Speaking of comedy masters, many people in the international community think of Mr. Chaplin and Mr. Bean, and more people in Asia will think of Stephen Chow! Time magazine named Stephen Chow an "Asian Hero" and said that if There was Charlie Chaplin in China, it would be Stephen Chow!
Recently, some Hong Kong media filmed 59-year-old Stephen Chow and 17-year-old hong Kong sister out to play, accompanied by two petite beauties, known by the Hong Kong media: one king and three queens! Subsequently, a person familiar with the matter revealed that Zhou Xingchi met each other in a rich party, and then launched a fierce pursuit! Many people are not optimistic about the two, although old and young love is now very common, but the difference between 59 and 17 is 42! Not to mention that the unit of measurement is the year!
Stephen Chow was born in Hong Kong to a teachers' college graduate. At that time, foreigners needed to find someone to guarantee to make a living in the local area, so Zhou's mother chose to marry Zhou's father. Zhou's mother is very particular about the child's name, after all, she is a high-achieving student who graduated from the Normal College, the eldest sister Zhou Wenji is taken from Cai Wenji, the second zhou Xingchi is from the "Tengwang Pavilion Sequence" Xiongzhou Wulie, Juncai Xingchi, and the younger sister Zhou Xingxia means starlight full of xia.
As a member of a mainland immigrant family, Chow Did not enjoy a very happy life as a child, and the family lived in a poor area in Kowloon. At the age of 7, his parents divorced, and he grew up with his sister and sister under the care of a single mother.
In the early years, the media speculated that the reason why Zhou Xingchi was very critical of the actors he worked with was entirely because of his childhood encounters, which made him more like a miser!
After growing up, Zhou Xingchi is completely a typical handsome guy, but few people say that he is handsome, Zhou Xingchi shot the most is comedy, the least important thing in comedy is the appearance, and the audience at that time only felt that his comedy was very characteristic, so he rarely paid attention to his appearance, and Zhou Xingchi often ridiculed his appearance in the movie! (In the second part of "Truant Weilong", the uncle felt that he was ugly, so he sent a photo of Ah Xing to his pen pal, and then the two never contacted each other again!) ）
In 1980, Stephen Chow became a special actor of Li's TELEVISION, officially entered the film and television industry, and applied for the TVB Artist Training Class in 1982! The same batch of "students" also include: Liang Chaowei, Ouyang Zhenhua, Wu Zhenyu, Guan Lijie, Xu Manhua and others! Hong Kong's TVB Artist Training Course has cultivated countless mainstays for the Hong Kong film and television circle! Zhou Runfa, Wu Mengda, Lv Liangwei, Leung Ka Fai, Andy Lau, Liu Qingyun, Liu Jialing, Zhen Zidan and many other powerful stars are the "students" of this training class! It has been called: "The Whampoa Military Academy of Hong Kong stars!" ”
After the training of the training class, Zhou Xingchi became a wireless artist, and then was assigned to host the children's program "430 Shuttle" as a host! If the host of this show is put into the present, it is definitely the guarantee of ratings: Liang Chaowei, Zhou Xingchi, Lan Jieying, Zhu Yin, Zheng Yijian, etc.! And in 1983, they were just hosts of children's shows.
Although Stephen Chow has a stable job, he still wants to make movies, but he has not been welcomed by the producers, although he handed over his resume to the other party, the other party just looked at it and "threw it away". After Zhou Xingchi became the host of the show, he also became famous, and was assigned to a crew by the company to give Wan Ziliang the role of a younger brother, and Wan Ziliang also took care of him like a younger brother in reality.
After that, Stephen Chow met Li Xiuxian in a disco, and looking at Wan Ziliang's face, Li Xiuxian invited Stephen Chow to shoot the movie "Thunderbolt Pioneer", and Chow Also won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor by relying on this film, and also won the Hong Kong Film Awards Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer nominations!
This made the company and many producers begin to redefine the positioning and value of Stephen Chow, giving him many opportunities to play important roles In 1989, Stephen Chow partnered with Jet Li to star in the action movie "The Dragon is at the End of the World"! Although this play can make Zhou Xingchi play at some level, it is far from enough for a young man with ideals and ambitions like Zhou Xingchi! He needs more opportunities to hone his acting skills!
In the same year, Stephen Chow participated in the action movie "Righteous Courage", which is also one of the few dramas! After starring in "He comes from the jianghu", in the play he has a very good relationship with Wu Mengda, many of Zhou Xingchi's "ghost ideas" are passed to the director through Wu Mengda, this drama is actually not a comedy, only Zhou Xingchi's role is comedic, his performance is too camera-grabbing, so that everyone thinks that this is a comedy.
In 1990, Stephen Chow's acting career underwent earth-shaking changes, taking over director Liu Zhenwei's new film "Gamble Saint", which eventually reached HK$41.32 million at the box office and was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards! In the same year, the filming of "Gambler" directed by Wang Jing won a box office of 40.34 million! Director Liu Zhenwei has also become the most respected person for Stephen Chow, without him, Stephen Chow would still be a star boy instead of a star! Liu Zhenwei is also one of the few people who can call Zhou Xingchi a star boy!
After becoming famous, Zhou Xingchi's temper was very hot, and in the filming stage of "Kung Fu", Zhou Xingchi invited his nobleman Liu Zhenwei as a producer, and Liu Zhenwei's request was only one: you can't scold people on the set! Zhou Xingchi agreed very happily.
During the filming period, Gong Yazhen's scene has not been able to satisfy Zhou Xingchi, and several times in succession, Zhou Xingchi's fiery temper has directly rushed into the clouds, many people think that Zhou Xingchi will scold, but he just stared at Gong Yazhen with a fierce look and said: If you don't need to be responsible for killing people, I want to kill you now. It can be seen how big Liu Zhenwei's status is in Zhou Xingchi's mind!
Since "Gamble Saint", Stephen Chow officially opened the nonsense mode, and in the same year's "Gambler", Stephen Chow tried to cross the limitations of his comedy style across the limitations of the times. Its popular result dispelled Xingge's doubts and broadened the subject matter of his films.
In 1991, the Hong Kong media called the film circle: Double Monday Cheng, that is, Chow Yun Fat, Chow Sing Chi and Jackie Chan, the three of them dominated Hong Kong movies. Stephen Chow broke the box office record again with "Truant Veyron", and two other films in the same year also entered the top ten of the box office list! In 1992, it was the peak of the attraction, and in the annual box office ranking of Hong Kong films, the top ten Chow Sing Chi films occupied seven! The top five at the box office are all his works!
In 1992, Stephen Chow won the Hong Kong annual box office championship for the fourth consecutive time with "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang"! It is also in this work that Zhou Xingchi boldly uses "ugly girl" to prevent the audience's aesthetic fatigue, from the beginning of sitting on the pier "beauty" to the pomegranate sister, all of which have brought a lot of surprises to the audience!
There are many Hong Kong beauties in the 90s, and it is not too much to describe China's top beauties, and the characters portrayed are all classics, but Stephen Chow is going against the grain and boldly choosing "ugly women"! This effect is also surprisingly amazing, these "ugly women" are more attractive than "beautiful women"! ("Hundred Variable Star Jun" Liang Yongqi, "God Eater" Karen Mok, "Shaolin Football" Zhao Wei)
Zhou Xingchi said in an interview with Chai Jing: I just want to do something that others don't have! Zhou Xingchi cares more about the connotation of the actor than the appearance!
With the popularity of "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", Zhou Xingchi is not satisfied with being an actor, he wants to control the overall situation, he wants to make his films more diversified, in 1997, "Domestic Ling Ling Lacquer" was released Zhou Xingchi officially served as a director, and since then he has begun the era of his full control over the creation of movies! This film made Stephen Chow nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the final box office was fixed at the third place at the box office! This also makes Zhou Xingchi more certain that the path he has taken is the right determination!
For Zhou Xingchi's shooting methods and ideas, director Ang Lee gave great affirmation, and Ang Lee once said in an interview with Lu Yu that he had not made comedy, because "nonsense" is no logical meaning, without logic, it is very difficult to grasp. Lu Yu said that you should shoot a picture of Zhou Xingchi. Ang Lee returned: "That's when he photographed me, not me, so I admire Stephen Chow."
In 1995, "The Moonlight Treasure Box of the Journey to the West" and the "Journey to the West" came strongly, but unfortunately no one bought it, and the box office was even more dismal! In Hong Kong, it has only reached the point of recovering costs, and the filmmakers in Taiwan are even more skeptical of Xingye's box office ability! In Beijing, both films only grossed around 200,000! Film critics scolded even more fiercely! Liu Zhenwei did not dare to appear in public, for fear that he would be beaten by the other party!
1996 was the year when the "Journey to the West" series turned over, and I am afraid that even Zhou Xingchi himself did not expect that this series could actually live to this point! The Beijing Film Academy introduced "Journey to the West", and the film ushered in a lot of discussion and attention after the school reflected it, and the college teachers even wanted to study it as an academic project!
Not only teachers, many students have done a very "penetrating" research on "Journey to the West", searching for CNKI, you can see that the academic journals related to him contain 401 issues, 21 master's degree theses, 3 conferences, and 99 newspaper publications! The film has been re-screened for 3 times! It grossed 2.57 million at the box office in 2014. It was re-released again in 2017 and grossed 178 million at the box office. The third re-release in 2020, it received 417,000 box office!
In 1996, Stephen Chow's self-directed self-directed work "God Eater" was screened and selected as a film to watch at the Venice International Film Festival! In 1997, he starred in the comedy film "97 Happy Things", which won the second place in the Annual Box Office in Hong Kong with a box office of HK$40.44 million in Hong Kong, and in the same year co-starred with Karen Mok and Ge Minhui in the comedy film "Counting Dead Grass", and in 1998, "One Dragon of Fortune" ranked third in the Hong Kong annual box office list with a box office performance of HK$27.73 million.
In 1999, "The King of Comedy" was released!
Zhou Xingchi interprets the low-level small people into a trance, and wants to rely on his own persistence and efforts to fight against the "entertainment circle" that has been formed, in this movie, Zhou Xingchi can be unlucky, can be poor, but he has never given up his dignity! Finally in the film and television circle has their own piece of the world, he and Cecilia Cheung's sentence: I raise you! It has become the most classic love clip in the film!
In 2001, the film "Shaolin Football" was launched, which set a box office record of 60.73 million in the sluggish Hong Kong film market, and won 7 awards at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony, including the Best Film Award, the Best Director Award, the Best Actor Award, the Outstanding Young Director Award, and the film was also selected as the "25 Best Sports Films in The History of the World" by Time Magazine in 2011!
This is also a plot of small people turning into big stars, compared to "The King of Comedy", the visual impact of this drama to the audience is more shocking! The lineup is also very luxurious, and the female stars alone: Zhao Wei, Karen Mok, and Cecilia Cheung are all big names! Even Xie Xian, who has quit the film industry for many years, has come to play a cameo role for Stephen Chow!
In 2004, the comedy action film "Kung Fu" was released, which grossed HK$61.27 million at the Hong Kong box office, breaking the record held by "Shaolin Soccer" and becoming the highest-grossing Hong Kong film in Hong Kong history, with a total box office of US$105 million worldwide! Selected by Time Magazine as one of the "Top Ten Films of the Year"! It has set box office records for Chinese films in dozens of countries and regions, and has been nominated for the Golden Globe Awards in the United States, the British Academy Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Best Film Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, the Best Feature Film Award and the Best Director Award at the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards!
In 2008, he directed "Yangtze River No. 7", which grossed HK$51.4 million in Hong Kong, once again becoming the annual box office champion in Hong Kong and earning 203 million yuan in the mainland.
In the following years, Stephen Chow no longer appeared on the big screen and retired from the front of the stage to the background, in 2013, the director's film "Journey to the West, Descending Demons", 2016 "Mermaid" was released, in 2017 "Journey to the West" was released, and in 2019, the comedy film "The King of New Comedy" was released!
Zhou Xingchi has cultivated countless star girls! Zhong Liti, Zhu Yin, Karen Mok, Xu Jiao, Zhang Yuqi, Lin Yun and other first-line stars have all cooperated with Zhou Xingchi!
As early as 1994, Zhong Liti proposed marriage to Stephen Chow, when Zhou Xingchi wanted to immigrate to Canada, but he was refused, and Zhong Liti had a Canadian passport, as long as she married her, she could naturally become a Canadian citizen! But Zhou Xingchi refused, and his girlfriend at that time was Zhu Yin! In 1995, Zhou Xingchi broke up with Zhu Yin!
Zhu Yin was "furious" on the "Venus Show", but these clips were solved later, according to insiders: Venus asked Zhu Yin whether it was because of Mo Wenwei who broke up with Zhou Xingchi! When Zhu Yin heard this news, her face changed drastically, saying that she should not mention this person's name again! The whole place was quiet! After that the broker forced a suspension! And Venus began to negotiate, Zhu Yin also calmed down a little, and then began to record!
The 59-year-old Zhou Xingchi is still alone in the empty house, and he has not been married so far! This also makes many people very curious about his private life! It is also the key "task" of many gossip media!
Recently, it was revealed that Zhou Xingchi and 17-year-old hong Kong sister Zhang Xiaoqi went to sea to play, and the two sat side by side in the back row of the yacht, whispering from time to time, quite intimate! Suspected of being in love!
This is also the consistent style of the Hong Kong media, the opening of a picture, the content is all dependent on the editor, whose content is more exciting, whose news will be put on the headlines of the day! Then Zhou Xingchi's agent also made a positive response: "Zhou Xingchi and the girl are not familiar at all, there was a large group of people on the ship that day, the girl took the initiative to find Xingye to surf two days ago, but Xingye did not pay attention to her, did not reply to her, because everyone is not familiar, a group of people go to the sea to play in the water do not know why it can be written like this." ”
But this is no way, who let the star master always be the top stream!