After watching the sample film, Wu Siyuan told Zhou Xingchi very seriously: You will become the most popular person in Hong Kong, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

At the end of 1984, the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed. This means that Hong Kong, which has long been under British rule, will return to China in 13 years. In such a context of the times, Hong Kong people are generally wrapped up in two emotions: longing and uneasiness. The yearning is because second-class citizens under colonialism are not easy to do, and the uneasiness is because no one knows what they will face after the return.

After watching the sample film, Wu Siyuan told Zhou Xingchi very seriously: You will become the most popular person in Hong Kong, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

Therefore, Zhou Runfa will say this in "The True Colors of Heroes":

"I can't imagine that the night view of Hong Kong is so beautiful, and such a beautiful thing is gone at once, I really don't want to!"

Such an unintentional line inexplicably poked at the emotions of Hong Kong people. As a result, "The True Colors of Heroes" was chosen by the times and became one of the greatest films in the history of Hong Kong cinema.

As we entered the early 1990s, as we drew closer to the day of return, the feelings of uneasiness and longing became more complex and intense. Many of Hong Kong's middle class choose to emigrate, and more grassroots choose to stay behind.

What they need to face is that British politicians frequently sell land to facilitate their cash-out after the official return. With the increasing pressure of life, optimistic And upbeat Hong Kong people urgently need to find a vent, so Stephen Chow, who has run a dragon suit for many years, was selected by the times and became the hottest comedian in the history of Hong Kong film since the 90s.

The starting point of Zhou Xingchi's legendary career is exactly the "Gambling Saint" that Dousha wants to talk about today.

Behind the scenes of Hong Kong films, pay tribute to the classics, hello everyone, I am Dousha. On December 14, 1989, "God of Gamblers", directed by Wang Jing and starring Chow Yun-fat, was released in Hong Kong, and finally earned 36 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, winning the box office champion of that year.

Chow Yun Fat once again proved his box office appeal, and also set off a wave of gambling in the Hong Kong film industry. For a time, there were countless works in the Hong Kong film industry, and countless Hong Kong filmmakers wanted to take the opportunity to rub the heat, and Wu Siyuan, the owner of Siyuan Pictures, was also one of them.

However, as an independent film production company, Siyuan Pictures can be active in the peak era of Hong Kong films, and even survive to this day, Wu Siyuan is not only blindly following the trend. He has both a keen sense of the market and at the same time can find another way.

Like when Bruce Lee died, the whole of Hong Kong was looking for his successor, but Wu Siyuan chose Jackie Chan, let him reverse bruce Lee's tough guy image, but show people with the image of a humorous kung fu boy, and finally led the trend of kung fu comedy with "Snake-like Executioner" and "Drunken Fist", and also achieved Jackie Chan's film style.

Therefore, this time with the trend of "God of Gamblers", different from other gambling films with the trend of "God of Gamblers" in the gambling showmanship and psychological game, Wu Siyuan once again found another way, he and Yuan Kui, conceived a story of gambling and special functions, such a brilliant idea, has made the film at least half successful.

After having such a creative idea, the two found Liu Zhenwei to improve the script, increase the comedic effect of the movie, and finally finalized the story of "Gamble Saint".

Speaking of which, BeanSha briefly explains why these 3 people are getting together. The first is Wu Siyuan and Yuan Kui, who met during the filming of "North and South Drunken Fist". At that time, Yuan Kui was still an unknown Dragon and Tiger Martial Master, but Wu Siyuan appreciated him very much.

Later, Jiahe filmed Bruce Lee's "Tower of Death", and the two worked together again, this time, Wu Siyuan was against the consensus and promoted Yuan Kui, who was still a martial arts instructor, to be a co-director, giving him the opportunity to show his talent as a director.

Then, Wu Siyuan shot Yuan Kui's film debut "Dragon Ninja", which received 7.5 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office after its release, which was the most profitable film in Siyuan Pictures that year, and the two became good buddies and good partners.

And because of this friendship, Yuan Kui briefly left HongJiaban and followed Wu Siyuan to the United States to shoot action dramas for two years. At the same time as growing in foreign countries, he incidentally praised Shange Yunton, who was still a newcomer at the time.

Since returning from the United States, although Yuan Kui has been involved in film production in Hongjiaban, as long as Wu Siyuan opens his mouth, he will come to Siyuan Pictures to help. Therefore, Wu Siyuan prepared to shoot "Gamble Saint" this time, and Yuan Kui naturally helped each other.

Then there is Yuan Kui and Liu Zhenwei, before co-producing "Gamble Saint", the two just cooperated in a ghost film "Corpse Heavy Land", telling the story of a group of people fighting the zombies of the Qin Dynasty. There have been many historical figures such as Jing Ke, Wang Zhaojun, Qin Shi Huang and so on in the movie, which are funny and funny, and they are completely Liu Zhenwei-style nonsense comedies.

This is the first cooperation between Yuan Kui and Liu Zhenwei, although the film did not sell well after its release, YuanKui admired Liu Zhenwei's screenwriting talent, and because of the cooperation, they had a tacit understanding with each other. Therefore, shortly after the filming of this movie, the two joined forces again to co-produce "Gamble Saint".

And because of Liu Zhenwei's joining, there are a lot of "parodies" or nonsense sections of "God of Gamblers" in "Gamblers", the most obvious of which is the appearance of Zhou Xingchi spoofing Zhou Runfa in "God of Gamblers".

Looking back on this paragraph now, is it a little bit of a child's feeling of stealing adult clothes?

Speaking of the movie, after Wu Siyuan, Yuan Kui, and Liu Zhenwei finalized the script of "Gamble Saint", the rest is the choice of actors.

Because it is the "God of Gamblers" of the "follower" Brother Fa, the candidate for the female protagonist "Qi Meng" naturally follows Zhang Min, who played Gao Jin's girlfriend in "God of Gamblers". However, compared with the vase character in "God of Gamblers", Zhang Min's role in "Gamblers" is heavier, and there are still many fight scenes. It is not difficult to guess that this should be the design of director Yuankui, after all, he has won the popularity of female stars such as Yang Ziqiong.

In terms of supporting roles, Wu Mengda, Qin Pei, Wu Junru and other common green leaves in Hong Kong films were selected, and even the two directors Liu Zhenwei and Yuan Kui also made cameos in person.

Among all the supporting roles, especially Wu Mengda was the most surprised, in addition to contributing to the superb acting skills as always in the film, Wu Mengda also contributed his own improvisational creativity to the film, that is, "congenital runaway disorder".

Surprisingly, there was no such scene in Liu Zhenwei's original script, but Wu Mengda suddenly had the inspiration after reading the script and forcibly added the character of congenital runaway disorder to his role. Later, Wu Mengda also specifically asked Zhou Xingchi if he had ever heard of this disease, and Zhou Xingchi actually responded that he had heard it, which made Uncle Da laugh instantly and admit that this was a disease he had just invented.

In the end, two highly imaginative actors got together and performed a good scene for all the fans. Since then, the golden partnership of Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda has left their own ink in the history of Hong Kong cinema!

It is also worth mentioning that this grandmother in the elevator room, the actor who plays her is called Qian Xiangying, is China's first generation of martial arts actresses. But her other identity is little known, that is, Hong Jinbao's grandmother.

Then there is a "hand substitution" actor who has never shown his face, who is specially responsible for various cool gambling skills, and the actor who completes this stunt action is called Jiang Daohai. The various cool gambling skills in "God of Gamblers" were designed and completed by him, and in addition, the scene in "No Thief in the World" where Uncle Li peeled eggs was also completed by him.

In terms of male protagonist selection, distributor Jiahe Pictures initially wanted to find Liang Chaowei to act. Speaking of this, will you wonder, obviously Siyuan Pictures made a movie, why did Jiahe Pictures interfere in the casting?

As mentioned earlier, Siyuan Pictures is an independent film company, unlike large companies such as Shaw, Jiahe, and New Art City. It is only responsible for film production, and the release of movies must be borrowed from large companies. Therefore, when Siyuan Pictures chooses to cooperate with Jiahe Pictures to distribute, you use other people's theaters to release movies, and people give you a schedule for scheduling, which requires that your movies must make money, and the distributor will make money.

Under this interest relationship, Jiahe Pictures "intervened" in the casting, hoping to be starred by the popular Liang Chaowei.

As early as the late 1980s and early 1990s, Liang Chaowei was already a top star on TVB, and he also began to emerge in movies. He has filmed classic movies such as "The Legend of the Crazy Guy" and "The City of Sorrows", and in those years, Liang Chaowei's name frequently appeared at major award ceremonies.

But what is surprising is that when Liang Chaowei read the script of Gamble Sheng, he resolutely refused Jiahe's invitation, because he thought that his image was not suitable for this role.

And director Liu Zhenwei also thinks that Liang Chaowei is not suitable, because in his heart, he already has the best candidate for Zuo Songxing. This person is Zhou Xingchi.

At that time, Zhou Xingchi, after experiencing many trials such as children's program hosts and running dragon sets, he had already gained fame with TV series such as "Gestapo" and "He Comes from the Jianghu", which also attracted the film industry to re-examine him.

In the same year as participating in "Gamble Saint", he just made many movies such as "A Comic Book Breaks the World", "Dragon Phoenix Tea House", "Curry Pepper" and so on. Although there is no shortage of dramas, it may be that the traces of the acting method of tv series are still there, and the box office results of the movies starring him are mostly average.

Therefore, in the eyes of a large company like Jiahe, Zhou Xingchi is not famous in the film industry. And at this time, Zhou Xingchi's acting skills are not outstanding, and actors of his level are everywhere in the dragon sets of various crews.

Therefore, when Liu Zhenwei proposed that Zhou Xingchi star in "Gamble Saint", Jiahe's senior management did not agree. Fortunately, Wu Siyuan was optimistic about Zhou Xingchi, and Liu Zhenwei also insisted on giving this young man a chance. At the same time, he also gave Jiahe the first name: I am responsible for the problem of the movie!

In the end, Jiahe promised to let Zhou Xingchi do the starring role!

And it is precisely because of participating in this movie, Zhou Xingchi's nonsense performance with Liu Zhenwei's nonsense script, the cooperation between talented actors and talented directors has exploded into a surprising spark. He no longer restrains himself under the influence of the director's style and people's whispers as in previous movies, but can be displayed freely throughout the film, so that the laughter points are shaken out one by one.

Since then, Stephen Chow's highly personal performance style has caused a sensation throughout Xiangjiang!

If Li Xiuxian is Zhou Xingchi's Bole, then Liu Zhenwei is Zhou Xingchi's confidant. When Zhou Xingchi got rid of the shackles of Yongsheng Pictures and began to shoot films on his own, the first thing he thought of was his mentor and friend Liu Zhenwei, and later filmed a legendary classic "Journey to the West" for all fans.

On August 18, 1990, "Gamblers" was released in Hong Kong, and to everyone's surprise, the script only took 5 hours to shoot a small-cost film that took only 37 days, but after 28 days of release, it received 41.32 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, easily surpassing the box office performance of Fa Ge's "God of Gamblers" at the same time, and breaking the highest box office record in Hong Kong since the opening of the port.

At the same time, Stephen Chow also won the Academy Award nomination for the first time with this film. Such an achievement, Zhou Xingchi himself could not have dreamed of, but Wu Siyuan seemed to have foresight. When the film was just finished, Wu Siyuan watched the sample film and told Zhou Xingchi very seriously:

"After the release of 'Gamble Saint', you are no longer a popular student, but the most popular person in Hong Kong."

In the end, as he said, after "Gamble Saint", the number of star masters did not go away, and he also became the most gold-sucking actor in the Hong Kong film industry.

With the improvement of Zhou Xingchi's fame, his film remuneration has also risen with the water, from the initial hundreds of thousands to tens of millions. But in Zhou Xingchi's heart, the most happy and unforgettable thing for him is undoubtedly the 700,000 film remuneration of the gambling saint.

When Zhou Xingchi got the salary for "Gamble Saint", his first thought was to improve the housing for his mother, who had been living in the wooden house in the slum, so he spent money to buy the Peak View Garden at No. 12 Baoyun Road in the Mid-Levels for Ling Bao'er, and invited his brothers and sisters to move in with him. This year, Hong Kong's Central subway station was officially opened, and Lee Shau Kee, one of the four major families in Hong Kong, also spent 2 billion yuan to buy a piece of land here.

More than 30 years have passed, and the land bought by Lee Shau Kee has long appreciated to 280 billion, but the king of comedy born from here has long ceased to act....

When Stephen Chow was still hosting "430 Shuttle", some media in Hong Kong commented:

"Stephen Chow is only suitable for being a children's program host, not suitable for development in the film and television circle."

Zhou Xingchi, who saw this report, was very sad, and he cut out the report and pasted it on his bedside. Every time he came home from work and lay in bed tired, he would always secretly swear in his heart:

"One day I will definitely get ahead!"

After the release of "Gamble Saint" in 1990, Stephen Chow finally fulfilled his promise. He went from being a "dead dragon" star boy in other people to becoming the king of comedy that shook the Xiangjiang River.

That year, Zhou Xingchi was 28 years old, and an era that belonged to small people to turn themselves over by struggle officially came....

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After watching the sample film, Wu Siyuan told Zhou Xingchi very seriously: You will become the most popular person in Hong Kong, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

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