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Zhou Xingchi has always been "controversial".
Unlike the "sophisticated and sleek" of most stars, he is more like a contradiction between ice and fire.
On the one hand, he has achieved few achievements in his films, and on the other hand, his private life is often criticized.
Today, Pi Ge will start from Zhou Xingchi's painful childhood, and try to restore a real Zhou Xingchi for everyone
First, Zhou Xingchi, who is "poor and afraid"
Zhou Xingchi's greed for money may be a well-known and unconsented thing.
Some people say that he slammed the door, which cannot be verified, but when it comes to greed for money, it seems to be well-founded, and he himself does not shy away from this topic.
Today, Zhou Xingchi has three companies in his hands, Xingwei Co., Ltd., which was established in 1989, Xinghui Overseas Co., Ltd., which was established in 1996, and Bigao Group Co., Ltd., which has been in charge since 2010.
Zhou Xingchi once defended this, and in the final analysis, it is three words - poor and afraid.
Chow was born in 1962 in the slums of Kowloon, Hong Kong, and the word "Xingchi" in his name comes from the "Xiongzhou Wulie, Juncai Xingchi" in the "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion", which was personally decided by his mother Ling Bao'er.
Ling Bao'er is a high-achieving student at Guangzhou Normal University, who came to Hong Kong after graduation, married Zhou Xingchi's father and gave birth to two daughters and a man, the older sister is called Zhou Wenji, and the younger sister is called Zhou Xingxia.
After his father cheated, his parents eventually separated, and after the divorce, his scumbag father was only responsible for the rent of their rented house every month, and the living expenses of a family of 4 were pressed on his mother Ling Bao'er.
Ling Bao'er is a nurse in the hospital, and also works part-time to frame people, although they are desperate to live, their lives are still tight.
In Stephen Chow's films, we can often see the plot of eating chicken legs, which is said to be due to the hardships of Stephen Chow's life since childhood, and rarely can eat meat, and chicken legs are Stephen Chow's favorite food.
His mother was reluctant to eat it and would leave the meat to the three of them, but Zhou Xingchi was sensible since childhood, and in order to let his mother eat more meat, he would sometimes deliberately throw the meat on the ground, so that her mother would pick it up and eat it because she was reluctant to throw it away.
This small detail of life is the common memory of Zhou Xingchi's mother and son, and it also confirms that difficult years.
For this reason, Zhou Xingchi has always been insecure and feels that he needs a lot of money to have a sense of security, which we can understand as a "pathology", but this is the main reason why he is greedy for money.
Second, he was promoted by his eldest brother, but he was accused of being ungrateful
Zhou Xingchi's acting road is not smooth, he and Liang Chaowei are good friends from childhood to adulthood, the two went to apply for the 11th TVB Artist Training Class (1982), Liang Chaowei was selected, but he failed. Later, under the introduction of actress Qi Meizhen, she entered the night training class to study.
After graduating in 1983, Zhou Xingchi was assigned to the "430 Space Shuttle" program to replace Liang Chaowei as a child host, and worked for five years.
At the same time, he began to run dragon sets in the TV series.
For example, a staff member in "Nuwa Action";
"When IQ Matures" plays a student;
"Tianlong Babu" plays a Liao soldier, just about to speak when he is stopped by Qiao Feng;
In "Falcon", he played a person who went to the toilet and was almost beaten;
In "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", he played a Song Bing who could not live for 2 seconds.
After starring in more than twenty TV series, he was promoted by Wan Ziliang and played the supporting role of Zhao Zilong in "Journey of Life";
Soon he played Star Boy in The Wind Catcher, his first theatrical film (the first TV movie was Linqi).
Although he did not play many scenes and died a tragic death, his acting skills were photographed by Huang Baiwen, and he was introduced to the big brother of the film industry, Li Xiuxian, and starred in "Thunderbolt Pioneer" (directed by Huang Baiwen).
Because of this movie, Stephen Chow has emerged in the film circle.
Soon Li Xiuxian signed a contract with Stephen Chow at a price of HK$700,000 per film, and since then Stephen Chow has become a film and television amphibious star, but it is this contract that also lays the foundation for the breakup between the two many years later.
Since then, Stephen Chow has continued to play roles in TVB's TV series, but it is no longer the same as before, no longer just the role of dragon set, and began to play a supporting role and a protagonist, of course, Wan Ziliang's help played a great role.
During this period, he cooperated with Zhen Zidan in "The True Colors of Criminal Police" and "Uncrowned Vanguard"; "Gaishi Haoxia" with Wu Mengda; "He Comes from the Jianghu" with Wan Ziliang; and "Xiao Zai Xiao Xin Liver" with Liu Qingyun.
Film developments were even more remarkable, with more than a dozen films in just two years, and then he ushered in one of the most important turning points in his life – taking over the film "Gamble Saint".
With the efforts of directors Liu Zhenwei and Yuan Kui, this comedy film that originally followed Chow Yun-fat's "God of Gamblers" took the side of the sword, and won a box office performance of 36.29 million Hong Kong dollars in one fell swoop, refreshing the box office record of Hong Kong films and sensationalizing the whole of Hong Kong.
Zhou Xingchi jumped into the ranks of "Red Star", and since then his film remuneration has risen to a high level, exceeding one million.
Because of the contract, the two films he made for Li Xiuxian's Universal Pictures, "Descendants of the Dragon" and "Love Saint", although the box office results were good, they could only get 700,000 Hong Kong dollars for the film, and Zhou Xingchi did not do it.
Soon, Zhou Xingchi fell out with Li Xiuxian, and later Li Xiuxian had no choice but to simply sell Zhou Xingchi's contract to Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng Film, which also achieved several cooperations between Zhou Xingchi and Wang Jing.
However, Zhou Xingchi and Wang Jing also fell out in the end, and Li Xiuxian scolded Zhou Xingchi as soon as he mentioned it, and there were rumors that there was also a contradiction between him and his benefactor Wan Ziliang.
Zhou Xingchi himself has never responded to these rumors, and he and these three people have not cooperated again, which further "sat down" his ungrateful evaluation.
Whether Zhou Xingchi is an ungrateful person in the end, Pi Ge is not good at concluding, but someone has said something like this:
If only one person says he's bad, it's not true; if many people say so, it's probably not empty.
Yes or no, let's judge for ourselves.
Third, the "tyrant" who is harsh on the set,
Zhou Xingchi's seriousness about the film is well known, and even Wang Jing, who fell out with him, mentioned his professionalism and praised him.
It is said that he will scold every time he is in a hurry, which makes many newcomer actors unable to accept it.
There are also many actors who have worked with him, exposing that he is not good at communication and has no emotional intelligence.
For example, Chen Baixiang, who has worked with him on many films, bluntly said that his relationship with him was limited to having worked with him; and Huang Yishan said that he felt that there was a distance from Zhou Xingchi and had never eaten together.
And Zhou Xingchi's attitude towards his actors can be seen from the words Chen Guokun said.
Chen Guokun was originally just a Hong Kong dragon suit actor, because his appearance was somewhat similar to Chow Sing Chi's idol Bruce Lee, when he filmed "Shaolin Football", he discovered that Chen Guokun played the role of four of the brothers.
It should be said that Zhou Xingchi has the grace of knowledge for Chen Guokun, the relationship between the two should be good, after "Shaolin Football", Chen Guokun also had an excellent performance in "Kung Fu".
But according to Chen Guokun,
Zhou Xingchi himself does not talk about friendship, only about movies, no matter how familiar you are with him, acting badly as a scolding.
This kind of seriousness and persistence actually stems from the education that Stephen Chow received from childhood, although he did not read after graduating from middle school, he was regarded as a lifelong idol by Bruce Lee, and he also learned the advantages of Bruce Lee.
Some people say that Bruce Lee is a martial arts actor, but in fact, what he left in this world, in addition to those few kung fu movies, is more of a condensation of his philosophical ideas.
The stars who worship Bruce Lee all over the world have more or less inherited some of his personality characteristics, learned to think about life in the "Bruce Lee way" and make choices.
For example, we are familiar with NBA star Kobe Bryant, "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr., UFC boxing champion "mouth cannon" Connor McGregor, think carefully about whether these people have some commonalities in personality?
They all hold themselves to high standards, and they are all self-indulgent and temperamental people.
Stephen Chow also has this personality trait, and for this reason, it is not surprising that he is called a "tyrant on the set".
Fourth, the light that Zhou Xingchi could not ignore
In fact, Pi Ge believes that Zhou Xingchi must not be very good to get along with, because the most intelligent people are often more isolated.
But we can't ignore the "light" on his body, because of his dedication to acting, every time he stands in front of the camera, he does his best, we can see so many classic roles;
Because he is harsh on actors, those actors who have worked with him can be remembered by the audience, and many of them are more popular;
Because of his dedication to film, so many good movies can stay in this world.
Don't say that you owe Stephen Chow movie tickets, but imagine how much less wonderful Hong Kong movies in the 90s would have been without Stephen Chow!
Zhou Xingchi's life is like this, in the world of movies he is a "god man", but in real life, he is just a "tacky" ordinary person, and it is this bipolarity that has created the polarity that everyone evaluates him.
But so what, the person who loves him, just love deeply, the person who hates him, let him say it...
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