In 1978, in Hong Kong, you can always see two people dressed in rags, pushing a tricycle to walk the streets, door to door with people to sell their own ripped pirated video tapes, these two people, one is called Li Guoxing, one is his uncle, with the low price of pirated video tapes and super high profits, 4 years later Li Guoxing replaced the tricycle with a video tape rental shop, and accumulated his first bucket of gold in the mid-80s, at this time in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, we know many of the film emperors and movie queens, most of them are still running dragon sets, This includes Zhou Xingchi, the two seem to have no intersection, but later because of the same difficult life and the same hard work experience when they were young, they became close friends, and even for Li Guoxing, Zhou Xingchi also starred in the worst movie of his life.
Stephen chow
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Stills from "The Inquisitor"
Time to the end of the 80s, by selling pirated video tapes to earn 200,000 Li Guoxing, know that this is not a long-term industry, so he will earn the money and long-term experience of selling video tapes into the field of film distribution, set up a Meiya company, relying on a 30 square meters of company cabin and all things to do their own, in less than 5 years, Meiya won the top spot in the Hong Kong film distribution industry at that time, at this time Chow Xingchi also because of starring in "Gambler", "Gambler", "Gamblers". Blockbuster films such as "The Trickster Expert" have successfully become hong Kong's hot stars, when the Hong Kong film industry was eager to enter the mainland, and the leading company in the distribution industry, Meiya, also began to open up the mainland film market at this time.
Li Guoxing
At a cocktail party, Li Guoxing met Zhou Xingchi, this 8 years of running dragon suit, childhood life is difficult to have a good feeling for the new star, in the exchange of similar struggle experiences let the two people can not help but feel sorry for each other, Li Guoxing proposed to release his film in the mainland, and then Li Guoxing proposed to Hua Qiang to introduce the box office champion of the year "Truant Weilong" into the mainland, Xiang Huaqiang hurriedly helped Zhou Xingchi to find Chinese dubbing, and finally ran to Taiwan to find a dubbing that fits the image and style of Zhou Xingchi, this person is Shi Banyu, with the help of "Truant Weilong" into the mainland, Xiang Huaqiang hurriedly helped Zhou Xingchi to find Chinese dubbing, and finally ran to Taiwan to find a dubbing that fits the image and style of Zhou Xingchi, this person is Shi Banyu, with the help of "Truant Weilong" The release of "Truancy Weilong" in the mainland, Zhou Xingchi from the explosion of Hong Kong all the way to the mainland, and then almost every year the movie starring Zhou Xingchi will have a Chinese version, which is packaged and promoted by the United States and Asia to be distributed in the mainland, it can be said that Li Guoxing is not only a friend of Zhou Xingchi but also his benefactor, without Li Guoxing, Zhou Xingchi will not have such a high popularity in China, and even the "Journey to the West" that was later scolded in Hong Kong can be crowned as a god in the mainland, and there are also meiya's not small credits.
Stills from "Truant Veyron"
At this time the time came to 1997, Zhou Xingchi is already a well-known star in China, although the box office of "Journey to the West" is dismal, but the reputation is very good, at this time Zhou Xingchi also has his own Xinghui company, almost will rarely take over the film of other companies, with the return of Hong Kong, many directors want to make a movie to be released in both places, Wang Jing did not have Zhou Xingchi at that time, has been praising the newcomer Ge Minhui, want to make Ge Minhui into another Zhou Xingchi, but Ge Minhui has always been unashamed, So ma Weihao was found, let him tailor a movie for Ge Minhui, Ma Weihao thought that the "Judge" released in 92 was the box office champion of the year, and the story reputation was very good, so it took 7 days to change the routine of "Judge of Death", Song Shijie replaced it with Chen Mengji, the four major teachers in Guangdong, and wrote the script of "Counting Dead Grass", and also claimed that this was the sequel to "Judge of Death".
Ge Minhui
Since it is said to be a sequel, of course, I want to ask Zhou Xingchi to star, otherwise the feeling of plagiarism is too obvious, and then Ma Weihao dragged many people to contact Zhou Xingchi, hoping that he could star in this movie, at first Zhou Xingchi refused, who wanted Ma Weihao to invite Li Guoxing as a producer, and also let him be a lobbyist, this time, Li Guoxing was kind to himself or a good friend, in order to return the favor, Zhou Xingchi had to take over this movie.
Ma Weihao
The film is very interesting when shooting, Ma Weihao as a newcomer director is a fan of Stephen Chow, obviously tailor-made for Ge Minhui' film, but almost in the shooting to ask Zhou Xingchi shooting opinions, can you pass all the time also zhou Xingchi nodded, so in order to hurry, originally planned a month to shoot the film, 18 days was fooled by Zhou Xingchi, by the way also took away more than 10 million film remuneration, recall the 92 years of "The Inquisitor", the script was tailored for Zhou Xingchi for 8 months, The shooting took another 3 months, from every detail to strive for perfection, and this sequel script was written for 7 days, the shooting took 18 days, the original protagonist was Ge Minhui, and finally because Zhou Xingchi's acting skills were too good, Zhou Xingchi became the protagonist when it was released, almost no one cared about the role played by Ge Minhui, and the audience only wanted to see Zhou Xingchi.
Stills of the inquisitor
Although this movie was released and earned 27 million box office, but at that time it was said by the audience that it relied on Zhou Xingchi to cheat money, the plot was rough, the vulgar funny without a bottom line, it was not at all the nonsense that Zhou Xingchi had connotations before, the whole film was full of laughter of and urine, at the beginning it was blocked by beggars with feces, and then the chicken legs and even a whole pair of mahjong were stuffed into the chrysanthemum, such a funny is not smart and disgusting, and this section of Ge Minhui licking the pig's tongue is even more bluntly threw up by the audience, just like this plot set, Wanting Ge Minhui to become Zhou Xingchi's successor, I don't know if Wang Jing will look up at the sky and shout when she sees the person she wants to praise make such a movie: "Ma Weihao misled me!" ”
In fact, the movie "Counting Dead Grass" is not without merit, such as Nathan Road 9, which is still being discussed by fans today, but at that time, the domestic audience was confused about this laugh point, only Hong Kong people know the laugh point, this location is a barbershop, because the hairstylist inside cuts the hair are very strange, and the people who cut out of the hair will be laughed at by the people around, so this stem can be regarded as one of the few laugh points that can be accepted by the audience in "Counting Dead Grass". In addition, the dialogue of the barber shop hairstylist played by Li Jianren has also been borrowed from "Mind Reader" and has become a classic meme that is now widely used.
This movie was released when Hong Kong returned, this line: "Open your mouth and shut your mouth are the laws of the British Empire, don't forget that Hong Kong is only temporarily lent to you" has also been praised by the audience, although this movie is not accepted by fans, but with Chow Xingchi's appearance, they can't help but buy tickets to watch, Chow Xingchi's charm and popularity can be seen, many people say that Chow Xingchi is ungrateful, Huang Baiming said that he wanted 8 million yuan of sky-high film remuneration, Li Xiuxian said that he turned his back on himself after he was angry, and Xiang Huaqiang was even more because Zhou Xingchi left Yongsheng Directly summoned all the people to resist him and attack him with words, but is this the case?
When other companies offered Zhou Xingchi millions of film remuneration, Li Xiuxian only offered hundreds of thousands of film remuneration in order to squeeze him, and finally sold the company together to Xiang Huaqiang, when Zhou Xingchi, who was still lonely and unknown, hoped that Huang Baiming would give Huang Baiming a chance, Huang Baiming bluntly said that Zhou Xingchi could not be popular, and these people who threatened that Zhou Xingchi's character was not good, did they ever think about what they had done to Zhou Xingchi? In reality, Zhou Xingchi did not reply once, their words did not seem to affect the audience's love for Zhou Xingchi, in order to repay the favor Zhou Xingchi knew that it was a bad film but for the sake of love, and used his own appeal to bring a good box office, I think in Chou Xingchi's heart, who is really kind, who is really friendship He knows better than anyone, now Zhou Xingchi has not appeared in front of the curtain, just as a director to shoot the movie, but as long as a movie has the name of Stephen Chow, the box office has a guarantee, This inevitably reminds me of his line in "The King of Comedy": Hard work, struggle! Life should not be hard work, and then try to succeed like Stephen Chow.
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