image has been deeply rooted in people's hearts ever since.
Since then, Cheng Kui'an has become a fixed villain in Hong Kong films.
He then filmed "Hero Nature 2" and "Blood Double Male" to further consolidate his reputation,
More and more films were looking for him, and he became a household movie star.
The 1980s were the best time for Hong Kong cinema.
Cheng Kui'an also ate this dividend, and he made half a million yuan a day at the highest record,
The value is already comparable to that of a first-line star.
Hong Kong movies pay great attention to feng shui and luck, and the movies made by Cheng Kui'an are all explosive,
There is a saying in the circle that if you don't look for him to play the villain, you will definitely lose money.
Coupled with Cheng Kui'an's lecture on morality, it is very good to friends,
The reputation in the circle is very good, so his drama is more and more, and the film remuneration is getting higher and higher.
But Cheng Kui'an also has a time to turn his face, he has worked with many well-known directors and actors,
And they all became good friends, but only cooperated with Zhou Xingchi once and then stopped interacting.
Zhou Xingchi was originally just a special actor of Li's TV station, and there was no fixed job.
Being appreciated by Lee Soo-hyun gave him a chance to make a movie,
He won the Golden Horse Award in one fell swoop, and this is the day of his debut.
Initially, Zhou Xingchi also signed a contract under the banner of Li Xiuxian, helping him make a lot of movies.
But the two people's ideas are not compatible, and Zhou Xingchi is eventually poached by Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng Company.
This is why the subsequent "Gamble Saint" and "Truant Veyron" make the nonsense comedy play to the extreme.
But after the two masters and apprentices parted ways, there were repeated rumors of discord,
Li Xiuxian once scolded Zhou Xingchi for being ungrateful,
Zhou Xingchi's line in "Journey to the West" said that he was not as good as a dog,
It was also interpreted as he was satirizing Li Xiuxian for treating himself badly.
And in one of Stephen Chow's films, he played Ji Gong,
On the wall behind it was written in big red characters, Li Xiuyuan, I swear to kill you!
It was once again interpreted as Zhou Xingchi's hostility towards Li Xiuxian,
In fact, Li Xiuyuan is the real name of Ji Gong.com.
Cheng Kui'an stood firmly on the side of the master, and after the two of them spread the discord,
He never worked with Stephen Chow again.
In addition, Cheng Kui'an has also helped many people in the circle,
Once Zhang Jiahui was threatened by the underworld, he supported his friends,
Pick him up and drop him off every day and make him a bodyguard.
Lan Jieying, who once beautifully destroyed Mount Wutai, was very depressed after being mentally disturbed,
There is no fixed job and no money, and friends around me have retreated.
Cheng Kui'an once cooperated with Lan Jieying and was very sympathetic to her suffering.
But instead of going directly to the rescue, he quietly found the tea restaurant owner she frequented.
After telling her, Fan Lan Jieying went to dinner, just served the food, and he came to pay the bill.
Cheng Kui'an's righteous deeds have made him a good person,
However, the glorious days of Hong Kong filmmakers are only 20 or 30 years.
Since the late 1990s, it has been in decline, and many artists have developed in the mainland.
Cheng Kui'an's work has also become less, and he has taken over many mainland films.
At the same time, he also has more time to play his favorite racing car.
He has participated in professional competitions many times, and the fourth place in professional competitions has a good result,
He is also a member of the Hong Kong Star Football Team.
However, it is such a person who loves sports that he has cancer.
When Lee Felt Unwell initially, he was filming the movie "Himalayan Star" in India.
The heroine is Cecilia Cheung, in order not to affect the filming progress of the crew,
It took three weeks to return to Hong Kong for examination, and the result was immediately diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer.
Cheng Kui'an began a difficult anti-cancer journey,
After several chemotherapy treatments, he lost almost a hundred pounds.
And after his illness, the good people of the past were verified one by one.
Zhang Jiahui came to accompany him to the bed, and Zeng Zhiwei also specially sent Lingzhi.
Cancer treatment costs a lot, and his friend Yin Zhiqiang specially sent 1.5 million in cash.
Let him not worry about money and rest assured of treatment, but Cheng Kui'an did not receive a penny.
Cheng Kui'an was very optimistic in the process of treatment, and once went to participate in a rally,
However, his anti-cancer journey did not go well,
Cancer cells are not effectively controlled and spread throughout the body,
After four years of treatment, his illness did not improve, but became weaker and weaker.
He chose to return to his hometown and spend the last time of his life with his family.
At that time, many reporters came to the village to take pictures of him.
When Cheng Kui'an was developed, he built roads and houses for the village.
He also ran for the village chief to benefit the villagers, and his reputation in the village was particularly good.
Villagers took turns at the entrance to the village and did not allow reporters to come in and disturb them.
Eventually, Cheng Kui'an died in 2009 at the age of 54.
His master, Li Xiuxian, was in charge of organizing the funeral, and all his former friends came to see him off.
Soon after, however, his family was embroiled in an inheritance dispute.
Cheng Kui'an married two wives and gave birth to a son for him,
The eldest son is an adult, and he died when the younger son was six years old.
Originally, during his illness, the two wives respected each other as guests, and the family was safe and sound,
But after his death, the eldest son actually occupied the entire inheritance,
Not even the money left for my brother's schooling.
Cheng Kui'an's friends before his death persuaded to no avail, and they had to lend a helping hand.
Set up a love gene for the youngest son, and friends pooled money to ensure his basic life.
Cheng Kui'an, who has been fighting all his life, does not know how to feel when he sees such a contrarian son.
This highly recognizable villain has been dead for many years,
Never being the protagonist, he has created many classic screen villains,
These images have also become an integral part of Hong Kong cinema.
| Nancy
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