Some time ago, Zhou Xingchi was on the hot search because of the property dispute with his ex-girlfriend Yu Wenfeng.
Zhou Xingchi, who was named the god of comedy, was introverted and unsociable, and thus caused many misunderstandings.
In the golden age of Hong Kong films, Stephen Chow created many nonsense comedies and played many small characters with tears in laughter, but in the end, the reputation of the work was better than the personal reputation.
In that era, Hong Kong's stars were shining, and in addition to Stephen Chow, the Hui brothers' ghost horse movies and the comedy movies of the bald Mak Ka were also able to divide the world.
Mai Jia once created a series of comedy works with personal characteristics, and later lost his essence due to speculation in houses and stocks, and eventually faded out of the entertainment circle.
Today, let's learn about Mai Jia's roller coaster-like life.
In 1944, Mai Jia was born into an ordinary family in Guangdong Province, and his original name was Mai Jiashang.
When she was a child, Mai Jia was very well-behaved and obedient, and liked to read and study.
At that time, when the war was raging and the domestic economy was very dismal, Mai Jia's parents followed the wave of immigrants to Hong Kong, so that their children could get a better education.
The 14-year-old Mak Ka continued her studies at Hong Kong's Chongxin English College, and after graduating in 1963, she moved to the United States with her family, when She was 19 years old.
When she was young, Mai Jia already had the temperament of a literary youth, with long flowing hair and a full beard, much like the Beatles that were popular at that time.
McGonaga was a good student with excellent subjects at the time, he wanted to become an electronic engineer, and when he arrived in New York, he studied electronic engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic University in New York, majoring in electrical engineering, and after graduation, he worked as an engineer in a telephone company.
In New York, McGa misses her hometown so much that she often runs to Chinatown to watch Hong Kong movies. However, there was still a certain gap between Hong Kong movies and American blockbusters at that time, and Mai Jia not only fell in love with movies in the process of watching movies but also aspired to make her own characteristic Hong Kong movies.
In 1971, McGarthal quit her job as a stable and boring engineer to study film at New York University, and in the same year, McGonaga joined the American film company to participate in film production, and served as an assistant director in three American blockbusters such as "Golden Needle" and "007 Man with a Golden Gun".
After systematic study and practical shooting, Mai Jia has a full grasp of film, but he still wants to improve his artistic aesthetic. In 1972, She was admitted to the Fine Arts Department of New York University, and after completing all the courses, She decided to return to Hong Kong.
With only a thousand dollars, Mak Ka is full of knowledge and ambition to do a big job in Hong Kong.
At that time, Hong Kong movies had begun to scale, kung fu movies were the mainstream, Bruce Lee gave Hong Kong movies a place in the United States, at that time Jackie Chan had also stepped into the film industry and began to star in movies, and Hong Jinbao had also starred in many kung fu movies.
In 1973, the year of Mak Ka's return to Hong Kong, Bruce Lee died suddenly, and Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao had not yet become a climate, leaving a blank space for kung fu movies.
After Mai Jia returned to Hong Kong, he met Hong Jinbao, Liu Jiarong and other people who also had movie dreams, and set up a company together, ready to seize this blank big job.
They were supported by Jiahe Pictures, the leading Film company in Hong Kong, and established Pioneer Film Company and Jiabao Film Company respectively. But a few people have empty ambitions but are shy, and can only start with small-cost movies.
Mai Jia has directed the action film "A Single Stick Walks the World" and the martial arts film "Iron Fist", although there is no fire, but the box office is still reasonable, and since then Mai Jia's Hong Kong film road has begun.
Mai Jia's persistence was not in vain, and finally met the golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the late 70s.
In 1979, Mai Jia co-founded the Struggle Film Company with Huang Baiming and Shi Tian, and the following year this small company was appreciated by the cinema line giant 'Golden Princess', who invited them to jointly establish the New Art City Film Company.
New Art City is a legend of Hong Kong cinema, almost shooting what fire, a whole decade of fire.
New Art City can continue to produce excellent works, inseparable from excellent talents, New Art City has gathered many excellent film rookies, gathered Mai Jia, Shi Tian, Huang Baiming, Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng, Zeng Zhiwei, Teddy Robin Seven people known as the Seven Monsters of New Art City.
Here, Mai Jia has systematic film knowledge and has also participated in the shooting of American blockbusters; Zeng Zhiwei has strong script writing ability; Xu Ke has a lot of inspiration and a bunch of strange ideas; Shi Nansheng is a Famous Hong Kong Woman, good at communication, has a wide network of contacts, and has strong execution; Huang Baiming has a unique vision and is good at business operations.
These people casually took out one and put it to the film masters today, and when they got together, they also exploded with infinite energy.
New Art City's first film, Best Partner, was a hit when it was released, setting a record for the highest box office in Hong Kong, and all the films it released at the same time failed miserably.
Among them is Wu Yusen's "Eight Colored Lin Yazhen", Wu Yusen's Jiahe Film Industry fired him in a rage, fortunately, New Art City appreciated talents and included him under his command.
"Best Partner" made three consecutive films, for the sake of the movie gimmick also invited the popular star Xu Guanjie, Mai Jia also as the main performance mirror, and the heroine of the movie is Zhang Aijia, who has now transformed into a director.
The film made Mai Jia a household name comedian, and what is not known is that Mai Jia is also the big boss of new art city.
Mai Jia and Golden Princess Entertainment took 70% of the profits of New Art City, and the rest of the people divided the remaining 30 percent equally, and Mai Jia had absolute right to speak in New Art City.
It is also such an unfair distribution method that dooms the hidden danger of future disintegration. Zeng Zhiwei took the lead in leaving, he directed the first two parts of "Best Partner", and the third part after his departure was directed by Xu Ke.
And then Xu Ke was not satisfied with the new art city only to make comedy and ran away, fortunately, the Golden Princess Entertainment appreciated him very much, helped him re-establish the company, although it still hung the sign of the new art city, but no longer divided with the new art city, which saved a Hong Kong martial arts director.
However, Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and Shi Tian, who have the most right to speak in the new art city, also began to disagree, Huang Baiming advocated shooting family fun movies, Mai Jia wanted to shoot martial arts comedy movies, and Shi Tian wanted to star in the movie himself, the three could not convince each other, so they split up.
In the late 1980s, New Art City began to fight its own battles, and the market verified their vision and strategy.
Huang Baiming made a series of Lunar New Year movies, which were very popular, and the New Year tradition continues to this day.
Mai Jia's "Fengyun" series was also very popular, but the effect was not as good as Huang Baiming's comedy films.
In 1990, Mai Jia was not convinced, and together with his old friends Hong Jinbao and Li Jiarong, he filmed the classic action movie "Skinny Tiger Fat Dragon", although the production was excellent, but Mai Jia did not get rid of his career crisis, after which he began to slowly fade out of the entertainment circle.
In the early 1990s, New Art City officially disintegrated, and Mai Jia began to retire.
Although Mai Jia's career was not as good as Huang Baiming's in the later period, he was still one of the most well-known comedians at that time, and in the decade from the 1980s to the 1990s, he starred in many films with double box office success.
Mai Jia once won the Hong Kong Academy Awards for Best Actor with "Best Partner", and that year he also won the award for his good brother Hong Jinbao, who was also the only double yellow film emperor at the Academy Awards.
Mai Jia also supervised the production of many films by Stephen Chow and Chow Yun Fat, and the films he invested in have a good rate of return, sending himself to the altar of Hong Kong films, and also allowing Mai Jia to accumulate a lot of wealth, even if he quit the circle, he did not worry about eating and drinking.
However, although Mai Jia has a very good vision in the film industry, she has a very poor vision in real estate and stocks.
Mai Jia began to invest in the hot real estate industry after fading out of the entertainment circle, but what is unexpected is that Mai Jia, who has a high education and has studied abroad, actually believes in feng shui numerology and relies on the guidance of the master to invest in the property market.
Mai Jia invested most of her wealth in the property market according to the guidance of the master, but the result was a loss.
Mai Jia was not willing to continue to invest in the stock market and returned home again.
Movie wizard Mai Jia actually invested so bad luck. Mai Jia fell from the peak and lost all his wealth, and the gap between heaven and earth made him want to commit suicide at one time, and the fate of the ups and downs could not help but be lamented.
Fortunately, with the help of friends and the company of her family, Mai Jia successfully stepped out of the shadows and returned to her old business.
In 2000, Mai Jia and her old friend Huang Baiming co-produced the comedy film "The Big Winner", and invited Xu Guanjie, Nicholas Tse, Joey Yung, Lin Xinru and other co-starring.
This is McGonaga's return to comedy film after a decade. Subsequently, Mai Jia co-hosted the program "Three Skinheads" with Luo Jiaying and Huang Xia, and also achieved good results.
In 2001, Mai Jia starred in the TV series "The Legend of Jigong" supervised by his old friend Huang Baiming, and played the main role of Jigong.
In 2006, After directing the film "The First Bucket of Gold" again, McGa retired again.
Until 2016, Mai Jia participated in the friendship in the old friend Hong Jinbao's movie "My Secret Agent Grandpa".
Although there were not many works in the later period, Mai Jia maintained a good state of life, and the screen became his hobby, playing tickets from time to time to show his face.
In 2019, Mai Jia's son got married, but the most eye-catching thing is the appearance of the bald Head Mai Jia, 75 years old he is radiant and not yet out of age.
Because Mai Jia rarely appeared in recent years, the guests also took the opportunity to take photos with this comedy master, completely robbing their sons and daughters-in-law of their style.
But Mai Jia is very low-key, and did not invite any stars to come to help, you must know that Mai Jia's friends are now important big people in the film industry.
There is no spotlight on the body but more comfortable, last year some netizens exposed the photos of Mai Jia's commercial performance, many people sighed too sad.
Mai Jia created the legendary era of Hong Kong comedy films with a passion, and also made the image of the bald head Mai Jia deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but after experiencing the highlight moment, she ushered in her own dark bottom.
Although life has ups and downs, fortunately, after coming out of the darkness, I can smile and love life. From a long-haired youth to a bald comedian, Mai Jia finally chose a plain life, hoping that the 76-year-old Mai Jia can enjoy the life in front of her and bring better film works.
| Nancy
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